Day: April 12, 2018

A survey of over 1,000 adults in the UK has revealed that one in five who have never owned cryptocurrency would consider buying cryptocurrencies within the next three years.

Communications agency Citigate Dewe Rogerson surveyed adults in the UK and came up with some rather interesting numbers, with the reasons cited behind the figures echoing prevailing sentiments in the market.

Individuals and businesses

Despite the growing popularity of cryptocurrency and its presence in the mainstream media, the general public appears to be skeptical for reasons of volatility, security and lack of knowledge.

From those who won’t be considering to buy or invest, it was found that 67% believed it was too risky or volatile, 43% had concerns regarding regulations and 61% thought they didn’t know enough. Citigate Dewe Rogerson also found in other research that out of 30 financial professionals, nearly a quarter of them were expecting further regulations on the horizon, and they weren’t far off.

BitcoinNews recently reported that the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was working with the UK Treasury to put together a discussion paper surrounding regulations on cryptocurrencies. The paper, which is due to be revealed in 2019, will focus mainly on practices of business, with the desire of bringing new business in from continental Europe.

Small enterprises with bullish views

The UK is becoming quite an optimistic landscape for cryptocurrency-related businesses and payment merchants. A national study by Paymentsense of 504 small and medium-sized (SME) business owners revealed that over a third (35%) were expecting cryptocurrency payments to be in the mainstream and on the high street within two years.

The study also found that 13% already took cryptocurrency payments and 25% were skeptical enough to say it would never make it that far.

Head of marketing at Paymentsense Gur Moreve said: “It’s clear that cryptocurrencies are moving swiftly towards the mainstream. However, small business owners considering cryptocurrency as a payment option should be clear about how they can integrate it with their existing financial arrangements. Will suppliers or staff accept it? Can they pay local and national government agencies with it?”

He added, “Also, the value of unregulated cryptocurrency changes fast. This has significant implications for an SME’s revenue security. Using a trusted payment processor or merchant service provider can help guard against this by allowing a swift currency exchange, and improve security processes.”

Should the FCA be able to shed further light on how to regulate and tax digital currencies, businesses and members of the public in the UK should begin to swing in favor of cryptocurrencies.

 

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Have you ever been in a situation when you finally managed to explain to your parents why Bitcoin is important and revolutionising? Congratulations! However, now you will probably need to explain to them how to use it.

Of course, a huge part of the older generation will be able to understand and admire the whole blockchain ecosystem, but others just won’t get it. The real struggle begins when you try to explain the process of sending and receiving transactions.  

That’s why we would like to tell you about the new cryptocurrency wallet introduced by NAGA. The NAGA WALLET features some amazing functions, including some that will make the process of explaining the process of using cryptocurrencies a breeze.

Here are the 5 main features:

First and foremost, NAGA WALLET lets you send cryptocurrency transactions to an email address instead of complicated crypto wallet addresses. For your parents’ generation emails are an established feature that they use in their everyday life, so there is no need to teach them about a Bitcoin wallet address and how you find out which one is yours.

Secondly, the NAGA WALLET is secure. In the cryptocurrency space, peace of mind comes at a premium but — thanks to decentralized data storage and multi-factor authentication — NAGA WALLET users can rest assured that their funds are always safe.

Thirdly, the NAGA WALLET is compatible with the vast majority of cryptocurrencies available. Users are able to deposit, hold, and withdraw more than 1200 top coins and tokens in one safe and secure location — effectively eradicating the hassle of managing numerous cryptocurrencies in a variety of potentially unsafe WALLETs.

Additionally, the NAGA WALLET supports the seamless exchange of cryptocurrencies using the Changelly API and supports more than 20 different languages. On top of that, the NAGA WALLET might be the most ICO-friendly WALLET available – its one-click investing feature removes the complicated process of signing up to purchase tokens.

Finally, the NAGA ecosystem includes the NAGA TRADER platform, which interacts seamlessly with both the NAGA WALLET and the NAGA CARD — effectively offering a unified and simplistic investment opportunity not to be found anywhere else. As an added bonus, successful referrals reward users with 50 NGC per referral.

To find out more about the NAGA WALLET and its accompanying ecosystem, check out the official website.

What do you think about the NAGA WALLET? Will you finally try to teach your parents the basics of using cryptocurrencies? Tell us more in the comments!

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Five months after its hilarious re-brand and subsequent soaring share price, the Nasdaq stock exchange have decided to delist Long Blockchain. Late last year, Long Island Iced Tea Corp announced that they’d be focusing on the technology behind Bitcoin. There appears to have been little progress in that regard and a tumbling share price, hence this week’s removal from the large American exchange.

Long Blockchain Summed Up the Mood of Late 2017 Perfectly

Throughout the second half of 2017, everything the word blockchain touched seemed to turn to gold. Investors poured money into just about anything that was “decentralised”. In December, at the absolute height of crypto fever, a drinks company thought they’d try to cash in on the craze.

When Long Island Ice Tea Corp. announced that they’d changed their name to Long Blockchain late last year, the money started to pour in. The re-brand sent the value of the company skywards to the tune of more than 300%.

However, five months later and with little to no progress towards anything relating to blockchain, the company has been delisted by the Nasdaq stock exchange. The decision was announced on Tuesday and was implemented earlier today. The delisting sent the price of Long Blockchain down by 22% today according to MarketWatch. The publication also states that Long Blockchain has seen its shares plummet a total of 73% so far this year.

The news that the psuedo blockchain company has been delisted by the Nasdaq hardly comes as a surprise, however. It had already received two notices from the stock exchange for failing to keep its market cap above $35 million.

The company also let investors down in a big way in January after they declared plans to invest over $4 million in crypto mining equipment. Just one week after the announcement, Long Blockchain stated that they had abandoned plans to sell stock to finance the move. Finally, at the end of January, it was revealed that there would be no move into cryptocurrency mining at all.

Then in late February, Long Blockchain announced a change of leadership that would hopefully help them deliver on their blockchain promises. However, almost two months later, there have been no positive developments.

Despite the delisting, those who still want to get exposure to Long Blockchain can do so. They’ll just have to pick up shares from the likes of OTC Markets Group Inc. which focuses on companies with much smaller capitalisations than those listed at the Nasdaq.

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The CryptoCashbackRebate ICO, launched on March 18th, reports it raised more than $3.20 million in their token pre-sale. CryptoCashbackRebate says it reached 64% of its soft-cap during the pre-sale for early investors. The public ICO is ongoing and the present token price is 0.00167 ETH + additional 10% bonus till 18th April.

CryptoCashbackRebate is owned and operated by Kapsus Technologies Limited based in Hong Kong. The team behind CryptoCashbackRebate are the same who founded ForexCashbackRebate.com in 2014 and successfully providing cashbacks and rebates to forex traders since then. Kapsus Technologies Limited was founded by Vladimir Kapal, CryptoCashbackRebate co-founder.

The CryptoCashbackRebate platform says it will provide rewards to crypto investors and traders in the form of cashback, rebates and discounts. Unlike many blockchain startups, they already have an established business which goes beyond a vision and a roadmap. Their solution will make the market more effective, with higher volume and highest liquidity. Complete solution from CryptoCashbackRebate.com is a big chance for all the investors to receive maximum from each of their investment in the crypto currency market.

To join the ongoing Token Sale, prospective purchasers will need to visit company’s official web page where they will be required to register. Once successfully registered, buyers will be able to purchase CCR tokens using Ethereum, Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple or Ethereum Classic. The company also provide early birds bonuses for contributors.

The CryptoCashbackRebate Token Sale started on March 18 and will be live until June, 2018 unless the settled hard cap of $250 million USD will not be reached earlier. According to the company’s roadmap, the funds raised through the token sale campaign will be allocated for various activities which include CryptoCashbackRebate’s strong marketing and sales support which will help in fast growth in the number of the platform users.

This is a sponsored press release and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views held by any employees of The Merkle. This is not investment, trading, or gambling advice. Always conduct your own independent research.

According to the blockchain firm Nchain and its CEO Jimmy Nguyen, the company has secured its first approved patent recognized by the European Patent Office. The patent involves an invention that provides a method for an automated management and blockchain-enforced smart contracts.

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Blockchain Firm Nchain Gets an Automated Management and Smart Contract Patent Approved by the European Patent Office  

Nchain is a blockchain technology-based research and development organization led by Jimmy Nguyen, chief scientist Dr. Craig Wright, and over sixty researchers, engineers, and other professionals based in Europe and Canada. Over the past couple of weeks, Wright has been releasing a series of research papers that apply to the bitcoin infrastructure and the overall network. The subjects discussed within his latest papers include Turing completeness for the bitcoin protocol, and other mathematical distributed consensus critiques.

Now the firm has secured its first approved patent among many filings with the European Patent Office (EPO). The patented invention was curated by Wright and claims it will allow the storing of metadata, implementing digital tokens, and smart contract management. According to an interview with Nchain’s Jimmy Nguyen and Coingeek columnist Cecille De Jesus, the CEO explains that the IP assets will be available for free for individuals and development teams dedicating their energy to the Bitcoin Cash network. Nguyen explains the EPO approval is a milestone for Nchain and he expects more EPO filings will be approved.

“This first patent grant by the European Patent Office marks a major milestone in Nchain’s ambitious research and patent program, which started approximately two years ago,” Nguyen explains.

We expect this will be the first of many more patents to come, as our portfolio of blockchain patent applications is among the largest – if not the largest – in the world.            

Metadata, Digital Tokens, and Smart Contract on Bitcoin Cash

Nchain’s patent titled, “Registry and Automated Management Method for Blockchain-Enforced Smart Contracts,” is described as a computer-implemented method of storing a contract in a network repository and broadcasting a transaction with:

“At least one unspent output (UTXO); and metadata comprising an identifier indicative of the location where the contract is stored; and renewing or rolling the contract on by: generating a new key using data relating to a previous key associated with the contract; generating a script comprising the new key, the location of the contract and a hash of the contract; and paying an amount of currency to the script.”

The patent gives an explanation of the entire invention alongside schematics and data. Much of the invention discusses metadata implementation that can store the hash of a smart contract, repositories that can comprise a database, index, and searchable browsers. Further, it discusses security mechanisms tethered to smart contracts as well.

IP Rights for BCH Development With the ‘Nchain Open Bitcoin Cash License’  

Nguyen reveals that Nchain has decided to offer the IP exclusively to the bitcoin cash (BCH) community. This means any of Nchain’s inventions will be made available for BCH developers and development teams through the use of a BCH-based license.        

“While we are building enterprise value through our patent portfolio, Nchain is committed to using our intellectual property to benefit the bitcoin cash community,” Nguyen notes. “We intend to make key IP assets available for free usage only on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain – through our new ‘Nchain Open Bitcoin Cash License.’”

This will give Bitcoin Cash significant advantages over other blockchains, and will incentivize businesses to operate on the BCH blockchain, which represents the original vision of Bitcoin.

What do you think about Nchain getting a patent approved by the EPO? What do you think about them creating an open BCH license? Let us know in the comments below.

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It is hard for project token buyers to evaluate an ICO and distinguish between a great idea and a scam; it is even harder for founders to develop a quality ICO and launch it legally. The Smart Valley solution is a system of decentralized expert scoring. The company, which is preparing for the first fully compliant Swiss-based ICO, will start accepting prior requests for tokens on April 11.

Smart Valley is a powerful system for ICO project assessment and development – with a combination of unique scoring tool, expert knowledge, and crowd wisdom. A community of top-class experts from across the globe will offer their services to founders, helping to launch ICOs that are legal and secure. What’s more, potential project token buyers will be there, too – ready to support the best ideas.  Smart Valley is a dynamic ecosystem that can give rise to new unicorns – visionary companies worth billions that will revolutionize the business. What’s more, Smart Valley ICO is the first Swiss-based company to launch an ICO in full compliance with the Swiss law, thus guaranteeing maximum protection to its token buyers. Waiting list applications will be collected over the course of one months, after which the main stage of the ICO will begin on May 14. All token buyers will be asked to complete a KYC procedure.

Smart Valley scoring mechanism

At the heart of Smart Valley is a unique scoring system: projects are scored on multiple criteria by experts in a number of fields, from marketing to law. A good project score will act as a hallmark of quality, instantly attracting token buyers’ attention. Smart Valley will also provide our expert scoring services to projects to its partners, which include the leading Russian business accelerator Phiztechpark and the popular platform KICKICO.  Finally, thanks to a key partnership with the fintech community NexChange, safe, high-potential ICO projects will become available to Asian – token buyers. A demo version of the scoring tool is already available on the official website.

Key features

• • Projects are evaluated using a unique automated solution: experts and community members vote on the project, resulting in a decentralized, reliable, multidimensional assessment;
  • The assessment is made against a set of  criteria, including financial potential, blockchain functionality, legal aspects, founders’ background, etc.
  • Expert evaluation eliminates the risk of scams;
  • Highest-rated projects are published on the platform and are made available to token buyers;
  • Founders can hire community experts to perform the full cycle of pre-ICO, ICO, and post-ICO activities, including marketing, legalization, smart contract development, etc.
  • token buyers choose the best projects, purchase tokens, and follow how their money is spent;
  • Use of blockchain and smart contracts ensure transparency and security of payments;
  • Efficient arbitration systems ensures fast conflict resolution;
  • ONLY on Smart Valley: for the first time, a non-invasive neural-control interface (NCI) will be used to evaluate projects and experts: this unique testing method provides allows to analyze competences of project team members and experts with a 95% accuracy rate. This recently patented NCI is made available by the developers exclusively for Smart Valley. The technology will eliminate the risk of scam and fraud and help make Smart Valley scoring services even more scalable;
  • Maximum protection of ICO token buyers’ interests thanks to strict compliance with the federal laws of Switzerland and the cantonal laws of Zug (where Smart Valley is incorporated), including inter alia Federal Act on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Anti-Money Laundering Act, AMLA) of October 10, 1997, as amended, Ordinance of the FINMA on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism of 8 December 2010, FINMA Guidance 04/2017, FINMA Guidelines dated February 16, 2018 and Regulations of the Self-Regulatory Organization VQF Financial Services Standards Association dated September 28, 2015.

 

Smart Valley is not just for projects, however: it is designed to provide benefits to all groups of market players. The platform will help project founders find all the professionals they require to build a dream team – specialists in front end development, finance, PR, SMM, law, and much more. To experts in various fields, Smart Valley can offer a global outreach and unprecedented job opportunities, secure payments guaranteed by a smart contract, a chance to work on projects that will transform the business, and participation in a vibrant community of top professionals. The platform is already accepting expert applications.

Smart Valley is happy to announce that beginning on April 11 ICO token buyers can send in their preliminary requests for tokens on the official website at https://smartvalley.io/ in order to be included on the waiting list. The main round of the token sale is due to begin on May 14. The company is determined to ensure that the interests of all the participants are duly protected and  has taken all the necessary steps to guarantee that its token sale is conducted in full adherence with the Swiss regulations. Smart Valley is based in Zug, Switzerland.

More information about the project is available at https://smartvalley.io/ and in the official Telegram channel https://t.me/SmartValleyChatEnglish.

This is a sponsored press release and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views held by any employees of The Merkle. This is not investment, trading, or gambling advice. Always conduct your own independent research.

True Flip, the blockchain fair games operator, has developed and launched its first slot game. Chain’s Code is available now at cc.trueflip.io with bets starting at 0.000020 BTC and up to 5 BTC as the Superprize.

12th April 2018 – Costa Rica  Chain’s Code features a single-line slot machine with a centralized play button for speed, ease of use and substantial replayability. Draws take place every 10-15 seconds, making Chain’s Code the fastest game from True Flip so far.

Based on a provably fair blockchain solution, Chain’s Code has a built-in multiplier which exponentially increases the possible win.

Six major cryptocurrencies are accepted. All payouts are in Bitcoin.

“With their fast and captivating gameplay, so-called ‘slot games’ are among the most widely-adopted iGaming products across the globe. Our decision to develop a slot machine game follows our long-term strategy of acquiring additional markets through the reinterpretation of admired, classic games. We expect Chain’s Code to become the strongest competitor to similar top-tier products and to bring new players to Trueflip.io” – CMO Konstantin Katsev.

“True Flip started as a popular single game with daily draws and a huge jackpot. Based on our comprehensive analyses, we’ve been developing new games to provide a different experience to our players. Chain’s Code is perfect both in terms of appearance and gameplay: it’s smart and simple, but endearingly cute. This product meets the highest standards our users and partners could ever imagine” – COO Nikita Parkhomenko.

About True Flip

True Flip is a blockchain fair games platform, drawing from the advantages of distributed ledger technology. These include overall transparency of processes such as random number generation, ticket purchases, prize distribution, and our innovative approach to the financial aspects of iGaming.

True Flip has released three games, with more in development, and has presently attracted more than 170,000 registered players. As a result of its successful crowdsale in July 2017, the current Jackpot is a massive 400 BTC which keeps growing with every ticket sold.

The platform offers self-developed customer products available on trueflip.io and a range of B2B solutions for iGaming operators, affiliates and integrators.

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B2Broker’s turnkey solution for B2BTC will enable them to offer their clients a full spectrum of services for exchange, trade and investments in cryptocurrencies with advanced trading platforms.

B2Broker, an aggregator and provider of turnkey, cloud and liquidity solutions for the foreign exchange (FX) and crypto industry, has partnered with B2BTC, a newly-established cryptocurrency broker, to provide a turnkey cryptocurrency brokerage solution using B2Broker’s technologies and liquidity.

The result of the cooperation is the creation of a new cryptocurrency brokerage by B2Broker and its launch by B2BTC in a short timespan, amid the rapid growth of cryptocurrency trading in recent times due to its high profit potential.

The new launch represents a new class of brokerage services and is a natural progression towards serving clients focused on trading cryptos via a brokerage rather than a crypto exchange. With B2Broker’s technologies and liquidity, B2BTC is able to offer clients better security, trading costs and leverage than most crypto exchanges, as well as a good range of crypto CFDs.

B2Broker has quickly established itself as one of the leading players in its field and its deep expertise in establishing brokerage businesses, while taking away the hassle of having to create legal and IT infrastructures, has allowed B2BTC to launch its operations in just 14 days.

Commenting on the successful implementation of its latest cryptocurrency brokerage solution, Artur Azizov, CEO B2Broker said, “We are pleased to have spearheaded the development of this new cryptocurrency brokerage for B2BTC and to have provided them with our technological expertise to professionally establish their operations.

Our solution allowed B2BTC to offer their clients a sophisticated trading solution and a viable business with an attractive range of offerings and many features over and above what crypto exchanges can provide.”

The following technologies were incorporated into B2BTC’s crypto brokerage solution:

1) Trader’s Room. This is there where are all necessary functions for work occur; KYC of clients, creation of tickets, instant exchange, verification, back office for the company, integration of terms of payment service providers, reporting system and complete integration with cryptocurrencies. More than 10 most popular blockchains and all tokens of the ERC 20 standard are integrated.

2. MT5 Trading Platform. WL of MT5 is a completely ready infrastructure with back office and all types of liquidity (FX, Crypto and CFD).
3. Liquidity. For margin trading, a single margin account is available with the ability to create streams with different markup levels and the possibility of nominating margin accounts for cryptocurrencies. Liquidity is delivered from B2BX, the biggest aggregator of cryptocurrencies in the industry which aggregates liquidity of the top exchanges and provides liquidity. Through all known top trading systems, B2BX distributes liquidity for brokerage companies and other professional participants of the market.
4. Company registrations. B2Broker takes care of all licensing requirements in respect of trading platforms and signing of the public offer with clients.

For clients interested in a similar business model, B2Broker also offers an Investment Platform, an automated investment service to help brokerages attract new clients, increase the lifetime of traders and boost their profits which includes PAMM/Social trading/MAM.

Check out B2BTC.IO

About B2Broker

B2Broker was founded by group of IT professionals and is an aggregator and provider of turnkey, cloud and liquidity solutions for the crypto and foreign exchange (FX) industry

The company specialises in the sphere of B2B services and products, catering for a wide range of clients including individual investors, large licenced brokers, banks, hedge funds and professional managers.

B2Broker’s advanced base of ready to use technical solutions enable brokers to save time and money on consuming infrastructure projects so they can focus on selling and enlarging their client base and eliminating the need to commit to expensive, long-term and labour-consuming processes of building and supporting the technical infrastructure of a brokerage business.

Clients have access to a range of products and services including Turnkey Solutions, White Label Solutions for MT4 and MT5, Trader’s Room, FX, CFD and Crypto Liquidity, PAMM and Social Trading.

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Blockchain startup ARK recently attended the bi-annual Princeton 2018 Spring Hackathon. The renowned event saw thousands of individuals from the programming, web development and entrepreneur courses from various institutions from across all of North America. Teams of students worked together in groups of four to create functioning software or hardware projects within a set timeframe of 36 hours. The Hackathon was sponsored by large tech companies such as Bigwigs, which looks to get some industry recognition and become a more recognized name.

The biggest sponsor for the HackPrinceton event was Blockchain-based startup ARK.io. The platform was represented by some of its senior team members who arrived at the beginning of the event to showcase its lasted effort, the ARK developer tool, and also integrate with some of the most promising young tech talent in the United States.

The ARK Deployer Tool

The ARK platform is a broad blockchain solution that aims to offer services for all manner of clients, from everyday individuals to huge data bank-based businesses. The fintech startup solves problems with scaling, through its customizable blockchain network and user features.

The ARK platform recently developed something called a ‘Deployer Script’, which allows users to take control of the technology themselves and apply it to a number of areas that can benefit from blockchain-based solutions. Once user familiarize themselves with the system then it can be easily used for any number of interesting applications.

The ARK platform uses a SmartBridge technology to connect numerous different cryptocurrencies with each-other, enabling it to utilize complex features such as using smart contracts across multiple different token chains.  Through the use of smart contracts and the SmartBridge Technology ARK is able to design its own Decentralized Autonomous Apps, (or dApps) through the application of REST APIs. This enables ARK to program over a dozen different programming languages.

ARK at HackPrinceton

The ARK crew attending the HackPrinceton event included the following main members, including Co-Founder Mike Doty, Co-Founder Khanh Vuong, IoT Dev Simon Downey, Community Dev Karel L. Kubat , Community Dev Ruud Seegers and Community Dev Robert Hissink Muller .

The 2018 Spring Princetown Hackathon was a seen as a ideal chance for the ARK team to showcase their new deployer and to gauge Industry interest for the technology and its potential for breaking new ground in the future. The team also urged users to trial run Ubuntu VM in Azure to integrate Azure Public IP and Firewall configurations.

This trial run will Enable ARK to control their own BridgeChain Node and ARK Explorer. The run itself can be achieved in as little as 20 minutes, giving its users the opportunity to begin their limitless Blockchain customization. For users to take advantage of this new feature, they will have to start a trial or full Microsoft Azure account and have a basic knowledge of how to connect via SSH.

ARK Official Website: https://ark.io/

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On April 3rd, 2018 Global Blockchain Summit was held ceremoniously in National Convention Centre, Beijing, and the Global Blockchain & Game Forum was hosted by World Blockchain Council (WBC) and co-hosted by GMGC and BIT.GAME. This forum gathered numerous entrepreneurs and leaders from blockchain and game industry, where they deeply communicated about subjects as the overturn that blockchain brings for traditional game industry, the development tendency for blockchain games, as well as rebuilding the credit value of game industry by blockchain. In view of this, some of them have given speeches to share their opinions, such as Eric Sun, CEO & Founder of BIT.GAME, and Owen Tao, CEO of Matrix AI Network, etc.

In 2017, the actual sales revenue of game market exceeded 200 billion RMB in China. According to the latest analyst of Digi-Capital, the global hardware and software revenue within game industry has increased around $165 and $170 billion in 2018 as the market scale keeps expanding . While the fading dividend of population, IP and traffic have also brought a bottleneck for the future of game industry.

While Blockchain’s show-up may bring some new directions for all walks of life to the next level of development. The innovative decentralizing and distributed ledger technology makes it upgrade from information internet to value internet. As the first blockchain game CryptoKitties growing more and more popular, blockchain games seem to be another new engine of economic growth besides in financial industry, and it’s also supposed to be the Ace in game industry, thus open a new gate for global game industry.  

During the forum, blockchain experts not only introduced the development situation of blockchain,  but also the latest results and innovative ideas in building the game platforms. Eric Sun, as a professional game producer and the founder of BIT.GAME, delivered his speech in the forum regarding some main topics that game publishers care the most. He said, for a long time, CPs (Content Providers) as the craftsmen of game industry have always been on the low end of the value chain. For them, the combination of blockchain and game would be a rare but perfect chance, since this unique technology may bring challenges to all business.

Based on the long-term study for game industry, BIT.GAME has produced a detailed research report on blockchain games, and brought up quite a few instructive point of views for the aspects of blockchain game developing as well as the development of underlying technology for blockchain.

According to report, There are three stages before blockchain games go fully and widely spread: data mapping, data on chain and logic on chain. “Now it only supports to establish 1:1 mapping relationship between game data and token, and the total number of game coins is fixed. For the next stage, all the game data is supposed to be on chain and decentralized, which needs the support from the underlying logic and it still takes some time to achieve. The third stage is to popularize the smart contract, this allows all the players to have the access of checking the logic on chain, and activate the smart contract by simply playing the games”, Eric as the CEO and Founder of BIT.GAME said.

Eric also mentioned that, there are two main problems for traditional game publishers to transfer into blockchain games, one is the high technique barrier, since it’s quite difficult for game companies to find too many blockchain talents to proceed the projects; the other is the difficulty of monetizing the value, since the present exchanges are always set up with higher barriers, there is averagely superficial understanding of blockchain among game players, so there may lack of the mutual value on this game soil.

In response to these issues, BIT.GAME produces a complete set of blockchain game solution with the help of its blockchain technology. Besides, BIT.GAME builds the first global blockchain game exchange, and also provides with a blockchain game incubation platform. All of these constitute the whole structure of BIT.GAME business.

In the aspect of technology, BIT.GAME provides a set of development kits for traditional game developers in connection with public blockchain such as Ethereum, ABitChain, QTUM, Matrix AI Network etc, thus the games would be in line with BIT.GAME Exchange. Meanwhile, BIT.GAME devotes itself to forming the biggest assets transaction platform for global blockchain games, which allows players to do transactions through tokens. BIT.GAME also provides an incubation platform for blockchain games and offers with technical support and financial investment.

“It will only take as soon as 2 years to fully spread the blockchain technology to the whole world and make into full use.” said Eric when talking about the future of blockchain games.

During the forum, there was also a league called GBGU (as Global Blockchain Game Union) announcing established, and held ceremony in the forum. GBGU consists of BIT.GAME, ForGame, TrustNote, ABitChain, Matrix AI Network etc. GBGU aims to unite all the resources and provide technical support and platform service jointly, thus to proceed the development of blockchain and game industries, as well as to infill the new energy for the stable growth of game industry.

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LifeTask, the first decentralized platform for job searches and staffing, is preparing for its token pre-sale. The pre-sale will begin on April 23rd and last one month, through May 23rd, 2018.

Over the last few years, the labor market has changed significantly. Routine, mechanical work is being handed over more and more to machines and computers, while people are expected to have new qualities: critical thinking, the ability to quickly analyze a situation and make decisions, as well as perform more complex, specialized tasks. We are no longer tied to a single workplace, or even a single field. The abundance and accessibility of educational programs offer the opportunity to expand one’s knowledge, to advance in the specific areas that are necessary and interesting, and to create unique competences.

Work plays an important role in our lives, and recently that role has been changing. Now we are not just looking for a job that will give us a sense of financial stability. We are looking for our calling, an answer to the question “Who am I? Who do I want to be?” We have a deep-seated need to realize our potential, to find an occupation in which we can express ourselves by maximally employing our knowledge, desires, talents, experience, and personal and professional qualities.

Research has shown that the level of professional engagement directly influences our sense of happiness, level of awareness, and ability to adapt. People who have managed to find the job of their dreams have an easier time building relationships, more proactively solve problems, are more independent and creative, while dissatisfaction in the workplace can lead to depression, burnout, stress, sleep disruptions, and health problems.

Realizing employees’ potential as much as possible is also advantageous for the employer. People doing what they love are more motivated and more invested in the work process. The better the job matches the candidate, the higher the payout.

Nonetheless, existing job search and staffing services are still operating under the old system. Job seekers upload their resume in an established format to a website or database. At the employer’s request, a recruiter chooses several candidates for the job opening, using education and prior work experience as the criteria. Practice has shown that this model is not very effective: companies expend a lot of time and money, with no guaranteed result. In addition, the information (contact info, information on past positions and salaries) is centrally stored, and if leaked can be detrimental to both job seekers and employers.

The decentralized LifeTask platform is based on state-of-the-art blockchain technology. Its objective is to make job hunting and headhunting faster and more effective. The interaction between the employer and the job seeker is transparent and direct, with no middlemen. The service works like this: job seekers enter information about their competences, experience, and knowledge to the blockchain via a smart contract. In turn, companies search by the skills and competences needed to fill a job opening or complete a specified task.

The choice of specialist is assisted by AI, which looks for the optimal match between job opening and candidate, using the cloud of interests and cloud of needs and taking into account geolocation data. This method makes it possible to quickly and easily fill even highly specialized and temporary openings. The system also includes a skill confirmation system, the ability to recommend projects to other users, as well as the option to search not just for individuals, but also for teams.

For job seekers, the service can be accessed for a monthly subscription of $4.90-$9.90 per month. For the employing company, access to the data of a specific expert costs $24.90 to $49.90. Every time a job seeker’s resume is accessed, they receive a bonus of $4.90 to $9.90.

Registration within the system and searches require LTS tokens, which can be acquired during the pre-sale and ICO. BCT, ETH and FIAT will be accepted as payment.

One LTS token will be worth 0.001 ETH. The minimum purchase will be 0.1 ETH, and the maximum 30,000 ETH. In total, no more than 700,000,000 tokens will be sold.

Investors who acquire tokens during the pre-sale will get bonuses: during week 1 of the pre-sale, the bonus will be 30% (1 ETH = 1.300 LTS tokens), during week 2 it will be 25% (1 ETH = 1.250 LTS tokens), and during weeks 3 and 4 it will be 20% (1 ETH = 1.200 LTS tokens) and 10% (1 ETH = 1.100 LTS tokens) respectively. There are also discounts on token purchases of 30 ETH or more.

The project ICO will take place from June 23rd to August 23rd, 2018. Funds raised will be put toward developing, testing, and implementing the system, marketing, creating a web app, and the primary and mobile versions of the software. The first stage of the platform’s launch will take place in English- and German-speaking countries.

You can find out more about the project at  https://lifetask.io.

This is a sponsored press release and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views held by any employees of The Merkle. This is not investment, trading, or gambling advice. Always conduct your own independent research.

Bitcoin Press Release: The team at ARK proudly announce their official sponsorship and attendance at the HackPrinceton 2018 event, running from March 30th, 2018 to April 1st, 2018.

April 03 , 2018, France – The innovative entrepreneurial spirit that embodies the ARK project has landed the blockchain technology company at Princeton University’s bi-annual hackathon. The famous event plays host hundreds of student programmers, developers and entrepreneurs from colleges and universities across the continent. In a thirty-six hour-long competition, students in teams of four will be working to create functioning software or hardware projects, and ARK will be a part of the challenge. The Princeton organizers wrote:

Whether you’re new to coding/design/hardware or a seasoned hacker, you have a place at HackPrinceton. All we expect is a passion for learning, a willingness to collaborate with people of different backgrounds, and a desire to benefit the world with technology. We’d love to see you here!”.

ARK will be taking the opportunity to scout talent, show developers ARK in more detail; competitors at HackPrinceton who wish to get in early can find a lightweight deployment script for creating ARK based blockchains, the ARK Deployer. ARK is a platform that enables its users, from student developers to large organisations, to build and access a blockchain network that brings traditional staple features that are found on other blockchain systems and networks together, into one entire ecosystem of linked chains.

ARK Deployer

In January 2018, ARK released the ARK Deployer script, opening up the doors to absolutely anyone who wishes to explore the technology, learn the ins and outs and eventually launch their very own blockchain that runs on ARK technology within minutes. The script allows users to test the limitations of the ARK blockchain and see the virtual web of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoinblockchain applications connecting via SmartBridge technology, meaning that ARK can utilise features like smart contract technology openly across different chains.

ARK Deployer developers can also begin to create decentralized applications (dApps) with simple REST APIs in over twelve different programming languages. The ARK team will be attending with a mix of ARK crew and community supporters/developers:

• Mike Doty – ARK Co-Founder
• Khanh Vuong  – ARK Co-Founder
• Simon Downey – ARK IoT dev
• Karel L. Kubat  –  ARK community dev
• Ruud Seegers  – ARK community dev
• Robert Hissink Muller — ARK community dev

This is a unique opportunity for ARK the competitors to see just what the technology is capable of in the hands of a generation who will be pioneering the future of blockchain for years to come.

To find out more about the HackPrinceton Spring 2018, head to their website.

Ark BridgeChain

ARK have additionally introduced their BridgeChain – which will allow users to run Ubuntu VM in Azure, integrate Azure PublicIP and Firewall configurations as a pre-built element, control their own BridgeChain node and ARK Explorer, which they can have running in less than 20 minutes, and enjoy ongoing benefits afforded by a re-usable and customizable deployment script.

This deployment method can be used to jump-start the journey to your own BridgeChain in the process outlined here, and will need an active Microsoft Azure account (Trial is OK) and basic knowledge on how to connect via SSH (E.g. PuTTY for Windows).

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Yesterday was a good day for cryptocurrencies in general. Bitcoin is up and so are most coins under our focus. Not surprising for me to see EOS in the top 5 spot replacing Litecoin. Sad for the ever-vibrant Charlie Lee and Litecoin Foundation’s ambitions of making LTC a crypto choice for merchants but at the end of the day, tides may change.

In my view, I expect Litecoin to recover and even test $180 in the coming days. It’s quite ambitious and so is my IOTA projection. From our IOTA technical analysis, we maintain a bullish stand and if prices expand at this rate then $3 will be a ripe target for buyers and IoT believers.

Let’s have a look at these charts:

XLM/USD (Stellar Lumens)

The top 10 is green and so is Stellar. After periods of necrotic bear market, there is a revival in the markets. In my view-and despite the lack of headline making news in the last 24 hours, our Stellar Lumens technical analysis points to a possible higher highs in the coming sessions.

Because of this general skew, we should move a notch higher where the daily chart gives a clearer picture of this technical formation. As visible from the chart, Stellar is pushing up and following a 12 percent gain in the last 24 hours, prices are now trending above the middle BB.

The thing is, buyers are pushing higher and basically this is a follow through of a bullish divergence pattern which has been in formation since mid may. Our initial targets at $0.30 are short term targets. In the real sense, buyers should look for a 2X gain and $0.40 looks like a perfect target.

IOT/USD (IOTA)

A technology that solves real world problem is bound to explode-regardless of short term obstacles.

Fortunately, IOTA is setting the ball rolling when it comes to a world of interconnected devices and IoT. The EU is talking about it and sooner or later, if there is widespread adoption, prices might explode and slice through $5.5.

Besides real-world demonstration of the use of IOTA as with DXC, news is we expect common wallets like Ledger Nano, Romeo and CarrIOTA to support IOTA in the coming weeks. Of course such is awesome news and a big plus in a day which saw IOTA growing 20 percent.

#CarrIOTA #Romeo #LedgerNano support coming way sooner than you think! Time to get your hardware wallet ordered before they are out of stock!
Thanks to all the community members working hard on this feature! #IOTA #IOTAStrong pic.twitter.com/hZNQBmd4CE

— Roman Semko [DevIOTA] (@RomanSemko) April 11, 2018

Chart wise, there is a clear break out trade visible in the daily chart. It’s therefore not rocket science that buyers may look to follow through and because of this, I place a moderate take profit targets of $3-the 50% Fibonacci retracement level.

EOS/USD (EOS)

Anyhow, what could be behind this EOS price pump? Is Antpool (Bitmain) accumulating EOS on the main blockchain so as to destabilize it in favor of their DPoS and become a BP? Or, are investors flowing in to EOS because of EOSDAC Airdrop on April 15?

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— AntPool (@AntPoolofficial) April 11, 2018

Let’s not forget there is a newsletter from Weiss Rankings stating that EOS is apparently nice product with value. All these might be working together but obviously those who got in earlier are in the green just like EOS which is up 16 percent in the last 24HRs. Inevitable, there is a flip and EOS is now the 5^th most valuable coin in the world.

Like the rest, you can make money if you look for EOS buy opportunities in lower time frames. Without being over ambitious, buyers should place reasonable targets at $12 with expectations of cashing out in the next few days.

LTC/USD (Litecoin)

Unfortunately for Charlie Lee and Litecoin Foundation, the prestigious top 5 spot is gone. After periods of price stagnation along $110, EOS usurped it after a 30 per cent gain in the last 24 hours. Luckily for Litecoin, there are some nice technical developments in the chart that is supportive of value.

As we can see, besides the accumulation and the bullish divergence, there is a buy signal and a crucial close above those two key resistance levels.

The middle BB and the resistance trend line has been strong levels for buyers to break above in the recent past but with cryptos finding favor once more Litecoin is up 8 percent after under-performing for a while. In my view, I will look for more Litecoin buys in lower time frames and this time, our targets are at $180.

NEO/USD (NEO)

All in all, apart from recovering NEO prices, there is more upside for this smart economy platform. UpBit, Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange now supports NEO Gas distribution. That’s not all.

On the development front developers can now build their own smart contracts using the NEO’s new NEOCompiler Eco version 1 available at GitHub. Most importantly, this development is open source and surely provides an easy access to NEO ecosystem.

NeoCompiler, a set of open-source online compilers for the $NEO platform, created by Igor and Vitor Coelho.

The aim is to disseminate NEO smart contract programming, and integrate compilers from different languages such as C#, Python, Java and Solidity.https://t.co/r3diMGaMMU

— City of Zion (@coz_official) January 25, 2018

Technically, our NEO technical analysis point to buys and it would be unwise to fade the markets. Look for under-valuations or stochastic buy signals in 30 mins or 1Hr charts and buy with targets at $90 as per our previous NEO technical analysis recommendation.

All charts courtesy of Trading View

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Samsung is revealed to supply Halong Mining with ASIC chips after announcing “mass production” of ASICs in China 2 months ago. #NEWS

Digital Asset has hired Stewart Cowan to work on its clearing and settlement blockchain system for the Australian Securities Exchange.