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Avalanche’s monthly transaction figures bounced back considerably from 2022. The total value locked dropped more than 15% in the last quarter. Over the last quarter, much of the focus of the crypto market was centered around exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications for two of the biggest assets in the sphere, Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum [ETH]. Rightly so, because developments around these were moving the market. Read AVAX’s Price Prediction 2023-24 It was crucial, however, not to lose sight of other cryptocurrencies that withstood the bearish market conditions of Q3 in order to carve out a position for themselves. Notably, Proof-of-stake (PoS) network Avalanche [AVAX] deserved a special mention for the key partnerships forged and improvements in on-chain activity throughout Q3. Marked recovery in network parameters Undeniably, like other cryptos, Avalanche’s key performance indicators haven’t been the same as they were during the peak of the bull market. Having said that, a significant recovery was observed, according to a report by digital asset research company Galaxy Research. Indeed, in the last quarter, Avalanche’s monthly transaction figures bounced back considerably from the downfall induced by the market implosions of May 2022. Notably, the transaction count didn’t plunge after the levels spiked, rather stabilized at those levels. Source: Reflexivity Research/ Dune Furthermore, the number of people interacting with the blockchain soared. The monthly active user count peaked at around 1 million in the last few months. Source: Reflexivity Research/ Dune The report attributed the turnaround in network utilization to a slew of high-profile partnerships that Avalanche established in recent memory. Subnets, or application-specific blockchains, attracted players across decentralized finance (DeFi), gaming, and non-fungible token (NFTs). However, the success in network activity didn’t lead to proportional capital inflows in the Avalanche ecosystem. The total value locked (TVL) dropped more than 15% in the last quarter. The Curve Finance [CRV] hack and the ensuing FUD were blamed as one of the primary drivers of the decline, per Galaxy Research. However, over the last month, the TVL remained fairly stable and hovered around the $1.25 billion mark. Source: DeFiLlama Avalanche’s key partnerships The report noted that Avalanche collaborated with players from “both the crypto and traditional financial sectors” to expand its footprints. One of the most talked-about partnerships of Q3 was decentralized exchange (DEX) Balancer [BAL] expanding to the Avalanche chain. The protocol with a TVL of $694 million as of this writing, aimed at tapping into Avalanche’s increased throughput and scalability advantages to introduce new DeFi opportunities. Notably, Balancer’s focus was on the liquid staking market. It joined hands with liquid staking token (LST) protocols on Avalanche to make yield-bearing assets available to liquidity providers. Apart from Balancer, other DEXs like Multiswap also logged into Avalanche, allowing users the right to swap hundreds of tokens in a single transaction. While partnerships with Web3 entities were praiseworthy, Avalanche attracted big entities from the Web2 world as well. Japan’s data marketing company Loyalty Marketing, in collaboration with blockchain service provider PlayThink, turned to Avalanche subnets to launch its popular loyalty rewards program. The transition, stated to happen by year-end, would involve distribution of NFTs to its million-strong existing user base. A bit earlier in July, Solert Games, a pioneer in online gaming, announced the launch of a subnet to capitalize on the growing possibilities for growth in blockchain gaming. Notably, Co-Founder and CEO of Solert Games, said that the move would blend the social dynamics of Web2 with the user-centric decentralization of Web3. The international gaming studio was home to more than 160 games, with cumulative downloads exceeding 20 million. AVAX gets resistance at these levels

High-profile partnerships like these and many more gave the AVAX fanbase hope for the long term. Interestingly, AVAX climbed all the way up to $11 this past weekend, the first time in more than a month. However, it met a barrier at $11.5 and the value has since retreated to $9.72 as of press time, data from CoinMarketCap showed. Realistic or not, here’s AVAX’s market cap in BTC’s terms A recent X (formerly Twitter) post by on-chain analytics firm IntoTheBlock revealed that during a bear market, these regions have historically acted as resistance points. Holders dump their AVAX tokens to make up for the losses incurred. Therefore, it would be interesting to observe AVAX’s trajectory once it breaches this barrier. over the weekend, AVAX rallied past $10 but has met significant resistance around $11.50. This coincides with on-chain data, which indicates that historically, more than 747,000 addresses have acquired $AVAX between the price range of $11.62 and $12.93. In bearish conditions,… pic.twitter.com/aDbwniCbYY — IntoTheBlock (@intotheblock) October 9, 2023

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Binance-CFTC FUD puts BNB price at risk of drop toward $200

BNB (BNB) looks set to wipe out its March gains entirely as investors turn their attention to the latest regulatory crackdown on Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange by volume. BNB price logs worst daily performance in over a month On March 27, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Binance and its chief executive Changpeng Zhao (CZ), alleging that the company illegally…

[infinityactual]

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Since u really like the work, this chapter of Coaxial.

It's obvious that I love Lasky. He is my best blorbo.

And aside from the trauma he suffered at Circinus and throughout the Covenant War, I enjoy exploring other aspects of his character and putting pieces together based on what we see and of him in canon. With a thirty year gap in his backstory, we only get to see him as a literal child in FUD, and then we jump immediately to him at the age of 48 in Halo 4.

I like to compare the way he's portrayed in both instances, plus his appearances in the later media and his sort-of appearance in Infinite audio logs to see what changed and what stayed the same. And while I can't be sure that any differences in his character (or maybe lack thereof) were intentional, it really does give a great starting point for extrapolating both what he may have been through in the intervening years as well as what changed or didn't and why.

One thing that I keep coming back to is his sense of empathy and his humanity. In FUD, attention was drawn to his less-than-militant feelings toward the Insurrectionists. He didn't just take the UNSC propaganda hook, line and sinker, despite being the son of a UNSC Colonel and brother to an ODST who was actively engaged in fighting them. In Halo 4, while it's not hilighted to a large degree, he is very sympathetic to Cortana's plight, to the point that he puts himself between Chief and Del Rio on the bridge, and later makes a point to address her directly before she and Chief take the gunship. In SpOps, he is shown to dislike Halsey intensely, and yet he still charges a fucking Knight in her defense after she's hacked Roland and gotten into classified files. Even if you chalk that up to 'following orders to protect a valuable UNSC asset', in the very next episode, Lasky is obviously distressed at being ordered to execute her by Osman. I haven't finished the comics yet, so I can't really comment on their portrayal of him.

But taking all of that into account, I figure it would make sense for his character that injustice just. REALLY gets to him. Like if he thinks too long about the Spartan II or III programs he'll end up all agitated and pissy over just how unethical and abusive they were (and still are). Spartan II and III are one of those buttons that are almost guaranteed to make him lose his cool if you punch it more than once, even if it's on accident and even if you're John 117, being self-deprecating due to the lingering traumas of Spartan II and thirty years of war. It just makes him mad to see people who have saved humanity and done so in such a selfless way treated like equipment, or denying themselves any comforts whatsoever aside from like. Eating real food instead of nutrient packs or rations, or sleeping for a good solid five hours instead of one.

At some point I am GOING to write something based on Del Rio's commentary in HTT where he's describing John as a mad dog, where he and Lasky run into each other at some big, fancy political to-do and Del Rio is talking mad shit about John, and it takes Lasky a scant sixty seconds to go from 'this is boring and i dont want to be here' to 'I AM GOING TO COMMIT SEVERAL FELONIES IN THE NEXT TEN SECONDS' and he ends up breaking Del Rio's nose.

I just. He genuinely cares for others, especially the older generations of Spartans. Injustice pisses him off, and it's a big deal when that sense of justice conflicts with his job. And he gets really riled up when John acts like he doesn't deserve the bare minimum of good things in his life.

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New Post has been published on https://coinprojects.net/celsisus-staked-ethereum-steth-are-pummeling-defi-valuations/

Celsisus, Staked Ethereum (stETH) Are Pummeling DeFi Valuations

The DeFi space is facing a sharp drop in valuation amid concerns over the Celsius suspension and the Lido-staked Ethereum (stETH) de-pegging.

Data from aggregator DeFi Llama shows that the total value locked into DeFi shrank by nearly 20% in the last 48 hours, to a one-year low of $79 billion.

A mix of factors are influencing FUD in the DeFi space. Celsius’ recent suspension of withdrawals stemmed from the de-pegging of stETH from Ethereum (ETH) in secondary markets. This in turn has caused a shock selloff in ETH– one that has also extended to broader crypto markets.

Ethereum meltdown causes chaos in valuations

Given that Ethereum is the largest blockchain by DeFi valuation, a slump in the token is causing widespread losses in the space.

But a bulk of these are still centered around Celsisus, stETH and Lido. Lido- which was once the biggest DeFi protocol ever, has tumbled out of the top three. It also logged the biggest drop among its major peers in the past week, losing nearly 28% of total value locked (TVL).

While Lido is attempting to mitigate the fallout from a potential stETH crash, 99% of its $5.7 billion TVL is from Ethereum staking on the platform.

A vault on Maker DAO- the biggest DeFi platform by TVL, has reportedly dumped 65,000 ETH to decrease the platform’s risk exposure, signalling further headwinds for DeFi.

DeFi faces its second Terra in one month

With TVL dropping across the board, DeFi may be set for its second major selldown after the Terra crash in May.

Terra spurred a $70 billion crash in total valuation, over the span of 10 days. The blockchain, at its peak, was the second-largest DeFi player by TVL.

But a month later, Lido and Celsisus could spur another crash of similar magnitude. Comparisons between the two are already being made, given that the two share several major investors.

Three Arrows Capital and Jump Crypto- all major investors in Terra, are also stakeholders in Lido through stETH.

A stock market rout, coupled with weak macroeconomic conditions has also largely pressured crypto valuations this year. Volatility is also likely to spike ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting this week.

With more than five years of experience covering global financial markets, Ambar intends to leverage this knowledge towards the rapidly expanding world of crypto and DeFi. His interest lies chiefly in finding how geopolitical developments can impact crypto markets, and what that could mean for your bitcoin holdings. When he isn’t trawling through the web for the latest breaking news, you can find him playing videogames or watching Seinfeld reruns. You can reach him at [email protected]

The presented content may include the personal opinion of the author and is subject to market condition. Do your market research before investing in cryptocurrencies. The author or the publication does not hold any responsibility for your personal financial loss.

Source link By Ambar Warrick

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How to Select the Best Remote Access Trojan for Your Niche

Remote access trojans can be injected in a variety of ways. The method of infection is usually similar to other malware infections. It can be spread through specially designed email attachments, web-links, or download packages. It is also installed by deceitful attackers who employ social engineering tactics to make you click on their malicious links. If you're not sure how to protect yourself, learn more about RATs as well as how to safeguard your computer.

Remote access trojans that work for your niche must have a high detection rate and be easy to install. To prevent it from being installed on the computer you want to target it is necessary to install it there. Then, you must create a password to limit the use of the program. If it is an open computer, you will want to use a private one. However, if you're using a public computer, you might want to choose a remote access trojan to protect your personal data.

Another reason to select remote access trojans for your specific niche is that it's now easier than ever to detect malware that's running on your computer. Besides spreading through social networking websites, these trojans can also attack with denial-of service attacks or use your system as proxy servers. As long as you monitor the activities on your computer, you can ensure that the malware doesn't cause any damage to your system free fud apk crypter.

Remote Access Trojans are now an increasingly common threat to malware. They provide hackers with access to your computer's administrative settings that they can use to access your files and monitor your screen. They also have the ability to hijack your network and use it to attack other computers once they are installed. They can also steal your private data, wipe your hard drives, and even steal your computer. Remote access trojans could cause serious damage to your system and impede your privacy if you are unlucky.

Remote access trojans can also be used to mine digital currencies. It's important to know that this type of malware could be extremely difficult to identify. This is due to the fact that it requires that the user allow it to log in to the computer. Although it is possible to identify and stop these malware, it's best to stay clear of these malicious applications. When you're surfing the web you can be assured that you're not alone.

Remote Access Trojans can cause damage to critical infrastructures. They can disrupt the operation of power stations, telephone networks and even entire countries. In 2008, Russia launched a cyberwarfare operation in Georgia. During the conflict in Georgia, the Russian government shut down internet access in the region and the news media was slammed. During the same time it employed RATs to monitor the media and the police.

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[weekinethereum]

May 10, 2018

News and Links

Protocol

Latest Plasma implementation call.  

Kelvin Fichter: Plasma XT.  Plasma Cash but much less per-user data checking. 

Xuanji Li: Plasma Cash with smaller exit procedure

Blockchain at Berkeley’s Plasma implementation

BankEx plasma on Rinkeby.  github.

Latest Casper standup

Casper FFG v0.1 "First Release" to get serious about versioning

Latest Prysmatic Labs sharding implementation call

Justin Drake: a scheme for proposers to omit witnesses in stateless validator execution.

Scaling Ethereum panels: Deconomy and Edcon

 Stuff for developers

Sūrya.  Gonçalo Sá’s extension of soli for exploring Solidity code

scry-one resilient log awaiter in Typescript

Parr, a query tool

Manticore v0.1.9

Conditional scheduling with the Ethereum Alarm Clock

Embark is now part of Status and released v3.0

Solidity event debugger

FOAM’s Cliquebait. PoA testnet in a Docker container

You can now inspect smart contract variables with Truffle’s built-in Solidity debugger in v4.1.8.  Plus Truffle hits 500k downloads.

Zastrin basics of Ethereum course (free!)

Yoichi releases Bamboo v0.0.03

Ecosystem

Aragon Nest announces first give grants: Gnarly optimistic UI from XLNT, Prysmatic Labs for sharding, Frame: OS-level signing provider, toolkits for planning on Aragon from Space Decentral and Giveth, and a git-like versioning system using Aragon.

EF grant winner vipnode’s roadmap

Amberdata analytics dashboards

A look into Ethereum mining pools using miner payouts

Etherscan on its values and monetization strategy

Flippening: Ethereum’s fee market is now larger than Bitcoin’s

45 new members of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

Ron Resnick on how the EEA’s stack release makes Ethereum more attractive for enterprise than competitors with vendor lockin

An interview with Christine Moy, the new head of Quorum

Governance and Standards

the goals of EIP0 going forward

ERC1068: Loan standard

ERC1070: Standard Bounties

ERC1066: Status code proposal

ERC780 claims registry updates

simplify ENR for v4 compatibility merged into EIP778

EIP908 incentives for archive nodes update

ERC1046 to “extend ERC20 token interface to support the same metadata standard as ERC721” merged

EIP 1062: Formalize IPFS hash into ENS resolver

ERC1067: Upgradeable token approach

EIP1057: programmatic PoW

Discussion on ERC1056 lightweight identity

‘Final call’ added as draft to EIP process

Composables ERC998 Update

Dan Finlay proposes “Strange Loop,” a type of liquid democracy signaling process for governance

 Project Updates

Kauri is live on Rinkeby, with knowledge base article requests for uPort, Maker, Aragon, Remix, Toshi, Dharma

Following up on their video, the Aragon Manifesto in print form.

Steph Curry has his own CryptoKitty

draft of the Civil Constitution

0x April update

OmiseGo full roadmap update

Townsquare Media to test BAT and Brave for adblock visitors

uPort’s take on data onchain in the age of GDPR

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

Edcon live streams.  See schedule to find a specific talk.

Linda Xie’s intro to crypto talk at an Andreessen Horowitz event

Interview of Kiev’s DappDev speakers

Blockchain UX with Jose Caballer and Chris Pallé

10 min Vitalik Buterin interview from Deconomy

Thibaut Sardan on setting up a full Parity node on Zero Knowledge

Fabian Vogelsteller with Jeffrey Tong

 Tokens 

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce speech on how regulators should be lifeguards at the beach, not sandbox monitors

a16z’s Scott Kupor and Sonal Chokshi: Analogies, the big picture, and considerations for regulating crypto

Fred Wilson: Is Buying Crypto Assets “Investing?”

“12 Graphs That Show Just How Early The Cryptocurrency Market Is”

Bloomberg graphic on cryptoasset and non-cryptoasset correlations

    General

Chris Ballinger launches MOBI to explore blockchain applications with companies comprising >70% of worldwide vehicle production, eg BMW, Ford, GM, Renault etc

Brian Armstrong publishes the decision making framework at Coinbase

Starkware raised 6m from an allstar list of investors for a zkSTARK hardware and software stack

Lots of melodrama about “WSJ FUD” when there was no public SEC hearing on May 7.  Paul Vigna is a reputable reporter and only reported a “working group.” Seems to me like most of the kerfuffle was due to over-extrapolation by crypto media in search of pageviews.  

Eric Schmidt talking web3 with EF and ConsenSys

Facebook’s messenger lead now leading blockchain efforts.

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

May 11-12 -- Ethereal (NYC)

May 15 -- Kleros sale

May 16-17 -- Token Summit (NYC)

May 17 -- Blockchain, Accounting, Audit, and Tax conference (NYC)

May 17-19 -- Melonport hackthon in Zug

May 18-20 -- EthMemphis hackathon

May 19-20 -- Hacketh (Warsaw)

May 25 - 27 -- EthBuenosAires hackathon

May 28 -- Zeppelin’s zepcon0 conference (Buenos Aires)

June 1 – Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)

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Well RAT(s) are usually used for hacking, and they are detected as backdoors. Popular RAT programs xCerberus Rat xProRat xPoison Ivy xTurkojan Gold Rat xSub Seven xNetBus RAT xSpy-Net xLostDoor xBitFrost xNuclear RAT xBandock xPain Rat xBeast xOptix Pro xDARKMOON xNet-Devil xApocalypse Rat xCyberGate x. Spy-Net 2.6 RAT - Full Setup Tutorial This tutorial is written by 'I Used To Make Out With' aKa Edward Butcher for Hackforums.net If you're going to leech it credit please Tutorial is noob friendly! Requirements-Win XP,vista or 7-Spy-Net RAT v2.6-No Ip (Dynamic DNS)-Fud crypter/protector or hexing skills (optional).

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New features included: - Added optional connection limit. - Increased connection stability. Spy-Net is now as stable as SS-Rat. - Increased speed in filemanager list files and list drives. - Autostart on most features now. - Password retrieval has been improved. Features and Specs: - server around 280 kb, depending on if icon is selected, rootkit, upx compressed, etc - windows xp, vista and 7 compatible; - DNS Updater (for now working with No-IP. developing dyndns updater atm) - File Manger with a load full of options like FTP upload, set attributes to files, preview for images, etc etc etc; - Windows List; - Process List; - Device List; - Service List; - Registry Editor; - Installed Programs; - Active Ports List; - Remote Desktop; - Webcam capture; - Audio Capture; - Password Recovery Tool (with direct download to client or FTP logs); - Password Grabber; - Socks 4/5 proxy; - HTTP Proxy; - Open Webpage; - Download and Execute; - Send local files and run hidden or normally; - Remote Chat Client; - DOS Prompt; - Run cmd; - Clipboard Grabber; - Search for remote files and search on Password Recovery Tool; - Access to download folder, remote desktop screen shots and web capture from menu. - Encrypted traffic between Client and server; - a few extra options (restart, lock buttons and stuff….) and all the options related to server (uninstall, rename, etc etc etc); - add a new option for injection – wait for first browser to open. not the default but the first to start. seems useful in some cases. - Rootkit in beta stage and being developed. It will hide process name and startup keys that have SPY_NET_RAT as name. Tested under XP and working, being developed and tested on other OS’s; - Connections Limit selector; - Binder, - Columns selector (u can choose which columns u wanna see details from in the client. ex: u can hide RAM info view or Ports info view or any other using right click on top of the columns); - Ability to choose either server is installed or not in remote computer. NOTICE:you cant update it spynet 2.6 to 2.7 its not compatible… Download SpyNet

[blockpaths]

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00:00 Opening 00:17 Announcement: BTC price to 39K – Key level. Critical 01:14 Announcement: Democrats win Georgia’s Senate seats. Democrats control the Senate 02:19 Announcement: Warning signs 02:44 Welcome to the chat 04:40 Webinar shoutout Altcoin Webinar 05:35 Wisdom: Capitol hill siege. Weird but funny situation 07:00 Wisdom: We will have insane stimulus printing because Democrats rule 09:17 Coingecko chart marketoverview 11:32 BTC Dominance daily chart: Bearish trend 12:10 BTC weekly chart: Fib retracement is key indicator in price discovery 12:54 BTC daily chart: We go to the next level in one week 14:05 NUPL on chain. We are almost in Euphoria! 14:38 Alex Saunders… CAUTION: Whales are sending coins back to exchanges – Sale imminent. Pullback is coming 15:34 Lecture on: Short term overbought like never before 16:40 BTC hourly chart with BSI: We are still bullish 18:05 BTC daily chart + NUPL: pullback did not reset NUPL like it normally does 19:20 Longterm Holder NUPL chart: Shows how much HODLers are in profit. In a few weeks be very careful! 20:53 glassnode NUPL chart on tradingview: 2013 we had doube bubble 22:59 BTC hourly chart 23:20 ETH hourly chart: We confirmed the break out 23:41 Announcement Raoul Pal Tweet: BTC ETH correlation 24:00 ByBit shoutout 25:00 Crypto news from Raoul Paul: Metcalfe’s law explained for ETH = BTC 26:18 BTC predates ETH by 5 years 27:25 ETH will grow faster than BTC 28:10 Chart: Active Addresses Above 1 million for ETH and BTC 30:20 LOG Chart shows similarities also. To the very dollar 32:26 Altcoin forrest 32:27 Matic chart 32:33 MahaDAO – ARTH launch 32:57 YOP added to CoinMarketCap 33:11 ANKR chart -Stkr governanve 33:52 Exeedme chart – partner with DIA 34:58 UTrust Shoutout Nuno Correia 36:19 PAID network team. Shoutout to Kyle Chasse 38:30 Midroll party UACA Like Subscribe Bell Button All song 40:37 Blockbuster rolling 41:01 Webinar shoutout Altcoins webinar Wednesday 13th of January 41:39 Q&A 42:10 Q1: USDT FUD 15th of January? Maybe. If not then pump 42:46 Q2: Can I do my own crypto taxes? – Go find a tax advisor/professional 44:18 Q3: Can you explain flashbots front running on DEX-es? 46:30 Explanation of bots and exploits and how to protect your users. Obfuscation needed 48:09 Q4: Will you cash out on BTC in January or will you hodl? 49:15 Q5: Does ETH have NUPL also? 50:50 Q6: When BTC dumps do ALTs crash also? 52:03 Q7: Can you elaborate on whales cashing out? 52:34 Q8: What about overbought assets like Tesla? 55:01 Q9: I don’t see ETH doing the same as BTC years ago because of gasfee’s? 55:55 Q10: Do you think another oracle bullrun is coming? 56:10 Q11: NFT farming of pants coming? 57:08 Q12: Nate’s present? 57:18 Q13: INJ platform, derivatives next thing? 57:31 Q14: Whales dump institutions will buy up? 58:00 Q15: Best Liquidity aggregator? 01:01:05 Q16: Is CHI-token a hack to compensate gasfee?

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Telegram Attacks Apple, Musk on Crypto, WEF Debrief: Hodler’s Digest, Jan 20–26

Hodler’s Digest Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.

Top Stories This Week

World Economic Forum debuts framework for central bank digital currencyIt was a c-c-c-cold week in Davos, but Cointelegraph’s reporters wrapped up warm to bring you all the news from the World Economic Forum. One particularly big announcement saw the WEF unveil a central bank digital currency policymaker toolkit. The framework, created in tandem with central banks, is designed to help policymakers understand whether deploying a CBDC would be advantageous. In other developments, a global consortium has been formed to focus on developing interoperable, transparent and inclusive policy approaches to regulating digital currencies. At the start of the week, the European Union and five major central banks — the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland — announced they were planning to team up on their research for CBDCs.WEF: Facebook’s Libra pushed world to reconsider USD as global reserve currencyElsewhere in the snowy hills of Davos, global economists begrudgingly admitted that Libra had played an instrumental role in getting the world to evaluate CBDCs — and to challenge the U.S. dollar’s role as an anchor currency. On a panel exploring the issue, Brazil’s Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said new technologies like blockchain are paving the way for future currencies to be digital. Others, such as the International Monetary Fund’s chief economist, Gita Gopinath, cautioned that the dollar still remains attractive because it “provides the best stability and safety.” David Marcus, the head of Facebook’s Calibra wallet, was speaking at another WEF panel. He questioned whether “wholesale” CBDCs would solve any problems in the global economy, and argued that a retail-focused approach is the best way to tackle an “unacceptable” situation where 1.7 billion people are unbanked and another 1 billion underserved. Whether Libra will be that solution remains to be seen.WEF: Ripple CEO hints at IPO, says more crypto firms will go public in 2020And we’ve just got time for one final morsel of gossip from Davos. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has predicted that initial public offerings will become more prevalent in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space in 2020 — and he hinted his company would be among those seeking a public flotation. “We’re not going to be the first and we’re not going to be the last, but I expect us to be on the leading side,” he said. Such a move could be instrumental in building confidence with mainstream investors and secure a pivot away from controversial initial coin offerings, which have seen young startups suffer often expensive run-ins with regulators such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Tether launches gold-backed stablecoin and begins trading on BitfinexOf course, plenty of news has been happening away from Davos. Tether has announced it is now supporting a gold-backed stablecoin, where one token represents ownership of a troy ounce of physical gold. The funds are said to be backed by physical gold held in a “Switzerland vault” — and the product is available as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain, as well as a TRC-20 token on Tron. Plans for commodity-backed Tethers have been in place for some time, but the company has often been criticized for its opaque approach to reserve management. A high-profile class-action lawsuit recently accused the company of market manipulation in 2017. Tether reserves were also allegedly used to cover a liquidity shortfall.Elon Musk reveals his true opinion on Bitcoin and cryptoTesla’s CEO may be constantly cryptic on his attitudes toward crypto, but this week, we got a little insight into Elon Musk’s thinking. On a podcast, the billionaire said he’s “neither here nor there on Bitcoin,” acknowledged Satoshi’s white paper was “pretty clever,” and warned his stance on cryptocurrencies often “gets the crypto people angry.” Musk added: “You must have a legal to illegal bridge. So, where I see crypto is effectively as a replacement for cash. I do not see crypto being the primary database .” Musk has been known to write short tweets about crypto that were widely interpreted as jokes. Last year, he unexpectedly declared himself as the new CEO of Dogecoin — a gesture that helped the joke coin clock short-lived gains of 35%.

Winners and Losers

At the end of the week, Bitcoin is at $8,450.74, Ether at $163.88 and XRP at $0.22. The total market cap is at $233,388,704,913.Among the biggest 1,000 cryptocurrencies, the top three altcoin gainers of the week are Polybius, Prometheus and Eureka Coin. The top three altcoin losers of the week are Q DAO Governance, OVCODE and CannabisCoin.

For more info on crypto prices, make sure to read Cointelegraph’s market analysis.

Most Memorable Quotations

“I think there's a lot of things that are illegal that shouldn't be illegal. I think that sometimes governments just have too many laws about the missions that they should have, and shouldn't have so many things that are illegal.”Elon Musk, Tesla CEO“So then there is the new technology, the digital, the blockchain. The Libra episode is just evoking a future digital currency.”Paulo Guedes, Brazil’s economy minister“When we started this journey almost six months ago, the whole idea was not around a certain way of doing things, but more around ‘let’s come together and try to figure out how we solve a problem that is unacceptable’ — 1.7 billion people who are currently unbanked, another billion underserved.”David Marcus, Calibra CEO“Given the critical roles central banks play in the global economy, any central bank digital currency implementation, including potentially with blockchain technology, will have a profound impact domestically and internationally.”Sheila Warren, World Economic Forum head of blockchain“In the next 12 months, you’ll see IPOs in the crypto/blockchain space. We’re not going to be the first and we’re not going to be the last, but I expect us to be on the leading side… it’s a natural evolution for our company.”Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO“My #Bitcoin mystery is solved. I mistook my pin for my password. When Blockchain updated their app I got logged out. I logging back in using my pin, which was the only ‘password’ I had ever known or used. I also never had a copy of my seed phrase. Honest but costly mistake!”Peter Schiff, crypto skeptic and gold bug“iCloud is now officially a surveillance tool. Apps that are relying on it to store your private messages (such as WhatsApp) are part of the problem.”Pavel Durov, Telegram founder and CEO

FUD of the Week

Greece extradites alleged launderer of $4 billion in BTC, Alexander Vinnik, to FranceA Russian national accused of heading a group that laundered $4 billion in Bitcoin has been extradited from Greece to France. Alexander Vinnik formerly operated the now-shuttered exchange BTC-e and is believed to have a direct relationship to the infamous hack of Mt. Gox. The case has risked triggering a diplomatic row, with Russia filing several requests to bring him under its jurisdiction. Lawyers writing on behalf of Vinnik’s young children had submitted a complaint to a Greek court at the start of the week in an attempt to prevent the extradition. Reports now suggest that Vinnik is being held at a hospital in Paris. His legal representative Zoe Konstantopoulou said: “In every way the government is trying to scare him, terrorize him, in a moment of great agony, while his health has worsened.”India’s central bank says it hasn’t banned cryptoThe Reserve Bank of India has said restrictions on regulated entities offering crypto assets do not equate to an overall ban. In a document submitted to the country’s supreme court back in September, which has now been made public, the institution said: “The RBI has not prohibited VCs (virtual currencies) in the country. The RBI has directed the entities regulated by it to not provide services to those persons or entities dealing in or settling VCs.” All of this comes as a landmark case against the RBI concludes its second week. Hearings are set to resume on Jan. 28.Peter Schiff bungled wallet password, solving “Bitcoin mystery”Long-running crypto skeptic and gold bug Peter Schiff is likely to be even more skeptical after losing access to his funds. At first, he believed his wallet was corrupted — but he later found out that he mistook his PIN for his password, and he was unable to log in after an app update because he had never taken a copy of his seed phrase. Many in the crypto community have criticized Schiff for making a rookie mistake, with Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao quipping: “I can’t believe I am about to say this, but maybe ‘stay in fiat?’” In recent days, CZ has said that keeping assets on an exchange is often safer than keeping the keys themselves — but those who have fallen victims to hacks on these platforms may not be so quick to agree.

Telegram CEO: Apple’s iCloud is “now officially a surveillance tool”Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, has claimed that Apple’s cloud service iCloud is “now officially a surveillance tool.” His stinging rebuke followed reports that the tech giant dropped plans for end-to-end encryption on iCloud two years ago — apparently following complaints from the FBI. This ultimately means that backed-up texts from iMessage, WhatsApp and other encrypted services remain available to Apple employees and authorities. Telegram has been positioning itself as a global fighter for privacy — and in 2018, it refused to give Russian authorities the encryption keys to user accounts, prompting as-of-yet unfulfilled threats that the app would be blocked “in the near future.”

Best Cointelegraph Features

SEC goes head-to-head with Telegram, makes a guinea pig of TONThe Chamber of Digital Commerce submitted a legal document to the court overseeing the hearing between Telegram and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Shiraz Jagati looks at what it says.Effect of CME futures options on BTC price depends on halvingCME Group has launched new Bitcoin options — further uplifting the institutional infrastructure supporting the asset class. Joseph Young writes that it’s a net positive for the crypto community, and the upcoming “halving” could make things more interesting.Adam Back on Satoshi emails, privacy concerns and Bitcoin’s early daysCassio Gusson has caught up with Adam Back to discuss the early years of Bitcoin, his emails with Satoshi Nakamoto and privacy — 11 years after BTC’s release.Original Article - CoinTelegraph.com Read the full article

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Blockchain is Beginning To Revolutionize eCommerce.

The Entry of Plaza Systems.

Credits: Picjumbo

Get your Phone, drink coffee or tea and Shop! We don’t need to go to malls just to buy and sell something. The world is really on digital era indeed ecommerce that was refer to buying and selling online. It means whether you buy or sell using internet, then you’re involved with ecommerce. These days, is there anyone never use internet for buying and selling? maybe 9 out 10 people using it?

Everyday, I just lyin in my bed with my two daughters. I just Scrolling on Amazon sometimes on Lazada to buy and selling items since I don't have time to shop and sell my items to the malls.

Internet is one of my bestfriend, without internet, I will never having a buy and sell business.

Disclamer: This article is not a financial advice. I’m not a financial experts. This article is speculative and merely my own personal opinion based on my own research that I’ve done before writing it. Please have due diligence to do expanded research regarding any Start-up projects you want to participate, I have prepared some useful links that I used as reference on this article. I try to avoid all FOMO or FUD and remain unbiased. Always remember that what you do with your funds is your decision to make. DYOR and seek guidance from a professional financial expert that you’ve trusted.

First I would like to say Thank you to Mr. David Smooke for inspiring me in terms of writing. My passion in writing was back because of his stories. Thank you and I salute you Mr. David!

The Electronic commerce.

Credits: Creation Infoways Pvt. Ltd.

Amazon.de ,ebay.com Alibaba and also ITunes, just some of the most Popular Ecommerce these days. Ecommerce changed the way we Live, Shop and Selling. But how did this ecommerce happens? I will tell you a short real old story, happened one Afternoon of August 11, 1994 when Phil Brandenberger of Philadelphia logged into computer and uses his credit card and buy Sting’s “Ten Summoners’ Tales” for $12.48 + shipping. He made a history! As it was the very first time that the encryption technology used into enable an internet purchase. And now it goes too far that There are news, that U.S. online retail market will reach about 1.2 trillion dollors in 2020. Who will forget the rapid acceptance of the blockchain technology? Example is the Plaza Platform who uses the Blockchain and developed a distinctive ecosystem for the e-commerce market.

How Blockchain fit and solved challenges of the Ecommerce?

Popularity due to globalisation of internet specially effect by the uses of social medias, user’s can find almost all of the products that we can see in the malls or stores. However, By this rapidly expanding and popularity increasing of the online orders, ecommerce started to face significant problems and challenges that affects the trust and security of the buyers. The following are the problems of eccomerse that it facing this time:

The most problem was the High transaction fees when making a Peer To Peer ( P2P) payments. This is from payments collected by the centralized payments systems, that was displayed on price of the goods.

Weak competition were This is a truly reality that most of the companies or let me say small companies can’t make a clear competition to the giants companies like Amazom, Alibaba and Ebay, and the result is they dictate their own rules as they monopolize this industry.

They are still Lack of confidentiality for buyers - the personal data users has become the subject of the trade and tool for the marketing manipulation.

The Blockchain To The Rescue!

The Blockchain that was gained an immense popularity in recent years, Allows the decentralized marketplaces to emerge that, from a lack of centralized team and an inherent costs, will now provide lower prices for the consumers and a better rules for retailers. Suddenly, nevertheless far from the global acceptance by the modern society, This technology was still in the stage of development. While some of early blockchain projects such as Plaza Systems will able to solve those problems of the traditional e-commerce market by providing unique solutions that ease the smooth adoption of the Blockchain technology.

Before we get into the nitty-gritty of the PLAZA realm, let’s first answer one fundamental question:

What is Plaza?

Credits: David Gillbanks Medium Post.

Plaza occupied the intersection of the lifestyle and the technology. Developing the Total bCommerce™ solution, that includes a fast & a future-proof MerchantChain™ , this MerchantChain Transaction Coin Standard™, and a Freedom Lifestyle™. it is brands newest job that was bridging technology and lifestyle together, also it will helps to push the manner which the two can be socialize together. The Plaza Systems will considered the utilizing of ability of blockchain to help the origin of the methods that they found fresh and innovative.

The Plaza System Solutions.

The Plaza Systems was Designed with a features that will be hide the difficulty of interacting with the blockchain protocols and by using of the Cryptocurrency in the everyday transactions. The Plaza was built with a target for mainstream e-commerce users including the blockchain enthusiasts who knows how it really works.

It will ease an integrated and a user-friendly crypto currency lifestyles, also enables a private online shopping ofcoarse at the best possible prices, debit card and smart interactive speaker will be also serves as a secure crypto wallets aswell as a mining rig for it's utility token and transaction coin.

Technical Part.

Made up on Ethereum that will supply the constant feeling of stability and the security which any blockchain s projects looking for. By the uses of the Blockchain trades, It will assist you to used the Blockchain for trades, it is going to assist you eradicate the possibility of fraud that was obviously and I agreed a big concern.

For business , it will get its own services and products the person with also had an accounts and then program proceeds to buy, the amount of money will directly moved into business under the consideration out of their wallet. This is will be done with the petition being put on the blockchain. That was all can be done anonymously knowing that is included in the trade. This expectation for provider was the reason they will going to just simply accept using their own investment, in that case their investment will going to have the ability to rise as prevalence of device increases.

The nominal was the token and they will aren't be the sole business, so that you can utilize any of Ethereum as against to count upon one.

What makes the Plaza Systems Unique?

Here is what I remembered on what I read on it's Whitepaper.

A Complete Control Of Privacy Back InTo its Users: The buyers at Plaza can choose whether to be anonymous when buying anything on this platform. Only the sellers can’t hide their identities because, ofcoarse as a buyer we needs to know who we are dealing with! Did you want to buy anything with unidentified person? Obviously no! right?

A Freedom To Spend your PlazaDollars (PL$) Anytime, Anywhere: It’s unique as it has it’s very own PL$. The PlazaDollars is the Plaza’s tethered-like coin thatwas back with a fiat currencies. It was created for thetransactional operations in this platform. Also the user can trade it with each other. They will be issued a Card that we will called the "PlazaCard". Plazacards can be use to spend the PL$. It will be convenience at it comes in both a physical and a virtual versions. You can Choose any option!

Plaza Lifestyle Rewards: An Automated system for a rewards adoption, a referrals, a loyalty and volume. Form is not needed. You don’t need to fill up because it was fully automated that was compensate the activities you’ve do within this platform. Also the seller’s had the opportunity to build their own loyalty program with the use of same as Plaza Lifestyle Rewards system.

An easier CryptoCurreny Mining: If you’re really into Crypto, you know The mining like Bitcoin. Its not easy to mine Bitcoin, as it was costly and energy consuming especially when you live in countries likePhilippines where electricity and internet was slow but costly. Plaza trying to change it with their PlazaConcierge, desktop smart speaker, a personal assistant and a and a hands-free crypto mining rig which the owners can start earning an extra income by mining a PLAZA TOKENS and A PlazaDollors in this Plaza’s MerchantChain blockchain protocol

With Professional Team: Solid and a professional team is what we looking first before we seek out for new investments. Do you agree? Well as I read on whitepaper, their team has a commercial successes in e-commerce and fintech industry in over the last 12 years and they were collectively have more than 80 years of experience in working with a multiple e-commerce systems platforms.

A Dual-token Powered System: We all know that all the token is unpredictable that is not ideal to use it as payment, because the price was unstable. Plaza realise that to create a smooth operation for their platform, they will be needed a stable coin that is reason why they make a two Cryptocurrencies. The PlazaDollar that is the stable coin that we may use for buying and selling and the PLAZA, an Ethereum Blockchain token that can be traded on a secondary market after their ICO which is still going on now. For the ICO Details Please do direct at their Website.

Author's Foreword

I, personally as an Online buyer and seller, I considered myself as the one of the millions of shoppers in the world that demands a more easier , sucure and fast systems with no downtimes and are able to build a custom dApps on the top and finally the Plaza MerchantChain fits the bill.

This start-up project was still on development and so, I suggest to you to stay tune on their websites for some additional features. I am also excited to use their platform like you, and remember this article was based on my research so you must make your own too so you can make your own conclusion with it.

Thank you for reading and Hope to have you again on my next Article!

Website: plaza.systems

White Paper: plaza.systems/whitepaper

More news & opinion from Plaza Systems: medium.com/plaza-systems

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Russian hackers used bitcoin to fund election interference, so prepare for FUD

The indictment filed today against 12 Russian officials accused of, among other things, hacking the DNC and undermining Hillary Clinton’s campaign also notes that the alleged hackers paid for their nefarious deeds with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This unsavory application of one of tech’s current darlings will almost certainly be wielded against it by opportunists of all stripes.

It is perhaps the most popular and realistic argument against cryptocurrency that it enables anonymous transactions globally and at scale, no exception made for Russian intelligence or ISIS. So the news that a prominent and controversial technology was used to fund state-sponsored cyber attacks will not be passed over by its critics.

Department of Justice indicts 12 Russian intelligence officers for Clinton email hacks

You can expect bluster on cable news and some sharp words from lawmakers, who will also probably issue some kind of public denouncement of cryptocurrencies and call for more stringent regulation. It’s only natural: their constituencies will hear that Russians are using bitcoin to hack the election systems and take it at face value. They have to say something.

But this knee-jerk criticism is misguided and hypocritical for several reasons.

First is that it’s not as anonymous and mysterious as critics make out. The details in the indictment actually provide an interesting example (far from the first) of the limits of cryptocurrency’s ability to obscure its users’ activities.

The painstaking research of the Special Investigator’s team revealed the approximate amounts and methods involved, and although there is a veneer of anonymity in that addresses are not inherently tied to identities, it is far from impossible to establish ownership. Not that they didn’t try, as the indictment shows:

The Defendants conspired to launder the equivalent of more than $95,000 through a web of transactions structured to capitalize on the perceived anonymity of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.

They also enlisted the assistance of one or more third-party exchangers who facilitated layers transactions through digital currency exchange platforms providing heightened anonymity.

But the process of laundering, after all, becomes rather difficult when there is an immutable, peer-maintained record of every penny being pushed around. Small slip-ups in the team’s operational security allowed investigators to tie, for example, an email address used to access a given bitcoin wallet with the one used to pay for a VPN.

[U]sing funds in a bitcoin address, the Conspirators purchased a VPN account, which they later used to log into the @Guccifer_2 Twitter account. The remaining funds from that bitcoin address were then used […] to lease a Malaysian server that hosted the dcleaks.com website.

It’s likely that the very same distributed ledger technology that allows for anonymous international payments in the first place also creates an invaluable investigative tool for those savvy enough to take advantage of it. So although bitcoin has its shady side, it’s far from perfect secrecy, especially when exposed to the privileges of a federal investigative team.

The second reason the criticism will be hollow is that it doesn’t provide much in the way of new capabilities for those who wish to keep their activities online secret.

There are established methods used by nation-states and garden-variety hackers and criminals alike that minimize or eliminate the possibility of tracking. Money laundering is performed at huge volumes worldwide and there are shady banks, loopholes, and puppet organizations peppered across the globe.

Cryptocurrencies are convenient for paying for things online because there are a number of vendors (dwindling, but they exist) that accept it straight, or if one is not available it is reasonably liquid and can be shifted easily. I feel sure that our own intelligence services are making good use of it.

On that note is the third reason this FUD will be risible: if we are going to address the problem of dark money influencing politics, using bitcoin for hacking activities doesn’t even amount to a rounding error and it is cynical prestidigitation that makes it appear more than such.

I won’t belabor the point, because it is surely topmost in many an American’s mind that cash funneled through Super PACs and offshore accounts, backroom deals and stock trades, favors for lobbyists and corporate “donators,” and twenty other forms of pay-for-play in Washington are more of a clear and present danger than a handful of Russian operatives ineffectually obscuring peanuts payments for hosting fees and bribes.

Perhaps the administration would prefer scripture: “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?”

If anything these indictments are evidence only that cryptocurrency is here to stay, usable by you, or me, or an rival nation-state, or our own — just like any other financial instrument.