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aiotabek · 5 years

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Meet the OCs

Today is a day for family and friends - so I thought I would introduce you to some of my favorite Non Yoi OCs.

Meet my absolute favorite anxiety-ridden scruffmuffin:

Germain Shepherd

20 something social anxiety train wreck just looking to get through the day, earn enough to pay the rent, and trying to make friends. Maybe find love. (It isn’t going well)

Special skills include an unnaturally good memory for people’s preferences and taking care of his emotional support dog Spock. In all universes he’s been played in, he is essentially a personal assistant / office gopher.

Originally an Agents of Shield Android (before they even had them in the series, this character was somewhat an unintentional premonition) with a tragic backstory that didn’t end up getting fully explored in RP. He is adaptable, though, and can fit in almost any verse.

Meet my favorite Gender non-conforming weeaboo accidental Omega CutiePatootie:

Tae-lin Nguyen (Vietnamese American)

Medical Student, local Shortie and unabashed cute-culture nerd. Uses He/him pronouns but doesn’t give a shit about gender roles and loves frilly Japanese Lolita style dresses and fashion.

Passions include studying, coffee, Japanese Kawaii culture, Miyazaki Films, fashion, and helping others.

Special Skills include - being ridiculously adorable, being ridiculously short, staying cheerful despite the worst situations, believing the best of people

In his original universe, he was a Catboy who attended a school for ‘magical beings’ and his passion for medicine was discovered when he learned that his werewolf best-friend couldn’t digest meat-protein and it made him sickly. He decided to go into the field of Crypto-Medicine for Magical Beings.

He can fit into nearly any universe as either a catboy or human.

Meet my favorite disabled super-talented self-taught hacker/ coder and avid Gamer-Boy:

Jian-yu Zhou (Chinese American)

Second generation Asian-American juggling school (I.T. Tech) and his passion for breaking code. He’s the kind of guy that builds skins and mods for games, or codes Pokemon to play in Minecraft with redstone for fun.

He was born with Spinal Atrophy - learned to walk late and has slowly been losing the ability to support himself on his own two feet ever since. Now he uses a wheelchair to get around most places that require a lot of walking, or arm crutches for everything else.

In his original Universe, he messed with things he shouldn’t have on a dare, and got picked up by a secret organization as a very carefully watched on-call ‘Private contractor’. His parents believe he won a lucrative scholarship and is on a full-ride for the remaining years of his schooling.

Might be tough to fit into a skating-verse, but things could be altered to make it work!

Meet my favorite trash-fire disaster man college professor for the arts

James O’Raithbhearteigh (Scotts-Irish)

There’s nothing overly special about James - except that he falls in love with the turning of the wind. He’s a passionate man, with a passionate soul and that gets him into a lot of trouble. That passion bleeds into everything in his life - from his hobbies to his heart.

He teaches Sculpture and Art Theory at the local college

Just an ‘Everyday guy’ who likes to make things with his hands.

This trash-man could fit just about anywhere with a little effort.

#I love these guys so much and trying to brief overviews is hard!

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jonathanalumbaugh · 7 years

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Weekly Digest

Dec 23, 2017, 4th issue.

A roundup of stuff I consumed this week. Published weekly. All reading is excerpted from the main article unless otherwise noted.

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When women are discussed on the main economics discussion forum, the conversation moves from the professional to the personal...

Even with generous subsidies, low-income people are still unlikely to buy health insurance...

Managers are biased negatively against minority workers, and this, in turn, makes the minority workers perform worse...

Living standards may be growing faster than GDP growth...

The World Bank’s $1-a-day poverty line inadequately deals with local context, and a better measure can be derived through more complicated math...

Decriminalizing sex work makes it safer and more common...

Poor kids who grow up in rich neighborhoods do a lot better than poor kids who grow up in poor ones...

Better trained doctors mean fewer opioid related deaths...

After a bad outcome, female surgeon’s referrals went down much more than male surgeons...

The average worker does not value an Uber-like ability to set their own schedule...

Foreign finance has led to more inequality...

Preschool programs targeted at the poor don’t work nearly as well as universal pre-school programs...

Shocks to the economy in certain sectors can have larger effects on the entire economy than previously thought...

— 13 economists on the research that shaped our world in 2017

Comments section: Pilote345 - NO WONDER: Recently, the pilots' pay was less than it was in the 1980's. They might be trying to improve, but for example, I just now found Allegiant Air found pays MD-80 1st Officers $34,440.00, not much more than the $15/hour crowd wants for starting burger flippers.

— Airlines battle growing pilot shortage that could reach crisis levels in a few years

— APOLLO 10 0N BOARD V0ICE TRANSCRIPTION

Under Schmidt’s leadership, Google notched its fair share of not-quite-not-evil missteps. After getting everyone hooked on Gmail and Search, the company started to erode some of its original privacy promises.

— Be Kind of Evil

“People want to cast it as a choice between policy or technology as a solution but those should exist hand-in-hand. We would have never gotten renewable energy prices where they are today without really ambitious public policy. It shows the importance of bold goals,” Brown says.

— California Poised To Hit 50% Renewable Target A Full Decade Ahead Of Schedule

“Keep your phone away from your body,” the state health department writes. “Although the science is still evolving, some laboratory experiments and human health studies have suggested the possibility” that typical long-term cell phone use could be linked to “brain cancer and tumors of the acoustic nerve,” “lower sperm counts,” and “effects on learning and memory.”

— California says the only safe way to talk on your cell phone is to text

Developer infatuation with Chrome is not good — because competition between browsers is good.

— Chrome is Not the Standard

The initial physical deployment of 5G networks alone could pack a major economic punch. A 2017 Accenture report forecasts the cellular communications industry will invest $275 billion in new networks, which will create up to 3 million jobs and add some $500 billion to the United States’ gross domestic product. Longer term, researchers expect the new 5G networks to help stimulate productivity growth to rates not seen since the 1950s.

— The Coming 5G Revolution

In early tests, the company claims the feature helped to reduce ghosting behavior on its service by 25 percent.

— Dating app Hinge rolls out a new feature to reduce ‘ghosting’

Liberated from the diamond and pointing calmly eastward, perhaps a designer’s pure intent is revealed—direction for an otherwise aimless walk in the woods.

— Decoding the Mysterious Markers on the Appalachian Trail

Trade the ginkgo biloba for a bag of spinach during your next stop at the store: Leafy greens may be your best resource for boosting memory... The study involved 960 people, all between 58 and 99 and without dementia. Everyone enrolled in the study was part of the Memory and Aging Project, which has been ongoing since 1979 at the Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Washington University.

— EATING SALAD EVERY DAY KEEPS BRAINS 11 YEARS YOUNGER AND PREVENTS DEMENTIA, STUDY SHOWS

— Edward Snowden on Twitter

Commander Persera swam out into intergalactic space last week, she says in a forum post, piloting a ship called the Jack of Flames. The reason for the trip is simply to go further from Sol than anyone else (a previous record was set by one Commander Deluvian, who travelled 65,652 lightyears from Sol along a similar route). But also, she says, to bring a canister of mugs from the infamous Hutton Orbital space station into the void and leave them there. Just because.

— Elite Dangerous pilots are scrambling to rescue an explorer stranded in the void between galaxies

[Eminem says] that he's not making his music for other artists who aren't fans to begin with.

— Eminem Responds to Vince Staples’ Criticism of Him

Reports so far claim the spec will offer support for low, mid, and high-band spectrum from below 1 GHz (like 600 and 700 MHz) all the way up to around 50 GHz while including the 3.5 GHz band. It’s been said that the first 5G networks for consumers will begin rolling out in 2019 and this will continue throughout 2020.

— First 5G Specification has been Declared Complete by the 3GPP

As Brian and his wife wandered off toward the No. 2 train afterward, it crossed my mind that he was the kind of guy who might have ended up a groomsman at my wedding if we had met in college. That was four years ago. We’ve seen each other four times since. We are “friends,” but not quite friends. We keep trying to get over the hump, but life gets in the way.

— Friends of a Certain Age

Comment section: Blaming Amazon for this is wrong. The people make a choice to work for them. This is an indictment on our society that forces these people to have to work. Amazon isn’t a charity that should have to take care of people. But it’s all of us who are to blame.

— A Glimpse Inside CamperForce, Amazon's Disposable Retiree Laborers

Effective filmmakers, no matter their genre or taste, put their fingers in the air, feel for a current, and then make art that either complements or pushes against it. They distill the world they live in, which is why there’s no such thing as an apolitical film.

— How Big Screen Sci-Fi and Horror Captured 2016’s Political Paranoia

The Legislative Analyst’s Office predicts California will eventually make more than $1 billion annually from taxing recreational marijuana.

— HOW RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA IN CALIFORNIA LEFT CHEMISTS IN THE DARK

What makes for an effective office environment? Random encounters with your coworkers. And food. Lots and lots of food.

— How to Build a Collaborative Office Space Like Pixar and Google

Fidelity suggests having your yearly income saved at 30, three times your income at 40, seven times your income at 55, and 10 times your income at 67.

— How Much Should You Have Saved at Every Age?

HCI (human-computer interaction) is the study of how people interact with computers and to what extent computers are or are not developed for successful interaction with human beings.

— Human-computer interaction, from University of Birmingham

The company says it is now focused on “on developing and investing in globally scalable blockchain technology solutions,” but, as reported by Bloomberg, it has exactly zero partnerships in the works with crypto firms

— Iced Tea Maker's Stock Price Triples After Adding 'Blockchain' to Name”

9 “Should you invite someone who assaulted you to your wedding.” No.

— It Came From The Search Terms: “I Can See The Sun In Late December”

The best way to cook a steak is medium rare. Plenty of people will disagree with this statement, for different reasons.

— Medium Rare: The Best Way to Cook a Steak

It sounds like it was made by an algorithm. It checks off so many boxes it could land in anyone’s “Because you watched” recommendations.

— Netflix’s first big movie “Bright” feels like a blockbuster built by an algorithm

State law that is rarely invoked requires tied elections to be settled by “lot.”

— Oyster shucking? A duel? No, Virginia will pull a name from a film canister to settle tied election

— Parents give teacher wine with son's face on label

— Reggie Watts: Fuck Shit Stack

— Reggie Watts: Humor in music

Self-efficacy is defined as a personal judgement of "how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations".

— Self-efficacy (Wikipedia)

The problem Haven aims to address is known as an “evil maid” attack. Basically, many of the precautions you might take to protect your cybersecurity can go out the window if someone gains physical access to your device.

— Snowden's New App Turns Your Spare Android Phone into a Pocket-Sized Security System

After doing a lot of online research and making a terrible mess, I thought I could make a tutorial for humble people like me. If I can do it, you can do it too.

— The Ultimate Guide to DIY Screw Post Book Binding

The robot obediently appeared in the distance, floating next to Miller. Miller then walked into the same space as the robot and promptly disappeared. Well, mostly disappeared, I could still see his legs jutting out from the bottom of the robot. My first reaction was, “Of course that’s what happens.” But then I realized I was seeing a fictional thing created by Magic Leap technology completely obscure a real-world human being. My eyes were seeing two things existing in the same place and had decided that the creation, not the engineer, was the real thing and simply ignored Miller, at least that’s how Abovitz later explained it to me.

— We Need to Talk About Magic Leap's Freaking Goggles

What’s this mistake so many make? It’s using your current job title as your headline.

— What Your LinkedIn Headline Reveals About Your Self-Confidence At Work

With the Dec. 14 repeal, Comcast and others will be able to charge content companies exorbitant fees without, technically, blocking. This fundamentally changes how the internet works, argues Ryan Singel, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.

— What will happen now that net neutrality is gone? We asked the experts

The story [Cat Person] stuck with me because I, too, have felt like the story’s main character, Margot. I have belittled myself to make a man in a vulnerable situation feel more comfortable. I have allowed myself to spend time with boys who I did not like that much but who I felt I owed my time to because they really liked me. And I have also taken part in the practice of ghosting- ignoring somebody who is texting me, instead of outright rejecting them. With time, I have gotten much better at being straightforward when someone is interested in me and the feeling is not reciprocated, but I still do the dance many women do: We exert energy into finding the most polite, passive way to get ourselves out of uncomfortable situations with men.

— Why Women Are Ghosting You

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ramrodd · 5 years

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Here's the thing to understand about this commentary since I began it in 1981 is that I am literally a League of Nations Wilson and John Bolton's entire career has been dedicated to restoring the primacy of the American foreign policy established by Henry Cabot Lodge's success at vetoing the League of Nations.

If you want to understand the difference between an Eisenhower-Romney Republican and a Joe McCarthy Conservative. We are poster boys for the politics in the GOP coming out of Nixon-Brezhnev Detente and Mao-Nixon Leakey Umbrella Summit. I went to Vietnam as an instrument of whatever POTUS had in mind for the safety and security back in The World.

When I got to Vietnam in 1970, just after Kent State, John Bolton was in his last year of his draft deferment as a cadet in the Harvard ROTC program and he was scared shitless of going to Vietnam (which is another way of saying he had other priorities than military service, except he had a military obligation from being able to avoid being drafted for an undergraduate degree, just like West Point.

John Bolton, being a certified white guy with extensive political connections and a daddy rich enough to pay for Harvard Yard, found a slot in a National Guard unit and was in for 6 years, like GW Bush and Dan Quayle, protecting the women and children on the home front. I appreciate his service: The World had been nice and snug for everyone when I got back and John Bolton was waiting for me in an agenda committed to blow up everything Eisenhower set into motion with his 1956 Presidential Platform, including Nixon's foreign and domestic programs. That's what Supply Side economics is all about.

This all goes back to William F. Buckley's heroic self-image of standing on the wave of the future, shouting "STOP!"

Buckley was what the Soviets referred to as "reactionary" and "anti-revolutionary", These were the people the Kymer Rouge classified as a political crime in the Killing Fields.

Here's how things get a little twisted when you are dealing with applied Fascism: in Vietnam before 1962, the Counter-Insurgency processes of the Green Berets was literally "anti-revolutionary" behavior in terms of the godless commie cocksuckers in Hanoi who were losing to American democratic socialism and the entrepreneurial society of Paris after the war. In 1962, the Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea were both works in process, but they exhibited very similar digestive transitions going from the powers-that-be at the end of the war to post Sigmund Rhee and the Diem brothers.

My thesis long before I actually got to Vietnam was that America lost the battle when we assassinated the Diem brothers. It is a moral failure we are still paying for because assholes like John Bolton in the Joe McCarthy Conservative coalition that has assembled itself, ideologically, around Buckley's 1960 Fascist manifesto, the Sharon Statement. Of course, two years later the Students for a Democratic Society published the Port Huron Statement, a civil-rights/anti-war manifesto that adopted the political stragety of the Trotsky Insurgency Process, one of the things the Green Berets all over the world were deliberately committed to neutralize with the Counter-Insurgencey technologies David Petreaus resurrected to begin to re-orient the military aspiration towards the peace-keeping and stability operations of conflict resolution, In other words, the SDS set a process in motion leading to violent revolution and, by 1969, the political power in the class struggle between the Jocks and Greeks on one side, which had dominated the American campus since Jefferson was at William and Mary and what we called "Green Baggers" at IU to identify the liberals and non-greek nerds who were on campus to get an education and carried a local symbol of a wonderful waterproof green sachel so you could get to class in the rain.

I had a green bag and I was both a Greek and a rugby jock. I was actually at IU to get an infantry commission, but I had to carry academic classes because they didn't have an ROTC degree. I expected to go to Vietnam when I started my freshman year and I had as little to do with campus politics as possible, but by the time I graduated, the biggest stud in the SDS, Guy Loftman, was Student Body President and the Tucker Carlson-Kellyanne Conwary demographic were the neo-"Green Baggers".

John Bolton was part of the Tucker-Carlson-Kellyanne Conway demographic displaced by the Trotsky Insurgency Process. I wasn't part of either campus coalition. As an Army brat, campus society was just an extension of the school yard social agitation I did my best to avoid in the civilian community, When you are an Army brat, you are in a state of constant social turnover and the sort of socio-politico patterns of the civilian community off-post didn't exist in the Army community. It was like the difference between "West Side Story" and the crew of Starship Enterprise. In Germany, we had evacuation drills. In 1962, the Army evacuated all its dependents in 24 hours after the Viet Cong started tossing hand grenades into Saigon movie theaters. And the cultural revolution on campus from 1965 until 1969 was just more of the crap I avoided as best as i could in high school. It was Black Board Jungle with a Diliverance drawl.

I had a couple of classes with Guy Loftman: one in military history and one in an english seminar and we had a certain nodding acquaintance. I had to come to class in my ROTC uniform of the day one day of the week and it was never an issue. The core justification for the anti-war movement was draft avoidance, or, at least, the essential emotional driver of the movement. I still find it hard to believe that white Americans growing up playing football wouldn't want to soldier for a couple of years, just to play in the big leagues. So, I didn't buy their bullshit any more that I did the crap coming out of people like John Bolton and Pat Buchanan and that whole strata of chicken hawks who have been committed to blowing up everything I went to Vietnam to serve and protect. Including their personal life style of the American Endless Summer. I mean, you can compare the careers arc of John Bolton and Bret Kavanaugh and that was the expectation of the Jocks and Greeks of the Tucker Carlson-Kellyanne Conway demographic in 1965 and, by 1969, Guy Loftman had turned things on the American campus on its head, like Marx proposed to do to Hegel.

And, when I got back from Vietnam and moved to the District of Columbia, the GOP had two distinct agendas: the critical path set into motion by George Washington and a reactionary path diverging at a right angle from the critical path, the political agenda of the Joe McCarthy Conservaties emerging from William F. Buckley's Young Americans for Freedom dedicated to turning Eisenhower's 1956 Presidential Platform on it's head. In the Nixon White House, there were the Eisenhower-Romney Republicans (including Nixon) and the Plumbers, the pre-cursor to the Joe McCarthy Conservatives who came to town with Reagan and began to dismantle everything that was connected to Nixon's domestic and foreign policy programs.

People like John Bolton. Bolton is trying to fade into the background noise of the liberal media enough to get back unto the talk show circuit to flog his PAC. He is a very skilled bureaucrat but he is sheer poison for the Presidential critical path currently being dangerously diverted by Donald John Trump*.

Here's the thing: the influence of Peter Navvaro's agenda to regress the American economy to 1955, when an American businessman coul get a blow job in Berlin for a loaf of bread, is evident in Donald John Trump's fascination with the size of the nuclear arsenal and his proposed budget to restore the aresenal to its level in 1969. It's one of those things that just grabs him by his pecker, like the idea that a tariff war fills a similar need, And John Bolton and the Joe McCarthy Conservatives made POTUS Pencil Prick possible.

John Bolton is a major generator of the disinformation of the Joe McCarthy Conservative communication strategy, He's like David Brooks (not David Brock): he will never not be a crypto-Fascist operative. He's hard-wired the way he is. It's the Fascist Voluntary Derangement Syndrome: the ability to deliver ideologically driven narrative without the slightest existential basis in their sleep.

This is why John Bolton is able to commit his political career to advancing Henry Cabot Lodge's anti-League of Nations foreign policy agenda. Like Richard "Dick" Cheney, America's favorite war criminal, John Bolton has never felt the lash of combat on his own back. 911 gave America a itty-bitty taste of the lash of war and it should have scared Joe McCarthy Conservatives straight, but, like their predecessors who though the Bay of Pigs was a good idea and were involved in the Diem assassinations, the only lesson they seem to learn is the practicality of plausible deniability in a strategy of accountability avoidance.

Like Bill Kristol and the members of the Lincoln Project, John Bolton has created a lucrative career with a wake of policy failure that includes the invasion of Iraq, the 2008 Mortgage crises and, now, Donnie the Duckass. What needs to happen is for Clinton voters to recognize and ignore the voice of disinformation coming out of the Joe McCarthy Conservatives and vote for the (Democrat to be named later). Any of these men and women will do just fine if only because they aren't Joe McCarthy Conservatives and their administration will begin to flush the Joe McCarthy Conservatives out of the federal government, beginning with the Schedule C presidential executive appointments. Whatever success the economy is enjoying under Trumponomics started from the Bush-Obama structures that set the current Bull Market in motion. I mean, it will be a real novelty for a Democrat administration to inherit a national economy from a Republican administration that isn't a total basket case if Potus Pencil Prick hasn't fucked things up so badly, globally, My vote, at this moment, in a rational world, would be for Biden's resume and the Green New Deal Platform, which has been hanging fire since 1981, when Joe McCarthy Conservative assholes like John Bolton began installing Supply Side economics.

Right now, Mitt Romney is the last of the adult leadership in the GOP that worked on the legacy critical path of Eisenhower's 1956 Presidential Platform and he's the only one who voted for the values I went to Vietnam to advance and John Bolton began to destroy while serving in the National Guard.

Mitt Romney and I are the last of the Eisenhower-Romney Republicans and John Bolton is a poster boy for the Joe McCarthy Conservatives

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Ethereum Hard Fork Live, Stolen ETH Moved, ‘Hodlers Are Insane’: Hodler’s Digest, Dec. 2–8

Ethereum Hard Fork Live, Stolen ETH Moved, ‘Hodlers Are Insane’: Hodler’s Digest, Dec. 2–8:

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

Ethereum completes Istanbul hard fork

It’s happened! Ethereum’s much-anticipated shift to Istanbul has been completed, and the system-wide update came into force when the network passed block #9069000 late on Saturday night. Vitalik Buterin claims capacity now has the potential to reach 3,000 transactions per second. Istanbul is designed to deliver interoperability with the privacy token Zcash and make it cheaper to use zero-knowledge technologies that enhances privacy. Although miners and node operators need to update their client, most people who hold ETH or use the network are unaffected — and ETH prices are unexpected to suffer turbulence. Maxwell Foley, software engineer at CertiK, told Cointelegraph Magazine: “Ethereum, in general, is an exciting project because they’re trying the hardest out of anyone in the crypto space to scale without sacrificing decentralization.”

Upbit hack: Stolen ETH worth millions on the move to unknown wallets

There’s been some new developments after 342,000 ETH was stolen from the hot wallet of major South Korean crypto exchange Upbit. According to Whale Alert, a service monitoring large transactions, one of the addresses involved in the theft has been moving ETH worth millions of dollars to an unknown wallet. Dodgy transfers have been taking place throughout the week in chunks of 10,000 ETH and 1,001 ETH — worth about $1.5 million and $150,000 respectively. After news emerged that the funds, worth about $50 million, had been stolen, some analysts suggested that an “inside job” was more likely than an external breach.

France to test its central bank digital currency in Q1 2020, official says

The Bank of France is going to test a central bank digital currency for financial institutions in the first quarter of 2020. Governor François Villeroy de Galhau said the “digital euro” pilot will not involve retail payments made by individuals — and stressed any such project would “be subject to special vigilance.” The central bank has been clear that France needs to assert sovereignty over private initiatives such as Facebook’s Libra, with the country leading efforts to ensure that the stablecoin is stopped from launching on European soil. The governor has also spoken of his enthusiasm for being the first country in the world to issue a CBDC, allowing France to become an example to other jurisdictions.

“Hodlers are insane” — 64% of Bitcoin supply has not moved since 2018

Given we are, er, Hodler’s Digest, let’s give you some holding news. New research has suggested that a whopping 60% of BTC in circulation hasn’t left its wallet in more than a year. This is particularly telling since BTC/USD ballooned from lows of $3,100 last December to $13,800 just six months later. Markets subsequently reversed downward — shaving 52% off their highs. Rhythm, the analyst who uploaded the statistics, didn’t mince his words by saying: “Hodlers of last resort are insane.” With the trend of dormant BTC as a percentage of total supply sharply increasing in recent years — and remaining intact during bull and bear markets alike — it seems many investors want to save it rather than spend it.

Deutsche Bank research: Crypto to replace fiat currencies by 2030

New research by Deutsche Bank has revealed what the future might look like for crypto in just 10 short years. Its report suggests that digital currencies could eventually replace cash one day, as demand for anonymity and a more decentralized means of payment grows. Hurdles do lie in the way — and the authors say digital assets will need to gain legitimacy in the eyes of governments and regulators for wider acceptance to be achieved. The report also warns that the risk of cyberattacks and digital warfare could also pose huge risks to the stability of financial systems based on digital currencies in the future.

Winners and Losers

At the end of the week, Bitcoin is at $7,602.68, Ether at $150.47 and XRP at $0.23. The total market cap is at $205,799,442,442.

The top three altcoin gainers of the week are Energi, HedgeTrade and Enjin Coin. The top three altcoin losers of the week are ILCoin, Silverway and Thunder Token.

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

Most Memorable Quotations

“Free Ross, baby! Get him out. We need entrepreneurs like that guy! Get him out of jail! Why do we put these really extraordinary people in jail? We need their minds, their energy, their life force. Get him free. Who knows what else he could’ve come up with?”

Tim Draper, investor

“In Japan, the amount of cash outstanding is still increasing, and it does not seem that there is a demand for CBDC from the public at present.”

Haruhiko Kuroda, Bank of Japan governor

“Turkey is a vibrant country that has illustrated one of the strongest demands and fast-growing interest in crypto.”

Changpeng Zhao, Binance CEO

“Hodlers of last resort are insane.”

Rhythm, analyst

“Bitcoin halving in May 2020 won’t do anything to the price. It will be a non-event.”

Jason Williams, Morgan Creek Digital co-founder

“Chair Powell and I have discussed this — we both agree that in the near future, in the next five years, we see no need for the Fed to issue a digital currency.”

Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury Secretary

Prediction of the Week

Halving will be “non-event” for BTC price, Morgan Creek Digital exec says

“The halvening” in May 2020 — when the reward paid to miners falls from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC per block — is widely regarded as an event that will catalyze a bull market. But according to Jason Williams, the co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital, these expectations might be overblown. He believes that the having will have no impact whatsoever on BTC prices, describing it as a “non-event.” With analysts bitterly divided over whether there will be a bull run — and if so, how quickly a reaction will take place — expect many more wild predictions to grace this column in the weeks and months to come.

FUD of the Week

Canada-based crypto mining firm Great North Data files for bankruptcy

Great North Data, a crypto mining company based in Canada, has filed for bankruptcy. The firm operated facilities in Labrador City and Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Bankruptcy documents show that it had $13.2 million in liabilities but just $3.5 million in assets. Reports suggest that the company owed six-figure sums to government bodies. It’s been a difficult time for mining companies, with Washington-based Giga Watt closing down in January because it was “insolvent and unable to pay its debts when due.”

Researchers detect new North Korea-linked MacOS malware on crypto trading site

Security researchers have uncovered cryptocurrency-related macOS malware that is believed to be the work of North Korean hackers known as the Lazarus Group. It is believed that the malware can retrieve a payload from a remote location and run it in memory — something that is not common for macOS. This resultantly means it can be difficult to detect the malware and carry out forensic analysis — with only 10 antivirus engines actually flagging it as malicious. “Clear overlaps” have also been found with malware that was detected by another group of security researchers in the middle of October.

CT News of the Week

Cointelegraph announces Chinese HQ, bolstering its international expansion

A little news about us now, if you’ll indulge me. Cointelegraph has launched a Chinese-language version of the publication — with offices in Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai. The venture has been co-founded by Vadim Krekotin, Kevin Shao and Simon Li, and the team says they are determined to produce the highest-quality journalism for readers in China — ”holding steadfast to the values of editorial independence and responsibility to our readers.” Cointelegraph China is now our third base in Asia, joining local news sites serving Japan and Korea.

Best Cointelegraph Features

Ethereum’s Istanbul hard fork: Important updates, explained

Bamboozled by news of Ethereum’s latest hard fork? This nifty feature from Cointelegraph Magazine explores what forks are for, the structure of Ethereum’s roadmap, and delves into the details of the changes that Istanbul has delivered.

Death spirals and BTC — What happens when miners capitulate?

Miner capitulation occurs in the Bitcoin market when mining is no longer profitable — and it is believed to have triggered BTC’s major drop in December 2018. Joseph Young explores the phenomenon in depth here, and looks at what might happen in the months to come.

CryptoBridge closes down and Waves relaunches, DEXs face tough times

With one decentralized crypto exchange abruptly shutting shop — and another undergoing a radical restructure — Stephen O’Neal looks at whether crypto trading platforms have something to worry about.

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goldira01 · 5 years

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