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A brand-new insurance coverage world is coming where clever agreements change insurance coverage files, blockchain "oracles" supplant claim adjusters, and decentralized self-governing companies (DAOs) take control of conventional insurance coverage providers. Countless bad farmers in Africa and Asia will be qualified for protections like crop insurance coverage too, whereas previously, they were too bad and too dispersed to validate the expense of underwriting. That is the vision, anyhow, on screen in the current Smartcon 2022, a two-day conference that looked for to supply "unique insights into the next generation of Web3 development." Subsistence farms, where households generally live off what they grow and nearly absolutely nothing is left over, account for as much as two-thirds of the establishing world's 3 billion rural individuals, according to the United Nations. They nearly never ever receive insurance protection and most likely would not understand what to do if it were used. " In sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, where I matured in Kenya, insurance coverage is generally not available. 3% have access to it, however no one purchases it, generally," Lemonade Foundation's Roy Confino discussed at the two-day New York City occasion. The Lemonade Foundation, a not-for-profit established by United States insurance provider Lemonade, lags the current development of the Lemonade Crypto Climate Coalition, a group that thinks "blockchain has the possible to pool that danger together" and "essentially fix the core issue that has actually hindered the scale of insurance coverage in the establishing world for revenue services which is expense," stated Confino at Smartcon2022 Establishing members likewise consist of Hanover Re, Avalanche, Chainlink, DAOstack, Etherisc, Pula and Tomorrow.io. Insurance is troublesome in bad countries for numerous factors. It can't be quickly dispersed since there are barely any regional insurance coverage representatives or brokers, and traditionally insurance coverage is "offered," not "purchased." Insurance coverage claims can't be confirmed without fantastic expenditure since, generally, there aren't any claims adjusters on the scene to make damage evaluations. This renders underwriting un-economic. But, it need not always stay that method. Parametric insurance coverage designs can possibly cut manufacturer expenses by automating lots of conventional insurance coverage procedures, making it lucrative to finance those formerly considered uninsurable. Often called "index insurance coverage," these designs guarantee an insurance policy holder versus a particular occasion by paying a set quantity based upon an occasion's magnitude instead of the losses sustained. For example, if rain hasn't fallen in a particular established area in Kenya for 3 weeks, a blockchain "oracle"-- it might be a regional weather condition station-- immediately sends out a message to a clever agreement that from another location sets off a payment to the policyholding farmer's smart device. It bypasses the claims change procedure totally. It does not matter whether a private farmer's field is harmed. All insurance policy holders in the location are paid. Crop insurance coverage is a great usage case for parametric designs since much of the forces that can harm crops can be objectively determined, such as rains, wind speeds, temperature levels and others. Self-executing clever agreements likewise make sure that payments for weather condition catastrophes and so forth are nearly instant, kept in mind Sid Jha, creator and CEO at Arbol-- a parametric insurance coverage supplier-- and this is particularly essential in the establishing world where numerous farmers live hand to mouth. "You do not have consumers waiting weeks, months who in a lot of cases can declare bankruptcy waiting on an insurance coverage check," he stated, speaking at a different Smartcon 2022 session. Recent: NFTs and crypto supply fundraising alternatives

for breast cancer awareness Parametric insurance coverage isn't totally brand-new; it has actually been around for numerous years. Blockchain-enabled parametric insurance coverage has actually simply emerged in the last couple of years. Many, if not all, its usage cases are still in the pilot phase. The Coalition, for example, isn't anticipating to scale up its programs up until next year. Many think that tradition insurance coverage systems might stand some considerable enhancement. "Traditional indemnity insurance coverage has lots of downsides: it is sluggish, administrative, constrained to house damages, and includes substantial unpredictability," composed Wharton School associate teacher Susanna Berkouwer just recently. She explained a parametric cyclone insurance coverage item that utilizes blockchain innovation in the Commonwealth of Dominica. NASA-generated cyclone notifies touch off automatic global bank transfers to insurance policy holders' checking account. Tasks like these deserve more research study in Berkouwer's view. Hindrances stay: Will farmers register? Supplying the world's subsistence farmers with inexpensive crop insurance coverage and potentially other defenses through chain-based parametric insurance coverage deals with some challenging challenges. One is informing farmers in the intricacies of insurance coverage. There is actually no other way at present that this can be done quickly by innovation or automation alone. Tinka Koster and her associates at the Netherlands' Wageningen University, for instance, just recently finished an evaluation of the World Bank Group's Global Index Insurance Facility's (GIIF) engagement in Kenya. To increase index insurance coverage take-up rates amongst African subsistence farmers, GIIF and others would require to improve "awareness, understanding and understanding by the farmers about the insurance coverage," stated Koster. " The last-mile outreach is a crucial obstacle for lots of services to smallholder farmers, consisting of index insurance coverage," Koster informed Cointelegraph in emailed actions collaborated with group coworkers Marcel van Asseldonk, Cor Wattel and Haki Pamuk. "Technology can assist bridge part of this space, however innovation alone is inadequate." " Sales and item understanding are big expenses in typically remote and tough to reach locations," Leigh Johnson, assistant teacher in the department of location at the University of Oregon, informed Cointelegraph. "Renewal rates are infamously bad."" Many farmers require to see that insurance coverage is a tool for handling danger and not for betting on a specific result," stated Jha, who concurred that informing farmers on the requirement for danger management tools like insurance coverage is crucial. As Jha informed Cointelegraph: " When farmers have the ability to get access to some kind of subsidized insurance coverage offered by the federal government or an NGO, they end up being far more familiar and comfy with the idea, which education procedure ends up being much easier in regards to supplying specialized protection items that fulfill the distinct requirements of farmers." In GIIF's Bima Pima item for Kenyan farmers, the World Bank Group program utilized village-based consultants (VBAs) to assist disperse the insurance coverage item-- basically replacing conventional insurance coverage representatives. The VBAs were paid monthly for their efforts. According to the Wageningen report, these advisors were "pleased with the SMS messages and the direct premium payment. They discover it tough to persuade farmers and are unsure about the insurance coverage pay-out due to the fact that the item is so brand-new." Does parametric insurance coverage even require DLT innovation? If parametric insurance coverage is going to prosper in emerging markets, does it even require blockchain innovation? The World Bank Group's GIIF parametric insurance coverage jobs in Africa, for example, did not utilize blockchain innovation.

Exactly what does index insurance coverage lose if it does not utilize a decentralized digital journal? " Blockchain is just a tool," Jha informed Cointelegraph, and one can utilize numerous tools to get the exact same result. Still, the digital journal's immutability and auditability can construct trustworthiness for the program: " What DLT's do offer is rely on locations that normally tend to do not have trust, and permit potentially a more effective micro payment system than what presently exists in a few of these nations in regards to paying out and gathering funds." Johnson, on the other hand, boils down "directly on the 'no wise agreements' camp, exactly due to the fact that parametric agreements fail so frequently, and there is an essential case for fixing these retroactively" in the interests of fairness and equity. In a 2021 post, Johnson kept in mind that ecological quotes made by parametric market gadgets utilized to commodify threat "are often incorrect, often grossly so." In the very first season of R4's Ethiopian program, "among the most internationally distinguished programs guaranteeing smallholder farmers versus weather condition threat utilizing parametric indices," composed Johnson, R4 made an ex gratia "voluntary contribution" to teff farmers "list below rain shortages that did not activate the agreement." Such transfers later on ended up being "relatively regular." " I'm uncertain just how much info farmers would need re clever contracts/blockchain at the time of registration," Johnson informed Cointelegraph, "however one can envision them being exceptionally hesitant of unidentified financial innovations and companies." If blockchain innovation might raise farmers' awareness and understanding about insurance coverage, included Koster, "then it would likewise assist for more upscaling the index [parametric] insurance coverage in African context." Still, this all may spend some time. Jha was asked the length of time it might be prior to farming insurance coverage can accomplish prevalent use amongst subsistence farmers in the establishing world in locations like Southeast Asia or Africa-- 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?" Probably 10 years," Jha informed Cointelegraph, pointing out the obstacles of education, expense and absence of information, i.e., "whatever from an absence of weather condition stations, crop yield history, and absence of information on farming practices." Many farmers require to see that insurance coverage is a practical tool for handling danger, and this is where self-executing wise agreements might supply an effective example. If farmers see their next-door neighbors being compensated instantly throughout a severe weather condition occasion, they may think about buying an index policy themselves. Government aids might assist. "There is a great deal of work that is required in regards to making insurance coverage more inexpensive so that underserved stakeholders who require these tools can access them," stated Jha, while Johnson included, "I believe the very best development will originate from broader state adoption of safeguard programs utilizing parametric services-- that's how you get protection at scale." In regards to scaling, the World Bank's GIIF has actually currently made some development. "The turning point of one million farmers guaranteed has actually currently been reached in Zambia, with the index insurance coverage bundled with the subsidized fertilizer program," Koster stated, while in Senegal, GIIF is presently reaching half a million farmers, with a comparable number in Kenya with a government-supported program. Recent: Meta's Web3 hopes face obstacle of decentralization and market headwinds" This reveals that it is possible to reach considerable varieties of smallholder farmers," Koster informed Cointelegraph, "however not without substantial federal government assistance." In amount, while parametric insurance coverage designs may allow insurance coverage underwriters

to pool threats, making it rewarding to guarantee the formerly uninsurable, and blockchain-enabled clever agreements can guarantee that cash-strapped farmers got payments throughout catastrophes nearly right away, much work still requires to be carried out in persuading economically unsophisticated and frequently distrustful farmers to register for such programs. Innovation alone will not suffice, and state entities might require to get included. Read More

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Siddhartha ‘Sid’ Jha | Twenty Four;  Survivor

House: Brink Security Class: 2 Status: Infected - Telekinesis

[*TW: self-harm mention*]

History

Las Vegas—an oasis of cheap thrills within a sprawl of glittering lights and minor sins. Sid’s parents were the ultimate Vegas Strip cliché on the surface: a cocktail waitress and a chronic gambler who fell for each other at the roulette wheel. After a whirlwind courtship they were married, and later became the parents of two boys. His mother eventually moved into a back office job at a casino. Sid’s father continued to bargain for a better life with the family budget at professional poker tournaments around town.

The early years were exceptionally lean. His parents did not shield Sid and his older brother Vrisan from the extent of their financial despair. In turn, the guilt in asking for the smallest necessities ingrained the need in Sid to aim high. One day, when Sid was eleven, his father returned from a weekend tournament.

He’d won. He’d won big.

Lady Luck had finally taken Mr. Jha by the hand, and each successive win emboldened his father. Food became plentiful if not more nourishing. The boys had new clothes and items once considered luxuries. Most importantly, a permanent home replaced living in weekly rated motels or the family car. Sid’s father flaunted his sudden success and increasing status on the professional poker circuit. He also passed on a philosophy to an impressionable Sid. Turning dreams into reality didn’t require hard work. It required smart work. And a lot of luck too.

Sid believed it all until the Feds arrived to arrest Mr. and Mrs. Jha on fraud and money laundering charges. They were two players caught in a larger scheme that had been run out of the very casino they met in. While their roles had been small, the penalties for both parents would be paid for in years behind bars.

With their mother and father in prison the boys, then teenagers, were sent to live with their paternal grandparents in Texas. For a time Sid hated his father. The man had become one of the top 25 poker players in Vegas—why the hell would he ever get involved with a scam on a casino? But living with grandparents he barely knew with all promises of the future gone forced him to viscerally feel the hunger in his father for a better life, and the poor choice of a shortcut to do so.

Being older, Vrisan made a quick escape in following a girlfriend to Boston. Determined to join his brother Sid decided to place his own bet on university. Through a complicated web of scholarships, grants, part-time jobs, and assistance from his brother, Sid finally arrived in Boston to attend a small music conservatory. Meanwhile, Vrisan had begun to gamble in the local casinos. At best he was an average player, and most of his winnings went to Sid’s university bills.  

Leaving Texas was a substantial accomplishment and only made Sid want what his father’s mistakes had robbed from him. He’d also recently met a student attending Harvard. Besides immediately bonding over Star Wars and French roast espresso, Teilo drew the curtain back on a world of opulence and wealth that Sid ached to be a part of. Teilo’s determination to create his own life by his own rules also struck a chord. When Teilo offered Sid cheap rent in the spare room of his campus apartment, it was a no-brainer that Sid move in.

He decided to join Vrisan and take a chance on what had once been the family’s salvation: cards. He studied past videos of his father in high-stakes tournaments online and practiced poker with his brother. It soon became apparent that Sid had a mind for numbers and patterns. Not just memorizing suits and face cards, but being able to read other player’s tells with increasing accuracy. Aside from the potential to make fast money, he couldn’t quite ignore the compulsive itch of the game. No matter how down in dollars he found himself, there was always the next hand to win it back. Or the next. And it made his mouth water to even think about.

Sid abandoned online gambling sites trading in cyptocurrencies and moved on to illegal underground games. The buy ins were high, but the payouts could be massive, and still being too young to play in the local casinos the network of backroom games became his addiction. Sid began to run his own games too, utilizing Teilo’s well-heeled fellow students at Harvard with trust funds to burn.  

He adorned himself in nicer clothes, and could buy expensive things. He put together a plan for transferring to Harvard. Finally he’d be part of the Ivy League orbit, as dazzling as any neon sign back home. Smart work and luck. It was about to pay off.

With the swift, striking chaos of a cosmic joke, it was all over.

At first Harvard was but one of several gathering hubs for survivors until it eventually became designated as an early colony, and home to Teilo and Sid. The Harvard elite and those who sought shelter there found themselves hurled back to the Stone Age, but in a well-preserved cave. There was hope that perhaps the world would be pieced together again and their dreams were on a temporary hold.

Sid Today

Sid had no need to be concerned about the infections, or even the rumours of a new group called the NWRF. Initially, the Reformers were meant to bring stability and order to the colonies. The sprawling Harvard campus had grown organically into a refuge but the majority were the students who had no choice but to stay. The Infected, on the other hand, consisted of older individuals feeding into the former school immediately after D-Day.

Just as the day his parents’ arrest changed life as he knew it, so did the Second Falling. At first Sid did his best to ignore the symptoms, chalking them up to an extended flu. Stress. Anything. After all, new reported infections had been rare in the last few years. It wasn’t until he was crossing a stately courtyard on campus that the infection violently manifested. A survivor set about relieving Sid of his brother’s jacket, and in turn a statue left the sturdy base it stood on to pin the man to the ground, pulverizing bone and tenderizing fascia.

Word of the incident spread and fear began to simmer. In the aftershock of his mounting uncontrollable outbursts Sid could feel the scrutiny of the NWRF. They tended to settle like mold on every surface and were rumoured to be collecting details on the Infected. The brutality of his infection and the inability to control it brought Sid to one conclusion.

A conclusion that didn’t come easily, and one he spent several nights discussing with Teilo. Vrisan attempted to talk both boys out of leaving but at the end of the day, Sid was more like his father than he imagined. He wasn’t running away. He was placing a bet on a better life once more.

Sid and Teilo fled Harvard in the dead of night fed on adrenaline and hope. In a way the trip became an inadvertent adventure. They crossed an ocean and entered the U.K. Wastes with Teilo somehow bringing half of Harvard with him. Sid had parted ways with his six string acoustic, the only real thing of value he had. But if his friend was leaving everything he knew behind, the least Sid could do was carry those sacred sentimental objects that held magic for Teilo. He didn’t complain. Well, only a little.

Today, Sid loathes his infection—or rather his lack of control over it. The confident and free spirited boy who could make friends easily is slowly being erased with every telekinesis outburst. Guilt in leaving behind Vrisan and taking Harvard away from Teilo is etched in fresh highways of red lines on his arms, which he hides beneath a weathered leather jacket.

With his old self harder to find under the infection, he is a flux of vapor in a vacuum. Sid hasn’t contacted his brother since arriving at Colony 22, unable to process how to explain his current failure. He worries Teilo’s unwavering sense of justice will be skewed by dragging him into a nest of vipers far worse than what they imagined. Or worse, that his infection might inadvertently harm the one person he relies on.

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Nature Interpretation and Privilege: An Unlikely Combination

Privilege is a word I would have never associated with nature interpretation... until today.

If I were to assign a working definition to the word privilege, I would define it as – a special right or advantage that is available to a particular individual or group. As a matter of fact, privilege is often associated with a lack of awareness that may be a result of “ignorance”.

This video is from my first-year dorm room at the University of Guelph. I remember thinking how privileged I was to be able to live on residence and not have to commute to campus every day. Guelph, ON – Video taken by Agam Verma.

Reflecting on my own life, I also decided to “unpack my invisible backpack” (Gallavan, 2005). Having done so, I would say that I am a privileged individual. I am middle class, in the process of pursuing my B.Sc., can speak 4 languages (including English), and have a Canadian passport. However, watching the “$100 Race” video it dawned upon me that I had failed to consider the root of my privilege (Hooykaas, 2021). Many of the privileges that I have been able to enjoy, have solely been due to availability. Had my parents not immigrated to Canada in 1995, I may not have been as privileged as I am.

Keeping this in mind, I encourage you to also “unpack your invisible backpack”. I have linked a great test by BuzzFeed that will help you uncover your privilege. If you feel comfortable, take the test and share your results (Jha & Wesely, 2014)!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you?bfsource=bfocompareon

This photo was taken when I went camping with some friends a few years ago. I remember feeling so privileged that I was able to freely explore my surroundings, and in turn be a nature interpreter myself. Hamilton, ON – Photo taken by Agam Verma.

Believe it or not, but privilege plays a key role in nature interpretation. It is also important to remember that interpretation is often what provides the big picture and “a sense of place”. However, if an individual is not privileged enough to develop “a sense of place”, how would they even approach nature interpretation? When trying to answer this question, it is important to shed light on some of the barriers that may hinder nature interpretation. Such barriers may include, but are not limited to – economic barriers, cultural barriers and communication barriers (Beck et al., 2018, p. 133).

A group of individuals interpreting the nature in their community (Poulin, 2016).

As an interpreter it is one’s obligation to recognize the role that privilege plays in the lives of their audience. This will not only mitigate the barriers that may hinder nature interpretation, but it will also elucidate the importance of recognizing privilege. To be more specific, in order to facilitate inclusive interpretation an interpreter can:

1. Reduce economic barriers by providing transportation to interpretive experiences.

2. Reduce cultural barriers by inviting, including and involving “underserved” populations.

3. Reduce communication barriers by implementing multi-lingual media.

Furthermore, it is also important to note that underserved populations are not only made up of visible minorities. Underserved populations are often encompassed of individuals with disabilities, children, teens, adults, and seniors. Thus, by recognizing the importance of including underserved populations in nature interpretation; nature interpretation can become more accessible to all individuals, regardless of their privilege!

I would like to end off by asking you:

Can you think of a time where your privilege may have contributed to your ability to be a nature interpreter?

Recently, I was fortunate enough to successfully attain a job at Credit Valley Conservation. I strongly believe that had I not been a privileged individual, I would not have been able to leverage my prior volunteer experience with Credit Valley Conservation, or my education thus far in order to attain this position. This is has allowed me to recognize and appreciate my privilege.

References

Beck, L., Cable, T., & Knudson, D. (2018). Interpreting Cultural and Natural Heritage for A Better World. Sagamore-Venture Publishing.

Gallavan, N. P. (2005). Helping teachers unpack their "invisible knapsacks". Multicultural Education, 13(1), 36. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A137921591/AONE?u=guel77241&sid=AONE&xid=9fe2f151

Hooykaas, A. (2021). Unit 03: Risk versus Reward in Interpretation [Course website]. CourseLink. https://courselink.uoguelph.ca/d2l/le/content/666945/viewContent/2590559/View

Jha, R., & Wesely, T. (2014, April 10). How Privileged Are You? BuzzFeed. https://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you?bfsource=bfocompareon

Poulin, A. (2016, May 25). Nature exploration [Photograph]. Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/NhU0nUR7920

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Mark Cuban-backed blockchain DAO partners with Namibia for sustainability initiative – Ledger Insights

Yesterday, blockchain project dClimate announced a partnership with the University of Namibia to measure the country’s environmental and carbon reduction initiatives. Specifically, the climate data organisation will help to quantify the carbon sequestration, carbon emissions, and carbon credits from green hydrogen projects. The blockchain project is backed by American tech billionaire Mark Cuban whose company Radical Investments partnered with dClimate this summer as an investor and strategic advisor.

dClimate aims to use its technology to monetize and quantify Namibia’s green hydrogen output, following a recently announced $9.4 billion project aiming to produce 300,000 tonnes of the fuel. Namibia will be one of the world’s most prolific producers of green hydrogen – using a process where renewable energy electrolyzes water and produces hydrogen gas. Although the green version only accounts for 0.1% of the world’s hydrogen production, this process can generate an environmentally beneficial yet powerful fuel source, which can be used in vehicles, from domestic cars to more intensive mining machinery.

With the help of dClimate’s blockchain-native registry, the expansion of the green hydrogen industry will allow Namibia to avoid a large proportion of fossil fuel-derived emissions, which other countries have relied upon in the past to help their economies develop. 

“We are excited to partner with the Republic of Namibia through the University of Namibia to use transparent satellite monitoring to create a scalable, blockchain native verification and registry system for quantifying Namibia’s overall carbon impact,” said Sid Jha, founding partner of dClimate.

Spanish renewables firm Acciona also uses blockchain for green hydrogen, but in that case it’s used to verify the renewable origin of the gas.

In this particular example, dClimate is helping to quantify and verify carbon data. However, the core application of dClimate’s technology is a decentralized climate information ecosystem. This enables independent climate data producers to publish climate data, events and forecasts via a decentralized oracle network run by Chainlink. 

It encourages external data providers to upload information, where it is then scored for reliability, to help consumers find verifiable data. The use of blockchain helps the data to remain transparent, accessible, and reliable.

To date, a key goal for dClimate’s data has been for parametric insurance. These types of insurance policies enable environmental data – such as a flood or droughts – to automatically trigger insurance payouts without the lengthy and complicated process of manually submitting a claim. Parametric insurance is often used for low premia crop insurance, such as for Indian tea plantations and an Oxfam and Aon project for Sri Lankan rice farmers. Neither of these projects relate to dClimate.

dClimate has also been used to measure carbon footprints within ESG projects – a similar goal as the Namibian partners, who wish to support their sustainability projects with the decentralized data that dClimate can provide. 

Blockchain is widely used for logging carbon footprints, such as a project by Jaguar Land Rover to measure the footprint of leather upholstery. Another example is a World Economic Forum consortium that uses blockchain to track mining emissions.

source https://usapangbitcoin.org/mark-cuban-backed-blockchain-dao-partners-with-namibia-for-sustainability-initiative-ledger-insights/

source https://usapangbitcoin.wordpress.com/2022/03/06/mark-cuban-backed-blockchain-dao-partners-with-namibia-for-sustainability-initiative-ledger-insights/

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OUTCOME - CYCLE 7, ROUND 2 - *FINAL CYCLE*

ACTION CHOSEN: [FLEE]

Deciding not to risk going for a weapon, SIDDHARTHA JHA high tails it in the opposite direction. CLAYTON BOYD runs as well, but towards the cache. When he gets there, he nabs a bow and arrow and shoots three times at SID before the Brink is out of range. CLAYTON hits SID once in the back the first time, misses the second, and just catches SID’s thigh with the third. This awards CLAYTON with one kill, and forces SID to take a safe walk back to base. 

POINTS LOST: [MINUS 100]

This concludes ROUND 2. Thank you to BRINK Representative, SIDDHARTHA JHA.

UP NEXT: ROUND 3 - TORREN - BENJI IMES

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A former Citadel commodities trader devised a new way for farmers to hedge against climate-change risks to their crops. Here's how his startup's blockchain-powered 'smart contracts' work.

A former Citadel commodities trader devised a new way for farmers to hedge against climate-change risks to their crops. Here’s how his startup’s blockchain-powered ‘smart contracts’ work.

Summary List Placement Blockchain. Machine learning. Alternative data. Climate change.  It seems like Arbol Market, a new insure-tech platform, is hitting every buzzword, and the startup’s quick growth is proving there’s a market for its products.  Arbol was founded by Sid Jha, a former quant at Ken Griffin’s Citadel who brought a machine-learning approach to trading commodities, and his brother…

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These 15 Indian Influencers To Keep An Eye On In 2020

Confounded about your profession? Searching for some influencers to teach you with respect to your profession? With the developing time of innovation, new and shifted disciplines are stemming out to give this age a great deal to browse the space of instruction.

In the event that you are searching for some of the best tech influencers india today, you should look at these top instructive influencers in India and think about what they do.

These people have their own online journals and compose astonishing articles about what they do, as they share their accounts and encounters in their particular spaces.

Here are 15 Indian influencers to watch out for in 2019, in no specific request.

Amitabh Verma – Amitabh Verma is the originator of AMP Digital, a Google Partner organization zeroed in on assisting experts with gaining and dominate in Digital showcasing abilities. He has more than 16 years of involvement with deals, advertising activities, and client assistance and has worked in a great deal of other various endeavors. His last spell was with Google India where he drove the Global Services group supporting little and medium organizations.

Sandeep Raut – Sandeep Raut is the author of his blog, Simplified Analytics. He composes widely on Digital Transformation, Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things and portability. His blog is a decent perused for those seeking after these fields as it offers a praiseworthy knowledge on these standing.

Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan – Dinesh is the originator of his blog, Propel Steps where he composes on a scope of subjects, from Health and Nutrition to Ecological Preservation and persuasive stories. His intention is to instruct his perusers on pretty much everything, as he perfectly pens down his articles. He additionally lets visitor bloggers compose articles every once in a while.

Priya Agarwal – Priya is the organizer of All Infographics. Through her blog, she endeavors to teach her perusers on the utilization of infographics in articles and archives.

Amit Agarwal – Amit Agarwal holds an Engineering certificate in Computer Science from I.I.T and has recently worked at ADP Inc. for customers like Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. He writers the enormously famous Digital Inspiration blog where he composes how-to-guides around purchaser programming and versatile applications.

Unforgiving Agrawal – Harsh Agrawal, in his blog, EdTech survey composes articles for understudies, instructors and guardians the same. He stays up with the latest as he serves to give a network to teachers and students where they can discover valuable news, patterns, and bits of knowledge on a scope of subjects.

Srinivas Tamada – 9lessons is a programming blog kept up by Srinivas Tamada, where he gives instructional exercises on programming, Jquery, ajax, PHP, Demos, and others. Srinivas is likewise the creator of the new Wall Script.

Gaurav Tiwari – In his blog, Gaurav Tiwari composes on the best way to make backlinks, SEO the executives, AdWords and other substance advertising related questions. The blog is very adroit as it gives data on the most recent patterns in innovation.

Pradeep Kumar – Pradeep Kumar is the proprietor/organizer/blogger of Hellbound Bloggers, a web magazine covering themes like online media, publishing content to a blog, WordPress, web, and innovation. He lets visitor bloggers to compose on his blog as each commitment serves to be exceptionally smart for the student.

Mansi Zaveri – Mansi Zaveri is a mother of two children and composes widely on her blog, KidsStopPress about new items, plans, spots to visit, activities and in particular, to mess around with kids. Her blog is a one-stop objective for all child related exercises and the sky is the limit from there.

Abhishek Jha–Abhishek Jha is the author of his blog, MomJunction. MomJunction is the spot to be on the off chance that one is searching for data on marriage, pregnancy, and parenthood. The blog improves the sages of parenthood by characterizing them – infant, baby, kids, pre-youngsters and early adolescents. They care about moms and have made their imprint to be a top nurturing site in 1.5 long periods of presence, with more than 4 million month to month remarkable recordings.

Sid Balachandra – Sid Balachandra is the man behind I Wrote Those. He began his publishing content to a blog venture around October 2013 and shares his experience on his blog. As indicated by him, nurturing is a truly difficult work and he carries a happy wind to his record which he composes under his 'Daddy Journal' area.

Aloka Mehta Gambhir – Aloka is an ensured lactation teacher, a mother of two and a nourishment and wellness devotee. Known as Paleo mother, she expounds on nurturing, wellness, regular living, and base eating routine plans on her blog.

Shailaja Vishwanath–Shailja is an independent essayist, full-time editorial manager and enthusiastic blogger who shares life exercises on nurturing, in her blog, Diary of a Doting Mom.

Sangeetha Menon–Sangeetha Menon is a programmer by calling who discovered her enthusiasm when parenthood came thumping. She began her full-time blog from that point forward, Bumps n Baby, where she delivers ordinary concerns identified with taking care of, preparing, food propensities and different things identified with the government assistance of the child and the mother.

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Smart Contracts and Parametric Insurance: Sid Jha and Sergey Nazarov at #LABlockchainSummit

In this discussion at LA Blockchain Summit, Arbol CEO and Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov explore how blockchain-based parametric insurance is reliably automating traditional insurance processes and providing cryptographic guarantees around real-world data feeds and payouts for users relying on critical coverage.

Sid Jha is the CEO of Arbol, a blockchain-based weather risk management solution that gives end users assurance that they will be paid quickly and automatically when adverse weather causes losses. Arbol integrates with the Chainlink Oracle Network to provide anyone with an Internet connection access to blockchain-enforced weather coverage that immediately settles based on weather data, allowing businesses and farmers all over the world to hedge against risk and expand their operations with full coverage against unforeseen weather events.

Sergey Nazarov is the Co-Founder of Chainlink, the most widely adopted blockchain oracle network for powering universal smart contracts. With Chainlink, developers can connect any blockchain with high-quality data sources from other blockchains as well as real-world data. Managed by a global, decentralized community of hundreds of thousands of people, Chainlink is introducing a fairer model for contracts. Its network currently secures billions of dollars in value for smart contracts across the decentralized finance (DeFi), insurance, and gaming ecosystems, among others.

Chainlink is trusted by hundreds of organizations to deliver definitive truth via secure, reliable data feeds, from global enterprises (SWIFT, Google, Oracle) to development teams at the forefront of the smart contract economy (Web3 Foundation, OpenZeppelin, OpenLaw, Hedera Hashgraph, Zilliqa, Synthetix, Aave, and many others).

Learn more about Chainlink:

Website: https://chain.link Twitter: https://twitter.com/chainlink Telegram: https://t.me/chainlinkofficial

If you’re a developer, visit the developer documentation https://docs.chain.link or join the technical discussion on Discord https://discordapp.com/invite/aSK4zew

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bitcoin (BTC) was in the green less than a percent Tuesday afternoon Eastern time and ether (ETH) was up slightly as well. The performance of other cryptocurrencies was mixed. 

Notable assets on CoinDesk’s big board include decred (DCR) up 3 percent, XRP (XRP) in the green 2 percent and cardano (ADA) gaining 1 percent. Assets in the red included dash (DASH) slipping 1 percent and bitcoin SV (BSV) in the red 1 percent. All price changes are in the past 24 hours as of 20:30 UTC (4:30 p.m. ET) on March 31. 

In the traditional markets, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index closed down slightly, less than a percent. Europe’s FTSE 100 ended the day up 1.3 percent. In the U.S., the S&P 500 closed New York’s trading day down 1.6 percent. 

But for the full quarter, the Nikkei 225 was down 20 percent, the worst three-month showing for the Tokyo-based index since 2008. The FTSE lost 14 percent for the period, its second-worst quarterly performance ever, beating only the fourth quarter of 1987. The S&P 500 was in the red 18 percent to close out Q1 2020, its worst quarter since 1938. 

Cryptocurrencies operate 24/7 and don’t have quarters for closing the books. However, bitcoin, the market bellwether, was down just 10 percent for 2020’s first three months. 

Semi-correlated?

Despite its relative resilience, bitcoin still has been trending downward over the course of the first quarter along with traditional markets, undermining the narrative that it is a “non-correlated” asset.

“I think correlation across assets is still quite high, a telltale sign of when macro matters more than micro,” said Vishal Shah, founder of Alpha5, a new derivatives exchange backed by large crypto funds.

Indeed, the current period of turbulence isn’t the first time bitcoin has behaved similarly to mainstream financial investments.

“The lack of correlation to equities was a bit premature to announce. We had periods of high correlation, for example, in 2018, when bitcoin fell along with equities in December of that year,” said Siddhartha Jha, a former Wall Street analyst now working on blockchain-focused startup Arbol. 

On the other hand, he said, “we have had other periods of higher correlation to gold,” more befitting bitcoin’s aspirations as a hedge against inflation.

Since 00:00 UTC Tuesday, bitcoin has been trading in a tight range of $6,300-$6,500.

Trading on Coinbase since March 28. Source: TradingView

“BitMEX open interest remains low, but Coinbase is reporting great inbound activity. None of the typical signs for a crypto bull-run are there,” Shah said, referring to major derivatives and spot exchanges, respectively. 

March has produced the lowest level of outstanding positions on BitMEX in 18 months, although the derivatives exchange’s volume has seen gains the past four days prior to leveling off Monday. 

BitMEX XBTUSD open interest. Source: Skew

Gold dropped over 2 percent Tuesday as of 20:30 UTC, breaking out of its consolidation pattern on heavy selling volume March 31.

Contracts-for-difference on gold. Source: TradingView

The road ahead

While the coronavirus outbreak has dealt a heavy blow to the world economy, analysts are unsure how long it will take for growth to resume. 

“Recessions typically unfold over a longer period of time – at least two consecutive quarters,” said Guy Hirsch, U.S. managing director of multi-asset platform etoro.

For the time being expect bitcoin’s role to keep switching for traders – it all depends on how other markets perform, experts say. 

“The novel-tech part of bitcoin leads to correlation with Nasdaq, especially as many of the investors have overlaps,” said Arbol’s Jha. “Other times it will go with gold. But if equity markets are crashing, that correlation is going to show up very fast.” 

How the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar holds up given massive doses of stimulus from Washington is something else analysts are watching keenly. 

“The economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic has been instant and the impact is unprecedented,” added etoro’s Hirsch. “There is a growing consensus that due to the Fed announcing unlimited QE, investors could soon be looking to BTC as an inflation hedge against a depreciating dollar.“ 

Disclosure strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups.

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Siddhartha ‘Sid’ Jha | Twenty Four;  Survivor

House: Brink Security Class: 2 Status: Infected - Telekinesis

History

Las Vegas—an oasis of cheap thrills within a sprawl of glittering lights and minor sins. Sid’s parents were the ultimate Vegas Strip cliché on the surface: a cocktail waitress and a chronic gambler who fell for each other at the roulette wheel. After a whirlwind courtship they were married, and later became the parents of two boys. His mother eventually moved into a back office job at a casino. Sid’s father continued to bargain for a better life with the family budget at professional poker tournaments around town.

The early years were exceptionally lean. His parents did not shield Sid and his older brother Vrisan from the extent of their financial despair. In turn, the guilt in asking for the smallest necessities ingrained the need in Sid to aim high. One day, when Sid was eleven, his father returned from a weekend tournament.

He’d won. He’d won big.

Lady Luck had finally taken Mr. Jha by the hand, and each successive win emboldened his father. Food became plentiful if not more nourishing. The boys had new clothes and items once considered luxuries. Most importantly, a permanent home replaced living in weekly rated motels or the family car. Sid’s father flaunted his sudden success and increasing status on the professional poker circuit. He also passed on a philosophy to an impressionable Sid. Turning dreams into reality didn’t require hard work. It required smart work. And a lot of luck too.

Sid believed it all until the Feds arrived to arrest Mr. and Mrs. Jha on fraud and money laundering charges. They were two players caught in a larger scheme that had been run out of the very casino they met in. While their roles had been small, the penalties for both parents would be paid for in years behind bars.

With their mother and father in prison the boys, then teenagers, were sent to live with their paternal grandparents in Texas. For a time Sid hated his father. The man had become one of the top 25 poker players in Vegas—why the hell would he ever get involved with a scam on a casino? But living with grandparents he barely knew with all promises of the future gone forced him to viscerally feel the hunger in his father for a better life, and the poor choice of a shortcut to do so.

Being older, Vrisan made a quick escape in following a girlfriend to Boston. Determined to join his brother Sid decided to place his own bet on university. Through a complicated web of scholarships, grants, part-time jobs, and assistance from his brother, Sid finally arrived in Boston to attend a small music conservatory. Meanwhile, Vrisan had begun to gamble in the local casinos. At best he was an average player, and most of his winnings went to Sid’s university bills.  

Leaving Texas was a substantial accomplishment and only made Sid want what his father’s mistakes had robbed from him. He’d also recently met a student attending Harvard. Besides immediately bonding over Star Wars and French roast espresso, Teilo drew the curtain back on a world of opulence and wealth that Sid ached to be a part of. Teilo’s determination to create his own life by his own rules also struck a chord. When Teilo offered Sid cheap rent in the spare room of his campus apartment, it was a no-brainer that Sid move in.

He decided to join Vrisan and take a chance on what had once been the family’s salvation: cards. He studied past videos of his father in high-stakes tournaments online and practiced poker with his brother. It soon became apparent that Sid had a mind for numbers and patterns. Not just memorizing suits and face cards, but being able to read other player’s tells with increasing accuracy. Aside from the potential to make fast money, he couldn’t quite ignore the compulsive itch of the game. No matter how down in dollars he found himself, there was always the next hand to win it back. Or the next. And it made his mouth water to even think about.

Sid abandoned online gambling sites trading in cyptocurrencies and moved on to illegal underground games. The buy ins were high, but the payouts could be massive, and still being too young to play in the local casinos the network of backroom games became his addiction. Sid began to run his own games too, utilizing Teilo’s well-heeled fellow students at Harvard with trust funds to burn.  

He adorned himself in nicer clothes, and could buy expensive things. He put together a plan for transferring to Harvard. Finally he’d be part of the Ivy League orbit, as dazzling as any neon sign back home. Smart work and luck. It was about to pay off.

With the swift, striking chaos of a cosmic joke, it was all over.

At first Harvard was but one of several gathering hubs for survivors until it eventually became designated as an early colony, and home to Teilo and Sid. The Harvard elite and those who sought shelter there found themselves hurled back to the Stone Age, but in a well-preserved cave. There was hope that perhaps the world would be pieced together again and their dreams were on a temporary hold.

Sid Today

Sid had no need to be concerned about the infections, or even the rumours of a new group called the NWRF. Initially, the Reformers were meant to bring stability and order to the colonies. The sprawling Harvard campus had grown organically into a refuge but the majority were the students who had no choice but to stay. The Infected, on the other hand, consisted of older individuals feeding into the former school immediately after D-Day.

Just as the day his parents’ arrest changed life as he knew it, so did the Second Falling. At first Sid did his best to ignore the symptoms, chalking them up to an extended flu. Stress. Anything. After all, new reported infections had been rare in the last few years. It wasn’t until he was crossing a stately courtyard on campus that the infection violently manifested. A survivor set about relieving Sid of his brother’s jacket, and in turn a statue left the sturdy base it stood on to pin the man to the ground, pulverizing bone and tenderizing fascia.

Word of the incident spread and fear began to simmer. In the aftershock of his mounting uncontrollable outbursts Sid could feel the scrutiny of the NWRF. They tended to settle like mold on every surface and were rumoured to be collecting details on the Infected. The brutality of his infection and the inability to control it brought Sid to one conclusion.

A conclusion that didn’t come easily, and one he spent several nights discussing with Teilo. Vrisan attempted to talk both boys out of leaving but at the end of the day, Sid was more like his father than he imagined. He wasn’t running away. He was placing a bet on a better life once more.

Sid and Teilo fled Harvard in the dead of night fed on adrenaline and hope. In a way the trip became an inadvertent adventure. They crossed an ocean and entered the U.K. Wastes with Teilo somehow bringing half of Harvard with him. Sid had parted ways with his six string acoustic, the only real thing of value he had. But if his friend was leaving everything he knew behind, the least Sid could do was carry those sacred sentimental objects that held magic for Teilo. He didn’t complain. Well, only a little.

Today, Sid loathes his infection—or rather his lack of control over it. The confident and free spirited boy who could make friends easily is slowly being erased with every telekinesis outburst. Guilt in leaving behind Vrisan and taking Harvard away from Teilo is etched in fresh highways of red lines on his arms, which he hides beneath a weathered leather jacket.

With his old self harder to find under the infection, he is a flux of vapor in a vacuum. Sid hasn’t contacted his brother since arriving at Colony 22, unable to process how to explain his current failure. He worries Teilo’s unwavering sense of justice will be skewed by dragging him into a nest of vipers far worse than what they imagined. Or worse, that his infection might inadvertently harm the one person he relies on.

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