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Westbrook Dining Casual High Back Woven Side Chair (Pack of 2)
A whisper of tropical influence is created by the woven construction of this side chair. Available in your choice of a natural or dark brown color rattan you can create the look you are going for. The frame is simply constructed to allow the back details shine. Mix and match colors of rattan or even incorporate other pieces from this collection. Pair this chair with the coordinating table in this collection to create a relaxed dining environment.
A whisper of tropical influence is created by the woven construction of this side chair. Available in your choice of a natural or dark brown color rattan you can create the look you are going for. The frame is simply constructed to allow the back details shine. Mix and match colors of rattan or even incorporate other pieces from this collection. Pair this chair with the coordinating table in this collection to create a relaxed dining environment.
Add some rustic charm to your dining room space. This group is crafted from mahogany solids finished in a two tone vintage brown and black color. The table is hand shaped with a fixed table top. The bold block table base is open making the table an attractive piece. Pair with your favorite style of hand woven chair or optional stools that meets your specific taste.
A whisper of tropical influence is created by the woven construction of this side chair. Available in your choice of a natural or dark brown color rattan you can create the look you are going for. The frame is simply constructed to allow the back details shine. Mix and match colors of rattan or even incorporate other pieces from this collection. Pair this chair with the coordinating table in this collection to create a relaxed dining environment.
Add some rustic charm to your dining room space. This group is crafted from mahogany solids finished in a two tone vintage brown and black color. The table is hand shaped with a fixed table top. The bold block table base is open making the table an attractive piece. Pair with your favorite style of hand woven chair or optional stools that meets your specific taste.
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"This is so amazing!" "Hey!" "Oh, my God." "The way you just said hey to me." "You are so nice." "I mean, I knew that the first day you saw me." "Hug me!" "You have to try it." "I am so not depressed anymore." "Try what?" "Ecstasy!" "Where did you get it?" "Your friend!" "What the fuck is he doing at Columbia?" "God, he's fucking cute!" "Our families are friends, I've known him forever." "You like that?" "I choose you!" "Having fun?" "Not as much as Caitlin." "You see the eyes she had on me?" "The lid, dude." "She's from Okla-fuckin'-homa." "So, Jackie, you're in a frat now?" "Rutgers chapter, since freshman year." "I came up here to see you." "Got any more x?" "For you, the first hit's free." "Just don't tell your dad." "I don't even talk to him anymore." "Read 'em and suck my dick!" "Yes, yes!" "Yes, baby!" "30 times, right there, that's mine." "Ho, he's still got the dice?" "I own these fuckin' dice." "You're makin' me a rich man, Ralphie boy." "The boss." "How are ya?" "What can I get ya guys?" "Fuckin' Faccia Di Merda, he don't come say hello?" "What's this, a new suit, huh?" "Hey, T, how are ya?" "On' how ya doin'?" "What's wrong with you?" "The skip's here." "I'm on a roll here." "You'll be on a slab you keep it up." "Hey, come here." "Hey, Ton'." "I'm sorry, this fuckin' guy." "Hello, Anthony." "You look good." "Want a drink?" "Another time, Anthony." "Another time." "Let's whack this cocksucker and be done with it." "I'm here to enjoy myself." "I'm so fuckin' hard." "No, Jackie, don't." "Meadow." "Meadow, wake up." "I'm so sleepy." "You drank too much fuckin' tequila." "C'mon, I can't stop now." ""Another time, Anthony"?" "Cocksucker turns his back on the boss?" "That I couldn't believe." "He's lucky I didn't put one in his fuckin' head!" "On that front, don't be surprised if Paulie pops the question." "Ralphie's star is rising." "All those unions." "Paulie can't come near that kinda cash for us." "Ralphie's a good earner." "Guy like that... loose cannon." "You'll be leaving your hou he'll pull a Jack Ruby on you." "Why'd I have to punch this fuckin' asshole?" "Frankly..." "I was a little surprised." "You're gonna start on me now, huh?" "He disrespected "the Bing."" "So, he's barred from the place." "He bashed that poor girl's brains in." "I hear you..." "I know." "It was a tragedy." "The fact is though, she was not related to you by blood or marriage." "She was not your goomata." "Ralphie's a made guy, Ton'." "All things considered, he's got a legitimate beef." "Make him disappear or make nice." "You only got two choices." "I would suggest something in the way of an apology." "Absolutely fuckin' not!" "Do something public that shows there's no bad blood." "Give him... give him a piece of the casino." "We're partnered with New York on that and I don't want him that close to Johnny Sack." "You could bump him up to captain." "It's what he's been wanting, you know." "Ralphie, a fuckin' captain... over my dead body." "Thank you." "You see that shit before?" "The look on Tony's face when I turned down that drink?" "Buy me a drink?" "Fuck you." "He knew it was wrong, what he did." "He is the boss, he could do what he wants." "Boss or no, you don't raise your hands to another made guy." "Joe Mo from Mulberry Street, exact same situation." "He smacked that guy from North Bergen around." "Huge problem." "Of course." "Rules are rules, otherwise, what?" "Fuckin' anarchy." "At the very least, Tony owes you an apology." "The money I put in his pocket for construction alone, he should hit his knees, this prick." "What?" "You think I'm afraid of that fat fuck?" "No offense." "I could see if it was his daughter, or a niece of his, but all this over some dead whore." "He had to be fuckin' her." "No." "He knew you were fuckin' her." "That's why, that's how he is, like a dog with two bones." "I'm supposed to go over there... for Thanksgiving, me and Ro, Tony's." "Really?" "Fuck him and his turkey." "I oughta shove a drumstick up his ass." "Look who I caught sneaking in the fire door." "My parishioners might not understand" "I'm here to help feed the hungry." "Reverend." "Happy Thanksgiving." "Madonn', who needs it?" "Oh, c'mon, turkey, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie?" "You gotta love all that." "That's because you never lived through the "walyo" version." "Major antipast' first." "Then soup, meatballs and scharol then the baked manigott', then the bird." "I love manicotti." "Turkeys are here." "There are some in here, too." "Thing with turkeys, they got no sense of direction." "They're on their way to food emporium and now look." "What's this I hear about Ralph Cifaretto?" "He refused to have a drink with you at the club?" "So?" "He refused the drink 'cause he's a despicable fuck that I bitch-slapped at a moment of very justified anger." "That sounds like a problem." "Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours." "Yeah, you too." "Happy Thanksgiving, Reverend." "That mine?" "Ah, beautiful." "Look at that." "Ah, shit!" "What's the matter?" "That fuckin' asshole's supposed to come to Thanksgiving with Rosalie." "No way he'll show." "I'm gonna give him the option?" "That cocksucker shouldn't even be there in the first place." "Honey, I know you don't like to" "I know you don't like to be pinned down, but Thanksgiving, it would be very nice to be able to tell Carmela whether you're coming." "Who's gonna be there?" "Besides us?" "I don't know, Carm's parents." "Great." "How about Meadow?" "So, Thanksgiving, who's all coming this year?" "You know, the usual." "Nana and grandpa..." "Chris and Ade." "I think Janice is bringing someone from her prayer group." "Um, and Aunt Ro and Uncle Ralph." "Jackie's probably not coming though, right?" "Oh, I don't know, why?" "Can't I just ask anything?" "Alright, take it easy." "I have class, I'll see you Thursday." "Alright, bye." "Hello." "Hey, Carm, it's Ro." "God, that is so weird that you just called." "I just hung up with Meadow and she was asking if Jackie was coming for Thanksgiving." "Oh, really?" "Jackie just asked me about her." "My radar's up." "Oh, you and those romance novels, Rosalie." "Can you imagine the beautiful children those two would make, with those genes?" "Remember when Meadow was born, what we said?" "Yes, we said a lot of things, Ro." "Do me a favor, concentrate on that almond torte of yours, alright?" "I'm counting on you." "I'm looking for the recipe." "Alright, bye." "Here's the turkey." "Oh, my God, it's huge." "Good thing, I'm feeding an army this year." "Not as many as you think." "I need you to call Rosalie and cancel with them." "Thanksgiving, why?" "Just do it, alright?" "Enough of this Jetson's shit them coming over to Mr. Spacely's house for dinner." "I was just talking to her, what am I gonna say?" "Fine, I'll call." "And my excuse won't be nearly as nice as yours." "Goddamnit, Tony." "What, your stomach still?" "Dr. Akavi?" "Gloria Trillo, Globe Mercedes." "Listen, a pre-owned 2001 S-600 just came in." "You're the first person I thought of." "Wood trim package, GPS with everything." "Only 7500 miles," "I don't think it's gonna last till Saturday." "Tomorrow?" "Great." "No, I'm sorry, I can't, we're doing a sales meeting at lunch." "Okay, see ya... bye." "You waiting for somebody in there?" "I got an appointment." "Did she double-book us?" "I'm usually Thursday, but I had to reschedule because of the holiday." "This is when I usually come." "I'm trying to quit smoking." "Serial killer." "I murdered seven relationships." "Listen, you're here." "Why don't you take my appointment?" "Oh, no, no, I couldn't do that, no." "It would be my good deed for the day." "Flag on the play." "I'm pretty sure you said Tuesday." "I did?" "I'll come back next week at the same time and... no problemo." "I told her she could have my appointment." "Actually, it is a little difficult getting away from work." "See?" "I..." "I could see you tonight at seven." "Yeah, yeah, thanks." "Okay." "How hard was that?" "Hello?" "Ro, it's Carm." "This is so terrible to do on such short notice, but I just got off the phone with ma." "What's the matter?" "It's my father." "They had some troubling test results." "Something to do with his white blood cells." "Oh, my God." "Yeah, I know, uh... they're gonna have to do further testing before they can be sure of the diagnosis." "Ma just wants to have a quiet Thanksgiving." "She said that they would have it just the two of them, but-- they should be with their family." "I feel so awful giving you so little notice." "Don't be silly, I just wish there was something I could do." "Thank you, Ro, that is so sweet." "Of course, I'll let you know when I know anything more." "Okay, take care, sweetheart." "Bye." "Alright, bye-bye." "Carm's father, he's sick." "She had to cancel Thanksgiving." "It's three A.M." "Bam, come wide awake." "Something specific?" "It's a management problem." "It's a situation with an underling." "Now, it's partly my fault." "But he never should've done what he did." "What was it?" "Could you tell me that?" "He caused the... early retirement... of somebody else." "The particulars aren't important, he fucked up." "Ordinarily, I would just, you know... put him out to pasture." "But he's a very valuable piece of manpower." "Is it complicated by a personal relationship?" "I been reading that... book you told me about." ""The Art of War" by Sun Tzu." "Here's this guy... a Chinese general, wrote this thing 2400 years ago." "And most of it still applies today." "Balk the enemy's power." "Force him to reveal himself." "Uh, I have to ask... are you in any sort of danger?" "No, can I go on?" "Most of the guys that I know, they read Prince Machiavelli." "I had Carmela go and get the Cliff Notes once... he's okay." "But this book is much better about strategy." "Listen, I wanted to ask you about the girl." "That woman that was here today." "The Mercedes saleslady." "I'm very sorry about the confusion." "What does somebody like that need a shrink for?" "I can't talk about another patient." "Just... it makes you wonder, that's all." "It's after hours, it's dark." "You want me to walk you to your car?" "No, thank you." "I have some work I have to catch up on here." "Anyone for a turtle?" "Hmm?" "Aaron, honey." "Hey!" "What?" "Oh." "Who's winning?" "Like you even know who's playin'." "It so happens that I do." "Detroit plays every Thanksgiving." "What a shame Barry Sanders retired." "He's a real sweetheart." "A.J., did you tell your dad and your grandpa how I served him when I waitressed at Kenny Roger's?" "Colonel Sanders." "No, at Kenny Rogers, Barry Sanders." "Yeah, she served him." "Yes!" "Hey." "Yeah!" "Hey." "Hey." "Meadow, you know I love you more than anything in this world, right?" "Dad, what are you talking about?" "I know things haven't been so good with us lately, it's just... if anything were ever to happen to you... everybody, come on, dinner!" "Go ahead." "I'll tell you, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise." "My two boys..." "I was worried about the gravy, but..." "Ralph, honey, you feel alright?" "You hardly touched your manigott'." "I'm fine, Christ, please, how many times?" "Jackie, honey, you don't have to stay for dessert if you don't want to." "Jesus Christ, a little manners, huh?" "What'd she just say?" "It's okay." "Why don't you go see if Meadow wants to go to a movie or something?" "Sure, ma." "Good dinner." "I'll tell ya a nifty trick." "Break off a piece of Ohio kitchen match, in the screw hole, give the threads something to grab onto." "Yeah?" "'Cause I used the Elmer's and the knob still fell out." "Forget about it." "Narcolepsy is an A.S.D.A. Certified dissomnia." "It's no picnic." "Almost time for turkey sandwiches!" "I'll put more coffee on." "Oh, my God, who could that be?" "It's the Boston strangler, Jesus, ma." "I'll get it." "Hey." "Hey!" "Jackie, hi!" "I guess you know everybody here except for Aaron, Janice's friend." "Hey, Aaron." "Have you heard the good news?" "He is risen." "Sit down, we're gonna have some turkey sandwiches." "Thanks, I already ate." "Just figured I'd see if Meadow wanted to do something." "See a movie, whatever." "Sure, I mean, I was gonna go over to Hunter's." "You wanna go?" "Whatever." "I'll be down in a sec." "A Soprano and an Aprile." "So, how's school, everything good, right?" "Yeah, GPA's up this quarter." "Why don't you just bag it, and come to Dov's?" "Hunter's expecting me." "We can hang out all weekend." "We wouldn't have to like do anything." "I have to study." "Don't you have midterms too?" "I don't even go anymore." "What?" "Why?" "Organic chemistry?" "Nucleotides and shit." "You wanna know what I'm interested in?" "Men's fashion." "Not the faggy part of it, but like to be Hugo Boss." "Did you ever think of applying to fit?" "It's supposed to be a good school for that." "Come on, come to Dov's." "I wanna be with you so bad." "I can't, Jackie." "What?" "You won't go with me, but you'd go with that black guy?" "It's not that I don't want to go." "I've been hurt." "Just give me some time, okay?" "...as street corners are heaps of crumbled wrath and masonry." "...darling Christmas gift-- three shuttles remain, now" "it makes me crazy, Rosalie, all of them." "They're already hiring the caterers." "I mean, we were young when we got married, but those two?" "Emotionally they are much younger than we were." "...until then, here's how you'll get your thrills." "The Mercedes-Benz coups and convertibles." "Earth to Tony." "I'm thinking of getting one of those." "What, a Mercedes?" "Go ahead, it's a cute car." "You hear?" "T disinvited Ralph to Thanksgiving." "No shit." "Madonn'." "Tony sees the big picture." "Oh, little Paulie." "Hey, Ton'." "This prick treating you okay?" "No complaints." "C'mon, little Paulie, everybody," "I'll buy you an egg cream." "C'mon, sit down." "So... how are things going over there with our friend?" "The same, you know." "What's he saying about me?" "To me?" "Nothing, he knows better." "He's still breaking my balls though, about taking orders from me." "Plus now, with you and him and all that other shit there." "It's your job to make my job easier." "I'm not complaining, you asked me." "He's a frustrating guy." "I don't know how things are gonna go... but I can't promise he's gonna go away." "It's not just him." "This freon deal." "We're in the middle of a major renovation at the house," "I got two kids getting ready for college soon." "Hey, hang in there, you're doing a good job." "Did you see those bags?" "Fuckin' stress is killing him." "Yeah." "Maybe he wants my fuckin' job." "...it's a matter of honor this Thanksgiving because everyone at Texas remembers turkey day two years ago... sure you don't wanna eat?" "I got a little turkey left." "No, thank you, dear." "Johnny, please, don't get up." "I'm off to physical therapy, hon." "Used to be some hoofer, poor thing." "Takes a terrible toll on the joints." "You heard what he did with Thanksgiving?" "It's not good, Ralph." "Will you please tell me what I did to this guy?" "Turn down a drink?" "I wasn't thirsty!" "Ralph." "Ever since I'm back from Miami, he's up my ass!" "I'm earning with three hands here, and it's still not good enough to satisfy this cocksucker!" "And then he fuckin' hits me?" "I'm telling you, John." "He's not leaving me a lot of options here." "Don't talk crazy!" "You wanna commit suicide, pills are a lot easier." "What do you think Carmine would say if I wanted to switch families?" "Come with you guys." "Carmine doesn't know who you are." "You could tell him." "Ralph, listen to me." "As a friend..." "I know Tony can be difficult." "His father was the same, his uncle, they always need someone to demonize." "But New York and the Sopranos have long-standing ties and that's not gonna change, not for you or anybody else." "You want me to be frank?" "You brought this on yourself with that girl." ""A", she was a whore," ""B", she hit me." "And that wasn't my kid she was carrying." "It was the fucking coke," "I should've never started with that shit." "Fuckin' Miami, it's all over the place." "Just tell Anthony you're sorry." "I was high, I admit it, and I swear to Christ I'm not doing it anymore." ""Tony, I'm sorry."" "Fuck that, what good would it do?" "It might save your life!" "He hit me!" "He was wrong, believe me, he knows." "You don't think I know people are laughing behind my back?" "I'll talk to Tony, I'm sure he'll make it right." "At this point, how?" "I don't know." "Would you take capo of your crew?" "No, no, I wouldn't, no fuckin' way." "Ralph Cifaretto came by." "What'd he want, a fully-fueled jet and a safe trip to the Pope?" "He's running scared since you cancelled that dinner." "If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him." "Yeah, well, he wants to apologize." "Oh, really?" "Would that put this to rest?" "If it's sincere." "It might relieve me of a very unpleasant decision." "You know, they're about to break ground on the esplanade." "We're talking about millions of dollars here, Tony." "It wouldn't hurt either of to have a point man in there feels appreciated." "I'm just saying." "It wouldn't hurt to throw him a bone." "Like what?" "Capo?" "No fuckin' way." "Never." "You heard what he did." "That poor girl just had her 20th birthday." "Capo's what he mentioned." "I threw cold water on it right away." "But she was a whore, Tony." "I don't want to talk about that situation ever again, with anybody." "You understand me?" "It was just a suggestion, keep a happy shop." "Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't you say you weren't gonna stick your beak in?" "Can't two friends talk?" "I talked to him, he's delighted you wanna see him." "Great, he said that?" "That's great." "That's fuckin' great news." "What'd I tell you?" "Listen, the other thing, what's he gonna do to make that right?" "Just talk to him." "He indicated he's very open to working something out." "Thank you, thank you." "Anything!" "Thank you, thank you." "Oh, Fabian!" "The fuck you doing up before noon?" "I'm moving out, over to Dov's." "Beanie boy?" "Yeah, his reserve unit in Israel got called up." "God bless America, huh?" "Listen, you find yourself short on x," "I know a guy." "X?" "What?" "I'm trying to do you a favor." "And just so you know, that bullshit your future father-in-law pulled over Thanksgiving, he knew I had no intention of going over there." "He's trying to save face." "So he stoops so low, he had his wife lie to your mother." "Whatever you need, give me a call." "Be good." "The woman is 50 years old." "Sometimes I just want to scream in her face," ""quit whining, no wonder he left you!"" "Her supervisor looks at her cross-eyed and I get a call at 3:00 in the morning." "She wants to talk about how her father laughed at her when she fell off her bicycle when she was seven." "Does she call your emergency number?" "No, that's not the point, Elliot!" "Oh, these fuckin' interruptions!" "I was raped." "You have feelings of your own and who is listening?" "That's right, damnit." "I have to sit there and take care of these people hour after hour with all their problems... and some of them are very real and very serious, and I'm sorry," "I care, I really do... but it's hard sometimes." "I just want to say,"I hurt!"" "Good, sure." "That's why you're here." "I'm sorry, Elliot." "No need to be sorry." "You've been through such trauma." "It takes tremendous strength of will and inner resource to soldier on as you do at your work." "Thank you, Elliot." "I try, I really do." "It's just hard sometimes." "And patient Soprano?" "How's all that?" "He offered to escort me to my car." "I almost fell in his arms crying." "Oh, Jesus Christ." "Chris." "Paulie." "Ralphie." "You wanted to see me?" "Yeah, Tony." "About what?" "About what?" "You know... to apologize." "Oh." "Sit down?" "I was doing a lot of coke." "I said some things and I did some things... that I'm sorry for." "It's not gonna happen again." "What'd you do?" "I was rude when you offered me the drink." "And I disrespected "the Bing."" "And the girl... that shouldn't have happened." "Like I said," "I was doing a lot of coke." "But I gave that up, and... end of story, and..." "I'm sorry, Tony, okay?" "Anything else?" "Hey." "What's up, Gi?" "Hey, Gi." "My wife made some turkey sandwiches if anybody wants one." "I'm still a little bloated from Thanksgiving." "Thanksgiving, 1982." "Fucking turkey, it's like spackle in my bowels." "Nothing moves." "Want me to run to Rite Aid's and get you some Metamucil?" "Nah, I hate that shit." "Maybe I'll try one with lettuce and cranberry." "Ralph around?" "Not yet." "Want me to give him a call?" "Please, let's just enjoy the quiet, huh?" "After decades of planning, ground was broken today on the city of Newark, New Jersey's" "Museum of Science and Trucking, and Riverfront Esplanade." "Oh, hi, Ralphie." "C'mon in, he's watching TV." "...the project was held up several times by political infighting-- nothing, he gave me nothing." "Two seconds, look, the fucking esplanade, finally." "We're gonna need our own bulldozers to take the money away." "Not a thing, John." "Not a thank you, not an apology, nothing!" "Calm down, take it easy." "He let me stand there like a servant... scraping, bowing!" "Cocksucker didn't even invite me to sit down." "It's posturing, it's part of the game." "Fuck the game, he's going down." "Are you fucking stupid coming in here talking to me like that?" "I don't give a fuck anymore!" "I've given my life to this thing and this is the thanks I get?" "It's Silvio Dante on the phone." "You wanna talk to him?" "Tell him I'll call him back." "They're my children." "You seriously cannot be" "I'm so sorry!" "You shut the door?" "Jesus Christ, you're worse than Bobby." "Anybody see you come in?" "Yeah." "Fuck 'em." "I don't give a shit anymore." "Brought you some leftover turkey and stuffing, manigott'." "Keep it." "Everything goes through me." "And these drafts, I should be down in boca." "Drafts?" "It's like the fucking Amazon jungle in here." "What's the thermostat say?" "Don't touch it!" "Alright." "Jesus." "You're scaring the hell outta me here." "The thought of losing you." "Grandpa, did he ever work for somebody named Trillo?" "He owned a lumberyard?" "My father was a master stonemason, he never cut fucking wood." "A contractor then?" "Built garden apartments?" "There was somebody named Trillo, he had seven daughters." "I can't remember." "I thought you were gonna ask my advice about Ralph Cifaretto." "Got any thoughts?" "What else do I have left?" "A real contremps you have on your hands here." "A good kid, but you never should've put Gigi in there." "He's strong, a good earner, well respected." "Not by that crew." "To them he's a ghibelline coming over to butt in." "They don't trust him, they undermine him." "On top of that, you got Ralph now pissing in their ears." "Any day you'll have a mutiny on your hands." "So, I take Gigi out, what kind of message does that send?" "That you're indecisive and unsure of yourself." "Exactly." "Who the fuck would I replace him with anyway?" "All good questions." "Great, what's the fuckin' answer?" "Who says there is one?" "That's what being a boss is, you steer the ship the best way you know." "Sometimes it's smooth, sometimes you hit the rocks." "In the meantime, you find your pleasures where you can." "How much longer, skip?" "I gotta take a leak!" "Holy Jesus." "What the fuck are you lookin' at?" "Call 911." "I don't feel a pulse." "I'm so sorry." "I'm sorry." "Thank you, Tony." "He was a good man." "Never said a bad word about anybody." "Thank you, Tony." "I'm so sorry." "It's fuckin' awful." "He's a young man." "Heart disease... the silent killer." "Hey, there are worse ways to go." "Even still, on the pisciadood?" "Pretty fuckin' humiliating." "It's how Elvis died." "That guy in Hollywood, too." "Don something." "Producer of "The Simpsons."" "So, there's a vacancy." "There's a lot of business to do." "You thought about who it's gonna be?" "Terrible, it's a terrible thing." "Guy was in here twice a week." "Brought the kids in and everything on Sundays." "Artie, hey, Ton'." "I gotta go rotate my pork shoulder." "You wanted to see me?" "Sit down." "I'm making you captain." "You are?" "That's great." "Oh, that's fuckin' great." "Anthony, you're not gonna be sorry." "Thank you." "What?" "I need to hear it was merit, and not just'cause somebody was constipated and blew a gasket." "You're gonna be making a lot more money, Ralphie, so, don't question." "You wanted captain?" "You're captain." "Thank you, Tony, you're right." "I've wanted this so fuckin' long." "Well... you know what they say." "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it." "So, um... we gonna have a drink together or what?" "What's this shit I hear about Tony having a fight with Ralph Cifaretto?" "Something about Thanksgiving?" "I was there." "What, at Tony's?" "Wow, on Thanksgiving?" "After dinner, to take Meadow out." "Did you fuck her yet?" "Her body is mad ripe." "Yeah, but did you fuck her yet?" "She's creaming' for me, man." "You didn't fuck her yet." "I don't know if it's even a smart thing." "She's Tony Soprano's daughter." "I'll be right back." "See ya." "Jackie, c'mon, Vassar, that band." "C'mon, double or nothing." "Yeah, rack 'em." "You said you were gonna take me." "Go sit down." "Ha, ha, ha." "Fuckin' brat." "Meadow!" "Goddamnit!" "Hey, no!" "Meadow!" "Oh, my God, fuck, Meadow!" "Jackie!" "Jesus, Meadow, are you alright?" "I think so." "Ow!" "Easy." "What's the matter?" "My purse is stuck." "You guys alright?" "We're fine." "We're totally fine, nobody got hurt." "Blew a tire." "But your car... fuck the car, I'll call it in stolen." "Oh, my God, Jackie, I am so sorry!" "As long as you're okay." "I don't know what I would've done if you would've got hurt." "You almost died." "I'm so sorry." "I should've taken you to Vassar like you wanted." "But you loved that car." "It's alright." "Come on, let's get you home." "No..." "I wanna go with you." "You sure?" "And we could match up... well, that sounds good..." "I'll give you my card." "I'll be here at 10:00." "Okay?" "Nice to meet you." "Nice meeting you." "Hey." "It's you." "I had my eye on... one of these." "You have good taste." "Mind if I take it for a test drive?" "You have to be accompanied by a sales rep." 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601 F.Supp.2d 1201 (2009)
In Re: COUNTRYWIDE FINANCIAL CORP. MORTGAGE MARKETING AND SALES PRACTICES LITIGATION.
Symone Leyvas, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
Bank of America Corp., et al., Defendants. *1202
Kimberly A. Jackson, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs,
v.
Countrywide Financial Corp., et al., Defendants.
Heath O. White, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs,
v.
Countrywide Financial Corp., et al., Defendants.
Case Nos. 08MD1988 DMS (LSP), 08CV1888 DMS (LSP), 08CV1957 DMS (LSP), 08CV1972 DMS (LSP).
United States District Court, S.D. California.
February 5, 2009.
*1207 ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS
[Docket Nos. 50 (08md1988), 38 (08cv1888), 25 (08cv1957), and 69 (08cv1972)]
DANA M. SABRAW, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on Defendants' motion to dismiss the Consolidated Class Action Complaint ("CAC"). The motion came on for hearing on January 30, 2009. Joe R. Whatley, Jr. and Donna Siegel Moffa appeared and argued on behalf of Plaintiffs and Thomas M. Hefferon appeared and argued on behalf of Defendants. After thoroughly reviewing the parties' briefs and the record on file herein, and after hearing oral argument, the Court grants the motion in part and denies the motion in part.
I.
BACKGROUND
This case is part of a multi-district litigation involving states, individuals and several business entities involved in mortgage lending across the country. Plaintiffs filed separate class action complaints in other courts, and those complaints were transferred to this Court pursuant to an order from the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. After transfer, the named Plaintiffs filed a Consolidated Class Action Complaint ("CAC"), which is the subject of the present motion to dismiss. The named Plaintiffs in this class action case are Francis G. and Rebecca G. Sizemore, Edward Marini, Kimberly and Philip D. Menichetti, Sequesta Washington, Symone and John Leyvas, June Harding Brown, Preston Givens and Paula Prezola, and Kimberly A. Jackson. Defendants are Countrywide Financial Corp. ("CFC"), Countrywide Bank, FSB ("CW Bank, FSB"), Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. ("CHL"), Countrywide KB Home Loans, LLC, Countrywide Tax Services Corp. ("CT"), LandSafe, Inc., LandSafe Appraisal Services, Inc., LandSafe Credits, Inc., LandSafe Flood Determination, Inc., and Bank of America Corp. ("BAC").
In general, Plaintiffs allege Defendants have engaged in a scheme to steer borrowers into subprime mortgages, which were then sold as investments in the secondary mortgage market. (CAC at 1-2.) Plaintiffs allege Defendants pushed borrowers into subprime loans irrespective of their ability to repay the loans or their suitability for other types of loans. (Id.) According to Plaintiffs, Defendants executed this scheme through fraudulent means, including:
incentivizing employees and brokers to place borrowers into subprime loans, (id. at 2-3),
training and instructing employees to place borrowers into subprime loans without explaining the terms or disclosing the risks, (id.),
"making false representations to borrowers, as set forth in standardized sales scripts, that they were offering the best loans available to the borrowers." (id. at 4),
using "an automated, computerized underwriting program that was designed *1208 to maximize the number of subprime loans[,]" (id. at 6),
failing to adequately disclose future interest rate increases, (id. at 7),
failing to disclose the risk of negative amortization, (id.),
misrepresenting the borrowers' ability to refinance, (id. at 11-12), and
failing to disclose the overall scheme.
The allegations as to specific Plaintiffs are as follows:
The Sizemores
"On May 19, 2006, the Sizemores received a subprime loan in the form a `pay option' adjustable rate mortgage from Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., in order to refinance the mortgage on their primary residence" in South Carolina. (Id. at 14.)
Under Countrywide's pay option ARM loan, a borrower is given three different payment options to choose from each month. The top-tier option, `amortized payment' encompasses payments of interest and a portion of the principal of the loan. The middle option is the `interest only payment,' which covers only the interest for the month and does not decrease the principal amount of the loan. The third, and lowest, payment option is what Countrywide calls the `minimum payment.' When a borrower makes the `minimum payment' on a pay option ARM loan, he or she is in fact paying less that the interest owed on the principal loan, and the unpaid interest is added to the principal amount owed. Once the principal amount reaches 115% of the original loan amount, the repayment structure resets to significantly higher monthly payments.
(Id. at 3.) Plaintiffs allege that "at the time of the loan," Countrywide failed to disclose to the Sizemores the effect of making only the "minimum payments," that their monthly payments would soon increase, and that they would be charged a prepayment penalty if they refinanced within three years. (Id. at 14.) On the contrary, Plaintiffs allege that the Countrywide Loan Officer, Cortney Lanktree, told the Sizemores their monthly payment would remain constant for three years, they would not suffer negative amortization if they paid the "monthly minimum," their loan was spread out over forty years, and there would not be a prepayment penalty if they refinanced within the first three years. (Id.) Plaintiffs allege the Sizemores requested that the information they received about the prepayment penalty be put in writing, which Ms. Lanktree did in a letter dated April 25, 2006. (Id. at 15.)
On June 5, 2007, Countrywide sent a letter to the Sizemores alerting them that the required monthly payment on their mortgage would soon increase significantly based on the negative amortization of their loan. (Id.) The following month, the Sizemores sought to refinance their loan, but they were told that Countrywide would not honor Ms. Lanktree's letter. (Id.) Plaintiffs allege the Sizemores would not have refinanced with Countrywide had they been informed "that their principal would increase as a result of making the `minimum payment' on their loan[.]" (Id. at 16.)
Edward Marini
Edward Marini is a disabled Vietnam veteran on a fixed income. (Id.) Plaintiffs allege he was solicited by Countrywide via telephone to refinance his Countrywide home loan in the first part of 2005. (Id.) Plaintiffs allege a Countrywide customer service representative told Marini that the interest rate on his loan would be fixed for five years "with an increase of one hundred dollars ($100) per month[.]" (Id.) Plaintiffs further allege "Countrywide representatives continuously reiterated" this representation to Marini. (Id.)
Marini thereafter refinanced his mortgage with a pay option ARM loan. (Id. at *1209 17.) "[A]t the time of the loan," Countrywide did not disclose to Marini that his monthly payments would soon increase, nor did they disclose that negative amortization would occur if he made only the "minimum payment." (Id.)
As with the Sizemores, on August 6, 2007, Countrywide sent a letter to Marini alerting him that the minimum payment on his loan would soon be more than double his current payment based on the negative amortization of his loan. (Id.) Plaintiffs allege Marini would not have entered into the loan with Countrywide had he been informed that the "minimum payments" would result in increased principal. (Id.) Plaintiffs allege Marini will need to file for bankruptcy, (id.), and indeed, he did so before the CAC was filed. (See Defs.' Request for Judicial Notice in Supp. of Mot., Ex. D.)
The Menichettis
The Menichettis obtained a pay option ARM loan from Countrywide Bank, N.A. ("CW Bank, N.A. on August 18, 2006.") (CAC at 18.) The Menichettis obtained the loan through Don Cutler, a broker at Mid Atlantic Capital ("Mid Atlantic"). (Id.) Mr. Cutler first contacted the Menichettis by letter about refinancing their mortgage. (Id.) Plaintiffs allege that neither Countrywide nor Mid Atlantic disclosed to the Menichettis that their monthly payments would increase soon after taking the loan or that their principal would increase if they made the "minimum payment" each month. (Id.) On the contrary, Plaintiffs allege Mr. Cutler told the Menichettis he was providing a "good mortgage option," they would now have a "low monthly payment," and it was "the best loan he could think of." (Id.)
After obtaining the loan, the Menichettis noticed that the principal balance began increasing. (Id. at 18-19.) They sought assistance from Countrywide, but have yet to receive any. (Id. at 19.) Plaintiffs allege the Menichettis would not have entered into the loan with Countrywide had they known that paying the "minimum payment" would result in an increase in their principal balance. (Id.)
Sequesta Washington
Washington obtained a subprime loan from Full Spectrum Lending, Inc., a former subsidiary of CFC, on November 20, 2004. (Id. at 20.) Plaintiffs allege that "at the time of the loan," Countrywide failed to disclose to Washington that her interest rate would only be fixed for three years. (Id.) Plaintiffs also allege that Washington spoke to a Countrywide loan officer, Fred Aghili, about her ability to make the monthly payments, but Mr. Aghili told Washington she could refinance at any time. (Id.)
Washington began experiencing difficulty in making her monthly payments. (Id.) She tried to refinance on two separate occasions, but was told that she could not for different reasons. (Id.) Plaintiffs allege Washington would not have entered into the loan had she known that her interest rate would adjust in three years, or that she could not refinance at any time. (Id.)
The Leyvases
In July 2007, the Leyvases began looking to refinance their then-existing mortgage to reduce their debts, lower their interest rate, and obtain up to $15,000 cash. (Id. at 21.) They worked with a broker at Equity Capital Group, Inc., who promised the Leyvases that Countrywide would provide them with a 30-year fixedrate loan with an interest rate between 7.0% and 8.5%. (Id.)
The Leyvases obtained a home loan from Countrywide "on or about August 31, 2007." (Id. at 21.) At closing, the Leyvases were surprised to learn that the amount of cash they were promised had been reduced from nearly $13,959 to $1,294. (Id.) *1210 They were also presented with conflicting amortization schedules, one for a thirtyyear term at 9.8% interest, and the other a forty year term at 10.25% interest. (Id. at 22.) They also learned that their loan was a hybrid ARM loan with a 40-year term. (Id.)
June Harding Brown
June Harding Brown is a senior citizen who resides in Philadelphia, PA. (Id. at 23.) "[O]n or about August 17, 2007," she obtained a home loan from Countrywide. (Id.) "At the time of her loan, Plaintiff Brown had a good credit score, but was on a fixed income. Accordingly, she was seeking to lower her monthly expenses." (Id.) Brown dealt with a third party broker at Capital Icon, Inc., who promised to save her money. (Id.) The broker specifically told Brown that Countrywide had a "special program" that would be helpful to her. (Id.) When Brown questioned the broker about a possible increase in her payment, the broker "told her `not to worry about it' and that she should focus only upon the minimum monthly payment." (Id.)
After she obtained the loan, Brown discovered that her outstanding balance was increasing. (Id.) She called Countrywide to complain, and was told that she would need to increase the amount of her monthly payments to avoid negative amortization. (Id. at 23-24.) Plaintiffs allege that no one disclosed to Brown that negative amortization would occur if she made only the "minimum payment." (Id. at 24.) They further allege the "minimum payment" was used to lure Brown into the loan. (Id.) Plaintiffs also allege the interest rate on Brown's loan was 9.75%, higher than the rate on her previous loan. (Id.) Countrywide eventually offered to modify Brown's loan in return for a modification fee. (Id.)
Preston Givens and Paula Prezola
Givens and Prezola, husband and wife, were seeking to purchase a home from KB Home. (Id.) An on-site representative of KB Home, Alexander Bejenaru, referred Givens and Prezola to Countrywide KB Home Loans, who provided Givens and Prezola with a loan on or about September 28, 2007. (Id.)
Givens and Prezola had telephonic contact with Countrywide KB Home Loans, despite their repeated requests for a personal meeting. (Id. at 25.) Countrywide KB Home Loans told Givens and Prezola that their deposit, together with incentives from KB Home, would cover all closing costs as well as their down payment. (Id.) Givens and Prezola were also provided with a good faith estimate that indicated a rate of 9.625% on a 30-year loan with zero points. (Id.)
At closing, however, Countrywide KB Home Loans demanded an additional $13,000 in cash. (Id.) Further, despite the representations alleged above, Givens and Prezola received a 5-year hybrid ARM loan with an initial interest rate of 11.250% on a 40-year loan term. (Id.) Givens and Prezola were also provided with conflicting documents at closing concerning the amount financed. (Id.)
Kimberly A. Jackson
Plaintiffs allege that Countrywide employees monitored Jackson's credit report after she received a loan from Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. on January 9, 2004. (Id. at 26.) When employees discovered an outstanding medical bill, they targeted Jackson as a candidate for refinancing. (Id.) Plaintiffs allege that Jackson refinanced with a subprime loan from Countrywide on September 28, 2005, "in response to frequent calls and false, misleading and/or otherwise deceptive representations from Countrywide encouraging her to refinance her mortgage and receive cash to pay off her bills[.]" (Id.) Plaintiffs allege that Jackson's principal increased by $11,000, of which she received only *1211 $6,000, and the interest rate she received was not what she was promised. (Id.) Plaintiffs further allege that Jackson would not have refinanced her loan had she known that her principal and interest rate would increase. (Id.)
These allegations serve as the factual basis for Plaintiffs' legal claims, which allege: (1) a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c), (2) conspiracy to violate RICO, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), (3) aiding and abetting a violation of RICO, 18 U.S.C. § 2, (4) violation of California Business and Professions Code § 17200, (5) violation of California Business and Professions Code § 17500, and (6) unjust enrichment.
II.
DISCUSSION
Defendants raise a host of arguments in support of their motion to dismiss the CAC. First, they argue Defendants BAC, CFC and the LandSafe Defendants should be dismissed from this case because they did not make any of the loans to Plaintiffs. Second, Defendants assert Plaintiffs' RICO claims must be dismissed. Defendants contend these claims (a) do not satisfy the pleading requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b), (b) they are based on non-actionable "puffery," (c) they do not set forth the necessary connection to Plaintiffs, and (d) the alleged non-disclosures are not actionable because they either (i) were, in fact, disclosed, (ii) Defendants had no duty to disclose, and (iii) Plaintiffs have not alleged that they relied on the non-disclosures or that their reliance was reasonable. Defendants also contend Plaintiffs allegations of a RICO enterprise are legally invalid, the conspiracy claim falls with the substantive RICO claim, and there is no private right of action for aiding and abetting a violation of RICO. Third, Defendants argue the § 17200 and 17500 claims must be dismissed because they, too, fail to satisfy the pleading requirement of Rule 9(b), Defendants cannot be liable for statements by third parties, and the alleged non-disclosures were actually disclosed. Fourth, Defendants assert Plaintiffs' claim for unjust enrichment is legally invalid. Defendants raise additional arguments as to specific Plaintiffs and their respective claims.
A. Standard of Review
Dismissal pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) is proper only where there is no cognizable legal theory or an absence of sufficient facts alleged to support a cognizable legal theory. Navarro v. Block, 250 F.3d 729, 732 (9th Cir.2001) (citing Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Dep't, 901 F.2d 696, 699 (9th Cir.1988)). In deciding a 12(b)(6) motion, all material factual allegations of the complaint are accepted as true, as well as all reasonable inferences to be drawn from them. Cahill v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 80 F.3d 336, 338 (9th Cir.1996). However, the court need not accept all conclusory allegations as true; rather, it must "examine whether conclusory allegations follow from the description of facts as alleged by the plaintiff." Holden v. Hagopian, 978 F.2d 1115, 1121 (9th Cir.1992) (citation omitted). See also Benson v. Arizona State Bd. of Dental Examiners, 673 F.2d 272, 275-76 (9th Cir.1982) (court need not accept conclusory legal assertions); Sherman v. Yakahi, 549 F.2d 1287, 1290 (9th Cir.1977) ("Conclusory allegations, unsupported by facts, [will be] rejected as insufficient to state a claim under the Civil Rights Act."); accord Swanson v. Bixler, 750 F.2d 810, 813 (10th Cir.1984) ("All well-pleaded facts, as distinguished from conclusory allegations, must be taken as true."). A claim "`should not be dismissed unless it appears beyond doubt that plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.'" Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa Intern. *1212 Service Ass'n, 494 F.3d 788, 794 (9th Cir. 2007), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 128 S.Ct. 2871, 171 L.Ed.2d 811 (2008), (quoting Rodriguez v. Panayiotou, 314 F.3d 979, 983 (9th Cir.2002)).
B. RICO Claims
Plaintiffs allege three RICO claims: (1) a substantive claim under § 1962(c), (2) a conspiracy claim under § 1962(d), and (3) a claim for aiding and abetting under 18 U.S.C. § 2. Defendants argue the substantive claim must be dismissed, and dismissal of that claim warrants dismissal of the conspiracy claim. They also assert the aiding and abetting claim is not legally valid. Plaintiffs dispute these arguments.
1. Section 1962(c)
Section 1962(c) states:
It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise's affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt.
18 U.S.C. § 1962(c). To state a claim under this statute, "a plaintiff must allege `(1) conduct (2) of an enterprise (3) through a pattern (4) of racketeering activity.'" Odom v. Microsoft Corp., 486 F.3d 541, 547 (9th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 128 S.Ct. 464, 169 L.Ed.2d 325 (2007), (quoting Sedima, S.P.R.L. v. Imrex Co., 473 U.S. 479, 496, 105 S.Ct. 3275, 87 L.Ed.2d 346 (1985)). In this case, Defendants challenge the second and fourth elements.
a. Enterprise
RICO defines an enterprise to include "any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity[.]" 18 U.S.C. § 1961(4). In this case, Plaintiffs allege two different RICO enterprises: (1) The Countrywide Broker Enterprise, and (2) the Countrywide Enterprise.
i. The Broker Enterprise
Plaintiffs allege:
the following persons constitute a group of individuals associated in fact that will be referred to herein as the `Countrywide Broker Enterprise': (1) Countrywide, including its LandSafe loan closing services subsidiaries, and (2) Mid Atlantic Capital, One Source Mortgage, and other mortgage brokers not named as defendants herein who have contracts with Countrywide pursuant to which they sell, arrange, promote, or otherwise assist Countrywide in directing borrowers into loans issued by Countrywide.
(CAC at 51.) Defendants argue this enterprise is legally invalid because Plaintiffs fail to plead the requisite connections between the independent mortgage brokers, and Plaintiffs allegations are "too vague and overbroad."
There are three criteria for establishing an associated-in-fact enterprise under RICO: (1) "`a common purpose of engaging in a course of conduct[,]'" (2) "`an ongoing organization, formal or informal,'" and (3) "`evidence that the various associates function as a continuing unit.'" Odom, 486 F.3d at 552 (quoting United States v. Turkette, 452 U.S. 576, 583, 101 S.Ct. 2524, 69 L.Ed.2d 246 (1981)). Here, Defendants argue that Plaintiffs have failed to allege any connections between the independent mortgage brokers, thereby defeating the "common purpose" requirement.[1] Defendants contend the allegations *1213 in the CAC describe a "hub and spoke" structure, which does not fall within the definition of a RICO enterprise. However, Defendants fail to cite any binding authority to support this argument. (See Mem. of P. & A. in Supp. of Mot. at 24-25) (citing primarily cases from Southern District of New York and other district courts outside the Ninth Circuit). Indeed, Ninth Circuit law is to the contrary. See Odom, 486 F.3d at 551 ("an associated-infact enterprise under RICO does not require any particular organizational structure, separate or otherwise.") Accordingly, the Court rejects this argument.
The Court also rejects Defendants' argument that Plaintiffs' allegations about the Broker Enterprise are "too vague and overbroad." Unlike the cases cited by Defendants, Plaintiffs here have identified the individuals that make up the enterprise. They include:
(1) Countrywide, including its LandSafe loan closing services subsidiaries, and (2) Mid Atlantic Capital, One Source Mortgage, and other mortgage brokers not named as defendants herein who have contracts with Countrywide pursuant to which they sell, arrange, promote, or otherwise assist Countrywide in directing borrowers into loans issued by Countrywide.
(CAC at 51.) This is more specific than simply identifying "unnamed car dealers," see Richmond v. Nationwide Cassel, L.P., 52 F.3d 640, 645 (7th Cir.1995), or "secondary lenders." See VanDenBroeck v. CommonPoint Mortg. Co., 210 F.3d 696, 700 (6th Cir.2000).[2] Thus, Plaintiffs' allegations about the Broker Enterprise are sufficient.
ii. The Countrywide Enterprise
In addition to alleging the existence of the Broker Enterprise, Plaintiffs allege the existence of an alternative Countrywide Enterprise. They allege, based on their current knowledge, "the following persons constitute a group of individuals associated in fact that will be referred to herein as the `Countrywide Enterprise': (1) Countrywide and (2) Countrywide's subsidiaries, including its LandSafe loan closing services subsidiaries." (CAC at 52.) Defendants assert these allegations are insufficient because a parent corporation and its subsidiaries cannot legally constitute a RICO enterprise. Plaintiffs disagree.
Relying on the text of § 1962(c), courts have consistently held that "the `person' must be a separate and distinct entity from the `enterprise.'" Schreiber Distributing Co. v. Serv-Well Furniture Co., Inc., 806 F.2d 1393, 1396 (9th Cir.1986). Although the Ninth Circuit has not decided whether a parent and its subsidiary satisfies this distinctiveness requirement, other circuits have decided that these entities generally are not sufficiently distinct. See *1214 Bucklew v. Hawkins, Ash, Baptie & Co., LLP, 329 F.3d 923, 934 (7th Cir.2003); Bessette v. Avco Financial Services, Inc., 230 F.3d 439, 449 (1st Cir.2000); Fogie v. THORN Americas, Inc., 190 F.3d 889, 898 (8th Cir.1999); Lorenz v. CSX Corp., 1 F.3d 1406, 1412 (3d Cir.1993). These courts recognize that the parent and its subsidiary are separate legal entities. However, they also acknowledge that "a subsidiary that simply conducts its affairs as delegated by the parent company for the profit of the parent company is engaged in nothing more than a legitimate corporate and financial relationship, which is certainly not subject to RICO liability on that basis alone." Bessette, 230 F.3d at 449 (citations omitted). Accordingly, these courts require "something more" to satisfy the distinctiveness requirement. See Bucklew, 329 F.3d at 934 (citations omitted) (stating plaintiffs must show that the "decision to operate through subsidiaries rather than divisions somehow facilitated [the enterprise's] unlawful activity"); Bessette, 230 F.3d at 449 (quoting Brannon v. Boatmen's First National Bank of Oklahoma, 153 F.3d 1144, 1148 (10th Cir.1998)) (same); Fogie, 190 F.3d at 898 (stating "there must be a greater showing that the parent and subsidiary are distinct than the mere fact that they are separate legal entities.").
Without conceding that this is the proper test for distinctiveness,[3] Plaintiffs assert their allegations satisfy this test. They specifically rely on their allegations that:
the participation by the LandSafe subsidiaries in the Countrywide Enterprise allows the enterprise to function more effectively, given that many of the functions provided by these entities, such as appraisals, would normally be conducted by independent entities. LandSafe's participation in the enterprise allows the normal checks and balances within the mortgage process to be eliminated, permitting Defendants to advance their scheme and conceal the fraudulent activity they have been engaging in.
(CAC at 53.) Defendants do not address these specific allegations. Instead, they reiterate their position that Plaintiffs have not satisfied the distinctiveness requirement.
These allegations, however, satisfy the "something more" test. Consistent with the Seventh and First Circuits, Plaintiffs allege that the decision to operate through the LandSafe Defendants facilitated the activity of the enterprise by removing a potential for "checks and balances" from the loan process. See Z-Tel Communications, Inc. v. SBC Communications, Inc., 331 F.Supp.2d 513, 561 (E.D.Tex.2004) (finding allegations that subsidiaries' actions concealed, masked and facilitated scheme satisfied Bucklew's exception). Plaintiffs also allege that each individual in the Countrywide Enterprise had a distinct role. For instance, CHL was in the business of originating loans, CT provided tax services in connection with the loans, LandSafe Inc. provided a variety of products during the closing process, LandSafe Appraisal Services, Inc. provided appraisal services, etc. See Lorenz, 1 F.3d at 1412 ("the plaintiff must plead facts which, if assumed to be true, would clearly show that the parent corporation played a role in the racketeering activity which is distinct *1215 from the activities of its subsidiary.") These allegations satisfy the distinctiveness requirement, and are sufficient to withstand Defendants' motion to dismiss.
b. Racketeering Activity
The other disputed element of Plaintiffs' RICO claim is racketeering activity. The racketeering activity at issue in this case is mail and wire fraud, including affirmative misrepresentations and nondisclosures. Defendants assert that the individual affirmative misrepresentations fail to satisfy Rule 9(b), and that the general alleged misrepresentations are non-actionable puffery. They also contend the non-disclosures are not actionable, either because the information was actually disclosed in loan documents or Defendants owed no duty of disclosure. Plaintiffs dispute each of these arguments.
i. Individual Misrepresentations
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) provides: "In alleging fraud or mistake, a party must state with particularity the circumstances constituting fraud or mistake." Fed.R.Civ.P. 9(b). This Rule:
serves to give defendants adequate notice to allow them to defend against the charge and to deter the filing of complaints, "as a pretext for the discovery of unknown wrongs," to protect professionals from the harm that comes from being subject to fraud charges, and to "prohibit [] plaintiff[s] from unilaterally imposing upon the court, the parties and society enormous social and economic costs absent some factual basis."
In re Stac Electronics Securities Litig., 89 F.3d 1399, 1405 (9th Cir.1996) (quoting Semegen v. Weidner, 780 F.2d 727, 731 (9th Cir.1985)). Rule 9(b) "applies to civil RICO fraud claims." Edwards v. Marin Park, Inc., 356 F.3d 1058, 1065-66 (9th Cir.2004) (citing Alan Neuman Prods., Inc. v. Albright, 862 F.2d 1388, 1392 (9th Cir.1989)). To satisfy Rule 9(b) in this context, the plaintiff must "`state the time, place, and specific content of the false representations as well as the identities of the parties to the misrepresentation.'" Id. at 1066 (quoting Alan Neuman, 862 F.2d at 1393). Defendants argue Plaintiffs have failed to meet this requirement as to each individual Plaintiff.[4]
The first named Plaintiffs in the CAC are the Sizemores. Plaintiffs allege Defendants made the alleged misrepresentations to the Sizemores "prior to agreeing to refinance their loan with Countrywide," which loan they received on May 19, 2006. (CAC at 14.) Defendants assert these allegations are insufficient because they do not specify the exact time and place of the misrepresentations. They are correct that the allegations are not sufficiently specific. Although specific dates are not always required to satisfy Rule 9(b), see Continental Airlines, Inc. v. Mundo Travel Corp., 412 F.Supp.2d 1059, 1068-69 (E.D.Cal.2006) *1216 (stating allegations that misrepresentations were made "between March and May 2005" satisfied Rule 9(b)), stating that the misrepresentations occurred "prior to agreeing to refinance" the loan is not enough. Rule 9(b) demands greater specificity in the time and place of the misrepresentations, which Plaintiffs have failed to allege.
The next named Plaintiff is Edward Marini. Plaintiffs allege Defendants made the alleged misrepresentation to Marini "[p]rior to agreeing to the loan refinancing[.]" (CAC at 16.) They also allege the misrepresentation was made "via telephone" by "Countrywide customer service representatives[.]" (Id.) Defendants assert these allegations are insufficient because they do not specify exactly when the misrepresentations were made, nor by whom. As with the Sizemores, Plaintiffs fail to provide a specific and limited time frame in which Countrywide made the misrepresentations to Marini. Plaintiffs allege Marini obtained a subprime loan from a third party in February 2005, and that "[w]ithin a few months," he was contacted by Countrywide. (Id.) However, Plaintiffs fail to allege whether the representations were made within those few months or at some time thereafter, nor do they allege a time frame in which Countrywide "continuously reiterated" those misrepresentations. Indeed, it is unclear when Marini actually refinanced his loan with Countrywide. These allegations do not satisfy Rule 9(b)'s specificity requirements for time or place.
Plaintiffs allegations, however, do identify the specific Defendant involved in Marini's loan: Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. (Id. at 17.) That entity should be able to identify the specific individuals involved in the Marini transaction, which is sufficient under Rule 9(b). See Lui Ciro, Inc. v. Ciro, Inc., 895 F.Supp. 1365, 1374 (D.Hawai'i 1995) (quoting Wool v. Tandem Computers, Inc., 818 F.2d 1433, 1439 (9th Cir.1987)) (stating "the requirements of Rule 9(b) relax `as to matters peculiarly within the opposing party's knowledge.'") Cf., Odom, 486 F.3d at 555 (finding failure to name the particular employees involved in a retail transaction does not violate Rule 9(b)).
The next Plaintiffs are the Menichettis. As with the Sizemores, Plaintiffs allege the Menichettis received a subprime loan from CW Bank, N.A. on a particular date, August 18, 2006. (Id. at 18.) Plaintiffs also identify the individual who made the misrepresentations, Don Cutler at Mid Atlantic Capital, but as Defendants point out, Plaintiffs fail to allege when these misrepresentations were made. Plaintiffs must set forth more specific allegations at to the time and place to satisfy Rule 9(b).
The same may be said of the allegations concerning Plaintiffs Sequesta Washington, June Harding Brown, Preston Givens and Paula Prezola, and Kimberly A. Jackson. Plaintiffs allege that Washington received her loan on November 20, 2004, but they allege the misrepresentations were made "at the time she was offered the loan[.]" (Id. at 20.) There are no specific allegations as to that time frame. As to Plaintiff Brown, Plaintiffs allege she obtained a loan from Countrywide "on or about August 17, 2007," (id. at 23), but there are no specific allegations as to when the representations were made. (Id.) It appears the representations were made at some point "prior to closing," but that general allegation does not satisfy Rule 9(b). A similar set of facts is alleged as to Givens and Prezola, i.e., Plaintiffs allege when Givens and Prezola obtained the loan, but they fail to allege any specific or limited time frame in which the misrepresentations were made.[5] Plaintiffs do allege *1217 a time frame in which misrepresentations were made to Jackson, but that time frame, from January 9, 2004, to September 28, 2005, is not specific enough. Nor do Plaintiffs specify which Defendant made the misrepresentations to Jackson, or the specific content of those misrepresentations. Thus, these allegations are subject to dismissal for failure to satisfy Rule 9(b).
In contrast to the Plaintiffs discussed above, Plaintiffs have satisfied Rule 9(b) as to the Leyvas Plaintiffs. Although Defendants complain that Plaintiffs have failed to specify when or where the misrepresentations were made, or who made them, the allegations are specific enough. Plaintiffs state the Leyvases "began looking to refinance their then-existing mortgage" "[i]n July of 2007," and that they obtained a home loan from Countrywide "on or about August 31, 2007." (Id. at 21.) This specific and limited time frame satisfies Rule 9(b). See Continental Airlines, 412 F.Supp.2d at 1068-69. Furthermore, as explained above, Plaintiffs' identification of the broker entity, Equity Capital Group, Inc., (CAC at 21), is sufficient.
In sum, the majority of Plaintiffs' misrepresentation allegations fail to satisfy the particularity requirements of Rule 9(b). The only allegations that do satisfy Rule 9(b) are those pertaining to the Leyvases, and Plaintiffs' identification of the specific Defendant involved in the Marini and Givens/Prezola transactions. With these exceptions, Plaintiffs' individual misrepresentation allegations are subject to dismissal pursuant to Rule 9(b).
ii. General Misrepresentations
In addition to the individual misrepresentations made to particular Plaintiffs, Plaintiffs allege Defendants have generally misrepresented that their loans are "the `best available' to the borrower, or `ideal' for that borrower." (CAC at 9.) Plaintiffs allege Defendants made these misrepresentations to three Plaintiffs in this case, Marini and the Menichettis. Defendants argue these statements are mere puffery, and therefore not actionable. Plaintiffs disagree.
The Ninth Circuit has not decided whether statements that a product is "the best" or "ideal" are non-actionable puffery. However, the Sixth Circuit has confronted this issue, and agrees with Defendants. See City of Monroe Employees Retirement System v. Bridgestone Corp., 399 F.3d 651, 671 (6th Cir.2005) (finding statement that products were "the best" in world nonactionable puffery); In re Ford Motor Co. Securities Litigation, 381 F.3d 563, 570 (6th Cir.2004) (finding "Ford has its best quality ever" non-actionable puffery). That court reasoned that all public companies make these kinds of representations about their products or services, which ultimately renders the statements immaterial. Bridgestone, 399 F.3d at 671; In re Ford Motor Co., 381 F.3d at 570. The widespread use of such statements also makes it difficult for plaintiffs to prove they relied on the statements in making their decisions. See Procter & Gamble Co. v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 569 F.Supp.2d 796, 799 (E.D.Wis.2008) (citing Time Warner Cable, Inc. v. DIRECTV, Inc., 497 F.3d 144, 160 (2d Cir.2007)) ("When an advertiser claims his store that has the `lowest' prices or his product is the `best,' no one expects that consumes will take his claims at face-value: there is, for such claims, no reliance.")
Plaintiffs do not address this line of cases. Instead, they attempt to recast Defendants' statements as asserting their products are "the best" for a particular *1218 individual as opposed to being generally "the best." Although this distinction may be appropriate to the claims of Marini and the Menichettis, it still does not overcome the rationale of these decisions. Whether made to the general public or specific individuals, the statements are too prevalent to constitute actionable misrepresentations. See Slane v. Emoto, 582 F.Supp.2d 1067, 1085 (W.D.Wis.2008) (quoting State v. American TV & Appliance of Madison, Inc., 146 Wis.2d 292, 301-02, 430 N.W.2d 709 (1988)) (finding "`[a] general statement that one's products are best is not actionable as a misrepresentation of fact.'"); Hoyte v. Yum! Brands, Inc., 489 F.Supp.2d 24, 30 (D.D.C.2007) ("KFC's claims that its restaurants serve the `best food' is a non-measurable, `bald statement of superiority' that is non-actionable puffery.")[6] Accordingly, while these representations may be alleged as relevant background facts, they may not form a basis of Plaintiffs' RICO fraud-based claims.
iii. Non-disclosures
In addition to relying on the misrepresentations discussed above, Plaintiffs' RICO claim relies on two types of alleged non-disclosures: Defendants' specific nondisclosures to the named Plaintiffs, and Defendants' failure to disclose their alleged scheme to defraud. Defendants dispute that they failed to disclose any terms to the individual Plaintiffs, and assert they had no duty to disclose their alleged fraudulent scheme, therefore these allegations should be dismissed. Plaintiffs disagree.
In support of their first argument, Defendants provide copies of the loan documents referred to in the CAC. These documents support Defendants' assertion that they disclosed the relevant terms to the named Plaintiffs. However, Defendants fail to provide any binding authority that warrants dismissal of Plaintiffs' allegations at this stage of the case. Of the authorities cited, there is only one case from the Ninth Circuit: An unpublished opinion from the Eastern District of California in which the court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant. See Stetler v. Greenpoint Mortgage Funding Inc., No. 1:07cv0123 DLB, 2008 WL 192405 (E.D.Cal. Jan. 23, 2008). Notably, the court did not dismiss the plaintiffs claims at the pleading stage, nor did it find that the claims were legally incognizable. In addition, in In re First Alliance Mortgage Co., 471 F.3d 977, 991-92 (9th Cir.2006), the Ninth Circuit reviewed a class action claim similar to the one raised here after the claim was presented to and decided by a jury. That such a claim would proceed to verdict and survive review by the Ninth Circuit suggests Plaintiffs' claims ought to proceed, particularly at this stage of the proceedings.
The same cannot be said, however, of Plaintiffs' allegation that Defendants failed to disclose their overarching fraudulent scheme. Although such allegations may state a claim under California law, see Warner Construction Corp. v. City of Los Angeles, 2 Cal.3d 285, 294, 85 Cal. Rptr. 444, 466 P.2d 996 (1970), Ninth Circuit case law holds they cannot serve as the basis for a federal claim of mail or wire fraud "[a]bsent an independent duty, such as a fiduciary duty or an explicit statutory duty," Cal. Architectural Building Products, Inc. v. Franciscan Ceramics, Inc., 818 F.2d 1466, 1471-72 (9th Cir.1987), none of which is alleged here. Accordingly, these allegations do not advance Plaintiffs' federal claim.[7]
*1219 2. Aiding and Abetting Violation of § 1962(c)
In addition to the substantive RICO claim, Plaintiffs allege a claim for aiding and abetting the violation of § 1962(c). Defendants contend there is no private right of action for aiding and abetting a RICO violation, therefore this claim must be dismissed. Plaintiffs disagree.
Title 18 U.S.C. § 1964(c) authorizes private rights of action for RICO violations. It states:
Any person injured in his business or property by reason of a violation of section 1962 of this chapter may sue therefor in any appropriate United States district court and shall recover threefold the damages he sustains and the cost of the suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee, except that no person may rely upon any conduct that would have been actionable as fraud in the purchase or sale of securities to establish a violation of section 1962.
18 U.S.C. § 1964(c). Although the Ninth Circuit has not decided whether this statute allows for a private right of action for aiding and abetting a RICO violation, the Third Circuit has found there is no such right. See Rolo v. City Investing Co. Liquidating Trust, 155 F.3d 644, 657 (3d Cir. 1998) (citations omitted). In reaching that decision, the court relied on Central Bank of Denver, N.A. v. First Interstate Bank of Denver, N.A., 511 U.S. 164, 114 S.Ct. 1439, 128 L.Ed.2d 119 (1994), wherein the Supreme Court held there was no private right of action for aiding and abetting a violation of Section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act. The Rolo court found the Central Bank analysis "controls our construction of the civil RICO provision," and that "[l]ike § 10(b), the text of § 1962 itself contains no indication that Congress intended to impose private civil aiding and abetting liability under RICO." 155 F.3d at 657. Accordingly, the Rolo court upheld the district court's dismissal of the aiding and abetting claim.
Defendants urge this Court to adopt the reasoning and result of Rolo, and dismiss Plaintiffs' aiding and abetting claim. Plaintiffs do not address Rolo or its reasoning, or explain why the Court should not adopt its holding. They simply point out that district courts throughout the country have reached different conclusions on the issue, therefore their claim should not be dismissed. (See Mem. of P. & A. in Opp'n to Mot. at 25.) However, this Court finds the reasoning of Rolo persuasive. It is consistent with the Supreme Court's approach to statutory construction, and its analysis of § 1964(c) is sound. Accordingly, this Court adopts that reasoning to reach the same result: There is no private right of action for aiding and abetting a RICO violation. Plaintiffs' claim is, therefore, dismissed.
C. Section 17200 and 17500 Claims
The Court now turns to Plaintiffs' state law claims. The first two claims allege violations of California's unfair competition law, Business and Professions Code § 17200, and its false advertising law, Business and Professions Code § 17500. In addition to the arguments raised above in connection with Plaintiffs' RICO claim, Defendants assert they cannot be held liable under these statutes because they did not commit the offending conduct. Plaintiffs disagree.
In support of this argument, Defendants rely on Perfect 10. In that case, the plaintiff *1220 sued financial institutions involved in processing credit card payments to web sites that were alleged to infringe the plaintiff's copyright, trademark and publicity rights. 494 F.3d at 793. The plaintiff alleged claims for "contributory and vicarious copyright and trademark infringement as well as violations of California laws proscribing unfair competition and false advertising, violation of the statutory and common law right of publicity, libel, and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage." Id. The district court dismissed the claims for unfair competition and false advertising, and the Ninth Circuit affirmed. In doing so, the court relied on Emery v. Visa Int'l Service Ass'n, 95 Cal.App.4th 952, 116 Cal.Rptr.2d 25 (2002), wherein the court held that "[a] defendant's liability must be based on his personal `participation in the unlawful practices' and `unbridled control' over the practices that are found to violate sections 17200 or 17500." Id. at 960, 116 Cal. Rptr.2d 25 (quoting People v. Toomey, 157 Cal.App.3d 1, 15, 203 Cal.Rptr. 642 (1984)).
Defendants here argue that the "unlawful practices," i.e., the misrepresentations and nondisclosures, were made by the individual brokers, therefore they cannot be held liable under the statutes. This argument, however, ignores the gist of Plaintiffs' claims. Plaintiffs' claims do not rest solely on the specific misrepresentations or non-disclosures allegedly made to the named Plaintiffs. Rather, Plaintiffs allege that all of the Defendants were involved in a:
systematic scheme, encompassing Countrywide's entire lending process, to steer borrowers into the loans that were the most lucrative to Countrywide on the secondary market by representing to borrowers that it was the best loan for the borrower, without having performed any appropriate analysis that would have indicated the unsuitability of the loans for such borrowers.
(CAC at 14-15.) These allegations are sufficient to sustain Plaintiffs' claims for unfair competition and false advertising under California law.[8] Accordingly, Defendants' motion to dismiss these claims on this basis is denied.
D. Unjust Enrichment
The next state law claim is for unjust enrichment. Defendants argue this claim must be dismissed for two reasons. First, they assert a claim for unjust enrichment is not legally valid when there is a contract between the parties. Second, Defendants contend California law does not recognize a claim for unjust enrichment. Plaintiffs dispute both arguments.
In support of their first argument, Defendants rely on Yang v. Dar Al-Handash Consultants, 250 Fed.Appx. 771 (9th Cir. 2007). In that case, the court found the plaintiffs unjust enrichment claim failed as a matter of law because there was an express contract between the parties governing the subject matter of the claim. Id. at 773. Specifically, the court found the plaintiffs unjust enrichment claim "sought the same incentive payments governed by" the contract. Id.
Yang, however, appears to be distinguishable from the facts of this case. Although there are contracts at issue in this case, none appears to provide for the specific *1221 recovery sought by Plaintiffs' unjust enrichment claim. This fact appears to be the basis for the Yang court's finding, and in the absence of the same or similar facts here, that decision does not control this case.
Defendants' second argument is similarly unpersuasive. Although the cases cited support Defendants' argument, there is contrary case law. See Peterson v. Cellco Partnership, 164 Cal.App.4th 1583, 1593, 80 Cal.Rptr.3d 316 (2008) (setting out elements of unjust enrichment claim); Lectrodryer v. SeoulBank, 77 Cal. App.4th 723, 726, 91 Cal.Rptr.2d 881 (2000) (same). In light of this conflict, this Court declines to conclude that this claim is legally incognizable. Accordingly, Defendants' motion to dismiss this claim is denied.
E. Miscellaneous Arguments
In addition to the arguments raised above, Defendants argue that certain Plaintiffs should be dismissed from this case, and that certain of the state law claims are preempted. The Court addresses these miscellaneous arguments below.
1. Plaintiffs Jackson, Marini and Philip Menichetti
Defendants argue Plaintiff Jackson's claims should be dismissed from this case because they fail to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8. Defendants also assert Plaintiffs Marini and Philip Menichetti should be dismissed from this case for lack of standing
a. Plaintiff Jackson
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8 requires that a claim for relief contain "a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief[.]" Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a)(2). Defendants argue Plaintiffs have failed to satisfy this standard as to Plaintiff Jackson, but the Court disagrees. Plaintiffs have alleged that Defendants' employees "targeted Jackson as a candidate for refinancing" after monitoring her credit report and discovering an outstanding medical bill. (CAC at 26.) They go on to allege that Countrywide made frequent calls to Jackson in which they made "false, misleading and/or otherwise deceptive representations... encouraging her to refinance her mortgage and receive cash to pay off her bills[.]" (Id.) According to Plaintiffs, Jackson did refinance with Countrywide, but with a higher principal and interest rate than she had with her previous loan. (Id.) Plaintiffs allege Jackson would not have refinanced with Countrywide had she known that her principal and interest rate would increase. (Id.) These allegations set forth "a short and plain statement" of Jackson's claim. Accordingly, Defendants' motion to dismiss her claims pursuant to Rule 8 is denied.
b. Plaintiffs Marini and Menichetti
Defendants' next argument is that Plaintiffs Marini and Philip Menichetti lack standing to pursue their claims. Defendants assert these Plaintiffs have recently filed voluntary petitions for bankruptcy protection, thereby vesting these claims in their respective bankruptcy estates and conferring standing on the bankruptcy trustees. Plaintiffs do not dispute that these Plaintiffs filed bankruptcy petitions, or that the trustees may be the proper party. However, they request additional time to determine whether these claims were abandoned, in which case Plaintiffs Marini and Menichetti would have standing.
Based on the current record, the Court agrees with Defendants that neither Marini nor Philip Menichetti has standing to pursue his claims in this case. Therefore, they must be dismissed from this action. Dismissal of these Plaintiffs, however, is *1222 without prejudice. In the case of abandonment, Plaintiffs may reassert these claims on behalf of Marini or Philip Menichetti. Plaintiffs may also substitute the bankruptcy trustees as the real parties in interest.
2. Preemption
Defendants' final two arguments are that the state law claims of Plaintiffs Leyvases and Brown are preempted by the Home Owners' Loan Act ("HOLA"), and the state law claims of Plaintiffs Menichettis are preempted by the National Bank Act ("NBA"). Plaintiffs dispute both of these arguments.
a. HOLA
Congress enacted HOLA "to charter savings associations under federal law, at a time when record numbers of home loans were in default and a staggering number of state-chartered savings associations were insolvent." Silvas v. E*Trade Mortgage Corp., 514 F.3d 1001, 1004 (9th Cir.2008) (citing Bank of Am. v. City and County of San Francisco, 309 F.3d 551, 559 (9th Cir.2002)). "Through HOLA, Congress gave the Office of Thrift Supervision (`OTS') broad authority to issue regulations governing thrifts." Id. at 1005 (citing 12 U.S.C. § 1464). "As the principal regulator for federal savings associations, OTS promulgated a preemption regulation in 12 C.F.R. § 560.2." Id. Subsection (b) of that regulation "provide[s] a list of specific types of state laws that are preempted," and subsection (c) lists the types of state laws that are not preempted. Id. at 1005-06.
In Silvas, the Ninth Circuit set out a framework for analyzing preemption issues under this regulation. According to that framework, courts should first determine whether the state laws at issue fall within subsection (b). Id. at 1006. If they do, the laws are preempted, and no further analysis is necessary. Id. If the laws do not fall within subsection (b), courts must then consider whether the laws fall within subsection (c).
Here, Defendants argue that the Leyvases' and Brown's state law claims fall within subsections (b)(4) and/or (b)(9). These subsections state that HOLA preempts:
state laws purporting to impose requirements regarding: ...
(4) The terms of credit, including amortization of loans and the deferral and capitalization of interest and adjustments to the interest rate, balance, payments due, or term to maturity of the loan, including the circumstances under which a loan may be called due and payable upon the passage of time or a specified event external to the loan; ... [and]
(9) Disclosure and advertising, including laws requiring specific statements, information, or other content to be included in credit application forms, credit solicitations, billing statements, credit contracts, or other credit-related documents and laws requiring creditors to supply copies of credit reports to borrowers or applicants[.]
12 C.F.R. § 560.2(b)(4), (9). Plaintiffs dispute that the Leyvases' and Brown's state law claims are preempted by either of these sections. They argue that the state laws at issue do not purport to impose requirements regarding the terms of credit or disclosure or advertising activity.
The Court agrees with Plaintiffs that the Leyvases' and Brown's unjust enrichment claims are not preempted by either section (b)(4) or (b)(9). Those claims do not seek to impose requirements on Defendants' conduct. Rather, they simply seek the return of funds paid to Defendants pursuant to the alleged scheme.
*1223 The Court also agrees with Plaintiffs that application of §§ 17200 and 17500 to the facts of this case does not result in preemption under subsection (b)(4). Contrary to Defendants' assertion, Plaintiffs do not seek by virtue of these claims to impose requirements regarding the terms of credit offered by Defendants. Defendants are free to set their own credit terms. Plaintiffs simply ask that Defendants be fair and honest with the general public in their use of those terms. Under these circumstances, Plaintiffs' §§ 17200 and 17500 claims are not preempted by subsection (b)(4).
Subsection (b)(9), however, compels a different conclusion. As stated above, that regulation provides for preemption of state laws that seek to impose requirements regarding "disclosure and advertising." Plaintiffs assert their claims do not fall within this regulation because they do not seek to impose "specific disclosures with respect to Defendants' loans or advertising." (Mem. of P. & A. in Opp'n to Mot. at 33.) Yet, the regulation is not limited to laws requiring "specific disclosures." It simply states "disclosure and advertising," and it goes on to include "laws requiring specific statements, information, or other content[.]" 12 C.F.R. § 560.2(b)(9). Although Plaintiffs concede their state law claims do not seek to impose specific disclosure requirements on Defendants, their claims do purport to impose requirements on Defendants' "disclosure and advertising." Therefore, the Leyvases' and Brown's §§ 17200 and 17500 claims are preempted.
b. NBA
Unlike the Leyvases and Brown, who obtained loans from CW Bank, FSB, the Menichettis obtained their loan from CW Bank, N.A., a federally chartered bank. As a result, Defendants argue the Menichettis' state law claims are preempted by the NBA. The NBA regulations are similar to those under HOLA. Specifically, 12 C.F.R. § 34.4 provides:
a national bank may make real estate loans under 12 U.S.C. 371 and § 34.3, without regard to state law limitations concerning: ...
(4) The terms of credit, including schedule for repayment of principal and interest, amortization of loans, balance, payments due, minimum payments, or term to maturity of the loan, including the circumstances under which a loan may be called due and payable upon the passage of time or a specified event external to the loan; ... [and]
(9) Disclosure and advertising, including laws requiring specific statements, information, or other content to be included in credit application forms, credit solicitations, billing statements, credit contracts, or other credit-related documents.
12 C.F.R. § 34.4(a)(4), (9).
In light of the similarity in the regulations, the Court adopts the reasoning set out above with respect to the Leyvases and Brown to reach the same conclusion on the Menichettis' state law claims. Pursuant to that reasoning, the Menichettis' unjust enrichment claim is not preempted. Their §§ 17200 and 17500 claims are not preempted under 12 C.F.R. § 34.4(a)(4), but they are preempted by § 34.4(a)(9).
III.
CONCLUSION
In light of the above, Defendants' motion to dismiss is granted in part and denied in part. Specifically,
(1) Defendants' motion to dismiss claim 1 is granted as to the individual misrepresentations made to Plaintiffs Sizemores, Marini, Brown, Washington, Menichettis *1224 and Jackson, and denied as to the individual misrepresentations made to Plaintiffs Leyvases. Defendants' motion to dismiss claim 1 as to individual misrepresentations made to Marini and Givens and Prezola is granted as to the allegations of time and place, but denied as to the allegations of identity. Plaintiffs are granted leave to amend their CAC to address these pleading deficiencies;
(2) Defendants' motion to dismiss claim 1 is granted as to the general misrepresentations that loans were "best" or "ideal." These allegations may remain in the CAC as background facts, but they cannot serve as the basis for Plaintiffs' claims;
(3) Defendants' motion to dismiss claim 1 is denied as to the specific non-disclosures relating to each Plaintiff;
(4) Defendants' motion to dismiss claim 1 is granted as to the alleged failure to disclose the general scheme. Plaintiffs are granted leave to amend their CAC to address these pleading deficiencies;
(5) Defendants' motion to dismiss claim 2 is granted to the same extent claim 1 is granted, and denied to the same extent claim 1 is denied;
(6) Defendants' motion to dismiss claim 3 is granted. Since there is no private right of action, this claim is dismissed with prejudice;
(7) Defendants' motion to dismiss claims 4 and 5 is granted as to the misrepresentation allegations to the same extent as claim 1. The motion to dismiss the non-disclosure allegations is denied. Furthermore, Plaintiffs Leyvases and Brown's claims 4 and 5 are preempted by the HOLA, and Plaintiffs Menichettis claims 4 and 5 are preempted by the NBA;
(8) Defendants' motion to dismiss claim 6 is denied;
(9) Defendants' motion to dismiss Plaintiffs Marini and Philip Menichetti for lack of standing is granted. Plaintiffs are granted leave to amend their CAC to address the standing deficiencies; and
(10) Defendants' motion to dismiss Defendants BAC, CFC and the LandSafe Defendants is denied.
Plaintiffs shall file their First Amended CAC on or before March 6, 2009. If Plaintiffs' First Amended CAC fails to address the pleading deficiencies outlined above or otherwise fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, it will be dismissed with prejudice and without any further leave to amend. The parties shall report to Judge Papas' chambers for an Early Neutral Evaluation Conference on March 25, 2009, at 9:00 a.m., at which time all pretrial and trial dates shall be set. Judge Papas will issue a separate order outlining the procedures for that conference.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
NOTES
[1] At oral argument, Defendants' counsel asserted that Defendants were challenging the third element of the test, namely that the alleged enterprise functions as a "continuing unit." The Court notes this particular argument was not raised in Defendants' briefs, therefore it may be deemed waived. See Smith v. Marsh, 194 F.3d 1045, 1052 (9th Cir.1999) (stating arguments not raised in opening brief are deemed waived). To the extent the arguments raised are simply directed at this element, however, the Court rejects them for the reasons set out below.
[2] The other cases cited by Defendants are distinguishable for another, more important reason: Rather than focusing on the specificity or breadth of the plaintiffs' allegations, those cases relied on the plaintiffs' failure to allege a structure within the alleged enterprise. See Stachon v. United Consumers Club, Inc., 229 F.3d 673, 676 (7th Cir.2000) (stating RICO claim failed "because the enterprise lacks the requisite structure"); Nordberg v. Trilegiant Corp., 445 F.Supp.2d 1082, 1091 (N.D.Cal.2006) (finding plaintiffs "failed to identify any sort of independent structure"). In light of Odom, that reasoning does not apply here.
[3] Plaintiffs urge the Court to adopt the reasoning of Cedric Kushner Promotions, Ltd. v. King, 533 U.S. 158, 121 S.Ct. 2087, 150 L.Ed.2d 198 (2001), and Sever v. Alaska Pulp Corp., 978 F.2d 1529 (9th Cir.1992), in deciding whether they have satisfied the distinctiveness requirement. However, neither of those cases addressed whether a parent and its subsidiary are sufficiently distinct under RICO. Rather than adopting the reasoning from a different set of circumstances, the Court finds it more appropriate to consider the reasoning of those courts that have addressed this particular issue.
[4] Defendants also argue Plaintiffs must demonstrate they relied on Defendants' misrepresentations to establish causation. In support of this argument, Defendants rely on Bridge v. Phoenix Bond & Indem. Co., ___ U.S. ___, 128 S.Ct. 2131, 170 L.Ed.2d 1012 (2008). However, the Court does not agree with Defendants' interpretation of that case. Contrary to Defendants' suggestion, the Court specifically held "that a plaintiff asserting a RICO claim predicated on mail fraud need not show, either as an element of its claim or as a prerequisite to establishing proximate causation, that it relied on the defendant's alleged misrepresentations." Id. at 2145. Although the Court stated that, "[i]n most cases, the plaintiff will not be able to establish even butfor causation if no one relied on the misrepresentation[,]" it went on to state that proof of reliance "`does not transform reliance itself into an element of the cause of action.' Nor does it transform firstparty reliance into an indispensable requisite of proximate causation." Id. at 2144 (citation omitted). Accordingly, the Court rejects Defendants' assertion that Plaintiffs must plead reliance on Defendants' misrepresentation as part of their RICO claim.
[5] Defendants also complain that Plaintiffs fail to identify the individual broker involved in the Givens/Prezola transaction. As explained above, the Court finds Plaintiffs' identification of the broker entity, Countrywide KB Home Loans, is sufficient.
[6] In light of this finding, the Court does not address Defendants' additional arguments regarding these allegations. (See Mem. of P. & A. in Supp. of Mot. at 16-17.)
[7] The findings on the individual and general misrepresentations and the failure to disclose specifics to the individual Plaintiffs apply with equal force to Plaintiffs' conspiracy claim, as well as their state law claims for violations of California Business and Professions Code §§ 17200 and 17500. As indicated, however, the failure to disclose the general scheme may serve as the basis for Plaintiffs' §§ 17200 and 17500 claims. Accordingly, the motion to dismiss those allegations from those claims is denied.
[8] These allegations also support keeping Defendants BAC, CFC and the LandSafe Defendants in this case. Furthermore, Plaintiffs' have alleged facts to support their theory of successor liability against BAC. Plaintiffs allege BAC "acquired Countrywide on July 1, 2008[,]" (id. at 28), and the documents submitted in support of the motion confirm there was a merger. (See Defs.' Request for Judicial Notice in Supp. of Mot., Ex. B.) Accordingly, Defendants' motion to dismiss these Defendants is denied.
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Muse Bihi Abdi
Musa Bihi Abdi (, ) (born 1948 in Hargeisa, British Somaliland) is a Somali politician and former military officer who has been President of Somaliland since December 2017. During the 1970s, he served as a pilot in the Somali Air Force under the Siad Barre administration. In 2010, Bihi was appointed the Chairman of the ruling Kulmiye in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland. In November 2015, Bihi was selected as the party's Presidential Candidate at the 5th annual central committee convention.
On November 21, 2017 Muse Bihi was announced the winner of the 2017 presidential election. He officially became President of Somaliland on December 13, 2017.
Military career
During the 1970s, he served as a pilot in the Somali Air Force under the Siad Barre administration.
In 1985, he defected from the Somali Army and joined the rebel Somali National Movement (SNM) that eventually helped to successfully oust the Somali dictator’s regime after a long armed struggle in 1991.
From 1985 to 1988 Bihi took part in conducting intensive guerrilla war operations conducted by the SNM against the Siad Barre regime. Until 1990, Bihi served as rebel commander before joining politics and serving as home affairs minister under the late President Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal in 1992.
Political career
Egal Administration
After the rebirth and declaration of Independence of Somaliland in 1991, Col. Muse Bihi Abdi played a vital role in the reconciliation process of the Somaliland clans in Burao, Berbera, Sheekh and Borama.
In 1993, Bihi served as Minister of Interior and National Security in late President Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal's government.
Silanyo Administration
In 2010, Mr Bihi became the chairman of Somaliland’s Kulmiye Party. In 2015, Bihi was elected by the Party Congress as the Kulmiye presidential candidate in the forthcoming elections of 2017 presidential election.
2017 presidential election
The 2017 Somaliland presidential elections were held on November 13, 2017. On November 21, Bihi was announced as the winner of the election, becoming President-elect of Somaliland.
Presidency
Muse Bihi Abdi was officially sworn in as the 5th President of the Republic of Somaliland on December 13, 2017 in the capital Hargeisa with dignitaries from Ethiopia, Djibouti, the European Union and the United Kingdom in attendance.
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The actual cutting was a different kind of pain. There are nerve endings in certain parts of your arm tissue. So when I broke the bone it hurt of course, but for me it was a happy moment because that was what was trapping me. It was the first time I realized I would soon be free. I broke the top then the bottom by bending my arm in the configurations I knew would snap it. That moment was the key to it all. If you can put yourself through all that and you're smiling a big beaming, pearly grin, you know you're winning. That stayed with me for the next hour. I was cutting through the skin, hacking through the muscle, breaking the tendon in my arm. I would feel the pain then I would smile because that pain meant impending freedom. | 2023-10-17T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/7122 |
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Rajasthan state human rights commission chairperson Justice Prakash Tatia on Saturday sought public views on the rights of women and children under ‘Live-in Relationship’.
Rajasthan state human rights commission sought public views on the rights of women and children under live-in relationships.(Representative image/)
Rajasthan state human rights commission chairperson Justice Prakash Tatia on Saturday sought public views on the rights of women and children under live-in relationships.
He has allocated two months for receiving the views and suggestions of the people on the issue.
“I believe that this was an important issue affecting the society and opportunity should be given to the people to provide their suggestions and opinions on this issue,” he said.
Suggestions and opinions can be submitted either on the commission’s website or send by post to its Jaipur office.
The commission will proceed with a detailed report on the basis of these suggestions and submit the same to the central government to help it in policy decisions or formation of a law.
There was no dignity associated with the women and children born out of this relationship under the laws of ‘Live-in Relationship’, which was given recognition under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2006, Tatia said.
The chairperson was of the view that much was required to be done in this direction to safeguard the interests and rights of these women and their children.
He informed that the commission has registered one case by taking a suo motto cognisance considering it to be a matter of humanity. | 2024-04-22T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/7934 |
-- The Trump administration had planned to start accepting permits Friday for hunters to bring trophies from elephants hunted in Zimbabwe and Zambia into the United States, saying that new information shows that the practice of trophy hunting actually helps the survival of the endangered species in the wild.
Late Friday, Trump tweeted that lifting the ban was on hold, but only as the administration further reviews the facts.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and hunting advocates say that hunting big animals like elephants and lions brings in money that countries use for conservation and anti-poaching programs and that wildlife authorities in Zimbabwe provided enough information to support reversing the 2014 ban.
"The Service will continue to monitor the status of the elephant population, the management program for elephants in the country to ensure that the program is promoting the conservation of the species, and whether the participation of U.S. hunters in the program provides a clear benefit to the species," U.S. Fish and Wildlife says in the official notice posted today.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked about the new policy in the White House briefing Friday and defended the agency's decision based on a review that Fish and Wildlife officials were conducting since the ban was announced in 2014.
"This review established that both Zambia and Zimbabwe had met new standards, strict international conservation standards that allowed Americans to resume hunting in those countries," Sanders said.
The announcement that U.S. Fish and Wildlife would start granting permits to import elephant trophies again was made by U.S. officials at a conservation conference in Tanzania this week hosted by Safari Club International, a hunting and conservation advocacy group.
“These positive findings for Zimbabwe and Zambia demonstrate that the Fish and Wildlife Service recognizes that hunting is beneficial to wildlife and that these range countries know how to manage their elephant populations,” said the organization's president, Paul Babaz in a Safari Club blog post.“We appreciate the efforts of the Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior to remove barriers to sustainable use conservation for African wildlife.”
The Safari Club filed a lawsuit with the National Rifle Association of America to block the ban on elephant trophy imports when it was announced in 2014, according to the blog post.
Hunting excursions in Zimbabwe can cost more than $37,000 and hunters also have to pay up to $14,500 for each elephant killed, according to safari hunting websites. A portion of the cost of a hunting trip led by guides includes goes to that country's government to be used for conservation. The ivory from an elephant's tusks is estimated to be worth $21,000 but it is still illegal to import ivory into the U.S. from any country.
Another argument in favor of trophy hunting is that allowing people to hunt animals makes them more valuable and gives local farmers or land owners a reason to care for them.
In 2015 Melville Saayman, a tourism and economics professor from North-West University in South Africa wrote that wildlife populations actually increased in countries that allow hunting like South Africa and Namibia and face more threats from poaching in areas where hunting is not allowed.
"From a conservation point of view wildlife is not doing well and one of the reasons for this is because hunting creates huge value. People protect what is valuable to them. And if hunting helps them get money and other goods from the animal, it is certainly in their best interests to look after the animals," Saayman wrote.
But conservation advocates say that elephants bring in much more revenue from tourists who want to see them alive. A report from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust estimates that an elephant brings in $23,000 a year, or $1.6 million over its lifetime.
Animal advocates also say that hunting endangered species is unethical and shouldn't be used to generate money for the government.
"It's impossible to sustainably harvest a species that's declining," Sebastian Troeng, executive vice president of Conservation International said. "The notion that killing elephants is helping elephants doesn't hold water."
Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of United States, says using conservation to support hunting doesn't make any sense because people travel to these countries to see live animals in the wild.
"You shouldn't be conducting unethical activities to create commerce," Pacelle said Thursday, adding that other countries like Kenya have banned sports hunting completely.
He also said that he thinks the argument that money from hunting is used for conservation doesn't hold up, giving the example that Zimbabwe's government has struggled with corruption for years and is in the middle of a volatile political situation.
"It's laughable to think that somehow they have strict controls in Zimbabwe," Pacelle said.
Savanna elephant populations declined by 30 percent across 18 countries in Africa from 2007 to 2014, according to the Great Elephant Census published last year, which put their remaining numbers at just over 350,000.
The elephant population declined 6 percent overall in Zimbabwe but dropped by 74 percent within one specific region. Elephants saw "substantial declines along the Zambezi River," in Zambia while other areas of that country were stable, according to the census. | 2024-04-21T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/9470 |
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares reached a special milestone recently. They closed above $600 for the first time since October 2012. The celebration should be muted, though. They are still a long way from topping $700, as in September 2012. Could Apple get back to $700? Possibly, but several things would have to happen together, or in rapid succession.
Apple’s shares cannot rise without a nearly perfect launch of the iPhone 6. The iPhone 5 was a modest success, but not enough to cement Apple’s reputation as the most innovative company in consumer electronics. What would qualify as a success? Apple sold 43.7 million iPhones in the most recently reported quarter. However, that was down from 51 million the quarter before. Apple needs to sell 60 million iPhones in the full quarter after the iPhone 6 launches. Anything short of that would be a disappointment. Anything above it, a triumph.
Apple must show explosive growth in China. With a 7% market share there, it lags well behind leader Samsung, as well as locals Lenovo and Huawei. Apple needs to demonstrate that its distribution with China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL), the world’s largest wireless company, has yielded fruit and lifted its market share closer to that of Samsung, which has 19% of the market. Apple will not top Samsung, because the South Korean company has a line of cheaper phones, but Apple has to gain a lot of ground.
Apple needs a new product, perhaps an iWatch with functions that are unexpectedly better than any other wearable device. Alternatively, Apple could launch a product like Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Glass, but its features would have to be much broader than those of Glass, which is still a relatively primitive product.
Apple’s revenue has to move back toward $60 billion a quarter. Revenue reached $58 billion in the first quarter of its fiscal year, and it fell to $45.6 million in the most recently reported period. However, the current quarter is forecast to do no better than $38 billion. It will take a hugely successful iPhone 6 launch to move revenue back up and beyond its all-time quarterly high.
The new iPad has to do better than it has done in any quarter. Apple sold 26 million in its first fiscal quarter. Anything less than that in the quarter after a new iPad launch would be insufficient to show Apple can hold and expand at the top of the tablet market.
And, if it does not maintain its traditionally high gross margins, Wall Street will think Apple has begun to spend too much to gain higher sales. The means a number around 40% of revenue.
Putting together a successful attainment of all these benchmarks will be extraordinarily difficult. However, when Apple’s share price was above $700, it was considered the world’s most extraordinary company. | 2023-10-16T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/5226 |
Introduction
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Historically, the undertaking of total syntheses of natural products has focused on 'target-oriented' syntheses whereby a single compound is targeted for synthesis to investigate its biological relevance or aspects of its structure.[@cit1] This practice has inspired many new synthesis developments. Recently, however, exercises in complex molecule total synthesis are placing a growing emphasis on the preparation of diverse molecular skeletons from a common intermediate.[@cit2] This practice, which mirrors the biological production of many secondary metabolites *but does not necessarily follow along biosynthetic lines*, maximizes the opportunities for, and efficiency of, accessing molecular diversity to facilitate structure--activity relationship studies. Over the last 30 years, this concept has led to remarkable unified strategies for the syntheses of various families of natural products.[@cit3] Here, we present the extension of this idea to the syntheses of congeners in the prenylated indole alkaloid family which features a powerful Dieckmann-type cyclization to forge a key \[2.2.2\]bicycle.
The prenylated indole alkaloids include some of the most structurally diverse secondary metabolites isolated to date (see [Fig. 1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"} for selected examples). Many congeners such as stephacidin A (**1**), notoamide I (**2**), mangrovamide A (**3**) and paraherquamide A (**4**) contain a bicyclo\[2.2.2\]diazaoctane structural moiety.[@cit4] Over the last decade however, additional members of the family that lack the bicyclo\[2.2.2\]diazaoctane core have begun to emerge. This includes the citrinalins (*e.g.*, **5**), citrinadins (*e.g.*, **9**) and the cyclopiamines (*e.g.*, **8** -- albeit isolated in 1979).[@cit5] While myriad bioactivity has been discovered for various prenylated indole alkaloids (especially anthelmintic activity),[@cit4] the recent emergence of the citrinadins and related compounds[@cit6] that lack the bicyclo\[2.2.2\]diazaoctane structural motif as potent anti-tumor compounds has heightened interest in the whole family of secondary metabolites.
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Results and discussion
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From our perspective, a unified synthetic approach that affords prenylated indole alkaloid congeners bearing the bicyclo\[2.2.2\] diazaoctane core as well as those lacking this structural moiety would provide the most *strategically efficient* approach to these natural products. However, to date, such an approach has not been reported. All the existing syntheses of this family of molecules have targeted either the subset that contains the \[2.2.2\] diazaoctane bicycle or those molecules that lack this structural feature.[@cit7],[@cit8] In this manuscript, we present our studies toward identifying a common intermediate that can be advanced to natural products representative of both prenylated indole alkaloid structural motifs. These studies have led to the identification of **10** ([Scheme 1](#sch1){ref-type="fig"}) as such a common intermediate, which now provides the first total synthesis of (--)-17-hydroxy-citrinalin B (**7**) as well as a synthesis of (+)-stephacidin A (**1**) and (+)-notoamide I (**2**). Our synthetic strategy to these two natural products, which rests on 'network analysis'[@cit9] considerations, diverges only at a late stage. Thus, strategic bond disconnection of the maximally bridging ring in, for example, **1** (*i.e.*, the 2,5-diketopiperazine ring) leads back to carbamate **10**, where a bond can be formed at a late stage between C16 and the carbamate carbonyl group.[@cit10] In this way, the two sub-families of the prenylated indole alkaloids (*e.g.*, **1** and **7**) can be connected by a synthesis sequence characterized by a progressive increase in structural complexity, which distinguishes this approach from prior syntheses of related prenylated indole alkaloids.[@cit7] Hexacycle **10** can in turn arise from tricycle **11** using an indole annulation reaction, which would provide opportunities to prepare other natural products such as paraherquamide A (**4**) that differ in their indole substitution pattern.
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A general strategy for the synthesis of the prenylated indole alkaloids that encompasses the two main structural types (of which **1** and **7** are representative) has not been explored before. In all of the previous syntheses of the bicyclo\[2.2.2\] diazaoctane bearing congeners, the tetrasubstituted center at the bicyclo\[2.2.2\] bridgehead (*e.g.*, C4 -- stephacidin numbering -- in **1**) is constructed at an early stage or through C4--C5 bond formation, which would necessitate its late-stage cleavage (in a complexity minimizing manipulation) in order to form compounds such as **7** from **1**. In this latter scenario, an amide hydrolysis of the bicyclo\[2.2.2\]diazaoctane, decarboxylation, and a *diastereoselective* protonation at the ring junction (the diastereoselectivity of which is not certain outside of an enzyme pocket)[@cit11] would be required for a conversion of **1** to the sub-family that lacks the diazaoctane structural motif. Our approach to this collection of molecules is complementary.
Synthesis of divergent intermediate **23**
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Our studies commenced with the preparation of **11** ([Scheme 2](#sch2){ref-type="fig"}), which is available in 6 steps from known enantioenriched alcohol **12**.[@cit12] Analogous to our previously established sequence,[@cit8d] oxidation of the alcohol group of **12** and alkynylative homologation of the resulting aldehyde using the Ohira--Bestmann reagent (**13**) affords an alkyne, which upon Boc-cleavage and acylation with α-cyano acetylchloride gives alkyne **14**.[@cit13] A formal cycloisomerization of **14**, presumably proceeding by anti-Markovnikov hydration of the terminal alkyne followed by Knoevanagel condensation of the incipient aldehyde, was effected using the Grotjahn complex (**15**)[@cit14] to yield bicycle **16**. Diels--Alder cycloaddition of **16** with diene **17**, facilitated by SnCl~4~ gives enone **11** upon basic workup. Even though we had previously accomplished the analogous synthesis of a tricycle lacking the benzyloxy group at C17 (see numbering in **11**), it was unclear what influence this added substituent would exert on the diastereoselectivity of the cycloaddition step and so we were gratified to obtain diastereomer **11** in good yield. The structure of **11** is supported by the X-ray structure of keto-alcohol **18** (see CYLview in [Scheme 2](#sch2){ref-type="fig"}), which we obtained following hydrogenation and BBr~3~-mediated cleavage of the benzyl group of **11**.[@cit15]
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A Johnson iodination[@cit16] of **11** ([Scheme 3](#sch3){ref-type="fig"}), followed by hydration of the nitrile group using the Ghaffar--Parkins complex (**19**)[@cit17] and subsequent Hofmann rearrangement of the resulting carboxamide using phenyliodoso trifluoromethyl acetate (PIFA) in the presence of methanol provided carbamate **20**.[@cit18] Following the precedent of Myers and Herzon,[@cit7d] Suzuki cross-coupling of iodide **20** with pincacol boronic ester **21** followed by reductive cyclization yielded indole annulated hexacycle **22**. At this stage, Wacker oxidation[@cit19] of the chromene moiety and treatment of the resulting chromanone with dimethyl sulfide in the presence of methane sulfonic acid unveiled the amine and hydroxyl groups to provide **23**, which would serve as the common intermediate to access both 17-hydroxy-citrinalin B as well as stephacidin A. Of note, while the synthesis of 17-hydroxy-citrinalin B would take advantage of the chromanone unit, a synthesis of stephacidin A from **23** would require a reconstitution of the chromene moiety. However, in our hands, the chromanone moiety proved to be more robust (as compared to the chromene) in many of the subsequent steps and so **23** served as a more effective intermediate even to stephacidin A.
![Synthesis of fused hexacycle **23**. (a) Iodine (3.0 equiv.), DMAP (3.0 equiv.), pyridine/CCl~4~, 60 °C, 22 h, 77%; (b) **19** (30 mol%), EtOH/H~2~O, rt, 4 days, 82%; (c) PIFA (1.1 equiv.), MeOH, 0 °C to rt, 16 h, 89%; (d) **21** (1.5 equiv.), dppfPdCl~2~ (10 mol%), K~3~PO~4~ (3.75 equiv.), DMF, 40 °C, 16 h, 94%; (e) Zn (excess), NaCNBH~3~ (5.0 equiv.), sat. aq. NH~4~Cl, MeOH, rt, 2 h, 71%; (f) Pd(OAc)~2~ (0.40 equiv.), benzoquinone (1.5 equiv.), cat. H~2~SO~4~, MeCN/H~2~O, rt, 17 h, 77%; (g) Me~2~S (20 equiv.), MsOH, 40 °C, 15 h, 93%. DMAP = 4-dimethylaminopyridine; PIFA = \[bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodo\]benzene; dppf = 1,1′-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene; DMF = dimethylformamide; Ms = methanesulfonyl; Bn = benzyl.](c5sc01977j-s3){#sch3}
Synthesis of (--)-17-hydroxy-citrinalin B (**7**) from **23**
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To complete a synthesis of 17-hydroxy-citrinalin B, **23** was subjected to oxidation using oxone as previously described in the synthesis of citrinalin B by our group ([Scheme 4](#sch4){ref-type="fig"}).[@cit8d] The ensuing series of remarkable chemoselective oxidations accomplished the conversion of the indole to the spirooxindole (corresponding to the desired diastereomer for **7**) as well as the oxidation of the amino group to the nitro group -- all in the presence of the free secondary hydroxy group.[@cit20]
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With **24** in hand, chemoselective reductive removal of the tertiary amide carbonyl group (in the presence of several other groups that are susceptible to reduction) was accomplished following an adaptation of a procedure first reported by Borch.[@cit21] Thus, subjection of **24** to Me~3~OBF~4~ followed by NaCNBH~3~ proceeded in respectable yield to give (--)-17-hydroxy-citrinalin B.[@cit22] Of note, in our hands, it was the TFA salt of **7** that provided analytical data identical in all respects to that of the natural isolate, which had been reported as the neutral compound.[@cit8d]
Although our synthetic sequence for the preparation of 17-hydroxy-citrinalin B mirrors closely our previous synthesis of citrinalin B (**6**),[@cit23] it required a much more stringent level of chemoselectivity in the endgame. The success of this route is a testament to the robustness of our synthetic plan, which proceeded without event (especially in the endgame) even in the presence of a free hydroxyl group at C17 from intermediate **23** onwards.
Synthesis of (+)-stephacidin A (**1**) and (+)-notoamide I (**2**) from **23**
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In an initial demonstration of the utility of **23** as an intermediate for the synthesis of prenylated indole alkaloid congeners possessing the bicyclo\[2.2.2\]diazaoctane structural motif, we have completed a synthesis of (+)-stephacidin A and (+)-notoamide I as outlined in [Scheme 5](#sch5){ref-type="fig"}. Thus chemoselective carbamoylation of the primary amine of **23** was achieved in high yield in the presence of the secondary hydroxyl to afford phenyl carbamate **25**. At this point, oxidation of the hydroxy group and treatment of the resulting ketone with K~2~CO~3~ forges the bicyclo\[2.2.2\]diazaoctane framework of stephacidin A, presumably through a Dieckmann condensation *via* isocyanate/enolate intermediate **26**.[@cit24] These exceedingly simple conditions effectively accomplish the task of synthetically connecting the two major sub-families of the prenylated indole alkaloids. From our perspective, polycycle **27** represents a versatile framework that may be advanced to myriad prenylated indole alkaloids including mangrovamide A (**3**) and paraherquamide A (**4**). To complete the synthesis of (+)-stephacidin A, removal of the ketone group in the pyrrolidine ring using a Wolff--Kishner protocol followed by reduction of the chromanone carbonyl group and elimination of the resulting hydroxyl gave (+)-stephacidin A (**1**) in 40% yield over the two steps.[@cit25] Analytical data for synthetic stephacidin A prepared by us matched perfectly previously reported spectra.[@cit7a],[@cit7e] Furthermore, our X-ray analysis of a single crystal of **1** provided unambiguous support for the structure of the natural isolate (see CYLview in [Scheme 5](#sch5){ref-type="fig"}). Stephacidin A is a versatile starting point for the preparation of other prenylated indole alkaloids. For example, **1** was easily converted to (+)-notoamide I (**2**) upon treatment with MnO~2~ in EtOAc (32% yield). Our synthesis of **1** also constitutes formal syntheses of (--)-notoamide B, (+)-avrainvillamide and (--)-stephacidin B.[@cit26]
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Conclusions
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In conclusion, we have achieved the first unified approach to the two sub-families of the prenylated indole alkaloids (*i.e.*, that either lack or possess the bicyclo\[2.2.2\]diazaoctane structural motif). Our strategy has been exemplified with the first preparation of the natural product (--)-17-hydroxy-citrinalin B and of (+)-stephacidin A. Key to the success of the approach was the identification of a late-stage common intermediate (**23**), which could be advanced to either subclass of the prenylated indole alkaloids using a remarkably diastereoselective spiro-oxindole formation attended by a chemoselective oxidation of an amino group to a nitro group. Our synthesis of stephacidin A also featured a complexity building isocyanate capture to forge a \[2.2.2\]bicycle. Our studies now set the stage for the broad-ranging syntheses of congeners of the prenylated indole alkaloid family to facilitate in-depth studies on their biosynthesis and biological activity.
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We are grateful to the NIH (NIGMS RO1 086374) for support. We thank the NSF GRFP, the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry, and the Hellman Graduate Awards Program (UC Berkeley) for graduate fellowships to support E.V.M.-M. We are thankful to A. DiPasquale for solving the crystal structures of **1** and **18** (displayed with CYLview; CCDC ; 1400756 and ; 1400755, respectively), supported by NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant (S10-RR027172).
[^1]: †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. CCDC [1400755](1400755) and [1400756](1400756). For ESI and crystallographic data in CIF or other electronic format see DOI: [10.1039/c5sc01977j](10.1039/c5sc01977j)
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Pulmonary carcinoid tumors: report on 19 cases.
Nineteen cases of pulmonary carcinoid tumors, three of which showed clinically malignant behavior, are reported. The diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities are discussed. Diagnosis is sometimes possible on radiologic examination, when the clinical behavior is not yet malignant. However, these tumors are frequently mistaken for malignant heteroplasias, during the diagnostic work-up so that the postoperative histologic examination results are sometimes surprising. The clinical postoperative course is favorable in the majority of cases, and in the eight cases, we were able to follow up for more than five years, there was only one recurrence. Although pulmonary carcinoids are histologically similar to intestinal carcinoids, and like the latter are abundantly vascularized, they are only rarely accompanied by the carcinoid syndrome, which is often observed in the intestinal form. | 2024-06-01T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/8894 |
IRS offers Top 10 tax-time tips
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10. Review! Review! Review! -- Don’t rush. We all make mistakes when we rush. Mistakes slow down the processing of your return. Be sure to double check all the Social Security numbers and math calculations on your return as these are the most common errors. Don’t panic. If you run into a problem, remember the IRS is here to help. Start with www.irs.gov. | 2024-03-01T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/2081 |
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BarkLimiter
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Château de Pierrefonds
The Château de Pierrefonds () is a castle situated in the commune of Pierrefonds in the Oise département (Picardy) of France. It is on the southeast edge of the Forest of Compiègne, northeast of Paris, between Villers-Cotterêts and Compiègne.
The Château de Pierrefonds includes most of the characteristics of defensive military architecture from the Middle Ages, though it underwent a major restoration in the 19th century.
History
In the 12th century, a castle was built on this site. Two centuries later, in 1392, King Charles VI turned the County of Valois (of which Pierrefonds was part) into a Duchy and gave it to his brother Louis, Duke of Orléans. From 1393 to his death in 1407, the latter had the castle rebuilt by the court architect, Jean le Noir.
In March 1617, during the early troubled days of Louis XIII's reign, the castle, then the property of François-Annibal d'Estrées (brother of the beauty Gabrielle d'Estrée), who joined the "parti des mécontents" (party of discontent) led by Henri II, Prince of Condé, was besieged and taken by troops sent by Richelieu, the secretary of state for war. Its demolition was started, but not carried through to the end because of the enormity of the task. The exterior works were razed, the roofs destroyed and holes made in the towers and curtain walls.
The castle remained a ruin for more than two centuries. Napoleon I bought it in 1810 for less than 3,000 francs. During the 19th century, with the rediscovery of the architectural heritage of the Middle Ages, it became a "romantic ruin": in August 1832, Louis-Philippe gave a banquet there on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Louise to Léopold de Saxe-Cobourg Gotha, first king of the Belgians. Among other artists, Corot depicted the ruins in several works between 1834 and 1866. The Château de Pierrefonds has been classified as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1848.
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (later Napoleon III of France) visited the castle in 1850. As emperor, he asked Viollet-le-Duc in 1857 to undertake its restoration, continuators are Maurice Ouadou and Juste Lisch until 1885. There was no question of a simple repair to the habitable parts (the keep and annexes): the "picturesque" ruins in front were to be kept for decor. In 1861, the project grew in scale: the sovereign wanted to create an imperial residence, so the castle was to be entirely rebuilt. The works, which would cost 5 million francs, of which 4 million were to come from the civil list, were stopped in 1885, six years after the death of Viollet-le-Duc. The departure of Napoléon III had halted the reconstruction and, through lack of money, the decoration of rooms was unfinished. Inside, Viollet-le-Duc produced more a work of invention than restoration (polychrome paintings). He imagined how the castle ought to have been, rather than basing his work on the strict history of the building. On the other hand, with the exterior he showed an excellent knowledge of the military architecture of the 14th century.
Castle today
Château de Pierrefonds has been a monument historique since 1862. It is now managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux.
Media
The castle has often been used as a location for filming including Les Visiteurs, Le Capitan, Highlander: The Series, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc and the 1998 version of The Man in the Iron Mask. The castle was used as the setting for Camelot in the BBC series Merlin; a cut scene of this castle was used to portray Wiz Tech Academy in Disney's TV series, Wizards of Waverly Place. In 2017, the castle was used for filming during the Canal+ and Netflix series ''Versailles.
Gallery
See also
List of castles in France
Domaine du Bois d'Aucourt d'Adolphe Clément-Bayard à Pierrefonds, a former hunting lodge of Louis XIV.
References
External links
Ministry of Culture database entry for Château de Pierrefonds
Ministry of Culture photos
Photos of Pierrefonds castle
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Category:Châteaux in Oise
Category:Museums in Oise
Category:Historic house museums in Hauts-de-France
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Category:Gothic architecture in France
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Q:
Joining table issue with SQL Server 2008
I am using the following query to obtain some sales figures. The problem is that it is returning the wrong data.
I am joining together three tables tbl_orders tbl_orderitems tbl_payment. The tbl_orders table holds summary information, the tbl_orderitems holds the items ordered and the tbl_payment table holds payment information regarding the order. Multiple payments can be placed against each order.
I am trying to get the sum of the items sum(mon_orditems_pprice), and also the amount of items sold count(uid_orderitems).
When I run the following query against a specific order number, which I know has 1 order item. It returns a count of 2 and the sum of two items.
Item ProdTotal ProdCount
Westvale Climbing Frame 1198 2
This order has two payment records held in the tbl_payment table, which is causing the double count. If I remove the payment table join it reports the correct figures, or if I select an order which has a single payment it works as well. Am I missing something, I am tired!!??
SELECT
txt_orditems_pname,
SUM(mon_orditems_pprice) AS prodTotal,
COUNT(uid_orderitems) AS prodCount
FROM dbo.tbl_orders
INNER JOIN dbo.tbl_orderitems ON (dbo.tbl_orders.uid_orders = dbo.tbl_orderitems.uid_orditems_orderid)
INNER JOIN dbo.tbl_payment ON (dbo.tbl_orders.uid_orders = dbo.tbl_payment.uid_pay_orderid)
WHERE
uid_orditems_orderid = 61571
GROUP BY
dbo.tbl_orderitems.txt_orditems_pname
ORDER BY
dbo.tbl_orderitems.txt_orditems_pname
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Drill down Table columns
dbo.tbl_payment.bit_pay_paid (1/0) Has this payment been paid, yes no
dbo.tbl_orders.bit_order_archive (1/0) Is this order archived, yes no
dbo.tbl_orders.uid_order_webid (integer) Web Shop's ID
dbo.tbl_orders.bit_order_preorder (1/0) Is this a pre-order, yes no
YEAR(dbo.tbl_orders.dte_order_stamp) (2012) Sales year
dbo.tbl_orders.txt_order_status (varchar) Is the order dispatched, awaiting delivery
dbo.tbl_orderitems.uid_orditems_pcatid (integer) Product category ID
A:
It's a normal behavior, if you remove grouping clause you'll see that there really are 2 rows after joining and they both have 599 as a mon_orditems_pprice hence the SUM is correct. When there is a multiple match in any joined table the entire output row becomes multiple and the data that is being summed (or counted or aggregated in any other way) also gets summed multiple times. Try this:
SELECT txt_orditems_pname,
SUM(mon_orditems_pprice) AS prodTotal,
COUNT(uid_orderitems) AS prodCount
FROM dbo.tbl_orders
INNER JOIN dbo.tbl_orderitems ON (dbo.tbl_orders.uid_orders = dbo.tbl_orderitems.uid_orditems_orderid)
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT x.uid_pay_orderid
FROM dbo.tbl_payment x
GROUP BY x.uid_pay_orderid
) AS payments ON (dbo.tbl_orders.uid_orders = payments.uid_pay_orderid)
WHERE
uid_orditems_orderid = 61571
GROUP BY
dbo.tbl_orderitems.txt_orditems_pname
ORDER BY
dbo.tbl_orderitems.txt_orditems_pname
I don't know what data from tbl_payment you are using, are any of the columns from the SELECT list actually from tbl_payment? Why is tbl_payment being joined?
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The upcoming year ushers in a new administration, and eight millennials will have more influence and power to shape the country as well as the Trump presidency.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner
Yes, Kushner is technically not a Republican and Ivanka only became one to vote for her father in the New York primary (she missed the deadline). Nonetheless, it's harder to think of two more influential millennials in the entire world right now.
They're the President-elect's most loyal and trusted advisors, and many believe they'll craft Trump's agenda on certain issues.
Ivanka plans to become a leader on women's issues, which include paid maternity leave and equal pay. As for her husband, Kushner is expected to play a more formal role in the White House, and the President-elect has even suggested he may be used to help broker Middle Eastern peace between Palestine and Israel.
Stephen Miller
Often thought of as the brains behind Trump's policy proposals, Miller is a 30-year-old veteran of Washington having come out of Senator Jeff Sessions' (R-Ala.) office.
Trump appointed Miller as the senior White House policy advisor on Tuesday, and his base couldn't be happier.
Miller crafted many of Trump's America-first policies, especially on trade, immigration, foreign policy, and Wall Street. His appointment to the Trump White House was a sign to many of his most loyal supporters that he wouldn't abandon them on the main campaign promises.
House Millennials
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) has been the sole Republican millennial on the Hill for the last two years, but she's finally getting some company. Congressmen-elect Mike Gallagher (Wisc.), Trey Hollingsworth (Ind.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), and Brian Mast (Fla.) will be joining her as freshmen in the 115th Congress.
They range across the political spectrum and tend to focus on various issues. It's very likely that Mast being a combat veteran will direct a lot of attention towards the VA while Gaetz has said he plans on being a fighter for the Second Amendment. | 2024-04-03T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/7075 |
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U.S. Marshals warn of phone scams and urge public to report them
The U.S. Marshals and the FBI are alerting the public of several nationwide imposter scams involving individuals claiming to be U.S. Marshals, court officers, or other law enforcement officials.
Recently, the U.S. Marshals Office in Phoenix received information from several members of the public who were contacted from the phone number 602-888-2556. The caller typically identified himself as U.S. Marshal David Gonzales.
Scammers during these calls tried to collect a fine in lieu of arrest for failing to report for jury duty or reference some other “serious legal matter." They tell victims they can avoid arrest by purchasing a prepaid debit card or gift card and providing that card number over the phone to satisfy the fine.
The U.S. Marshals Service says if you get any phone calls like this you should not divulge any personal or financial information, and report the calls to the U.S. Marshals Service Office in Phoenix. The number is (602) 382-8768.
Victims can also file a consumer complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, which detects patterns of fraud from collected information, then shares that with law enforcement.
Things to remember:
- U.S. Marshals will never ask for credit/debit card/gift card numbers, wire transfers, or bank routing
numbers.
- Don’t divulge personal or financial information to unknown callers.
- Report scam phone calls to your local Marshals Service office and to the FTC.
*-You can remain anonymous when you report.
- Authenticate the call by calling the clerk of the court’s office of the U.S. District Court in your area and
verify the court order given by the caller.
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abstract: 'We describe a solution to the student-project allocation problem using simulated annealing. The problem involves assigning students to projects, where each student has ranked a fixed number of projects in order of preference. Each project is offered by a specific supervisor (or supervisors), and the goal is to find an optimal matching of students to projects taking into account the students’ preferences, the constraint that only one student can be assigned to a given project, and the constraint that supervisors have a maximum workload. We show that when applied to a real dataset from a university physics department, simulated annealing allows the rapid determination of high quality solutions to this allocation problem. The quality of the solution is quantified by a satisfaction metric derived from empirical student survey data. Our approach provides high quality allocations in a matter of minutes that are as good as those found previously by the course organizer using a laborious trial-and-error approach. We investigate how the quality of the allocation is affected by the ratio of the number of projects offered to the number of students and the number of projects ranked by each student. We briefly discuss how our approach can be generalized to include other types of constraints and discuss its potential applicability to wider allocation problems.'
author:
- 'Abigail H. Chown'
- 'Christopher J. Cook'
- 'Nigel B. Wilding'
title: 'A simulated annealing approach to the student-project allocation problem'
---
Introduction and background {#S:1}
===========================
The student-project allocation problem is encountered at the majority of British universities. Students are typically required to undergo a supervised project, often during their final year of study, in a field of a subject that interests them. There is a list of projects, each submitted by a project supervisor, and students are required to rank a certain number of projects in order of preference. This process is the one-sided variant of the problem.
Usually only one student works on a given project. Thus, issues arise when several students choose a particular project as their first choice preference. Inevitably, all but one of these students will be assigned one of their less preferable projects, which in turn causes secondary effects because the less preferred projects could be the first choice of another student. An additional issue faced is the supervisor’s workload. Usually a supervisor proposes more projects than they can feasibly oversee in order to provide a greater range of student choices. Hence, further complications arise when all of a particular supervisor’s projects are popular because it guarantees some students will not be assigned their first choice project.
The student-project allocation problem is a specific case of the generalized assignment problem, a well-known optimization problem that consists of assigning sets of jobs to sets of agents while minimizing the cost associated with the assignment; this problem can be formulated as an integer linear problem.[@Osman:1995] A wide range of methods have been devised for solving such problems including, but not limited to, a genetic algorithm[@CHU199717] and a local-ratio technique for the knapsack problem.[@COHEN2006162]
There have been different approaches to solving the one-sided student-project allocation problem. (The problem is one-sided because supervisors do not rank the students.) Proll used a bottleneck-assignment method and showed that this method is superior to a standard first-in first-out method.[@Proll1972] Anwar and Bahaj used a two-stage integer program, first attempting to reduce supervisor workload, before then looking at student satisfaction.[@Anwar2003] Another approach[@Harper2005] used a genetic algorithm. More recently, Kwanashie [*et al.*]{}[@Kwanashie2015] modeled the student-project allocation as a network flow problem, and also investigated different matching criteria.
There has also been significant research into solving the two-sided student-project allocation problem, which is a generalization of the hospital-residents problem.[@ABRAHAM200773; @MANLOVE2008553] Abraham [*et al.*]{} developed two algorithms for the problem, one student-oriented and one supervisor-oriented.[@ABRAHAM200773] However, these algorithms appear not to have been tested in practice. Manlove and O’Malley[@MANLOVE2008553] investigated a variant, where supervisors had preference over projects and not students. They showed it was NP-hard, and presented an approximation algorithm.
In this paper we investigate how simulated annealing, a method from statistical and computational physics, can be used to obtain a good solution to the student-project allocation problem. We demonstrate the utility of our approach on real student data and provide access to our code and datasets so that others can experiment with the methodology.
Problem specification {#sec:probspec}
=====================
We focus on the assignment of final year projects at the Department of Physics of the University of Bath. With minor modifications, our method should be applicable to a wide range of related assignment problems.
Each student at Bath is invited to submit a list of four project preferences, ranking them from 1, their most preferred project, to 4, their least preferred. The course organizer then assigns students to projects with the goal of maximizing student satisfaction, while satisfying the following constraints:
1. Each student is assigned to one of the projects on their preference list.
2. No project can be assigned to more than one student.
3. Supervisors cannot be assigned more projects than they can feasibly oversee.
The problem can be framed mathematically. Let $N$ be the number of students, $M$ the number of projects (with $M>N$), and $S$ the number of supervisors. Define a $N\times M$ matrix $C$ with elements $$C_{ij} = \begin{cases}
1 & \text{if student $i$ chose project $j$} \\
0 & \text{otherwise,}
\end{cases}$$ and define an $N\times M$ allocation matrix $X$ by $$X_{ij}= \begin{cases}
1 & \text{if student $i$ is assigned to project $j$} \\
0 & \text{otherwise.}
\end{cases}$$
Our goal is to maximize student satisfaction. To do so, we need a definition of satisfaction. Clearly students will be happier if they receive their first choice and less happy if they receive their fourth choice. We define $$\label{eq:objfun}
{\mathcal O}=\sum_{k=1}^{4} w_{k}n_{k}\:,$$ where $n_k$ is the number of students assigned their $k$th choice in the allocation and $w_{k}$ is the weighting assigned to the $k$th choice, with $w_{k}>w_{k+1}$. The sum in Eq. (\[eq:objfun\]) is our measure of overall class satisfaction. In the optimization literature such a quantity is referred to as the [*objective function*]{}.
The first two constraints can be written simply as $$\begin{aligned}
\sum_{j=1}^{M} C_{ij}X_{ij} & = 1 \hspace{0.5cm} \forall\, i = 1,\ldots,N
\label{eq:con1} \\
\sum_{i=1}^{N} X_{ij} & \leqslant 1 \hspace{0.5cm} \forall\, j = 1,\ldots,M.
\label{eq:con2}\end{aligned}$$
To incorporate the third constraint, we let $F_{s}$ denote the number of projects that supervisor $s$ has in the assignment, and $L_{s}$ denote the largest number of projects that they can oversee. Then $$F_{s} \leqslant L_{s} \hspace{0.5cm} \forall\, s = 1,\ldots,S.
\label{eq:con3}$$ Given a matrix of choices $C$, our goal is to find an allocation $X_{ij}$ that maximizes the value of ${\mathcal O}$ given the weights $w_{k}$ and the constraints in Eqs. (\[eq:con1\])–(\[eq:con3\]). In the following we describe a simulated annealing algorithm that achieves this goal.
Method {#sec:method}
======
Monte Carlo simulation
----------------------
Simulated annealing is a stochastic method for finding the global minimum of a function. It is particularly useful if the function is badly behaved, for example, if it has many local minima. Simulated annealing is an adaptation of the Monte Carlo simulation technique which is used to generate arrangements of the constituents of a physical system with the correct probability. For a system of particles in thermal equilibrium with its surroundings, this probability corresponds to the Boltzmann distribution: $$\label{eq:boltz}
P({\bf a}) = \frac{1}{Z} \sum_{{\bf a}} e^{-E({\bf a})/(k_BT)}.$$ The label ${\bf a}$ represents all possible arrangements of the particles, and the energy of a particular arrangement is $E({\bf a})$. The constant $k_B$ sets the energy scale, and $T$ is the temperature. For a particular temperature, $Z$ is a constant that serves to normalize the probability distribution.
Suppose we are interested in an observable $Q$ whose value depends on the particular arrangement ${\bf a}$. The average value of $Q$ is given by $$\label{average}
\langle Q \rangle = \sum_{{\bf a}}P({\bf a}) Q({\bf a}).$$ Monte Carlo methods allow us to estimate $\langle Q \rangle$ by approximating the sum in Eq. (\[average\]), which is over all arrangements, by a sum over a subset of arrangements. This estimate is achieved by sampling; that is, many different particle arrangements are generated randomly, and the value of $Q$ is averaged over the subset of sampled arrangements. The larger this subset, the closer the estimate for $\langle Q \rangle$ is to its true value. Usually, such simple sampling is inefficient and imprecise, and smarter sampling methods are needed. One such method is the Metropolis algorithm.
Metropolis Algorithm
--------------------
The Metropolis algorithm implements a filter that ensures that only those arrangements that contribute most to the sum in Eq. (\[average\]) are sampled. The filter is known as importance sampling and operates via a Markov process as follows.[@Binder:2010] Starting from some arrangement, we use a pseudorandom number generator to propose a trial arrangement that differs from the current one in some way. The trial arrangement is accepted as the new arrangement with some probability. Suppose that the current arrangement has energy $E({\bf a})$, and the trial arrangement has energy $E({\bf a}^\prime)$. Then the acceptance probability is $$\label{probabilitycondition}
P({\bf a} \rightarrow {\bf a}^\prime) = \frac{P({\bf a}^\prime)}{P({\bf a})} = e^{-\Delta E/(k_bT)},$$ where $$\label{deltaE}
\Delta E = E({\bf a}^\prime) - E({\bf a}).$$ As a result, only the energies of the arrangements, which are known values, are needed to calculate the transition probability and the constant $Z$ cancels and can be ignored.
In practice, the Metropolis algorithm operates as follows:
1. Choose an initial arrangement ${\bf a}$.
2. Choose a trial arrangement ${\bf a}^\prime$.
3. Calculate the energy difference in Eq. (\[deltaE\]).
4. Generate a random number $r \in (0,1)$.
5. If $r < P( $[**a**]{}$\rightarrow $[**a**]{}$^\prime)$, move to state ${\bf a}^\prime$.
6. Generate a new trial arrangement and return to step 3.
![Illustration of how the Metropolis algorithm is used to explore the space of arrangements. The dotted arrow to the left of the graph depicts downhill searching and the dashed arrow towards the right of the graph represents uphill searching. (Color online)[]{data-label="fig:Metropolis"}](fig1.jpg){height="0.25\textheight"}
The Metropolis algorithm allows the system to explore its arrangements with a probability proportional to their Boltzmann weight. The process can be visualized by constructing a one-dimensional graphical representation of the space of arrangements, parameterized by the system energy $E$, as shown schematically in Fig. \[fig:Metropolis\]. In the Metropolis algorithm, downhill moves (ones that reduce the energy) are always accepted, as shown by the green, dotted arrow in Fig. \[fig:Metropolis\]. In contrast, uphill moves (ones that increase the system energy as shown by the red, dashed arrow in Fig. \[fig:Metropolis\]) are exponentially suppressed and accepted with a probability $e^{-\Delta E/k_bT}$. The possibility of uphill movement allows the sample to escape local minima in the space of arrangements, provided the depth of the minimum is not much greater than $k_bT$. It is this feature of the Metropolis algorithm which is exploited by simulated annealing to increase the probability of finding the global minimum of a function.
Simulated Annealing
-------------------
Simulated annealing is a stochastic method for finding the global minimum of a function. It is inspired by techniques in materials science. If a liquid is cooled slowly, it will form a pure crystal, corresponding to the lowest energy state. However, if it is cooled quickly, it will end up in an amorphous state with higher energy. Simulated annealing works by marrying this concept to Monte Carlo methods through the Metropolis algorithm.
The general idea is to initiate the simulation at a high temperature $T$, and slowly decrease $T$ as the simulation progresses. The initial high temperature allows the system to explore energetically unfavorable arrangements, but the frequency with which these occur decrease as the system cools. In principle, this procedure should allow the system to escape local energy minima and increase the chance of finding the global minimum.
Although there is debate [@Clemons2004] as to how appropriate it is to compare the physical annealing process to that of combinatorial optimization, this approach naturally lends itself to optimization. If we consider the space of possible allocations to be the phase space and the negative of the objective function in Eq. (\[eq:objfun\]) to play the role of energy (noting that maximization problems and minimization problems are interchangeable), then we can use simulated annealing to find an optimal solution to the student-project allocation problem.
Implementation for the Student-project Allocation problem {#S:4}
=========================================================
We can find a good solution of the student-project allocation problem using the Metropolis algorithm and simulated annealing techniques. To this end we have created a computer program written in the C programming language that is available for download from GitHub and AJP’s supplemental material server, see appendix). We will not discuss all the details of how the program operates, but will cover some key points.
Objective Function
------------------
We are aiming to maximize student happiness and hence define our energy in terms of the objective function (\[eq:objfun\]) as $$E = -\mathcal {O}
= -w_{1}n_{1} -w_{2}n_{2} -w_{3}n_{3} -w_{4}n_{4}.
\label{eq:SAobjfun}$$ Recall that $w_{k}$ is the weight of preference $k$ and $n_{k}$ is the number of pairs allocated their $k$th preference. Naturally, the choice of weights should decrease with $k$; that is, a first choice should receive a greater weight than the second choice, etc. We initially choose to work with a set of linearly decreasing weights, leading to the objective function $$\label{eq:linwhts}
E = -4n_{1} -3n_{2} -2n_{3} -n_{4}\:.$$
This objective function suffices when tackling a particular student-project allocation dataset. However, it does not allow us to compare the quality of solutions among different datasets, which will usually consist of different numbers of student cohorts $N$. Thus, it is useful to define a normalized objective function $E^\star$ where
$$\label{normObj}
E^\star = -\frac{100}{N} \big[ n_{1} + \frac{3}{4}n_{2} + \frac{1}{2}n_{3} + \frac{1}{4}n_{4} \big].$$
Using this objective function, the energy corresponding to the best possible allocation has a value of $E^\star=-100$. The best possible allocation is where every student gets their first choice project,
Sampling strategy
-----------------
The starting point for a simulated annealing optimization must be an initial allocation that satisfies the constraints in Eqs. (\[eq:con1\])–(\[eq:con3\]). To obtain a suitable initialization we randomly assign each student one of their four choices. In general, this assignment will lead to multiple constraint violations with different students being assigned the same project and supervisors being overworked. To correct these violations, we perform a preliminary Monte Carlo procedure in which we choose a student at random and randomly re-allocate them to one of their four project choices. If this proposed change results in a reduction in the number of violated constraints, we accept the move; otherwise, we reject it. This process is iterated until an allocation is obtained with no violations, which we take as our initial configuration for the application of our simulated annealing algorithm.
An important aspect of the simulated annealing procedure is the manner in which trial allocations are proposed within the Markov process. The method adopted should be reversible, that is, satisfy detailed balance,[@Binder:2010] and ergodic – all allocations should be reachable within the sampling procedure. These conditions can be achieved by iterating the following procedure:
1. Choose a student at random.
2. Choose a random integer from 1 to 4.
3. If the student is currently assigned the project corresponding to that choice, repeat step 2. Otherwise, assign the student the trial project corresponding to the random choice. This assignment is the trial allocation.
4. Check that for the trial allocation no project is assigned to multiple pairs. If a conflict has arisen, retain the current allocation and go to step 1.
5. Check that the supervisor workload limit is not violated. If it is, then retain the current allocation and go to step 1.
6. Calculate the Metropolis acceptance probability $P({\bf a} \rightarrow {\bf a}^\prime)$ using Eq. (\[probabilitycondition\]). Generate a random number $r\in (0,1)$. If $P < r$, retain the current allocation and go to step 1. If $P \ge r$. accept the trial allocation as the current allocation.
Note that because we chose both the student and project randomly for the trial allocation, this procedure ensures ergodicity and is trivially reversible. Also note that because step 4 is more likely to reveal a conflict than step 5, it is computationally expedient to order them as listed.
Annealing schedule
------------------
The annealing schedule is crucial to implementing simulated annealing and specifies how many Monte Carlo moves are made for a given temperature, the start temperature, the end temperature, and the temperature step size. One Monte Carlo move means to carry out steps 1 through 6 from the previous section. Both successful moves and unsuccessful moves contribute to the total number of Monte Carlo moves. These choices are important because if we misjudge the annealing schedule, the system might not find the global minimum or take too long to do so. By trial and error, we found that an initial temperature $T/k_B=5$, final temperature $T/k_B=0$, and temperature step size of $\Delta(T/k_B)=0.001$ worked well for all datasets. In addition, we found that the number of Monte Carlo moves performed at a fixed temperature should be the larger of $1000N$ attempted moves and $100N$ successful moves ($N$ is the number of students). These choices strike a balance between the quality of optimization and the required computational time. An example time series showing how the energy of the allocation decreases under the annealing schedule is shown in Fig. \[fig:TimeSeries\].
![Time series for a typical simulated annealing run using dataset $D_{4}$ as input. Note the steady decrease of the value of the energy under the cooling schedule described in the text.[]{data-label="fig:TimeSeries"}](fig2.jpg){height="0.25\textheight"}
Results {#sec:results}
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In the following we describe the application of our simulated annealing program to real datasets for student project preferences. In each case we compare the optimization by simulated annealing to that found previously by the course organizer via a laborious trial and error approach.
Dataset Students, N Projects, M Supervisors, S
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D1 19 58 27
D2 28 58 25
D3 24 67 30
D4 26 75 30
: Class sizes, number of projects offered and number of supervisors for each dataset[]{data-label="tab:a"}
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Dataset $D_1$ $D_2$ $D_3$ $D_4$
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organizer’s allocation $E^\star$ $-86.84$ $-81.25$ $-86.46$ $-86.54$
simulated annealing minimum $E^\star$ $-86.84$ $-82.14$ $-86.46$ $-87.50$
simulated annealing average $E^\star$ $-86.78 \pm 0.29$ $-81.52 \pm 1.79$ $-85.83 \pm 0.62$ $-87.45 \pm 0.22$
Comparison via the objective function
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Four datasets were examined and are labelled $D_1$ to $D_4$, corresponding to four years over which the Final Year Project course has offered at the University of Bath. Each dataset varies in class size, total number of projects offered and number of potential supervisors, with values given in Table \[tab:a\]. To determine the performance of our simulated annealing approach, we ran the algorithm twenty times on each dataset. Each run employed a different sequence of random numbers. A key observable was the final value of the objective function, that is, the energy $E^\star$, Eq. (\[normObj\]). Due to the stochastic nature of simulated annealing and the presence of many solutions whose energy is close to the global minimum, the simulation does not yield the same solution each time it is run, nor does it necessarily find solutions with the same energy. Table \[tab:b\] gives the minimum value of $E^\star$ found in the twenty runs and the average value and the standard deviation. Also shown is the value of $E^\star$ for the allocation found previously by the course organizer.
We found that for $D_1$ and $D_3$ the allocation made by the course organizer has the same energy as found by the simulated annealing program. For $D_2$ and $D_{4}$ the program finds a slightly better solution than was determined by hand. Interestingly, the variance of the solution energy is much larger for $D_2$ and $D_3$. The failure of simulated annealing to always find a minimal solution is not ideal. It suggests that the energy landscape (see Fig. \[fig:Metropolis\]) is rough and that we may have to further investigate the settings of our annealing schedule. However, it is encouraging that even when the program returns a solution that is less energetically favorable than the allocation found by hand, it still is a good solution to the problem.
The allocation histogram and degeneracy
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The energy objective function provides a useful, albeit crude measure for comparing allocations. Greater insight into the nature of allocations follows from the allocation histogram, that is, the histogram of numbers of students who received their first, second, third, and fourth choice. For example, consider the case of dataset $D_3$. Figure \[fig:D3degeneracy\] shows the allocation histogram for four solutions (three simulated annealing solutions and the course organizer’s allocation) which all share the same (minimum) energy $E^\star=-86.46$; that is, they are “degenerate” in the energy. We see that the nature of the allocation solutions varies greatly in each case, and two are very different from the course organizer’s allocation and one is identical.
![Four allocation profiles for dataset $D_3$. The solid blue solution was found by the organizer and red, green, and pink solutions with various markings were found by the simulated annealing algorithm. Each allocation has energy $E^\star= -86.46$. []{data-label="fig:D3degeneracy"}](fig3.png){height="0.3\textheight"}
This issue of degeneracy of solutions muddies the waters with regard to what constitutes an optimal allocation. Specifically, in the set of allocations shown in Fig. \[fig:D3degeneracy\] there are allocations that vary from “generous” to “greedy” in the terminology of Ref. . A greedy allocation is one that aims to maximize the number of first choices allocated, with a disregard for students who receive their fourth choice if it means another student can obtain their first choice. In contrast, a generous allocation makes the overall student population as satisfied as possible and does not allocate a student their first choice if it causes another student to obtain their fourth. To generate allocations of the highest quality, we therefore require additional information regarding how the satisfaction of real students is impacted by whether they received their first, second, third, or fourth choice project. In view of this requirement, our focus in the following is on the choice of weights $w_k$ appearing in Eq. (\[eq:SAobjfun\]).
Opinion based weightings
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The initial tests of our simulated annealing approach assumed a simple linear decrease of the weights in Eq. (\[eq:linwhts\]). However it is unclear whether these weights accurately reflect students’ relative satisfaction with the allocations they may be assigned. Furthermore, the use of integer weights in Eq. (\[eq:linwhts\]) compounds the incidence of degenerate solutions, and it would be useful to have a means of discriminating between them.
To try to resolve these issues we have created a model based on student opinion. The current cohort of project students was polled to determine how their satisfaction would have varied had they been assigned their first choice, second choice and so on. Students rated each outcome on a scale from $1$ (“very unhappy”) to $5$ (“very happy”). The response rate was 43% from a class size of 46. Using this data we were able to determine new opinion-based weights: $w_1=4.7, w_2=4.15, w_3=3.0$, and $w_4=2.35$, thus obtaining the new normalized objective function $E^{\prime}$ $$\label{studObj}
E^{\prime} = -\frac{100}{N} \left[ n_{1} + \frac{4.15}{4.7}n_{2} + \frac{3.0}{4.7}n_{3} + \frac{2.35}{4.7}n_{4} \right].$$ These weightings are no longer linear in the rank $k$; the difference between the top two choices and between the bottom two choices is similar, and there is a larger difference between the weights for the second and third choice projects. This finding suggests that most students are still very happy if they receive their second choice because this choice is now worth 88% of their first choice, compared to the value of $75\%$ assumed previously. The third choice is now worth $63\%$ of a first choice compared to $50\%$ before and a fourth choice is worth $50\%$ of a first choice compared to $25\%$ previously. All of these ratios have increased, meaning that students are happier with their lower choices than was initially assumed. In hindsight, this is not unreasonable given that students choose only four projects from a large list of approximately $70$ possibilities.
The new weights engender a shift in the energy scale as might be expected. For example, when applied to dataset $D_1$ the minimum energy changed from $E^\star= -86.84$ to $E^\prime= -92.50$ although in this case (as well as for $D_2$), the actual optimal allocation remained the same. In contrast, differences in the allocation solution were found for $D_3$ and $D_4$. With the original weights, simulated annealing runs on $D_3$ yielded three separate minimum energy allocations, one of which the course organizer found by hand, all having the same energy as in Fig. \[fig:D3degeneracy\]. Using non-integer opinion based weights lifts this degeneracy as shown in Fig. \[fig:degeneracy\], so that now one allocation is clearly preferable; that is, $E^\star = -92.06$.
![Schematic of how the use of opinion based weights applied to dataset $D_3$ lifts the degeneracy of three equal-energy solutions previously found with the linearly decreasing weights.[]{data-label="fig:degeneracy"}](fig4.png){height="0.1\textheight"}
Due to the nonlinear dependence of the new weights on the rank choice, it appears that the new weightings lead to allocations that reduce the number of third and fourth choices. This presumably occurs because of the larger relative difference in weights between second and third choices compared to the original weights. We also note differences in the distribution of the energies of the solutions found by the twenty independent runs. Although the fraction of the twenty runs on datasets $D_1$, $D_2$, and $D_3$ that yielded the minimum energy solution increased with the new weights, it decreased for $D_4$: only fourteen runs yielded the minimum energy compared to nineteen with the old weights. Nevertheless, the range of solution energies narrowed, with only two distinct energy solutions found with energies $E^\prime=-93.21$ and $E^\prime =-93.17$. Thus, although the change in the objective function initially looks to have adversely affected the solution of dataset $D_4$, it actually provided more consistent results for all twenty runs. We also note that it removes all occurrences of fourth choices in the final allocation of $D_4$, which were present with the original linearly decreasing weights.
Overall, we find that use of opinion-based weights leads to an improvement in the allocations obtained by simulated annealing. Not only are they based on empirical evidence rather than assumption, but they differentiate previously degenerate solutions and minimize the number of fourth choices. As a result, these weightings will be used by the course organizer for performing the allocation in future years. (However, unless explicitly stated, we will use the original weightings for the rest of the paper.)
Effects of tightening the constraints {#sec:tighten}
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We now investigate how other model parameters affect the solutions that we find – specifically the role of the fourth choice and the impact of altering the project-student ratio $M/N$. The only notable previous investigations of the importance of these parameters has been by Kwanashie et al.,[@Kwanashie2015] who generated many random datasets and looked at how varying the number of students and the number of choices affected the results for their group project model, which allows multiple students to be assigned to the same project.
There has been limited discussions about the number of choices needed to ensure a successful allocation. Proll[@Proll1972] found that for his method a successful allocation required the number of choices $R$ to obey $R \geq \max \{5, 0.2M \}$. Despite having datasets of a similar size to Proll, we do not follow this requirement because our method gives successful solutions with just four choices.
Having established that four choices will yield successful solutions, it is reasonable to ask whether three choices also does so. We first consider $D_2$, whose final allocation always contains a fourth choice. Can we find a solution to $D_2$ without the fourth choices being available? We removed the fourth choices from $D_{2}$ and ran our simulated annealing program twenty times and were not surprised to discover that we could not find any feasible solutions. As expected, $D_{2}$ depends on four choices to find a solution.
We also investigated the role the fourth choice plays in the optimization processes for those datasets that usually have final allocations that do not contain any fourth choices. Do they play a role in helping the simulated annealing algorithm find minimum energy configurations or are they disposable? Again we removed the fourth choice and ran the simulated annealing program twenty times for the other three datasets. Datasets $D_{1}$ and $D_{4}$ showed no real statistical differences (as seen before, these datasets are generally easiest to solve). However, we found that the average normalized energy for $D_3$ increases from $-86.46 \pm 0.62$ to $-84.11 \pm 1.72$. The larger standard deviation is a result of the fragmentation of our solutions, as seen in Fig. \[fig:fourthchoices\]. There is a wider spread of energies when the fourth choice is removed, which suggests that the fourth choice is used to help move solutions toward the minimal end of the energy scale.
![Histogram of the energy of simulated annealing solutions obtained from twenty runs on dataset $D_{3}$ with fourth choices included (red diagonal markings) and fourth choices removed (blue solid). Note the wider spread of energies in the case without a fourth choice.[]{data-label="fig:fourthchoices"}](fig5.png){height="0.28\textheight"}
We conclude that four choices are valuable for the simulated annealing optimization procedure. Even if the final allocation does not contain them, they serve as a useful stepping stone. The reason for this dependence on fourth choices can be understood from the point of view of optimization theory, where it is common to introduce more variables than needed to assure that the problem becomes better behaved. One parameter to consider in the future is the introduction of a fifth choice. Although it does not seem necessary currently — and students would not be happy if they received a fifth choice — it might make the system easier to solve in challenging situations such as $D_{2}$.
One of the main factors that determine how “hard” it is to solve the student-project allocation problem is the ratio of projects to students. It might be expected that the greater the number of projects for students to choose from, the more first choices will be assigned because there is less overlap of student choices. Because the number of available supervisors is roughly constant each year, adding more projects means these supervisors would need to propose more. However, the same restrictions will apply with regards to the supervisor workload and so if all the projects offered by some particular supervisor are popular, then a greater number of students will be disappointed if this supervisor put forward more projects. We look to find an optimal balance that delivers sufficient student choices without too many projects being offered per supervisor.
We take our existing datasets and alter them to change the project-to-student ratio. We could either change the number of projects, keeping student numbers fixed, or alter the number of students, keeping the number of projects fixed. We choose the latter because it is more realistic in practice to change the number of students because the course organizer has no control over the number of projects. To increase the ratio we removed students at random. To decrease the ratio we added students and assign them four project choices chosen randomly. We then considered project-to-student ratios from 1.5 to 1 to 4 to 1, in intervals of $0.5$, and ran each ratio ten times for each dataset.
We noticed immediately that increasing the project-student ratio results in solutions with lower energies, which means that the solutions are converging to the ideal state in which all students are allocated their first choice. One particularly desirable result comes from $D_{3}$. Not only does its energy show an almost linear dependence on the ratio as seen in Fig. \[fig:ratio\], but it also yields the best solution that we have observed in any of our investigations – a ratio of 4 to 1, with energy $E^\star=-97.06$ for all ten runs of the simulated annealing program. As expected, higher ratios also correspond to more first choices in a configuration. We find that for ratios of 3.5 to 1 and 4 to 1, no solutions contain fourth choices – not even those for the troublesome $D_{2}$ dataset. In contrast, for a ratio of 1.5 to 1 we did not find any feasible solutions for $D_{1}$ and $D_{3}$, but were able to do so for $D_{2}$ and $D_{4}$. This result is not surprising. Our model cannot assign students to projects outside of their preference list. When the ratio of projects to students is low, there will be significant overlap in the choices made by each student. In general, when we decrease the ratios and consider the 2.5 to 1 and 2 to 1 cases, the quality of our solutions deteriorates, and we have higher energies, fewer first choices and more fourth choices.
![Average energy (from ten runs of the simulated annealing program) as a function of the project-student ratio for dataset $D_{3}$. Error bars are the standard deviation at each ratio.[]{data-label="fig:ratio"}](fig6.png){height="0.3\textheight"}
These results are useful, but should be treated with some caution. To increase the project-student ratio beyond its true value, students were removed from the dataset at random. To confirm our results we should generate multiple datasets for the same ratio — which would all be different due to the randomness — and see if the results vary depending on which students are removed. We also need to be cautious about the results for decreasing the project-student ratio, where we added fictitious students. Their project “choices” were chosen randomly, which fails to take into account project popularity. An alternative approach would be to ask different sized groups of students to choose preferences from the same list of projects.
Discussion {#sec:concs}
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From a comparison of our results to those obtained by the course organizer using trial-and-error, we see that simulated annealing replicates or improves the solutions obtained in the vast majority of cases, and requires much less of the course organizer’s time. The few cases where we find poorer solutions still represent high quality allocations which may be improved further by refining the annealing schedule used.
We found that at least four project choices per student are necessary to obtain good solutions of the standard cases of student-project allocation and that having a higher ratio of projects to students improves the quality of the solutions found. There is room for further investigations using more datasets than we had at our disposal. We suggest that future investigations into these properties follow the lead of Ref. and generate many random datasets to enable more statistically reliable conclusions.
Although direct comparisons are difficult, our approach performs favorably with regard to the proportion of first choices in an allocation. Unlike previous efforts, such as Teo and Ho[@Teo1998] whose allocations are likely to leave a subset of students unassigned to a project, we always find solutions where every student is assigned to one of their choices. However, our model has a longer runtime, and it is not clear how it will scale to the larger problems that other universities, such as the ones used by Teo and Ho, may face. It would be interesting to investigate this aspect in further work.
Although simulated annealing can be proved to be convergent for logarithmic cooling schedules [@Geman1984], convergence to the optimal allocation in polynomial time cannot be guaranteed. In contrast, methods such as minimum-cost network flow [@Kwanashie2015] can be shown to deliver the optimal allocation in polynomial time. To make the simulated annealing approach competitive in terms of wall clock time, one speeds up convergence by utilizing heuristic fast cooling schedules as we have done, but this speed up is achieved at the cost of possibly missing the optimal solution. Nevertheless, we argue that this tradeoff is reasonable for the student-project allocation problem, because one is usually looking for a “good enough” allocation, not necessarily the best one. We note that there are reports[@Kwanashie2015] that the minimum-cost network flow approach suffers numerical issues if the weights are set to favor greedy allocations.
Our simulated annealing program could have many other applications. It could be adapted to other one-sided assignment problems such as allocating primary school students to one of their chosen secondary schools. The objective function could be adapted to include factors affecting this allocation such as the distance of the student’s residence from the school and whether they have siblings already at the school. Another application would also be allocating university students to their rooms in university halls of residence. This problem is similar to the student-project allocation problem because each new student usually selects several residences in order of preference. The only adaption required for this problem is that many students would be assigned to each type of residence. (For a similar problem see the group project model in Ref. .) With more work it is reasonable to suggest that our simulated annealing program could be applied to two-sided allocation problems. In particular, it could allocate junior doctors to their first posts at different hospitals. This problem is two-sided because the hospitals have preferences for which doctors they want as well as the doctors having preferences for the hospitals.
The authors have benefited from conversations with Tom Underwood in the early stages of this work.
Simulated annealing code for the student-project allocation problem {#sec:appendix}
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The input to the available simulated annealing C program[@cprog] takes spreadsheet data as input in the form of two comma separated values (CSV) files. The latter format is chosen because it is often useful for the course organizer to collect preferences using one an online survey tool which can output data in CSV form. One of the two input files contains information on the student preferences for projects, and the other provides information regarding the constraints on supervisor workload. In the preferences file, each student (or student pair) is represented by a column and each project by a row. For each student the projects that they have chosen are given an entry of 1 to 4 corresponding to their preferences. Other cells in the row are left blank. In the supervisor constraints file, each row represents a project and each column represents a supervisor. If supervisor $i$ submitted project $j$, the cell will contain a value between 0 and 1, representing the workload the project will require, depending on the nature of the project or whether there are co-supervisors. A feasible solution allows a supervisor to take up to unit workload. For example, a supervisor could supervise two projects with workload 0.5 or one project of 0.5 and one of 0.25. However, a supervisor could not supervise three projects each of workload 0.5.
The program produces a running report on the value of the objective function, allowing the user to monitor how the quality of the allocation improves as the “temperature” is reduced. At the end of the annealing schedule, the final allocation is output to a CSV file in the form of (student, allocated project, their rank choice).
Our code uses pseudorandom numbers generated by a separate subroutine. This takes a random seed based on the system time. For efficiency we generate a large number of pseudorandom numbers and store them in an array from which we draw them as required. Once all are used up we replenish the array.
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Unusual things in the California skies -- daytime and nighttime -- have people asking whether UFOs are responsible for what seems like extra air traffic.
Writing in the Laguna Niguel Patch, Debbie Sklar wondered if the town is being visited by space aliens as she looked into recent UFO sightings in the southern portion of the Golden State. After hearing about the recent spate of unusual UFO reports in Laguna Niguel, Sklar said, "I am looking up at the sky a whole lot differently once evening rolls around."
Further north, the city of Fresno offers its own UFO encounters in the form of many video images taken by Robert Thorson. Since 2006, Thorson estimated he has videotaped around 200 strange objects and lights in the sky.
"I started watching the stars a couple hours a night and began to notice some things were flying around. I didn't know what they were -- shooting stars or satellites -- but they seemed to be moving closer and getting brighter," Thorson told The Huffington Post.
Now, before your "Warning! Warning! Hoax! Hoax!" signals go off -- and they probably should at this point -- it's important to know that Thorson is physically disabled, which allows him to spend a great deal of time watching the sky, day and night, with camera always ready.
And he's a regular skywatcher for Sanger Paranormal Society, a group that investigates paranormal claims in the Fresno area.
"One of the reasons why some people don't take Robert seriously is because they think his stuff is either computer-generated or Photoshopped, but all he knows how to do technically is to load the video from his camera to YouTube," said Sanger Paranormal Society founder Jeffrey Gonzalez. "Some people think it's all nonsense and must be a hoax. These armchair quarterback debunkers thrash him because they can't see how a guy like this is videotaping so many things."
On March 1, Thorson said he videotaped an airborne object over his tree-lined Fresno neighborhood:
"I saw this reddish-colored object above the houses. I thought it might be a helicopter, so I grabbed my camera while the object seemed to be raising up, going higher," Thorson said. "There were a couple times where it got really bright. It's hard to estimate how high it was, but it looked like a glowing saucer. I can normally hear high-flying jets going by most of the time, but this thing didn't make any noise."
Thorson added that he could see some kind of material streaking out of the back of the object, before the whole thing disappeared.
With so many videos posted by Thorson on YouTube under the name of "kingufokid," HuffPost called on the services of Marc Dantonio -- whose company FX Models creates special devices for the U.S. Navy, Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- to look at some of Thorson's videos starting with the March 1 object.
"It has all the hallmarks of a rocket launch," Dantonio said. "The bright exhaust plume, and as it was going through the atmosphere, you would see it illuminate stuff as it passed through, just like a launch. Vandenberg Air Force base does night launches all the time."
The next video Dantonio looked at, from February 2011, shows a daytime silver-colored object high in the sky near clouds that seems to morph from one shape to another:
"Whenever someone says they see an object that appears to morph, that means it's moving in a way that people can't tell it's tumbling," Dantonio explained.
"A ship under intelligent control probably isn't tumbling. I think this looks like two mylar balloons that are tied together very closely and are moving at a speed consistent with balloons and catch the light like balloons."
Continuing our Fresno UFO hit parade, a video captured by Thorson in September 2009 shows a group of twinkling lights that change position:
"The key here is that you have to look at the speed at which these are moving," Dantonio said. "Could UFOs just sit and hover lazily through the sky? Sure, but to me, these were moving all over the place, were seen from a long distance and were flashing at a rate consistent with LED flasher balloons that you can buy on Amazon. They just sort of float along and get farther and farther away."
And our final Thorson video sample, from November 2010, shows a "typical" triangular-shaped object:
"Honestly, that was just an aircraft," said Dantonio. "If you look at the lights carefully, the green light changes relative to the other two. What you're seeing is the running light on the wing tip of the plane, sticking out toward the camera. It's actually moving across the sky in exactly the way that you would see a plane at night if all you could see was the lights. This is FAA-mandated lighting."
Whew! And how does Dantonio address the issue where Thorson and other eyewitnesses often report not hearing any sound made by the objects they think are UFOs?
"Many times, if they're jets, for instance, you won't hear the sound until maybe four minutes after it's gone, because it takes time for the sound to come rolling across the landscape and make it to your ears. If it's a light plane with smaller motors, you might never hear it."
Dantonio, who looks at every UFO picture and video with a critical eye, isn't suggesting Thorson is faking his videos.
"I don't think the guy is anything but genuine and is just not informed about some phenomena, and I'd be happy to help him figure out what these things are," Dantonio said. "These skywatchers are invaluable and the people who will be on the front line of discovery are the people who are out there watching, not those who are driving in their cars. People like him are going to be the ones who eventually see a real UFO."
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Folacin and iron status and hematological findings in predominately black elderly persons from urban low-income households.
The folacin and iron status and hemotological parameters of 193 persons 60 years of age and older from urban low-income households were evaluated. Of the serum folacin values 30% were between 3 and 6 ng/ml and 8% were below 3 ng/ml. Of these subjects 60% could be classified as "high risk" (less than 140 ng/ml) and 11% as "medium risk" (140 to 160 ng/ml) based on red blood cell folacin concentrations. Serum iron was normal (greater than 50 micrograms/dl) for all subjects as was transferrin saturation (greater than 15%). Hematological indices showed a 14% incidence of anemia (hemaglobin less than 12 g/dl), and 32% incidence of leukopenia (leukocytes less than 4.8 X 10(3)). These findings demonstrate widespread folacin deficiency and no evidence of iron deficiency in these elderly people. | 2023-12-10T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/6918 |
Q:
PHP file execution
Hey, I'm trying to use PHP to execute a shell command which will run remotely run a server on my box. Here is my PHP Code:
if ($key == "test") { echo "<font color='green'>Key is valid. Server satrted.</font>";
$start = system('cd /root/st/; ls;');
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The problem is, the ls command runs from the same directory as the web server, which returns all of the files from /var/www/html instead of /root/st/. I have also tried the chdir command to no avail. Anyone know how you would get the directory to change so that the command could be run from a specified directory? Thanks.
A:
Does the user that PHP is running as (eg, the user invoking the CLI script) have permission to read the directory? If you're going into /root/ but aren't root, you'd need to either add cd to sudoers for the current user, or choose another directory.
Edit: note that adding cd to sudoers is not even remotely okay for anything other than a local, you-only script. :)
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Yesterday, I went through the men of Survivor: Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers and I gave my way too early assessment on their chances in the game. Today, it’s time to do the same for the women of season 35 to see how badly I can get everything wrong given the sliver of information we have available to us. Make sure to save all of this for later when you can tweet me about all my terrible predictions when the season begins.
If I’m being honest, while the guys all seem like perfectly fine people, the women really seem like the cream of this cast’s crop. Obviously a lot remains to be seen but I get some great vibes from a lot of these women and I can easily see another female winner off the back of Sarah Lacina’s Game Changers win.
Alexandra “Ali” Elliott, 24, Personal Assistant
Tribe: Hustlers
Ali lives in Hollywood and studied in radio and television. I am not going to outright say she is a complete recruit but if the stars align so well… it’s a pretty safe prediction to make. There is no stigma, in my eyes, in not knowing Survivor prior to going on and it may in fact be a blessing in disguise if the person is predisposed to doing well in a social game.
Update: like I said, I wouldn’t outright say she is a recruit because I would have been very stupid. She is likely a fan, having watched since childhood with her family as per this article by the always fantastic Josh Wiggler. I hadn’t seen it until now and it was brought up to me by redditor DJM97 so thank you for that!
Having played soccer at Auburn, Ali is definitely going to be able to keep up physically and that can be especially important for women. Having strong women is often the difference between winning and losing challenges, especially the physical ones that divide players among gender lines. Ali should be fine to ingratiate herself to her tribe as long as she is willing to do work at camp.
Social media insights:
She loves selfies but what 24 year old with a Twitter or Instagram doesn’t? I won’t fault her for that. From Twitter, I can gather that she is an NBA fan which gets a lot of points from me. She also seems to enjoy a variety of different music and has gone to a few different music festivals in the last year. She tweets a decent amount but doesn’t get a lot of response considering she only has 800 and some followers. It’s crazy to me that she has so few followers and in a few weeks, she is going to have more than she bargained for.
Her Instagram is mostly more of the same. She has one photo with the caption “find your tribe. Luckily I’m related to mine” which is just a picture of her and two other ladies but the wording is obviously interesting considering the game she played. I don’t think it tells anything, just a subtle hint as to what she did to her friends and followers.
There’s also a YouTube channel with two videos on it. One is Ali’s bridesmaid toast to her sister. The toast is at best a C+ or B- toast. She spends way too much time talking about herself and only mentions her sister’s husband for like 20 seconds but maybe she is one of those people who isn’t great with public speaking. If that is the case, she may have studied in the wrong field. The other video is a 14 minute hair curling video which… no thank you. Sorry Ali.
Expectations:
I think she has the physical attributes to do very well. She is attractive, fit and probably one of the stronger women on her cast. She also seems fairly intelligent and nice enough. My hope is that she isn’t too conceited which is a vibe I am getting off of her after sifting through her social media.
Ashley Nolan, 26, Lifeguard Captain
Tribe: Heroes
Do we have a female Ozzy Lusth on our hands? If Ashley is a lifeguard, she has to be a very strong swimmer. She has also previously played in the Lingerie Football League which, despite its obvious misogynistic flaws, requires actual athletic ability to take part in. She had to stop that when she tore her ACL which might impact her a bit on the island if she still feels uncertain about her knee.
Social media insights:
Ashley tweets very rarely and all of her tweets so far have just been links to one of her Instagram posts. It’ something I will never understand, using one social media to link to another. Oh well… as of now, Ashley only has 32 followers and does not seem to be very invested in her Twitter account.
As for her Instagram, it’s way livelier. She has made a very small appearance in the movie version of Baywatch and seems to love being at the beach. Makes sense considering her life’s work. From her pictures, I can tell that she is very obviously physically fit and may actually intimidate a lot of players with her physique. Much like Christmas in the current season of Big Brother until she blew up her foot.
One final thing, on her Facebook, she lists Survivor as her favorite television show. Now, I have no way of telling if this was before or after her stint on the show but I am going to take it as a good omen that she has that up there considering this cast seems high on people who don’t really watch the show.
Expectations:
I am very high on Ashley. I think she has a lot of tools that could take her very far and maybe all the way to the end. As of right now, she is on my short list of people I think might win the game.
Christine “Chrissy” Hofbeck, 46, Actuary
Tribe: Heroes
Full confession of my end: I had to Google what an actuary did. Upon Googling, I understand a bit more but still don’t really get it. Anyways… Christine is one of the older women on her cast since there are two 46 year old ladies. As part of the heroes tribe that has a lot of muscle and youth, I am not sure how well that is going to fly. I will give Chrissy a lot of credit in that she does not look 46 from her pictures whatsoever so maybe she can still blend in.
Social media insights:
Looking at her Twitter account, it is still very new. It was only created on June 4, 2017. She is very active on twitter. Obviously her kids are a huge part of her life and she posts pictures of them a lot. One of her sons is college-aged, another is a 6”4 16 year old basketball player and she has a daughter that is 14. They love to watch Prison Break and cook together. All of this is pretty much innocuous. Chrissy has also tweeted about Big Brother 19 and retweeted the article that came out recently about the differences between Survivor and Big Brother. This gives me a sign of hope that she is coming in as someone who watches these shows from their very beginning. In fact, one of her tweets is her mother, herself and her daughter captioned “3 generation of reality TV junkies eagerly awaiting the premiere of #BB19”. This is very promising.
Chrissy loses major points for tweeting about Twilight and her enjoyment of the series. She also chooses to be Team Edward, which let’s be honest, is the worst of two teams. Not that I know anything about that series.
Looking at Instagram tells me that she was part of a documentary on National Geographic. It doesn’t tell me much else that I couldn’t already decipher from twitter.
Expectations:
Chrissy is clearly intelligent and successful already. She is one of these people who doesn’t need Survivor and is likely going on for the experience. This is doubly true if she is indeed a fan of the game who happened to make it through casting. I don’t think she is going to have everything needed to win but I do like her from what I’ve seen and hope she can put together a nice run on the show.
Desiree “Desi” Williams, 27, Physical Therapist/Professor
Tribe: Healer
God damn! Desi makes me feel incredibly unaccomplished in life being her age and having done approximately 0% of the things she has done so far. She’s a registered physical therapist as well as being an assistant professor at Hampton University. That is also where she got her degree in Health and Physical Education and her DPT. She’s co-published a book, is a certified yoga instructor and has been Miss Virginia twice and has competed in Miss America.
If Desi doesn’t do well in the game, I will be disappointed because she really seems like somebody who just succeeds at whatever she tries. Also she’s stunningly beautiful on top of it all.
I can’t be the only one who sees Ashley from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air when I look at her, right? | 2023-09-07T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/5024 |
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The Movie Press–My buddy, Greg, used to write for Urban Pollution. Since they went all belly up and stuff, he now writes for his own self. Check him out.
Hooligan Youth Reviews–Another buddy’s website. Josh mostly blogs about bitching, but then he’ll see a movie and review it. Good for the soul.
Geekscape–Jonathan London’s podcast. You can see me on episode 2, but check ’em all out. Jon doesn’t need me to be awesome. And don’t forget to peruse the site. It’s not just a podcast. It’s an entire environment for geeks to build and thrive. (For his old podcast, check out Geekdrome.) | 2024-03-01T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/9640 |
The "money play," as far as I can figure, is dead.
We all have our favorite money play -- the play that guarantees a big gain every time, or at least most of the time. In Madden '93 we could call "HB Toss Left" with the Bills, and Thurman Thomas would more than likely take it to the house. NFL Sports Talk Football '93's "Fake Punt," one of the most cynical exploitations in the history of video gaming, resulted in a touchdown every single time if performed correctly. My personal favorite is a Kansas City verts play in NFL 2K3: give Tony Gonzalez the lone slant route, have Trent Green chuck it to him, and gain 30 yards against any defense that isn't Prevent.
Madden is now the world's only NFL video game, and year after year, it's pressed into the service of searching itself for non-real things and stamping them out. Even a couple years ago, it was possible for a Devin Hester or Jamaal Charles to field a kickoff, run a sequence of well-timed zig-zags, and score a touchdown every odd chance he got. No longer.
If the money play is extinct, let's turn instead to the most hopeless of offensive plays. If this isn't the very most hopeless scenario in Madden NFL 15, it has to be very, very close:
1. We give the Patriots offense the ball on their own 1-yard line.
2. The defense calls this.
3. The offense calls this.
The quarterback in this scenario, of course, is Tom Brady. We call him Touchdown Tom around these parts, and so it follows that he ought to score a 99-yard quarterback-sneak touchdown on this play. If he does not, we will place the ball back at the 1 and try again.
And again.
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and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
And again.
Months ago, I came up with this idea with Spencer Hall as we stood around in a Las Vegas casino, a place in which failure is a concept so constant and inextricable that it ought to be awarded its own tape-measure dimension somewhere in space-time.
We were discussing Edge of Tomorrow, this year's criminally under-seen Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller, which they desperately re-titled Live Die Repeat because you wouldn't watch it. It's near-flawless for the film it is: in the future, Tom is a PR man in Earth's military as it battles an alien race that's laying siege to the cities of the world. After talking bunk to the wrong general, Tom is dumped on the front lines of battle despite having zero combat experience. He doesn't know how to use his gun or get his robo-suit-thingy to work, and he dies nearly instantly. It's just a mess.
But then Tom wakes up again in the previous day. He can't die. Every time he's brutally killed in battle, he just goes back in time and wakes up again. His mission is to live the battle over and over and over again, becoming a barely-better soldier each time, until he can fight the perfect battle and save the human race.
The title of this week's Breaking Madden, appropriately, is "Edge of Tom-orrow." Tom Brady will relive the same Hellish scenario over and over. I will re-live it with him. I do not know whether we will get better.
THE PLAYERS.
I needed 21 players -- 10 Patriots and 11 Jets, their Week 7 opponent -- to help conduct this nonsense. I found them on Twitter.
if you would like to be in the next Breaking Madden, please share the worst thing you have ever done more than once — Jon Bois (@jon_bois) October 13, 2014
Click that image to check out this week's Breaking Madden Roster Cuts, in which I reviewed, and was thoroughly disgusted by, the tweets of the 21 individuals who made it into this week's game. Just to give you an idea of what you're in for, this
@jon_bois Tried to make fried bologna with a lamp. — Bryan Brown (@brownbearSLC) October 13, 2014
was probably only the third- or fourth-worst tweet. You're warned now.
Anyway, all 21 of these folks weigh 400 pounds and are as wide as possible, so as to give Tom as little room as possible to squeeze through. For cruelty's sake, they're only five feet tall, which gives Tom -- by far the tallest player on the field -- an excellent view of the territory he may never reach.
There is one gesture of charity: they're all as slow as possible. This means that if Tom ever, ever can penetrate this defense, he has nothing but daylight.
STAGE I: HITTING THE WALL.
Well, I doubt anyone has ever asked Madden NFL 15 to render hundreds of consecutive dogpiles of squat little folks. It's doing its best, even if "its best" means starting a b-boy at defensive tackle.
This experiment was held within Madden's "Practice" mode, which made it far easier to reboot a game situation over and over. I played as Tom Brady, and only Tom Brady, for hours, and I should note that this was the Tom Brady that came out of the box. I didn't change any of his skill ratings in any way. This is as Tom as Tom can get.
Tom and I abided by one sacred rule: no running backwards and trying to flush out to the side of the field. This must be a true quarterback sneak, one in which Tom plunges through the middle of the line, just as the Devil intended.
And man, we tried everything I could think of. Trucking, juking, diving, spinning, breaking left and right. I even sent Tom to straight-up leapfrog his center, since he was mostly just getting in the way.
Trucking over dudes dong-first was perhaps slightly more effective than one might imagine, but of course, knocking over one guy wasn't nearly enough. Bowling over a guy slowed him down so much and took him so much time that by the time he did, half the Jets defense was all over him.
And while these Jets were slow as Hell, they were also mean as Hell. Well after the whistle blew, Jonah Keri went scrappin' with Tom Ziller, and threw all 400 pounds of him square on Brady's knees.
The game's "fatigue" effect was disabled, so the players ran and hit just as hard on every play, but they still let us know they were gassed. Here's Schwartz executing an uncanny Flair flop.
STAGE II: ANGER.
Tom and I had run dozens of quarterback sneaks, and never even came close to snapping one off. Worst of all, we weren't really even learning anything. No maneuver seemed to work better or worse than any other. My fear was being realized: unlike Mr. Cruise, we weren't improving. A Groundhog Day in which nothing ever, ever changes. That is Hell.
I was fearful. Tom was fucking pissed.
Not only would he not stop fighting, he was throwin' knees into gullets when I told him to jump.
Brady was going down, but some Biblical shit was going down with him. He wore this force field of hate that would sometimes just send fools flying.
I mean, look at this. Throughout the history of Breaking Madden, I've almost never seen a super-powered man-God do things like this. And yet, Tom Brady -- kinda-old, unmodified Tom Brady -- was out here using a free hand to chuck a poor 400-pound fellow out of the frame, head over heels.
It's 200th and 99, and Tom ain't happy about it. DON'T PISS OFF 200TH-AND-99 TOM JUST YET.
STAGE III: MANIA.
A few times -- I'm talking maybe three times out of 250 -- I felt like we were getting close, but I think my idea of "close" was severely warped by our unbending vector of failure. Tom just got past four guys! Oh yeah, there are seven more guys. Tom trucked a guy! Oh yeah, well now he's standing flat-footed in no-man's land.
Tom began to hallucinate. The ball, it was ... moving. Slowly, but ever forward ...
And now you are running, Tom! Run, Tom! Run! You are free!
RUN!
And he runs, but from who? Where are the Jets? Where did they go? It doesn't matter. He is finally running.
And then, in this fever dream, the ball begins to creep backwards, back to the one-yard line, back to his little Hell.
No. Nooo. It was real. It was ... real ...
And all of a sudden, there he was, at the one, his opponents snapping back into view. He had, in fact, not run anywhere at all.
Do not follow your dreams, Tom. They will only break your heart. If you abandon your hopes, they will never hang above your head. And if a Hell has nothing above it, it is no Hell at all. It is mere living.
STAGE IV: AN END.
There must be an end.
[UPDATE: If you watch the video below, you'll know what The 344th is. We've got the story on that here, as well as an extra GIF.]
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While medical cannabis was legalized in the state in 2013, growing the plant for personal use is currently considered a felony offense. The Senate agreed to change that policy, passing a home grow bill in a voice vote.
The New Hampshire Senate approved a bill Thursday that would allow medical marijuana patients and caregivers to cultivate their own cannabis.
Marijuana Moment is a wire service assembled by Tom Angell, a marijuana legalization activist and journalist covering marijuana reform nationwide. The views expressed by Angell or Marijuana Moment are neither endorsed by the Globe nor do they reflect the Globe’s views on any subject area.
The legislation — designated as SB 420, perhaps in a legislative staffer’s nod to cannabis culture — would let registered patients and caregivers cultivate up to three mature plants, three immature plants, and 12 seedlings each.
Both the House and Senate approved similar legislation last year, but it was vetoed by Governor Chris Sununu. The House mustered enough votes to override the veto, but the Senate came just three votes short of being able to do the same.
“This bill presents Gov. Sununu with a great opportunity to continue his evolution on cannabis policy,” Matt Simon, New England political director of the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a press release. “Patients all over New Hampshire are benefitting from cannabis as an alternative to opioids, but many are unable to afford the expensive products that are available at dispensaries.”
“Home cultivation is a cost-effective option that is available to patients and adults in all neighboring jurisdictions, and there is no good reason it should remain a crime for patients in the ‘Live Free or Die’ state,” he said.
Prior to the vote, three senators spoke in favor of the legislation, and none spoke out against it. The bill now heads to the House.
But while advocates consider the vote a positive step, it still faces obstacles ahead.
“The fact that no senators spoke against SB 420 is an encouraging development, but patients aren’t out of the woods yet,” Simon told Marijuana Moment.
“Patients will either have to convince Sununu to evolve or gain a few votes in the Senate if SB 420 is to become law,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Legislature is also considering a bill that would legalize marijuana for adult use in the state — though it would not provide for retail sales. The non-commercial legalization legislation was approved by a House committee last month.
Lawmakers are hoping that removing the sales element of a legalization bill will be more palatable to the governor, who has said he opposes full-scale commercial legalization.
A full tax-and-regulate marijuana legalization bill did pass the House last year, but after receiving a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, it ultimately stalled and died. However, Sununu did sign a modest decriminalization measure last year.
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Today I was reading an article by Mark Manson, one of my favourite bloggers. The central point of the article is that the common factor in all these shootings is the lack of empathy displayed by people who should have seen it coming.
Before the vitriol pours in to my site or Mark’s, he is not saying victims are at fault. His article looks at different people who were close to the shooters, who ignored obvious signs that the shooters were mentally disturbed and seriously planned to commit violence. In the case of the Columbine shooters, some of their “friends” found the bombs they built, but thought nothing of it. Mark argues that this can ultimately be traced to a lack of empathy or outright apathy for what is going on in someone else’s life. Of course, what I am offering is a very simple thesis of the article. Do yourself a favour and read the whole thing.
Manson breaks down the different arguments brought forward after mass shootings, either as a whole or by referencing arguments used for certain killers. He does not say none of the arguments matter. In fact, he says they are part of a bigger whole. I would be missing the entire point of his article if I said that my grievances made the article invalid. However, I have to mention these arguments because they bring up common misconceptions about some mass shootings.
His first point is that the gun control argument is somewhat flawed since killers like Adam Lanza and Elliot Rodger got their guns legally. A gun control advocate wouldn’t end the argument there. A key part of gun control is arguing for the regulation of the types of funs and types of ammunition that can be sold legally,; as well as arguing for more thorough background checks. They would ask why people were able to obtain such guns so easily. Especially in Rodger’s case since he had a well documented history of mental illness.
The next point is truly the crux of my article.
Manson also argues that the attempts to label Rodger’s killings as a result of misogyny are flawed since Rodger killed mostly men. Now, Manson does later say Rodger “became a misogynist because he was a killer.” Clearly he is not rejecting the misogynist label completely. However, a quick Google search will show you many people who reject the claim of misogyny using the same logic Manson laid out originally. These thoughts are directed to those people.
You might ask why I am bothering to write about a deranged killer from 2014. I tried to understand why I felt compelled to write this too, and I think a part of it comes down to the fact that I actually read Rodger’s “manifesto”. As Manson points out, I only gave into Rodger’s delusions by doing this. I fed his ego and desire for immortality. Unfortunately, curiosity got the best of me.
It is that reading of Rodger’s “My Twisted World” that makes it clear he was a misogynist. Above all else, Rodger was sexually frustrated. At age 22, he was still a virgin and blamed his lack of success mainly on women. According to him, their brains were less developed than men’s. Hence their poor decision making abilities. If that is not misogynist, I don’t know what is.
Yes, Rodger killed men. Let’s not forget his motive though. He was angry at men as well, for having more luck with women than he did. Each man mowed down represented another man in Rodger’s life who was more successful with girls than he was.
“After that, I will start luring people into my apartment, knock them out with a hammer, and slit their throats. I will torture some of the good looking people before I kill them, assuming that the good looking ones had the best sex lives. All of that pleasure they had in life, I will punish by bringing them pain and suffering. I have lived a life of pain and suffering, and it was time to bring that pain to people who actually deserve it.”
Let’s not forget that one of Rodger’s first targets was a sorority house, an embodiment of the beautiful women he resented. Due to the gated entry, he could only kill two women outside of it. He then had to find other victims.
With that point out of the way, let’s move on to the idea that Rodger was not racist since he was half-Asian, and some of his victims were Asian.
“Shoes won’t help you get white girls. White girls are disgusted by you, silly little Asian.”
Rodger also says:
“Full Asian men are disgustingly ugly and white girls would never go for you. You’re just butthurt that you were born as an asian piece of shit, so you lash out by linking these fake pictures. You even admit that you wish you were half white. You’ll never be half-white and you’ll never fulfill your dream of marrying a white woman. I suggest you jump off a bridge.”
Rodger, half-Asian, posted those comments in a forum on PuaHate.com. Rodger wanted white girls only, and specifically indicates a preference for blondes numerous times in “My Twisted World”.
If you are bothered, you can find plenty of research on mixed people who express racism towards one half of their identity.
Rodger also saves some hate for black guys and Indian guys in his “My Twisted World”, expressing disgust that they can get white girls when he can’t. If you don’t want to read that, just read more forum excerpts from this article.
“Today I drove through the area near my college and saw some things that were extremely rage-inducing.
I passed by this restaurant and I saw this black guy chilling with 4 hot white girls. He didn’t even look good.
Then later on in the day I was shopping at Trader Joe’s and saw an Indian guy with 2 above average White Girls!!!
What rage-inducing sights did you guys see today? Don’t you just hate seeing these things when you go out? It just makes you want to quit life.”
Racist? I think so.
My larger point. Bigotry isn’t always simple or logical and we need to stop using elementary levels of logic to shut down discussions. Manson only used the example of Elliot Rodger as a springboard for his larger argument, but his intentionally hyperbolic statements represent the mindset of millions of people: The millions of people who think they have the world, and all of the ugliness in it, figured out. | 2023-08-16T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/2034 |
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Data type size of variable in sql
How to find out the size of data type in sql. For example if i have declared a variable or column as
declare @test varchar(255)
Then i need the size of the variable data type @test to be shown as 255.
EDIT:Now, I know how to get it for the column, is there any way for variable?
A:
You can use sql_variant_property.
declare @test varchar(255)
set @test = '' --Must assign a value
select sql_variant_property(@test, 'MaxLength')
| 2023-09-29T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/2888 |
ARB-1740, a RNA Interference Therapeutic for Chronic Hepatitis B Infection.
Current approved nucleoside analogue treatments for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are effective at controlling viral titer but are not curative and have minimal impact on the production of viral proteins such as surface antigen (HBsAg), the HBV envelope protein believed to play a role in maintaining the immune tolerant state required for viral persistence. Novel agents are needed to effect HBV cure, and reduction of HBV antigenemia may potentiate activation of effective and long-lasting host immune control. ARB-1740 is a clinical stage RNA interference agent composed of three siRNAs delivered using lipid nanoparticle technology. In a number of cell and animal models of HBV, ARB-1740 caused HBV RNA reduction, leading to inhibition of multiple elements of the viral life cycle including HBsAg, HBeAg, and HBcAg viral proteins as well as replication marker HBV DNA. ARB-1740 demonstrated pan-genotypic activity in vitro and in vivo, targeting three distinct highly conserved regions of the HBV genome, and effectively inhibited replication of nucleoside analogue-resistant HBV variants. Combination of ARB-1740 with a capsid inhibitor and pegylated interferon-alpha led to greater liver HBsAg reduction which correlated with more robust induction of innate immune responses in a human chimeric mouse model of HBV. The preclinical profile of ARB-1740 demonstrates the promise of RNA interference and HBV antigen reduction in treatment strategies driving toward a cure for HBV. | 2023-10-18T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/3564 |
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PrintSomething[of string]("something")
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| 2023-12-05T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/7436 |
Q:
moving folder from unknown location to different location on server
I am trying to move a folder and his content to a different location on the server.
Folder can be anywhere but I have to move it to a specific location.
So far I have tried something like this, but its not working
find / -name 'test_folder' -exec mv 'test_folder' /Users/michael/Downloads/here/. {} +
Any suggestions, what am I doing wrong?
Also what would be variation of this command in .sh ?
A:
You have to give mv the full name of the folder found, not just the immediate name: /some/other/dir/test_folder, not test_folder. Use
find / -name test_folder -exec mv '{}' /Users/michael/Downloads/here +
UPDATE: The + form of -exec seems to require that {} be the final argument of the command, unlike with the ; version.
# Less efficient, as `mv` is called for every found directory
find / -name test_folder -exec mv '{}' /Users/michael/Downloads/here \;
or
# More complicated, but less overhead
find / -name test_folder -exec sh -c 'mv "$@" /Users/michael/Downloads/here' {} +
| 2024-07-14T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/1881 |
require 'highrise'
require 'pp'
Highrise::Base.site = 'https://yoursite.highrisehq.com'
Highrise::Base.user = 'xxx'
@tags = Highrise::Tag.find(:all)
pp @tags | 2024-04-03T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/3911 |
Independence Day box office clash: Ajay Devgn, Sylvester Stallone
Mumbai, June 10: The India release of Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone‘s “The Expendables 3″ has been advanced by a week in time to release on Independence Day Aug 15, the same day when Ajay Devgn-starrer Bollywood entertainer “Singham Returns” is due to hit the screens.
MVP Entertainment and PVR Pictures, the Indian distributors of “The Expendables 3″ decided to advance the release date because they believe a star-studded film like it can definitely put up a fight at the box office with Bollywood actioner “Singham Returns” and they didn’t want to miss out on the Independence Day weekend.
The distributors are also looking at a wider release for the project as the movie will hit theatres in four languages, including Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
Deepak Sharma of PVR Pictures and Sunil Udhani of MVP Entertainment issued a joint statement Tuesday to confirm the news.
The statement read: “‘The Expendables’ has become one of the biggest franchises across the globe. The second part of the film performed phenomenally well in India with a release as wide as 800 screens. The new instalment of the film – ‘The Expendables 3′ – is bigger than ever, with megastars like Mel Gibson and Antonio Banderas joining in, and the final product is stellar.”
“We were toying with the idea of a release date between Aug 15 and Aug 21, and have concluded to come on Aug 15 along with the international release. We do understand that it is on the same day as ‘Singham Returns’, but we’re certain that two films of equal sizes can survive at the box office.”
“Stallone and Schwarzeneger have a humongous fan following in India and the genre of the film suits the appetite of people here. We will be dubbing the film in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu and are even hoping for a wider release this time around.” | 2023-12-03T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/3636 |
The subject invention relates to a system for storage and retrieval of Voice Files. More particularly, it relates to a system having a class of users which includes dictators and transcriptionists, and wherein system resource allocation, including transcription capability, is controlled by a Supervisor.
Storage and retrieval of voice messages is well known. "Desktop" analog dictation units have been marketed by the Dictaphone Corp. of Rye, N.Y. for more than half a century. More recently, larger, "central" dictation systems for use by groups of dictators have been available. Such "central" systems typically include a plurality of telephone-like input/output stations for use by dictators, a central, analog storage medium for storage and retrieval of voice messages, a plurality of transcription stations for use by transcriptionists who are more or less permanently assigned to the system, and a Supervisor's station through which a Supervisor may monitor and, to some extent, control the operation of the system. However, because the storage medium in such system is analog, the flexibility of control in such flexibility in controlling the priorities for transcription of the voice messages, and in assigning voice messages to selected transcriptionists.
One such "central" dictation system presently available is the Nucleus system marketed by the Dictaphone Corporation. ("Nucleus" is a registered trademark of the Dictaphone Corporation.)
Digital storage and retrieval of voice messages, or of almost any analog signal, is also well known. Typically such systems have been used for Voice Mail applications as is taught in U.S. Pat. No. 4,371,752 for: Electronic Audio Communication System to: Matthews et al. issued: Feb. 1, 1983. In such systems voice messages are input by a user for later retrieval and output to other users identified on an associated address list. When such other users access the system, messages addressed to them may be retrieved and output.
Other systems for digital storage and retrieval of voice messages have also been developed and marketed. These systems are intended for the original equipment manufacture (OEM) market and provide the basic digital voice storage and retrieval functionalities, such as: analog to digital conversion, speech compression, storage and retrieval of voice message files, digital to analog conversion, and control of voice ports. Typical of such commercially available OEM digital voice storage and retrieval systems is the DSC 2000 "Voiceserver" marketed by the Digital Sound Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif. (DSC 2000 and Voiceserver are trademarks of the Digital Sound Corporation.) This system, shown in FIG. 1, together with the operating system and voice message file handling software, also provided by DSC, provides capabilities for multi-channel, real time storage, retrieval and playback of voice messages. The DSC 2000 is intended for use by OEM suppliers in developing their own specialized systems, and has been used by DSC to develop a Voice Mail application.
Accordingly, it is an object of the subject invention to provide a system for digital storage and retrieval of Voice Files.
It is still another object of the subject invention to provide a system combining central dictation capabilities and Voice Mail capabilities.
It is another object of the subject invention to create a new dimension of Voice Mail capability which will allow the originator of a Voice Mail Message to follow up or confirm the message with hardcopy text.
It is another object of the subject invention to create a further new Voice Mail capability which will allow the recipient of a Voice Mail Message to redistribute the message to selected other recipients in hardcopy form.
It is still another object of the subject invention to provide a system for the digital storage and retrieval of Voice Files which has increased capabilities, and flexibility and ease of use in the creation, access, editing and retrieval of Voice Files.
It is a further object of the subject invention to provide a central dictation system which incorporates existing OEM digital voice storage and retrieval systems.
It is still a further object of the subject invention to provide a central dictation system with increased flexibility of control.
More particularly, it is an object of the subject invention to provide a central dictation system having improved ability to assign priorities to Dictation Jobs awaiting transcription and to allocate transcription resources in accordance with changing requirements.
Still more particularly, it is an object of the subject invention to provide a central dictation system which allows a Supervisor increased flexibility in assigning priorities for transcription of Dictation Jobs, and in assigning Dictation Jobs to particular selected transcriptionists. | 2023-09-03T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/8478 |
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| 2024-03-26T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/3044 |
Introduction
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Information content of genome coding sequences unfolds via functions of proteins. Alternative splicing is one of the ways an organism uses for genome manifestation into its proteome. We consider the problem of projection of genetic information into the functional space of the proteome, where the latter is defined as a set of molecular functions performed by proteins. Not all of the functions of proteins manifest themselves at a level of macroscopic phenotype and therefore the notion of redundancy of proteins could arise. However, this may reflect a failure to provide the correct test for the altered phenotype \[[@B1]\].
An inventory of biological functions of protein is documented in resources such as the FunCat \[[@B2]\] and partly in the Gene Ontology \[[@B3]\] and these use biological knowledge. They include a hierarchical list of all known functions performed by biomolecules in a cell. Here we introduce the automated collection and networking of all possible protein functional annotations. The idea of retrieving a set of cellular functions is not completely new, the functional clusters or modules have previously been revealed in prokaryotic cells \[[@B4]\]. The protein modules detected can be attributed to basic metabolic pathways and well-characterized cellular systems on a global scale.
The protein universe is the set of all proteins of all organisms. Recently all currently known sequences were analyzed in terms of families that have single-domain or multidomain architectures and whether they have a known three-dimensional structure \[[@B5]\]. This analysis has shown that growth of new single-domain families in evolution is very slow. Almost all growth comes from new multidomain architectures that are combinations of domains characterized by approximately 15,000 sequence profiles. The major groups of organisms mostly share single-domain families, whereas multidomain architectures are specific and account for species diversity. Due to these findings, it appears the potential protein universe space of evolutionarily allowed sequences is limited \[[@B5]-[@B9]\]. Energy configuration also explains the existence of preferred structures or folds among the proteins. The existing structures are more robust to random mutations and therefore are more evolutionary stable. We also consider a limited space of *protein functions* which may exist in a living cell/organism. The confluence of the two concepts, namely limited space of sequences/structures and limited space of functions may provide a new way of studying molecular evolution.
Alternative splicing is a molecular mechanism that produces multiple protein isoforms from a single gene. AS is considered to be a way of proteome diversification to bridge a complexity gap between the relatively low number of genes in a mammalian genome and the variety of functions in a cell. Analysis of possible changes in protein functions introduced by alternative splicing events is also well developed. An abundance of work, such as \[[@B10]-[@B16]\], reviews the problem in detail.
The investigation of functional diversity of splice variants \[[@B16]\] is similar to our approach. The algorithm predicts possible mRNA isoforms from genes. The statistics of different GO categories presume that DNA replication and chromosome cycle genes have more protein isoforms than the average. The study is limited, however, by the data preparation approach, which is computational prediction.
An interesting insight into alternative splicing events on the protein sequence level revealed that the size of splicing events follows the power law distribution \[[@B15]-[@B19]\] and the majority of isoforms harbour only one or two alterations \[[@B15],[@B16]\]. Authors also examined the splicing events in the context of protein 3D structures and found that the boundaries of alternative splicing regions generally occur in coil regions of secondary structures and exposed residues and the majority of the sequences involved in splicing are located on the surface of proteins.
All of the investigations of proteome function and complexity analysis done to date \[[@B4],[@B7]-[@B14]\] are concentrated around domains as structural evolutionary conserved units (amino acid sequences of proteins). Here we investigate a large set of protein functions in living cells despite the domains, which contribute to them.
Recent reviews of evolution of the protein universe \[[@B5]-[@B9]\] suggest that the structure of a protein is an entity conserved during the evolution. A structure stands behind a given function. We extend this notion to a domain of protein functions. A tertiary structure of a protein may be achieved via different primary structures. Therefore, we analyze a conservation and acquisition of new functions in multicellular eukaryotic organisms via projection of information content of a genome into the functional space of the proteome by alternative splicing. It may be easier for evolution to acquire a new function by alternative splicing than by creation of a new conservative domain structure.
The FANTOM project \[[@B20]\] and other transcriptome sequencing data (such as H-Invitational \[[@B21],[@B22]\]) present the opportunity to analyze the exact proteomic impact of a given stretch of DNA sequence, and we have used this data in our study.
Results
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Data sources and statistics of functional labels.
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The following organisms have been used for the analysis: *C. elegans* (CAEEL) *D. melanogaster* (DROME), *A. thaliana* (ARATH), *C. intestinalis* (CIOIN), *T. rubripes* (FUGRU), *M. musculus* (MOUSE), *H. sapiens* (HUMAN). The information about alternative splicing variants and sequences has been provided by various sources, listed in the Table [1](#T1){ref-type="table"}. About 70% of all proteins can be attributed to keywords using both InterProScan and BLASTP mapping. At the moment there are a limited number of resources providing information about alternative splicing data for a given organism. We use data provided by the FANTOM consortium for human and mouse transcriptome as a case study to investigate the SFN features thoroughly. FLs for the two species with highest occurrences are listed in the Table [2](#T2){ref-type="table"}. A description of FLs for human and mouse as well as the description of the common FL reported for the both species are presented in the Additional files [1](#S1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}[2](#S2){ref-type="supplementary-material"}[3](#S3){ref-type="supplementary-material"}. In this paper, the Isoform Protein Set (IPS) represents the protein sets originating from a single given part of the genome or transcriptional unit.
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Database sources and statistics of Functional labels (FLs), proteins, and fractions of poly- and monoform TUs in different species.
Organism Database \# FLs \#Proteins Poly/MonoTUs (%)
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ARATH TAIR/RIKEN 2463 27247 6/8920 (0.07)
CAEEL WormBase 1150 7854 65/4200 (1.55)
DROME FlyBase 2335 11129 141/7185 (1.96)
CIOIN Ensembl 2934 12417 505/8567 (5.89)
FUGRU Ensembl 3306 24245 843/10760 (7.83)
MOUSE RIKEN/FANTOM 5172 52957 2353/18574 (12.67)
HUMAN RIKEN/FANTOM 5183 49829 2315/15944 (14.52)
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Top 10 functional labels for human and mouse data sets
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Human Mouse
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Number of occurence FL ID Keywords Number of occurence FL ID Keywords
172 FLh5145 RNA-binding 245 FLm4392 Kinase\
Nucleotide-binding\
ATP-binding\
Serine/threonine-protein kinase\
Transferase
178 FLh4376 Kinase\ 258 FLm4574 Membrane
Nucleotide-binding\
ATP-binding\
Serine/threonine-protein kinase\
Transferase
207 FLh2670 DNA-binding\ 267 FLm3271 G-protein coupled receptor\
Nuclear protein\ Membrane\
Transcription\ Pheromone response\
Transcription regulation Receptor\
Transducer\
Transmembrane
303 FLh4819 Metal-binding\ 321 FLm4818 Metal-binding\
Zinc\ Zinc\
Zinc-finger Zinc-finger
316 FLh4994 Nuclear protein 342 FLm3276 G-protein coupled receptor\
Membrane\
Receptor\
Transducer\
Transmembrane
324 FLh5132 Ribonucleoprotein\ 394 FLm4993 Nuclear protein
Ribosomal protein
332 FLh3280 G-protein coupled receptor\ 501 FLm5125 Ribonucleoprotein\
Membrane\ Ribosomal protein
Receptor\
Transducer\
Transmembrane
489 FLh3273 G-protein coupled receptor\ 902 FLm2595 DNA-binding regulation\
Membrane\ Metal-binding\
Olfaction\ Nuclear protein\
Receptor\ Transcription\
Sensory transduction\ Transcription\
Transducer\ Zinc\
Transmembrane Zinc-finger
882 FLh2637 DNA-binding\ 950 FLm4724 Membrane\
Metal-binding\ Transmembrane
Nuclear protein\
Transcription\
Transcription regulation\
Zinc\
Zinc-finger
1011 FLh4717 Membrane\ 1091 FLm3270 G-protein coupled receptor\
Transmembrane Membrane\
Olfaction\
Receptor\
Sensory transduction\
Transducer\
Transmembrane
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Classification of transcriptional units (TUs)
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The set of TUs can be broken down into two groups according to their ability to produce protein isoforms with identical or different functional assignments. We define them as the monoform and polyform group, respectively. The monoform group includes the majority of TUs. The protein sequences produced by these transcriptional units can differ, but all of them have the same single FL assigned.
The number of TUs that produce polyform sequences varies from 0.06 to 15% in different organisms. We estimated the P-values for frequencies of keywords overrepresented in the human and mouse sets; the results are presented in Table [3](#T3){ref-type="table"}. The monoform group has a smaller number of terms in comparison to the polyform group. It also has less functional preferences among keywords that could suggest less dependency on the variation of functions. The difference between the two groups can be noticed in the following trends: the monoform group is more bound to ribosomal g-coupled receptors, while the polyform group includes more kinases, nuclear and nucleic acid binding proteins.
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Keyword over-representation statistics. (1) Monoform TUs and (2) polyform TUs.
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Human Mouse Keyword
order by p-value p-value order by p-value p-value
1 7.81E-20 1 4.24E-51 G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR
2 1.38E-18 3 4.18E-44 TRANSDUCER
3 2.21E-16 2 1.58E-50 OLFACTION
4 9.54E-09 6 4.64E-07 RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN
5 8.06E-08 4 1.58E-32 SENSORY TRANSDUCTION
6 5.4E-06 7 0.000989 RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN
7 \-- 5 2.29E-14 RECEPTOR
**2.**
Human Mouse Keyword
order by p-value p-value order by p-value p-value
1 2.66E-45 2 3.06E-71 ATP-BINDING
2 2.36E-39 1 2.04E-78 NUCLEOTIDE-BINDING
3 5.43E-22 7 4.29E-20 METAL-BINDING
4 3.88E-19 4 3.15E-27 TRANSFERASE
5 6.36E-17 3 1.34E-31 KINASE
6 1.11E-15 9 4.27E-18 TYROSINE-PROTEIN KINASE
7 8.91E-15 5 2.69E-25 SERINE-THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE
8 1.07E-14 8 1.12E-19 HYDROLASE
9 1.05E-10 \-- IRON
10 1.25E-10 6 3.08E-24 NUCLEAR PROTEIN
11 \-- 10 1.44E-13 TRANSCRIPTION
Only the top 10 keywords are included in the polyform statistics
Arabidopsis presents an extreme case for the data, in both the statistical and functional results. Figure [1](#F1){ref-type="fig"} represents a correlation between the average number of splice variants produces by a TU and a fraction of polyform TUs. There is a good correlation between the data sets, but the Arabidopsis (marked by a red point) is a clear outlier.
{#F1}
Relationships between the keywords and the number of exons of a given gene
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To do this analysis we retrieved from the UniProt database the list of RefSeq Protein IDs corresponding to each keyword. For each Protein ID the corresponding Nucleotide ID was retrieved from UCSC genome database (genome releases hg19 and mm9), along with its exon annotation. Thus, for each RefSeq Protein ID the predicted number of its exons can be obtained. In the proteins annotated by terms G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR and RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN and related to monoform TUs, the average numbers of exons per gene are 3.7 and 5.5 for human and 3.8 and 5.7 for mouse, respectively. All these frequency distributions are skewed. The genes with the highest occurrence encode single-exon proteins. The polyform group of genes, represented by the most GO enriched polyform TUs have the keywords NUCLEOTIDE-BINDING, TRANSFERASE and KINASE. In the proteins annotated by these terms, the average numbers of exons per gene are 16.2,13.5,16.5 for human and 14.8, 11.9, 14.7 for mouse, respectively. The frequency distribution of the number of exons in all these cases has gamma-like frequency distribution with maximum nearby average value. These results suggest that differences between the monoform and polyform groups of TUs can be strongly associated with*distinct* structural complexity of the genes and its products.
Functional switches in the polyform group of TUs
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The function of protein isoforms derived from the same TU could differ significantly. We searched through the polyform group for TUs which may be potential candidates for such functional switches. The Jackard distance between sets of keywords assigned to a given TU was calculated. About 0.8% of the TUs analyzed in human and mouse have the distance equal to zero and present candidates for the functional switches. The method can be applied to genome data to reveal potential functional switches among transcriptional units. There are very interesting cases where the protein function changes dramatically, like PA10101 in human switching from protease activity to oxygen transport.
Shared FLs: functional annotation
---------------------------------
220 FLs are common among all the organisms analyzed. We extracted the top 30 keywords overrepresented in the set of FLs; the diagram is presented in Figure [2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}. They describe cellular functions corresponding to membrane, transport, receptors, and nucleic acid binding and may be used to deduce a common core of ancient functions acquired by the eukaryotic protogenome.
{#F2}
Statistics of proteome FLs and transcriptome splice-variants and FL-TU projection events
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For detailed analysis of the statistical characteristics of protein function -- mRNA relations we focus on data sets for two mammalian organisms: mouse and human. The mouse and human transcriptomes have the best annotations of TUs of the data analysed. We used TUs and splice variant information provided by the FANTOM consortium (see Materials and Methods) and FLs defined by our algorithm. We provided an identification of statistics of three transcript-protein functional relations in the mouse and in the human data sets.
First, we found 23640 FLs in the mouse proteome and 20929 FLs in the human proteome. For each of these two sets of FLs, we selected 20928 mouse TUs and 18260 human TUs related to at least one FL in the given TU for mouse and for human, respectively. Note, in our analysis, these TUs can represent 3mRNAs translated to known proteins. After that, we identified a model of frequency distribution of the number of occurrences of FLs in a given TU. Figures [3A](#F3){ref-type="fig"} and [3B](#F3){ref-type="fig"} display the empirical frequency distributions of the number of FLs in a given TU in the mouse and in the human data sets, respectively. Both the distribution functions are skewed, for which the most frequent is a single event, however rare events could have occurred on the large dynamical ranges \[[@B23],[@B24]\]. Interestingly, the major fraction (89% (20928/236400)) of mouse TUs translated to proteins exhibits one-to-one relations with corresponding FLs. A very similar fraction of human TUs (87% (18260/20920)) exhibits one-to-one relations with corresponding FLs. The maximum number of distinct FLs in a TU is 9 for both the mouse and the human. The exponential function is fitted well to both the distributions at similar values of exponent constant (Figure [3A](#F3){ref-type="fig"} &[3B](#F3){ref-type="fig"}; Table [4](#T4){ref-type="table"}). However, deviation from simple exponential distribution could be seen on the right tail of the empirical distributions. Note this skewed frequency pattern was observed among all the statistics analysed for other species too (data not presented).
{#F3}
######
Descriptive statistics of three studied Transcript-Protein Function relations in mouse and human. m~1~: number of one-to one relationships (singletons), p~1~: % singletons; Skewness: estimated skewness of the empirical frequency distribution.
1\.
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**FLs in TU** **\# FLs** **Total \# TUs** **\#FLs /\#TUs** **max \# FLs** **n~1~** **p~1~,%** **Skewness**
mouse 23640 20928 1.13 9 18575 88.8 4.05
Hs 20929 18260 1.15 9 15945 87.3 3.99
**2.**
**TUs attributed with FL** **\# FLs** **\#FL attributes** **\# FLs /\# FL attributes** **Max \# FL attributes** **n~1~** **p~1~,%** **Skewness**
mouse 23640 5172 4.58 1091 3198 61.8 25.96
human 20929 5183 4.04 1011 3280 63.3 28.85
**3.**
**\# SpVs in TU** **\#SpVs** **Total \#TUs** **\#SpVs/\#TUs** **Max \# SpVs** **n~1~** **p~1~,%** **Skewness**
mouse 52957 20928 2.53 74 8920 42.6 4.01
human 49828 18260 2.73 73 6957 38.09 5.55
Secondly, we performed goodness-of-fit analysis of the observed frequency distribution of the number of TUs attributed with a given FL (Figures [3C](#F3){ref-type="fig"} &[3D](#F3){ref-type="fig"}). For mouse data, 23640 FLs are projected onto 5183 distinct TU attributes and for human data, 20929 FLs are projected onto 5173 distinct TUs (Table [4.2](#T4){ref-type="table"}). These results show that the observed sizes of the functional space (total number of TLs ) in mouse and human are very similar, and an average of 3.5 and 4.0 FLs are included in the description of mouse and human TUs, respectively. Taking into account the mostly one-to-one associations between TUs and FLs, these results suggest that the observed sample size of distinct FLs forming functional space is much smaller than the size of the structural space of corresponding TUs.
Figures [3C](#F3){ref-type="fig"} &[3D](#F3){ref-type="fig"} show the frequency distribution of a given FL in TUs projected on the transcriptome sample of the mouse and human, respectively. These empirical distributions can be well approximated by the standard Pareto discrete function ((2) at *b*=0; \[[@B7],[@B8],[@B17],[@B23]\]) which could be transformed to a linear trend in log-log plot coordinates. However, some additional skewness may be seen at the right tail of both the observed distributions. A goodness-of fit analysis of the right tails of the frequency distributions suggests that an admixture (second model) frequency distribution associated with relatively complex combination FLs (*m*=10,11,...,*J*) might exist. For mouse and human data sets, the second model of the left parts of the frequency distributions is fitted well by the generalized discrete Pareto (GDP) function (2).
Estimates of the distribution slope parameters, (*k+1*), of the individual models of the mixture frequency distribution (Table [4.2](#T4){ref-type="table"}) show that statistics of TU complexity (defined by the number of FL in a given TU) in the mouse and in the human proteomes are quite similar. In particular, the slope parameter (*k+1*) of estimated frequency distributions is \~ 2 (known as the Zipf-Lotka law \[[@B23]\]).
The extremely long right tail of the frequency distribution on Figure [3C](#F3){ref-type="fig"} &[3D](#F3){ref-type="fig"} corresponds to FLs describing the most common functional categories (see Fig.[3](#F3){ref-type="fig"}). The results of Table [4](#T4){ref-type="table"} suggest an admixture of random processes in FL formation. The best-fit parameter *b* in the GDP has the value 2.20 ± 0.004 (p\<0.0001) for mouse data and b=2.06 ± 0.015 (p\<0.0001) for human data.
Thirdly, for mouse and human, the frequency distribution of the number of splice variants distributed in the set of TUs selected due to association with annotated protein functions is presented in Figures [3E](#F3){ref-type="fig"} &[3F](#F3){ref-type="fig"}. A skewness of the frequency distribution in the log-log plot is noticeable (Table [4.3](#T4){ref-type="table"}). Most events on the left side of the empirical frequency distributions of the number of splice variants can be fitted well by an exponential function with exponent parameter 0.5 ± 0.25 and 0.49 ± 0.006, for mouse and human respectively (Table [5](#T5){ref-type="table"}). However, the right part of the frequency distributions of the human data (at m\>9 splice variants per TU) has a longer tail and can be fitted well by a GDP function at *k*= 4.16 ± 0.127 and *b*=8.75 ± 0.282 (Table [5](#T5){ref-type="table"}). This distribution suggests an appearance of hub nodes in the corresponding functional networks of proteins. Due to the non-zero value parameter *b*, the network is a scale dependent network \[[@B8],[@B18]\]. This indicates an additional mechanistic source of functional complexity of interconnections of splice variants and protein functions in human. 280 TUs inducing 10 or more splice variants could be considered to be a novel confidence TUs sub-set providing specific source of functional diversity of the human proteome versus the mouse proteome.
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A mixture probabilistic model and best-fit parameters of the model for Splice variant-TU relationships based on available mouse and human data
Splice variants-TU\'s Mouse Human
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Model 3:*P =(1-s)\*P1+s\*P2*
*P1= a\* exp(-bm)*
*A* 13898 ± 9509.3 11279 ± 119.9
*B* 0.5 ± 0.25 0.49 ± 0.006
*a*: p-value 0.07 \<0.0001
*b*: p-value 0.0836 \<0.0001
Std Error of Estimator 3749 48.8
*P2= c/(m+b)\^(k+1)*
*K* NAN 4.16 ± 0.127
*B* NAN 8.75 ± 0.282
*k*:p-value NAN \<0.0001
*b*:p-value NAN \<0.0001
Std Error of Estimator NAN 2.7032
Splice-Function Networks (SFN): statistics and features
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We define a Splice-Function Network as a graph built on the basis of a contingency matrix for TUs and FLs. In the analysis we used the polyform group of TUs to build a diagonal matrix of connections between FLs attributed to the TUs. Each element of the matrix is a number of TUs shared between the pair of FLs. Every node in the graph represents a functional label and an edge connecting two nodes corresponds to TU(s), which produce the splice variants attributed to the same FL.
Figure [4](#F4){ref-type="fig"} displays the networks for the organisms analyzed. The vertebrata SFNs differ distinctly from others by the following common features: central core of many interconnected nodes; small aggregates of 2-15 nodes and single-node aggregates.
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Network degree distribution also reflects the differences in the organisms. Vertebrata demonstrate a family of skewed GDP-like distribution functions of SFN links; a shape of these distribution functions corresponds to the appearance of a number of hubs and the connectivity degree interconnecting hubs in the network and correlates with sample size (complexity) of the proteomes. The SFNs for the organisms have common features, which include a central cluster containing about 70% of all nodes, several smaller clusters with 5-20 nodes and an array of single node aggregates (Figure [4](#F4){ref-type="fig"}). The detailed picture of the central cluster for FLs that are shared between human and mouse is displayed in Figure [5](#F5){ref-type="fig"}. The size of the nodes is proportional to the number of edges connecting the nodes.
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It is interesting that the parameters of the network (the number of nodes, number of edges, etc.) are well correlated with biological complexity of the studied organisms (Table [6](#T6){ref-type="table"}).
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SFN statistics and its relation to organism complexity
Organism \#nodes \#edges Hetero-geneity Average \# neighbors
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ARATH 11 7 0.35 1.27
CAEEL 68 53 0.7 1.56
DROME 254 155 0.48 1.22
CIOIN 676 503 0.88 1.49
FUGRU 997 848 1.07 1.7
MOUSE 2562 2594 1.67 2.03
HUMAN 2511 2573 1.89 2.05
We analysed statistics of the distribution of the links between functional units for human and mouse data. The functional labels with the highest number of links are presented in Table [7](#T7){ref-type="table"}. They include kinases of different types, transcriptional regulators and DNA and RNA binding proteins. Statistical analysis of the number of links from each node of the graph for both proteomes demonstrates a similar distribution of the empirical data for both sets. The comparison of tables [2](#T2){ref-type="table"} and [7](#T7){ref-type="table"} reveals the functional categories in them are very similar.
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Functional labels with the highest number of links.
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FL ID Number of links Keywords
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Flc3553 11 Membrane
Flc3674 11 Membrane\
Transmembrane\
Transport
Flc2789 14 GTP-binding\
Nucleotide-binding
Flc3759 15 \|Metal-binding\
Zinc\
Zinc-finger
Flc3914 15 \|Nuclear protein
Flc4038 15 \|RNA-binding
Flc3398 16 \|Kinase\
Nucleotide-binding\
ATP-binding\
Serine/threonine-protein kinase\
Transferase
Flc2047 17 \|DNA-binding\
Nuclear protein\
Transcription\
Transcription regulation
Flc2018 22 \|DNA-binding\
Metal-binding\
Nuclear protein\
Transcription\
Transcription regulation\
Zinc\
Zinc-finger
Flc3505 40 \|Membrane\
Transmembrane
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Data presented for FLs shared between human and mouse.
Discussion
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We define protein function as an elementary act, which the molecule(s) commits in a living cell. FL is an approximation of the protein function obtained via an automated annotation. The number of FLs varies in the species studied, it has a positive correlation with organism complexity (Figure [4](#F4){ref-type="fig"}). The number of possible functions picked up by FLs which were found in the mouse and human proteomes are 23640 and 20929, respectively. The numbers of distinct FLs used for the description of these TUs found in the mouse and human proteomes are relatively small (5172 and 5183, respectively; see also Additional files [1](#S1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}-[2](#S2){ref-type="supplementary-material"}).
Several types of statistical distributions are observed in our analysis. For instance, the analysis of statistical features of links in the FL - TU interconnection network for complex eukaryotic organisms provides an exponential probability function describing functional complexity of TUs in terms of FLs. This function fits equally well the mouse and human data set at the same value of exponent parameter. More complex behaviour could be observed in the frequency distribution of the number of distinct biological attributes (keywords) of a given FL in the proteome subset related to studied TUs.
For the mouse and human data, our goodness-of-fit analysis of the left part of the empirical frequency distribution is less complex at m\<10: the frequency distribution is fitted well by simple power law (standard Pareto function \[[@B23]\]) with exponent (*k*+1=2). This result assumes the scale-free network statistics function with exponent parameter 2 and shift parameter b=0. Note, similar statistics could emerge in the random graphs when a nodal degree distribution in the graph follows asymptotically (at large enough *m*) GDP function with constant exponent (*k+1*), where *k+1*≈3 and *b*=0 \[[@B17]\]. The distribution function of the events could be described as a stochastic process, which has no or very minor influence on restrictions and/or evolution-driven connections \[[@B7]-[@B9],[@B18],[@B25]-[@B27]\]. Thus, by a scale-free network model, a new biological function could be acquired or lost by a TU almost arbitrarily with or without selection pressure. This freedom of functional acquisition could have been essential for early biological evolution. On the other hand, one could suggest incompleteness of data and that restrictions and novel interactions could appear in the network when the dataset becomes larger \[[@B7],[@B8],[@B19],[@B25]\].
Another type of relationship was found for statistics of the number of AS isoforms within a TU (Figure [3E](#F3){ref-type="fig"} &[3F](#F3){ref-type="fig"}). The dynamical range of the number of isoforms per TU is about one order smaller than for the number TUs per FL. The smaller skewness of the distribution of the number isoforms per TU could be associated with restrictions on diversity of isoforms, which could be explained by regulation of alternative splicing itself. The process could not be arbitrary as it is dangerous for a cell. Interestingly, the difference in complexity of proteomes may be reflected by differences between statistics of the number isoforms for human and mouse. This difference is associated with enrichment of more diverse AS for more complex organisms (e.g. human). This suggests that the human reuses domains more frequently in different proteins, and invents more diverse multi-domain proteins than the mouse \[[@B7]\].
The most restricted part of the statistics studied is shown by relationships between between FL and TU (Figure [3C](#F3){ref-type="fig"} &[3D](#F3){ref-type="fig"}). The long tail of the distribution includes the most common functional categories, presented in Fig.[3](#F3){ref-type="fig"} and thus may reflect the most conservative part of the proteome functional space, which does not evolve or evolves very slow. The left part of the distribution, in contrast, represents a subset of unique or rare functions and therefore varies between human and mouse data. The more complex organism contains more variable sets of protein functions to reveal the complexity. Table [6](#T6){ref-type="table"} shows that there are 2.5 and 2.7 protein isoforms per TU for the human and mouse proteome, respectively, which are consistent with recent estimates \[[@B15],[@B21]\]. The authors in \[[@B15]\] analyzed a smaller data set from the SWISS-PROT database and revealed that 4,399 proteins can be documented with 8220 protein isoforms averaging about two isoforms per protein. Authors in \[[@B21]\] have identified 18297 unique AS variants associated with a 6877 loci representative data set of the human genome (2.7 variants per loci), made up of 37670 alternative splicing exons (2.1 exons per variant).
Our results confirmed previous observations (\[[@B10],[@B14]\]) that genes can be classified according to their ability to change the function of encoded proteins via alternative splicing. The majority of TUs (above 85%) do not change the function at all. We could conclude that in \~50% of mouse and human proteins, AS modulates proteins and perhaps could essentially modulate protein interconnection networks. These facts may highlight the functions in the cell, which require steady-state maintenance. For example, household functions can be encoded without the use of alternative splice regulations. In this case, different splice protein isoforms having equal functions could also provide the necessary concentration of the protein product in the cell. As we observed, the monoform group contains nucleic acid-related functions, such as nucleosome, ribosome, transcription regulation, etc., which means the proteins could be produced in large amounts for the important functions of the cell. In contrast, the polyform group contains functions such as enzymatic activities, ion channels, receptors and regulators (Table [3](#T3){ref-type="table"}). In this case the idea of building blocks of exons could be proposed. Indeed, our results suggest that differences between the monoform and polyform groups of TUs can be strongly associated with distinct structural complexity of the genes and their products.
We suggest from the comparison of Tables [2](#T2){ref-type="table"} and Table [7](#T7){ref-type="table"} that the most common functions are at the same time the most linked ones in alternative splicing events. Both sets include kinases, transport proteins, signaling pathways, nucleic acid binding and regulation of transcription. A high frequency of AS in kinases genes in human genome was reported in \[[@B26]\]. They belong to the central cluster of the functional network and may represent a snapshot of evolutionary processes in the core part of protogenome, containing important regulatory and transport functions, which, as we discussed above, may be essential for organism complexity. Thus reshuffling of the common blocks, responsible for these functions via alternative splicing events could provide material for evolutionary selection.
The polyform group contains alternatively spliced products with altered functions. Whereas the number of functions of proteins increases, the number of polyform TUs follows the trend. The highly demanded functions then become hubs in the SFN and provide connectivity. The network also becomes more stable and less sensitive to removal of such hubs (data not shown). In some cases the domains are similar, but in different combinations, while in others, the domains differ considerably, resulting in diverse functions. TUs with a high level of functional homogeneity may be reusing certain sets of domain combinations, but with domain substitutions in certain positions to provide a small variation in function, for example, substrate or binding specificity. Higher eukaryotes tend to have multi-domain proteins, which provide flexibility in accessing more functions simply by alterations in domain combinations \[[@B7],[@B18],[@B27]\]. Those TUs with no functional homogeneity are likely to use alternative splicing with mutual exclusivity, potentially using certain exons only in certain isoforms. This would result in isoforms having fewer exons, and thus fewer domains in common. Alternative splicing of this extreme shows the power of the process to increase genetic diversity and complexity without increasing genome sequence complexity.
The connections between functional labels via hub TUs provide insights into the problem of proto-genes. The central cluster of interconnected FLs on the graphical view of functional space transitions can be considered to be a candidate for the set of functions encoded by the ancient proto-genome. The transition from one function to another can be achieved via common sets of exons. The functions could be encoded by ancient genes, sharing a common pool of exons, which keep the relationships to each other undetectable by other methods of analysis. The transitions between different functions can also represent evolutionary plasticity of the genome where the same function can be achieved in different ways. The absence of correlation between amino acids similarity of protein domains and the number of transcriptional units connecting two functional labels also confirms this idea.
Materials and methods
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Data Set
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The source databases are described in the table [1](#T1){ref-type="table"}. We used FANTOM3 RTPS (representative transcript and protein set) for mouse (Fantom3 RTPS 2004-10-27 build) and human (Human RTPS 2004-10-17 build). The datasets are available at <ftp://fantom.gsc.riken.jp/RTPS> as well as DNA sequences for corresponding transcriptional units. Details of the RTPS production pipeline can be found in \[[@B28]\]. IPS for mouse and human protein sets were used, which contain 73559 and 72047 sequences respectively.
Keyword and number of exons
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To study the relationships between the keywords (G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR, RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN, NUCLEOTIDE-BINDING, TRANSFERASE, and KINASE) and the number of exons of a given gene we retrieved from the UniProt database the list of RefSeq Protein IDs corresponding to each keyword. For each Protein ID the corresponding Nucleotide ID was retrieved from UCSC genome database (genome releases hg19 and mm9), along with its exon annotation. Thus, for each RefSeq Protein ID the predicted number of its exons was obtained.
Functional label mapping
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A dataflow diagram of the functional label generation is presented in Figure [6](#F6){ref-type="fig"}. The functional labels were assigned to protein sequences using combinations of UniProt keyword IDs. We used InterProScan version 4.0 and InterPro database \[[@B29]\] version 18.0. InterProScan provides results only for complete matches for InterPro entries; therefore the result set is free from fragments and partial matches. The proteins were scanned against the SwissProt database using BLAST software and the corresponding keywords were retrieved for all exact matches with SwissProt sequences. All the redundant keyword IDs have been removed from the combination leaving only unique keywords for each protein sequence.
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The functional label is *a set* of keyword IDs assigned to a particular protein. We collected and sorted all the combinations and assigned unique numbers for each of the marks separately for human and mouse proteins. The following notation has been used: FL\[h,m,c\]XX where h,m,c corresponds to FL set -- human, mouse or common and XX -- unique number.
Keyword and GO term statistics
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We used GeneMerge software \[[@B30]\] to calculate p-values for overrepresented keywords and GO terms for different groups of TUs. The threshold for selection of the overrepresented terms was set to 0.0001. Rank scores for functional or categorical overrepresentation within the study set of genes is obtained using the hypergeometric distribution. The program uses the modified Bonferroni correction for p-values due to multi-dimensional nature of the data.
Building of contingency matrix and networks graphs
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To study the relationships between TUs and protein functional space, we constructed basic contingency tables, which show the responses of FL as a function of TU translation. Non-zero elements of the table indicate co-incidence of events belonging to the both sets. Such a table can provide complete statistical characterization within and between events of both data sets. We created the contingency table for both species and then derived FL--TU--FL links from it. The relations have been used for graphs building with the Cytoscape software.
A mixture probabilistic model
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We assume that the probability distribution function of structural-functional interconnection events (e.g. the number of distinct FLs associated with a given protein translated in TU) could be modeled as a sum of two distributions:
, (1)
where *P* is the mixture probability distribution function of the interconnection events, *X* is the random number of events; *m*=1,2,3,\...,J, J=max{m}. *P~1~* is the probability distribution function of "low-complexity" events (belonging to set 1), 0\<s\<1 is the fraction of events derived by function *P~1~*. *P~2~* is the probability distribution function of occurrences of "high-complexity" events (belonging to set 2).
We model *P~1~* using the exponential function, standard discrete Pareto function (power law) or the generalized discrete Pareto probability distribution function. We estimated parameters of the functions *P~1~* and*P~2~* and the weight parameter α using algorithm published in \[[@B31]\].
The Generalized Discrete Pareto Probability Function
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The Generalized Discrete Pareto Probability Function \[[@B18],[@B19]\] is used for parameterization of skewed long-tail empirical frequency distributions of our study. It is written by the following:
, (2)
where the *f(m)* is the probability that a randomly chosen object occurs *m* times in the entire sample. The function *f* involves two unknown parameters, *k*, and *b*, where *k*\>0, and *b*\>1; the normalization factor is the generalized Riemann zeta-function value:. Note that *J*, the maximum observed abundance, may be a *sample-size* dependent quantity *J=J(M)*\[[@B18],[@B19]\]. The methods of estimation of parameters of the function (2) are presented in \[[@B19]\].
Statistical methods and Software
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We used descriptive statistics and tests provided by SPSS-13 and StatXact-7 software, and goodness of fit analysis and graphical tools from SigmaPlot-8.
Competing interests
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors\' contributions
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AK developed algorithms, carried out the sequence and network analysis and contributed to the discussion. VK developed statistical analysis algorithms, carried out the statistical calculations and contributed to the discussion. NM participated in the discussion and data analysis and helped to draft the manuscript. AK and VK drafted and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Supplementary Material
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###### Additional file 1
###### Additional file 2
###### Additional file 3
Acknowledgment
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We thank Piroon Jenjaroenpoon for his help in exon data analysis. This work was supported by BII/A-STAR, Singapore. We also thank Prof. M. Niranjan for the review of the manuscript and valuable suggestions, which improved the quality of the paper.
This article has been published as part of *BMC Genomics* Volume 11 Supplement 1, 2010: International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology Approaches to Analysis of Genome Complexity and Regulatory Gene Networks. The full contents of the supplement are available online at <http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11?issue=S1>.
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Graphene has been a subject of intense research on the basis of its superior optical transparency, electrical conductivity, and mechanical strength[@b1][@b2][@b3][@b4][@b5][@b6]. Recently, Rafiee *et al.* reported another superior property of graphene, "wetting transparency", which implies that the van der Waals (vdW) interaction between graphene and any liquid placed on top of it is negligible, allowing the "transmission" of the substrate contact angle above graphene. The graphene wetting transparency was spotlighted because of its versatile potential applications[@b7][@b8][@b9][@b10]. Yet, Shih *et al.*[@b11] showed that the contact angle is significantly affected by the vdW interaction of monolayer graphene and the wetting of the substrate is partially transmitted only for substrates with moderate contact angles (40° \~ 90°). With addition of more graphene layers, the wetting transparency diminishes as the vdW interaction by graphene becomes dominant over the vdW interaction by the substrate.
Although Shih *et al.*[@b11] established a framework to understand and analyze the wetting transparency, the theory can be improved by incorporating two critical factors that are very important in modeling real experiments. First, the Boltzmann distribution was used to model the water density profile without considering the bulk modulus, a measure of resistance to hydrostatic compression, of the liquid. If a few mathematical flaws are corrected, the theory predicts unrealistically high water density (up to an order of magnitude larger than the ambient density) above the graphene-covered hydrophilic surface. Second, while the theory considered a completely flat surface, it can be improved to explain a wide range of experimental data for surfaces with unknown roughness, if various wetting modes are concerned.
In this work, we report a unifying framework to account for the bulk modulus of the liquid as well as the surface roughness to realistically describe the wetting phenomena. First, we correct a few mathematical mistakes of the previous work in calculating the van der Waals (vdW) interaction energy between the liquid and the substrate. With the corrections, the previous theory predicts zero contact angle for any hydrophilic solid covered by graphene, i.e. complete breakdown of wetting transparency. By adjusting the contact distance between substrate and liquid, the theory can fit experimental data supporting partial wetting transparency (See [Supplementary Information](#S1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}). Still, the theory suffers from the prediction of unrealistically high liquid density because the intermolecular interactions among liquid molecules were disregarded. We employ the hydrostatic equation coupled with the experimental water density-pressure curve to correctly capture the intermolecular interaction by incorporating the bulk modulus in computing the liquid density profile. With aforementioned corrections, we show that our theory explains the experimental results for flat substrates. In addition, we extend the theory for substrates with roughness[@b7][@b11][@b12][@b13] using various conventional wetting modes[@b14] as well as for substrates covered with multi-layered graphene sheets.
Results
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Accurate evaluation of the van der Waals interaction energy for flat surfaces
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The contact angle θ can be determined by the Young-Dupre equation[@b15][@b16], , where γ~L~ refers to the liquid surface tension. The vdW interactions per unit area between liquid and substrate, Φ, can be computed from where w(z) refers to the vdW interaction between one liquid molecule and the substrate, is the liquid density profile, and z is the distance between the molecule and the substrate. Monolayer graphene is transparent if Φ~S~ for any bare solid is identical to Φ~GS~ for the graphene-covered surface. [Figure 1a](#f1){ref-type="fig"} shows the relationship between the contact angle on the monolayer graphene-covered surface, **θ**~**GS**~, and the contact angle on the bare solid, **θ**~**S**~. The previous study[@b11] revealed that the lower bound of Φ~GS~ is the Φ for free standing monolayer graphene, which implies that the upper bound of **θ**~**GS**~ is the contact angle of the monolayer graphene ([Fig. 1a](#f1){ref-type="fig"}). However, a higher contact angle (**θ**~**GS**~ \> 120°) was reported for the conformal graphene film on a rough copper surface[@b12]. Also, if the mathematical errors in vdW interaction is corrected (see Methods), the theory predicts **θ**~**GS**~ = 0° for any solid with **θ**~**S**~\<105° ([Fig. 1a](#f1){ref-type="fig"}), indicating a complete breakdown of wetting transparency. It does not mean that the main conclusion of the previous study is incorrect, because the theory can still fit to experimental data with the modification (See [Supplementary Information](#S1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}).
To understand the origin of the discrepancy, we plot the liquid density profile as a function of the distance z from the graphene layer in [Fig. 1b](#f1){ref-type="fig"}. When the bare solid having a contact angle of 45° is covered with a monolayer graphene, the liquid density at z = δ~GL~ is predicted to be about 8 times the density *ρ*~*L*0~ at the ambient conditions. Here, δ~GL~ refers to the equilibrium distance between the bottom of liquid and the graphene layer. The peak density of 8*ρ*~*L*0~ is unphysical because water solidifies at a much lower density[@b17]. Also, the highest water density was reported to be 1.5 \~ 2.5*ρ*~*L*0~ in molecular dynamics simulations[@b18][@b19][@b20]. The density profile was significantly overestimated because it was computed by without considering the intermolecular interaction among liquid molecules. Instead of the intermolecular potential that cannot be computed analytically, the bulk modulus can be incorporated in computing the density profile to account for the resistance to hydrostatic compression.
In order to correctly account for the liquid bulk modulus, we compute the density profile by coupling a hydrostatic equation, where P(z) is the pressure profile of liquid, with the experimental pressure-density relationship of the water from 1 atm to 1 GPa (the maximum pressure of liquid on the super hydrophilic substrate) measured at room temperature ([Fig. 1c](#f1){ref-type="fig"})[@b21]. Beyond 1GPa, water solidifies[@b17]. The pressure-density relationship can be fitted to the 2^nd^ order polynomial . The bulk modulus cannot be considered as a constant for the wide range of pressure considered in this study. Combining the hydrostatic equation and the pressure-density relationship, we can obtain the liquid profile P(z) as a function of z from
where and P~0~ = 1 atm. After taking the bulk modulus into account, we obtain a realistic prediction of density as depicted in [Fig. 1b](#f1){ref-type="fig"}. In addition, we set the solid-graphene equilibrium distance *δ*~*GS*~ as 3 Å and the solid-water distance *δ*~*SL*~ as 3 \~ 4 Å to match the reported values[@b5][@b6][@b22], both of which were set to excessively large in the previous work (see [Supplementary Information](#S1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}). We note that the density profile can be further improved by incorporating the finite size of the liquid droplet and density oscillation in the z direction observed in molecular dynamics[@b18][@b19][@b20]. With the density correction, the theoretical prediction agrees well with the experimental contact angle measurements with flat substrates ([Fig. 1a](#f1){ref-type="fig"}). Most contact angle measurement data for flat substrates[@b7][@b11] lie between the two curves with δ~SL~ = 3 Å and δ~SL~ = 4 Å, which implies that monolayer graphene has a limited wetting transparency for hydrophilic surfaces.
Prediction of contact angles for rough surfaces
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A gap nonetheless remains between the experimental measurements and the theoretical predictions for hydrophobic surfaces. Since experiments with **θ**~**S**~ ≥ 90° were conducted on rough substrates, we analyze the wetting on bare rough surfaces by the conventional wetting theory with three possible wetting modes: penetration (P), Wenzel (W), and Cassie-Baxter (CB) states ([Fig. 2a](#f2){ref-type="fig"})[@b14]. We then model the graphene-covered rough substrate either by a rough graphene sheet on a rough substrate (GRSR) model or a flat graphene sheet on a rough substrate (GFSR) model. The former considers conformal contact made between a graphene layer and moderately rough surfaces, whereas the latter describes non-conformal contact on severely rough surfaces. From the conventional wetting theory on a rough surface, we obtained the contact angles ***θ*****′**~***GS***~ of the GRSR and GFSR models as functions of the inherent graphene film contact angle **θ**~**G**~, the contact angle of a graphene covered flat substrate **θ**~**GS**~, roughness r, and the fraction of bare substrate area wet by the liquid *f*, as presented in [Table 1](#t1){ref-type="table"}. For GRSR model, the ***θ*****′**~***GS***~ formulae are derived by treating the graphene-covered substrate as a single material with contact angle **θ**~**GS**~, because GRSR model considers conformal contact between graphene film and substrate. For GFSR model where only CB mode is available for the flat surface, the formula is derived by the CB mode for composite surface. A fraction *f* of liquid molecules interacts with both graphene and the substrate, while the other fraction 1 − *f* interacts only with graphene.
The conventional wetting theory holds only if the surface texture has a certain characteristic length scale in roughness because it assumes that the liquid-solid interfacial energy is given by the product of the bulk liquid-solid interfacial energy and the effective area of liquid-solid contact[@b14]. For example, the conventional Wenzel theory is not applicable to atomically rough surfaces composed of steps and adatoms only. We find that the vdW potential energy per area converges more than 90% within 15 Å from the bottom of the liquid for an extremely superhydrophilic substrate having a zero contact angle, as depicted in [Fig. 1d](#f1){ref-type="fig"}. The vdW potential will converge within shorter distance for substrates with higher contact angles. Therefore, the conventional wetting theory would hold if the characteristic scale of roughness is greater than a few nanometers. Noting that the characteristic length of the rough surfaces is at least a few tens of nanometers in experiments, the conventional wetting theory can be applied to analyze the experiments.
We obtain the relation between **θ**~**GS**~ and **θ**~**S**~ for the flat surface by calculating the Φ~GS~ and Φ~S~ (see **Methods** for details). As in the previous study[@b11], we tune **θ**~**S**~ from 0° to 180° by gradually increasing the value of ρ~S~*A*~*SL*~ from 0 to 11.7 *eV*Å^3^, and compute ***θ***~***GS***~ for the corresponding range of ρ~S~*A*~*SL*~ to get **θ**~**GS**~** − θ**~**S**~ relationship. Then, the equilibrium wetting mode on the rough surface is determined by the minimum free energy principle, as demonstrated for the GRSR model with r = 1.5 and f = 0.5 in [Fig. 2](#f2){ref-type="fig"}. On the hydrophilic surface (θ \< 90°), the equilibrium angle is given by the higher contact angle between the predictions by P mode and W mode. In contrast, the equilibrium angle on the hydrophobic surface (θ \> 90°) is chosen as the lower angle between the predictions by W mode and CB mode[@b14]. According to this principle, we calculate the equilibrium angles ***θ*****′**~***S***~ on the rough bare substrate ([Fig. 2a](#f2){ref-type="fig"}) and **θ′**~**GS**~ on the rough graphene-covered substrate ([Fig. 2b](#f2){ref-type="fig"}). Combining the two predictions, we can plot the relationship between ***θ*****′**~***S***~ and ***θ*****′**~***GS***~ (i.e. pairs of ***θ*****′**~***S***~** − *****θ*****′**~***GS***~ that correspond to identical ρ~S~*A*~*SL*~ values), as depicted in [Fig. 2c](#f2){ref-type="fig"}.
To validate the theory for a rough substrate, we compare the theoretical predictions with experimental results[@b7][@b11][@b12][@b13]. Since the experiments were conducted on surfaces with unknown roughness, we freely choose r within the range of a few available direct measurements by white light profilometry and scanning electron microscope[@b23] (1 for flat surface ≤ r ≤ 2.3 for very rough surface), and f within the definition (fraction of bare substrate area wet by the liquid, i.e. 0 \< *f* ≤ 1). It is known that a graphene layer floats on the surface when graphene grown by another surface is transferred[@b13]. Therefore, we applied the GFSR model for most of the data points including Silica NP, Cu nanorodes, and OTS-SiO2, as depicted in [Fig. 3a](#f3){ref-type="fig"}. We obtain the relation between ***θ*****′**~***S***~ and ***θ*****′**~***GS***~ by following the procedure used in [Fig. 2](#f2){ref-type="fig"} except that we only considered CB mode when computing ***θ*****′**~***GS***~. Most rough substrates are found to have a contact angle around the contact angle of monolayer graphene 96°, the upper bound for the GFSR mode. The measurements lie within the curves with *f* ≤ 0.5 regardless of the choice of r. The contact angle above 96° can be explained only if we consider a more complex model in which rough graphene is non-conformally adhered to the rough substrate (see [Supplementary Information](#S1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}).
On the other hand, if a graphene film is directly grown on a rough substrate, the film does not float on the substrate but rather conformally adheres to the rough substrate[@b12]. We compare the measured contact angle of the conformal graphene film on a rough copper surface (denoted as h-Gr/rCu) with the GRSR model and obtain a very interesting result. While the equilibrium contact mode is predicted to be the W-mode, the predicted equilibrium contact angle curve, ***θ*****′**~***S***~** − ***θ*****′**~***GS***~** (the blue or green line in [Fig. 3b](#f3){ref-type="fig"}), shows a large discrepancy with the measurement. The data cannot be explained by the equilibrium curve because the upper bound of equilibrium ***θ*****′**~***GS***~ is 103.5° within the reasonable r range of 1 ≤ r ≤ 2.3[@b23]. Interestingly, the experimental result lies on the angle from CB mode with *f* = 0.4. We suspect that the droplet forms the metastable CB mode because of the energy barrier for the transition from the CB state to the air-free W state[@b14]. Indeed, the original experimental paper[@b12] also speculated that the high contact angle originated by the CB mode.
Wetting transparency of multilayer graphene
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We have also studied the wetting transparency of multilayer graphene and find the implication on the wetting transparency of atomically thin coatings. The contact angle of the N-layered graphene covered substrate **θ**~**NGS**~ dramatically converges to the contact angle of graphite 86°[@b11] as the number of graphene films increases. We reveal that **θ**~**NGS**~ is not substantially affected by **θ**~**S**~ if more than two layers of graphene films are stacked ([Fig. 4a,b](#f4){ref-type="fig"}). This phenomenon can be analyzed by comparing the distance between the substrate and the water molecules. When monolayer graphene is covered on a substrate, the distance between the substrate and the bottom of the liquid is 6.28 Å, and the substrate contributes a non-negligible portion of the vdW interaction between the entire surface and the liquid. The distance becomes more than 9 Å if two layers of graphene are stacked. Except for with super-hydrophilic solid substrates, double graphene layers will contribute the dominant portion of the vdW potential. If even more graphene layers are stacked, the influence of the solid substrate almost vanishes and the contact angle converges to the contact angle of graphite. Our theory is validated by molecular dynamics simulations[@b24] (see Methods for details). We consider a model substrate having a contact angle of 45°, and measure the contact angle change when 1--3 graphene layers are covered. The molecular dynamics simulations confirm that the contact angle converges very quickly when three or more layers of graphene are stacked ([Fig. 4a](#f4){ref-type="fig"}).
Our finding implies that most related 2D materials would not show any wetting transparency effect. Due to corrugated or puckered structures, monolayer silicene or phosphorene sheets are significantly thicker than the monolayer graphene[@b25]. Typical transition metal dichalcogenides materials such as MoS~2~ is 6.5 Å thick[@b26], which is comparable to the thickness of graphene double layer. Thus, related 2D materials would show very limited wetting transparency expected for double layer graphene. Any atomically thin coating with the thickness comparable to graphene double layer is enough to almost erase the wetting characteristic of the bare solid.
Discussion
==========
Based on the theoretical and computational analyses, we provide a comprehensive view on the wetting transparency of graphene. At a first glance, the contact angle measurements on bare and graphene-covered surfaces can be interpreted as an evidence for the wetting transparency for a wide range of contact angles (20° \~ 120°) because they scatter around the perfect wetting transparency line. We show that the observed correlation is a coincidence and cannot be explained by a single universal curve. When a flat graphene layer is covered on a flat surface, the wetting behavior can easily be understood by computing the vdW interaction with the liquid modulus effect. The upper bound of **θ**~**GS**~ is given by the contact angle of the free standing graphene (96°), and we can conclude that flat graphene monolayer is partially transparent for hydrophilic surfaces. However, in the presence of the surface roughness, three different wetting modes must be considered to determine the equilibrium as well as metastable contact mode to explain the experimental data. When a flat graphene layer is covered on a rough surface, the contact angle of the free standing graphene becomes the upper bound of **θ**~**GS**~. For a wrinkled graphene (with characteristic roughness scale larger than 10 nm) placed on rough bare surfaces, a contact mode with higher **θ**~**GS**~ can be formed. In addition, we show that the wetting transparency of graphene double or more layer is negligible, which implies that multilayer graphene covered surface can be treated as a pure graphite surface in terms of its wetting characteristics.
In conclusion, we study the wetting transparency of graphene by accurately calculating the vdW interaction energy for various wetting modes. We reveal that the observed partial wetting transparency cannot be explained without accounting for the bulk modulus and the surface roughness. We also find that this partial wetting transparency almost vanishes for double or more layers of graphene sheets. A natural extension of our work is the research on ionized substrates where coulomb interaction becomes significant, and more complex rough surfaces. We believe that our study can provide a more complete picture of the seemingly partial wetting transparency of monolayer graphene and can be applied to understand wetting phenomena in various circumstances.
Methods
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Correction of mathematical flaws in the previous work
-----------------------------------------------------
First, we briefly review the vdW ineraction calculation presented in Shih *et al.*[@b11] with the same notations, and then correct a few mathematical flaws. The attractive vdW interaction potential between one carbon atom and one liquid molecule is given by , where r and A~*CL*~ are the distance and the vdW parameter between the two entities. Summing up the vdW potential from all pairs of a liquid molecule and carbon atoms, the vdW interaction between one liquid molecule and a flat, infinitely large monolayer graphene sheet is given by , where is the surface density of carbon atoms (with the graphene lattice constant a = 2.49 Å) and z is the shortest distance between the liquid molecule and the graphene plane. The vdW interaction for a flat, infinitely large N-layer graphene sheet adds up to , where d~0~=3.35 Å is the interlayer distance between the graphitic planes. Ignoring the bulk modulus of the liquid, the density profile of liquids molecule were computed from the Boltzmann distribution, .
The first mistake in the previous work was made in the calculation of the total vdW interaction potential per unit area between the liquid and the contacting N-layer graphene by . The density profile ρ~NL~(*z*) was written as , and referred to the shortest distance between the i^th^ layer and the liquid. The shortest distance *δ*~*GL*~ between the uppermost graphene and the liquid was set to be 3.28 Å, according to the MD results. However, the integral in the square brackets underestimated the vdW interaction from all layers except i = 1, because the liquid density at the bottom (i.e. at , was underestimated as , although it must be , regardless of i. Thus, Φ~NL~ must be corrected as
where .
For a similar reason (see [Supplementary Information](#S1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}), the total vdW interaction per unit area Φ~*SNL*~ between the liquid and a sheet of N-layer graphene supported by a solid substrate was incorrectly computed and must be fixed as follows:
Here, is the shortest distance between the liquid and the solid substrate, where *δ*~*GS*~ is the equilibrium contact separation between graphene and the solid. *ρ*~*SNL*~(*z*) refers to the liquid density profile above the entire surface, and to the vdW interaction between a liquid molecule and the solid substrate. ρ~S~ is the density of the substrate and A~SL~ is the vdW interaction parameter between one solid atom and one liquid molecule. On the other hand, the vdW interaction per unit area between the liquid and the bare solid was calculated without any mathematical error by , where the liquid density profile is defined by and *δ*~*SL*~ is the distance between the liquid and the bare solid. **θ**~**S**~ is tuned from 0° to 180° by gradually increasing the value of ρ~S~*A*~*SL*~ from 0 to 11.7 *eV*Å^3^, and **θ**~**GS**~ is also computed for the corresponding range of ρ~S~*A*~*SL*~.
Molecular dynamics simulations
------------------------------
We stack graphene films on an arbitrary solid substrate with the contact angle 45°, and calculate contact angles as we add more graphene layers on top ([Fig. S1a](#S1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}). We prepare 16,000 liquid water molecules and use half-cylindrical shaped liquid droplet to remove the size effect from triple junction[@b7]. The simulations are carried out in 300K NVT ensemble using LAMMPS package with a time step of 1 fs. The liquid water molecules are modeled by the extended simple point charge model and the bond lengths are constrained by SETTLE algorithm[@b11]. On the other hand, substrate is modeled by uncharged vdW particles in face-centered-cubic crystal. For simplicity, atoms in graphene layers and substrate are fixed during simulation. We use 1.5 nm cutoff distance when computing the vdW interactions, and pppm method is used for calculating the coulomb interactions. We equilibrate the molecules for 1 ns and collect the contact angle from the boundary of the liquid droplet obtained from the local water density during the following 1 ns ([Fig. S1b](#S1){ref-type="supplementary-material"})[@b24].
Additional Information
======================
**How to cite this article**: Kim, D. *et al.* Solving the Controversy on the Wetting Transparency of Graphene. *Sci. Rep.* **5**, 15526; doi: 10.1038/srep15526 (2015).
Supplementary Material {#S1}
======================
###### Supplementary Information
This work is supported by the Basic Science Research Program (2013R1A1A010091) of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning. N.M.P. is supported by the European Research Council (ERC StG Ideas 2011 BIHSNAM no. 279985 on 'Bio-inspired hierarchical supernanomaterials', ERC PoC 2013-1 REPLICA2 no. 619448 on 'Large-area replication of biological anti-adhesive nanosurfaces', ERC PoC 2013-2 KNOTOUGH no. 632277 on 'Super-tough knotted fibres'), by the European Commission under the Graphene Flagship (WP10 'Nanocomposites', no. 604391) and by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento ('Graphene nanocomposites', no. S116/2012-242637 and reg. delib. no. 2266). M.J.B. acknowledges support from DOD-PECASE and AFOSR.
**Author Contributions** S.R. and N.M.P. designed the research. D.K. and S.R. developed the theoretical models, carried out numerical calculations, and analyzed the results. D.K. performed the molecular dynamics simulations and conducted the simulation data analysis. N.M.P. and M.J.B. contributed the theoretical analysis and predictions, and analyzed the results. D.K. and S.R. drafted the manuscript and all authors contributed to the writing of the manuscript.
![Theoretical predictions about wetting phenomenon of graphene on the flat substrate.\
(**a**) Predicted **θ**~**GS**~ as a function of **θ**~**S**~ depicting the previous results[@b11] (red), the results with vdW math correction (red dotted), and the results with both vdW and bulk modulus corrections (black). Triangles and squares represent experimental data from the literature[@b7][@b11][@b12][@b13] (**b**) Liquid densities near the bottom of the liquid droplet predicted without (red) and with (black) bulk modulus consideration (**c**) Density of a compressed liquid as a function of pressure[@b17] (**d**) vdW potential energy per unit area stored in the volume from the bottom of the liquid droplet to the height of **z − δ**~**GL**~.](srep15526-f1){#f1}
![Illustration of the contact angle calculation for graphene-covered rough surface for the GRGR model with r = 1.5 and *f* = 0.5.\
(**a**) Conventional possible wetting modes of the bare substrate, and the actual path of which possesses the minimum free energy[@b14] (**b**) Conventional possible wetting modes of the graphene covered substrate and the actual path. Note that ***θ*****′**~***GS***~ cannot exceed the contact angle of graphene (96°) (**c**) Contact angle change due to the existence of a graphene film of GRSR model.](srep15526-f2){#f2}
![Theoretical predictions of contact angles of graphene on a rough substrate.\
(**a**) Predicted ***θ*****′**~***GS***~ as a function of ***θ*****′**~***S***~ for GFSR model[@b11][@b13]. The measurements lie within the curves with *f* ≤ 0.5 regardless of the choice of r. (**b**) Predicted ***θ*****′**~***GS***~ for possible wetting modes as a function of ***θ*****′**~***S***~ for GRSR model[@b12]. The data cannot be explained by the equilibrium curve because the upper bound of ***θ*****′**~***GS***~ is **103.5°** within the reasonable r range of **1 ≤ r ≤ 2.3**[@b23].](srep15526-f3){#f3}
{#f4}
###### Contact angles of three roughness models of graphene covered solids (Bare substrate, GRSR, GFSR) due to the wetting modes.
Bare substrate GRSR GFSR
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| 2023-12-17T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/1857 |
Two Parkdale meth dealers sentenced
Two methamphetamine dealers from Parkdale were recently sentenced for selling drugs to undercover police last summer.
"Meth is poison, pure and simple, and anybody caught dealing that stuff shouldn't expect much in the way of leniency when they're prosecuted," said Hood River District Attorney John Sewell.
On Monday, Randy A. Brown, 40, of Clear Creek Road pled guilty in Hood River Circuit Court to delivery of a controlled substance. He admitted to selling $250 -- about one-quarter ounce -- of meth to a member of the Mid-Columbia Interagency Narcotics Taskforce (MINT) last June at a Belmont Street residence.
John Sewell said because that crime took place within 1,000 feet of the Horizon Christian School, it carried a stiffer penalty under Oregon law.
Brown was ordered to serve 15 days in jail, followed by 36 months of probation and 240 hours of community service. He was directed to pay $1,900 in court fines and fees and $450 restitution to MINT. In addition, Brown was directed to seek a drug and alcohol evaluation within 45 days and enter any recommended treatment program within 30 days of that assessment.
On Jan. 9 Patrick M. Walker, 43, of Trout Creek Ridge Road admitted to scoring $200 at a Cooper Spur Road residence last June through a drug sale to a MINT member.
He was sentenced to 36 months probation and 160 hours of community service. Walker was also ordered to pay $280 to MINT and an additional $1,100 in court fines and fees. He was directed to seek a drug and alcohol evaluation within 45 days and the appropriate treatment within 30 days after that appraisal.
"The people in this community who traffic in meth will continue to be top priority for the MINT team," said Sewell. | 2024-06-28T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/1910 |
Q:
Should I allow heat to generate guids? Getting an error when I try auto-generate during compile because I am not using a standard directory
My first question is, should I work to get the compiler working with auto-generated guids?
I am trying to create an installer for a website with WiX. Please excuse my ignorance, this is my first WiX project. I am following this article:
http://blog.bartdemeyer.be/2013/10/create-an-installer-for-website-with-wix-part-1/
The process uses msbuild to call several WiX tools to ultimately create an MSI. The example uses "Generate guids now" (the "-gg" switch) when calling heat:
<Target Name="Harvest">
<!-- Harvest all content of published result -->
<Exec
Command='"$(WiX)bin\heat.exe" dir $(Publish) -dr INSTALLFOLDER -ke -srd -cg MgrWebComponents -var var.publishDir -gg -out $(WebSiteContentCode)'
ContinueOnError="false"
WorkingDirectory="." />
</Target>
I was reading elsewhere it is best practice to use auto-generated guids (the -ag switch) to ensure product updates install correctly. I notice the guids change every time heat is run.
<Fragment>
<ComponentGroup Id="MgrWebComponents">
<Component Id="cmp56294569B275493319100C26538BA16C" Directory="INSTALLFOLDER" Guid="{A43DA07B-C4CD-4FE0-AC09-EEA693AB2BA7}">
<File Id="fil93D55732EC03C2B809F21B9423BF5550" KeyPath="yes" Source="$(var.publishDir)\BrandImageService.ashx" />
</Component>
<Component Id="cmp6BD39B2D572EA73C29A81AE5D1C3F0C4" Directory="INSTALLFOLDER" Guid="{99B7B916-AEC0-4EE9-B17F-E7B325E93A4D}">
<File Id="filE861424851E26D456D43F5D1855B3E7B" KeyPath="yes" Source="$(var.publishDir)\Dashboard.aspx" />
</Component>
...
If I should use auto-generated guids I need to get the compiler working. I am getting errors for every file for trying to use auto-generated guids when compiling.
LGHT0231: The component 'cmp2BE6B5C092821452E1438D39A5110DDB' has a
key file with path 'TARGETDIR\inetpub\manager\tools\toolshome.aspx'.
Since this path is not rooted in one of the standard directories
(like ProgramFilesFolder), this component does not fit the criteria
for having an automatically generated guid. (This error may also
occur if a path contains a likely standard directory such as nesting a
directory with name "Common Files" under ProgramFilesFolder.)
My directory fragment is:
<Fragment>
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="INETPUB" Name="Inetpub">
<Directory Id="INSTALLFOLDER" Name="Manager" />
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Fragment>
The heat generated fragment looks like:
<Fragment>
<ComponentGroup Id="MgrWebComponents">
<Component Id="cmp56294569B275493319100C26538BA16C" Directory="INSTALLFOLDER" Guid="*">
<File Id="fil93D55732EC03C2B809F21B9423BF5550" KeyPath="yes" Source="$(var.publishDir)\BrandImageService.ashx" />
</Component>
<Component Id="cmp6BD39B2D572EA73C29A81AE5D1C3F0C4" Directory="INSTALLFOLDER" Guid="*">
<File Id="filE861424851E26D456D43F5D1855B3E7B" KeyPath="yes" Source="$(var.publishDir)\Dashboard.aspx" />
</Component>
...
The targets for msbuild:
<Target Name="Build">
<!-- Compile whole solution in release mode -->
<MSBuild
Projects="..\Manager.sln"
Targets="ReBuild"
Properties="Configuration=Release" />
</Target>
<Target Name="PublishWebsite">
<!-- Remove complete publish folder in order to
be sure that everything will be newly compiled -->
<Message Text="Removing publish directory: $(SetupF)"/>
<RemoveDir Directories="$(SetupF)" ContinueOnError="false" />
<Message Text="Start to publish website" Importance="high" />
<MSBuild
Projects="..\\Manager\UI\Manager.UI.csproj"
Targets="ResolveReferences;_CopyWebApplication"
Properties="OutDir=$(Publish)bin\;WebProjectOutputDir=$(Publish);Configuration=Release" />
</Target>
<Target Name="Harvest">
<!-- Harvest all content of published result -->
<Exec
Command='"$(WiX)bin\heat.exe" website $(Publish) -dr INSTALLFOLDER -ke -srd -cg MgrWebComponents -var var.publishDir -ag -out $(WebSiteContentCode)'
ContinueOnError="false"
WorkingDirectory="." />
</Target>
<Target Name="WIX">
<!-- At last create an installer -->
<Message Text="TEST: @(WixCode)"/>
<Exec
Command='"$(WiX)bin\candle.exe" -dpublishDir=$(Publish) -dMgrWebResourceDir=. @(WixCode, ' ')'
ContinueOnError="false"
WorkingDirectory="." />
<Exec
Command='"$(WiX)bin\light.exe" -spdb -out $(MsiOut) @(WixObject, ' ')'
ContinueOnError="false"
WorkingDirectory="." />
<!-- A message at the end -->
<Message Text="Install package has been created." />
</Target>
The build command is: msbuild /t:Build;PublishWebsite;Harvest;WIX setup.build
I understand the generated guid uses the seed of the directory. Should I change the location of the directory?
Thank you!!
A:
Thank you to @CheGueVerra , he pointed me in the right direction. I just changed the directory location to be in ProgramFiles and it was able to compile.
<Fragment>
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="INSTALLFOLDER" Name="Manager" />
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Fragment>
Later on I found a better way with the use of the "ComponentGuidGenerationSeed" attribute to keep the directory in the inetpub folder.
<Directory Id='TARGETDIR' Name='SourceDir'>
<Directory Id="IISMain" Name='inetpub'>
<Directory Id="WWWMain" Name='wwwroot'
ComponentGuidGenerationSeed='{Put-your-own-generated-guid-here}'>
<Directory Id='INSTALLFOLDER' Name='Manager'>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
| 2023-09-01T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/2995 |
At this stage of the game, Overwatch players know what to expect: the annual Summer Games limited time event in August preceded by a new playable character in July. But Blizzard is mixing things up a little bit this year, according to a new developer update from game director Jeff Kaplan. Overwatch’s Summer Games 2019 will take place slightly earlier this year, with the reveal of Hero 31 coming later.
Kaplan didn’t provide a specific release date for Summer Games 2019 — the event typically arrives the first or second week of August — but did say that this year’s event will be a bit different. Blizzard will run three weeklong challenges (a la the recent Baptiste “Reunion” challenge) alongside Summer Games offering three unlockable epic skins.
As for Hero 31, Kaplan said that “he is going to be awesome” — and he emphasized the “he” — but that the developer needs a little more time to make him “even more awesome.” The most recent hero update for Overwatch was Baptiste the support character in March.
Today’s brief developer update also touches on anti-cheat measures. Kaplan says that new cheat detection methods will shut down matches in which foul play is detected, but that no players on either side of the match will have their skill rating (SR) affected by suspected cheaters. | 2023-10-08T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/3579 |
A Novel Mutation c.153 C>A in a Tunisian Girl With Wolman Disease and Unusual Presentation: Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.
Wolman disease is an ultrarare lysosomal storage disease caused by a mutation in the LIPA gene. The clinical features of Wolman disease include early onset of vomiting, diarrhea, failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, and bilateral adrenal calcification. We report the case of a 3-month-old infant who presented clinical features of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Genetic sequence analysis of the LIPA gene revealed homozygous mutation c.153 C>A (p.Tyr51*). The parents were heterozygous for this mutation. Prenatal diagnosis has been carried out in the next pregnancy. To our knowledge, this mutation has never been reported before, and this is an unusual case of secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis complicating Wolman disease. | 2024-01-04T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/6710 |
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (German: Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau, in short: FiBL), is one of the world's leading organic farming information and research centres. As an independent and non-profit organization, it promotes research and projects that help farmers improve their productivity with consideration of environmental and health impacts.
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture is located in Frick, Switzerland with branches in Germany and Austria (and projects world-wide). Currently, the Swiss centre employs about 175 people.
History
The Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (FiBL) was founded in Switzerland in 1973 by a group of organic farmers and scientists who wanted to promote the growth of the organic farming industry. At the time, the organic movement was still in its initial stages. The founders of FiBL wanted to create a foundation that was exclusively developed to disseminating information and practical advice to farmers who wanted to depart from conventional practices.
Notes and references
External links
Official website
Category:Organic farming organizations
Category:Research institutes in Switzerland
Category:Agricultural organisations based in Switzerland | 2024-06-11T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/1216 |
Be the OSS Funding you wish to see in the world.
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ETHBerlin MakerDAO challenge: CDP Analytics
ethberlin-hackathon
ethberlin, makerdao, cdp, dai
## About MakerDAO
[MakerDAO](https://makerdao.com/) is a decentralized organization dedicated to bringing stability to the crypto economy through Dai, the world's first stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain. Dai is an asset-backed hard currency that addresses the crypto economy’s problems of volatility with a secure and transparent smart contract platform of permissionless loans.
## Description
It is easy to lose track of the relative cost, or performance, of a CDP over time when the value of the collateral is constantly changing. Especially when Dai is drawn at various dates in the lifetime of a CDP. How much did that debt actually cost? In Eth? In USD?
Create a website that will allow CDP owners to easily understand their history and gain a deeper insight into the health of their position. The tool should use the MakerDAO [Query API](https://developer.makerdao.com/dai/1/graphql/) as a data source if possible.
The application should include things like:
* Future health projections and trendlines
* Slider to test Liquidation Prices vs Total Collateral
* Ability to see the performance of the CDP since creation
* Show total investment cost in USD for all deposits at time of staking
* Show current margin gain
* Some mechanism that shows what the Ether price needs to be to: break even, earn 10, 20, 25%
* Graphs that show changes in debt over time
* with relative USD value?
* Graphs that show changes in collateral over time
* Graphs that show collateralization ratio over time
* Graphs that show liquidation price over time
* Logs/Graphs for all events in the history of the CDP(draw, lock, wipe, free, etc)
* Allow users to mark a lock as a Margin and use that to calculate margin performance
* Ability to annotate or make notes about events
* Show current PETH price/Price at lock time
## Criteria
All submissions will be judged based on how _sweet_ they are. Bonus points will be awarded to solutions that are also visibly _wicked_ while maximizing _synergy_.
## Prizes
* **3000 Dai**: the grand prize
* **1000 Dai**: 2nd (will be paid outside of gitcoin)
* **500 Dai**: 3rd (will be paid outside of gitcoin)
Gitcoin bounty will be topped up as the deadline approaches.
## Resources
A non-exhaustive list of addresses, Github repos/documentation, and tools for development in the Maker ecosystem:
* [Getting Started With Maker](https://www.reddit.com/r/MakerDAO/comments/8jsalu/getting_started_with_maker/)
* [Resources and Tools and Contracts](https://source.deco.network/rich/challenge-hacksummit-MakerDAO/src/branch/master/Resources%20and%20Tools.md)
* [MakerDao Articles, Blog Posts and Tutorials](https://www.reddit.com/r/MakerDAO/comments/8k8h51/makerdao_articles_blog_posts_and_tutorials/)
## Contact
For questions about the challenge please message [@rich.brown](https://chat.makerdao.com/direct/rich.brown) in our chat or feel free to ping the MakerDAO #devs in [chat.makerdao.com/channel/dev](https://chat.makerdao.com/channel/dev). | 2024-02-22T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/5662 |
Ethical decision-making unpacked
Why it's sometimes hard to do what's right.
While it is self-evident that an ethical organisation should be synonymous with ethical decision-making, it does not mean that making the right decision is always easy. Circumstances can arise when it seems hard to know what's right.
This is where decisions entail two desirable but mutually incompatible 'rights'. This can occur as a conflict between two ways of resolving a problem where each option represents a right thing to do. It can also encompass a conflict between personal values and consistency with company policies.
Yet the ethics of right versus right choices is often ignored in the face of more frequent right versus wrong issues. It warrants particular attention for two reasons: because right versus right issues are likely to be the toughest of ethical decisions to make, and because ethical dilemmas are likely to exert a significant influence on an organisation and the individuals involved. Joseph Badaracco, Ethics Professor at Harvard Business School, views right versus right choices as "defining moments" with three basic characteristics: They reveal the individual's or the organisation's basic values; they test the strength of the individual's commitment or the commitment the organisation has made; and they shape the individual's or the organisation's character into the future.
Understanding these dilemmas can help an organisation to make better ethical decisions.
The tension between short-term and long-term goals and priorities is a long-standing strategic challenge where an 'and' approach, rather than an 'either/or' approach, may apply as both are right choices. However, balancing the short-term against the long-term is often made more difficult by the pressure to achieve good results in the current period. There are examples where business leaders have focused on short-term results for personal gain, for example to boost a performance bonus. But the more common form of pressure is from analysts and investors whose views and actions can affect the organisation's share price if its immediate results are unsatisfactory.
The issue of individual versus group rights is relevant in most workplaces. Even in an apparently homogeneous workforce there are gender, cultural and religious differences, and groups with diverse, often conflicting demands that need to be balanced against each other. An example of different rights for different groups applies in the form of affirmative action to citizens classified as previously disadvantaged. The Employment Equity Act aims to address this historical imbalance.
The choice between truth or honesty on the one hand and loyalty on the other can occur at a personal level to anyone within a workplace. It may not, at first sight, appear to be a difficult ethical dilemma because, for many people, honesty is the stronger value. It can, however, present a hard choice when bonds among colleagues are strong. When, for example, people have shared a profound experience – as those who were part of the struggle for freedom – it builds extraordinary bonds of loyalty. This can present a choice between supporting a long-standing friend or comrade who is guilty of misconduct, in the name of loyalty, and reporting them to the authorities for a breach of ethics in the name of honesty. While the choice of loyalty may be understandable, it can nonetheless serve to condone unethical behaviour.
Situations where justice conflicts with mercy often stem from the need to deal with a wrongdoing, such as fraud or theft. The wrongdoing is not ignored in viewing this as a right versus right issue. Instead, this ethical dilemma focuses on managing the consequences or punishment of the misconduct. Labour law provides guidance on the justice side of the decision. The choice to act mercifully, however, needs to be balanced against the risk that such a decision could set a precedent in the organisation, or send the wrong message – for example, that misconduct is not treated consistently. An employee assistance programme can actively address situations of desperation and in this way help to avoid potential misconduct.
In the realm of the triple bottom line, ethical dilemmas exclude the right versus wrong choice when an organisation gives precedence to its financial bottom line above its social or environmental responsibilities. Rather, right versus right dilemmas exist where economic, social and environmental interests conflict with each other. An ethical dilemma can arise between social and environmental priorities when business development damages the environment but creates employment and training opportunities for local communities. So too, cheap imports can support customers by offering more affordable goods, but could mean sacrificing the benefits of local production and the habit of buying products manufactured at home. Resolving such conflicts successfully will continue to become more important given the increasing emphasis on the welfare of people and the environment.
In making decisions related to these ethical dilemmas, an organisation needs to recognise that its decision may not be shared by other stakeholders who perhaps interpret the situation differently. This means that the company has to improve its communication about such choices. It may not persuade everyone to its view but, in the absence of its own explanation, even fewer people may understand the choice. This kind of communication can also serve as a check and balance as to whether the reasoning and choice will hold up to scrutiny. If the organisation is uncomfortable about having its choice made public, the choice could be a bad one. | 2023-10-28T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/2299 |
// last modified
#pragma once
#include <string>
#include <vector>
using std::string;
using std::vector;
class Caoliu
{
public:
enum AvClass { west_reposted, cartoon_reposted, asia_mosaicked_reposted, asia_non_mosaicked_reposted,
west_original, cartoon_original, asia_mosaicked_original, asia_non_mosaicked_original,
selfie };
public:
Caoliu ( const string& portal_url,
AvClass av_class,
const vector<string>& proxy_addrs_list,
unsigned range_begin, unsigned range_end,
const vector<string>& hate_keywords_list,
const vector<string>& like_keywords_list,
unsigned threads_total,
unsigned timeout_download_pic,
const string& path );
virtual ~Caoliu ();
const string& getPortalWebpageUrl (void) const;
private:
const string portal_url_;
};
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address:
- '[Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439]{}'
- '[Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504]{}'
- '[California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747]{}'
- '[Canisius College, Buffalo, NY]{}'
- '[Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213]{}'
- '[Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20064]{}'
- '[CEA, Centre de Saclay, Irfu/Service de Physique Nucléaire, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France]{}'
- '[University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269]{}'
- '[Fairfield University, Fairfield CT 06824]{}'
- '[Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199]{}'
- '[Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306]{}'
- '[The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052]{}'
- '[Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho 83209]{}'
- '[INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara, Italy]{}'
- '[INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Italy]{}'
- '[INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy]{}'
- '[INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy]{}'
- '[INFN, Sezione di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy]{}'
- '[Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France]{}'
- '[Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 117259, Russia]{}'
- '[James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807]{}'
- '[Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Republic of Korea]{}'
- '[University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824-3568]{}'
- '[Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia 23504]{}'
- '[Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701]{}'
- '[Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529]{}'
- '[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590]{}'
- '[University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 23173]{}'
- '[Universita’ di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome Italy]{}'
- '[Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia]{}'
- '[University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208]{}'
- '[Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122 ]{}'
- '[Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606]{}'
- '[Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V Valparaíso, Chile]{}'
- '[Edinburgh University, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom]{}'
- '[University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom]{}'
- '[Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435]{}'
- '[University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901]{}'
- '[College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795]{}'
- '[Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036 Yerevan, Armenia]{}'
- '[Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institut für Kernphysik, 52425 Jülich, Germany]{}'
- '[University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada]{}'
- '[HISKP and BCTP, Universität Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany]{}'
author:
- 'I. Senderovich'
- 'B.T. Morrison'
- 'M. Dugger'
- 'B.G. Ritchie'
- 'E. Pasyuk'
- 'R. Tucker'
- 'J. Brock'
- 'C. Carlin'
- 'C.D. Keith'
- 'D.G. Meekins'
- 'M.L. Seely'
- 'D. R[ö]{}nchen'
- 'M. D[ö]{}ring'
- 'P. Collins'
- 'K.P. Adhikari'
- 'D. Adikaram'
- 'Z. Akbar'
- 'M.D. Anderson'
- 'S. Anefalos Pereira'
- 'R.A. Badui'
- 'J. Ball'
- 'N.A. Baltzell'
- 'M. Battaglieri'
- 'V. Batourine'
- 'I. Bedlinskiy'
- 'A.S. Biselli'
- 'S. Boiarinov'
- 'W.J. Briscoe'
- 'W.K. Brooks'
- 'V.D. Burkert'
- 'D.S. Carman'
- 'A. Celentano'
- 'S. Chandavar'
- 'G. Charles'
- 'L. Colaneri'
- 'P.L. Cole'
- 'M. Contalbrigo'
- 'O. Cortes'
- 'V. Credé'
- 'A. D’Angelo'
- 'N. Dashyan'
- 'R. De Vita'
- 'E. De Sanctis'
- 'A. Deur'
- 'C. Djalali'
- 'R. Dupre'
- 'H. Egiyan'
- 'A. El Alaoui'
- 'L. El Fassi'
- 'L. Elouadrhiri'
- 'P. Eugenio'
- 'G. Fedotov'
- 'S. Fegan'
- 'A. Filippi'
- 'J.A. Fleming'
- 'A. Fradi'
- 'B. Garillon'
- 'Y. Ghandilyan'
- 'G.P. Gilfoyle'
- 'K.L. Giovanetti'
- 'F.X. Girod'
- 'D.I. Glazier'
- 'J.T. Goetz'
- 'W. Gohn'
- 'E. Golovatch'
- 'R.W. Gothe'
- 'K.A. Griffioen'
- 'M. Guidal'
- 'L. Guo'
- 'K. Hafidi'
- 'H. Hakobyan'
- 'C. Hanretty'
- 'M. Hattawy'
- 'K. Hicks'
- 'D. Ho'
- 'M. Holtrop'
- 'S.M. Hughes'
- 'Y. Ilieva'
- 'D.G. Ireland'
- 'B.S. Ishkhanov'
- 'D. Jenkins'
- 'H. Jiang'
- 'H.S. Jo'
- 'K. Joo'
- 'S. Joosten'
- 'D. Keller'
- 'G. Khachatryan'
- 'M. Khandaker'
- 'A. Kim'
- 'F.J. Klein'
- 'V. Kubarovsky'
- 'M.C. Kunkel'
- 'P. Lenisa'
- 'K. Livingston'
- 'H.Y. Lu'
- 'I.J.D. MacGregor'
- 'P. Mattione'
- 'B. McKinnon'
- 'C.A. Meyer'
- 'T. Mineeva'
- 'V. Mokeev'
- 'R.A. Montgomery'
- 'A. Movsisyan'
- 'C. Munoz Camacho'
- 'P. Nadel-Turonski'
- 'L.A. Net'
- 'S. Niccolai'
- 'G. Niculescu'
- 'I. Niculescu'
- 'M. Osipenko'
- 'K. Park'
- 'S. Park'
- 'P. Peng'
- 'W. Phelps'
- 'S. Pisano'
- 'O. Pogorelko'
- 'J.W. Price'
- 'Y. Prok'
- 'A.J.R. Puckett'
- 'M. Ripani'
- 'A. Rizzo'
- 'G. Rosner'
- 'P. Roy'
- 'F. Sabatié'
- 'C. Salgado'
- 'D. Schott'
- 'R.A. Schumacher'
- 'E. Seder'
- 'A. Simonyan'
- 'Iu. Skorodumina'
- 'G.D. Smith'
- 'D.I. Sober'
- 'N. Sparveris'
- 'S. Stepanyan'
- 'P. Stoler'
- 'I.I. Strakovsky'
- 'S. Strauch'
- 'V. Sytnik'
- Ye Tian
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- 'H. Voskanyan'
- 'E. Voutier'
- 'N.K. Walford'
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NEWARK -- Neither team had anything tangible to play for Saturday afternoon at the Prudential Center. The Liberty already had clinched a playoff spot and the Tulsa Shock could not improve on its fifth-place finish. You wouldn't have known it. Tulsa came out firing and the Liberty fired back, overcoming a 10-point halftime deficit to win, 91-74.
The Liberty finishes the regular season 15-19 and will play the Connecticut Sun on Thursday in the first game of the best-of-three series. The Liberty was 1-4 against Connecticut this year. The winner will face either Indiana or Atlanta in the Eastern Conference Finals.
New York outscored Tulsa 24-9 in the third quarter, bringing the crowd to life on Fan Appreciation Day. The Liberty was led by its usual trio. Plenette Pierson scored 19 points with eight rebounds, Essence Carson had 18 with eight boards, and Cappie Pondexter scored 17 points. The Liberty's 91 points was a season high. Ivory Latta led the Shock (9-24) with 16.
Liberty coach John Whisenant said he wouldn't have been overly disappointed by a loss, but he certainly didn't want his team heading into the playoffs having played the way it did in the first half. The Liberty responded with a huge second half. "Our energy and alertness and ability to score comes from our defense," Whisenant said. "We don't have the kind of team that has four or five big scorers. Our defense feeds our offense and that's what happened in the second half."
The Shock built its first-half lead by shooting 7 of 15 from three-point range. Tulsa hit just 2 of 14 from deep in the second half as the Liberty did a better job of jumping out on shooters and cutting off driving lanes. The Liberty out-rebounded Tulsa 32-19. Whisenant said rebounding will be critical against Connecticut, which is led by Team USA's starting center Tina Charles.
"Today showed that if we play defense like we did in the second half, we can hang with anybody," Pondexter said. "We need to do it for 40 minutes against Connecticut."
The Liberty respects its I-95 rival, but isn't afraid of taking on the No. 1 seed. "We're in the playoffs, so we've got a shot," Whisenant said.
Notes & quotes: Before the game, Pondexter addressed the fans to thank them for their support this season and tell them she will remain on the team for the next three seasons . . . This is the Liberty's third straight playoff appearance. Its first home playoff game is scheduled for next Sunday.
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Bylong Valley Way
Bylong Valley Way is a New South Wales country road linking the Golden Highway near Sandy Hollow to the Castlereagh Highway near Ilford. It is named after the Bylong Valley, through which the road passes.
Connections
In conjunction with the Bathurst-Ilford Road to Bathurst, this quiet, scenic route provides a leisurely alternative to going through Sydney to travel between the Hunter Region and Central Tablelands.
The part of the Bylong Valley Way east of Bylong is designated MR 208. At a T-intersection near the railway level crossing just north of the village of Bylong, MR 208 turns off towards Ulan, following the Ulan railway line to the west while the Bylong Valley Way becomes MR 215 as it turns south to pass through Bylong, Rylstone and Kandos.
National Park access
Access to the Wollemi National Park and Goulburn River National Park is available at various points along the road between the Golden Highway and Bylong. Over Coxs Gap, the Bylong Valley Way is flanked by the two national parks. Camping areas are available in the Wollemi National Park on the western side of Coxs Gap, and the Phipps Cutting picnic area between Baerami and Widden Creek provides an entry point for hiking in the Wollemi National Park.
Tourism
Following completion of sealing of the road, The Muswellbrook Chamber of Commerce and Industry created a web site for the road, to promote it as a tourist route.
The section of the Bylong Valley Way east of Bylong is also part of two separately promoted tourist routes.
A self-drive tour loop route originating in Sandy Hollow, promoted as Upper Hunter Tourist Drive number 4, uses this section of road to travel west, then turns north on other local roads to rejoin the Golden Highway. The Phipps Cutting picnic area is shown as a rest area on that route.
The Tablelands Way tourist route between Canberra and Muswellbrook uses this section of the Bylong Valley Way as part of the route between Mudgee and Muswellbrook.
Sealing
The Bylong Valley Way was not fully sealed in the Mid-Western Regional Council area until February 2009. Sealing of the road had been a political issue for decades. At the beginning of 2007, there were four sections of unsealed road totalling 32 kilometres. Two sections were between Coxs Gap and Bylong with only 850 metres of sealed road between them. The other two were south of Bylong on the way towards Rylstone, where two kilometres had been sealed a few years earlier, converting one long unsealed section to two shorter ones.
On 13 December 2006, The federal government announced A$2 million of Auslink funding towards the $4.1 million cost of completion of sealing of the Bylong Valley Way. Under the announced funding arrangement, the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority contributed $900,000 and the Mid-Western Regional Council was to contribute the remaining $1.2 million. The overall cost slightly exceed the budgeted $4.1 million, with the council having to cover the overrun.
The sealing work was carried out by Mid-Western Regional Council and was completed in three stages:
Stage One
March 2007 to June 2007
Sealing of two sections totalling six kilometres south of Bylong
Widening a total of nine kilometres of remaining unsealed road in preparation for sealing in the later stages
Stage Two
July 2007 to June 2008
Sealing of two remaining unsealed sections south of Bylong totalling 12.42 kilometres
Sealing of one section one kilometre long adjacent to existing sealed section east of Bylong
Preparatory works for stage three
Stage Three
July 2008 to March 2009
Completion of sealing, consisting of two sections east of Bylong totalling 12.6 kilometres
Bridges
Muswellbrook Shire Council
The dilapidated timber sections of the Kirks Bridge, crossing Baerami Creek at Baerami were demolished and were planned to be replaced with new concrete sections by 31 August 2007. Unfortunately, flooding during the June 2007 Hunter Region and Central Coast storms delayed the work by around a month. The bridge had previously been partially rebuilt, with both buttresses and two spans at one end having been reconstructed in concrete.
Muswellbrook Shire Council maintained a temporary deviation on private property for several years to allow access during bridgework and for heavy vehicles. After the bridge was reopened, that deviation was removed and the land returned to its owner.
The single-lane timber bridge over Widden Creek has also been replaced. Muswellbrook Shire Council had committed to spend $480,000 by 30 June 2007 to Manage the investigation, design and construction works but the discovery of a serious problem on Kirks Bridge saw that money diverted to the more urgent project. Muswellbrook Shire Council subsequently replaced the Widden Creek bridge between January and June 2009 at a cost of approximately A$910,000.
Once the Widden Creek bridge was replaced, the 38 tonne load limit was lifted, allowing heavy vehicles to again use this route.
Mid-Western Regional Council
Mid-Western Regional council plan to replace the single lane Carwell Bridge between Kandos and Ilford between mid-2009 and mid-2010.
Railway
The Sandy Hollow–Gulgong railway line and part of the Merriwa railway line, which form the Australian Rail Track Corporation's Ulan line between Muswellbrook and Gulgong, follow the same valleys as the Bylong Valley Way from near the Golden Highway to near Bylong, where the railway line continues west as the road turns south.
The Ulan line crosses the road three times, twice at level crossings and once on a bridge over the road. One level crossing is close to the Golden Highway while the other is close to Bylong. The railway bridge is on the western side of Coxs Gap, between the level crossings.
The Gwabegar railway line crosses the road on at a level crossing the northern side of Rylstone.
All three of the level crossings have flashing warning lights but not boom gates.
Major intersections
See also
Highways in Australia
List of highways in New South Wales
Gallery
References
External links
Category:Highways in Australia | 2023-11-27T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/3918 |
mplify ((6*4*3*sqrt(3840))/(((sqrt(72) - -1*sqrt(72))*1)/(sqrt(24)*-2)))**2.
6635520
Simplify ((sqrt(162)*2 + 0 - (sqrt(162) - (3 + (sqrt(162) - sqrt(162)*-2)))) + (-1 + (sqrt(162) + 1 - sqrt(162)) - sqrt(162) - (sqrt(162) + 0)*-2))**2.
270*sqrt(2) + 4059
Simplify (-1*(6*(-1 + sqrt(68)) + sqrt(68) + (-2 + -1*sqrt(68) - sqrt(68))) - (sqrt(68)*-5 + 3 + -2*(sqrt(68) + sqrt(68) + 5*sqrt(68))))**2.
280*sqrt(17) + 13353
Simplify (0 + (-2 + 2*sqrt(1539) - 6*sqrt(1539)*-2))**2 + (sqrt(19) + sqrt(209)/(-3*sqrt(11)) - (sqrt(133) - -1*sqrt(133))/sqrt(7))**2*3.
-504*sqrt(19) + 905248/3
Simplify (((sqrt(42) - sqrt(84)/sqrt(2))*5)/sqrt(2)*6)/(5*(sqrt(147)*-1 - sqrt(147)) + 3*(sqrt(147) + (sqrt(147) - sqrt(147)*2) + sqrt(147) + sqrt(147))).
0
Simplify (-5*(sqrt(66)/sqrt(3)*-3)/(-4*2*sqrt(2)) + 2 + (3 + sqrt(704)*2 - ((sqrt(704) - ((1*sqrt(704) - sqrt(704)) + sqrt(704))) + -1)))**2.
339*sqrt(11)/2 + 142763/64
Simplify -1 + ((3*(sqrt(14) + (-3*sqrt(14)*-3 - sqrt(14))))/((sqrt(63) - sqrt(252)) + (sqrt(700)*-1 - sqrt(700))))**2.
929/529
Simplify (-3 + 5*((sqrt(500) + -5)**2 + -4) + -4 + 3)*2.
-1000*sqrt(5) + 5202
Simplify (((sqrt(99) - 6*(sqrt(99)*-2 - sqrt(99))) + (sqrt(99) - (-2*sqrt(99) + sqrt(99) - sqrt(99) - sqrt(99)))*-4)/((sqrt(3087)*2)/(2*sqrt(567))))**2.
8019/49
Simplify 5*-2*((2 + 0 + sqrt(275) - -6*sqrt(275)*-2) + 0)**2 + -2.
-332792 + 2200*sqrt(11)
Simplify 4 + -3*(sqrt(245)*2 + sqrt(245)) + (-1 + sqrt(245) + 0)**2 + 1 + (sqrt(245) + 2)**2 + -2 + 1.
-49*sqrt(5) + 499
Simplify ((sqrt(231) - sqrt(231)*2*-4)/(sqrt(11) - (sqrt(11) - sqrt(44)/sqrt(4)*4)))/(((sqrt(36) - sqrt(144))*2)/(sqrt(12) + 2*sqrt(972))).
-171*sqrt(7)/8
Simplify (sqrt(2) + -4*sqrt(2) + 1)**2 + 0 + sqrt(288) + sqrt(288)/(-1*sqrt(9)*-3).
22*sqrt(2)/3 + 19
Simplify (-5 + 6*(sqrt(320) + -2 + -4)*5*-5 + 4)**2.
-2157600*sqrt(5) + 8008201
Simplify -4 + ((sqrt(600) - sqrt(600)*4)*-3*-1)/(sqrt(48)/sqrt(324)).
-405*sqrt(2) - 4
Simplify ((sqrt(42)/sqrt(2)*4 + sqrt(21) - (sqrt(1344)*-1 + sqrt(1344)))*6)/(((1*sqrt(175)*-6 - sqrt(175)) + sqrt(175) + sqrt(175) + sqrt(175))*4).
-3*sqrt(3)/8
Simplify (sqrt(120)/sqrt(2)*-1)/(sqrt(432)*-2)*-4 - (((sqrt(40)*3)/sqrt(2))/(sqrt(324) - (sqrt(324) + -2*sqrt(324)) - sqrt(4)))**2.
-sqrt(5)/3 - 45/289
Simplify -1 + ((sqrt(693) - sqrt(693)*-2)/sqrt(11))/(sqrt(144)/sqrt(4) + sqrt(36)) + ((sqrt(196)/(4*sqrt(7)))/((sqrt(16) + sqrt(4))*3))**2.
-1289/1296 + 3*sqrt(7)/4
Simplify 2*(sqrt(114) + sqrt(114)*-2*-2 + sqrt(114))/((sqrt(144)/sqrt(4) + sqrt(36))/sqrt(6)) + ((-3 + sqrt(2299) + 1 - sqrt(2299))*-2*5)**2.
6*sqrt(19) + 400
Simplify (sqrt(1216) + -1*sqrt(1216))*-5*-3*5 - (0 + sqrt(1216) + -2 + -2*sqrt(304) + 0 + 1 + sqrt(19)).
-sqrt(19) + 1
Simplify -3 + (-3*sqrt(18))**2 + (1*sqrt(4))/sqrt(2) - (sqrt(50) + (sqrt(1800)*2 - sqrt(1800))**2 + -5 + 2).
-1638 - 4*sqrt(2)
Simplify (1*5*(0 + sqrt(425))*-4 + 6*-4*-6*1*sqrt(425))**2.
6534800
Simplify ((3 + sqrt(1216) + sqrt(1216) + -2)*-2)**2 + (1*sqrt(152)*-6 - sqrt(152))/((sqrt(128) + sqrt(8))*3).
1913*sqrt(19)/15 + 19460
Simplify ((sqrt(432) + 3)**2*3 + (5*sqrt(2673))/sqrt(11))*-4.
-5292 - 1044*sqrt(3)
Simplify (-1*sqrt(96) + sqrt(96))/((sqrt(110)/sqrt(5))/sqrt(11) + sqrt(2)) - (-3*(-4 + -3 + sqrt(147)))**2.
-1764 + 882*sqrt(3)
Simplify (-2*(sqrt(119)*2 + sqrt(119))*-5)/(sqrt(14)/sqrt(2)*-6 + (sqrt(448)*-3 - sqrt(7))).
-30*sqrt(17)/31
Simplify (2 + (sqrt(832) + sqrt(832)*2 + -3*sqrt(468) + sqrt(468))/((sqrt(256) - (sqrt(256) + (sqrt(256) + 1*sqrt(256))*1)) + -2*sqrt(256)*2))**2.
-sqrt(13)/2 + 269/64
Simplify (((sqrt(432) + -1)*-1 + sqrt(432) + 3*sqrt(432)*-4 - (sqrt(432)*-1*-3 - (sqrt(432) + -4 + 1*sqrt(432)))*1)*-6)**2.
33696*sqrt(3) + 2628612
Simplify ((1*((sqrt(99) - sqrt(11))*-1 - sqrt(132)/(sqrt(36)/sqrt(3))) - (-4 + (sqrt(1584)*-1 + 4 - sqrt(1584)))) + -4)**2.
-168*sqrt(11) + 4867
Simplify 4 + (-1 + (2 + sqrt(45))**2 + -2 + -2 + (sqrt(5)*1)**2)*-3.
-143 - 36*sqrt(5)
Simplify 5*(-4 + ((sqrt(75) - sqrt(75)*-1) + 2 - sqrt(75)) + (-1*(-3*sqrt(75) - sqrt(75)) - sqrt(75)) + sqrt(75) + 5*sqrt(75)*-3 + -4)**2.
3000*sqrt(3) + 37680
Simplify sqrt(44) + 5 + sqrt(308)/sqrt(7) + 2 + 3 + sqrt(44) + -5 + sqrt(264)/((sqrt(126)/sqrt(7))/sqrt(3)).
5 + 8*sqrt(11)
Simplify (sqrt(343)*-2*-5 + sqrt(343))*5*1 + -4 + (5*(1 + sqrt(343)) + sqrt(343) + (sqrt(343) - (-2*sqrt(343) + 1)))**2.
889*sqrt(7) + 27795
Simplify 2*(2 + sqrt(700) + 1*sqrt(700) - sqrt(700) - (0 + sqrt(700) + -4) - (-2 + (sqrt(700) - 5*sqrt(700)))*6).
36 + 480*sqrt(7)
Simplify (2 + (sqrt(11) - (sqrt(891) - sqrt(11))) + 2*(sqrt(11) + sqrt(1100)) + ((sqrt(330)*-2)/sqrt(10))/(-2*sqrt(75)))**2.
304*sqrt(11)/5 + 63636/25
Simplify ((1 + -3*(0 + sqrt(500)) + -6*(-5*((sqrt(500) + 1 - sqrt(500)) + sqrt(500)) + sqrt(500)) + -5)*-4)**2.
174720*sqrt(5) + 3538816
Simplify -3*(0 + sqrt(1300)*-2)*-6 + 0 + (4*sqrt(52)/sqrt(4) - sqrt(13) - (-5 + (sqrt(13) + -3)**2)).
-351*sqrt(13) - 17
Simplify (sqrt(175) - (-4*(sqrt(175) + 5))**2) + 3 - (sqrt(7)*6*-4 - (-3 + sqrt(7)*-2)).
-3200 - 773*sqrt(7)
Simplify ((-2 + 2*sqrt(99)*5 + (sqrt(99)*-1*5 - sqrt(99)))*5 + -1)**2*-4.
-158884 + 5280*sqrt(11)
Simplify ((sqrt(3600)/sqrt(5))**2 - (-1 + sqrt(180)))*3*-2 + 5 + 2.
-4319 + 36*sqrt(5)
Simplify (-6*sqrt(204)*-2 + (sqrt(204)*-2 + sqrt(204))*-5)/((sqrt(192) - 3*1*sqrt(192))*2)*-3.
51*sqrt(17)/16
Simplify (((sqrt(280) - (sqrt(280) + (-4*sqrt(280)*-1 + sqrt(280) + sqrt(280) - sqrt(280))))/(2*sqrt(448) + sqrt(448)))/(sqrt(256)/sqrt(512)*-5))**2.
5/36
Simplify -5 + (sqrt(175)/(-1*sqrt(125)))/(6*(sqrt(56)*-1)/sqrt(8)) + -1.
-6 + sqrt(5)/30
Simplify -6*(((5*(sqrt(208) + 0) - -2*(sqrt(208) + -1) - (0 + sqrt(208) + -2 - -5*(0 + sqrt(208)))) + -4)*-2)**2.
-5376 + 768*sqrt(13)
Simplify 3 + -2 + (sqrt(833)*-4*-5 - (-2 + 3*sqrt(833)))**2 + -5.
476*sqrt(17) + 240737
Simplify (-2*(sqrt(1980) + (sqrt(1980) + (sqrt(1980) - (sqrt(1980)*2 - sqrt(1980))) - sqrt(1980)))*6)/(4*sqrt(15)/sqrt(3) - -4*sqrt(320)).
-2*sqrt(11)
Simplify (3*(-6*(6*(sqrt(132) + sqrt(132)*-1) - sqrt(132))/((sqrt(48)/sqrt(2))/sqrt(2)) + -2 + -5))**2.
-756*sqrt(11) + 4005
Simplify (-2*(-3 + -4*(-5*(sqrt(11) - (2 + sqrt(891))) - (sqrt(396) + (sqrt(396) + 1*sqrt(396) + -2 - sqrt(396)))))*3)**2.
411264*sqrt(11) + 5061060
Simplify ((1 + sqrt(68) - sqrt(68) - sqrt(68)/sqrt(4)*6) + 5 + 0 + (sqrt(136) + 4*sqrt(136)*-1 + sqrt(136) - sqrt(136))/(sqrt(56)/sqrt(252) - sqrt(8)))**2.
-144*sqrt(17)/5 + 3348/25
Simplify (6*(sqrt(24) + (-2*sqrt(2904) - sqrt(2904)) - (sqrt(48)/(sqrt(2)*-1) + sqrt(24))))/(sqrt(48)/sqrt(6)*2 + 2*sqrt(8)*-3).
48*sqrt(3)
Simplify (sqrt(800)*-4)/((sqrt(50)/sqrt(5) + sqrt(10))*-1) + (-4 + sqrt(25)/sqrt(5))**2 + (sqrt(80)*1)**2.
101
Simplify (3*4*(6*5*(-1*sqrt(2800) - sqrt(2800)) + 4))**2.
-1382400*sqrt(7) + 1451522304
Simplify -6*5*(-4*(-3*sqrt(2448)*-1 + 1)*-5)**2.
-264396000 - 864000*sqrt(17)
Simplify -5*(5 + 1*((-6*1*sqrt(605))**2*-2 + -2)).
217785
Simplify 2*-2*(1 + sqrt(12))**2*3 - (-2*sqrt(1200) + ((sqrt(96)/sqrt(2))/sqrt(4) - sqrt(12)) + 4).
-160 - 8*sqrt(3)
Simplify ((-2 + sqrt(35)/sqrt(63))*-1)**2 - (-1*sqrt(360))/(-2*sqrt(72)).
-11*sqrt(5)/6 + 41/9
Simplify ((1 + -1*sqrt(175)*2 + 0 + 3)*-6 + 0)**2.
-2880*sqrt(7) + 25776
Simplify -3 + (2*(sqrt(306)/sqrt(9))/sqrt(2) + ((sqrt(17) + 5)**2 + 4)*1)*-2.
-24*sqrt(17) - 95
Simplify 3*(((sqrt(91) + (sqrt(91) + (sqrt(91) - (sqrt(91) + (sqrt(91) + sqrt(91)*2 - sqrt(91)))))*5)/sqrt(7))**2 + 5)*2 + 3 + 3.
1284
Simplify (-5 + -6*(sqrt(275) - (sqrt(275) + 0 + -2)**2) + 5)*-4*1.
-6696 + 600*sqrt(11)
Simplify (((-3 + sqrt(13))*-3 - (-4 + sqrt(13) + sqrt(832))) + -6*-2*sqrt(1872)*-2)**2.
-7800*sqrt(13) + 1170169
Simplify ((-3*(-2*sqrt(150) + sqrt(150)) - sqrt(150) - sqrt(150) - sqrt(150))/(sqrt(640)*2))/(-6*(sqrt(5) + sqrt(60)/(sqrt(48)/sqrt(4)) + 2*sqrt(5)*3)).
0
Simplify ((sqrt(64) - 6*(sqrt(64) - -2*sqrt(64))) + sqrt(64) - -3*1*sqrt(64))/(-6*1*sqrt(288)*-1).
-13*sqrt(2)/18
Simplify -3*(((sqrt(153) + sqrt(153) + 1*sqrt(153)*-5)*1)/((sqrt(324) + (sqrt(324) - -2*sqrt(324) - sqrt(324)))*-6) + 4).
-12 - sqrt(17)/12
Simplify 5 + (-2*(2*sqrt(147) - sqrt(147))*-2 + (sqrt(3) - -1*sqrt(3)*-4) + 2 + sqrt(36)/sqrt(12))**2.
104*sqrt(3) + 2037
Simplify 3*(-5*(sqrt(187)/sqrt(11)*1 + -4 + (sqrt(17) + 3)*-2 + sqrt(17) + 2))**2.
4800
Simplify -4 + (1 + sqrt(32) + 0 + -1 - ((sqrt(2) + sqrt(18))*1 + sqrt(8)/sqrt( | 2024-01-24T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/7393 |
This "salami" needs to stay in the fridge for two hours before you eat it. You'll need a good-quality freezer bag, a rubber band, clingfilm and a 10cm piece of string.
Makes a 12cm salami (20 slices)
100g milk or dark cooking chocolate
25g butter
4 dried apricots
1 tbsp raisins
1 tbsp pine nuts
6 tbsp puffed rice
4 oat biscuits (or any healthy biscuits)
3 medjool dates
2 tsp icing sugar
1 To melt the chocolate, break it into squares, place in a medium bowl, add the butter and set on top of a small pan of simmering water. When the chocolate and butter are melted, stir well; remove from the water and leave to cool for 5-10 minutes.
2 Using scissors, cut the apricots into small pieces and place in a medium bowl. Add the raisins, pine nuts and puffed rice.
3 Place the biscuits in a good-quality freezer bag, pressing on it to expel the air inside. Seal the bag using a rubber band, then take a small saucepan and bash the bag until the biscuits are in small pieces (but stop before they turn to crumbs). Add the biscuit pieces to the bowl.
4 Open the dates with your fingers and remove the stones. Mash them with your fingers, then add to the other ingredients.
5 Add the chocolate to the bowl. Roll up your sleeves and start mixing the dough with your hands. When the mixture is really well blended, shape as a rough sausage and place on a square of clingfilm. Wash your hands.
6 Fold the string in half and tuck the ends into one end of the sausage so the loop sticks out. Wrap the clingfilm around the dough, then squeeze and shape into a really tight 12cm roll. Place the salami in its plastic wrapping in the fridge for at least two hours.
7 Spread the icing sugar on a plate. Unwrap the salami and roll it in the sugar. Tap, to remove any excess, slice and enjoy.
valerieberry.com | 2024-06-03T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/8377 |
/*
Copyright (C) 2011 Mark Chandler (Desura Net Pty Ltd)
Copyright (C) 2014 Bad Juju Games, Inc.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
Contact us at legal@badjuju.com.
*/
#include "Common.h"
#include "MainApp.h"
#include "Managers.h"
#include "wx_controls/gcMessageBox.h"
const wchar_t *modules[] =
{
L"desura.exe",
L"desura_service.exe",
L"bin\\uicore.dll",
L"bin\\usercore.dll",
L"bin\\webcore.dll",
L"bin\\mcfcore.dll",
L"bin\\servicecore.dll",
};
const char *modulesNames[] =
{
"desura.exe",
"desura_service.exe",
"uicore.dll",
"usercore.dll",
"webcore.dll",
"mcfcore.dll",
"servicecore.dll",
};
CONCOMMAND(cc_test_news, "test_news")
{
std::vector<gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>> itemList;
if (vArgList.size() == 1)
{
itemList.push_back(gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "Link Alpha", "http://www.desura.com"));
itemList.push_back(gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "Link Bravo", "http://www.desura.com/groups"));
itemList.push_back(gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "Link Charlie", "http://www.desura.com/mods"));
itemList.push_back(gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "Link Delta", "http://www.desura.com/games"));
}
else
{
itemList.push_back(gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "Test News Link", vArgList[1].c_str()));
}
dynamic_cast<MainApp*>(g_pMainApp)->onNewsUpdate(itemList);
g_pMainApp->showNews();
}
extern const char* GetAppVersion();
extern "C" const char* GetMCFCoreVersion();
extern const char* GetUICoreVersion();
CONCOMMAND(cc_clearwccache, "clear_namecache")
{
if (GetWebCore())
GetWebCore()->clearNameCache();
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_PrintVersion, "version")
{
Msg("--------------------------------------------------\n");
Msg(gcString("Desura Version\t\t: {0}\n", GetAppVersion()));
Msg(gcString("MCFCore Version\t\t: {0}\n", GetMCFCoreVersion()));
Msg(gcString("UICore Version\t\t: {0}\n", GetUICoreVersion()));
Msg(gcString("UserCore Version\t\t: {0}\n", GetUserCoreVersion()));
Msg(gcString("WebCore Version\t\t: {0}\n", GetWebCoreVersion()));
Msg("--------------------------------------------------\n");
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_CheckCert, "checkcert")
{
#ifdef WIN32
Msg("Checking Digital Signature:\n");
Msg("--------------------------------------------------\n");
wchar_t exePath[255];
GetModuleFileNameW(nullptr, exePath, 255);
size_t exePathLen = Safe::wcslen(exePath, 255);
for (size_t x=exePathLen; x>0; x--)
{
if (exePath[x] == '\\')
break;
else
exePath[x] = '\0';
}
for (size_t x=0; x<6; x++)
{
gcWString path(L"{0}{2}{1}", exePath, modules[x], DIRS_STR);
char msg[255] = {0};
uint32 res = UTIL::WIN::validateCert(path.c_str(), msg, 255);
#ifndef DEBUG
if (res == TRUST_E_NOSIGNATURE)
WarningS("Warning: {0}: {1}\n", modulesNames[x], msg);
else
#endif
Msg(gcString("{0}: {1}\n", modulesNames[x], msg));
}
Msg("--------------------------------------------------\n");
#endif
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_PrintThreads, "threadlist")
{
if (!GetThreadManager())
{
WarningS("Cant print thread list as ThreadManager is nullptr.\n");
}
else
{
GetThreadManager()->printThreadList();
}
}
#ifdef DEBUG
CONCOMMAND(cc_testexception, "testexception")
{
try
{
throw gcException(ERR_XML_NOPRIMENODE, 5, "This is a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long message. This is a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long message. This is a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long message");
}
catch(gcException &e)
{
Msg("{0}", e);
}
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_testformat, "testformat")
{
gcString str("{0}", gcException(ERR_XML_NOPRIMENODE, 5, "Message"));
Msg(str.c_str());
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_crash, "testcrash")
{
UserCore::UserI *temp=nullptr;
temp->logIn("crash", "crash");
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_MsgboxTest, "testmsgbox")
{
gcMessageBox(g_pMainApp->getMainWindow(), "This is a short message!", "Desura message box test! (yes no, exclamation)", wxYES_NO|wxICON_EXCLAMATION);
gcMessageBox(g_pMainApp->getMainWindow(), "This\n has\n a\n lot\n of\n new\n lines\n!", "Desura message box test! (ok, hand)", wxOK|wxICON_HAND);
gcMessageBox(g_pMainApp->getMainWindow(), "This is a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long message", "Desura message box test! (close, question)", wxCLOSE|wxICON_QUESTION);
gcMessageBox(g_pMainApp->getMainWindow(), "This is a short message!", "Desura message box test! (apply cancel, information)", wxAPPLY|wxCANCEL|wxICON_INFORMATION);
gcMessageBox(nullptr, "This message box doesnt have a parent!", "Desura message box test! (nullptr parent)", wxOK|wxICON_INFORMATION);
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_NewsTest, "testnews")
{
MainApp *ma = dynamic_cast<MainApp*>(g_pMainApp);
std::vector<gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>> itemList;
auto a = gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "News item 1", "http://www.desura.com");
auto b = gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "News item 2", "http://www.desura.com/mods");
auto c = gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "News item 3", "http://www.desura.com/games");
itemList.push_back(a);
itemList.push_back(b);
itemList.push_back(c);
ma->onNewsUpdate(itemList);
ma->showNews();
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_GiftTest, "testgifts")
{
MainApp *ma = dynamic_cast<MainApp*>(g_pMainApp);
std::vector<gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>> itemList;
auto a = gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "News item 1", "http://www.desura.com");
auto b = gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "News item 2", "http://www.desura.com/mods");
auto c = gcRefPtr<UserCore::Misc::NewsItem>::create(0, 0, "News item 3", "http://www.desura.com/games");
itemList.push_back(a);
itemList.push_back(b);
itemList.push_back(c);
ma->onGiftUpdate(itemList);
}
#endif
CONCOMMAND(cc_testinstallscript, "test_install_script")
{
if (vArgList.size() < 4)
{
Msg("test_install_script [path] [install path] [function]\n\ntest javascript install script.");
}
else
{
Color c(0,0,255);
LogMsg(MT_MSG, gcString("Running install script {0},\n\t Install Path: {1}\n\tCalling function {2}\n", vArgList[1], vArgList[2], vArgList[3]), &c);
GetUserCore()->runInstallScript(vArgList[1].c_str(), vArgList[2].c_str(), vArgList[3].c_str());
}
}
bool updoaddumpsChange(CVar* var, const char* val);
bool betaChange(CVar* var, const char* val);
bool corecountChange(CVar* var, const char* val);
bool autoStartChange(CVar* var, const char* val);
bool forceShortcutChange(CVar* var, const char* val);
bool OnLinuxBinChange(CVar* var, const char* val);
bool OnLinuxArgsChange(CVar* var, const char* val);
CVar gc_corecount("gc_corecount", "0", 0, (CVarCallBackFn)&corecountChange);
CVar gc_cleanmcf("gc_cleanmcf", "0", 0);
CVar gc_beta("gc_beta", "0", 0, (CVarCallBackFn)&betaChange);
CVar gc_autostart("gc_autostart", "0", 0, (CVarCallBackFn)&autoStartChange);
CVar gc_uploaddumps("gc_uploaddumps", "1", CFLAG_USER, (CVarCallBackFn)&updoaddumpsChange);
CVar gc_destroymain("gc_destroymain", "0", CFLAG_USER);
CVar gc_noloadtab("gc_noloadtab", "0", CFLAG_USER);
CVar gc_silentlaunch("gc_silentlaunch", "0", CFLAG_USER);
CVar gc_disable_wge("gc_disable_wge", "0", CVAR_WINDOWS_ONLY);
CVar gc_admin_largeupload("gc_admin_largeupload", "0", CFLAG_ADMIN);
CVar gc_ignore_fs_perms("gc_ignore_windows_permissions_against_marks_wishes", "1", CVAR_WINDOWS_ONLY);
CVar gc_disable_forceupdate_shortcut("gc_disable_forceupdate_shortcut", "0", CVAR_LINUX_ONLY, (CVarCallBackFn)&forceShortcutChange);
CVar gc_linux_launch_globalbin("gc_linux_launch_globalbin", "", CVAR_LINUX_ONLY, (CVarCallBackFn)&OnLinuxBinChange);
CVar gc_linux_launch_globalargs("gc_linux_launch_globalargs", "", CVAR_LINUX_ONLY, (CVarCallBackFn)&OnLinuxArgsChange);
CVar gc_safe_uploads("gc_safe_uploads", "0", CFLAG_USER);
CVar gc_mcfcreate_nopatch("gc_mcfcreate_nopatch", "0", CFLAG_USER);
#ifdef DESURA_OFFICIAL_BUILD
bool OnQaTestingChange(CVar* var, const char* val)
{
//force the value to be set
var->setValue(val);
auto userCore = GetUserCore();
if (userCore)
userCore->setQATesting(var->getBool());
return true;
}
CVar gc_qa_testing("gc_qa_testing", "0", CFLAG_NOCALLBACKONLOAD, (CVarCallBackFn)&OnQaTestingChange);
CONCOMMAND(cc_forcetestingupdate, "force_testing_update")
{
auto userCore = GetUserCore();
if (userCore)
userCore->forceQATestingUpdate();
}
#endif
bool OnLinuxBinChange(CVar* var, const char* val)
{
//force the value to be set
var->setValue(val);
auto userCore = GetUserCore();
if (userCore)
userCore->getItemManager()->regenLaunchScripts();
return true;
}
bool OnLinuxArgsChange(CVar* var, const char* val)
{
//force the value to be set
var->setValue(val);
auto userCore = GetUserCore();
if (userCore)
userCore->getItemManager()->regenLaunchScripts();
return true;
}
bool forceShortcutChange(CVar* var, const char* val)
{
gcString v(val);
if (v == "true" || v == "1")
{
try
{
UTIL::FS::FileHandle fh(".ignore_force_shortcut", UTIL::FS::FILE_WRITE);
fh.write(" ", 1);
}
catch (...)
{
}
}
else
{
UTIL::FS::delFile(".ignore_force_shortcut");
}
return true;
}
bool updoaddumpsChange(CVar* var, const char* val)
{
bool ret = true;
std::string szAppid = UTIL::OS::getConfigValue(APPID);
uint32 appid = -1;
if (szAppid.size() > 0)
appid = Safe::atoi(szAppid.c_str());
if (appid != UINT_MAX && (appid == BUILDID_BETA || appid == BUILDID_INTERNAL) && (strcmp(val, "0")==0 || strcmp(val, "false")==0 ))
ret = false;
return ret;
}
bool betaChange(CVar* var, const char* val)
{
std::string szAppid = UTIL::OS::getConfigValue(APPID);
uint32 appid = -1;
if (szAppid.size() > 0)
appid = Safe::atoi(szAppid.c_str());
auto userCore = GetUserCore();
if (strcmp(val, "1")==0 || strcmp(val, "true")==0)
{
if (appid != BUILDID_BETA)
{
gc_uploaddumps.setValue("true");
if (userCore)
userCore->appNeedUpdate(BUILDID_BETA);
}
}
else
{
if (appid != BUILDID_PUBLIC)
{
if (userCore)
userCore->appNeedUpdate(BUILDID_PUBLIC);
}
}
return true;
}
bool corecountChange(CVar* var, const char* val)
{
uint16 count = Safe::atoi(val);
uint16 coreCount = UTIL::MISC::getCoreCount();
if (count > coreCount)
return false;
if (count == 0)
{
if (coreCount>1)
coreCount--;
gc_corecount.setValue(coreCount);
return false;
}
return true;
}
bool autoStartChange(CVar* var, const char* val)
{
#ifdef WIN32
if (strcmp(val, "1")==0 || strcmp(val, "true")==0)
{
char exePath[255];
GetModuleFileNameA(nullptr, exePath, 255);
UTIL::WIN::setRegValue(REGRUN, gcString("{0} -autostart", exePath).c_str());
}
else
{
UTIL::WIN::delRegValue(REGRUN);
}
#endif // LINUX TODO
return true;
}
#ifdef DEBUG
class PopUpThread : public Thread::BaseThread
{
public:
PopUpThread() : Thread::BaseThread("popup")
{
}
virtual void run()
{
gcSleep(20000);
UserCore::Misc::UpdateInfo info;
info.branch = 500;
info.build = 200;
GetUserCore()->getAppUpdateCompleteEvent()(info);
//MainApp* app = dynamic_cast<MainApp*>(g_pMainApp);
//app->onAppUpdate(info);
}
};
CONCOMMAND(cc_test_popup, "test_popup")
{
PopUpThread* popUpThread = new PopUpThread();
popUpThread->start();
}
#include "wx_controls/gcSpinnerProgBar.h"
class SpinnerTest : public wxFrame
{
public:
SpinnerTest() : wxFrame(nullptr, wxID_ANY, "Test Spinner", wxDefaultPosition, wxSize(200,200))
{
this->SetSizeHints( wxDefaultSize, wxDefaultSize );
wxBoxSizer* bSizer1 = new wxBoxSizer( wxVERTICAL );
gcSpinnerProgBar* m_pbProgress = new gcSpinnerProgBar(this, wxID_ANY, wxDefaultPosition, wxSize(-1,22 ));
bSizer1->Add( m_pbProgress, 0, wxALL|wxEXPAND, 5 );
this->SetSizer( bSizer1 );
this->Layout();
this->Centre( wxBOTH );
}
};
CONCOMMAND(cc_test_spinner, "test_spinner")
{
SpinnerTest* sp = new SpinnerTest();
sp->Show();
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_test_form, "test_form")
{
wxFrame* sp = new wxFrame(nullptr, wxID_ANY, "Test frame", wxDefaultPosition, wxSize(200,200), wxDEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE);
sp->Show();
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_test_post, "test_post")
{
HttpHandle hh("http://10.0.0.137/post.php");
const char buffer[] = {44, 54, 46, 55};
hh->addPostText("key", "--key--");
hh->addPostText("action", "uploadchunk");
hh->addPostText("siteareaid", 12345);
hh->addPostText("sitearea", "--mods--");
hh->addPostFileAsBuff("mcf", "upload.mcf", buffer, 4);
hh->addPostText("uploadsize", 1234);
hh->postWeb();
std::string s(hh->getData(), hh->getDataSize());
printf("[%s]\n", s.c_str());
}
CONCOMMAND(cc_test_crash, "test_crash")
{
wxFrame* sp = nullptr;
sp->Show();
}
#endif // DEBUG
| 2024-07-11T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/2314 |
Q:
Converting a substring to integer with toInt
For an arduino project, I want to convert an Ajax request which looks like this:
String request = "GET /setAlarm&h=21&m=34&end"
I am trying to exctract the "21" and "34" as integers and to save them in two variables.
The substring method is working, since I can output the right info with
Serial.println(request.substring(request.indexOf("&h=") + 3, request.indexOf("&m=")))
So far I tried using .toInt, as suggested in https://stackoverflow.com/a/18200065/12288557. My code for the hour looks like this:
int hour = request.substring(request.indexOf("&h=") + 3, request.indexOf("&m=")).toInt;
Using .toInt Visual Studio gives me the following error message:
error: cannot convert 'String::toInt' from type 'long int (String::)()const' to type 'int
int hour = request.substring(request.indexOf("&h=") + 3, request.indexOf("&m=")).toInt
A:
toInt() is a function, so you need to put parenthesis after it, since C++ requires this for all functions:
request.substring(request.indexOf("&h=") + 3, request.indexOf("&m=")).toInt();
| 2023-12-30T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/3315 |
Q:
Where can i learn advanced silverlight concepts?
Can anybody refer any resource where i can learn advanced silverlight concepts like creating complex custom controls or any of other advanced concepts? If any book is available then also please mention.
Thanks in advance :)
A:
Silverlight 4 in action which comes from Pete Brown who works at Microsoft.
You can never go wrong by heading directly to the Silverlight site which has a learning section specifically geared towards coming up to speed with Silverlight, advanced topics as well.
If you reside in a state where the SL tour comes to town and have the available funding; you could get an intense 3 day course on varying SL4 concepts. It is put on by Shawn Wildermuth who is fairly prevalent in the SL community.
Erik Mork via Silver Bay Labs provides varying videos which touch on a range of topics and have proven beneficial to me in varying scenarios.
| 2023-09-11T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/7684 |
Q:
Pat the mathemagician
Pat the Magician asks a member of the audience to write a 13-digit number on the
blackboard, while Pat is blindfolded. Pat then asks the volunteer to reverse the digits
of the number, and to subtract the smaller of the two 13-digit numbers from each other.
(If the original number ended in one or more zeros, the reversed number of course will
have less than 13 digits.) Then Pat asks the volunteer to circle any one of the digits
in the difference, provided the digit is not zero. Then Pat asks the volunteer to say
what the uncircled digits were. After hearing all of this, Pat is able to tell the amazed
volunteer what the circled digit was (Pat is blindfolded during this entire trick). How
does Pat do the trick?
A:
Show that the difference of the 2 13-digit numbers, is a multiple of 9.
The rule of divisibility for 9 is that the sum of digits will be a multiple of 9. So if he knows all but one of the digits, he can find the last one (assuming no calculation error).
| 2023-09-12T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/1030 |
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55:31noColin and Simon are here in the studio to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain, including:
First up, we take a look at Binance Coin. The pair talk about why the cost has gone up so much and Simon comments that this isn't too dissimilar to a company doing a share buy-back to grow the value of the shares and if this makes the coin more like a security (01:26).
Next we talk about Citi scrapping its plan for a JPM coin-lke bank-backed crypto having decided that other technologies provide more efficient and effective solutions. It's a topic Colin and Simon have talked about quite a few times before. Colin suggests that JP Morgan's approach has been more considered and analytical with a deeper plan in place than Citi. He adds that being wary and understanding new technologies is important but if you're just looking for a solution then using existing technology makes sense, but too many companies have tried to exist in a halfway house between the two (07:16).
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from @CasPiancey on the d(evolution) of Tether
Finishing off the show we caught up with Kerry Denerstein, Regulatory Affairs Lead at CLS Group (37:25).
Other stories include:
CBOE halts Bitcoin futures, considering conceding market to CME
ASX - Deloitte - Australian Financial Review
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
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This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guest: Kerry Denerstein.
Colin and Simon are here in the studio to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain, including:
First up, we take a look at Binance Coin. The pair talk about why the cost has gone up so much and Simon comments that this isn't too dissimilar to a company doing a share buy-back to grow the value of the shares and if this makes the coin more like a security (01:26).
Next we talk about Citi scrapping its plan for a JPM coin-lke bank-backed crypto having decided that other technologies provide more efficient and effective solutions. It's a topic Colin and Simon have talked about quite a few times before. Colin suggests that JP Morgan's approach has been more considered and analytical with a deeper plan in place than Citi. He adds that being wary and understanding new technologies is important but if you're just looking for a solution then using existing technology makes sense, but too many companies have tried to exist in a halfway house between the two (07:16).
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from @CasPiancey on the d(evolution) of Tether
Finishing off the show we caught up with Kerry Denerstein, Regulatory Affairs Lead at CLS Group (37:25).
Other stories include:
CBOE halts Bitcoin futures, considering conceding market to CME
ASX - Deloitte - Australian Financial Review
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Colin and Simon are here in the studio to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain, including:
First up, we take a look at Binance Coin. The pair talk about why the cost has gone up so much and Simon comments that this isn't too dissimilar to a company doing a share buy-back to grow the value of the shares and if this makes the coin more like a security (01:26).
Next we talk about Citi scrapping its plan for a JPM coin-lke bank-backed crypto having decided that other technologies provide more efficient and effective solutions. It's a topic Colin and Simon have talked about quite a few times before. Colin suggests that JP Morgan's approach has been more considered and analytical with a deeper plan in place than Citi. He adds that being wary and understanding new technologies is important but if you're just looking for a solution then using existing technology makes sense, but too many companies have tried to exist in a halfway house between the two (07:16).
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from @CasPiancey on the d(evolution) of Tether
Finishing off the show we caught up with Kerry Denerstein, Regulatory Affairs Lead at CLS Group (37:25).
Other stories include:
CBOE halts Bitcoin futures, considering conceding market to CME
ASX - Deloitte - Australian Financial Review
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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88. Fire emojihttps://bi.11fs.com/93
0b994b8f-1786-4fcd-b9ec-069d0f85bc6bThu, 14 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Today we bring you: BitGo exaggerate insurance coverage, tokenising equity and the owner of the Burj Khalifa plans an ICO.56:35noColin is joined by a host of brilliant guests this week to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain, including:
Michael Coletta, Lead blockchain architect, LSEG
Stefan Loesch, Managing Partner at LexByte
Noelle Acheson, Editorial Producer at Coindesk
Dr. Vic Arulchandran, COO Nivaura
Ric Burton, CEO Balance
Fair warning - this is a firey episode.
First up, we take a look at claims that BitGo may have exaggerated its insurance coverage. One of the underwriters behind BitGo’s $100 million cryptocurrency insurance policy has accused the custodian of exaggerating the scope of its coverage by using “ambiguous language”. Noelle points out that the small print is easy to access and that it's unreasonable to expect marketing documents to have that information clearly laid out and says that calling it misleading is up to interpretation, but probably unfair for an underwriter to say. Brace yourself, the debate gets intense. Seriously. (01:26).
Next we talk about the Swiss Stock Exchange SIX's decision to tokenise equity on R3's Corda Blockchain. The goal for SDX is creating a regulated exchange platform for digital assets, starting with stocks and then exploring other tradable instruments. The intense debate continues with questions around why SIX has decided to use Corda, long term versus short term gains and how the new world can fit into the old world (21:25)
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Dr. Vic Arulchandran, Michael Coletta, Noelle Acheson, Richard Burton, and Stefan Loesch.
Colin is joined by a host of brilliant guests this week to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain, including:
Michael Coletta, Lead blockchain architect, LSEG
Stefan Loesch, Managing Partner at LexByte
Noelle Acheson, Editorial Producer at Coindesk
Dr. Vic Arulchandran, COO Nivaura
Ric Burton, CEO Balance
Fair warning - this is a firey episode.
First up, we take a look at claims that BitGo may have exaggerated its insurance coverage. One of the underwriters behind BitGo’s $100 million cryptocurrency insurance policy has accused the custodian of exaggerating the scope of its coverage by using “ambiguous language”. Noelle points out that the small print is easy to access and that it's unreasonable to expect marketing documents to have that information clearly laid out and says that calling it misleading is up to interpretation, but probably unfair for an underwriter to say. Brace yourself, the debate gets intense. Seriously. (01:26).
Next we talk about the Swiss Stock Exchange SIX's decision to tokenise equity on R3's Corda Blockchain. The goal for SDX is creating a regulated exchange platform for digital assets, starting with stocks and then exploring other tradable instruments. The intense debate continues with questions around why SIX has decided to use Corda, long term versus short term gains and how the new world can fit into the old world (21:25)
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Colin is joined by a host of brilliant guests this week to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain, including:
Michael Coletta, Lead blockchain architect, LSEG
Stefan Loesch, Managing Partner at LexByte
Noelle Acheson, Editorial Producer at Coindesk
Dr. Vic Arulchandran, COO Nivaura
Ric Burton, CEO Balance
Fair warning - this is a firey episode.
First up, we take a look at claims that BitGo may have exaggerated its insurance coverage. One of the underwriters behind BitGo’s $100 million cryptocurrency insurance policy has accused the custodian of exaggerating the scope of its coverage by using “ambiguous language”. Noelle points out that the small print is easy to access and that it's unreasonable to expect marketing documents to have that information clearly laid out and says that calling it misleading is up to interpretation, but probably unfair for an underwriter to say. Brace yourself, the debate gets intense. Seriously. (01:26).
Next we talk about the Swiss Stock Exchange SIX's decision to tokenise equity on R3's Corda Blockchain. The goal for SDX is creating a regulated exchange platform for digital assets, starting with stocks and then exploring other tradable instruments. The intense debate continues with questions around why SIX has decided to use Corda, long term versus short term gains and how the new world can fit into the old world (21:25)
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Bonus: Omaha blockchain summithttps://bi.11fs.com/92
06ecb677-8beb-4cf7-b4bd-c8bd371f79b5Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +000011:FSbonus11:FSWe. Are. Here. At the Omaha Blockchain summit without Simon and without Colin! Our special guest host for today’s episode of Blockchain insider, is the one and only Amber Baldet, CEO of Clovyr. 25:52noToday we have a very special bonus episode of Blockchain Insider for you, from the Omaha blockchain summit we have a rare chance to get some real leaders in the field all together in the same room to discuss some of the most pressing issues in blockchain and how the industry is reacting to changes.
Amber Baldet is joined by a roundtable of some very special blockchain guests including:
Sandra Ro, CEO GBBC
Steven Becker, President & COO MakerDAO
Richard Burton, CEO Balance
Ingrid Wadell, Director Disruptive Technologies & Innovation
Kyle Tut, Co-Founder BlockEra
Our guests talk about partnerships, banks, finance projects, crypto communities and what keeps them up at night. Special Guests: Amber Baldet, Ingrid Wadell, Kyle Tut, Richard Burton, Sandra Ro, and Steven Becker.
Today we have a very special bonus episode of Blockchain Insider for you, from the Omaha blockchain summit we have a rare chance to get some real leaders in the field all together in the same room to discuss some of the most pressing issues in blockchain and how the industry is reacting to changes.
Amber Baldet is joined by a roundtable of some very special blockchain guests including:
Sandra Ro, CEO GBBC
Steven Becker, President & COO MakerDAO
Richard Burton, CEO Balance
Ingrid Wadell, Director Disruptive Technologies & Innovation
Kyle Tut, Co-Founder BlockEra
Our guests talk about partnerships, banks, finance projects, crypto communities and what keeps them up at night.
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Today we have a very special bonus episode of Blockchain Insider for you, from the Omaha blockchain summit we have a rare chance to get some real leaders in the field all together in the same room to discuss some of the most pressing issues in blockchain and how the industry is reacting to changes.
Amber Baldet is joined by a roundtable of some very special blockchain guests including:
Sandra Ro, CEO GBBC
Steven Becker, President & COO MakerDAO
Richard Burton, CEO Balance
Ingrid Wadell, Director Disruptive Technologies & Innovation
Kyle Tut, Co-Founder BlockEra
Our guests talk about partnerships, banks, finance projects, crypto communities and what keeps them up at night.
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87. Forked offhttps://bi.11fs.com/91
b2b33ac7-8681-46af-9ea5-ad2ddf0cd456Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Thailand approves some cryptocurrencies, FaceCoin and Nivaura raise $20m
59:33noSimon and Colin are joined by Antony Lewis, Director of Research, Cash & CBDC Strategy at R3.
First up, Thailand has now approved a total of 4 cryptocurrencies. But the regulator has made clear that approval doesn't make the coins legal tender. Antony explains that there's a bit more going on here than meets the eye, it means that ICOs can accept the cryptocurrencies for funding (01:20).
Next, it turns out that blockchain isn't the only option for APAC bankers. SWIFT is being touted as a great alternative and far superior to blockchain in terms of payments. Antony comments on the confusion around when do you pay and how SWIFT allows for tracking payment like tracking a parcel (07:21).
To round out the show we've got a great interview from Colin with Steve Gattuso and Jacob Blish from the Alpine team who are behind the TCR Party project! They talk about (39:35).
Other stories include:
Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed
London Stock Exchange Leads $20 Million Fundraise for Blockchain Startup Nivaura
French President Macron advocates the use of blockchain in European agriculture
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @cburniske on mainstream developer traction.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Antony Lewis, Jacob Blish, and Steve Gattuso.
Simon and Colin are joined by Antony Lewis, Director of Research, Cash & CBDC Strategy at R3.
First up, Thailand has now approved a total of 4 cryptocurrencies. But the regulator has made clear that approval doesn't make the coins legal tender. Antony explains that there's a bit more going on here than meets the eye, it means that ICOs can accept the cryptocurrencies for funding (01:20).
Next, it turns out that blockchain isn't the only option for APAC bankers. SWIFT is being touted as a great alternative and far superior to blockchain in terms of payments. Antony comments on the confusion around when do you pay and how SWIFT allows for tracking payment like tracking a parcel (07:21).
To round out the show we've got a great interview from Colin with Steve Gattuso and Jacob Blish from the Alpine team who are behind the TCR Party project! They talk about (39:35).
French President Macron advocates the use of blockchain in European agriculture
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @cburniske on mainstream developer traction.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Simon and Colin are joined by Antony Lewis, Director of Research, Cash & CBDC Strategy at R3.
First up, Thailand has now approved a total of 4 cryptocurrencies. But the regulator has made clear that approval doesn't make the coins legal tender. Antony explains that there's a bit more going on here than meets the eye, it means that ICOs can accept the cryptocurrencies for funding (01:20).
Next, it turns out that blockchain isn't the only option for APAC bankers. SWIFT is being touted as a great alternative and far superior to blockchain in terms of payments. Antony comments on the confusion around when do you pay and how SWIFT allows for tracking payment like tracking a parcel (07:21).
To round out the show we've got a great interview from Colin with Steve Gattuso and Jacob Blish from the Alpine team who are behind the TCR Party project! They talk about (39:35).
French President Macron advocates the use of blockchain in European agriculture
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @cburniske on mainstream developer traction.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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86. Too legit to quithttps://bi.11fs.com/90
460c8a6d-e91b-4129-a9de-5c3f78e51911Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Brazilian Bank embrace crypto, a European exchange giant is jumping on the crypto bandwagon and XRP the STD...finally!
57:18noSimon and Colin are in the studio, together again.
First up, Brazil's BTG Pactual is the latest bank to embrace crypto assets. Colin explains how the biggest sole investment bank in Brazil have been moving into the crypto-asset market, making them the first in South America to do so. Colin remarks how the real story is that a bank is letting people pay for things with crypto, it's interesting to see how this will work out and the pair dive into the story (01:17).
Next, a Yen-pegged Stablecoin is set to be launched in March by Japanese banking giant Mizuho. Simon goes over how the new 'J-coin' sounds like Venmo but with a coin in it and neither of them are sure what makes this a stablecoin. Simon also explains how the coins are being treated as cash, but they're not because the money's coming from bank accounts and why that matters (05:00).
Simon also has an interview with Adrien Treccani, CEO of Metaco to talk about crypto and custody (33:08).
Other stories include:
A European exchange giant is getting ready for crypto futures
Coinbase Lists XRP and the price jumps 10%
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @VitalikButerin on sound money and insititutional adoption
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
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We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
•
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
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This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guest: Adrien Treccani.
Simon and Colin are in the studio, together again.
First up, Brazil's BTG Pactual is the latest bank to embrace crypto assets. Colin explains how the biggest sole investment bank in Brazil have been moving into the crypto-asset market, making them the first in South America to do so. Colin remarks how the real story is that a bank is letting people pay for things with crypto, it's interesting to see how this will work out and the pair dive into the story (01:17).
Next, a Yen-pegged Stablecoin is set to be launched in March by Japanese banking giant Mizuho. Simon goes over how the new 'J-coin' sounds like Venmo but with a coin in it and neither of them are sure what makes this a stablecoin. Simon also explains how the coins are being treated as cash, but they're not because the money's coming from bank accounts and why that matters (05:00).
Simon also has an interview with Adrien Treccani, CEO of Metaco to talk about crypto and custody (33:08).
Other stories include:
A European exchange giant is getting ready for crypto futures
Coinbase Lists XRP and the price jumps 10%
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @VitalikButerin on sound money and insititutional adoption
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
•
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
•
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
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This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guest: Adrien Treccani.
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Simon and Colin are in the studio, together again.
First up, Brazil's BTG Pactual is the latest bank to embrace crypto assets. Colin explains how the biggest sole investment bank in Brazil have been moving into the crypto-asset market, making them the first in South America to do so. Colin remarks how the real story is that a bank is letting people pay for things with crypto, it's interesting to see how this will work out and the pair dive into the story (01:17).
Next, a Yen-pegged Stablecoin is set to be launched in March by Japanese banking giant Mizuho. Simon goes over how the new 'J-coin' sounds like Venmo but with a coin in it and neither of them are sure what makes this a stablecoin. Simon also explains how the coins are being treated as cash, but they're not because the money's coming from bank accounts and why that matters (05:00).
Simon also has an interview with Adrien Treccani, CEO of Metaco to talk about crypto and custody (33:08).
Other stories include:
A European exchange giant is getting ready for crypto futures
Coinbase Lists XRP and the price jumps 10%
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @VitalikButerin on sound money and insititutional adoption
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
•
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
•
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
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This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guest: Adrien Treccani.
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85. JP Morgan do a coinhttps://bi.11fs.com/89
62e904b9-b633-4dca-80d0-2b45f691395aThu, 21 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Today we bring you: JP Morgan do a coin, JP Morgan do a coin and JP Morgan do a coin. We have some other stories too.
48:25noSimon's in the studio joined by 11:FS Head of Delivery Adam Davis and David Nicol, Digital Assets at R3.
First up, JPM Coin (01:12).
You may have noticed that we're focusing pretty hard on this story but that's because it's huge news for crypto and we wanted to do a bit of a special on it.
The panel gets into what makes this coin so special and why it's such a surprise to see JPM go in this direction. Adam shares why he thinks the term cryptocurrency is so loaded and argues that JPM Coin isn't really a coin at all but a token. Simon dives deep into double entry bookkeeping and how it applies. David Nicol explains the role fractional reserve banking plays in how the coin is backed and that it's only a matter of time until the other major banks start doing similar things.
We go through the reactions this news caused on the Twittersphere, including comments from Jameson Lopp, Brad Garlinghouse and Maya Zehavi.
Moving away from tweets the panel goes back to the news by looking at an analysis of the top 10 narratives for pushing JPMC (32:26).
Our experts go through the narratives in a quick-fire round and address the criticisms of JPM Coin, Adam points out that it's addressing a real use case before the group talks about broad and narrow money, clearing banks, balance sheets and digital currency.
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @AriDavidPaul on crypto fiat (government controlled permissioned cryptocurrencies) becoming a battleground.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Adam Davis and David Nicol.
Simon's in the studio joined by 11:FS Head of Delivery Adam Davis and David Nicol, Digital Assets at R3.
First up, JPM Coin (01:12).
You may have noticed that we're focusing pretty hard on this story but that's because it's huge news for crypto and we wanted to do a bit of a special on it.
The panel gets into what makes this coin so special and why it's such a surprise to see JPM go in this direction. Adam shares why he thinks the term cryptocurrency is so loaded and argues that JPM Coin isn't really a coin at all but a token. Simon dives deep into double entry bookkeeping and how it applies. David Nicol explains the role fractional reserve banking plays in how the coin is backed and that it's only a matter of time until the other major banks start doing similar things.
We go through the reactions this news caused on the Twittersphere, including comments from Jameson Lopp, Brad Garlinghouse and Maya Zehavi.
Moving away from tweets the panel goes back to the news by looking at an analysis of the top 10 narratives for pushing JPMC (32:26).
Our experts go through the narratives in a quick-fire round and address the criticisms of JPM Coin, Adam points out that it's addressing a real use case before the group talks about broad and narrow money, clearing banks, balance sheets and digital currency.
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @AriDavidPaul on crypto fiat (government controlled permissioned cryptocurrencies) becoming a battleground.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Simon's in the studio joined by 11:FS Head of Delivery Adam Davis and David Nicol, Digital Assets at R3.
First up, JPM Coin (01:12).
You may have noticed that we're focusing pretty hard on this story but that's because it's huge news for crypto and we wanted to do a bit of a special on it.
The panel gets into what makes this coin so special and why it's such a surprise to see JPM go in this direction. Adam shares why he thinks the term cryptocurrency is so loaded and argues that JPM Coin isn't really a coin at all but a token. Simon dives deep into double entry bookkeeping and how it applies. David Nicol explains the role fractional reserve banking plays in how the coin is backed and that it's only a matter of time until the other major banks start doing similar things.
We go through the reactions this news caused on the Twittersphere, including comments from Jameson Lopp, Brad Garlinghouse and Maya Zehavi.
Moving away from tweets the panel goes back to the news by looking at an analysis of the top 10 narratives for pushing JPMC (32:26).
Our experts go through the narratives in a quick-fire round and address the criticisms of JPM Coin, Adam points out that it's addressing a real use case before the group talks about broad and narrow money, clearing banks, balance sheets and digital currency.
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @AriDavidPaul on crypto fiat (government controlled permissioned cryptocurrencies) becoming a battleground.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Bonus: The future of interoperabilityhttps://bi.11fs.com/88
aa1ba238-243b-40c1-bb5e-7763f2562a14Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:30:00 +000011:FSbonus11:FSWe. Are. Here. At Barclays Rise for the ION Hackathon. Clearmatics are doing a special bonus episode with us covering the day's events. We've got a bumper pack of interviews for you including conversations with some of the hackathon teams, including some very youthful competitors.43:36noSimon and Sara are at the ION Hackathon.
The hackathon's all about interoperability and the general interoperability framework. It's not just about Ethereum to Ethereum, which is what Clearmatics is working on, it can be used for other platforms including legacy. Interoperability is a way for systems to talk to each other efficiently across different dematerialised assets. The hackathon has people working on three different platforms, Ethereum, Hyperledger fabric and Corda 2. Simon and Sara dive into what this all means before talking to some very interesting people, including:
George Ornbo, CTO of Clearmatics
Edward Budd, Co-Founder of Adhara
Dr. David Wild, Head of Computer Science at Bedford school
Antony Denyer CTO of Web3 Labs
Puneetha K, Blockchain Platform Engineer at Web3 Labs
Dr. Lee Braine, Investment Bank CTO office at Barclays
John Whelan, Head of Digital Investment Banking at Banco Santander
Simon talks to George Ornbo about interoperability functioning in a trustless manner, moving from changing value to changing state and now to adapting for Hyperledger. A full DVP workflow was released prior to the hackathon and that's what the teams are working on.
Reformed banker Ed Budd giveds some insight on how ION can support Adhara's business and how interoperability means that companies will no longer need to be locked into a particular software vendor.
Dr. David Wild and the group from Bedford school who had only started working with Ethereum two days prior to the event talk to Simon about getting students involved with intellectually demanding extracurricular subjects and having them exposed to it early. It's all new to the students so the focus is on identifying what they can take on and solving the problem of data exchange across exam boards. They're using the ION framework to simulate ways people can talk to each other in the same language and in a secure way.
Simon sits with Web3 Labs CTO Antony Denyer and Blockchain Platform Engineer at Web3 Labs Puneetha K, to talk about how the Java community is developing and scaling in the Ethereum network. How enterprise grade applications on blockchain are really all about Java and how Web3 Labs has used the hackathon. ION also showed them a faster way of verifying data but application level verification is still vital to verifying data over time.
Dr. Lee Braine worked on the ION hackathon for Barclays with Clearmatics to discover what others thought of the protocol and if the appetite was there amongst other companies. Interoperability is one of the most complex topics in the blockchain space and Simon talks to the doctor about all aspects of it and how the hackathon was judged using creativity, innovation and presentation of the solutions.
John Whelan shares his experience as a judge for the ION hackathon. He shares that the world's acceptance of many distributed ledgers means that they'll be built on multiple different technologies including Ethereum, Hyperledger fabric, Corda or digital asset. Interoperability is necessary for these ledgers to work together.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Antony Denyer, Dr. David Wild and Bedford School students, Dr. Lee Braine, Ed Budd, George Ornbo, John Whelan, and Puneetha K..
Simon and Sara are at the ION Hackathon.
The hackathon's all about interoperability and the general interoperability framework. It's not just about Ethereum to Ethereum, which is what Clearmatics is working on, it can be used for other platforms including legacy. Interoperability is a way for systems to talk to each other efficiently across different dematerialised assets. The hackathon has people working on three different platforms, Ethereum, Hyperledger fabric and Corda 2. Simon and Sara dive into what this all means before talking to some very interesting people, including:
George Ornbo, CTO of Clearmatics
Edward Budd, Co-Founder of Adhara
Dr. David Wild, Head of Computer Science at Bedford school
Antony Denyer CTO of Web3 Labs
Puneetha K, Blockchain Platform Engineer at Web3 Labs
Dr. Lee Braine, Investment Bank CTO office at Barclays
John Whelan, Head of Digital Investment Banking at Banco Santander
Simon talks to George Ornbo about interoperability functioning in a trustless manner, moving from changing value to changing state and now to adapting for Hyperledger. A full DVP workflow was released prior to the hackathon and that's what the teams are working on.
Reformed banker Ed Budd giveds some insight on how ION can support Adhara's business and how interoperability means that companies will no longer need to be locked into a particular software vendor.
Dr. David Wild and the group from Bedford school who had only started working with Ethereum two days prior to the event talk to Simon about getting students involved with intellectually demanding extracurricular subjects and having them exposed to it early. It's all new to the students so the focus is on identifying what they can take on and solving the problem of data exchange across exam boards. They're using the ION framework to simulate ways people can talk to each other in the same language and in a secure way.
Simon sits with Web3 Labs CTO Antony Denyer and Blockchain Platform Engineer at Web3 Labs Puneetha K, to talk about how the Java community is developing and scaling in the Ethereum network. How enterprise grade applications on blockchain are really all about Java and how Web3 Labs has used the hackathon. ION also showed them a faster way of verifying data but application level verification is still vital to verifying data over time.
Dr. Lee Braine worked on the ION hackathon for Barclays with Clearmatics to discover what others thought of the protocol and if the appetite was there amongst other companies. Interoperability is one of the most complex topics in the blockchain space and Simon talks to the doctor about all aspects of it and how the hackathon was judged using creativity, innovation and presentation of the solutions.
John Whelan shares his experience as a judge for the ION hackathon. He shares that the world's acceptance of many distributed ledgers means that they'll be built on multiple different technologies including Ethereum, Hyperledger fabric, Corda or digital asset. Interoperability is necessary for these ledgers to work together.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guests: Antony Denyer, Dr. David Wild and Bedford School students, Dr. Lee Braine, Ed Budd, George Ornbo, John Whelan, and Puneetha K..
The hackathon's all about interoperability and the general interoperability framework. It's not just about Ethereum to Ethereum, which is what Clearmatics is working on, it can be used for other platforms including legacy. Interoperability is a way for systems to talk to each other efficiently across different dematerialised assets. The hackathon has people working on three different platforms, Ethereum, Hyperledger fabric and Corda 2. Simon and Sara dive into what this all means before talking to some very interesting people, including:
George Ornbo, CTO of Clearmatics
Edward Budd, Co-Founder of Adhara
Dr. David Wild, Head of Computer Science at Bedford school
Antony Denyer CTO of Web3 Labs
Puneetha K, Blockchain Platform Engineer at Web3 Labs
Dr. Lee Braine, Investment Bank CTO office at Barclays
John Whelan, Head of Digital Investment Banking at Banco Santander
Simon talks to George Ornbo about interoperability functioning in a trustless manner, moving from changing value to changing state and now to adapting for Hyperledger. A full DVP workflow was released prior to the hackathon and that's what the teams are working on.
Reformed banker Ed Budd giveds some insight on how ION can support Adhara's business and how interoperability means that companies will no longer need to be locked into a particular software vendor.
Dr. David Wild and the group from Bedford school who had only started working with Ethereum two days prior to the event talk to Simon about getting students involved with intellectually demanding extracurricular subjects and having them exposed to it early. It's all new to the students so the focus is on identifying what they can take on and solving the problem of data exchange across exam boards. They're using the ION framework to simulate ways people can talk to each other in the same language and in a secure way.
Simon sits with Web3 Labs CTO Antony Denyer and Blockchain Platform Engineer at Web3 Labs Puneetha K, to talk about how the Java community is developing and scaling in the Ethereum network. How enterprise grade applications on blockchain are really all about Java and how Web3 Labs has used the hackathon. ION also showed them a faster way of verifying data but application level verification is still vital to verifying data over time.
Dr. Lee Braine worked on the ION hackathon for Barclays with Clearmatics to discover what others thought of the protocol and if the appetite was there amongst other companies. Interoperability is one of the most complex topics in the blockchain space and Simon talks to the doctor about all aspects of it and how the hackathon was judged using creativity, innovation and presentation of the solutions.
John Whelan shares his experience as a judge for the ION hackathon. He shares that the world's acceptance of many distributed ledgers means that they'll be built on multiple different technologies including Ethereum, Hyperledger fabric, Corda or digital asset. Interoperability is necessary for these ledgers to work together.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guests: Antony Denyer, Dr. David Wild and Bedford School students, Dr. Lee Braine, Ed Budd, George Ornbo, John Whelan, and Puneetha K..
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84. Does anyone need a blockchain?https://bi.11fs.com/87
44e5008b-039f-41be-8ff1-49eb8eace432Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Dormant funds, the SEC still won’t let crypto be and do you really need a blockchain?52:18noSimon's in the studio joined by Colin who's finally left his field. But they're not alone. Sara Feenan, Business Development Manager at Clearmatics, Anthony Macey Blockchain/DLT at Barclays and Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Technologies at Nordea Bank.
First up, There Is No Such Thing As 'Dormant Funds' In Banking 02:02
Simon and Colin explain how the money doesn't really exist with an intriguing AirBnB analogy. Anthony Macey explains how nostra vostra accounts work and what they really are, as well as a little tangent from Simon and Colin on the linguistic history of the phrase. Colin dives into the similarities between the strategy suggested and the 2008 financial crisis. And the group as a whole go over why this might not be the treasure trove others are suggesting it may be.
There’s no good reason to trust Blockchain technology 11:35
Anthony points out that the movement of trust is more valuable than the article suggests and how blockchain scales up socialised trust and where banks come in to the equation. Simon shares his views on how you could get five or six banks to agree to one thing using blockchain. Anthony thinks there might be a misunderstanding at the heart of the article. Sara points out that while there may be an issue with the code in a particular blockchain the goal isn't to use the same code globally, in an ideal world there'd be multiple implementations of the same blockchain.
SEC Commissioner Says Bitcoin ETF Will Be Approved ‘Eventually’ 30:31
Sara explains that the article didn't really suggest that a Bitcoin ETF will actually be approved, bitcoin ETFs have been tried many times before and failed. Market manipulation and the risk to investors remains high and it doesn't seem as though that issue has been solved.
Hester Peirce: tokens sold for use in a functioning network are not securities 38:48
Simon likens tokens to postage stamps and how they can shapeshift in value, even though the underlying asset itself can change, its usage and its value can vary depending on who you're talking to and what they plan on using it for.
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @jack on lightning 47:44
Colin explains lightning on the blockchain and how it reinvented netting. Anthony asks if this is why Twitter expanded its character limit.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Anthony Macey and Ville Sointu.
Simon's in the studio joined by Colin who's finally left his field. But they're not alone. Sara Feenan, Business Development Manager at Clearmatics, Anthony Macey Blockchain/DLT at Barclays and Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Technologies at Nordea Bank.
First up, There Is No Such Thing As 'Dormant Funds' In Banking 02:02
Simon and Colin explain how the money doesn't really exist with an intriguing AirBnB analogy. Anthony Macey explains how nostra vostra accounts work and what they really are, as well as a little tangent from Simon and Colin on the linguistic history of the phrase. Colin dives into the similarities between the strategy suggested and the 2008 financial crisis. And the group as a whole go over why this might not be the treasure trove others are suggesting it may be.
There’s no good reason to trust Blockchain technology 11:35
Anthony points out that the movement of trust is more valuable than the article suggests and how blockchain scales up socialised trust and where banks come in to the equation. Simon shares his views on how you could get five or six banks to agree to one thing using blockchain. Anthony thinks there might be a misunderstanding at the heart of the article. Sara points out that while there may be an issue with the code in a particular blockchain the goal isn't to use the same code globally, in an ideal world there'd be multiple implementations of the same blockchain.
SEC Commissioner Says Bitcoin ETF Will Be Approved ‘Eventually’ 30:31
Sara explains that the article didn't really suggest that a Bitcoin ETF will actually be approved, bitcoin ETFs have been tried many times before and failed. Market manipulation and the risk to investors remains high and it doesn't seem as though that issue has been solved.
Hester Peirce: tokens sold for use in a functioning network are not securities 38:48
Simon likens tokens to postage stamps and how they can shapeshift in value, even though the underlying asset itself can change, its usage and its value can vary depending on who you're talking to and what they plan on using it for.
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @jack on lightning 47:44
Colin explains lightning on the blockchain and how it reinvented netting. Anthony asks if this is why Twitter expanded its character limit.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Simon's in the studio joined by Colin who's finally left his field. But they're not alone. Sara Feenan, Business Development Manager at Clearmatics, Anthony Macey Blockchain/DLT at Barclays and Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Technologies at Nordea Bank.
First up, There Is No Such Thing As 'Dormant Funds' In Banking 02:02
Simon and Colin explain how the money doesn't really exist with an intriguing AirBnB analogy. Anthony Macey explains how nostra vostra accounts work and what they really are, as well as a little tangent from Simon and Colin on the linguistic history of the phrase. Colin dives into the similarities between the strategy suggested and the 2008 financial crisis. And the group as a whole go over why this might not be the treasure trove others are suggesting it may be.
There’s no good reason to trust Blockchain technology 11:35
Anthony points out that the movement of trust is more valuable than the article suggests and how blockchain scales up socialised trust and where banks come in to the equation. Simon shares his views on how you could get five or six banks to agree to one thing using blockchain. Anthony thinks there might be a misunderstanding at the heart of the article. Sara points out that while there may be an issue with the code in a particular blockchain the goal isn't to use the same code globally, in an ideal world there'd be multiple implementations of the same blockchain.
SEC Commissioner Says Bitcoin ETF Will Be Approved ‘Eventually’ 30:31
Sara explains that the article didn't really suggest that a Bitcoin ETF will actually be approved, bitcoin ETFs have been tried many times before and failed. Market manipulation and the risk to investors remains high and it doesn't seem as though that issue has been solved.
Hester Peirce: tokens sold for use in a functioning network are not securities 38:48
Simon likens tokens to postage stamps and how they can shapeshift in value, even though the underlying asset itself can change, its usage and its value can vary depending on who you're talking to and what they plan on using it for.
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @jack on lightning 47:44
Colin explains lightning on the blockchain and how it reinvented netting. Anthony asks if this is why Twitter expanded its character limit.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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83. Custody is still everythinghttps://bi.11fs.com/86
b8997ae7-a311-4f42-b4f5-2991e938fb3dThu, 07 Feb 2019 15:30:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Facebook take a step forward in the blockchain world, Fidelity get ready to disrupt the crypto market and custody is still everything 46:45noSimon's back in the studio, Colin's standing near a field. And they're ready to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain.
Crypto Exchange Kraken Raises $100m, Acquires london Futures Firm 02:24
We ask if Kraken are pivoting to a more Coinbase-y model, if there's any significance raising money from OGs rather than VC and revist Colin's comments from last week.
Swift links up with R3 for trading on blockchain 07:43
There's a lot of big words and acronyms going on in this story, but Colin's on hand to explain. We also discuss where (if anywhere) the Swift x Corda relationship could go.
Prop firms are hard to sell:’ Shares for crypto exchange Circle are being offered at a massive discount 16:45
It's a significant discount at 77% throwing up some real questions about what Circle's long term plans are.
Fidelity Says its Crypto Trading & Storage Platform is in Final Testing 22:00
Simon and Colin discuss how exciting this is for the industry and dive a bit deeper into product in crypto after last week's taster. As well as how companies like Fidelity are adapting their customer facing product to get future customers.
A crypto exchange can't repay $190 million it owes customers because its CEO died with the only password 31:49
Custody custody custody. It's an absolutely ridiculous state of affairs for the exchange. Simon and Colin go over the dangers of central points of failure and how decentralisation can help alleviate those concerns.
Facebook gets involved with blockchain by hiring the team behind Chainspace 35:00
We take a look at what this says for FB’s intentions and whether there's a lack of talent in the industry.
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @mayazi on the agenda of governance votes 40:47
Colin goes into how Maya's commenting on the real need for the blockchain industry to fix monetary issues at a transactional level rather than going straight into an ICO. Only one company's ever tried to do this at a wallet level. Simon questions if someone could ever get this to work at a micropayments level.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Simon's back in the studio, Colin's standing near a field. And they're ready to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain.
We ask if Kraken are pivoting to a more Coinbase-y model, if there's any significance raising money from OGs rather than VC and revist Colin's comments from last week.
Swift links up with R3 for trading on blockchain 07:43
There's a lot of big words and acronyms going on in this story, but Colin's on hand to explain. We also discuss where (if anywhere) the Swift x Corda relationship could go.
Prop firms are hard to sell:’ Shares for crypto exchange Circle are being offered at a massive discount 16:45
It's a significant discount at 77% throwing up some real questions about what Circle's long term plans are.
Fidelity Says its Crypto Trading & Storage Platform is in Final Testing 22:00
Simon and Colin discuss how exciting this is for the industry and dive a bit deeper into product in crypto after last week's taster. As well as how companies like Fidelity are adapting their customer facing product to get future customers.
A crypto exchange can't repay $190 million it owes customers because its CEO died with the only password 31:49
Custody custody custody. It's an absolutely ridiculous state of affairs for the exchange. Simon and Colin go over the dangers of central points of failure and how decentralisation can help alleviate those concerns.
Facebook gets involved with blockchain by hiring the team behind Chainspace 35:00
We take a look at what this says for FB’s intentions and whether there's a lack of talent in the industry.
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @mayazi on the agenda of governance votes 40:47
Colin goes into how Maya's commenting on the real need for the blockchain industry to fix monetary issues at a transactional level rather than going straight into an ICO. Only one company's ever tried to do this at a wallet level. Simon questions if someone could ever get this to work at a micropayments level.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
We ask if Kraken are pivoting to a more Coinbase-y model, if there's any significance raising money from OGs rather than VC and revist Colin's comments from last week.
Swift links up with R3 for trading on blockchain 07:43
There's a lot of big words and acronyms going on in this story, but Colin's on hand to explain. We also discuss where (if anywhere) the Swift x Corda relationship could go.
Prop firms are hard to sell:’ Shares for crypto exchange Circle are being offered at a massive discount 16:45
It's a significant discount at 77% throwing up some real questions about what Circle's long term plans are.
Fidelity Says its Crypto Trading & Storage Platform is in Final Testing 22:00
Simon and Colin discuss how exciting this is for the industry and dive a bit deeper into product in crypto after last week's taster. As well as how companies like Fidelity are adapting their customer facing product to get future customers.
A crypto exchange can't repay $190 million it owes customers because its CEO died with the only password 31:49
Custody custody custody. It's an absolutely ridiculous state of affairs for the exchange. Simon and Colin go over the dangers of central points of failure and how decentralisation can help alleviate those concerns.
Facebook gets involved with blockchain by hiring the team behind Chainspace 35:00
We take a look at what this says for FB’s intentions and whether there's a lack of talent in the industry.
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @mayazi on the agenda of governance votes 40:47
Colin goes into how Maya's commenting on the real need for the blockchain industry to fix monetary issues at a transactional level rather than going straight into an ICO. Only one company's ever tried to do this at a wallet level. Simon questions if someone could ever get this to work at a micropayments level.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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82. Everyone’s Warren Buffet in a Bull Markethttps://bi.11fs.com/85
e77ad2b1-4fce-4ebb-b628-b9f2359fea81Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Chat app Kik in SEC “Royal Rumble”, Multicoin declares victory after losing 1/3rd of capital and long Bitcoin, short the bankers...?
59:27noSimon's back in the studio joined by a very distant Colin to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain.
Chat App Kik Says It Will Fight SEC Over Possible ICO Action 01:36
Galaxy S10 Leak Suggests Built-In Cryptocurrency Wallet 11:46
Short strategy helped Multicoin Capital post solid 2018 results 22:30
Cryptos Would Only Have Value in ‘Dystopian’ Economy: JPMorgan 31:03
Research Firm Messari CEO: Threatening Calls After Critical XRP Report Were Made by ‘Punk Kids’ 40:23
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @APompliano on Venezula's gold 43:27
That’s not all, our American partner Sam Maule caught up with FNBO’s Director of Product development: Ingrid Wadell 46:14
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Ingrid Wadell and Sam Maule.
Simon's back in the studio joined by a very distant Colin to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain.
Chat App Kik Says It Will Fight SEC Over Possible ICO Action 01:36
Galaxy S10 Leak Suggests Built-In Cryptocurrency Wallet 11:46
Short strategy helped Multicoin Capital post solid 2018 results 22:30
Cryptos Would Only Have Value in ‘Dystopian’ Economy: JPMorgan 31:03
Research Firm Messari CEO: Threatening Calls After Critical XRP Report Were Made by ‘Punk Kids’ 40:23
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from @APompliano on Venezula's gold 43:27
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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81. The Best Anti-blockchain Blockchain ideahttps://bi.11fs.com/84
303da3fe-5bce-4643-b712-45930729a308Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Today we bring you: ConstantiNOple, a look at if Bitcoin was manipulated and you can track your Cobalt on a Blockchain, who knew?
37:28noSimon's back in the studio joined by a very distant Colin to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain.
Core Ethereum devs push Constantinople upgrade out 6 weeks; ProgPoW decision put on hold 00:52
Sara Feenan explains it all 02:35
Was Bitcoin Really Manipulated 08:55
Beyond the doomsday economics of "proof-of-work" in cryptocurrencies 13:33
ING are working in partnership with R3 18:45
Ford to use Blockchain in pilot to trace cobalt mined in Congo 19:50
Binance targets EU-UK traders with new fiat-to-crypto exchange 23:03
OECD: ICOs Have Financing Benefits But Aren’t a Mainstream Option 25:28
Wyoming Bill Would Clear the Way for Crypto Custody at Banks 29:35
We've got a great Tweet of the Week from BeamPrivacy on Beam's blockchain stopping 33:57
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Simon's back in the studio joined by a very distant Colin to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain.
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80. The Value of Bitcoinhttps://bi.11fs.com/83
e02e3dd1-308b-48ca-85fb-de7b0f60cee8Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Colin and Sara sit down with Anthony Macey, Teana Baker-Taylor and David Nicol to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain.1:03:45noColin and Sara are back in the studio joined by guests: Anthony Macey, Blockchain/DLT Lead at Barclays, Teana Baker-Taylor, Board Member at GDF and David Nicol, Digital Assets at R3.
First up, Greenspan: XRP Not A Security But Community Still Too Aggressive 01:49
Bitmain to appoint new CEO as co-founders Wu & Zhan step aside 10:12
Federal Reserve Blames Altcoins for Dragging Down the Bitcoin Price 17:36
Institutional investors are just as prone to FOMO as retail, says Circle Trade exec 23:50
MimbleWimble: History, Technology, and the Mining Industry 30:12
Our Tweet of the Week is from Preston Byrne on shilling. 35:55
We also have a great interview with Jeremy Millar. 38:10
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Anthony Macey, David Nicol, Jeremy Millar, and Teana Baker-Taylor.
Colin and Sara are back in the studio joined by guests: Anthony Macey, Blockchain/DLT Lead at Barclays, Teana Baker-Taylor, Board Member at GDF and David Nicol, Digital Assets at R3.
First up, Greenspan: XRP Not A Security But Community Still Too Aggressive 01:49
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Ep. 79. Regulating Treadmillhttps://bi.11fs.com/82
bf57f8ce-fadf-4442-8d87-dfdda962ea7eThu, 10 Jan 2019 14:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon's joined by Colin, from a field, to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain. 45:06noSimon's in the studio joined from a field by Colin.
First up, Crypto’s 2019 goal: Technology people can use 02:01 (https://bi.11fs.com/82?t=121)
7 legal questions that will define blockchain in 2019 06:57 (https://bi.11fs.com/82?t=417)
Japan’s Mizuho Bank To Launch its Own Stablecoin By March, 2019 16:46 (https://bi.11fs.com/82?t=1006)
Stablecoin projects are paying rebates to traders, and it caused a big headache for Paxos 20:38 (https://bi.11fs.com/82?t=1238)
Crypto exchange Kraken says US subpoenas becoming ‘barrier to entry’ 24:48 (https://bi.11fs.com/82?t=1488)
City watchdog targets bitcoin dealing 28:49 (https://bi.11fs.com/82?t=1729)
Tesla stock on a blockchain offers hint of where crypto’s headed 30:58 (https://bi.11fs.com/82?t=1858)
0fees: 0x has seen only ~$3K in ZRX tx fees since creation 34:33 (https://bi.11fs.com/82?t=2072)
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from Bitfly on the 51% attack on Ethereum Classic.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Simon's in the studio joined from a field by Colin.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from Bitfly on the 51% attack on Ethereum Classic.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
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This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Ep. 78. Blockchain and Crypto Predictions 2019https://bi.11fs.com/80
b1011a2c-0ab2-4911-a5b4-805bfee13d6fThu, 03 Jan 2019 15:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon and Colin are predicting all the things that could happen in the world of blockchain in 2019. 33:58noFar from a field, Simon and Colin are in the studio talking about what they think's going to happen around blockchain in 2019.
First off, we take a look at some of the predictions from last year. Some worked out great...others not so much. For the predictions our hosts have some interesting theories and touch on quite a few...
Before we get started with our predictions, Bitflyer COO Andy Bryant let us know what he thinks 2019 has in store for Crypto.
Simon:
1. The crypto part of "crypto" becomes much more important than the asset or currency part
2. DLT makes a comeback
3. Institutions dip a toe in the water as infrastructure build out hardens
4. Regulatory clarity comes at last
5. New projects are born that go on to be household names in the next decade
Colin:
1. Numbers go… sideways?
2. Zombie Marmot Apocalypse.
3. Stablecoins, they’re dumb, people will realise that they’re dumb, but not before giving them all their money.
4. Securities tokens. Another market realisation will likely be that issuing a security is more than just filing some papers to issue a security
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guest: Andy Bryant.
Far from a field, Simon and Colin are in the studio talking about what they think's going to happen around blockchain in 2019.
First off, we take a look at some of the predictions from last year. Some worked out great...others not so much. For the predictions our hosts have some interesting theories and touch on quite a few...
Before we get started with our predictions, Bitflyer COO Andy Bryant let us know what he thinks 2019 has in store for Crypto.
Simon:
The crypto part of "crypto" becomes much more important than the asset or currency part
DLT makes a comeback
Institutions dip a toe in the water as infrastructure build out hardens
Regulatory clarity comes at last
New projects are born that go on to be household names in the next decade
Colin:
Numbers go… sideways?
Zombie Marmot Apocalypse.
Stablecoins, they’re dumb, people will realise that they’re dumb, but not before giving them all their money.
Securities tokens. Another market realisation will likely be that issuing a security is more than just filing some papers to issue a security
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guest: Andy Bryant.
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Far from a field, Simon and Colin are in the studio talking about what they think's going to happen around blockchain in 2019.
First off, we take a look at some of the predictions from last year. Some worked out great...others not so much. For the predictions our hosts have some interesting theories and touch on quite a few...
Before we get started with our predictions, Bitflyer COO Andy Bryant let us know what he thinks 2019 has in store for Crypto.
Simon:
The crypto part of "crypto" becomes much more important than the asset or currency part
DLT makes a comeback
Institutions dip a toe in the water as infrastructure build out hardens
Regulatory clarity comes at last
New projects are born that go on to be household names in the next decade
Colin:
Numbers go… sideways?
Zombie Marmot Apocalypse.
Stablecoins, they’re dumb, people will realise that they’re dumb, but not before giving them all their money.
Securities tokens. Another market realisation will likely be that issuing a security is more than just filing some papers to issue a security
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guest: Andy Bryant.
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Bonus: Blooper Reel 2018https://bi.11fs.com/81
fe43aee0-96e3-4fa0-b4a0-72218c47a424Thu, 27 Dec 2018 15:00:00 +000011:FSbonus11:FSA little bonus to end the year, we're not all perfect here at Blockchain Insider. To prove it Simon's got a quick cut of some of the funniest mistakes we made this year.5:03yesHappy New Year's Eve to all of our listeners. To give you one last blockchain laugh before the end of the year we've got a quick collection of the stumbles, fumbles and absurdly mispronounced names from all the recordings this year. Lots of mispronounced names, it's Simon after all. This is the stuff that doesn't usually make it in.
We hope you have a great celebration tonight and enjoy our blockchain bloopers!
Produced by Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Happy New Year's Eve to all of our listeners. To give you one last blockchain laugh before the end of the year we've got a quick collection of the stumbles, fumbles and absurdly mispronounced names from all the recordings this year. Lots of mispronounced names, it's Simon after all. This is the stuff that doesn't usually make it in.
We hope you have a great celebration tonight and enjoy our blockchain bloopers!
Produced by Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Happy New Year's Eve to all of our listeners. To give you one last blockchain laugh before the end of the year we've got a quick collection of the stumbles, fumbles and absurdly mispronounced names from all the recordings this year. Lots of mispronounced names, it's Simon after all. This is the stuff that doesn't usually make it in.
We hope you have a great celebration tonight and enjoy our blockchain bloopers!
Produced by Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Ep. 77. Custody is Everythinghttps://bi.11fs.com/79
b5563256-1b98-46ed-9f9b-e79da60b88d2Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:30:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon's joined by our great guests, Teana Baker-Taylor and John Detrixhe to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain.1:03:37noSimon's in the studio with Teana Baker-Taylor of GDF and John Detrixhe, Future of Finance Reporter at Quartz.
First up, Mike Novogratz Explains Why He’s Still All-In on Crypto. We look at what’s next for cryptocurrencies, how strategy for Galaxy evolved as crypto imploded and if there's still a sense of inevitability around crypto.
This Brazilian Bank Is Using Ethereum to Issue a Stablecoin. State owned, Brazilian national social development bank will launch pilot in Jan 2019. Since the bank has a history of corruption scandals involving misallocated funds and alleged bribes, creators hope public BNDES blockchain data will help bolster trust in state-owned banks.
A company trying to solve one of the biggest pain points in cryptocurrency just raised $8 million, and it could help lure big Wall Street funds to the burgeoning industry. Venture firm Two Sigma and blockchain company ConsenSys have invested $8 million into digital-asset-custody provider Trustology. The startup tackles one of the key challenges in cryptocurrencies: safely holding digital assets in a way that protects them from thieves but also allows the rightful owner to get quick and easy access. The funds will be used to develop new products, move into additional asset classes, and expand internationally.
Gazprombank Switzerland to Launch Crypto Services Next Year. Gazprombank ahs partnered with fintech startup Avaloq and crypto firm Metaco to offer clients crypto services. The system is meant “for the management of client portfolios across all asset classes, including cryptocurrencies.”
Coinbase U.S. Customers Get Instant Paypal Withdrawals. As part of the 12 days of Coinbase program, the popular US based exchange announced the support of instant withdrawals through PayPal for their U.S. customers. Limited PayPal to withdrawals as their partnership does not support the depositing of funds to Coinbase accounts.
Ethereum Unique Addresses Break 50 Million, Active Wallet Number Keeps Dropping. On Saturday, the Ethereum network saw a daily increase of 168,506 unique crypto wallets. The highest historical daily growth of unique Ethereum addresses took place on Jan. 4, 2018, with 352,888 new addresses created on the Ethereum network.
Razer Wants Gamers to Mine Cryptocurrency for Store Credit. Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer wants gamers to download software that mines cryptocurrency with their idle computers. But users won’t get to keep the digital coins they generate with their machines, and neither will Razer.
Why we are forking 0x? Our perspective of what’s most urgent diverged. Being on the front-lines, it is painfully apparent that most DEXs today still are plagued by rudimentary problems such as order collision, front-running, and poor liquidity.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from Stephen Palley on Bitcoin.
To finish off the episode we've got an interview from Colin with Antony Lewis, Director of Research at r3 to talk all about his new book ‘The Basics of Bitcoins & Blockchains’.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Antony Lewis, John Detrixhe, and Teana Baker-Taylor.
Simon's in the studio with Teana Baker-Taylor of GDF and John Detrixhe, Future of Finance Reporter at Quartz.
First up, Mike Novogratz Explains Why He’s Still All-In on Crypto. We look at what’s next for cryptocurrencies, how strategy for Galaxy evolved as crypto imploded and if there's still a sense of inevitability around crypto.
This Brazilian Bank Is Using Ethereum to Issue a Stablecoin. State owned, Brazilian national social development bank will launch pilot in Jan 2019. Since the bank has a history of corruption scandals involving misallocated funds and alleged bribes, creators hope public BNDES blockchain data will help bolster trust in state-owned banks.
A company trying to solve one of the biggest pain points in cryptocurrency just raised $8 million, and it could help lure big Wall Street funds to the burgeoning industry. Venture firm Two Sigma and blockchain company ConsenSys have invested $8 million into digital-asset-custody provider Trustology. The startup tackles one of the key challenges in cryptocurrencies: safely holding digital assets in a way that protects them from thieves but also allows the rightful owner to get quick and easy access. The funds will be used to develop new products, move into additional asset classes, and expand internationally.
Gazprombank Switzerland to Launch Crypto Services Next Year. Gazprombank ahs partnered with fintech startup Avaloq and crypto firm Metaco to offer clients crypto services. The system is meant “for the management of client portfolios across all asset classes, including cryptocurrencies.”
Coinbase U.S. Customers Get Instant Paypal Withdrawals. As part of the 12 days of Coinbase program, the popular US based exchange announced the support of instant withdrawals through PayPal for their U.S. customers. Limited PayPal to withdrawals as their partnership does not support the depositing of funds to Coinbase accounts.
Ethereum Unique Addresses Break 50 Million, Active Wallet Number Keeps Dropping. On Saturday, the Ethereum network saw a daily increase of 168,506 unique crypto wallets. The highest historical daily growth of unique Ethereum addresses took place on Jan. 4, 2018, with 352,888 new addresses created on the Ethereum network.
Razer Wants Gamers to Mine Cryptocurrency for Store Credit. Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer wants gamers to download software that mines cryptocurrency with their idle computers. But users won’t get to keep the digital coins they generate with their machines, and neither will Razer.
Why we are forking 0x? Our perspective of what’s most urgent diverged. Being on the front-lines, it is painfully apparent that most DEXs today still are plagued by rudimentary problems such as order collision, front-running, and poor liquidity.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from Stephen Palley on Bitcoin.
To finish off the episode we've got an interview from Colin with Antony Lewis, Director of Research at r3 to talk all about his new book ‘The Basics of Bitcoins & Blockchains’.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guests: Antony Lewis, John Detrixhe, and Teana Baker-Taylor.
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Simon's in the studio with Teana Baker-Taylor of GDF and John Detrixhe, Future of Finance Reporter at Quartz.
First up, Mike Novogratz Explains Why He’s Still All-In on Crypto. We look at what’s next for cryptocurrencies, how strategy for Galaxy evolved as crypto imploded and if there's still a sense of inevitability around crypto.
This Brazilian Bank Is Using Ethereum to Issue a Stablecoin. State owned, Brazilian national social development bank will launch pilot in Jan 2019. Since the bank has a history of corruption scandals involving misallocated funds and alleged bribes, creators hope public BNDES blockchain data will help bolster trust in state-owned banks.
A company trying to solve one of the biggest pain points in cryptocurrency just raised $8 million, and it could help lure big Wall Street funds to the burgeoning industry. Venture firm Two Sigma and blockchain company ConsenSys have invested $8 million into digital-asset-custody provider Trustology. The startup tackles one of the key challenges in cryptocurrencies: safely holding digital assets in a way that protects them from thieves but also allows the rightful owner to get quick and easy access. The funds will be used to develop new products, move into additional asset classes, and expand internationally.
Gazprombank Switzerland to Launch Crypto Services Next Year. Gazprombank ahs partnered with fintech startup Avaloq and crypto firm Metaco to offer clients crypto services. The system is meant “for the management of client portfolios across all asset classes, including cryptocurrencies.”
Coinbase U.S. Customers Get Instant Paypal Withdrawals. As part of the 12 days of Coinbase program, the popular US based exchange announced the support of instant withdrawals through PayPal for their U.S. customers. Limited PayPal to withdrawals as their partnership does not support the depositing of funds to Coinbase accounts.
Ethereum Unique Addresses Break 50 Million, Active Wallet Number Keeps Dropping. On Saturday, the Ethereum network saw a daily increase of 168,506 unique crypto wallets. The highest historical daily growth of unique Ethereum addresses took place on Jan. 4, 2018, with 352,888 new addresses created on the Ethereum network.
Razer Wants Gamers to Mine Cryptocurrency for Store Credit. Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer wants gamers to download software that mines cryptocurrency with their idle computers. But users won’t get to keep the digital coins they generate with their machines, and neither will Razer.
Why we are forking 0x? Our perspective of what’s most urgent diverged. Being on the front-lines, it is painfully apparent that most DEXs today still are plagued by rudimentary problems such as order collision, front-running, and poor liquidity.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from Stephen Palley on Bitcoin.
To finish off the episode we've got an interview from Colin with Antony Lewis, Director of Research at r3 to talk all about his new book ‘The Basics of Bitcoins & Blockchains’.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guests: Antony Lewis, John Detrixhe, and Teana Baker-Taylor.
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Ep. 76. Vitalik Buterinhttps://bi.11fs.com/78
a231ce3a-1643-48a5-8092-69499f5e4d27Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:30:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon and Colin are with one of the biggest names in the crypto world, Vitalik Buterin, to talk to him all about Ethereum and potential enterprise applications.53:41noSimon's in the studio...and Colin's coming to us from a field.
In our first interview from our new offices in Devonshire Square we're talking to Vitalik Buterin about blockchain and Ethereum. We dive deep into a wide array of topics, so don't be afraid to rewind when you need to.
Our hosts ask the founder of Ethereum some interesting questions on the blockchain as a whole, smart contracts, gatekeeping partcipants and the uses of blockchain outside of financial incentives.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guest: Vitalik Buterin.
Simon's in the studio...and Colin's coming to us from a field.
In our first interview from our new offices in Devonshire Square we're talking to Vitalik Buterin about blockchain and Ethereum. We dive deep into a wide array of topics, so don't be afraid to rewind when you need to.
Our hosts ask the founder of Ethereum some interesting questions on the blockchain as a whole, smart contracts, gatekeeping partcipants and the uses of blockchain outside of financial incentives.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guest: Vitalik Buterin.
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Simon's in the studio...and Colin's coming to us from a field.
In our first interview from our new offices in Devonshire Square we're talking to Vitalik Buterin about blockchain and Ethereum. We dive deep into a wide array of topics, so don't be afraid to rewind when you need to.
Our hosts ask the founder of Ethereum some interesting questions on the blockchain as a whole, smart contracts, gatekeeping partcipants and the uses of blockchain outside of financial incentives.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guest: Vitalik Buterin.
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Ep. 75. Breaks the laws of the universehttps://bi.11fs.com/77
8ec83048-e7aa-4860-a7b4-a353755f4703Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:30:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon's joined by our great guest Anthony Macey to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain.37:22noSimon's in the studio with Anthony Macey at our brand new offices in Devonshire Square.
First up, Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled pay SEC cryptocurrency penalties. The US financial regulator said the men failed to disclose payments they received to promote certain cryptocurrency investments.The men neither admitted nor denied the claims, but agreed to pay combined penalties totalling more than $750,000. The SEC said Mr Mayweather received $300,000 to promote three separate offerings, including one by Centra Tech.
Defrauding Investors of $4 Million. AriseBank CEO Jared Rice, Sr. was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday, charged with duping hundreds of investors out of more than $4 million in a cryptocurrency scheme. Mr. Rice was indicted on three counts of securities fraud and three counts of wire fraud. He allegedly lied to would-be investors.
Nasdaq Plans to Pursue Bitcoin Futures Despite Plunging Prices, Sources Say. Nasdaq Inc. is moving ahead with a plan to list Bitcoin futures, betting on sustained interest despite the cryptocurrency’s dramatic plunge over the past year. They have been working to satisfy the concerns of the U.S.’s main swaps regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, before launching the contracts.
Behind Coinbase's quiet roll-out of OTC crypto trading this month. Coinbase rolled out an over-the-counter cryptocurrency trading desk earlier this month, but until now has been hesitant to openly discuss its ambitions. Tim Plakas, head OTC trades for Coinbase "We wanted to make sure we had all the boxes checked before we went public. We needed to have some of our trusted institutional clients on board and were in a beta mode to make sure that all the pipes were working."
AWS launches a managed blockchain service. It’s a managed blockchain service. It supports Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric. AWS promises that the service will scale to thousands of applications and will allow users to run millions of transactions (though the company didn’t say with what kind of latency).
Messari Opens Disclosure Registry for Crypto Projects. The registry, will share a range of typically non-public information, including token design, supply details, any audits of the technology, official communication channels, treasury management and details of team members. Ryan Selkis commented: “What we’re trying to do is make key information about these various crypto assets available to anyone, whether it’s a retail investor, a regulator, an academic or a mutual fund.”
Coinbase Backs Security Token Startup’s $12.7 Million Funding Round. Led by Blockchain Capital, the equity investments were made to help the company bring on “knowledgeable investors” as it prepares for a security token offering. CEO Carlos Domingo explained that the company wants to transition the securities industry, currently estimated at some $7 trillion, to decentralized ledgers as they are more transparent, auditable and can facilitate instantaneous transactions.
Harbor Launches its First Securities Offering With Sale of $20 Million USC (Carolina) Dormitory Facility. The total investment opportunity is valued at $20 Million with each token is going for a cool $21,000. A total of 955 shares/tokens will be up for sale.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from Marco Santori on the US Department of the Treasury adding two Bitcoin addresses to it's list of sanctioned parties.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guest: Anthony Macey.
Simon's in the studio with Anthony Macey at our brand new offices in Devonshire Square.
First up, Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled pay SEC cryptocurrency penalties. The US financial regulator said the men failed to disclose payments they received to promote certain cryptocurrency investments.The men neither admitted nor denied the claims, but agreed to pay combined penalties totalling more than $750,000. The SEC said Mr Mayweather received $300,000 to promote three separate offerings, including one by Centra Tech.
Defrauding Investors of $4 Million. AriseBank CEO Jared Rice, Sr. was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday, charged with duping hundreds of investors out of more than $4 million in a cryptocurrency scheme. Mr. Rice was indicted on three counts of securities fraud and three counts of wire fraud. He allegedly lied to would-be investors.
Nasdaq Plans to Pursue Bitcoin Futures Despite Plunging Prices, Sources Say. Nasdaq Inc. is moving ahead with a plan to list Bitcoin futures, betting on sustained interest despite the cryptocurrency’s dramatic plunge over the past year. They have been working to satisfy the concerns of the U.S.’s main swaps regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, before launching the contracts.
Behind Coinbase's quiet roll-out of OTC crypto trading this month. Coinbase rolled out an over-the-counter cryptocurrency trading desk earlier this month, but until now has been hesitant to openly discuss its ambitions. Tim Plakas, head OTC trades for Coinbase "We wanted to make sure we had all the boxes checked before we went public. We needed to have some of our trusted institutional clients on board and were in a beta mode to make sure that all the pipes were working."
AWS launches a managed blockchain service. It’s a managed blockchain service. It supports Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric. AWS promises that the service will scale to thousands of applications and will allow users to run millions of transactions (though the company didn’t say with what kind of latency).
Messari Opens Disclosure Registry for Crypto Projects. The registry, will share a range of typically non-public information, including token design, supply details, any audits of the technology, official communication channels, treasury management and details of team members. Ryan Selkis commented: “What we’re trying to do is make key information about these various crypto assets available to anyone, whether it’s a retail investor, a regulator, an academic or a mutual fund.”
Coinbase Backs Security Token Startup’s $12.7 Million Funding Round. Led by Blockchain Capital, the equity investments were made to help the company bring on “knowledgeable investors” as it prepares for a security token offering. CEO Carlos Domingo explained that the company wants to transition the securities industry, currently estimated at some $7 trillion, to decentralized ledgers as they are more transparent, auditable and can facilitate instantaneous transactions.
Harbor Launches its First Securities Offering With Sale of $20 Million USC (Carolina) Dormitory Facility. The total investment opportunity is valued at $20 Million with each token is going for a cool $21,000. A total of 955 shares/tokens will be up for sale.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from Marco Santori on the US Department of the Treasury adding two Bitcoin addresses to it's list of sanctioned parties.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guest: Anthony Macey.
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Simon's in the studio with Anthony Macey at our brand new offices in Devonshire Square.
First up, Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled pay SEC cryptocurrency penalties. The US financial regulator said the men failed to disclose payments they received to promote certain cryptocurrency investments.The men neither admitted nor denied the claims, but agreed to pay combined penalties totalling more than $750,000. The SEC said Mr Mayweather received $300,000 to promote three separate offerings, including one by Centra Tech.
Defrauding Investors of $4 Million. AriseBank CEO Jared Rice, Sr. was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday, charged with duping hundreds of investors out of more than $4 million in a cryptocurrency scheme. Mr. Rice was indicted on three counts of securities fraud and three counts of wire fraud. He allegedly lied to would-be investors.
Nasdaq Plans to Pursue Bitcoin Futures Despite Plunging Prices, Sources Say. Nasdaq Inc. is moving ahead with a plan to list Bitcoin futures, betting on sustained interest despite the cryptocurrency’s dramatic plunge over the past year. They have been working to satisfy the concerns of the U.S.’s main swaps regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, before launching the contracts.
Behind Coinbase's quiet roll-out of OTC crypto trading this month. Coinbase rolled out an over-the-counter cryptocurrency trading desk earlier this month, but until now has been hesitant to openly discuss its ambitions. Tim Plakas, head OTC trades for Coinbase "We wanted to make sure we had all the boxes checked before we went public. We needed to have some of our trusted institutional clients on board and were in a beta mode to make sure that all the pipes were working."
AWS launches a managed blockchain service. It’s a managed blockchain service. It supports Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric. AWS promises that the service will scale to thousands of applications and will allow users to run millions of transactions (though the company didn’t say with what kind of latency).
Messari Opens Disclosure Registry for Crypto Projects. The registry, will share a range of typically non-public information, including token design, supply details, any audits of the technology, official communication channels, treasury management and details of team members. Ryan Selkis commented: “What we’re trying to do is make key information about these various crypto assets available to anyone, whether it’s a retail investor, a regulator, an academic or a mutual fund.”
Coinbase Backs Security Token Startup’s $12.7 Million Funding Round. Led by Blockchain Capital, the equity investments were made to help the company bring on “knowledgeable investors” as it prepares for a security token offering. CEO Carlos Domingo explained that the company wants to transition the securities industry, currently estimated at some $7 trillion, to decentralized ledgers as they are more transparent, auditable and can facilitate instantaneous transactions.
Harbor Launches its First Securities Offering With Sale of $20 Million USC (Carolina) Dormitory Facility. The total investment opportunity is valued at $20 Million with each token is going for a cool $21,000. A total of 955 shares/tokens will be up for sale.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from Marco Santori on the US Department of the Treasury adding two Bitcoin addresses to it's list of sanctioned parties.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Special Guest: Anthony Macey.
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Ep. 74. Enterprise-grade toddlershttps://bi.11fs.com/76
71b35e93-577c-4a4b-be53-11585fc3112eThu, 29 Nov 2018 15:30:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon's joined by Sara to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain.33:37yesSimon's in the studio with Sara Feenan.
First up, Bitfinex Raises Fiat Withdrawal Fee, New Hardware Wallet Announced. The Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange now charges at least $60/€60, or 0.1 percent of the withdrawn amount. Users who want 24-hour money transfers on working days will have to pay a 1 percent fee.
Bitmain Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Alleged Unauthorized Crypto Mining. On Nov. 19, lead plaintiff Los Angeles County resident Gor Gevorkyan Bitmain, alleging that the firm’s devices use customers’ resources to mine cryptos for its own benefit prior to full setup. The Complaint read: “Bitmain’s ASIC devices are preconfigured to use its customers’ electricity to generate crypto currency for the benefit of Bitmain rather than its customers”.
The SEC’s Recent Rulings Are More About Exchanges Than ICOs. Earlier this month, an SEC director revealed that the agency plans to release “plain English” guidance for when a token is and is not a security.
Don’t Force Public Blockchains ‘Down Enterprises’ Throats’. Amber Baldet thinks it’s too soon for enterprise to meet open, decentralised blockchains: “We want to build those bridges out to the public networks, but I don’t think you get there by shoving public chains down enterprises’ throats before they are ready”. She believes that a gradual process of bridge-building between public chains and the private kind favored by corporations is needed.
Overstock surges 26% after CEO says it will sell retail business by February to focus on crypto. CEO Patrick Byrne plans to sell the retail arm of Overstock by February. Shares of Overstock surged as much as 26 percent Friday but the stock is down 66 percent this year.
Ohio ‘Appears’ to Be First US State to Accept Bitcoin for Taxes. The move initially applies only to businesses, with plans to extend the offering to individual taxpayers in future. The payments are reportedly set to be processed via crypto payments service BitPay.
SpankChain Has Paid Camgirls $70,000 Worth of Crypto in 6 Months. SpankChain boasted 6,136 active users as of October, and has paid roughly $72,422 in cryptocurrency to 31 webcam models since the site launched in April. Fellow performer Molly Mae Meow, who has been camming for more than six years, said she makes much more money on SpankChain, which only charges performers 5 percent of their earnings compared to the standard 50 percent across the industry.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on Bitcoin regrets. Plus a sneaky, if explicit, contender from Colin G. Platt.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
Simon's in the studio with Sara Feenan.
First up, Bitfinex Raises Fiat Withdrawal Fee, New Hardware Wallet Announced. The Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange now charges at least $60/€60, or 0.1 percent of the withdrawn amount. Users who want 24-hour money transfers on working days will have to pay a 1 percent fee.
Bitmain Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Alleged Unauthorized Crypto Mining. On Nov. 19, lead plaintiff Los Angeles County resident Gor Gevorkyan Bitmain, alleging that the firm’s devices use customers’ resources to mine cryptos for its own benefit prior to full setup. The Complaint read: “Bitmain’s ASIC devices are preconfigured to use its customers’ electricity to generate crypto currency for the benefit of Bitmain rather than its customers”.
The SEC’s Recent Rulings Are More About Exchanges Than ICOs. Earlier this month, an SEC director revealed that the agency plans to release “plain English” guidance for when a token is and is not a security.
Don’t Force Public Blockchains ‘Down Enterprises’ Throats’. Amber Baldet thinks it’s too soon for enterprise to meet open, decentralised blockchains: “We want to build those bridges out to the public networks, but I don’t think you get there by shoving public chains down enterprises’ throats before they are ready”. She believes that a gradual process of bridge-building between public chains and the private kind favored by corporations is needed.
Overstock surges 26% after CEO says it will sell retail business by February to focus on crypto. CEO Patrick Byrne plans to sell the retail arm of Overstock by February. Shares of Overstock surged as much as 26 percent Friday but the stock is down 66 percent this year.
Ohio ‘Appears’ to Be First US State to Accept Bitcoin for Taxes. The move initially applies only to businesses, with plans to extend the offering to individual taxpayers in future. The payments are reportedly set to be processed via crypto payments service BitPay.
SpankChain Has Paid Camgirls $70,000 Worth of Crypto in 6 Months. SpankChain boasted 6,136 active users as of October, and has paid roughly $72,422 in cryptocurrency to 31 webcam models since the site launched in April. Fellow performer Molly Mae Meow, who has been camming for more than six years, said she makes much more money on SpankChain, which only charges performers 5 percent of their earnings compared to the standard 50 percent across the industry.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on Bitcoin regrets. Plus a sneaky, if explicit, contender from Colin G. Platt.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Simon's in the studio with Sara Feenan.
First up, Bitfinex Raises Fiat Withdrawal Fee, New Hardware Wallet Announced. The Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange now charges at least $60/€60, or 0.1 percent of the withdrawn amount. Users who want 24-hour money transfers on working days will have to pay a 1 percent fee.
Bitmain Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Alleged Unauthorized Crypto Mining. On Nov. 19, lead plaintiff Los Angeles County resident Gor Gevorkyan Bitmain, alleging that the firm’s devices use customers’ resources to mine cryptos for its own benefit prior to full setup. The Complaint read: “Bitmain’s ASIC devices are preconfigured to use its customers’ electricity to generate crypto currency for the benefit of Bitmain rather than its customers”.
The SEC’s Recent Rulings Are More About Exchanges Than ICOs. Earlier this month, an SEC director revealed that the agency plans to release “plain English” guidance for when a token is and is not a security.
Don’t Force Public Blockchains ‘Down Enterprises’ Throats’. Amber Baldet thinks it’s too soon for enterprise to meet open, decentralised blockchains: “We want to build those bridges out to the public networks, but I don’t think you get there by shoving public chains down enterprises’ throats before they are ready”. She believes that a gradual process of bridge-building between public chains and the private kind favored by corporations is needed.
Overstock surges 26% after CEO says it will sell retail business by February to focus on crypto. CEO Patrick Byrne plans to sell the retail arm of Overstock by February. Shares of Overstock surged as much as 26 percent Friday but the stock is down 66 percent this year.
Ohio ‘Appears’ to Be First US State to Accept Bitcoin for Taxes. The move initially applies only to businesses, with plans to extend the offering to individual taxpayers in future. The payments are reportedly set to be processed via crypto payments service BitPay.
SpankChain Has Paid Camgirls $70,000 Worth of Crypto in 6 Months. SpankChain boasted 6,136 active users as of October, and has paid roughly $72,422 in cryptocurrency to 31 webcam models since the site launched in April. Fellow performer Molly Mae Meow, who has been camming for more than six years, said she makes much more money on SpankChain, which only charges performers 5 percent of their earnings compared to the standard 50 percent across the industry.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on Bitcoin regrets. Plus a sneaky, if explicit, contender from Colin G. Platt.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse.
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Ep. 73. The SEC won't let crypto behttps://bi.11fs.com/75
2bbad652-6786-4af4-a5fc-ca30bc95b27bThu, 22 Nov 2018 15:30:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon's joined by great guest, Adi Ben Ari to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain.44:20yesSimon's in the studio with Adi Ben Ari, Founder of Applied Blockchain.
First up, the SEC settles Securities Registration charges against 2 ICO startups. The SEC’s announcement centred on two firms: CarrierEQ Inc., also known as Airfox, and Paragon Coin Inc., both of which conducted token sales last year. Airfox raised $15 million through its sale, while Paragon raised $12 million.
After Friday’s SEC actions, experts say ICO party ‘Is truly over’. U.S. regulator stated that “there is a path to compliance with the federal securities laws” for startups issuing tokens, even if “issuers have conducted an illegal unregistered offering of digital asset securities” already.
Firm tied to cryptocurrency entrepreneur faces SEC investigation. Securities regulators are investigating Salt Lending Holdings $50 million cryptocurrency sale. The company, which loans money to people using their cryptocurrency as collateral, received a subpoena from the SEC in February seeking records related to a $50 million digital-token sale it held last year, the people familiar with the matter said.
Crypto’s Too Expensive? Binance Sent $600 Million in Bitcoin for Just $7. The transaction in block 550211 was a transfer of just over $1 million. For this transaction, Binance paid just over $8 in fees. Another transaction, $600 million at the time it was sent, made it the largest unspent transaction output existing to date.
Shell and BP back blockchain platform to modernise commodities trading. Oil industry giants Shell and BP are among a group of firms planning to launch a blockchain platform to automate post-trade processes in the energy industry by the end of 2018, consortium building the platform is called VAKT Global.
Deloitte Blockchain Chief: Bad Crypto Headlines Making Clients ‘Nervous’. "Can we stop talking about my bad brother?” That’s how Linda Pawczuk, leader of Deloitte Consulting’s financial services industry blockchain group, describes the conversations she often has these days with executives and board members of client companies.
Kraken credits clients with Bitcoin SV (BSV) and launches BSV Trading. The recent Bitcoin Cash hard fork resulted in two (for now) viable chains:
Bitcoin Cash (following the Bitcoin Cash ABC protocol and roadmap published by bitcoincash.org)
Bitcoin SV (following the Bitcoin Cash SV protocol and roadmap published by nChain)
WARNING: Bitcoin SV does NOT meet Kraken’s usual listing requirements. It should be seen as an extremely high risk investment. There are many red flags that traders should be aware of.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guest: Adi Ben-Ari.
Simon's in the studio with Adi Ben Ari, Founder of Applied Blockchain.
First up, the SEC settles Securities Registration charges against 2 ICO startups. The SEC’s announcement centred on two firms: CarrierEQ Inc., also known as Airfox, and Paragon Coin Inc., both of which conducted token sales last year. Airfox raised $15 million through its sale, while Paragon raised $12 million.
After Friday’s SEC actions, experts say ICO party ‘Is truly over’. U.S. regulator stated that “there is a path to compliance with the federal securities laws” for startups issuing tokens, even if “issuers have conducted an illegal unregistered offering of digital asset securities” already.
Firm tied to cryptocurrency entrepreneur faces SEC investigation. Securities regulators are investigating Salt Lending Holdings $50 million cryptocurrency sale. The company, which loans money to people using their cryptocurrency as collateral, received a subpoena from the SEC in February seeking records related to a $50 million digital-token sale it held last year, the people familiar with the matter said.
Crypto’s Too Expensive? Binance Sent $600 Million in Bitcoin for Just $7. The transaction in block 550211 was a transfer of just over $1 million. For this transaction, Binance paid just over $8 in fees. Another transaction, $600 million at the time it was sent, made it the largest unspent transaction output existing to date.
Shell and BP back blockchain platform to modernise commodities trading. Oil industry giants Shell and BP are among a group of firms planning to launch a blockchain platform to automate post-trade processes in the energy industry by the end of 2018, consortium building the platform is called VAKT Global.
Deloitte Blockchain Chief: Bad Crypto Headlines Making Clients ‘Nervous’. "Can we stop talking about my bad brother?” That’s how Linda Pawczuk, leader of Deloitte Consulting’s financial services industry blockchain group, describes the conversations she often has these days with executives and board members of client companies.
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Simon's in the studio with Adi Ben Ari, Founder of Applied Blockchain.
First up, the SEC settles Securities Registration charges against 2 ICO startups. The SEC’s announcement centred on two firms: CarrierEQ Inc., also known as Airfox, and Paragon Coin Inc., both of which conducted token sales last year. Airfox raised $15 million through its sale, while Paragon raised $12 million.
After Friday’s SEC actions, experts say ICO party ‘Is truly over’. U.S. regulator stated that “there is a path to compliance with the federal securities laws” for startups issuing tokens, even if “issuers have conducted an illegal unregistered offering of digital asset securities” already.
Firm tied to cryptocurrency entrepreneur faces SEC investigation. Securities regulators are investigating Salt Lending Holdings $50 million cryptocurrency sale. The company, which loans money to people using their cryptocurrency as collateral, received a subpoena from the SEC in February seeking records related to a $50 million digital-token sale it held last year, the people familiar with the matter said.
Crypto’s Too Expensive? Binance Sent $600 Million in Bitcoin for Just $7. The transaction in block 550211 was a transfer of just over $1 million. For this transaction, Binance paid just over $8 in fees. Another transaction, $600 million at the time it was sent, made it the largest unspent transaction output existing to date.
Shell and BP back blockchain platform to modernise commodities trading. Oil industry giants Shell and BP are among a group of firms planning to launch a blockchain platform to automate post-trade processes in the energy industry by the end of 2018, consortium building the platform is called VAKT Global.
Deloitte Blockchain Chief: Bad Crypto Headlines Making Clients ‘Nervous’. "Can we stop talking about my bad brother?” That’s how Linda Pawczuk, leader of Deloitte Consulting’s financial services industry blockchain group, describes the conversations she often has these days with executives and board members of client companies.
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Ep. 72. The code you write has consequenceshttps://bi.11fs.com/74
45a7dd2f-856d-42fe-bef9-698a1e98ebc7Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:30:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon's joined by great guests, Teana Baker-Taylor and Patrick Mang to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain.1:07:02noSimon's in the studio with Teana Baker-Taylor from the GDF and Patrick Mang, Innovation Lead for Global Markets at HSBC.
First up, China Lifts Bitcoin Ban; Individuals and Businesses Can Now Own Cryptocurrencies Legally. Bitcoin (BTC) is now recognized as a legal asset to be owned, transferred and utilized as a medium of payment for goods and services in China as decreed by the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration after ordering the Bitcoin ban in 2017.
Fake News: China Did Not End its Cryptocurrency Ban. Stories claiming that the ban was lifted were based on ‘outdated information that carries no weight’. China are still not a fan of crypto...The country is also going after hotels, office buildings, and shopping malls, as well. None of them can host marketing events involving cryptocurrencies any longer.
SEC Charges EtherDelta Founder Over ‘Unregistered Securities Exchange’. The regulator said Thursday that EtherDelta, which acts as a secondary market for trading ERC-20 tokens, had been providing a marketplace for buyers and sellers to trade ethereum tokens that the SEC deemed to be "digital asset securities." It used an order book, an order display website and a smart contract built on ethereum, the agency said.
CFTC Fines Bitcoin Trader $1.1 Million for Crypto Fraud. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has jailed a bitcoin trader and fined him over $1 million for running a fraudulent bitcoin and litecoin scheme. Arizona resident Joseph Kim, admitted to defrauding investors of hundreds of thousands of dollars after misappropriating more than $600,000 of his previous employer's funds.
Why Centralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges Make Terrible Custodians For Crypto Assets. Centralized exchanges are subject to a tremendous number of problems simply because they contravene one of the cardinal laws of cryptocurrency - the owner of the private key is also the owner of the asset. The biggest exchanges like Binance, OKEx and Huobi take control of user funds and use them for market manipulation. Instead of having the custodian working for the customer, they have their own interests at heart. Custodial exchanges are like the fox guarding the henhouse.
A storm is brewing over the largest Bitcoin exchange. BitMEX is based in the Seychelles and doesn’t submit to any regulator.
Crypto Token Airdrops Are a Marketing Ploy (and That's OK).
Coinbase Offers $5k Egg-Freezing Benefit in Bid to Retain Talent. Silicon Valley cryptocurrency unicorn Coinbase has taken an unusual and expensive step to recruit and retain diverse employees. "With possibilities for egg freezing, IVF [in vitro fertilization], fertility preservation, surrogacy, and more, our fertility benefits can serve a wide range of use cases for our diverse group of employees," Nat McGrath, Coinbase's VP of people, told CoinDesk.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on Bitcoin, PoW, Miners and PoSM.
We finish off the show with a great interview with Dash Core Group CEO Ryan Taylor to talk about forks, payment networks and userbases in emerging markets.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
Special Guests: Patrick Mang, Ryan Taylor, and Teana Baker-Taylor.
Simon's in the studio with Teana Baker-Taylor from the GDF and Patrick Mang, Innovation Lead for Global Markets at HSBC.
First up, China Lifts Bitcoin Ban; Individuals and Businesses Can Now Own Cryptocurrencies Legally. Bitcoin (BTC) is now recognized as a legal asset to be owned, transferred and utilized as a medium of payment for goods and services in China as decreed by the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration after ordering the Bitcoin ban in 2017.
Fake News: China Did Not End its Cryptocurrency Ban. Stories claiming that the ban was lifted were based on ‘outdated information that carries no weight’. China are still not a fan of crypto...The country is also going after hotels, office buildings, and shopping malls, as well. None of them can host marketing events involving cryptocurrencies any longer.
SEC Charges EtherDelta Founder Over ‘Unregistered Securities Exchange’. The regulator said Thursday that EtherDelta, which acts as a secondary market for trading ERC-20 tokens, had been providing a marketplace for buyers and sellers to trade ethereum tokens that the SEC deemed to be "digital asset securities." It used an order book, an order display website and a smart contract built on ethereum, the agency said.
CFTC Fines Bitcoin Trader $1.1 Million for Crypto Fraud. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has jailed a bitcoin trader and fined him over $1 million for running a fraudulent bitcoin and litecoin scheme. Arizona resident Joseph Kim, admitted to defrauding investors of hundreds of thousands of dollars after misappropriating more than $600,000 of his previous employer's funds.
Why Centralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges Make Terrible Custodians For Crypto Assets. Centralized exchanges are subject to a tremendous number of problems simply because they contravene one of the cardinal laws of cryptocurrency - the owner of the private key is also the owner of the asset. The biggest exchanges like Binance, OKEx and Huobi take control of user funds and use them for market manipulation. Instead of having the custodian working for the customer, they have their own interests at heart. Custodial exchanges are like the fox guarding the henhouse.
A storm is brewing over the largest Bitcoin exchange. BitMEX is based in the Seychelles and doesn’t submit to any regulator.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on Bitcoin, PoW, Miners and PoSM.
We finish off the show with a great interview with Dash Core Group CEO Ryan Taylor to talk about forks, payment networks and userbases in emerging markets.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
Special Guests: Patrick Mang, Ryan Taylor, and Teana Baker-Taylor.
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Simon's in the studio with Teana Baker-Taylor from the GDF and Patrick Mang, Innovation Lead for Global Markets at HSBC.
First up, China Lifts Bitcoin Ban; Individuals and Businesses Can Now Own Cryptocurrencies Legally. Bitcoin (BTC) is now recognized as a legal asset to be owned, transferred and utilized as a medium of payment for goods and services in China as decreed by the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration after ordering the Bitcoin ban in 2017.
Fake News: China Did Not End its Cryptocurrency Ban. Stories claiming that the ban was lifted were based on ‘outdated information that carries no weight’. China are still not a fan of crypto...The country is also going after hotels, office buildings, and shopping malls, as well. None of them can host marketing events involving cryptocurrencies any longer.
SEC Charges EtherDelta Founder Over ‘Unregistered Securities Exchange’. The regulator said Thursday that EtherDelta, which acts as a secondary market for trading ERC-20 tokens, had been providing a marketplace for buyers and sellers to trade ethereum tokens that the SEC deemed to be "digital asset securities." It used an order book, an order display website and a smart contract built on ethereum, the agency said.
CFTC Fines Bitcoin Trader $1.1 Million for Crypto Fraud. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has jailed a bitcoin trader and fined him over $1 million for running a fraudulent bitcoin and litecoin scheme. Arizona resident Joseph Kim, admitted to defrauding investors of hundreds of thousands of dollars after misappropriating more than $600,000 of his previous employer's funds.
Why Centralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges Make Terrible Custodians For Crypto Assets. Centralized exchanges are subject to a tremendous number of problems simply because they contravene one of the cardinal laws of cryptocurrency - the owner of the private key is also the owner of the asset. The biggest exchanges like Binance, OKEx and Huobi take control of user funds and use them for market manipulation. Instead of having the custodian working for the customer, they have their own interests at heart. Custodial exchanges are like the fox guarding the henhouse.
A storm is brewing over the largest Bitcoin exchange. BitMEX is based in the Seychelles and doesn’t submit to any regulator.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on Bitcoin, PoW, Miners and PoSM.
We finish off the show with a great interview with Dash Core Group CEO Ryan Taylor to talk about forks, payment networks and userbases in emerging markets.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
Special Guests: Patrick Mang, Ryan Taylor, and Teana Baker-Taylor.
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Ep. 71. Initiative Q who?https://bi.11fs.com/73
378956e4-ec2e-416a-a833-ded781e988feThu, 08 Nov 2018 15:30:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon and Colin are joined by a great guest, Alex Batlin to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain.43:13noSimon and Colin are in the studio with Alex Batlin, Founder and CEO of Trustology.
First up, Bitcoin turns 10. Halloween 2008 Bitcoin was born, although it wasn't traded until a couple of years later we take a look at what BTC has given us in the last 10 years, if it's here to stay and what's in store for the future of Bitcoin.
Why “the Institutionalization of Cryptocurrency” is a paradox. Jackson Palmer writes that If you stay up-to-date with the cryptocurrency news cycle, a recent trend you may have observed is the widespread excitement at the prospect of large, traditional financial institutions entering the space. We’ve seen a wave of institutional news lately, and many cryptocurrency enthusiasts express blind enthusiasm at the notion of positive price impact associated with this money flowing in. We look at censorship resistance, trustless transactions, verifiable history and what comes next.
Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas. The Q token is a centralised private currency issued by Initiative Q. It’s presently worthless, and not exchangeable even on Initiative Q’s own servers but they aspire to it being used in their nonexistent future payment network. At that point, they intend it to be freely exchangeable with dollars.
Pragmatic decentralization: How IDEX will approach industry regulations. Decentralization exists on a spectrum, and unless your system or application lacks any centralized parts it can be subject to regulation. Aurora is working to create a fully-decentralized financial system, but the path to getting there requires significantly more control and centralization than the end state. In addition to IP blocking, IDEX will be implementing KYC/AML policies in order to comply with sanctions and money laundering laws.
How much have ICOs raised in 2018? Depends on who you ask. Lack of rules, transparency leaves issuance amounts murky. More digital tokens are being issued through direct sales. It remains hard to ascertain the amount of funds a issuer claims it’s raised when no one has to submit any regulated filings or even reveal their identities.
Bitcoin Cash hard fork set for November 15th. After the decision to implement a 'pre-consensus' protocol in a long scheduled software upgrade to Bitcoin Cash on November the 15th, its community is split and a hard fork that will see the digital currency split into two separate chains should occur on that date. In July, Bitcoin Cash developer Amaury Sechet published a post announcing the decision to include a new software alteration to a planned upgrade.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on statistical dishonesty.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
Special Guest: Alex Batlin.
Simon and Colin are in the studio with Alex Batlin, Founder and CEO of Trustology.
First up, Bitcoin turns 10. Halloween 2008 Bitcoin was born, although it wasn't traded until a couple of years later we take a look at what BTC has given us in the last 10 years, if it's here to stay and what's in store for the future of Bitcoin.
Why “the Institutionalization of Cryptocurrency” is a paradox. Jackson Palmer writes that If you stay up-to-date with the cryptocurrency news cycle, a recent trend you may have observed is the widespread excitement at the prospect of large, traditional financial institutions entering the space. We’ve seen a wave of institutional news lately, and many cryptocurrency enthusiasts express blind enthusiasm at the notion of positive price impact associated with this money flowing in. We look at censorship resistance, trustless transactions, verifiable history and what comes next.
Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas. The Q token is a centralised private currency issued by Initiative Q. It’s presently worthless, and not exchangeable even on Initiative Q’s own servers but they aspire to it being used in their nonexistent future payment network. At that point, they intend it to be freely exchangeable with dollars.
Pragmatic decentralization: How IDEX will approach industry regulations. Decentralization exists on a spectrum, and unless your system or application lacks any centralized parts it can be subject to regulation. Aurora is working to create a fully-decentralized financial system, but the path to getting there requires significantly more control and centralization than the end state. In addition to IP blocking, IDEX will be implementing KYC/AML policies in order to comply with sanctions and money laundering laws.
How much have ICOs raised in 2018? Depends on who you ask. Lack of rules, transparency leaves issuance amounts murky. More digital tokens are being issued through direct sales. It remains hard to ascertain the amount of funds a issuer claims it’s raised when no one has to submit any regulated filings or even reveal their identities.
Bitcoin Cash hard fork set for November 15th. After the decision to implement a 'pre-consensus' protocol in a long scheduled software upgrade to Bitcoin Cash on November the 15th, its community is split and a hard fork that will see the digital currency split into two separate chains should occur on that date. In July, Bitcoin Cash developer Amaury Sechet published a post announcing the decision to include a new software alteration to a planned upgrade.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on statistical dishonesty.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
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Simon and Colin are in the studio with Alex Batlin, Founder and CEO of Trustology.
First up, Bitcoin turns 10. Halloween 2008 Bitcoin was born, although it wasn't traded until a couple of years later we take a look at what BTC has given us in the last 10 years, if it's here to stay and what's in store for the future of Bitcoin.
Why “the Institutionalization of Cryptocurrency” is a paradox. Jackson Palmer writes that If you stay up-to-date with the cryptocurrency news cycle, a recent trend you may have observed is the widespread excitement at the prospect of large, traditional financial institutions entering the space. We’ve seen a wave of institutional news lately, and many cryptocurrency enthusiasts express blind enthusiasm at the notion of positive price impact associated with this money flowing in. We look at censorship resistance, trustless transactions, verifiable history and what comes next.
Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas. The Q token is a centralised private currency issued by Initiative Q. It’s presently worthless, and not exchangeable even on Initiative Q’s own servers but they aspire to it being used in their nonexistent future payment network. At that point, they intend it to be freely exchangeable with dollars.
Pragmatic decentralization: How IDEX will approach industry regulations. Decentralization exists on a spectrum, and unless your system or application lacks any centralized parts it can be subject to regulation. Aurora is working to create a fully-decentralized financial system, but the path to getting there requires significantly more control and centralization than the end state. In addition to IP blocking, IDEX will be implementing KYC/AML policies in order to comply with sanctions and money laundering laws.
How much have ICOs raised in 2018? Depends on who you ask. Lack of rules, transparency leaves issuance amounts murky. More digital tokens are being issued through direct sales. It remains hard to ascertain the amount of funds a issuer claims it’s raised when no one has to submit any regulated filings or even reveal their identities.
Bitcoin Cash hard fork set for November 15th. After the decision to implement a 'pre-consensus' protocol in a long scheduled software upgrade to Bitcoin Cash on November the 15th, its community is split and a hard fork that will see the digital currency split into two separate chains should occur on that date. In July, Bitcoin Cash developer Amaury Sechet published a post announcing the decision to include a new software alteration to a planned upgrade.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on statistical dishonesty.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
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Ep. 70. Panel featuring Brent McIntosh from US Treasury and an interview with Marco Santori from Blockchainhttps://bi.11fs.com/72
c40463a7-343a-4151-a98d-9736e9d1244aThu, 01 Nov 2018 15:30:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Live at Money20/20 USA. We've got a panel on regulation with Brent McIntosh, Marco Santori and Tanaya Macheel, plus a great in-depth interview with Marco Santori from Blockchain.55:13noLive from Money20/20 USA, we start this episode with an in-depth interview with Marco Santori on where the crypto industry is right now.
We also have a panel on the relationship between crypto investors and regulators. Regulation is evolving but remains patchy, with uncertainty on issues ranging from exchanges and ICOs to securities laws.
As institutional players move into crypto, these issues have taken on a new urgency. Tanaya Macheel from Cheddar, Marco Santori, the "Dean of Blockchain lawyers," and Brent McIntosh, General Counsel at The U.S. Department of the Treasury, provide insight into the future of regulation and how investors should respond to this uncertainty.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Brent McIntosh, Marco Santori, and Tanaya Macheel.
Live from Money20/20 USA, we start this episode with an in-depth interview with Marco Santori on where the crypto industry is right now.
We also have a panel on the relationship between crypto investors and regulators. Regulation is evolving but remains patchy, with uncertainty on issues ranging from exchanges and ICOs to securities laws.
As institutional players move into crypto, these issues have taken on a new urgency. Tanaya Macheel from Cheddar, Marco Santori, the "Dean of Blockchain lawyers," and Brent McIntosh, General Counsel at The U.S. Department of the Treasury, provide insight into the future of regulation and how investors should respond to this uncertainty.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
Special Guests: Brent McIntosh, Marco Santori, and Tanaya Macheel.
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Live from Money20/20 USA, we start this episode with an in-depth interview with Marco Santori on where the crypto industry is right now.
We also have a panel on the relationship between crypto investors and regulators. Regulation is evolving but remains patchy, with uncertainty on issues ranging from exchanges and ICOs to securities laws.
As institutional players move into crypto, these issues have taken on a new urgency. Tanaya Macheel from Cheddar, Marco Santori, the "Dean of Blockchain lawyers," and Brent McIntosh, General Counsel at The U.S. Department of the Treasury, provide insight into the future of regulation and how investors should respond to this uncertainty.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
Special Guests: Brent McIntosh, Marco Santori, and Tanaya Macheel.
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Ep. 69. Beanie baby tradershttps://bi.11fs.com/71
ff9ed193-bd8a-4ce6-96f7-92dca3415971Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:30:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Sara is joined by our great guests: Noelle Acheson, Vinay Gupta and Teana Baker-Taylor to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain.45:53noSara is in the studio with Noelle Acheson, Editor at Coindesk, Vinay Gupta, CEO at Mattereum, Teana Baker-Taylor, on the Advisory Board at GDF.
First up, Two-thirds fail cryptocurrency agents exam. Under the Virtual Financial Assets (VFA) Act coming into force in November, financial services practitioners looking to act as agents in the field, which includes cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, had to undergo a short training course and sit for an exam, the first of which took place in September. Sources said about 250 lawyers, accountants and auditors sat for the exam, the exam consisted of a series of multiple choice questions to be graded with a negative marking scheme.
Australian Securities Watchdog Halts ICO Seeking to Raise $50 Million. An Australian initial coin offering (ICO) project planning to raise as much as US$50 million has announced its token sale has been halted by the country's securities regulator. The project initially gained public attention in August ahead of its public token sale, thanks to an endorsement by well-known cricket player Michael Clarke, who announced his involvement in the project in a tweet at the time.
Ticketmaster Buys into Blockchain With Upgraded Acquisition. San-Francisco-based ticketing start-up Upgraded, which converts traditional tickets into secure, interactive digital assets protected by blockchain technology. Protection against fraud.
Security Company G4S To Offer Crypto Custody Service. Multinational security services company G4S is stepping into the world of crypto by offering offline storage to protect digital assets from criminals and hackers. G4S said that it has started working with an unnamed cryptocurrency exchange.
Goldman Sachs invests in BitGo. Goldman Sachs and an investment firm set up by billionaire Michael Novogratz have invested in BitGo, a startup promising to help institutional investors securely store their cryptocurrency.
DTCC Announces Study Results Demonstrating that DLT Can Support Trading Volumes in the US Equity Markets. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the results of a benchmark study which demonstrated for the first time ever that distributed ledger technology (DLT) is capable of supporting average daily trading volumes in the US equity market of more than 100 million trades per day.
Cardano (ADA) Co-Founder Charles Hoskinson Dissatisfied with Cardano Foundation Performance. An Open Letter to the Cardano Community from IOHK and Emurgo – Charles Hoskinson [in lead of IOHK] and Ken Kodama [Emurgo] publicly pointed out the lack of performance coming from the third entity that forms the project: Cardano Foundation.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on Bitcoin as a stablecoin.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
Special Guests: Noelle Acheson, Teana Baker-Taylor, and Vinay Gupta.
Sara is in the studio with Noelle Acheson, Editor at Coindesk, Vinay Gupta, CEO at Mattereum, Teana Baker-Taylor, on the Advisory Board at GDF.
First up, Two-thirds fail cryptocurrency agents exam. Under the Virtual Financial Assets (VFA) Act coming into force in November, financial services practitioners looking to act as agents in the field, which includes cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, had to undergo a short training course and sit for an exam, the first of which took place in September. Sources said about 250 lawyers, accountants and auditors sat for the exam, the exam consisted of a series of multiple choice questions to be graded with a negative marking scheme.
Australian Securities Watchdog Halts ICO Seeking to Raise $50 Million. An Australian initial coin offering (ICO) project planning to raise as much as US$50 million has announced its token sale has been halted by the country's securities regulator. The project initially gained public attention in August ahead of its public token sale, thanks to an endorsement by well-known cricket player Michael Clarke, who announced his involvement in the project in a tweet at the time.
Security Company G4S To Offer Crypto Custody Service. Multinational security services company G4S is stepping into the world of crypto by offering offline storage to protect digital assets from criminals and hackers. G4S said that it has started working with an unnamed cryptocurrency exchange.
Goldman Sachs invests in BitGo. Goldman Sachs and an investment firm set up by billionaire Michael Novogratz have invested in BitGo, a startup promising to help institutional investors securely store their cryptocurrency.
DTCC Announces Study Results Demonstrating that DLT Can Support Trading Volumes in the US Equity Markets. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the results of a benchmark study which demonstrated for the first time ever that distributed ledger technology (DLT) is capable of supporting average daily trading volumes in the US equity market of more than 100 million trades per day.
Cardano (ADA) Co-Founder Charles Hoskinson Dissatisfied with Cardano Foundation Performance. An Open Letter to the Cardano Community from IOHK and Emurgo – Charles Hoskinson [in lead of IOHK] and Ken Kodama [Emurgo] publicly pointed out the lack of performance coming from the third entity that forms the project: Cardano Foundation.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on Bitcoin as a stablecoin.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
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Sara is in the studio with Noelle Acheson, Editor at Coindesk, Vinay Gupta, CEO at Mattereum, Teana Baker-Taylor, on the Advisory Board at GDF.
First up, Two-thirds fail cryptocurrency agents exam. Under the Virtual Financial Assets (VFA) Act coming into force in November, financial services practitioners looking to act as agents in the field, which includes cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, had to undergo a short training course and sit for an exam, the first of which took place in September. Sources said about 250 lawyers, accountants and auditors sat for the exam, the exam consisted of a series of multiple choice questions to be graded with a negative marking scheme.
Australian Securities Watchdog Halts ICO Seeking to Raise $50 Million. An Australian initial coin offering (ICO) project planning to raise as much as US$50 million has announced its token sale has been halted by the country's securities regulator. The project initially gained public attention in August ahead of its public token sale, thanks to an endorsement by well-known cricket player Michael Clarke, who announced his involvement in the project in a tweet at the time.
Security Company G4S To Offer Crypto Custody Service. Multinational security services company G4S is stepping into the world of crypto by offering offline storage to protect digital assets from criminals and hackers. G4S said that it has started working with an unnamed cryptocurrency exchange.
Goldman Sachs invests in BitGo. Goldman Sachs and an investment firm set up by billionaire Michael Novogratz have invested in BitGo, a startup promising to help institutional investors securely store their cryptocurrency.
DTCC Announces Study Results Demonstrating that DLT Can Support Trading Volumes in the US Equity Markets. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the results of a benchmark study which demonstrated for the first time ever that distributed ledger technology (DLT) is capable of supporting average daily trading volumes in the US equity market of more than 100 million trades per day.
Cardano (ADA) Co-Founder Charles Hoskinson Dissatisfied with Cardano Foundation Performance. An Open Letter to the Cardano Community from IOHK and Emurgo – Charles Hoskinson [in lead of IOHK] and Ken Kodama [Emurgo] publicly pointed out the lack of performance coming from the third entity that forms the project: Cardano Foundation.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week on Bitcoin as a stablecoin.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
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Ep. 68. Tether the unstable coin plus a fireside chat with Blythe Mastershttps://bi.11fs.com/70
001ec9ed-5f30-4606-a2f8-e7590a5565e0Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:30:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon and Sara are joined by our great guest Hugh Karp, to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain.1:00:57noSimon and Sara are in the studio with Hugh Karp, Founder of Nexus Mutual.
First up, Fidelity launches company to facilitate crypto trading. Fidelity has launched a company to facilitate cryptocurrency trading for hedge funds, endowments and family offices. The Boston-based investment giant said it would offer institutional investors access to “enterprise-quality custody and trade execution services” for cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin or ethereum, as a first step towards creating a full platform for the nascent industry.
Why crypto traders are so worried about Tether.
Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed. A controversial article by Nouriel Roubini.
SpankChain loses $40k in hack due to smart contract bug. A cryptocurrency project focused on the adult industry, has suffered a breach that saw almost $40,000 in ethereum (ETH) stolen. The intrusion, which the post said was made possible by a bug in the network's payment channel smart contract, also caused $4,000 in SpankChain's BOOTY token to be frozen.
Barclays halts work on cryptocurrency trading project. The investment bank put together a senior team earlier this year to look at how it could incorporate the trading of digital assets into its markets business. The initiative, however, has been put “on ice”. Chris Tyrer, the bank’s former head of energy trading, moved into a full time role leading the so-called ‘digital assets project’ earlier this year but left the bank in September after the decision was taken to shelve the cryptocurrency trading project.
Liquid Goes Live: Blockstream's first Bitcoin sidechain has finally arrived. Three years in the making, bitcoin's first sidechain "Liquid" is now live. Liquid is arguably the most advanced implementation of a technology called sidechains that's long been a holy grail for bitcoin coders (though what's being launched today may be a watered-down version of the original "trustless" vision). Liquid will now be used to carry large volumes of transactions at a higher speed for several of bitcoin's largest companies.
CFTC Chair Giancarlo says institutional investors will help crypto 'mature'. An influx of institutional investors to the cryptocurrency markets may help the space "mature," U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair J. Christopher Giancarlo said last week.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from 'Elon Musk'. Hmm..
Tying up the show, we have a great fireside chat with Blythe Masters from Blockchain Live.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
Special Guests: Blythe Masters and Hugh Karp.
Simon and Sara are in the studio with Hugh Karp, Founder of Nexus Mutual.
First up, Fidelity launches company to facilitate crypto trading. Fidelity has launched a company to facilitate cryptocurrency trading for hedge funds, endowments and family offices. The Boston-based investment giant said it would offer institutional investors access to “enterprise-quality custody and trade execution services” for cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin or ethereum, as a first step towards creating a full platform for the nascent industry.
Why crypto traders are so worried about Tether.
Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed. A controversial article by Nouriel Roubini.
SpankChain loses $40k in hack due to smart contract bug. A cryptocurrency project focused on the adult industry, has suffered a breach that saw almost $40,000 in ethereum (ETH) stolen. The intrusion, which the post said was made possible by a bug in the network's payment channel smart contract, also caused $4,000 in SpankChain's BOOTY token to be frozen.
Barclays halts work on cryptocurrency trading project. The investment bank put together a senior team earlier this year to look at how it could incorporate the trading of digital assets into its markets business. The initiative, however, has been put “on ice”. Chris Tyrer, the bank’s former head of energy trading, moved into a full time role leading the so-called ‘digital assets project’ earlier this year but left the bank in September after the decision was taken to shelve the cryptocurrency trading project.
Liquid Goes Live: Blockstream's first Bitcoin sidechain has finally arrived. Three years in the making, bitcoin's first sidechain "Liquid" is now live. Liquid is arguably the most advanced implementation of a technology called sidechains that's long been a holy grail for bitcoin coders (though what's being launched today may be a watered-down version of the original "trustless" vision). Liquid will now be used to carry large volumes of transactions at a higher speed for several of bitcoin's largest companies.
CFTC Chair Giancarlo says institutional investors will help crypto 'mature'. An influx of institutional investors to the cryptocurrency markets may help the space "mature," U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair J. Christopher Giancarlo said last week.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from 'Elon Musk'. Hmm..
Tying up the show, we have a great fireside chat with Blythe Masters from Blockchain Live.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
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Simon and Sara are in the studio with Hugh Karp, Founder of Nexus Mutual.
First up, Fidelity launches company to facilitate crypto trading. Fidelity has launched a company to facilitate cryptocurrency trading for hedge funds, endowments and family offices. The Boston-based investment giant said it would offer institutional investors access to “enterprise-quality custody and trade execution services” for cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin or ethereum, as a first step towards creating a full platform for the nascent industry.
Why crypto traders are so worried about Tether.
Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed. A controversial article by Nouriel Roubini.
SpankChain loses $40k in hack due to smart contract bug. A cryptocurrency project focused on the adult industry, has suffered a breach that saw almost $40,000 in ethereum (ETH) stolen. The intrusion, which the post said was made possible by a bug in the network's payment channel smart contract, also caused $4,000 in SpankChain's BOOTY token to be frozen.
Barclays halts work on cryptocurrency trading project. The investment bank put together a senior team earlier this year to look at how it could incorporate the trading of digital assets into its markets business. The initiative, however, has been put “on ice”. Chris Tyrer, the bank’s former head of energy trading, moved into a full time role leading the so-called ‘digital assets project’ earlier this year but left the bank in September after the decision was taken to shelve the cryptocurrency trading project.
Liquid Goes Live: Blockstream's first Bitcoin sidechain has finally arrived. Three years in the making, bitcoin's first sidechain "Liquid" is now live. Liquid is arguably the most advanced implementation of a technology called sidechains that's long been a holy grail for bitcoin coders (though what's being launched today may be a watered-down version of the original "trustless" vision). Liquid will now be used to carry large volumes of transactions at a higher speed for several of bitcoin's largest companies.
CFTC Chair Giancarlo says institutional investors will help crypto 'mature'. An influx of institutional investors to the cryptocurrency markets may help the space "mature," U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair J. Christopher Giancarlo said last week.
We also have a great Tweet of the Week from 'Elon Musk'. Hmm..
Tying up the show, we have a great fireside chat with Blythe Masters from Blockchain Live.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
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Ep. 67. The CEO of Binance is [so] hot right nowhttps://bi.11fs.com/69
8b13390b-ee30-463f-b283-cd0b9fd53071Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:30:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Simon's joined by three great guests: Joon Ian Wong, Claire Wells and Aman Kohli to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain.56:04noSimon's in the studio with Joon Ian Wong, Managing Director for Europe and Asia at Coindesk, Claire Wells, Director of Legal & Business Affairs EMEA at Circle, and Aman Kohli, CTO of Financial Services and Insurance Practice at Microsoft.
First up, Circle eyes crypto securities bid with crowdfunding site acquisition. Circle is reportedly moving to acquire SeedInvest, a crowdfunding platform for startups. Their acquisition will – if approved by regulators – open to the door to allowing startups to raise funds by selling digital tokens via its platform.
Yale Invests in Crypto Fund That Raised $400 Million. The Ivy League school is getting into the market for cryptocurrencies. $30 billion endowment is headed by David Swensen. Under Swensen’s leadership, Yale has returned 11.8 percent on average for the past 20 years. Ninety-six percent of endowments and foundations responding to a survey by consulting firm NEPC in February said they don’t invest in digital currencies.
SEC, CFTC charge bitcoin futures firm 1Broker with securities law violations. The SEC announced in a press release that it filed charges against 1pool Ltd., also known as 1Broker, as well as its CEO Patrick Brunner for selling security-based swaps to U.S. and international investors without following proper "discretionary investment thresholds." Notably, investors could only purchase these swaps with bitcoin, according to the claims. The SEC is further claiming that 1Broker was not registered a "security-based swaps dealer" and "failed to transact its security-based swaps on a registered national exchange."
Marco Polo blockchain platform for trade finance released. Marco Polo is an initiative to develop an open account trade finance platform powered by blockchain technology. The platform is built by TradeIX, R3 and a group of banks on the Corda blockchain framework, using TradeIX’s open-source tools to test, pilot and manage open account trade finance transactions. The announcement was made at the CordaCon London event on September 13, where Rob Barnes, co-founder and CEO of TradeIX, gave the audience new insights into the project’s timeline.
TD Ameritrade all-in with crypto, invests in exchange. Announced this week a strategic investment in ErisX, the cryptocurrency spot and futures exchange.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on Iconomi discontinuing their ICN token.
Tying up the show we have a great interview with Adi Ben-Ari, Founder of Applied Blockchain (he was supposed to be on this week but he was sick).
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Adi Ben-Ari, Aman Kohli, Claire Wells, and Joon Ian Wong.
Simon's in the studio with Joon Ian Wong, Managing Director for Europe and Asia at Coindesk, Claire Wells, Director of Legal & Business Affairs EMEA at Circle, and Aman Kohli, CTO of Financial Services and Insurance Practice at Microsoft.
First up, Circle eyes crypto securities bid with crowdfunding site acquisition. Circle is reportedly moving to acquire SeedInvest, a crowdfunding platform for startups. Their acquisition will – if approved by regulators – open to the door to allowing startups to raise funds by selling digital tokens via its platform.
Yale Invests in Crypto Fund That Raised $400 Million. The Ivy League school is getting into the market for cryptocurrencies. $30 billion endowment is headed by David Swensen. Under Swensen’s leadership, Yale has returned 11.8 percent on average for the past 20 years. Ninety-six percent of endowments and foundations responding to a survey by consulting firm NEPC in February said they don’t invest in digital currencies.
SEC, CFTC charge bitcoin futures firm 1Broker with securities law violations. The SEC announced in a press release that it filed charges against 1pool Ltd., also known as 1Broker, as well as its CEO Patrick Brunner for selling security-based swaps to U.S. and international investors without following proper "discretionary investment thresholds." Notably, investors could only purchase these swaps with bitcoin, according to the claims. The SEC is further claiming that 1Broker was not registered a "security-based swaps dealer" and "failed to transact its security-based swaps on a registered national exchange."
Marco Polo blockchain platform for trade finance released. Marco Polo is an initiative to develop an open account trade finance platform powered by blockchain technology. The platform is built by TradeIX, R3 and a group of banks on the Corda blockchain framework, using TradeIX’s open-source tools to test, pilot and manage open account trade finance transactions. The announcement was made at the CordaCon London event on September 13, where Rob Barnes, co-founder and CEO of TradeIX, gave the audience new insights into the project’s timeline.
TD Ameritrade all-in with crypto, invests in exchange. Announced this week a strategic investment in ErisX, the cryptocurrency spot and futures exchange.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on Iconomi discontinuing their ICN token.
Tying up the show we have a great interview with Adi Ben-Ari, Founder of Applied Blockchain (he was supposed to be on this week but he was sick).
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
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Simon's in the studio with Joon Ian Wong, Managing Director for Europe and Asia at Coindesk, Claire Wells, Director of Legal & Business Affairs EMEA at Circle, and Aman Kohli, CTO of Financial Services and Insurance Practice at Microsoft.
First up, Circle eyes crypto securities bid with crowdfunding site acquisition. Circle is reportedly moving to acquire SeedInvest, a crowdfunding platform for startups. Their acquisition will – if approved by regulators – open to the door to allowing startups to raise funds by selling digital tokens via its platform.
Yale Invests in Crypto Fund That Raised $400 Million. The Ivy League school is getting into the market for cryptocurrencies. $30 billion endowment is headed by David Swensen. Under Swensen’s leadership, Yale has returned 11.8 percent on average for the past 20 years. Ninety-six percent of endowments and foundations responding to a survey by consulting firm NEPC in February said they don’t invest in digital currencies.
SEC, CFTC charge bitcoin futures firm 1Broker with securities law violations. The SEC announced in a press release that it filed charges against 1pool Ltd., also known as 1Broker, as well as its CEO Patrick Brunner for selling security-based swaps to U.S. and international investors without following proper "discretionary investment thresholds." Notably, investors could only purchase these swaps with bitcoin, according to the claims. The SEC is further claiming that 1Broker was not registered a "security-based swaps dealer" and "failed to transact its security-based swaps on a registered national exchange."
Marco Polo blockchain platform for trade finance released. Marco Polo is an initiative to develop an open account trade finance platform powered by blockchain technology. The platform is built by TradeIX, R3 and a group of banks on the Corda blockchain framework, using TradeIX’s open-source tools to test, pilot and manage open account trade finance transactions. The announcement was made at the CordaCon London event on September 13, where Rob Barnes, co-founder and CEO of TradeIX, gave the audience new insights into the project’s timeline.
TD Ameritrade all-in with crypto, invests in exchange. Announced this week a strategic investment in ErisX, the cryptocurrency spot and futures exchange.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on Iconomi discontinuing their ICN token.
Tying up the show we have a great interview with Adi Ben-Ari, Founder of Applied Blockchain (he was supposed to be on this week but he was sick).
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey.
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Ep. 66. Blockchain Live: Interviews (featuring Blockchain.com & Chorum)https://bi.11fs.com/68
0f6a14f8-cea0-4721-b517-09788ec56430Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:30:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Live from Olympia London at Blockchain Live! We were actually there last week. But we interviewed so many great people we're releasing a bumper episode filled with great insights. We interview Garrick Hileman and Xen Baynham-Herd from Blockchain as well as many more great guests.1:00:51noToday's episode is a little bit different. Simon and Colin interviewed some great guests at Blockchain Live to get an insight into what's happening in blockchain straight from the experts. We speak to:
Garrick Hileman, Head of Research at Blockchain
Xen Baynham-Herd, Head of Strategy and Lead Economist at Blockchain
Joanna Hubbard, Co-Founder of Electron
Rhian Lewis, Founder of London Women in Bitcoin
David Williams, CEO at Chorum
Richard Crook, CTO at Chorum
Ben Wyeth, Senior Innovation Engineer at Chorum
Lydia Torne, Senior Associate at Simmons & Simmons
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey Special Guests: Ben Wyeth, David Williams, Garrick Hileman, Joanna Hubbard, Lydia Torne, Rhian Lewis, Richard Crook, and Xen Baynham-Herd.
Today's episode is a little bit different. Simon and Colin interviewed some great guests at Blockchain Live to get an insight into what's happening in blockchain straight from the experts. We speak to:
Garrick Hileman, Head of Research at Blockchain
Xen Baynham-Herd, Head of Strategy and Lead Economist at Blockchain
Joanna Hubbard, Co-Founder of Electron
Rhian Lewis, Founder of London Women in Bitcoin
David Williams, CEO at Chorum
Richard Crook, CTO at Chorum
Ben Wyeth, Senior Innovation Engineer at Chorum
Lydia Torne, Senior Associate at Simmons & Simmons
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey
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Today's episode is a little bit different. Simon and Colin interviewed some great guests at Blockchain Live to get an insight into what's happening in blockchain straight from the experts. We speak to:
Garrick Hileman, Head of Research at Blockchain
Xen Baynham-Herd, Head of Strategy and Lead Economist at Blockchain
Joanna Hubbard, Co-Founder of Electron
Rhian Lewis, Founder of London Women in Bitcoin
David Williams, CEO at Chorum
Richard Crook, CTO at Chorum
Ben Wyeth, Senior Innovation Engineer at Chorum
Lydia Torne, Senior Associate at Simmons & Simmons
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey
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Ep. 65. Blockchain Livehttps://bi.11fs.com/67
820901ae-2a38-4238-8ee0-e4525e195a0dThu, 27 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Live from Olympia London at Blockchain Live! Simon and Colin are joined by a great guest, Teana Baker-Taylor to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain in front of a great live audience. We also have an exclusive interview with Dan and Brendan from Block.one.43:54noSimon and Colin are live at the Blockchain Insider stand and sat down with a great guest, Teana Baker-Taylor, CMO at Coinfloor. We also have an exclusive interview with Dan Larimer, CTO of Block.one and Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block.one.
First up the panel takes a look at New York AG report faulting crypto exchanges for manipulation risks. The New York Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has released a report on cryptocurrency trading platforms, finding that many are vulnerable to market manipulation and referring several exchanges to another agency for potential violations of state law. NYAG's inquiry was launched in April, seeking voluntary participation from 13 of the world's most notable trading sites, including Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfinex, Bittrex, and Binance, among others.
a16z crypto purchases 6% of MKR, backing Stablecoin Vanguard MakerDao. Signaling their support of MakerDAO’s Dai stablecoin, investment fund a16z crypto has purchased 6% of the total MKR token supply for $15 million USD. The purchase gives a16z crypto a stake in the first functional decentralized stablecoin and the only system built with formally verified smart contracts on Ethereum (or any blockchain).
From adoption to FOMO: Reasons behind Ripple’s leap. Over the past week, altcoin Ripple’s (XRP) price has gone through the roof. It has seen an unprecedented 140 percent growth over the past seven days. We explore the major reasons why it's grown so fast.
How Colin because a crypto quadrillionaire without writing a single line of code.
Bitcoin bugs out. CVE-2018-17144, a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.3 and 0.17.0rc4, includes both a Denial of Service component and a critical inflation vulnerability. In order to encourage rapid upgrades, the decision was made to immediately patch and disclose the less serious Denial of Service vulnerability, concurrently with reaching out to miners, businesses, and other affected systems while delaying publication of the full issue to give times for systems to upgrade.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on moggy miners.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha, written by Dhanum Nursigadoo and edited by Holly Blaxill. Special Guests: Brendan Blumer, Dan Larimer, and Teana Baker-Taylor.
Simon and Colin are live at the Blockchain Insider stand and sat down with a great guest, Teana Baker-Taylor, CMO at Coinfloor. We also have an exclusive interview with Dan Larimer, CTO of Block.one and Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block.one.
First up the panel takes a look at New York AG report faulting crypto exchanges for manipulation risks. The New York Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has released a report on cryptocurrency trading platforms, finding that many are vulnerable to market manipulation and referring several exchanges to another agency for potential violations of state law. NYAG's inquiry was launched in April, seeking voluntary participation from 13 of the world's most notable trading sites, including Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfinex, Bittrex, and Binance, among others.
a16z crypto purchases 6% of MKR, backing Stablecoin Vanguard MakerDao. Signaling their support of MakerDAO’s Dai stablecoin, investment fund a16z crypto has purchased 6% of the total MKR token supply for $15 million USD. The purchase gives a16z crypto a stake in the first functional decentralized stablecoin and the only system built with formally verified smart contracts on Ethereum (or any blockchain).
From adoption to FOMO: Reasons behind Ripple’s leap. Over the past week, altcoin Ripple’s (XRP) price has gone through the roof. It has seen an unprecedented 140 percent growth over the past seven days. We explore the major reasons why it's grown so fast.
How Colin because a crypto quadrillionaire without writing a single line of code.
Bitcoin bugs out. CVE-2018-17144, a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.3 and 0.17.0rc4, includes both a Denial of Service component and a critical inflation vulnerability. In order to encourage rapid upgrades, the decision was made to immediately patch and disclose the less serious Denial of Service vulnerability, concurrently with reaching out to miners, businesses, and other affected systems while delaying publication of the full issue to give times for systems to upgrade.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on moggy miners.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha, written by Dhanum Nursigadoo and edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Simon and Colin are live at the Blockchain Insider stand and sat down with a great guest, Teana Baker-Taylor, CMO at Coinfloor. We also have an exclusive interview with Dan Larimer, CTO of Block.one and Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block.one.
First up the panel takes a look at New York AG report faulting crypto exchanges for manipulation risks. The New York Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has released a report on cryptocurrency trading platforms, finding that many are vulnerable to market manipulation and referring several exchanges to another agency for potential violations of state law. NYAG's inquiry was launched in April, seeking voluntary participation from 13 of the world's most notable trading sites, including Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfinex, Bittrex, and Binance, among others.
a16z crypto purchases 6% of MKR, backing Stablecoin Vanguard MakerDao. Signaling their support of MakerDAO’s Dai stablecoin, investment fund a16z crypto has purchased 6% of the total MKR token supply for $15 million USD. The purchase gives a16z crypto a stake in the first functional decentralized stablecoin and the only system built with formally verified smart contracts on Ethereum (or any blockchain).
From adoption to FOMO: Reasons behind Ripple’s leap. Over the past week, altcoin Ripple’s (XRP) price has gone through the roof. It has seen an unprecedented 140 percent growth over the past seven days. We explore the major reasons why it's grown so fast.
How Colin because a crypto quadrillionaire without writing a single line of code.
Bitcoin bugs out. CVE-2018-17144, a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.3 and 0.17.0rc4, includes both a Denial of Service component and a critical inflation vulnerability. In order to encourage rapid upgrades, the decision was made to immediately patch and disclose the less serious Denial of Service vulnerability, concurrently with reaching out to miners, businesses, and other affected systems while delaying publication of the full issue to give times for systems to upgrade.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on moggy miners.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha, written by Dhanum Nursigadoo and edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Ep. 64. Bitcoin Moons in Argentinahttps://bi.11fs.com/66
7f3d9dee-a09b-47ce-bb2a-d32d43927a44Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:30:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSWe. Are. Here. Colin and Sara are joined by two great guests: Noelle Acheson and Tim Swanson to discuss the latest and greatest news in blockchain.47:39noColin and Sara are in the studio with Noelle Acheson, Editorial Producer at Coindesk and Tim Swanson, Founder and Director of Research at Post Oak Labs.
First up, the group takes a look at a U.S. Judge stating that Initial Coin Offerings are covered by securities law. A federal judge has ruled that U.S. securities laws may cover an initial coin offering, handing the government a legal victory in its effort to regulate billions of dollars in cybercurrency offerings much like stocks. The ruling came in a criminal case against a man charged with promoting digital currencies backed by investments in real estate and diamonds that prosecutors said didn’t exist.
Finra charges broker with fraud and unlawful distribution of unregistered cryptocurrency securities. FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) filed a complaint against Timothy Tilton Ayre of Agawam, Massachusetts, charging him with securities fraud and the unlawful distribution of an unregistered cryptocurrency security called HempCoin. This case represents FINRA’s first disciplinary action involving cryptocurrencies.
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton releases statement regarding SEC staff views. The Commission’s longstanding position is that all staff statements are nonbinding and create no enforceable legal rights or obligations of the Commission or other parties.
The $1Billion Tezos Blockchain has officially launched. The Tezos Foundation raised $232 million in July 2017 to build the network and issue a new type of cryptocurrency to its backers in one of the largest-ever initial coin offerings. Several class-action lawsuits have been filed in the United States against the project’s organizers alleging the fundraiser violated federal securities laws and defrauded investors.
Binance to start closed beta testing of new crypto-fiat exchange in Singapore. While no further details have been specified, the crypto-fiat Singapore-based exchange will presumably support the local Singapore dollar. Singapore ranked third most favourable country for ICOs in mid-July (in terms of number of top global ICO projects.
Bitcoin trading volume has "Skyrocketed" in Argentina due to rising inflation. Alexander Tapscott, Canadian businessman and author, recently pointed out that bitcoin trading volumes are ‘skyrocketing’. It appears that Argentina is heading toward a recession due to mismanaged monetary policies. Argentina is struggling and many of its citizens now appear to have more confidence in cryptocurrencies than in the traditional financial system. Significantly, weekly bitcoin trading volume on peer-to-peer (P2P) exchange, LocalBitcoins, (in Argentina) has increased to nearly $7 million.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on ICO skeptics.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha, written by Dhanum Nursigadoo and edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Noelle Acheson and Tim Swanson.
Colin and Sara are in the studio with Noelle Acheson, Editorial Producer at Coindesk and Tim Swanson, Founder and Director of Research at Post Oak Labs.
First up, the group takes a look at a U.S. Judge stating that Initial Coin Offerings are covered by securities law. A federal judge has ruled that U.S. securities laws may cover an initial coin offering, handing the government a legal victory in its effort to regulate billions of dollars in cybercurrency offerings much like stocks. The ruling came in a criminal case against a man charged with promoting digital currencies backed by investments in real estate and diamonds that prosecutors said didn’t exist.
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton releases statement regarding SEC staff views. The Commission’s longstanding position is that all staff statements are nonbinding and create no enforceable legal rights or obligations of the Commission or other parties.
The $1Billion Tezos Blockchain has officially launched. The Tezos Foundation raised $232 million in July 2017 to build the network and issue a new type of cryptocurrency to its backers in one of the largest-ever initial coin offerings. Several class-action lawsuits have been filed in the United States against the project’s organizers alleging the fundraiser violated federal securities laws and defrauded investors.
Binance to start closed beta testing of new crypto-fiat exchange in Singapore. While no further details have been specified, the crypto-fiat Singapore-based exchange will presumably support the local Singapore dollar. Singapore ranked third most favourable country for ICOs in mid-July (in terms of number of top global ICO projects.
Bitcoin trading volume has "Skyrocketed" in Argentina due to rising inflation. Alexander Tapscott, Canadian businessman and author, recently pointed out that bitcoin trading volumes are ‘skyrocketing’. It appears that Argentina is heading toward a recession due to mismanaged monetary policies. Argentina is struggling and many of its citizens now appear to have more confidence in cryptocurrencies than in the traditional financial system. Significantly, weekly bitcoin trading volume on peer-to-peer (P2P) exchange, LocalBitcoins, (in Argentina) has increased to nearly $7 million.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on ICO skeptics.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha, written by Dhanum Nursigadoo and edited by Michael Bailey.
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Colin and Sara are in the studio with Noelle Acheson, Editorial Producer at Coindesk and Tim Swanson, Founder and Director of Research at Post Oak Labs.
First up, the group takes a look at a U.S. Judge stating that Initial Coin Offerings are covered by securities law. A federal judge has ruled that U.S. securities laws may cover an initial coin offering, handing the government a legal victory in its effort to regulate billions of dollars in cybercurrency offerings much like stocks. The ruling came in a criminal case against a man charged with promoting digital currencies backed by investments in real estate and diamonds that prosecutors said didn’t exist.
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton releases statement regarding SEC staff views. The Commission’s longstanding position is that all staff statements are nonbinding and create no enforceable legal rights or obligations of the Commission or other parties.
The $1Billion Tezos Blockchain has officially launched. The Tezos Foundation raised $232 million in July 2017 to build the network and issue a new type of cryptocurrency to its backers in one of the largest-ever initial coin offerings. Several class-action lawsuits have been filed in the United States against the project’s organizers alleging the fundraiser violated federal securities laws and defrauded investors.
Binance to start closed beta testing of new crypto-fiat exchange in Singapore. While no further details have been specified, the crypto-fiat Singapore-based exchange will presumably support the local Singapore dollar. Singapore ranked third most favourable country for ICOs in mid-July (in terms of number of top global ICO projects.
Bitcoin trading volume has "Skyrocketed" in Argentina due to rising inflation. Alexander Tapscott, Canadian businessman and author, recently pointed out that bitcoin trading volumes are ‘skyrocketing’. It appears that Argentina is heading toward a recession due to mismanaged monetary policies. Argentina is struggling and many of its citizens now appear to have more confidence in cryptocurrencies than in the traditional financial system. Significantly, weekly bitcoin trading volume on peer-to-peer (P2P) exchange, LocalBitcoins, (in Argentina) has increased to nearly $7 million.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on ICO skeptics.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha, written by Dhanum Nursigadoo and edited by Michael Bailey.
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Bonus: Interview with Richard Brown and Mike Hearn at CordaConhttps://bi.11fs.com/65
bbe3cdcc-08eb-4ff7-9dfb-c2b4888e679cTue, 18 Sep 2018 15:30:00 +010011:FSbonus11:FSWe. Are. Here. Live at CordaCon Simon and Colin have an extra special bonus episode of Blockchain Insider for you all. We dig deep into blockchain with Richard Brown.39:02noThis is an extra special bonus episode of Blockchain Insider as in this interview with Richard Brown, CTO of R3, Simon and Colin talk to him about how they first encountered Bitcoin and the start ofthe blockchain phenomenon.
They also look at what blockchain, in the Corda sense, brings to the world that was missing before, how open source blockchain holds the potential to change industries across the world and how to represent real world assets on the blockchain. The four also talk about blockchain as the next megatrend, what the future of blockchain could be, why they focused on financial aspects of blockchain and sidechannel attacks.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This bonus episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Mike Hearn and Richard Brown.
This is an extra special bonus episode of Blockchain Insider as in this interview with Richard Brown, CTO of R3, Simon and Colin talk to him about how they first encountered Bitcoin and the start ofthe blockchain phenomenon.
They also look at what blockchain, in the Corda sense, brings to the world that was missing before, how open source blockchain holds the potential to change industries across the world and how to represent real world assets on the blockchain. The four also talk about blockchain as the next megatrend, what the future of blockchain could be, why they focused on financial aspects of blockchain and sidechannel attacks.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This bonus episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Michael Bailey.
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This is an extra special bonus episode of Blockchain Insider as in this interview with Richard Brown, CTO of R3, Simon and Colin talk to him about how they first encountered Bitcoin and the start ofthe blockchain phenomenon.
They also look at what blockchain, in the Corda sense, brings to the world that was missing before, how open source blockchain holds the potential to change industries across the world and how to represent real world assets on the blockchain. The four also talk about blockchain as the next megatrend, what the future of blockchain could be, why they focused on financial aspects of blockchain and sidechannel attacks.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This bonus episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Michael Bailey.
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Ep. 63. Chickens on the Blockchainhttps://bi.11fs.com/64
71a7a163-e74e-4d2f-bdbc-211403cc97ddThu, 13 Sep 2018 15:30:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn this week's episode, Simon and Colin are joined by a great guest, Ville Sointu to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain.1:10:02noColin's back in the studio with Simon and they're sat with Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Technologies at Nordea Bank.
First up, the panel takes a look at Coinbase exploring a crypto ETF, and it has sought help from $6 trillion Wall Street giant BlackRock. Coinbase is looking to create an exchange-traded product tied to crypto, as a way to allow retail investors to gain access to the volatile market. The firm in recent weeks has held conversations with members of BlackRock's blockchain working group to tap into the firm's expertise at launching exchange-traded products.
SEC suspends exchange-traded Bitcoin and Ether investment vehicles. A highly touted investment instrument that sought to appeal to U.S. public markets investors looking for cryptocurrency exposure has just seen a setback. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued an order seeking to suspend the trading of the Bitcoin Tracker One and Ether Tracker One exchange-traded notes, issued by XBT Provider AB, a Swedish-based subsidiary of the U.K. firm CoinShares Holdings.
Crypto exchange ShapeShift to gradually introduce membership program. Cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has introduced a new rewards program, which will eventually become a mandatory membership model for the exchange’s users. Erik Voorhees, founder and CEO of ShapeShift, stated that today the exchange released a loyalty program entitled ShapeShift Membership.
Ripple Labs reaches an agreement with R3 Consortium in token litigation. Ripple Labs Inc. has announced it has reached a settlement “of all outstanding litigation” between R3 Hold Co LLC, R3 LLC, and XRP II, LLC. The genesis of the legal skirmishes between these two parties goes back to the summer of 2016 when Ripple’s former CEO Chris Larsen made a fateful decision and signed a deal with a bank consortium R3. The agreement included an option enabling R3 consortium to buy up to 5 billion XRP tokens, in part or in whole, at a price of $0.0085 before the end of 2019.
Goldman Sachs CFO says bank is working on bitcoin derivative for clients. Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer Martin Chavez called a report that the bank was ditching plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk "fake news."
The Winklevoss twins received approval to launch new regulated crypto coin. Two financial technology companies won New York state approval to issue cryptocurrencies pegged to the U.S. dollar, creating more regulated and transparent competitors to Tether and other so-called stable coins. Gemini Trust Co., the digital-asset exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, received approval from the New York Department of Financial Services to launch the Gemini dollar, according to a statement Monday.
Major French football club plans to launch its own cryptocurrency. Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), a major French Football team in the country's top league, is planning to issue its own cryptocurrency as a way to incentivize participation from its fans around the world. PSG is now eyeing a deadline of spring 2019 to start issuing its proprietary tokens, making it potentially one of the first soccer clubs anywhere to do so.
Colin has a great interview with Garrick Hileman, Head of Research at Blockchain.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on fiat currency devaluing by 99.5%
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Garrick Hileman and Ville Sointu.
Colin's back in the studio with Simon and they're sat with Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Technologies at Nordea Bank.
First up, the panel takes a look at Coinbase exploring a crypto ETF, and it has sought help from $6 trillion Wall Street giant BlackRock. Coinbase is looking to create an exchange-traded product tied to crypto, as a way to allow retail investors to gain access to the volatile market. The firm in recent weeks has held conversations with members of BlackRock's blockchain working group to tap into the firm's expertise at launching exchange-traded products.
SEC suspends exchange-traded Bitcoin and Ether investment vehicles. A highly touted investment instrument that sought to appeal to U.S. public markets investors looking for cryptocurrency exposure has just seen a setback. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued an order seeking to suspend the trading of the Bitcoin Tracker One and Ether Tracker One exchange-traded notes, issued by XBT Provider AB, a Swedish-based subsidiary of the U.K. firm CoinShares Holdings.
Crypto exchange ShapeShift to gradually introduce membership program. Cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has introduced a new rewards program, which will eventually become a mandatory membership model for the exchange’s users. Erik Voorhees, founder and CEO of ShapeShift, stated that today the exchange released a loyalty program entitled ShapeShift Membership.
Ripple Labs reaches an agreement with R3 Consortium in token litigation. Ripple Labs Inc. has announced it has reached a settlement “of all outstanding litigation” between R3 Hold Co LLC, R3 LLC, and XRP II, LLC. The genesis of the legal skirmishes between these two parties goes back to the summer of 2016 when Ripple’s former CEO Chris Larsen made a fateful decision and signed a deal with a bank consortium R3. The agreement included an option enabling R3 consortium to buy up to 5 billion XRP tokens, in part or in whole, at a price of $0.0085 before the end of 2019.
Goldman Sachs CFO says bank is working on bitcoin derivative for clients. Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer Martin Chavez called a report that the bank was ditching plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk "fake news."
The Winklevoss twins received approval to launch new regulated crypto coin. Two financial technology companies won New York state approval to issue cryptocurrencies pegged to the U.S. dollar, creating more regulated and transparent competitors to Tether and other so-called stable coins. Gemini Trust Co., the digital-asset exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, received approval from the New York Department of Financial Services to launch the Gemini dollar, according to a statement Monday.
Major French football club plans to launch its own cryptocurrency. Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), a major French Football team in the country's top league, is planning to issue its own cryptocurrency as a way to incentivize participation from its fans around the world. PSG is now eyeing a deadline of spring 2019 to start issuing its proprietary tokens, making it potentially one of the first soccer clubs anywhere to do so.
Colin has a great interview with Garrick Hileman, Head of Research at Blockchain.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on fiat currency devaluing by 99.5%
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Michael Bailey.
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Colin's back in the studio with Simon and they're sat with Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Technologies at Nordea Bank.
First up, the panel takes a look at Coinbase exploring a crypto ETF, and it has sought help from $6 trillion Wall Street giant BlackRock. Coinbase is looking to create an exchange-traded product tied to crypto, as a way to allow retail investors to gain access to the volatile market. The firm in recent weeks has held conversations with members of BlackRock's blockchain working group to tap into the firm's expertise at launching exchange-traded products.
SEC suspends exchange-traded Bitcoin and Ether investment vehicles. A highly touted investment instrument that sought to appeal to U.S. public markets investors looking for cryptocurrency exposure has just seen a setback. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued an order seeking to suspend the trading of the Bitcoin Tracker One and Ether Tracker One exchange-traded notes, issued by XBT Provider AB, a Swedish-based subsidiary of the U.K. firm CoinShares Holdings.
Crypto exchange ShapeShift to gradually introduce membership program. Cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has introduced a new rewards program, which will eventually become a mandatory membership model for the exchange’s users. Erik Voorhees, founder and CEO of ShapeShift, stated that today the exchange released a loyalty program entitled ShapeShift Membership.
Ripple Labs reaches an agreement with R3 Consortium in token litigation. Ripple Labs Inc. has announced it has reached a settlement “of all outstanding litigation” between R3 Hold Co LLC, R3 LLC, and XRP II, LLC. The genesis of the legal skirmishes between these two parties goes back to the summer of 2016 when Ripple’s former CEO Chris Larsen made a fateful decision and signed a deal with a bank consortium R3. The agreement included an option enabling R3 consortium to buy up to 5 billion XRP tokens, in part or in whole, at a price of $0.0085 before the end of 2019.
Goldman Sachs CFO says bank is working on bitcoin derivative for clients. Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer Martin Chavez called a report that the bank was ditching plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk "fake news."
The Winklevoss twins received approval to launch new regulated crypto coin. Two financial technology companies won New York state approval to issue cryptocurrencies pegged to the U.S. dollar, creating more regulated and transparent competitors to Tether and other so-called stable coins. Gemini Trust Co., the digital-asset exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, received approval from the New York Department of Financial Services to launch the Gemini dollar, according to a statement Monday.
Major French football club plans to launch its own cryptocurrency. Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), a major French Football team in the country's top league, is planning to issue its own cryptocurrency as a way to incentivize participation from its fans around the world. PSG is now eyeing a deadline of spring 2019 to start issuing its proprietary tokens, making it potentially one of the first soccer clubs anywhere to do so.
Colin has a great interview with Garrick Hileman, Head of Research at Blockchain.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on fiat currency devaluing by 99.5%
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Michael Bailey.
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Ep. 62. Religiously HODLing https://bi.11fs.com/63
4adbf5f0-b7fb-40de-9d32-fb1aa59e32edThu, 06 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn this week's episode, Sara is joined by three great guests: Olivia Vinden, Obi Nwosu, and Richard Burton to talk about the latest news in blockchain. Colin also has a great interview with William Mougayar from JM3 Capital.1:07:20noSara is with Olivia Vinden, Director at Alpha FMC, Obi Nwosu, CEO and Founder of Coinfloor, and Richard Burton, CEO and founder of Balance Software.
First up the panel looks at a16z back blockchain project Dfinity's funding round. Decentralized cloud startup Dfinity just raised $102 million to further its work in developing an "internet computer". Dfinity hopes to launch its world computer, what it refers to as "the cloud 3.0," by creating a scalable network that is more efficient than proof-of-work consensus.
Messaging giant LINE is launching its own cryptocurrency. LINE has become one of the first publicly traded companies to have launched a proprietary blockchain mainnet with its own cryptocurrency. LINE aims to gradually issue a total of 1 billion of the network's LINK tokens, of which 800 million will be distributed to public users while the rest will be held as a company reserve.
Crypto exchange Huobi acquires public firm for $70 Million. Huobi has become the largest shareholder of a public firm listed in Hong Kong, inching a step closer to a possible back-door listing. Pantronics Holdings, the acquired firm, released a statement on Aug. 29 saying Huobi Group had completed the deal by purchasing about 199 million of its shares.
Cboe is telling market makers that it's getting close to launching ether futures- and it could mark a big step in the crypto's evolution, the exchange group behind the first market for bitcoin futures, is telling market makers that it is getting close to launching ether futures.
Deutsche Bourse sets up dedicated blockchain and crypto-assets unit. Deutsche Bourse has been actively exploring potential applications of distributed ledgers and implications of crypto-assets, including co-operation with international central securities depositories on the use of distributed ledgers and smart contracts for mobilising scarce collateral, as well as the joint development of a functional prototype for the blockchain.
Google now provides a big data view of the ethereum blockchain. Google has added ethereum to its big data analytics platform BigQuery.
Coinbase survey shows 18% of US students now own cryptocurrency. According to the survey commissioned by Coinbase, 21 of the top 50 U.S. universities, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report, now offer a class on blockchain technology or cryptocurrency, and at least 11 colleges offer more than one.
The listing of several coins will happen in 2019 according to a NASDAQ source. While there have been other headlines connected to global exchanges dipping their toes into the crypto waters via partnerships and futures trading; the NASDAQ may just go all in.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on revolutionary HODLers.
Rounding off the show we have an interview from Colin with William Mougayar, Managing Partner and CIO at JM3 Capital.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Obi Nwosu, Olivia Vinden, Richard Burton, and William Mougayar.
Sara is with Olivia Vinden, Director at Alpha FMC, Obi Nwosu, CEO and Founder of Coinfloor, and Richard Burton, CEO and founder of Balance Software.
First up the panel looks at a16z back blockchain project Dfinity's funding round. Decentralized cloud startup Dfinity just raised $102 million to further its work in developing an "internet computer". Dfinity hopes to launch its world computer, what it refers to as "the cloud 3.0," by creating a scalable network that is more efficient than proof-of-work consensus.
Messaging giant LINE is launching its own cryptocurrency. LINE has become one of the first publicly traded companies to have launched a proprietary blockchain mainnet with its own cryptocurrency. LINE aims to gradually issue a total of 1 billion of the network's LINK tokens, of which 800 million will be distributed to public users while the rest will be held as a company reserve.
Crypto exchange Huobi acquires public firm for $70 Million. Huobi has become the largest shareholder of a public firm listed in Hong Kong, inching a step closer to a possible back-door listing. Pantronics Holdings, the acquired firm, released a statement on Aug. 29 saying Huobi Group had completed the deal by purchasing about 199 million of its shares.
Cboe is telling market makers that it's getting close to launching ether futures- and it could mark a big step in the crypto's evolution, the exchange group behind the first market for bitcoin futures, is telling market makers that it is getting close to launching ether futures.
Deutsche Bourse sets up dedicated blockchain and crypto-assets unit. Deutsche Bourse has been actively exploring potential applications of distributed ledgers and implications of crypto-assets, including co-operation with international central securities depositories on the use of distributed ledgers and smart contracts for mobilising scarce collateral, as well as the joint development of a functional prototype for the blockchain.
Google now provides a big data view of the ethereum blockchain. Google has added ethereum to its big data analytics platform BigQuery.
Coinbase survey shows 18% of US students now own cryptocurrency. According to the survey commissioned by Coinbase, 21 of the top 50 U.S. universities, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report, now offer a class on blockchain technology or cryptocurrency, and at least 11 colleges offer more than one.
The listing of several coins will happen in 2019 according to a NASDAQ source. While there have been other headlines connected to global exchanges dipping their toes into the crypto waters via partnerships and futures trading; the NASDAQ may just go all in.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on revolutionary HODLers.
Rounding off the show we have an interview from Colin with William Mougayar, Managing Partner and CIO at JM3 Capital.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Michael Bailey.
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Sara is with Olivia Vinden, Director at Alpha FMC, Obi Nwosu, CEO and Founder of Coinfloor, and Richard Burton, CEO and founder of Balance Software.
First up the panel looks at a16z back blockchain project Dfinity's funding round. Decentralized cloud startup Dfinity just raised $102 million to further its work in developing an "internet computer". Dfinity hopes to launch its world computer, what it refers to as "the cloud 3.0," by creating a scalable network that is more efficient than proof-of-work consensus.
Messaging giant LINE is launching its own cryptocurrency. LINE has become one of the first publicly traded companies to have launched a proprietary blockchain mainnet with its own cryptocurrency. LINE aims to gradually issue a total of 1 billion of the network's LINK tokens, of which 800 million will be distributed to public users while the rest will be held as a company reserve.
Crypto exchange Huobi acquires public firm for $70 Million. Huobi has become the largest shareholder of a public firm listed in Hong Kong, inching a step closer to a possible back-door listing. Pantronics Holdings, the acquired firm, released a statement on Aug. 29 saying Huobi Group had completed the deal by purchasing about 199 million of its shares.
Cboe is telling market makers that it's getting close to launching ether futures- and it could mark a big step in the crypto's evolution, the exchange group behind the first market for bitcoin futures, is telling market makers that it is getting close to launching ether futures.
Deutsche Bourse sets up dedicated blockchain and crypto-assets unit. Deutsche Bourse has been actively exploring potential applications of distributed ledgers and implications of crypto-assets, including co-operation with international central securities depositories on the use of distributed ledgers and smart contracts for mobilising scarce collateral, as well as the joint development of a functional prototype for the blockchain.
Google now provides a big data view of the ethereum blockchain. Google has added ethereum to its big data analytics platform BigQuery.
Coinbase survey shows 18% of US students now own cryptocurrency. According to the survey commissioned by Coinbase, 21 of the top 50 U.S. universities, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report, now offer a class on blockchain technology or cryptocurrency, and at least 11 colleges offer more than one.
The listing of several coins will happen in 2019 according to a NASDAQ source. While there have been other headlines connected to global exchanges dipping their toes into the crypto waters via partnerships and futures trading; the NASDAQ may just go all in.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on revolutionary HODLers.
Rounding off the show we have an interview from Colin with William Mougayar, Managing Partner and CIO at JM3 Capital.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Michael Bailey.
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Ep. 61. FOMO is Not an Investment Strategyhttps://bi.11fs.com/62
2e27d129-d951-40ff-a3f4-deb756d6aba5Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn this week's episode, Simon and Sara sit down with Aman Kohli and Ryan Radloff to talk about the latest news in blockchain. Colin also has a great interview with Michael Sonnenshein from Grayscale investment.
57:57noSimon and Sara are with Aman Kohli, CTO of Financial Services and Insurance Practice at Microsoft and Ryan Radloff, CEO at Coinshares.
First up the panel looks at What an SEC Bitcoin ETF rejection review really means. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Thursday that nine bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) disapproval orders are to be stayed until further review. The aftermath of the Bitcoin boom and the hard lessons for cryptocurrency investors and whether crypto is too accessible.
IBM-Maersk blockchain platform adds 92 clients as part of global launch. A previously unnamed collaborative effort between the world’s largest shipping company, Maersk, and IBM, has now grown to 92 participants and been dubbed TradeLens. The blockchain platform has been quietly orchestrating global trade with less reliance on middlemen for a year, resulting in 154 million shipping events in ports around the world, and is now growing at a rate of one million per day.
Wirex becomes third crypto company to receive FCA e-money licence. Wirex Limited, the popular global crypto/fiat payment platform, has just become the third cryptocurrency-enabled company in the world to be granted a UK FCA emoney license. The FCA’s approach to cryptocurrencies has been relatively cautious, but their progressive stance towards blockchain technologies is encouraging.
Singapore presses ahead with blockchain-based Project Ubin. Singapore's central bank is working with the Singapore Exchange and three technology partners - Anquan, Deloitte and Nasdaq - to develop Delivery versus Payment (DvP) capabilities for settlement of tokenised assets across different blockchain platforms.
Thailand's Central Bank Is Developing a Digital Currency Based on R3 Tech. The Bank of Thailand (BoT) has announced it expects to complete the first phase of a proof-of-concept trial for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) by March 2019.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on how the XRP ledger is inherently decentralised, even more so than bitcoin and ethereum...
Rounding off the show we have an interview from Colin with Michael Sonnenshein, Managing Director at Grayscale.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill. Special Guests: Aman Kohli, Michael Sonnenshein, and Ryan Radloff.
Simon and Sara are with Aman Kohli, CTO of Financial Services and Insurance Practice at Microsoft and Ryan Radloff, CEO at Coinshares.
First up the panel looks at What an SEC Bitcoin ETF rejection review really means. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Thursday that nine bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) disapproval orders are to be stayed until further review. The aftermath of the Bitcoin boom and the hard lessons for cryptocurrency investors and whether crypto is too accessible.
IBM-Maersk blockchain platform adds 92 clients as part of global launch. A previously unnamed collaborative effort between the world’s largest shipping company, Maersk, and IBM, has now grown to 92 participants and been dubbed TradeLens. The blockchain platform has been quietly orchestrating global trade with less reliance on middlemen for a year, resulting in 154 million shipping events in ports around the world, and is now growing at a rate of one million per day.
Wirex becomes third crypto company to receive FCA e-money licence. Wirex Limited, the popular global crypto/fiat payment platform, has just become the third cryptocurrency-enabled company in the world to be granted a UK FCA emoney license. The FCA’s approach to cryptocurrencies has been relatively cautious, but their progressive stance towards blockchain technologies is encouraging.
Singapore presses ahead with blockchain-based Project Ubin. Singapore's central bank is working with the Singapore Exchange and three technology partners - Anquan, Deloitte and Nasdaq - to develop Delivery versus Payment (DvP) capabilities for settlement of tokenised assets across different blockchain platforms.
Thailand's Central Bank Is Developing a Digital Currency Based on R3 Tech. The Bank of Thailand (BoT) has announced it expects to complete the first phase of a proof-of-concept trial for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) by March 2019.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on how the XRP ledger is inherently decentralised, even more so than bitcoin and ethereum...
Rounding off the show we have an interview from Colin with Michael Sonnenshein, Managing Director at Grayscale.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Simon and Sara are with Aman Kohli, CTO of Financial Services and Insurance Practice at Microsoft and Ryan Radloff, CEO at Coinshares.
First up the panel looks at What an SEC Bitcoin ETF rejection review really means. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Thursday that nine bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) disapproval orders are to be stayed until further review. The aftermath of the Bitcoin boom and the hard lessons for cryptocurrency investors and whether crypto is too accessible.
IBM-Maersk blockchain platform adds 92 clients as part of global launch. A previously unnamed collaborative effort between the world’s largest shipping company, Maersk, and IBM, has now grown to 92 participants and been dubbed TradeLens. The blockchain platform has been quietly orchestrating global trade with less reliance on middlemen for a year, resulting in 154 million shipping events in ports around the world, and is now growing at a rate of one million per day.
Wirex becomes third crypto company to receive FCA e-money licence. Wirex Limited, the popular global crypto/fiat payment platform, has just become the third cryptocurrency-enabled company in the world to be granted a UK FCA emoney license. The FCA’s approach to cryptocurrencies has been relatively cautious, but their progressive stance towards blockchain technologies is encouraging.
Singapore presses ahead with blockchain-based Project Ubin. Singapore's central bank is working with the Singapore Exchange and three technology partners - Anquan, Deloitte and Nasdaq - to develop Delivery versus Payment (DvP) capabilities for settlement of tokenised assets across different blockchain platforms.
Thailand's Central Bank Is Developing a Digital Currency Based on R3 Tech. The Bank of Thailand (BoT) has announced it expects to complete the first phase of a proof-of-concept trial for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) by March 2019.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on how the XRP ledger is inherently decentralised, even more so than bitcoin and ethereum...
Rounding off the show we have an interview from Colin with Michael Sonnenshein, Managing Director at Grayscale.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Ep. 60. DLT is faster than your post trade https://bi.11fs.com/61
244ac627-62c8-4277-ad58-a80b0b0f3c28Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:30:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn this week's episode, Simon and Sara sit down with Teana Baker-Taylor, Michele Curtoni, and Alex Hern to talk about the latest news in blockchain.53:52noSimon and Sara are with Teana Baker-Taylor CMO of Coinfloor, Michele Curtoni, Director of Digital Assets, Blockchain at State Street, and Alex Hern, Technology Reporter at the Guardian to go over the biggest blockchain stories of the week.
First up the panel looks at ASX's declaration that a new DLT system could save billions. The Australian Securities Exchange could save as much as $23 billion in its effort to replace its settlement system with a distributed ledger, its CEO announced Thursday. Dominic Stevens, MD and CEO of ASX believes DLT in place of Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS), would offer greater efficiency transmitting messages and accessing information.
California opens up to allowing crypto political donations. The California Fair Political Practices Commission met on Thursday to discuss a number of election issues, including whether candidates for public office can accept cryptocurrencies as campaign donations.
There's a blow to Bitcoin as Coinbase CEO makes a stark warning. He has warned that widespread, mass bitcoin adoption for payments is going to be a long time coming, Bitcoin price is down some 70% from its highs at the end of last year and many of newer cryptocurrencies that have been created in the last few years have been all but wiped out.
Venezuela just devalued the bolívar by 95% and pegged it to a cryptocurrency. Venezuela has announced another series of desperate measures to try to save its economy from collapse. The government is devaluing the Venezuelan bolívar by 95% and pegging it to the government's oil-linked cryptocurrency.
Nividia gives disappointing sales forecast on lower crypto demand. Nvidia Corp.’s nine-month crypto gold rush is over, sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum dried up faster than expected. Nvidia said it had expected about $100 million in sales of chips bought by currency miners in the fiscal second quarter. Instead, the total was $18 million in the period, and that revenue is likely to disappear entirely going forward.
Lack of Correlation for Bitcoin sees little relief as Markets Sell Off. While cryptocurrencies aren’t correlated with other asset classes, they’re strongly correlated among themselves. Bitcoin has held a correlation of over 0.7 with Bitwise’s 70 Small Cap and 10 Large Cap crypto indexes for most of the year.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on how to explain Bitcoin to your grandpa.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill and Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Alex Hern, Michele Curtoni, Sara Feenan, and Teana Baker-Taylor.
Simon and Sara are with Teana Baker-Taylor CMO of Coinfloor, Michele Curtoni, Director of Digital Assets, Blockchain at State Street, and Alex Hern, Technology Reporter at the Guardian to go over the biggest blockchain stories of the week.
First up the panel looks at ASX's declaration that a new DLT system could save billions. The Australian Securities Exchange could save as much as $23 billion in its effort to replace its settlement system with a distributed ledger, its CEO announced Thursday. Dominic Stevens, MD and CEO of ASX believes DLT in place of Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS), would offer greater efficiency transmitting messages and accessing information.
California opens up to allowing crypto political donations. The California Fair Political Practices Commission met on Thursday to discuss a number of election issues, including whether candidates for public office can accept cryptocurrencies as campaign donations.
There's a blow to Bitcoin as Coinbase CEO makes a stark warning. He has warned that widespread, mass bitcoin adoption for payments is going to be a long time coming, Bitcoin price is down some 70% from its highs at the end of last year and many of newer cryptocurrencies that have been created in the last few years have been all but wiped out.
Venezuela just devalued the bolívar by 95% and pegged it to a cryptocurrency. Venezuela has announced another series of desperate measures to try to save its economy from collapse. The government is devaluing the Venezuelan bolívar by 95% and pegging it to the government's oil-linked cryptocurrency.
Nividia gives disappointing sales forecast on lower crypto demand. Nvidia Corp.’s nine-month crypto gold rush is over, sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum dried up faster than expected. Nvidia said it had expected about $100 million in sales of chips bought by currency miners in the fiscal second quarter. Instead, the total was $18 million in the period, and that revenue is likely to disappear entirely going forward.
Lack of Correlation for Bitcoin sees little relief as Markets Sell Off. While cryptocurrencies aren’t correlated with other asset classes, they’re strongly correlated among themselves. Bitcoin has held a correlation of over 0.7 with Bitwise’s 70 Small Cap and 10 Large Cap crypto indexes for most of the year.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on how to explain Bitcoin to your grandpa.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill and Michael Bailey.
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Simon and Sara are with Teana Baker-Taylor CMO of Coinfloor, Michele Curtoni, Director of Digital Assets, Blockchain at State Street, and Alex Hern, Technology Reporter at the Guardian to go over the biggest blockchain stories of the week.
First up the panel looks at ASX's declaration that a new DLT system could save billions. The Australian Securities Exchange could save as much as $23 billion in its effort to replace its settlement system with a distributed ledger, its CEO announced Thursday. Dominic Stevens, MD and CEO of ASX believes DLT in place of Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS), would offer greater efficiency transmitting messages and accessing information.
California opens up to allowing crypto political donations. The California Fair Political Practices Commission met on Thursday to discuss a number of election issues, including whether candidates for public office can accept cryptocurrencies as campaign donations.
There's a blow to Bitcoin as Coinbase CEO makes a stark warning. He has warned that widespread, mass bitcoin adoption for payments is going to be a long time coming, Bitcoin price is down some 70% from its highs at the end of last year and many of newer cryptocurrencies that have been created in the last few years have been all but wiped out.
Venezuela just devalued the bolívar by 95% and pegged it to a cryptocurrency. Venezuela has announced another series of desperate measures to try to save its economy from collapse. The government is devaluing the Venezuelan bolívar by 95% and pegging it to the government's oil-linked cryptocurrency.
Nividia gives disappointing sales forecast on lower crypto demand. Nvidia Corp.’s nine-month crypto gold rush is over, sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum dried up faster than expected. Nvidia said it had expected about $100 million in sales of chips bought by currency miners in the fiscal second quarter. Instead, the total was $18 million in the period, and that revenue is likely to disappear entirely going forward.
Lack of Correlation for Bitcoin sees little relief as Markets Sell Off. While cryptocurrencies aren’t correlated with other asset classes, they’re strongly correlated among themselves. Bitcoin has held a correlation of over 0.7 with Bitwise’s 70 Small Cap and 10 Large Cap crypto indexes for most of the year.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on how to explain Bitcoin to your grandpa.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill and Michael Bailey.
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Ep. 59. Why You Should Still Care About Tokenshttps://bi.11fs.com/60
6600e91a-7fd2-47df-a722-2f8506f94f22Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn this week's episode, Simon sits down with Anthony Macey, Martin Bartlam, Noelle Acheson, and Todd McDonald to talk about the latest news in blockchain.1:01:57noSimon is with Anthony Macey, Martin Bartlam, Partner and International Group Head of Finance & Projects and Fintech Global Co-Chair at DLA Piper, Noelle Acheson, CFA and Editorial Producer at Coindesk, and Todd McDonald, Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships at R3, to go over the biggest blockchain stories of the week.
First up the panel looks at crypto unicorn, Bitmain considering $18 Billion IPO, one of the world's largest. The cryptocurrency mining company is filing for an initial public offering (IPO) potentially as high as $18 billion this September at a market capitalization of $40 to $50 billion.
Then they discuss Facebook's Marcus stepping down from Coinbase board. David Marcus is stepping down from the board of directors at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, citing his new assignment at Facebook leading the social media giant's blockchain strategy.
Barclays denies crypto trading desk plans as staff removes ‘Digital Asset Project’ LinkedIn Info. Barclays told Cointelegraph that they have “no plans for a crypto trading desk.” As of press time, Duval and Tyrer’s LinkedIn profiles still show positions at Barclays working with 'digital assets,' but all information detailing the specifics of the jobs is not listed.
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan invest in Axoni's $32 Million funding round. Enterprise-focused blockchain startup Axoni has completed a $32 million Series B funding round led by Goldman Sachs and Nyca Partners. Also participating in the round were Andreessen Horowitz, Citi, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Y Combinator and Digital Currency Group, among others.
R3 publishes a new post-quantum signature algorithm tailored to blockchains. Corda team has recently announced a new digital signature scheme that unlike RSA and ECDSA, it will remain secure even against a powerful quantum computer. The panel manage to explain quantum computing.
Criminal activity in cryptocurrency has dropped 80% since 2013. An agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has noted that Bitcoin’s (BTC) role in crimes has dropped to just 10% of transactions, while transactions themselves have “grown tremendously”.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on Ripple.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill. Special Guests: Anthony Macey, Martin Bartlam, Noelle Acheson, and Todd McDonald.
Simon is with Anthony Macey, Martin Bartlam, Partner and International Group Head of Finance & Projects and Fintech Global Co-Chair at DLA Piper, Noelle Acheson, CFA and Editorial Producer at Coindesk, and Todd McDonald, Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships at R3, to go over the biggest blockchain stories of the week.
First up the panel looks at crypto unicorn, Bitmain considering $18 Billion IPO, one of the world's largest. The cryptocurrency mining company is filing for an initial public offering (IPO) potentially as high as $18 billion this September at a market capitalization of $40 to $50 billion.
Then they discuss Facebook's Marcus stepping down from Coinbase board. David Marcus is stepping down from the board of directors at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, citing his new assignment at Facebook leading the social media giant's blockchain strategy.
Barclays denies crypto trading desk plans as staff removes ‘Digital Asset Project’ LinkedIn Info. Barclays told Cointelegraph that they have “no plans for a crypto trading desk.” As of press time, Duval and Tyrer’s LinkedIn profiles still show positions at Barclays working with 'digital assets,' but all information detailing the specifics of the jobs is not listed.
R3 publishes a new post-quantum signature algorithm tailored to blockchains. Corda team has recently announced a new digital signature scheme that unlike RSA and ECDSA, it will remain secure even against a powerful quantum computer. The panel manage to explain quantum computing.
Criminal activity in cryptocurrency has dropped 80% since 2013. An agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has noted that Bitcoin’s (BTC) role in crimes has dropped to just 10% of transactions, while transactions themselves have “grown tremendously”.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on Ripple.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Simon is with Anthony Macey, Martin Bartlam, Partner and International Group Head of Finance & Projects and Fintech Global Co-Chair at DLA Piper, Noelle Acheson, CFA and Editorial Producer at Coindesk, and Todd McDonald, Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships at R3, to go over the biggest blockchain stories of the week.
First up the panel looks at crypto unicorn, Bitmain considering $18 Billion IPO, one of the world's largest. The cryptocurrency mining company is filing for an initial public offering (IPO) potentially as high as $18 billion this September at a market capitalization of $40 to $50 billion.
Then they discuss Facebook's Marcus stepping down from Coinbase board. David Marcus is stepping down from the board of directors at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, citing his new assignment at Facebook leading the social media giant's blockchain strategy.
Barclays denies crypto trading desk plans as staff removes ‘Digital Asset Project’ LinkedIn Info. Barclays told Cointelegraph that they have “no plans for a crypto trading desk.” As of press time, Duval and Tyrer’s LinkedIn profiles still show positions at Barclays working with 'digital assets,' but all information detailing the specifics of the jobs is not listed.
R3 publishes a new post-quantum signature algorithm tailored to blockchains. Corda team has recently announced a new digital signature scheme that unlike RSA and ECDSA, it will remain secure even against a powerful quantum computer. The panel manage to explain quantum computing.
Criminal activity in cryptocurrency has dropped 80% since 2013. An agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has noted that Bitcoin’s (BTC) role in crimes has dropped to just 10% of transactions, while transactions themselves have “grown tremendously”.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on Ripple.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Ep. 58. Buying Frappuccinos with Bitcoinhttps://bi.11fs.com/59
2be8dbf8-8d5f-40e5-a369-16bee617ff18Thu, 09 Aug 2018 14:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn this week's episode, Simon and Sarah sit down with Teana Baker-Taylor to talk about the latest news in blockchain. We also have a great conversation with Jeff Bandman.59:32noSimon and Sarah are with Teana Baker-Taylor, CMO at Coinfloor. We also have a great talk with Jeff Bandman, Principal at Bandman advisors, to take us through the biggest story of the week.
First up we hear from Jeff Bandman on the world’s biggest stock exchange operator launching a Bitcoin market. ICE (the owner of NYSE) made the groundbreaking announcement on Friday, revealing that the new platform — Bakkt — has been developed in partnership with a variety of blockbuster names, including Microsoft, Starbucks, and BCG.Bakkt will integrate with the ICE’s U.S. futures market and clearinghouse to list a physically-settled one-day bitcoin futures product, complete with physical warehousing managed in-house by ICE.
Next up we go over our Twitter poll results, don't forget to vote this week!
Then the trio takes a look at Starbucks clarifying media misrepresentation on its new crypto venture. Starbucks has clarified that it will not be accepting Bitcoin (BTC) or other cryptocurrencies as payment -“customers will not be able to pay for Frappuccinos with bitcoin”.
After that we discuss OKEx moving to protect its futures market with an injection of 2500 BTC into the exchange’s insurance fund from its own capital after a forced liquidation on July 31st threatened to destabilize its operations. The futures contract amounted to a staggering $420 million worth of BTC.
Next the panel discusses Northern Trust opening doors to cryptocurrency hedge funds as part of pervasive blockchain expansion. In addition to adding a number of new blockchain features for managing its private equity workflow, the company, which has almost $10.7 trillion in assets under custody and administration, has also quietly opened its fund administration services to a select group of hedge funds betting on bitcoin and ethereum.
Goldman Sachs Is Considering a Custody Offering for Crypto Funds. A formal offering from an institution like Goldman Sachs would provide a credible backing for crypto funds and could pave the way for more investors to bet on the asset class. Having a custody operation in place could also lead to other ventures, including prime-brokerage services.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on Satoshi Nakamoto that you just can't miss.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill. Special Guests: Jeff Bandman and Teana Baker-Taylor.
Simon and Sarah are with Teana Baker-Taylor, CMO at Coinfloor. We also have a great talk with Jeff Bandman, Principal at Bandman advisors, to take us through the biggest story of the week.
First up we hear from Jeff Bandman on the world’s biggest stock exchange operator launching a Bitcoin market. ICE (the owner of NYSE) made the groundbreaking announcement on Friday, revealing that the new platform — Bakkt — has been developed in partnership with a variety of blockbuster names, including Microsoft, Starbucks, and BCG.Bakkt will integrate with the ICE’s U.S. futures market and clearinghouse to list a physically-settled one-day bitcoin futures product, complete with physical warehousing managed in-house by ICE.
Next up we go over our Twitter poll results, don't forget to vote this week!
Then the trio takes a look at Starbucks clarifying media misrepresentation on its new crypto venture. Starbucks has clarified that it will not be accepting Bitcoin (BTC) or other cryptocurrencies as payment -“customers will not be able to pay for Frappuccinos with bitcoin”.
After that we discuss OKEx moving to protect its futures market with an injection of 2500 BTC into the exchange’s insurance fund from its own capital after a forced liquidation on July 31st threatened to destabilize its operations. The futures contract amounted to a staggering $420 million worth of BTC.
Next the panel discusses Northern Trust opening doors to cryptocurrency hedge funds as part of pervasive blockchain expansion. In addition to adding a number of new blockchain features for managing its private equity workflow, the company, which has almost $10.7 trillion in assets under custody and administration, has also quietly opened its fund administration services to a select group of hedge funds betting on bitcoin and ethereum.
Goldman Sachs Is Considering a Custody Offering for Crypto Funds. A formal offering from an institution like Goldman Sachs would provide a credible backing for crypto funds and could pave the way for more investors to bet on the asset class. Having a custody operation in place could also lead to other ventures, including prime-brokerage services.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on Satoshi Nakamoto that you just can't miss.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Simon and Sarah are with Teana Baker-Taylor, CMO at Coinfloor. We also have a great talk with Jeff Bandman, Principal at Bandman advisors, to take us through the biggest story of the week.
First up we hear from Jeff Bandman on the world’s biggest stock exchange operator launching a Bitcoin market. ICE (the owner of NYSE) made the groundbreaking announcement on Friday, revealing that the new platform — Bakkt — has been developed in partnership with a variety of blockbuster names, including Microsoft, Starbucks, and BCG.Bakkt will integrate with the ICE’s U.S. futures market and clearinghouse to list a physically-settled one-day bitcoin futures product, complete with physical warehousing managed in-house by ICE.
Next up we go over our Twitter poll results, don't forget to vote this week!
Then the trio takes a look at Starbucks clarifying media misrepresentation on its new crypto venture. Starbucks has clarified that it will not be accepting Bitcoin (BTC) or other cryptocurrencies as payment -“customers will not be able to pay for Frappuccinos with bitcoin”.
After that we discuss OKEx moving to protect its futures market with an injection of 2500 BTC into the exchange’s insurance fund from its own capital after a forced liquidation on July 31st threatened to destabilize its operations. The futures contract amounted to a staggering $420 million worth of BTC.
Next the panel discusses Northern Trust opening doors to cryptocurrency hedge funds as part of pervasive blockchain expansion. In addition to adding a number of new blockchain features for managing its private equity workflow, the company, which has almost $10.7 trillion in assets under custody and administration, has also quietly opened its fund administration services to a select group of hedge funds betting on bitcoin and ethereum.
Goldman Sachs Is Considering a Custody Offering for Crypto Funds. A formal offering from an institution like Goldman Sachs would provide a credible backing for crypto funds and could pave the way for more investors to bet on the asset class. Having a custody operation in place could also lead to other ventures, including prime-brokerage services.
We also have a Tweet of the Week on Satoshi Nakamoto that you just can't miss.
All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes.
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Ep. 57. Assassination Markets & WTF ETFshttps://bi.11fs.com/58
0d30176e-ac99-40cb-a6f1-e69fe310223cThu, 02 Aug 2018 14:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn this weeks episode, Simon sits down with Noelle Acheson, Vinay Gupta, and Stephane Malrait to talk about the latest news in blockchain. 53:24noSimon's with Noelle Acheson, CFA and Editorial Producer at Coindesk, Vinay Gupta, Founder of Mattereum, and Stephane Malrait, MD Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation for Financial Markets at ING.
We kick things off with a potential U.S. Bitcoin ETF launch in 2018, widely anticipated as a catalyst to jolt Bitcoin out of its bear market, an ETF launch for the cryptocurrency in the U.S. this year is unlikely, in Bloomberg’s view. The SEC is increasingly sensitive to public opinion and well-aware of the potential market impact. The SEC may release its decision on the latest proposed Bitcoin ETF from CBOE Global Markets on Aug. 10.
Next up the panel looks at IBM, Barclays and Citigroup building a blockchain-based app store. IBM and foreign exchange settlement service CLS are building a network based on blockchain technology for testing new applications. Nine financial institutions, including Barclays and Citigroup, are already signed up to participate.
We move on to BBVA's inability to hold cryptocurrency and why it's a problem. In the process of executing what was expected to be the third in a series of blockchain-based corporate loans, the bank had to work around a lack of legal and regulatory clarity over whether it could (or should) hold the cryptocurrency needed to power a transaction on ethereum. However, erring on the side of caution, BBVA chose to abide by European Banking Authority (EBA) recommendations and not use the native token of ethereum, ether. Instead, the bank anchored the loans to an ethereum testnet, a blockchain which simulates the live version, but that doesn't move real value.
This week's Tweet of the week comes from Vitalik Buterin criticising the focus on ETFs and pushing for adoption strategies.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets to try and get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill. Special Guests: Noelle Acheson, Stephane Malrait, and Vinay Gupta.
Simon's with Noelle Acheson, CFA and Editorial Producer at Coindesk, Vinay Gupta, Founder of Mattereum, and Stephane Malrait, MD Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation for Financial Markets at ING.
We kick things off with a potential U.S. Bitcoin ETF launch in 2018, widely anticipated as a catalyst to jolt Bitcoin out of its bear market, an ETF launch for the cryptocurrency in the U.S. this year is unlikely, in Bloomberg’s view. The SEC is increasingly sensitive to public opinion and well-aware of the potential market impact. The SEC may release its decision on the latest proposed Bitcoin ETF from CBOE Global Markets on Aug. 10.
Next up the panel looks at IBM, Barclays and Citigroup building a blockchain-based app store. IBM and foreign exchange settlement service CLS are building a network based on blockchain technology for testing new applications. Nine financial institutions, including Barclays and Citigroup, are already signed up to participate.
We move on to BBVA's inability to hold cryptocurrency and why it's a problem. In the process of executing what was expected to be the third in a series of blockchain-based corporate loans, the bank had to work around a lack of legal and regulatory clarity over whether it could (or should) hold the cryptocurrency needed to power a transaction on ethereum. However, erring on the side of caution, BBVA chose to abide by European Banking Authority (EBA) recommendations and not use the native token of ethereum, ether. Instead, the bank anchored the loans to an ethereum testnet, a blockchain which simulates the live version, but that doesn't move real value.
This week's Tweet of the week comes from Vitalik Buterin criticising the focus on ETFs and pushing for adoption strategies.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets to try and get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill.
Special Guests: Noelle Acheson, Stephane Malrait, and Vinay Gupta.
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Simon's with Noelle Acheson, CFA and Editorial Producer at Coindesk, Vinay Gupta, Founder of Mattereum, and Stephane Malrait, MD Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation for Financial Markets at ING.
We kick things off with a potential U.S. Bitcoin ETF launch in 2018, widely anticipated as a catalyst to jolt Bitcoin out of its bear market, an ETF launch for the cryptocurrency in the U.S. this year is unlikely, in Bloomberg’s view. The SEC is increasingly sensitive to public opinion and well-aware of the potential market impact. The SEC may release its decision on the latest proposed Bitcoin ETF from CBOE Global Markets on Aug. 10.
Next up the panel looks at IBM, Barclays and Citigroup building a blockchain-based app store. IBM and foreign exchange settlement service CLS are building a network based on blockchain technology for testing new applications. Nine financial institutions, including Barclays and Citigroup, are already signed up to participate.
We move on to BBVA's inability to hold cryptocurrency and why it's a problem. In the process of executing what was expected to be the third in a series of blockchain-based corporate loans, the bank had to work around a lack of legal and regulatory clarity over whether it could (or should) hold the cryptocurrency needed to power a transaction on ethereum. However, erring on the side of caution, BBVA chose to abide by European Banking Authority (EBA) recommendations and not use the native token of ethereum, ether. Instead, the bank anchored the loans to an ethereum testnet, a blockchain which simulates the live version, but that doesn't move real value.
This week's Tweet of the week comes from Vitalik Buterin criticising the focus on ETFs and pushing for adoption strategies.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets to try and get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Holly Blaxill.
Special Guests: Noelle Acheson, Stephane Malrait, and Vinay Gupta.
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Ep. 56. Is Bitcoin back?https://bi.11fs.com/57
eb81e7d8-be0b-4899-bbf2-2111bc762124Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn this week's episode, Sarah sits down with Joon Ian Wong and Aaron Stanley to talk about the latest movements in the blockchain space. We also have a fantastic interview by Colin G Platt with Marieke Flament.52:15noSarah's with Joon Ian Wong Managing Director for Europe and Asia at Coindesk and Aaron Stanley, Strategic Communications Lead at Sweetbridge to talk about the latest news, including:
Police Confiscate some Bitcoin, Coinbase gets political, and Return of the Bitcoin
We kick things off with Surrey police force obtaining 295 bitcoins last October after arresting a Latvian man, who has since been convicted for money laundering and sentenced to nine years in prison. Police since sold the assets for around $1.5 million - back then, the price of a bitcoin was around $5,000. The sale has been ruled as legitimate and the police force is allowed to keep 18.8% of the proceeds for its operational budget.
Then we move on to the bitcoin price has climbing above the $8,000 mark for the first time since mid-May, what's pushing up the price, and what's going on with the rumours of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF). Next up, we take a closer look at MyEtherWallet, the most popular crypto wallet service on the internet. It's getting a mobile app in a bid to increase security for users. MEW Connect, is an iOS app that allows users to access their wallet through MyEtherWallet but without the need to type their private key. Instead it uses a QR code and it's free, with 600,000 visitors per day the beta demand is likely to be high.
We continue on with VCTRADE, the world's first bank-backed cryptocurrency now opening to the public. Owned by SBI Holdings, the Japanese bank launched its in-house crypto trading platform last month. Launch comes nearly two years after SBI Holdings first announced it would build the exchange in October 2016. The platform received an operating license from Japan's financial watchdog, the Financial Services Agency, late last year. The service is now fully open for users aged from 20–70 who reside in Japan. Debut was delayed as the firm worked to raise levels of internal security following a massive $533 million hack at the country's Coincheck exchange in January.
Then we move on to exciting news from Google. Google announced a partnership with the New York-based startup Digital Asset, which makes tools to build blockchain-based apps. Google wrote in a blog post that its Cloud customers can “now explore ways they might use distributed ledger technology (DLT) frameworks” through early access to Digital Asset software aiming to provide developers with a full stack solution so they can unleash the potential for web-paced innovation in blockchain.
Next up, Coinbase has formed a political action committee (PAC) to raise money to spend on US elections. Under American federal law, an organization is classified as a PAC if it collects donations worth more than $1,000 from its members and channels them into campaign funds with the intention of influencing an electoral process. The biggest motive for Coinbase is access to the politicians that have substantial influence over financial regulatory policy.
Finally, we discuss BitTorrent Inc. being acquired by TRON Foundation. BitTorrent Inc, the parent company behind the popular file-sharing client uTorrent, has confirmed its acquisition by the TRON Foundation. The TRON foundation has its own cryptocurrency and the idea is apparently to create. We take a look at what this means for blockchain and if crypto may go the way of BitTorrent, exciting technology that's used for a whille before being supplanted.
And our Tweet of the week this time comes from @SmartereumTV
Colin G. Platt catches up with Marieke Flament, Europe MD and CMO of Circle to talk about the tokenisation of everything.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Holly Blaxill. Special Guests: Aaron Stanley, Joon Ian Wong, and Marieke Flament.
Sarah's with Joon Ian Wong Managing Director for Europe and Asia at Coindesk and Aaron Stanley, Strategic Communications Lead at Sweetbridge to talk about the latest news, including:
Police Confiscate some Bitcoin, Coinbase gets political, and Return of the Bitcoin
We kick things off with Surrey police force obtaining 295 bitcoins last October after arresting a Latvian man, who has since been convicted for money laundering and sentenced to nine years in prison. Police since sold the assets for around $1.5 million - back then, the price of a bitcoin was around $5,000. The sale has been ruled as legitimate and the police force is allowed to keep 18.8% of the proceeds for its operational budget.
Then we move on to the bitcoin price has climbing above the $8,000 mark for the first time since mid-May, what's pushing up the price, and what's going on with the rumours of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF). Next up, we take a closer look at MyEtherWallet, the most popular crypto wallet service on the internet. It's getting a mobile app in a bid to increase security for users. MEW Connect, is an iOS app that allows users to access their wallet through MyEtherWallet but without the need to type their private key. Instead it uses a QR code and it's free, with 600,000 visitors per day the beta demand is likely to be high.
We continue on with VCTRADE, the world's first bank-backed cryptocurrency now opening to the public. Owned by SBI Holdings, the Japanese bank launched its in-house crypto trading platform last month. Launch comes nearly two years after SBI Holdings first announced it would build the exchange in October 2016. The platform received an operating license from Japan's financial watchdog, the Financial Services Agency, late last year. The service is now fully open for users aged from 20–70 who reside in Japan. Debut was delayed as the firm worked to raise levels of internal security following a massive $533 million hack at the country's Coincheck exchange in January.
Then we move on to exciting news from Google. Google announced a partnership with the New York-based startup Digital Asset, which makes tools to build blockchain-based apps. Google wrote in a blog post that its Cloud customers can “now explore ways they might use distributed ledger technology (DLT) frameworks” through early access to Digital Asset software aiming to provide developers with a full stack solution so they can unleash the potential for web-paced innovation in blockchain.
Next up, Coinbase has formed a political action committee (PAC) to raise money to spend on US elections. Under American federal law, an organization is classified as a PAC if it collects donations worth more than $1,000 from its members and channels them into campaign funds with the intention of influencing an electoral process. The biggest motive for Coinbase is access to the politicians that have substantial influence over financial regulatory policy.
Finally, we discuss BitTorrent Inc. being acquired by TRON Foundation. BitTorrent Inc, the parent company behind the popular file-sharing client uTorrent, has confirmed its acquisition by the TRON Foundation. The TRON foundation has its own cryptocurrency and the idea is apparently to create. We take a look at what this means for blockchain and if crypto may go the way of BitTorrent, exciting technology that's used for a whille before being supplanted.
And our Tweet of the week this time comes from @SmartereumTV
Colin G. Platt catches up with Marieke Flament, Europe MD and CMO of Circle to talk about the tokenisation of everything.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Sarah's with Joon Ian Wong Managing Director for Europe and Asia at Coindesk and Aaron Stanley, Strategic Communications Lead at Sweetbridge to talk about the latest news, including:
Police Confiscate some Bitcoin, Coinbase gets political, and Return of the Bitcoin
We kick things off with Surrey police force obtaining 295 bitcoins last October after arresting a Latvian man, who has since been convicted for money laundering and sentenced to nine years in prison. Police since sold the assets for around $1.5 million - back then, the price of a bitcoin was around $5,000. The sale has been ruled as legitimate and the police force is allowed to keep 18.8% of the proceeds for its operational budget.
Then we move on to the bitcoin price has climbing above the $8,000 mark for the first time since mid-May, what's pushing up the price, and what's going on with the rumours of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF). Next up, we take a closer look at MyEtherWallet, the most popular crypto wallet service on the internet. It's getting a mobile app in a bid to increase security for users. MEW Connect, is an iOS app that allows users to access their wallet through MyEtherWallet but without the need to type their private key. Instead it uses a QR code and it's free, with 600,000 visitors per day the beta demand is likely to be high.
We continue on with VCTRADE, the world's first bank-backed cryptocurrency now opening to the public. Owned by SBI Holdings, the Japanese bank launched its in-house crypto trading platform last month. Launch comes nearly two years after SBI Holdings first announced it would build the exchange in October 2016. The platform received an operating license from Japan's financial watchdog, the Financial Services Agency, late last year. The service is now fully open for users aged from 20–70 who reside in Japan. Debut was delayed as the firm worked to raise levels of internal security following a massive $533 million hack at the country's Coincheck exchange in January.
Then we move on to exciting news from Google. Google announced a partnership with the New York-based startup Digital Asset, which makes tools to build blockchain-based apps. Google wrote in a blog post that its Cloud customers can “now explore ways they might use distributed ledger technology (DLT) frameworks” through early access to Digital Asset software aiming to provide developers with a full stack solution so they can unleash the potential for web-paced innovation in blockchain.
Next up, Coinbase has formed a political action committee (PAC) to raise money to spend on US elections. Under American federal law, an organization is classified as a PAC if it collects donations worth more than $1,000 from its members and channels them into campaign funds with the intention of influencing an electoral process. The biggest motive for Coinbase is access to the politicians that have substantial influence over financial regulatory policy.
Finally, we discuss BitTorrent Inc. being acquired by TRON Foundation. BitTorrent Inc, the parent company behind the popular file-sharing client uTorrent, has confirmed its acquisition by the TRON Foundation. The TRON foundation has its own cryptocurrency and the idea is apparently to create. We take a look at what this means for blockchain and if crypto may go the way of BitTorrent, exciting technology that's used for a whille before being supplanted.
And our Tweet of the week this time comes from @SmartereumTV
Colin G. Platt catches up with Marieke Flament, Europe MD and CMO of Circle to talk about the tokenisation of everything.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Ep. 55. Unlocking Institutional Capital in Cryptohttps://bi.11fs.com/56
80998bf5-de1d-42af-8126-ff0354c22527Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn this week’s episode, Sarah and Sara sit down to discuss some of the most intriguing stories in blockchain as investors get serious about crypto. We also bring you a panel on institutional crypto led by Simon at the Europa conference.41:16noSarah and Sara go through a run down of the latest crypto news including:
Blackrock explore bitcoin, Block.one close a ‘strategic investment round’, and will there be Major League Baseball Crypto?
We kick things off with Blackrock beginning to explore bitcoin. BlackRock has set up a group made up from different parts of the business to investigate cryptocurrencies and their underlying infrastructure to investigate how the $6.3 trillion asset manager can take advantage of the fast-growing cryptocurrency market.
Then we move on to Block.one announcing on the 16th of July that Peter Thiel has invested in the company, along with other notable investors, Bitmain, Louis Bacon, and Alan Howard. Block.one has so much money now it’s hard not to wonder what they’re going to do with it.
Next up Major League Baseball has announced that it is launching a crypto-based game that runs on the ethereum blockchain later this summer. Fans will be able to purchase avatars from baseball history. Those avatars can then be sold or traded, and users can earn rewards. Is this the tokenisation of trading cards and can Ethereum handle it?
We move on to Coinbase getting the green light to list coins deemed securities. Coinbase Inc. said it got the green light from U.S. watchdogs to move forward with a trio of acquisitions that will allow it to become one of the first federally regulated venues for trading digital coins deemed to be securities. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority approved Coinbase’s purchase of Keystone Capital Corp., Venovate Marketplace Inc. and Digital Wealth LLC.
And this week’s Tweet of the week is the controversial bit of news from Coinbase that they’re adding a host of new crypto assets to their platform.
Simon hosted a panel at the Europa conference discussion institutional firms moving into crypto featuring:
Lawrence Lundy Head of Research and Partnership at Outlier Ventures
Obi Nwosu, CEO and Co-Founder of Coinfloor
Claire Wells, Director of Legal & Business Affairs EMEA at Circle.
The panel examines how institutional financing can help put a price limit on crypto and stabilise the space, but how in a crypto-to-crypto space there’s possibly no reason to have institutional money at all, and what’s holding asset managers back from entering the space. They also look at the value of the crypto asset market and how it can be utilised as a use case for blockchain. And how crypto can operate as a means for global financial inclusion.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Holly Blaxill. Special Guests: Claire Wells, Lawrence Lundy, and Obi Nwosu.
Sarah and Sara go through a run down of the latest crypto news including:
Blackrock explore bitcoin, Block.one close a ‘strategic investment round’, and will there be Major League Baseball Crypto?
We kick things off with Blackrock beginning to explore bitcoin. BlackRock has set up a group made up from different parts of the business to investigate cryptocurrencies and their underlying infrastructure to investigate how the $6.3 trillion asset manager can take advantage of the fast-growing cryptocurrency market.
Then we move on to Block.one announcing on the 16th of July that Peter Thiel has invested in the company, along with other notable investors, Bitmain, Louis Bacon, and Alan Howard. Block.one has so much money now it’s hard not to wonder what they’re going to do with it.
Next up Major League Baseball has announced that it is launching a crypto-based game that runs on the ethereum blockchain later this summer. Fans will be able to purchase avatars from baseball history. Those avatars can then be sold or traded, and users can earn rewards. Is this the tokenisation of trading cards and can Ethereum handle it?
We move on to Coinbase getting the green light to list coins deemed securities. Coinbase Inc. said it got the green light from U.S. watchdogs to move forward with a trio of acquisitions that will allow it to become one of the first federally regulated venues for trading digital coins deemed to be securities. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority approved Coinbase’s purchase of Keystone Capital Corp., Venovate Marketplace Inc. and Digital Wealth LLC.
And this week’s Tweet of the week is the controversial bit of news from Coinbase that they’re adding a host of new crypto assets to their platform.
The panel examines how institutional financing can help put a price limit on crypto and stabilise the space, but how in a crypto-to-crypto space there’s possibly no reason to have institutional money at all, and what’s holding asset managers back from entering the space. They also look at the value of the crypto asset market and how it can be utilised as a use case for blockchain. And how crypto can operate as a means for global financial inclusion.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Sarah and Sara go through a run down of the latest crypto news including:
Blackrock explore bitcoin, Block.one close a ‘strategic investment round’, and will there be Major League Baseball Crypto?
We kick things off with Blackrock beginning to explore bitcoin. BlackRock has set up a group made up from different parts of the business to investigate cryptocurrencies and their underlying infrastructure to investigate how the $6.3 trillion asset manager can take advantage of the fast-growing cryptocurrency market.
Then we move on to Block.one announcing on the 16th of July that Peter Thiel has invested in the company, along with other notable investors, Bitmain, Louis Bacon, and Alan Howard. Block.one has so much money now it’s hard not to wonder what they’re going to do with it.
Next up Major League Baseball has announced that it is launching a crypto-based game that runs on the ethereum blockchain later this summer. Fans will be able to purchase avatars from baseball history. Those avatars can then be sold or traded, and users can earn rewards. Is this the tokenisation of trading cards and can Ethereum handle it?
We move on to Coinbase getting the green light to list coins deemed securities. Coinbase Inc. said it got the green light from U.S. watchdogs to move forward with a trio of acquisitions that will allow it to become one of the first federally regulated venues for trading digital coins deemed to be securities. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority approved Coinbase’s purchase of Keystone Capital Corp., Venovate Marketplace Inc. and Digital Wealth LLC.
And this week’s Tweet of the week is the controversial bit of news from Coinbase that they’re adding a host of new crypto assets to their platform.
The panel examines how institutional financing can help put a price limit on crypto and stabilise the space, but how in a crypto-to-crypto space there’s possibly no reason to have institutional money at all, and what’s holding asset managers back from entering the space. They also look at the value of the crypto asset market and how it can be utilised as a use case for blockchain. And how crypto can operate as a means for global financial inclusion.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Ep. 54. Is Crypto Going Mainstream?https://bi.11fs.com/55
af87c37f-c1c0-44ce-9d3b-f74728bb8f21Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Sara are joined by Noelle Acheson and Joon Ian Wong from Coindesk to talk about the latest and greatest blockchain news. Including a brilliant tweet of the week. 50:55noSimon and Sara sit down with Noelle Acheson Coindesk, Editorial Producer and Joon Ian Wong, Coindesk, Managing Director Europe/Asia to discuss the latest blockchain news, including:
Todd McDonald had a Corda, The FCA is letting Blockchain play in their sandbox, and Coinbase get their custodial party started.
We kick off with Binance eyeing a $1 billlion profit with a few discussions on why Binance is bothering to release this information now. And how with such a fragile market they may not be on top for long, with many younger companies biting at their heels. There's also a few interesting points made on how regulation may interact with crypto exchanges in the near future. We move on to Coinbase targeting insitutitional investors. There are few rumours that institutional investors have long been waiting for a custodial product in crypto that fits their needs, could this be it? We also discuss Vitalik Buterin's provocative comments on centralised exchanges and if these exchanges are even a good idea.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Holly Blaxill. Special Guests: Joon Ian Wong and Noelle Acheson.
Simon and Sara sit down with Noelle Acheson Coindesk, Editorial Producer and Joon Ian Wong, Coindesk, Managing Director Europe/Asia to discuss the latest blockchain news, including:
Todd McDonald had a Corda, The FCA is letting Blockchain play in their sandbox, and Coinbase get their custodial party started.
We kick off with Binance eyeing a $1 billlion profit with a few discussions on why Binance is bothering to release this information now. And how with such a fragile market they may not be on top for long, with many younger companies biting at their heels. There's also a few interesting points made on how regulation may interact with crypto exchanges in the near future. We move on to Coinbase targeting insitutitional investors. There are few rumours that institutional investors have long been waiting for a custodial product in crypto that fits their needs, could this be it? We also discuss Vitalik Buterin's provocative comments on centralised exchanges and if these exchanges are even a good idea.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Holly Blaxill.
Todd McDonald had a Corda, The FCA is letting Blockchain play in their sandbox, and Coinbase get their custodial party started.
We kick off with Binance eyeing a $1 billlion profit with a few discussions on why Binance is bothering to release this information now. And how with such a fragile market they may not be on top for long, with many younger companies biting at their heels. There's also a few interesting points made on how regulation may interact with crypto exchanges in the near future. We move on to Coinbase targeting insitutitional investors. There are few rumours that institutional investors have long been waiting for a custodial product in crypto that fits their needs, could this be it? We also discuss Vitalik Buterin's provocative comments on centralised exchanges and if these exchanges are even a good idea.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Petrit Berisha and edited by Holly Blaxill.
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Ep. 53. Is Anyone Doing Decentralisation Right?https://bi.11fs.com/54
fbbf01ac-7f5c-4877-ad82-1274ac3841e7Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:30:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSarah and Sara are joined by Maya Kumar from Luno to talk about the latest news in the blockchain world.46:44noSarah and Sara sit down with Maya Kumar, Head of UK & Ireland for Luno to discuss the latest blockchain news, including:
EOS & IOTA come under scrutiny, SolarisBank launches Blockchain Factory, and are Facebook going to acquire Coinbase?
Simon also has a great interview with Peter Grosskopf, CTO of Solaris Bank to talk through the launch of Blockchain Factory.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Maya Kumar and Peter Grosskopf.
Sarah and Sara sit down with Maya Kumar, Head of UK & Ireland for Luno to discuss the latest blockchain news, including:
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Ep. 52. Cryptowinter is Coming......or Not?https://bi.11fs.com/53
457d83c6-ac72-4e1a-b0ab-720626191ddbThu, 28 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSarah Kocianski is joined by Pete Rizzo and Anastasia Andrianova to discuss the latest news in the blockchain world.50:01noSarah sits down with Pete Rizzo, Editor at Coindesk and Anastasia Andrianova, CEO of Akropolis to discuss the latest blockchain news including:
Stellar looking to acquire Chain, US Secret Service on Anonymous crypto, and #21e800.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Anastasia Andrianova and Pete Rizzo.
Sarah sits down with Pete Rizzo, Editor at Coindesk and Anastasia Andrianova, CEO of Akropolis to discuss the latest blockchain news including:
Stellar looking to acquire Chain, US Secret Service on Anonymous crypto, and #21e800.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 51. ETH Passes Dowey Test, Ripple isn’t ready and is Bitcoin Un-Tethered?https://bi.11fs.com/52
93fc426f-dd69-4bbd-942a-5879a247ef15Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon Taylor is back in the offices with the one and only Colin G Platt. It's been a while since Colin's been able to come in so we're excited to have him back on the show and breaking down all the latest blockchain news.1:02:14noSimon and Taylor sit down in the WeWork Aldgate offices in London to catch-up and have some very emphatic discussions on the latest blockchain news.
Colin also interviews Stephen Palley, Partner at Anderson Kill.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guest: Stephen Palley.
Simon and Taylor sit down in the WeWork Aldgate offices in London to catch-up and have some very emphatic discussions on the latest blockchain news.
Colin also interviews Stephen Palley, Partner at Anderson Kill.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
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Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 50. Amber Baldet Goes Over Clovyr, EOS Launch Woes, And Ripple Gets Sued Againhttps://bi.11fs.com/51
c1d8c4aa-75fa-44dd-81da-5546ea6933c5Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon Taylor is joined by the one and only Amber Baldet to discuss the latest blockchain news.57:17noSimon sits down with Amber Baldet, CEO and Co-Founder of Clovyr in the 11:FS offices in WeWork Aldgate in London for our landmark 50th episode of Blockchain Insider.
We bring you an interview with crypto queen Amber Baldet, Ripple under security scrutiny yet again, and the EOS Mainnet nightmare.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guest: Amber Baldet.
Simon sits down with Amber Baldet, CEO and Co-Founder of Clovyr in the 11:FS offices in WeWork Aldgate in London for our landmark 50th episode of Blockchain Insider.
We bring you an interview with crypto queen Amber Baldet, Ripple under security scrutiny yet again, and the EOS Mainnet nightmare.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep 49. Live from Money20/20 Europe: Interviews With Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Brad Zastrow from Dashhttps://bi.11fs.com/50
3aaddf2a-8f66-4f5f-a1a2-6f13298f7d76Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSBlockchain Insider comes to you Live from Money20/20 this week! We also have awesome interviews with not one but two Brads: Brad Garlighouse, CEO of Ripple and Brad Zastrow Global Head of Business Development of the Dash Core. 31:31noWe kick things off with the Blockchain portion of our live show from the Arena Stage, by talking cargo on a blockchain! Can companies revolutionise their shipping systems by utilising the technology? Find out what the team had to think about the Maersk x IBM pilot! Are we just doing old things using new technology?
Next up, Binance announce a $1 billion investment fund! A drop in the ocean for them, but find out what our great panel think about the massive margins Binance work with, and what their future looks like.
We then on go to discuss the future of tokenisation, how much money is still being raised by ICO's, regulators and much, much more.
That's not all though folks, Brad Garlinghouse joined Simon Taylor to talk all about Ripple, XRP, xRapid, xCurrent, decentralisation and so much more. This interview has already got thousands of hits on YouTube- it's a great interview!
But wait, there's more....Simon also talked to Brad Zastrow, Global Head of Business Development of the Dash Core group! We're really spoiling listeners on today's show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Brad Garlinghouse, Brad Zastrow, David M. Brear , Jeff Tijssen, and Sam Maule.
We kick things off with the Blockchain portion of our live show from the Arena Stage, by talking cargo on a blockchain! Can companies revolutionise their shipping systems by utilising the technology? Find out what the team had to think about the Maersk x IBM pilot! Are we just doing old things using new technology?
Next up, Binance announce a $1 billion investment fund! A drop in the ocean for them, but find out what our great panel think about the massive margins Binance work with, and what their future looks like.
We then on go to discuss the future of tokenisation, how much money is still being raised by ICO's, regulators and much, much more.
That's not all though folks, Brad Garlinghouse joined Simon Taylor to talk all about Ripple, XRP, xRapid, xCurrent, decentralisation and so much more. This interview has already got thousands of hits on YouTube- it's a great interview!
But wait, there's more....Simon also talked to Brad Zastrow, Global Head of Business Development of the Dash Core group! We're really spoiling listeners on today's show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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We kick things off with the Blockchain portion of our live show from the Arena Stage, by talking cargo on a blockchain! Can companies revolutionise their shipping systems by utilising the technology? Find out what the team had to think about the Maersk x IBM pilot! Are we just doing old things using new technology?
Next up, Binance announce a $1 billion investment fund! A drop in the ocean for them, but find out what our great panel think about the massive margins Binance work with, and what their future looks like.
We then on go to discuss the future of tokenisation, how much money is still being raised by ICO's, regulators and much, much more.
That's not all though folks, Brad Garlinghouse joined Simon Taylor to talk all about Ripple, XRP, xRapid, xCurrent, decentralisation and so much more. This interview has already got thousands of hits on YouTube- it's a great interview!
But wait, there's more....Simon also talked to Brad Zastrow, Global Head of Business Development of the Dash Core group! We're really spoiling listeners on today's show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 48. Tokenising the World, Bitcoin Price Probe and EOS Security Issueshttps://bi.11fs.com/49
ae465aa2-6a76-400e-ba4a-9e3ff7d4f47eThu, 31 May 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn today's show Simon Taylor's back in town joined by Co-host Sara Feenan and wonderful guest Teana Baker-Taylor (no relation of course) to bring you this week's hottest blockchain and crypto news. 45:00noFirst up, the US launch a probe into Bitcoin price manipulation (shock). Spoofing and fake buy/sell orders among a flurry of other illegal practices are what the justice department are focusing on. A long time coming some would say...
Next up, tokenisation, tokenisation, tokenisation. IHS Markit, the market infrastructure giant, is developing a new blockchain-based system to handle the payments leg of syndicated loan trading – and eventually, a wider range of financial transactions. Is this one of the first steps in tokenising the world?
Many argue that custody is what's stopping institutions from fully submerging themselves into the crypto world, and BitGo are trying to build their own digital asset custodian!The startup said Thursday that it was "seeking a charter to build BitGo Trust," a "new, regulated, qualified custodian" that will be built specifically for digital assets. Interesting stuff indeed...
Next, the team discuss the link between the blockchain & crypto world and financial inclusivity. How can we help the unbanked bridge the gap between themselves and mainstream the mainstream financial world? Well 5 Philippines’ Banks are going to Pilot Ethereum-based Blockchain for Retail Payments! The team discuss the drawbacks, but also what incredibly positive implications this pilot could have.
You may have heard a lot about GDPR recently, and there's been a lot of debate as to how blockchain is 'compliant' to the new set of regulations and our team continue said debate; is it a threat or an incentive?
Next up, highly popular crypto EOS may be in trouble....Chinese cyber-security mogul 360 Total Security has identified a series of “epic” security vulnerabilities in the EOS network that has put it's mainnet launch into question.
Code for tokens was the next story covered, as the startup behind Zk-Starks Tech Seek Cryptocurrencies as customers. Rather than doing an ICO, the guys behind ZK-Starks are offering up their novel technology to blockchains in return for their native asset.
Lastly, we talk about blockchain going 'green'. Lot's has been made of the consumption of energy when it comes to mining, but we take a look at an article that discusses just how blockchain can have a positive impact on the environment!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
Special Guest: Teana Baker-Taylor.
First up, the US launch a probe into Bitcoin price manipulation (shock). Spoofing and fake buy/sell orders among a flurry of other illegal practices are what the justice department are focusing on. A long time coming some would say...
Next up, tokenisation, tokenisation, tokenisation. IHS Markit, the market infrastructure giant, is developing a new blockchain-based system to handle the payments leg of syndicated loan trading – and eventually, a wider range of financial transactions. Is this one of the first steps in tokenising the world?
Many argue that custody is what's stopping institutions from fully submerging themselves into the crypto world, and BitGo are trying to build their own digital asset custodian!The startup said Thursday that it was "seeking a charter to build BitGo Trust," a "new, regulated, qualified custodian" that will be built specifically for digital assets. Interesting stuff indeed...
Next, the team discuss the link between the blockchain & crypto world and financial inclusivity. How can we help the unbanked bridge the gap between themselves and mainstream the mainstream financial world? Well 5 Philippines’ Banks are going to Pilot Ethereum-based Blockchain for Retail Payments! The team discuss the drawbacks, but also what incredibly positive implications this pilot could have.
You may have heard a lot about GDPR recently, and there's been a lot of debate as to how blockchain is 'compliant' to the new set of regulations and our team continue said debate; is it a threat or an incentive?
Next up, highly popular crypto EOS may be in trouble....Chinese cyber-security mogul 360 Total Security has identified a series of “epic” security vulnerabilities in the EOS network that has put it's mainnet launch into question.
Code for tokens was the next story covered, as the startup behind Zk-Starks Tech Seek Cryptocurrencies as customers. Rather than doing an ICO, the guys behind ZK-Starks are offering up their novel technology to blockchains in return for their native asset.
Lastly, we talk about blockchain going 'green'. Lot's has been made of the consumption of energy when it comes to mining, but we take a look at an article that discusses just how blockchain can have a positive impact on the environment!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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First up, the US launch a probe into Bitcoin price manipulation (shock). Spoofing and fake buy/sell orders among a flurry of other illegal practices are what the justice department are focusing on. A long time coming some would say...
Next up, tokenisation, tokenisation, tokenisation. IHS Markit, the market infrastructure giant, is developing a new blockchain-based system to handle the payments leg of syndicated loan trading – and eventually, a wider range of financial transactions. Is this one of the first steps in tokenising the world?
Many argue that custody is what's stopping institutions from fully submerging themselves into the crypto world, and BitGo are trying to build their own digital asset custodian!The startup said Thursday that it was "seeking a charter to build BitGo Trust," a "new, regulated, qualified custodian" that will be built specifically for digital assets. Interesting stuff indeed...
Next, the team discuss the link between the blockchain & crypto world and financial inclusivity. How can we help the unbanked bridge the gap between themselves and mainstream the mainstream financial world? Well 5 Philippines’ Banks are going to Pilot Ethereum-based Blockchain for Retail Payments! The team discuss the drawbacks, but also what incredibly positive implications this pilot could have.
You may have heard a lot about GDPR recently, and there's been a lot of debate as to how blockchain is 'compliant' to the new set of regulations and our team continue said debate; is it a threat or an incentive?
Next up, highly popular crypto EOS may be in trouble....Chinese cyber-security mogul 360 Total Security has identified a series of “epic” security vulnerabilities in the EOS network that has put it's mainnet launch into question.
Code for tokens was the next story covered, as the startup behind Zk-Starks Tech Seek Cryptocurrencies as customers. Rather than doing an ICO, the guys behind ZK-Starks are offering up their novel technology to blockchains in return for their native asset.
Lastly, we talk about blockchain going 'green'. Lot's has been made of the consumption of energy when it comes to mining, but we take a look at an article that discusses just how blockchain can have a positive impact on the environment!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 47. Circle the Bitcoin Unicorn with R3 CTO Richard Brownhttps://bi.11fs.com/48
3c5ebee5-9038-4038-ac4f-c6deba03f10fThu, 24 May 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSColin G. Platt and Pete Townsend are joined by Richard Brown, from our Lead Sponsor, R3.49:07noColin G. Platt is back in our offices talking to Pete Townsend, CEO and Founder of Norio Ventures, and Richard Brown, CTO of our Lead Sponsor for Blockchain Insider, R3.
The trio discuss Circle's status as a bitcoin unicorn, Consensys collaboration with Amazon, and the SEC's brilliant Howeycoin ICO.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Pete Townsend and Richard Brown.
Colin G. Platt is back in our offices talking to Pete Townsend, CEO and Founder of Norio Ventures, and Richard Brown, CTO of our Lead Sponsor for Blockchain Insider, R3.
The trio discuss Circle's status as a bitcoin unicorn, Consensys collaboration with Amazon, and the SEC's brilliant Howeycoin ICO.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Colin G. Platt is back in our offices talking to Pete Townsend, CEO and Founder of Norio Ventures, and Richard Brown, CTO of our Lead Sponsor for Blockchain Insider, R3.
The trio discuss Circle's status as a bitcoin unicorn, Consensys collaboration with Amazon, and the SEC's brilliant Howeycoin ICO.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 46. A General Consensushttps://bi.11fs.com/47
fb656206-64d0-485d-9946-60235bd31fb8Thu, 17 May 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSarah sits down with with Oscar Williams-Grut to discuss the latest in blockchain news.
Meanwhile, Simon gets interviewed for a change by Pete Rizzo at Consensus.43:55noSarah Kocianski sits down with Oscar Williams-Grut, Senior Reporter at Business Insider to discuss Amber Baldet's new startup, HSBC make waves with soybeans, and Citizen Reserves fires tokens at the international defence industry.
Simon also meets with Pete Rizzo Editor of Coindesk for an interview.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Oscar Williams-Grut and Pete Rizzo.
Sarah Kocianski sits down with Oscar Williams-Grut, Senior Reporter at Business Insider to discuss Amber Baldet's new startup, HSBC make waves with soybeans, and Citizen Reserves fires tokens at the international defence industry.
Simon also meets with Pete Rizzo Editor of Coindesk for an interview.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Sarah Kocianski sits down with Oscar Williams-Grut, Senior Reporter at Business Insider to discuss Amber Baldet's new startup, HSBC make waves with soybeans, and Citizen Reserves fires tokens at the international defence industry.
Simon also meets with Pete Rizzo Editor of Coindesk for an interview.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 45. Taylor-Copeland Lawsuits Send Ripples Through XRP’s Security Statushttps://bi.11fs.com/46
08ad9587-c54e-4367-bca6-d42ec1909454Thu, 10 May 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSarah and Sara sit down to discuss the latest in blockchain news.33:42noOur hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: what impact the SEC's decision on Ethereum will have on ICOs, Ripple being sued for security violations, and the likelihood of Fedcoin.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
Our hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: what impact the SEC's decision on Ethereum will have on ICOs, Ripple being sued for security violations, and the likelihood of Fedcoin.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Our hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: what impact the SEC's decision on Ethereum will have on ICOs, Ripple being sued for security violations, and the likelihood of Fedcoin.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
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Ep. 44. Deutsche Wish Your Profit Was Hot Like Binancehttps://bi.11fs.com/45
a9a354cb-e8d3-4f6a-88a2-62f0ae5eb7a4Thu, 03 May 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Sarah sit down with Petrit Berisha to talk about the latest in blockchain news.
52:20noOur hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: 1 in 5 financial institutions considering cryptocurrency trading, Binance making more than Deutsche Bank, Gary Gensler's new focus on blockchain, and UCL doesn't care one IOTA.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
We also introduce to the mic, for the very first time, Petrit Berisha. Our plucky Assistant Producer matches blockchain wits with Simon and Sarah, offering some deep insight into this week's stories.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guest: Petrit Berisha.
Our hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: 1 in 5 financial institutions considering cryptocurrency trading, Binance making more than Deutsche Bank, Gary Gensler's new focus on blockchain, and UCL doesn't care one IOTA.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
We also introduce to the mic, for the very first time, Petrit Berisha. Our plucky Assistant Producer matches blockchain wits with Simon and Sarah, offering some deep insight into this week's stories.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Our hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: 1 in 5 financial institutions considering cryptocurrency trading, Binance making more than Deutsche Bank, Gary Gensler's new focus on blockchain, and UCL doesn't care one IOTA.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
We also introduce to the mic, for the very first time, Petrit Berisha. Our plucky Assistant Producer matches blockchain wits with Simon and Sarah, offering some deep insight into this week's stories.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 43. Sexism in Crypto, Pornhub takes Verge, and Binance Denies the Dollarhttps://bi.11fs.com/44
2333ab19-9de4-459c-85f1-08729fb20584Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSara and Sarah sit down with Olivia Vinden, Director at Alpha FMC, Jo Lang, Offering Leader at IBM Blockchain Financial Solutions and Noelle Acheson, Editorial Producer and CFA at CoinDesk to talk about the latest in blockchain news.39:32noOur hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: Cambridge Analytica's virtual currency plans, Pornhub accepting Verge, Binance denying dollar trading, Coinbase suspending Wikileaks bitcoin account, and why the crypto world needs to ask better questions.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Jo Lang, Noelle Acheson, and Olivia Vinden.
Our hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: Cambridge Analytica's virtual currency plans, Pornhub accepting Verge, Binance denying dollar trading, Coinbase suspending Wikileaks bitcoin account, and why the crypto world needs to ask better questions.
All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
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Ep. 42. Santander Makes Ripples and Charles Hoskinson Shares His Vision of Cardanohttps://bi.11fs.com/43
e0a68fb3-9736-43e5-a5f1-ac89819fb4c8Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSarah, Sara, and Colin discuss the latest in blockchain news and there's an interview with Charles Hoskinson, CEO of Input Output, on the future of Cardano. 54:40noOur hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Looking at: Santander's new blockchain-based money transfer service with Ripple, Coinbase acquiring Earn.com, R3's Corda expands with SBI subsidiary, Barclays commissions a cryptocurrency trading desk, Malta proposes test to see when ICOs are securities, and Harbor raises $28M to reengineer private securities for blockchains.
We also have an interview with Input Output CEO, Charles Hoskinson.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guest: Charles Hoskinson.
Our hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Looking at: Santander's new blockchain-based money transfer service with Ripple, Coinbase acquiring Earn.com, R3's Corda expands with SBI subsidiary, Barclays commissions a cryptocurrency trading desk, Malta proposes test to see when ICOs are securities, and Harbor raises $28M to reengineer private securities for blockchains.
We also have an interview with Input Output CEO, Charles Hoskinson.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Our hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Looking at: Santander's new blockchain-based money transfer service with Ripple, Coinbase acquiring Earn.com, R3's Corda expands with SBI subsidiary, Barclays commissions a cryptocurrency trading desk, Malta proposes test to see when ICOs are securities, and Harbor raises $28M to reengineer private securities for blockchains.
We also have an interview with Input Output CEO, Charles Hoskinson.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 41. Twitter Blocks Bitcoin, Monero Splits Opinion & is Ripple a Securityhttps://bi.11fs.com/42
0a518311-02af-48d1-824f-3cd19b13104aThu, 12 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin pick out the latest in blockchain news. Looking at what’s happening to Bitcoin’s twitter turkey, is Ripple a security, and Soros surging into cryptocurrency. We also have an interview with Tim Swanson, George Wolfson, and John Collins when Colin met them at the Deconomy conference.
1:10:29noBitcoin’s twitter account got hacked, causing yet another Internet-wide discussion on the death of free speech. It split the community and Colin clues us in on why both sides of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash think they’re right.
Coinbase launch their early stage venture fund to a great deal of excitement, surprising given all the noise around ICOs. The exchange is planning to invest off its own balance sheet into companies it likes.
It’s been a bad week for crypto exchanges with the Japanese regulator suspending two over failing KYC procedures and four high ranking executives have been arrested by South Korean police including CEO of South Korean exchange Coinnest in relation to billions of won embezzled from client accounts into their own.
India bans regulated entities from entertaining virtual currencies. The central bank gave a deadline of 3 months to unwind from positions related to cryptocurrencies. Instead the regulator is planning to push blockchain in financial services to improve transparency.
R3’s Research Director thinks that Central Bank digital currency could go live this year but warns that central banks will need to diversity their systems.
Monero makes movements by splitting into four different crypto currencies and is XRP a security? Colin and Simon unpack the major debates on Ripple.
All this and much much more on this week’s episode of Blockchain Insider.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and tell us how much you love the show by leaving a review on iTunes
Special Guests: Greg Wolfson, John Collins, and Tim Swanson.
Bitcoin’s twitter account got hacked, causing yet another Internet-wide discussion on the death of free speech. It split the community and Colin clues us in on why both sides of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash think they’re right.
Coinbase launch their early stage venture fund to a great deal of excitement, surprising given all the noise around ICOs. The exchange is planning to invest off its own balance sheet into companies it likes.
It’s been a bad week for crypto exchanges with the Japanese regulator suspending two over failing KYC procedures and four high ranking executives have been arrested by South Korean police including CEO of South Korean exchange Coinnest in relation to billions of won embezzled from client accounts into their own.
India bans regulated entities from entertaining virtual currencies. The central bank gave a deadline of 3 months to unwind from positions related to cryptocurrencies. Instead the regulator is planning to push blockchain in financial services to improve transparency.
R3’s Research Director thinks that Central Bank digital currency could go live this year but warns that central banks will need to diversity their systems.
Monero makes movements by splitting into four different crypto currencies and is XRP a security? Colin and Simon unpack the major debates on Ripple.
All this and much much more on this week’s episode of Blockchain Insider.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and tell us how much you love the show by leaving a review on iTunes
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Bitcoin’s twitter account got hacked, causing yet another Internet-wide discussion on the death of free speech. It split the community and Colin clues us in on why both sides of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash think they’re right.
Coinbase launch their early stage venture fund to a great deal of excitement, surprising given all the noise around ICOs. The exchange is planning to invest off its own balance sheet into companies it likes.
It’s been a bad week for crypto exchanges with the Japanese regulator suspending two over failing KYC procedures and four high ranking executives have been arrested by South Korean police including CEO of South Korean exchange Coinnest in relation to billions of won embezzled from client accounts into their own.
India bans regulated entities from entertaining virtual currencies. The central bank gave a deadline of 3 months to unwind from positions related to cryptocurrencies. Instead the regulator is planning to push blockchain in financial services to improve transparency.
R3’s Research Director thinks that Central Bank digital currency could go live this year but warns that central banks will need to diversity their systems.
Monero makes movements by splitting into four different crypto currencies and is XRP a security? Colin and Simon unpack the major debates on Ripple.
All this and much much more on this week’s episode of Blockchain Insider.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and tell us how much you love the show by leaving a review on iTunes
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Ep. 40. Dodgy Words from Binance, Vitalik Buterin Savages Faketoshi and Bluezelle's CEO Pavel Bainshttps://bi.11fs.com/41
42cf4192-9337-492a-b57e-ca2916e5fb1fThu, 05 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Sara hash out the latest in blockchain news. Whether it’s dodgy words coming from binance or Buterin’s incredible take down of a supposed Satoshi, they’re examining what’s going on in the crypto space and what it means. 48:58noBinance billionaire Changpeng Zhao makes a few very dodgy statements on a potential exchange that Simon and Sara both agree might be more than a little bit biased.
Ethereum falters with the influx of ASIC mining rigs in the market. Simon explains the new powerful miner and the pair wonder if the era of Ethereum making money for ordinary people is coming to an end.
Vitalik issues a scathing takedown on a man claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto without any real proof.
The SEC delivers a knockout blow to Mayweather endorsed ICO after the founders are charged with fraud and a host of false executives are uncovered. We discuss what thos means for other ICOs and how transparent the SEC is around these takedowns.
Bitcoin is still overvalued to the surprised of no-one in a recent study. Although Sara does appreciate the nuances addressed. Further damage to Bitcoin with Reddit refusing to accept the cryptocurrency any longer. Although if no-one’s using it can it really be called a currency?
John McAfee makes waves in the crypto space with news that he’s charging over $100K for promotional tweets for ICOs. It’s a funny story that’ll probably make you laugh but it’s noted that what McAfee’s doing affects real people and there a question mark over the legitimacy of these tweets.
Amber Baldet leaves JP Morgan in a positive way for both sides. It’s a loss for the investment bank but after establishing their blockchain platform Quorum, Amber is ready to set off on a new venture.
Rounding off the show we have an interview with Pavel Bains from Bluezelle
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
Special Guest: Pavel Bains.
Binance billionaire Changpeng Zhao makes a few very dodgy statements on a potential exchange that Simon and Sara both agree might be more than a little bit biased.
Ethereum falters with the influx of ASIC mining rigs in the market. Simon explains the new powerful miner and the pair wonder if the era of Ethereum making money for ordinary people is coming to an end.
Vitalik issues a scathing takedown on a man claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto without any real proof.
The SEC delivers a knockout blow to Mayweather endorsed ICO after the founders are charged with fraud and a host of false executives are uncovered. We discuss what thos means for other ICOs and how transparent the SEC is around these takedowns.
Bitcoin is still overvalued to the surprised of no-one in a recent study. Although Sara does appreciate the nuances addressed. Further damage to Bitcoin with Reddit refusing to accept the cryptocurrency any longer. Although if no-one’s using it can it really be called a currency?
John McAfee makes waves in the crypto space with news that he’s charging over $100K for promotional tweets for ICOs. It’s a funny story that’ll probably make you laugh but it’s noted that what McAfee’s doing affects real people and there a question mark over the legitimacy of these tweets.
Amber Baldet leaves JP Morgan in a positive way for both sides. It’s a loss for the investment bank but after establishing their blockchain platform Quorum, Amber is ready to set off on a new venture.
Rounding off the show we have an interview with Pavel Bains from Bluezelle
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Binance billionaire Changpeng Zhao makes a few very dodgy statements on a potential exchange that Simon and Sara both agree might be more than a little bit biased.
Ethereum falters with the influx of ASIC mining rigs in the market. Simon explains the new powerful miner and the pair wonder if the era of Ethereum making money for ordinary people is coming to an end.
Vitalik issues a scathing takedown on a man claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto without any real proof.
The SEC delivers a knockout blow to Mayweather endorsed ICO after the founders are charged with fraud and a host of false executives are uncovered. We discuss what thos means for other ICOs and how transparent the SEC is around these takedowns.
Bitcoin is still overvalued to the surprised of no-one in a recent study. Although Sara does appreciate the nuances addressed. Further damage to Bitcoin with Reddit refusing to accept the cryptocurrency any longer. Although if no-one’s using it can it really be called a currency?
John McAfee makes waves in the crypto space with news that he’s charging over $100K for promotional tweets for ICOs. It’s a funny story that’ll probably make you laugh but it’s noted that what McAfee’s doing affects real people and there a question mark over the legitimacy of these tweets.
Amber Baldet leaves JP Morgan in a positive way for both sides. It’s a loss for the investment bank but after establishing their blockchain platform Quorum, Amber is ready to set off on a new venture.
Rounding off the show we have an interview with Pavel Bains from Bluezelle
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 39. Coinbase Goes ERC-20, Bitcoin’s Lightning Lift Off and Coinfloor’s Obi Nwosuhttps://bi.11fs.com/40
e8c8dc2a-f924-4495-a8ae-2c7990dbaae4Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSOn today’s episode Sara Feenan takes point as host while Colin Platt beams in from a faraway French field. Joined by Anthony Macey, the trio discuss Blockchain’s once in a generation opportunity status, Securities, G20 and more!
We also bring you an interview with the brilliant Obi Nwosu of Coinfloor.
1:06:35noKicking off the show, R3’s CEO declares blockchain a once in a lifetime opportunity for financial markets.
New opportunities chased by Deutsche Börse and HQLAx, the finance magnates are looking to build a securities lending platform on blockchain.
Coinbase opening up its platform? The exchange is finally implementing Ethereum ERC-20 support but no specific assets have been named just yet.
Lightning network gets its first lapp! Blockstream’s introduced FileBazaar, its first ever lightning app. What does the new e-commerce tool mean for blockchains future?
Intel throws its weight behind blockchain to try and develop a next-gen media rights manager. We discuss how this could work, what mistakes developers have made in the past that they need to avoid and are consumers ready to go back to paying for all their media content?
Google’s another blue chip working on blockchain. They’re working to integrate their cloud business and beat out the startups using the hyped tech to operate online in new ways. It might be possible with Google set to offer a distributed digital ledger to differentiate themselves.
G20 meeting in Argentina ends with no new cryptocurrency regulation to the surprise of absolutely no-one. We discuss how regulation can be made and where that authority will come from.
Polkadot’s looking to shake up the crypto market with a new playbook distributing power directly to token holders. We discuss what this means for crypto and Colin has some thoughts on Gavin Wood’s ties to the Parity hack and how secure this could be.
Finally we bring you an interview with CEO and Co-founder of Coinfloor, Obi Nwosu who has some great insights on where blockchain is headed.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
Special Guests: Anthony Macey, Obi Nwosu, and Sara Feenan.
Kicking off the show, R3’s CEO declares blockchain a once in a lifetime opportunity for financial markets.
New opportunities chased by Deutsche Börse and HQLAx, the finance magnates are looking to build a securities lending platform on blockchain.
Coinbase opening up its platform? The exchange is finally implementing Ethereum ERC-20 support but no specific assets have been named just yet.
Lightning network gets its first lapp! Blockstream’s introduced FileBazaar, its first ever lightning app. What does the new e-commerce tool mean for blockchains future?
Intel throws its weight behind blockchain to try and develop a next-gen media rights manager. We discuss how this could work, what mistakes developers have made in the past that they need to avoid and are consumers ready to go back to paying for all their media content?
Google’s another blue chip working on blockchain. They’re working to integrate their cloud business and beat out the startups using the hyped tech to operate online in new ways. It might be possible with Google set to offer a distributed digital ledger to differentiate themselves.
G20 meeting in Argentina ends with no new cryptocurrency regulation to the surprise of absolutely no-one. We discuss how regulation can be made and where that authority will come from.
Polkadot’s looking to shake up the crypto market with a new playbook distributing power directly to token holders. We discuss what this means for crypto and Colin has some thoughts on Gavin Wood’s ties to the Parity hack and how secure this could be.
Finally we bring you an interview with CEO and Co-founder of Coinfloor, Obi Nwosu who has some great insights on where blockchain is headed.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Kicking off the show, R3’s CEO declares blockchain a once in a lifetime opportunity for financial markets.
New opportunities chased by Deutsche Börse and HQLAx, the finance magnates are looking to build a securities lending platform on blockchain.
Coinbase opening up its platform? The exchange is finally implementing Ethereum ERC-20 support but no specific assets have been named just yet.
Lightning network gets its first lapp! Blockstream’s introduced FileBazaar, its first ever lightning app. What does the new e-commerce tool mean for blockchains future?
Intel throws its weight behind blockchain to try and develop a next-gen media rights manager. We discuss how this could work, what mistakes developers have made in the past that they need to avoid and are consumers ready to go back to paying for all their media content?
Google’s another blue chip working on blockchain. They’re working to integrate their cloud business and beat out the startups using the hyped tech to operate online in new ways. It might be possible with Google set to offer a distributed digital ledger to differentiate themselves.
G20 meeting in Argentina ends with no new cryptocurrency regulation to the surprise of absolutely no-one. We discuss how regulation can be made and where that authority will come from.
Polkadot’s looking to shake up the crypto market with a new playbook distributing power directly to token holders. We discuss what this means for crypto and Colin has some thoughts on Gavin Wood’s ties to the Parity hack and how secure this could be.
Finally we bring you an interview with CEO and Co-founder of Coinfloor, Obi Nwosu who has some great insights on where blockchain is headed.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 38. LIVE: Lightning Strikes Bitcoin and Binance Gets Its DEX onhttps://bi.11fs.com/39
baa5702f-4b94-4c0c-baf4-d3f9a266080dThu, 22 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSOn today's episode, we are live in front of our very first live audience from Vlerik Business School as Simon, Colin, and Jason are joined by Sara Feenan and Richard Crook to discuss crypto lightning, clueless investors and more! We've also got a great interview with Preston Byrne who can't quite believe where we are. 1:10:38noKicking things off on a special live episode, has Bitcoin solved its scaling issues? Lightning Network launches, more than doubling transaction speeds! Colin is keen to explain it all.
'Bitcoin investors are clueless' says Visa's CFO. Are cryptocurrencies just the new casino for unaware buyers to double or triple their cash in a low interest environment? But is all the future crypto potential on the enterprise side?
Payment rails should be very afraid! If cryptocurrencies can figure out how to scale up then there's no telling what they could do.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney thinks crypto has no risk to financial stability. At less than 1% of the global GDP at its peak and unable to function as a currency, Bitcoin isn't able to take on the financial system.
ICOs split opinions on the panel but one thing's for sure, both public and enterprise want a solid infrastructure.
Colin has some strong opinions on the future of cryptocurrencies, could they ever compete with banks or do they need to find a way past focusing on transactions?
Binance is keen to decentralise, but without a way of stopping scammers can it be used properly. Does decentralisation remove legitimacy for cryptocurrencies or will it make them stronger than ever?
We've got a fantastic interview with Preston Byrne, who also managed to snag tweet of the week, on block-chain versions of central-bank cash.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can make it on to the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Jason Bates, Richard Crook, and Sara Feenan.
Kicking things off on a special live episode, has Bitcoin solved its scaling issues? Lightning Network launches, more than doubling transaction speeds! Colin is keen to explain it all.
'Bitcoin investors are clueless' says Visa's CFO. Are cryptocurrencies just the new casino for unaware buyers to double or triple their cash in a low interest environment? But is all the future crypto potential on the enterprise side?
Payment rails should be very afraid! If cryptocurrencies can figure out how to scale up then there's no telling what they could do.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney thinks crypto has no risk to financial stability. At less than 1% of the global GDP at its peak and unable to function as a currency, Bitcoin isn't able to take on the financial system.
ICOs split opinions on the panel but one thing's for sure, both public and enterprise want a solid infrastructure.
Colin has some strong opinions on the future of cryptocurrencies, could they ever compete with banks or do they need to find a way past focusing on transactions?
Binance is keen to decentralise, but without a way of stopping scammers can it be used properly. Does decentralisation remove legitimacy for cryptocurrencies or will it make them stronger than ever?
We've got a fantastic interview with Preston Byrne, who also managed to snag tweet of the week, on block-chain versions of central-bank cash.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can make it on to the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Kicking things off on a special live episode, has Bitcoin solved its scaling issues? Lightning Network launches, more than doubling transaction speeds! Colin is keen to explain it all.
'Bitcoin investors are clueless' says Visa's CFO. Are cryptocurrencies just the new casino for unaware buyers to double or triple their cash in a low interest environment? But is all the future crypto potential on the enterprise side?
Payment rails should be very afraid! If cryptocurrencies can figure out how to scale up then there's no telling what they could do.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney thinks crypto has no risk to financial stability. At less than 1% of the global GDP at its peak and unable to function as a currency, Bitcoin isn't able to take on the financial system.
ICOs split opinions on the panel but one thing's for sure, both public and enterprise want a solid infrastructure.
Colin has some strong opinions on the future of cryptocurrencies, could they ever compete with banks or do they need to find a way past focusing on transactions?
Binance is keen to decentralise, but without a way of stopping scammers can it be used properly. Does decentralisation remove legitimacy for cryptocurrencies or will it make them stronger than ever?
We've got a fantastic interview with Preston Byrne, who also managed to snag tweet of the week, on block-chain versions of central-bank cash.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can make it on to the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 37. Sandra Ro, Women in Blockchain and Tracking Crypto Crimehttps://bi.11fs.com/38
f937fb92-15e4-4d4f-98f0-76dca19599f5Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSOn today's episode, Simon and Colin talk about Binance bounties, Traceable Bitcoin and much more! We also bring you an interview with the wonderful Sandra Ro! Her insights were excellent as always. 1:00:43noFirst up, Binance are offering a $250,000 bounty for the arrest of hackers that tried to infiltrate the exchange earlier in March!
Is Bitcoin as untraceable as we think? The met police claim that Bitcoin is not anonymous and is easy to track! Simon and Colin discuss this one in great depth.
Next up, Bitfinex'd, the the pseudonymous blogger and persistent critic of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has lawyered up! An interesting saga to keep an eye on....
Following on from International Women's Day it was fitting that CoinDesk, one of the larger crypto publications wrote a great piece on encouraging and acknowledging Women in Crypto! We were super lucky to have Sandra Ro's insights on today's show as well!
From Bifinex'd to Utility Token Bill's, Wyoming's state legislature has cleared a bill that would exempt certain types of crypto assets from securities laws. Are crypto-assets creeping toward legitimation?
Now the next headline was controversial, but when Simon and Colin dogged deeper- it actually raised some interesting points. From The Verge, the headline read- 'Blockchain' is meaningless....
This wouldn't be a blockchain based show without mentioning the good folks of Ripple! According to Bloomberg Technology they have lost their bid to keep it's cryptocurrency fight in California. The dispute is over a staggering amount of XRP- once worth over $16 Billion, with R3.
Another headline grabber, the FT writes that SWIFT claim blockchain not ready for mainstream use! According to them, the tech needs to mature to handle high volume transactions.
From mainstream use to miners, Bitcoin miners have taken over a town in Seattle! This one was close to home for CGP (literally) so he gave us a good run down on this story. Staying with mining, Egypt are apparently forcing their citizens to mine cryptocurrency?! Simon and Colin had a lot to say about this questionable and slightly confusing headline!
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can make it on to the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guest: Sandra Ro.
First up, Binance are offering a $250,000 bounty for the arrest of hackers that tried to infiltrate the exchange earlier in March!
Is Bitcoin as untraceable as we think? The met police claim that Bitcoin is not anonymous and is easy to track! Simon and Colin discuss this one in great depth.
Next up, Bitfinex'd, the the pseudonymous blogger and persistent critic of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has lawyered up! An interesting saga to keep an eye on....
Following on from International Women's Day it was fitting that CoinDesk, one of the larger crypto publications wrote a great piece on encouraging and acknowledging Women in Crypto! We were super lucky to have Sandra Ro's insights on today's show as well!
From Bifinex'd to Utility Token Bill's, Wyoming's state legislature has cleared a bill that would exempt certain types of crypto assets from securities laws. Are crypto-assets creeping toward legitimation?
Now the next headline was controversial, but when Simon and Colin dogged deeper- it actually raised some interesting points. From The Verge, the headline read- 'Blockchain' is meaningless....
This wouldn't be a blockchain based show without mentioning the good folks of Ripple! According to Bloomberg Technology they have lost their bid to keep it's cryptocurrency fight in California. The dispute is over a staggering amount of XRP- once worth over $16 Billion, with R3.
Another headline grabber, the FT writes that SWIFT claim blockchain not ready for mainstream use! According to them, the tech needs to mature to handle high volume transactions.
From mainstream use to miners, Bitcoin miners have taken over a town in Seattle! This one was close to home for CGP (literally) so he gave us a good run down on this story. Staying with mining, Egypt are apparently forcing their citizens to mine cryptocurrency?! Simon and Colin had a lot to say about this questionable and slightly confusing headline!
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can make it on to the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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First up, Binance are offering a $250,000 bounty for the arrest of hackers that tried to infiltrate the exchange earlier in March!
Is Bitcoin as untraceable as we think? The met police claim that Bitcoin is not anonymous and is easy to track! Simon and Colin discuss this one in great depth.
Next up, Bitfinex'd, the the pseudonymous blogger and persistent critic of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has lawyered up! An interesting saga to keep an eye on....
Following on from International Women's Day it was fitting that CoinDesk, one of the larger crypto publications wrote a great piece on encouraging and acknowledging Women in Crypto! We were super lucky to have Sandra Ro's insights on today's show as well!
From Bifinex'd to Utility Token Bill's, Wyoming's state legislature has cleared a bill that would exempt certain types of crypto assets from securities laws. Are crypto-assets creeping toward legitimation?
Now the next headline was controversial, but when Simon and Colin dogged deeper- it actually raised some interesting points. From The Verge, the headline read- 'Blockchain' is meaningless....
This wouldn't be a blockchain based show without mentioning the good folks of Ripple! According to Bloomberg Technology they have lost their bid to keep it's cryptocurrency fight in California. The dispute is over a staggering amount of XRP- once worth over $16 Billion, with R3.
Another headline grabber, the FT writes that SWIFT claim blockchain not ready for mainstream use! According to them, the tech needs to mature to handle high volume transactions.
From mainstream use to miners, Bitcoin miners have taken over a town in Seattle! This one was close to home for CGP (literally) so he gave us a good run down on this story. Staying with mining, Egypt are apparently forcing their citizens to mine cryptocurrency?! Simon and Colin had a lot to say about this questionable and slightly confusing headline!
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can make it on to the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 36. The Empire Strikes Bitcoin and an Exclusive Interview With Joe Lubinhttps://bi.11fs.com/37
5fdceea6-50b9-4ffb-8a78-3e39ef4f12caThu, 08 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSToday, Coinbase has got them self in some trouble after allegations that their staff may or may not have 'taken advantage' of Bitcoin Cash being launched on their platform, Mark Carney warns that crypto-assets must face similar regulatory scrutiny as financial markets and UK Shadow Home Secretary Dianne Abbott calls Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme? We also bring you a great interview with non other than Ethereum and Consesys founder Joe Lubin!1:04:41noFirst up, Coinbase is hit with not one but two class action Lawsuits! They've been accused of insider Bitcoin Cash trading and when you look at it's price chart, it doesn't help their case whatsoever...in brighter news though it plans that Coinbase may be planning to start a Crypto fund as the unicorn eyes further expansion. Sticking with the shady side of the law, TechCrunch founder's Crypto fund, Arrington XRP Capital, was subpoenaed by the SEC....let's see where this one goes!
Moving on from busy lawyers to governmental crackdowns, Quebec throws cold water on Bitcoin miners seeking cheap power. A spokesperson said “If you want to come settle here, plug in your servers and do Bitcoin mining, we’re not really interested,” also stating that cheap power wouldn't be available for those not adding value to society. Next up, Bank Of England governor Mark Carney says Crypto exchanges face regulatory clampdown! He said "The time has come to hold the crypto-asset ecosystem to the same standards as the rest of the financial system". Staying in the UK, Shadow Secretary Diane Abbott has called Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme! She was quoted saying "If everyone took their bitcoin money and tried to buy a new car all at once the whole thing would collapse"...... well yes much like many financial markets but hey ho.
Moving on, US regional banks begin to cite crypto as a business risk...did somebody say disruption? On to Asia- Bitcoin's Kimchi premium has all but evaporated. During Bitcoin's run up to $20,000, South Korean traders were paying 10%+ premiums due to incredible demand...during the recent market correction that has all but diminished!
Finally, Credit Suisse and ING finalised the first live transaction using HQLAX securities lending app on R3's Corda blockchain platform......really interesting stuff!
Special Guest: Joe Lubin.
First up, Coinbase is hit with not one but two class action Lawsuits! They've been accused of insider Bitcoin Cash trading and when you look at it's price chart, it doesn't help their case whatsoever...in brighter news though it plans that Coinbase may be planning to start a Crypto fund as the unicorn eyes further expansion. Sticking with the shady side of the law, TechCrunch founder's Crypto fund, Arrington XRP Capital, was subpoenaed by the SEC....let's see where this one goes!
Moving on from busy lawyers to governmental crackdowns, Quebec throws cold water on Bitcoin miners seeking cheap power. A spokesperson said “If you want to come settle here, plug in your servers and do Bitcoin mining, we’re not really interested,” also stating that cheap power wouldn't be available for those not adding value to society. Next up, Bank Of England governor Mark Carney says Crypto exchanges face regulatory clampdown! He said "The time has come to hold the crypto-asset ecosystem to the same standards as the rest of the financial system". Staying in the UK, Shadow Secretary Diane Abbott has called Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme! She was quoted saying "If everyone took their bitcoin money and tried to buy a new car all at once the whole thing would collapse"...... well yes much like many financial markets but hey ho.
Moving on, US regional banks begin to cite crypto as a business risk...did somebody say disruption? On to Asia- Bitcoin's Kimchi premium has all but evaporated. During Bitcoin's run up to $20,000, South Korean traders were paying 10%+ premiums due to incredible demand...during the recent market correction that has all but diminished!
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First up, Coinbase is hit with not one but two class action Lawsuits! They've been accused of insider Bitcoin Cash trading and when you look at it's price chart, it doesn't help their case whatsoever...in brighter news though it plans that Coinbase may be planning to start a Crypto fund as the unicorn eyes further expansion. Sticking with the shady side of the law, TechCrunch founder's Crypto fund, Arrington XRP Capital, was subpoenaed by the SEC....let's see where this one goes!
Moving on from busy lawyers to governmental crackdowns, Quebec throws cold water on Bitcoin miners seeking cheap power. A spokesperson said “If you want to come settle here, plug in your servers and do Bitcoin mining, we’re not really interested,” also stating that cheap power wouldn't be available for those not adding value to society. Next up, Bank Of England governor Mark Carney says Crypto exchanges face regulatory clampdown! He said "The time has come to hold the crypto-asset ecosystem to the same standards as the rest of the financial system". Staying in the UK, Shadow Secretary Diane Abbott has called Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme! She was quoted saying "If everyone took their bitcoin money and tried to buy a new car all at once the whole thing would collapse"...... well yes much like many financial markets but hey ho.
Moving on, US regional banks begin to cite crypto as a business risk...did somebody say disruption? On to Asia- Bitcoin's Kimchi premium has all but evaporated. During Bitcoin's run up to $20,000, South Korean traders were paying 10%+ premiums due to incredible demand...during the recent market correction that has all but diminished!
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Ep. 35. Get Bits or Die Tryin' and Ripple Explain XRPhttps://bi.11fs.com/36
725ce3bd-71e2-46d1-8085-1413ca79705aThu, 01 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSOn today's show: Wallstreet sneaks up on crypto as Poloniex is taken over by Goldman-Sachs backed Circle, Nearly half of last year's ICO's have already failed and Venezuela go crypto crazy. We also bring you great interviews with Marcus Treacher, SVP of customer success at Ripple to address some of the confusion over XRP, and CoFounder of PayTechLaw Frank Müller. 56:11noFirst up, this week's big news that Circle (backed by none other than Goldman-Sachs) have acquired crypto exchange Poloniex. Is this Wallstreet's 'in' to Crypto?
Moving on to some regulatory news, NYC lawmakers claim that they are 'open' to revisiting the BitLicense regulation. What kind of impact would a reform have on the market and on blockchain innovation?
From Lawmakers to Lawbreakers, Craig Wright, who's infamously claimed to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is being sued for a whopping $10 billion!
Next, R3 pilots blockchain trade finance platform with global banks-aiming to develop a "fully interoperable" open-source trade finance network built with their distributed ledger technology (DLT) product Corda.
The blockchain space has largely been male dominated in recent years, however the NY times has rightly voiced the opinions of many brilliant female minds in the industry. Their title "Women in Cryptocurrencies Push Back Against ‘Blockchain Bros'" was widely shared, a quote that stuck out to us was “Women always question if they’re qualified-but look at these clowns around us.”
ICO's just don't go away and Germany’s financial regulator BaFIN issues a letter titled "Supervisory classification of tokens or cryptocurrencies underlying so-called Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) as financial instruments according to securities supervision laws". So. Many. Words.
Next, the Venezuelan president has apparently asked central banks to mine their national cryptocurrency. If you though a country having a petrol backed token was strange enough, just imagine their banks mining it?
As always, on stories we didn't have time to cover: Elliott Management, a $34 billion hedge fund, described cryptocurrencies as 'one of the most brilliant scams in history', the Tezos board is reorganized and 50 cent admits in a bankruptcy document that he never actually owned any bitcoin. Right Fifty, whatever you say.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can make it on to the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Frank Müller and Marcus Treacher.
First up, this week's big news that Circle (backed by none other than Goldman-Sachs) have acquired crypto exchange Poloniex. Is this Wallstreet's 'in' to Crypto?
Moving on to some regulatory news, NYC lawmakers claim that they are 'open' to revisiting the BitLicense regulation. What kind of impact would a reform have on the market and on blockchain innovation?
From Lawmakers to Lawbreakers, Craig Wright, who's infamously claimed to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is being sued for a whopping $10 billion!
The blockchain space has largely been male dominated in recent years, however the NY times has rightly voiced the opinions of many brilliant female minds in the industry. Their title "Women in Cryptocurrencies Push Back Against ‘Blockchain Bros'" was widely shared, a quote that stuck out to us was “Women always question if they’re qualified-but look at these clowns around us.”
Next, the Venezuelan president has apparently asked central banks to mine their national cryptocurrency. If you though a country having a petrol backed token was strange enough, just imagine their banks mining it?
As always, on stories we didn't have time to cover: Elliott Management, a $34 billion hedge fund, described cryptocurrencies as 'one of the most brilliant scams in history', the Tezos board is reorganized and 50 cent admits in a bankruptcy document that he never actually owned any bitcoin. Right Fifty, whatever you say.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can make it on to the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
The blockchain space has largely been male dominated in recent years, however the NY times has rightly voiced the opinions of many brilliant female minds in the industry. Their title "Women in Cryptocurrencies Push Back Against ‘Blockchain Bros'" was widely shared, a quote that stuck out to us was “Women always question if they’re qualified-but look at these clowns around us.”
Next, the Venezuelan president has apparently asked central banks to mine their national cryptocurrency. If you though a country having a petrol backed token was strange enough, just imagine their banks mining it?
As always, on stories we didn't have time to cover: Elliott Management, a $34 billion hedge fund, described cryptocurrencies as 'one of the most brilliant scams in history', the Tezos board is reorganized and 50 cent admits in a bankruptcy document that he never actually owned any bitcoin. Right Fifty, whatever you say.
And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can make it on to the show!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 34. Vitalik drops crypto truth bombs, Ellen explains bitcoin and the Brooklyn projecthttps://bi.11fs.com/35
10d2adeb-10a0-4f6e-9a07-02873aca1311Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin discuss the Whitehouse holding off on Bitcoin regulation, Ellen Degeneres explaining Bitcoin, Telegram's ICO money and much, much more. We also bring you an interview with Patrick Berarducci and Matt Corva from Consensys about Brooklyn Project. 54:05noFirst up on today's show from CNBC, the US government is nowhere near regulating Bitcoin. Rob Joyce emphasised the need to better understand the cryptocurrencies and our team discuss how this has been greeted positively by the trader community especially.
Next, Ellen Degeneres compares Bitcoin to a Goat (I know) to her rather large audience. Even though the price hasn't been as exciting for speculators recently, Bitcoin is still mainstream and won't go away!
Back to regulation, Switzerland's FINMA has released ICO guidelines and in the US the CFTC Chief has said the states should tread lightly on Crypto exchanges.
Keeping with ICO's, Telegram have raised $850 million so far for their billion dollar ICO. The mass frenzy has seen many keep a keen eye on Telegram, some with less positive sentiments. Charles Noyas of Pantera Capital wasn't keen on this massive ICO. He described the project's 132-page technical whitepaper as "essentially a wishlist of things they want to have, and how it will work assuming that their wishlist doesn't crash and burn." Damning to say the least...
Vitalik Buterin the father of Ethereum has tweeted a warning to his followers stating that "traditional assets" are a safer place to hold your live savings. He caught quite a lot of hate in the comments, but is this the way more blockchain figureheads should be acting in the crypto space?
Bitcoin is mainstream but it's position in asset classes is still not obvious. Divorce lawyers are finding this out the hard way and a UK based firm have claimed that they are dealing with multi-million dollar cases over centring around cryptocurrency assets.
Moving on- are Atari about to have their Kodak moment? The game-makers who created Pacman are planning an ICO because..it's 2018?
On to Bitcoin mining- with China cracking down, where is the best place to mine Bitcoin? Apparently Venezuela is the cheapest place to mine the cryptocurrency whereas South Korea was found to be the most expensive.
Finally, we follow up on dark pools after last week's episode, as a $30 million ICO could pave way for huge crypto traders.
As always there's so much news out there and we can't cover it all, so we had some stories we just couldn't squeeze in. These include: Ethereum Dev Yoichi Hirai Steps Away From Role As EIP Editor, Citi Bank and Credit Agricole buy a stake in SETL and R3 are training DLT lawyers.
In today's episode we also bring you an interview with Patrick Berarducci and Matt Corva from Consensys about Brooklyn Project. Exciting stuff!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Matt Corva and Patrick Berarducci.
First up on today's show from CNBC, the US government is nowhere near regulating Bitcoin. Rob Joyce emphasised the need to better understand the cryptocurrencies and our team discuss how this has been greeted positively by the trader community especially.
Next, Ellen Degeneres compares Bitcoin to a Goat (I know) to her rather large audience. Even though the price hasn't been as exciting for speculators recently, Bitcoin is still mainstream and won't go away!
Back to regulation, Switzerland's FINMA has released ICO guidelines and in the US the CFTC Chief has said the states should tread lightly on Crypto exchanges.
Keeping with ICO's, Telegram have raised $850 million so far for their billion dollar ICO. The mass frenzy has seen many keep a keen eye on Telegram, some with less positive sentiments. Charles Noyas of Pantera Capital wasn't keen on this massive ICO. He described the project's 132-page technical whitepaper as "essentially a wishlist of things they want to have, and how it will work assuming that their wishlist doesn't crash and burn." Damning to say the least...
Vitalik Buterin the father of Ethereum has tweeted a warning to his followers stating that "traditional assets" are a safer place to hold your live savings. He caught quite a lot of hate in the comments, but is this the way more blockchain figureheads should be acting in the crypto space?
Bitcoin is mainstream but it's position in asset classes is still not obvious. Divorce lawyers are finding this out the hard way and a UK based firm have claimed that they are dealing with multi-million dollar cases over centring around cryptocurrency assets.
Moving on- are Atari about to have their Kodak moment? The game-makers who created Pacman are planning an ICO because..it's 2018?
On to Bitcoin mining- with China cracking down, where is the best place to mine Bitcoin? Apparently Venezuela is the cheapest place to mine the cryptocurrency whereas South Korea was found to be the most expensive.
Finally, we follow up on dark pools after last week's episode, as a $30 million ICO could pave way for huge crypto traders.
As always there's so much news out there and we can't cover it all, so we had some stories we just couldn't squeeze in. These include: Ethereum Dev Yoichi Hirai Steps Away From Role As EIP Editor, Citi Bank and Credit Agricole buy a stake in SETL and R3 are training DLT lawyers.
In today's episode we also bring you an interview with Patrick Berarducci and Matt Corva from Consensys about Brooklyn Project. Exciting stuff!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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First up on today's show from CNBC, the US government is nowhere near regulating Bitcoin. Rob Joyce emphasised the need to better understand the cryptocurrencies and our team discuss how this has been greeted positively by the trader community especially.
Next, Ellen Degeneres compares Bitcoin to a Goat (I know) to her rather large audience. Even though the price hasn't been as exciting for speculators recently, Bitcoin is still mainstream and won't go away!
Back to regulation, Switzerland's FINMA has released ICO guidelines and in the US the CFTC Chief has said the states should tread lightly on Crypto exchanges.
Keeping with ICO's, Telegram have raised $850 million so far for their billion dollar ICO. The mass frenzy has seen many keep a keen eye on Telegram, some with less positive sentiments. Charles Noyas of Pantera Capital wasn't keen on this massive ICO. He described the project's 132-page technical whitepaper as "essentially a wishlist of things they want to have, and how it will work assuming that their wishlist doesn't crash and burn." Damning to say the least...
Vitalik Buterin the father of Ethereum has tweeted a warning to his followers stating that "traditional assets" are a safer place to hold your live savings. He caught quite a lot of hate in the comments, but is this the way more blockchain figureheads should be acting in the crypto space?
Bitcoin is mainstream but it's position in asset classes is still not obvious. Divorce lawyers are finding this out the hard way and a UK based firm have claimed that they are dealing with multi-million dollar cases over centring around cryptocurrency assets.
Moving on- are Atari about to have their Kodak moment? The game-makers who created Pacman are planning an ICO because..it's 2018?
On to Bitcoin mining- with China cracking down, where is the best place to mine Bitcoin? Apparently Venezuela is the cheapest place to mine the cryptocurrency whereas South Korea was found to be the most expensive.
Finally, we follow up on dark pools after last week's episode, as a $30 million ICO could pave way for huge crypto traders.
As always there's so much news out there and we can't cover it all, so we had some stories we just couldn't squeeze in. These include: Ethereum Dev Yoichi Hirai Steps Away From Role As EIP Editor, Citi Bank and Credit Agricole buy a stake in SETL and R3 are training DLT lawyers.
In today's episode we also bring you an interview with Patrick Berarducci and Matt Corva from Consensys about Brooklyn Project. Exciting stuff!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 33. Blythe Masters Interview, hacks, non-hacks & Europe's crypto crackdownhttps://bi.11fs.com/34
a2b919d7-7780-47d4-96b2-049e66c86051Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSIn this episode Simon is joined by Sara Feenan in place of Colin this week to cover the week's top stories and we have a fantastic interview from Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset.1:06:56noSimon and Sara (no Colin this week) tackle the week's news stories
Kicking off with the biggest story: France and Germany's crackdown on crypto. France and Germany have put it to the G20 that the time has come to regulate IPOs and bitcoin. In a join statement they say they are aiming to:
Build a common understanding on the nature of tokens
Monitor the implications on market stability
Find better protections for non professional investors
Adopt a common approach on anti money laundering
Simon and Sara share their views on this one.
The second story this week covers JPMorgan Chase's report that, despite Jamie Dimon's infamous comments to the contrary, states that crypto is unlikely to disappear.
Our third biggest story is Binance's denial of their hack, despite claims and particularly tweets from John McAfee. This brings the team to discuss the impact of sentimentality and drama on the market's volatility. Even if a hack isn't real, if headlines are written claiming it has been, it still has an impact.
Sara and Simon also take on Ledger Nano's vulnerability to cyber attacks; Russians arrested for mining bitcoin, the Winkelvoss' latest bitcoin predictions, Litecoin's release of LitePay, Venezuela's backing of Petro, and bitcoin's popularity on the dark web.
Simon also speaks to Blythe Masters, all about Digital Asset Holdings, the differences between assets and currencies and how to get involved in the digital asset market.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
Special Guests: Blythe Masters and Sara Feenan.
Simon and Sara (no Colin this week) tackle the week's news stories
Kicking off with the biggest story: France and Germany's crackdown on crypto. France and Germany have put it to the G20 that the time has come to regulate IPOs and bitcoin. In a join statement they say they are aiming to:
Build a common understanding on the nature of tokens
Monitor the implications on market stability
Find better protections for non professional investors
Adopt a common approach on anti money laundering
Simon and Sara share their views on this one.
The second story this week covers JPMorgan Chase's report that, despite Jamie Dimon's infamous comments to the contrary, states that crypto is unlikely to disappear.
Our third biggest story is Binance's denial of their hack, despite claims and particularly tweets from John McAfee. This brings the team to discuss the impact of sentimentality and drama on the market's volatility. Even if a hack isn't real, if headlines are written claiming it has been, it still has an impact.
Sara and Simon also take on Ledger Nano's vulnerability to cyber attacks; Russians arrested for mining bitcoin, the Winkelvoss' latest bitcoin predictions, Litecoin's release of LitePay, Venezuela's backing of Petro, and bitcoin's popularity on the dark web.
Simon also speaks to Blythe Masters, all about Digital Asset Holdings, the differences between assets and currencies and how to get involved in the digital asset market.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Simon and Sara (no Colin this week) tackle the week's news stories
Kicking off with the biggest story: France and Germany's crackdown on crypto. France and Germany have put it to the G20 that the time has come to regulate IPOs and bitcoin. In a join statement they say they are aiming to:
Build a common understanding on the nature of tokens
Monitor the implications on market stability
Find better protections for non professional investors
Adopt a common approach on anti money laundering
Simon and Sara share their views on this one.
The second story this week covers JPMorgan Chase's report that, despite Jamie Dimon's infamous comments to the contrary, states that crypto is unlikely to disappear.
Our third biggest story is Binance's denial of their hack, despite claims and particularly tweets from John McAfee. This brings the team to discuss the impact of sentimentality and drama on the market's volatility. Even if a hack isn't real, if headlines are written claiming it has been, it still has an impact.
Sara and Simon also take on Ledger Nano's vulnerability to cyber attacks; Russians arrested for mining bitcoin, the Winkelvoss' latest bitcoin predictions, Litecoin's release of LitePay, Venezuela's backing of Petro, and bitcoin's popularity on the dark web.
Simon also speaks to Blythe Masters, all about Digital Asset Holdings, the differences between assets and currencies and how to get involved in the digital asset market.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 31. South Korea's ban, Japan's hack, Robinhood and the future of cryptohttps://bi.11fs.com/32
5993083f-ae6a-4e5d-ab57-0b57bf8ea5bfThu, 01 Feb 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSToday, Simon Taylor and Colin G Platt dissect lots of news coming from the asian markets- as well as bringing you interviews with CEO of Chain, Adam Ludwin and NEO's Malcolm Lerider. 1:21:42noWe begin with big news from South Korea, as they announce that 6 major banks will facilitate data sharing with Cryptocurrency exchanges. Money laundering and tax evasion have been large governmental concerns with regards to crypto and it seems South Korea have taken the first steps to mitigate under the counter activity. Moving on, Japanese Cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck will refund the $400m worth of NEM that was stolen from them by hackers. This isn't the first time we've seen big hacks on Japanese exchanges.....(cough, cough, Mt. Gox).
On to something more positive in the crypto-sphere, Robinhood, the app that lets you make zero-fee stock trading is going to allow its users to trade Cryptocurrencies. Robinhood users will be able to trade both Bitcoin and Ethereum with no transaction fees, with more coins on the horizon. Next, a Hong Kong based blockchain investment fund has acquired Bitcoin startup BTCC, who's mining pool accounts for 3.2% of Bitcoin's hashing power.....big news! Sticking with acquisition-BitGo Inc., a closely held crypto-security firm, agree to buy Bitcoin custodian Kingdom Trust as it seeks to attract $20 Billion worth of institutional investors.
Telegram has been a hotly discussed topic and Silicon Valley VCs are reportedly lining up to invest in the Russian messaging app. Back to Japan, the BOJ have come out with more regulatory talk stating that it will be incredibly difficult to create cross-border regulatory protocol for Cryptocurrency trading. Now regulation in this space will be important- but how do we protect innovation? The chairmen of the CFTC and SEC, Christopher Giancarlo and Jay Clayton, have co-authored an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal about what their agencies are doing in relation to cryptocurrency and token markets. It seems mostly positive, as both have focussed on the technology- potentially encouraging governments to understand just how big blockchain could be.
Now lots of Ripple enthusiasts claim that XRP could become the Bitcoin for banks, but do banks want it? A story coming from Bloomberg claims that banks have absolutely no interest in XRP. Current and former executives at seven global banks—some of whom have partnered with Ripple—say there was scant chance they would ever entrust their corporate clients’ payments to a cryptocurrency. Damning to say the least.
We leave you with our Bull masks on, as hedge funds have swung their bitcoin-futures bets to the bullish side for the first time, according to recent figures. What will this mean for crypto markets going forward?
As always there are several stories we didn't have time to cover. They include: Prodeum ICO Exits with a Prank-No Real Haul, How blockchain could kill both cable and Netflix, OpenDoor scores $10 million funding and Golden Kitty Awards Winners just missed out on some further discussion.
We also bring you two fantastic interviews - Malcolm Lerider from NEO and Adam Ludwin from Chain!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Adam Ludwin and Malcolm Lerider.
We begin with big news from South Korea, as they announce that 6 major banks will facilitate data sharing with Cryptocurrency exchanges. Money laundering and tax evasion have been large governmental concerns with regards to crypto and it seems South Korea have taken the first steps to mitigate under the counter activity. Moving on, Japanese Cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck will refund the $400m worth of NEM that was stolen from them by hackers. This isn't the first time we've seen big hacks on Japanese exchanges.....(cough, cough, Mt. Gox).
On to something more positive in the crypto-sphere, Robinhood, the app that lets you make zero-fee stock trading is going to allow its users to trade Cryptocurrencies. Robinhood users will be able to trade both Bitcoin and Ethereum with no transaction fees, with more coins on the horizon. Next, a Hong Kong based blockchain investment fund has acquired Bitcoin startup BTCC, who's mining pool accounts for 3.2% of Bitcoin's hashing power.....big news! Sticking with acquisition-BitGo Inc., a closely held crypto-security firm, agree to buy Bitcoin custodian Kingdom Trust as it seeks to attract $20 Billion worth of institutional investors.
Telegram has been a hotly discussed topic and Silicon Valley VCs are reportedly lining up to invest in the Russian messaging app. Back to Japan, the BOJ have come out with more regulatory talk stating that it will be incredibly difficult to create cross-border regulatory protocol for Cryptocurrency trading. Now regulation in this space will be important- but how do we protect innovation? The chairmen of the CFTC and SEC, Christopher Giancarlo and Jay Clayton, have co-authored an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal about what their agencies are doing in relation to cryptocurrency and token markets. It seems mostly positive, as both have focussed on the technology- potentially encouraging governments to understand just how big blockchain could be.
Now lots of Ripple enthusiasts claim that XRP could become the Bitcoin for banks, but do banks want it? A story coming from Bloomberg claims that banks have absolutely no interest in XRP. Current and former executives at seven global banks—some of whom have partnered with Ripple—say there was scant chance they would ever entrust their corporate clients’ payments to a cryptocurrency. Damning to say the least.
We leave you with our Bull masks on, as hedge funds have swung their bitcoin-futures bets to the bullish side for the first time, according to recent figures. What will this mean for crypto markets going forward?
As always there are several stories we didn't have time to cover. They include: Prodeum ICO Exits with a Prank-No Real Haul, How blockchain could kill both cable and Netflix, OpenDoor scores $10 million funding and Golden Kitty Awards Winners just missed out on some further discussion.
We also bring you two fantastic interviews - Malcolm Lerider from NEO and Adam Ludwin from Chain!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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We begin with big news from South Korea, as they announce that 6 major banks will facilitate data sharing with Cryptocurrency exchanges. Money laundering and tax evasion have been large governmental concerns with regards to crypto and it seems South Korea have taken the first steps to mitigate under the counter activity. Moving on, Japanese Cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck will refund the $400m worth of NEM that was stolen from them by hackers. This isn't the first time we've seen big hacks on Japanese exchanges.....(cough, cough, Mt. Gox).
On to something more positive in the crypto-sphere, Robinhood, the app that lets you make zero-fee stock trading is going to allow its users to trade Cryptocurrencies. Robinhood users will be able to trade both Bitcoin and Ethereum with no transaction fees, with more coins on the horizon. Next, a Hong Kong based blockchain investment fund has acquired Bitcoin startup BTCC, who's mining pool accounts for 3.2% of Bitcoin's hashing power.....big news! Sticking with acquisition-BitGo Inc., a closely held crypto-security firm, agree to buy Bitcoin custodian Kingdom Trust as it seeks to attract $20 Billion worth of institutional investors.
Telegram has been a hotly discussed topic and Silicon Valley VCs are reportedly lining up to invest in the Russian messaging app. Back to Japan, the BOJ have come out with more regulatory talk stating that it will be incredibly difficult to create cross-border regulatory protocol for Cryptocurrency trading. Now regulation in this space will be important- but how do we protect innovation? The chairmen of the CFTC and SEC, Christopher Giancarlo and Jay Clayton, have co-authored an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal about what their agencies are doing in relation to cryptocurrency and token markets. It seems mostly positive, as both have focussed on the technology- potentially encouraging governments to understand just how big blockchain could be.
Now lots of Ripple enthusiasts claim that XRP could become the Bitcoin for banks, but do banks want it? A story coming from Bloomberg claims that banks have absolutely no interest in XRP. Current and former executives at seven global banks—some of whom have partnered with Ripple—say there was scant chance they would ever entrust their corporate clients’ payments to a cryptocurrency. Damning to say the least.
We leave you with our Bull masks on, as hedge funds have swung their bitcoin-futures bets to the bullish side for the first time, according to recent figures. What will this mean for crypto markets going forward?
As always there are several stories we didn't have time to cover. They include: Prodeum ICO Exits with a Prank-No Real Haul, How blockchain could kill both cable and Netflix, OpenDoor scores $10 million funding and Golden Kitty Awards Winners just missed out on some further discussion.
We also bring you two fantastic interviews - Malcolm Lerider from NEO and Adam Ludwin from Chain!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 30. Bitcoin Falls, Whales Rise and an Interview With bitFlyer CEOhttps://bi.11fs.com/31
58719c91-89b3-4cef-bf9f-44b411aa5fb7Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSAfter the fallout from the crypto bloodbath last week, Simon and Colin discuss how regulators continue to monitor these monumental price spikes and subsequent dumps. We also bring you interviews with bitFlyer's CEO and founder Yuzo Kano and COO Andy Bryant1:03:49noAfter the market beatdown, Simon and Colin dissect the sustainability of current prices and how much longer regulators will stand idly by whilst pump and dumps continue to happen. Our first story comes from Coindesk, talking about the price action where Bitcoin 'defended' the $11,000 mark. Conversely, the Evening Standard came out with a story claiming investors were swapping their bitcoin for physical gold- are people actually swapping digital gold for it's physical counterpart? Staying with Bitcoin (shock, horror), Forbes claim that criminals are dropping BTC for other cryptocurrencies due to expensive, lengthy transactions. Criminals are apparently preferring more private coins.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recorded $1 Billion in revenue! The exchange exploded in 2017, so it's no surprise that it's booked such lofty numbers as the interest in cryptocurrencies continues to grow. Moving on and more from Coindesk, regulators gon' regulate as the SEC outlines reasons for reluctance to list cryptocurrency ETF's.
Next, Shell has just made its first investment in blockchain with UK startup Applied Blockchain, and we have the pleasure of bringing you a soundbite from CEO Adi Ben-Ari! He explains what Applied Blockchain do, and how it's easy for Developers/Engineers to 'see through' certain crypto projects. Staying with large companies sticking their hands in the blockchain pie, IBM and Maersk form new blockchain company for international cargo which will automate paperwork for shipping across international borders.
And lastly, Swift have signed an agreement with 7CSD's to explore blockchain post trade processes. Although no specific details have been leaked, Swift have claimed that the agreement is more exploratory in its nature. One to watch.
We also bring you interviews with bitFlyer's CEO and founder Yuzo Kano and COO Andy Bryant, as the largest Japanese cryptocurrency exchange comes to Europe!
Please do make sure to listen to the last 2 minutes for some great Orca/Whale related gags as Simon, Colin and the production team are struck by a giggling disease.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Adi Ben-Ari, Andy Bryant, and Yuzo Kano.
After the market beatdown, Simon and Colin dissect the sustainability of current prices and how much longer regulators will stand idly by whilst pump and dumps continue to happen. Our first story comes from Coindesk, talking about the price action where Bitcoin 'defended' the $11,000 mark. Conversely, the Evening Standard came out with a story claiming investors were swapping their bitcoin for physical gold- are people actually swapping digital gold for it's physical counterpart? Staying with Bitcoin (shock, horror), Forbes claim that criminals are dropping BTC for other cryptocurrencies due to expensive, lengthy transactions. Criminals are apparently preferring more private coins.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recorded $1 Billion in revenue! The exchange exploded in 2017, so it's no surprise that it's booked such lofty numbers as the interest in cryptocurrencies continues to grow. Moving on and more from Coindesk, regulators gon' regulate as the SEC outlines reasons for reluctance to list cryptocurrency ETF's.
Next, Shell has just made its first investment in blockchain with UK startup Applied Blockchain, and we have the pleasure of bringing you a soundbite from CEO Adi Ben-Ari! He explains what Applied Blockchain do, and how it's easy for Developers/Engineers to 'see through' certain crypto projects. Staying with large companies sticking their hands in the blockchain pie, IBM and Maersk form new blockchain company for international cargo which will automate paperwork for shipping across international borders.
And lastly, Swift have signed an agreement with 7CSD's to explore blockchain post trade processes. Although no specific details have been leaked, Swift have claimed that the agreement is more exploratory in its nature. One to watch.
We also bring you interviews with bitFlyer's CEO and founder Yuzo Kano and COO Andy Bryant, as the largest Japanese cryptocurrency exchange comes to Europe!
Please do make sure to listen to the last 2 minutes for some great Orca/Whale related gags as Simon, Colin and the production team are struck by a giggling disease.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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After the market beatdown, Simon and Colin dissect the sustainability of current prices and how much longer regulators will stand idly by whilst pump and dumps continue to happen. Our first story comes from Coindesk, talking about the price action where Bitcoin 'defended' the $11,000 mark. Conversely, the Evening Standard came out with a story claiming investors were swapping their bitcoin for physical gold- are people actually swapping digital gold for it's physical counterpart? Staying with Bitcoin (shock, horror), Forbes claim that criminals are dropping BTC for other cryptocurrencies due to expensive, lengthy transactions. Criminals are apparently preferring more private coins.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recorded $1 Billion in revenue! The exchange exploded in 2017, so it's no surprise that it's booked such lofty numbers as the interest in cryptocurrencies continues to grow. Moving on and more from Coindesk, regulators gon' regulate as the SEC outlines reasons for reluctance to list cryptocurrency ETF's.
Next, Shell has just made its first investment in blockchain with UK startup Applied Blockchain, and we have the pleasure of bringing you a soundbite from CEO Adi Ben-Ari! He explains what Applied Blockchain do, and how it's easy for Developers/Engineers to 'see through' certain crypto projects. Staying with large companies sticking their hands in the blockchain pie, IBM and Maersk form new blockchain company for international cargo which will automate paperwork for shipping across international borders.
And lastly, Swift have signed an agreement with 7CSD's to explore blockchain post trade processes. Although no specific details have been leaked, Swift have claimed that the agreement is more exploratory in its nature. One to watch.
We also bring you interviews with bitFlyer's CEO and founder Yuzo Kano and COO Andy Bryant, as the largest Japanese cryptocurrency exchange comes to Europe!
Please do make sure to listen to the last 2 minutes for some great Orca/Whale related gags as Simon, Colin and the production team are struck by a giggling disease.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep.29. Kraken on With Crypto After the Market Bloodbath https://bi.11fs.com/30
9a1d46cb-ea63-4c16-bdf1-3f43831e498fThu, 18 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSSimon Taylor and Colin G Platt discuss the crypto bloodbath we're currently witnessing, Kraken returning as well as bringing you interviews with two Ryan's, Blockstack founder Ryan Shea and the Two Bit Idiot & international man of mystery himself Ryan Selkis. 1:04:31noOn today's show, we just had to start with crypto price bloodbath January has brought. Simon and Colin dissect rumours of centralised exchanges being banned in China & South Korea, as winter comes (http://uk.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-ethereum-ripple-cryptocurrency-prices-fall-on-january-16-2018-1) for crypto markets.
Next, Mike Novagratz makes a '$400m bet' (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/vWNJsEPpqodBkquKu/michael-novogratz-usd400-million-bet-form-giant-crypto) attempting to form a giant crypto merchant bank. Novagratz (who went big on both Bitcoin & Ethereum early) had plans for a crypto hedge fund which were cancelled in the past, so it remains to be seen what happens with this project. Vitalik Buterin (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/CRoY4Fevje8hj2jxY/ethereum-co-founder-vitalik-buterin-has-left-vc-firm), Ethereum founder, is another blockchain personality in the news today, who left VC firm Fenbushi Capital.
Drama is never far from the cryptocurrency ecosystem and Tron (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/ZbXT9tbr32m73J6jz/tron-s-whitepaper-is-copied-plagiarized), a Chinese crypto project has been accused of plagiarism with regards to their whitepaper. Translation issue? Or is there more in this story?
ICO's were most certainly hot in 2017 and chat app Telegram (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/JFFhz3n7tYzBCxpzA/telegram-plans-multi-billion-dollar-ico-for-chat) hopes to raise up to $1.2 billion in an ICO. How will ICO's develop in 2018? The explore what could happen with that regard, but it seems initial coin offerings will still be a prevalent in 2018.
Kraking on, Kraken (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/FbMDPMNxjun52hy2t/kraken-exchange-is-back-online-after-troublesome-system), the world's 5th largest cryptocurrency exchange is back after a troublesome upgrade. Many speculated that some of the upgrades were un-professional with fears surfacing that some money could be lost. Sticking with exchanges, we discuss Binance (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/p2gGhyvxTKeMxBnd3/binance-the-fastest-profitable-unicorn-in-history)-the fastest growing 'unicorn' in the crypto-currency world which has now surpassed a $1 billion valuation less than 6 months after launching. Truly extraordinary!
Last but not least, we bring you interviews with two Ryan's! We were spoilt today as Ryan Shea came on the show to discuss Blockstack, a new internet for decentralized apps. The second Ryan, Ryan Selkis- came on to discuss his interesting blog titled 'I see You XRP' discussing all things Ripple, XRP and what's happening in the markets.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Ryan Selkis and Ryan Shea.
On today's show, we just had to start with crypto price bloodbath January has brought. Simon and Colin dissect rumours of centralised exchanges being banned in China & South Korea, as winter comes for crypto markets.
Next, Mike Novagratz makes a '$400m bet' attempting to form a giant crypto merchant bank. Novagratz (who went big on both Bitcoin & Ethereum early) had plans for a crypto hedge fund which were cancelled in the past, so it remains to be seen what happens with this project. Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum founder, is another blockchain personality in the news today, who left VC firm Fenbushi Capital.
Drama is never far from the cryptocurrency ecosystem and Tron, a Chinese crypto project has been accused of plagiarism with regards to their whitepaper. Translation issue? Or is there more in this story?
ICO's were most certainly hot in 2017 and chat app Telegram hopes to raise up to $1.2 billion in an ICO. How will ICO's develop in 2018? The explore what could happen with that regard, but it seems initial coin offerings will still be a prevalent in 2018.
Kraking on, Kraken, the world's 5th largest cryptocurrency exchange is back after a troublesome upgrade. Many speculated that some of the upgrades were un-professional with fears surfacing that some money could be lost. Sticking with exchanges, we discuss Binance-the fastest growing 'unicorn' in the crypto-currency world which has now surpassed a $1 billion valuation less than 6 months after launching. Truly extraordinary!
Last but not least, we bring you interviews with two Ryan's! We were spoilt today as Ryan Shea came on the show to discuss Blockstack, a new internet for decentralized apps. The second Ryan, Ryan Selkis- came on to discuss his interesting blog titled 'I see You XRP' discussing all things Ripple, XRP and what's happening in the markets.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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On today's show, we just had to start with crypto price bloodbath January has brought. Simon and Colin dissect rumours of centralised exchanges being banned in China & South Korea, as winter comes for crypto markets.
Next, Mike Novagratz makes a '$400m bet' attempting to form a giant crypto merchant bank. Novagratz (who went big on both Bitcoin & Ethereum early) had plans for a crypto hedge fund which were cancelled in the past, so it remains to be seen what happens with this project. Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum founder, is another blockchain personality in the news today, who left VC firm Fenbushi Capital.
Drama is never far from the cryptocurrency ecosystem and Tron, a Chinese crypto project has been accused of plagiarism with regards to their whitepaper. Translation issue? Or is there more in this story?
ICO's were most certainly hot in 2017 and chat app Telegram hopes to raise up to $1.2 billion in an ICO. How will ICO's develop in 2018? The explore what could happen with that regard, but it seems initial coin offerings will still be a prevalent in 2018.
Kraking on, Kraken, the world's 5th largest cryptocurrency exchange is back after a troublesome upgrade. Many speculated that some of the upgrades were un-professional with fears surfacing that some money could be lost. Sticking with exchanges, we discuss Binance-the fastest growing 'unicorn' in the crypto-currency world which has now surpassed a $1 billion valuation less than 6 months after launching. Truly extraordinary!
Last but not least, we bring you interviews with two Ryan's! We were spoilt today as Ryan Shea came on the show to discuss Blockstack, a new internet for decentralized apps. The second Ryan, Ryan Selkis- came on to discuss his interesting blog titled 'I see You XRP' discussing all things Ripple, XRP and what's happening in the markets.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 28. Where now for Ripple? & Blockchain gets all Zuck'ed uphttps://bi.11fs.com/29
1ad250aa-d6bc-4275-aa29-87ffdb89ea35Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSSimon Taylor and Colin G Platt discuss Ripple's monumental rise, Bitconnect and an interview with Ville Sointu from Nordea.1:03:23noWe begin this week's news by discussing Mark Zuckerberg's (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/8zymDik7mxwwHNGSa/mark-zuckerberg-s-personal-challenge-is-all-about-fixing) interest in decentralisation, as he made it his 'challenge of the year' to study how it could 'fix' Facebook. Speaking of Zuck, XRP (Ripple's crypto-currency) had an incredible run up peaking at over $3.80, making Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/3CSAMDdjxE2C7pNS8) actually wealthier than Mark Zuckerberg for a short period of time. This massive run saw Ripple monetarily become the second largest crypto asset in terms of market cap, so, as you can imagine Simon and Colin discussed the project (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/uAh53cCneZTFFYKb7/i-see-you-usdxrp) at great length!
Regulators are always a hot topic in the crypto sphere and this week was no different as Texas regulators ordered Bitconnect (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/y3Ldjqf98Ms7AeADK/bitconnect-handed-a-cease-and-desist-order-from-texas) to cancel their token sale.
We also saw Visa (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/cWWnRNK9yxdxxN3oD/bitcoin-card-providers-cancel-services-with-zero-notice) drop their cryptocurrency backed debit cards due to violation of operating regulations, which had users scrambling. Tying into 'dropping users', Bittrex, Binance and Bitfinex (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/r3dDsxS8z3Yf7mNKT/binance-bitfinex-bittrex-temporarily-say-no-to-new-users) all halted new user sign ups due to incredible demand. Binance in particular claimed that they were seeing over 250,000 new users a day at one point, this enormous volume evidently reflecting the current rush of retail investors into the crypto space. Could these issues give decentralised exchanges an important role to play in 2018?
Next, the Bank of England (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/T32RNKpnn7DTDkaH2/bank-of-england-drops-plans-for-its-own-cryptocurrency) drops plans for its own cryptocurrency, fearing instability. Government backed cryptocurrencies stories really started surfacing in 2017, and it seems 2018 is no different.
Moving on to some stranger news, we discuss Dentacoin (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/7NEs4E74R7muqZZto/dentacoin-dental-crypto-bringing-smiles-to-investors)- a dentistry based cryptocurrency that shot up 900%. Does this reinforce fears that the crypto market is in bubble territory?
As always there's an array of topics we didn't have time to discuss including: Qtum - the next big thing?, Bitcoin Miners Shifting Outside China Amid Clampdown and What crypto didn’t give us in 2017.
We also bring you an interview with Nordea's Head of Blockchain and DLT, Ville Sointu.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
Special Guest: Ville Sointu.
We begin this week's news by discussing Mark Zuckerberg's interest in decentralisation, as he made it his 'challenge of the year' to study how it could 'fix' Facebook. Speaking of Zuck, XRP (Ripple's crypto-currency) had an incredible run up peaking at over $3.80, making Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen actually wealthier than Mark Zuckerberg for a short period of time. This massive run saw Ripple monetarily become the second largest crypto asset in terms of market cap, so, as you can imagine Simon and Colin discussed the project at great length!
Regulators are always a hot topic in the crypto sphere and this week was no different as Texas regulators ordered Bitconnect to cancel their token sale.
We also saw Visa drop their cryptocurrency backed debit cards due to violation of operating regulations, which had users scrambling. Tying into 'dropping users', Bittrex, Binance and Bitfinex all halted new user sign ups due to incredible demand. Binance in particular claimed that they were seeing over 250,000 new users a day at one point, this enormous volume evidently reflecting the current rush of retail investors into the crypto space. Could these issues give decentralised exchanges an important role to play in 2018?
Next, the Bank of England drops plans for its own cryptocurrency, fearing instability. Government backed cryptocurrencies stories really started surfacing in 2017, and it seems 2018 is no different.
Moving on to some stranger news, we discuss Dentacoin- a dentistry based cryptocurrency that shot up 900%. Does this reinforce fears that the crypto market is in bubble territory?
As always there's an array of topics we didn't have time to discuss including: Qtum - the next big thing?, Bitcoin Miners Shifting Outside China Amid Clampdown and What crypto didn’t give us in 2017.
We also bring you an interview with Nordea's Head of Blockchain and DLT, Ville Sointu.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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We begin this week's news by discussing Mark Zuckerberg's interest in decentralisation, as he made it his 'challenge of the year' to study how it could 'fix' Facebook. Speaking of Zuck, XRP (Ripple's crypto-currency) had an incredible run up peaking at over $3.80, making Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen actually wealthier than Mark Zuckerberg for a short period of time. This massive run saw Ripple monetarily become the second largest crypto asset in terms of market cap, so, as you can imagine Simon and Colin discussed the project at great length!
Regulators are always a hot topic in the crypto sphere and this week was no different as Texas regulators ordered Bitconnect to cancel their token sale.
We also saw Visa drop their cryptocurrency backed debit cards due to violation of operating regulations, which had users scrambling. Tying into 'dropping users', Bittrex, Binance and Bitfinex all halted new user sign ups due to incredible demand. Binance in particular claimed that they were seeing over 250,000 new users a day at one point, this enormous volume evidently reflecting the current rush of retail investors into the crypto space. Could these issues give decentralised exchanges an important role to play in 2018?
Next, the Bank of England drops plans for its own cryptocurrency, fearing instability. Government backed cryptocurrencies stories really started surfacing in 2017, and it seems 2018 is no different.
Moving on to some stranger news, we discuss Dentacoin- a dentistry based cryptocurrency that shot up 900%. Does this reinforce fears that the crypto market is in bubble territory?
As always there's an array of topics we didn't have time to discuss including: Qtum - the next big thing?, Bitcoin Miners Shifting Outside China Amid Clampdown and What crypto didn’t give us in 2017.
We also bring you an interview with Nordea's Head of Blockchain and DLT, Ville Sointu.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Ep. 27. XRP's Ripple effect and Blockchain use caseshttps://bi.11fs.com/28
d0372d75-64ef-4f50-9b55-58d85909cd99Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSIn the first show of 2018 Simon Taylor and Colin G Platt bring you the week's news, plus an interview with Coindesk's Peter Rizzo.57:08noWelcome to the very first show of 2018! We kick off the year with a bang, including some of the biggest stories from the holiday season, our predictions for 2018 and an interview with Peter Rizzo, Editor at Coindesk.
First up on the first show of 2018 we take a look at Blockchain and crypto predictions for the year to come. Why will this be the year that institutional investors really get involved? Will 2018 be the year that web 3.0 takes off? How will ICOs evolve through 2018, and will pump and dump syndicates come under regulatory scrutiny? Check out Simon's 2018 blog right here (https://11fs.com/blog/2018-blockchain-predictions-ready/).
Next, it's fast-becoming a weekly feature, it's the cryptocurrency prices piece. On its 9th birthday, we ask how high Bitcoin can really go? Plus, Ether brings in the new year with a record high, and who are the crypto Billionaires getting rich from Ripple's XRP?
Is it really true that nobody has come up with a use case for Blockchain in ten years? And is current technology simply the first stage in a wave of change that will take place over the next 10 to 20 years?
10 points to Colin, who, just two days into 2018, has already nailed one of his predictions for the year. So why has the ECB's Yves Mersch called Bitcoin a major threat to financial stability?
Next in the news, we discuss how the US has closed a crypto loophole, and whether this will hit the market.
What's up with Revolut? Or rather, what's up with Revolut crypto rates? How do they apply and how do they compare to other options?
This week we're also very lucky to hear from Pete Rizzo, Editor at Coindesk, a leading industry news source. Pete explains how Coindesk went about curating 2017's Most Influential list and how they aimed to reach a consensus on the most influential players in DLT in 2017.
And we didn't have time to talk about: whether Israel's central bank is considering digital currency; Putin's view on a possible CryptoRouble; and Blockchain's impact on the NHS. Check out the links below for all the stories we've discussed today.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com (https://fintechinsidernews.com/). Special Guest: Pete Rizzo.
Welcome to the very first show of 2018! We kick off the year with a bang, including some of the biggest stories from the holiday season, our predictions for 2018 and an interview with Peter Rizzo, Editor at Coindesk.
First up on the first show of 2018 we take a look at Blockchain and crypto predictions for the year to come. Why will this be the year that institutional investors really get involved? Will 2018 be the year that web 3.0 takes off? How will ICOs evolve through 2018, and will pump and dump syndicates come under regulatory scrutiny? Check out Simon's 2018 blog right here.
Next, it's fast-becoming a weekly feature, it's the cryptocurrency prices piece. On its 9th birthday, we ask how high Bitcoin can really go? Plus, Ether brings in the new year with a record high, and who are the crypto Billionaires getting rich from Ripple's XRP?
Is it really true that nobody has come up with a use case for Blockchain in ten years? And is current technology simply the first stage in a wave of change that will take place over the next 10 to 20 years?
10 points to Colin, who, just two days into 2018, has already nailed one of his predictions for the year. So why has the ECB's Yves Mersch called Bitcoin a major threat to financial stability?
Next in the news, we discuss how the US has closed a crypto loophole, and whether this will hit the market.
What's up with Revolut? Or rather, what's up with Revolut crypto rates? How do they apply and how do they compare to other options?
This week we're also very lucky to hear from Pete Rizzo, Editor at Coindesk, a leading industry news source. Pete explains how Coindesk went about curating 2017's Most Influential list and how they aimed to reach a consensus on the most influential players in DLT in 2017.
And we didn't have time to talk about: whether Israel's central bank is considering digital currency; Putin's view on a possible CryptoRouble; and Blockchain's impact on the NHS. Check out the links below for all the stories we've discussed today.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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Welcome to the very first show of 2018! We kick off the year with a bang, including some of the biggest stories from the holiday season, our predictions for 2018 and an interview with Peter Rizzo, Editor at Coindesk.
First up on the first show of 2018 we take a look at Blockchain and crypto predictions for the year to come. Why will this be the year that institutional investors really get involved? Will 2018 be the year that web 3.0 takes off? How will ICOs evolve through 2018, and will pump and dump syndicates come under regulatory scrutiny? Check out Simon's 2018 blog right here.
Next, it's fast-becoming a weekly feature, it's the cryptocurrency prices piece. On its 9th birthday, we ask how high Bitcoin can really go? Plus, Ether brings in the new year with a record high, and who are the crypto Billionaires getting rich from Ripple's XRP?
Is it really true that nobody has come up with a use case for Blockchain in ten years? And is current technology simply the first stage in a wave of change that will take place over the next 10 to 20 years?
10 points to Colin, who, just two days into 2018, has already nailed one of his predictions for the year. So why has the ECB's Yves Mersch called Bitcoin a major threat to financial stability?
Next in the news, we discuss how the US has closed a crypto loophole, and whether this will hit the market.
What's up with Revolut? Or rather, what's up with Revolut crypto rates? How do they apply and how do they compare to other options?
This week we're also very lucky to hear from Pete Rizzo, Editor at Coindesk, a leading industry news source. Pete explains how Coindesk went about curating 2017's Most Influential list and how they aimed to reach a consensus on the most influential players in DLT in 2017.
And we didn't have time to talk about: whether Israel's central bank is considering digital currency; Putin's view on a possible CryptoRouble; and Blockchain's impact on the NHS. Check out the links below for all the stories we've discussed today.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 25. Keanu Reeves on bitcoin, Vanguard on Blockchain and Cardanohttps://bi.11fs.com/26
683141e0-75ee-4143-82be-0084fc15f03fThu, 21 Dec 2017 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSHosts Simon Taylor and Colin G Platt explore the best of the week's news with help from the 11:FS Asset Management lead Pete Townsend, plus we bring you interviews with Paul Forrest from MBN Solutions, and Mark Jeffrey from Guardian Circle.1:03:13noG-Sass is back in France this week but that won't stop him joining Simon for this week's installment of the news show.
First up this week, the guys explore the implications of competition in the crypto futures space, as the CME launches its contract to compete with CBOE.
Bringing the cryto debate firmly into the mainstream, we discuss the French finance minister's intervention, urging a debate at the G20. Plus, why has Keanu Reeves spoken out over Bitcoin and what does it mean for the future of cryptoassets?
Why has Bill Miller's hedge fun put half its money in Bitcoin and what could his strategy be? Plus, has Bitcoin really become the biggest bubble the world has ever seen? The guys also discuss the nature of Bitcoin - is it a commodity? - and is the price totally fictional or is it really related to something?
Our very own Pete Townsend, 11:FS Asset Management Lead, joins us this week to break down Vanguard's plan to adopt blockchain technology.
We discuss the Gnosis Dutch exchange - do check out the blog post here (https://blog.gnosis.pm/introducing-the-gnosis-dutch-exchange-53bd3d51f9b2) - and finally, Cardano, the "Ethereum of Japan" has jumped into the top six cryptocurrencies by market cap of USD $12bn. So what's all the fuss about and is it really as secure as bitcoin?
And we didn't have time to discuss: Loopring's decentralized exchange and open protocol; HODL -
why the only good bitcoin advice is four years old; and, once again, CryptoKitties.
And to finish up this week, we bring you interviews with Mark Jeffrey from Guardian Circle and Paul Forrest from MBN Solutions.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com (https://fintechinsidernews.com/). Special Guests: Mark Jeffrey and Paul Forrest.
G-Sass is back in France this week but that won't stop him joining Simon for this week's installment of the news show.
First up this week, the guys explore the implications of competition in the crypto futures space, as the CME launches its contract to compete with CBOE.
Bringing the cryto debate firmly into the mainstream, we discuss the French finance minister's intervention, urging a debate at the G20. Plus, why has Keanu Reeves spoken out over Bitcoin and what does it mean for the future of cryptoassets?
Why has Bill Miller's hedge fun put half its money in Bitcoin and what could his strategy be? Plus, has Bitcoin really become the biggest bubble the world has ever seen? The guys also discuss the nature of Bitcoin - is it a commodity? - and is the price totally fictional or is it really related to something?
Our very own Pete Townsend, 11:FS Asset Management Lead, joins us this week to break down Vanguard's plan to adopt blockchain technology.
We discuss the Gnosis Dutch exchange - do check out the blog post here - and finally, Cardano, the "Ethereum of Japan" has jumped into the top six cryptocurrencies by market cap of USD $12bn. So what's all the fuss about and is it really as secure as bitcoin?
And we didn't have time to discuss: Loopring's decentralized exchange and open protocol; HODL -
why the only good bitcoin advice is four years old; and, once again, CryptoKitties.
And to finish up this week, we bring you interviews with Mark Jeffrey from Guardian Circle and Paul Forrest from MBN Solutions.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
Special Guests: Mark Jeffrey and Paul Forrest.
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G-Sass is back in France this week but that won't stop him joining Simon for this week's installment of the news show.
First up this week, the guys explore the implications of competition in the crypto futures space, as the CME launches its contract to compete with CBOE.
Bringing the cryto debate firmly into the mainstream, we discuss the French finance minister's intervention, urging a debate at the G20. Plus, why has Keanu Reeves spoken out over Bitcoin and what does it mean for the future of cryptoassets?
Why has Bill Miller's hedge fun put half its money in Bitcoin and what could his strategy be? Plus, has Bitcoin really become the biggest bubble the world has ever seen? The guys also discuss the nature of Bitcoin - is it a commodity? - and is the price totally fictional or is it really related to something?
Our very own Pete Townsend, 11:FS Asset Management Lead, joins us this week to break down Vanguard's plan to adopt blockchain technology.
We discuss the Gnosis Dutch exchange - do check out the blog post here - and finally, Cardano, the "Ethereum of Japan" has jumped into the top six cryptocurrencies by market cap of USD $12bn. So what's all the fuss about and is it really as secure as bitcoin?
And we didn't have time to discuss: Loopring's decentralized exchange and open protocol; HODL -
why the only good bitcoin advice is four years old; and, once again, CryptoKitties.
And to finish up this week, we bring you interviews with Mark Jeffrey from Guardian Circle and Paul Forrest from MBN Solutions.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
Special Guests: Mark Jeffrey and Paul Forrest.
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Ep. 24. CBOE futures, Bitcoin mining energy usage & investing responsiblyhttps://bi.11fs.com/25
5aee96f3-ac81-4026-8a71-d07bc7f9e33fThu, 14 Dec 2017 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSColin G Platt rejoins Simon Taylor for a second consecutive show in London to break down the week's news.1:00:50yesG Sass is back in London for a second week in a row to join Simon for this week's recap of the top Blockchain news - and what a week of news it was.
Bitcoin futures are now available for trading through CBOE. So what's a future, what's the significance of having a bitcoin future, and what was the impact when these futures launched?
Next, why your grandmother should not be buying bitcoin, despite how easily some platforms are making it. The guys discuss the importance of investors' understanding of the market and risk. And if you do want to get up to speed on bitcoin, Colin gives his thoughts on the essential reading, and where to look for more information.
Why are we so preoccupied with the energy consumption of bitcoin mining? And how might this impact the debate on energy use and climate change? Let us know why you think we're so attached to the energy narrative around bitcoin @BchainInsider.
Digital Asset Holdings has been selected by Australian Stock Exchange, making it the first exchange to commercialise DLT.
France will allow blockchain technology for trading unlisted securities (those not on the main exchange). So what will be the impact on startups and the listings market?
And, MAMA has launched! That is, the Multichain Asset Management Association, an industry trade body for asset management startups. Plus, news that UBS is to launch a live Ethereum platform with Barclays, Credit Suisse and others.
Next up, why has an ICO been halted after the SEC raised concerns over registration? And what does this say about the prospects for ICOs in the USA?
And this week we also bring you an interview with Jamie Burke, founder and CEO at Outlier Ventures. Simon and Colin hear about Jamie's experience as an angel investor, the next phase of the web and the importance of decentralisation. They also discuss tokenomics and IOTA - why is it different to other DLTs and what's on their road map?
That's it for this week. Don't forget, this episode is sponsored by ZILLA, a new ICO marketplace app. Browse ICOs, upvote or downvote so the good ones rise to the top and, if you like an ICO, participate with one-click! Pre-register for the limited ZILLA beta app at ZLA.io/bi (https://www.zla.io/bi).
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com (https://fintechinsidernews.com/). Special Guest: Jamie Burke.
G Sass is back in London for a second week in a row to join Simon for this week's recap of the top Blockchain news - and what a week of news it was.
Bitcoin futures are now available for trading through CBOE. So what's a future, what's the significance of having a bitcoin future, and what was the impact when these futures launched?
Next, why your grandmother should not be buying bitcoin, despite how easily some platforms are making it. The guys discuss the importance of investors' understanding of the market and risk. And if you do want to get up to speed on bitcoin, Colin gives his thoughts on the essential reading, and where to look for more information.
Why are we so preoccupied with the energy consumption of bitcoin mining? And how might this impact the debate on energy use and climate change? Let us know why you think we're so attached to the energy narrative around bitcoin @BchainInsider.
Digital Asset Holdings has been selected by Australian Stock Exchange, making it the first exchange to commercialise DLT.
France will allow blockchain technology for trading unlisted securities (those not on the main exchange). So what will be the impact on startups and the listings market?
And, MAMA has launched! That is, the Multichain Asset Management Association, an industry trade body for asset management startups. Plus, news that UBS is to launch a live Ethereum platform with Barclays, Credit Suisse and others.
Next up, why has an ICO been halted after the SEC raised concerns over registration? And what does this say about the prospects for ICOs in the USA?
And this week we also bring you an interview with Jamie Burke, founder and CEO at Outlier Ventures. Simon and Colin hear about Jamie's experience as an angel investor, the next phase of the web and the importance of decentralisation. They also discuss tokenomics and IOTA - why is it different to other DLTs and what's on their road map?
That's it for this week. Don't forget, this episode is sponsored by ZILLA, a new ICO marketplace app. Browse ICOs, upvote or downvote so the good ones rise to the top and, if you like an ICO, participate with one-click! Pre-register for the limited ZILLA beta app at ZLA.io/bi.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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G Sass is back in London for a second week in a row to join Simon for this week's recap of the top Blockchain news - and what a week of news it was.
Bitcoin futures are now available for trading through CBOE. So what's a future, what's the significance of having a bitcoin future, and what was the impact when these futures launched?
Next, why your grandmother should not be buying bitcoin, despite how easily some platforms are making it. The guys discuss the importance of investors' understanding of the market and risk. And if you do want to get up to speed on bitcoin, Colin gives his thoughts on the essential reading, and where to look for more information.
Why are we so preoccupied with the energy consumption of bitcoin mining? And how might this impact the debate on energy use and climate change? Let us know why you think we're so attached to the energy narrative around bitcoin @BchainInsider.
Digital Asset Holdings has been selected by Australian Stock Exchange, making it the first exchange to commercialise DLT.
France will allow blockchain technology for trading unlisted securities (those not on the main exchange). So what will be the impact on startups and the listings market?
And, MAMA has launched! That is, the Multichain Asset Management Association, an industry trade body for asset management startups. Plus, news that UBS is to launch a live Ethereum platform with Barclays, Credit Suisse and others.
Next up, why has an ICO been halted after the SEC raised concerns over registration? And what does this say about the prospects for ICOs in the USA?
And this week we also bring you an interview with Jamie Burke, founder and CEO at Outlier Ventures. Simon and Colin hear about Jamie's experience as an angel investor, the next phase of the web and the importance of decentralisation. They also discuss tokenomics and IOTA - why is it different to other DLTs and what's on their road map?
That's it for this week. Don't forget, this episode is sponsored by ZILLA, a new ICO marketplace app. Browse ICOs, upvote or downvote so the good ones rise to the top and, if you like an ICO, participate with one-click! Pre-register for the limited ZILLA beta app at ZLA.io/bi.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 23. Bitcoin goes stratospheric, Ethereum Cryptokitties and R3 CEO interviewhttps://bi.11fs.com/24
ce4eee28-1521-4e8f-9643-cd4c51a5ef50Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSColing G Platt is actually in the building this week to join Simon Taylor for the week's top news and a very special interview with R3's David Rutter.1:11:10yesColin has returned to the UK from his Australian adventure to join Simon back at our home in WeWork, Aldgate Tower. Once more, Bitcoin has hit a record high. But could the cryptocurrency's price be losing momentum? Bitcoin exchange Coinbase now has more users than stock brokerage Schwab, so what are the implications for its price? And, following its lawsuit defeat, Coinbase was forced to report some users to the IRS. Plus, as Bitcoin futures trading gets nearer, we ask why the price is still rising and what will contribute to its maturity?
Five blockchain predictions for 2018, including non-financial applications, the internet of things and smart contracts. But will governments advance cryptocurrency tax rules?
The cryptocurrency flash crash on the Bitfinex exchange caused uproar last week. So what caused it and could it have been avoided? Plus, was it really that bad? And, why did Bitfinex hire a law firm and team up with Tether? So many questions.
And - it's finally here...the story of the week. Ladies and gentlemen. Boys and girls. We bring you - CryptoKitties. Sims for Bitcoin. We explore why oh why one special CryptoKittie sold for $117,000. One hundred and seventeen. Thousand. US dollars. But please, don't fork your kitties. And how is "a silly game about cats" accounting for 17% of the Ethereum network? We also consider the more serious implications, including why the ERC721 contracts are going to displace Ethereum ICOs in 2017.
This week we are delighted to bring you an interview with R3 CEO David Rutter. Simon and David talk about blockchain's arrival, the joys of gardening leave and R3's journey from start up to leading blockchain firm. They also discuss the development of R3's platform, Corda, and their work with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Project Ubin. We hear about the significance of anti-trust law, going through Series A fundraising and the advantages of being a network business.
Don't forget, this episode is sponsored by ZILLA, a new ICO marketplace app. Browse ICOs, upvote or downvote so the good ones rise to the top and, if you like an ICO, participate with one-click! Pre-register for the limited ZILLA beta app at ZLA.io/bi (https://www.zla.io/bi).
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com (https://fintechinsidernews.com/). Special Guest: David Rutter.
Colin has returned to the UK from his Australian adventure to join Simon back at our home in WeWork, Aldgate Tower. Once more, Bitcoin has hit a record high. But could the cryptocurrency's price be losing momentum? Bitcoin exchange Coinbase now has more users than stock brokerage Schwab, so what are the implications for its price? And, following its lawsuit defeat, Coinbase was forced to report some users to the IRS. Plus, as Bitcoin futures trading gets nearer, we ask why the price is still rising and what will contribute to its maturity?
Five blockchain predictions for 2018, including non-financial applications, the internet of things and smart contracts. But will governments advance cryptocurrency tax rules?
The cryptocurrency flash crash on the Bitfinex exchange caused uproar last week. So what caused it and could it have been avoided? Plus, was it really that bad? And, why did Bitfinex hire a law firm and team up with Tether? So many questions.
And - it's finally here...the story of the week. Ladies and gentlemen. Boys and girls. We bring you - CryptoKitties. Sims for Bitcoin. We explore why oh why one special CryptoKittie sold for $117,000. One hundred and seventeen. Thousand. US dollars. But please, don't fork your kitties. And how is "a silly game about cats" accounting for 17% of the Ethereum network? We also consider the more serious implications, including why the ERC721 contracts are going to displace Ethereum ICOs in 2017.
This week we are delighted to bring you an interview with R3 CEO David Rutter. Simon and David talk about blockchain's arrival, the joys of gardening leave and R3's journey from start up to leading blockchain firm. They also discuss the development of R3's platform, Corda, and their work with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Project Ubin. We hear about the significance of anti-trust law, going through Series A fundraising and the advantages of being a network business.
Don't forget, this episode is sponsored by ZILLA, a new ICO marketplace app. Browse ICOs, upvote or downvote so the good ones rise to the top and, if you like an ICO, participate with one-click! Pre-register for the limited ZILLA beta app at ZLA.io/bi.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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Colin has returned to the UK from his Australian adventure to join Simon back at our home in WeWork, Aldgate Tower. Once more, Bitcoin has hit a record high. But could the cryptocurrency's price be losing momentum? Bitcoin exchange Coinbase now has more users than stock brokerage Schwab, so what are the implications for its price? And, following its lawsuit defeat, Coinbase was forced to report some users to the IRS. Plus, as Bitcoin futures trading gets nearer, we ask why the price is still rising and what will contribute to its maturity?
Five blockchain predictions for 2018, including non-financial applications, the internet of things and smart contracts. But will governments advance cryptocurrency tax rules?
The cryptocurrency flash crash on the Bitfinex exchange caused uproar last week. So what caused it and could it have been avoided? Plus, was it really that bad? And, why did Bitfinex hire a law firm and team up with Tether? So many questions.
And - it's finally here...the story of the week. Ladies and gentlemen. Boys and girls. We bring you - CryptoKitties. Sims for Bitcoin. We explore why oh why one special CryptoKittie sold for $117,000. One hundred and seventeen. Thousand. US dollars. But please, don't fork your kitties. And how is "a silly game about cats" accounting for 17% of the Ethereum network? We also consider the more serious implications, including why the ERC721 contracts are going to displace Ethereum ICOs in 2017.
This week we are delighted to bring you an interview with R3 CEO David Rutter. Simon and David talk about blockchain's arrival, the joys of gardening leave and R3's journey from start up to leading blockchain firm. They also discuss the development of R3's platform, Corda, and their work with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Project Ubin. We hear about the significance of anti-trust law, going through Series A fundraising and the advantages of being a network business.
Don't forget, this episode is sponsored by ZILLA, a new ICO marketplace app. Browse ICOs, upvote or downvote so the good ones rise to the top and, if you like an ICO, participate with one-click! Pre-register for the limited ZILLA beta app at ZLA.io/bi.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 22. Can Bitcoin really hit $100,000?https://bi.11fs.com/23
b4b9f478-9532-4735-8ae8-d98eb7d955ccThu, 30 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin discuss Bitcoin highs, Ether bonds, rogue ICOs, and much more. Plus, a special interview with Commissioner Brian Quintenz from the CFTC and a discussion on ICOs recorded live from RegTech Rising.1:02:19yesThis week, normal service is resumed as we returned, inexorably, to ANOTHER new Bitcoin high - this time, over $9,000 and, according to many, fast approaching $10,000. So is it just the result of more buyers than sellers in the market, or could there be other reasons? Plus, why maths might mean Bitcoin could reach $100,000 by 2021.
Bonds on Ether! Nivaura has issued the UK's first regulated Ether bond. But what will be the impact on CSDs?
Following a spate of rogue ICOs, we discuss the possibility that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) will crack down, and more fool the first ICO to fall foul of the DoJ as they might be looking to set an example.
Non-financial blockchain applications are coming. But will it succeed in blockchain-based air travel? Several airlines have partnered up to try to use DLT to iron out some of the bumps in air travel with luggage.
Plus, how to talk about cryptocurrency at the dinner table, and Ripple did a thing...again.
This week we also bring you two special features. Firstly, a roundtable on the ICO space with Ruth Wandhofer, Global Head Regulatory, Market & Innovation Strategy at Citibank; Jeff Bandman, Principal at Bandman Advisors; Lawrence Wintermeyer, Principal at Capstone; and Oliver Oram, founder and CEO at Chainvine. And second, Simon talks to very special guest Commissioner Brian Quintenz from the CFTC about the derivatives markets and the potential impact of distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Don't forget, this episode is sponsored by ZILLA, a new ICO marketplace app. Browse ICOs, upvote or downvote so the good ones rise to the top and, if you like an ICO, participate with one-click! Pre-register for the limited ZILLA beta app at ZLA.io/bi (https://www.zla.io/bi).
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com (https://fintechinsidernews.com/). Special Guests: Brian Quintenz, Jeff Bandman, Lawrence Wintermeyer, and Oliver Oram.
This week, normal service is resumed as we returned, inexorably, to ANOTHER new Bitcoin high - this time, over $9,000 and, according to many, fast approaching $10,000. So is it just the result of more buyers than sellers in the market, or could there be other reasons? Plus, why maths might mean Bitcoin could reach $100,000 by 2021.
Bonds on Ether! Nivaura has issued the UK's first regulated Ether bond. But what will be the impact on CSDs?
Following a spate of rogue ICOs, we discuss the possibility that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) will crack down, and more fool the first ICO to fall foul of the DoJ as they might be looking to set an example.
Non-financial blockchain applications are coming. But will it succeed in blockchain-based air travel? Several airlines have partnered up to try to use DLT to iron out some of the bumps in air travel with luggage.
Plus, how to talk about cryptocurrency at the dinner table, and Ripple did a thing...again.
This week we also bring you two special features. Firstly, a roundtable on the ICO space with Ruth Wandhofer, Global Head Regulatory, Market & Innovation Strategy at Citibank; Jeff Bandman, Principal at Bandman Advisors; Lawrence Wintermeyer, Principal at Capstone; and Oliver Oram, founder and CEO at Chainvine. And second, Simon talks to very special guest Commissioner Brian Quintenz from the CFTC about the derivatives markets and the potential impact of distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Don't forget, this episode is sponsored by ZILLA, a new ICO marketplace app. Browse ICOs, upvote or downvote so the good ones rise to the top and, if you like an ICO, participate with one-click! Pre-register for the limited ZILLA beta app at ZLA.io/bi.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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This week, normal service is resumed as we returned, inexorably, to ANOTHER new Bitcoin high - this time, over $9,000 and, according to many, fast approaching $10,000. So is it just the result of more buyers than sellers in the market, or could there be other reasons? Plus, why maths might mean Bitcoin could reach $100,000 by 2021.
Bonds on Ether! Nivaura has issued the UK's first regulated Ether bond. But what will be the impact on CSDs?
Following a spate of rogue ICOs, we discuss the possibility that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) will crack down, and more fool the first ICO to fall foul of the DoJ as they might be looking to set an example.
Non-financial blockchain applications are coming. But will it succeed in blockchain-based air travel? Several airlines have partnered up to try to use DLT to iron out some of the bumps in air travel with luggage.
Plus, how to talk about cryptocurrency at the dinner table, and Ripple did a thing...again.
This week we also bring you two special features. Firstly, a roundtable on the ICO space with Ruth Wandhofer, Global Head Regulatory, Market & Innovation Strategy at Citibank; Jeff Bandman, Principal at Bandman Advisors; Lawrence Wintermeyer, Principal at Capstone; and Oliver Oram, founder and CEO at Chainvine. And second, Simon talks to very special guest Commissioner Brian Quintenz from the CFTC about the derivatives markets and the potential impact of distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Don't forget, this episode is sponsored by ZILLA, a new ICO marketplace app. Browse ICOs, upvote or downvote so the good ones rise to the top and, if you like an ICO, participate with one-click! Pre-register for the limited ZILLA beta app at ZLA.io/bi.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 21. Bitcoin futures & ConsenSys London launch partyhttps://bi.11fs.com/22
42a3b77a-6a4b-4cea-bbaa-bcb35266412cThu, 23 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSThis week Simon and Colin bring you the best of the week's news, including LedgerX bitcoin futures options, crypto funding for movies plus some exclusive insights from ConsenSys' London launch party.44:13yesWelcome to an unusual show for us in recent weeks, as a new bitcoin high doesn't feature as our lead story!
Getting us off the mark, the guys explore the new Bitcoin futures option from LedgerX priced at $10,000. Why did someone buy it, and could we be buying too?
Next up, SegWit2x is back in the news, but having been called off last week, how has it caused some nodes to stumble?
And our story of the week - the CME Group has announced that it'll launch Bitcoin futures. So does this represent Wall Street advancing on Bitcoin, or is it bringing crypto ever-closer to the mainstream? Answers on a postcard, please do let us know what you think @colingplatt (https://twitter.com/colingplatt?lang=en) or @sytaylor (https://twitter.com/sytaylor?lang=en).]
WTF Colin G Platt? Could your next trip to the cinema feature a blockbuster funded by crypto? If everything goes to plan for one Hollywood producer, then absolutely! So, will Hollywood become the next industry to be disrupted by DLT?
And R3 founder and CEO David Rutter has spoken about why 2018 is a key year for him, and what it'll take to make it a success. So what do the guys think?
We also bring you a roundtable on the state of blockchain recorded live at the ConsenSys launch part in Shoreditch, London, featuring Alex Batlin and Ed Budd from ConsenSys, Lawrence Lundy from Outlier Ventures, and Charlene Chen from BitPesa. The guys discuss where we are with distributed ledger technology (DLT), the impact it's had on financial services and where it's heading. Simon also caught up with Jeremy Millar about ConsenSys' plans for growth and their move to London.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com (https://fintechinsidernews.com/). Special Guests: Alex Batlin, Charlene Chen, Ed Budd, Jeremy Millar, and Lawrence Lundy.
Welcome to an unusual show for us in recent weeks, as a new bitcoin high doesn't feature as our lead story!
Getting us off the mark, the guys explore the new Bitcoin futures option from LedgerX priced at $10,000. Why did someone buy it, and could we be buying too?
Next up, SegWit2x is back in the news, but having been called off last week, how has it caused some nodes to stumble?
And our story of the week - the CME Group has announced that it'll launch Bitcoin futures. So does this represent Wall Street advancing on Bitcoin, or is it bringing crypto ever-closer to the mainstream? Answers on a postcard, please do let us know what you think @colingplatt or @sytaylor.]
WTF Colin G Platt? Could your next trip to the cinema feature a blockbuster funded by crypto? If everything goes to plan for one Hollywood producer, then absolutely! So, will Hollywood become the next industry to be disrupted by DLT?
And R3 founder and CEO David Rutter has spoken about why 2018 is a key year for him, and what it'll take to make it a success. So what do the guys think?
We also bring you a roundtable on the state of blockchain recorded live at the ConsenSys launch part in Shoreditch, London, featuring Alex Batlin and Ed Budd from ConsenSys, Lawrence Lundy from Outlier Ventures, and Charlene Chen from BitPesa. The guys discuss where we are with distributed ledger technology (DLT), the impact it's had on financial services and where it's heading. Simon also caught up with Jeremy Millar about ConsenSys' plans for growth and their move to London.
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Welcome to an unusual show for us in recent weeks, as a new bitcoin high doesn't feature as our lead story!
Getting us off the mark, the guys explore the new Bitcoin futures option from LedgerX priced at $10,000. Why did someone buy it, and could we be buying too?
Next up, SegWit2x is back in the news, but having been called off last week, how has it caused some nodes to stumble?
And our story of the week - the CME Group has announced that it'll launch Bitcoin futures. So does this represent Wall Street advancing on Bitcoin, or is it bringing crypto ever-closer to the mainstream? Answers on a postcard, please do let us know what you think @colingplatt or @sytaylor.]
WTF Colin G Platt? Could your next trip to the cinema feature a blockbuster funded by crypto? If everything goes to plan for one Hollywood producer, then absolutely! So, will Hollywood become the next industry to be disrupted by DLT?
And R3 founder and CEO David Rutter has spoken about why 2018 is a key year for him, and what it'll take to make it a success. So what do the guys think?
We also bring you a roundtable on the state of blockchain recorded live at the ConsenSys launch part in Shoreditch, London, featuring Alex Batlin and Ed Budd from ConsenSys, Lawrence Lundy from Outlier Ventures, and Charlene Chen from BitPesa. The guys discuss where we are with distributed ledger technology (DLT), the impact it's had on financial services and where it's heading. Simon also caught up with Jeremy Millar about ConsenSys' plans for growth and their move to London.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 20. The greatest (bitcoin) story ever told!https://bi.11fs.com/21
3a50bec5-6038-4abf-83ca-840f7a0a6edaThu, 16 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +000011:FSfull11:FSSimon Taylor and the birthday boy Colin G Platt (still enjoying the beach in sunny Australia) cover the best of the week's news, including the death of SegWit2x, the surge in Bitcoin Cash and the latest on the parity hack. Plus interviews with Michael Casey, advisor, author, speaker and commentator, and Daniel Cotti and David Sutter from TradeIX.1:09:22noThe death of SegWit2x - what happened, why and what does it mean for bitcoin? How did $160m Eth get locked up in Parity wallets, and why might a fork be the only way to get it out? One of the greatest comebacks in (DLT) history - how could the former bitcoin king Mt. Gox be back in the money?
Plus, a new blockchain-based international payments system from R3 and 22 of the world's biggest banks; Bjork accepting cryptocurrency for new album; a token to cryogenically freeze yourself; and, Grayscale Investments announces the launch of a Zcash investment trust.
And we bring you two interviews. First, Simon speaks with Michael Casey, advisor, author, speaker and commentator. Next up, we talk to Daniel Cotti, CFO and Bank Partner Relationship, and David Sutter, Head of Platform Strategy, from TradeIX.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com (https://fintechinsidernews.com/). Special Guests: Daniel Cotti, David Sutter, and Michael Casey.
The death of SegWit2x - what happened, why and what does it mean for bitcoin? How did $160m Eth get locked up in Parity wallets, and why might a fork be the only way to get it out? One of the greatest comebacks in (DLT) history - how could the former bitcoin king Mt. Gox be back in the money?
Plus, a new blockchain-based international payments system from R3 and 22 of the world's biggest banks; Bjork accepting cryptocurrency for new album; a token to cryogenically freeze yourself; and, Grayscale Investments announces the launch of a Zcash investment trust.
And we bring you two interviews. First, Simon speaks with Michael Casey, advisor, author, speaker and commentator. Next up, we talk to Daniel Cotti, CFO and Bank Partner Relationship, and David Sutter, Head of Platform Strategy, from TradeIX.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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The death of SegWit2x - what happened, why and what does it mean for bitcoin? How did $160m Eth get locked up in Parity wallets, and why might a fork be the only way to get it out? One of the greatest comebacks in (DLT) history - how could the former bitcoin king Mt. Gox be back in the money?
Plus, a new blockchain-based international payments system from R3 and 22 of the world's biggest banks; Bjork accepting cryptocurrency for new album; a token to cryogenically freeze yourself; and, Grayscale Investments announces the launch of a Zcash investment trust.
And we bring you two interviews. First, Simon speaks with Michael Casey, advisor, author, speaker and commentator. Next up, we talk to Daniel Cotti, CFO and Bank Partner Relationship, and David Sutter, Head of Platform Strategy, from TradeIX.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 17. Bitcoin price explodes, ICOs implode and CEO of Ripple Interviewhttps://bi.11fs.com/18
7860c7ad-e646-4610-a878-7cb571e5a055Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSThis week Simon and Colin talk through the Bitcoin good news story as well as Tezos, R3, and much more. Plus, we hear Sam Maule talk to Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple.54:18noFirst up on this week’s show, Bitcoin keeps marching on, and it seems institutional money is behind its buoyancy. BlackRock, LedgerX, Wall Street - why it’s good news that everyone’s got an opinion on Bitcoin right now. The guys also dissect the Tezos story and ask: is it possible to raise too much money? With speculation that Tezos attracted nearly $300 million under a foundation model in Switzerland, the guys discuss how the situation will unfold. Meanwhile, with news that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has aligned itself with the SEC in determining that ICOs can be commodities, are we seeing an emerging consensus towards blockchain in the US?
Plus, we have a guest appearance from Fintech Insider’s Sam Maule, who caught up with Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, at Swell – Ripple’s payments conference – last week.
Also on today’s show – how £11 trillion in derivatives is getting closer to the Blockchain; why Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella challenged Swift to build useful Blockchain applications; R3’s patent application; mining for charity; and much more.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com (https://fintechinsidernews.com/). Special Guest: Brad Garlinghouse.
First up on this week’s show, Bitcoin keeps marching on, and it seems institutional money is behind its buoyancy. BlackRock, LedgerX, Wall Street - why it’s good news that everyone’s got an opinion on Bitcoin right now. The guys also dissect the Tezos story and ask: is it possible to raise too much money? With speculation that Tezos attracted nearly $300 million under a foundation model in Switzerland, the guys discuss how the situation will unfold. Meanwhile, with news that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has aligned itself with the SEC in determining that ICOs can be commodities, are we seeing an emerging consensus towards blockchain in the US?
Plus, we have a guest appearance from Fintech Insider’s Sam Maule, who caught up with Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, at Swell – Ripple’s payments conference – last week.
Also on today’s show – how £11 trillion in derivatives is getting closer to the Blockchain; why Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella challenged Swift to build useful Blockchain applications; R3’s patent application; mining for charity; and much more.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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First up on this week’s show, Bitcoin keeps marching on, and it seems institutional money is behind its buoyancy. BlackRock, LedgerX, Wall Street - why it’s good news that everyone’s got an opinion on Bitcoin right now. The guys also dissect the Tezos story and ask: is it possible to raise too much money? With speculation that Tezos attracted nearly $300 million under a foundation model in Switzerland, the guys discuss how the situation will unfold. Meanwhile, with news that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has aligned itself with the SEC in determining that ICOs can be commodities, are we seeing an emerging consensus towards blockchain in the US?
Plus, we have a guest appearance from Fintech Insider’s Sam Maule, who caught up with Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, at Swell – Ripple’s payments conference – last week.
Also on today’s show – how £11 trillion in derivatives is getting closer to the Blockchain; why Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella challenged Swift to build useful Blockchain applications; R3’s patent application; mining for charity; and much more.
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 16. Eth and Bitcoin forks, Bitcoin all-time high and Ripple vs R3https://bi.11fs.com/17
1fb64b2f-a61f-4372-bed0-3445e4252365Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSThis week Simon Taylor and Colin G Platt delve into the week's top blockchain and crypto news, and we hear from Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director at the Hyperledger Project within the Linux Foundation, and from Paul Worrall, founder of Zonafide.1:05:21yesThis week Bitcoin has gone the the moon! So what's the story behind its new all time high price? And how might the long courtship between Wall Street and Bitcoin have played a part in the story? The guys take a look at the JP Morgan messaging on Bitcoin, including Jamie Dimon's views.
We cover news from both Swell and Sibos, the pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin and how SWIFT intend to respond to the changing payments landscape. PLus, how is IBM using cryptocurrency in cross-border payments?
Colin explains why open blockchains might be the canary in the coalmine and, while the People's Bank of China Digital Currency Director calls for a centralised state cryptocurrency, Simon asks whether it's really possible to have a true cryptocurrency that's centralised. Plus, what can all this mean for a possible CryptoRuble?
We return to the story of the legal battle between R3 and Ripple to find out who's in the ascendancy, and the guys discuss how Digital Asset Holdings intend to use the $40m series B funding they raised recently.
And of course, we also revisit Segwit2x for an update on its progress, and discuss Ethereum's own Byznatium fork.
Plus, interviews with Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of the Hyperledger Project (https://www.hyperledger.org/) within the Linux Foundation, and Paul Worrall, founder of Zonafide (https://www.zonafide.net/).
We hope you enjoy the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com (https://fintechinsidernews.com/).
And if you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Brian Behlendorf and Paul Worrall.
This week Bitcoin has gone the the moon! So what's the story behind its new all time high price? And how might the long courtship between Wall Street and Bitcoin have played a part in the story? The guys take a look at the JP Morgan messaging on Bitcoin, including Jamie Dimon's views.
We cover news from both Swell and Sibos, the pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin and how SWIFT intend to respond to the changing payments landscape. PLus, how is IBM using cryptocurrency in cross-border payments?
Colin explains why open blockchains might be the canary in the coalmine and, while the People's Bank of China Digital Currency Director calls for a centralised state cryptocurrency, Simon asks whether it's really possible to have a true cryptocurrency that's centralised. Plus, what can all this mean for a possible CryptoRuble?
We return to the story of the legal battle between R3 and Ripple to find out who's in the ascendancy, and the guys discuss how Digital Asset Holdings intend to use the $40m series B funding they raised recently.
And of course, we also revisit Segwit2x for an update on its progress, and discuss Ethereum's own Byznatium fork.
Plus, interviews with Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of the Hyperledger Project within the Linux Foundation, and Paul Worrall, founder of Zonafide.
We hope you enjoy the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
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This week Bitcoin has gone the the moon! So what's the story behind its new all time high price? And how might the long courtship between Wall Street and Bitcoin have played a part in the story? The guys take a look at the JP Morgan messaging on Bitcoin, including Jamie Dimon's views.
We cover news from both Swell and Sibos, the pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin and how SWIFT intend to respond to the changing payments landscape. PLus, how is IBM using cryptocurrency in cross-border payments?
Colin explains why open blockchains might be the canary in the coalmine and, while the People's Bank of China Digital Currency Director calls for a centralised state cryptocurrency, Simon asks whether it's really possible to have a true cryptocurrency that's centralised. Plus, what can all this mean for a possible CryptoRuble?
We return to the story of the legal battle between R3 and Ripple to find out who's in the ascendancy, and the guys discuss how Digital Asset Holdings intend to use the $40m series B funding they raised recently.
And of course, we also revisit Segwit2x for an update on its progress, and discuss Ethereum's own Byznatium fork.
Plus, interviews with Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of the Hyperledger Project within the Linux Foundation, and Paul Worrall, founder of Zonafide.
We hope you enjoy the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 15. What the hell is Segwit2x, enterprise Blockchain and more regulators weigh inhttps://bi.11fs.com/16
ca625479-a620-4c45-87d2-e06f7c14509aThu, 12 Oct 2017 16:30:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin explore the week's news, plus special interviews with Scott Nelson, CEO and Chairman of Sweetbridge, and Abasa Phillips, founder of Zilla.1:05:09yesThis week Simon and Colin crunch through all the week's top news.
Why's everyone talking about SegWit2x, when will it happen and what does it mean for the future of bitcoin? Switzerland looks set to remain 'crypto valley' with talk of a code of conduct for ICOs. The guys talk security in bitcoin exchanges and why "those regulators gonna regulate". And with news that HMRC has built a blockchain proof of concept for the UK border, we discuss whether this is an efficiency no-brainer, or the precursor to a dystopian, crypto-enabled future.
The database giant Oracle has unveiled its enterprise blockchain platform, but will this solution cannibalise its existing business? We also hear from Scott Nelson at Sweetbridge on expanding the definition of liquidity, and Abasa Phillips from Zilla to tell us about their new platform to invest in ICOs.
And finally, wtf - what the Fetchcoin?! Whether its brilliantly conceived satire or a credible venture, you decide - let us know what you think!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com (https://fintechinsidernews.com/).
Special Guests: Abasa Phillips and Scott Nelson.
This week Simon and Colin crunch through all the week's top news.
Why's everyone talking about SegWit2x, when will it happen and what does it mean for the future of bitcoin? Switzerland looks set to remain 'crypto valley' with talk of a code of conduct for ICOs. The guys talk security in bitcoin exchanges and why "those regulators gonna regulate". And with news that HMRC has built a blockchain proof of concept for the UK border, we discuss whether this is an efficiency no-brainer, or the precursor to a dystopian, crypto-enabled future.
The database giant Oracle has unveiled its enterprise blockchain platform, but will this solution cannibalise its existing business? We also hear from Scott Nelson at Sweetbridge on expanding the definition of liquidity, and Abasa Phillips from Zilla to tell us about their new platform to invest in ICOs.
And finally, wtf - what the Fetchcoin?! Whether its brilliantly conceived satire or a credible venture, you decide - let us know what you think!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
Why's everyone talking about SegWit2x, when will it happen and what does it mean for the future of bitcoin? Switzerland looks set to remain 'crypto valley' with talk of a code of conduct for ICOs. The guys talk security in bitcoin exchanges and why "those regulators gonna regulate". And with news that HMRC has built a blockchain proof of concept for the UK border, we discuss whether this is an efficiency no-brainer, or the precursor to a dystopian, crypto-enabled future.
The database giant Oracle has unveiled its enterprise blockchain platform, but will this solution cannibalise its existing business? We also hear from Scott Nelson at Sweetbridge on expanding the definition of liquidity, and Abasa Phillips from Zilla to tell us about their new platform to invest in ICOs.
And finally, wtf - what the Fetchcoin?! Whether its brilliantly conceived satire or a credible venture, you decide - let us know what you think!
We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe.
Missing out on the conversation? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or to read more about the news stories and have your say visit fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 14. Legitimising crypto exchanges & ICOs: South Korea, Australia & DJ Khaled weigh in https://bi.11fs.com/15
ce167737-91c8-4868-ac82-a23a7a8d7d22Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSWe bring you the latest headlines with very special guests and three interviews including r3, DTCC and Jibrel Network.1:07:56noIn this episode:
Simon, Colin and special guest Frank Schuil CEO and co-founder of Safello break down the last week's headlines including:
The latest on the traditional finance vs crypto-currencies saga, with Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF speaking out about Bitcoin,
We look at what South Korea, Singapore, Australia & the SEC have to say about ICOs, not to mention DJ Khaled!
We also bring you 2 fantastic interviews from Yazan Barghuthi of Jibrel Network, and Jennifer Peve of the DTCC, and we speak to Adam Furgal from r3 about their recent announcements.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
If you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
Special Guests: Adam Furgal, Frank Schuil, Jennifer Peve, and Yazan Barghuthi.
In this episode:
Simon, Colin and special guest Frank Schuil CEO and co-founder of Safello break down the last week's headlines including:
The latest on the traditional finance vs crypto-currencies saga, with Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF speaking out about Bitcoin,
We look at what South Korea, Singapore, Australia & the SEC have to say about ICOs, not to mention DJ Khaled!
We also bring you 2 fantastic interviews from Yazan Barghuthi of Jibrel Network, and Jennifer Peve of the DTCC, and we speak to Adam Furgal from r3 about their recent announcements.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
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In this episode:
Simon, Colin and special guest Frank Schuil CEO and co-founder of Safello break down the last week's headlines including:
The latest on the traditional finance vs crypto-currencies saga, with Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF speaking out about Bitcoin,
We look at what South Korea, Singapore, Australia & the SEC have to say about ICOs, not to mention DJ Khaled!
We also bring you 2 fantastic interviews from Yazan Barghuthi of Jibrel Network, and Jennifer Peve of the DTCC, and we speak to Adam Furgal from r3 about their recent announcements.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 13. Jamie Dimon vs Bitcoin, Ethereum Mixers & Blockchain Livehttps://bi.11fs.com/14
6f344dd8-e7f3-4af4-9014-7d75c0070774Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin break down the last week of news, including Jamie Dimon's latest bitcoin rant, and we bring you the rest of our interviews from Blockchain Live.54:15noIn this episode:
We bring you the second part of our series of Interviews from Blockchain Live, including Sam Chadwick from Thomson Reuters, Gemma Milne, journalist and podcast host of Science: Disrupt; and Kaspar Korjus from the Estonian Republic.
Simon and Colin break down the latest news from the last week including:
- Jamie Dimon has more to say about Bitcoin, but is he a HODLer?
- Study finds that most Ethereum transactions are just trying to hide Ether
- Tim Swanson bears witness to all the sins in crypto-land in his latest blog post.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
If you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes? Special Guests: Gemma Milne, Kaspar Korjus, and Sam Chadwick.
In this episode:
We bring you the second part of our series of Interviews from Blockchain Live, including Sam Chadwick from Thomson Reuters, Gemma Milne, journalist and podcast host of Science: Disrupt; and Kaspar Korjus from the Estonian Republic.
Simon and Colin break down the latest news from the last week including:
Jamie Dimon has more to say about Bitcoin, but is he a HODLer?
Study finds that most Ethereum transactions are just trying to hide Ether
Tim Swanson bears witness to all the sins in crypto-land in his latest blog post.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
We bring you the second part of our series of Interviews from Blockchain Live, including Sam Chadwick from Thomson Reuters, Gemma Milne, journalist and podcast host of Science: Disrupt; and Kaspar Korjus from the Estonian Republic.
Simon and Colin break down the latest news from the last week including:
Jamie Dimon has more to say about Bitcoin, but is he a HODLer?
Study finds that most Ethereum transactions are just trying to hide Ether
Tim Swanson bears witness to all the sins in crypto-land in his latest blog post.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep 12. Beyond Bitcoin - Blockchain Live and EOS Interviewhttps://bi.11fs.com/13
2244a911-1e68-4d4f-abdc-05f8c76d8dddThu, 21 Sep 2017 11:15:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSWe bring you key interviews from Block One (EOS) and MEP Eva Kaili from Blockchain Live - and - Simon dissects the week's top stories.34:22noIn this episode:
Simon takes us through the week's top stories including BTCC ceasing trading in China; John McAffee's challenge on Jamie Dimon; and Vitalik Buterin's claim we're in an ICO bubble. Also: we ain't saying he a gold digger - but Jamie Foxx promotes a currency exchange ICO.
We also have some fantastic interviews recorded at Blockchain Live in London, including Brendan Blumer and Dan Larimer from Block One, all about their EOS platform.
Simon also speaks to Eva Kaili, MEP, about her role as Chair of the European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment body (STOA).
We will have more insights from Blockchain Live next week!
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
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Special Guests: Brendan Blumer, Dan Larimer, and Eva Kaili.
In this episode:
Simon takes us through the week's top stories including BTCC ceasing trading in China; John McAffee's challenge on Jamie Dimon; and Vitalik Buterin's claim we're in an ICO bubble. Also: we ain't saying he a gold digger - but Jamie Foxx promotes a currency exchange ICO.
We also have some fantastic interviews recorded at Blockchain Live in London, including Brendan Blumer and Dan Larimer from Block One, all about their EOS platform.
Simon also speaks to Eva Kaili, MEP, about her role as Chair of the European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment body (STOA).
We will have more insights from Blockchain Live next week!
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
Simon takes us through the week's top stories including BTCC ceasing trading in China; John McAffee's challenge on Jamie Dimon; and Vitalik Buterin's claim we're in an ICO bubble. Also: we ain't saying he a gold digger - but Jamie Foxx promotes a currency exchange ICO.
We also have some fantastic interviews recorded at Blockchain Live in London, including Brendan Blumer and Dan Larimer from Block One, all about their EOS platform.
Simon also speaks to Eva Kaili, MEP, about her role as Chair of the European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment body (STOA).
We will have more insights from Blockchain Live next week!
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
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Ep. 11. Bitcoin is dead. Long live Bitcoinhttps://bi.11fs.com/12
0ff2dd1d-e73b-4bc9-b051-6473fbc02c50Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin take another whirlwind trip into the week's news, and we also have an interview with Matt Spoke of the Aion Network.46:19noSimon and Colin take you through the madness that is this week's news including:
China bans bitcoin, again! Tax Exemptions for bitcoin exchanges - does taxing them make them more real?
As Japan launches major bitcoin mining centre, we ask if Japan is not bitcoin's untold story of the year, and Simon shares his views on JP Morgan chief exec Jamie Dimon stating that bitcoin is all fraud.
We also speak to Matt Spoke fro the Aion Network following their latest release.
All this and more on this week's show.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
If you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
Special Guest: Matt Spoke.
Simon and Colin take you through the madness that is this week's news including:
China bans bitcoin, again! Tax Exemptions for bitcoin exchanges - does taxing them make them more real?
As Japan launches major bitcoin mining centre, we ask if Japan is not bitcoin's untold story of the year, and Simon shares his views on JP Morgan chief exec Jamie Dimon stating that bitcoin is all fraud.
We also speak to Matt Spoke fro the Aion Network following their latest release.
All this and more on this week's show.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
If you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
Special Guest: Matt Spoke.
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Simon and Colin take you through the madness that is this week's news including:
China bans bitcoin, again! Tax Exemptions for bitcoin exchanges - does taxing them make them more real?
As Japan launches major bitcoin mining centre, we ask if Japan is not bitcoin's untold story of the year, and Simon shares his views on JP Morgan chief exec Jamie Dimon stating that bitcoin is all fraud.
We also speak to Matt Spoke fro the Aion Network following their latest release.
All this and more on this week's show.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider or read more about the news stories and add your own thoughts at fintechinsidernews.com.
If you really love the show, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
Special Guest: Matt Spoke.
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Ep. 10. China draws first regulatory blood on ICOshttps://bi.11fs.com/11
385021a2-f8a1-42b2-a5ed-3b55a2a6c160Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin are joined by Fintech Insider's Jason Bates and we have an exclusive interview with THE ICO lawyer, Patrick Murck1:06:04noIn this episode:
Simon and Colin and special guest, Fintech Insider and 11:FS' Jason Bates, break down the top news stories of the week including:
-The PBOC declares ICOs illegal
- Crypto markets tumble 20% as a result
- Messenger app Kik raises funds to launch an ICO for its own currency, the kin.
- And… Paris Hilton launches an ICO
They also debate why it is that bitcoin is currently considered a no-go zone by big banks?
Then Simon catches up with ICO lawyer and token expert Patrick Murck for his thoughts on token sales, ICOs and the Chinese rulings making headlines this week.
And finally - let us know which celebrity you'd trust most if they endorsed an ICO - Tweet us @bchaininsider or drop us a line at podcasts@11fs.com.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Special Guests: Jason Bates and Patrick Murck.
In this episode:
Simon and Colin and special guest, Fintech Insider and 11:FS' Jason Bates, break down the top news stories of the week including:
-The PBOC declares ICOs illegal
Crypto markets tumble 20% as a result
Messenger app Kik raises funds to launch an ICO for its own currency, the kin.
And… Paris Hilton launches an ICO
They also debate why it is that bitcoin is currently considered a no-go zone by big banks?
Then Simon catches up with ICO lawyer and token expert Patrick Murck for his thoughts on token sales, ICOs and the Chinese rulings making headlines this week.
And finally - let us know which celebrity you'd trust most if they endorsed an ICO - Tweet us @bchaininsider or drop us a line at podcasts@11fs.com.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
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Ep. 9. Will regulators kill ICOs and Tokens?https://bi.11fs.com/10
ba7c6f1a-bf11-460a-86e4-107a2756c8cfThu, 31 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin are joined by the FT's Kadhim Shubber and Richard Burton, founder of BalanceM.Money, for the news, followed by two very special interviews.1:13:41noIn this episode:
Simon, Colin and guests Kadhim Shubber and break down the top news stories of the last week including:
- Bitcoin Segwit upgrade goes live
- While Ethereum’s upgrade could still be a long wait
- More regulators opine on tokens
-And Burger King launches its own cryptocurrency
We also have some fantastic interviews including: Andrew Chapin of Benja, talking about the BenjaCoin and proactively working with regulators; and Taylor Monahan of MyEtherWallet about the industry trends, and scam prevention.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Get in touch with us on Twitter @bchaininsider, and we'd also love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes! Special Guests: Andrew Chapin, Kadhim Shubber, and Richard Burton.
In this episode:
Simon, Colin and guests Kadhim Shubber and break down the top news stories of the last week including:
Bitcoin Segwit upgrade goes live
While Ethereum’s upgrade could still be a long wait
More regulators opine on tokens
-And Burger King launches its own cryptocurrency
We also have some fantastic interviews including: Andrew Chapin of Benja, talking about the BenjaCoin and proactively working with regulators; and Taylor Monahan of MyEtherWallet about the industry trends, and scam prevention.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Get in touch with us on Twitter @bchaininsider, and we'd also love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes!
Simon, Colin and guests Kadhim Shubber and break down the top news stories of the last week including:
Bitcoin Segwit upgrade goes live
While Ethereum’s upgrade could still be a long wait
More regulators opine on tokens
-And Burger King launches its own cryptocurrency
We also have some fantastic interviews including: Andrew Chapin of Benja, talking about the BenjaCoin and proactively working with regulators; and Taylor Monahan of MyEtherWallet about the industry trends, and scam prevention.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Get in touch with us on Twitter @bchaininsider, and we'd also love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes!
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Ep. 8 Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Bonds and Insurance on Blockchainshttps://bi.11fs.com/9
c729cfea-3d85-4655-85c4-a20781665a5eThu, 24 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin are joined by PwC's Steve Webb, Hadi Kabalan MD of Otonomos, for the news, followed by two very special interviews.1:07:58noIn this episode:
Simon, Colin and guests Steve Webb and Hadi Kabalan break down the top news stories of the last week including:
- Bitcoin Cash hits $1000, then quickly returns to $600!
- The first bond on blockchain
- IOTA the Internet of Things “Blockchain” announces flash channels
And we have some top class interviews including: lawyer Stephen Palley about whether or not ICOs are legal, and what you should bear in mind if you're considering setting one up; then we speak to Blocksure's Ranvir Saggu and Joseph Goulden about their Ethereum-based Insurance project.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode, and we'd also love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes! Special Guests: Hadi Kabalan, Stephen Palley, and Steve Webb.
In this episode:
Simon, Colin and guests Steve Webb and Hadi Kabalan break down the top news stories of the last week including:
Bitcoin Cash hits $1000, then quickly returns to $600!
The first bond on blockchain
IOTA the Internet of Things “Blockchain” announces flash channels
And we have some top class interviews including: lawyer Stephen Palley about whether or not ICOs are legal, and what you should bear in mind if you're considering setting one up; then we speak to Blocksure's Ranvir Saggu and Joseph Goulden about their Ethereum-based Insurance project.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode, and we'd also love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes!
Simon, Colin and guests Steve Webb and Hadi Kabalan break down the top news stories of the last week including:
Bitcoin Cash hits $1000, then quickly returns to $600!
The first bond on blockchain
IOTA the Internet of Things “Blockchain” announces flash channels
And we have some top class interviews including: lawyer Stephen Palley about whether or not ICOs are legal, and what you should bear in mind if you're considering setting one up; then we speak to Blocksure's Ranvir Saggu and Joseph Goulden about their Ethereum-based Insurance project.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode, and we'd also love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes!
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Ep. 7. Filecoin's record-breaking raise & Tezos launching a VC fundhttps://bi.11fs.com/8
8d232840-8122-4626-b96f-76ae217a5285Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin are joined by Capco's Sara Feenan, Tokeneconomy founder Stefano Bernadi and Jennifer O'Rourke of the Illinois Blockchain Initiative.1:17:02noAs Bitcoin makes new highs, surpassing $4000 over the week, we look into the stories behind cryptocurrencies, tokens and DLTs. In this week's show we cover:
Filecoin overtakes Tezos for the largest crowdfunding ever, topping $250m in just one hour
Not to be outdone, Tezos announces a series of updates including its upcoming $50m VC fund
Microsoft goes all in on Ethereum, launching the Coco framework, while Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon release details of the Plasma scalability project.
Top cryptocurrency exchange, Bitfinex, reduces services for US customers, including for tokens
And, Twitter CEO and Square Founder Jack Dorsey calls Bitcoin and Blockchain the ‘next big unlock’
We have an exclusive interview from Jennifer O'Rourke of the Illinois Blockchain Initiative, all about the work that they're doing, and we also hear from Stefano Bernardi on his views on token sales and ICO investment.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode, and we'd also love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes!
Special Guests: Jennifer O'Rourke, Sara Feenan, and Stefano Bernardi.
As Bitcoin makes new highs, surpassing $4000 over the week, we look into the stories behind cryptocurrencies, tokens and DLTs. In this week's show we cover:
Filecoin overtakes Tezos for the largest crowdfunding ever, topping $250m in just one hour
Not to be outdone, Tezos announces a series of updates including its upcoming $50m VC fund
Microsoft goes all in on Ethereum, launching the Coco framework, while Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon release details of the Plasma scalability project.
Top cryptocurrency exchange, Bitfinex, reduces services for US customers, including for tokens
We have an exclusive interview from Jennifer O'Rourke of the Illinois Blockchain Initiative, all about the work that they're doing, and we also hear from Stefano Bernardi on his views on token sales and ICO investment.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode, and we'd also love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes!
We have an exclusive interview from Jennifer O'Rourke of the Illinois Blockchain Initiative, all about the work that they're doing, and we also hear from Stefano Bernardi on his views on token sales and ICO investment.
We hope you're enjoying the show - don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode, and we'd also love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes!
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Ep. 6. How to get a job in blockchain & Bitcoin Cash: week one rounduphttps://bi.11fs.com/7
f1420e70-afe6-4909-9443-217665f40d7fThu, 10 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSIn another packed episode Colin and Simon are joined by guests Chris Burniske and Zeth Couceiro.58:59noIn this episode:
Simon and Colin break down: high profile bankers leaving for cryptocurrency startups, The Chicago Board of Exchange announces that it will launch Bitcoin Futures, and ICO funding tops half a billion dollars in the month of July and 1.6Bn this year.
Zeth Couceiro, expert recruiter in the blockchain space, makes his debut on the show giving his top tips on how to get a job in blockchain.
They also look back at the first week of Bitcoin Cash since the bitcoin fork and discuss the impact on the price and the network with Chris Burniske.
Special Guests: Chris Burniske and Zeth Couceiro.
In this episode:
Simon and Colin break down: high profile bankers leaving for cryptocurrency startups, The Chicago Board of Exchange announces that it will launch Bitcoin Futures, and ICO funding tops half a billion dollars in the month of July and 1.6Bn this year.
Zeth Couceiro, expert recruiter in the blockchain space, makes his debut on the show giving his top tips on how to get a job in blockchain.
They also look back at the first week of Bitcoin Cash since the bitcoin fork and discuss the impact on the price and the network with Chris Burniske.
Special Guests: Chris Burniske and Zeth Couceiro.
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In this episode:
Simon and Colin break down: high profile bankers leaving for cryptocurrency startups, The Chicago Board of Exchange announces that it will launch Bitcoin Futures, and ICO funding tops half a billion dollars in the month of July and 1.6Bn this year.
Zeth Couceiro, expert recruiter in the blockchain space, makes his debut on the show giving his top tips on how to get a job in blockchain.
They also look back at the first week of Bitcoin Cash since the bitcoin fork and discuss the impact on the price and the network with Chris Burniske.
Special Guests: Chris Burniske and Zeth Couceiro.
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Ep. 5. The Bitcoin Fork and Bitcoin Cashhttps://bi.11fs.com/6
f014bd73-cac8-4f24-bafd-f624f193ac90Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSThis week we talk Bitcoin cash, BTC-e, Ethereum miners charting jumbo jets, and we hear from 3 fantastic guests.1:00:18noIn another packed episode Simon and Colin discuss the latest news in the industry including the arrest of Alexander Vinnik and seizure of Bitcoin exchange BTC-e; Ethereum miners chartering jumbo jets and of course the Bitcoin split - and we have a comment from crypto expert Chris Burniske to get his take on what just happened and what the impact of the split will be.
We also have two fantastic interviews, starting with Dr Gideon Greenspan who’s behind Multichain and Coinsciences and Reto Trinkler, CEO of of MelonPort about the Melon Protocol.
Enjoy the show! Tell your friends and please do leave us a review on iTunes.
Special Guests: Chris Burniske, Gideon Greenspan, and Reto Trinkler.
In another packed episode Simon and Colin discuss the latest news in the industry including the arrest of Alexander Vinnik and seizure of Bitcoin exchange BTC-e; Ethereum miners chartering jumbo jets and of course the Bitcoin split - and we have a comment from crypto expert Chris Burniske to get his take on what just happened and what the impact of the split will be.
We also have two fantastic interviews, starting with Dr Gideon Greenspan who’s behind Multichain and Coinsciences and Reto Trinkler, CEO of of MelonPort about the Melon Protocol.
Enjoy the show! Tell your friends and please do leave us a review on iTunes.
Special Guests: Chris Burniske, Gideon Greenspan, and Reto Trinkler.
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In another packed episode Simon and Colin discuss the latest news in the industry including the arrest of Alexander Vinnik and seizure of Bitcoin exchange BTC-e; Ethereum miners chartering jumbo jets and of course the Bitcoin split - and we have a comment from crypto expert Chris Burniske to get his take on what just happened and what the impact of the split will be.
We also have two fantastic interviews, starting with Dr Gideon Greenspan who’s behind Multichain and Coinsciences and Reto Trinkler, CEO of of MelonPort about the Melon Protocol.
Enjoy the show! Tell your friends and please do leave us a review on iTunes.
Special Guests: Chris Burniske, Gideon Greenspan, and Reto Trinkler.
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Ep. 4: The SEC verdict on ICOs, the Parity hack and bitcoin forks!https://bi.11fs.com/5
17d1bbb7-6a72-46ef-b406-598254b26fb8Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:30:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSIn a packed episode we talk about THAT Parity hack that unfolded last week, the upcoming bitcoin fork and we have an exclusive reaction to the SEC's verdict on ICOs and Tokens from Jeff Bandman, plus an interview with a very special guest: R3's CTO, Richard Brown.1:15:50noColin and Simon are joined by author Chris Burniske for the news.
They cover the top stories rocking the blockchain and cryto space right now, kicking off with the Parity hack last week, which has as many twists and turns as a heist movie after $32M Ethereum was stolen, and a whitehat group attempted to hack it back and return the stolen money. Was this ethical? What is the impact of this? Colin, Simon and Chris try to make sense of it all.
They also discuss the bitcoin scaling problem, resulting in a hard fork of bitcoin and a divide in viewpoint of the bitcoin community, and finally, the breaking news of the SEC's verdict on DAO ICOs and tokens and get an exclusive interview from Jeff Bandman in reaction to this.
We also have an interview with Richard Brown, CTO of R3 all about the work that they do, and specifically about Corda.
Guests:
Chris Burniske - Author: Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
Richard Brown - CTO, R3
Jeff Bandman - Principal, Bandman Advisors and former Founding Director and architect, LabCFTC
Colin and Simon are joined by author Chris Burniske for the news.
They cover the top stories rocking the blockchain and cryto space right now, kicking off with the Parity hack last week, which has as many twists and turns as a heist movie after $32M Ethereum was stolen, and a whitehat group attempted to hack it back and return the stolen money. Was this ethical? What is the impact of this? Colin, Simon and Chris try to make sense of it all.
They also discuss the bitcoin scaling problem, resulting in a hard fork of bitcoin and a divide in viewpoint of the bitcoin community, and finally, the breaking news of the SEC's verdict on DAO ICOs and tokens and get an exclusive interview from Jeff Bandman in reaction to this.
We also have an interview with Richard Brown, CTO of R3 all about the work that they do, and specifically about Corda.
They cover the top stories rocking the blockchain and cryto space right now, kicking off with the Parity hack last week, which has as many twists and turns as a heist movie after $32M Ethereum was stolen, and a whitehat group attempted to hack it back and return the stolen money. Was this ethical? What is the impact of this? Colin, Simon and Chris try to make sense of it all.
They also discuss the bitcoin scaling problem, resulting in a hard fork of bitcoin and a divide in viewpoint of the bitcoin community, and finally, the breaking news of the SEC's verdict on DAO ICOs and tokens and get an exclusive interview from Jeff Bandman in reaction to this.
We also have an interview with Richard Brown, CTO of R3 all about the work that they do, and specifically about Corda.
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Ep. 3: Bitcoin Signs & is Crypto a New Religion?https://bi.11fs.com/4
8ba47849-7591-445e-97c8-043ada7f8407Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon is joined by special guests Ajit Tripathi, Jeff Bandman, Paul Gordon for the news and later he interviews Meltem Demirors, Director of Digital Currency Group.1:23:44noThis week Simon and guests talk through a guy holding up a “Buy Bitcoin” sign who gets $15,000 donated as a result, the developments in “DLT” and corporate Blockchain, Revolut's integration of bitcoin, and will Mauritius really become "Ether Island", the new go-to place for cryptocurrencies?
Later on he chats to Meltem Demoirs from Digital Currency Group about what's hot in blockchain, what is a token, and women in blockhain.
Guests:
- Ajit Tripathi - Director, Disruptive Technologies, PwC
- Jeff Bandman - Principal, Bandman Advisors and former Founding Director and architect, LabCFTC
- Paul Gordon - Co-founder, Quantave & Director, Coinscrum
- Melten Demirors - Director, Digital Currency Group
Like what you heard? Don't forget to subscribe, review us on iTunes or contact us - podcasts@11fs.co.uk Special Guest: Ajit Tripathi.
This week Simon and guests talk through a guy holding up a “Buy Bitcoin” sign who gets $15,000 donated as a result, the developments in “DLT” and corporate Blockchain, Revolut's integration of bitcoin, and will Mauritius really become "Ether Island", the new go-to place for cryptocurrencies?
Later on he chats to Meltem Demoirs from Digital Currency Group about what's hot in blockchain, what is a token, and women in blockhain.
Like what you heard? Don't forget to subscribe, review us on iTunes or contact us - podcasts@11fs.co.uk
Special Guest: Ajit Tripathi.
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This week Simon and guests talk through a guy holding up a “Buy Bitcoin” sign who gets $15,000 donated as a result, the developments in “DLT” and corporate Blockchain, Revolut's integration of bitcoin, and will Mauritius really become "Ether Island", the new go-to place for cryptocurrencies?
Later on he chats to Meltem Demoirs from Digital Currency Group about what's hot in blockchain, what is a token, and women in blockhain.
Like what you heard? Don't forget to subscribe, review us on iTunes or contact us - podcasts@11fs.co.uk
Special Guest: Ajit Tripathi.
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Ep. 2: Tokenomics, FOMO and $566M in a monthhttps://bi.11fs.com/2
a53d8308-75ea-4ce6-905f-169c9fb8b3f8Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSSimon and Colin are back for Episode 2 and joined by Maya Zehavi for the news and later on they interview William Mougayar on all things tokens.
50:29noWe talk Governments getting into Blockchain - will regulation be led by China and Singapore?, cryptocurrencies finally being taken seriously by banks, governments and regulating bodies - and then conversely, the fear of missing out now has its own coin!
And later in the show we talk to William Mougayar - the author, expert and speaker on all things Tokens and Blockchain!
He tells us how he got into blockchain, where he sees the industry going, his view on token sales and the million dollar question: are we in a bubble? Special Guest: William Mougayar.
We talk Governments getting into Blockchain - will regulation be led by China and Singapore?, cryptocurrencies finally being taken seriously by banks, governments and regulating bodies - and then conversely, the fear of missing out now has its own coin!
And later in the show we talk to William Mougayar - the author, expert and speaker on all things Tokens and Blockchain!
He tells us how he got into blockchain, where he sees the industry going, his view on token sales and the million dollar question: are we in a bubble?
Special Guest: William Mougayar.
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We talk Governments getting into Blockchain - will regulation be led by China and Singapore?, cryptocurrencies finally being taken seriously by banks, governments and regulating bodies - and then conversely, the fear of missing out now has its own coin!
And later in the show we talk to William Mougayar - the author, expert and speaker on all things Tokens and Blockchain!
He tells us how he got into blockchain, where he sees the industry going, his view on token sales and the million dollar question: are we in a bubble?
Special Guest: William Mougayar.
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Ep. 1: Ongoing Token Madnesshttps://bi.11fs.com/1
7b4832a2-acb0-4709-beaf-35f8d6e3da0bThu, 06 Jul 2017 13:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSWelcome to the first ever Blockchain insider - this is the show for all your Blockchain and DLT needs.55:09noIn this episode:
Today we will talk about the ongoing token madness, the importance of the state of Delaware, followed by some Blockchain news, including the importance of bitcoin in both the sale of marijuana and related and unrelated transaction security.
In the second part of the show we have two interviews with some fantastic guests - first up: Arthur and Kathleen Brietman, the founders of Tezos, about one of the most exciting token sales happening. They are followed by Stefan Thomas the CTO of famous start-up Ripple, the global settlement network, who discusses (among other things) the importance of protocols and the rise and investment in interledgers.
Like what you heard? Don't forget to subscribe, review us on iTunes or contact us - podcasts@11fs.co.uk Special Guests: Arthur Breitman, Kathleen Breitman, and Stefan Thomas.
In this episode:
Today we will talk about the ongoing token madness, the importance of the state of Delaware, followed by some Blockchain news, including the importance of bitcoin in both the sale of marijuana and related and unrelated transaction security.
In the second part of the show we have two interviews with some fantastic guests - first up: Arthur and Kathleen Brietman, the founders of Tezos, about one of the most exciting token sales happening. They are followed by Stefan Thomas the CTO of famous start-up Ripple, the global settlement network, who discusses (among other things) the importance of protocols and the rise and investment in interledgers.
Like what you heard? Don't forget to subscribe, review us on iTunes or contact us - podcasts@11fs.co.uk
Today we will talk about the ongoing token madness, the importance of the state of Delaware, followed by some Blockchain news, including the importance of bitcoin in both the sale of marijuana and related and unrelated transaction security.
In the second part of the show we have two interviews with some fantastic guests - first up: Arthur and Kathleen Brietman, the founders of Tezos, about one of the most exciting token sales happening. They are followed by Stefan Thomas the CTO of famous start-up Ripple, the global settlement network, who discusses (among other things) the importance of protocols and the rise and investment in interledgers.
Like what you heard? Don't forget to subscribe, review us on iTunes or contact us - podcasts@11fs.co.uk
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Blockchain Special Part 2: Consensus Recaphttps://bi.11fs.com/002
d87eefff-057a-4755-bb6a-855f6c59f68eThu, 06 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FS
Part 2 of our Blockchain Special, Simon and Colin with a roster of fascinating guests focus on the recent Consensus conference. We cover what the conference is, who should be attending and where it means to the industry. We give you a crash course on the difference between cryptocurrencies and DLT, what the main impacts ledger technology will have on banks and what is causing the major spikes in crypto currency prices right now.51:51noPart 2 of our Blockchain Special, Simon and Colin with a roster of fascinating guests focus on the recent Consensus conference. We cover what the conference is, who should be attending and where it means to the industry. We give you a crash course on the difference between cryptocurrencies and DLT, what the main impacts ledger technology will have on banks and what is causing the major spikes in crypto currency prices right now. Special Guests: Ajit Tripathi, Ghela Boskovich, and Jeremy Millar.
Part 2 of our Blockchain Special, Simon and Colin with a roster of fascinating guests focus on the recent Consensus conference. We cover what the conference is, who should be attending and where it means to the industry. We give you a crash course on the difference between cryptocurrencies and DLT, what the main impacts ledger technology will have on banks and what is causing the major spikes in crypto currency prices right now.
Special Guests: Ajit Tripathi, Ghela Boskovich, and Jeremy Millar.
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Part 2 of our Blockchain Special, Simon and Colin with a roster of fascinating guests focus on the recent Consensus conference. We cover what the conference is, who should be attending and where it means to the industry. We give you a crash course on the difference between cryptocurrencies and DLT, what the main impacts ledger technology will have on banks and what is causing the major spikes in crypto currency prices right now.
Special Guests: Ajit Tripathi, Ghela Boskovich, and Jeremy Millar.
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Blockchain Special Part 3: EEA and ZCashhttps://bi.11fs.com/003
6e33eab1-66a2-4e8f-bcf9-84aab9019a51Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSIn the third of our three part Blockchain Special, Simon and Colin are joined by some very special guests to discuss EEA, ZCash and the potential similarities between blockchain and the rise of cryptocurrencies and the dot-com bubble in the 90s, and asks the question: “Why should we be paying attention?”. They also debate the anonymity of blockchain and user privacy; and centralisation vs decentralisation in blockchain APIs - do we still need the middle man?1:08:47noIn the third of our three part Blockchain Special, Simon and Colin are joined by some very special guests to discuss EEA, ZCash and the potential similarities between blockchain and the rise of cryptocurrencies and the dot-com bubble in the 90s, and asks the question: “Why should we be paying attention?”. They also debate the anonymity of blockchain and user privacy; and centralisation vs decentralisation in blockchain APIs - do we still need the middle man?
In the second half they discuss highly topical news stories such as the EU’s pledge to invest in blockchain research and Theresa May’s proposal for greater internet security and access to public data - is she asking for the impossible? Special Guest: Jack Gavigan.
In the third of our three part Blockchain Special, Simon and Colin are joined by some very special guests to discuss EEA, ZCash and the potential similarities between blockchain and the rise of cryptocurrencies and the dot-com bubble in the 90s, and asks the question: “Why should we be paying attention?”. They also debate the anonymity of blockchain and user privacy; and centralisation vs decentralisation in blockchain APIs - do we still need the middle man?
In the second half they discuss highly topical news stories such as the EU’s pledge to invest in blockchain research and Theresa May’s proposal for greater internet security and access to public data - is she asking for the impossible?
Special Guest: Jack Gavigan.
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In the third of our three part Blockchain Special, Simon and Colin are joined by some very special guests to discuss EEA, ZCash and the potential similarities between blockchain and the rise of cryptocurrencies and the dot-com bubble in the 90s, and asks the question: “Why should we be paying attention?”. They also debate the anonymity of blockchain and user privacy; and centralisation vs decentralisation in blockchain APIs - do we still need the middle man?
In the second half they discuss highly topical news stories such as the EU’s pledge to invest in blockchain research and Theresa May’s proposal for greater internet security and access to public data - is she asking for the impossible?
Special Guest: Jack Gavigan.
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Blockchain Special Part 1: Tokenshttps://bi.11fs.com/001
9a86ad7d-fe7d-436f-8d42-bf1d66a1f2fdThu, 06 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +010011:FSfull11:FSAs crypto currency interest and prices reach an all time high Simon and Colin bring you the first of a three part special on Blockchain. We delve into the hurricane of news that surfaced this week talking all time high prices, Bitcoin's effect on national security and the CFTC's foray into the blockchain.1:22:06noAs crypto currency interest and prices reach an all time high Simon and Colin bring you the first of a three part special on Blockchain. We delve into the hurricane of news that surfaced this week talking all time high prices, Bitcoin's effect on national security and the CFTC's foray into the blockchain.
In our second half tokens and ICO's are on the table as we explain what exactly an ICO is, what tokens are, what industries are reacting and why you should be paying attention. Special Guests: Euros Evans and Kadhim Shubber.
As crypto currency interest and prices reach an all time high Simon and Colin bring you the first of a three part special on Blockchain. We delve into the hurricane of news that surfaced this week talking all time high prices, Bitcoin's effect on national security and the CFTC's foray into the blockchain.
In our second half tokens and ICO's are on the table as we explain what exactly an ICO is, what tokens are, what industries are reacting and why you should be paying attention.
Special Guests: Euros Evans and Kadhim Shubber.
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As crypto currency interest and prices reach an all time high Simon and Colin bring you the first of a three part special on Blockchain. We delve into the hurricane of news that surfaced this week talking all time high prices, Bitcoin's effect on national security and the CFTC's foray into the blockchain.
In our second half tokens and ICO's are on the table as we explain what exactly an ICO is, what tokens are, what industries are reacting and why you should be paying attention. | 2024-06-16T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/8032 |
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A 37-year-old female was referred to our department for a renal mass which was incidentally found during a medical check-up. She had no history of tuberous sclerosis. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed a 1.5-cm enhancing mass at the lower pole of the left kidney. An open partial nephrectomy was performed for a pre-operative diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma. Pathological examination revealed sheets of large polygonal epithelioid cells that showed positive immunostaining for HMB-45, which confirmed the diagnosis of an epithelioid angiomyolipoma. The patient remained free of recurrent or metastatic disease at 3 months of follow-up. Epithelioid angiomyolipoma is a recently identified variant of angiomyolipoma, which is sometimes associated with aggressive clinical behavior including local recurrence and metastasis. We present this case and review the literature concerning this unusual disorder. | 2024-06-29T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/4240 |
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How I love my beautiful Prepster Red Address Labels with Parisian printing; one cannot help but notice the impressive label with its gorgeous deep red stripe and classy type. One caution: order the largest size type offered in order for the vowels to print dark enough to read. I will reorder these lovely Shutterfly address labels in the near future!
September 10, 2012 | 2024-03-13T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/8228 |
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 12, 2008) - MPH Ventures Corp. (TSX VENTURE:MPS) (FRANKFURT:IJA1) (the "Company") announces the acquisition from Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SYH) of a further 11% interest, from 39% to 50%, in its Heyson gold property located in Red Lake, Northwestern Ontario. For consideration, the Company will pay Skyharbour Resources 500,000 shares of MPH Ventures. This will now create a 50% / 50% joint venture on the Heyson project between MPH Ventures and Skyharbour Resources. The 7,000 acres Heyson property lies in the southern portion of the central Red Lake gold belt, 5 km south of the operating Goldcorp Red Lake and Campbell gold mines.
A previous till sampling program on the Heyson property undertaken by MPH Ventures and Skyharbour identified areas on the property that might host significant gold mineralization. The companies identified a large, well-defined "gold-in-till" anomaly (Sully Creek Till Anomaly) on the property. The width of the anomaly covers 350 metres along a strike length of 1.5 kilometres. Sampling indicates the source of the gold-in-till anomaly is on the property. Past drilling by MPH Ventures and Skyharbour Resources tested the Sully Creek Till Anomaly and identified gold values within a distinct hematite-epidote alteration system with the most significant intercept grading 59.4 grams per tonne Au over 0.4 metres.
The above transaction is subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval.
In other news, MPH Ventures announces it is scaling back further exploration on its 100% owned 3,400 acres Pidgeon Molybdenum Deposit project located at the east end of Lateral Lake, Echo Township, northwestern Ontario. Due to current market conditions and weak base metal commodity prices, MPH Ventures has had to curtail further expenditures on its 100% owned Pidgeon Molybdenum Deposit project. The Company believes the Pidgeon Molybdenum Deposit project is a very viable project given higher molybdenum prices and has the potential to become a significant surface deposit in a very mining friendly location with immediate proximity to infrastructure.
The Company's goals since acquiring the Pidgeon Molybdenum Deposit in 2007 from BHP Billiton and Goldcorp was to develop and expand the know resource from 8.5 million tonnes of 0.01% Mo inferred resource to 20 million tonnes of 0.01% Mo drill indicated in the first year. The drilling completed to date indicates that the size of the molybdenum deposit has been substantially increased. The drilling also indicates that the known molybdenum zone is open along several trends to the west and east and suggests significant new tonnage can also be developed in these directions. The stripping and drilling carried out in 2008 by MPH Ventures indicate that significant new tonnage could also be added along the footwall on the known mineralized body along its entire length of approximately 1700 metres, as this area has never been adequately drilled. The Company believes a possibility for further expansion to a potential open pit situation exists on the Pidgeon Molybdenum Deposit property.
The Company now owns 100% of the patented claims that comprise the Pidgeon Molybdenum Deposit and will hold the project in good standing until such a time as market conditions and base metal commodity prices improve.
MPH Ventures Corp. is a precious metal and molybdenum exploration company focused on mineral development within Canada.
For further information on MPH Ventures Corp. (TSX VENTURE:MPS) visit the Company's web site at www.mphventurescorp.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
JAMES G. PETTIT, President
This news release contains certain "Forward-Looking Statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations are disclosed in the Company's documents filed from time to time with the British Columbia Securities Commission and the United States Securities & Exchange Commission.
The TSX Venture Exchange and Frankfurt Exchange have not reviewed and do not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the content of this news release. | 2023-08-08T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/8814 |
Friday’s historic summit in the Korean demilitarized zone has had an enormous impact on public confidence in the peace process among South Koreans. Many went into the summit uncertain what it would bring, but a large majority came out optimistic.
Polls among South Koreans showed, ahead of the summit, only 14.7% thought denuclearization and peace would a real possibility. After the successful summit, that figured soared to 64.7%. This is the most dramatic metric yet available on how impactful the summit really was.
Live television broadcasts of the meeting between North Korea’s Kim Jung-un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in gave the public a new look at their neighbors to the north, after decades of acrimony from Kim’s father and grandfather.
Kim’s cordial greeting of Moon, the handshake, and the two walking hand-in-hand across the border within the truce village left a powerful impression on the public. It led to a boost in South Korea’s stock market as many see peace on the horizon.
It was also good for President Moon. Though his polling numbers weren’t in the teens like the peace prospects figure, Moon too saw his popularity rise to a near-term high. 70% of South Koreans now support Moon, who campaigned on pushing a peace deal. | 2024-06-22T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/4817 |
After School’s Ga Hee grumbles about the team transforming into a nine-member group
After School’s Ga Hee recently grumbled about the team transforming into a nine-member group.
On April 14, the After School leader tweeted, “A nine-member girl group? What is it about? Always letting me down. I’m doing well though.”
After School recently introduced Ga Eun as a new member and announced to become a nine-member girl group. However, Ga Hee seemed to be unaware of this news, which created an issue.
Prior to this, on April 9, After School’s agency stated, “We are happy to introduce After School’s new face Ga Eun as the ninth member and launch the group’s fifth generation. The group’s been developing, adding new members at every new generation since the debut in 2009—UEE for the second generation, Orange Caramel for third generation, and Lee Young for the fourth generation.”
Not so long, Ga Hee explained the confusion and dismissed the possibility of the controversies. “Don’t get it wrong. I know of a new member. Keep sending Ga Eun and After School your love and support. We’re doing our best in preparing a concert.”
Netizens responded: “Can’t wait to see performances by the nine members.” “I was kinda worried at seeing the post. So, there’s no problem, right? Looking forward to fantastic performances by the group.” | 2024-07-10T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/9716 |
Q:
Find $\lim_{x\to 0^+} \int_x^{+\infty} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt/{\ln(1/x)}$
Find $$\lim_{x\to 0^+}\frac{\int_x^{+\infty} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt}{\ln\frac1x}$$
I found this problem and I need some help understanding it
In the solution, it said this
First the integral $$\int_a^{\infty} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt$$ is convergent for every fixed number $a \gt0$ and $\ln\frac1x \to +\infty$ when $x \to +0$
And this is what I tried to show that $\int_a^{\infty} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt$ is convergent.I used the first mean value theorem, therefore there exist $c\in[a,+\infty)$ such that
$$\int_a^{\infty} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt=\frac1c\int_a^{\infty}e^{-t}dt=\frac1{e^ac}$$
since $\frac1{e^ac}$ is a finite number this means that the integral converges (I hope this proof is correct)
this implies that $$\lim_{x\to 0^+}\frac{\int_a^{+\infty} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt}{\ln\frac1x}=0$$
the solution continues and it says
By using L'Hopital rule
$$\lim_{x\to 0^+}\frac{\int_x^{+\infty} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt}{\ln\frac1x}=\lim_{x\to 0^+}\frac{\int_x^{a} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt}{\ln\frac1x}=\lim_{x\to +0}\frac{-x^{-1}e^{-x}}{-x^{-1}}=\lim_{x\to +0}e^{-x}=1$$
But the part that I don't understand in this is how did they go from $\int_x^{+\infty} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt$ to $\int_x^{a} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt $ and how did they now that that the integral $\int_x^{a} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt $ tends to infinity because to use L'Hopital rule that must tend to infinity
A:
Hint. Assume $0<x<a$. One may see that
$$
t^{-1}e^{-a} \le t^{-1}e^{-t} \le t^{-1}e^{-x}
$$ giving (by integrating)
$$
e^{-a}\left(\ln a - \ln x \right)\le \int_x^{a} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt \le e^{-x}\left(\ln a - \ln x \right)
$$ then, by the squeeze theorem, the integral tends to $\infty$ as $x \to 0^+$.
One may also notice that
$$
\int_x^{\infty} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt=\int_x^{a} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt+\int_a^{\infty} t^{-1}e^{-t}dt
$$ and the latter integral is convergent.
| 2024-01-28T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/4899 |
The present invention generally relates to a load reducing electrical device. More specifically, the invention relates to a load reducing electrical device used in power distribution systems for safely connecting and disconnection high voltage cables.
Power distribution systems often require a lineman to connect and disconnect high voltage cables from system electrical equipment. Separable connectors and devices are used to connect and disconnect the cables to the electrical equipment. Typically, a section of the system is de-energized prior to a lineman performing any work on that section. However, because a lineman does not have visual indication that the system is de-energized, the lineman risks injury if there is current remaining in the system.
Conventional separable connectors and devices, such as tap plugs, provide a mechanism for isolating the high voltage cable to protect the lineman from injury. Typically, the conventional tap plug is electrically connected to both the cable and the electrical equipment by connecting the tap plug to a cable connector and a bushing of the system electrical equipment. Also, as a protective measure a grounding elbow is also attached to the tap plug before disconnecting the cable from the electrical equipment. However, conventional tap plugs are often cumbersome to connect to the cable connector and bushing.
Examples of conventional tap plugs are U.S. Pat. No. 3,959,869 to Wyman et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 3,982,812 to Boliver; U.S. Pat. No. 4,202,591 to Borgstrom; U.S. Pat. No. 4,354,721 to Luzzi; U.S. Pat. No. 4,722,694 to Makal et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 4,779,341 to Roscizewski; U.S. Pat. No. 4,799,895 to Borgstrom; U.S. Pat. No. 4,891,016 to Luzzi et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 4,946,394 to Knapp et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 4,955,823 to Luzzi; U.S. Pat. No. 5,421,750 to Crotty; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,427,538 to Knapp et al.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a load reducing electrical device that easily connects to both a cable connector and an electrical interface or bushing of a power distribution system.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a load reducing electrical device that allows one lineman to assemble and disassemble the electrical device from the cable connector and bushing.
Yet another object of the invention is to provide a load reducing electrical device that provides continuous grounding during connection and disconnection of a high voltage cable.
The foregoing objects are basically attained by an electrical device, comprising a housing that has an inner bore with a longitudinal axis, and first and second engagement members. The first engagement member is received in the inner bore of the housing, and the first engagement member is rotatable with respect to the housing about the longitudinal axis. The second engagement member is rotatably supported within the first engagement member, and has external threads for engaging an electrical interface of a piece of electrical equipment.
The foregoing objects are also attained by a method of electrically connecting an electrical device to an electrical interface of a piece of electrical equipment, that includes the steps of coupling the electrical device with an electrical connector by inserting the electrical device into a first port of the electrical connector and rotating a conductive first engagement member relative to an insulation housing therefor of the electrical device into an inner receiving bore of the electrical connector. The method also includes the step of coupling the electrical connector with the electrical interface by placing the electrical interface into a second port of the electrical connector. Additionally, the method includes coupling the electrical device with the electrical interface by rotating and axially moving a conductive second engagement member supported within the first engagement member of the electrical device into a receiving bore of the electrical interface.
By fashioning and using the invention in the above manner, a load reducing electrical device is provided that allows both safe and easy connection and disconnection of a high voltage cable from power system electrical equipment.
Other objects, advantages and salient features of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, which, taken in conjunction with annexed drawings, discloses a preferred embodiment of the present invention. | 2024-01-20T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/6868 |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) B. Laurie
Request for Comments: 6962 A. Langley
Category: Experimental E. Kasper
ISSN: 2070-1721 Google
June 2013
Certificate Transparency
Abstract
This document describes an experimental protocol for publicly logging
the existence of Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates as they
are issued or observed, in a manner that allows anyone to audit
certificate authority (CA) activity and notice the issuance of
suspect certificates as well as to audit the certificate logs
themselves. The intent is that eventually clients would refuse to
honor certificates that do not appear in a log, effectively forcing
CAs to add all issued certificates to the logs.
Logs are network services that implement the protocol operations for
submissions and queries that are defined in this document.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for examination, experimental implementation, and
evaluation.
This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF
community. It has received public review and has been approved for
publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not
all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of
Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6962.
Laurie, et al. Experimental [Page 1]RFC 6962 Certificate Transparency June 2013Copyright Notice
Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
document authors. All rights reserved.
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the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as
described in the Simplified BSD License.
Table of Contents
1. Informal Introduction ...........................................3
1.1. Requirements Language ......................................4
1.2. Data Structures ............................................4
2. Cryptographic Components ........................................4
2.1. Merkle Hash Trees ..........................................4
2.1.1. Merkle Audit Paths ..................................5
2.1.2. Merkle Consistency Proofs ...........................6
2.1.3. Example .............................................7
2.1.4. Signatures ..........................................8
3. Log Format and Operation ........................................9
3.1. Log Entries ................................................9
3.2. Structure of the Signed Certificate Timestamp .............12
3.3. Including the Signed Certificate Timestamp in the
TLS Handshake .............................................13
3.3.1. TLS Extension ......................................15
3.4. Merkle Tree ...............................................15
3.5. Signed Tree Head ..........................................16
4. Log Client Messages ............................................17
4.1. Add Chain to Log ..........................................17
4.2. Add PreCertChain to Log ...................................18
4.3. Retrieve Latest Signed Tree Head ..........................18
4.4. Retrieve Merkle Consistency Proof between Two
Signed Tree Heads .........................................19
4.5. Retrieve Merkle Audit Proof from Log by Leaf Hash .........19
4.6. Retrieve Entries from Log .................................20
4.7. Retrieve Accepted Root Certificates .......................21
4.8. Retrieve Entry+Merkle Audit Proof from Log ................21
5. Clients ........................................................21
5.1. Submitters ................................................22 | 2024-03-30T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/4271 |
Q:
Extract more than one type of element whilst preserving order using rvest (or similar) in R?
I'm attempting to extract elements matching 2 different types in an HTML document, whilst preserving the order.
It's straight forward to extract each element type separately (see example), but I cannot work out how to extract them both in one go and preserve the order in which they appear in the web page.
Minimal example
Here's some dummy HTML
dummy_html <- "<p>hi there</p>
<p>2nd para</p>
<div>unwanted stuff</div>
<span>something new</span>
<p>3rd para</p>
<span>extra stuff</span>
<div>more unwanted stuff</div>
<p>4th para</p>"
Suppose we wish to extract all the p elements and all the span elements (and maintain the order in which they appear)
# p elements on their own
library(rvest)
dummy_html %>% read_html %>% html_nodes("p")
{xml_nodeset (4)}
[1] <p>hi there</p>
[2] <p>2nd para</p>
[3] <p>3rd para</p>
[4] <p>4th para</p>
# span elements on their own
dummy_html %>% read_html %>% html_nodes("span")
{xml_nodeset (2)}
[1] <span>something new</span>
[2] <span>extra stuff</span>
But how can we extract all of either element? i.e. all the p elements and all the span elements together so that the desired output is:
{xml_nodeset (6)}
[1] <p>hi there</p>
[2] <p>2nd para</p>
[3] <span>something new</span>
[4] <p>3rd para</p>
[5] <span>extra stuff</span>
[6] <p>4th para</p>
Note the preservation of the order (i.e. p and span interspliced)
What I've tried so far
I tried the obvious dummy_html %>% read_html %>% html_nodes("span|p") but it throws an error.
A:
You can do it with either CSS or XPath syntax; your CSS just needed a , instead of a |:
library(rvest)
#> Loading required package: xml2
dummy_html <- "<p>hi there</p>
<p>2nd para</p>
<div>unwanted stuff</div>
<span>something new</span>
<p>3rd para</p>
<span>extra stuff</span>
<div>more unwanted stuff</div>
<p>4th para</p>"
# With CSS
dummy_html %>% read_html() %>% html_nodes("p,span")
#> {xml_nodeset (6)}
#> [1] <p>hi there</p>
#> [2] <p>2nd para</p>
#> [3] <span>something new</span>
#> [4] <p>3rd para</p>
#> [5] <span>extra stuff</span>
#> [6] <p>4th para</p>
# With XPath
dummy_html %>% read_html() %>% html_nodes(xpath = "//span | //p")
#> {xml_nodeset (6)}
#> [1] <p>hi there</p>
#> [2] <p>2nd para</p>
#> [3] <span>something new</span>
#> [4] <p>3rd para</p>
#> [5] <span>extra stuff</span>
#> [6] <p>4th para</p>
Created on 2019-10-19 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
Thanks to QHarr for pointing out the (neater) CSS option!
| 2023-10-15T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/8653 |
Skewed X chromosome inactivation failed to explain the normal phenotype of a carrier female with MECP2 mutation resulting in Rett syndrome.
Mutations in the X-linked MECP2 gene cause Rett syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder that exclusively affects girls. Females with the MECP2 mutations exhibit a broad spectrum of clinical presentations ranging from classical Rett syndrome to asymptomatic carriers, which can be explained by differences in X chromosome inactivation (XCI). Here, we report a family with a girl with Rett syndrome in whom a novel missense mutation in the MECP2 gene was transmitted through the maternal germ line. The carrier mother was asymptomatic and presented non-random XCI in the peripheral blood cells, which resulted in the X chromosome harboring the mutant allele that was predominantly active. Thus, the presence of non-random XCI in the peripheral blood cells did not provide an explanation for the normal phenotype of the carrier mother. This result suggests that mechanisms other than XCI may contribute to the phenotypic heterogeneity associated with MECP2 mutations. | 2023-11-17T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/4450 |
Improved lung function and symptom control with formoterol on demand in asthma.
Many asthma patients remain symptomatic despite maintenance therapy with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and salbutamol as rescue medication. In the present study the relative efficacy and preference for as-needed formoterol compared with salbutamol was examined. In total, 211 patients with a mean age of 45 yrs (mean forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) 77% predicted normal), using ICS, were randomised to 3 weeks' double-blind treatment with as-needed formoterol 4.5 microg Turbuhaler and with as-needed salbutamol 100 mug Turbuhaler in a cross-over fashion. Overall, lung function and symptom control were better with as-needed formoterol than with as-needed salbutamol. During as-needed formoterol treatment daytime and night-time symptom scores were lower, peak expiratory flow and FEV1 were higher and patients experienced fewer disturbed nights (34%) compared with as-needed salbutamol. Patients preferred the formoterol treatment to salbutamol. Of the 162 patients expressing a preference, formoterol was preferred by 68% (95% confidence interval: 60-75). Subjective assessment of effectiveness also favoured formoterol, which was perceived as slightly faster acting than salbutamol. In conclusion, as-needed formoterol improved symptoms and lung function compared with salbutamol and was perceived as more effective and at least as fast acting for symptom relief. | 2024-07-19T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/5695 |
(Image: Enrico Sacchetti)
NESTLED deep under an Italian mountain range, the bug-eyed light detectors point inwards, poised to join the global hunt for the universe’s missing matter.
Observations of how stars and galaxies move show that about 80 per cent of the matter in our cosmos is invisible. This dark matter doesn’t glow and, except through gravity, scarcely interacts with ordinary matter. Just occasionally, though, it might, so physicists build sensitive detectors in the hope of catching a strike from a WIMP, or weakly interacting massive particle – a possible form that dark matter could take.
Around the world, WIMP detectors are piling up, but this newcomer, DarkSide-50, could still make a contribution. The 4-metre-wide, photodetector-lined steel sphere shown here will house a canister filled with 50 kilograms of liquid argon. If a WIMP hits an argon nucleus, the nucleus recoils and produces a telltale flash of light.
Housed under the Apennine mountains, in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, DarkSide-50 has 1400 metres of rock protecting it from cosmic rays from space, which can mimic WIMP hits. For further protection, the sphere is filled with a liquid scintillator, which glows when charged particles hit. That in turn is immersed in a tank of pure water. The water blocks charged particles from the rock, and the scintillator reveals if any get through. Who said chasing darkness was easy?
This article appeared in print under the headline “Power of the dark side” | 2024-03-01T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/6712 |
Buy and sell products in Kitchen scales.
We present private announcements about selling products in Kitchen scales.
In section Kitchen scales are 0 products that you can buy from individuals and companies. There are new and used products with prices starting at $4
You can choose offer that you are interested in by price and quality in your city, or in other city with shipping.
We offer you to use secure transaction for money safety, so seller receives money right after you receive product and confirm that it corresponds to the specifications. Read more
Also you can post request for product you are want to buy, so thousands of sellers from the entire world will see your request and will make offers to you. So you can choose the best offer. Post a Request | 2024-02-12T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/7107 |
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Rob Rex, a 32-year-old graphic designer, is among the more than 1,000 Puerto Ricans leaving the island each week, according the American Community Survey. Most of them are heading to the mainland, and many go to central Florida, particularly Orlando.
“The reality of leaving Puerto Rico in three weeks has set in. As has some depression,” said Rex in a July 8 Facebook post. Rex, whose last name has been changed because of security considerations at the aerospace company where he works, landed in Tampa on Tuesday.
“I was one of the people that was very critical a few years back of those who left, saying, ‘You’re a traitor,’” he said before leaving, speaking on the phone from his home in Aguadilla on the island’s northwest coast. “And now I’m the one being called a sellout — ‘You’re abandoning Puerto Rico.’ I tell them, ‘I’m not abandoning Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico abandoned me.’”
The island’s economy has shrunk for nearly a decade. According to a former staffer at the International Monetary Fund, that’s a remarkable feat for “an economy suffering neither civil strife nor overt financial crisis.”
Unemployment is high — 12.6 percent in June (compared with 5.3 percent on the U.S. mainland) and that’s down from a high of nearly 17 percent in 2010, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists say a more telling statistic is that only 40 percent of adults are employed or looking for work, with the rest economically idle or working in the informal economy.
With jobs so scarce, it’s little surprise that the island is bleeding residents — about 50,000 per year, according to an August 2014 report from the Pew Research Center using American Community Survey data.
“Puerto Ricans have left the financially troubled island for the U.S. mainland this decade in their largest numbers since the Great Migration after World War II, citing job-related reasons above all others,” the report states.
The report adds that Puerto Rico is experiencing the first sustained population decline in its history as a U.S. territory, while the number of Puerto Ricans in the 50 states continues to grow briskly. Puerto Ricans account for 9 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population, second only to Mexican-Americans, who represent 65 percent.
In 2006, for the first time, there were more Puerto Ricans living on the U.S. mainland than on the island. The margin has grown since. As of 2012, there were approximately 4.9 million Puerto Ricans stateside and 3.5 million on the island.
According to CIA World Factbook estimates for 2014, Puerto Rico ranked seventh, just ahead of Ukraine, for population loss. (Syria is No. 1.)
Rex said he thinks outmigration will only increase in the coming years, and he’s trying to beat what he sees as an imminent flood.
“I think it’s a trickle compared to what’s going to happen,” he said.
Rex said he resisted the mainland for as long as he could. He moved from San Juan, the capital, to Aguadilla a few years ago, accepting a job with an aerospace company in order to stay in Puerto Rico. He said his job paid well and he received annual raises. But they didn’t keep up with the rising cost of living.
“When I first started, I had money left over at the end of month, and now I’m just barely breaking even,” he said.
By January, he decided to leave. After interviewing for positions in Miami, Atlanta and California, he accepted a job in Tampa. But he felt wistful about his looming departure.
“I’m scared for Puerto Rico. I feel really sad for whoever stays behind because they’re going to shoulder the burden,” he said. | 2023-12-26T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/4226 |
Tetraalkylammonium Salts of Platinum Nitrato Complexes: Isolation, Structure, and Relevance to the Preparation of PtO x/CeO2 Catalysts for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation.
A series of tetraalkylammonium salts with anionic platinum nitrato complexes (Me4N)2[Pt2(μ-OH)2(NO3)8] (1), (Et4N)2[Pt2(μ-OH)2(NO3)8] (2), ( n-Pr4N)2[Pt2(μ-OH)2(NO3)8] (3b), ( n-Pr4N)2[Pt(NO3)6] (3a), and ( n-Bu4N)2[Pt(NO3)6] (4) were isolated from nitric acid solutions of [Pt(H2O)2(OH)4] in high yield. The structures of salts 2, 3a, 3b, and 4, prepared for the first time, were characterized by X-ray diffraction. The sorption of [Pt(NO3)6]2- and [Pt2(μ-OH)2(NO3)8]2- complexes onto the ceria surface from acetone solutions of salts 4 and 1 was examined. The dimeric anion was shown to quickly and irreversibly chemisorb onto the CeO2 carrier, selectively transforming into Pt(II) centers after thermal treatment, becoming active in the low-temperature CO oxidation reaction ( T50% = 110 °C at a space velocity of 240 000 h-1). By contrast, the homoleptic complex [Pt(NO3)6]2- did not interact with the ceria, which may be attributed to the substitutional inertness of the [Pt(NO3)6]2- anion. We believe that the strategy based on the sorption of polynuclear platinum nitrato complexes is an effective route to prepare ionic platinum species uniformly distributed on an oxide carrier for various catalytic applications. | 2024-01-07T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/1787 |
(Editorial) – A month ago, Clint Dempsey was in hot water for a referee abuse incident. When suspensions were handed down by both MLS and the U.S. Open Cup, there were concerns about his participation in the 2015 Gold Cup. While he was called in to the team, Head Coach, Jurgen Klinsmann, stripped him of the Captain’s Armband.
Since then, Dempsey has answered the critics and dominated play offensively. Through three group stage matches, he had three goals and an assist; he directly contributed on all four goals the USMNT scored.
After the group stage, there were concerns about the Americans’ offense with Jozy Altidore‘s departure from the tournament. While a shorthanded Cuba team is hardly a great challenge, Dempsey delivered again with his first USMNT hat-trick (shall we call it a Deuce Trick?).
Dempsey sits at the top of the Golden Boot standings, with six goals. No other player has more than three. On points, he leads the tournament with 13. Andrés Guardado, Oribe Peralta, and Michael Bradley are tied for second, with six points each.
The numbers show that Dempsey is running away with the Golden Ball as one of the best players on the favorite team. An argument can be made for Bradley and, to a lesser extent, Guardado. The film reaffirms that Dempsey has been the Gold Cup’s best player.
Dempsey did get a bit lucky on his first goal of the tournament; he was positioned perfectly for the deflection off goalkeeper, Donis Escober. Dempsey did well on the finish.
His second goal came off a set piece on an excellent cross by Bradley; Dempsey was clinical with his header. The game was 1-0 and hanging in the balance. The second half was in a bit of a lull when suddenly the two best players for the USMNT made a play to ultimately secure the win. By 90-minute performance, Bradley was slightly ahead of Dempsey even though Dempsey had two goals.
The match against Haiti was a slog with a make-shift lineup. The lone goal came from great build up play. Dempsey had a perfect finish after a well-timed and well-placed run; it was that play that was the determining factor against an upstart Haitian team.
Against Panama, the U.S. was down 1-0 at half time after a rough first half. Dempsey came in for Chris Wondolowski and immediately changed the offense. He set up Bradley’s goal in the 55th minute. The USMNT looked much better offensively in the second half, and much of that was due to the creativity Dempsey brought off the bench.
Clint Dempsey has been the best player of the 2015 Gold Cup so far. Should the USMNT advance to the final, win the Gold Cup, and do so with Dempsey continuing to create, assist, and score, it will be no contest.
Dempsey deserves the Gold Cup Golden Ball. The real question is: Has he earned the Captain’s Armband back?
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Severity Indices for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Reflecting Glycemic Control or Insulin Resistance.
Objective We aimed to identify obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) severity indices reflecting the anthropometric and metabolic characteristics of patients with OSAS. Methods A total of 76 patients with OSAS underwent nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP). We also investigated the effects of nCPAP on OSAS-associated muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), risk for cardiovascular diseases, and insulin secretion and sensitivity. Results Among the OSAS severity indices, HbA1c was significantly correlated with the apnea-hypopnea index, whereas HOMA-beta, HOMA-IR, and hepatic insulin resistance were significantly correlated with % SpO2<90%, independent of age, gender, and body mass index (BMI). Burst incidence of MSNA was independently associated with only a 3% oxygen desaturation index. nCPAP therapy significantly lowered the OSAS severity indices and reduced the burst rate, burst incidence, and heart rate. Conclusion The OSAS severity indices reflecting apnea/hypopnea are associated with glycemic control, whereas those reflecting hypoxia, particularly % SpO2<90%, are associated with hepatic insulin resistance independent of obesity. Both types of OSAS severity indices, especially the 3% oxygen desaturation index (reflecting intermittent hypoxia), are independently associated with MSNA, which is dramatically lowered with the use of nCPAP therapy. These findings may aid in interpreting each OSAS severity index and understanding the pathophysiology of OSAS in clinical settings. | 2024-07-28T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/9525 |
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Seroquel XR 50mg 30 Tabs, Quetiapine
Model:7501098605212Current Reviews:0Price:$46.00
THIS IS A BRAND MEDICATION
Brand name: Seroquel XR
Generic name: Quetiapine fumarate
Why is Seroquel prescribed?
Seroquel is prescribed for the treatment of schizophrenia, a mental disorder marked by delusions (false beliefs), hallucinations, disrupted thinking, and loss of contact with reality. It is also used for the treatment of manic and depressive episodes associated with bipolar disorder. Seroquel belongs to one of the newer classes of antipsychotic medications. Researchers believe that it works by diminishing the action of dopamine and serotonin, two of the brain's chief chemical messengers.
Important Safety Information About SEROQUEL XR
Elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis (having lost touch with reality due to confusion and memory loss) treated with this type of medicine are at an increased risk of death, compared to placebo (sugar pill). SEROQUEL XR is not approved for treating these patients.
Antidepressants have increased the risk of suicidal thoughts and actions in some children, teenagers, and young adults. Patients of all ages starting treatment should be watched closely for worsening of depression, suicidal thoughts or actions, unusual changes in behavior, agitation, and irritability. Patients, families, and caregivers should pay close attention to any changes, especially sudden changes in mood, behaviors, thoughts, or feelings. This is very important when an antidepressant medicine is started or when the dose is changed. These symptoms should be reported immediately to the doctor. SEROQUEL XR is not approved for children under the age of 10 years.
Do not take SEROQUEL XR if you are allergic to quetiapine fumarate or any of the ingredients in SEROQUEL XR.
Stroke that can lead to death can happen in elderly people with dementia who take medicines like SEROQUEL XR.
Stop SEROQUEL XR and call your doctor right away if you have some or all of the following symptoms: high fever; excessive sweating; stiff muscles; confusion; changes in pulse, heart rate, and blood pressure. These may be symptoms of a rare, but very serious and potentially fatal, side effect called neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS).
High blood sugar and diabetes have been reported with SEROQUEL XR and medicines like it. If you have diabetes or risk factors such as obesity or a family history of diabetes, your doctor should check your blood sugar before you start taking SEROQUEL XR and also during therapy. If you develop symptoms of high blood sugar or diabetes, such as excessive thirst or hunger, increased urination, or weakness, contact your doctor. Complications from diabetes can be serious and even life threatening.
Increases in triglycerides and in LDL (bad) cholesterol and decreases in HDL (good) cholesterol have been reported with SEROQUEL XR. Your doctor should check your cholesterol levels before you start SEROQUEL XR and during therapy.
Tell your doctor about any movements you cannot control in your face, tongue, or other body parts, as they may be signs of a serious condition called tardive dyskinesia (TD). TD may not go away, even if you stop taking SEROQUEL XR. TD may also start after you stop taking SEROQUEL XR.
Other risks include feeling dizzy or lightheaded upon standing, decreases in white blood cells (which can be fatal), or trouble swallowing. Tell your doctor if you experience any of these.
Before starting treatment, tell your doctor about all prescription and nonprescription medicines you are taking. Also tell your doctor if you have or have had low white blood cell count, seizures, abnormal thyroid tests, high prolactin levels, heart or liver problems, or cataracts. An eye exam for cataracts is recommended at the beginning of treatment and every 6 months thereafter.
Since drowsiness has been reported with SEROQUEL XR, you should not participate in activities such as driving or operating machinery until you know that you can do so safely. Avoid becoming overheated or dehydrated while taking SEROQUEL XR. Do not drink alcohol while taking SEROQUEL XR.
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or intend to become pregnant. Avoid breast-feeding while taking SEROQUEL XR.
The most common side effects are drowsiness, dry mouth, constipation, dizziness, increased appetite, upset stomach, weight gain, fatigue, disturbance in speech and language, and stuffy nose.
Do not stop taking SEROQUEL XR without talking to your doctor. Stopping SEROQUEL XR suddenly may cause side effects.
This is not a complete summary of safety information. Please discuss the full Prescribing Information with your health care provider.
Approved Uses
SEROQUEL XR is a once-daily tablet approved in adults for (1) add-on treatment to an antidepressant for patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) who did not have an adequate response to antidepressant therapy; (2) acute depressive episodes in bipolar disorder; (3) acute manic or mixed episodes in bipolar disorder alone or with lithium or divalproex; (4) long-term treatment of bipolar disorder with lithium or divalproex; and (5) schizophrenia.
Please read the accompanying Medication Guide and full Prescribing Information, including Boxed WARNINGS.
The information on this Web site should not take the place of talking with your doctor or health care professional. If you have any questions about your condition, or if you would like more information about SEROQUEL XR, talk to your doctor or pharmacist. Only you and your health care professional can decide if SEROQUEL XRis right for you.
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FIFTH CIRCUIT
_________________
No. 01-60412
(Summary Calendar)
_________________
FREDDIE C. GADDIS,
Petitioner,
versus
UNITED STATES RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD,
Respondent.
Petition for Review of a Decision of the
Railroad Retirement Board
USRRB No. 00-AP-0156
April 1, 2002
Before JONES, SMITH, and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
Freddie C. Gaddis appeals the Railroad Retirement Board’s (the “Board”) denial of his claim
for benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (“RUIA”), 45 U.S.C. §§ 351 et seq.
*
Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be
published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.
Gaddis worked for a railroad employer in 1977 and 1978. While working for the railroad company,
he suffered an injury which ultimately forced him to quit. Allegedly suffering from the residual effects
of his earlier injury, Gaddis filed an application for benefits under RUIA, claiming an inability to work
due to sickness for the period beginning on April 1, 2000. He then amended his claim so as to apply
for unemployment benefits dating back to September 20, 1996. A hearings officer denied Gaddis’s
claim because he lacked sufficient railroad wages in the year preceding his alleged disability in order
to qualify for benefits under the statute. Gaddis appealed this decision to the Board. The Board then
unanimously affirmed the decision of the hearings officer rejecting Gaddis’s benefits claim.
Gaddis now appeals the Board’s decision denying his claim. We have jurisdiction to review
decisions of the Board pursuant to 45 U.S.C. § 231g. Under that provision, “a decision of the Board
should not be set aside on judicial review if it is supported by substantial evidence in the record, and
was not based on an error of law.” Fingar v. U.S. R.R. Retirement Bd., 402 F.2d 544, 547 (5th Cir.
1968); 45 U.S.C. § 355(f).
The Board concluded that Gaddis was not a “qualified employee” within the meaning of
RUIA because he did not receive sufficient compensation from a railroad company during the
previous year in order to qualify for benefits. RUIA provides that “[b]enefits shall be payable to any
qualified employee for each day of unemployment . . ..” 45 U.S.C. § 352(a). An employee is a
“qualified employee” if the Board finds that “his compensation with respect to the base year will have
been not less than 2.5 times the monthly compensation base for months in such base year. . ..” 45
U.S.C. § 353. The base year is the calendar year immediately preceding the beginning of the year in
which the employee is seeking benefits. 45 U.S.C. § 351(n). Thus, in order to receive benefits under
RUIA, the claimant must have a sufficient amount of income from a railroad position in the year
-2-
immediately proceeding his benefits claim.
Gaddis asserts that he is claiming benefits from September 20, 1996. Under RUIA, therefore,
he must have sufficient railroad compensation in 1995 in order to receive benefits. Gaddis admits that
he has not worked for a railroad since his injury in 1977 and that he did not receive any railroad
compensation in 1995. Instead, he argues that he is entitled to sickness benefits because his current
disability is the result of residual problems from an injury he sustained while working in the railroad
industry. The RUIA, however, focuses solely on whether the claimant received compensation in the
year immediately preceding his or her benefit claim in an attempt to partially replace some of an
individual’s railroad earnings lost due to sickness or unemployment. See 20 C.F.R. § 340.10(c)(1).
Here, Gaddis is seeking replacement of non-railroad earnings as a result of an injury incurred years
earlier while working for a railroad employer. RUIA was not intended to address these types of
claims.
The Board’s decision is based upon substantial evidence and is not based upon an error of
law. For the foregoing reasons, the Board’s decision is AFFIRMED.
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Shorten the Line
Joe DeLoss Strives to Not Simply Serve, but to Passionately Solve
"I believe in work. If somebody doesn’t create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they’re treading water — that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn’t mean anything at all in this world. And that’s a despairing and destructive feeling. It’ll kill you." Arthur Miller
Raised in a hardworking, compassionate and service-centric family, Joe DeLoss grew up as a serial entrepreneur with a desire to better others.
Even as he grew older, and his life became busier with school, a business, and a growing family, Joe continued to make time to serve those who had less than he. He volunteered with the elderly, the homeless, the incarcerated and the sick.
Yet, it was during an encounter with those who were hungry that the trajectory of his life changed. And because of it, so too would the lives of numerous others. Let me explain.
After volunteering in a soup kitchen for several months, Joe began to recognize the individuals coming through his line. He became so familiar with those he was serving that he knew what they liked to eat, what they didn’t care for, and was even able to call them by their first name.
But Joe's inflection point came when he looked up from a large tub of soup he was serving, looked past the gentleman in front of him, and noticed the length of the line stacked behind him. He understood he and his fellow volunteers were doing a tremendous job feeding the people in line, but they were doing nothing to actually shorten the line.
This recognition set Joe on a journey to learn more about who these individuals in line really were, what lead them to this point, and what might liberate them to not only receive a meal, but step out of the line and back into their lives.
Hot Chicken Takeover Provides Opportunities to Those in Need of Supportive Employment
Through conversations with the individuals in line, Joe learned that many of them longed for work, but due to a lack of clean clothes and steady transportation, along with past mistakes they had made, these individuals simply weren't able to secure employment. He began to work through a business model that would seek to hire individuals who had been incarcerated, homeless, or simply beat down by life. The model would provide them a chance at supportive training, an actual job and an opportunity at a living wage.
The business he created was Hot Chicken Takeover.
Hot Chicken Takeover began with Joe and a few of these new friends cooking chicken on the weekends and serving from a parking lot until the food was gone. They took the proceeds, invested in a few more individuals longing for a supportive work environment, more chicken to cook, and an actual restaurant to serve guests.
By serving great chicken, with a remarkably loyal, passionate and mission-driven staff, Hot Chicken Takeover has grown from a weekend parking lot chicken stand to three full-service family restaurants in Columbus, OH, with a desire to take their model national. Hot Chicken Takeover is growing because the food is delicious and served in an uncommonly welcoming atmosphere.
But the secret ingredient in this business is actually their people.
The restaurants provide jobs to individuals who needed a fair chance to work. They support their new team members with financial stability, opportunities for personal growth, actual chances for professional development, and an array of benefits including flexible schedules, counseling, and even cash advances with no interest. And in an industry with high turnover, HCT prides itself on the fact that they retain their talent 250% as successfully than the industry average.
(I shared the stage with Joe DeLoss at a recent conference in Columbus, OH. I was moved by his story and wanted to share with the Live Inspired community. He's my most recent guest on the Live Inspired podcast, and his business provides others the chance to live inspired, too. Listen to our conversation here.)
What Joe DeLoss' Example Means in Our Own Lives
The inflection point in Joe's life occurred when he finally recognized that while the work he was doing in the soup kitchen mattered, it wasn't actually shortening the line.
My friends, as you look around your community, within your home, and in your personal life, where are the lines forming?
As inspired leaders, we are called to not simply observe, but to actively participate; to not merely sympathize, but to lovingly empathize; and to not simply serve, but to boldly, passionately solve.
Lines packed with dysfunction, brokenness, and tragedy wrap around all of our lives. We see them within our families, locally and globally.
But with a heart like Joe's we can strive together to not only serve those waiting in the lines, but to actively seek to shorten them. | 2024-02-15T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/6269 |
895 A.2d 167 (2006)
2006 VT 12
Ramiz CEHIC
v.
MACK MOLDING, INC.
No. 04-353.
Supreme Court of Vermont.
January 13, 2006.
*169 Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY, JOHNSON, SKOGLUND and BURGESS, JJ.
ENTRY ORDER
¶ 1. Mack Molding, Inc. appeals from the Commissioner of Labor and Industry's decision that it is responsible for paying workers' compensation benefits for its former employee, claimant Ramiz Cehic. The Commissioner, after a contested hearing, concluded that a 1998 injury claimant incurred while employed at Mack Molding, rather than a more recent 2001 lifting incident at a subsequent employer, Pike Industries, was responsible for claimant's continued impairment and need for back surgery in 2002. On appeal, Mack Molding argues that the Commissioner erred in considering the later lifting incident as a temporary flare-up of a preexisting condition, instead of analyzing the incident as an "aggravation" of a preexisting injury, for which the latest employer would be responsible, or a "recurrence" of an old injury, for which Mack Molding would remain liable. Alternatively, Mack Molding argues that this Court should abandon the current aggravation-or-recurrence analysis and, instead, adopt a bright-line rule that the employer at the time of the last injurious exposure is always liable. We affirm.
¶ 2. Claimant was employed by Mack Molding in 1998 when he injured his back in a lifting incident, suffering a herniated disc in his spine, an injured facet joint, and strained lower lumbar muscles. In 1999, as a result of the injury, claimant had surgery on his spine, which removed part of the facet joint and large amounts of disc material. After the surgery, claimant continued to experience pain, worked part-time for a while, and was gradually released by his doctor to work full-time, but with lifting restrictions. In May 2000, while his workers' compensation claim against Mack Molding was still under adjustment, claimant began work at Pike Industries, a New Hampshire employer. In November 2000, Mack Molding sent claimant to an orthopedic surgeon, who determined that claimant had reached a medical end result for the 1998 injury, with persistent back and leg pain and a permanent disability amounting to a ten-percent impairment of the whole person.
¶ 3. Eight months later, on July 31, 2001, after lifting a pipe at Pike Industries, claimant experienced back pain and leg numbness and sought medical treatment. Claimant missed some time from work, engaged in physical therapy, and returned to full-time work by September or October of 2001. Claimant was laid off from Pike *170 Industries on January 4, 2002. Shortly thereafter, claimant underwent a surgical fusion of his lower lumbar vertebrae. Claimant first filed a workers' compensation claim with the New Hampshire Department of Labor, which determined that Pike Industries was not responsible.
¶ 4. Claimant next filed for workers' compensation in Vermont against Mack Molding. Mack Molding denied coverage, contending that it was not answerable for the pipe-lifting episode at Pike, since it was not a recurrence of the Mack Molding injury, but an aggravation of that injury while in Pike's employ. At the time of the hearing in 2004, claimant had not resumed employment. After a contested hearing, the Commissioner concluded that the back pain and numbness incurred in July 2001 at Pike was a "flare-up" for which Mack Molding was not responsible. The Commissioner determined the flare-up prompted claimant to seek medical treatment, but did not alter claimant's underlying condition remaining from his earlier accident at Mack Molding. The Commissioner further determined, however, that once claimant's condition returned to his pre-Pike-injury "baseline" in late September or October 2001, Mack Molding continued to be liable for benefits due on account of claimant's underlying condition. See Pacher v. Fairdale Farms, 166 Vt. 626, 629, 699 A.2d 43, 47 (1997) (mem.) (describing "baseline" as achieved when a claimant reaches the condition he or she was in prior to the subsequent, distinct injury).
¶ 5. The Commissioner based his conclusion on opinions from three medical experts, including one hired by Mack Molding, that the Pike incident changed nothing in claimant's underlying condition from his earlier injury at Mack Molding. Two of the experts related the need for fusion surgery to the earlier Mack Molding injury. Two of the experts opined that claimant returned to his pre-Pike-injury baseline four months before the 2002 surgery. That claimant's condition never stabilized after the earlier injury was further supported by medical indications that he still had pain and could work only with lifting restrictions. Notwithstanding an opinion to the contrary from a fourth medical expert, whose opinion was not supported by the MRI, the Commissioner's conclusion was amply supported by the medical evidence.
¶ 6. Our review in a direct appeal from a decision by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry is limited to questions of law certified by the Commissioner. 21 V.S.A. § 672. We are bound by the Commissioner's findings so long as they are supported by the evidence. Wroten v. Lamphere, 147 Vt. 606, 611, 523 A.2d 1236, 1239 (1987). The sufficiency of the findings are considered from a point of view favorable to the award. Coburn v. Frank Dodge & Sons, 165 Vt. 529, 533, 687 A.2d 465, 467 (1996). "[W]e will overrule only where those findings have no evidentiary support in the record or where the decision is based on `evidence so slight as to be an irrational basis for the result reached.'" Id. at 533, 687 A.2d at 467-68 (quoting Kenney v. Rockingham Sch. Dist., 123 Vt. 344, 348, 190 A.2d 702, 705 (1963)). Where the Commissioner's conclusions are "rationally derived from the findings and based on a correct interpretation of the law," we will affirm. Pacher, 166 Vt. at 627, 699 A.2d at 46.
¶ 7. The question certified by the Commissioner was whether "a lifting incident at Pike Industries in 2001 or an injury at Mack Molding in 1998 [was] responsible for claimant's current condition, his January 2002 surgery and lost time from work." Mack Molding argues that application of the traditional aggravation-or-recurrence analysis would conclusively result *171 in a determination that claimant's current condition and need for surgery in 2002 resulted from an aggravation at Pike of his preexisting condition. We disagree with Mack Molding's contention that the aggravation-or-recurrence standard was the only applicable theory of liability for categorizing the Pike lifting injury, or that the Commissioner erred by relying on another theory, which was supported by the evidence, in analyzing that injury.
¶ 8. We have stated that where a dispute concerns a compensation claim involving successive employers and successive injuries, liability will remain with the first employer if the second injury is a recurrence of the first. Farris v. Byrant Grinder Corp., 2005 VT 5, ¶ 4, 177 Vt. 456, 869 A.2d 131. "If, however, the second incident aggravated, accelerated, or combined with a preexisting impairment or injury to produce a disability greater than would have resulted from the second injury alone, the second incident is an `aggravation,' and the second employer becomes solely responsible for the entire disability at that point." Pacher, 166 Vt. at 627-28, 699 A.2d at 46. We have also observed, as in Pacher, that at least a third option exists where an incident is neither an aggravation nor a recurrence but causes "a new injury distinct from claimant's prior injuries." Id. at 628, 699 A.2d at 46. The Commissioner, relying on Pacher, determined that the injury claimant incurred at Pike fell within this third option as "a so-called flare-up."
¶ 9. The Commissioner's melding of a distinctly new injury and condition, as discussed in Pacher, with a flare-up may lend more confusion than clarity to the issue. Pacher acknowledged that just because a claimant incurs a subsequent injury does not mandate a finding that the injury is either a recurrence or an aggravation; alternatively, a subsequent incident may be an entirely new injury. See Pacher, 166 Vt. at 628, 699 A.2d at 46-47 (upholding the Commissioner's conclusion that a later injury during subsequent employment to right lower back was new and distinct from earlier injury, from prior employment, to left lower back and left leg). "Flare-up" most appropriately connotes a temporary worsening of a preexisting disability caused by a new trauma for which the new "employer is responsible for paying compensation benefits until the worker's condition returns to the baseline, and not thereafter." See Wood v. Fletcher Allen Health Care, 169 Vt. 419, 424, 739 A.2d 1201, 1206 (1999) (summarizing the Commissioner's use of the temporary flare-up doctrine, but finding it inapplicable to the facts of the case). Regardless of the terms employed, the crux of the Commissioner's inquiry in the instant case was whether there was a distinction between the two incidents and their respective effects on claimant's overall condition so as to fairly apportion liability between the successive employers.
¶ 10. The temporary flare-up doctrine, like the aggravation-or-recurrence analysis, rationally serves the Commissioner's obligation to determine, if possible, the relative liability of multiple employers for different and distinct injuries to a worker. See Pacher, 166 Vt. at 629 n. 2, 699 A.2d at 47 n. 2 (noting Commissioner's ability to fairly define and apportion liability of different employers where different accidents produce distinct injuries and obligation to do so pursuant to 21 V.S.A. § 662(c)); see also Stannard v. Stannard Co., 2003 VT 52, ¶ 11, 175 Vt. 549, 830 A.2d 66 (mem.) ("As Pacher established, in workers' compensation cases involving successive injuries, the employer/carrier at the time of the first injury remains liable unless the medical evidence establishes that the second injury `causally contribute[d] to the *172 claimant's disability.'" (quoting Pacher, 166 Vt. at 627, 699 A.2d at 46)). "Mere continuation or even exacerbation of symptoms, without a worsening of the underlying disability, does not meet the causation requirement." Id. The flare-up rule is not, as urged by Mack Molding, inconsistent with either theory of aggravation or recurrence. In a flare-up, the finding of a distinct new injury, as here, precludes a conclusion that the injury is a recurrence; and, while that new injury temporarily worsens a preexisting condition, the finding of a return to baseline, as here, precludes a conclusion of aggravation because the injury, once resolved, did not "causally contribute" to any increased disability.
¶ 11. The Commissioner's expression of the analysis may be inexact, but we find no error in its application here. Nor do we find unsupported the Commissioner's ultimate conclusion that Mack Molding was not responsible for lost work or medical treatment associated with the 2001 back strain suffered at Pike, but was responsible for claimant's underlying condition incurred at Mack Molding, which continued, unchanged and unstable, before and after the Pike incident. Although the Commissioner's findings do not indicate that the fusion surgery was specifically prescribed prior to the Pike incident, the opinions of three medical experts support the conclusion that it was the same underlying condition that claimant had prior to the Pike incident that led to the need for the spinal fusion, not the temporary back strain claimant experienced from the Pike injury.
¶ 12. Mack Molding argues that other facts in the record favor a finding of aggravation, but it is not our role to weigh the evidence in the record. Mack Molding was free to seek a new trial on the facts in the superior court and declined to do so. As we previously observed in Kenney v. Rockingham School District, in denying the employer's motion for reargument, "[i]f the weight of the evidence seems to a defendant to preponderate in his favor, and the commissioner has decided against him, the defendant's remedy is by appeal to county court pursuant to 21 V.S.A. § 670." 123 Vt. at 348, 190 A.2d at 705. In this direct appeal limited to questions of law, we conclude that the Commissioner's findings and conclusions are supported by evidence, despite some evidence to the contrary, and therefore are not clearly erroneous. See Stannard, 2003 VT 52, ¶ 13, 175 Vt. 549, 830 A.2d 66 (refusing to find error despite some evidence that cut against trial court's findings).
¶ 13. Finally, Mack Molding argues that we should abandon aggravation-or-recurrence analysis in Vermont, together with its flare-up cousin, in favor of the last-injurious-exposure rule to limit liability of a previous employer when a former employee is reinjured while working for a later employer. Mack Molding argues that the aggravation and recurrence standards yield inconsistent, unpredictable, and unfair results, citing more than thirty decisions by the Commissioner with divergent results that are not subject to review in this appeal. Mack Molding contends that the last-injurious-exposure rule is warranted in cases involving complex issues of causation and multiple employers.
¶ 14. As an initial matter, it does not appear from the record provided that Mack Molding requested that the Commissioner apply the last-injurious-exposure rule in this case. Instead, Mack Molding submitted proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law urging a finding of aggravation. We need not address the propriety of Mack Molding's request that this Court adopt a determinative rule of law where it declined to give the Commissioner the opportunity to consider the matter in *173 the first instance. Even if raised below, the last-injurious-exposure rule would not apply, given the Commissioner's findings of fact.
¶ 15. We have previously recognized that the last-injurious-exposure rule may be appropriate "only where separate injuries all causally contribute to the total disability so that it becomes difficult or impossible to allocate liability among several potentially liable employers." Pacher, 166 Vt. at 628 n. 2, 699 A.2d at 47 n. 2 (emphasis supplied). Although the evidence here may have been conflicting and complex, this is not a case where the Commissioner was unable to find what incident caused claimant's condition. Here it was determined from the medical evidence that the Pike lifting incident did not contribute to the disability that required the 2002 surgery. See 9 A. Larson et al., Larson's Workers' Compensation Law § 153.02[7][a], at 153-18 (2004) ("It goes without saying that, before the last-injurious-exposure rule can be applied, there must have been some exposure of a kind contributing to the condition." (second emphasis supplied)).
¶ 16. To the extent that Mack Molding wants to remove the element of causation in determining multiple employer liability in the interest of avoiding litigation in cases involving complex and conflicting medical evidence these are public policy concerns best brought to the attention of the Legislature, or possibly to the regulatory authority of the Commissioner.
¶ 17. For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the Commissioner's decision ordering Mack Molding to adjust the claim for benefits.
Affirmed.
| 2023-12-10T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/4090 |
From a recent enlightened discourse about Amy Winehouse's Stronger Than Me, and its potentially scathing indictment of sensitive men:
mokie: I dunno. "What, are you gay?" as a line...hamster: Scathing indictment of metrosexuals, Mokie. hamster: Personally, I kind of prefer men a bit...assertive, myself.mokie: *LOL*hamster: I said assertive, not Huns!mokie: STILL! :Dhamster: NO HAIRY CHESTS OMG.hamster: No beards either. Beards iz freaky on men who are not ancient and wise professors.hamster: Oh, and hairy bums. Hairy bums are terrifying.hamster: Just, you know. Talldarkpalevampireassertivetypes.^mokie: *scribbles* Prefers Naired men. | 2024-07-29T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/7338 |
RB Marshawn Lynch ended his eight-day holdout Friday and reported to Seahawks’ headquarters in Renton. Fifteen minutes after practice started, he slipped out a side door and took the field to avoid a media horde awaiting his return.
He watched a short, walk-through practice and did not participate. He jogged back toward the locker room, signed a few autographs for kids, and called it an undramatic day.Lynch had his 2014 contract, which had a $5 million base, sweetened $1.5 million by converting participation and incentive bonuses to base pay, according to a Seahawks source.
He now receives $500,000 in roster bonuses and a $500,000 incentive for rushing for more than 1,500 yards, which he did once in his seven-year career (2012, 1,590 yards), as base pay. The Seahawks also advanced $500,000 that was guaranteed for 2015 and paid him now.
So the Seahawks can claim that they gave him no “new” money in the standoff, and Lynch can claim he got something for his trouble. The status of the nearly $500,000 in fines he incurred while holding out remained unclear.
Lynch wanted much more base pay in 2014, knowing that there’s an increasing chance that next year, his age (then 29) and his salary hit against the cap ($9 million) may force the Seahawks to cut him, almost no matter his productivity.
But since his only real leverage was to retire, quitting on $10 million, Lynch accepted the terms the Seahawks offered prior to a mini-camp in May.
Running backs coach Sherman Smith was eager to see Beast Mode crank.
“We are looking for him getting out there and getting some reps,” Smith said. “I can’t wait to see it.
“Marshawn doesn’t do a lot of running in the pre-season, so that’s the way it’s going to be. He comes back, nothing is going to change. Absolutely nothing.”
As much as the Seahawks talked up the improvements in the backups, Robert Turbin and Christine Michael, there is no substitute for Lynch’s savvy.
“Marshawn is such a disciplined runner,” Smith said. “He understands what to do — knows where the reads are, and makes things happen.”
Notes
The Seahawks made it official, placing TE Anthony McCoy and DT Jesse Williams on injured reserve. Both moves were expected after McCoy (Achilles tendon) and Williams (knee) suffered training-camp injuries earlier this week. The Seahawks also released wide receiver Randall Carroll and signed linebacker Marcus Dowtin and wide receiver Ronald Johnson.
Dowtin originally signed as an undrafted free agent with the New York Jets after the 2012 draft. He has also played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills and New York Giants. He has played in 11 career games with 10 tackles (eight solo).
Johnson was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the sixth-round (182nd overall) of the 2011 draft. He has also spent time on the Eagles practice squad.
YourThoughts
Kinda went the way a lot of us figured. OK the drama’s over and I’m still looking forward to how well Turbin and Michael do in the preseason . . .
1coolguy
Right on! These 2 need some serious touches and hopefully one/they will come out giving Lynch a true run for his money.
jafabian
I wonder if this will set a precedent within the team? Can we expect this annually? Or does this all but assure that Lynch won’t be back next season?
RadioGuy
He’s baaaack…but I’m not sure he’s all that happy. Watched the same video twice on a local sportscast and he was kind of stomping around outside while talking on a cell phone and then said something to someone off-camera that was obviously not light-hearted before stomping away from the camera and going back to his cell phone.
Anyway, I’m curious about what “roster bonuses” are and how they’re worth an extra half-million dollars. It’s Paul Allen’s money but I want to see what they’re shifting around in order to claim Marshawn isn’t getting any new money. Sounds like something I’ve suggested earlier in which he gets some 2015 salary upfront and guaranteed (I said a million, ended up half a million) along with some number-oriented incentives. Whatever it takes.
I think it’ll all end up okay because the deal is done and we can all get back to football, he only missed the first week of camp, his teammates do genuinely seem to like and accept him for who he is. Marshawn seems to find a sense of peace on the football field because he’s free to be himself plus he does appear to enjoy playing the game. The big problem is the media because he got burned in Buffalo and he by nature prefers to live life on his own terms without explanation or apology. I get the feeling he’s cordial, if shy, with fans and has a sometimes-sneaky sense of humor.
I like Marshawn, I’m glad this is over and hope he has people advising him he should trust. Too many athletes lose everything because they listened to people that didn’t have the athlete’s best interest at heart (or they didn’t listen to anybody).
Jamo57
Good for Marshawn. I wonder if he might retire after the ’14 season. Or, on the other hand, does this make his cap number for ’15 one that might keep him on the roster?
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Q:
xpath usage while scraping data using lxml
I am trying to write a python script to scrape data from a webpage. However, I am not able to figure out correct usage of xpath to retrieve value. Please help me in fixing this.
The url in question is https://www.nseindia.com/live_market/dynaContent/live_watch/get_quote/GetQuoteFO.jsp?underlying=NIFTY&instrument=OPTIDX&strike=10400.00&type=CE&expiry=30NOV2017
I am trying to get value of VWAP value ,which at present is 27.16(this value changes every business day.) When is inspect the value in Chrome, I get the following xpath for required value
<span id="vwap">27.16</span>
As per online tutorial , I wrote following python script
from lxml import html
import requests
page = requests.get('https://www.nseindia.com/live_market/dynaContent/live_watch/get_quote/GetQuoteFO.jsp?underlying=NIFTY&instrument=OPTIDX&strike=10400.00&type=CE&expiry=30NOV2017')
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
vwap = tree.xpath('//span[@id="vwap"]/text()')
print(vwap)
But when i execute this command, I get following output
[]
instead of
27.16
I have also tried replacing xpath line to following as per some other answer on stackoverflow, but still I am not getting the correct output.
vwap = tree.xpath('//*[@id="vwap"]/text()')
Please let me know what to put inside xpath so that I get correct value inside vwap variable.
Any other solutions(other than lxml) are also welcome.
A:
If to check page source as it initially appears required node will look like
<li><a style="color: #000000;" title="VWAP">VWAP</a> <span id="vwap"></span></li>
while this is how it appears after JavaScript executed
<li><a style="color: #000000;" title="VWAP">VWAP</a> <span id="vwap">27.16</span></li>
Note that there is no text content in first HTML sample
It seem that values comes from below node
<div id="responseDiv" style="display:none">
{"valid":"true","isinCode":null,"lastUpdateTime":"29-NOV-2017 15:30:30","ocLink":"\/marketinfo\/sym_map\/symbolMapping.jsp?symbol=NIFTY&instrument=-&date=-&segmentLink=17&symbolCount=2","tradedDate":"29NOV2017","data":[{"change":"-17.80","sellPrice1":"13.80","buyQuantity3":"450","sellPrice2":"13.85","buyQuantity4":"150","buyQuantity1":"13,725","ltp":"-243019.52","buyQuantity2":"6,225","sellPrice5":"14.00","sellPrice3":"13.90","buyQuantity5":"450","sellPrice4":"13.95","underlying":"NIFTY","bestSell":"-2,41,672.50","annualisedVolatility":"9.44","optionType":"CE","prevClose":"31.10","pChange":"-57.23","lastPrice":"13.30","lowPrice":"11.00","strikePrice":"10400.00","premiumTurnover":"11,707.33","numberOfContractsTraded":"5,74,734","underlyingValue":"10,361.30","openInterest":"58,96,350","impliedVolatility":"12.73","vwap":"27.16","totalBuyQuantity":"10,49,850","openPrice":"35.10","closePrice":"17.85","bestBuy":"-2,43,852.25","changeinOpenInterest":"1,60,800","clientWisePositionLimits":"30517526","totalSellQuantity":"11,07,825","dailyVolatility":"0.49","sellQuantity5":"19,800","marketLot":"75","expiryDate":"30NOV2017","marketWidePositionLimits":"-","sellQuantity2":"75","sellQuantity1":"3,825","buyPrice1":"13.00","sellQuantity4":"900","buyPrice2":"12.90","sellQuantity3":"2,025","buyPrice4":"12.75","buyPrice3":"12.80","buyPrice5":"12.65","turnoverinRsLakhs":"44,94,632.53","pchangeinOpenInterest":"2.80","settlementPrice":"-","instrumentType":"OPTIDX","highPrice":"40.85"}],"companyName":"Nifty 50","eqLink":""}
</div>
so the code that you might need is
import json
vwap = json.loads(tree.xpath('//div[@id="responseDiv"]/text()')[0].strip())['data'][0]['vwap']
| 2024-04-08T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/4184 |
Q:
"either" used with two "or's"
Is "either ... or ... or" used properly used in the following?
When something bad happens, you have three choices. You can either let it define you, or let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.
A:
According to Merriam-Webster, definition #3, "either" is ... "—used as a function word before two or more coordinate words, phrases, or clauses joined usually by or to indicate that what immediately follows is the first of two or more alternatives"
Since they say, "two or more", your sentence is fine.
Definitions 1 and 2 of the same entry specify only 2 alternatives:
def. 1 "being the one and the other of two" //flowers blooming on
either side of the walk
def. 2 "being the one or the other of two" //take either road
But those definitions seem to apply to cases where you don't list the different options.
It's OK to say "either A, or B, or C".
| 2024-03-18T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/6409 |
A Rhodococcus species that thrives on medium saturated with liquid benzene.
A bacterium isolated from a contaminated site in Sydney, Australia, utilized benzene in the liquid phase as a sole carbon source at levels toxic to other micro-organisms. The organism was a short Gram-positive rod which grew at 6% NaCl, 0-37 degrees C and pH 2-10. Biochemical tests, fatty acid analysis, and 16S rDNA sequencing identified the organism as a member of the genus Rhodococcus. Vapour-phase addition of benzene to the medium in batch and continuous systems resulted in initial concentrations averaging 200 p.p.m. Under these conditions, 95% of the benzene was degraded. In separate experiments, medium spiked with liquid benzene resulted in concentrations of up to 2789 p.p.m. and supported good growth of the organism. To confirm utilization of benzene at levels known to be toxic to other micro-organisms, continuous cultures were used; benzene added at 2% (v/v) per day resulted in growth and 89% degradation, which was maintained for more than 30 d. Rhodococcus sp. strain 33 appears to be the only organism known that can grow at these levels of benzene. | 2024-04-11T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/2195 |
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The search for meaning and imagining the Source of Life are among the hallmarks of being human. Calling this Source by many names in different ages and among all peoples has inspired ever-evolving ways of knowing and experiencing It, including looking within ourselves. In this week we will consider both the traditional and the newer ways that the religious imagination has conceptualized our experience of the Holy. | 2024-04-25T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/2271 |
[Safety evaluation and risk control measures of Psoralea corylifolia].
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Indica vs Sativa
Indicas and sativas are the two mother genes of marijuana, springing up the wonderful strains that we all enjoy. A world of difference separates them. And those differences are responsible for the diversity in the herb-smoking populace. But dude, whether you prefer indica or sativa, the result is always a peaceful and dreamy spell.
High or Stoned?
Getting high and getting stoned are the two primal choices of a bud smoker.
• High – High pertains to a rather uplifting experience while in a relaxed state. Your mind ventures onto rational and creative planes, leading to frenzied episodes in silence, speech, or through an artistic medium.
• Stone – Stoned, on the other hand, is a powerful buzz that hits your head then overwhelms your torso, for a very relaxing experience, which induces sleep and kills stress and headaches. Potent stone-inducing strains are also used as medical marijuana.
Such is the main difference between the stoney indica and the high-inducing sativa.
From a Grower’s Standpoint
From a grower’s point of view, both the indica and the sativa have pretty distinct characteristics.
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• Sativa – These plants are commonly tall and have lots of branches, filled with long, thin leaves. A rather muted scent, which is sweet, fruity, or a mixture of both, gradually develops during the flowering period. During the harvesting season, they produce large yields, but not as consistent as some indica strains.
Much tending is required for the herbs to grow properly, regardless of their differences. Both the indica and the sativa should receive the proper care for them to develop their full flavor and potency. Don’t mind the labor, man. When you start relishing the goods, you’ll experience pure pleasure at its finest. | 2024-02-22T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/1981 |
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Calculating limit of $\lim_{x\to\infty}\dfrac{\sqrt{x+1}-2\sqrt{x+2}+\sqrt{x}}{\sqrt{x+2}-2\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{x-4}}$
As the title says we want to calculate:
$$\lim_{x\to\infty}\dfrac{\sqrt{x+1}-2\sqrt{x+2}+\sqrt{x}}{\sqrt{x+2}-2\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{x-4}}$$
By multiplying nominator and denominator in their conjugates
$=\lim_{x\to\infty}\dfrac{(\sqrt{x+2}+2\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{x-4})(x+1+x+2\sqrt{x(x+1)}-4(x+2))}{(\sqrt{x+1}+2\sqrt{x+2}+\sqrt{x})(x+2+x-4+2\sqrt{(x+2)(x-4)})-4x)}$
$=\lim_{x\to\infty}\dfrac{(\sqrt{x+2}+2\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{x-4})(-2x-7+2\sqrt{x^2+x})}{(\sqrt{x+1}+2\sqrt{x+2}+\sqrt{x})(-2x-2+2\sqrt{x^2-2x-8})}$
I think now we can take $$2x\approx2\sqrt{x^2+x}\approx2\sqrt{x^2-2x-8}\\[2ex]
\sqrt{x}\approx\sqrt{x+1}\approx\sqrt{x+2}\approx\sqrt{x-4}$$ as $x$ goes to infinity. Hence the limit of above fraction would be $\dfrac{7}{2}$, but wolframalpha gives me $\dfrac{3}{2}$ as the limit of the above fraction.
What am I doing wrong?
A:
You need one more conjugate-multiplication.
You already have
$$\dfrac{(\sqrt{x+2}+2\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{x-4})(-2x-7+2\sqrt{x^2+x})}{(\sqrt{x+1}+2\sqrt{x+2}+\sqrt{x})(-2x-2+2\sqrt{x^2-2x-8})}$$
First, note that
$$\dfrac{\sqrt{x+2}+2\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{x-4}}{\sqrt{x+1}+2\sqrt{x+2}+\sqrt{x}}=\frac{\sqrt{1+\frac 2x}+2+\sqrt{1-\frac 4x}}{\sqrt{1+\frac 1x}+2\sqrt{1+\frac 2x}+1}\to 1\ (x\to \infty)$$
Now multiplying
$$\dfrac{-2x-7+2\sqrt{x^2+x}}{-2x-2+2\sqrt{x^2-2x-8}}$$
by
$$\frac{-2x-7-2\sqrt{x^2+x}}{-2x-7-2\sqrt{x^2+x}}\cdot\frac{-2x-2-2\sqrt{x^2-2x-8}}{-2x-2-2\sqrt{x^2-2x-8}}\ (=1)$$
gives
$$\frac{(-2x-2-2\sqrt{x^2-2x-8})((-2x-7)^2-4(x^2+x)}{(-2x-7-2\sqrt{x^2+x})((-2x-2)^2-4(x^2-2x-8))}=\frac{(-2x-2-2\sqrt{x^2-2x-8})(24x+49)}{(-2x-7-2\sqrt{x^2+x})(16x+36)}=\frac{(-2-\frac 2x-2\sqrt{1-\frac 2x-\frac{8}{x^2}})(24+\frac{49}{x})}{(-2-\frac 7x-2\sqrt{1+\frac 1x})(16+\frac{36}{x})}\to \frac 32\ (x\to\infty)$$
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Background {#Sec1}
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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors have transformed the therapeutic management of several retinal ophthalmic conditions. By improving visual acuity, they have surpassed the ability of laser photocoagulation to limit visual deterioration \[[@CR1]\]. Despite their current extensive use for the treatment of diabetic macular oedema (DMO), neovascular age-related macular degeneration and retinal vein occlusion, their initial primary application was as an intravenous chemotherapeutic adjunct in the form of bevacizumab, for the treatment of solid tumours, including breast, colorectal and lung cancer \[[@CR2], [@CR3]\].
In addition to its role in the eye, VEGF plays a crucial part in maintaining normal renal function. VEGF released from podocytes interacts with VEGF receptor 2 on glomerular capillaries and promotes integrity of endothelial fenestrations and resultant glomerular barrier function \[[@CR4]\]. Loss of podocyte dependent VEGF expression in gene knockout mice resulted in proteinuria, hypertension and renal thrombotic microangiopathy \[[@CR5]\]. A systematic review and meta-analysis of 1850 patients across seven clinical trials revealed a significant dose dependent increase in risk associated with hypertension and proteinuria in those receiving intravenous bevacizumab \[[@CR6]\]. From 2005 to 2012, there were more than 50 reported cases of renal thrombotic microangiopathy, increased proteinuria and antibody-mediated kidney transplantation rejection following intravenous administration of VEGF inhibitors \[[@CR3], [@CR7], [@CR8]\]. These findings suggest that when administered systemically at high dosage, VEGF inhibitors may have a serious adverse effect on renal function.
Sustained hyperglycaemia secondary to diabetes mellitus (DM) has been shown to activate abnormal metabolic pathways that trigger a complex cascade of inflammatory and vasogenic responses in the eye \[[@CR1]\]. VEGF is a major driver in the pathophysiology of DMO as it promotes retinal angiogenesis and capillary hyper-permeability that can disrupt the internal blood retinal barrier, resulting in leakage of fluid into the retinal tissue. DMO is one of the leading causes of vision loss in adults \[[@CR9]\]. Given the key role that VEGF plays in the pathogenesis of DMO, intravitreal VEGF inhibitors have become integral in the treatment of this condition.
Use of VEGF inhibition therapy as an ophthalmic therapeutic involves local administration into the vitreous humour by intra-ocular injection with the dosage used approximately 400 times lower than that used in oncology \[[@CR10], [@CR11]\]. Aflibercept and ranibizumab, two more recent anti-VEGF agents with different structures and pharmacokinetic profiles, were developed specifically for intravitreal use \[[@CR12]\]. Such adaptations have improved the systemic safety profile of intravitreal anti-VEGF in the general population, although longer term further evaluation of systemic safety is ongoing.
Intravitreal ranibizumab (IVR) exists as a human monoclonal Fab antibody fragment with a molecular weight of 48 kDa and binds to all isoforms of VEGF-A \[[@CR13]\]. Intravitreal aflibercept (IVA) is a human recombinant fusion protein with a molecular weight of 115 kDa, which binds to all isoforms of VEGFA, VEGFB and placental growth factor \[[@CR7]\]. Although the pharmacokinetic profiles of ranibizumab and aflibercept are notably different, studies have shown that both traverse the blood retinal barrier and enter the systemic circulation, reducing circulating levels of VEGF \[[@CR11]--[@CR15]\]. There have been cases reports of unilateral IVR and IVA injection having a significant therapeutic effect on the contralateral eye \[[@CR16]--[@CR20]\].. These examples indicate there are systemic responses to intravitreal anti-VEGF agents. Furthermore, there have been several cases of acute kidney injury (AKI) reported in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and renal allograft dysfunction with increased hypertension and proteinuria, following intravitreal anti-VEGF injection \[[@CR8], [@CR20]--[@CR24]\]. Despite established incidents of acute renal impairment following anti-VEGF therapy, studies directly investigating their impact on long-term kidney function have been limited.
A pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies reported a global increase in the number of adults with DM from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014 \[[@CR25]\]. It is predicted that rapid increase in DM prevalence will result in a parallel increase in diabetic microvascular complications including diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy \[[@CR26]\], reinforcing the need for stringent safety evaluation of intravitreal anti-VEGF therapies. This retrospective observational audit evaluated the effects of cumulative anti-VEGF exposure, following repeated intra-ocular injections, on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) in patients with DMO, to evaluate variation in renal function associated with long-term intraocular anti-VEGF injections.
Methods {#Sec2}
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This was a retrospective, cohort, observational study using electronic healthcare records to access information on patients with DMO receiving intravitreal anti-VEGF treatment in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. This study received approval by the Office for Research Ethics Committee Northern Ireland (MREC Reference: 14/NI/1132).
Serum creatinine measurements (μmol/L) and ACR (mg/mmol) were collected from the Northern Ireland Electronic Care Record (ECR) system. Each eGFR measurements was calculated using the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation (CKD-EPI). In this study, participants received aflibercept, ranibizumab or both throughout the course of their treatment. The number of aflibercept, ranibizumab and total intravitreal anti-VEGF injections was recorded for each participant. Changes in eGFR and ACR over time were calculated using multiple eGFR and ACR measurements. These included a measure of renal function before the start of anti-VEGF therapy and after the defined injection period. Data was collected on demographic factors, glycaemic parameters and clinical variables including co-morbidities and medications.
This study included patients who were administered their first to last recorded anti-VEGF injections between 25th April 2012 and 22nd January 2018. For inclusion, each patient was required to have renal function measurements prior to their first anti-VEGF injection and after their last injection was administered. Patients were excluded on the basis of insufficient number of renal function measurements or if they experienced an acute decline in eGFR or rapid increase in ACR. Patients with diabetic kidney disease (DKD) can be classified depending on their level of kidney function (eGFR) and the amount of protein present in the urine (ACR). This information forms the basis of DKD staging which is useful for planning follow up and management. Individuals were classified as 'No DKD' if they had an ACR \< 3 mg/mmol and an eGFR [\>]{.ul} 60 mL/min/1.73 m^2^. Study participants with an ACR [\>]{.ul} 3 mg/mmol or an eGFR [\<]{.ul} 60 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ were classified as DKD.
Statistical analysis {#Sec3}
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Independent samples T-tests, chi squared or Fishers exact tests were used to compare the distribution of demographic factors, glycaemic parameters and clinical variables between patients with DKD and those without DKD. Covariates significantly associated with a diagnosis of DKD were adjusted for in subsequent linear regression modelling. Simple and multiple linear regression models were used to generate beta estimates (β) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the total number of intravitreal anti-VEGF injections against the change in eGFR and ACR over time. *P* \< 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
In cases where ACRs were not present as absolute values (e.g. \< 3 mg/mmol), arbitrary values were used to facilitate slope calculation. A previous study has demonstrated that the median ACR value for patients with an ACR \< 3 mg/mmol was 1.06 mg/mmol and we used this as an arbitrary value for ACR values categorised as \< 3 mg/mmol on the ECR \[[@CR27]\].
Results {#Sec4}
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Data was collected on 90 patients undergoing regular intravitreal anti-VEGF treatment for DMO in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. Although, episodes of acute kidney injury following anti-VEGF injection have been reported previously, in order to evaluate the long-term effect of intravitreal anti-VEGF treatment on renal function and limit potential confounding from co-morbidities, five patients were excluded because an obvious reported co-morbidity led directly to an acute decline in renal function. A total of 42 participants were classified as 'No DKD' controls and 43 individuals were classified as 'DKD cases'. Study cohort characteristics, co-morbidities and glycaemic parameters are summarised (Table [1](#Tab1){ref-type="table"}). The mean HbA1c was 67.3, standard deviation (SD) = 16.1 mmol/mol and mean duration of DM was 16.5, SD = 11.4 years. Additionally, 84 and 77% of participants had hypertension and hyperlipidaemia, respectively. Table 1Participant summary characteristicsCharacteristicAll (*n* = 85)No DKD (*n* = 42)DKD (*n* = 43)*P* valueMean Baseline eGFR (ml/min/1.73 m2, SD)75.0 ± 21.483.8 ± 13.366.5 ± 24.4\< 0.01Mean Baseline ACR (mg/mmol, SD)17.9 ± 62.11.0 ± 0.6734.4 ± 84.60.01Male, n (%)50 (58.8)24 (57.1)26 (60.5)0.76Age at 1st injection (years, SD)64.4 ± 9.462.9 ± 7.765.8 ± 10.60.16Type 2 Diabetes mellitus, n (%)66 (77.6)30 (71.4)36 (83.7)0.17Mean Duration of diabetes (years, SD)16.5 ± 11.416.2 ± 12.416.7 ± 10.60.85Mean HbA1c (mmol/mol, SD)67.3 ± 16.165.7 ± 13.168.9 ± 18.50.36Hypertension, n (%)71 (83.5)30 (71.4)41 (95.3)\< 0.01Hyperlipidaemia, n (%)65 (76.5)31 (73.8)34 (79.1)0.57Coronary Heart Disease or Heart Failure, n (%)31 (36.5)11 (26.2)20 (46.5)0.05Cerebrovascular Disease, n (%)12 (14.1)2 (4.8)10 (23.3)0.03Never smoked, n (%)53 (62.4)28 (66.6)25 (58.1)0.04Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor, n (%)41 (48.2)19 (45.2)22 (51.2)0.59Angiotensin Receptor Antagonist, n (%)14 (16.5)6 (14.3)8 (18.6)0.59Calcium Channel Blocker, n (%)34 (40.0)12 (28.6)22 (51.2)0.03Thiazide Diuretic, n (%)7 (8.2)2 (4.8)5 (11.6)0.43Spironolactone, n (%)3 (3.5)0 (0.0)3 (7.0)0.24Loop Diuretic, n (%)13 (15.3)1 (2.4)12 (27.9)\< 0.01Beta Blocker, n (%)26 (30.6)8 (19.0)18 (41.9)0.02Statin, n (%)68 (80.0)32 (76.2)36 (83.7)0.39Metformin, n (%)53 (62.4)24 (57.1)29 (67.4)0.33Aspirin, n (%)39 (45.9)20 (47.6)19 (44.2)0.75Alpha Blockers, n (%)11 (12.9)4 (9.5)7 (16.3)0.52Clopidogrel, n (%)Proton Pump Inhibitor, n (%)12 (14.1)24 (28.2)7 (16.6)10 (23.9)5 (11.6)14 (32.6)0.510.37Values provided are n (%) for categorical variables and mean ± SD for continuous variablesAbbreviations: DKD, diabetic kidney disease; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; ACR, albumin-to-creatinine ratio; HbA1c, glycated haemoglobin; SD, standard deviation
The eGFR data met the assumptions of linear regression including normal distribution, homoscedasticity and absence of multicollinearity. However, ACR data was skewed lacking normal distribution and homoscedasticity. Importantly, absence of multicollinearity remained. Log transformation of ACR data did not improve the distribution curve and as a result, no log transformation was performed.
Participants demonstrated a decline in eGFR from a mean baseline of 75 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ to a mean follow-up eGFR of 65.9 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ with a mean rate of decline of 2.6 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ /year (Table [2](#Tab2){ref-type="table"}). On average, participants received 26.8 ± 13.2 intravitreal anti-VEGF injections, which included 16.6 ± 10.0 ranibizumab and 10.1 ± 6.0 aflibercept, over a mean duration of 31 months (2.6 years). In an unadjusted linear regression analysis, the rate of change of eGFR over time was not significantly associated with the number of intravitreal anti-VEGF injections (β = 0.04, CI: − 0.02, 0.09; *p* = 0.21) and remained non-significant following adjustment for T2DM, cerebrovascular disease (CVD), hypertension and treatment with proton pump inhibitors (β = 0.04, CI: − 0.02, 0.09; *p* = 0.22). Table 2Intravitreal anti-VEGF injections and renal functionClinical VariableAll (n = 85)No DKD (n = 42)DKD (n = 43)P valueMean No. anti-VEGF injections (SD)26.8 ± 13.228.6 ± 12.525.0 ± 13.80.22Mean No. ranibizumab injections (SD)16.6 ± 10.017.2 ± 10.416.0 ± 9.70.59Mean No. aflibercept injections (SD)10.1 ± 6.011.2 ± 4.59.0 ± 7.00.09Mean baseline eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m^2^, SD)75.0 ± 21.483.8 ± 13.366.5 ± 24.4\< 0.01Mean follow-up eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m^2^, SD)65.9 ± 22.975.7 ± 15.957.1 ± 24.6\< 0.01Mean change in eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m^2^, %)−8.7 (12.1)−8.0 (9.5)−9.4 (14.1)0.56Mean eGFR slope (mL/min/1.73 m^2^, SD)−2.6 ± 3.5−2.7 ± 3.4- 2.5 ± 3.60.84Mean baseline ACR (mg/mmol, SD)17.9 ± 62.11.0 ± 0.6734.4 ± 84.60.01Mean follow-up ACR (mg/mmol, SD)18.8 ± 48.51.8 ± 2.635.4 ± 64.3\< 0.01Mean change in ACR (mg/mmol, %)+ 0.94 (5.0)+ 0.86 (80)1.0 (2.9)0.99Mean ACR slope (mg/mmol, SD)0.7 ± 12.30.2 ± 0.71.3 ± 17.40.69Abbreviations: DKD, diabetic kidney disease; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; ACR, albumin-to-creatinine ratio; SD, standard deviation
As expected, participants with DKD had a significantly lower mean baseline eGFR of 66.5 ± 24.4 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ compared to 83.8 ± 13.3 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ /year in patients without DKD (*p* \< 0.01). Additionally, patients with DKD also had significantly lower follow-up eGFR at 57.1 ± 24.6 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ compared to 75.7 ± 15.9 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ (p \< 0.01). Patients with DKD did not have a greater rate of eGFR decline (− 2.5 ± 3.6 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ /year) compared to individuals without DKD (− 2.7 ± 3.4 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ /year).
Study participants had increased ACR from a mean baseline value of 17.9 ± 62.1 mg/mmol to a mean follow-up ACR of 18.8 ± 48.5 mg/mmol with a rate of increase of 0.7 ± 12.3 mg/mmol/year. In an unadjusted analysis the rate of change of ACR over time was not significantly associated with the number of intravitreal anti-VEGF injections increased (β = 0.01, CI: − 0.19, 0.22; *p* = 0.91) and remained non-significant following adjustment for T2DM, CVD, and treatment with beta blockers and proton pump inhibitors (β = 0.02, CI: − 0.19, 0.23; *p* = 0.86).
Participants with DKD had significantly higher mean baseline ACR of 34.4 ± 84.6 mg/mmol compared to 1.0 ± 0.67 mg/mmol in patients without DKD (*p* \< 0.01). Additionally, participants with DKD had significantly higher ACR at follow-up 35.4 ± 64.3 mg/mmol compared to 1.8 ± 2.6 mg/mmol (p \< 0.01).
Across all participants, the mean number of ranibizumab injections received by those with DKD was 16.0 ± 9.7 injections compared to 17.2 ± 10.5 in those without DKD (*p* = 0.59). The mean number of aflibercept injections received by participants with DKD was 9.0 ± 7.0 injections compared to 11.2 ± 4.5 injections in those without DKD (*p* = 0.09).
Discussion {#Sec5}
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There is a strong correlation between the progression of retinal and renal microvascular complications as a consequence of long-term hyperglycaemia. This highlights the importance of evaluating the long-term efficacy and renal safety of intravitreal anti-VEGF agents \[[@CR28]\]. This study demonstrates that long-term intravitreal ranibizumab and aflibercept injections for the treatment of DMO does not significantly alter the rate of change in eGFR or ACR over time, therefore adding further support to the safety profile of intravitreal anti-VEGF.
A retrospective study of renal safety following acute anti-VEGF exposure showed no significant change in mean eGFR and no episodes of acute kidney injury, following a single intravitreal anti-VEGF injection of ranibizumab, aflibercept or bevacizumab, in a cohort of 69 patients with DM and CKD \[[@CR29]\]. However, the study by Kameda and colleagues did not consider the potential cumulative effects of intravitreal anti-VEGF exposure on renal function. In estimating the change in eGFR and ACR prior to and over the anti-VEGF treatment period, the current study was able to evaluate the longitudinal effect of VEGF inhibition on renal outcomes. Our study found no significant association between increased intravitreal anti-VEGF exposure and eGFR or ACR, over an average duration of 31 months.
Both a comprehensive review (4203 patients from 10 studies) and meta-analysis (10,300 patients from 22 studies) investigated the systemic safety profile of IVA and IVR respectively, in DMO, neovascular age-related macular degeneration and retinal vein occlusion, by pooling data from existing randomised controlled trials but found no difference in the incidence of adverse systemic events between either intravitreal anti-VEGF treatment and placebo \[[@CR30], [@CR31]\]. Adverse events recorded were not considered to be attributable to the study drug. These results further support the findings from individual randomised trials demonstrating a consistent safety profile, including no adverse impact on renal function, across a range of retinal disorders.
It is important to highlight that the clinical trials investigating IVR and IVA in DMO were not designed or powered to evaluate differences in low frequency systemic events, mainly as a consequence of their small sample sizes. Therefore, a firm conclusion on the systemic safety profile of intravitreal anti-VEGF is limited. Larger prospective studies with a longer follow up period and sufficient power to assess low frequency systemic adverse effects are required. A greater focus on the systemic safety of intravitreal anti-VEGF in high-risk groups is also needed. A population based, nested case-control study including 91,000 participants assessed post-marketing data on intravitreal anti-VEGF injections and found no significant increased risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, venous thromboembolism or congestive heart failure \[[@CR32]\]. While the study did not consider risk of AKI or CKD, a similar post-marketing population based study would be of value in assessing long-term renal safety. Additionally, existing clinical trial data rely on detection of AKI events rather than more subtle changes in markers of renal function associated with CKD. Drugs that accelerate the decline in kidney function without registering as AKI or CKD are important given the increased risk of micro-vasculopathy in diabetic patients and often parallel pathophysiological changes in retinal and renal vasculature.
The Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network measured baseline and 52-week follow-up urinary ACR in 654 patients receiving ranibizumab, aflibercept or bevacizumab. On average, each patient had 9--10 injections during the treatment period. Across all three treatment groups, over 77% of patients maintained their baseline urinary ACR, while 10--16% of patients experienced a worsening of ACR by the 52-week follow up period, with more than 7% of patients experiencing an improvement in ACR. In the absence of a control group no definitive assessment could be made on the influence of anti-VEGF treatment. However, intravitreal anti-VEGF treatment did not appear to increase the risk of developing or worsening proteinuria \[[@CR33]\].
In our study 54, 34 and 12% of patients had a baseline ACR \< 3, 3--30 and \> 30 mg/mmol, respectively, with no significant change detected over the 2.6 year treatment period. In comparison, the percentage of participants with an eGFR \< 60 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ increased from 26% at baseline to 39% at follow up, following an average duration of 2.6 years of anti-VEGF treatment. The difference observed for both renal markers highlights the variation in the sensitivity of their measurement outcomes and the importance of monitoring both in diabetic populations.
In this study, 66 patients with DMO had T2DM and 19 patients had type 1 DM (T1DM). The mean baseline eGFR for patients with T2DM was lower at 74.1 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ compared to an eGFR of 78.1 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ for patients with T1DM. The mean follow-up eGFR was also lower for T2DM patients with an eGFR of 64.9 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ compared to T1DM with an eGFR of 71.3 mL/min/1.73 m^2^. The mean rate of eGFR decline was 2.9 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ /year compared to 1.6 mL/min/1.73 m^2^ /year for T2DM and T1DM respectively. Eighty four per cent of patients with T2DM had a diagnosis of CKD compared to 16% of patients with T1DM. Our findings reflect those from a large US study which showed a significantly higher prevalence of CKD in T2DM compared to T1DM patients (44% vs. 32% respectively, *p* \< 0.001) \[[@CR34]\].
There are a number of limitations with our study including the inability to perform a sensitivity analysis to assess the relative contributions of IVR and IVA on change in renal function over time. However, a secondary analyses of a randomised comparative effectiveness trial, known as Protocol T, carried out by the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network, showed no significant difference in renal function as assessed by urinary ACR over a 52 week follow-up period between patients who received intravitreal ranibizumab, aflibercept or bevacizumab for the treatment of DMO \[[@CR33]\]. In addition, the limited sample size of 85 patients may have been insufficient to detect associations with change in renal function. This was a retrospective observational study, which prevented us performing a priori power analysis. In addition, we did not differentiate between patients in receipt of unilateral or bilateral injections which may influence the rate of adverse events observed \[[@CR35]--[@CR37]\]. Moreover, given our study did not provide a direct comparison between participants with DMO and those not undergoing VEGF inhibition therapy, it was not possible to determine whether the rate of renal decline over time differed between those in receipt of treatment and those who were not. Furthermore, due to the high prevalence of co-morbidities in diabetic populations, analysis of individuals with neovascular age-related macular degeneration may provide a more opportunistic comparison and a reduced risk of residual confounding.
Despite these limitations, our study had several strengths. In collecting prospective eGFR/ACR data we were able to assess long-term changes in renal function that would not have been reported as an adverse event. Additionally, we collected data on a wide range of co-morbidities and glycaemic parameters, which allowed for appropriate adjustment of potential confounding factors. We used the CKD-EPI equation rather than the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation to calculate estimated glomerular filtration rates. The CKD-EPI equation is generally considered to be a better predictor of renal function, particularly at higher eGFR values \[[@CR38]\].
Conclusions {#Sec6}
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This study supports the previously demonstrated effective renal safety profile of intravitreal anti-VEGF in patients with DMO. Regular long-term intravitreal VEGF inhibition does not significantly alter the rate of change in eGFR and/or ACR with increasing number of treatment injections. The long-term assessment of renal function provides additional evaluation and detection of subtle changes in eGFR and ACR that may not present clinically as adverse events. Larger prospective and post-marketing trials, using renal markers including eGFR, ACR and Cystatin C, as well as assessing incidence of AKI and CKD, are required to strengthen the renal safety of intravitreal anti-VEGF treatment modalities. A greater focus on at-risk groups such as those with CKD is required.
ACR
: albumin-to-creatinine ratio
AKI
: acute kidney injury
Anti-VEGF
: anti-vascular endothelial growth factor
CKD
: chronic kidney disease
CKD-EPI
: chronic kidney disease epidemiology collaboration equation
CVD
: cerebrovascular disease
DKD
: diabetic kidney disease
DM
: diabetes mellitus
DMO
: diabetic macular oedema
eGFR
: estimated glomerular filtration rate
EHR
: electronic healthcare records
HbA1c
: glycated haemoglobin
IVA
: intravitreal aflibercept
IVR
: intravitreal ranibizumab
T1DM
: type 1 diabetes mellitus
T2DM
: type 2 diabetes mellitus
UACR
: urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio
**Publisher's Note**
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
We would like to thank the participants included within this study.
Availability of data and material {#FPar1}
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The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the Principal Investigator (Miss Giuliana Silvestri) on reasonable request.
RON and PG analysed the data and wrote the manuscript. TD, JAL, APM, GS and GMCK critically revised the manuscript for important intellectual content. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
No funding was received to undertake this study.
This study received approval by the Office for Research Ethics Committee Northern Ireland (MREC Reference: 14/NI/1132). Written informed consent was obtained from all study participants.
Not applicable.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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In The
Court of Appeals
Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo
________________________
No. 7-13-00105-CR
________________________
ALLEN GRAVES, JR., APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE
On Appeal from the 46th District Court
Wilbarger County, Texas
Trial Court No. 11,634; Honorable Dan Mike Bird, Presiding
June 13, 2014
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Before QUINN, C.J., and HANCOCK and PIRTLE, JJ.
In May 2012, following an open plea of guilty to the offense of assault against a
family member by occlusion,1 Appellant, Allen Graves, Jr., entered into a plea bargain
whereby he was sentenced by the trial court to seven years confinement, suspended for
five years, and assessed a $1,000 fine. The trial court issued its Judgment of
1
See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.01 (West Supp. 2013). As alleged in the indictment of this
cause, the offense was a second degree felony. Id. at § 22.01(b-1)(3) (West Supp. 2013).
Conviction incorporating by reference the conditions of his community supervision
which, among other things, required that Appellant not commit any offense against the
laws of this State or any other State of the United States (Condition No. 3) and pay his
fine, court costs and monthly probation service fee (Condition No. 6).
In March 2013, the State filed its Motion to Revoke Probation alleging Appellant
committed five new criminal offenses and failed to pay his fine, court costs and monthly
probation service fee. At the hearing on the State’s motion, the State proceeded on
only two violations of Condition No. 3 and the violation of Condition No. 6. The two
violations of Condition No. 3 the State proceeded on alleged Appellant: (1) assaulted a
prior girlfriend and (2) committed the offense of criminal mischief by damaging a pair of
window screens. Appellant plead “not true” to the violations of Condition No. 3 and
“true” to the violation of Condition No. 6.2 At the conclusion of that hearing, the trial
court found Appellant violated the terms of community supervision,3 revoked the prior
order suspending imposition of sentence, and imposed the original sentence of seven
years confinement. The trial court also ordered Appellant to pay his court-appointed
attorney’s fees of $400. On appeal, Appellant asserts (1) there was insufficient
evidence of an assault to require revocation and (2) the trial court erred in revoking his
community supervision for non-payment because the uncontroverted facts established
he had an inability to pay. We modify the trial court’s judgment to delete the order that
Appellant pay $400 in court-appointed attorney’s fees and affirm as modified.
2
Notwithstanding his plea of true to the violation of Condition No. 6, Appellant did contest his
financial ability to pay his fine, court costs and supervision fees.
3
The trial court found the allegations of the assault and the non-payment to be true; however, the
court found the allegations of criminal mischief to be not true.
2
STANDARD OF REVIEW
Our review of an order revoking community supervision is limited to determining
whether the trial court abused its discretion. Rickels v. State, 202 S.W.3d 759, 763
(Tex. Crim. App. 2006) (citing Cardona v. State, 665 S.W.2d 492, 493 (Tex. Crim. App.
1984)). In an adjudication hearing, the State must prove by a preponderance of the
evidence that the defendant violated the terms of community supervision. Id. at 763-64;
Antwine v. State, 268 S.W.3d 634, 636 (Tex. App.—Eastland 2008, pet. ref’d). A
preponderance of the evidence means “that greater weight of the credible evidence
which would create a reasonable belief that the defendant has violated a condition of his
probation.” Rickels, 202 S.W.3d at 763–64. In determining the sufficiency of the
evidence to sustain a revocation, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the
trial court’s ruling, Garrett v. State, 619 S.W.2d 172, 174 (Tex. Crim. App. 1981); Jones
v. State, 589 S.W.2d 419, 421 (Tex. Crim. App. 1979), while recognizing that “[t]he trial
court is the sole judge of the credibility of witnesses and the weight to be given their
testimony.” Antwine 268 S.W.3d at 636. Given the unique nature of a revocation
hearing and the trial court’s broad discretion in the proceedings, the general standards
for reviewing sufficiency of the evidence do not apply. Pierce v. State, 113 S.W.3d 431,
436 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2003, pet. ref’d). When the standard of review is abuse of
discretion, the record must simply contain some credible evidence to support the trial
court’s decision. Herald v. State, 67 S.W.3d 292, 293 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 2001, no
pet.). Finally, we note that a single violation of community supervision is sufficient to
support revocation. TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 42.12, § 21(b) (West 2012). See
3
Antwine, 268 S.W.3d at 636 (citing Moore v. State, 605 S.W.2d 924, 926 (Tex. Crim.
App. 1980)).
ANALYSIS
ISSUE ONE
At the revocation hearing, Emily Taylor testified she was Appellant’s former
girlfriend. She testified they lived together for a time and had a child. She further
testified that on December 24, 2012, Appellant came to her house in violation of a court
order, struck her in the face and pushed her against a pickup truck. Immediately
thereafter, her face swelled red in color, and her back hurt. Jason Vandergriff, Chief of
Police of the City of Chillicothe, corroborated Taylor’s account of her injuries with
photographs taken shortly after the incident and opined that the knot of swelling on her
back was consistent with some type of blunt force trauma. Appellant testified the event
never took place.
Appellant’s account of events on December 24, 2012, clearly conflicts with the
testimony of Taylor and Vandergriff. However, the trial court is the sole judge of the
credibility of their testimony and judging from the revocation order, chose to believe
Taylor and Vandergriff over Appellant. See Antwine, 268 S.W.3d at 636. Viewing the
evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court’s ruling, we cannot say the trial
court abused its discretion in finding Appellant violated Condition No. 3 of the terms and
conditions of his community supervision. Appellant’s first issue is overruled, and his
second issue is pretermitted. TEX. R. APP. P. 47.3.
4
COURT-APPOINTED ATTORNEY’S FEES
We also note an issue not raised by Appellant regarding the assessment of $400
in court-appointed attorney fees in the trial court’s Judgment Revoking Community
Supervision, i.e., “Court Costs - $354.00 PLUS LEGAL FEES.” An attached form filed
by Appellant’s court-appointed attorney at the revocation hearing shows a claim for
$400 in fees. In order to assess attorney’s fees, the trial court must first determine that
the defendant has financial resources that enable him to offset in part or in whole the
cost of legal fees provided, TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 26.05(g) (W EST SUPP.
2012), and the record must reflect some factual basis to support the determination that
the defendant is capable of paying attorney’s fees. Barrera v. State, 291 S.W.3d 515,
518 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 2009, no pet.) (per curiam); Perez v. State, 280 S.W.3d 886,
887 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 2009, no pet.).
The judgment requires Appellant pay court costs and attorney’s fees. The clerk’s
record and hearing transcript reflect, however, the trial court found Appellant indigent
and unable to afford the cost of legal representation in the trial court proceedings and
on appeal. It does not appear the trial court made a determination Appellant had
financial resources enabling him to pay all or any part of the fees paid his court-
appointed counsel, and we are unable to see any evidence to support such a
determination. Accordingly, we conclude the order to pay attorney’s fees was improper
because the evidence was legally insufficient to support a finding Appellant had the
financial resources to pay attorney’s fees. See Mayer v. State, 309 S.W.3d 552, 556-57
(Tex. Crim. App. 2010). Accordingly, we modify the judgment to delete the requirement
5
that Appellant pay court-appointed attorney’s fees. See Wolfe v. State, 377 S.W.3d
141, 146 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 2012, no pet.).
CONCLUSION
We modify the trial court’s judgment to delete the order to pay court-appointed
attorney’s fees and affirm the judgment as modified.
Patrick A. Pirtle
Justice
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Post-Furt: Spinning off from Glee, Kurt begins an entirely new chapter in his life at Dalton Academy for Boys. Blaine, Wes, David and the boys of Windsor House make his life, for better or worse, far more eventful than he imagined.
All it took was one lustful encounter with Alyse... but the world she opened up to him is more than Thor's willing to let go of. Taking her prisoner, Alyse wakes up tied to the God of Thunder's bed, helpless to stop him from doing anything - and everything! - to her for his pleasure. Then again, why would she want to? Inspired by Jeffree Star's 'Prisoner'.
After a failed suicide attempt, Kurt Hummel is left at Dalton House - a mental health facility - to get the help and care he needs. What no one counted on was that fellow patient Blaine would see him as new meat and would be hell-bent on destroying Kurt to the point of death. Warning: dark themes and dark!Blaine weak!Kurt
Hans Landa has stumbled upon a woman that he cannot figure out. She's obviously not French, but neither is she Jewish. Her house is a mix of opposites, and she keeps her secrets close to her. But if there's one thing Landa loves, it's a mystery.
AU: Emma thought she was on her way to saving her son when she found herself lost in giant maze. Her only companion, none other than Hook. Now they have to work as a team if they want to escape this world and Emma quickly finds herself becoming more scared of her walls falling down than the creatures that lurk in the shadows. Honestly, it had been complicated enough already.
Since Wendy, Peter Pan had always had one rule and that was that there were no girls allowed on the island. However, Peter's shadow one day brings a girl, Eva, to Neverland, defying it's masters orders. Peter tries to figure out why this girl is so important, and in the mean time, begins falling in love with her - an odd feeling that he has never felt before. Peter/OC -Mickey Rae
Set in the late 1890's in England, this alternative universe fanfic is a parallel to the Rumbelle story we all know and love. Belle French, a lowly peasant, is forced to work for the rich and menacing Lord Gold, the owner of a rather large estate, due to money problems. He requires more help around the castle, and over time, Belle finds there's more to Gold than most people know.
AU: Emma discovers a small, privately-run coffee shop in Storybrooke — in the end, it's no longer about the cinnamon sprinkles or the mochas, but about a particular one-handed barista, and a boy with a storybook.
They say Peter Pan is a monster who can't love. Then the shadow brought back stubborn, naive Amy. No matter how she denies it, she's falling for the cruel boy. Will love be Pan's saving grace or his ultimate downfall? Takes place before, during, and after Operation: Save Henry. Peter/OC. Rated T for mature/dark themes and swearing. Mostly canon with slight AU.
"Victims of traumatic and sexual abuse are silent. They choose to keep their self hatred to themselves. I hate him as much as he hates me, we're both sick. We're Romeo and Juliet. A perfect fucking love story. The only true kind left." Rated MA. Kink. BP!Kurt/Intersex!Kurt Non-Con Dub-Con
"When I saw you on the Helicarrier in Germany, I knew I had to make you mine," he said softly as he kissed the crook of my neck. "Please don't," I quietly begged him. "Shh pet, in time you will learn to enjoy my touch," he whispered.
What if Emma had a 17 year old daughter Elizabeth? With Elizabeth and Henry captured, the Storybrooke crew set for Neverland to save them. Elizabeth never planned to get captured by a boy, but she never expected to fall in love with the enemy. She can't help it, something about Pan, so dangerous, and compelling. What side will Elizabeth be on? Love or Family.
Loki has a lover, a young Asgard maiden named Astridr, a beauty of fire and passion, daughter of Var, Goddess of unions. And Thor wants her. But Astridr genuinely cares for the mischief God. So what will Thor do? Take his brother's love? With Loki descending into madness, he may not need to take her. Will she come to him on her own. Or will she stay at Loki's side? ThorxOC, LokixOC
Neverland. It's a darkly magical place, nothing like the stories she'd grown up loving as a child. It's deadly, beautiful, tragic—Emma knows that rescuing Henry will be dangerous. She expects it, accepts it...is prepared for it. The one thing she's not prepared for, however, are her raging feelings and ever-changing emotions for the infuriating pirate who's vowed to help her.
Castiel is in love with his older sister's boyfriend, Dean. When Cas forms a unlikely friendship with Sam, things start to look up for him. All odds seem against the highschooler in love with the college student until Dean comes into his room and has his way with him. But it isn't the end to their troubles. College/Highschool AU! Psuedo Non-Con. Destiel! Angsty.
Maybelle Salvatore is tired that her brother don't care enough about her, so one day she leaves. She goes back to New Orleans. But will she get the peace she wishes or will life here be much harder than back in Mystic Falls. Marcel/OC/Klaus. Rating may change at some point. Please read and review.
He could never love her. He had never been taught to love. How was that he could so intensely crave something he had never felt before the arrival of Christine Daae? She was a terrifying obsession. Leroux-BASED. E/C.
Thor has been stalking Loki for years, truly believing he is in love with him. One day he sees Loki with a woman and decides it's time to make Loki feel his love, to make him fall in love with him in return. Loki is suddenly faced with a horrifying situation when he's kidnapped by a madman and kept as his prisoner. Can Loki survive? And just what has Thor planned for him?
Killian Jones hates being ignored, and that is exactly what Emma Swan has been doing since the moment they returned from rescuing Henry. Disregarding their one night spent together in Neverland, she's kept him at bay, carefully trying to maintain the control and balance in her life since their return. She can't afford distractions. He, however, sees things a little differently. *M*
For Sebastian Smythe, it was just another day at Dalton Academy, until HE walked in the door. First came an instant dislike, then a stupid bet, followed by a whole lot of drama. Kurtbastian, Klaine friendship, gay!Jesse St James. Warning - mentions of abuse, may be triggering.
Blaine meets the Hummels when he is a teenager & Kurt is just a toddler. He then moves to New York to pursue his dream of becoming a professional singer. After losing touch with the Hummels for a long time, he returns to Ohio when Kurt is all grown up.
Still unsure as to where this story will go yet, plus, I'm not good at summaries. Setting: early on in the war, Germany and Poland. Main character: Hans Landa. Pairing: Landa and an OC. Please leave me reviews.
Loki smiled after she slapped him. Oh, such a fierce and feisty little wench. It would be a pleasure to take her one day... soon... There was no denying that his silverongue could win her over, either with his voice or his... muscles... The Trickster grinned as he remembered his sentence. "I like her." Oh, and by Odin, he did. She was someone to conquer. That female mortal had sho
Caroline tapped her leg nervously as she waited for the timer to finish. Her life, her baby-free life, flashed before her eyes before the ding of the timer interrupted her thoughts. Elena's eyes inquired as Caroline slowly made her way over to the counter to see what her fate held. "Damon will never stop making bun in the oven jokes, will he?" AU-H Klaroline
Loki/OFC. Loki has ruled Earth for seven hundred years, watched closely by the inhabitants of Asgard. Now, Loki searches for his new queen, and a young woman, previously a member of the resistance against Loki's rule, is forced to remember her past life as love and an ancient desire rekindle when she is forced to become Loki's bride.
To atone for his sins, Loki is sent back to Earth, powerless, in order to learn to appreciate the human race. Max, a small town grad student, has finally decided to kick her worthless roommate out, and needs another one to afford her apartment. Awful part-time jobs, college weirdness, and obscure feelings ensue during the God of Mischief's quest to gain his powers back.
"I'd rather be your slave than your wife!" He smirked at her, "Good, you can be both." Agent Rose Stark, Tony Stark's daughter is prepared to take on Loki with the rest of the Avengers. But Loki proves to be too smart for the Avengers and he ends up taking Rose hostage. He is determined to make Rose his wife and get his revenge once and for all. Loki/OC.
Kurt is a high school student who is bullied every day because of who he is, but that is nothing compared to what happens at home, where nobody sees. Only now there's someone who isn't going to let him hide anymore. abused!Kurt BUT NOT BY BURT. Angst.
What if before Storybrooke, a young 18 year old Emma found herself in a far away place known as Neverland? Once there perhaps she had frolicked with a young Pan, while crossing paths with the devilish Captain Hook. Had it all been a dream? Or had the strange land actually existed, the faded memories real. Story complete. *bonus "missing scene" M chapters added to the end*
Kurt had dreamed of moving to New York with Blaine, but he soon finds a city and success can change a person. Blaine is not the loving gentleman he once was, and Kurt finds himself fearing the boy he fell in love with. Dark!Blaine Abused!Kurt
After being dumped and humiliated by his boyfriend, Kurt decides to buy himself some dignity in order to save face at his best friend's wedding. Little does he know he's about to cross paths with someone from his past in an unexpected way.
A spell gone wrong, a cheating boyfriend, and a one night stand that changes everything. Can they over come their differences and find happiness together as a family, or will the threats that lie beneath the surface destroy everything? Follows the show through 4x08 then AU.
Thor travels to Midgard in a time of peace to find Jane Foster with the aid of his friends Tony Stark and Bruce Banner. He travels to Nor way where SHIELD has kept Jane under protection and the two come to the realization that although they feel strongly for one another; they've only spent a few days together. Now they cope with understanding their relationship among new obstacles.
A broken god crashes onto the roof of Stark Tower, and Tony and Steve are horrified by what they find. As Loki's story unfolds, the Avengers discover what really happened when Loki was taken back to Asgard, and what he has endured for the past year. A powerful enemy emerges to threaten Asgard as Loki struggles to recover in the care of those who were once his bitterest foes.
Unlike the end of "Broken" where Emma and Mary Margaret fall through the Mad Hatter's hat and end up next to Mulan and Aurora, Emma lands somewhere else entirely. She lands right next to a pirate ship being captained by the one and only Hook. This story will follow some plots of the show, but not all of them. Captain Swan. ON HIATUS
Hermione is taken prisoner, held captive by the Dark Lord himself. Mercilessly tortured and starved, with no chance of rescue, she loses hope. Months later, half mad, she loses control, gives in. Soon, she finds herself his wife. She is the Dark Lady.
Set 50 years after 4x01. Elena is living in Tuscany, she has a job, friends, a comfortable life. What happens when none other then Kol Mikaelson moves into the flat next door to hers? Sparks fly and tempers flare. Will love bloom or chaos ensue, only time will tell.
It wasn't supposed to be like this. Kurt was supposed to be in NYC living his dream, not rushing back to Ohio after a chilling phone call. Blaine was supposed to be finishing up his final year at McKinley, not unconscious in a hospital bed near death. SEASON FOUR AU
After getting kicked out of Dalton, Blaine is excited to start out at McKinley. On his first day, a porcelain-skinned boy with brilliant glasz eyes catches his attention. Blaine's life will be thrown onto a track full of hurt, anger, and most of all... love. All thanks to one, Kurt Hummel. Badboy!Blaine, Klaine. Warnings: Language, underage drinking, suicidal ideation, sex
Kurt is studying abroad with the New Directions in Greece for the summer. Blaine is a god visiting from Olympus looking for a good time. Yet one night they meet in Athens and embark on an epic romance...but Greek myths usually end in tragedy, don't they?
When Sebastian Smythe goes to the Hummel Hudson home for winter break while his parents are on vacation, he certainly didn't expect to have to deal with Finn's gorgeous little brother, Kurt, who's most definitely, absolutely off limits.
Kurt Hummel needs money for student loans, and if getting paid to be tied up and used online is the best way to do it, he'll take it. Blaine Anderson tells himself not to get attached to clients but this innocent young man could change everything for him
SHIELD agent, Kate Poole, is assigned to infiltrate Loki's lair by any means necessary, so she poses as a mercenary and joins Loki's army. But can she gain Loki's trust, or will he see through her disguise. Takes place right after Loki takes the Tesseract.
Mafia AU. Blaine is a jaded crime lord interested in Kurt, a singer at a speakeasy. Kurt is desperate to take care of his ill father. Blaine makes Kurt an offer, trade himself for Blaine's money and influence to get Burt the best medical care. And then there's Sebastian, who runs a rival mob. Angst, drama, and a dark, kinda romantic story
Klaine AU fiction. Blaine and friends run a fight club. Blaine is lonely and angry. He has tried dating, but he just isn't attracted to anyone he's met. Fight club is where he blows off steam until one night a blue eyed boy walks in. M for reasons.
Caroline Forbes was never a slave to anyone but now that the vampires have taken over and humans are forced to a life of servitude what will become of her? Sold to the originals she can only hope the mysterious Niklaus is not as dangerous as she's been told. AU
According to this dark story, after Valentine's Day, we find out that Karofsky is completely insane! Rated M for graphic rape/non-con, harsh language, and adult subjects. Remember when reading that this is just a horror story. Our Kurt is safe, I promise!
"Kurt had heard stories about Dalton, of course. Who hadn't?" Kurt takes a part-time secretary job in Dalton's main office and soon leaves quite an impact on the school, especially when he catches the eye of a certain dark-haired juvenile...badboy!Blaine
AU. Burt Hummel and Paul Karofsky have been friends since college but not seen each other in ages. One year, Burt invites Paul and his family down. They arrive with their 17 year old son David in tow and things get interesting. Kurtofsky! More a/n inside
When Sebastian skipped town, he left Kurt devastated. When he returns, he finds his beautiful boy broken and beaten. All Sebastian wants to do is heal both their broken hearts, and tell Kurt what he should have said all along. But when the hurt is this deep, can it ever be healed?
Sequel to I Won't Hurt You: Four months after being saved from the violent hands of Blaine, Kurt is almost back to his former self. Enter a reformed Blaine who says he only wants to make things right. And Kurt plays back into his hands again. Dark!Blaine
Santana's a lesbian since she's in love with Britney, and Sebastian has a messed up past but he's stil gay. So why is it when they meet, being gay is the farthest thing from their minds? Rating it T, but it's close to M sometimes. Sebtana.
Blaine and his family move right next door to the Hummel-Hudsons. Blaine didn't want to move, but after seeing a beautiful boy in the room across from his dancing around, he starts to think that living here might not be so bad.
They loved the same guy, not each other, right? Just because something is unexpected doesn't mean it's impossible. 'Warnings'- slash,explicit adult scene. If this isn't your first time in FF -not just the page- , read it. You'll be fine.
*COMPLETE* When single father Kurt Hummel needs to find a nanny for his baby girl, he puts an advert out and meets Blaine Anderson, a young man who needs a job and is amazing with Kurt's daughter. Kurt hires him and, could it be? nanny!Blaine
When Kurt Hummel transfers to Dalton Academy, he finds himself targeted by the resident spoilt rich kid, Blaine Anderson. Blaine will do anything to get into Kurt's pants. And Kurt is definitely, not interested.
Agent Karofsky has a wife and is about to make his career by going undercover to capture Blaine, the shadow mob boss. But everything fell apart when he met a dancer with pale blue eyes. Klaine & Kurtofsky. AU: D/s, BSDM, dub-con. Kink Meme Fill.
AU Season 3 Kurt never transferred back to McKinley. It's now his senior year at Dalton and Kurt finds himself pursued by Sebastian Smythe. A prompt fill for the GKM. Full Prompt inside. M/M smut. Eventual MPreg. Kurt/Sebastian.
My sadistic Cousin wanted a dark/manipulative yet in love Blaine easing Kurt in to a very extreme relationship for his birthday. I didn't want to buy him anything, so I complied. I rather like it myself.
With boys that would fit anyone's desires, The Blooming Rose one of the best gay brothels in New York. But when Dave Karofsky's order becomes too precise, he is met with a face from his past. Kurtofsky. 3 Parts. Rated M for smutty goodness.
Blaine Anderson wakes up one morning to realize that he can read minds. Now he has to get used to having other thoughts invade his own, and that includes Kurt Hummel's thoughts about him. and they're not always so squeaky clean.
They're together now, but with Blaine in Ohio and Kurt back in France, it leaves both boys wondering when they'll see each other again. Will they be able to handle the distance, or will it prove to be too much? Sequel to 'Welcome, New Kid.'
When Kurt's life turns upside down and everything falls apart, there's no way to glue it back together. Karofsky reaches his boiling point and there's no turning back. All that's left is for Blaine to move on or fight from fading away.
Blaine used to be so perfect, and Kurt thought he had found his very own Prince Charming. Who was to know that underneath that smart blazer was a violent, manipulative isolator who has now turned his attention to the poor, innocent Kurt? Dark!Blaine
Ten years after hs, Kurt's a struggling actor and Dave's a rich businessman. When the two meet again by chance, Kurt sees Dave's wealth as an easy fix to his problems but Dave's just in it for love. Can this sugar daddy and his kept man make it work?
While traveling to be happily ever after with Blaine, Kurt was kidnapped by the Pirate Karofsky. Captain Blaine will not rest until his beloved is back in his arms. Klaine & Finchel, w/ Kurtofsky & Puckurt. Kink-Meme Fill. Smut/Non-Con.
No one would believe her. He was walking around with all of the power. The one person she could tell hated her. Now she was stuck in hell, being haunted by the monster who stole everything from her. WARNING: Contains rape and violence.
All Kurt had to do was tutor a student for his Geometry teacher, make sure the kid gets a C on the upcoming final, and his teacher would give him some extra credit. Kurt didn't know however, he'd be working with the school's bad boy, Blaine.
AU BadBoy!Blaine, Reform!Klaine fic. Kurt is forced to attend Dalton Academy Reform School for a little misunderstanding and ends up with bad boy, Blaine Anderson, as a roommate. What happens when Kurt begins to fall for the boy with a dark past?
When 2 carriers of a mutated gene conceive, a Sin is born. They are recognized by the black brand on their shoulder. Kurt Hummel is born a Sin and is forced into a life where he is forced to be a slave. What happens when he is given to Blaine as a gift?
In the wake of a personal crisis, David Karofsky starts a video diary detailing all of his encounters with one, Kurt Hummel. Kurt watches the videos over time and we see his reactions, but what has happened to Dave? R:T for Language
Kurt Hummel is a world famous model sick with the shallow ways in which our society judges by appearances. Desperate to find someone who likes him for him and not his looks he seeks refuge in the arms of the one man who can see him for who he truly is. AU
Part 1 of the Breathe 'verse. Pre-Klaine. Blaine gets sexually assaulted. Burt is the one to pick up the pieces. The Hummel-Hudson household is the safe haven. My spin on the old prompt. WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT - don't read if it may be a trigger.
Blaine is the son of a conservative politician. He's not allowed to have a boyfriend but he falls in love with Kurt however something about Blaine isn't quite right. Something dark and slightly twisted. Rated M for language, smut, gay sex and dark themes.
Kurt Hummel is a new foreign exchange student at Dalton Acadamy. Blaine is sent to be his mentor and roommate. As Blaine teaches Kurt how to deal with the struggles of life, Kurt teaches Blaine that it's okay to fall in love. AU
Kurt and Blaine find time to practice during the summer. Burt learns more about parenting a gay teen. Dave Karofsky turns to Kurt for help coming out. It's a summer of love in Lima! Klaine love and klisses
The pamphlets Kurt's dad gave him didn't help that much - he's still clueless. Maybe he'll take up Blaine on his offer to talk about… that stuff. The two bond as their relationship grows into something more than friendship.
In a global society where slavery is sign of wealth, one boy feels everything is wrong. That doesn't keep Blaine from accepting his gift slave on his 14th birthday, though...Warnings: Slavery, mentions of dub-con/non-con slight disfigurement.
'"Come on," Finn smiled, reaching out for Dave's shoulder again. "I've got a really good idea."' When Finn offers Dave a chance to make amends with Kurt, he'd be a fool not to take it. And besides, Finn's right. He really has nothing left to lose.
In which Kurt is adventurous, and Blaine is just along for the ride. 'tis mostly smut my dears. I am so sorry I have to take the F word out of the title. I don't want to risk my story getting taken down.
Kurt still likes Blaine, and is always reminding himself they are just friends. Karofsky does the unthinkable and asks for forgiveness. Focusing heavily on the bullying arc, Klaine relationship and Kurtofksy friendship. Also explores Blaine's back story
He knew Blaine had been taunted at his old school, but didn't realise how brutal it had been, he hadn't even stopped to think about it as he was so preoccupied with his own situation. As he slowly learns the truth, Kurt realises he got off easy.
A love story. AU. Psycho, slut, stalker Blaine has his eyes set on David Karofsky. As they develop a secret Dom/sub relationship, Blaine's friendship with Kurt begins to turn into more and things get messy. KINK, SMUT, POLY. You have been warned.
Kurt and Blaine are together but all is not perfect while Karofsky is wondering if you can turn someone who hates you into your sex slave. This is a twisting, turning story featuring Klaine, Kurofsky and Blainamiah-Blaine & Jeremiah.
Blaine begins an online love affair, but his target ends up being best friend Kurt, forcing him to live double lives. Latest: Blaine and Kurt make love for the first time, unaware that the Warblers are liveblogging it from a hacked webcam stream.
Blaine was terrified of dealing with his past and was ready to put it behind him. But unfortunately for him it's not done with him. He needs Kurt now more than ever. This is the story of how courage began and how it would live on.
Burt dies in "GC" and Kurt has to deal with what that means for his life since he's underage: After being in a group home for a month in Columbus, Kurt's social worker finally finds him a home back in Lima. 1st POV. OoC. Au. Kurtofsky friendship/romance.
Eight year old Blaine was really hoping he would find a best friend when he went to football day camp. He just didn't expect it would be the shy little boy hiding in the equipment shed. Baby!Klaine. Oneshot. COMPLETE.
Kurt is back at McKinley and unfortunately, Dave is up to his old tricks again. Warnings: SPOILERS IN THE A/N! BEWARE! This story is EXTREMELY angsty. No Kurtofsky smut or romance. Rated M mostly for Santana's potty mouth.
Kurt gets drawn in to a messy situation that he won't tell anyone, not even Blaine, about. All Blaine knows is that it's hurting Kurt more than ever. Can he get his friend to open up and save him from himself? Eventual Klaine, dark and adult themes ahead!
Kurt returns to McKinley and Blaine comes with him. Everyone is rather happy for the couple, no one really recognizes the signs of abuse. No one except for Dave Karofsky. AbusiveDarkOOC!Blaine, Eventual Kurtofsky, Warnings inside.
Dave tilted his head and moved in just mere inches away from Kurt's mouth. Kurt could feel his heart rate accelerate and his breathe hitched in his throat. His eyes closed involuntarily as he felt Dave's fingers stroking featherlight against his neck...
Myrtle's Tom was Tom Riddle. Her Tom was Tom Riddle. She had been involved with Lord Voldemort since Christmas Eve. Hermione felt guilty at the realization, but she couldn't admit to fraternizing with the enemy.
Voldemort has taken over the world, and Harry, Ron and Hermione are on the run. What will Hermione do to save Harry, and the world, but will it leave her with nothing but hatred and despair. M for LEMON
Severus Snape didn't think his life could get any worse until Neville's cauldron explodes and turns him into a toddler. To make things worse, Albus decides to place him in the care of none other than Hermione Granger.
Voldemort takes Hermione captive 7 years after the final war. Will he be able to hold her prisoner and even perhaps change her to the dark side? or will she prove to be too powerful and strong of will for even him?
Voldemort won the war, all Order members dead, captured, or in hiding. Hermione is in Azkaban, until Malfoy makes her his servant, subjecting her to a cruel nightmare. Can Hermione escape? Will the Order reunite & overthrow the new regime? Warnings inside | 2024-01-21T01:26:51.906118 | https://example.com/article/4856 |
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