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Dragonchain Public Proposal TL;DR:

Dragonchain has demonstrated twice Reddit’s entire total daily volume (votes, comments, and posts per Reddit 2019 Year in Review) in a 24-hour demo on an operational network. Every single transaction on Dragonchain is decentralized immediately through 5 levels of Dragon Net, and then secured with combined proof on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Binance Chain, via Interchain. At the time, in January 2020, the entire cost of the demo was approximately $25K on a single system (transaction fees locked at $0.0001/txn). With current fees (lowest fee $0.0000025/txn), this would cost as little as $625.
Watch Joe walk through the entire proposal and answer questions on YouTube.
This proposal is also available on the Dragonchain blog.

Hello Reddit and Ethereum community!

I’m Joe Roets, Founder & CEO of Dragonchain. When the team and I first heard about The Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off we were intrigued. We believe we have the solutions Reddit seeks for its community points system and we have them at scale.
For your consideration, we have submitted our proposal below. The team at Dragonchain and I welcome and look forward to your technical questions, philosophical feedback, and fair criticism, to build a scaling solution for Reddit that will empower its users. Because our architecture is unlike other blockchain platforms out there today, we expect to receive many questions while people try to grasp our project. I will answer all questions here in this thread on Reddit, and I've answered some questions in the stream on YouTube.
We have seen good discussions so far in the competition. We hope that Reddit’s scaling solution will emerge from The Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off and that Reddit will have great success with the implementation.

Executive summary

Dragonchain is a robust open source hybrid blockchain platform that has proven to withstand the passing of time since our inception in 2014. We have continued to evolve to harness the scalability of private nodes, yet take full advantage of the security of public decentralized networks, like Ethereum. We have a live, operational, and fully functional Interchain network integrating Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and ~700 independent Dragonchain nodes. Every transaction is secured to Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Ethereum Classic. Transactions are immediately usable on chain, and the first decentralization is seen within 20 seconds on Dragon Net. Security increases further to public networks ETH, BTC, and ETC within 10 minutes to 2 hours. Smart contracts can be written in any executable language, offering full freedom to existing developers. We invite any developer to watch the demo, play with our SDK’s, review open source code, and to help us move forward. Dragonchain specializes in scalable loyalty & rewards solutions and has built a decentralized social network on chain, with very affordable transaction costs. This experience can be combined with the insights Reddit and the Ethereum community have gained in the past couple of months to roll out the solution at a rapid pace.

Response and PoC

In The Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off post, Reddit has asked for a series of demonstrations, requirements, and other considerations. In this section, we will attempt to answer all of these requests.

Live Demo

A live proof of concept showing hundreds of thousands of transactions

On Jan 7, 2020, Dragonchain hosted a 24-hour live demonstration during which a quarter of a billion (250 million+) transactions executed fully on an operational network. Every single transaction on Dragonchain is decentralized immediately through 5 levels of Dragon Net, and then secured with combined proof on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Binance Chain, via Interchain. This means that every single transaction is secured by, and traceable to these networks. An attack on this system would require a simultaneous attack on all of the Interchained networks.
24 hours in 4 minutes (YouTube):
24 hours in 4 minutes
The demonstration was of a single business system, and any user is able to scale this further, by running multiple systems simultaneously. Our goals for the event were to demonstrate a consistent capacity greater than that of Visa over an extended time period.
Tooling to reproduce our demo is available here:
https://github.com/dragonchain/spirit-bomb

Source Code

Source code (for on & off-chain components as well tooling used for the PoC). The source code does not have to be shared publicly, but if Reddit decides to use a particular solution it will need to be shared with Reddit at some point.

Scaling

How it works & scales

Architectural Scaling

Dragonchain’s architecture attacks the scalability issue from multiple angles. Dragonchain is a hybrid blockchain platform, wherein every transaction is protected on a business node to the requirements of that business or purpose. A business node may be held completely private or may be exposed or replicated to any level of exposure desired.
Every node has its own blockchain and is independently scalable. Dragonchain established Context Based Verification as its consensus model. Every transaction is immediately usable on a trust basis, and in time is provable to an increasing level of decentralized consensus. A transaction will have a level of decentralization to independently owned and deployed Dragonchain nodes (~700 nodes) within seconds, and full decentralization to BTC and ETH within minutes or hours. Level 5 nodes (Interchain nodes) function to secure all transactions to public or otherwise external chains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. These nodes scale the system by aggregating multiple blocks into a single Interchain transaction on a cadence. This timing is configurable based upon average fees for each respective chain. For detailed information about Dragonchain’s architecture, and Context Based Verification, please refer to the Dragonchain Architecture Document.

Economic Scaling

An interesting feature of Dragonchain’s network consensus is its economics and scarcity model. Since Dragon Net nodes (L2-L4) are independent staking nodes, deployment to cloud platforms would allow any of these nodes to scale to take on a large percentage of the verification work. This is great for scalability, but not good for the economy, because there is no scarcity, and pricing would develop a downward spiral and result in fewer verification nodes. For this reason, Dragonchain uses TIME as scarcity.
TIME is calculated as the number of Dragons held, multiplied by the number of days held. TIME influences the user’s access to features within the Dragonchain ecosystem. It takes into account both the Dragon balance and length of time each Dragon is held. TIME is staked by users against every verification node and dictates how much of the transaction fees are awarded to each participating node for every block.
TIME also dictates the transaction fee itself for the business node. TIME is staked against a business node to set a deterministic transaction fee level (see transaction fee table below in Cost section). This is very interesting in a discussion about scaling because it guarantees independence for business implementation. No matter how much traffic appears on the entire network, a business is guaranteed to not see an increased transaction fee rate.

Scaled Deployment

Dragonchain uses Docker and Kubernetes to allow the use of best practices traditional system scaling. Dragonchain offers managed nodes with an easy to use web based console interface. The user may also deploy a Dragonchain node within their own datacenter or favorite cloud platform. Users have deployed Dragonchain nodes on-prem on Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, MS Azure, and other hosting platforms around the world. Any executable code, anything you can write, can be written into a smart contract. This flexibility is what allows us to say that developers with no blockchain experience can use any code language to access the benefits of blockchain. Customers have used NodeJS, Python, Java, and even BASH shell script to write smart contracts on Dragonchain.
With Docker containers, we achieve better separation of concerns, faster deployment, higher reliability, and lower response times.
We chose Kubernetes for its self-healing features, ability to run multiple services on one server, and its large and thriving development community. It is resilient, scalable, and automated. OpenFaaS allows us to package smart contracts as Docker images for easy deployment.
Contract deployment time is now bounded only by the size of the Docker image being deployed but remains fast even for reasonably large images. We also take advantage of Docker’s flexibility and its ability to support any language that can run on x86 architecture. Any image, public or private, can be run as a smart contract using Dragonchain.

Flexibility in Scaling

Dragonchain’s architecture considers interoperability and integration as key features. From inception, we had a goal to increase adoption via integration with real business use cases and traditional systems.
We envision the ability for Reddit, in the future, to be able to integrate alternate content storage platforms or other financial services along with the token.

LBRY - To allow users to deploy content natively to LBRY
MakerDAO to allow users to lend small amounts backed by their Reddit community points.
STORJ/SIA to allow decentralized on chain storage of portions of content. These integrations or any other are relatively easy to integrate on Dragonchain with an Interchain implementation.

Cost

Cost estimates (on-chain and off-chain) For the purpose of this proposal, we assume that all transactions are on chain (posts, replies, and votes).

On the Dragonchain network, transaction costs are deterministic/predictable. By staking TIME on the business node (as described above) Reddit can reduce transaction costs to as low as $0.0000025 per transaction.
Dragonchain Fees Table

Getting Started

How to run it

Building on Dragonchain is simple and requires no blockchain experience. Spin up a business node (L1) in our managed environment (AWS), run it in your own cloud environment, or on-prem in your own datacenter. Clear documentation will walk you through the steps of spinning up your first Dragonchain Level 1 Business node.
Getting started is easy...

Download Dragonchain’s dctl
Input three commands into a terminal
Build an image
Run it

More information can be found in our Get started documents.

Architecture

Dragonchain is an open source hybrid platform. Through Dragon Net, each chain combines the power of a public blockchain (like Ethereum) with the privacy of a private blockchain.
Dragonchain organizes its network into five separate levels. A Level 1, or business node, is a totally private blockchain only accessible through the use of public/private keypairs. All business logic, including smart contracts, can be executed on this node directly and added to the chain.
After creating a block, the Level 1 business node broadcasts a version stripped of sensitive private data to Dragon Net. Three Level 2 Validating nodes validate the transaction based on guidelines determined from the business. A Level 3 Diversity node checks that the level 2 nodes are from a diverse array of locations. A Level 4 Notary node, hosted by a KYC partner, then signs the validation record received from the Level 3 node. The transaction hash is ledgered to the Level 5 public chain to take advantage of the hash power of massive public networks.
Dragon Net can be thought of as a “blockchain of blockchains”, where every level is a complete private blockchain. Because an L1 can send to multiple nodes on a single level, proof of existence is distributed among many places in the network. Eventually, proof of existence reaches level 5 and is published on a public network.

API Documentation

APIs (on chain & off)

SDK Source

Nobody’s Perfect

Known issues or tradeoffs

Dragonchain is open source and even though the platform is easy enough for developers to code in any language they are comfortable with, we do not have so large a developer community as Ethereum. We would like to see the Ethereum developer community (and any other communities) become familiar with our SDK’s, our solutions, and our platform, to unlock the full potential of our Ethereum Interchain. Long ago we decided to prioritize both Bitcoin and Ethereum Interchains. We envision an ecosystem that encompasses different projects to give developers the ability to take full advantage of all the opportunities blockchain offers to create decentralized solutions not only for Reddit but for all of our current platforms and systems. We believe that together we will take the adoption of blockchain further. We currently have additional Interchain with Ethereum Classic. We look forward to Interchain with other blockchains in the future. We invite all blockchains projects who believe in decentralization and security to Interchain with Dragonchain.
While we only have 700 nodes compared to 8,000 Ethereum and 10,000 Bitcoin nodes. We harness those 18,000 nodes to scale to extremely high levels of security. See Dragonchain metrics.
Some may consider the centralization of Dragonchain’s business nodes as an issue at first glance, however, the model is by design to protect business data. We do not consider this a drawback as these nodes can make any, none, or all data public. Depending upon the implementation, every subreddit could have control of its own business node, for potential business and enterprise offerings, bringing new alternative revenue streams to Reddit.

Costs and resources

Summary of cost & resource information for both on-chain & off-chain components used in the PoC, as well as cost & resource estimates for further scaling. If your PoC is not on mainnet, make note of any mainnet caveats (such as congestion issues).

Every transaction on the PoC system had a transaction fee of $0.0001 (one-hundredth of a cent USD). At 256MM transactions, the demo cost $25,600. With current operational fees, the same demonstration would cost $640 USD.
For the demonstration, to achieve throughput to mimic a worldwide payments network, we modeled several clients in AWS and 4-5 business nodes to handle the traffic. The business nodes were tuned to handle higher throughput by adjusting memory and machine footprint on AWS. This flexibility is valuable to implementing a system such as envisioned by Reddit. Given that Reddit’s daily traffic (posts, replies, and votes) is less than half that of our demo, we would expect that the entire Reddit system could be handled on 2-5 business nodes using right-sized containers on AWS or similar environments.
Verification was accomplished on the operational Dragon Net network with over 700 independently owned verification nodes running around the world at no cost to the business other than paid transaction fees.

Requirements

Scaling

This PoC should scale to the numbers below with minimal costs (both on & off-chain). There should also be a clear path to supporting hundreds of millions of users.
Over a 5 day period, your scaling PoC should be able to handle:
*100,000 point claims (minting & distributing points) *25,000 subscriptions *75,000 one-off points burning *100,000 transfers

During Dragonchain’s 24 hour demo, the above required numbers were reached within the first few minutes.
Reddit’s total activity is 9000% more than Ethereum’s total transaction level. Even if you do not include votes, it is still 700% more than Ethereum’s current volume. Dragonchain has demonstrated that it can handle 250 million transactions a day, and it’s architecture allows for multiple systems to work at that level simultaneously. In our PoC, we demonstrate double the full capacity of Reddit, and every transaction was proven all the way to Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Reddit Scaling on Ethereum

Decentralization

Solutions should not depend on any single third-party provider. We prefer solutions that do not depend on specific entities such as Reddit or another provider, and solutions with no single point of control or failure in off-chain components but recognize there are numerous trade-offs to consider

Dragonchain’s architecture calls for a hybrid approach. Private business nodes hold the sensitive data while the validation and verification of transactions for the business are decentralized within seconds and secured to public blockchains within 10 minutes to 2 hours. Nodes could potentially be controlled by owners of individual subreddits for more organic decentralization.

Billing is currently centralized - there is a path to federation and decentralization of a scaled billing solution.
Operational multi-cloud
Operational on-premises capabilities
Operational deployment to any datacenter
Over 700 independent Community Verification Nodes with proof of ownership
Operational Interchain (Interoperable to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ethereum Classic, open to more)

Usability Scaling solutions should have a simple end user experience.

Users shouldn't have to maintain any extra state/proofs, regularly monitor activity, keep track of extra keys, or sign anything other than their normal transactions

Dragonchain and its customers have demonstrated extraordinary usability as a feature in many applications, where users do not need to know that the system is backed by a live blockchain. Lyceum is one of these examples, where the progress of academy courses is being tracked, and successful completion of courses is rewarded with certificates on chain. Our @Save_The_Tweet bot is popular on Twitter. When used with one of the following hashtags - #please, #blockchain, #ThankYou, or #eternalize the tweet is saved through Eternal to multiple blockchains. A proof report is available for future reference. Other examples in use are DEN, our decentralized social media platform, and our console, where users can track their node rewards, view their TIME, and operate a business node.
Examples:

Transactions complete in a reasonable amount of time (seconds or minutes, not hours or days)

All transactions are immediately usable on chain by the system. A transaction begins the path to decentralization at the conclusion of a 5-second block when it gets distributed across 5 separate community run nodes. Full decentralization occurs within 10 minutes to 2 hours depending on which interchain (Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Ethereum Classic) the transaction hits first. Within approximately 2 hours, the combined hash power of all interchained blockchains secures the transaction.

Free to use for end users (no gas fees, or fixed/minimal fees that Reddit can pay on their behalf)

With transaction pricing as low as $0.0000025 per transaction, it may be considered reasonable for Reddit to cover transaction fees for users.
All of Reddit's Transactions on Blockchain (month)
Community points can be earned by users and distributed directly to their Reddit account in batch (as per Reddit minting plan), and allow users to withdraw rewards to their Ethereum wallet whenever they wish. Withdrawal fees can be paid by either user or Reddit. This model has been operating inside the Dragonchain system since 2018, and many security and financial compliance features can be optionally added. We feel that this capability greatly enhances user experience because it is seamless to a regular user without cryptocurrency experience, yet flexible to a tech savvy user. With regard to currency or token transactions, these would occur on the Reddit network, verified to BTC and ETH. These transactions would incur the $0.0000025 transaction fee. To estimate this fee we use the monthly active Reddit users statista with a 60% adoption rate and an estimated 10 transactions per month average resulting in an approximate $720 cost across the system. Reddit could feasibly incur all associated internal network charges (mining/minting, transfer, burn) as these are very low and controllable fees.
Reddit Internal Token Transaction Fees

Reddit Ethereum Token Transaction Fees
When we consider further the Ethereum fees that might be incurred, we have a few choices for a solution.

Offload all Ethereum transaction fees (user withdrawals) to interested users as they wish to withdraw tokens for external use or sale.
Cover Ethereum transaction fees by aggregating them on a timed schedule. Users would request withdrawal (from Reddit or individual subreddits), and they would be transacted on the Ethereum network every hour (or some other schedule).
In a combination of the above, customers could cover aggregated fees.
Integrate with alternate Ethereum roll up solutions or other proposals to aggregate minting and distribution transactions onto Ethereum.

Bonus Points

Users should be able to view their balances & transactions via a blockchain explorer-style interface

From interfaces for users who have no knowledge of blockchain technology to users who are well versed in blockchain terms such as those present in a typical block explorer, a system powered by Dragonchain has flexibility on how to provide balances and transaction data to users. Transactions can be made viewable in an Eternal Proof Report, which displays raw data along with TIME staking information and traceability all the way to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and every other Interchained network. The report shows fields such as transaction ID, timestamp, block ID, multiple verifications, and Interchain proof. See example here.
Node payouts within the Dragonchain console are listed in chronological order and can be further seen in either Dragons or USD. See example here.
In our social media platform, Dragon Den, users can see, in real-time, their NRG and MTR balances. See example here.
A new influencer app powered by Dragonchain, Raiinmaker, breaks down data into a user friendly interface that shows coin portfolio, redeemed rewards, and social scores per campaign. See example here.

Exiting is fast & simple

Withdrawing funds on Dragonchain’s console requires three clicks, however, withdrawal scenarios with more enhanced security features per Reddit’s discretion are obtainable.

Interoperability Compatibility with third party apps (wallets/contracts/etc) is necessary.

Proven interoperability at scale that surpasses the required specifications. Our entire platform consists of interoperable blockchains connected to each other and traditional systems. APIs are well documented. Third party permissions are possible with a simple smart contract without the end user being aware. No need to learn any specialized proprietary language. Any code base (not subsets) is usable within a Docker container. Interoperable with any blockchain or traditional APIs. We’ve witnessed relatively complex systems built by engineers with no blockchain or cryptocurrency experience. We’ve also demonstrated the creation of smart contracts within minutes built with BASH shell and Node.js. Please see our source code and API documentation.

Scaling solutions should be extensible and allow third parties to build on top of it Open source and extensible
APIs should be well documented and stable

Documentation should be clear and complete

For full documentation, explore our docs, SDK’s, Github repo’s, architecture documents, original Disney documentation, and other links or resources provided in this proposal.

Third-party permissionless integrations should be possible & straightforward Smart contracts are Docker based, can be written in any language, use full language (not subsets), and can therefore be integrated with any system including traditional system APIs. Simple is better. Learning an uncommon or proprietary language should not be necessary.

Advanced knowledge of mathematics, cryptography, or L2 scaling should not be required. Compatibility with common utilities & toolchains is expected.
Dragonchain business nodes and smart contracts leverage Docker to allow the use of literally any language or executable code. No proprietary language is necessary. We’ve witnessed relatively complex systems built by engineers with no blockchain or cryptocurrency experience. We’ve also demonstrated the creation of smart contracts within minutes built with BASH shell and Node.js.

Bonus

Bonus Points: Show us how it works. Do you have an idea for a cool new use case for Community Points? Build it!

TIME

Community points could be awarded to Reddit users based upon TIME too, whereas the longer someone is part of a subreddit, the more community points someone naturally gained, even if not actively commenting or sharing new posts. A daily login could be required for these community points to be credited. This grants awards to readers too and incentivizes readers to create an account on Reddit if they browse the website often. This concept could also be leveraged to provide some level of reputation based upon duration and consistency of contribution to a community subreddit.

Dragon Den

Dragonchain has already built a social media platform that harnesses community involvement. Dragon Den is a decentralized community built on the Dragonchain blockchain platform. Dragon Den is Dragonchain’s answer to fake news, trolling, and censorship. It incentivizes the creation and evaluation of quality content within communities. It could be described as being a shareholder of a subreddit or Reddit in its entirety. The more your subreddit is thriving, the more rewarding it will be. Den is currently in a public beta and in active development, though the real token economy is not live yet. There are different tokens for various purposes. Two tokens are Lair Ownership Rights (LOR) and Lair Ownership Tokens (LOT). LOT is a non-fungible token for ownership of a specific Lair. LOT will only be created and converted from LOR.
Energy (NRG) and Matter (MTR) work jointly. Your MTR determines how much NRG you receive in a 24-hour period. Providing quality content, or evaluating content will earn MTR.

Security. Users have full ownership & control of their points.

All community points awarded based upon any type of activity or gift, are secured and provable to all Interchain networks (currently BTC, ETH, ETC). Users are free to spend and withdraw their points as they please, depending on the features Reddit wants to bring into production.

Balances and transactions cannot be forged, manipulated, or blocked by Reddit or anyone else

Users can withdraw their balance to their ERC20 wallet, directly through Reddit. Reddit can cover the fees on their behalf, or the user covers this with a portion of their balance.

Users should own their points and be able to get on-chain ERC20 tokens without permission from anyone else

Through our console users can withdraw their ERC20 rewards. This can be achieved on Reddit too. Here is a walkthrough of our console, though this does not show the quick withdrawal functionality, a user can withdraw at any time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNlTMxnfVHw

Points should be recoverable to on-chain ERC20 tokens even if all third-parties involved go offline

If necessary, signed transactions from the Reddit system (e.g. Reddit + Subreddit) can be sent to the Ethereum smart contract for minting.

A public, third-party review attesting to the soundness of the design should be available

To our knowledge, at least two large corporations, including a top 3 accounting firm, have conducted positive reviews. These reviews have never been made public, as Dragonchain did not pay or contract for these studies to be released.

Bonus points
Public, third-party implementation review available or in progress

See above

Compatibility with HSMs & hardware wallets

For the purpose of this proposal, all tokenization would be on the Ethereum network using standard token contracts and as such, would be able to leverage all hardware wallet and Ethereum ecosystem services.

Other Considerations

Minting/distributing tokens is not performed by Reddit directly

This operation can be automated by smart contract on Ethereum. Subreddits can if desired have a role to play.

One off point burning, as well as recurring, non-interactive point burning (for subreddit memberships) should be possible and scalable

This is possible and scalable with interaction between Dragonchain Reddit system and Ethereum token contract(s).

Fully open-source solutions are strongly preferred

Dragonchain is fully open source (see section on Disney release after conclusion).

Conclusion

Whether it is today, or in the future, we would like to work together to bring secure flexibility to the highest standards. It is our hope to be considered by Ethereum, Reddit, and other integrative solutions so we may further discuss the possibilities of implementation. In our public demonstration, 256 million transactions were handled in our operational network on chain in 24 hours, for the low cost of $25K, which if run today would cost $625. Dragonchain’s interoperable foundation provides the atmosphere necessary to implement a frictionless community points system. Thank you for your consideration of our proposal. We look forward to working with the community to make something great!

Disney Releases Blockchain Platform as Open Source

The team at Disney created the Disney Private Blockchain Platform. The system was a hybrid interoperable blockchain platform for ledgering and smart contract development geared toward solving problems with blockchain adoption and usability. All objective evaluation would consider the team’s output a success. We released a list of use cases that we explored in some capacity at Disney, and our input on blockchain standardization as part of our participation in the W3C Blockchain Community Group.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-blockchain/2016May/0052.html

Open Source

In 2016, Roets proposed to release the platform as open source to spread the technology outside of Disney, as others within the W3C group were interested in the solutions that had been created inside of Disney.
Following a long process, step by step, the team met requirements for release. Among the requirements, the team had to:

Obtain VP support and approval for the release
Verify ownership of the software to be released
Verify that no proprietary content would be released
Convince the organization that there was a value to the open source community
Convince the organization that there was a value to Disney
Offer the plan for ongoing maintenance of the project outside of Disney
Itemize competing projects
Verify no conflict of interest
Preferred license
Change the project name to not use the name Disney, any Disney character, or any other associated IP - proposed Dragonchain - approved
Obtain legal approval
Approval from corporate, parks, and other business units
Approval from multiple Disney patent groups Copyright holder defined by Disney (Disney Connected and Advanced Technologies)
Trademark searches conducted for the selected name Dragonchain
Obtain IT security approval
Manual review of OSS components conducted
OWASP Dependency and Vulnerability Check Conducted
Obtain technical (software) approval
Offer management, process, and financial plans for the maintenance of the project.
Meet list of items to be addressed before release
Remove all Disney project references and scripts
Create a public distribution list for email communications
Remove Roets’ direct and internal contact information
Create public Slack channel and move from Disney slack channels
Create proper labels for issue tracking
Rename internal private Github repository
Add informative description to Github page
Expand README.md with more specific information
Add information beyond current “Blockchains are Magic”
Add getting started sections and info on cloning/forking the project
Add installation details
Add uninstall process
Add unit, functional, and integration test information
Detail how to contribute and get involved
Describe the git workflow that the project will use
Move to public, non-Disney git repository (Github or Bitbucket)
Obtain Disney Open Source Committee approval for release

On top of meeting the above criteria, as part of the process, the maintainer of the project had to receive the codebase on their own personal email and create accounts for maintenance (e.g. Github) with non-Disney accounts. Given the fact that the project spanned multiple business units, Roets was individually responsible for its ongoing maintenance. Because of this, he proposed in the open source application to create a non-profit organization to hold the IP and maintain the project. This was approved by Disney.
The Disney Open Source Committee approved the application known as OSSRELEASE-10, and the code was released on October 2, 2016. Disney decided to not issue a press release.
Original OSSRELASE-10 document

Dragonchain Foundation

The Dragonchain Foundation was created on January 17, 2017. https://den.social/l/Dragonchain/24130078352e485d96d2125082151cf0/dragonchain-and-disney/

I have been here for many previous altcoin seasons (2013,2017 etc) and wanted to share knowedle. It's a LOOONG article.
The evaluation of altcoins (i.e not Bitcoin) is one of the most difficult and profitable exercises. Here I will outline my methodology and thinking but we have to take some things as a given. The first is that the whole market is going up or down with forces that we can't predict or control. Bitcoin is correlated with economic environments, money supply increases, safe havens such as Gold, hype and country regulations. This is an impossible mix to analyze and almost everyone fails at it. That's why you see people valuing Bitcoin from $100 to $500k frequently. Although I am bullish on the prospects of Bitcoin and decentralization and smart contract platforms, this is not the game I will be describing. I am talking about a game where you try to maximize your BTC holdings by investing in altcoins. We win this game even if we are at a loss in fiat currency value. To put it another way:

If you are not bullish in general on cryptocurrencies you have no place in investing or trading cryptocurrencies since it's always a losing proposition to trade in bubbles, a scientifically proven fact. If on the other hand you are then your goal is to grow your portfolio more than you would if holding BTC/ETH for example.

Bitcoin is the big boy

How the market works is not easily identifiable if you haven't graduated from the 2017 crypto university. When there is a bull market everything seems amazingly profitable and things keep going up outgrowing Bitcoin by orders of magnitude and you are a genius. The problem with this is that it only works while Bitcoin is going up a little bit or trades sideways. When it decides to move big then altcoins lose value both on the way up and on the way down. The second part is obvious and proven since all altcoins from 2017 are at a fraction of their BTC value (usually in the range of 80% or more down). Also, when BTC is making a big move upwards everyone exits altcoins to ride the wave. It is possible that the altcoin market behaves as an inversed leveraged ETF with leakage where in a certain period while Bitcoin starts at 10k and ends at 10k for example, altcoins have lost a lot of value because of the above things happening.

We are doing it anyway champ!

OK so we understand the risks and just wanna gambol with our money right? I get it. Why do that? Because finding the ideal scenario and period can be extremely profitable. In 2017 several altcoins went up 40x more than BTC. But again, if you don't chose wisely many of them have gone back to zero (the author has first hand experience in this!), they have been delisted and nobody remembers them. The actual mentality to have is very important and resembles poker and other speculative games:
A certain altcoin can go up in value indefinitely but can only lose it's starting investment. Think about it. You either lose 1 metric or gain many many more. Now that sounds amazing but firstly as we said we have the goal to outperform our benchmark (BTC) and secondly that going up in value a lot means that the probability is quite low. There is this notion of Expected Value (EV) that poker players apply in these kind of situations and it goes like that. If you think that a certain coin has a probability let's say 10% to go up 10X and 90% probability it goes to zero it's an even bet. If you think that probability is 11% then it's a good bet, a profitable bet and you should take it. You get the point right? It's not that it can only go 10X or 0X, there is a whole range of probability outcomes that are too mathematical to explain here and it doesn't help so much because nobody can do such analysis with altcoins. See below on how we can approximate it.

How to evaluate altcoins

A range of different things to take into account outlined below will form our decision making. Not a single one of them should dictate 100% of our strategy.

Basics

It's all about market cap. Repeat after me. The price of a coin doesn't mean anything. Say it 10 times until you believe it. I can't remember how many times I had conversations with people that were comparing coins using their coin price instead of their market cap. To make this easy to get.

If I decide because the sky is blue to make my coin supply 100 Trillion FoolCoins with a price of $0.001 and there is another WiseCoin with a supply of 100 Million and price of $1 then FoolCoins are more expensive. - Alex Fin's Cap Law

Fundamental analysis

This is done usually in the stock world and it means that each company has some fundamental value that includes it's assets, customers, growth prospects, sector prospects and leadership competence but mostly centered in financial measures such as P/E ratios etc. Valuation is a proper economic discipline by itself taught in universities. OK, now throw everything out of the window!.
This kind of analysis is impossible in vague concepts and innovations that are currently cryptocurrencies. Ethereum was frequently priced at the fictional price of gas when all financial systems on earth run on the platform after decades (a bit of exaggeration here). No project is currently profitable enough to justify a valuation multiple that is usually equal to P/E in the thousands or more. As such we need to take other things into account. What I do is included in the list below:

Check Github. You need to make sure there is active development for the platform and it's a very bad sign if the project is either keeping the code closed source or even worse there is simply no development. No projects are "complete".
Check Website. If the website is written in bad English the Chinese google translate type it means that they are not serious enough to produce an unbreakable decentralized project. If you can't write English you can't change the world, period. That's a deal breaker.
Check Team's Linkedin. Numerous projects have either fake Linkedin accounts or the team is comprised mainly by unexperienced employees that are even shown to be working in other companies currently.
Check backers. Projects that have Binance, Coinbase or Silicon Valley VC funds backing them are way more legit but way more overpriced too!

Relative valuation

One of my favorite ways to value altcoins that is based on the same principle in the stock market is to look at peers and decide what is the maximum cap it can grow to. As an example you take a second layer Ethereum solution that has an ICO and you want to decide if you will enter or not. You can take a look at other coins that are in the same business and compare their market caps. Thinking that your coin will outperform by a lot the top coins currently is overly optimistic so I usually take a lower valuation as a target price. If the initial offering is directly implying a valuation that is more than that then there is no room to grow according to my analysis and I skip it. Many times this has proven me wrong because it's a game theory problem where if many people think irrationally in a market it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. But since there is opportunity cost involved, in the long run, getting in initial offerings that have a lot of room to grow will pay off as a strategy.

Sector prospects

In 2017 the sexiest sector was platforms and then coins including privacy ones. Platforms are obviously still a highly rated sector because everything is being built on them, but privacy is not as hot as it used to be. In 2018 DEXes were all they hype but still people are massively using centralized exchanges. In 2020 Defi is the hottest sector and it includes platforms, oracles and Defi projects. What I am saying is that a project gets extra points if it's a Defi one in 2020 and minus points if it's a payment system that will conquer the world as it was in 2017 because that's old news. This is closely related to the next section.

Hype

Needless to say that the crypto market is a worse FOMO type of inexperienced trigger happy yolo investors , much worse than the Robinhood crowd that drove a bankrupt company's stock 1200% after they declared bankruptcy. The result is that there are numerous projects that are basically either vaporware or just so overhyped that their valuation has no connection to reality. Should we avoid those kind of projects? No and I will explain why. There are many very good technically projects that had zero hype potential due to incompetent marketing departments that made them tank. An example (without shilling because I sold out a while back) is Quantum Resistant Ledger. This project has amazing quantum resistant blockchain, the only one running now, has a platform that people can build tokens and messaging systems and other magnificent stuff. Just check how they fared up to now and you will get the point. A project *needs* to have a hype factor because you cannot judge it as normal stocks that you can do value investing like Warren Buffet does where a company will inevitable post sales and profitability numbers and investors will get dividends. Actually the last sentence is the most important: No dividends. Even projects that give you tokens or coins as dividends are not real dividends because if the coin tanks the value of the dividend tanks. This is NOT the case with company stocks where you get dollars even if the company stock tanks. All that being said, I would advice against betting on projects that have a lot of hype but little substance (but that should be obvious!).

How to construct your portfolio

My strategy and philosophy in investing is that risk should be proportional to investment capital. That means that if you are investing 100K in the crypto market your portfolio should be very different than someone investing 1K because 10% annual gains are nothing in the latter while they are very significant in the former. Starting from this principle each individual needs to construct a portfolio according to how much risk he wants to take. I will emphasize two important concepts that play well with what I said. In the first instance of a big portfolio you should concentrate on this mantra: "Diversification is the only free meal in finance". In the case of a small portfolio then this mantra is more important: "Concentrate to create wealth, diversify to maintain wealth". Usually in a big portfolio you would want to hold some big coins such as BTC and ETH to weather the ups and downs explained in previous paragraphs while generating profits and keep progressively smaller parts of your portfolio for riskier investments. Maybe 50% of this portfolio could be big caps and 10% very risky initial offerings. Adapting risk progressively to smaller portfolios makes sense but I think it would be irrational to keep more than 30% of a portfolio no matter what tied to one coin due to the very high risk of bankruptcy.

Conclusion

The altseason is supposedly coming every 3 months. Truth is that nobody can predict it but altcoins can be profitable no matter what. Forget about maximalists who are stuck in their dogmas. Altcoins deliver different value propositions and it makes sense because we are very far from a situation where some project offers everything like Amazon and we wouldn't even want that in the first place since we are talking about decentralization and not a winner takes all and becomes a monster kind of scenario! Some last minute advice:

Stay out of paid telegram/discord pump groups. They are deadly for your wallet.
Avoid jumping on overhyped coins that have pumped massively during the last days without any very important news.
Don't keep coins in obscure exchanges for too long or you will get burned with certainty.
Stop thinking that your coin will 1000x and overtake Bitcoin!

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I got an email to one of my main email accounts that I had registered an account with Binance, and it wants me to confirm registration. The account was made last night in Indonesia, and I live in the western USA. Is there any action I should take besides obviously not confirming the account?
Why would someone want to sign me up for this? If someone wanted to buy crypto, why would they use someone else's email address? Any advice would be appreciated.
Edit: This is the email I woke up to. The IP is based in Indonesia. I didn’t click the link to verify, I’m just wondering what other steps I should take. Email password has been changed already.

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HedgeTech is an algorithmic crypto market maker for digital assets worldwide, with offices in Boston and Singapore. HedgeTech acts as designated market makers for token issuers and cryptocurrency exchanges. It also acts as technology providers for other market makers and broker-dealers.

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As the cryptocurrency industry evolves, market makers are continuing to play a pertinent role on the markets. Crypto traders are no longer being fooled by unreliable metrics such as daily traded volume — often manipulated — and data reporting sites such as CoinGecko and Coinmarketcap now display more relevant numbers having to do with spread and liquidity — harder to fake. As a result, exchanges seek true orderbook depth and have developed many strategies to get market makers on board.
On the one hand, platforms incentivize traders and institutions to place maker orders by lowering the trading fees or sometimes offering rewards to market makers like HitBTC does with its “market making contracts”. Most of the market makers that fall under this category are profit driven market makers (PDMM).
On the other hand, and in addition to the aforementioned, exchanges such as Liquid require token issuers to have at least one designated market maker, sometimes even more, like Binance asking for 3 as a prerequisite to listing. Such market makers are called designated market makers (DMM).
PDMM and DMM differ in a number of ways, the most important one being their main motive. In this article, we will explore both types of market making and analyze who they serve.
Table 1. Key differences between Profit Driven and Designated Market Makers.
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Profit Driven Market Makers

PDMM are either individuals or institutions who seek to profit from a market making strategy and typically trade with their own capital. Simply put, PDMM will place a maker order on one side of the market and flip it to the other side when that order got filled. For every pair of orders being filled, PDMM will pocket net profits.
Profits per pair of order = average volume of the orders of the pair x difference in price between the two orders of the pair
The levels at which PDMM’s orders are placed depend on the behavior of the market.
In a sideways (stable fluctuations) pattern, PDMM will usually place their orders within the existing orderbook spread in price.
Figure 1. Example of a PDMM strategy on a market with sideways fluctuations
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In a trendy pattern, say downtrend, a PDMM sell order will only attempt to be the best sell orders (i.e. at the lowest price possible) but their buy order will not be the best buy order so that they can ride the trend.

Figure 2. Example of a PDMM strategy on a market with downtrend
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Regardless of the behavior of the market, two key factors impact how profitable PDMM are.
Overall profits = average difference in price between the two orders of pairs x average filling frequency for pairs of orders
The first important factor is the difference in price between orders in each pair of order, the larger the better. The difference in price determines the profits per pair of transaction. As a result, PDMM will enter a market voluntarily after carefully analyzing which markets offer the best spread opportunities.
The second factor playing a role in the profits generated is the frequency at which orders are filled, the higher the better. Indeed, a high frequency will result in a great number of pairs of orders being filled and thus more transactions to profit from. As a result, PDMM look for markets that are already actively traded.
Although PDMM place maker orders — thus contributing a bit to the market depth — and that such orders participate in closing the orderbook spread — especially when several PDMM compete — their main objective is to realize profits, not to improve market efficiency. Hence, PDMM are suitable for high net worth individuals or institutions willing to get their assets managed for profits.
In the digital assets industry, PDMM are typically crypto traders and private asset management funds. Finding PDMM that openly advertise as such is harder in such a young industry. That said, Cryptohopper for example is a software company that provides market making strategies, among others, destined to realize profits. If we had to draw a parallel with the older traditional markets, Jane Street for instance is known to use market making strategies, especially on ETFs, to generate significant returns for their investors.

Designated Market Makers

DMM are institutions who are committed to improving markets efficiency and typically trade with their clients’ capital. The method used is quite unique in that DMM maintain orders on both the buy and the sell side at all times and in a systematic fashion. In other words, when an order is filled, say on the buy side, the DMM will immediately replace that order with an order of the sell side at the best price possible (i.e. the lowest price on the sell side).
In doing so, DMM maintain two key factors that impact all the other traders in the market.
First, DMM have the obligation to narrow the order book spread — i.e. the difference in price between the best buy and best sell. This guarantees that traders face the best price possible at all times.
Second, DMM ensure that the order book is filled with orders at different price levels — to allow the price to move according to supply and demand — and in a dense way — i.e. orders are close to one another. As a result, all other traders can simply take the DMM maker orders to enter or exit the market whenever they decide to do so, instantaneously. This second key factor is called market liquidity — or depth -, it guarantees that traders can trade at fair prices — close to market price — in combination with spread, and in desired quantities — i.e. with little to no slippage.
Combining both a narrow spread and a high liquidity additionally makes a market less volatile in price execution, yet not compromising price movement.
Figure 3. Without DMM: low liquidity, low density of orders, fragile spread; high slippage, high volatility, low efficiency.
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Figure 4. With DMM: high liquidity, high density of orders, narrow spread; low slippage, low volatility, high efficiency.
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It seems that DMM are hired to trade on less liquid markets.
Although DMM are committed to improving market efficiency, it does not mean that they do not make profits on their clients’ behalf. DMM strategies are designed in a way that ensures no losses to trading fees and profits when the price fluctuates, much like PDMM strategies on sideways markets. On top of that, DMM can also hedge their clients’ risk fully when on trendy market environments using orderbook replication strategies or derivatives products when available. Hence DMM are suitable for token issuers and exchanges willing to further improve their markets and better position themselves in a hyper competitive industry.
In crypto, DMM typically communicate more openly about their operations. Such institutions include GSR or HedgeTech for instance (for a more exhaustive list, you can refer to this article). This type of market making exists in traditional markets too as Johannes A Skjeltorp analyzed in his reseach paper .

Conclusion

Both PDMM and DMM are valuable participants of the crypto markets, much like any other market. That said, they serve two different purposes. On the one hand, PDMM work towards profitability and are hired to do so in their clients’ interests only. On the other hand, DMM work towards market efficiency for their clients’ markets. They are the last link of a long chain that went from blockchain to smart contracts, wallets, exchanges and finally orderbook to provide traders with the best environment possible.
HedgeTech is an algorithmic crypto market maker for digital assets worldwide, with offices in Boston and Singapore. Contact: hedgetech.io.

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Hello,
I got contacted by a friend that deposited money to the unknown exchange "ExtStock" He saw that exchange on Coinmarketcap and others website, pretending having best volume and liquidity.
ExtStock is announing fake volume, and Bitcoin price is 500-600$ higher than others platform.
The situation is that since some weeks, every users has theirs funds locked in the exchange. The support is talking about a "suspect activity", then no answer. They are just buying time.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5238319.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3049906.msg54360039#msg54360039
I suspect them running a fractional reserve, probably because of a hack, an exit scam, or a bad investment with their customers funds?
But the fact is that they have locked funds and are still tweeting like if everything is normal.
I twitted about the situation to warm users about the exchange: https://twitter.com/anth0mk/status/1255923160643403776 but ExtStock blocked me.

I contacted some projects and platform to stop them supporting Extstock, like the LISK project.

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The compagny behind Extstock is "EXCHANGE CLOUD LIMITED" a dormant UK compagny with 1$ as assets
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Please, beware of platforms listed on Coinmarketcap, and others website: a lot of website are paid to list ExtStock between Kraken, coinbase and binance...

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Presumably in an attempt to smear a local competitor, Hayden Otto inadvertently publishes irrefutable on-chain proof that he excluded non-BCH retail revenue to shape the "BCH #1 in Australia" narrative.

Scroll down to "Proof of exclusion" if you are tired of the drama recap.
Scroll down to "TLDR" if you want a summary.

Recap

In September 2019, BitcoinBCH.com started publishing so called monthly "reports" about crypto retail payments in Australia. They claimed that ~90% of Australia's crypto retail revenue is processed via their own HULA system and that ~92% of all crypto retail revenue happens in BCH.
They are aggregating two data sources to come up with this claim.
One is TravelByBit (TBB) who publishes their PoS transactions (BTC, LN, ETH, BNB, DASH, BCH) live on a ticker.
The other source is HULA, a newly introduced POS system (BCH only) and direct competitor to TBB run by BitcoinBCH.com - the same company who created the report. Despite being on-chain their transactions are private, not published and not verifiable by third parties outside BitcoinBCH.com
Two things stood out in the "reports", noted by multiple users (including vocal BCH proponents):

The non-BCH parts must have tx excluded and the report neglects to mention it (the total in their TBB analysis does not match what is reported on the TBB website.)
The BCH part has outliers included (e.g. BCH city conference in September with 35x the daily average)

The TBB website loads the historic tx data in the browser but hides transactions older than 7 days from being displayed, i.e. you can access more than 7 days worth of data if you understand JavaScript and can read the source code (source).

Hayden Otto's reaction

In direct response to me publishing these findings on btc, Hayden Otto - an employee at BitcoinBCH.com and the author of the report who also happens to be a moderator of /BitcoinCash - banned me immediately from said sub (source).
In subsequent discussion (which repeated for every monthly "report" which was flawed in the same ways as described above), Hayden responded using the same tactics:
"No data was removed"

"The guy is straight out lying. There is guaranteed no missing tx as the data was collected directly from the source." (source)

"Only data I considered non-retail was removed"

"I also had these data points and went through them to remove non-retail transactions, on both TravelbyBit and HULA." (source)

He admits to have removed non-BCH tx by "Game Ranger" because he considers them non-retail (source). He also implies they might be involved in money laundering and that TBB might fail their AML obligations in processing Game Ranger's transactions (source).
The report does not mention any data being excluded at all and he still fails to explain why several businesses that are clearly retail (e.g. restaurants, cafes, markets) had tx excluded (source).
"You are too late to prove I altered the data"

"[...] I recorded [the data] manually from https://travelbybit.com/stats/ over the month of September. The website only shows transactions from the last 7 days and then they disappear. No way for anyone to access stats beyond that." (source)

Fortunately you can, if you can read the website's source code. But you need to know a bit of JavaScript to verify it yourself, so not an ideal method to easily prove the claim of data exclusion to the public. But it laters turns out Hayden himself has found an easier way to achieve the same.
"The report can't be wrong because it has been audited."
In response to criticism about the flawed methodology in generating the September report, BitcoinBCH.com hired an accountant from a regional Bitcoin BCH startup to "audit" the October report. This is remarkable, because not only did their reported TBB totals still not match those from the TBB site - their result was mathematically impossible. How so? No subset of TBB transaction in that month sums up to the total they reported. So even if they excluded retail transactions at will, they still must have messed up the sum (source). Why didn't their auditor notice their mistake? She said she "conducted a review based on the TravelByBit data provided to her", i.e. the data acquisition and selection process was explicitly excluded from the audit (source).
"You are a 'pathetic liar', a 'desperate toll', an 'astroturf account' and 'a total dumb ass' and are 'pulling numbers out of your ass!'"
Since he has already banned me from the sub he moderates, he started to resort to ad hominems (source, source, source, source).

Proof of exclusion

I published raw data as extracted from the TBB site after each report for comparison. Hayden responded that I made those numbers up and that I was pulling numbers out of my ass.
Since he was under the impression that

"The website only shows transactions from the last 7 days and then they disappear. No way for anyone to access stats beyond that." (source)

he felt confident to claim that I would be

unable to provide a source for the [missing] data and/or prove that that data was not already included in the report. (source)

Luckily for us Hayden Otto seems to dislike his competitor TravelByBit so much that he attempted to reframe Bitcoin's RBF feature as a vulnerability specific to TBB PoS system (source).
While doublespending a merchant using the TBB PoS he wanted to prove that the merchant successfully registered the purchase as complete and thus exposed that the PoS sales history of TBB's merchants are available to the public (source), in his own words:

"You can literally access it from a public URL in the Web browser. There is no login or anything required, just type in the name of the merchant." (source)

As of yet it is unclear if this is intentional by TBB or if Hayden Ottos followed the rules of responsible disclosure before publishing this kind of data leak.
As it happens, those sale histories do not only include the merchant and time of purchases, they even include the address the funds were sent to (in case of on-chain payments).
This gives us an easy method to prove that the purchases from the TBB website missing in the reports belong to a specific retail business and actually happened - something that is impossible to prove for the alleged HULA txs.
In order to make it easier for you to verify it yourself, we'll focus on a single day in the dataset, September 17th, 2019 as an example:

Hayden Otto's report claims 20 tx and $713.00 in total for that day (source)
The TBB website listed 40 tx and a total of $1032.90 (daily summary)
Pick a merchant, e.g. "The Stand Desserts"
Use Hayden's "trick" to access that merchants public sale history at https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com/merchanthistory/thestanddesserts, sort by date to find the 17th Sep 2019 and look for a transaction at 20:58 for $28. This proves that a purchase of said amount is associated with this specific retail business.
Paste the associated crypto on-chain address 17MrHiRcKzCyuKPtvtn7iZhAZxydX8raU9 in a blockchain explorer of your choice, e.g like this. This proves that a transfer of funds has actually happened.

I let software aggregate the TBB statistics with the public sale histories and you'll find at the bottom of this post a table with the on-chain addresses conveniently linked to blockchain explorers for our example date.
The total of all 40 tx is $1032.90 instead of the $713.00 reported by Hayden. 17 tx of those have a corresponding on-chain address and thus have undeniable proof of $758.10. Of the remaining 23, 22 are on Lightning and one had no merchant history available.
This is just for a single day, here is a comparison for the whole month.

Description	Total
TBB Total	$10,502
TBB wo. Game Ranger	$5,407
TBB according to Hayden	$3,737

What now?

The usual shills will respond in a predictive manner: The data must be fake even though its proof is on-chain, I would need to provide more data but HULA can be trusted without any proof, if you include outliers BCH comes out ahead, yada, yada.
But this is not important. I am not here to convince them and this post doesn't aim to.
The tx numbers we are talking about are less than 0.005% of Bitcoin's global volume. If you can increase adoption in your area by 100% by just buying 2 coffees more per day you get a rough idea about how irrelevant the numbers are in comparison.
What is relevant though and what this post aims to highlight is that BitcoinBCH.com and the media outlets around news.bitcoin.com flooding you with the BCH #1 narrative are playing dirty. They feel justified because they feel that Bitcoin/Core/Blockstream is playing dirty as well. I am not here to judge that but you as a reader of this sub should be aware that this is happening and that you are the target.
When BitcoinBCH.com excludes $1,000 Bitcoin tx because of high value but includes $15,000 BCH tx because they are made by "professionals", you should be sceptical.
When BitcoinBCH.com excludes game developers, travel businesses or craftsmen accepting Bitcoin because they don't have a physical store but include a lawyer practice accepting BCH, you should be sceptical.
When BitcoinBCH.com excludes restaurants, bars and supermarkets accepting Bitcoin and when pressed reiterate that they excluded non-retail businesses without ever explaning why a restaurant shouldn't be considered reatil, you should be sceptical.
When BitcoinBCH.com claims the reports have been audited but omit that the data acquisition was not part of the audit, you should be sceptical.
I expect that BitcoinBCH.com will stop removing transactions from TBB for their reports now that it has been shown that their exclusion can be provably uncovered. I also expect that HULA's BCH numbers will rise accordingly to maintain a similar difference.
Hayden Otto assumed that nobody could cross-check the TBB data. He was wrong. Nobody will be able to disprove his claims when HULA's BCH numbers rise as he continues to refuse their release. You should treat his claims accordingly.
As usual, do your own research and draw your own conclusion. Sorry for the long read.

TLDR

BitcoinBCH.com claimed no transactions were removed from the TBB dataset in their BCH #1 reports and that is impossible to prove the opposite.
Hayden Otto's reveals in a double spend attempt that a TBB merchant's sale history can be accessed publicly including the merchant's on-chain addresses.
(For example,) this table shows 40 tx listed on the TBB site on Sep 17th, including their on-chain addresses where applicable. The BitcoinBCH.com report lists only 20 tx for the same day.
(Most days and every months so far has had BTC transactions excluded.)
(For September, TBB lists $10,502 yet the report only claims $3,737.

No.	Date	Merchant	Asset	Address	Amount	Total
1	17 Sep 19 09:28	LTD Espresso	Lightning	Unable to find merchant history.	4.50	4.50
2	17 Sep 19 09:40	LTD Espresso	Binance Coin	Unable to find merchant history.	4.50	9.00
3	17 Sep 19 13:22	Josh's IGA Murray Bridge West	Ether	0x40fd53aa...b6de43c531	4.60	13.60
4	17 Sep 19 13:23	Nom Nom Korean Eatery	Lightning	lnbc107727...zkcqvvgklf	16.00	29.60
5	17 Sep 19 13:24	Nom Nom Korean Eatery	Lightning	lnbc100994...mkspwddgqw	15.00	44.60
6	17 Sep 19 14:02	Nom Nom Korean Eatery	Binance Coin	bnb1w5mwu9...552thl4ru5	30.00	74.60
7	17 Sep 19 15:19	Dollars and Sense (Fortitude Valley)	Lightning	lnbc134780...93cpanyxfg	2.00	76.60
8	17 Sep 19 15:34	Steph's Cafe	Binance Coin	bnb124hcjy...ss3pz9y3r8	57.50	134.10
9	17 Sep 19 19:37	The Stand Desserts	Binance Coin	bnb13f58s9...qqc7fxln7s	18.00	152.10
10	17 Sep 19 19:59	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc575880...48cpl0z06q	8.50	160.60
11	17 Sep 19 20:00	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc575770...t8spzjflym	8.50	169.10
12	17 Sep 19 20:13	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc202980...lgqp5ha8f4	3.00	172.10
13	17 Sep 19 20:21	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc577010...decq7r4p05	8.50	180.60
14	17 Sep 19 20:24	Fat Dumpling	Lightning	lnbc217145...9dsqpjjr6g	32.10	212.70
15	17 Sep 19 20:31	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc574530...wvcpp3pcen	8.50	221.20
16	17 Sep 19 20:33	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc540660...rpqpzgk8z0	8.00	229.20
17	17 Sep 19 20:37	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc128468...r8cqq50p5c	19.00	248.20
18	17 Sep 19 20:39	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc135220...cngp2zq6q4	2.00	250.20
19	17 Sep 19 20:45	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc574570...atcqg738p8	8.50	258.70
20	17 Sep 19 20:51	Fat Dumpling	Lightning	lnbc414190...8hcpg79h9a	61.20	319.90
21	17 Sep 19 20:53	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc135350...krqqp3cz8z	2.00	321.90
22	17 Sep 19 20:58	The Stand Desserts	Bitcoin	17MrHiRcKz...ZxydX8raU9	28.00	349.90
23	17 Sep 19 21:02	The Stand Desserts	Bitcoin	1Hwy8hCBff...iEh5fBsCWK	10.00	359.90
24	17 Sep 19 21:03	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc743810...dvqqnuunjq	11.00	370.90
25	17 Sep 19 21:04	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc114952...2vqpclm87p	17.00	387.90
26	17 Sep 19 21:10	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc169160...lpqqqt574c	2.50	390.40
27	17 Sep 19 21:11	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc575150...40qq9yuqmy	8.50	398.90
28	17 Sep 19 21:13	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc947370...qjcp3unr33	14.00	412.90
29	17 Sep 19 21:15	The Stand Desserts	Binance Coin	bnb1tc2vva...xppes5t7d0	16.00	428.90
30	17 Sep 19 21:16	Giardinetto	Binance Coin	bnb1auyep2...w64p6a6dlk	350.00	778.90
31	17 Sep 19 21:25	The Stand Desserts	BCH	3H2iJaKNXH...5sxPk3t2tV	7.00	785.90
32	17 Sep 19 21:39	The Stand Desserts	Binance Coin	bnb17r7x3e...avaxwumc58	8.00	793.90
33	17 Sep 19 21:47	The Stand Desserts	BCH	32kuPYT1tc...uFQwgsA5ku	18.00	811.90
34	17 Sep 19 21:52	The Stand Desserts	BCH	3ELPvxtCSy...4QzvfVJsNZ	36.00	847.90
35	17 Sep 19 21:56	The Stand Desserts	Lightning	lnbc677740...acsp04sjeg	10.00	857.90
36	17 Sep 19 22:04	The Stand Desserts	BCH	38b4wHg9cg...9L2WXC2BSK	54.00	911.90
37	17 Sep 19 22:16	The Stand Desserts	Binance Coin	bnb14lylhs...x6wz7kjzp5	18.00	929.90
38	17 Sep 19 22:21	The Stand Desserts	BCH	3L8SK3Hr7u...F3htdSPxfL	90.00	1019.90
39	17 Sep 19 22:30	The Stand Desserts	Binance Coin	bnb19w6tle...774uknv57t	5.00	1024.90
40	17 Sep 19 22:48	The Stand Desserts	BCH	3Qag8c4UYg...9EYuWzGjhs	8.00	1032.90

Most people start their journey into the crypto space with so many basic questions on how the crypto sphere works and what to do. Even though understanding how the crypto space works is a learning process and is dependent on how easy the crypto firm makes it look. With Bitcoin being the most popular digital asset all over the world, most people are still at a loss on how the network works or the advantages and the disadvantages of the network. Here are a few questions that many folks search on Google every year;

Which crypto is the best to invest in?

With Bitcoin being the flagship cryptocurrency, it has not only set the pace by the number of people who are on the network, but it is also leading in the volume of transactions carried out every day. Bitcoin now trades at a little below its earlier $10,000 mark, giving it a wide edge over all the other cryptocurrencies when it comes to this aspect. Ethereum is the second-largest crypto after Bitcoin according to market capitalization and now trades around $245 mark. Other cryptos that can be invested in are Bitcoin Cash, Tether, and XRP.

Is crypto trading a scam?

Generally, in every investment in the financial market sector, there is a high rate of risky ventures. Crypto trading is a legitimate investment except for some few cases of scammers who try to rip off Bitcoin from unsuspecting people. A few of the most legit crypto trading outfits are Coinbase, and Binance among others. These respective firms have top-notch security on their platform which has made it easy for most people to trade without the fear of getting scammed.

How do I buy crypto?

If you are new to the crypto space, you need to own something known as a "wallet" where you will store your digital assets once you buy them. After getting your wallet, you can contact a legitimate crypto exchange firm that is supported across your country and buy the digital assets. There is a range of crypto exchanges available to buy crypto from using your local currency provided they have support in your country.

What is crypto mining?

Crypto mining is a process where transactions of various cryptos are verified and added to the Blockchain digital ledger. Every time a miner completes a block of transaction, he usually gets rewarded with a certain amount of digital assets. Mining is usually done with hardware that uses a lot of electricity for the process.

How to earn free crypto?

As much as it is true, most of the website that advertises earning of crypto are usually fake and use the earning as clickbait to generate more people on their platform. A few of them that give out crypto would make you do some challenges, watch video ads, and other basic things just to earn a little amount of crypto. The remaining part of the population that give out free Bitcoin do it in something that is called an "Airdrop", where they would deposit small amounts of crypto into their customer's wallet.

What is Blockchain technology?

Blockchain technology is a decentralized ledger that records the provenance of a digital asset. It is used to store transactional data known as blocks in small places called the chain. The technology uses a peer-to-peer node and is referred to as the main digital ledger. The technology makes the details of a transaction unalterable due to the crypto hashing process.

Is Bitcoin legal?

Even though the legal status of Bitcoin has always been questioned, it has been in use since its inception for payments on some platforms. Bitcoin is legal in the united kingdom and some developed countries and most developing countries do not have a legal framework for the crypto. Generally, Bitcoin is not considered as a legal tender due to its increased volatility and as regards tax, it is treated as property rather than as currency in most countries.
These are some of the several questions one needs to ask and know the correct answers to before embarking on their crypto investment journey. And this list is by no means exhaustive. Knowing the right questions to ask and their answers may just be the difference between making profits and losing out.

CoinMarketCap just release a blog post announcing that they have listed a new metric on their website. They call this metric "Liquidity".

The Liquidity metric by CoinMarketCap is designed to eventually replace volume as the default metric when ranking market pairs and exchanges.
Liquidity refers to the ease of being able to trade in and out of an asset, or in this case cryptocurrencies.
The Liquidity metric by CoinMarketCap takes into account a wider range of key variables from the order book, such as the distance of the order from the mid-price, the size of the order and the relative liquidity of the asset in question.

We refrain from using a static percentage depth to calculate Liquidity, [...]
The adaptive methodology will make the Liquidity metric very difficult to “game”

You can see the Liquidity metric on CoinMarketCap's site now, when you view the exchanges for an asset.
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Everyone knows that exchanges fake their volume numbers so they can appear at the top of this list. The new Liquidity metric is supposed to solve this problem. When filtering by the Liquidity, you should see a list of the actual most popular exchanges.

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However, it seems this metric is still somewhat flawed. Even when filtering by "Liquidity", the list of exchanges is now what you would expect. Some of the most popular exchanges such as Binance are not even listed. Surely Binance has more liquidity than many of the exchanges listed here, and fake exchanges such as ZB.COM is listed as the 4th most liquid exchange. Has anybody every even used this exchange before?
What do you guys think of this new metric?

Got my Trezor One today from Amazon, bought bitcoin from Binance and now looking to store it with my Trezor. Been doing some research and am getting paranoid with possibly receiving fake. Just want to see if there is a way or a certain time to determine that the Trezor received is not a fake.
This is what I did so far:

I have checked hologram and it the same as website showed. (*However, when setting up wallet on website, the picture showed that the inside the hologram has WAY bigger lock icon with "Trezor" than mine?)
Checked Amazon order and it sold by "NuWave Retail" which is listed as a reseller on Trezor website
Box was glued shut, had hard time opening it and had to rip box a bit in order to open it
Set up the Trezor and wrote down recovery words
Confirmed receive address and successfully sent a tiny amount of bitcoin to Trezor wallet
Updated the Trezor firmware
Wiped the Trezor and successfully recovered it using recovery words written down

Is there anything else I can do to check if it a fake? Can I send all my coins now into here or should I wait?
Thank you for reading.

The Crypto Community Showed Mixed Signals About One Of The Largest M&A Deals In The Crypto Sector
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 virus outbreak, the world of crypto mergers and acquisitions (M&A) saw one of its biggest hits. In essence, Binance announced a 400 million dollar M&A deal with the leader of crypto data derivation CoinMarketCap.
Just days after the acquisition, the crypto sector reacted in a very diverse manner. Some crypto experts consider the recent acquisition as “hard for CoinMarketCap to remain neutral, with the latest moves by Binance.”
CoinGecko’s CEO Bobby Ong discussed the recent M&A deal on crypto blog MyTwoGwei. Ong stated that “such a large deal would impact the data integrity of CoinMarketCap. Furthermore, many new exchanges are faking their trading volumes to get ahead of the competition”.
CoinMarketCap had issues with data correctness, as Bitwise Asset Management reported at least 95% of the trading volumes, reported by crypto exchanges, are fake.
Both CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko developed data integrity tools to provide “realistic” trading volumes data, but now Ong claims his company remains the most significant “independent data aggregator.” CoinGecko even published a book covering the DeFi sector.
However, the broader crypto community welcomes the merge, as Changelly’s CEO Eric Benz stated that the timing is ideal for such a deal. Benz was joined by Mike Alfred, co-founder, and CEO of Digital Assets Data. Alfred commented that Binance sits among the top crypto companies in the world.
Despite Ong claiming his website as the top data aggregation software, his opinion is questionable, as platforms like Cryptobrowser.io combine API data aggregation for 1000+ cryptocurrencies with daily news and market recaps. Cryptobrowser.io also grants users with access to various ICO/STO/IEO data, exchanges data, as well as access to a list of the world’s most prominent crypto funds.

Stop it with the shitcoins already.
Look at the price of BTC compared to every other shitcoin out there and you'll see what's happening.
Bitcoin has the perfect recipe.
Top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap.
Bitcoin
Ethereum ETH
XRP
USDT Tether
Bitcoin Cash
Litecoin
EOS
Binance coin
Bitcoin SV
Monero
Bitcoin is unstoppable. It is the perfect money. The Bitcoin network belongs to the people of Earth. Up 97% from a year ago. Always bounces back to New highs. Bitcoin has the strongest hash rate of 120 million trillion hashes per second.
ETH/BTC is down 53% on the year. That means ETH has lost half it's value relative to Bitcoin in the last year. Ethereum. Ethereum uses a cheaper and less secure proof of stake (POS), which is a POS (piece of shit). If proof of stake was superior to proof of work (POW), then that would be Bitcoin's consensus mechanism. Ethereum is dying relative to Bitcoin.
XRP/BTC is down 73%. XRP, a fundamentally flawed imitation of Bitcoin, has lost 73% of its value relative to Bitcoin over the last year. XRP is a centralized, pre mined scam by the inventors who absolutely control that network. They call it distributed and then their world map shows 14 dots. Bitcoin has over 11,000 nodes. XRP is a shitcoin deluxe. XRP tries to imply that it is a value compared to Bitcoin by creating 100B XRP tokens compared to the 21M Bitcoin hard limit. It's deceptive.
USDT Tether is a stable coin not meant for investing in. The Bitcoin exchange that runs it says it's backed by dollars, but you have to trust them, which completely breaks why you would want to buy a cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is a trustless system. That's what you want. Don't hold any money in tether.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a hard fork of Bitcoin. That means they took the perfect recipe (Bitcoin) and they fucked it up by changing it. BCH is mainly supported by bad actors who are defrauding people by pretending it's Bitcoin when it is not. The hash rate is everything when it comes to cryptocurrency. Bitcoin Cash has only 1.6% the hash rate of Bitcoin. They registered the fake website bitcoin.com and have a fake Reddit and a fake Twitter that pretend to be the official Bitcoin. The real Bitcoin website is the .org domain. www.Bitcoin.org. Bitcoin Cash has lost 25% of its value relative to Bitcoin in the last year. Steer clear of this scam.
Litecoin was a fork of Bitcoin. They changed the block reward from every 10 minutes to every 3 minutes. The founder has since sold his stake and has abandoned the project. LTC has lost 41% of its value relative to Bitcoin in the last year.
EOS is plagued by hacks. It's not even really a cryptocurrency. EOS has lost 52% of its value relative to Bitcoin in the last year. Terrible.
Binance coin is a Bitcoin copycat invented by the Bitcoin exchange Binance. It's centralized, and controlled by greedy people. (Assume everyone is greedy and you'll never be let down). How is this different than having dollars in a bank? The difference is that Binance coin is a market driven asset, which means the price fluctuates. So it's even riskier than dollars in a bank. You could lose value, and you're relying on an institution instead of a decentralized open protocol like Bitcoin.
Bitcoin SV is a hard fork of a hard fork of Bitcoin. It's problems are the same as BCH, from which it was formed. Bitcoin SV's hash rate is half of that of BCH and less than 1% of Bitcoin's hash rate. Bitcoin SV gas lost 33% of its value relative to Bitcoin in the last year.
Monero is a privacy coin. It has lost 43% of its value relative to Bitcoin over the last year.
The reason the 2017 Bitcoin bull run stopped is because investors got distracted by all of the shitcoins.
But now there is a great unification taking place. People are understanding more and more than Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency worth investing in, especially long term.
So when people say, "if it's not Bitcoin it's a shitcoin," that's what we mean.
Once this shitcoin noise settles down, people will be more focused on Bitcoin and the next halvening will bring on some serious fireworks.

If you are following our posts, then you remember that we’ve discussed the disadvantages of both centralized and decentralized exchanges.
As we’ve seen, platforms like Binance are black boxes — and they have control over your money. On the other hand, they are very fast and let you trade any currency pairs, no matter what blockchain each coin is built on. So you can trade ETH for BTC, for example. On a true decentralized exchange, this is very hard to do — yet. This is what’s called interoperability — the ability of different blockchains to talk to each other. Many of the best teams in crypto are working on this problem. In our upcoming posts, we’ll tell you all about those efforts — and how we plan to use them on 2Ether.
But let’s focus on the advantages of DEXes in general and our own 2EtherDEX in particular. Why do traders choose a decentralized exchange over Binance, for example:
There are two main reasons.
1) Security
When you trade on a DEX, your crypto is always under your control. You don’t have to entrust it to the exchange. All that 2EtherDEX does is provide you with an interface and a way to find other users who can fill your order.
When you link your wallet to 2EtherDEX, you don’t give your private key to the system. None of your sensitive info will be stored on the server of the exchange. Even if hackers get access to the database of 2EtherDEX, they won’t be able to steal your assets.
Does this mean that your crypto is 100% safe? Unfortunately, you are never completely safe — so you have to exercise caution at all times. If you don’t use centralized exchanges, the only way a hacker can steal your crypto is by phishing — tricking you into providing your personal key. For example, a hacker could create a fake website that mirrors the real DEX, and convince you to enter the key there.
2) Easy listing
You’ve probably read that Poloniex, Kraken and others charge a huge amount of money to list new coins. They do have serious evaluation procedures, but it’s almost impossible to get on those exchanges without paying. The fee can reach $1 million and more. This means that only the richest projects can afford such listings.
Projects with smaller budgets have to deal with minor exchanges, but even they tend to charge exorbitant prices. The result is that many promising projects simply can’t afford a listing anywhere.
Do DEXes charge fees? Most of them do, but they are nowhere near as high as on centralized exchanges. This creates a more democratic air around DEXes. This gives talented team a way to get their token to the public even if their budget is modest.
Still, most DEXes charge at least something, and it makes sense. If you let people list their tokens for free, your exchange will be soon flooded with low-quality coins that nobody will want to trade.
On 2EtherDEX, we will charge a small fee of $300 for the listing. This isn’t much compared to what is charged by such large DEXes as CryptoBridge, for example, whose fee is several BTC.
Not every project is worthy of being listed, even if it has the money to pay the fee. For this reason, we’ll have a serious community evaluation procedure in place to select the best teams. Next time we’ll tell you all about it!
https://2ether.com/
Web site — https://2ether.com/ Twitter — https://twitter.com/2Ether_ Discord — https://discord.gg/TuqG4py Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/2Ethe Reddit — https://www.reddit.com/use2Ether Medium — https://medium.com/@2ether Teletype — https://teletype.in/@2ether Telegram — https://t.me/ether2support Telegram chat — https://t.me/blockchain_2ether

How To Buy Bitcoins From Localbitcoins.com

How To Buy Bitcoins From Localbitcoins
LocalBitcoins is one of the trusted bitcoin trading platforms for peer-to-peer marketplaces. LocalBitcoins accepts over 60 different payment methods.
Any individual can buy bitcoin either online or in-person using LocalBitcoins. It seems to be an alternative to major bitcoin exchanges such as Binance and Kraken.

Escrow

LocalBitcoins puts the amount of bitcoin being sold in escrow.This escrow system, prevents your money from losing once you paid and provides your money, the complete security on bitcoins purchase time.
This feature is currently applicable only for the online trades and not allowed for local trades, where you meet someone face-to-face.
Most Trusted Payment methods on LocalBitcoins
Below listed are various modes of payment on Localbitcoins

Prepaid debit cards
Cashier's checks
Credit cards
venmo
Google Wallet
Paypal
Moneygram
Xoom
Wire Transfers
Western Union
Postal orders etc.,

How To Buy Bitcoin On LocalBitcoins
Here’s step by step procedure stated on how to buy bitcoin using LocalBitcoins, they are

Step 1: Open LocalBitcoins website

Initial step open the local bitcoin website, and make sure once that you opened the original website and not the website launched by scammers with the fake version
Step 2: Create an Account
Go to https://localbitcoins.com/registe
You get a free and secure online bitcoin wallet.
No additional apps are needed
If you already have a LocalBitcoins account, you can skip this step

Step3: Select an advertisement

From the advertisements list choose any one of the traders who have a good reputation score and a high amount of trades.
You can also check this from response time indicator shows, it clearly indicates you the status in different colours.
Green Colour: If a trader replies within five minutes
Yellow Colour: If trader replies within 30 minutes
Grey colour: If the trader replies slower than 30 minutes .
Additionally you can also click the 'Buy' button to view more information about an advertisement.

Step 4: Choose a payment method

Carefully select any one of the payment methods as listed above and press the buy button

Step 5: Pay the seller

Once you press the 'Buy' button you'll see more information about the advertisement, including the terms of the trade.
Read it all carefully before submitting the trade request, if you do not agree to trade with them, then you can go back to the previous page and choose another advertisement.
To start the trade, type in the blue box how much you want to buy, enter a message for the seller and click the Send trade request button to start the trade.
Be sure you're ready to pay when clicking the button, if you don't pay before the payment window is over, the trade will be automatically cancelled.
Step6 : Mark payment complete
If you are done on the payment, then click the I have paid button.
Once the trader has verified that your payment has been received your Bitcoin will be released from escrow and they are instantly available in your LocalBitcoins wallet.
And that's all you can successfully finish your first Bitcoin trade!
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Binance follows Bitfinex and BitMEX, which both started blocking U.S. customers in late 2017 as a result of the challenging regulatory climate.
Huobi then started licensing its technology and brand to a U.S.-based company HBUS (later rebranded to Huobi), similar toBinance's current plans for the U.S.,
having partnered with BAM Trading Services Inc - an unknown money services business listed in San Francisco.
While Binance traditionally offers crypto-to-crypto trading, it has already launched fiat-to-crypto exchanges in Uganda,
Singapore, and Jersey, all of which only support trading of bitcoin, ether, and BNB. It plans to have two fiat-to-crypto exchanges on every continent, which will likely also only support trading of bitcoin and ether initially.
Non-verified U.S. customers will likely still be able to bypass the restrictions and trade on Binance.com by using a VPN. Binance currently
allows withdrawals of up to 2 BTC ($16,500) without any verification, although the updated policy suggested that
"some users may be required to furnish evidence showing that their account registrations are consistent with Binance’s Terms of Use." Those who violate its Terms of Use, it added, will not be able to use the platform.
Binance users will also look for comfort in the announcement yesterday that the company is launching a separate fiat-to-crypto exchange to serve the U.S. market in full regulatory compliance.
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, offered an optimistic outlook on the disruption on Twitter.
"Some short term pains may be necessary for long term gains. And we always work hard to turn every short term pain into a long term gain."
The news comes two weeks after the main client of Binance DEX also announced it would start geo-blocking U.S. customers
and 28 other countries in July. Bittrex announced last week they would be geo-fencing 32 cryptocurrencies from the U.S. clients, following the same move by Poloniex a couple of weeks ago.
Until Binance puts out an official Apple Store app, make sure to get your copy direct from Binance’s website itself. Beware of fake apps!
An official iOS app is also coming soon, as seen in this Binance iTunes Preview. However if you want to start right away with the latest version, installation is just a few taps away.
1.Using the default Safari browser, go to the Binance iOS download link and let it install the app on your iPhone.

OR you can also use your iPhone’s Camera app to scan the QR code below, then tap Install. iOS will confirm with you about installing the Binance app. Tap Install to proceed, and you should see the Binanceapp on your home screen a few moments later.

First, I'm not trying to make this overly dramatic. I'm just here to discuss why I sold my 2 GMNs right after the binance news drop at around $2 (can provide proof if anyone reading this cares enough - also can look at my old post history if you really want to dig through it) and get some of the frustration off my chest that I think every GMN holder has been feeling. I'm not suddenly becoming anti WTC either - I wish them the best; the team are actually great people.
I've been around probably longer than most people here (August 2017). I was here during every single piece of FUD that has ever touched this coin. China FUD, fake team FUD, shitty beta miner FUD, office FUD, website FUD, 2.14 FUD, partnership FUD, Alibaba FUD, etc etc. Each time I held through because I did my own research (or so I thought). But each time, we became weaker and weaker as both a community and a project. Whether it was the shitty beta miner they released in December '17, or the alibaba tweet retraction, valentines day debacle (which basically made this coin one of the most hated in the market), or the countless mainnet delays, we never really recovered.
I think we all just were so emotionally connected to this, it became more and more difficult to sell, especially when you were holding a GMN. We always had an excuse for them, every single time. We defended them left and right, knowing that serious money was on the line. There is no doubt in my mind that if it weren't for GMNs, the vast majority of us wouldn't even be here right now; we'd have long sold.
Overall reasons I sold
1) Communication is poor relative to other projects/companies. Why invest in something like this when you can invest in much of the top 100 that doesn't have this issue? Price suffered greatly over the years because of this. Even coins with really strong communication still suffer in price. Having less than average communication is a huge issue.
2) Uncertainty over U.S. regulations / binance. I know there will be a USDT pair, but how do we know binance U.S. will list a china coin like this, which is likely a security at that?
3) Very mediocre github code; nothing really standing out from other projects. Lot of ethereum code in there. This isn't as big of a deal to me, but just something I noticed.
4) Poor market sentiment - the fact is, people hate this project with a passion. It's a scam to the majority of the community, and unfortunately, that means poor price action. While walton has its moments, it never really performs that well, and when it does, it barely performs up to the level of other coins. Why stay invested in this when you know deep down it won't increase in price much during a bull run? Yes, January 2018 it did pump eventually, but so did almost every other coin, and most coins ended up having pumped more than WTC did. Even one of our main competitors who we all know and love has price issues, yet with much greater connections and progress. There's still so much unclear about Walton, and we expect the WTC price to pump when there's coins out there with 20x the connections and awareness who aren't even pumping themselves?
5) Lost interest in mining - no real need for a GMN. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say that back in December 2017, we all kind of thought staking would be a bigger thing vs. the mining portion. Like staking DASH or PIVX and getting coins while doing nothing, that was the dream. I remember a lot of us biting the bullet when we found out how low on the totem pole staking was, and how we'd end up mining and getting the ASIC miner, etc. The GMN airdrops are near useless as well other than that initial 700 WTC drop. I think the whole GMN thing sounded good in theory, but in reality ended up being the downfall of many of us.
6) In the dark about a lot of the partnerships that were announced - what happened with china mobile IOT alliance? What happened with fuyao glass? What happened with GSK talking to them? What happened with alibaba? I think we know the reality on this one, though it's tough to accept it.
7) Token swap - there's no concrete plan to even do a token swap anytime soon. Another flat out communication blunder from the team vs. how much they've been saying "token swap soon". How can anyone be confident in this when they're talking about how it's too expensive to do a token swap right now? You must think relative to the crypto space. At this point, people are itching to sell their WTC that they have mined, and I think the longer we wait, the harder the dump will be.
Overall, the GMN was arguably one of the worst investments I could have made on an otherwise promising project. I have no doubt they'll do well in the far future, but in my opinion, there are much better projects to be in right now for both the short term and long term. Many will say, "why didn't you sell at 40, 30, 20, 10, etc.", and honestly, as I said above, it's because of that emotional connection to holding a GMN. Every time we went through a fuck up, we became more and more numb, but didn't want to just give up and sell, because it'd put to waste everything we went through. I think I've just finally had enough at this point.
What I'm doing now
I'm sure in a few weeks we'll be back up to $3+, and everyone will be quoting this and saying RIP, etc. And honestly, that's ok with me. I bought some of the coins I've been meaning to buy for some time now, and I'm already up a good amount. Even if walton does go above $2 eventually, I can pretty much assume the coins im in will also have gone up (which always has happened), so either way it won't matter. Whereas if I had continued to hold WTC, I'd have to deal with WTC going nowhere at times while everything else pumps, and it performing half assed when it does decide to pump. Finally, I'm pretty comfortable financially, so wouldn't really be pissed to see it finally perform well anyway. I'd be happy for you guys frankly.
Overall, this has been extremely liberating, and I wish everyone here the best going forward. Thanks for hearing out this rant.

originally posted by ankarlie https://steemit.com/blockchain/@ankarlie/decentralized-exchange-true-crypto-ownership-realized
Introduction
For over a decade we have seen blockchain technology developed into one of the most important technologies in recent history. Many visionaries, thought leaders, business gurus, and government authorities have recognized its immense potential that they have often associated it as one of the primary technologies that will drive Web 3.0 or even the 4th industrial revolution. Blockchain technology is so powerful that it has the capacity to disrupt any sector in our society where trust is a primary concern, which is pretty much is everything. As such we might consider businesses engaged in blockchain technology are in the business of trust.
Business of Trust
Blockchain technology has often been described as a trust layer that enables an individual to exchange value without having to rely on any central authority or third party intermediary. Often times transactions that are done using this technology are called trustless transactions, meaning, transacting parties do not have to trust each other to ensure that transactions will be consummated. In other words, the technology itself will guarantee that all transactions will push through, irreversible and immutable.
Banks are good examples of business of trust. We entrust them with our money and valuables, but sometimes these very same banks restrict our access to our own money and valuables due to many reasons. These might be server maintenance, AML and KYC requirements, regulatory obligations or whatever reason they might deem applicable. This is the very reason why blockchain technology through its first application, Cryptocurrency, has gained enormous success. Cryptocurrencies enable everyone total and complete control of their money.
Scams and Fake Blockchain Initiatives
The awesome potential of the blockchain technology might have afforded us the necessary tools and infrastructure for more financial freedom, inclusivity, and mobility, but it is not immune to bad actors that try to exploit the advantages of this burgeoning industry. The excitement and demand for blockchain technology have opened the doors for scammers and con-artists who try to “sell” the technology to investors who are more than willing to invest huge amounts of money to get the piece of the action that has the potential to explode in value.
One good example of a project that has been masquerading as blockchain technology is the $4 Billion fake crypto scam called OneCoin. The leader of this project, Dr. Ruja Ignatova aka Cryptoqueen have positioned OneCoin as the Bitcoin killer which she claims will become the biggest cryptocurrency in the world. Coming from an Oxford University graduate with a doctorate degree from Konstanz University in Germany and worked at McKinsey and Company who would have known that the project would turn out to be a scam.
OneCoin exploited the idea of leveraging blockchain technology, the potential of hitting it big like bitcoin and played on the greed of investors who were fearful of missing out on a life-changing opportunity envisioned by Dr. Ruja. That was several years back, of course we all know now that there was never an underlying blockchain technology in the first place and what we have left are disgruntled investors some of which are financially ruined due to investing more than they can afford to lose. Sad to say this has been a common narrative in the crypto space.
Blockchain is Real and Here To Stay
The many scams and fake or failed blockchain projects in the space have not dampened the interest of investors into blockchain and its first use case, cryptocurrencies. Instead, it has been gaining traction as the industry begins to mature, gaining regulatory clarity and widespread acceptance as a valid and legitimate asset class and investment vehicle. They can serve as alternative investments that can be used to hedge against uncertainties in traditional finance and investments.
There are now over four thousand cryptocurrencies in the world and this number will continue to increase well into the future. In fact, cryptocurrency proponents see a future where there will be hundreds of blockchains and thousands of digital assets. An integral part of this growing ecosystem will be cryptocurrency exchanges which serve as venues for open markets where cryptocurrency holders, traders, and investors interact. Not only there is an increasing number of digital assets in the space but also the places where you can trade.
CEX vs DEX
There are two general types of cryptocurrency exchanges: Centralized Exchange (CEX) and Decentralized Exchanges (DEX). Their functions are essentially the same but the way users interact with these types of exchanges differs significantly. CEX typically require their customers to undergo Know-Your-Customer (KYC) procedures and ID verification processes, DEX does not. In addition, CEX requires its customers to their cryptocurrencies deposit into its internal wallets while DEX allows its users to keep their wallets in non-custodial wallets.
CEX is generally considered by the wider cryptocurrency community as the lesser secure venue for users due to the following reasons. First, CEX typically uses one single crypto wallet address per blockchain. This means users of all Ether and Ethereum based-tokens share (The same can be said with other blockchain platform) the same address and demarcated only using a Memo or a Tag. This creates a honeypot that is just waiting to be exploited by hackers. Second, users of CEX have limited access to their digital assets as they will have to ask permission from the CEX operator access to their digital assets.
KYC procedures in CEX are also of great concern as users are typically required to submit supporting documents that can be used to verify their identity. This means users are relying on the security and competency of the CEX to secure their valuable information. Information that can be used for identity theft, false representation, and recovery of other online accounts. One good example of this is Binance where it found some of their customer information have been compromised. This is on top of the recent hack last May 2019.
Although no user funds were lost by the hack as Binance shouldered all the lost funds amounting to $40M USD, users were not able to access their accounts for several days. One can only imagine the great stress and anxiety It might have brought its users, not knowing when they will be able to regain access to their digital assets. These risks do not exist when using DEX as users will not have to deposit or withdraw their Cryptocurrencies. Transactions are all done on-chain and directly transacted from their own non-custodial wallet and there is no risk of your information falling into the wrong hands as there is no need for KYC.
Decentralized Exchange— Newdex
DEXs were made possible through the evolution of blockchain technology. The first-generation blockchain tech like the one used by bitcoin simply does not have the capabilities to host decentralized exchanges. This was only made possible through the integration of smart contracts with Ethereum being the first one to incorporate such capabilities. While the technology has shown promise the limitations of Ethereum’s blockchain made it impossible and uneconomical to reach mass adoption.
Decentralized exchanges (DEX) relies heavily on the blockchain where it has been built on. This is the primary reason why Newdex developers have decided to build their DEX on two of the most successful, scalable and used blockchain in the whole industry EOS and TRON. By doing so their DEX has the capacity to scale to mass adoption without having to worry that the underlying technology that hosts their DEX will not be able to cope up with the load and demand of their decentralized exchange.
EOS and TRON both use Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPOS) consensus mechanism which has been described as a more power-efficient, scalable and democratic consensus protocol compared to Proof-of-Work. This enables them higher throughputs, consumes a whole lot less energy and secures its blockchain more efficiently. Aside from the scalability advantage, the absence of miners in DPOS makes transactions in EOS and TRON more cost-efficient and often times fee-less like.
By offering a simple yet powerful trading venue for traders of EOS, TRON Newdex has become one of the world’s leading decentralized exchanges. To ensure that the digital assets of its customers are always safe Newdex, does not require its clients to input their private keys. Instead, Newdex opted to partner with all conceivable wallets for both EOS and TRON to enable its users to log in through their non-custodial wallets of choice. This is an additional layer of security and serves as a deterrent to phishing risk.
Apart from not asking for the private key to login in, Newdex does not require its traders to deposit and withdraw their digital assets. This was made possible because all trades are transacted on-chain which means trades are triggered, executed and finalized using smart contracts making them irreversible, immutable and secure. This also makes them auditable and transparent as anyone can basically follow and inspect the transaction on the various blockchain explorer available online.
Since users of Newdex never lose custody of their digital assets we can say it is the prime example of true digital asset ownership. Unlike centralized exchanges that require their customers to deposit and withdraw, Newdex executes transactions straight out of customers’ wallets which means there is no need to move digital assets in and out of the DEX. Hence there will be no chance for Newdex to lockdown user assets, there will also be no need to pay for deposits and withdrawals.
World’s Leading Decentralized Exchange
DEXs are the only trading venues where users have full custody and control of their cryptocurrencies through the use of blockchain technology. Newdex has emerged as the world’s leading DEX for not only offering all the advantages of decentralized exchanges but offering value-added services that set it above all other decentralized exchanges. These include an OTC market that enables its users to use Fiat currencies to trade with cryptocurrencies, a VIP membership for various trading and airdrops privileges and utilizing its own utility token called Newdex ecological Platform Token (NDX).
Conclusion
Cryptocurrencies have not yet reached mass adoption but through the power of blockchain technology and the many advantages that it brings it is only a matter of time when the masses come marching along searching for the proper venue where they can fully exercise their newfound financial freedom. Where there are no censorship, no restrictions, borderless and frictionless. More importantly, where true ownership of cryptocurrency is realized, decentralized exchanges and there is no better embodiment of this than Newdex, the world’s leading decentralized exchange.
For more information about Newdex please follow its official links below:
Website: https://newdex.vip/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NewdexOfficial
Medium: https://medium.com/@marketing\_27690
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Travala.com / $AVA was the first project to participate in the Weekly "NEO LIVE" Event being run by the NEO Global development:
https://neonewstoday.com/events/neo-live-telegram-series-to-feature-ecosystem-projects-in-weekly-event/
I have gone through and cleaned up the Telegram chat and formatted the questions to make them more readable. Due to the fast moving chat some questions got mixed up a little but i've done my best to remove spam/ emojis and make it readable.
The full archive can be found on the NEO Telegram: @NEO_EN
Introduction:
Host, NGD :

Our first guest for NEO Live is Matt Luczynski, CEO and co-founder of Travala.com. A seasoned marketing and technology entrepreneur, Matthew is a veteran in the travel industry, having worked on a number of enterprising startups within the space. Compelled by the aim of driving real-world blockchain adoption, he co-founded Travala.com, a travel ecosystem which leverages on the token economy to provide consumers with a fair, trusted, and transparent platform. In addition, Matthew is also the founder of the Wanderlust application, a location-based meet-up travel application designed for users to connect based on their specific interests.

Hi Matt, first question, when is Travala coming to Binance if at all any plans ?

Exchange listings are something as business we aren't able to discuss due to NDA’s we sign. We aim to continue pushing in all areas to make AVA more accessible to all users for usage on the travala.com platform

Should we be expecting 15 suppliers integration by Aug 15th?

We have currently connected 17 suppliers in total through our tech partner. This will give Travala.com in excess of 1.5 mill

Why should I use Travala instead of Orbitz or other popular travel sites?

Price - Our prices are on average 15% cheaper than other travel sites and our mainstream competitors. Our business plan is focused on this as we form a disruptive models targeting consumer adoption.
Room availability - We have a large inventory of hotels and accommodation in 210 different countries which is only going to increase as we roll out future updates.
Loyalty rewards program (SMART) - Earn AVA for every booking you make.
SMART discounts - Hold AVA to access up to 10% discount on our already low cost prices. Save even more on your bookings.
Access with multiple crypto currencies and fiat currencies
Following on from this, Travala SMART program is the first in the travel industry which provides users with a real world value reward.

Hi Matt, when the beta version goes live, travala can expect an Increase of booking numbers I think. Are you considering to hire more people for costumers service before or around that time?

With an increased UX/UI along with more availablity we expect the platform to maintain its growth as we have seen over the past 7 months.

** Due to fast moving chat this question got messed up. The team later commented the following regarding this question:

"Due to increased users and bookings customer service & support is fast becoming a priority so there will be new hires happening in this department."

What are benefit of Travala token holder ???

AVA is the gateway to further discounts and rewards on the travala.com platform. You can read more about it here - https://blog.travala.com/use-cases-for-the-ava-token/

Is the ava token able to be purchased directly on the Travala website? Or will a third party have to handle this? Is there a fiat gateway plan? Will Nash handle this?

We are waiting to see how the NASH system will work, there are also legal issues around use providing direct purchases of AVA via the platform. All things we are looking into as we develop to make it easier for anyone to join the travala smart program on the platform

First of all congratulations matt for your crowdfunding on crowdcube my question is when we see travala application on both platform means app is more easy and user friendly as comapre to website so any approximately time frame ?

Thanks it was a great moment when we sucessful completed the crowdfund, something i have always wanted to complete. Mobile app development will start in October this year.

Will you list travala at some point at kayak or is this plan cancelled?

we still have open discussions with Kayak and other platforms with similar models. They wont happen right away but are still aims we have

what's your vision for travala by end of 2020 and beyond?

Growth. We want more bookings and to dominate the crypto space for travel bookings. (Which we are already doing). Along side this we will begin pushing into the mainstream market.

Hello Matt! Could you tell about your goals in the future in terms of market share? Do you see having 0.1-1% of Market share of current giants like Booking.com, Hotels.com as a realistic goal?

Our goal is to achieve a 1% market share by 2023. That said its hard to predict at this early stage due to the estimated growth of the total online travel market.
Within the crypto space we are predicting to maintain our dominance.

Along with the August update, will search improvements be also in place, so its easily to locate countries, etc, currently difficult to find all places in the Maldives for example, which we will need for the Travala knees up sometime soon

yes we are constantly tweeking and updating the search improvements on the site. We understand the issue you have mentioned and are making changes for future updates

What other (other than the SMART rewards) ways are there that have been implemented to encourage the usage of AVA on the platform instead of the other many payment options?

Rewards, discounts, Refferals, payments and reviews. other areas will be added as the platform develops

can you elaborate on the Key Opinion Leaders? Is this an affiliate marketing program outside of the $20 invite reward?

Yes that is correct, we have a unique partner program which we have began to roll out. For example bitcoin.com and Litecoin foundation have joined us on this.

Travala does already accept several cryptocurrencies as a mean of payment. Do you plan to add GAS at some point?

We are looking into this as we speak along side our partnership and collaborations with NEO

When do you expect the review giveback program to be put in place and what are the projections on % of people making reviews vs total bookings.

Will be towards the start of Q1 2020. Estimated between 0.5-1% of total booking value. This is subject to change and isnt yet set in stone.

when do you expect beta site to go live?

Beta will be a constantly rolled out version and not a one off update. First update will be in Aug.

context: 1/3 reviews can be considered as fake on TripAdvisor. How will you guys handling reviews on your platform. Can you elaborate more about this topic, because it is very vital problem in Travel industry.

We will be using our booking smart contract to verify that the user has actually stayed at the property before they are able to write the review.

I remember business accounts went live during the last update, but this isnt obvious anywhere on the site, is this something you are handling privately at the moment?

Yes its handled privately

Are there more partnerships planned for Q3 that you can't tell us yet?

Yes, we have a number of confirmed partnerships to be released. As you can tell by our past partnerships with Dash, litecoin & bitcoin.com they will always be top level collaborations.

the commission fee is said to range between 5-10% depending on maturity of the platform. Can you confirm what % the current fee is?

Currently we operate at a 10% fee. While still maintaining a 15% on average discount on our available inventory for users.

how many employees does Travala now have?

We currently have 26 employees right now

Will you ever get an office with windows? :grin:

One day :wink:

Has any details been released of the new CTO?

sure you can check him out here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tứ-quý-phạm-54317815a/

Are qualifying crowdcube contributors still receiving t-shirts and goody bag etc at some point?

only if they invested the right amounts to recieve them

when will flight booking will be avalible on travala?

Flights will be added when we are happy with the growth of the hotel bookings. It’s important to not spread yourself to thin, going down to many vertical to soon means that other products dont get the attention they need. We constantly assess how we are performing before pushing on new products and verticals

what’s your favorite part of working at Travala?

I dont work at travala, this isnt work for me. Its a lifestyle. I enjoy it all.

how would a buyout of Travala affect the tokens?

Due to AVA being such a key part in the way travala.com operates it will be a very good thing if a buyout took place. Also when a buyout happens typically the company is bought for the team.

Any plans to have a bug bountry programs as many crypto project have ,?

Along side our secuity and auditing team. We do rely on our awesome community, token holders and share holders to help us out when they see something abnormal.

You already been approached by one of the big OTA’s for an cooperation or maybe for a business level account?

our business development department is constantly pushing forward with our business level accounts

what would be the primary driver to decrease the required 5.000 token amount to become lvl 5 SMART?

Depends, we have no plans to change the program at this stage.

What are the costs to maintain Travala system and how those costs are covered? What are biggest costs?

Staff wages, servers, rent, costs of bookings, users aquisition. We gennerate revenue and our burn rate is reletivly low right now. We have just completed a crowdfund and will continue to do investment rounds as we push more capital into the growth of the platform.

is there any way to have a sneak peak of the new website :grin: ?

No 🙂

how many employees do you expect to have by end of Q3?

No more than 30

Are you satisfied with the development of travala so far?

Yes, our team has over delievered on all areas. Our team is world class, i look forward to continuing to over achieve

if the selected booking date is not available, can the result provide 'next available date'. Or is this already coming?

right now the platform doesnt work like this but something we may add. However it’s important that as a user you are notified clearly that those dates arent avaialble before we push another date to you. You may not noticed and think your booking for the day you selected.

With NEO’s EcoFund investment, what are Travala.com’s new strategic growth targets?

At Travala.com we continue to push our strategy towards global adoption of cryptocurrency usage for hotel and accommodation bookings. The investment falls alongside our recently completed crowdfunding and at the commencement of our series A investment round which will continue to accelerate the growth of the travala.com platform.

can we expect greater marketing in terms of adspend once beta comes online in August, or is the marketing campaign going to increase later in Q3 or Q4?

ad spends will increase at a later stage, we are currently working closely with a team at google as to how we will strategically roll this out.

how much does the crypto market dropping effect your model, and are you well prepared for a long crypto winter should that eventuate and how much do you rely on the crypto prices for stability vs getting revenue elsewhere?

We provide access to our listings with credit/debt cards, paypal and other fiat methods, along with multiple crypto currencies. We dont rely on the crypto market or the price of cryptos to operate.

do you personally believe that we will be listed on kayak in 2019?

It really depends on how quickly we can grow, if we meet our targets then yes i do believe it will happen late 2019/early 2020

What do u think about NEO blockchain

Its improving and i look forward to seeing how 3.0 is rolled out.

Will Libra be accepted as a payement method in the far future ?

If its possible to accept we will accept it.

are you guys attending more events this year?

Yes, well be at consensus Singapore and the litecoin summit (Travala.com is the official accommodation provider for these events). And potentially some others to be confirmed.

Can you share something about the plans to boost the smart memberships ?

SMART is growing monthly from our organic reach, we will continue pushing this to new users than come to travala.com

we’ve seen you guys do great work with BCH, LTC and DASH, has other top 20 coins approached you and showed interest?
Will Travala harness the Seraph ID solution

Not unless its more userfriendly than how travala.com already operates

Does Travala.com have any plans in the future to work together with other NEO ecosystem projects? :laughing:

Travala already has a partnership with Nos and we look to further that once our production release of the site is released in
We also will be looking very closely at the Nash Pay feature to allow more crypto payment methods. We are always open to collaborations with other ecosystem projects that we can both benefit.

In addition to financial assistance, in what other ways will NEO’s EcoFund benefit Travala.com and help it reach its goals? Moving forward, in what capacities will NEO and Travala.com work together? How does it differ from your prior relationship?

There are a number of areas; marketing and technical support as well as harnessing the ecoboost partners with liquidity for the AVA token and more accessibility with wallet partners.
Neo intend to support travala.com with marketing & technical support as per the last question. We now have open discussions about how the relationship will develop and we look forward to working more closely with NEO moving forward. We are already working on adding GAS as a native payment on the platform and we look to become the official travel partner for NEO in the near future

Will it be possible one day to buy a smart membership directly with fiat with the nash app like buying a Prime membership on Amazon ?

Potentially

Is it possible that Travala helps Airbnb to go blockchain?

Anything is possible 🙂

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