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May 13
Crypto social media

Crypto Social Media, a New Star on Crypto Sky

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Crypto social media platforms are emerging rapidly. It is a fact that nowadays, social media is everyone’s window into the world. Apparently, people rely more on the information they dig up for themselves than on official information they can find in traditional media. Moreover, the word of mouth travels fast. And it collects a lot of admirers on its way. Therefore, the emergence of social media where people exchange ideas is not a surprise. Crypto social media has gone a step further, rewarding its members for creating content. These are some of the most popular crypto social media, a new star on crypto sky.

DTube

As the name suggests it, this is a decentralized version of YouTube. Moreover, it looks very similar to the YT platform. It is, therefore, easy to navigate.

If you like surfing the YT, but think it has become prone to censorship, DTube may be just the right choice. One of the first things you see upon visiting their site is the following wording which goes in line with decentralization:

“There are no hidden algorithms controlling the visibility or monetization of certain videos over others. All of DTube’s data is public and can be analyzed by anyone with an internet connection.”

How DTube works?

The best part of this platform is that the users will have the chance to earn cryptos for uploading, commenting, or sharing the video material. The tricky part about this is that platforms such as this one prefer unique content that can become very popular quickly. If you are a creative person, this should not be the tough task for you. If not, you can always stick to commenting on posts and still get rewarded.

As with all things related to blockchain, this platform is transparent as well. Basically, it means that creators of the content will earn cryptos depending on how popular their material is. Likes would be the main indicator of the content’s popularity.

DTube runs on a Steem blockchain. It is decentralized and thus – resistant to censorship.

Mamby

Mamby is a very specific platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI). If you take a look at their homepage, you will see that they are presenting themselves with a wording “Say Goodbye to Mindless Scrolling”. These are the 2 most important aspects of Mamby:

  • It delivers customized content. At the first glance, it is visible that this platform will tend to deliver the content tailored to your needs in the shortest possible period of time. Saving your time and delivering the proper content sounds like a good plan to start with. The users will have access to a “dislike” button, in order to eliminate the content they do not wish to see.
  • It rewards quality content. From the visual point of view, Mamby does not look like the most engaging social media you’ve seen. However, it must have been equipped with something to attract users other than customized content, we thought to ourselves. And yes – it rewards its users with cryptos. But there’s a catch and we will get to that later on in this text.
  • It is purportedly fighting false information. There have been indicators that the AI fights false information. Basically, it analyzes false information that exists on social media. Simultaneously, it rewards the with cryptos the quality, true and popular content.

What Mamby Asks from Its Users?

Unlike being rewarded through simply playing at our bet safe and crypto accepted Casino Brango, some social media platforms reward their users for creating content. However, that content needs to be unique and likeable, which sounds way easier than it is.

The content that anyone can put on Mamby can be in the form of images, texts, or videos. The indicator that tells the AI which content is eligible for a reward is the number of views that a certain content generated.

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Dec 26
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Cryptos That Marked 2019

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Cryptos and blockchain have certainly marked 2019. Digital revolution has definitely started to transform our world. Although blockchain has found wide application in many industries, cryptos have taken the central role and continue to make the world go around. Apart from Bitcoin, these are some of the cryptos that marked 2019.

Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is closely related to Bitcoin. It is actually a Bitcoin’s fork. Bitcoin Cash is on a list of cryptos that marked 2019 due to its strong start and endurance throughout the year and the expansion of Simple Ledge Protocol (SLP).

At the beginning of 2019, Bitcoin Cash had the price of $135 and quickly moved up to $300 in April 2019. Moreover, it continued to grow and in August finally reached its peak of $480. BCH proved to be able to maintain relatively solid stability as it kept its price above $300 until recently. At the moment of writing of this text BCH has the price of $187.73.

If we take a look at BCH/USD pair trading in the past year, we will see the increase of more than 30%, which is quite good.

As for the SLP, the records show that app. 6,150 tokens have been created using the SLP framework. We can trade with them on crypto exchanges. Moreover, more and more merchants are accepting BCH. Reportedly, in 2019 there were 934 online stores, 550 brick-and-mortar- merchants and 889 other types of businesses that accepted dealing with BCH.

Litecoin

Litecoin is one of the alt coins that marked the astonishing increase of 40% during the entire 2019. However, its price kept fluctuating a lot. Therefore, we consider LTC to be highly volatile in nature. At the beginning of 2019 LTC had the price of $32. It quickly increased to $142 in June 2019. However, it has been in decline since then and at the time of writing of this text, its price is $40.20.

Nevertheless, Litecoin is one of the fastest crypto currencies and has therefore, secured its place on our list. Speed is one of the main advantages of payments in cryptos. As we wrote before, it facilitates the transfers and reduces the transaction costs to the very minimum. Furthermore, it is one of the oldest cryptos and the 4th cryptocurrency by market capitalization. We also explored the interesting details about Litecoin during 2019 and wrote about it on our blog.

Ether

There are many reasons why Ether (ETH) is one of the most desirable coins to trade with. Ethereum network has proved its reliability and continues to keep steady. Ethereum blockchain network has become the basis of many businesses that continue to run successfully. From blockchain-based gaming to building entire “smart cities”.

Ethereum is to thank for two main benefits we enjoy today. Firstly, Ethereum ecosystem issues ERC-20 tokens. Secondly, it provides for smart contracts. These are digital contracts that make transactions easier, while making the process automated, encrypted and top-notch secure.

ETH started the year with the price of $116 and ending at (at least on this day) $127.80. Ether reached its peak in June with the price of $334.66, making the yearly increase of 20%.

In overall, Ethereum caught up with the audience. There were reportedly more than 20 million ETH accounts that created in 2019. Only this year, 4 million new ETH addresses appeared.

We suppose you have your favorite crypto accepted casino. What about your favorite crypto for the upcoming 2020?

Dec 13
Social media platforms

Twitter Announces Decentralization of Social Media Platforms

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Twitter has announced revolutionary change that should come in effect in the following years. Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey spoke about decentralizing Twitter and introducing protocols, instead of further developing control over platforms. This change promotes the use of protocols and should impact all other social media platforms. Twitter announces decentralization of social media platforms and we are pondering on this topic.

Project “Bluesky”

Mr. Dorsey announced the funding of the project Bluesky. Project should be directed towards the funding of the decentralized version of Twitter. As Jack Dorsey has explained, promotion of healthy conversation is in its core:

“…It will allow us to access and contribute to a much larger corpus of public conversation, focus our efforts on building open recommendation algorithms which promote healthy conversation, and will force us to be far more innovative than in the past.”

Dorsey’s concept relies heavily on “Techdirt“ Mike Mesnick’s view point regarding the internet in general: protocols, not platforms.

What Exactly the Protocols Can Change?

“Protocol” is a very serious, fancy word for a set of rules. The main objection to the existing way in which we exchange information on Twitter is that someone controls it. To put it simply, all social media platforms are in a possession of private companies. This means that those platforms have an entity controlling the flow of the information.

Twitter’s CEO believes that we could solve many issues that arise from such control if we move to a world where protocols dominate. Having a proprietary platform in the hands of corporations means that there is a police-resembling entity regulating the speech online.

Once protocols come in effect, users should be able to design their own preferences regarding filters, interfaces, various services, etc. Moreover, each user would be able to create the online environment in accordance with his or her needs. No censorship whatsoever. For example, if you find a certain speech offensive, you would be able to avoid such speech, and not silence that voice in its entirety. Furthermore, the platform will not do that for you. You will be able to make decisions on your own.

Basically, protocols are lines of code stored on blockchain. Anyone would be able to create their own set of rules, which would translate into code in the backend. In its essence, these would be a set of “if/when… then…” statements. This should make for the safe online environment. However, what someone considers “safe” is debatable. Therefore, there would be a choice for each user to create his or her own safe environment on social media platform. Once again, blockchain will be put into good use.

When Can We Expect to Be Able to Use It?

According to the Twitter officials, we will not see this change so soon. The plan is for decentralization to come into effect in years to come. At the moment, Twitter is recruiting the experts to work on this project.

In overall, decentralization of blockchain-based social platforms aims for better end-use control of their own data. Additionally, it should genuinely protect free speech and limit the online abusive behavior.

Do you think that social media platforms should be decentralized?

Dec 12
Nike shoe

Nike Shoe Sales on Ethereum Blockchain

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Nike shoe sales on Ethereum blockchain is the next best thing. This time, Ethereum blockchain has made sure that buying Nike shoes becomes a unique experience. Nike and Ethereum have teamed up on the project to assure customers the Nike product they bought is the original one. Above all, they are taking shopping to a next level. Nike will allow customers to groom their own digital shoes, trade with them, design their own pair. Eventually, the project will enable buying the shoes as per your design.

Proving the Provenance and Controlling Scarcity

The future of shopping is here. As of very soon, you would be able to enter the store, buy Nike shoes and check the authenticity of the goods immediately. Or, design your own, unique par. How? The manufacturer has given a short explanation:

“Prospective and current owners […] may buy and sell digital assets through one or more blockchain ledgers operating on the decentralized computing system. […] By way of example, and not limitation, a user may buy a new pair of  sneakers from a verified vendor who may provide authenticated provenance records for the sneakers. […] After receiving the shoe box containing the sneakers, the user scans the box UPC with a barcode scan feature in a sneakers app operating on the user’s smartphone.”

The way we understood it, the Etherum tokens will unlock upon the purchase of shoes. The 10-digit shoe id code will link with the owner id code, providing the proof of origin.

Moreover, Ethereum and Nike have gone a step further. Namely, they are working on providing the information on how scarce the item you bought truly is. Also, they will give the buyers a certain level of control regarding the number of the same design shoes items that appear on the market. More precisely, buyers will be able to set limits on the number of the so-called “clone shoes” referring to the design they make themselves. That way, they will be able to have more unique products in their possession.

Furthermore, as if, this hasn’t been enough of improvement, they have added a sparkle of fun to it. Just to spice things up. As per the official explanation, when a consumer buys a genuine pair of shoes, the app generates the digital representation of shoes, links it with the customer and assigns a cryptographic token. Interestingly, the shoe and the cryptographic token collectively represent a ‘CryptoKick.’

All in line with Nike’s motto “Dream Crazier“.

Making Shopping More Entertaining

So, the question remains: what to do with digital shoes? Play! What else?

The patent that Nike acquired (as per U.S. Patent and Trademark Office‘s web site) also allows for breeding of your own digital shoes as well as for making your own digital “offspring”. Although this may sound strange, there are already games on the market that apply the same kind of grooming and collecting of the digital items:

“Using the digital asset, the buyer will be able to securely trade or sell the tangible pair of shoes, trade or sell the digital shoe, store the digital shoe in a cryptocurrency wallet or other digital blockchain locker, intermingle or “breed” the digital shoe with another digital shoe to create “shoe offspring,” and, as per rules of acceptable shoe manufacturability, have the newly bred shoe offspring custom made as a new, tangible pair of shoes.”

As we can see, the buyers will have the opportunity to grant others the right to mix shoe designs. Also, third party will also have the right to parent the digital pair of shoes.

The question we ask today is: Do you think things have gone too far, or you’re up for this kind of change in the shopping experience?

Dec 03
Blockchain-Based Games

Microsoft Develops Blockchain-Based Ninja Card Game

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In a point in time when games are becoming more blockchain-based, who better to lead the revolution than Microsoft. The latest news in the gaming world come from the project that brought together Microsoft, game developer Eidos and gamebook firm Fabled Lands. Microsoft develops blockchain ninja game and the gaming community is eagerly waiting to see the outcome.

The Plot

The game in question will reflect the 1980s best-selling book called “The Way of the Tiger,” by Jamie Thomson and Mark Smith. The game’s title will be “Arena of Death”.

The story is set in the fantasy kingdom of Orb. The main character will be the participant acting as a ninja trying to avenge his adoptive father. Moreover, he or she will be on a quest to return the stolen scrolls.

Interestingly, developers purportedly have the plan to keep all the original features of characters in a game. Therefore, the story-line, the skills and the magic of the original book should be preserved.

Furthermore, the game will bear the title “Arena of Death”. You may have guessed that players will have the chance to fight through playing cards.

Blockchain, Tokens and Games

As stated previously, game developers will use tokens. VeChain Thor blockchain will issue the coins in question. These should enable the players to own the in-game items. This is what separates “Arena of Death” from many other games.

Namely, for some time now, blockchain-based games have been developing and players are getting used to collecting the in-game items and actually owning them. One of the authors of the original book, Jamie Thompson, reportedly said:

 “We were going to relaunch the series into a computer game format but this new technology (blockchain), just made more sense. Imagine playing Magic the Gathering but knowing if you owned a card, it really does belong to you. Or if we say there are only 100 editions of an item or skill, you know there really are only 100 editions.”

The Future of Tokenized Games

The estimates show that in 2025 the amount of network data will be 160 zettabytes. Many believe that blockchain has the advantage over other technologies when it comes to storing content. However, the problem of large file sizes remains. Either way, the blockchain application is on the rise in many industries, not just in the gaming world.

Nevertheless, this does not keep the developers from creating games of this kind. Obviously, people like to own assets that appear in a game. Therefore tokenization is becoming a mainstream.

As a quick reminder, there are “CryptoKitties” that everyone is talking about, as well as far more popular, but less marketed “Gods Unchanged”. ETH- based games are apparently rocking.  Fans of speed may already know that blockchain game F1 Delta Time organized an auction of  F1 car-branded NFTs (non-fungible tokens).

Are you a fan of collecting in-game items?