Tag: blockchain

  • Hive Blog Rocks the Blockchain

    Hive Blog Rocks the Blockchain

    Hive Blog Rocks the Blockchain

    Today I feel like I did on the first day of learning the world wide web was completely next-level compared to Compuserve, AOL and Prodigy but for many reading this they may only vaguely recognize the mention of those first 3 online platforms. Back then AOL was much more engaging than the web but it didn’t take long and everyone was learning the difference. Today Hive Blog rocks the Blockchain

    In 2017 I joined Steemit and after a few posts and some browsing I lost interest and went back to Youtube, Twitter and Facebook plus I kept joining other socials to learn the difference and find ways to connect them all together. WordPress is the powerhouse of harnessing all the power of the socials, so it’s all about finding ways to integrate them into a website.

    Now as the big Tech giants threaten to banish our voice from those platforms, we are forced to seek out new places where we won’t be challenged in the future for actively expressing our own opinions without recrimination. Steemit protected the freedom of expression on a Blockchain and paid people in crypto for producing good content. The idea was solid but the founder lost the confidence of his developers and followers, so a fork was spawned and it was Hive.blog

    Now Hive.blog has become the rave with a fork from Steemit and a new vibrant community has exploded around the old platform, more or less taking it over from Steem and expanding on what was best in the previous version. This protection of content inspires me to create again.

    The migration over to Hive.blog from Steemit was so incredibly slick, I was impressed by all the new encryption keys that I was generated. Big warning here, never lose your Keys because there’s no central admin to reset your password, if you lose them you lose your account with wallet and tokens.

    This content platform has rewards to upvoting and pure liquid democracy of online group moderation. Very exciting to be involved with Hive.blog and feel so content on a Blockchain, even if it is in a cloud, it’s so de-centralized and with nodes galore and a huge testnet. In conclusion; Steem/Hive is a web developers dream. Total bullet-proof autonomy in cyber space.

  • Exodus & Trezor Que Entre La Luz

    Exodus & Trezor Que Entre La Luz

    Exodus Movement
    Click and marvel, how easy it is….

    Exodus helps individuals control their wealth independent of old banking models and free from institutional control. Now, Exodus & Trezor make advanced security easy – allowing anyone to safely manage digital assets.

    Exodus is a software platform ONLY and does not conduct any independent diligence on or substantive review of any blockchain asset, digital currency, cryptocurrency or associated funds. You are fully and solely responsible for evaluating your investments, for determining whether you will exchange blockchain assets based on your own, and for all your decisions as to whether to exchange blockchain assets with Exodus.

    In many cases, blockchain assets you exchange on the basis of your research may not increase in value, and may decrease in value. Similarly, blockchain assets you exchange on the basis of your research may increase in value after your exchange.

    Exodus and Trezor worked in partnership to advance the hardware wallet experience.

    Trezor One & Model T now work with Exodus

    Exodus & Trezor

    Manage and exchange your cryptocurrencies in Exodus securely from your Trezor. No signup or registration required.

    Choose a good PIN

    The PIN is a powerful tool to keep your coins safe. It is the only thing between a thief and your funds if someone steals your device.

    Do not use a simple or predictable PIN, such as “1234,” or any series of repeated or sequential numbers.

    Suggestion: The numbers displayed on the Trezor screen when it requests a new PIN are in a random order which changes every time you use your device. You can use them as the basis for your PIN if you do not have any better ideas. For example, you can use the first two rows when you see the matrix for the first time.

    If you have trouble remembering your PIN, write it on your recovery card.

    For more information, see also Set up a PIN and our blog articles 3 simple rules for a good PIN, How easy would it be to guess your PIN? and Recovery Seed, PIN and Passphrase.

  • ZenDAO Liquid Democracy Treasury Model

    ZenDAO Liquid Democracy Treasury Model

    ZenDAO a Liquid Democracy Treasury Model

    The ZenDAO voting platform can replace the old corporate model of business organization with an inclusive, provably fair, and transparent economic system with incentives to participate.

    Horizen

    Horizen is building a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) as a voting mechanism to allocate treasury funds to continue the development of the Horizen platform.

    The ZenDAO will be one of many sidechain applications for the Horizen platform, demonstrating the power of the dApps and their commitment to decentralized, community based governance.

    The ZenDAO uses economic theory, game theory, liquid democracy, and the lastest privacy technology to allocated treasury fund resources. They are not just creating technological innovations, they are also pushing social innovations in how people interact with each other.

    Please visit Horizen formerly ZenCash

    Liquid Democracy

    Delegative democracy, also known as liquid democracy, is a form of democracy whereby an electorate has the option of vesting voting power in delegates rather than voting directly themselves. The term is a generic description of either already-existing or proposed popular-control apparatuses.  Voters can either vote directly or delegate their vote to other participants; voters may select a delegate for different issues.  In other words, individual A of an X society can delegate its power to another individual B – and withdraw such power again at any time.

    Illustration of delegated voting. Voters to the left of the blue line voted by delegation. Voters to the right voted directly. Numbers are the quantity of voters represented by each delegate, with the delegate included in the count.

    Delegative Democracy, or liquid democracy, lies between direct and representative democracy. In direct democracy, participants must vote personally on all issues, while in representative democracy participants vote for representatives once in certain election cycles. Meanwhile, liquid democracy does not depend on representatives but rather on a weighted and transitory delegation of votes. Delegative democracy through elections should empower individuals to become sole interpreters of the interests of the nation. It allows for citizens to directly vote on policy issues, delegate their votes on one or multiple policy areas to delegates of their choosing, delegate votes to one or more people, delegated to them as a weighted voter, or get rid of their votes’ delegations whenever they please.

    Most of the available academic literature on liquid democracy is based on empirical research rather than on specific conceptualization or theories. Experiments have mostly been conducted on a local level or exclusively through online platforms, however polity examples are listed below.

    ZenDAO Photo Credit Photo on Visual hunt

  • My Office in the Imagination Factory

    My Office in the Imagination Factory

    My office in the Imagination Factory[box]It’s the middle of winter in British Columbia, as I write this story about imagination, the most valuable commodity in cyber space.[/box]

    Bitcoin was born of imagination, almost like a John Lennon lyric; imagine a world with no central bank governance? Imagine a way to digitize money and share or send it across borders without any hassle, simple and easy, pier-to-pier transfers? Imagine an electronic network of digital money that everyone can trust and everyone, everywhere, wants and prefers?

    In my mind, this is a new way of developing our world, that is primarily online and creates entire new industries and eco-systems, as we pioneer new ideas and create new language to describe our advancement.

    This blockchain bonanza is bigger and growing much faster into a larger wave of development than the web, especially since the web had the wind knocked-out of it’s sails in 2000, even 1999 with Y2K, when there should have been tremendous innovation the investment capital stopped flowing into Internet related projects. None the less, entrepreneurs trudged onward to continue building better systems, connecting every inch of the planet, increasing the speeds and developing the infrastructure and software to transition onto mobile devices and make an app for everything imagination could discover, plus sell digital products to a new generation who use a mobile phone to compute and communicate in a totally new way.

    [box size=”large”]Blockchain improves every aspect of the web infrastructure and makes the use of information technology a quantum leap better.[/box]

    We live in a brave new space and time for the human race. We have the opportunity to imagine our way out of the dire circumstances we find ourselves in, however it can only happen collectively. There is an awakening happening and the Internet is partly responsible, as it’s innate in humans that we need to know our own truth, about the nature of things that happen in our world. Being connected to all parts of the planet and having empathy for all people, everywhere, is peace revolution.

  • The Art of Writing and Purpose of this Blog

    The Art of Writing and Purpose of this Blog

    The Art of WritingThe best way to learn to write, is to write. It is said that the best way to get started is to just begin writing. These are the steps towards the Art of Writing.

    Some of us have always wanted to be writers and some of were naturally gifted in this expression, while others were educated in writing by having to write, then there were those others that needed to write to make a living, especially as we transition into the information-age. In each and every case, the quality of the written word is most valued when it succinctly describes and idea. The fewer words the better and the key to success is the emotion the writer is able to convey. We can see beauty in everything in our world, even the depths of hell can be described but can we describe the things we see daily, or visualize throughout the day, in an articulate style that can illicit some feelings and deliver some meaning to the reader?

    To write well, it has to become art. The very symmetry of the letters as they slash into the empty white space of the page, is akin to a dance with the music from an orchestra. I can envision the conductor, in my own mind as I free-form these thoughts onto this page. We’ve been told to write whatever comes to mind, if you’re unsure about what to write about and that’s a little of what this is about. Today, for example I set-out to write about my new format for blogging and video production. This article “The Art of Writing” is the first of my new format, which is designed to; blog about the things I’m working on for the Youtube channel “Invest Offshore”, as well as the people and projects I’m meeting and learning about.

    Over the years, I’ve come to realize that I’m in a position to share a unique perspective. That of a tech evangelist who recommends moving offshore and living as a sovereign individual.

    Here and from now on, I wish to express my ideas and write about anything and everything that either amuses me, or bothers me. Despite the fact that I’m interested in conspiracy theory and complete believer/proponent in digital currency and blockchain, I’ll try not to saturate this stream with crypto news or conspiracy theory. Also, I’m very interested in digital photography, cameras and video production, plus obsessed advocate of Adobe Creative Cloud Suite of products including Photoshop, Premier Pro, Light Room, Dreamweaver and others, having said all that, this blog is where I wish to post my photography and video, therefore often times the photos may not be entirely relevant to the blog post but that’s because they’re the shots that are in my Light Room.

    The strategy with my use of the Art of Writing is to use it to improve the quality and meaning of Invest Offshore videos by researching the topics, ideas, people and places.

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    A week ago there was a story about a skier, who was a Toronto firefighter visiting White Face in upstate New York near Lake Placid. He went missing and a massive manhunt ensued. His street clothes and backpack were found in the lodge at the ski hill but he was disappeared for 3 days, until he appears in Sacramento California in his ski clothes but doesn’t know how he got there.

    Here’s the link – Toronto Star

    Danny Filippidis called his wife shortly after noon Tuesday — roughly 4,500 kilometres from where the 49-year-old Toronto fire captain vanished six days earlier, prompting a massive search.

    He was last seen making an afternoon run at a New York ski resort at Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Feb. 7.

    She told him to call 911 and get help. So he did — and the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department responded.

    Filippidis was found alone near the rental car terminal of Sacramento International Airport, still wearing his snow pants, jacket and had his goggles and ski helmet.

    “We don’t know how he got there,” said Sacramento police Sgt. Shaun Hampton.

    How or why Filippidis travelled across the United States without telling anyone remains a mystery.

    “He wasn’t able to give those answers,” said Frank Ramagnano, president of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association, who added that Filippidis seemed confused and needed medical help.