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* * Achievement unlocked: With more than ‘4 billion’ in total votes -- almost half the population of earth voted for startups! JUST KIDDING! Some companies had a to accumulating their votes. unique approach In 2021, decided to host to highlight the backbone of the future - tech startups! for the first time in forever (make sure you sing it in Anna’s voice), HackerNoon.com Startups of The Year More than 44,000 startups were nominated all across the globe, spanning over 4,553 cities. That’s.Just.Spiffy! To see who is a winner in each respective city, visit and pick a city. The name at the top of the list is the winner. (Compromised awards are under review.) startups.hackernoon.com The will announce the winners per region in their respective cities. Startups Winners Announcement Series We’d like to take a moment here and thank every single person who cast a vote and every single company, both nominated and not nominated yet this year. Furthermore, we thank you for existing and opening more opportunities for the wonders of the future to come. Even if you don’t win anything today, you’ve won something much more valuable - our hearts <3 Okay, sorry for the long introduction. Below are all the Startups Winners: Startups of the Year (SOTY) in Africa Johannesburg, South Africa With more than 900 votes cast, #SOTY calls.... MiBRAND Thank you for connecting businesses and consumers, great job! Lagos, Nigeria With 836 votes in the bag, let’s give it up for... Goodtalent Thanks for helping tech companies build great engineering teams. Cape Town, South Africa Want to learn more about finance and use that knowledge to make better financial decisions? Look no further. Introducing winner of Startups of The Year, Cape Town: Revix With 527 votes cast, it seems like a lot of people have more money in their pockets thanks to . Revix Mahé, Seychelles With around 515 votes cast, #SOTY summons... DAOLaunch Thank you for bridging the gap between investors and startups. Lusaka And the winner for #SOTY in Lusaka is... ComGrow Thanks to them, people here are getting closer to the reality of the digitization of village banking. Nairobi, Kenya With 252 votes cast, UTU came out top as the Startup of The Year. Thanks for building the trust infrastructure of the internet to help businesses and consumers engage and transact in a more reliable way. Yaoundé Accounting for more than 73% of total votes, CamPay won this award fair and square. Thank you for making sending and receiving payments easier between online merchants. Abuja, Nigeria A proud winner in the prestigious capital of Nigeria, Elesaro deserves all the plaudits it gets. is a suite crowdfunding protocol built on BSC, Reward, Equity, Lending & NFT Marketplace. Congratulations! Elesaro Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Jamii Africa is the name that will always be engraved on the #SOTY trophy. As a mobile micro-health insurance, Jamii Africa has done a great job for the health sector in Tanzania. Kigali, Rwanda Another #SOTY medal in the bag for none other than …wait for it… BAG Innovation BAG Innovation applies Gamification to offer real-time access to experience-based learning for University students in East Africa. Everybody loves playing games, but using games to learn in school is on another level. Gauteng, South Africa And the award goes to... Planet42 Thanks for democratising mobility by enabling people ignored by banks to get access to a personal vehicle through a car subscription service. Once again, congratulations! Port Harcourt, Nigeria Cryptocurrency is the present and the future, as we’ve all come to know. FLITBASE makes these digital assets more accessible to everyone. #SOTY is proud to add you to our Hall of Fame. Cairo, Egypt With 18 votes won out of the 91 cast, it seems there was fierce competition. Congratulations to... SubsBase for winning Startups of The Year. SubsBase allows businesses to manage their subscribers, automate recurring billings, set pricing plans, and monitor subscription KPIs. Tunis, Tunisia Come one, come all! Witness the greatness of yet another wonderful startup in the #SOTY. Thank you... VYND for providing a fully integrated digital platform to help venue owners better serve their customers and grow their businesses. Stellenbosch, South Africa BankTech connects clients to a payment network where it provides a convenient interface to meet various payments needs. You’ve won #SOTY proudly! Pretoria #SOTY acknowledges... Grays Pharmaceuticals Thank you for all you do. Lekki, Nigeria Middletrust provides reliable escrow services in Africa. Congratulations on winning a #SOTY medal. Addis Ababa Thank you... Hello Solar for consistently accelerating sustainable energy solutions, especially for remote communities. With half of the votes cast, you beat the odds. Accra, Ghana UT Bank Ghana provides various commercial banking services to individuals and companies in Ghana. We cannot emphasize enough the importance of financial services to humankind. #SOTY is proud of all you do. Gîza, Egypt Big congratulations to... HOVO for winning this award. Your on-demand mobile app for ordering trucks is truly appreciated! Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo Congratulations for coming out on top of #SOTY, SillonBlue Technologies As an ICT Consulting and SaaS company, SillonBlue Technologies focuses on software and mobile app development, and data collection. Yaba, Nigeria With more than half of the votes cast, this nominee conquered undisputedly. Let’s give it up for... Kuda a no-fee full-service digital bank making banking affordable for all Africans on the planet. Morocco City Almes provides infrastructure and logistics services. Congratulations on earning a #SOTY medal. Dakar ShopMeAway provides families and businesses with new ways to shop around the world with reduced shipping costs. You deserve the plaudits you’ve received! Casablanca Sheaply provides crowd shipping and crowd shopping solutions. This reduces cost and improves efficiency on shipping and shopping. Congratulations on winning a #SOTY medal. Nguru, Nigeria Accounting for 88% of the votes, TradeBuza wins #SOTY almost flawlessly. TradeBuza is a tech-enabled commodities sourcing platform for commodities aggregators and out-grower schemes. Ikeja, Nigeria PropertyPro Nigeria is now pronounced Startup of the Year in Ikeja. Let’s admit, who doesn’t appreciate a platform built to search for real estate properties? Ibadan, Nigeria No Bank, No Problem! (That’s probably not their motto, by the way) Shield Finders is a fintech and financial service provider to the unbanked. Congratulation on winning most of the votes! 6 October City, Egypt Wuilt is a website builder where you can create your own Arabic website in under 5 minutes. Thank you for making this technology accessible to people. One #SOTY medal for you! Algiers The only nominee who outvoted all others, please give it up for... Yassir Thank you for providing convenient transport services using your app. Enugu In an area that usually suffers from inconsistent electricity, Greenage comes to the rescue with their green cape and spandex suit. Greenage Technologies is a Nigerian startup solving electricity problems in Nigeria using solar energy technology. Congrats, Greenage. Abeokuta, Nigeria A government organization creating opportunities for entrepreneurs and the unemployed - no one deserves the title Startup of The Year better than Ogun Innovate Congratulations! Ariana And the award goes to... E-Stores Factory a web platform that helps rent and manage e-shops for enterprises seeking to sell online. Thank you for making the (not a typo) more friendly! e-cosystem Benin City Health really is wealth. MOBicure provides mobile technology solutions for Africa's biggest health problems. Thank you for all you do. From #SOTY with love <3 Centurion GameZBoost offers white label gaming platforms, including online desktop solutions, fully responsive mobile and social platforms. Thank you for making the world a more fun place! Gaborone Augmenta Cyber Security provides services in cyber security, safe data storage, SCADA security, SAP Security, etc. Congratulations on winning 10/10 of the votes. You rock! Garki There can never be enough medical platforms in the world. Congratulations to... Wella Health an operator of a healthcare technology company intended to provide treatments and medicines for malaria. Thank you for all you do! Lilongwe Yellow is a digital platform enabling informal merchants in Africa. #SOTY welcomes you to its hall of fame. Make yourself at home ;) Luanda Access to finance is important for any company or sector to succeed. And no other company deserves the title Startup of The Year more than Deya the first Angolan and PALOP crowdfunding platform that aims to increase access to financing for social impact causes and entrepreneurs. . 10/10 will recommend Mombasa Life can be hard, and so a little humor helps ease these hardships. Congratulations to this political satire puppet show, The XYZ Show for winning #SOTY. Thanks for putting smiles on our faces. Port Louis Town Bet you’ve never heard of a Smartcup. Thanks to Intellicup that exists now, and therefore earns this startup a #SOTY badge.  Intellicup is a unique high-speed beverage dispensing solution with integrated smart technology. While this cup won’t be able to wake you up in the morning, you have to agree that it’s still pretty impressive. Rabat Atlan Space is a startup building AI to autonomously pilot any fixed-wing drone, to monitor and take measures over very large areas. You deserve the #SOTY medal. Réunion Imagine having the power to do ultrasound scans on your handheld device. OSCULT by Oscadi is a handheld ultrasound imaging device interfaced with the Apple iPad. Congratulations on making it into the #SOTY! Somerset West Winning the award fair and square is Sticitt a cashless payment platform that is also aimed at teaching learners at school the basics of finance. The future of the world would be in good hands when our children know how to adequately manage finances. Thank you for saving the world in advance. Thika Flowers make the world a beautiful place to live in. Wilmar Flowers exports summer flowers grown by small and medium-sized farmers from Kenya. Kudos for making the world beautiful, #SOTY is honored to have you in our Hall of Fame. Kampala, Uganda Yo-Waste Limited is an African startup that provides waste, recycling and “smart city” solutions to businesses and governments. Your #SOTY gold medal shines as much as you do <3 Harare, Zimbabwe The world is becoming more and more digital every day. Thanks to companies like Golix that provide services of digital currencies for people in Africa, the digitization of the world is becoming more robust. Freetown Easy Solar is a distribution company making energy, durable goods and financial services affordable and accessible through pay-as-you-go tech. Thumbs up! Kicukiro FOODLINE specializes in non-genetically-modified grocery farming and production lines. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! #SOTY Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo Startups Nuru is a renewable and environmental company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. After racking up all the votes, #SOTY honors you. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire Digitech provides a fully integrated and cloud-based InsurTech platform to incumbent insurance companies. You are awesome! Durban Security can never really be enough. We’d like to honor Blue Security the title Startup of The Year, for specializing in the installation and monitoring of intruder detection systems, and in providing armed response services. Ikoyi And the Startup of The year goes to... Winich Farms an Agritech Startup leveraging tech to connect rural farmers to Finance & Market, thus, increasing productivity and cutting post-harvest loss. You rock! Lomé The last recipient of #SOTY in Africa calls for... Gozem a transport technology platform for Francophone West and Central Africa. Thank you for providing a platform for transportation. We are honored to have you! *Winners missing from this list will be added accordingly. More Information If you’re a winner, please answer ! 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The sudden emergence and swift, sometimes scattershot development of cryptocurrencies has posed a serious challenge to governments worldwide. The inability to control the flow of money, tax avoidance and the facilitation of illicit activities have urged authorities to address cryptocurrencies as a top priority. The action taken by governments has varied greatly. While some states seek to regulate every aspect of this new reality (think of how advanced the Swiss city of Zug or Singapore are), others simply impose strict bans. A surprisingly large number have opted just to stand aside and watch. In fact, they are the majority. Due to the unprecedented nature of cryptocurrencies, some countries have taken complete u-turns as they have found out their strategies weren’t working as well as originally hoped for. Below you will find some curious cases of states that have been attempting to address the cryptocurrency boom. Case #1: India’s Pseudo Ban In November 2017, the executive director of the Reserve Bank of India stated that digital currencies would not be allowed “to be legally used across the country”. Later on, India’s finance minister, in his budget speech, promised a crackdown on “illegitimate activities involving crypto”. The country’s presumably anti-crypto position gained much media attention, with BTC’s price falling by $800. A change.org petition in favor of “reversing the crypto ban” gained widespread support. However, this turned out to be media speculation which did not reflect the real government’s stance and plans. The imposed bans regarded the financial institutions controlled by RBI, not single traders or owners. They also referred to a crackdown on crypto activities, which was taken out of context. illicit In reality, Indian officials have expressed interest in taking advantage of blockchain technology, introducing new laws and launching its own currency. Case #2: Russia’s Melting Ice In the beginning, cryptocurrencies in Russia were perceived rather negatively and associated with criminal activities. The first attempt to tackle the issue took place in 2014 when the Ministry of Finance suggested introducing fines for crypto operations and up to 2 years of community service for issuing and circulating virtual currencies. However, as the number of cryptocurrency owners has skyrocketed, there has been no other option but to soften the stance. The hype was too huge to ignore: at some point, ‘Bitcoin’ became the second most searched word. Since then, cryptocurrencies have been officially recognized as “other property” and accepted for trading, provided that certain rules are respected (e.g. initial investment of no more than ~750 USD for private citizens). In addition, mining was listed as a taxable entrepreneurial activity, and smart contracts received the same status as legal agreements. Case #3: UAE’s Crypto Oasis The beginning of 2017 marked the prohibition of cryptocurrency transactions by the Central Bank of the UAE. The official declaration that “all virtual currencies [and transactions thereof] are prohibited” was widely interpreted as the government’s hard stance against crypto. Coupled with further warnings from officials, everything signaled a very harsh crypto climate, a pattern not uncommon in the Middle East. However, all these signs turned out to be a dust storm hiding an oasis for crypto believers. In parallel with media speculation came the legal recognition of ICOs and virtual currencies (as securities and commodities, respectively), the adoption of the national blockchain strategy and the conclusion of a number of big deals, including between the blockchain business registry and IBM. Case #4: Venezuela’s Rebranded Currency Facing financial turmoil and severe depreciation of the national currency, Venezuela emerged in the crypto world as the most desired mining destination. With utility bills costing “as much as a cup of coffee” and mining one BTC costing just $530, cryptocurrencies soon gained more credibility than the national currency. To save the Bolivar, Venezuela’s government banned the import of mining equipment and launched a nationwide sequestration campaign. Despite the outward hostile signs, the government of Venezuela has actually become one of the most advanced crypto-friendly states. Not only has it introduced an ICO called Petro, which is pegged to the price of oil, but it has also been pushing — with lots of enthusiasm — for its use pretty much everywhere, including for salary payment, pensions, goods, services, passport fees… Petro was even discussed at OPEC as a new unit for oil trading. Case #5: Zimbabwe’s Audacious Exchange In May 2018, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe imposed a ban on Zimbabwean financial institutions dealing with cryptocurrency transactions and exchanges. It also shut down any associated bank accounts. This is believed to be in response to rising global concerns about AML/terrorist funding, and the establishment of the first crypto ATM by Golix, a local cryptocurrency exchange. The ban was not taken without a fight. Golix sued the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, stating that only the Parliament would have the authority to impose a financial ban, and… won the case. de facto Why is the Stance Changing? Shifting between pro- and anti-crypto positions can be explained by the very nature of the phenomenon. On the one hand, cryptocurrencies have great potential to revolutionize the global financial market and make it a place of equal opportunity. With cryptocurrencies, anyone can afford to open a wallet, mine some initial tokens, become an investor and move funds internationally, including places that current financial institutions fail to reach. On the other hand, governments fear losing control. Cryptocurrencies affect not only their ability to oversee money flows and intervene in case of need but also to ensure state security. The anonymity and fast, borderless nature of blockchain transactions have up until now made it almost impossible to track or collect evidence of illicit activities. How Can Governments Become More Open to Cryptocurrencies? With security and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) being the primary concern, there are at least three things that governments can do, which will allow them to soften their position on cryptocurrencies. In this regard, new technologies and especially automated blockchain analytics can play a crucial role. Firstly, it is important to be able to . Given the sheer speed and scale of crypto transactions, this should be done by applying smart AI algorithms, capable of analyzing historical data and presenting crucial findings, such as the origin of a particular currency and the expenditure associated with it. This information can be checked with the help of tools like . follow the money ORS CryptoHound The second step is to the between different wallets, helping define whether transactions have come from random sources, or whether there are regular patterns that connect the specific address with others. With the help of Artificial Intelligence, one can set certain rules that keep track of inter-wallet relationships and signal if something seems fishy. understand relationships Finally, for all the previous information to make sense, it is important to . These might include official crypto exchanges, public places (restaurants, cinemas, grocery stores), freelance marketplaces, municipal bodies and so on. deanonymize organizations’ addresses Closing Thoughts It is rather difficult to track the evolution of global approaches to regulating virtual currencies. As such a large force, crypto can either be resisted by authorities, tolerated with governments keeping a watchful eye, or embraced. We’ve covered a couple of interesting cases, which prove that a hard official stance can simply be a defensive maneuver. A desperate one, which will most likely soften against the tidal effect of cryptocurrencies, or by applying advanced technology for ensuring an increased level of security.

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Introduction You will laugh, but in the backward, dictatorial Venezuela, which is in deep economic crisis, today the main contours of the world economy of the 21st century are being formed. It is, of course, an experiment to pull the country out of a deep depression with the help of cryptocurrency. Despite the resistance of its parliament and external opponents, the El Petro project continues, and, according to official data, it is quite successful as billions of dollars have been raised during the presale, and the official ICO has recently started, and applications for participation were submitted by investors from 127 countries. Of course, it is hard to believe in such figures, so it is more important to pay attention to another fact. At the end of December 2017, the Venezuelan government created the online register , in which all citizens of the country who want to engage in mining are required to register. Within a month, 90,000 people were added to the register. Observatorio Blockchain In other words, the cryptocurrency project allowed to create 90 thousand official jobs without any budgetary expenses. According to the superintendent of Venezuelan Cryptocurrency Carlos Vargas, the monthly amount of mining in the country is about $80 — 100 million. Thus, on average, about one thousand dollars of monthly income falls on one miner. For a Latin American country experiencing an acute crisis with inflation of more than 2,000% per year, the figure is quite considerable. In fact, mining is already becoming one of the most important means of survival and welfare in underdeveloped countries. The Bitcoin fever was most severe in African countries, such as Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, and Uganda. For residents of these countries, Bitcoin proved to be a much more profitable asset than local currencies subject to hyperinflation. Therefore, all willingly buy a cryptocurrency and are very reluctant to sell it, and as a result, the price of Bitcoin on the largest African exchange turns out to be one and a half times higher than the world average rate. When at Coinmarketcap Bitcoin stormed the mark of $20,000, rates on Golix reached $32,000. Today, when the Bitcoin rate on Japanese, Korean, and American exchanges is around $8,000, on the African market, it costs $13,000. Therefore, the Africans persistently mine Bitcoin, despite constant interruptions of electricity, including those for whom this occupation was the only source of income and professionals who want to improve their wellbeing. Golix.com It is already obvious today that Bitcoin is not the best cryptocurrency for miners in poor countries as the calculation of blockchains is too complex and energy-intensive, and the profitability of mining has fallen sharply due to the winter collapse of rates, which are not yet ready for new growth. In this regard, state cryptocurrencies are much more attractive. First, governments can themselves establish the complexity and energy intensity of computations. Secondly, they can provide cryptocurrency with liquidity by allowing people to pay for public services and taxes in crypto. Venezuela went even further as President Maduro decided to create four “exclusive economic zones” in the country, where El Petro can be used to buy and sell any goods and services. Another plus of state protection for cryptocurrencies is protection against monopolization of networks by large miners. How acute this problem becomes today is seen in the example of a growing conflict between cryptocurrency developers and manufacturers of mining equipment. The developers have made an unprecedented statement. Leading developer of one of the most popular cryptocurrencies, Monero, Riccardo Spagni last week said that the coin’s own protocol will change every six months to make the cryptocurrency less interesting for ASIC miners. The reason for the announcement was the development by Bitmain of a new super powerful (220 kH/s) Antminer X3 miner based on an ASIC chip designed specifically for calculations based on the CryptoNight algorithm. It is the high performance of the new device that caused the developers of Monero to take retaliatory measures. “Any newly developed ASIC will receive a significant portion of the network hash and make it centralized,” the team members behind the cryptocurrency explain. “Because they are created to perform certain tasks, they usually have a performance advantage over general purpose hardware, such as CPUs, GPUs, and even FPGAs.” Now Bitmain is preparing to enter the market with a super powerful ASIC for mining Ether, and it will be interesting to see how Vitalik Buterin’s team reacts to this. All these advantages of state cryptocurrency do not mean that the Venezuelan experiment with El Petro will certainly succeed. Rather, on the contrary like any new experience, it may well be unsuccessful. Later, based on the mistakes and successful finds of Venezuela, it will be possible to implement truly effective state-owned cryptocurrency projects. And, judging by everything, this experience will be in demand first of all in highly developed countries. Today, no one doubts that a new technological revolution, based on the use of modern robotics and artificial intelligence, will leave a huge number of people out of work. So far, the only solution to this problem is seen in the introduction of universal basic income (UBI) and guaranteed lifetime benefits, regardless of whether a person works or leads an idle lifestyle. Experiments with universal income are now conducted in several developed countries. In the United States, all Alaska residents receive payments each year from a special fund that invests funds derived from the production of oil and other raw materials in the state. In Dutch Utrecht from January 2016, several dozen people receive a universal basic income of 900 euros per person (1,300 euros for a married couple). In Finland, since early 2017, there is a pilot program for basic income payments, which involves 2,000 people aged 25 to 58 years, randomly selected from among the unemployed. As part of the experiment, participants receive from the state 560 euros per month. This amount is equal to the amount of the unemployment benefit, but the participants in the experiment are not required to look for work, and in the case of employment, they continue to receive UBI. The attitude toward universal income is still ambiguous. In Finland, the severe criticism of the experiment came from trade unions, which position themselves as the main defenders of workers, because with the introduction of UBI, they will simply become redundant. Employers do not like the experiment either because employees have more opportunities to bargain for the most favorable working conditions. The main reason for resisting the introduction of UBI, however, is that universal income is now paid at the expense of the budget, that is, from the taxpayers’ funds. For people who have jobs and want to work, this causes natural resistance as they begin to question why they should pay higher taxes so that some idler lives for their own pleasure. That is why at the referendum on the introduction of universal income held in Switzerland last year, the vast majority of citizens voted against it. Mining cryptocurrency is the ideal solution to this problem. If citizens do not just receive money from the budget (no matter whether this payment is called universal income or unemployment benefits), they can create money themselves in the form of cryptocurrency mining and solve a whole range of economic, social, and psychological issues related to unemployment. It seems that these prospects are realized most clearly in Japan, where Bitcoin is recognized as legal tender and is accepted in thousands of stores throughout the country. Who Is Satoshi? Possible economic and social transformations associated with the widespread use of cryptocurrency are not to everyone’s liking. Today, the rejection of change is expressed in talks about the possibility of use of “cryptos” by criminal circles for money laundering and by “wrong” political regimes to bypass international sanctions. The problem, however, is much broader than the creation of national cryptocurrencies and the decentralization of the issuance of money, as even digital ones destroy vertical monetary systems, at the top of which are central banks. Including the “world central bank,” the World Bank (WB) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Officially, the purpose of these organizations is financial assistance to developing countries, but this assistance is due to a number of points provided for by the so-called “Washington Consensus.” This is a list of ten requirements, including a minimum budget deficit, liberalization of financial markets, a free exchange rate of the national currency, no restrictions on foreign direct investment, protection of the rights of foreign investors, and the general deregulation of the economy. In short, national governments are required to transfer the management of the country’s economy to foreign investors. Since the distribution of cryptocurrency promises to leave the WB and the IMF out of work (why get into bondage with foreign investors if it is possible to solve economic problems by issuing a national digital coin), it is no wonder that liberal American economists are the main critics of digital money today. Among them are, for example, economics professor at Harvard University and former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff, who regularly promises that Bitcoin will cost a hundred dollars in ten years. In fact, Rogoff may well be right specifically about Bitcoin. But the first cryptocurrency will inevitably be replaced by new and more effective ones. Confidence in this development of events is caused not only by current technological trends in the financial and production sectors, but also the cyclical nature of the economy and, accordingly, economic doctrines. Keynesianism came in the thirties of the last century to replace the classical economic theory, based on the principle of non-interference of the state in the economy and relying on the “invisible hand” of the market. The author of this theory, John Maynard Keynes, proved that the market itself is not able to cope with crises and the state should intervene in the economy so that people have money to buy goods. Because the main thing is the availability of effective demand, without which the “economic bicycle” simply stops and falls. The “New Deal” of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt was founded on the ideas of Keynes, which helped pull the American economy out of the strongest in the history depression. Moreover, Keynesianism, having become the basis of the economic policy of all developed countries, ensured a thirty-year period of prosperity that entered economic history as a “new golden age,” and into political life as a “welfare state.” But in the seventies, the pendulum swung back, and the dominant position was occupied by the doctrine of monetarism — the liberal theory, again requiring non-interference of the state in the economy, ensuring the lack of deficit of the budget and subordination to the “invisible hand” of the market. We took this excursion into economic history in order to emphasize that the time is approaching when the pendulum must again swing in the direction of Keynesianism, with its emphasis on solvent demand and concern for the growth of incomes of ordinary citizens. Many economists, by the way, have been reiterating the inevitability of such a change of trend from the beginning of the crisis of 2007. So far, however, no one has been able to understand what will cause the revolutionary changes. Now the answer is clear — it’s the distribution of cryptocurrency. And now, to the most interesting. Each change of dominant economic theory is associated with a specific person. The classical theories are those of Adam Smith, Keynesianism is Keynes, monetarism by Milton Friedman. Apparently, the new economic cycle will be connected with the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. Note that Keynes did not live up to the Nobel prize, but two of his followers John Hicks (in 1972) and Paul Samuelson (1970) received this highest scientific award. Milton Friedman was awarded the Nobel prize in 1976. Will Satoshi Nakamoto receive the Nobel prize? There is no doubt that the inventor of blockchain and cryptocurrency is quite worthy of such a reward. The problem is that it is not known who is hiding under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto. Moreover, since 2012, he practically did not surface. With one exception. In 2015, a professor at the University of California, , nominated Satoshi Nakamoto for a Nobel prize in economics, noting that the invention of Bitcoin will change not only our perception of money but also the role of central banks in monetary policy. “Expensive money transfer services, such as, for example, Western Union, will disappear into oblivion, commissions from 2 to 4% for intermediaries in transactions such as Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal will be liquidated. Long and expensive notarial and escrow services will become the property of history, the whole landscape of legal contracts will completely change,” Chaudhry asserted. Bhagwan Chaudhry The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences then rejected this initiative, saying that it will not consider Nakamoto’s candidacy until he reveals his identity. But what is more interesting is that shortly afterward, the editors of Cointelegraph received an email, signed by Satoshi Nakamoto. The author stated that the receipt of the Nobel prize for inventing Bitcoin and blockchain is not his goal and among other things he mentioned that Ted Nelson had already offered to nominate Nakamoto for this award, but was refused. is a person well known in the computer world. It was he who came up with the basic principles of hypertext and even the term “hypertext” itself. Nelson for a long time was developing his own hypertext system Xanadu, which, however, could not compete with HTML. Most notably, he lived for many years in Japan, where he worked in a private research laboratory and taught at the Japanese University of Keio. Given that Satoshi Nakamoto, most likely, is Japanese, it is logical to assume that he was one of the students or colleagues of Ted Nelson. Moreover, they are very similar in character as Nelson is a typical “rebel from the seventies” and a fighter against the system, constantly criticizing large corporations, and Nakamoto is a fighter against the dominance of banks. Ted Nelson Nelson runs his channel on YouTube, and to test his guesses, we wrote to him in the comments and asked to talk about getting to know Satoshi Nakamoto. In response, we published in May 2013, long before the world Bitcoin boom began. received a video This video is perfect for two reasons. First of all, Ted Nelson himself is great, who, by the way, turned 80 last year. And secondly, in it, Nelson names the inventor of Bitcoin ( ). This is the Japanese mathematician . approximately at 8:10 Shinichi Mochizuki The name of Mochizuki had thundered all over the world when in August 2012, he published a series of four works in which he proved the famous “ABC hypothesis,” one of the most important statements in number theory. The total volume of those publications exceeded 500 pages, and for several years the mathematicians of the whole world have tried to understand the motivations of Mochizuki without much success. In the summer of 2016, four years after the announcement of his discovery, “the Japanese Perelman,” as Mochizuki is called, agreed to read a lecture to colleagues explaining their calculations. After that, they recognized that the Japanese works contain “revolutionary new ideas” and are an unprecedented breakthrough in the number theory. If Satoshi Nakamoto is really Mochizuki, then it is understandable why he stopped communicating with the crypto community in 2012 as he had more interesting problems to solve. It is also clear through his indifference to the Nobel prize, as he, like , who refused the European Mathematical Society Prize and the Fields Medal, is not worried about world fame and recognition. And the inventor of the cryptocurrency should not be experiencing any financial difficulties, as, according to the estimates of analysts, his wallet should contain more than a million Bitcoins. Grigori Perelman

Nobel Prize for “Satoshi”: Who Invented Bitcoin and Why He Is a Genius

Before delving into the intricate details of these two projects, it’s essential to briefly explore their histories. However, to save time, here’s a quick summaryu: Ethereum and Solana are the two largest decentralized application (DApp) ecosystems in the digital asset space. Ethereum maintains its leadership in the crypto ecosystem, but Solana is rapidly closing the gap with strong user growth, robust DeFi activities, and significant momentum in meme coin trading. Since this Bull Run began, SOL has outperformed ETH by a wide margin, delivering returns of over 450% in the past year compared to ETH’s modest 50%. Despite this, Solana still has a long way to go in terms of market capitalization, with ETH boasting a $404 billion market cap compared to SOL’s $63 billion. These projects have been engaged in a David vs Goliath battle for years. The Solana community insists that their network’s speed and scalability make it the obvious choice for developers and investors, while Ethereum backers argue that it is the original smart contract platform with the highest level of security and the most impressive track record. In this article, I won’t attempt to settle this long-standing debate over which project should be crowned the king of smart-contract cryptocurrencies. Instead, I aim to present the facts, diving deep into the key differences: network metrics, DeFi ecosystems, performance comparisons of these blockchain giants, and the reasons why I’ve shifted my focus to Solana in this cycle. Performance Comparisons Network Metrics For layer-1 blockchains, key metrics to monitor include market cap, protocol revenue, and user growth. Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, boasts a market cap of $404B, nearly 7x that of Solana. In terms of revenue, which is calculated as total fees generated minus supply-side fees (e.g., rewards paid to miners or validators), Ethereum surpasses Solana in both fees generated and protocol revenue. Conversely, Solana has significantly outperformed Ethereum and other layer-1 blockchains in transaction activities and user growth. While the majority of Ethereum’s users are recurring, with growth remaining flat over the past 3 months, new users made up half of Solana’s user base in the last quarter. This surge is primarily driven by DeFi activities on Solana, such as trading meme coins on decentralized exchanges and participating in token launchpads. DeFi Ecosystem Ethereum remains the dominant player in the DeFi ecosystem, holding a 62% market share in total value locked (TVL). Although Solana accounts for only 7% of Ethereum’s TVL, it boasts 7x more daily active users per protocol, indicating a more engaged and organic user base. Additionally, Solana’s decentralized exchange (DEX) daily trading volume has surpassed Ethereum’s several times this year, driven by meme coin trading. High Gas Fees and Scalability Challenges Ethereum, a well-known blockchain platform, encounters scalability issues during high network congestion, resulting in high gas fees for transactions. This limitation has led to delays and increased costs for users executing transactions on the Ethereum network. On the other hand, Solana addresses this challenge differently. Solana’s unique Proof of History (PoH) consensus mechanism allows it to achieve remarkable scalability by processing thousands of transactions per second efficiently. This feature sets Solana apart from Ethereum in terms of handling large volumes of transactions swiftly without experiencing significant delays or inflated transaction costs. Transaction Speed and Throughput Comparison When comparing Solana and Ethereum in terms of transaction speed and throughput, Solana emerges as the frontrunner due to its ability to process a significantly higher number of transactions per second than Ethereum. For instance, while Ethereum can handle around 30 transactions per second at peak times, Solana’s architecture enables it to process thousands more within the same timeframe. This difference is crucial for users who require fast transaction speeds without exorbitant fees. By leveraging its innovative technology stack that includes features like Tower BFT consensus algorithm and Gulf Stream pipeline optimization, Solana maintains rapid transaction speeds even under heavy loads compared to Ethereum. Gas Fees and Ecosystem Variance Ethereum is known for its fluctuating gas fees that can significantly impact the user experience. These fees are required to process transactions and smart contracts on the network. Due to the high demand for processing power, especially during times of network congestion, gas fees on Ethereum can skyrocket, making it costly for users to interact with dApps or execute transactions. This unpredictability in gas fees has been a point of concern for many users and developers operating within the Ethereum ecosystem. On the other hand, Solana offers a more cost-effective environment for developers due to its high throughput capabilities and low transaction costs. The network’s design allows it to handle thousands of transactions per second at a fraction of the cost compared to Ethereum. Developers building on Solana benefit from faster confirmation times and lower fees, creating a more efficient experience overall. This cost-effectiveness has attracted many projects looking to avoid the issues associated with high gas fees seen on other blockchain networks like Ethereum. Final Analysis In the landscape of blockchain technologies, the contrast between Solana and Ethereum is stark. The crypto community loves the ‘Ethereum Killer’ narrative, with Solana frequently cast in this role. However, moving beyond this narrative and making more rational comparisons reveals that both networks are successful in their own right. They each boast billions of dollars in TVL and their dApps are used by millions. Each blockchain showcases distinct paradigms in design, utility, and community engagement, catering to different use cases. Solana’s architecture, optimized for efficiency and throughput, attracts developers focused on performance metrics and those seeking fixed, lower transaction costs. This blockchain thrives in environments where transaction speed and cost are critical for success. On the other hand, Ethereum, as a decentralized app development platform, appeals to a broad developer audience due to its robust smart contract capabilities and extensive network effects. Its transition to Ethereum 2.0, aimed at enhancing scalability and sustainability, may address some of the current disparities with Solana. Together, these two blockchains represent complementary pillars of the wider ecosystem. Ethereum remains an established force fostering innovation, while Solana emerges as a compelling challenger, pushing the boundaries of transactional performance. Investing in either of these blockchain platforms offers unique opportunities for different types of projects. Pragmatic developers will weigh each platform’s nuances to determine the optimal foundation for their application’s requirements. Closing Thoughts Friends who know me personally, or my clients and partners who know me as the CEO of Chiheisen Tech, are aware that I am bullish on Solana this cycle. Due to the performance requirements of our system and business model, I’ve decided to migrate some of our microsystems from Ethereum to Solana, and the performance of Solana has helped us save a significant amount of money. As you weigh the differences between these two blockchain giants, remember that each has its strengths and weaknesses. The choice between Solana and Ethereum hinges on your specific needs: those prioritizing speed might favor Solana, while smart contract enthusiasts could lean towards Ethereum. In this ever-changing crypto universe, staying informed is key. Dive deeper into Solana and Ethereum updates, join community discussions, and test out functionalities firsthand to grasp their full potential. If your journey into the world of blockchain is at the beginning, please embrace the adventure and let your curiosity guide you toward new horizons. Before delving into the intricate details of these two projects, it’s essential to briefly explore their histories. However, to save time, here’s a quick summaryu: Ethereum and Solana are the two largest decentralized application (DApp) ecosystems in the digital asset space. Ethereum and Solana are the two largest decentralized application (DApp) ecosystems in the digital asset space. Ethereum maintains its leadership in the crypto ecosystem, but Solana is rapidly closing the gap with strong user growth, robust DeFi activities, and significant momentum in meme coin trading. Since this Bull Run began, SOL has outperformed ETH by a wide margin, delivering returns of over 450% in the past year compared to ETH’s modest 50%. Despite this, Solana still has a long way to go in terms of market capitalization, with ETH boasting a $404 billion market cap compared to SOL’s $63 billion. Ethereum maintains its leadership in the crypto ecosystem, but Solana is rapidly closing the gap with strong user growth, robust DeFi activities, and significant momentum in meme coin trading. Since this Bull Run began, SOL has outperformed ETH by a wide margin, delivering returns of over 450% in the past year compared to ETH’s modest 50%. Despite this, Solana still has a long way to go in terms of market capitalization, with ETH boasting a $404 billion market cap compared to SOL’s $63 billion. These projects have been engaged in a David vs Goliath battle for years. The Solana community insists that their network’s speed and scalability make it the obvious choice for developers and investors, while Ethereum backers argue that it is the original smart contract platform with the highest level of security and the most impressive track record. In this article, I won’t attempt to settle this long-standing debate over which project should be crowned the king of smart-contract cryptocurrencies. Instead, I aim to present the facts, diving deep into the key differences: network metrics, DeFi ecosystems, performance comparisons of these blockchain giants, and the reasons why I’ve shifted my focus to Solana in this cycle. Performance Comparisons Performance Comparisons Network Metrics Network Metrics For layer-1 blockchains, key metrics to monitor include market cap, protocol revenue, and user growth. Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, boasts a market cap of $404B, nearly 7x that of Solana. In terms of revenue, which is calculated as total fees generated minus supply-side fees (e.g., rewards paid to miners or validators), Ethereum surpasses Solana in both fees generated and protocol revenue. Conversely, Solana has significantly outperformed Ethereum and other layer-1 blockchains in transaction activities and user growth. While the majority of Ethereum’s users are recurring, with growth remaining flat over the past 3 months, new users made up half of Solana’s user base in the last quarter. This surge is primarily driven by DeFi activities on Solana, such as trading meme coins on decentralized exchanges and participating in token launchpads. DeFi Ecosystem DeFi Ecosystem Ethereum remains the dominant player in the DeFi ecosystem, holding a 62% market share in total value locked (TVL). Although Solana accounts for only 7% of Ethereum’s TVL, it boasts 7x more daily active users per protocol, indicating a more engaged and organic user base. Additionally, Solana’s decentralized exchange (DEX) daily trading volume has surpassed Ethereum’s several times this year, driven by meme coin trading. High Gas Fees and Scalability Challenges High Gas Fees and Scalability Challenges Ethereum, a well-known blockchain platform, encounters scalability issues during high network congestion, resulting in high gas fees for transactions. This limitation has led to delays and increased costs for users executing transactions on the Ethereum network. On the other hand, Solana addresses this challenge differently. Solana’s unique Proof of History (PoH) consensus mechanism allows it to achieve remarkable scalability by processing thousands of transactions per second efficiently. This feature sets Solana apart from Ethereum in terms of handling large volumes of transactions swiftly without experiencing significant delays or inflated transaction costs. Transaction Speed and Throughput Comparison Transaction Speed and Throughput Comparison When comparing Solana and Ethereum in terms of transaction speed and throughput, Solana emerges as the frontrunner due to its ability to process a significantly higher number of transactions per second than Ethereum. For instance, while Ethereum can handle around 30 transactions per second at peak times, Solana’s architecture enables it to process thousands more within the same timeframe. This difference is crucial for users who require fast transaction speeds without exorbitant fees. By leveraging its innovative technology stack that includes features like Tower BFT consensus algorithm and Gulf Stream pipeline optimization, Solana maintains rapid transaction speeds even under heavy loads compared to Ethereum. Gas Fees and Ecosystem Variance Gas Fees and Ecosystem Variance Ethereum is known for its fluctuating gas fees that can significantly impact the user experience. These fees are required to process transactions and smart contracts on the network. Due to the high demand for processing power, especially during times of network congestion, gas fees on Ethereum can skyrocket, making it costly for users to interact with dApps or execute transactions. This unpredictability in gas fees has been a point of concern for many users and developers operating within the Ethereum ecosystem. On the other hand, Solana offers a more cost-effective environment for developers due to its high throughput capabilities and low transaction costs. The network’s design allows it to handle thousands of transactions per second at a fraction of the cost compared to Ethereum. Developers building on Solana benefit from faster confirmation times and lower fees, creating a more efficient experience overall. This cost-effectiveness has attracted many projects looking to avoid the issues associated with high gas fees seen on other blockchain networks like Ethereum. Final Analysis Final Analysis In the landscape of blockchain technologies, the contrast between Solana and Ethereum is stark. The crypto community loves the ‘Ethereum Killer’ narrative, with Solana frequently cast in this role. However, moving beyond this narrative and making more rational comparisons reveals that both networks are successful in their own right. They each boast billions of dollars in TVL and their dApps are used by millions. Each blockchain showcases distinct paradigms in design, utility, and community engagement, catering to different use cases. Solana’s architecture, optimized for efficiency and throughput, attracts developers focused on performance metrics and those seeking fixed, lower transaction costs. This blockchain thrives in environments where transaction speed and cost are critical for success. On the other hand, Ethereum, as a decentralized app development platform, appeals to a broad developer audience due to its robust smart contract capabilities and extensive network effects. Its transition to Ethereum 2.0, aimed at enhancing scalability and sustainability, may address some of the current disparities with Solana. Together, these two blockchains represent complementary pillars of the wider ecosystem. Ethereum remains an established force fostering innovation, while Solana emerges as a compelling challenger, pushing the boundaries of transactional performance. Investing in either of these blockchain platforms offers unique opportunities for different types of projects. Pragmatic developers will weigh each platform’s nuances to determine the optimal foundation for their application’s requirements. Closing Thoughts Closing Thoughts Friends who know me personally, or my clients and partners who know me as the CEO of Chiheisen Tech, are aware that I am bullish on Solana this cycle. Due to the performance requirements of our system and business model, I’ve decided to migrate some of our microsystems from Ethereum to Solana, and the performance of Solana has helped us save a significant amount of money. As you weigh the differences between these two blockchain giants, remember that each has its strengths and weaknesses. The choice between Solana and Ethereum hinges on your specific needs: those prioritizing speed might favor Solana, while smart contract enthusiasts could lean towards Ethereum. In this ever-changing crypto universe, staying informed is key. Dive deeper into Solana and Ethereum updates, join community discussions, and test out functionalities firsthand to grasp their full potential. If your journey into the world of blockchain is at the beginning, please embrace the adventure and let your curiosity guide you toward new horizons.

Solana vs Ethereum: The David vs Goliath Battle for Smart-Contract Supremacy

A Science Fiction Bible Story Comic as Illustrated by a Generative AI Preface In the far distant future, humankind has been contacted by aliens, and we have sent multiple hollowed-out asteroid spacecraft with proselyte cyborg passengers into interstellar space to look for the aliens. The cyborg passengers spend much of the time in stasis, a sort of hibernating state, but periodically their Teacher, the “Sensei”, is awakened to tell the Acolyte cyborgs a Bible story. On this occasion, the Acolytes have asked to hear the popular “ ” story. This comic was generated by my Storybook Comic Book Builder. The cyborg image panels that “frame” the Bible story are my artwork, but all of the story artwork itself except the panel of stream stones was actually generated by an AI, the “ ”. Please note that you must subscribe (paid subscriptions) to the site to use the AI art for any commercial purpose. David and Goliath Deep Dream Generator One of the Far Flung Project's hollowed-out asteroid spacecraft had been traversing light years through deep interstellar space over the fortnight or so since Sensei had last been aroused. Angelica, one of the Acolyte cyborgs, was giving Sensei his wakeup call. Analytica admonishes the other Acolyte to "Be Gentle Angelica." Analytica requests Sensei to tell the story for them. This story is one of their favorites. Sensei agrees the tale to tell. Sensei asks the Acolytes about which format they would like used to tell the story. Analytica was enthusiastic about hearing the story and loudly admonished the Sensei to "Preach It!" The Sensei took on the appearance of a Teacher as he began the story. His first comment revealed the Biblical source of the story to be and he tells them that he will use the NIV text for its revelation of the story. 1 Samuel 17 1 Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Sokoh in Judah. They pitched camp at Ephes Dammim, between Sokoh and Azekah. 2 Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines. 3 The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with the valley between them. 4 A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span.
5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels ;
6 on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back.
7 His spear shaft was like a weavers rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of him. 8 Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me.
9 If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us.
10 Then the Philistine said, This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other. 11 On hearing the Philistines words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified. 12 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Sauls time he was very old. 13 Jesses three oldest sons had followed Saul to the war: The firstborn was Eliab; the second, Abinadab; and the third, Shammah.
14 David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul,
15 but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his fathers sheep at Bethlehem. 16 For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand. 17 Now Jesse said to his son David, Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
18 Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance from them.
19 They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines. 20 Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. 21 Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other.
22 David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. 23 As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it.
24 Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear. 25 Now the Israelites had been saying, Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel. 26 David asked the men standing near him, What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?
27 They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, This is what will be done for the man who kills him. 28 When Eliab, Davids oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.
29 Now what have I done? said David. Cant I even speak?
30 He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before. 31 What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
32 David said to Saul, Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.
33 Saul replied, You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth. 34 But David said to Saul, Your servant has been keeping his fathers sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,
35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.
36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.
37 The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine. Saul said to David, Go, and the LORD be with you. 38 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head.
39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. I cannot go in these, he said to Saul, because I am not used to them. So he took them off. 40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherds bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. 41 Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David.
42 He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. 43 He said to David, Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 Come here, he said, and Ill give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals! 45 David said to the Philistine, You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and Ill strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORDs, and he will give all of you into our hands. 48 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him. 51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. 52 Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron. Their dead were strewn along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron. 53 When the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines, they plundered their camp. 54 David took the Philistines head and brought it to Jerusalem; he put the Philistines weapons in his own tent. 55 As Saul watched David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, commander of the army, Abner, whose son is that young man? Abner replied, As surely as you live, Your Majesty, I dont know.
56 The king said, Find out whose son this young man is. 57 As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with David still holding the Philistines head.
58 Whose son are you, young man? Saul asked him. David said, I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem. At the first instant after Sensei finished relating the story Angelica interjected her question. At first the Sensei was taken aback by the abrupt question. He questioned Angelica about her motivation, and she assured him that there was nothing confrontational in her intent. Analytica watched the exchange with quiet interest. Sensei told Angelica that it is a lesson of courage, faith, and overcoming what seems impossible. He said that familiar Bible story reminds us of the courage in men's hearts when their faith is placed entirely in God. Goliath taunts David, but David's faith becomes evident when he does not cower under the threats but instead warns Goliath with the hand of God. The armor he rejected represents the strength of man, while David chose the armor of God. That seemed to placate Angelica's curiosity, and Analytica extolled the Sensei, who soon fell back into somnolent stasis. This story was generated as a that may be seen on my Comics page. As always Comments, Criticisms and Suggestions are welcome. webcomic

The David and Goliath Story

Hey Hackers! I’m Sergei Golitsyn and I’m the Senior Software Engineer @ ZillionWhales. First of all, a huge thank you to the HackerNoon community and staff for nominating me for a 2021 Noonies award! I’ve been nominated in the following categories please do check out these award pages and vote: rick-sanchez-of-the-year: link hackernoon-contributor-of-the-year-fintech : link hackernoon-contributor-of-the-year-computer-science : link As a someone in the Software Engineering industry, I believe that the most exciting technology of the present is AR/VR because they help you move to the world of your dreams. Also, I believe that everybody should share knowledge. Learn more about my thoughts and opinions on Software Engineering and my journey in the tech industry via the interview below. 1. What do you do and why do you do it? (tell us your story) Recently I have been developing computer games. I am designing the architecture for servers and databases. I design how the server will communicate with the client. I try to make the user experience as pleasant as possible, without lags and other server problems. I also actively share my knowledge in articles and interviews. I also actively share my knowledge in articles, interviews, teach Java courses on Udemy and other platforms. 2. Tell us more about the things you create / write / manage / build! I have developed several server modules and approaches for unlocking and creating in-game rewards. You can see this in Mushroom Wars 2 and Wild RTS Wars games. I also write actively about patterns and how they can be used in-game servers. You can find all the relevant information on my Twitter- https://twitter.com/GolitsynSergei I have desygned a module for generating reports of varying complexity. I also created from scratch a module for data synchronization between mobile devices and the backend and data synchronization between NoSQL and SQL databases. This module was later used in other applications of the company. And it is still used today. 3. How did you end up on your current career path? Do you like it? . I believe that games are changing our world for the better. They allow you to relax and immerse yourself in another world. Let you be who you really want to be. Allows you to find friends with the same interests. Therefore, I am thrilled about doing games. I found myself in game development by accident, although I had dreamed about it all my life I like making games because I can see how people enjoy my game while playing it. 4. What tech are you most excited or passionate about right now and why? Hmm, I genuinely believe in AR and VR. I like that these technologies are trying to completely change your consciousness, transfer your consciousness to another world, or make the world you see a little better. I would really like to work in a company that develops AR. 5. What tech are you most worried about right now and why? A difficult question for me. Probably the most frightening is the uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence, which, as a result, can exterminate us. But I am sure we are still very far from this moment. 6. If we gave you 10 million dollars to invest in something today, what would you invest in and why? Of course, these are computer games and my own studio. I also believe in Elon and would probably invest some of the money in his projects. 7. What are you currently learning? Now I am developing my skills for building highly loaded systems and bringing them to production. I am also actively studying Unity in parallel to write my own game. I grow expert knowledge in backend and system design, help young guys build a career path correctly, and trying to improve my  soft skills. Teaching Java courses and spend a lot of free time on different hackathons and IT events. 8. What’s the best advice you’ve ever given someone? I think it's best to find someone I've given advice to. Perhaps those sympathetic to my phrase "look for a job for the soul, and not for money" can now thank me. I sincerely believe that financial motivation is the weakest motivation, and doing something for money is a road to nowhere. I always try to work and do what I like. 9. What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? Probably any advice I got was helpful. I can’t say exactly one thing. I always try to listen and think if this will help me. Perhaps the one who gives me advice has more knowledge than me or simply sees the world from the other side. Another piece of advice that I received from the book The Alchemist is that you should always follow your dream, and I always keep this dream in my head. 10. Please give us the links to all your relevant social media profiles so we can use them to promote this interview! (Twitter and LinkedIn would be a huge plus) LinkedIn Twitter Hackernoon Github About HackerNoon’s 2021 Noonie Awards The annual Noonie Awards celebrate the best and brightest of the tech industry, bringing together all who are making the Internet and the world of tech what it is today. Please be sure to , nominate, and vote for the people and companies who you think are making the biggest impact on the tech industry today. check out our award categories The 2021 Noonies are sponsored by: , , and . Thank you so much to these sponsors who are helping us celebrate the accomplishments of all our nominees. bybit Dottech Domains Avast

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Ex-Google TechLead explains differences between working at a tech startup and a large company, and their pros & cons. 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Video Transcript: Note: This transcript is auto-generated by YouTube and may not be entirely accurate. 00:00 hey tech leech here and welcome back to 00:01 another episode of the tech lead today 00:04 we're going to talk about a very 00:05 fascinating interesting topic startups 00:07 versus big tech companies it is coffee 00:10 time with the tech lead I am the tech 00:12 lead at Google tech lead by the way 00:14 let's have a sip here not bad not bad at 00:20 all now sunny cooler let me just clarify 00:24 something for you if you are working in 00:27 tech adult and I think that you're gonna 00:29 be doing great you're gonna be doing 00:30 good and no choice is really going to be 00:32 a bad choice and startup or big tech 00:34 company it's all good really now I have 00:36 worked in a combination of startups as 00:38 well as at Google as an X Google tech 00:41 lead and they're very different in some 00:44 ways but they're also very similar the 00:45 quality of life that you get your 00:47 overall standard of living it's about 00:49 the same really now we have a new 00:51 sponsor today and I would actually 00:52 highly recommend that you guys check 00:54 them out 00:54 ting mobile if you live in the US and 00:56 you're using cell phone service and 00:58 you're paying like 50 60 bucks a month 01:00 for this service it's a contract you're 01:02 locked into one or two year contracts 01:04 you know that's just really not the way 01:06 to go there are far better options ting 01:08 Mobile offers you paper use cell phone 01:10 service and the cost is very cheap you 01:12 can figure out how much it might cost 01:14 you I would say for an average person 01:15 it's probably gonna be 15 to 25 bucks or 01:18 something like that and one of the best 01:19 parts is that there's no contract you're 01:21 not locked into anything you know I 01:23 remember when I was trying to become a 01:24 world citizen travel all over the place 01:26 and embrace that mobile lifestyle one of 01:29 the 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code spend some time 02:10 surfing the net surfing reddit play some 02:12 ping pong you may 02:13 have to pay for your online tour you may 02:14 get some lunch catered and by the way 02:16 the food that these large tech companies 02:18 are not necessarily better there may 02:20 simply just be more variety but it's all 02:22 going to be buffet style food and often 02:24 is quite easy to beat any of the sweet 02:26 just go to any restaurant and the food 02:28 quality is already going to be beaten 02:29 supposedly they like to advertise that 02:31 they've got all-star chefs but in order 02:33 to feed thousands of people it's just 02:36 going to cost way too much they're gonna 02:38 end up using more basic ingredients trip 02:40 ingredients and then do it buffet style 02:42 and you're not going to want to eat too 02:43 much food anyway it's not gonna be 02:45 healthy for you just gonna get 02:46 overweight essentially most of the time 02:48 no matter where you are you're going to 02:49 be working at the computer doing some 02:51 code across startups and big tech 02:53 companies is going to be similar now 02:55 let's talk about the main differences 02:56 here one is going to be compensation 02:58 compensation at a tech company a public 03:01 tech company is going to be well-known 03:02 it's going to be fixed 03:03 you're gonna know exactly what you're 03:05 getting is a public company and when you 03:07 get stuck you're gonna know for sure 03:09 that that's going to be worth something 03:10 when you go into a start-up you don't 03:13 really know what the value of that stock 03:15 is going to be and oftentimes it's going 03:17 to be a complete mystery it's going to 03:18 be completely obfuscated for you and 03:20 startups have a bunch of different ways 03:22 to screw you over they can dilute the 03:24 stock they can kick you out fire you 03:25 before they IPO they can delay their IPO 03:28 intentionally and force you to stick 03:29 around and stay at the company and work 03:31 longer they can tell you that you have a 03:32 million shares but it really there could 03:34 be a hundred trillion shares outstanding 03:36 and many companies simply aren't going 03:38 to tell you what percentage of the 03:40 company you truly own and even if you 03:42 were to somehow find that out which you 03:44 probably won't be able to find out most 03:46 companies I've seen they never quite 03:47 tell you exactly what percentage you own 03:49 even if you do find out they're just 03:51 going to devalue that when you finally 03:53 leave the company when you quit 03:54 oftentimes they'll say that you have to 03:56 exercise these stock options within a 03:58 certain amount of time like saying you 04:00 got three months to use that up and when 04:02 you do exercise those options you're 04:04 going to have to pay tons of taxes on 04:05 this stuff if the company never IPOs and 04:08 it could take ten years before the 04:10 company actually IPOs you've just paid a 04:12 bunch of money on stock and you've taken 04:14 a big risk you don't really know what 04:16 you're getting sometimes this stuff all 04:18 pans out maybe you'll get some money but 04:20 oftentimes it's not necessarily going to 04:22 be life-changing money I'm known 04:24 scenarios where I've joined companies 04:26 actually in other 04:26 people join companies and then the 04:28 startup eventually gets acquired right 04:30 acquisition happens more commonly than 04:33 IPOs and in an acquisition everybody 04:35 gets some payment for their stock it's 04:37 not all that much it's not really 04:39 life-changing money you might be like 50 04:41 K right 60 K something like that 04:43 if you're lucky it could be more if 04:45 you're not lucky it could be less one 04:47 thing that a lot of engineers don't know 04:49 is that even if your engineer number one 04:51 at the company you could already be 04:53 getting less than say 1% of the company 04:55 you would be putting in as much work if 04:57 not more work than the founders and 04:59 still the founders would have like 99% 05:01 of the company you would have one 05:02 percent or even 0.1% by the time your 05:06 employee numbers say ten or twenty your 05:08 ownership would already be point zero 05:10 zero zero one percent or something like 05:11 that 05:12 it would be a minuscule amount and 05:13 that's just a culture of startups 05:15 personally I got so disgusted by all of 05:17 this one time I remember I had the 05:19 business partner a friend and we were 05:21 going to start a company together and 05:23 then he said that yeah we would be 50/50 05:26 partners except he wanted 50.1% and I 05:29 would get 49.9% I just thought why why 05:32 not just 5050 and he was so insistent on 05:35 this point that it smelled fishy to me 05:37 and I backed out of the whole deal and I 05:39 didn't start the business because I 05:41 figured that he could just say well 05:43 let's take a vote should I get kicked 05:44 out of the company after I feel 05:46 everything yeah let's take a vote he's 05:48 got 51% ownership oh yeah he wins I mean 05:50 he could just kick me out he can do 05:52 whatever he wants now it's just our 05:53 pretty tricky and I remember there were 05:55 even times in my life when I just sort 05:57 of said to myself I don't like startups 05:59 I don't want to work at them and if I 06:01 were gonna work I would rather work 06:03 either for a large tech company or I 06:05 would found the company on my own and 06:07 those would be the options I would be 06:08 going for now having said that let's 06:11 talk about some of the good things about 06:13 startups because I've worked out a few 06:15 of them and there's some good things 06:16 about them one is the challenges are 06:18 going to be very different between 06:20 start-up and large tech company large 06:22 tech company you often work in a large 06:24 code base a lot of the challenges are 06:25 going to be organizational you're going 06:27 to have to deal with a lot of people 06:28 cross-functional teams and there's going 06:31 to be a ton of code and people blocking 06:32 everything that you're trying to do and 06:34 in a small tech company in a start-up 06:36 you're going to have a lot more freedom 06:38 and anything you want to do 06:39 anything you want to try just not going 06:42 to be a lot of people standing away you 06:43 want to try something you have the 06:45 flexibility to try that and that goes 06:47 for rolls as well so if you don't really 06:49 want to be an engineer let's say you 06:51 want to be more of a product manager or 06:53 designer or prototype or in a large tech 06:56 company it would be an entire shift in 06:58 careers you would have to get the proper 07:00 approvals maybe even do an interview 07:02 just so that you could do some p.m. work 07:03 however in its small startup you're 07:06 gonna have a lot more freedoms to take 07:08 on any role that you want and in this 07:10 sense I would say that there may even be 07:12 better career mobility for example if 07:14 you wanted to get into management it may 07:16 take a lot of effort to get into say 07:18 senior management at Google right that 07:21 would require you proving yourself and 07:22 everything but if you were to go to a 07:24 start-up you could probably get a 07:26 management role quite easily because the 07:28 requirements just aren't as strict you 07:29 can start building up your experience 07:31 and over a number of years you would 07:33 have that experience and then you can 07:34 transfer into large tech company like 07:36 Google and do management there and you 07:38 would already have built up a lot of 07:39 that experience if that were your 07:41 interest and so if there were areas in 07:43 your career that you want to do develop 07:45 more into a startup may be a good path 07:47 for that and that's really what a 07:48 startup is good for I would say it's 07:50 learning so I would recommend this if 07:54 you are a junior engineer or even if 07:56 you're not and you want to get some more 07:58 experience and learn and build your 08:00 skills in a certain technology there may 08:02 be a field that you're interested in 08:03 getting more until you think it's cool 08:05 and you want to do that then the startup 08:07 is a great way to do that the worst 08:09 reason to join the startup is because 08:11 you think as a library ticket and it's 08:13 going to make you rich and you hate the 08:14 work and you're not trying to learn 08:15 anything but you're just doing that 08:17 currently for the money because in that 08:18 scenario I would say I startup there's a 08:21 little chance it's going to work out for 08:22 you if I you curveballs money the other 08:24 thing I might mention here is that I 08:25 don't think money is the proper 08:27 motivation number one if you're a junior 08:29 engineer say either way your pace look I 08:32 know it sounds like a lot for you now 08:34 but it's not going to make a difference 08:35 for you in a few years when you look 08:37 back on that salary range that you're at 08:39 just spend your time trying to learn and 08:41 guide your career in the direction that 08:43 you want it to go to but trying to argue 08:45 and optimize for a few thousand bucks 08:47 here and there it's just not really the 08:49 right time to be doing that because 08:50 you're really splitting pennies at 08:52 point the other great thing about 08:53 startups is they can be a little bit 08:55 more closed now I remember I worked in a 08:57 start-up with one of my professors and 08:59 during the company holiday party it was 09:02 just us with our spouses or girlfriends 09:04 or boyfriends or whatever and there just 09:06 felt more like a family the office was 09:08 like the professor's living room you 09:10 don't really get this sort of dynamic 09:11 when you're in a larger company in which 09:13 it's an open door right people are 09:15 coming and going all the time and 09:17 there's tons of people that you may be 09:18 interacting with you don't really get to 09:20 know anybody really that well sometimes 09:22 people just get fired to just disappear 09:25 randomly and that just seems to happen 09:27 sometimes 09:28 so overall let me put it this way I 09:30 think that if you can get into a large 09:31 tech company then you might as well try 09:33 and it's good to explore your options 09:35 and see what you can get 09:36 but startups are great too you can learn 09:39 a lot there develop your skills and 09:40 experience there are some good 09:42 connections get to know some people 09:43 there and overall it's probably going to 09:45 be a pretty good time working there 09:46 because it's not like going to a large 09:49 tech company like Google you're gonna 09:50 have a 10 times better experience there 09:53 it's not quite like that it's more like 09:54 it's just bigger it's not like the food 09:56 is 10 times better it's not like the 09:58 computers are 10 times more powerful 10:00 it's still essentially the same stuff 10:02 the same environment that you're working 10:03 in maybe for lunch instead of having a 10:06 single item on the menu you may have 10 10:08 different items on the menu but you 10:09 still just pick one thing to eat when 10:11 you interact with people and self 10:12 interacting with five people you may 10:14 have to interact with 50 people when you 10:17 work on a codebase it would just be a 10:18 larger codebase and the office overall 10:20 may be larger instead of having a single 10:22 building there may be 10 different 10:24 buildings that are interconnected but 10:26 you still end up going to a single 10:27 building your small little desk whenever 10:29 you're going to work in that sense the 10:31 work environment is similar and often in 10:33 many scenarios a startups work 10:35 environment the facilities the bathrooms 10:38 the kitchens that stuff can actually be 10:39 better and higher quality than what you 10:41 may find that large tech companies I 10:43 will say that for a lot of people it 10:44 might make sense at some point once 10:46 you've learned enough once you've 10:47 developed enough experience that you may 10:50 want to prioritize compensation maybe 10:52 make sure that you've got some real 10:53 money on the table that you can lock in 10:55 there maybe tackle some different types 10:57 of technical problems and challenges 10:59 those that have to do with larger code 11:01 bases dealing with many different types 11:03 of people you know that 11:04 interesting challenge in itself and also 11:06 just add some more options to your lunch 11:08 menu those are all things that larger 11:10 tech companies will be able to offer you 11:11 so it may not be a bad idea to consider 11:13 those two at some point I mean the way 11:15 you think about startups versus large 11:17 companies in the comments below if you 11:19 liked the video give a like and 11:20 subscribe and see you next time right

David Vs. Goliath: Startups and Big Tech, Which Trumps Which?

Cryptocurrency derivatives space has been abuzz with activity in 2019. In traditional financial markets, the size of derivatives trading is ~4-5x of the size of spot trading. The success of BitMex has made it evident to everyone that the same phenomenon is likely to play out in crypto derivatives. This realization has led several leading spot exchanges e.g. and to launch their own derivatives trading platforms. At the same time, several new projects have joined the fray. A noteworthy new entrant in the space is , which has carved a niche for itself by pioneering altcoin derivatives. Binance Huobi Delta Exchange In this article, we do a comparative analysis of BitMex and Delta Exchange across several parameters to evaluate whether the underdog (Delta Exchange) can level up to the giant (BitMex). Product Innovation BitMex has several innovations to its name, with the most notable among them perpetual swap. However, for the last 2-3 years, we haven’t seen any significant innovation coming out of BitMex. They continued to remain focused on the top handful of coins. In addition to Bitcoin, BitMex has futures on 7 coins. The latest addition to this list was EOS futures which were listed in June 2018, more than a year ago. In contrast, Delta Exchange has made product innovation its USP. Key among them are: Delta Exchange currently list futures and perpetual contracts on . Several of these altcoins, e.g. Tezos, ATOM, Chainlink and RVN are exclusive to Delta. This means that Delta is the only exchange where you could long/ short these altcoins with leverage. Delta has been quite responsive to traders’ demand for perpetuals on particular altcoins. The timely launch of BNB and LEO perpetual contracts helped the exchange win a strong following among altcoin traders. Exclusive altcoin perpetual swaps: bitcoin and 13 leading altcoins All contracts on BitMex are settled in Bitcoin. Single currency settlement enables traders to speculate on multiple coins with only bitcoin. However, this approach also has a significant downside: traders are forced to keep balances in BTC, i.e. stay long BTC, even when they are bearish on it. The USDC settled contracts of Delta Exchange are an elegant solution to this problem. By keeping their balances in USDC and trading USDC margined and settled contracts, traders are protected against BTC price volatility. Stablecoin settled derivatives: Delta Exchange is in the process of launching new types of derivatives contracts. These include: (a) The exchange plans to simplify the trading options through an innovative UI/ UX that enables a trader to articulate her market view and get suggested options trades to express that view. A preview of this novel way of trading options is already available on Delta Exchange’s Testnet, and (b) These derivative contracts enable people to speculate on and hedge interest rate risks. Crypto lending, both centralised and decentralised, will benefit from  access to interest rate swaps. Options and interest rate derivatives: Options: Interest rate swaps: Liquidity BitMex launched in late 2014 and as a leading incumbent enjoys a significant edge over Delta Exchange when it comes to daily traded volume. However, it is the quality of order book, viz. bid-offer spreads and impact cost that matter more to traders. In this aspect, Delta Exchange scores quite well. Let’s use the bitcoin perpetual contract that’s listed on both the exchange for our comparison. On both the exchanges, bid-offer spread is $0.5 and a position of notional value $100K can be acquired with minimal slippages. This indicates that for most traders, the quality of fills on Delta Exchange will be comparable to those on BitMex. cture Matching Engine & Trading Infrastru BitMex’s Achilles’ heel has been its trading engine not being able to handle order traffic during volatile market conditions. A quick Google search is all that’s need to gauge the severity of BitMex’s system overload problem. Despite having significant resources at its disposal, the company has not been able to resolve this issue. The matching engine of Delta Exchange has been written entirely in-house. The exchange clean track record in 1+ years of existence vouches for the robustness of the trading engine. Moreover, the Delta team has focused heavily on building strong risk management systems, which are critical for supporting leveraged trading of highly volatile alts. Another area where the exchange shines is advanced orders. In addition to supporting all the standard order types (market, limit and stop orders), Delta Exchange offers bracket orders. These let a trader better manage risk by enabling her to place an OCO (one-cancels-the-other) TP/SL at the time of placing an order. Security A major risk vector for all centralized crypto exchange is losing crypto under custody in a hacking attack. Both BitMex and Delta Exchange have good track record in this area. Neither of the two exchanges have suffered any loss of crypto due to hacking in its 5/1 year(s) history. The security protocols of the two exchanges are also quite similar. Cryptocurrencies in custody are stored in multi-sig wallets. Withdrawals are processed only once a day with manual review. Hot wallets that support automatic withdrawals are typically the weakest link in the security of an exchange. Once a day withdrawals with manual review obviate the need for such hot wallets, although at the cost of speed. Conclusion Cryptocurrency derivatives is an attractive segment due to its immense growth potential. Considering the size of the prize, it is natural that several players will enter the space. We have already seen leading spot exchange and new project foray into crypto derivatives, to challenge the hegemony of BitMex. Delta Exchange is one such player. Our four factor analysis shows that despite being new, Delta Exchange has been able to achieve near parity in 2/4 factors and seem to have a slight upper hand in the remaining two factors. However, whether Delta Exchange can challenge BitMex for the top spot will be determined by two things: (a) Delta’s ability to continue to innovate on product and capture larger shares of traders’ hearts, minds and wallets and (b) state of altcoins: for the exchange’s bet on altcoins to pay off, altcoins (both in absolute and relative to bitcoin terms) do well. It will be interesting to see how this David vs. Goliath type of struggle will play out.

Delta Exchange vs. BitMex : David vs. Goliath?

The question on the lips of people I encounter more frequently is how will they benefit from Nexves and what can it do for them? My initial reaction is to ask them three simple questions in return: What value do you currently receive from your Bank? How does it help you save money? What does it do for you aside from store your money? Fundamentally, Nexves provides you with a bank account that will replace your current account. Potentially, it becomes an essential platform that saves you money while letting you invest and earn more simultaneously. To understand it’s potentially you are required to view it as the hub at a centre of a wheel of services. From this will come spokes which identify as separate businesses all tied back to your account, which enable them to bring you incredible value, security and opportunity. The First Spoke — Own revolutionary Companies Interest rates are worse than terrible. On you forego interest in return for Cryptotokens, accrued in relation to the percentage of total funds you have on the platform for a calendar month, which entitle you to ownership of startup companies the Nexves venture fund invests in. Nexves How this breaks down in practise is simple: if 10 people have £1,000 in their account they each get 10% of the tokens at the end of the month. If someone came in the next month and put £10,000 in he’d get 50% of the tokens, the other 10 would get 5% each. If we invest in a company worth over a Billion / the first 10,000 users on the platform would receive between £/$8–10,000 each, on average. £ $ The Second Spoke — Earn Significant Capital Bank’s offer you no opportunity to increase your wealth, outwith derisory interest payments. The first spoke of Nexves decentralises the beneficiaries of success from the bank itself to the people like you who form it. The profits created won’t go to fund outsized bonuses to oversized bankers, they go into your pocket. The second spoke let’s you earn money while increasing the likelihood that the investments the venture fund makes succeed. On the platform there will be a marketplace where you can complete a task and receive additional tokens, increasing your entitlement to future profits from the fund. This could be something as simple as sharing a message on your social media profile or requesting that your supermarket begins stocking a certain product. The power of this is only realised through the power of a large network. One person completing these tasks might not make much of a dent, but imaging the influence of 10,000 people sharing this at the same time, or even 1 million. Collectively everyone benefits by acting together in mutual self-interest. You influence the growth of your investment and you are paid for it’s success. Simultaneously, you will be rewarded for discovering potential investments or acquisitions. Make a recommendation that leads to investment and you will be rewarded with a large number of tokens. Had you referred Facebook to Nexves under this model, you would now be a Millionaire. Only problem is that if you had discovered facebook at this stage there is nothing you could have done. Nexves changes that. What it enables is universal access to asset classes which the 99% cannot get access to. This prevents you from benefiting from the most succesful investment opportunities of the last 30 year. Nexves is a democratisation of access, and due to the model we are going to employ it encourages these companies to take our investment over traditional venture capital funds. What you become part of is a network-as-a-service which lets companies grow at a far lower cost while increasing your own profits. The Third Spoke — Save lots of Money The third spoke is a collective bargaining platform which uses the data you provide to save every user a large amount of money. Take a minute to visualise all the information banks have on your spending and every other users on their platform, what do they do with this to help you save money? Absolutely nothing. At Nexves we will analyse the recurring monthly spending of every user and benchmark it against the platform. Where you aren’t the lowest paying user for the same service we will tell you how much more you are paying, and provide you with the contact information required to lower your costs. For individuals we have already analyses, they save £600 a year on average. The next step will be to do this all automatically and negotiate these costs down on your behalf without you having to do anything. You save as a by product of having an account — all for free. From there we will expand to conduct the renewals of your car and home insurances, gas and electric supplier, broadband and mobile phone providers. We realise how time consuming and frustrating entering the same information year after year can be — so we will do it for you and make sure that you always pay the lowest price possible for every service you need. The Remaining Spokes — How we will Evolve Spokes to this system will be introduced gradually — we have a large roadmap of features we intend on implementing in the next 18 months. What Nexves will become is the foundation layer of infrastructure required for the development of web 3.0. We let you participate in this new world. If you have ideas for services that can be appended we would be delighted to hear your thoughts: email them to chris@nexves.com Find our what hundred of others are saying about the platform Join our Whatsapp Group Join our Slack Channel If you are interested in the platform I would greatly appreciate your applause on this story to help it reach as many people as possible! Feel free to share the links above

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The head of at a billion-dollar company asks candidates to tell him the scale of data they’ve encountered. I heard anecdotally that one engineer was rejected because “he had only worked with gigabytes, not terabytes, of data”. As an engineer and an entrepreneur, I make a living off by specializing in this kind of scale. I have advised companies on how to run algorithms on terabytes of data, and these days I’m seeing that is de rigueur and companies seem to consider the size of the data proportional to the value it can generate. engineering big data Consequently, companies practically ignore data that isn’t big. Engineers aren’t interested in working with small data because the infrastructure isn’t technically challenging. Data scientists ignore small data because running simple regressions doesn’t sound as impressive as working with deep learning algorithms. Business executives don’t use small data because they want the credibility that comes from handling complexity associated with scale and managing large data teams. So, everyone disregards small data. However, this is because of internal biases and the reasoning is not at all tied to business outcomes. In fact, I’d argue that there is little correlation between the scale of the dataset and the insights it can generate. Just because your data isn’t big doesn’t mean that it’s useless. We have been using small data until the 2010s, when Hadoop and big data became mainstream. Statistics has existed long before the era of big data and distributed computing. And you can continue to mine valuable insights from small data using algorithms and visualizations. Small data isn’t just useful, it’s easier to work with. Although this is why engineers and data scientists have ignored it, this is also part of the reason why small data is valuable. You can easily extract information without building a large team around data analysis. You don’t need to use a distributed computing engine like Apache Spark or spend millions buying distributed data solutions from vendors. You also don’t need to hire PhDs who have expertise in deep learning Surprisingly, some companies that deal with massive amounts of data have trouble using their small data. I vividly remember when a marketing analyst at one of my clients complained, “All my data is lying somewhere in this massive infrastructure and I need to ask a data engineer to run a Hadoop job for me, when all I want to do is download a CSV and use Excel.” So, how can you derive value from small data? First, realize that you already have small data, and don’t need new infrastructure, initiatives, or recruits to derive value from your small data — there are straightforward ways to maximize its value. Remember the age-old principle: “Keep it simple, stupid.” Next, start using descriptive analytics again. This includes summarizations, “slicing and dicing”, tabulations and other exploratory techniques. Not every analysis needs to be backed by an underlying AI model. When the dataset is small enough, the points can be visualized. The human eye is underestimated; patterns can often be physically seen once the data has been plotted. Third, clean the data. Smaller datasets are more susceptible to errors, missing values, and noise. If your dataset is small enough, you can manually remove the glaring discrepancies. It’s true that this manual method won’t scale at the big data level, but most models that work on a larger scale account for these problems through regularization or other methods. And finally, stay away from complex machine learning models. As companies build infrastructure to support trillions of data points and develop deep learning models, they find that these constructs are not applicable for smaller datasets. For example, it is easy to over-fit their models to the data. This over-fitting makes the models more sensitive, especially to measurement errors. Ask yourself whether you can analyze a dataset using simpler models like logistic/linear regression instead. I’m not alone in praising small data — small data is now coming back into the spotlight. Stanford has a course in Fall 2017 titled and Martin Lindstrom has written a book about how companies can create superior products and services through smaller observations instead of their exclusive reliance on big data. Lindstrom proclaims in the book that “[in] the top 100 biggest innovations of our time, perhaps around 60 to 65 percent are really based on Small Data.” Even technologies traditionally based on big data might be able to leverage small data. Eric Schmidt, Alphabet’s executive chairman, that AI may usher in the era of small data because smarter systems can learn more with less training. Not all of us have big data, but we all have small data — and we can easily use it starting now. “Small” Data says

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