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star-shooters · 1 year

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Old Art of Star Shooters

I recently cleaned my DeviantArt, GoldStarProduction, of all of my art since 2013 and found a lot of good art. I haven't gotten around to making new art that I am confident in sharing yet. So, I will post the digital art of some of the characters within Star Shooters.

I constantly altered between a cute simplified design to a more detailed and realistic one. I am still working on what style to draw these characters in, and some characters don't have a design yet. So far, all the art I have is old designs of the characters and do not reflect who they are in the current version of my story.

Apologies for any watermarks shown below. The old tablet that I used to draw with doesn't support the art app I once used.

Left: Gold Gemitaurus and Silver Kentaurus-Sirius | Right: A more recent drawing of Gold Gemitaurus

I originally had the idea that their cores, souls, would float above their heads. Now their cores are inside their bodies. Gold had an antenna instead of a horn and Silver was always sad.

Compared to the rest of the crew, I found myself constantly drawing Gold. This was also my attempt to make a drawn model of Gold when I was messing around with Blender. I haven't gotten around to fixing my old laptop, it was misplaced sometime before the break.

Gold Gemitaurus and Copper Cephei:

I didn't know what I was doing when outlining these characters. There was just a black outline with inside lines being darker than the color inside. I also had a thing for black belts or rings/bands on characters too.

Left: Ube Cephei-Sirius | Right: An older version of Ube Cephei-Sirius with Lumens, late-spirits of young Stars or Stellars

I had trouble choosing colors for Ube, either having a vibrant purple or a dull purple. So far, I had stuck with the more vibrant shade of purple.

Bone Aratumi:

I don't think I ever got around to digitally drawing Bone Aratumi. This is the most recent drawing I have made. He is similar enough to Gold's brother, Bone Gemitaurus. Bone Gemitaurus is the same type of Star, just with different tattoos and other physical differences.

Left: Yellow Andromeda-Eridanus | Right: A more recent sketch of Ube Cephei-Sirius and Yellow Andromeda-Eridanus

Yellow was very hard to draw in other poses, her hair was something that changed a lot before I got the hang of it. I did have a different type of hairstyle for her but I can't find the sketches. Perhaps at a later time.

Left: Lapis Asclepius | Right: Ube Cephei-Sirius and Lapis Asclepius

Lapis was the least character I drew, along with Bone Aratumi. I do plan to majorly redesign her along with everyone else.

Lavender Pink Veloctan:

Excuse the misspell, I was too interested in drawing and designing. But this was the only drawing I had of Lavender Pink, originally named Lavender Magenta. They'll have a major redesign as well, I am not happy with their hair and body proportions.

I never designed Sky Microscopium, despite describing its appearance in my senior thesis creative writing piece. Sky will be designed as well; I'll have to force my Chromebook to work with me.

I will have sketches of all the characters when I get the chance. I am open to any feedback so please tell me any suggestions, questions, or anything else.

#Gold Gemitaurus #Silver Kentaurus-Sirius #Copper Cephei #Ube Cephei-Sirius #Bone Aratumi #Yellow Andromeda-Eridanus #Lapis Asclepius #Lavender Pink Veloctan #Sky Microscopium #Star Shooters #SS #my old artwork #science fiction #artists on tumblr #artblr #original characters #original art

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pnwnewsinfo · 1 year

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DSHS WA State actively discriminates against Seniors and the Disabled.

How you might ask? They use artificial financial rules that do not represent real world living by anybody in the immediate environment that the people they're supposed to be helping are in. I call it Financial Tyranny.

In my opinion the financial restrictions that they impose are about preventing people from getting help. The financial rules are so artificial that there is nobody anywhere in the real world that lives in the manner they claim is "normal," not one person anywhere!

There is no real help for anybody in Snohomish County Washington! Every single thing they offer on 211 has a barrier designed to keep you from being able to get the help.

If you live in a vehicle and use fuel to stay warm; TOO BAD FOR YOU! You should have bought food with that money instead!

Most seniors and disabled have income. They just don't have enough income to rent a place to live. So they use their income to keep a car going.

Some Senior and Disabled people are actually sleeping on the ground. I met two women this week both of them sleep outside, one is 62 the other 74. The 62 year old was recently raped. She deals with Verdant South County Health, they told her she has to go find her own Counselor. Yes, a severally traumatized woman living outdoors and recently raped should try to find her own counselor! That's really helpful!

Is there anybody left out there that doesn't understand what's really going on in the US today? The only agenda this country has is to steal all the money they can get from you. And when you need help there isn't anything for you! Other Countries, and Black Budget agendas get all the money!

For you people who are not aware, 60% of homeless people work, they have jobs, so if "get a job" was the answer, then they wouldn't be homeless.

What a GREAT COUNTRY this is, if constant and forever War Mongering is your thing!

Keep an eye on WA State Government. BIG changes are coming!

Our Story Homeless 2023

Missy Mischievious & Boo Boo, and I started our homeless adventure in Washington State, on New Years Eve 2022.

I'm a Senior single woman. The kitties are Missy Mischievious age 3, and Boo Boo age 18+.

I'm adjusting to this slowly. I was homeless for 6 years before. I struggled with medical issues, and I finally got myself off the street and back to work only to lose two jobs during COVID.

Boo Boo, my older girl, is adjusting. , fastest of us. Missy Mischievous is not doing as well. She hates the sound of the rain. Both of them came to me in horrible shape needing a home.

We were doing OK before Covid happened. Now we are homeless as a result of sanctioned criminal enterprises in my city.

Our Mobile Home was stolen through Nefarious Means, and Fancy Legal Shenanigans

The girls would like hand warmers in their beds at night to help keep them warm, and so does Mom. We need fuel to keep moving and stay warm. We do a lot of Laundry, anything helps. Mom needs coffee to keep going.

Both cats need food, and hand warmers all Winter.

Any help would be appreciated!

Amazon Wishlist:

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Cash for fuel and cat food:

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If you prefer to donate Cryptocurrency, here are two addresses you can send to:

Litecoin (LTC) receive address: ltc1q0w7hgc2erfty69pqr4a8p0sr3mgu66lf46luap

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Thanks to Supporters of this Channel and our Adventures in Homelessness!

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#Washington State #DSHS #Snohomish County #Homeless kitties #Homeless Seniors #Disabled people #Homeless women #financial tyrrany

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travelhackerpro · 1 year

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XRP Rival Stellar (XLM) Turns Green as Commercial Bank Runs Pilot Program for New Digital Currency System

XRP‘s most prominent rival is rallying this week as a Ukrainian banking giant announces the results of using its blockchain in a new digital currency system pilot program. Stellar (XLM) is a multi-currency transaction network for storying and moving money across the blockchain. XLM, the Lumen, is the native cryptocurrency of the Stellar network. People can use Lumens as a bridge currency between…

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chartlomo · 2 years

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Dogecoin core wallet 7 years behind

DOGECOIN CORE WALLET 7 YEARS BEHIND UPDATE

DOGECOIN CORE WALLET 7 YEARS BEHIND UPGRADE

There is also no personal data stored by Atomic Wallet when creating an account. The wallet is non-custodial, with the keys being stored in encrypted format on the user’s device, allowing only the user to access the keys. Here you can manage, send, and receive other coins, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Stellar Lumens, Monero, and Litecoin. This wallet supports more than 300 crypto assets, including Dogecoin. Atomic WalletĪ popular choice for crypto owners is Atomic Wallet. Good customer support and positive reviews in the media and on the Internet are also aspects worth considering before you choose a specific wallet.īelow, we will look at the best Dogecoin wallets you can get in 2019. In order to make sure that you will never lose your coins (even though no wallet is 100% safe), you should look for a wallet that has a decent backup and restore features. Look for a wallet that it’s very practical, with a clear-cut and user-friendly interface. Features such as two-factor authentication, multi-sig functionality, and cold storage are definitely the ones that will help you keep your tokens safe.Įase of use is another significant aspect when choosing a DOGE wallet. Hence, it’s recommended that you pick a wallet with the strongest security features available. Of course, the most important aspect of a cryptocurrency wallet is security. Things to Consider Before Choosing a DOGE Wallet If you’re already sold on the project, and you want to become an investor (and buy some Dogecoin), then the first thing you should do is to find a secure wallet for your future DOGEs. Not only that, but Dogecoin is also one of the few projects of this type that are actively involved in making the world a better place.ĭuring the past couple of years, Dogecoin has helped millions of people in need via charities such as Charity Water, Doges4kids, The Shelter Card, Caooy, Outernet, Ghana Medical Help, Doge4Kashmir, Dogecoin Socks for the Homeless, Dogecoin Folding at home, and many many others. Dogecoin is also renowned for having one of the best (if not the best) communities in the whole cryptosphere. The fact that Dogecoin is a successful project with lots of prospects is just part of the reason why one might want to invest. At the time of this writing, Dogecoin is ranked 24 th on CoinMarketCap. The project grew in value so much that it managed to climb up to be one of the top 25 of the world’s cryptocurrencies by market cap. What started out in life in 2013 as a sort of joke, Dogecoin is nowadays one of the most successful cryptocurrencies.

DOGECOIN CORE WALLET 7 YEARS BEHIND UPDATE

At the time of this writing, DOGE is trading at around $0.083 and posting a 2.5% increase on the daily.This is an update of Best Dogecoin Wallets for 2018.ĭogecoin definitely has one of the most interesting stories in the cryptosphere. The DOGE community is already excited about the upcoming updates, and the crypto has already seen a positive impact on price. There are a few others still in the draft stage. These include better clean-up modules, increased secrets entropy, increased system performance, and cleanup of compiling. This group of updates isn’t necessarily important and the system can still work without them, but Patrick feels they could be included now or at a future date. These include dependency updates and a few others that are in development. These aren’t necessarily a must to be included when the update happens. He also mentioned a few other updates that Dogecoin should. These include enhanced wallet protection, fixes for known Bitcoin vulnerabilities, fixes for potential DOGE vulnerabilities, making the Dogecoin Core wallet cheaper to use, an easy-to-use gitian script, and improved handling of address messages. Way to build team! 🐕 /ZhipgEFs8JĪccording to Patrick, a few things must be fixed before the update is released. New #dogecoin update 1.14.6 release plan written by #Doge core developer (Patrick Lodder) Patrick had earlier on posted about it on Reddit. It’s worth noting here that Palmer left the Dogecoin project over 7 years ago.Ī recent tweet reported that a DOGE core developer, Patrick Lodder, was liaising with others to implement a system upgrade, dubbed update 1.14.6.

DOGECOIN CORE WALLET 7 YEARS BEHIND UPGRADE

It now appears that while these two were “sparring,” DOGE’s core developers were busy planning an upgrade of the system. Recently, Elon engaged in a Twitter spat with one of DOGE’s co-founders, Jackson Palmer, about his coding abilities. Crypto has gained the support of some of the heavy-weights in the industry, including Tesla’s Elon Musk. Dogecoin (DOGE) has been making headlines of late.

#Dogecoin core wallet 7 years behind

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cybertheticproject · 2 years

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A coin is classified as: • A virtual assets native to a blockchain. • Users can use coins to complete online transactions without going through traditional, regulated institutions. • Coins must be created at the blockchain level as outlined by the governance rules. Proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are two popular mechanisms, but there are also other ways that coins can be created and distributed. Examples of coins - Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) ,Litecoin (LTC), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Cardano (ADA) A token is classified as: • Tokens typically operate on a blockchain that initially belonged to another crypto asset. • Tokens often improve the functionality of an existing coin or blockchain. • Any company or organization can spin out a token based on a supported blockchain, which over time will lower the bar for creating new kinds of crypto-related products and services. Examples of tokens: Stablecoins like USDC Equity tokens that represent equity in an organization like The dao Payment tokens that take the place of fiat currency like Monero Utility tokens help users perform actions within a blockchain like Chainlink Meme tokens - like Doge and Shiba Inu Sign up for our newsletter! It's filled with new content just like this story, delivered straight to your inbox. We won't spam you or share your email, and you can unsubscribe at any time - https://rpb.li/SmD. #lifechangingwealth #passiveincome #bitcoin #hodl #generationalwealth #millionairemindset #billionairemindset #cryptomillionaire #cyberthetic https://www.instagram.com/p/CgH4gnXg3w6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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oosteven-universe · 4 years

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Ghost Wolf Vol.3 #2

Ghost Wolf vol.3 #2 Amigo Comics 2020 Written by Massimo Rosi Illustrated by Vito Coppola Coloured by Viviana Di Chiara Lettered by Monkey Typers A Tale of Two Wolves Mara attacks the Lumen in a desperate attempt to stop them from reaching the Stone, the place where an ancient, Hungry God was sealed. And there is no sign of Lif, the last Ghost Wolf. I am such a fan of Amigo and these franchises that they’ve created and maintain through these limited series arcs. While it’s always best to read them all it isn’t always necessary, this for instance is one that I can say is new reader friendly. If there is something in the past that we need to know then Massimo finds a way to work that into the story. I think this is a stellar look at the past, present and the future in ways that should actually surprise you. I like how we see Amma and her sage words of wisdom to Mara versus the sheer blind faith and madness that comes from the Lumen. I do find what each side offers itself and others to be beneficial to their people, okay not the Lumen, but this is so much like what we know and have seen that it is still frightening to see play out here. I am a fan of the way that this is being told. How we see the story & plot development through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information moves everything forward beautifully. The way that we see events happen so that there isn’t a need to bounce around shows such a great structure to the book. Massimo is a brilliant writer and if you haven’t had the pleasure yet then start here. Because the flow, the structure and how we see these little things that accumulate into larger ones is spectacularly well presented. The character development that we see is fantastic! The way we see the character behave, how they react and act to the situations and circumstances before them continue to flesh them out as complete, whole people. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing the twists and turns along the way we see how everything works together to create the books ebb & flow. The interiors here are beautiful as well. I like how we see the linework and its varying weights and techniques utilised throughout to bring forth the attention to detail that we see. There is a traditional comic book style within these pages but it’s done in such a non-traditional way. How we see backgrounds being utilised throughout not only enhance the moments we see but they bring depth perception, a sense of scale and that overall sense of size and scope to the story. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a strong and talented eye for storytelling. The colour work we see is fantastic as well. The opening for example with it’s grey scales creating this almost cement feel is so outrageously good, then adding colour and utilising the hues and tones within them to showcase the shading, highlights and shadow work is exceptional. I think this is one of the more fascinating stories that you’ll find on stands. What we currently take for granted could be gone and the world thrust into a new different age based on our civilisations past. Can you imagine an event or series of events that could have that kind of power and influence to mankind? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

#Comic Books #Comics Revies #Amigo Comics #Massimo Rosi #Vito Coppola #Viviana Di Chiara

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moonlightreal · 4 years

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Winx Club season 8/6

In which positive Winx thinking flops

6 Doom of the Lighthouse Star

I thought some more about Musa and Riven’s drama last episode and realized that they are acting totally in character. They’ve both always been bad at opening up about their feelings. So points to the writers for keeping them in character! I’m still going to call them boneheads when they are boneheads though!

And something I found out: season 8 has a prize in the bottom of the box: ICY gets some BACKSTORY! Backstory! Eight seasons and fifteen years and we know basically nothing about where the Trix come from! They just turned up wanting to rule the magic dimension just because. But now, backstory! Of course it looks like pretty dumb backstory, and Darcy and Stormy don’t seem to get any-- but it’s still wonderful! It’s still new canon! And it might be the seed for season nine or the fourth movie; I can imagine Icy might try to get the Winx to help her with the stuff from her past and that could be a story. (and if Rainbow doesn’t use the obvious plot opening then I can, so it’s a win either way...)

Anyway, no spoilers yet, we’ll get to that in episode twenty-whatever. I can’t wait!

Meanwhile in the episode at hand, Twinkle and the Winx are following Orion’s ship to help save his star. Twinkle has a friend who lives there.

In his ship Orion says he wouldn’t have been allowed back on his planet if he hadn’t brought the Winx along. Hmm, was the dude banished?

They approach the star… or planet? It is a planet, but it may be supposed to be a star since here in season 8 it’s clear that stars are in fact solid bodies that lumens live on, rather than masses of incandescent gas like in our universe. So are ALL stars powered by lumens? Magic dimension physics are weird.

The heavenly body is dark and the girls are upset. Stella feel sorry for the lumens of the star, and Flora worries that the planet’s plants won’t grow so people will go hungry. Stella reassures her that Cosmix power can fix that!

Everybody flies down to a cool tower, the Winx land on top and Orion docks a little lifeboat ship.

This must be Irridia, because it’s populated by lumens-- purple ones with blank green eyes. They hang back, and Stella says she was hoping for a more cheerful welcome! but when Orion arrives and points out the damage to the star’s core—it’s cracked, with pieces missing-- he gets swarmed by pissed-off lumens! Turns out star-eaters drained the core and when Orion tried to fix it…

Orion: “it was...’

Musa: “An epic fail?”

Orion: Un...fortunately you’re right.”

Love his expressions! Orion is so cool, I wish it wasn’t half ‘cause he’s a stolen character design, but still, he’s just so great!

Twinkle and the Winx reassure the lumens that they can totally fix the core, so the lumens let them try. Cosmix zapping!

...fail!

This star core is too damaged to hold the energy! The Winx apologize; they didn’t know how bad the damage was when they said they’d help. But Orion freaks out and yells, he’s “had enough of your worthless promises!” Dude, it was only one promise and they didn’t have all the facts. Still it was a little overconfidant of the Winx to be so sure they could handle it!

And we cut to Valtor’s fortress! He’s watching and he thinks this is great! Obscurum chortles on about the fortress he’s going to have when he’s king of Lumenia. He says he’ll have a throne room “greater and more comfortable” than Valtor’s! Valtor growls and tosses him through the endless portal a few times, with a stop on the tongue of a strange giant crocodile. Ok.

I… kinda remember Valtor having more dignity than to have such a dumb minion. With Kalshara at least it was her brother.

But before he can rethink his life choices too much, Valtor is distracted by his magic-TV. Twinkle is bemoaning their sad and sorry fate.

Orion is still pissed off.

Stella sensibly says just because their first try failed doesn’t mean they really failed; they just have to try something else!

Flora wants to abandon Irridia and go to the planet to save the plants there. The others don’t want to abandon the lumens.

Tec gets the idea to build a machine to fix the core but Musa reminds her that Orion trying to fix it caused this mess. Tension among the Winx! Musa suggests they split the party but calls on Bloom for the final vote. Bloom says they have to stay together and fix the star, she does the “I know we can do it!”

But Orion is not convinced, he says he’s hearing lots of promises but no plans. He feels betrayed! He storms off!

Bloom does the, ‘Together we can do this! Who’s with us?”

The purple lumens all turn and leave.

Ahahahaha!

The girls walk through the lumen city—this tower is actually a lumen city, the lights on it are windows of lumen dwellings. The girls look very nuetral-faced, enough that I’m noticing that the animation style doesn’t have much emotional range. It seems like they should look and sound more upset after this failure plus getting ditched by their new friend and a bunch of lumens.

Musa gets a text from Riven asking how things are going with “Orion the thief”. Stella suggests maybe don’t answer until things start going a little better. Heh.

Orion has jetted off in his wonderful ship to go steal some more “light rubies” and solve the problem without any help. When he gets a call! A portal opens and there’s Valtor calling with a proposition! He’ll fix the star if Orion gets rid of the Winx.

Orion hesitates but is convinced by an image of his planet flourishing again.

“That fool will help us get rid of the Winx once and for all!” Says Valtor, and I wrote it here because I am now counting times a villain says that.

Back on Irridia Twinkle’s girlfriend appears! Ok, her BFF Lumilla who greets her with a glomp. It’s pretty adorable. Flora says, “I don’t think I’ve ever been that happy to see anybody.”

Then Orion appears. He’s back with an apology and a plan! Aisha’s skeptical but Orion has a gizmo—a “light enhancer” that will help the plants grow. The girls can take it to Perlisha and set it up.

Musa texts Riven that Orion is a good guy after all.

On the ship Helia asks Riven what’s up. Riven’s still mad at Orion who did after all steal a bunch of rubies and send the boys all over to return them. The rest of the specialists tease Riven about being jealous. Sigh.

Twinkle and Lumilla in a lumen house! It looks… about like you’d expect, like a fairy house. Round table, stools that almost look like they were made from drawer knobs. Lumilla makes tea. He tea bags are star shaped and so are the sugar cubes! It’s adorable! Lumilla has a kitty! A white kitty with a star around his head, named Lumino. So there are lumen animals like there are pixie animals? A whole stellar ecosystem? Also, this scene was cute and I want star shaped tea bags.

The girls are in their space clothes. They land on Perlisha, which has a lot of geysers. The gizmo isn’t giving them much direction so Tecna reveals her newest invention: “Winxboards!” Stella jumps on and immediately falls off.

Hoverboarding montage!

There’s a fork in the path and again a fight. Flora wants to go one way to try to help plants; Stella wants to go the other way which looks easier and safer. Flora caves, but she’s still mad. But a second later they’re giggling while hoverboarding so all is forgotten. A second after that a geyser nearly knocks Flora off her board and she grumbles about it not being safer after all.

Then Orion’s gizmo beeps, they’ve found the right place.

It’s full of dying plants, and Flora gets upset. She tries to help the plants with magic but can’t, guess they need real light. This fight between Flora and Stella feels super forced, but it is nice to see Flora’s connection to nature coming up as a weakness, I like that.

Bloom activates the gizmo to provide light, but instead the ground starts shaking and… killer grabby robot arms from the ground! The Winx get grabbed!

Stella and Flora are the only two not grabbed as the episode ends!

This episode wasn’t much except for the lumen house scene, but I’m watching ahead in Italian (because who isn’t!) and the next episode looks really cool. Summary when the English appears, whenever that is!

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Triaconta Weekly #90 | 13-09-2019

The following topics will be addressed in this weekly.

Bundles performance

All coins great and small

Market overview

Bundles Performance

This week’s number one coin is without a doubt Cosmos (+53% and big volume) but nobody can figure out why an announced Binance.us listing creates such a buzz. Second place is also a double digit gainer EOS (+11%). But sadly we see some double digit losers as well. Ethereum Classic (-11%) lost a part of its previous gains in the final week before it’s 12 September hardfork and Lisk (-12%) performed disappointingly reaching its lowest price of 2019.

The net effect on the Bundles was a flat performance this week, but with large differences between the currencies. Big 3 (-2%) was slightly down because of Bitcoin (-5%) returning yet again to $10k and only compensated by Ethereum (+2%) which seems to have found its bottom price for now. In the Top 30 (-0.7%) only as little as eight coins performed positively. In Penny Stock (-1%) the BitTorrent token (+12%) stole the show and with Cardano (+2%) another big drop for this Bundle was prevented. There is a shift towards a few altcoins, but not yet a general change.

All in all the market responds very positively to news of adoption and actual use-cases and negatively to struggle and conflict in a project team which could cause delays in development. Keep an eye out for this type of news if you are investing in single cryptocurrencies.

All coins great and small

What exactly are cryptocurrencies for? Where is my money actually going? We think it’s a good idea for you as an investor to know a little bit more about the cryptocurrencies you can invest in with Triaconta.

Stellar (XLM)

Stellar was founded by Jed McCaleb, who also founded another popular currency, the Ripple. In the beginning, Stellar even used the same protocol as Ripple. Like Ripple, Stellar is also intended to be a cross-border transfer and payment system that connects everyone quickly to each other at very low transaction costs. The main difference is that Ripple Labs is a for-profit commercial company and the Stellar Foundation is a non-profit charity that seeks to promote global access, financial inclusion, and financial education. The Stellar protocol, unlike the Ripple code, is fully open source.

Developing countries

Stellar’s primary focus is on developing countries and on bringing remittances, bank loans and other financial services to those who are still excluded from the services of the banks. No fees are charged to individuals or institutions for using the Stellar network. Each transaction requires only a fee of 10 stroops or 0.00001 lumens, currently around 1 millionth of a dollar. This focus however does not prevent one of the world’s largest asset management funds, Franklin Templeton, to tokenize a new moneymark fund on the Stellar blockchain. Check out the full story in our news section.

Stellar token

Stellar received an initial $3M funding from payment processor Stripe (in exchange for 2 billion lumens) and donations from organizations like BlackRock, Google and FastForward.

The project covers the operational costs of further development of the protocol by accepting tax-deductible public donations, and by using the 5 billion lumens (5%) reserved for this purpose at the start of the currency.

Stellar wants to be the email of money, and of course with the exception of spam. A required minimum balance of 20 lumens in your account is meant to prevent spam accounts. This minimum does not apply if you hold lumens on your Triaconta account.

Stellar inflation

Stellar does not use Proof of Stake like other cryptocurrencies and also does not use Proof of Work like Bitcoin or a dividend system like Neo with Gas. Stellar has an inflation rate of 1% per year. This fixed nominal inflation is distributed in the form of new tokens to all Lumens holders with more than 0.05% of the votes of other accounts in the network. So there is no block reward, and most transaction processing nodes in the Stellar network will be active applications of the Stellar blockchain. They don’t run a node for any other reason than to maintain the network they use themselves.

Decentralized exchange

A very important part of the Stellar blockchain is the built-in decentralized exchange. Through the lumens token a user can send every coin (crypto and fiat) to someone else and they can receive the value in every coin (crypto and fiat). The network automatically finds the best exchange rate.

Stellar and IBM

World Wire is a global payment system that connects banks via the Stellar network. It is developed by IBM and six international banks. Currently, the network is limited to two currencies: Stellar Lumens (XLM) and Stronghold USD, a stablecoin with underlying value in US dollars. It replaces the usual SWIFT network in a way that makes the entire “crypto” part invisible to the banks. Invisible but capable of switching real-time between different (crypto) currencies. A large reliable party like IBM makes it a little less stressful for the conservative banks to step into such a new technology.

Stellar or Ripple?

World wire looks a lot like Ripple, and that’s not a problem. The more banks become convinced that they can save money for themselves and their customers by joining a digital crypto network, the better. Some will choose Ripple for this, others will choose IBM and Stellar. The fact that many banking systems are already running on IBM machines does of course give World Wire a unique entrance to these companies.

How can I buy Stellar?

Stellar (XLM) is currently only available in our Top 30 Bundle. It contains 30 of the most popular cryptocurrencies and spreads your investment risk across all cryptocurrency categories. We are working on making more coins available as single cryptocurrencies.

Market overview

Smart move by Dash to partner with Lighthouse Cinemas in Nigeria, and let people who pay with Dash purchase movie tickets at a discount. Dash is really active all over the world. Part of the deal is that Dash gets to show a Dash commercial before the movie starts. So, when at Pathé cinemas?

A Californian politician has become the first elected official to use cryptocurrency to purchase cannabis in the United States. The purchase used Bitcoin Cash (BCH) for the Cannabis and Universal Dollar (a stable coin on Ethereum) for sales and city tax. A special bill allowing cash-free cannabis tax remittance is welcomed by local governments and cannabis shops. With 70% of the cannabis industry in California still being denied access to banks, it is often difficult and dangerous for these companies to pay their taxes in large cash deposits.

Dutchman Wietse Wind officially registered his XRP Community Fund as a foundation. You can now donate, comment and vote for suggestions on improving the use of XRP for payments. The XRP Community Fund is a non-profit organisation to support the development of tools / apps / integrations / plugins that make it easier to use XRP for (consumer/small business) payments. Brad Garlinghouse (CEO of Ripple) was interviewed on CNN today but was (of course) only asked about the price. It would have been epic if he had mentioned this little initiative of enthusiastic XRP developers. Every cryptocurrency project, even Ripple, needs lots of developers to move forward.

Watford FC, a major English football club that plays in the Premier League puts the Bitcoin logo on their shirts. That is exposure of BTC to hundreds of millions watching the league worldwide. But who is paying for this, since there is no Bitcoin company? Sportsbet.io is the primary shirt sponsor and this is their way of giving back and supporting the crypto community, which according to the betting firm’s head of marketing has always been highly supportive of them.

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi announced this week to resume quantitative easing and cut the deposit rate for banks holding euros at the central bank further to minus 0.5%. Negative interest rates and depreciating value of the Euro make an excellent case for plan B, Bitcoin!

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Cryptocurrency Prices, July 5 2021: Rate Of Bitcoin, Ethereum

New cryptocurrencies are arising at all times as well as are testing extra well established electronic properties such as Bitcoin as well as Ethereum. What is Yield Farming. Maintaining track of all these brand-new releases can be a difficulty. That’s why we’ve united all of the most recent electronic currencies below on Coin, Market, Cap. On this web page, you can locate out the name of the current digital money, their symbol and also when they were included.

In the very early days of cryptocurrencies, preliminary coin offerings (ICO) were a preferred method of bringing new tokens to market. Although this involved altcoins being sold to financiers, this didn’t provide them a possession risk in the task. Nowadays, safety token offerings and also preliminary exchange offerings are much a lot more common than ICOs.

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Because of this, trading pairs that link new cryptocurrencies with fiat currencies may not be readily available. It prevails for fledgling tasks to be provided on smaller sized platforms, where trading pairs link them to stablecoins such as Tether in addition to Bitcoin and also Ethereum. Remember: a task’s success will certainly depend upon levels of adoption in the crypto neighborhood.

Bitcoin remains to lead the pack of cryptocurrencies in regards to market capitalization, customer base, as well as popularity – BEES.Social. Other virtual money such as Ethereum are being made use of to develop decentralized economic systems for those without access to conventional financial items. Some altcoins are being backed as they have newer attributes than Bitcoin, such as the capacity to manage more deals per second or use different consensus algorithms like proof-of-stake.

The Definitive Guide for The Best Cryptocurrencies To Invest In July 2021

Cryptocurrencies are often created to be devoid of government manipulation and control, although as they have actually expanded a lot more prominent, this foundational aspect of the sector has actually come under fire. The money imitated Bitcoin are collectively called altcoins, and sometimes “shitcoins,” and have actually often tried to provide themselves as modified or enhanced variations of Bitcoin.

Some Known Incorrect Statements About Ethereum (Xet), Xrp, Litecoin (Xlc): Cryptocurrency

Below, we’ll examine some of the most important electronic money besides Bitcoin. Initially, however, a caveat: It is impossible for a list such as this to be completely comprehensive. One reason for this is the truth that there are greater than 4,000 cryptocurrencies in presence since January 2021. While much of these cryptos have little to no adhering to or trading quantity, some delight in immense popularity among devoted areas of backers and also financiers.

While Bitcoin is widely viewed as a leader on the planet of cryptocurrencies, experts take on many techniques for assessing tokens aside from BTC. It prevails, as an example, for experts to attribute a wonderful deal of relevance to ranking coins about each other in regards to market capitalization. We have actually factored this into our factor to consider, however there are other reasons that a digital token might be included in the checklist as well.

Polkadot was produced by Gavin Timber, an additional participant of the core creators of the Ethereum project that had varying point of views on the project’s future. Since January 2021, Polkadot has a market capitalization of $11. 2 billion and also one DOT professions for $12. 54 – Decentralized Finance. 5. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Bitcoin Cash (BCH) holds a crucial area in the background of altcoins since it is among the earliest and most successful difficult forks of the initial Bitcoin.

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Yield Farming Crypto in DeFi involves smart contracts coded on blockchain to implement commands to earn individuals rewards on their crypto properties.

These DEX’s rely on specific users to deposit funds right into liquidity pools. Via collectivization, those pooled deposits serve as the “bank,” which the exchange can then use to do automated swaps. To tempt depositors, the application code has the capacity to mint benefit tokens as motivations.The discussion that resulted in the production of BCH related to the issue of scalability; the Bitcoin network has a limitation on the size of blocks: one megabyte (MEGABYTES). BCH boosts the block dimension from one MEGABYTES to eight MBs, with the idea being that larger blocks can hold more transactions within them, and the deal rate would certainly for that reason be raised.

The system enables cross-border purchases among any kind of money. Outstanding’s indigenous currency is Lumens (XLM). The network calls for individuals to hold Lumens to be able to transact on the network. Excellent was established by Jed Mc, Caleb, an establishing member of Ripple Labs and also developer of the Surge method. He eventually left his function with Ripple and went on to cofound the Stellar Advancement Foundation.

Chainlink’s blog details a number of use instances for its system. Among the several use situations that are explained would be to keep track of water products for air pollution or illegal syphoning going on in particular cities. Sensing units could be set up to keep an eye on company usage, water level, and also the levels of regional bodies of water.

While this is a prime prospect for making criminal purchases anonymously, the personal privacy fundamental in Monero is also handy to objectors of overbearing regimens around the world. As of January 2021, Monero has a market capitalization of $2. 8 billion and also a per-token value of $158. 37.

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4. Binance Coin (BNB) The Binance Coin is a kind of cryptocurrency that you can make use of to trade and pay charges on Binance, among the largest crypto exchanges in the world (BEES.Social). Because its launch in 2017, Binance Coin has broadened past merely facilitating professions on Binance’s exchange platform. Currently, it can be made use of for trading, repayment handling or even scheduling travel setups.

When you get supply, you are buying a share of ownership of a business, which implies you’re entitled to do points like ballot on the direction of the business. What are Liquidity Pools. If that business goes insolvent, you likewise may obtain some settlement once its lenders have actually been paid from its sold off properties.

That makes them much a lot more volatile as well as influenced by something as tiny as a celeb’s tweet. Asset Backed NFT’s. Do You Have to Pay Tax Obligations on Cryptocurrency? If you deal coins, it’s essential to pay interest to cryptocurrency tax regulations. Cryptocurrency is treated as a funding possession, like stocks, instead of cash money.

Nonetheless, purchasing cryptocurrency can be risky if you do not understand where to start. These are the top 10 cryptocurrencies that are most worthwhile of investment in 2021. Score the Top Cryptocurrency Choices Run a fast online search and you’ll find loads of referrals for how to purchase cryptocurrency.

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Excellent To Know Past efficiency is not a sign of future performance. At any type of time things can change, as well as an investment may carry out far better or even worse than it has in the past. Innovation Exactly how does the platform compare to others in regards to functionality as well as safety? The first point you desire to look for is the speed at which purchases occur.

This can cause deals taking much longer to process when the network is overloaded. A hack in 2016 resulted in greater than $60 million Ether dollars shed as a result of a problem in the Ethereum pocketbook. While the firm has actually made strides in enhancing its protection, loopholes are always a danger with any kind of cryptocurrency financial investment.

Binance Coin Binance is just one of minority cryptocurrencies to reach its height after 2017. During that year, there was an advancing market and the price of all cryptocurrencies increased on it, reaching a peak before plateauing and lowering in worth. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, Binance Coin continued a slow however consistent fad upwards after 2017.

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Billion-Dollar <b>Crypto</b> Giant Reveals Bitcoin (BTC) Buying Frenzy – Plus Ripple and XRP, Litecoin ...

From signs of institutional Bitcoin FOMO to a new way to move Stellar Lumens, here's a look at some of the stories breaking in the world of crypto. from Google Alert - Crypto http://bit.ly/2Z0T48T via IFTTT

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Corporate Giants Embracing Crypto is Massive Boon For Bitcoin: Researcher

Binance’s loss of 7,000 Bitcoin (BTC), Bitfinex and Tether’s trouble in court, and the continual disapproval of BTC exchange-traded funds (ETFs) aside, the crypto news cycle has been widely positive. This trend continued on Thursday, with a multibillion-dollar telecommunications giant revealing that it would be taking its first foray into cryptocurrency, shocking investors this ecosystem over.

Related Reading: Bitcoin Currently Consolidating After Dropping Towards $7,700, But a Strong Bounce May Be Imminent

AT&T Partners With BitPay

Announced Thursday, AT&T, a Texas-based American technology giant valued at $234 billion, will be accepting Bitcoin payments for its services through the Atlanta-headquartered BitPay. Per a press release, AT&T is now the first “major U.S. mobile carrier” to provide its millions of customers with the ability to purchase services for cryptocurrency. Speaking on the matter, Kevin McDorman, vice president of AT&T Communications’ Finance Business Operations unit drawled:

“We’re always looking for ways to improve and expand our services… We have customers who use cryptocurrency, and we are happy we can offer them a way to pay their bills with the method they prefer.”

As this news broke, many in the crypto community saw this as validation of the return of the Bitcoin bull. Because why would a massive company accept an asset that is “dying” is “already dead”, right?

This is notable, as it comes as Bitcoin has remained to a leading payment rail on the global stage, despite what you hear in harrowing news reports. Researcher Kevin Rooke notes that over the past week, Bitcoin has seen $6.3 billion worth of value transferred on average each day. This is still shy of Visa’s and Mastercard’s volumes, but impressive nonetheless.

Bitcoin is settling over $6 billion of transactions each day now.

How does BTC volume compare to America's top payment networks? pic.twitter.com/NX5oeJUaQY

— Kevin Rooke (@kerooke) May 23, 2019

Swelling Crypto Adoption

This isn’t the first bout of major adoption that the crypto space has seen. Tor, the de-facto go-to privacy- and anonymity-centric browser provider, unveiled a donation jar that accepts cryptocurrencies earlier this year. Tor’s website now accepts payments in nine leading cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Stellar Lumens, Monero, ZCash, and Augur.

Weeks prior to this, Avnet, one of the world’s most prominent electronic components distributor, revealed it had integrated a payment portal from the Atlanta-based BitPay. Avnet’s team sees cryptocurrencies as a step above traditional rails, as a company release argued that such assets can reduce the “time, cost and complexities of bringing products to market.”

And most recently, Flexa, a little-known startup looking to make “cryptocurrency spendable everywhere”, will be making Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Gemini’s in-house stablecoin available to spend in 30,476 retail outlets. Chains accepted the aforementioned digital assets include Crate & Barrel, GameStop, Lowe’s, Nordstrom, and arguably most importantly, the Amazon-owned Whole Foods.

Related Reading:Big Day for Bitcoin Acceptance: Crypto Welcomed at Multi-Billion-Dollar Pair of Retailers

This may be just the tip of the iceberg though. As NewsBTC has reported previously, Square, the fintech company headed by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, is looking to make BTC spendable as the Internet’s currency in more places. He specifically wants to integrate the Lightning Network into Square’s Cash App, which already sells Bitcoin at a breakneck pace.

Is This Good Or Bad For Bitcoin?

While the aforementioned news stories broke at different times, the responses shared a similar theme: Is Bitcoin really gaining traction/adoption if the BTC received by vendors is being sold by Bitpay?

As Bryant Eisenbach kindly points out, this isn’t exactly adoption, as AT&T likely did this due to a growing demand for cryptocurrency-related services from its clientele, not because the firm truly believes in this innovation. Or, this might just be an elaborate PR play to get some good crypto-centric press as the bull run seemingly nears.

AT&T just announced that you can now use BitPay for bill payments. Cool!

They're not holding Bitcoin though. It's getting sold back to fiat.

It's basically them saying "Enough of our customers own cryptocurrency that we should probably accept Bitcoin".

So, adoption?

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Corporate Giants Embracing Crypto is Massive Boon For Bitcoin: Researcher

Related Reading: Bitcoin Currently Consolidating After Dropping Towards $7,700, But a Strong Bounce May Be Imminent

AT&T Partners With BitPay

Bitcoin is settling over $6 billion of transactions each day now.

How does BTC volume compare to America's top payment networks? pic.twitter.com/NX5oeJUaQY

— Kevin Rooke (@kerooke) May 23, 2019

Swelling Crypto Adoption

Related Reading:Big Day for Bitcoin Acceptance: Crypto Welcomed at Multi-Billion-Dollar Pair of Retailers

Is This Good Or Bad For Bitcoin?

AT&T just announced that you can now use BitPay for bill payments. Cool!

They're not holding Bitcoin though. It's getting sold back to fiat.

It's basically them saying "Enough of our customers own cryptocurrency that we should probably accept Bitcoin".

So, adoption?

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Corporate Giants Embracing Crypto is Massive Boon For Bitcoin: Researcher

Related Reading: Bitcoin Currently Consolidating After Dropping Towards $7,700, But a Strong Bounce May Be Imminent

AT&T Partners With BitPay

Bitcoin is settling over $6 billion of transactions each day now.

How does BTC volume compare to America's top payment networks? pic.twitter.com/NX5oeJUaQY

— Kevin Rooke (@kerooke) May 23, 2019

Swelling Crypto Adoption

Related Reading:Big Day for Bitcoin Acceptance: Crypto Welcomed at Multi-Billion-Dollar Pair of Retailers

Is This Good Or Bad For Bitcoin?

AT&T just announced that you can now use BitPay for bill payments. Cool!

They're not holding Bitcoin though. It's getting sold back to fiat.

It's basically them saying "Enough of our customers own cryptocurrency that we should probably accept Bitcoin".

So, adoption?

IFTTT

#IFTTT #Cryptocracken WP

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