Igor Delovski Board

[Ike]

http://bc.daniel.net.nz

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6y7u7h/a_300gb_blockchain_why_we_must_be_careful_with/

[Ike]

reddit - Bitcoin SDK for iOS

"Our company recently released Razrbit, an open-source collection of
SDKs to make Bitcoin development super easy. The iOS SDK was released
recently, so I thought I would announce it here."

Seems like this is the better link.

[Ike]

https://singularityhub.com/2017/09/03/the-united-nations-and-the-ethereum-blockchain/

Since its release in July 2015, the Ethereum blockchain has garnered significant attention as people and organizations of all types have begun to imagine virtually unlimited ways to take advantage of the transparency, security, and efficiency it offers. The UN in particular has embraced it, with seven UN agencies either investigating or implementing it for various purposes. In fact, a major summit is scheduled for the beginning of October at UN Headquarters in New York, in which the Digital Blue Helmets, the UN's branch of technology experts, are expected to unveil some exciting new applications of the Ethereum blockchain.

...

In fact, a major summit is scheduled for the beginning of October at UN Headquarters in New York, in which the Digital Blue Helmets, the UN's branch of technology experts, are expected to unveil some exciting new applications of the Ethereum blockchain.

[Ike]

github - blockchain/My-Wallet-V3-iOS

Well, My-Wallet-V3-iOS

blockchain/iOS-Merchant-App

"iOS app for merchants to receive Bitcoin"

[Ike]

github.com - oleganza/CoreBitcoin

"CoreBitcoin implements Bitcoin protocol in Objective-C and provides many
additional APIs to make great apps.

CoreBitcoin deliberately implements as much as possible directly in Objective
C with limited dependency on OpenSSL. This gives everyone an opportunity to
learn Bitcoin on a clean codebase and enables all Mac and iOS developers to
extend and improve Bitcoin protocol.

Note that "Bitcoin Core" (previously known as BitcoinQT or "Satoshi client") is
a completely different project."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockChain/comments/713sv7/i_work_for_a_bank_big_boss_is_afraid_of_crypto/

I work for a bank. Big Boss is afraid of Crypto...

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/71z7he/big_time_article_in_wall_street_journal_today/

Big time article in Wall Street journal today

[delovski]

git Mastering Bitcoin 2nd Edition - Programming the Open Blockchain

"Mastering Bitcoin is a book for developers, but the first two chapters cover
bitcoin at a level that is approachable to non-programmers. Anyone with a
basic understanding of technology can read the first two chapters and get a
great understanding of bitcoin.

This repository contains the complete first edition, published in Dec 2014, and
the complete second edition, published in June 2017."

[Ike]

en.bitcoin.it - Bitcoin Wiki - Testnet

"The testnet is an alternative Bitcoin block chain, to be used for testing.
Testnet coins are separate and distinct from actual bitcoins, and are never
supposed to have any value. This allows application developers or bitcoin
testers to experiment, without having to use real bitcoins or worrying about
breaking the main bitcoin chain."

edit - freewil/bitcoin-testnet-box

"Create your own private bitcoin testnet

You must have bitcoind and bitcoin-cli installed on your system and in the
path unless running this within a Docker container (see below)."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockChain/comments/73gsk9/learn_blockchains_by_building_one/

[delovski]

rubygarage.org - Implementing Blockchain Technology in Business

"Transparency, immutability, and disintermediation allow blockchain network
participants to remove the need for a third party while performing trusted
transactions 24/7. The blockchain significantly reduces fees, eliminates
counterparty risks, and is able to withstand malicious attacks."

[Ike]

https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/72rv01/ads_dont_work_so_websites_are_using_your/dnl5h74/

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/77lykd/redditor_breaks_down_exactly_how_bit_coin_mining/


I'm not an expert on cryptocurrency, and was stumped by it for many years, but I'll try to give you an answer.

HUGE CAVEAT: This is oversimplified and doesn't touch on all aspects of cryptocurrency. It's just my take on it.

[delovski]

r - BOOM. And all the altcoins shoot up

"There's a reason why Warren Buffet says that it's not easy to beat the
market."

Making money in cryptos is hard, needs lots of time because coins go up
and down at the speed of light, because you can't sleep on your altcoins
with ease since markets are open 24/7 and your 1000$ investment in Neo
is now worth 600$, what do you do? How do you recover easily from that
dip? We all have them.

You can still make money in cryptos ... but it's not easy, those markets are
unpredictable as fuck and since there's only a handful of cryptos accepted
over the internet basically all of them are potential and no real use case."

[Ike]

medium - Let's Build the Tiniest Blockchain

"In this article, I'll make a simple blockchain in less than 50 lines of Python 2
code. It'll be called SnakeCoin."

[Ike]

bitcoin.org - Bitcoin Developer Guide

"The Developer Guide aims to provide the information you need to
understand Bitcoin and start building Bitcoin-based applications, but
it is not a specification. To make the best use of this documentation,
you may want to install the current version of Bitcoin Core, either
from source or from a pre-compiled executable."

[delovski]

hn - Oh, Crap! Someone Accidentally Triggered A Flaw That Locked Up $280 Million In Ethereum

"According to Parity, the vulnerability was triggered by a regular GitHub user,
'devops199,' who allegedly accidentally removed a critical library code from the
source code that turned all multi-sig contracts into a regular wallet address and
made the user its owner."

[delovski]

cryptocoinviz - Bitcoin Cash analysis

"Price of Bitcoin Cash has gone down 1.2% in the last one hour, up 29.93%
in the last 24 hours and up 22.4% in the last 7 days. The 24 hour volume is
around $3149540000. This coin is consistently in the top 10 cryptocurrencies
that are out in the market."

[delovski]

medium.com - A Beginner's Guide to Crypto  -  The Ultimate Knowledge List

"We put together a full list of resources to help you better understand this
new asset class that's revolutionizing the world's economy.

From bitcoins to hashrates, this list has everything you need to hit the ground
running."

[Ike]

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-movement-explained-by-one-equation-fundstrat-tom-lee-metcalf-law-network-effect-2017-10/

Analyst says 94% of bitcoin's price movement over the past 4 years can be explained by one equation

his model is based on Metcalfe's law, which says the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users on the network

[Ike]

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees.html#3m

[Ike]

r - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7c7wjv/if_this_is_your_first_time_seeing_bitcoin_under/dpntvjb/

Now, off chain txs today do not offer the same security guarantee that on chain transactions do, nor the same privacy. But that's where the Lightning Network will step in and create an off chain layer that has the same security promises plus even greater privacy. If you can't wait for it and think you need a bigger block size or faster blocks you'll learn the hard way that scaling isn't about getting 8X the transactions or 10 to 40 times the tx confirmation speed. It's about getting unlimited transaction volume each confirmed in milliseconds.

Bitcoin is where serious development effort by over 100 developers, architects, code reviewers and testers takes place all the time. If you acquaint yourself with the bitcoin's github you will see the huge amount of developer activity taking place just at the core protocol level.

[Ike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQbYToRKgpM

Roger Ver on Bitcoin Cash at the LA Bitcoin Meet Up Group on Nov 9th 2017

[delovski]

BitInfoCharts - Ethereum Block Time historical chart

"Cryptocurrency statistics: Rates | Charts | Correlations | Rich List | Explorer"

[Ike]

r - Pretty much sums it up...

"It was insane, then you look at the posts history and sure enough, not much if
anything. Never saw that many cockroaches at the same time in all the Bitcoin
subs at once, they have been planning this for awhile now."

r - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7cpibo/asicboost_the_reason_why_bitmain_created_bcash/

ASICBoost, the reason why Bitmain created BCash

Why is this so important? First of all Bitmain produces around ~70% of all miners and put quite a few companies out of business. The former CEO of KNCMiner pointed out something interesting out in an old article

[Ike]

My Cryptocurrency app is starting to look good It will be available soon-ish

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7cp1jp/my_cryptocurrency_app_is_starting_to_look_good_d/

Another one: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7ivfpc/cryptokeeper_new_iosandroid_app_for_monitoring/

[delovski]

r - 1987 Stock Market Crash and Bitcoin

"I thought I'd share some of my stock market knowledge to help my fellow
HODLers get a perspective on the CME futures that will be launching soon."

[XNote]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-lewis-author-big-short-owns-378-worth-bitcoin-173852197.html

Michael Lewis, author of 'The Big Short,' owns $378 worth of bitcoin

[delovski]

techcrunch.com - 100 cryptocurrencies described in four words or less

"This list describes cryptocurrencies. Each gets four words. There are many.
Some are landmarks. Some are scams. Hopefully this provides orientation.

Bitcoin - BTC - Digital gold
Ethereum - ETH - Programmable contracts and money
Bitcoin Cash - BCH - Bitcoin clone
Ripple - XRP - Enterprise payment settlement network
Litecoin - LTC - Faster Bitcoin
..."

Another take: What I see every time I look at Coinmarketcap

Or this: A cryptocurrency guide for newcomers

"Gain a simple understanding of different cryptocurrencies: Glossary
Exchange List, Crypto Tools & Goodies"

[delovski]

r - Guys, I am out

"So I sold the last of my 22ish BTC yesterday.

Test your recovery process. If you have a hardware wallet (and you should)
send a small amount of crypto to it then wipe it and reload it using your seed.
This made me much more confident using the wallet once I had done this and
knew that recovery was pretty simple. Also use a passphrase, but make sure
it is one you will never forget."

[Ike]

The Great Bitcoin Bull Market Of 2017 by Trace Mayer

The Bitcoin network can use traditional Internet infrastructure. However, it is even more resilient because it has custom infrastructure including, thanks to Bitcoin Core developer Matt Corrallo, the FIBRE network and, thanks to Blockstream, satellites which reduce the cost of running a full-node anywhere in the world to essentially nothing in terms of money or privacy. Transactions can be cheaply broadcast via SMS messages.

These seven network effects of Bitcoin are (1) Speculation, (2) Merchants, (3) Consumers, (4) Security [miners], (5) Developers, (6) Financialization and (7) Settlement Currency are all taking root at the same time and in an incredibly intertwined way.

[delovski]

r - Warning! This sub has some of the worst investing advice I've ever
seen and is full of people who essentially won a billion dollars in the
lottery, so now they think that makes them Warren Buffet

"These days you're probably stupid not to have money invested in crypto, but
just keep in mind that it's almost entirely based on speculation, and a lot of
your success is based on pure luck. Everybody is a genius investor in a bull
market. The people you see posting here acting like seasoned investing gurus,
are more often than not people who just happened to get lucky a few times.
Have fun with your Baron Rothschild memes, acting like every person who
invests in crypto is going to become a millionaire."

[delovski]

falkvinge.net - The Target Value For Bitcoin Is Not Some $50 Or $100. It Is $100,000 To $1,000,000.

"When you know the size of the target market, and have an estimate for your
projected market share, you can estimate the value of your product or service
as a percentage of the value of the total market. I haven't seen anybody do
that for bitcoin."

Rick Falkvinge on March 6, 2013

[Ike]

Don't invest recklessly

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7gi55s/dont_invest_recklessly/

The Bitcoin price is on an unbelievably ridiculous upswing which is rather likely to be a bubble. If you're trying to get rich quick by dumping your retirement funds into BTC at $10k, then your "investment strategy" is not much better than someone betting everything on a game of roulette. High-risk-high-reward investing is not necessarily bad, but you have to seriously look at your thought process...

[Ike]

r - Bitcoin exposes the massive economic illiteracy of financial journalism; arm yourselves with knowledge.

"I want to arm my fellow Bitcoin users with a small amount of knowledge that
should be enough to knock out the most widely held objection to crypto-
currency's value that you would encounter from your families, friends and
acquaintances: the idea that money needs to be 'backed' by something,
whether it's a financial institution, an army or just plain belief in it. The simple
fact is that this isn't true now, has never been true, and will never be true."

[delovski]

r - I made 174,000$ with a 2000$ investment since May flipping altcoins. AMA

"I will have to modify my formula. It may be flawed now. Reason I say this is
because Facebook is thinking of implementing LTC into Messenger, which would
be huge. No one would dare use Bitcoin to send $ to friends due to high fees +
wait time.

Trading all day looking at a screen not realizing you're hungry + lack of sleep
on a consecutive basis, it came to a point where I thought I was dying. I was
so dizzy, I could not eat let alone speak or walk. Called an Uber, went to ER,
they hooked me up with wires and shit (and fluid tubes to hydrate me). Yeah,
that was one thing I learn't. I guess I could say I almost died trading crypto."

[delovski]

r - How I Went From 10 BTCs, to 30 BTCs to 0.5 BTCs. Lesson For All Newbies

"I started hearing, investigating and buying cryptocurrency coins from around
May 2017. I started off by making a little bit of money, losing money, making a
whole lot of money, and currently I'm in a situation whereby I've lost a whole
lot of money. This includes initial money invested."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/comments/7kdepk/pump_and_dump_watchlist/

Lot of newbies fall for pump and dumps and lose money. This is not only due to their lack of understanding of the crypto scene but as well as a lack of relevant resources to help them identify pump and dumps to avoid them and/or take advantage of them. To help prevent that we are building a pump and dump watchlist to highlight potential pump and dumps

You can see this list in our beta tool here https://beta.digitalassetdb.com. We have a section on the page called Exponential volume surge.

[delovski]

Ken Shirriff's blog:

1. Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol

"All the recent media attention on Bitcoin inspired me to learn how Bitcoin
really works, right down to the bytes flowing through the network. Normal
people use software that hides what is really going on, but I wanted to
get a hands-on understanding of the Bitcoin protocol."

2. Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes

"This article explains Bitcoin mining in details, right down to the hex data and
network traffic. If you've ever wondered what really happens in Bitcoin mining,
you've come to the right place."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7lhgeq/waking_up_today_and_checking_prices/drmecpc/

This really needed to happen for everyone to wake up. You have forks of a memecoin being worth close to a billion dollars, you have coins that only started trading a few months ago based on nothing more than a 10 page whitepaper being valued over $10 billion, you have a slow, expensive dinosaur in Bitcoin underwriting the entire altcoin market and you have endless naive millennials just pouring money into everything without even understanding what a blockchain is. This bull run was lead by people jumping on Coinbase and chasing FOMO, and getting dumped on by bots and people who know how to read volume/support levels.

[Ike]

People are mostly just buying coins with cheap prices and large circulating supplies

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/comments/7o0qcm/coinmarketcap_data_analysis_people_are_mostly/

I'm neither a statistician nor a market analyst but this looks like pure market irrationality to me. The best recent predictor here for market performance of a coin is simply the size of its circulating supply, which is essentially a meaningless decision about where to put a decimal place. Satoshi could have just as easily capped bitcoin at 21 billion coins instead of 21 million, and maybe if he did the BTC market cap would be much higher because people would perceive it as seeming cheap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7o4nkm/last_week_was_the_week_of_the_dumb_money_i_did_an/

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/comments/7oht3h/fast_and_simple_crypto_price_calculator_get_the/

ToolFast and simple crypto price calculator. Get the price of any amount of any coin in any other crypto or fiat. What other tools would you want to see? (hodl.onl)

[delovski]

vice.com - My Joke Cryptocurrency Hit $2 Billion and Something Is Very Wrong

"Dogecoin's valuation is the result of market mania that has resulted in
inexperienced investors buying up low-priced assets on a whim, hoping
that they will follow Bitcoin's meteoric trajectory. This irrational enthusiasm,
coupled with large players manipulating largely unregulated markets, has
resulted in a weekly cycle of rallies and crashes across just about every
crypto asset."

[Ike]

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/15/researchers-finds-that-one-person-likely-drove-bitcoin-from-150-to-1000/

Researchers Neil Gandal, JT Hamrick, Tyler Moore, and Tali Oberman have written a fascinating paper on Bitcoin price manipulation. Entitled 'Price Manipulation in the Bitcoin Ecosystem' and appearing in the recent issue of the Journal of Monetary Economics the paper describes to what degree the Bitcoin ecosystem is controlled by bad actors.

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/comments/7r2s3n/jan_17th_why_is_the_market_crashing_btc_options/

EducationalJan 17th: Why is the Market Crashing (BTC Options, Whales, Correction, FUD, Hack, Conferences)?, Maximize Profits During Bull Runs Minimize Losses During Bear Raids (self.CryptoMarkets)

[Ike]

https://hackernoon.com/million-dollar-trading-mistakes-for-your-entertainment-and-edification-e9bbf9675a8b

Million Dollar Trading Mistakes, For Your Entertainment and Edification
My crytpto-trading f*&k-ups, and some lessons learned.

[delovski]

robinhood.com - Robinhood, Now on Web

"Over the course of nearly two years, we called, video-chatted, and met with
all types of people, all around the country, with varying investment strategies,
financial goals, and account balances, to determine what real people actually
want in an online investment platform."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7tl7gi/im_16_and_i_made_an_app_that_will_help_you_trade/

I'm 16 and I made an app that will help you trade bitcoin and other cryptos.

edit - Crypto Price Tracker made by 16-yr old actually plagiarized

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7trstp/i_spent_3_months_building_one_of_the_best_apps_to/

I spent 3 months building one of the best apps to track cryptocurrencies. Exchanges API sync, wallet tracking and many other features. I am not 16 but I invested a lot of time into this, can I get some attention anyway or am I going to get randomly downvoted as always? The app is also free.


And there's more: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/7wt74g/reddit_terrorizes_another_teen_this_time_over_the/


Reddit Terrorizes Another Teen, This Time Over the Bitcoin App She Created

[Ike]

r - 6 months ago I quit my job... 100,000 lines of code, 2 apps (native iOS & Android) and 1 product later, I'm eager to share with you my dream, Cryptonomy

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7vga1y/i_will_tell_you_exactly_what_is_going_on_here/

I will tell you exactly what is going on here, this is critical information to understand if you are going to make money in this space. How prices work, and what moves them - and it's not money invested/withdrawn

[Ike]

https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7xhmre/rcryptocurrencys_reaction_when_someone_mentions/du8kjgw/

Think you missed out on the crypto shilling bubble? No more moons, the time to invest was 2 years ago, blah blah blah...WRONG!
You too can become a millionaire crypto guru just like this guy
Here is a guaranteed way to get rich in crypto:

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/comments/7z40t9/super_simple_100_offline_free_crypto_portfolio/

ToolSuper simple, 100% offline & free crypto portfolio tracker for iOS & Android (new!) - early version, not perfectly polished, feedback welcome

[delovski]

r - Goldman Sachs-Backed Startup just Bought Poloniex

"With the expansion, Circle is laying the groundwork for a day when crypto-
currencies become pervasive, prices grow less volatile, and the utility of digital
tokens goes undisputed. If most of the dozens of exchanges competing today
are just places to buy and sell coins, Circle has loftier ambitions: It wants to
eventually help consumers turn their trading profits into a Tesla, a mortgage,
or a portfolio of blue chips. Circle has ample funds, mainstream investors,
sophisticated tech, a new network of customers annexed from Poloniex -- and,
with some luck, a legitimate chance at building the bank of the next century
around crypto-finance."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/89o16y/im_mark_karpel?s_exceo_of_bankrupt_mtgox_ask_me/

I'm Mark Karpeles, ex-CEO of bankrupt MtGox. Ask me anything

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8heo2b/here_is_the_bitcoincom_owner_who_created_bitcoin/

[delovski]

m - A Crypto Thesis

"When looking at the market, you want to invest in something that either
may have a large market if/when specific technical and user acquisition
problems can be solved, or, something that looks like a toy -  but that people
are interested in."

[Ike]

astro - The Astrology of Money: Bitcoin and The Aquarian Technocalypse

"During the summer of 2020 and the writing of the Aquarian Techpocalypse,
we discovered an astounding coincidence surrounding the birthdates of Bitcoin,
The United States, The U.S. Dollar, China and its renminbi (Yuan) national
currency: All five occupy similar degrees in their respective Sun signs, forming
precise angles of either opposition (180) or square (90) to each other,
confirming an awareness of astrology and prompting us to consider the
unthinkable"

[Ike]

r - How to Create your very own Shit Coin and become a Millionaire overnight!OC

"So I like many of you have found my self looking less and less at the charts
and trying to occupy myself with other things like work and sleep, both of
those things get old pretty fast so I asked myself - What If I made my own
Shit Coin??"

[Ike]

r, habrador.com - I've made a comparison between this crash and previous crashes

"The data I found is from Coindesk and ranges from 2010 up to today. It con-
sists of one price during the day and not necessarily the highest or lowest price
during the day, but that's not a big deal if you look at the price in a wider
perspective. If you look at all the data you can clearly see that it looks like the
classic bubble chart."