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Op-Ed: “Without Crypto, Your Money Doesn’t Exist”

https://dcebrief.com/op-ed-without-crypto-your-money-doesnt-exist/

Thanks again RJF, you saved me a lot of search time.

Try this one, 3073 coins listed:  https://coinranking.com/

New post on DNotesEDU:


FBI Issues Public Service Announcement on Tech Support Fraud -  https://dnotesedu.com/2018/03/fbi-issues-public-service-announcement-on-tech-support-fraud/

Newegg Expanding Bitcoin Payment Option to Customers in Canada

https://dcebrief.com/newegg-expanding-bitcoin-payment-option-to-customers-in-canada/

Reminder: If you have DNotes on the exchanges and would like your DNotes swapped at the DNotesVault, please send them to your DNotesVault account prior to April 1st.

Thanks cheddur! Looks fantastic.

I encourage everyone to support DNotes on the cheddur app!

Chase, that article was a fantastic find! I haven't seen someone paint the picture so clearly in the mainstream media. I find the occasional view that is similar on Linkedin by the 'real professionals', but often those views are crowded out by posts by the exact type of people who are what is described in that article. I saw one business marketing themselves as an "innovative" x/y/z, and when I watched their video showing the highlights of a conference they attended and had a booth at -- the entire 3 minutes was just a montage of their team showing off their dance moves in and around the booths. It was as though what they had developed wasn't worth talking about to the viewer (and they supposedly won an award or two here and there at said conferences). This industry is quite correctly described as one where marketing is king over building real products, but I do not expect this strategy to work too much longer.

My biggest complaint about crypto investors is they treat the industry like they bought a winning lottery ticket, and it's the end of the world when things begin to go in the opposite direction. Crypto is not a lottery ticket where you throw money at the people who will just use it to market a product that they don't have, but rather one where you invest in the people who are building technologies and capabilities that will allow money users to do things that they previously couldn't. More than that, these technologies require execution of the best business strategies to really make a dent in the modern financial world.

This is the most accurate depiction of the current state of the industry that I've seen in mainstream media. It will be interesting to see the reaction to DNotes 2.0 - a project that actually has substance and value.


The ICO Epidemic

Celebrities, club promoters and every modern-day snakeoil salesman have all come out of the woodwork to promote initial coin offerings (ICOs).

Much like an IPO, initial coin offerings allow the public to crowdfund a new digital currency into the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Telegram, a cloud-based instant messaging service, is on track to pocket over $2 billion thanks to its ICO. Some have relied on scams to drive up investments, including Miroskii, which touted a fictitious Ryan Gosling as its lead designer, helping the company receive close to $850,000 in financing from its ICO launch. And still others have managed to raise funding only to leave investors with a whitepaper saying nothing but the word “penis.”

As a digital agency owner, I’ve been pitched everything from blockchain tech revolutionizing the way you track child trafficking through a general ledger to how Ethereum and smart tracks will revolutionize the fruits and vegetables industry.

And every time I’m skeptical.

Big Money, Bad Actors And A Whole Lot Of Smoke And Mirrors

I’m not advocating for or against blockchain. In fact, I try to keep my mouth shut about all things crypto and blockchain when I speak to the press. Mainly because if you’re the crypto expert who didn’t foresee the X% crash tomorrow, all of a sudden you look like a fool. If you’re the trader who did predict it, decided to short it and didn’t tell your friends in your private Slack or Telegram group, you look even worse.

The biggest problem I have with cryptocurrency startups and ICOs is the bad actors. Being a native Angeleno, you see lots of folks reinventing their brands every three to five years. Shady affiliates pushing porn sites to your run-of-the-mill Ponzi schemers.

All these characters show up to your local crypto meetups and want a piece of the action. They’ve reinvented themselves as crypto experts or blockchain gurus and now wear black turtlenecks and write “Crypto Visionary” in their Linkedin headlines.

Here’s the problem: most aren’t building any real technology. “Ben, we just ICO’d for $20 million, but we’re not quite ready to work on development. Can you help us with some app screen designs and landing pages?”

That’s what it sounds like to own a digital agency right now.

Lots of sales funnels, branding work, landing pages and … drumroll … more UI/UX design screens with no back-end technology. The startup ecosystem is thriving with innovators and visionaries everywhere. Blockchain has the potential to disrupt the world, but it requires people to actually use their funds to build real technology. Not just vapor.

Crypto Is The Future -- But It Needs A Cleanse

I remember when the ICO epidemic exploded last year and everyone was concerned with the engineering scarcity it would bring. “Hey! Know anyone devs with C++ skills?” “Can you please find me a dev who has worked on the ERC20 token?” “Will pay in cash and cryptocurrency!”

Well, the catch-22 here is that most of these players are doing no real development other than marketing assets, which means a lot of bored crypto devs not actually writing code -- nor committing their work on Github or open-sourcing the code like their mission statement said it would.

It’s not so much that the market needs a correction as much as a cleanse -- a cleanse of the shady, bad actors who are attracted to the massive gains.

I, for one, remain extremely cautious whenever we see founders trying to build products in crypto. Despite the funding and experience of leadership, we’re still amazed to see how few are actually building real technologies to disrupt the market.

Don’t get me wrong: Crypto and blockchain are the future. There’s no doubt about that. But before we see that future, we’ll all have to ride it out as the dust settles on the fakers and the scams.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/03/30/the-ico-epidemic/2/#cb75c93b28d1

Does anyone know offhand where I could find a list of every cryptocurrency and token that has launched? Even just the numbers would do.

CoinMarketCap doesn't list them all, and they also delist the abandoned ones every once in a while.

DNotes 2.0 - Countdown to proof of stake...    

China to Launch New Crackdown on Digital Currencies

https://dcebrief.com/china-to-launch-new-crackdown-on-digital-currencies/

The Bitcoin Bunny is back to celebrate another Easter.

Happy Easter everyone and have a great weekend! 





How The Easter Bunny Found Bitcoin -  https://dnotesedu.com/2018/03/easter-bunny-found-bitcoin/

Brandon, it may sound a little harsh but unfortunately that is the sad realities of our industry. There has to be some law and order in dealing with our hard earned money. The cleaning up and cleaning out process will continue for sometime. Meanwhile, it is hurting our industry and all of us as investors.

DNotes will stay the course. This is a risky time to be betting on the wrong horse. I fear that many will not survive the test of time or the rule of law. Do your home work and invest with caution. The technology is here to stay. Many of the coins may not.

If you have DNotes on the exchanges and would like your DNotes swapped at the DNotesVault, please send them to your DNotesVault account prior to April 1st.

It's ironic that many cryptocurrencies claim they are going to replace fiat, and on the other hand are upset when their value drops vs fiat.

One trend I have noticed is how many investors and industry insiders are quick to blame regulators for all of cryptocurrency's price problems, while failing to place any blame on the bad actors who engaged in shoddy ethics. It will be a welcome change to have a set of rules that all legitimate cryptocurrencies play by. Now all the scam artists, intellectual property thieves, and their ilk will get what they deserve; a currency that is only tradable among other conmen. Nations do have a right to protect their fiat currency from outside threats. I'm all for freedom and deregulation, but when an individual uses their increased freedom to infringe upon someone else's, that becomes a huge problem.

There has to be more barriers to becoming a blue chip in this industry and I think we've found one; many projects won't hold up to regulatory scrutiny or be tradable in a significant number of countries. They may have 12 trillion dollars in volume and a quadrillion dollar (pre-revenue) market cap, according to a fraudulent black market exchange trading in and out of counterfeit representations of fiat currency, but they will never find their way onto legitimate financial networks like DNotes and a few others will.

Hi quetheygafen, 

Thank you for visiting us. We are doing well and about to launch the highly anticipated DNotes 2.0 very soon.

DNotes 2.0, DNotesVault and our ecosystems will set us apart from the rest of our industry’s pack even more. For four years we have been steadfast in our vision and commitment to be the inclusive trusted digital currency for everyone to participate – ultimately gaining mainstream adoption in global commerce. While we still have a long way to go, we are one step closer.

Please take note that DNotes is not involved in any ICO. We are working on Reg. A+ Mini-IPO Tier 2 to raise up to $50 million from accredited and non-accredited investors worldwide, during the later half of this year. It’s a long and costly process.

As I wrote earlier: “I wish that ICOs can be structured and conducted in manners that meet existing security laws, either through registration or exemption. Unfortunately, without significant changes to existing laws, it is simply not possible. To date, the issuers of ICO tokens are exclusively decentralized entities without any central authority. However, the money collected goes to individuals, partnership or incorporated companies purportedly are working on some great ideas presented in a white paper. The investors have no ownership or voting rights in the private entity that received the investment.”

Here is the conundrum. Technologies often get ahead of regulations. In the case of ICOs, way ahead, and in a massive way. Over $6 billion has been raised worldwide with no sign of slowing down. None of the ICOs have been registered with the SEC. Unlike corporate shares, there are no provisions, existing rules, and regulations governing decentralized entities. Furthermore, SEC does not have the means of obtaining and maintaining full disclosure of all essential information that are important for the investors to make an informed decision.

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton recently made this statement: “Investors should understand that to date no initial coin offerings have been registered with the SEC.”  https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/12/125792-sec-chairman-jay-clayton-issues-statement-initial-coin-offerings-cryptocurrencies/

Searching the Blockchain: An Overview of Nebulas - Decentralized Search Framework

https://dcebrief.com/searching-the-blockchain-an-overview-of-nebulas-decentralized-search-framework/

In a sea of red, comforting headlines are rare. I found one  and agree that reasonable regulation is good for the industry. The wild west conduct, pump and dump, and the craziness of get rich quick ICOs are obviously not sustainable. Unfortunately, they also come with consequences, of which we are all paying for it now. 

This is a cleaning out process, much like the personal computer and dot com eras. They were easy businesses to get in, but also easy to get killed. This is a good time take a good look at your portfolio. Doing your homework is more important than ever.

Bitcoin price 'BOOST': Increased crypto regulation is 'going to be GOOD' for investors
By JOSEPH CAREY
PUBLISHED: 00:50, Fri, Mar 30, 2018 | UPDATED: 00:50, Fri, Mar 30, 2018

BITCOIN’S price could skyrocket and turn around a period of tumultuous declines thanks to an increased regulation that may be good news for investors, the head of mobile at a cryptocurrency exchange has claimed.

Ed Cooper, from Revolut, told Express.co.uk that 2018 is going to be an “exciting year” for Bitcoin investors and that further regulation will add “more legitimacy” to the market.

He said: “2018 will definitely be an exciting year for cryptocurrencies.

“Increased regulation will be positive as it will add more legitimacy to the space and allow businesses to have much clearer guidelines when dealing with cryptocurrencies, whereas previously there has been uncertainty which has stunted growth.”

Mr Cooper added that the huge adoption of virtual money is based on its “underlying technology” and predicted that Bitcoin is going to emerge from its current period of declines stronger than ever.
He commented: “The popularity of the cryptocurrencies is based on the underlying technology and not on advertising.

“Initial coin investments (ICOs) and cryptocurrencies have faced lot more serious problems in the past and have emerged stronger.

“This time is not going to be any different.”

The member of Revolut was eager to discuss a new Bitcoin technology named Segwit, short for Segregated Witness, that is an upgrade for the cryptocurrency that changes how data is kept on the platform.
He declared that the upgrade will deliver “decreased network congestion, improved confirmation times and lower fees”.

Mr Cooper explained: “One example is the increasing adoption of Segwit on the Bitcoin network, which is a change to the transaction format which improves the performance of the network.

“Several large exchanges such as Coinbase are planning to upgrade to SegWit, and the new Bitcoin Core wallet will also support it, which will result in decreased network congestion, improved confirmation times and lower fees.”
Bitcoin started harnessing SegWit back in August 2017 and has been hailed by many enthusiasts as a solution to scaling problems that have plagued the virtual money.

The adoption of cryptocurrency exchanges could lead to greater Bitcoin adoption and thus a surge in prices.

Bitcoin is currently trading at $7,615.07 at the time of writing.
The cryptocurrency has shaved off a shocking $2,695.53 from its value in the last month that will have surely sent mass worries to investors.

The horrific decline marks a fall of 26.14 per cent for the visual money in the last month.

Huge declines and spikes in Bitcoin prices demonstrate the monstrous volatility of the cryptocurrency sphere.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/939137/Bitcoin-price-boost-cryptocurrency-regulation-is-good-for-investors-BTC-USD-prediction

Bitfinex Announces It Won't Support Petro

https://dcebrief.com/bitfinex-announces-it-wont-support-petro/

The DNotesVault is scheduled to temporarily shut down on the April 1st, in preparation of the launch of DNotes 2.0.

If you would like to withdraw any DNotes before the swap, please do so on or before April 1st.

Any DNotes deposits after the first will be reviewed and handled after the swap is complete, expect delays, so be sure to make any deposits that you can before April 1st.

After the launch of DNotes 2.0 and the DNotesVault swap is complete we will begin the manual swap process. As a reminder the soft deadline for the manual swap will be April 16th.

Thank you!