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I invested in the antshares ICO and been away for a while, I still have the wallet but how to get my private keys? the wallet file I can't import in the NEO wallet and the old antshares wallet is not opening. Can someone point me into the right direction?

Check these sites:

http://neonetwork.io/ico

https://neoguide.io/icos

https://np.reddit.com/r/NEO/comments/7sias3/ico_summary_2

 

https://www.applancer.co/blog/why-neo-the-chinese-ethereum-price-should-shot-up-in-the-year-2018

UNITED STATES: AMAZON  ----  CHINA: ALIBABA
UNITED STATES: ETHEREUM --- CHINA: NEO
UNITED STATES: MAC & CHEESE --- CHINA: CHOW MEIN

I'M GOING WITH THE CHOW MEIN. 

$NEO= MOON

NEO is in the coin vote list for Legolas! Legolas is an upcoming premium exchange focused on institutional investors, so that means high volume! Participate in the public ICO, starting on the 1st of February 12:00 PM GMT, at https://legolas.exchange and cast your vote!

We need a site to list all the projects in ICO using NEO platform, is this possible?

Me too...2020   

Hodling all except maybe a couple invested in Neo ICO's   

http://cityofzion.io/dapps/2

CITY OF ZION IS LAUNCHING ITS SECOND DAPPS COMPETITION

COMPETITION DETAILS
The City of Zion (COZ) Council is happy to promote the second NEO dApps competition. Individual developers or teams are invited to join the NEO Discord #develop channel and submit their work to compete for 10 prizes of 1350 GAS. Winners of the #1 competition may submit apps to be judged, but will not be eligible for prizes.

ENTRY SUBMISSIONS
Submissions will open on 25 January 2018 and close on 25 February 2018.

Any entries after this deadline will not be accepted as part of this competition.

Applications can be made in teams or by individuals. Winners will be selected as per the voting process laid out in City of Zion governance item 7.

Evaluated topics:

- Smart contract application novelty and technical impressiveness.

- Overall impact and importance to ecosystem.

- Quality of documentation (english required).

- Community presence (participation on CoZ channels).

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All submissions should be a working minimal viable product (MVP). The dApps submitted should have been demonstrated to work on testnet environments to be eligible for rewards. Smart contract code must be MIT licensed and properly documented. The remainder of the business logic, or supporting features around it can be fully proprietary.

COMPETITION PRIZES
On the 9th of March 2018 the City of Zion council will announce a list of 10 winners in Discord and on this competition page. Each winner will receive 1350 GAS to launch their applications, from which at least 500 GAS should be used to deploy the dApp.

SUPPORT
Source code for winners of last competition can be found in here. For the submission the City of Zion council will provide testnet NEO and GAS for developers and teams on our Discord.

SUPPORT NEO STACK EXCHANGE!
The Neo Blockchain Stack Exchange site was proposed in order to give developers like you a place to ask questions, get answers, and discuss the Neo blockchain with each other. We're about halfway there to getting the site to Beta status, and every commit to the proposal helps. Commit to the Neo Blockchain proposal here!

I am still holding $NEO and will hold till 2020. Lets see whats upon future $NEO will deliver us. I have a good expectation for good people and community behind $NEO.

Cheers bud lol ya that song made me laugh too 

BTFD!!!!!! 

Haha. Made me laugh again. Here, have a merit

I will post here again quoting you once I buy that dip (I hope)

Chinese Initial Coin Offering Ban May End In 2018

https://usethebitcoin.com/chinese-initial-coin-offering-ban-may-end-2018/

Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have been hardly punished in China with regulations. But apparently, new regulations prepared for 2018 would end the ban over ICOs. The information has been released by China’s People’s University Law School vice president Yang Dong.

New Regulations Ahead – The End of the ICO Ban?

The Southeast Asia Blockchain Summit was important for the cryptocurrency community. Mr Yang Dong has spoken there and commented that he believes that the cryptocurrency trading and ICO ban would not continue indefinitely.

When China decided to ban ICOs, the market reacted by losing almost 50% of its value. Bitcoin, which previously reached $5,000 fall down to $3,000 dollars. China has taken the decision to ban Initial Coin Offerings due to the fact that some of them where fraudulent or wanted to steal money. That’s why ICOs were obliged to return the funds received to their owners.

Yang, who is also director of the Centre for Financial Technology said during an interview:

“Good ICO projects are allowed to develop in a legal and risk-controlled environment rather than simply adopting a one-size-fits-all approach. The China Securities Regulatory Commission may launch equity crowdfunding pilot program in the near future, which will be an opportunity for ICO to get in compliance.”

About China we have also heard that miners would not be able to keep with their activities. According to local media, the rumours about a cryptocurrency mining ban were not real and tried to spread fear in the cryptocurrency community. Local governments from several provinces have been welcoming mining activities in some industrial parks. Miners do not create pollution, od not disturb people in the area and they do not need government loans.

But China is not the only market that has been suffering from strict regulations. South Korea has been in the news because of possible regulations that could affect Cryptocurrency trading and other activities. But at UseTheBitcoin we have stopped spreading FUD explaining that a possible cryptocurrency trading ban is illegal in the Asian country.

It will be important to follow which regulations will be available now on in China and how ICOs will be able to operate in this Asian country.


http://Chinese Scholar: China To Release New Policy On Cryptocurrency And ICO in 2018

http://news.8btc.com/chinese-scholar-china-to-release-new-policy-on-cryptocurrency-and-ico-in-2018


"First of all, the ICO itself should have a (legal) position. It is a financial innovation, which should be regulated by the government by sandbox etc. Good ICO projects are allowed to develop in a legal and risk-controlled environment rather than simply adopting a one-size-fits-all approach.
Second, the ICO should be regulated as securities, or as pilot program for equity crowdfunding. China’s CSRC may launch equity crowdfunding pilot program in the near future, which will be an opportunity for ICO to get in compliance."

Hiya everyone i have a big problem whit my walllet i forgot the password....
Any Idea how can i crack it to get my coins ? I will apriciate every help!
 :'(Thanks in advance.

The ecosystem is growing with slow but sure steps. NEO will grow faster in 2018.

Good one, thanks  

Vids like this make explaining Neo to people much easier for me   

Congratulations to all the developers for getting their Stack Exchange Fully Committed! I'm sure this will help a lot.

Simply put, why NEO will be 2018 one of biggest players.

Great review about NEO for newbie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfb-iCc7yOA

Cryptocurrency Industry Spotlight: Who is NEO’s Da Hongfei?

https://coincentral.com/cryptocurrency-industry-spotlight-neos-da-hongfei/


Who is Da Hongfei?

Da Hongfei is the founder of NEO, a blockchain platform for distributed apps. He is also the founder and CEO of Onchain, a blockchain development company for enterprise and institutions. Both projects are headquartered in China and were the first blockchain development projects based in China.

 Hongfei has earned his status as blockchain and cryptocurrency pioneer in Asia. He is now one of the most respected experts in crypto, especially when it comes to Chinese user adoption, enterprise applications, and government regulation.

In this spotlight, we’ll take a look at Hongfei’s career in crypto and dive deeper to understand his role in the greater cryptocurrency landscape.

Da Hongfei and the Blockchain World
Da Hongfei’s cryptocurrency story kicks off in 2014 with the founding of Antshares (now known as NEO) and Onchain.

The Founding of NEO (Antshares)
Antshares began in February 2014. It was designed to be a platform for building decentralized apps. The first of its kind in China, Antshares paved the way for future Chinese blockchain projects.

NEO

NEO’s technology allows for smart contracts (like Ethereum). However, NEO runs a virtual machine that allows developers to code these contracts in C#, Java, Python, or other popular coding languages. You no longer need to know a new language to code smart contracts.

In April 2016, the team released a whitepaper on a new type of consensus protocol (dBFT – delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance), the first from China. This is the protocol that NEO nodes use to reach consensus and finalize transactions. dBFT allows NEO to maintain a transaction speed of 1,000 TPS, with optimization this can go up to a much higher level. Compare that to Ethereum’s 15 transactions per second, and you get a sense that NEO is built for large-scale, high-frequency use.

The Founding of Onchain

Hongfei and Antshares CTO Erik Zhang also founded Onchain around the same time. This company approaches enterprise blockchain use from the other direction. They provide consulting and development services to the many private companies interested in blockchain.



Onchain started seeing some high-speed velocity in 2016, further developing Antshares and becoming the first Chinese blockchain company to join Hyperledger, which has helped to further develop Onchain’s product called DNA. DNA, or Distributed Networks Architecture, enables the integration of business systems and the support of cross-chain interoperability.

DNA’s design allows blockchain to be applied to a variety of uses cases while collaborating with government regulations, deciding on a consensus protocol, being unable to connect with other blockchain applications, or even finding developers to build out your own blockchain or applications.

OnchainIn June 2016, Onchain partnered with Microsoft China. Onchain also partnered with FaDaDa to found Legal Chain to address several inadequacies of legal digital applications. Onchain was also voted KPMG’s top 50 Fintech Companies in China, and announced a partnership with Alibaba for a email evidence repository for enterprises powered by blockchain.

Essentially, DNA is a platform that allows other existing platforms to utilize blockchain technology without having to reinvent the wheel. OnChain’s DNA aims to facilitate mainstream adoption and cross-chain communication.

Synergy Between NEO and Onchain: Da Hongfei’s Master Plan
For context, the relationship between NEO and Onchain is that of Ethereum and Enterprise Ethereum. Onchain works on blockchain projects with large enterprises and has collaborated with the Chinese government in the past, which ultimately helps the NEO ecosystem. The NEO ecosystem develops the platforms for future blockchain growth in China. In the future, as well see later in this article, NEO will bridge the gap between private institutional blockchains and public ones, creating a unified blockchain economy.

To find out more about Onchain and NEO, I recommend our guide on NEO.

Consulting the Chinese Government
One of the most notable and often understated roles Hongfei has played has been establishing a constructive line of communication with Chinese government officials.

China cracked down on cryptocurrencies in the wake of ICO-mania, where dubious ICO projects were flying out of the woodwork at the expense of naive investors. As one of the world’s leaders in tech innovation and home to a huge population of entrepreneurs and developers, closing the curtains on crypto would have been an extremely unfortunate missed opportunity.

Hongfei played an instrumental role in working with the Chinese government before and after the ban to create a healthy atmosphere for blockchain innovation in China without the scammy projects.

Hongfei’s Reaction to the Chinese ICO Bubble
Hongfei compared the ICO situation to that of the early 2000s dot-com bubble, “When you started a business that ended in ‘dot com’, you could easily attract capital. The same is what you see with the ICO buzz.” He went on to say that new technologies will always generate bubbles, because investors get excited more quickly than the technology can develop to keep up. However, after bubbles, the technology always catches up and the market recovers.

Although the cryptocurrency situation in China is far more complicated than just a few pesky scammy ICOs, it’s worth noting Hongfei’s influence. As the founder of Onchain and NEO, a smart contracts ecosystem that supports the development of dapps, Hongfei was able to take ownership of the cleaning of the space.

The battle for crypto in China is far from over, but by having more positive figures in the space like Hongfei, the conversation can continue towards innovation rather than destruction.

China’s Plan
China recently published their 13th Five-Year Plan, which touched on the prioritization of blockchain development in the next five years.

In 2017, China’s Central Bank also published a similar plan on Fintech development with the goal of “Strengthen foundation, Increase safety, Promote innovation, Develop standardisation and Improve regulation”

Additionally, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China published “The National Blockchain Standard”, which Onchain was one of the first to pass this new standard.

The Future
Hongfei has big plans for the future of Onchain and NEO. 2016 and 2017 generated the biggest buzz for NEO yet, and the momentum continues for both endeavors. Hongfei is optimistic for Onchain’s future as well:

“Our vision is to make Onchain a truly universal Blockchain framework. Utilizing different plug-in modules, our framework could be applied for a public chain, a consortium chain or even a private chain. Our cross-chain adaptor module, currently under development, creates interoperability among these different chains.”
-Da Hongfei, Oct 5th, 2016.

NeoX + Onchain
The master plan ultimately involves synergy between NEO and Onchain. While it won’t come in the near term, expect NEO and Onchain’s services to link within the coming years. NEO already has plans for NeoX, their platform for cross-blockchain transactions. If successful, NeoX could link private blockchains to the larger public market. A blockchain crossing tool like that could be as useful as APIs are in web development, allowing for some private code to be interoperable with a public ecosystem. This would enable the interoperability between blockchains whether public or private.

Once connected, NEO and Onchain will hold a complete ecosystem of technology. They could intermediate a whole new blockchain-driven economy. This is Da Hongfei’s master plan. It’s brilliant, and so far he’s executing well.

Conclusion
Da Hongfei is one of the premier luminaries in crypto right now. His connections within the Chinese government, status as a pioneer in Chinese crypto, and position at the helm of two major Chinese blockchain companies means he’ll be a key player in the development of cryptocurrency.

If you’d like to see Da Hongfei speak, you can catch him at Blockchain Connect in San Francisco on January 26th, 2018. Snag 30% off tickets with the code ‘coincentral’. [SOLD OUT]



Additionally, Da Hongfei will be speaking and touching on “The New Vision” for NEO at the first NEO Developers Conference in San Francisco on January 30th and 31st, 2018.