OT any of you investing in Cryptocurrencies?

[NBA Fan 1234]

ICX mainnet just happened.

[IllmaticHandler]

Digital currency stellar soared 20 percent Wednesday after online payments company Stripe said it may add support for the cryptocurrency.

Stellar, or XLM, climbed to about 58.96 cents, up 21.2 percent on the day, according to CoinMarketCap. That gave the digital currency a market value of about $10.3 billion, making it the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Stellar traded near 58.1 cents as of 9:05 a.m. ET.

Stripe handles payments for more than 100,000 businesses, including Warby Parker and OpenTable. The company announced Tuesday afternoon that it would stop processing bitcoin transactions on April 23 due to slower transaction rates and high fees.

But "we may add support for Stellar (to which we provided seed funding) if substantive use continues to grow," Stripe product manager Tom Karlo said in a blog post.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/24/stellar-jumps-20-percent-after-stripe-says-it-may-add-support-for-the-digital-coin.html

[IllmaticHandler]

ICX mainnet just happened.

what does that mean?

[NBA Fan 1234]

ICX mainnet just happened.

what does that mean?

https://medium.com/helloiconworld/icon-mainnet-1-0-launched-d54b9132017e

[E-Balla]

this dude is a Huge Crypto Pusher. His whole page is if full of it. When dudes of this level are jumping into the segment yo know there is growth.

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Nah McAfee is a scam artist basically announcing pump and dumps. You can follow him but don't jump on anything he tweets late because you will have missed it.

Ok. I am not really going to be jumping into that many coins, but good looks on the info. How did you learn this. I was kinda surprised that his page was nothing but Cryptos damn near for the little bit I read.

When I saw he was tweeting so many cryptos knowing who he is I looked it up and found at least 80 threads on different forums and reddit saying stay clear. Dude is a known crazy person and POS so I knew something was up. He killed his neighbor and blamed the illuminati. Came back to the crime scene in disguise.

[Greenie]

Threw $300 at XLM when it was 25 cents. I wish I threw more.

I might jump back in just to jump out.

[IllmaticHandler]

Threw $300 at XLM when it was 25 cents. I wish I threw more.

I might jump back in just to jump out.

sit your heavy bank ass down...

[Greenie]

Threw $300 at XLM when it was 25 cents. I wish I threw more.

I might jump back in just to jump out.

sit your heavy bank ass down...

On the side.
For fun.

What app am I going to download?
I’ll play with 1k.

[Im Coming Home]

I grabbed from PGX (PagareX) its an ICO, based on a suggestion from a friend.

[bigfnjoe96]

Totally agree on the coinburn. I'm hodling for the long term. While everyone is enjoying themselves, we wait patiently as the revolution will not be televised

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[bigfnjoe96]

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[bigfnjoe96]

The revolution will not be televised.... Just hodling...... and waiting my turn

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[IllmaticHandler]

I might jump back in just to jump out.

sit your heavy bank ass down...

On the side.
For fun.

What app am I going to download?
I’ll play with 1k.

what do you mean by app. I think you might mean exchange. You have to sign up for those. Alot of us use binance here.

[Greenie]

sit your heavy bank ass down...

On the side.
For fun.

What app am I going to download?
I’ll play with 1k.

what do you mean by app. I think you might mean exchange. You have to sign up for those. Alot of us use binance here.

Yes yes. I’m simply downloading the app to my phone. That’s why I called it that.

[IAmTheBest]

just bought a stack of waltonchain

decided to go with that over ven even though i probably shouldve bought both

[IllmaticHandler]

Why a $39 Million ICO Chose Stellar Over Ethereum

"We look at ethereum like AOL or Myspace."

That's how Mobius Network co-founder and CEO David Gobaud explains why his startup ran its initial coin offering (ICO) on the Stellar network instead of ethereum, the most popular blockchain for token sales.

The comment underscores the growing interest in some corners of the crypto community for faster and cheaper payment rails as ethereum, like bitcoin, struggles to scale.

Mobius announced Thursday that it has raised $39 million in the ICO — one of the larger recent token sales and the largest by far on the Stellar platform. The company accepted only Stellar's native currency, lumens (XLM), in exchange for its own token, known as mobi.

According to Mobius, the sale hit its $39 million hard cap after only two hours, selling 35 percent of the total 888 million mobi tokens.

Participants in the round included China's Angel Chain Capital, Nirvana Capital and WaltonChain, an internet of things (IoT) startup that is building devices to enable manufacturers and retailers to track supply chains, according to the firm's website.

In addition to this backing, Gobaud emphasized that Mobius deployed its decentralized app (dapp) store alongside its ICO, saying it was important for the company to come out with live code early, to prove the project was real.

But what's perhaps most striking about the sale was the choice of blockchain.

While latency or cost might not be a dealbreaker for some blockchain projects, they are for Mobius' use case. Its thesis is that traditional tech companies will soon want to integrate with cryptocurrencies and, eventually, a decentralized web.

Mobius' white paper compares the company's work to that of Stripe, the Silicon Valley darling that took integration of credit card payments down to a few lines of code (and incubated Stellar in its early days). Mobius aims to do the same thing for cryptocurrency payments and, down the line, for publishing data to trade on decentralized marketplaces.

So the company needed an IoT-friendly network that could handle large amounts of transactions and data quickly, with low or no fees.

The goal is to "make it easy to connect every device, developer and data stream to the blockchain ecosystem," Gobaud said.

Yet while the vast majority of ICO-funded projects have been run on top of ethereum, using the ERC-20 standard, that blockchain has suffered from transaction backlogs and pendulum-like swings in fees.

Hence, after beginning its project on ethereum, Mobius switched to Stellar, the protocol created by Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb. Like Ripple before it, Stellar was designed specifically for frictionless payments.

Trade-offs

Ethereum's scaling challenges have become acute in recent months. The issue moved Kik to announce that it would move its kin token off ethereum in December 2017.

While the ethereum developers recognize and are working on the problem, the Mobius team couldn't wait for a scaling solution, Gobaud said.

"We were building our dapp store on ethereum and then we connected with Jed," he said adding:

"We realized there was no way that ethereum could handle our technology. It was too slow, too expensive and too insecure. ... We see all these other projects with these immense problems"

Gobaud highlighted the problems with safely deploying smart contracts. "They are Turing complete programs, but they are really hard to write," he said, pointing to the first and second multi-million-dollar ether losses on Parity. Solidity was not a language built with security in mind, Gobaud argued.

In Stellar, "we think we've uncovered this underutilized, really unknown technology," Gobaud said.

For example, Stellar supports multi-signature wallets at the protocol level, making custodianship much easier for developers.

But Stellar has its downsides, Gobaud acknowledged. It's not Turing complete, for example, but Mobius is happy to make that trade-off in exchange for vastly faster and cheaper transactions.

https://www.coindesk.com/why-a-39-million-ico-chose-stellar-over-ethereum/

[Dunk93]

Wow. Lambos?

Modern day investors talking about their investment choices

https://www.madwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/fishing-tales-1.jpg

[IllmaticHandler]

More of an Understanding of Stellar relationship with IBM's Hyperledger.

During a panel last Monday (Oct 16th), IBM announced that it would be using Stellar to grow their world banking platform. Stellar (XLM on Bittrex) is a crypto currency like Ripple designed specifically for cross boarder payments. The coin is built on its own public blockchain that is paired with the private Hyperledger chain of IBM. This is advantageous to IBM because it means the company does not have to create its own token. This leaves the heavy settlement (Back end) part of banking to the secure Hyperledger blockchain, and the light transaction (front end) part of banking to the Stellar blockchain. Ultimately, the pairing of the public and private chains maximizes the security, usefulness, and speed of the over-all system.

What’s more, Stellar’s paring with Hyperledger increases the usability of Stellar. Think of Hyperledger as an operating system, like IOS on your iPhone, and Stellar as an app like FaceTime. As more and more people begin using an iPhone, more and more people will be inclined to use FaceTime. While not everyone uses an iPhone for FaceTime, the apps simply being available to iPhone users results in a strong correlation between its adoption with the adoption of the iPhone. Stellar, Like FaceTime, is a useful tool on an already useful Hyperledger platform (the iPhone).

Stellar was founded by one of the two creators of Ripple. It was originally designed as a fork of Ripple. Its platform, from the beginning, has been built for banking. With IBM’s Hyperledger now powering the back end of the combined platform, Stellar is stronger than ever. Essentially, Stellar is Ripple with the resources of IBM and the Hyperledger board… and now SWIFT.

In the few days since IBM’s announcements, JP Morgan has been quietly taking steps to implement a cross boarder payments system of its own. Just last month the company acquired WePay, a blockchain based payment app for fiat currencies. It will undoubtedly use the Hyperledger framework (being that its proprietary blockchain ‘Quorum’ is based on it). This leaves only one token that it could possibly use to pair with its blockchain… Stellar

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[IllmaticHandler]

Wow. Lambos?

Modern day investors talking about their investment choices

https://www.madwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/fishing-tales-1.jpg

[Da_Mane_Man]

I grabbed from PGX (PagareX) its an ICO, based on a suggestion from a friend.

https://concourseq.io/Q/Pagarex