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Dear NEO Nuts! In their own words, “Neo is an open-source, community driven platform that is leveraging the intrinsic advantages of blockchain technology to realize the optimized digital world of the future.” Originally launched in 2014 under the name “Antshares”, NEO is a smart-contract platform (and smart economy) that allows developers to build on it. NEO...

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Dear Ark Advocates! ARK is a cryptocurrency- and blockchain- based development platform allowing anyone to create their own fully customizable and interoperable blockchain. Reducing the industries need for Smart Contracts by using custom transactions, logic and multiple programming languages. ARK was founded in mid 2016, running an ICO later that year which...

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Dear TradingView Friends, Decentralized exchanges (DEX) are a unique new technology native to the cryptocurrency space. Before this (even in traditional finance) all that we have known are centralized exchanges or brokers. 3rd Party platforms or companies where we need to deposit funds to before we can make any sort of trades and ultimately always being...

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Hey XRP Army! XRP has been one of my favorites since the invention of bitcoin. I have been keenly following Ripple for some time now, and it has done an impressive amount of work on the ripple protocol. Here are my top 5 reasons to invest in XRP: I. Impressive list of Investors Ripple is well funded Startup with over $42 million from Venture Capital money. Big...

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Hey Friends! Due to the growing use of location based technologies, privacy and safely of the users largely depends upon the accuracy and validity of the information related to the location. Attempts have been made in the past to eliminate the need of centralized entities that control the flow of data related to location. However, all these attempts relied on the...

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Hey Dash Dweebs! In 2014, 32 year old Evan Duffield launched what would later become Dash. Duffield had been developing the software since he was 15. And he had a history in finance and economics, both skillsets required to launch a viable cryptocurrency. He had discovered Bitcoin four years earlier and had become gripped by its potential. But he wanted to add a...

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Hey Friends! At its core, 0x is an open and non-rent seeking protocol that facilitates trustless, low friction exchange of Ethereum-based assets. Developers can use 0x as a platform to build exchange applications on top of (0x.js is a Javascript library for interacting with the 0x protocol). For end users, 0x will be the infrastructure of a wide variety of...

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Hey Friends, A common theme with successful people: And I’ve read too many biographies for this to be coincidence… They failed MANY times... But they didn’t stop... If we’re honest about it… Most people do just stop... Try this instead: When defeat and hard times come, which they do for everyone…. Just accept it as a sign that the plan wasn’t good...

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Hey Friends, Siacoin is a cryptocurrency and technology ( Sia ) that was innovated at MIT at a hackathon in 2013 by David Vorick and Luke Champine of Nebulous Inc, a VC-funded startup in Boston. You might have heard about Amazon and Dropbox . They are both centralize cloud storage platform and the data is stored on a third party server. Conversely, Sia is a...

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Hey Friends!! Stoner jokes aside..The legal marijuana industry is destroying all expectations... Sales totaled $5.4 billion in 2015 — and hit $6.7 billion in 2016. $50 billion is expected by 2020 based on only half the country currently being legal at the state level... This trend will only accelerate as more states legalize the drug, either for recreational or...

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Hey Friends, Polymath is a platform that seeks to provide a decentralized protocol for issuing and trading security tokens, by creating a security token standard called ST-20. This is similar to the ERC20 token standard created on the Ethereum blockchain. This standard token template is what facilitated the entire proliferation of the 2017 crypto ICO boom in the...

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Dear Friends, One of the most important uses of cryptocurrencies is as a payments mechanism... With a cryptocurrency wallet, you will eventually be able to make payments wherever you are traveling, in whatever the local currency is, all by using your cryptocurrency holdings... There is just one real-world problem to overcome: Bitcoin’s blockchain takes 10...

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Hey Friends, You’ve likely heard of the social media website Reddit. Essentially, users post articles about various topics to the site. Readers can then vote on articles they like or dislike. Posts that receive a lot of positive attention are then pushed to Reddit’s front page. Well, Reddit now has a new competitor called Steemit. Much like Reddit, Steemit...

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Hey Cannabis Investors! I recommended our paid members sell their Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) and Elixinol Global (OTC: ELLXF) holdings. I am no longer confident in either company’s ability to weather a sustained downturn. Aurora is struggling on all fronts. And Aurora founder Terry Booth recently left under a cloud of controversy (read more about the...

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Hey Cannabis Investors! I recommended our paid members sell their Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) and Elixinol Global (OTC: ELLXF) holdings. I am no longer confident in either company’s ability to weather a sustained downturn. Aurora is struggling on all fronts. And Aurora founder Terry Booth recently left under a cloud of controversy (read more about the...

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Hey NEO Bugs! If you are like me and missed the amazing NEO jump from $1 in June to almost $60 in August 2017, now might be a good time to buy in! NEO is a Chinese Ethereum clone that has had a really slick marketing campaign. It launched originally as “Ant Shares,” before taking on the name of the hero from The Matrix movies. Like Ethereum, NEO allows users to...

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Dear Friends, Those days are past when people had to keep some of their precious assets just to borrow even a little amount of money. Today is the time of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Siacoin, Dogecoin (and many more altcoins), which are almost going to replace the hard cash currencies moving around the financial market. Had you ever thought of that...

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Hey Friends! GroestlCoin is a privacy based, ASIC resistant, POW blockchain created with the GRS algorithm in 2014. It was surprisingly the very first blockchain to have announced segwit and Lightning network support. There’s a few ASIC resistant blockchains around, but what makes this one special? I. Development The development team consists of over twenty...