In this period where there is great competition in businesses, a business can thrive when it keys into a modern innovative technology, meet BitCAD. The BitCAD encrypted smart platform has emerged to be one of the most trusted platforms that companies adopt to grow effectively and sell more. To meet up with the standard and requirement of customers, businesses must be fully equipped by relying completely on companies such as BitCAD that has already prepared the solution needed for the development and maintenance of their businesses. 

BitCAD has introduced Tectum, which is a decentralized trade engine that uses API to integrate a Banking system, Insurance, CRM system, trade platform and exchanges, government, taxation, DN and custom applications. They are highly effective and efficient in offering the right solution to various business needs and they operate through a secure Blockchain technology. In opposition to the centralized currency and financial system, BitCAD provides a decentralized cryptocurrency that is a digital asset which works as a medium of exchange during financial transactions. In the business world, we all are involved in one transaction or the other and cryptocurrency have come to make payment of goods and services easy, fast and secure. All you need to make your business transaction prosper is to use the cryptocurrency services of BitCAD which are safe and secure while doing a financial transaction. 

Whitepaper

The whitepaper contains everything you need to know about BitCAD together with the new cryptocurrency. Since a cryptocurrency does the function of an alternative currency or digital currency but in a more unique and advanced way. Most of the challenges that they have been experiencing making an exchange for financial transactions through local currency and the digital currency has been resolved by the initial of the BitCAD Cryptocurrency System. Cryptocurrency's were introduced to supersede the centralize banking system together as a decentralized electronic money. 

The decentralized cryptocurrency is safe through the BitCAD secured Blockchain transaction database. They offer various multicurrency's and digital assets including cryptocurrency, classic currency, and digital assets making it fully equipped for new businesses. You have the options to choose the kind of currency that will go well with your business need or customers need. One thing about cryptocurrency is that the government or financial body would not be able to interfere with the creation of a new currency or it's value. So many countries in the world are beginning to adopt the cryptocurrency system which has started to replace the local and digital currency gradually out of the financial and economic system. 

Pros

1. BitCAD have multiple currencies
2. BitCAD are specialized in implementing new technology to make your business grow and sell more. 
3. The company has put everything in place to be the solution for businesses. 

Cons

1. There are no specific cons yet. 

Conclusion

The reason why company should use BitCAD secure services to handle all aspects of their business is that BitCAD is specialized in making businesses a better and productive place for both buyers and sellers. They have all that it take to transform growing business into a skyrocket business. BitCAD can successfully transformed many small and growing businesses into mega businesses through their unified operating system for design, management and business analysis on a secured Blockchain network. The technology is based on an automated accounting system, online banking integrated with a wallet and CRM system integrated with a business automation system. Now, you can see that BitCAD have what it takes; for the transformation and success of your business. 

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Resources:

Announcement 
ICO Website 
Whitepaper 

Everybody wants to make money these days and since there is a very narrow scope in the music industry "voise" could help the struggling artists to find a way to taste success. It is a new platform with a new fancy and a unique design and user-friendly interface which is easily enjoyed by everyone without much skill required. Since cryptocurrency is a new trend not much of the audience is aware of it. ln nutshell a cryptocurrency could be defined as a digital currency in which exchange takes place through generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, which operate totally independent of any central bank. 

Now to help the independent artists "voise" is a platform for downloading, streaming and purchasing music through tokes known as voisiums. But since cryptocurrency is a new currency many people don't know about it yet. Not a problem! At initial stages fiat currencies would be accepted and then the user would be made clear about the token currency which in this case will be "voisiums". Voisiums are the currency that is used to buy content on "voise" and it is based on Ethereum's smart contract technology. The user can store tokens on a personal desktop wallet or on the Voise platform. However, the price of the music should be set by the artist but it is advisable that it is kept 1 VSM. VSM's can be traded for any cryptocurrency transferred to any friend like the conventional currency. While the platform offers unique ways for monetizing the content and it will be available soon. It is a very ethical business and distributes it's users their entire 100% revenue. Sounds quite ethical isn't it! 

The detailed journey throughout

The journey towards a successful musician requires a lot of hard work, patience and of course money. At least you can be certain that money more or less would not be an issue for your music career anymore. There are many stages throughout your life as artist on the "Voise" platform. 

Alpha

The beginning of the voice platform, which is aimed at cryptocurrency's; to enable the user to create music, downloads and a stream platform.

The ICO 
This step is concerned with the exchange processes. In these two processes clients are created on the basis of how popular the artist is. 

Beta

This is the phase where methods to encourage cryptocurrency are employed; for example users are encouraged to use cryptocurrency's while payment could also be made in their country's fiat currency. Also concerts are organized for the most famous artists for the people to enjoy. 

Gamma

This is the phase where the artists are guaranteed a bright future, as artists are introduced to many journalists, developers, investors etc. It could provide a boost to the careers of many talents who are aspiring for a bright future in the music industry. 

Conclusion

This is quite a unique method to help a young talented artists and VOISE promises a bright future since it's also a cryptocurrency. Which is a very new topic so it's very safe means of exchange as it's value remains the same in every country, which means the problem of centralized banks are solved. 

Roadmap:

Resources:

Announcement 
ICO Website 
Whitepaper 

Exscudo acts as a gateway between the new crypto currency market and the traditional financial system.They are focused to create a single gateway for the new users entering into the crypto currency market. It also focuses on investors, traders and various financial institutions. 

The Exscudo system has different products and services in their cart. Multiple payment options are given by them, which include Exscudo Exchange, Exscudo Wallet, debit cards, a merchant platform and a lot more. The user can choose his preferred payment method with the dynamic discounting engine. All it takes is the click of a button. 

The Exscudo wallet allows the user to pay hundreds of recipients automatically. The money remains protected from high fluctuations of crypto currencies as the coins get converted into local currencies and vice versa. 

The debit cards allow the customer to pay directly from their bank account. They can check payment options which are secure, quick and easy to use. The user gets connected to the largest digital payment network from any computer or mobile device. 

A systematic payment gateway helps the user to accept all common coins on the website which further minimize development and management cost. They create better alignment with the customer's business. Manual efforts get reduced along with cost of capital. 


To exchange crypto currency for profit requires up-to-date and accurate information. The real time charts and analytical tools provided by Exscudo helps the user to navigate the market and make the most informative decisions when trading. 

The products offered by Exscudo has their own monetization model. The Exscudo system charges regular commission on regular currency exchange at a specific market price and premium accounts are also offered. 

They aim to improve the overall crypto currency user experience. The platform offered by Exscudo gathers popular crypto currency services and different products at a single stage which allows the users to gain access to multiple features at the same time. 

The Exscudo Blockchain is used to provide interaction between the exchange and it's partner. Here we have listed some of the advantages of the Exscudo Blockchain:

• The exchange that takes place between two parties is not intermediated by a third party which reduces counterparty risk.
• The blockchain data is consistently and accurately available all around the world at any time and it allows the user to control their information and transactions.
• Changes done in a Blockchain network are publicly viewed by all other parties which creates transparency and the best thing is that those changes cannot be deleted or altered.
• Blockchain transaction reduce transaction time to minutes and are processed every time.
• As the third party intermediaries get eliminated the overhead cost for exchanging assets reduces which reduces the transaction fees.
• Higher return on investment (ROI) is provided on each investment spent, then any other traditional internal investments used.
• The Blockchain network is decentralized. It does not have any central point of failure so it becomes quite easy to withstand malicious attacks.
• All the transactions that takes place are added to a single public ledger which reduces the clutter and complications of multiple ledger.

Resources:

Announcement 
ICO Website 
Whitepaper 

Recently, a white paper was released to introduce the world to the architecture of Aeternity, a potential newcomer to the cryptocurrency universe that has amazing potential. On a global scale, it offers the ability to exchange goods and services in privacy, but it also has the potential in synthetic assets markets and prediction markets. 

Aeternity, a Liechtenstein-based company, is the latest cryptocurrency and brainchild of Yanislav "Yani" Malahov, computer scientist and self-stylized "Godfather of Ethereum." Meant to take blockchain technology to new heights, Aeternity seeks to correct shortcomings that Bitcoin and Ethereum have shown in smart contract storage and execution. 

An amazingly scalable blockchain protocol built on the Ethereum network, it adds many unique upgrades and enhancements. With a new take on consensus mechanisms that can check oracles, they maximize efficient handling and prevent the layering of these consensus mechanisms from cheating the system. The platform implements "state channels" to ensure privacy and scalability. The tokens, called "Aeons," are transferable through functional smart contracts that have the proper answers to an oracle. 

As a new feature, the system makes these smart contracts easier and faster to execute simply for the reason that it doesn't utilize a state on the blockchain. This, however, does not change the functionality of these smart contracts. 

Currently, most smart contract platforms suffer from three main problems that underscore the absence of adequate scalability, inexpensive access to real world data and coding safety. The most prevalent designs render smart contracts excessively hard to analyze. Additionally, merging statefulness with sequential transactions hurts scalability. Injecting real-world data sets to smart contract platforms into a decentralized, trustless and ultimately reliable setup hampers the possibility of an increasing number of applications. Finally, most if not all smart contract systems lack the ability to update themselves to adapt with emerging technological and economic data. By identifying system governance issues and protocol issues and building on them, they secure the anonymity of cryptocurrency while preserving the sanctity and trustworthiness of the whole process. Aeternity blockchain combines all the features required for an open, secure, efficient, scalable, and stable cryptocurrency platform. 

Practically speaking, Aeternity offers an extremely efficient system for the transfer of value. This next step signifies a truly universal machine that can serve as an efficient decision-making tool on an unprecedented scale. 

The unique nature of the smart contracts built into Aeternity makes it a go-to platform for a host of applications. As far as the preservation of identity; the account of each will be linked with a unique identification number. The registered users will be able to choose distinctive names to then link to the Merkle root data structure. The wallet then maintains the Aeon cryptocurrency. The private keys send and sign transactions and also can be utilized to create channel transactions and operate apps within the network. 

Aeternity offers a new look at what is fast becoming the financial market of the future. Taking the promise of Bitcoin and Ethereum to the level of stability and privacy to what their creators had intended. The future of markets and fiat currency has shown itself to be unpredictable and subject to market manipulation by less than scrupulous people. This and an increasing government presence into our private financial lives has led to a loss of trust in existing banking systems. Cryptocurrency platforms such as Aeternity are restoring our trust in the stability and the privacy of our currency transactions. 

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When the concept of Bitcoin was first introduced on a cryptography mailing list by Satoshi Nakamoto, certain developers purported to have already "proven that decentralized consensus was impossible". Today, the same developers offer a similarly specious "proof" that the implementation of long-published ASIC optimizations is some kind of "attack" on the Bitcoin network.

We'd like to clear the air.

Bitmain has tested ASICBOOST on the Testnet but has never used ASICBOOST on the mainnet as implied in Gregory Maxwell's proposal. We ask conclusive proof from whoever claims this to be false because such baseless claims are toxic for the Bitcoin space. We also believe the math used by Gregory Maxwell is incorrect and that the method is not practical in a production environment.

Our ASIC chips, like those of some other manufacturers, have a circuit design that supports ASICBOOST. However, the ASICBOOST method has not been used by us on the mainnet. We have not seen any evidence yet on the main net that anyone has used it in the patented way.

Bitmain holds the ASICBOOST patent in China. We can legally use it in our own mining farms in China to profit from it and sell the cloud mining contracts to the public. This, however profitable, is not something we would do for the greater good of Bitcoin.

The mining equipment produced by Bitmain for its own use is in no way intended to be technically superior or more power-efficient than the equipment it sells to the public. The ASICBOOST method has not been employed by Bitmain to increase the power-efficiency of the miners in its own mining farms.

Bitcoin mining equipment depreciates rapidly. Bitmain has constantly been introducing newer more efficient miner models for all. As such the statement that the deployment of ASICBOOST, which can lead to a 20% difference in power efficiency, is some kind of negative development for Bitmain's business model is false. Bitmain has shown the ability to adapt and thrive in the constantly changing and extremely challenging Bitcoin mining environment. Whether ASICBOOST is used or not, Bitmain will continue to produce more efficient miners.

Bitmain had always supported the Hong Kong Agreement, which means Segwit plus a hard fork to 2MB block size, until we no longer felt that it was going to happen in the foreseeable future. In fact, Bitmain is publicly on record as historically supporting SegWit and Lightning Network in the context of the Hong Kong agreement, and any accusations to the contrary are completely false and specious.

Miners love multi-layer solutions like Lightning Network. To support these off-chain solutions, Bitmain is very supportive of fixing malleability issues. At the same time, we also believe the first layer, which has been well-tested by time, is very important and should not be crippled. We are worried about the policy and precedence set by Bitcoin Core in this regard.

"Tothemoon", an extension blocks plan proposed recently by Purse.io using a new Bitcon protocol implementation called Bcoin, could be designed to be incompatible with ASICBOOST much like Segwit is. ASICBOOST is not a deterrent to Bitmain's support of SegWit or Tothemoon. SegWit is not running in production because the conditions made clear in the Hong Kong agreement have not been met, in which we foresee a non-witness block size increase coming together with SegWit. Bitmain's co-CEO Jihan Wu has clearly expressed support for Tothemoon recently. Tothemoon is a real and standard block size increase, but not through an arbitrary witness discount policy.

Gregory Maxwell's recent proposal suggests changing 2^32 collision to 2^64 collision to make ASICBOOST more difficult. The result of this would be a loss for the patent owners and the Bitcoin protocol. The patent owners will get nothing and Bitcoin protocol will become more complicated. The only beneficiary will be the technical bureaucrats who are engineering it. The more complicated the protocol is, the higher the cost and barrier to have multiple implementations become. We confirm that we support multiple implementations because they will bring more innovation and better security to the network, while threatening the monopolistic position of certain developers.

Bitmain has continuously been advocating for increasing the Bitcoin block size. Increasing the block size will make the collisions even more difficult, damaging the potential benefits of Bitmain's gain from the private ASICBOOST assumed by Maxwell's proposal. The conspiracy theories do not add up here.

There are better ways to resolve the issues that Gregory Maxwell's proposal seeks to address. Adversarial thinking is not the only way. We suggest working with the patent owners so that the patent could be used by the public. If all mining equipment could use ASICBOOST, it will lower the J/GH cost and the total network hash rate will increase, making the Bitcoin network even stronger. So, the ASICBOOST method is not a "covert attack" on the Bitcoin PoW function. It is an engineering optimization.

The best method to leverage ASICBOOST is by using the Bitcoin block header's version bits. Patent owner Timo has mentioned it in the patent. Gregory Maxwell's proposal seems to be missing this point. Usage of these bits was proposed by Timo Hanke through Bitcoin Core's BIP process but it was declined by Gregory Maxwell and Core developers.

Bitcoin Core is now almost controlled by a small secretive committee. Anyone with a basic sense about human history can tell that this is the starting of a dictatorship. Calling out an optimization an "attack" is playing a political trick to grab power.

The proposal mentions "reverse engineering of a particular mining chip demonstrated conclusively that ASICBOOST has been implemented". This statement seems directed towards Bitmain. We believe the Bitcoin community needs more constructive contributors than it needs such policing.

The proposal does not mention Bitmain, however, an orchestrated troll army within the community was effectively able to spread rumors around Bitmain. Most Bitcoin companies currently have a strong fear of such notorious assets working for certain people. Bitcoin's value of liberty is in danger.

The Bitcoin community suffered a grave misfortune when Maxwell lead the coup against Gavin Andresen and removed his Github commit access. It is now incumbent upon us as a community to figure out how to find a new core developer group that does not busy itself with attacking one of Bitcoin's largest investors (Ver), one of its largest exchanges (Coinbase), and its largest mining equipment provider (Bitmain).

There is a history of character assassinations against those who have spoken against SegWit or Core's roadmap. Gregory Maxwell's latest round of attempts follow his previous patterns. Maxwell has previously attacked one of most important Bitcoin maintainers Gavin Andresen, one of the earliest public Bitcoin advocates and investors Roger Ver, founder and CEO of one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges Brian Armstrong, the first author of Lightning Network Joseph Poon, and now Bitmain's co-CEO Jihan Wu. He has even called his fellow Core contributors who signed the Hong Kong agreement "dipshits". Such hostility is destructive for Bitcoin.

We have very firm belief that the block size of Bitcoin will be increased. It is the Bitcoin that our co-founders signed up for, it is the roadmap designed by Satoshi and it is the destiny of Bitcoin. We will protect it at any cost.

Internet provides us with unlimited information sources, which we can access from everywhere, anytime we want to. Best of all is that all this information is free. Which contributed to the succes of online information sources vs traditional (hardcopy) dictionaries and encyclopedia's. However, the information that we find in internet encyclopedia can be filled with false information. 

This will be changed in the near feature. A new and innovative project called Lunyr will use blockchain technology to create and sustain an independent, public and censorship free; encyclopedia for the people, by the people. 

A new encyclopedia platform is going to launch and it's a promise for the future. Lunyr (pronounced "lunar") is a project to build a decentralized encyclopedia, where the users are rewarded for peer-reviewing and contributing information. You'll find all kind of information that you need in Lunyr, with accurate and reliable sources, in general it's a decentralized Wikipedia. The long-term vision is the development of a knowledge base API that virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence but also other software can use to create content and applications. 

Problems and Solutions
From the start the short-term is to build a decentralized Wikipedia, which represents an accurate and fast-growing system and network of information. The platform aims to prevent centralization, censorship and inaccuracy, as it happens on some other platforms. Lunyr has three main strategies to provide answers towards these problems.
1. Being built on Ethereum, the platform resists to decentralize and censor information.
2. Withthe Ethereum-based token, the contributors will have an economic incentive. They'll be rewarded for their work.
3. The content will need to pass a peer-reviewed system, after creating accurate content, the content only will be published after the approval of reviewers. Reviewers will also get a token rewards as incentive. 

What is Ethereum?
Ethereum is an open source public, blockchain based distributed computing platform featuring smart contracts (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized virtual machine; the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes.

It's a decentralized application that supports a cryptocurrency, or digital currency, just like Bitcoin. You can pay for things online, trade money buy & sell anything and any shop that accepts Ethereum. But there's more to Ethereum than there is to Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency, called Ether, runs on a "smart-contract." The smart contract is a blockchain technology and system that allows Ethereum to be traded when certain condition is met. Lunyr will be programmed that after a service is done the contract ends and a user will be paid Ether. 

Many altcoins aim to offer smart contracts. But starting 2017 only Waves, Bitbay and Ethereum actually have smart contracts. 



The Importance of Lunyr 
Everybody needs to be informed nowadays. Information is very important and crucial in our life but information also needs to be "updated" daily. According to Alexa Rankings, seven of top ten most visited websites globally are associated with searching and obtaining information. Wikipedia is the top 1 information website, but it's not 100% trustable for reasons mentioned earlier. 

Many articles that we find there can be edited by anyone with an internet connection, and this way, users can easily falsify information. Some of them are quickly corrected, but the not so popular articles could take months to be correct by other editors. In these months a lot of false information can be distributed to innocent users. Using Ethereum, the application runs exactly as programmed without fraud, censorship or any third party interference. This way Lunyr can create the next generation of knowledgebase that solves all the problems we have today, which is trusting in false information or having no authority information sources. 

Why Ethereum and Lunyr?
Like I explained before, both Lunyr and Ethereum are new technologies that came to disturb the old school ones (BitCoin and Wikipedia). With Ethereum, Lunyr will create the incentive of trustable information, using the Ethereum's token. In a way it will be working as Steemit. Where authors are rewarded money (incentive) for sharing content. 

They will eliminate the potential of financial interest to the influenced content and Ethereum will manage the financial and funding system. Lunyr will have the token "LUN", the monetary token that contributors will receive for their work. Those two combined, may be the start how Lunyr could change the way online information distribution will become. 

Roadmap

-Official Website : https://lunyr.com
-Blog : https://medium.com/lunyr
-Twitter: https://twitter.com/LunyrInc
-Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lunyr
-Slack: https://slack.lunyr.com
-GitHub: https://github.com/lunyr
-Whitepaper: Download
-Announcements: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1818468.0

Microsoft has created an add-in for Microsoft Office utilizes Stampery, a blockchain-based timestamping architecture that verifies and certifies documents. Stampery has added Microsoft Office as a client to improve its customer reach, according to Microsoft.

Stampery provides a public API so users can integrate their own applications with its timestamping architecture and have transparency, accountability, and attribution. The Stampery timestamping architecture focuses on scalability and efficiency while ensuring ownership using cryptographic proofs that can be independently verified, according to the company's website. The architecture combines bitcoin and Ethereum anchoring to have certainty and responsiveness simultaneously.

Meeting An Enterprise Need

The Stampery API addresses the challenge enterprise organizations face keeping records in Microsoft Office.

Enterprise organizations have addressed this challenge in the past by hiring certification and storage providers, but the client must rely on the company ensuring the privacy.

An alternative is to create a hash of the document and send it to a blockchain. It can then not be changed without invalidating the hash.

Stampery creates hashes of documents and stores them on both the bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains. To ensure this function, it provides a RESTful API.

Microsoft leveraged the Stampery API to develop an add-in to Microsoft Outlook that functions like a near-native feature to certify an email while remaining in Outlook.

How It Works

The certification button calls a JavaScript Office function that hashes the document and transmits the sha256 hash to a Node.js server as a REST call. The server runs as an Azure App Service, keeping a copy of the hash for verification. Stampery then puts the hash on the bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.

The verification button calls the Javascript function from the certification process again, then hashes the document and sends the hash to the Node.js server as a REST call. The server then calls the Stampery API to access the document's original hash from both blockchains. It compares the hashes and verifies the result.

The Microsoft add-in is deployed in JavaScript operating in Office with a Node.js server. There is a manifest in Office allowing add-ins for the document and functions providing the service. The Node.js servicer offers the REST service to link to the Office functions and the Stampery API.

The JavaScript that runs in Office provides stamp and prove functions. The functions retrieve the document, not the metadata, from Office, then hashes it. The hash then posts to the Node.js server, or the server requests the proof of the hash.

More Upgrades Ahead

The Stampery API will be enhanced to include secure hash storage so the in-memory object is no longer needed.

The Stampery API helps users deploy the most secure method for storing hash and document. Enterprise customers depending on Microsoft Office can use blockchain technology and Stampery to confirm the validity of documents.

The solution is reusable for enterprise resource planning applications and Microsoft Office products. Anyone seeking to verify and certify digital assets can build on this capability.