{
  "trx_id": "c8db4a9ae22e1226766b2bae7b9fe3ca7500803e",
  "block": 106139522,
  "trx_in_block": 1,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2026-05-17T20:58:06",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "4419.732095 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "05012d0b0cf412a8c58692e0eceb469aa223feb7",
  "block": 105962297,
  "trx_in_block": 7,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2026-05-11T16:37:48",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "1707.521690 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "4de419a7c706621711f77bd4083cb55e73549f8d",
  "block": 105507267,
  "trx_in_block": 2,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2026-04-25T20:24:03",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "4432.247851 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "e64112b23d49c0689f9fe40e5b7cc9523d4700e7",
  "block": 102841282,
  "trx_in_block": 7,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2026-01-22T23:00:33",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "1749.068509 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "5b74034445d92bae8d9ff24249cfdd120a24fa48",
  "block": 91287730,
  "trx_in_block": 0,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2024-12-16T18:21:42",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "1913.287706 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "0a4e9a41429140a0b671907647d9cca8c15b9be8",
  "block": 79842017,
  "trx_in_block": 0,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2023-11-13T10:07:57",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "2082.421238 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "ee8b06b22a54c066528b72ccd75a5ce136702a5c",
  "block": 78343205,
  "trx_in_block": 0,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2023-09-21T17:57:39",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "5019.700024 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "67fac7d714479dbc50f13128516f11f61fe14d21",
  "block": 69109089,
  "trx_in_block": 8,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2022-11-03T08:12:45",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "5241.381462 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "0ac1076889efda8506c199b9e015437150210e9b",
  "block": 60805644,
  "trx_in_block": 3,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2022-01-17T07:47:45",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "5461.914693 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "3503eb38d4162ce74f6da16a811267afe529e23b",
  "block": 54604194,
  "trx_in_block": 0,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2021-06-13T21:51:00",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "5645.683351 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "d5b142ef8eab3ea98e621988a7c1672def839833",
  "block": 49351779,
  "trx_in_block": 0,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2020-12-11T08:14:21",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "5833.105325 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "f16de915c3aa3bbc90be80146b425f61860e1146",
  "block": 49203346,
  "trx_in_block": 1,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2020-12-06T01:51:39",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "1912.543513 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "57c9342044c730e2fd4d96c2937fff23a326b902",
  "block": 48906442,
  "trx_in_block": 0,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2020-11-25T14:44:30",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "5850.231942 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "fcd9cf9caa3d52df25b5851a361c1ae451300c5b",
  "block": 43213559,
  "trx_in_block": 0,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2020-05-09T02:46:18",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "6042.118538 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "3c46fa945a82a00576833e30666dd5ea95fe7db6",
  "block": 43189119,
  "trx_in_block": 4,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2020-05-08T05:55:09",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "1953.311140 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "5377f4c732556b201b0c076df3e063158834c006",
  "block": 39509852,
  "trx_in_block": 19,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2019-12-31T05:14:39",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "6113.189966 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "bb149b91395c69d15c19d9bfb36c4c0d94d92536",
  "block": 38957867,
  "trx_in_block": 4,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2019-12-12T00:24:48",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "agcaapo",
      "parent_permlink": "bethereum-gaming-contest-fee-8-million-bether-tokens",
      "author": "steemitboard",
      "permlink": "steemitboard-notify-agcaapo-20191212t002448000z",
      "title": "",
      "body": "Congratulations @agcaapo! You received a personal award!\n\n<table><tr><td>https://steemitimages.com/70x70/http://steemitboard.com/@agcaapo/birthday2.png</td><td>Happy Birthday! - You are on the Steem blockchain for 2 years!</td></tr></table>\n\n<sub>_You can view [your badges on your Steem Board](https://steemitboard.com/@agcaapo) and compare to others on the [Steem Ranking](https://steemitboard.com/ranking/index.php?name=agcaapo)_</sub>\n\n\n###### [Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=steemitboard&approve=1) to get one more award and increased upvotes!",
      "json_metadata": "{\"image\":[\"https://steemitboard.com/img/notify.png\"]}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "f36763f066332c66a8d700a5ae8f7b94878d40d3",
  "block": 29894107,
  "trx_in_block": 3,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2019-01-30T00:28:12",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "6309.962894 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "192888bba6a984660d4b652fd324e8310ba00586",
  "block": 29663768,
  "trx_in_block": 4,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2019-01-22T00:17:39",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "26391.294420 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "e2af3105dd105aab35a09574f22dc1c112d3b423",
  "block": 28483892,
  "trx_in_block": 3,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-12-12T00:17:48",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "agcaapo",
      "parent_permlink": "bethereum-gaming-contest-fee-8-million-bether-tokens",
      "author": "steemitboard",
      "permlink": "steemitboard-notify-agcaapo-20181212t001747000z",
      "title": "",
      "body": "Congratulations @agcaapo! You received a personal award!\n\n<table><tr><td>https://steemitimages.com/70x70/http://steemitboard.com/@agcaapo/birthday1.png</td><td>1 Year on Steemit</td></tr></table>\n\n<sub>_[Click here to view your Board of Honor](https://steemitboard.com/@agcaapo)_</sub>\n\n\n> Support [SteemitBoard's project](https://steemit.com/@steemitboard)! **[Vote for its witness](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=steemitboard&approve=1)** and **get one more award**!",
      "json_metadata": "{\"image\":[\"https://steemitboard.com/img/notify.png\"]}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "bba2a494009982e79743c78af8c72b01ecfceab1",
  "block": 27272396,
  "trx_in_block": 0,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-30T22:07:36",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "agcaapo",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "bethereum-gaming-contest-fee-8-million-bether-tokens",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "abe6fa0f1b6419537a9d524e5dd65e13accbe1b3",
  "block": 27272392,
  "trx_in_block": 30,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-30T22:07:24",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "",
      "parent_permlink": "bethereum",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "bethereum-gaming-contest-fee-8-million-bether-tokens",
      "title": "Bethereum Gaming Contest... ( FEE 8 MILLION Bether Tokens )",
      "body": "Bethereum Gaming Contest... ( FEE 8 MILLION Bether Tokens )\n\n![image4.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmX2uRJGW6PGUX9z4JSZgiBPiizGekwKAUouiqTm37LaXk/image4.jpg)\n\nReady to challenge players from all over the world in the ultimate sports betting competition? Until 13 December, bet on your favourite matches and compete for a massive 8 MILLION Bether!\n\nIt’s all FREE for you! We’ll give you points to enter the bets. We just want to show how our social betting platform is evolving.\n\nWhat is Bethereum ?\n\nBethereum, found online at Bethereum.com, is a sports betting platform that aims to deliver “the most engaging and secure betting platform on the market.” The platform's token sale is scheduled for March 2018. The company's Bether tokens will be used for all transactions on the Bethereum platform.\n\nBether Token\n\nBether is the ERC20 compatible digital token powering Bethereum. All platform transactions and the majority of ecosystem payments will be carried out in Bether. Designed as a deflationary token, it has strong potential for increase in value and liquidity. Bether will trade on major exchanges and is fully compatible with Ether wallets such as MyEtherWallet.\n\n\n\nCompete for a massive 8 million Bether tokens in prizes!\n\nAt the end of the Contest (13 December), the 400 players with the highest score will win a prize of up to 50000 Bether. The top 2000 players will also be entered into a draw with 1 million Bether in prizes! The more you bet and win, the higher your final rank will be.\n\nYour final rank\tBether Prize\n\n1 - 50\t          50000 Bether\n\n51 - 200\t  20000 Bether\n\n201 - 400\t  7500 Bether\n\nPrize draw for top 2000 players: 1 prize of 500000 Bether + 100 prizes of 5000 Bether.\n\n\nPlayer account and betting points\n\nMax. one account allowed per player. Players with more accounts will be disqualified\nYou are given a starting balance of 3000 betting points\nAfter placing a bet, you can gain another 1000 points by sharing it on social media (500 each for Facebook / Twitter – MAX ONE SHARE PER NETWORK IN TOTAL, NOT PER DAY)\nThe contest ends on 13 December. Bet your points carefully, so you don’t run out early.\n\nBetting rules\n\nYou can place a bet on any available match, up until the match starts. Select the match result (e.g., Home win in a 1X2 bet), choose how many points to bet in the bet slip (from 50 to 1000), and click on PLACE BET. All points put on a bet will go towards the “winning pot” for that bet.\n\nFor 1X2 bet types, bet results are evaluated at the END of a match, unless the bet name explicitly mentions “Regular time” (e.g., 90 minutes in Football matches). No extra-time or penalty shootouts count for Over / Under bet types. In case a match is cancelled, we will return all points to bettors (typically within 24 hours).\n\nWinning logic\n\nAfter the match ends, the winning pot will be split among all those who chose the winning result, proportionally to how much they bet. The more you bet on the winning result compared to others, the bigger your share will be.\n\nFor example: Let’s say you bet 100 points on Team A winning (your “stake”). Other players bet a total of 300 points also on Team A winning. The winning pot for that bet is 1500 points (= other players bet 1100 points on Team A losing). If team A wins, you will get 100 / 400 * 1500 = 375 points.\n\nJoin Bet  for free Bether tokens\n\nRefferal Link :  https://gaming.bethereum.com/?modal=register&referral=WTTOFDKE",
      "json_metadata": "{\"tags\":[\"bethereum\",\"cryptocurrency\",\"bet\",\"bitcoin\",\"ethereum\"],\"image\":[\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmX2uRJGW6PGUX9z4JSZgiBPiizGekwKAUouiqTm37LaXk/image4.jpg\"],\"links\":[\"https://gaming.bethereum.com/?modal=register&referral=WTTOFDKE\"],\"app\":\"steemit/0.1\",\"format\":\"markdown\"}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "eb9a39c445c2bbdc3c9078e9c542b30753e0ecee",
  "block": 27272020,
  "trx_in_block": 7,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-30T21:48:48",
  "op": [
    "claim_reward_balance",
    {
      "account": "agcaapo",
      "reward_steem": "0.000 STEEM",
      "reward_sbd": "0.011 SBD",
      "reward_vests": "28.258438 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "block": 26869563,
  "trx_in_block": 4294967295,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 23,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-16T22:10:54",
  "op": [
    "author_reward",
    {
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "can-you-crack-this-crypto-puzzle-for-310-bitcoin-btc-worth-usd2-million",
      "sbd_payout": "0.011 SBD",
      "steem_payout": "0.000 STEEM",
      "vesting_payout": "28.258438 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "143f4e1b2f322db56d27560e3619ad0afeaf30d0",
  "block": 26812447,
  "trx_in_block": 11,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-14T22:32:12",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "magpielover",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "hodler-s-digest-october-8-14-ran-neuner-thinks-btc-s-price-will-explode-while-research-predicts-market-will-implode",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "b31506549fa35d3f5d7ccd126473c9a7a92a2924",
  "block": 26811775,
  "trx_in_block": 0,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-14T21:58:30",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "",
      "parent_permlink": "bitcoin",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "hodler-s-digest-october-8-14-ran-neuner-thinks-btc-s-price-will-explode-while-research-predicts-market-will-implode",
      "title": "Hodler’s Digest, October 8-14: Ran Neuner Thinks BTC’s Price Will ‘Explode,’ While Research Predicts Market Will ‘Implode’",
      "body": "By  Molly Jane Zuckerman\n\n![1.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVabdegY9EhAGz8uAfkD1DFLhh9mv1Gw9CskrbmKznLxf/1.jpg)\nComing every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.\n\n![2.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYgetVNy8hJ7omZuoQ4RkArFjBHJZkJ5BG2jsTS8GsqrZ/2.jpg)\n\nTop Stories This Week\nCNBC’s Ran Neuner Claims Bitcoin’s Price Is Set To “Explode”\nRan Neuner, crypto analyst and host of CNBC’s show Cryptotrader, said this week that the price of Bitcoin is “about to explode.” In a series of tweets, the trader predicted that a notable Bitcoin rally could be tied to the SEC’s upcoming decision on several BTC ETF applications. Neuner hypothesized that Bitcoin’s climb to $20,000 in December 2017 was “on the back of  the expectation and launch of a cash settlement BTC futures contract.”\nVenezuelans Must Now Pay Passport Fees In Cryptocurrency\nAccording to an announcement from Venezuela’s vice president, Venezuelans can only use the state-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro, to pay for passport fees starting Oct. 8. The newly raised passport fees will cost either 2 petros for a new passport or 1 petro for an extension. According to Bloomberg, the average monthly minimum wage in Venezuela is four times less than the cost of the new fee.\nRoger Ver Plans To Open Crypto Exchange Through Bitcoin.com\nBitcoin.com, a Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash services firm with Roger Ver as CEO, is planning to either buy or set up its own cryptocurrency exchange. According to Ver, the crypto trading platform will be set up on the Bitcoin.com website, thus generating “thousands or tens of thousands of new users every single day.” Earlier this week, Ver underlined that digital currencies will lead the world to economic freedom, stating that he will “never give up” until cryptocurrencies accomplish this goal.\nStudy Shows Cryptocurrency Market Could “Implode” Soon\nA recent study conducted by Juniper Research has found that the cryptocurrency market could soon “implode” and that transaction volumes are decreasing. In their report, Juniper looks at the technical, social, and regulatory concerns of digital currencies, also examining regulatory developments globally, exchange failures, hacks, and blockchain forking and how it all impacts crypto volatility. The report also found that daily BTC transactions have fallen from $3.7 billion to around $670 million from the end of 2017 to September 2018.\nTRON CEO Hints At Partnership With “Industry Giant” Valued At “$10s Of Billions”\nCEO of TRON Justin Sun posted a tweet Friday, Oct. 12, saying: “Finally, First time to partner with tens of billions USD valuation industry giant. Guess the name.” With Sun’s tweet revealing little information of the forthcoming partnership, Twitter followers have suggested a number of possible candidates, including Baidu, Clover, and even Disney. In a later tweet, real-time crypto market news service Coinness claimed that TRON’s new partner is indeed Baidu, citing former team members as its source.\n\n![3.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmfBX5EBpWChmsuKzuihhFQ9KL9KjeZ5MCuwJbzvU9b1Sy/3.jpg)\n\nMost Memorable Quotations\n\n![4.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPbaXChYkP2taCNCXxQDVGmEbMNvDvFcGrafvNWkTnqnq/4.png)\n\n\n“TRON will be 200x faster vs. ETH, 100x cheaper vs. EOS. dApp developers & users, this one is for you!” — Justin Sun, CEO of Tron\n\n\n![5.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaNkqUXaYgm6s7B7TEG4UuG32j4vSPuA1pXHTHS9cvUaZ/5.png)\n\n\n“The inequality coefficient of BTC is worse than North Korea that has the worst inequality on earth. Crypto beats Kim Jong-un in regards to centralization and inequality,\" — Nouriel Roubini, New York University economics professor, known as \"Dr. Doom\" for predicting the 2008 financial crisis\n\n\n![6.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVJ5LmbWpEiUaaa4pP1YhMyh7pid4ESMGDL9KJp4cgwUF/6.jpg)\n\n\nLaws And Taxes\nEuropean Union Markets Watchdog To Examine ICOs, Considers Regulation\nThe European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said this week that it will be looking into ICOs in order to determine how they should be regulated. The organization, established in 2011 with the aim of creating a common set of guidelines for E.U. financial markets and their supervision, plans to assess ICOs on a case-by-case basis to see how they comply with existing securities regulations.\nUkrainian Finance Ministry Creates Working Group For Crypto Taxation\nUkraine’s Ministry of Finance has announced the creation of a working group with the aim of discussing and developing a legal framework for cryptocurrency taxation. The group will begin work in mid-October, identifying crypto-related tax options within the current legal framework, and then presenting their findings by the end of 2018. Previously, a proposed bill for crypto taxation suggested a five percent tax for individuals and legal entities that possessed coins and tokens.\nLegal Expert: Implementation Of Crypto Regulations In The U.K. Would Take About Two Years\nLegal Director of a prominent U.K. law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) Jeff Kaufmann has said that implementing cryptocurrency market regulations could take the country two years. According to Kaufmann, the new regulations would imply the involvement of the U.K.’s financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which in turn raises concerns about the agency’s readiness for its upcoming role as a cryptocurrency industry regulator.\n\n![7.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbWa8qB7iQcUgDjc7enG4d6iPsbE26vPvMMT9GLnFtaKL/7.jpg)\n\nAdoption\nIBM Announces Launch Of Blockchain Food Tracking Network Food Trust\nU.S. tech firm IBM has launched its blockchain-based food tracking network, Food Trust, along with major food retailer Carrefour. The France-based company, which operates more than 12,000 stores in 33 countries, will begin by testing blockchain in their own stores, with the goal of bringing the tech to all its brands by 2022. Food Trust, which was announced back in 2016, has been tested by IBM for 18 months.\nDubai’s State-Backed Digital Currency Gets Its Own Payment System\nDubai’s government-backed digital currency, emcash, will get its own payment system through a deal with blockchain payment provider Pundi X and its partner Ebooc Fintech & Loyalty Labs LLC. The subsidiary of the Dubai Department of Economic Development will work with the two firms to facilitate point of sale payments in emcredit’s emcash currency. The digital currency is pegged to the United Arab Emirates fiat currency, the dirham.\nMastercard Secures Patent For Partitioned, Multi-Currency Blockchain\nFinancial services heavyweight Mastercard has been awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a method to partition a blockchain. The proposed technology would allow a single distributed ledger to support multiple types and formats of transactions. In the patent, Mastercard noted that using multiple blockchains simultaneously leads to “significant” resource consumption – a problem their new solution is purported to solve.\n\n![8.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmU1RpeK2VKZLqQCnGj7m6Ztr73scHnpsFc2nJsEbZfanW/8.jpg)\n\n\nMergers, Acquisitions, And Partnerships\nOasis Labs Partners With Crypto Venture Capital Firms To Launch Blockchain Tech Hub\nBlockchain cloud computing platform Oasis Labs announced a partnership this week with names including Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto venture fund a16zCrypto, Accel, Binance Labs, Pantera Capital, and Polychain Capital, who will assist developers in building “privacy-first” DApps in a new tech hub. The Oasis Startup Hub, which will focus on the creation of a space for collaboration between blockchain developers, investors, technologists, and industry key-players, will also get support from Oasis Labs engineers.\nPwC To Bring Tech Expertise To Cred’s USD-Backed Stablecoin Launch\nAuditing giant PwC has partnered with decentralized lending platform Cred to act as a tech advisor in the release of their USD-backed stablecoin. According to the press release, the partnership aims to bring more trust to investors, and solve the problems of transparency and “substantiation” that keep investors out of the crypto space. The firm also will give a perspective on enhancing standards in order to provide a “more transparent set of reserve functions.”\nForbes Partners With Civil To Publish Content On Blockchain\nInternational business media outlet Forbes has partnered with blockchain-based journalism platform Civil to publish its content on a decentralized network. Initially, Forbes will only publish crypto-related news through Civil’s software — which will be integrated with Forbes’ own content management system (CMC) — but will move over more content if the testing is successful. Forbes will also use smart contracts to allow their contributors to upload articles to Forbes’ CMS and then share them on other platforms, such as LinkedIn and Medium.\nUnconfirmed: IBM, Central Bank Of Azerbaijan Partner For Blockchain Implementation\nIBM and the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) will reportedly collaborate on implementing blockchain technology for a digital transformation of the country’s economy. According to a local Central Asian news outlet, the director of the Information Technology Department at the CBA  revealed news of the five-year digital economic program this week, noting that IBM will work with the bank on blockchain development. The director also noted that a digital identification system is in the works.\nKorean Plastic Surgeon Buys $352 Million Stake In Crypto Exchange Bithumb\nA group led by startup investor and one of South Korea’s most famous plastic surgeons Dr. Kim Byung Gun, has made a major investment in Bithumb’s holding company. According to Bloomberg, 50 percent plus one share has been purchased, making the surgeon’s BK Global Consortium the majority shareholder of the Korean exchange. As of press time, Bithumb is the largest crypto exchange in the world by reported daily trade volume, which amounts to almost $1.04 billion.\n\n![9.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNYD5VoZncNqgFnsfZkx4Ra1bbohAzKt5MTiQDPjP1Lkn/9.jpg)\n\nFunding Rounds\nETC Labs Announces A Startup Accelerator Pilot, Applicants Number Over 100\nEthereum Classic’s investment branch ETC Labs has announced the launch of its business incubator, slated for Q1 2019. In an interview accompanying the announcement, Elizabeth Kukko, the director of the program, has revealed that the incubator plans to work with as many as 24 startups each year. According to Kukko, ETC Labs has so far received 120 applications from various companies in the industry.\n\n![10.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNxudRfjoVyWfLbkL9um1zFN6DYiRAzent9F2GJ21HFpn/10.jpg)\n\n\nWinners And Losers\n\n![11.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRS3gCQVYdbanF6sF6jwtgJuPae7UdA6KRdqPAfttm4Pv/11.png)\n\n\nCrypto markets experienced a sharp drop Thursday, Oct. 11, bringing BTC down to trade at $6,305, ETH at $200. The total market cap is at $202.4 billion.\nTop three altcoin gainers of the week are Blazercoin, MedicCoin, and Motocoin.\nTop three altcoin losers of the week are EagleX, RabbitCoin, and Minex.\nFor more info on crypto prices, make sure to read Cointelegraph’s market analysis.\n\n![12.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmP6y4Fo2wdCABZURk6iNXptiQTFJN8NCnvJTSSQU4i5Cf/12.jpg)\n\n\nFUD Of The Week\n“Dr. Doom” Nouriel Roubini “Debunks” Crypto Before U.S. Congress\nAmerican economist Nouriel Roubini has testified at a U.S. Congress hearing with a speech “debunking” cryptocurrencies and blockchain. In his scathing review, Roubini mentioned such factors as Bitcoin’s scalability problems, high energy consumption and low decentralization, among others. Roubini’s attack on the crypto space was not limited to the congressional hearing, as he made multiple anti-crypto tweets this week — after comparing crypto to North Korea he went as far as to claim that the idea of crypto is “fascist at core.”\nOldest British Crypto Exchange To Reportedly Lay Off Majority Of Employees\nCoinfloor, the oldest British digital currency exchange, is laying off the majority of its employees, unnamed sources stated this week. The exchange, which was founded in 2013 and has traded $1 billion in Bitcoin over the past 12 months, is apparently going to let go most of its around 40 employees. When asked about the rumors, the exchange’s CEO Obi Nsowu said that they are “making some staff changes and redundancies” as part of a business restructure.\nReport Shows Coinbase Hits One-Year Low For USD Volumes In Q3 2018\nA Diar report this week showed that crypto exchange and wallet Coinbase has seen a 1-year low in U.S. dollar volumes in the the third quarter of 2018. According to the analysis, Coinbase’s USD volumes have dropped to the lowest level during the past year, although the trading volume of BTC is almost $1 billion higher than last year. Crypto exchange Bitstamp has seen a better performance in this regard, Diar notes, with the trading volume of BTC $0.2 billion less this year than last year.\nChina: Man Gets 3.5 Years Of Jail Time For Stealing Train Station Power To Mine BTC\nA man in China has received three and a half years of jail time for stealing power from a train station to support his Bitcoin mining. According to court documents released this week, the individual was also fined around $14,500 for stealing electricity from a factory at the Kouquan Railway from November to December 2017 to power his 50 BTC miners and 3 electric fans.\nSpankChain Suffers Smart Contract Breach Leading To $38,000 Loss\nSpankChain, an Ethereum-based adult entertainment platform, lost around $38,000 when it suffered a smart contract breach this week. The anonymous hackers stoles around 165 ETH, as well as caused the immobilization of another $4,000 of SpankChain’s internal token, BOOTY. The platform has later said that it got in contact with the hacker and persuaded them to return the stolen assets for a “reward” of $5,000 in ETH.\n\n![13.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeYRyGdbKTwGT3MJChginpgaq9jVyx4bXomr6AgEtNz8b/13.png)\n\n\nPrediction Of The Week\nBlythe Masters: “Tens If Not Hundreds” Of Blockchain Projects Coming To Commodities\nBlythe Masters, a former JPMorgan executive who is now CEO of her own software digital firm Digital Asset Holdings, said this week that commodity supply chains would soon get an influx of “tens if not hundreds” of blockchain projects to improve efficiency. Speaking at the London Metal Exchange annual dinner, Masters noted the complexity of supply chains, adding that Digital Assets Holdings is designing software to aid the trading sector in blockchain implementation.\n\n![14.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRu8NrXp6WEHCrPRFJJzHCJ3Q2bNciHvE7x3HY6G5ARza/14.jpg)\n\nBest Features\nArtist Puts A Giant, Inflatable Bitcoin Rat On Wall Street\nA hedge fund manager-turned-artist Nelson Saiers has put up an inflatable white rat covered in crypto code on Wall Street, facing the Federal Reserve Bank. According to the artist, he was in part inspired by billionaire investor Warren Buffet’s comments about Bitcoin, who called it “rat poison squared.” “If the Fed’s a rat, then maybe rat poison is a good thing,” Saiers said.\nAccording To Google, Bitcoin Has Several CEO Candidates Who All Hate Bitcoin\nSeveral Reddit users have noticed that entering a search query “CEO of Bitcoin” or “Bitcoin CEO” in Google brings up an information carousel with several possible candidates, including the CEO of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon, Bitcoin Cash proponent Roger Ver, and CEO of Mastercard Ajay Banga. Curiously, all three are known for their negative stance on Bitcoin, with Dimon calling it a “scam,” Banga saying that all non-government-backed cryptos are “junk,” and Ver being hit with allegations of using his platform to mislead people into buying Bitcoin Cash, instead of Bitcoin.\n\n\nRead More :   https://cointelegraph.com/news/hodlers-digest-october-8-14-ran-neuner-thinks-btcs-price-will-explode-while-research-predicts-market-will-implode",
      "json_metadata": "{\"tags\":[\"bitcoin\",\"tron\",\"cryptocurrency\",\"mastercard\",\"baidu\"],\"image\":[\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVabdegY9EhAGz8uAfkD1DFLhh9mv1Gw9CskrbmKznLxf/1.jpg\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYgetVNy8hJ7omZuoQ4RkArFjBHJZkJ5BG2jsTS8GsqrZ/2.jpg\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmfBX5EBpWChmsuKzuihhFQ9KL9KjeZ5MCuwJbzvU9b1Sy/3.jpg\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPbaXChYkP2taCNCXxQDVGmEbMNvDvFcGrafvNWkTnqnq/4.png\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaNkqUXaYgm6s7B7TEG4UuG32j4vSPuA1pXHTHS9cvUaZ/5.png\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVJ5LmbWpEiUaaa4pP1YhMyh7pid4ESMGDL9KJp4cgwUF/6.jpg\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbWa8qB7iQcUgDjc7enG4d6iPsbE26vPvMMT9GLnFtaKL/7.jpg\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmU1RpeK2VKZLqQCnGj7m6Ztr73scHnpsFc2nJsEbZfanW/8.jpg\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNYD5VoZncNqgFnsfZkx4Ra1bbohAzKt5MTiQDPjP1Lkn/9.jpg\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNxudRfjoVyWfLbkL9um1zFN6DYiRAzent9F2GJ21HFpn/10.jpg\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRS3gCQVYdbanF6sF6jwtgJuPae7UdA6KRdqPAfttm4Pv/11.png\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmP6y4Fo2wdCABZURk6iNXptiQTFJN8NCnvJTSSQU4i5Cf/12.jpg\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeYRyGdbKTwGT3MJChginpgaq9jVyx4bXomr6AgEtNz8b/13.png\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRu8NrXp6WEHCrPRFJJzHCJ3Q2bNciHvE7x3HY6G5ARza/14.jpg\"],\"links\":[\"https://cointelegraph.com/news/hodlers-digest-october-8-14-ran-neuner-thinks-btcs-price-will-explode-while-research-predicts-market-will-implode\"],\"app\":\"steemit/0.1\",\"format\":\"markdown\"}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "5f04fff7fcb5c0da42a689233b82bdaae7c507eb",
  "block": 26732469,
  "trx_in_block": 12,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-12T03:51:12",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "g-dubs",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "can-you-crack-this-crypto-puzzle-for-310-bitcoin-btc-worth-usd2-million",
      "weight": 2000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "6ceb8a2b30296e649f6c80e20454173f4d9d4c50",
  "block": 26669039,
  "trx_in_block": 4,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-09T22:56:39",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "26592.237317 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "9a79a2da5b5fd17da3fed1778fd5c4a89d8c0712",
  "block": 26668229,
  "trx_in_block": 16,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-09T22:16:09",
  "op": [
    "custom_json",
    {
      "required_auths": [],
      "required_posting_auths": [
        "agcaapo"
      ],
      "id": "follow",
      "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":\"agcaapo\",\"following\":\"null\",\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "8dd4a2ec8286c8d4d2164839a14a87b6ace776ae",
  "block": 26668209,
  "trx_in_block": 29,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-09T22:15:09",
  "op": [
    "transfer",
    {
      "from": "raise-me-up",
      "to": "agcaapo",
      "amount": "0.001 SBD",
      "memo": "Promote your new post with the biggest resteem service @raise-me-up with more than 29,000+ followers. Invest in your account to succeed! Find new friends/voters who will vote your posts daily. Put post's url in memo and @raise-me-up will resteem your post + 100% upvote. Weekly subscribe 5 SBD or 7 STEEM. 365 days Active."
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "7ee55c114c0f3665416ecb5a11c80df4e91df0b7",
  "block": 26668190,
  "trx_in_block": 9,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-09T22:14:12",
  "op": [
    "custom_json",
    {
      "required_auths": [],
      "required_posting_auths": [
        "agcaapo"
      ],
      "id": "follow",
      "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":\"agcaapo\",\"following\":\"fastresteem\",\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "0577591aa27565b7984412b685f274d1f8976382",
  "block": 26668186,
  "trx_in_block": 14,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-09T22:14:00",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "agcaapo",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "can-you-crack-this-crypto-puzzle-for-310-bitcoin-btc-worth-usd2-million",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "33a220bbb336b2654929dede3aa4d57e59b3e866",
  "block": 26668173,
  "trx_in_block": 16,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-09T22:13:21",
  "op": [
    "transfer",
    {
      "from": "agcaapo",
      "to": "null",
      "amount": "1.000 SBD",
      "memo": "@agcaapo/can-you-crack-this-crypto-puzzle-for-310-bitcoin-btc-worth-usd2-million"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "64c6512cbd1754a65ae219d4e70400d6aae272bb",
  "block": 26668148,
  "trx_in_block": 3,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-09T22:12:06",
  "op": [
    "custom_json",
    {
      "required_auths": [],
      "required_posting_auths": [
        "agcaapo"
      ],
      "id": "follow",
      "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":\"agcaapo\",\"following\":\"alesno1\",\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "06bdf8aa29b6a0bed686d43fc92dcdfaac8c1c89",
  "block": 26668143,
  "trx_in_block": 1,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-09T22:11:51",
  "op": [
    "custom_json",
    {
      "required_auths": [],
      "required_posting_auths": [
        "agcaapo"
      ],
      "id": "follow",
      "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":\"agcaapo\",\"following\":\"big-whale\",\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "40ab92ed820d031cb1da5cbf96262caa7f658631",
  "block": 26668127,
  "trx_in_block": 8,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-09T22:11:03",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "fastresteem",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "can-you-crack-this-crypto-puzzle-for-310-bitcoin-btc-worth-usd2-million",
      "weight": 100
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "cbe45e32aa092cd38deaf56f7e0343b7027b28aa",
  "block": 26668124,
  "trx_in_block": 16,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-10-09T22:10:54",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "",
      "parent_permlink": "cryptocurrency",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "can-you-crack-this-crypto-puzzle-for-310-bitcoin-btc-worth-usd2-million",
      "title": "Can You Crack This Crypto Puzzle for 310 Bitcoin (BTC) – Worth $2 Million?",
      "body": "![4.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbBikipdqgazHbtm2BxDvwmjN1RemovqKHA54idDHPUHN/4.jpg)\n\nCan You Crack This Crypto Puzzle for 310 Bitcoin (BTC) – Worth $2 Million?\n\nIf you’re looking for an extra $2 million in Bitcoin, you may just need to be really good at puzzles. A new website says 310 BTC is hidden inside the cryptic puzzle below. Anyone can solve it. You just have to crack the code, find the key to the Bitcoin and they’re all yours.\n\nThe puzzle’s creator goes by the name of “Pip” and claims to be an early adopter of BTC who mined most of his Bitcoin from a desktop computer, then later bought in large numbers. He says he no longer cares about money and that most of the 310 BTC are from free airdrops.\n\n![1.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTz5eWFyVgsXDz9PpowL9jF32XmLu85fBUD3HS4p7zdce/1.png)\n\n\nThis isn’t the first Bitcoin puzzle to be released.\n\nA Salvador Dali-esque puzzle worth 4.87 BTC was cracked back in February, after three years of attempts.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/583979278238359552/photo/1\n\nYou can check out the new puzzle at Bitcoinchallenges.codes.\n\n\nRead More :   https://dailyhodl.com/2018/10/09/can-you-crack-this-crypto-puzzle-for-310-bitcoin-btc-worth-2-million/",
      "json_metadata": "{\"tags\":[\"cryptocurrency\",\"bitcoin\",\"puzzle\",\"million\",\"free\"],\"image\":[\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbBikipdqgazHbtm2BxDvwmjN1RemovqKHA54idDHPUHN/4.jpg\",\"https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTz5eWFyVgsXDz9PpowL9jF32XmLu85fBUD3HS4p7zdce/1.png\"],\"links\":[\"https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/583979278238359552/photo/1\",\"https://dailyhodl.com/2018/10/09/can-you-crack-this-crypto-puzzle-for-310-bitcoin-btc-worth-2-million/\"],\"app\":\"steemit/0.1\",\"format\":\"markdown\"}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "975c72c1c7d258634000812279278ccfbb6592d8",
  "block": 24903063,
  "trx_in_block": 17,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-08-09T01:24:48",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "6433.673546 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "b98cf621a67f859252256f255fe47f7e3910d44c",
  "block": 23288274,
  "trx_in_block": 50,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-06-13T14:35:00",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "26782.737848 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "e787c587812284a3a6bb1f5cdba2e359605fa4c1",
  "block": 22292375,
  "trx_in_block": 23,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-05-09T23:42:27",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "pinoy",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "the-horrible-inspiration-behind-one-of-picasso-s-great-works",
      "weight": 1000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "fb795c76ac3a07e47d549515c7a1132b9077c427",
  "block": 22292362,
  "trx_in_block": 4,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-05-09T23:41:48",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "mikits",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "the-horrible-inspiration-behind-one-of-picasso-s-great-works",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "7a5dbf0878d58b7d5b26766c48d1cbaaee35751a",
  "block": 22292038,
  "trx_in_block": 1,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-05-09T23:25:36",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "quietstar",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "why-do-so-many-people-live-near-active-volcanoes",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "d3a6302d78255da15ca2db80ad74a6469f2d3a5c",
  "block": 22291918,
  "trx_in_block": 55,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-05-09T23:19:36",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "",
      "parent_permlink": "life",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "why-do-so-many-people-live-near-active-volcanoes",
      "title": "Why Do So Many People Live Near Active Volcanoes?",
      "body": "It may seem counterintuitive to live near a mountain that could rain ash and lava down on you and your family, but there are benefits, too.\n\n![9.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXisQBEYe2pBAfG7zjoWSV5V2kwKrswMujNdajTmhJ5yC/9.jpg)\n\nA lava flow moves on Makamae Street on the Big Island in Hawaii after the eruption of Mount Kilauea. The governor of Hawaii has declared a local state of emergency near the volcano. \nPHOTOGRAPH BY U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, GETTY IMAGES\n\n\nBy Heather Brady\nPUBLISHED MAY 8, 2018\n\n\nWhen the ground near Leilani Estates opened and began spilling out noxious fumes and lava from Mount Kilauea last week, residents of the neighborhood near the Hawaiian volcano fled.\n\nThe eruption displaced many people who are living near the most active volcano on Earth, which frequently erupts along its East Rift Zone. Lava from its eruptions often flows toward the ocean, but this time it headed inland.\n\nSeveral hundred people have taken refuge at churches, shelters, and with other Hawaiian residents nearby as more cracks and vents in the ground opened in residential areas.\n\n![10.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVfJWX5x8v6hnH4UMgqmxL4UBTNBAp53RzTa9E5tFdars/10.jpg)\n\nA column of robust, reddish-brown ash plume rises into the air after an earthquake, following the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. The volcano erupted on May 4, 2018, in the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa, Hawaii. \nPHOTOGRAPH BY U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, GETTY IMAGES\n\nThis begs the question: Why live near an active volcano when you may have to leave your home at a moment’s notice, moving through air filled with ash or toxic fumes that make it hard to breathe, because of an eruption?\n\nFor starters, many people depend on volcanoes for their survival. The geothermal energy of a volcano can power technological systems for nearby communities. Soil near active volcanoes is often rich in mineral deposits and provides excellent farming opportunities. Lots of people visit volcanoes each year, so jobs often pop up nearby in hotels, restaurants, gift shops, and as tour guides. And some people simply do not have the financial resources to move.\n\nThen there are cultural and religious reasons. Jordan Sonner, a realtor living on the Big Island, has a home right outside of Leilani Estates, and rushed back to pick up important documents and her pets when she heard about the lava. She told the Washington Post that she wasn’t so afraid of losing her home.\n\nvideo.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/180508-kilauea-volcano-lava-spreading-culture-vin-spd\nWATCH HAWAII'S KILAUEA LAVA CREEP TOWARD HOMES\n\n\n“The way I kind of look at it is, the land doesn’t really belong to us. It belongs to Pele,” Sonner told the Post, referring to the Hawaiian volcano goddess. “We get to live on it while we can, and if she wants it back, she’ll take it. I have good insurance.”\n\nMany residents of the area around Kilauea may also think it’s worth the risk, given the beauty, community, and remoteness of Hawaii.\n\n\n![11.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeiEz7yyaghXFCm69Ysn5tgPGRudqrVSZTB963yqr2EFZ/11.jpg)\n\nResidents go about daily life in Daraga, Albay province, as Mount Mayon has a mild eruption on January 25, 2018. Located in the eastern part of the Philippines, it is the country's most active volcano. \nPHOTOGRAPH BY EZRA ACAYA, GETTY IMAGES\n\n“We’ve been preparing for this, knowing that we bought in Lava Zone 1,” Stacy Welch, whose home in Leilani Estates may have been destroyed, told Time. “We’ll be fine. We’ll just rebuild.”\n\nVolcanoes also tend to give notice that something is about to happen—Kilauea’s small earthquakes, increasing amounts of lava at the summit, and a change in the slope of the volcano all indicated in recent weeks that an eruption may happen soon. This isn’t necessarily the case in other parts of the world, where earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, and floods can spring up without warning.\n\nThe evacuation of nearby communities because of Kilauea’s eruption isn’t the only instance in recent months of people leaving their homes to get out of the path of an erupting volcano. When Mount Mayon in the Philippines began spewing ash into the air in January, tens of thousands of people needed to evacuate. Over 100,000 people in northeast Bali were evacuated in November when Indonesia’s Mount Agung began rumbling, and thousands of tourists also fled.\n\n\nRead More:   https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/active-volcano-kilauea-hawaii-agung-mayon-community-culture/",
      "json_metadata": "{\"tags\":[\"life\",\"photography\",\"nature\",\"entertainment\",\"nationalgeographic\"],\"image\":[\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmXisQBEYe2pBAfG7zjoWSV5V2kwKrswMujNdajTmhJ5yC/9.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmVfJWX5x8v6hnH4UMgqmxL4UBTNBAp53RzTa9E5tFdars/10.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmeiEz7yyaghXFCm69Ysn5tgPGRudqrVSZTB963yqr2EFZ/11.jpg\"],\"links\":[\"https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/active-volcano-kilauea-hawaii-agung-mayon-community-culture/\"],\"app\":\"steemit/0.1\",\"format\":\"markdown\"}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "ddf6ef6c64628917ae7c74cc05d9eb4157af645d",
  "block": 22291716,
  "trx_in_block": 10,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-05-09T23:09:30",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "",
      "parent_permlink": "picasso",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "the-horrible-inspiration-behind-one-of-picasso-s-great-works",
      "title": "The Horrible Inspiration Behind One of Picasso's Great Works",
      "body": "Painted in the wake of a 1937 fascist bombing, \"Guernica\" has grown to stand for war atrocities experienced all over the world.\n\n\n![1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPxcVDV5KPRMbQiLwTexqfcauNdXspchLPEcDHBu4zCz1/1.jpg)\n\nWorking at great speed in the wake of the bombing at Guernica, Picasso filled a vast canvas with what would become the defining image of the horror of war.\n\nAGE FOTOSTOCK. © SUCESIÓN PABLO PICASSO. VEGAP, MADRID, 2018\n\n\nBy Toby Saul\nPUBLISHED MAY 8, 2018\n\n\nPablo Picasso had been searching for three months for something to paint in April 1937. Living in Paris, the Spanish artist had been given a commission to produce a mural for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 Paris World’s Fair. Turmoil had disrupted his process, both in his private life and in the civil war raging in Spain. The horror of this war would give Picasso his inspiration to paint a bold, unflinching vision of the devastation and savagery of modern warfare on everyday people. Picasso’s work, “Guernica,” is one of the 20th century’s greatest works of art and a strong statement against war.\n\n\nWAR CRIME\nIn July 1936 the authoritarian Spanish general Francisco Franco had launched a semi-successful coup against Spain’s democratic republic; a swath of Spain fell under Franco’s control, while the other half was retained by the republic. As global tensions soared on the eve of World War II, Spain’s bitter civil war rapidly internationalized: The republic received aid and arms from the Soviet Union, while Franco was armed by fascist Germany and Italy.\n\n\nDEATH FROM ABOVE\n\nApril 26, 1937, was a Monday, a market day in Guernica. That afternoon, German and Italian bombers dropped 550-pound explosives to crush buildings so that fire would spread more quickly. They were followed by waves of planes dropping incendiaries that burned at 2500°C. By the evening most buildings in Guernica were uninhabitable. Although the death toll, at first thought to be thousands, was later revised down to between 200 and 300, it sent a terrifying message to the world: The fascist powers were prepared to unleash the new weapon from the sky on civilians, the prelude to the devastating carpet-bombing of European cities during the Second World War.\n\n\nOn April 26, 1937, crew members on the British battleship H.M.S. Hood watched warplanes assembling over the coast of northern Spain. What they saw was a mixed formation of German and Italian bombers on a mission to bomb the small Basque city of Guernica. The attack began around 4:30 p.m. and lasted for three hours as high explosives and incendiaries laid waste to the undefended town.\n\nAs soon as news of the attack became known, war correspondent George Lowther Steer of the Times of London raced to Guernica and filed a report to alert the world: “At 2 a.m. today when I visited the town, the whole of it was a horrible sight, flaming from end to end.”\n\nSteer also identified that the raid was not carried out for military purposes but with the specific aim of terrorizing civilians: “A factory producing war material lay outside the town and was untouched. So were two barracks some distance from the town.”\n\n\n![3.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZMmT8k6Y6wjuFxYReuub868GJFrNLM42GXEntC2FDm9s/3.jpg)\n\nOn May 1, 1937, Picasso made his first sketches. The bull and the horse were present in early drafts, along with the fallen soldier and the woman with a lamp. Picasso had, in fact, used several of these elements in a previous work, a 1935 engraving of a minotaur.\nORONOZ/ALBUM. © SUCESIÓN PABLO PICASSO. VEGAP, MADRID, 2018  \n\n\n\n![4.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXHDM2876XxisA2cwjA5eWAjTPf3QeFrc9ACu2zATABsd/4.jpg)\n\nAlthough the central figures remained constant, Picasso made many revisions to the work. Its austere palette of black, white, and gray is said to have been inspired by the grainy quality of newsprint, reflecting that the Spanish Civil War was one of the first conflicts intensively covered by the media.\nORONOZ/ALBUM. © SUCESIÓN PABLO PICASSO. VEGAP, MADRID, 2018\nAfter just five weeks, the vast, mural-size canvas was complete. There is a story (perhaps apocryphal) that a Nazi officer later showed Picasso a photo of the picture, and asked him, “Did you do this?” Picasso is said to have replied: “No, you did.”\nDPA/ALBUM. © SUCESIÓN PABLO PICASSO. VEGAP, MADRID, 2018\n\n\n![5.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYZjG2xtPqGCKgGEswjQuNQkwNCw9Sg1JtTdpPcr6LiAd/5.jpg)\n\nAfter just five weeks, the vast, mural-size canvas was complete. There is a story (perhaps apocryphal) that a Nazi officer later showed Picasso a photo of the picture, and asked him, “Did you do this?” Picasso is said to have replied: “No, you did.”\nDPA/ALBUM. © SUCESIÓN PABLO PICASSO. VEGAP, MADRID, 2018\n\n\n\nART STRIKES BACK\n\nThe day after the attack, Pablo Picasso was sitting in the Café de Flore, Paris, and read of the atrocity in the newspaper. With the appalling news from Guernica, Picasso knew he had his theme at last.\n\nWorking at great speed, he filled a vast canvas with what would become the defining image of the horror of war. From its unveiling at the World’s Fair, where it caused a sensation, the painting toured the world. It ended up in the United States where it would remain for the next 42 years. Housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, it hugely influenced a generation of postwar American artists. Jackson Pollock, the great abstract artist, went to the museum every day just to gaze at it. Once, overhearing a fellow gallery visitor express an unflattering opinion about the canvas, Pollock invited the man outside where he suggested they fight it out.\n\nPicasso had always said that he would not allow the picture to travel to his homeland until Spain was a republic. General Franco died in 1975—two years after Picasso—and Spain made the transition to democracy as a constitutional monarchy. Even though this meant that Spain was not the republic that Picasso had dreamed of, “Guernica” was allowed to return in 1981 and was shown at the Prado Museum in Madrid. The painting’s power to provoke had not diminished over the years. Because the passions of the Spanish Civil War had not faded, “Guernica” was displayed behind bomb- and bulletproof glass. In 1992 “Guernica” made its last journey, to the nearby Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, where it is now visited by an average of 11,000 people every day.\n\n\n![7.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNXgcWDNBYzDT9L1JQoqJ4mmS9chc6n26cNu7ExSTiVnj/7.jpg)\n\nWorkers at the Museum of Modern Art roll up \"Guernica\" before sending it to Spain in September 1981. \nBETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES\n\n\n\nIMAGES OF WAR\n\nToday, as warfare still threatens peaceful civilians across the globe, “Guernica’s” depiction of terror, agony, and loss remains the strongest anti-war artwork of the ages. Picasso was cagey about explaining his works, and “Guernica” was no exception: “If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.”\n\n\nvideo.nationalgeographic.com/video/magazine/1805-ngm-picasso-genius\n\nWHERE DID PABLO PICASSO'S GENIUS COME FROM? Pablo Picasso is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, and his work continues to be studied for its meaning and celebrated for its creativity. Follow the path of Picasso’s life in this brief animated video.\n\n\nOver the years, artists and critics have marveled at the painting’s powerful imagery and attempted to explain it. Picasso’s use of a bull, a traditional Spanish symbol, is ambiguous as it could represent either Spanish victims or Spanish brutality. The figure of the wailing mother mourning her dead child may refer to Michelangelo’s “Pietà” in which the Virgin Mary grieves her dead son. The gored horse is one of the central figures in the painting; its wounded body blindly tramples the broken body of a soldier on the ground. The one hopeful figure is the female form emerging from a window: She holds a lamp and shines a light on the devastation, perhaps so the world can see what happened here.\n\nFor critic Herbert Read, “Guernica” was “the modern Calvary, the agony in the bomb-shattered ruins of human tenderness and frailty.” Australian critic Robert Hughes placed it within the Western art tradition as “the last great history painting. It was also the last modern painting of major importance that took its subject from politics with the intention of changing the way large numbers of people thought and felt about power.”\n\n\nRead More :  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/magazine/2018/05-06/pablo-picasso-guernica-painting-history/",
      "json_metadata": "{\"tags\":[\"picasso\",\"art\",\"artist\",\"nationalgeographic\"],\"image\":[\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmPxcVDV5KPRMbQiLwTexqfcauNdXspchLPEcDHBu4zCz1/1.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmZMmT8k6Y6wjuFxYReuub868GJFrNLM42GXEntC2FDm9s/3.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmXHDM2876XxisA2cwjA5eWAjTPf3QeFrc9ACu2zATABsd/4.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmYZjG2xtPqGCKgGEswjQuNQkwNCw9Sg1JtTdpPcr6LiAd/5.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmNXgcWDNBYzDT9L1JQoqJ4mmS9chc6n26cNu7ExSTiVnj/7.jpg\"],\"links\":[\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/magazine/2018/05-06/pablo-picasso-guernica-painting-history/\"],\"app\":\"steemit/0.1\",\"format\":\"markdown\"}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "26ed4756f50f5ccd60101ee5eb4e865561efa0af",
  "block": 22045392,
  "trx_in_block": 15,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-05-01T09:50:00",
  "op": [
    "claim_reward_balance",
    {
      "account": "agcaapo",
      "reward_steem": "0.000 STEEM",
      "reward_sbd": "0.000 SBD",
      "reward_vests": "20.369899 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "block": 21907423,
  "trx_in_block": 4294967295,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 15,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-26T14:49:45",
  "op": [
    "author_reward",
    {
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "sbd_payout": "0.000 SBD",
      "steem_payout": "0.000 STEEM",
      "vesting_payout": "20.369899 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "b97b7c704c28e395cb67b302ca8bffc100fe200b",
  "block": 21863179,
  "trx_in_block": 33,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-25T01:56:03",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "sensation",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "banks-and-cryptocurrencies-global-evaluation-europe",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "999a800efab4589ad3edbdce8106def799c3f6d9",
  "block": 21862301,
  "trx_in_block": 18,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-25T01:12:06",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "agcaapo",
      "parent_permlink": "snoop-dogg-to-promote-ripple-at-invite-only-event-in-nyc",
      "author": "dogfact",
      "permlink": "20180425t011204935z",
      "title": "",
      "body": "A Great Dane named \"Just Nuisance\" is the only dog to have officially enlisted in the Royal Navy.",
      "json_metadata": "{\"tags\":[\"dog\"]}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "fade1db9d7db24e4c7f84a4918523aef88495a75",
  "block": 21861261,
  "trx_in_block": 17,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-25T00:19:54",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "ax3",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "banks-and-cryptocurrencies-global-evaluation-europe",
      "weight": 100
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "cd85e7695c1f21a1e63a79a670fd5b3f0b75c34b",
  "block": 21861241,
  "trx_in_block": 0,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-25T00:18:54",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "agcaapo",
      "parent_permlink": "banks-and-cryptocurrencies-global-evaluation-europe",
      "author": "cheetah",
      "permlink": "cheetah-re-agcaapobanks-and-cryptocurrencies-global-evaluation-europe",
      "title": "",
      "body": "Hi! I am a robot. I just upvoted you! I found similar content that readers might be interested in:\nhttps://cointelegraph.com/news/banks-and-cryptocurrencies-global-evaluation-europe",
      "json_metadata": ""
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "0aab0ff2d0d8bf8f851db0e99960e1b3b543c4a8",
  "block": 21861239,
  "trx_in_block": 39,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-25T00:18:48",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "cheetah",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "banks-and-cryptocurrencies-global-evaluation-europe",
      "weight": 8
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "9e6a57e65bd51e128a78d8859342d77ac960b426",
  "block": 21861236,
  "trx_in_block": 16,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-25T00:18:39",
  "op": [
    "comment_options",
    {
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "banks-and-cryptocurrencies-global-evaluation-europe",
      "max_accepted_payout": "1000000.000 SBD",
      "percent_steem_dollars": 0,
      "allow_votes": true,
      "allow_curation_rewards": true,
      "extensions": []
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "9e6a57e65bd51e128a78d8859342d77ac960b426",
  "block": 21861236,
  "trx_in_block": 16,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-25T00:18:39",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "",
      "parent_permlink": "bitcoin",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "banks-and-cryptocurrencies-global-evaluation-europe",
      "title": "Banks And Cryptocurrencies Global Evaluation: Europe",
      "body": "![3.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVFurjGSvkjxojaFJKs6xnPvntm4Wnwzh15qzgFq8v3wv/3.jpg)\n\nEuropean leaders seem to have finally come to a consensus that the innovative technology underlying crypto-assets “has the potential to improve efficiency and inclusiveness of the financial system and economy more broadly,” as emphasized at the G20 summit in Argentina in March 2018.\n\nHowever, when it comes to regulation, the lack of consensus among global leaders made it impossible to enact broad legislation. Various European representatives pushed for coordinated legislation to restrict cryptocurrencies during the G20 summit with no success. Instead, there was agreement to set a July 2018 deadline for regulatory proposals.\nThe hang-up over regulation may be due to governments and financial leaders recognizing that legislation will only be effective if pursued as a joint venture with other European countries.\n\nGovernment organizations, politicians, regulators, and central banks that were present at the gathering discussed the instability of cryptocurrency markets and the potential for criminal activity. But the major developments to come from the summit were the characterization of crypto-holdings as property for tax purposes; required compliance of crypto firms with standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF); and, of course, the July deadline.\nMost nations initially understated the potential of Bitcoin and allowed cryptocurrency activity with little resistance, but now governments are taking a second look at how cryptocurrency and Blockchain tech will affect future labor markets, digital infrastructure, and financial institutions.\n\nMany countries may be moving to regulate and restrict cryptocurrency use, but European financial actors are also leading the research and development of Blockchain tech in preparation for institutional and mainstream adoption of virtual marketplaces.\n\nThe vice president of the European Commission recently urged EU countries to be politically and financially supportive of developing Blockchain tech because “Europe is best positioned to play a leading role.” The Commission proposed a 23-point action plan to integrate the development of Blockchain with the financial sector around the same time it proposed two new digital tax rules at the G20 summit last month.\n\nSimilar to the US based R3 consortium, the European Central Bank has experimented with the potential use of distributed ledger technology as a securities settlement mechanism since December 2016. Switzerland and Netherlands based financial groups have since successfully used R3’s Corda platform to transfer nearly $30 bln in securities, proving its commercial utility.\n\nThe list below is based on thorough news research, but should in no way be considered complete. If you have more detailed information on banks and the crypto relationship in your country, we encourage you to share it in the comment section.\n\n\n![6.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmY7wdEkVhbCGfktH39F7X11wTttWxvmEuJyxv5hsdQhB6/6.jpg)\n\nThe UK\n\nThe UK Treasury established a cryptocurrency task force in March that aims to mirror the regulatory action of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The task force, which comprises the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is part of a larger strategy to facilitate crypto markets in the UK, especially as the country exits the EU. \n\nThe FCA also created a global fintech sandbox in March, which aims to promote collaborative fintech regulations and initiatives among global leaders.\n\nThe FCA, Britain’s financial watchdog, requires crypto firms to apply for e-money licensing before operating in the country. The FCA is primarily concerned with ensuring that licensed firms comply with regulations. Coinbase is the first firm to be granted an e-money license to work with Barclays and plans to make fiat exchanges more accessible in Britain.\n\nStill, many analysts believe the FCA is seeking positive regulatory changes aimed to attract cryptocurrency investors to the UK, especially if European regulators propose strict legislation for cryptocurrency markets.\n\nMike Carney, governor of the Bank of England, is a vocal critic of cryptocurrencies in England but says banning exchanges is not the best approach. Rather, placing regulations and standards in the market is the most effective way to protect financial institutions. Similarly, other financial actors in Britain are focusing their attention on the development of distributed ledger technology (DLT) instead of mainstream cryptocurrency adoption.\n\nAs for the banking sector, Britain’s Lloyds Banking Group and Virgin Money banned the purchase of cryptocurrency with credit cards earlier this year, following the lead of US giants JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup.\n\nThe Royal Bank of Scotland warned investors to avoid investing in Bitcoin and characterized the crypto market as a ‘frothy investment bubble.’ The bank began rejecting accounts associated with cryptocurrencies in early March.   \nIreland established its own cryptocurrency, Irishcoin, in 2014, which aims to promote tourism in the country. Ireland’s Сentral Bank hasn’t presented any regulations for the market except that cryptocurrency dealings are subject to taxation as stocks and bonds under the country’s tax code.\n\nThe Central Bank of Ireland, along with other groups from the private sector, has established research groups to experiment with Blockchain tech for trading and data reporting. The Irish Computer Society and the Blockchain Association of Ireland held an informational conference in March to address legal inquiries and other relevant interests of the technical, social, and political implications of Blockchain tech in the U.K.\n\n \n![7.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTUUdfvFrEgyi7rf44yZEbp3BGLJ2hAhL9peSdvvdU3m4/7.jpg)\n\nRussia\n\nThe Russian Ministry of Finance first proposed a digital assets regulation bill in January, which would establish regulatory procedures for the market and lend legal status to cryptocurrency.\n\nBut in more recent events, a group of Russian deputies headed by the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets submitted a bill on March 20 that establishes a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies and initial coin offering (ICOs).\n\nIn line with the security concerns of other nations, the bill redefines virtual currency as financial assets and only allows trading on authorized exchanges. The bill also requires compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), and Counter Terrorist Financing laws. The Russian government’s approach contrasts the Central Bank of Russia’s desire to ban ICOs and crowdfunding all together.\n\nThough there is some division among Russians about regulation, active involvement in Blockchain tech persists. The Central Bank of Russia’s FinTech Association has experimented with its Masterchain software for cross-border financial communication with the Eurasian Economic Union. The software may potentially replace existing international payment systems.\n\nFurthermore, it was reported that a Russian polling research center used Blockchain tech to monitor the exit polls of the presidential election last month. This is not the first instance of Blockchain involvement in electoral practices, which is seen as a push to add security and transparency to Russia’s highly contested election process.\n\nRecent reports show that the Russian government banned nearly 20 mln users from the popular encrypted messaging app, Telegram. However, many users have been able to circumvent the block, which serves as a reminder that the government has a critical hold on the cryptocurrency industry in Russia.\n\n\n![8.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTEFG8XRhWESwK5gCJ9UGR3EJjTcRgjPFAdLAiF4NJnqu/8.jpg)\n\nFrance\n\nThe Bank of France proposed a ban on investment companies in March to keep financial institutions from involvement in the cryptocurrency market until proper regulations are enacted. The bank issued a report that characterized virtual exchanges as invitations for money laundering, cyber attacks, and criminal enterprises.  \n\nThe Ministry of Economy created a task force earlier this year aimed at examining possible regulations for the market to address tax evasion and terrorism funding. The task force was also created to develop possible international legislation of the cryptocurrency market.\n\nTherefore, many speculated that the task force would propose aggressive international regulations at the first meeting of the G20 summit earlier this year, but no joint declarations came from the international forum.\n\nIn an unexpected move, French financial market regulators announced a proposal for legislation outlining rules for ICOs in March. The favorable proposal is seen to encourage the use of ICOs as legitimate investment opportunities.\n\nThe French government also allows financial institutions and FinTech companies to trade securities using Blockchain platforms in an effort to compete with neighboring tech hubs London and Germany.\n\n\n![9.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcrKfekjKX3cp1bTCAEs6gDdPaGAm63RY5JeudgAqe7PR/9.jpg)\n\nFinland\n\nThe promising cryptocurrency industry in Finland is being threatened by banks that refuse to conduct business with the country’s largest virtual wallet service provider, Prasos Oy.\n\nFinnish banks are blocking transactions from major crypto-exchanges after rapid increases in transaction volume have left them concerned about their ability to determine the origins of funds and comply with AML laws due to the anonymous nature of the exchanges.\n\n\n![10.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmU7yHX7qMMDFSPvMUrUYM7qcKHC1LBe5Wv1nkV5wcGKHT/10.jpg)\n\nSweden\n\nRiksbank in Sweden is notorious for being ahead of the fintech curve. Many predict the country will be the first “cashless economy” as Riksbank revealed plans to launch its own cryptocurrency, e-krona, last November. But the Bank for International settlements (BIS) has issued a warning to central banks to reconsider the impact and unknown risks associated with the cryptocurrency market.\n\nThe report issued by BIS, however, praises distributed ledger technology and emphasizes its potential for security trading among global financial institutions.\n\n\n![11.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPn9QC8gcaDu4VRzByyFBPoBAUHFMnfrfkPGoJAzN9pZf/11.jpg)\n\nSwitzerland\n\nSwitzerland is a global hub for the cryptocurrenct industry with droves of entrepreneurs flocking to the business-friendly country every year. Four of the six biggest ICOs occurred in Switzerland, which has around 200 Blockchain companies in operation, including Ethereum.\n\nThe risks associated with unregulated ICOs was addressed by Finma, the country’s financial watchdog. Finma established regulatory guidelines for ICOs to require more transparency in their fundraising techniques.\nFinma also oversees businesses compliance with AML and KYC regulations. Payment 21 was the first Bitcoin business to receive an operational license from Finma in Oct. 2017.\n\nHowever, Swiss banks are divided on this issue. Some have successfully experimented with cryptocurrency products, crypto-asset management, and trading services. But two of the largest Swiss banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, remain skeptical of virtual currencies and warn customers of the volatility and scam risks associated with transactions. Still, these large banks are experimenting with Blockchain tech for scalable uses.\n\n\n![12.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmX2PHjCtZQuZRAkmUwzPb3jb5Su9XyVhAmrBaYHBcF4wW/12.jpg)\n\nLiechtenstein\n\nIn early March, one of the largest family-owned private banks in the world, LGT, based in Liechtenstein, announced it will allow clients to directly invest in Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple, and Ether. As one of the first of their kind, the bank is pioneering scalable security and trading solutions for influential global clients.\n\n\n![13.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRvcGqp6cfafAJKLrinCBhPzL8QAPXXkBkWiny8nWEpV8/13.jpg)\n\n\nPoland\n\nThe Polish Blockchain Technology Accelerator team operating under the Ministry of Digitalization announced the development of a national cryptocurrency, Digital PLN, in Jan. 2018. The team created a working version of the currency, but the Polish government has been slow to enact regulations that would make scalable uses of the tech feasible.  \n\nPoland recognized buying and selling Bitcoin as ‘official economic activity’ in early 2017, although crypto assets are still regarded as property under the country’s tax code. The government has waited almost a year to regulate virtual currencies under pre-existing AML laws.\n\nMany believed the Polish government held progressive views in regard to developing the crypto industry, but it was recently discovered that the Central Bank of Poland funded anti-cryptocurrency campaigns on social media in an effort to delegitimize its use.\n\n\n![14.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeNd2S1Jrnj13ccdxVXBtcpsjchf9wu2oq6Ha5LJ5SwsU/14.jpg)\n\n\nItaly\n\nThe Italian Treasury Department of the Ministry of Economy and Finance recently announced a decree that stipulates new reporting requirements for cryptocurrency service providers. The Ministry addressed legal concerns of service providers’ compliance with AML laws in a legislative decree in May 2017.\n\nThe decree requires any business or entity related to crypto operations to report activity to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The Italian government’s call for transparency is seen as an effort to understand citizen engagement with cryptocurrency before the new industry impacts the national economy.\n\nBut the growing cryptocurrency industry in Italy remains virtually unhindered by government involvement. The most recent decree does not levy taxes or regulate exchanges, and businesses increasingly accept Bitcoin as payment. Furthermore, the country’s tax authority declared that the purchases of virtual currency does not generate taxable income and is not subject to capital gains taxes.\n\nThe Blockchain Education Network Italia began organizing conferences and initiatives centered around Blockchain development in 2014. The growing association is comprised of over 200 university students. An entrepreneurial initiative, BlockchainLab, has since been created to provide in-depth analysis of the technology and connect dedicated Italian researchers.\n\nThe call for more education on the new technology was answered by an Italian TV show, which garnered national attention when the show’s name, Codice, became the number one trending Italian hashtag on Twitter. The show focuses on Italian Blockchain leaders and specialists who share simplified explanations and accounts aimed to grow public awareness and acceptance of Blockchain.\n\nIn more recent events, Italian leaders have been open to experimenting with Blockchain technology. The London Stock Exchange Group announced a partnership with IBM to creating a platform for digitally issuing shares of Italian companies.\n \n\n![14.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmev419mQCa6ttWgY79on4ntoU8ThKduTrknDjiL4gZ3Eq/14.jpg)\n\nGermany\n\nGermany was the first country to accept Bitcoin as a currency back in 2014, and officially recognized Bitcoin as a legal tender in March. Financial leaders have since hinted at international regulations for cryptocurrency, but the future of the industry in Germany remains in contention.\n\nThe German government first warned cryptocurrency investors of the volatile market and scam ICOs last November. Many speculated that Germany would approach European leaders with a unified plan for regulation at the G20 summit earlier this year. However, little progress was made at the summit where it seemed German leaders tiptoed around the topic of cryptocurrency.\n\nWhile the cryptocurrency industry in Germany awaits further instruction, many operations are continuing business as usual. A subsidiary of the country’s second largest stock exchange announced plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading app, Bison, earlier this month. Bison will make trading with virtual currencies more accessible and is the first ever trading app to be backed by a traditional stock exchange.\n\nBy Christina Georgacopoulos\n\n\nRead More : https://cointelegraph.com/news/banks-and-cryptocurrencies-global-evaluation-europe",
      "json_metadata": "{\"tags\":[\"bitcoin\",\"ethereum\",\"cryptocurrency\",\"banks\",\"europe\"],\"image\":[\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmVFurjGSvkjxojaFJKs6xnPvntm4Wnwzh15qzgFq8v3wv/3.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmY7wdEkVhbCGfktH39F7X11wTttWxvmEuJyxv5hsdQhB6/6.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmTUUdfvFrEgyi7rf44yZEbp3BGLJ2hAhL9peSdvvdU3m4/7.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmTEFG8XRhWESwK5gCJ9UGR3EJjTcRgjPFAdLAiF4NJnqu/8.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmcrKfekjKX3cp1bTCAEs6gDdPaGAm63RY5JeudgAqe7PR/9.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmU7yHX7qMMDFSPvMUrUYM7qcKHC1LBe5Wv1nkV5wcGKHT/10.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmPn9QC8gcaDu4VRzByyFBPoBAUHFMnfrfkPGoJAzN9pZf/11.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmX2PHjCtZQuZRAkmUwzPb3jb5Su9XyVhAmrBaYHBcF4wW/12.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmRvcGqp6cfafAJKLrinCBhPzL8QAPXXkBkWiny8nWEpV8/13.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmeNd2S1Jrnj13ccdxVXBtcpsjchf9wu2oq6Ha5LJ5SwsU/14.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmev419mQCa6ttWgY79on4ntoU8ThKduTrknDjiL4gZ3Eq/14.jpg\"],\"links\":[\"https://cointelegraph.com/news/banks-and-cryptocurrencies-global-evaluation-europe\"],\"app\":\"steemit/0.1\",\"format\":\"markdown\"}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "cd7fd096be02719d64925c1f7cc08e1b08e87137",
  "block": 21860877,
  "trx_in_block": 33,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-25T00:00:36",
  "op": [
    "comment_options",
    {
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "snoop-dogg-to-promote-ripple-at-invite-only-event-in-nyc",
      "max_accepted_payout": "1000000.000 SBD",
      "percent_steem_dollars": 0,
      "allow_votes": true,
      "allow_curation_rewards": true,
      "extensions": []
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "cd7fd096be02719d64925c1f7cc08e1b08e87137",
  "block": 21860877,
  "trx_in_block": 33,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-25T00:00:36",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "",
      "parent_permlink": "ripple",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "snoop-dogg-to-promote-ripple-at-invite-only-event-in-nyc",
      "title": "Snoop Dogg To Promote Ripple At Invite-Only Event In NYC",
      "body": "![4.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmR5dULtq3GRuMHvgfjSitnRVtgxYm1aLiiqZPXhVrhApq/4.jpg)\n\nRipple is hosting a VIP gathering, dubbed “XRP Community Night,” in NYC on May 15, with a performance by Snoop Dog, the company announced Tuesday, April 24.\n\nThe event is “invite-only,” but two Twitter contests will run in which participants can vie for ten tickets: “Twitter Trivia” and “Make the Meme,\" on April 26 and May 2 respectively.\nRipple says the “special night” is to thank those who are helping the company to develop the XRP Ledger and xRapid platform, as well as all those who are “spreading the good word about Ripple’s many benefits.”\nSocial media was predictably split between fans and skeptics, but one Twitter user rode the wave with good-natured indifference:\n\nhttps://twitter.com/Ripple/status/988812196611174400\n\nThis is hardly showbiz’s first foray into the crypto sphere, with singer Lionel Richie recently appearing in a Super Bowl television ad promoting Bitcoin Futures, former Liverpool soccer star Michael Owen launching his own token, and heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton endorsing ICO LydianCoin last year.\nThe US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) busted a high-profile ICO scam earlier this month, which was backed by boxing champion Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled. In November, the SEC raised wider concerns that ICO endorsement by celebrities could in certain cases be illegal.\n\nBy Marie Huillet\n\nRead More:  https://cointelegraph.com/news/snoop-dogg-to-promote-ripple-at-invite-only-event-in-nyc",
      "json_metadata": "{\"tags\":[\"ripple\",\"cryptocurrency\",\"snoop\",\"dog\",\"performance\"],\"image\":[\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmR5dULtq3GRuMHvgfjSitnRVtgxYm1aLiiqZPXhVrhApq/4.jpg\"],\"links\":[\"https://twitter.com/Ripple/status/988812196611174400\",\"https://cointelegraph.com/news/snoop-dogg-to-promote-ripple-at-invite-only-event-in-nyc\"],\"app\":\"steemit/0.1\",\"format\":\"markdown\"}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "01bbe949885cfd8fe30349ed163d13e0b8abd2d1",
  "block": 21860739,
  "trx_in_block": 10,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-24T23:53:42",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "agcaapo",
      "author": "coin.info",
      "permlink": "re-agcaapo-bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions-20180423t050953566z",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "38713ff7fdb1d8ca43833a4367134b04a3e58958",
  "block": 21810082,
  "trx_in_block": 48,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-23T05:10:00",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "coin.info",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "weight": 694
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "e15da11dfd79788dda52487f75212894b2c8733c",
  "block": 21810080,
  "trx_in_block": 54,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-23T05:09:54",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "agcaapo",
      "parent_permlink": "bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "author": "coin.info",
      "permlink": "re-agcaapo-bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions-20180423t050953566z",
      "title": "",
      "body": "**Coins mentioned in post:**\n\nCoin | | Price (USD) | 📈 24h | 📈 7d\n- | - | - | - | -\n**BTC** | Bitcoin | 8854.920$ | _0.12%_ | _8.3%_\n**DLT** | Agrello | 0.263$ | _1.44%_ | _28.36%_\n**ETH** | Ethereum | 630.979$ | _4.36%_ | _21.81%_\n**ZIL** | Zilliqa | 0.099$ | _9.66%_ | _53.79%_",
      "json_metadata": "{\"app\":\"coininfo/1.0.0\",\"format\":\"markdown\"}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "9d3f6c4889f2050ca821226016138cbdc5ff9631",
  "block": 21707782,
  "trx_in_block": 10,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-19T15:54:12",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "sensation",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "15b0bc21f94b725dbdff26148c8128bf1b9e94e9",
  "block": 21706509,
  "trx_in_block": 47,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-19T14:50:24",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "agcaapo",
      "parent_permlink": "bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "author": "cheetah",
      "permlink": "cheetah-re-agcaapobitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "title": "",
      "body": "Hi! I am a robot. I just upvoted you! I found similar content that readers might be interested in:\nhttps://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-headed-for-100000-or-100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "json_metadata": ""
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "e5ec249efec0f30f5b1439c5cc2d6828819cf424",
  "block": 21706508,
  "trx_in_block": 4,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-19T14:50:21",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "cheetah",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "weight": 8
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "a577a84fb1a28f02a17ccdfbe225ec6cc1e98266",
  "block": 21706499,
  "trx_in_block": 31,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-19T14:49:54",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "jksteemit",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "81094e6ff290d846a1c16cdc9917588c477aeb31",
  "block": 21706496,
  "trx_in_block": 51,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-19T14:49:45",
  "op": [
    "comment_options",
    {
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "max_accepted_payout": "1000000.000 SBD",
      "percent_steem_dollars": 0,
      "allow_votes": true,
      "allow_curation_rewards": true,
      "extensions": []
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "81094e6ff290d846a1c16cdc9917588c477aeb31",
  "block": 21706496,
  "trx_in_block": 51,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-04-19T14:49:45",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "",
      "parent_permlink": "bitcoin",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "bitcoin-headed-for-usd100-000-or-usd100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "title": "Bitcoin Headed For $100,000 Or $100? CEOs, Big Investors And Harvard Economist Predictions",
      "body": "![1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPPKE1CqFhXip5tv4qVZn1vGivMMqKTw8xKuug4zrY5HE/1.jpg)\nThis article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.\n\nMany predictions have been made regarding Bitcoin’s price which, after jumping from around $1,000 to $20,000 in 2017, decreased to lows of around $6,000 before climbing back to $8,000.\nThis huge volatility makes it very challenging to predict the price in the short-term. Nonetheless, a fundamental analysis of the evolution of Bitcoin’s price in the longer term could be more reliable. Several predictions are analyzed and discussed below to estimate the most likely direction of Bitcoin’s price in the medium to long-term.\n\n\nPREDİCTİON 1: Institutional investors’ money will increase Bitcoin’s price\n\n\nThe CEO of American Express-backed startup Abra has predicted that big investors will make “all hell break loose” in a recent interview with Business Insider. He mentioned that there is currently little large-scale institutional money in cryptocurrencies and when this changes the impact on Bitcoin’s price will be very positive.\nSo, what is preventing this institutional money to flow into Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets in general? The current technological limitations of Blockchain could be a key reason, especially those related to scaling. However, right now there are scientists and software developers building trailblazing innovations that could take Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to the next level, as pointed out by Don Tapscott, author of the book ‘Blockchain Revolution’.\nDecentralization, scalability and security are the trilemma in DLT meaning that if you were to improve scalability then security would be compromised, and so on. However, this trilemma, which has been the limiting factor for the technology, is about to be overcome.\nSharding, interoperability and formal verification\nEthereum and Zilliqa are working on a process called “sharding” which could greatly improve their throughput and their number of transactions per second - matching or surpassing those of Visa or Mastercard.\nOther projects are creating the ‘Internet of Blockchains’ by allowing interoperability among  Blockchains, both public and private. They would also offer shared security and instant finality meaning that it will not be necessary to wait for several confirmations to validate a transaction.\nFurthermore, hacking attacks such as the one that affected the DAO and triggered the Ethereum hard fork could become a thing of the past once formal verification of smart contracts, such as the ones Tezos or Zen Protocol projects are using, will ensure that there are absolutely no errors in the code and therefore no way to attack it. Formal verification is already used in airplanes, medical equipment and nuclear reactors, all places where there is little scope for errors.\nXinshu Dong, CEO of Zilliqa, among the first Blockchain to use the technology of sharding with a public testnet launched on March 31, recognizes also the importance of formal verification of smart contracts:\n\n\n\"One of the key issues that needs to be addressed is the security of smart contract applications running on public Blockchains. For any company to run any part of their business on a public Blockchain there needs to be infrastructure in place that prevents incidents like those with the DAO. Once the security issue is solved we may see more major companies start to publicly embrace Blockchain, which in turn may act as a catalyst towards more institutional investment.\"\n\n\nAll these technological breakthroughs could arrive soon, potentially fixing the ‘Achilles’ heel’ of Blockchain, which is the above mentioned ‘trilemma’ of decentralization, scalability and security. However, since all these innovations are still not ready, the great majority of institutional investors, corporations and banks are waiting for these breakthroughs to really jump in, now they are just ‘dipping their toes’.\nOnce all the above mentioned trailblazing innovations are finalized and ready, and more countries follow pioneers in terms of DLT regulation such as Malta or Switzerland, institutional money could start pouring in. This could rise the price of Bitcoin and decrease its volatility.\nJan Brzezek, CEO & Co-Founder at Crypto Finance AG, a regulated cryptocurrency fund, prime broker and storage, who previously held various positions at UBS Asset Management shared with Cointelegraph his thoughts about the rise of Bitcoin’s price in 2017:\n“It was clearly a hype and FOMO [fear of missing out] was everywhere. But not from rational institutional investors, but retail investors chasing the quick money. There is no free lunch, so this correction was obvious for me. I even expected it earlier. Those investors burnt their fingers and are now too afraid to go back in this exciting new asset class and the expected institutional money has not flown in yet.”\n\n\nPREDİCTİON 2: A decade from now Bitcoin is more likely to be worth $100 than $100,000\n\nKenneth Rogoff, a Harvard economist has predicted that due to the volatility of Bitcoin’s price and the small number of use cases such money laundering and tax evasion mainly in his opinion, Bitcoin is more likely to be worth $100 in a decade than $100,000.\nRogoff also points out that the regulation of Bitcoin is also a big factor in his prediction, although he clarifies that only a global coordinated regulation could be effective. However, given that countries such as Malta are becoming pioneers in DLT regulation, it seems very unlikely that there will be in the future a global regulation unfriendly to Bitcoin.\nRegarding the problem of Bitcoin’s price volatility mentioned by Rogoff, there are currently many projects trying to solve this issue. Cointelegraph talked with Alex Gordon-Brander, CEO of ConsenSys' Omega One and previously at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, about what could help decrease the high volatility in crypto markets.\nAlex wants his platform to become “regulated crypto agency broker” in order to “provide high-quality liquidity, enabling large sizes to be traded without moving the market, saving millions of dollars”, as well as to “offer regulatory compliance”.\n\n“In the US, we're probably at least a few months away from getting full regulatory clarity on the trading of digital assets, but the landscape is a lot clearer than it was.”\n\nTherefore, since the underlying problems of Bitcoin mentioned by Rogoff - high volatility and unfriendly global regulation - are being addressed currently, this prediction could be proved wrong in the near future.\nPrediction 3: Bitcoin’s price will follow a downward trend after the CME futures launch in December 2017\nA popular cryptocurrency blogger predicted in a recent article that Bitcoin’s price will follow a downward trend based on the assumption that gold and silver prices have been suppressed for the last seven years, similar to other commodities after the futures market launch.\nThe following graphs show the prices of Bitcoin, silver, gold, and uranium, and developments for the starting date of the futures market for each.\n\n\nBitcoin’s price and CME futures market launch (Dec. 17)\n\n\n![2.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZzy4ZTv96DyZDNJ6iHDqgZNYjv1mkT8fYiU91YH4ve9e/2.png)\nImage source: Coinmarketcap\n\n\nSilver’s price and futures market launch (Mid-2011)\n\n![3.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdA6tmhmac3BJuMm2FqKkEK1K1Gr4mqtVXSDSTkp61kTr/3.png)\nImage source: Indexmundi.com\n\n\nGold’s price and futures market launch (Mid-2011)\n\n![4.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVi53xF4HHVfwCu6Q1zWLySQvQ4DYXejVHEQ7aSTLnHfD/4.png)\nImage source: Indexmundi.com\n\n\nUranium’s price and futures market launch (May-2007)\n\n![5.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcEvRZgccYi7GoAudfPUJUe1HUJGEwqKeWraNDqiUQEwm/5.png)\nImage source: Indexmundi.com\n\nThe author compares this with similar trends observed in the prices of silver, uranium or gold. Because the supply of Bitcoin is limited like other commodities such as oil, those in control of the supply can have a considerable effect in the prices, such as OPEC in the case of the oil markets. For example, a big buy or sell order in the current cryptocurrency markets can move Bitcoin’s price by a large percentage. The author believes that in this downward trend there will be short-term increases in the price, but overall Bitcoin’s price will continue to decrease.\nHe is optimistic nonetheless in the long term and mentions that, after reaching a very low price, the market will eventually turn, and he thinks Bitcoin’s price may reach $100,000. A big difference however from Bitcoin and the other altcoins compared to traditional commodities is that gold for example can be used as a store of value or to make jewellery, but Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency projects can potentially disrupt every single industry and institution.\nTrying to control the prices of gold or oil and their supply seems a lot easier than doing the same for Bitcoin or other altcoins because innovation in cryptocurrency happens really fast, and there will be decentralized exchanges and many use cases that would bring a lot of interest and money.\nBitcoin's price in a decade $100,000 much more likely than $100\nThe Bitcoin bull market last year, especially in the fourth quarter, was mainly triggered by irrational retail investors according to some experts, as mentioned above.\nA lot of predictions about the price of Bitcoin in the short-term are not very optimistic by now, mainly because professional investors can now short Bitcoin for the first time after the futures market launch by CME and CBOE last December as was pointed out in prediction 3.\nHowever, institutional investors and big corporations could be interested in the underlying technology and would be ready to start investing once the scaling, interoperability and other technological limitations of Bitcoin and DLT are solved.\nA better legal framework and trading infrastructure could also become a motivational factor for the investors with more mature markets, lower volatility and improved liquidity.\nIn summary, while it may seem that “Bitcoin bears” have been winning since December, the coming regulations, innovations, better liquidity and lower volatility could favour the bulls probably starting at the end of Q2 or beginning of Q3 2018.\n\n\n\n By Hector Sanchez\n\nRead More :   https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-headed-for-100000-or-100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions",
      "json_metadata": "{\"tags\":[\"bitcoin\",\"price\",\"predictions\",\"cryptocurrency\",\"blockchain\"],\"image\":[\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmPPKE1CqFhXip5tv4qVZn1vGivMMqKTw8xKuug4zrY5HE/1.jpg\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmZzy4ZTv96DyZDNJ6iHDqgZNYjv1mkT8fYiU91YH4ve9e/2.png\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmdA6tmhmac3BJuMm2FqKkEK1K1Gr4mqtVXSDSTkp61kTr/3.png\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmVi53xF4HHVfwCu6Q1zWLySQvQ4DYXejVHEQ7aSTLnHfD/4.png\",\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmcEvRZgccYi7GoAudfPUJUe1HUJGEwqKeWraNDqiUQEwm/5.png\"],\"links\":[\"https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-headed-for-100000-or-100-ceos-big-investors-and-harvard-economist-predictions\"],\"app\":\"steemit/0.1\",\"format\":\"markdown\"}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "f3c4bf8148c31ffff74e6382ef901c59a937e62c",
  "block": 20766371,
  "trx_in_block": 92,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-03-17T22:33:48",
  "op": [
    "transfer",
    {
      "from": "alesno1",
      "to": "agcaapo",
      "amount": "0.001 SBD",
      "memo": "LIMITED OFFER! Send 1 SBD or STEEM to @steempromos and get 4 SBD upvote on your post.  Pre-service-launch PROMOTION is valid till 1st april only so hurry up!"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "55651545f9e166ab40861ce559a7e0ae11a8a293",
  "block": 20498189,
  "trx_in_block": 11,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-03-08T14:48:24",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "agcaapo",
      "parent_permlink": "consortium-of-61-japanese-banks-to-release-instant-mobile-payment-app-powered-by-ripple",
      "author": "cheetah",
      "permlink": "cheetah-re-agcaapoconsortium-of-61-japanese-banks-to-release-instant-mobile-payment-app-powered-by-ripple",
      "title": "",
      "body": "Hi! I am a robot. I just upvoted you! I found similar content that readers might be interested in:\nhttps://cointelegraph.com/news/consortium-of-61-japanese-banks-to-release-instant-mobile-payment-app-powered-by-ripple",
      "json_metadata": ""
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "267ebf2e56cea7ff8b7489ffbc33569f0e62533b",
  "block": 20498187,
  "trx_in_block": 36,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-03-08T14:48:18",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "cheetah",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "consortium-of-61-japanese-banks-to-release-instant-mobile-payment-app-powered-by-ripple",
      "weight": 8
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "b8d893cd8a2fd1f8d46a6da5f90578b38e8be32f",
  "block": 20498182,
  "trx_in_block": 14,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-03-08T14:48:03",
  "op": [
    "comment_options",
    {
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "consortium-of-61-japanese-banks-to-release-instant-mobile-payment-app-powered-by-ripple",
      "max_accepted_payout": "1000000.000 SBD",
      "percent_steem_dollars": 0,
      "allow_votes": true,
      "allow_curation_rewards": true,
      "extensions": []
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "b8d893cd8a2fd1f8d46a6da5f90578b38e8be32f",
  "block": 20498182,
  "trx_in_block": 14,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-03-08T14:48:03",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "",
      "parent_permlink": "bitcoin",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "consortium-of-61-japanese-banks-to-release-instant-mobile-payment-app-powered-by-ripple",
      "title": "Consortium Of 61 Japanese Banks To Release Instant Mobile Payment App Powered By Ripple",
      "body": "![1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTk6nCNP7uMA6MFFLEb9Lz77bWvEkmmsTADMHPesNJeod/1.jpg)\n\nThe Japanese Bank Consortium will release an instant domestic payments mobile app, “MoneyTap,” using Ripple’s technology in the fall of 2018, Ripple’s blog reported yesterday, March 6.\n\nThe 61-bank consortium, led by SBI Ripple Asia, is representative of more than 80 percent of all of Japan’s banking assets, according to Ripple. Takashi Okita, CEO of SBI Ripple Asia, said in Ripple’s blog post:\n\n“Together with the trust, reliability and reach of the bank consortium, we can remove friction from payments and create a faster, safer, and more efficient domestic payments experience for our customers.”\n\nThree of the banks in the consortium, SBI Net Sumishin Bank, Suruga Bank and Resona Bank, will begin using the app this coming fall, while the rest of the banks will join in gradually. MoneyTap will allow users to make purchases 24 hours a day, every day of the week.\n\nRipple has long focused on building relationships with banks to use its payment technologies. In February, Ripple announced two new financial service partnerships; one with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority for use of its cross-border payment technology for banks within the country and another with Western Union, who is testing Ripple’s Blockchain-based settlement system for transactions.\n\nThis month, a South Korean bank also announced that it planned on using Ripple’s cross-border payment technologies for remittances, prompted by a Japanese-based test of Blockchain-based remittances involving Ripple and SBI Group.\n\nRead More : https://cointelegraph.com/news/consortium-of-61-japanese-banks-to-release-instant-mobile-payment-app-powered-by-ripple",
      "json_metadata": "{\"tags\":[\"bitcoin\",\"ripple\",\"cryptocurrency\",\"japan\",\"app\"],\"image\":[\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmTk6nCNP7uMA6MFFLEb9Lz77bWvEkmmsTADMHPesNJeod/1.jpg\"],\"links\":[\"https://cointelegraph.com/news/consortium-of-61-japanese-banks-to-release-instant-mobile-payment-app-powered-by-ripple\"],\"app\":\"steemit/0.1\",\"format\":\"markdown\"}"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "14266e79296277f7dd42280c4faf54705a70f795",
  "block": 20368475,
  "trx_in_block": 17,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-03-04T02:34:30",
  "op": [
    "transfer",
    {
      "from": "big-whale",
      "to": "agcaapo",
      "amount": "0.001 SBD",
      "memo": "A new Re-steem bot.sent 2 SBD or 3 steem subscription fee to @big-whale and get unlimited re-steem to your all posts for 15 days with 8000+ followers. + an upvote form big-whale on your every post."
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "d4e1728fd5d801d8f1ed0b5607133bf5e00526cc",
  "block": 20177812,
  "trx_in_block": 8,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-02-25T11:29:48",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "scottdphoto",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "re-scottdphoto-contest-time-20180217t215152014z",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "929885012daa4b3f3b66a2721da67c6aed19f330",
  "block": 20005129,
  "trx_in_block": 41,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-02-19T11:33:18",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "annester",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "re-annester-sacrifice-2018-02-17-21-00-08-20180217t215429785z",
      "weight": 10000
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "416d79f57173dad1cb967429269bb28f0f7a179a",
  "block": 19999607,
  "trx_in_block": 2,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-02-19T06:57:12",
  "op": [
    "delegate_vesting_shares",
    {
      "delegator": "steem",
      "delegatee": "agcaapo",
      "vesting_shares": "26986.043091 VESTS"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "a600de86139e4de3272d9bf59a845c7bf7f3a788",
  "block": 19975017,
  "trx_in_block": 46,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-02-18T10:27:36",
  "op": [
    "comment",
    {
      "parent_author": "agcaapo",
      "parent_permlink": "the-greatest-supply-of-ico-in-history-is-realized-usd-850-million",
      "author": "cheetah",
      "permlink": "cheetah-re-agcaapothe-greatest-supply-of-ico-in-history-is-realized-usd-850-million",
      "title": "",
      "body": "Hi! I am a robot. I just upvoted you! I found similar content that readers might be interested in:\nhttps://cointelegraph.com/news/durov-brothers-file-telegram-and-ton-with-sec-report-850-million-already-raised",
      "json_metadata": ""
    }
  ]
}

{
  "trx_id": "1cd5deb2cc275292a3102425ff23e673641564c2",
  "block": 19975016,
  "trx_in_block": 8,
  "op_in_trx": 0,
  "virtual_op": 0,
  "timestamp": "2018-02-18T10:27:33",
  "op": [
    "vote",
    {
      "voter": "cheetah",
      "author": "agcaapo",
      "permlink": "the-greatest-supply-of-ico-in-history-is-realized-usd-850-million",
      "weight": 8
    }
  ]
}