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      "body": "This was such a usefull article. I once watched a video on youtube about how the economy works and that if lending was longer an option people would only be able to aquire something if they would be more productive. I think your article is very realistic and you get a big vote up + a follow! great job man!",
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      "body": "<img src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*vUSrnpWQ3rn8ibiZ.jpg\" />\n<h1>Debt, no one wants it, most of us have it and we hate it.</h1>\nDebt has acquired a bad reputation over the years. Its excessive and unstoppable growth worries all of us. Consumer debt has been on the rise due to the low interest rates, specially on car loans and student loans. Ideally, consumer debt could help a student afford an education they normally couldn’t afford and have a better job after graduating. This leads to an upward cycle in the overall economy by having more productive individuals thanks to their education. On the other hand, business debt is seen as a form of investment in a company. This debt can be used to develop or grow a company and even in some cases, to create it. Debt is the easiest and cheapest way of financing a company. 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A system must then be created to have people invest their savings where those individuals are incentivized to do so for a greater return instead of remaining with their savings. In other words you will need to know the cost of money in the future, that’s what we currently call interest rates. Interest rates not only help to plan investment but helps to plan for future living expenses.\n\n<h1>Bitcoin World</h1>\nLet’s say that in this World, banks no longer lend money and everything operates on Bitcoin.\n\n<img src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*0hxVSIg1166a-aOZHkwVHw.jpeg\" />\n\nYes! Finally bitcoin.\n\nLets run the same scenario where you’re looking for money for your company. You ask family and friends but they are not sure on how much of a benefit they are operating in. How much interest rates in bitcoin changes. Specially with the Hodl culture and the network effects on bitcoin, most people would prefer to keep their bitcoin than to spend it even if its for your company. Ultimately, it will be less risky to hold on to bitcoin. The current problem with bitcoin in the economy is it’s fixed supply, adding to the uncertainty of its cost in the future.\n\nWhy?\n\nThe fixed supply is seen as an advantage for most people, that way debt can’t be created out of thin air. The minuscule problem is that the current economy operates on debt. Growth in the economy is fueled by investments and investments are fuel by debt. This debt is possible due to knowing the target cost of money in the future, interest rates. Interest rates then depend on inflation. Debt helps to create future value making us hopeful of the economy creating more value in the future; psychology plays an important role in current economic system.\n\nThe only way of comparing an economy with a fixed supply of money is with the gold standard. The gold standard failed partly because the value of the economy at that time will depend on the amount of gold held,(In the current economy value is created at the rate of debt). Gold being a scare resource, the economy growth then would be peg to gold. That means that value could only be created at the rate in which gold supply increased. Even if aggregate output was created under this system this will lead to other problems. The difference is that under bitcoin, problems could be more severe because value would be more rigid to a supply that could never grow unlike gold. For instance, no one knows how much gold exists in the world and planets/meteors within our reach. However, we all know that there is only 21 million bitcoins and that won’t change. This would create a deflationary spiral because no matter the amount of value that is created such as, the amount of people that are born or the level of employment, the supply will stay the same; making people to hold more causing less purchasing of product, causing less creation of future products in factories, causing laid offs and ultimately income inequality. The Hodlers will be massively rich and the people being born or without much bitcoin will always have a disadvantage. To prevent this scenario we have inflation.\n\nThe consensus is that Inflation is bad and interest rates change every year to a target benchmark of 2%. A magic number than no one knows where it came from and was recently established on January of 2012.\n\nThe truth is, inflation doesn’t exist in the long run.\n\nInflation is a lie, inflation is only a place holder for changing prices that in the long run drives income up . In other words, yes things are more expensive but your income grows over time. With a goal of anyone with a bare income, no matter when they were born or enter the economic system, to be able to afford the bare necessities of living. Different from a fixed supply in which entering the economic system at a later point will be an extreme disadvantage.\n\n<img src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*5aBmAqP6C5szZ9w0LL4stA.png\" />\n<i>Household debt Service Payments as a percent of Disposable Personal Income</i>\n\nAt the end of the day its crucial to understand that a fixed supply system like bitcoin operating in the current economic system, doesn’t work. The current system has a lot of debt but personal income is overlooked. In the graph above it depicts how household’s debt has become a lower part of the overall income after all their expenses. Debt used properly, fuels investment and growth. 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Then you have another dilemma.\n\n<h3>Equity valuation vs token valuation</h3>\nSo if someone invests in a token, they don’t get a share of the company, they gain <strong>future usage of your token</strong>. If someone invests in your equity, they don’t gain usage of your token or platform, they gain <strong>future profits of your company</strong>. Sure, you can package a equity/token deal with investors but they’re still both investors. Then you have to balance your token valuation vs equity valuation and why one is higher than the other. While you’re juggling with that, you need to focus on creating a product that you promised to build. Too bad if you anger one of your token/equity investors on why one valuation is higher than the other, be prepared for a lawsuit. This all sounds like a headache to begin with so why even do it?\n\n<img src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*[email protected]\" />\n\n<h3>Decentralization of investment opportunities</h3>\nThe good thing about ICOs is that anyone can participate. You can have foreign investors from countries you have never heard about and they truly care for the product you are building. Most startup funding is concentrated in the San Francisco/Bay Area and you need to be approved by these investors to receive funding rounds. I went to eMerge Americas 2018 this past April and VCs are looking at the cryptocurrency space with complete skepticism. So ICOs do decentralize investment opportunities allowing more than just VCs and angel investors to be able to participate on these opportunities. Kantian Fairness aside, you need to focus on one thing. <strong>Your product!</strong>\n\n<img src=https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*[email protected]\" />\n<h3>Don’t forget what matters</h3>\nIs money important? Yes. Is investment all that matters? No.\n\nAs a startup you need to remember that you are creating a product that solves a problem for specific individuals. If you do an ICO and launch your platform with a token business model and you have low users you will have to <strong>pivot so hard</strong> you will likely change what your token does and anger your token investors. You need to build something great, and your first version will not be. You have to talk to your users and figure out what is working and what isn’t to get the right product for the right users.\n\nIn the beginning stages you need to think all about your product and the problem your users have. You shouldn’t think about the fundraising opportunity first. If you somehow get to the conclusion that you need to use a blockchain for your data infrastructure — which I’ll tell you, “Why not SQL?” — then you should start to think about tokenized business models and so on.\n\n<h2>Why we didn’t ICO</h2>\n<img src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/0*sJ3SPHRQ2P-WLOh6.jpg\" />\nWell right now, there is so much chaos in regulating cryptocurrency and we don’t know the future of it. For instance, look at Tezos and their ICO issue with the SEC. Tezos was claimed to be a security by the SEC and then couldn’t accept any US investors and required to start KYC for their investors that made them lose half their community. This is an example of headaches that we didn’t want to deal with. We want to focus on creating a product for the right users, not have to answer to the SEC about our fundraising strategy.\n\n<h3>What investors do you want?</h3>\nWe also believe that investors provide more than just money. Your investors are on your team and have a stake in your company. That means if you fail, they fail. Investors allow you to leverage their networks, meet people you wouldn’t normally meet and give you guidance with industry expertise. When you ICO, essentially you go public. You get any investor in the world that wants to bet on your token and only cares about why the token isn’t listed on an exchange so they can make a return. As a startup, you don’t want to let just anyone in your organization/community. You should aim to have your values aligned with individuals to have a company culture that will sustain your journey as a startup, not money hungry individuals.\n\n<h3>Crowdfunding</h3>\nICOs can be seen as a crowdfunding mechanism but couldn’t you just have used Kickstarter? Even, Indiegogo allows you to do an equity crowdsale but you will have to do some additional work for that. Right now cryptocurrency is filled with hopeful hype and everyone wants to be the next Satoshi Nakamoto with their top of the line cryptocurrency. But if you’re going to create a digital asset, you better give that digital asset some use besides speculative value. I think a great example of a useful cryptocurrency that isn’t required is Binance Coin (BNB). You could replace the coin with a subscription model but I think BNB fundraised to the right people and the right time.\n\n<h3>Future of ICOs</h3>\nI am sure we will see security tokens begin to matter in the coming years allowing your token to be part of a share of your company giving investors governance and granting investors shareholder rights like exit and dividend participation, liquidation preferences, pro-rata follow-on rights, reporting rights, voting rights, etc. For now, that isn’t a thing, but if it makes it easier and cheaper for VCs and angels to invest in startups I’m sure it will lead to some form of usage. 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      "body": "<p>By Justin Cata</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*BuekiZTYGLtdGgsOpu_NBw.jpeg\" />\n<h3>Why Am I Writing this?</h3>\n<p>I think a lot of people in the cryptocurrency space really have not taken the time to research and understand Ripple because of the bad representation it gets throughout the crypto community and I believe this immediate disregard does a disservice to the community as a whole and I, personally, felt a passion to want to write about it. Hope everyone can learn something new from this series.</p>\n<h1>Ripple as a payment System</h1>\n<p>Within the Ripple system, money isn’t actually transferred from one place to another only the promise of payment is transferred. How is this done?\n\nEnter the <strong><a href=\"https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Fterms%2Fh%2Fhawala.asp\">Hawala system</a></strong>. The Hawala system first started in ancient South-East Asia and is still used to this day, often by immigrants living in developed countries trying to send money home to their families where formal banking is expensive or difficult to access. There are at least four members involved in each transfer ( Sender, Recipient, Hawala Dealer A, and Hawala Dealer B ). Below is an image describing the steps of a Hawala based transfer:</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*ZKCnqHphsAnAqp0MIGbquA.jpeg\" />\n<p>Step 1: Sender gives cash to Hawala Dealer A. Hawala Dealer A gives Sender a code —Step 2: Hawala Dealer A tells Hawala Dealer B how much cash was given. — Step 3: Sender gives code to Recipient as well as stating cash amount. —Step 4: Recipient gives Hawala dealer B the code and dealer B gives cash to Recipient.</p>\n<p>Ripple runs similar to that of the Hawala system except instead of Hawala dealers, there are Ripple gateways. These gateways (validators/ servers) are typically financial institutions such as Bitstamp and TheRockTrading. The Ripple network is a relatively large network where not everyone using Ripple knows and trusts one another. To get around this, Ripple uses chains of trusts to interconnect Ripple gateways. Chains of trust are essentially links between two gateways that trust each other, although as shown in the next image, there can be indirect links of trust between gateways as well.\n</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*KtkG2JHw2DcR9E-QClCviw.png\" />\n<p>Since gateway B doesn’t directly trust gateway A, there is no direct link connecting them to each other. However, gateway A trusts gateway C, which trusts gateway B, so there is an indirect link of trust from A to B. The trust is rippled across the network.</p>\n<p>Ripple gateways transport payment IOU information to each other using https: the same protocol that banks already use for secure online credit card payments. 3 to 4 seconds after a payment is made, the Ripple network triggers the gateways involved in the transaction to update their ledgers.</p>\n<p>Each transaction requires an average fee of 0.00001 XRP (10 drops) and may increase upon higher than usual load. Who are the beneficiaries of these transaction fees? These tokens are actually destroyed and so the beneficiaries are all the XRP token holders themselves via decrease of token supply.</p>\n<h1>Is Ripple Decentralized?</h1>\n<p>The following video is Ripple Labs current CTO David Schwartz answering this exact question</p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y7fDEO15MGI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n<h1>How are transactions verified?</h1>\n<p>According to Ripple Labs <strong><a href=\"https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fripple.com%2Ffiles%2Fripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf\">consensus whitepaper</a></strong>, rather than mining, Ripple works by consensus. The Ripple system isn’t operated by Ripple Labs and is a peer to peer system, in which participating devices all connect to the network. Some nodes just make and receive payments for their users while others operate as validators carrying out the consensus process. These validators “look” at the ledger, which is a snapshot of the current state of transactions on the network, and agree upon the current state utilizing the Ripple Protocol Consensus Algorithm (RPCA). Prior to verification, validators take all the valid transactions it has seen that have not yet been applied to the current ledger and makes them public as a list known as the “candidate set”. Each validator then groups the candidate sets of all validators on its UNL (unique node list) and votes on the accuracy of all transactions. Transactions that receive more than a minimum percentage of “yes” votes are passed on to the next round while transactions that do not receive enough votes will either be discarded, or included in the candidate set for the beginning of the consensus process on the next ledger. The final round of consensus requires at least 80% of a validator UNL agreeing on a transaction. 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We will focus on creating this application and if you subscribe to our mailing list at https://iMarkett.com you will be first to know of our developments and be able to try out the first prototype!\n\nOn January 18th & 19th our team is attending  the North American Bitcoin Conference and we are excited to hear from Charlie Shrem one of the co-founders of BitInstant! \nBitInstant did something similar to what we are creating here but with IOTA. We believe networking with Charlie will give us some insight on what to do to stay sustainable in the long run and to work with regulators. Charlie has been featured in the very popular documentary <i>Banking on Bitcoin</i> providing his point of view on Bitcoin's history and future state. 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