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      "body": "Thanks, I will consider that patrick. Thanks for that. 😊",
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      "body": "It just creates a black side bar joining the two notchs. X is a great phone, but so far the Mate 10 from Huawei has got my most attention",
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      "body": "For  you guys who know about the concept of lending and staking platforms, you know just as me that it is a huge risk or a short term jackpot.\nThing is, you could never know if the trading bots and arbitrage trading even exist.  It could purely be a ponzi which means the users profit off of new users and as soon as the market crashes and new users slow down, everybody looses.\n\nAKA Bitconnect style.\n\nNow that the warning is aside, lets looks at the benifits.\n\nFalcon coin can be seriously benificial and if you want to take advantage of it, the best time is right on the begining when the companies wants to build up money too.\n\nAt the moment Falcon Coin can make you money via  different pathways.\n\nAs off now (2018.01.28) FCC is worth 1,10 Dollars per coin and over the course of time when everything goes steadily, it should increase to Davor Coins worth which is a ridiculous 35$ as of now.\n\n![falcon roadmap.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPTAYEsvvkyKeD1gYLB3YM2Q5ycNHpPinLjNgTJ6fJ83Q/falcon%20roadmap.png)\n\n2nd way is ofcourse lending. You initially loan the company money so they can trade between assets and exchanges. Buying low and selling high.\nThey profit off of most and you get a cut calculated from the amount you lent. As of now with no referal benifits is an average of 1% per day, which is one of the or highest returns of any lending platform.\n\n![falcon lending.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeK33Pu86PpHUn22YbdLUb7H2YpZubWeVnVfYBMkMMyL3/falcon%20lending.png)\n\n3rd way is staking. For the coin to increase in worth people need to buy and everybody has to hold so by just holding FCC you profit of of that per month.\n3 stages are offered. \nBronze: Hold FCC for 3 months to receive 5% per month.\nSilver: Hold FCC for 6 months to receive 10% per month.\nGold: Hold FCC for 12 months to receive 15% per month.\n\n![falcon staking.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVacRLw1qtgEHicL8jC3TMdMfB8sZp9QDNsfmST5Lnhpg/falcon%20staking.jpg)\n\n__HUGE OFFER__ \nStarting bonus for Lending for 24hrs starting from the 27th January is 10$ per FCC. That means an investment of 500 dollars at a worth of 1,10$, you invest a whopping 4545 Dollars in lending.\n\nTo start Stacking with a bang, they will too double the benifits. Making you earn an insane 30% for Gold, 20% and 10% respectively.\n\nThis sound like one of the biggest scammers ever or one hell of an offer. Never forget only invest with money you can afford to loose an if the company is legit, you WILL become very rich very fast.\n\nI too am experimenting with them aswell and will let every know here and via Twitter about the benifits and if any, dangers of Falcon Coin. So far I am very impressed with communication. They have a Telegram, Twiiter and Facebook page and are very responsive with information and updates.\n\nIf you guys do happen to find interest, I would be very happy if you use my referal link to sign up.\n► https://dashboard.falconcoin.co/referral/patrickhocking\n\nAlso be sure to give this an upvote and leave a comment if you would like to know anything.\n\nUpdates on Chrysos, Thorn, Davor and Lendconnect Coin coming soon too.\nThank you.",
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      "body": "Thats actually pretty good. A lot of companies suffer with bitcoin mining, but alt such as ethereum is very profitable. I got something for you if interested. Publich start will be in April, but here is a link if interessted. PS nothing is as profitable as ethereum mining right now www.bitunity.at/#/register/?a=5a0b09258355e800280b3bd3",
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      "body": "Here's another tip for you. bitunity.at only will stick to the most profitable coin which is ethereum at the moment. They also offer the most hash for mining aswell. Prestart is on, but official public start is in March.  Got a link if you are interested www.bitunity.at/#/register/?a=5a0b09258355e800280b3bd3",
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      "body": "Are you jealous that you’ve missed out on bitcoin so far? Thinking about jumping in?\n\nThere’s some investment advice going around in circles of people half my age. And I admit that some of them are crushing it right now. That’s an understatement, actually.\n\n“You’ve gotta buy bitcoin!”\n\nI’ve had quite a few friends go down this path in the past year, and I’ve tried to ignore it. But when two of my friends decided to sink all of their time, talents, and treasures into cryptocurrencies, I had to take a look.\n\nFor the few of you who are not familiar with bitcoin and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies, here is a brief summary courtesy of Coindesk.\n\nWhat is Bitcoin?\nBitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically. No one controls it. Bitcoins aren’t printed, like dollars or euros. They’re produced by people – and increasingly businesses – running computers all around the world, using software that solves mathematical problems.\n\nIt’s the first example of a growing category of money known as cryptocurrency.\n\nWhat Makes it Different From Traditional Currencies?\nBitcoin can be used to buy things electronically. In that sense, they’re like conventional dollars, euros, or yen, which are also traded digitally.\n\nHowever, bitcoin’s most important characteristic, and the thing that makes it different to conventional money, is that it is decentralized. No single institution controls the bitcoin network. This puts some people at ease, because it means that a large bank can’t control their money.\n\nWho Created It?\nA software developer called Satoshi Nakamoto proposed bitcoin, which was an electronic payment system based on mathematical proof. The idea was to produce a currency independent of any central authority, transferable electronically, more or less instantly, with very low transaction fees.\n\nbad-reputation-press\n\n Who Prints It?\nNo one. This currency isn’t physically printed in the shadows by a central bank unaccountable to the population and making its own rules. Those banks can simply produce more money to cover the national debt, thus devaluing their currency.\n\nInstead, bitcoin is created digitally, by a community of people that anyone can join. Bitcoins are mined using computing power in a distributed network.\n\nThis network also processes transactions made with the virtual currency, effectively making bitcoin its own payment network.\n\nNote: There is much more I could say about cryptocurrencies, but that is not the purpose of this post.\n\nOne of my friends first heard about bitcoin in 2010.\n\n“If I would have invested just $500 in it then, it would be worth well over a billion dollars today!”\n\nThis is certainly compelling. Check out this chart:\n\n\n\nIt’s honestly hard to not be jealous of those who caught this trend early on. And it is tempting to jump into this investment class.\n\nBut wait. Is this really an investment class? Or a speculative swing for the fences?\n\nRelated: Is This a Bitcoin Bubble? An In-Depth Look at the Bitcoin Phenomenon \n\nSound Investment? Or Vegas Crap Shoot?\nAs someone who has been a serial entrepreneur and investor for decades, I’ve come to delineate investing and speculating a bit differently than some. Here’s my loose definition for the purpose of this discussion:\n\nInvesting: If you’ve done a thorough evaluation, and you’re reasonably sure your principal is safe… and you have a chance to make a profit… you are investing.\n\nSpeculating: If you are “investing” in an asset that has uncertain protection of principal… and you have a chance to make a profit… you are speculating.\n\nThis concept was clarified by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd in their 1934 book Security Analysis. I’ve discussed this in a previous article.\n\nThough they were focused on stocks, their theories applied to all types of assets. Graham and Dodd said, “An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”\n\nPaul Samuelson, first American winner of Nobel Prize in economic sciences, said:\n\n“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”\n\nIt sounds like I’m being pretty hard on speculators. That’s actually not my intent. It’s fine to speculate. As long as you’re clear that that is what you are doing.\n\nI interact with a lot of successful investors, however, and most of them avoid speculation like the plague. It’s one of their key criteria.\n\nHow Do I Know if this Investment is Investing or Speculating?\nI’m glad you asked. It really comes down to analyzing the risk versus the return. Thankfully, someone has quantified that for us.\n\nNobel Prize winner William F. Sharpe came up with a formula to quantify the return versus the risk of an asset class in 1966. It was later called The Sharpe Ratio.\n\nThe Sharpe Ratio is the average return per unit of volatility: A numeric representation of the return divided by the risk.\n\nAn investor who can accurately foretell the future can ignore this ratio. He or she would be better off picking the next Snapchat or cryptocurrency, finishing off a few years in corporate America, then retiring to Maui.\n\nAssuming you are not in this class of prophetic investors, you’d best be cognizant of both the risk and return of your investment.\n\nSo what does the Sharpe Ratio tell us about the various major asset classes? Take a look:\n\n\n\n \n\nSharpe Ratio Source: Calculated using property and private equity returns obtained from NCREIF property index. Stock returns obtained from Yahoo.com. Average one-year T-Bill obtained from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)\n\nI’m particularly passionate about multifamily real estate. So when I saw these figures, I wanted to know exactly how multifamily stacks up against the other asset classes in this chart. The numbers say that multifamily and retail are:\n\n3x better than the S&P 500\n1x better than the Dow Jones\n0x better than Office real estate\n9x better than NASDAQ\n4x better than private equity\n3x better than Industrial real estate\nI also located the following graph to show how all commercial real estate compares with other asset classes. In keeping with our theme of low risk and high return, your goal here would be to be as high and far to the left as possible. Check this out:\n\n\n\n \n\nThis chart shows that core commercial real estate has by far the best risk-adjusted returns of the major asset classes. This analysis applies to all commercial core real estate (office, retail, industrial, and multifamily).\n\nFor those of you who invest in gold, silver, and other precious metals, check out the miserable showing by commodities.\n\nI recall years ago, when I was “investing” in metals, I heard Dave Ramsey say that metals are not an investment. They are just insurance (or something to that effect). This made me mad, and I chose to ignore him. (I later saw the error of my ways.)\n\nMaybe you’re investing in bitcoin now, and choosing to ignore me… I understand. I hope you’ll take a moment to yell at me in the comments section if so.\n\nSo where would bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fall on this chart? If we charted bitcoin, it would be off the chart on the return side. And off the chart on the risk side as well.\n\nRelated: Cryptocurrency – A Good Investment or a Fad?\n\nIf You Could Plot the Return on the Lottery, it Would Probably Be Similar.\nAnd if that’s what you want to invest in, go for it. Like I said, if you would have invested your pocket change back in 2010, you could be independently wealthy now.\n\nI, for one, don’t like investing speculating that way. Been there, done that. (I have a podcast called How to Lose Money, after all.)\n\nI just noticed that the bitcoin price dropped over 21% from Wednesday November 8th to Sunday November 12th. I checked the news to see what could cause such a precipitous drop.\n\n\n\nIt turns out that some anticipated plans to alter its underlying technology were scrapped. That’s all.\n\nWait… that caused a 21% drop in value?\n\nThen the value, errr I mean the price, went up 40% the following week.\n\nIf you want to invest in an asset that is that volatile, be my guest. I am personally content to ride this one out. (I’ve missed out on lots of lottery winnings as well.)\n\nJordan Belfort, immortalized as The Wolf of Wall Street had some strong comments about cryptocurrency launches.\n\nHe told The Financial Times, “It’s the biggest scam ever, such a huge, gigantic scam that’s going to blow up in so many people’s faces. It’s far worse than anything I was ever doing.”\n\nJP Morgan Chief Executive Jaimie Dimon said, “If we had a trader who traded bitcoin, I’d fire him in a second for two reasons,” he said. “One, it’s against our rules. Two, it’s stupid.”\n\nHe added that it was “a fraud” and “worse than tulip bulbs,” referring to the famous market bubble from the 1600s. “It won’t end well. Someone is going to get killed.”\n\nDimon’s comments came within a day after Britain’s city watchdog warned investors to only take part in cryptocurrency fundraisings if they were prepared to lose all of their invested capital.\n\nDimon’s remarks sparked a 23% drop in bitcoin price in the next 48 hours.\n\nMoney Myths and the Biggest Mistakes I’ve Made Raising Capital\n\nCan you imagine any comment… by any person… causing your real estate portfolio to drop 23% in 48 hours?\nI could blather on and on about this. And let’s be honest. I could find negative comments about investing in real estate as well. And Dimon and many others may have a dog in this fight – something to lose if bitcoin prospers.\n\nBut the question still goes back to risk versus return. The numbers don’t lie.\n\nAnd there’s another important distinction between real estate and commoditized investments like bitcoin, stocks, bonds, metals, etc: You can often influence or even control many of the factors that will lead to the success of your real estate portfolio.\n\nYou’ve heard of forced appreciation, right?\nIt’s a way to make strategic changes to your commercial real estate to drive increased income and value. It’s real and it’s powerful. It’s a cornerstone of my firm’s commercial multifamily investing strategy.\n\nCould you do this investing in bitcoin or other investments? Not a chance.\n\nI was $2.5 million in debt when the real estate market turned against me in 2008. Not a happy place to be. But after a lot of prayer and hard work, I was debt-free thirteen months later.\n\nI would not have had the opportunity to pull out of this hole if I had invested in most asset classes. 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      "body": "There are many great alt coins on the market, but still have a chance of failing towards the end of the year. These are my picks of my favorite coins with sound companies behind them.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaNVOMDO0eI&feature=youtu.be\n\n►Bitunity Cloud Mining: www.bitunity.at/#/register/?a=5a0b09258355e80028.0b3bd3\n►Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatrickHocking\n►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patrickhock...\n     ---------------------------------------------------------------\n► Monaco Payment card: http://get.mona.co/IVWT/B1jWF6IqeG\n► SALT Lending: https://membership.saltlending.com/re...",
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      "body": "Thanks for this report. I recently signed up for Binance to get TRON. I like the idea of currencies paired with ETH, because I see it as the new Bitcoin. I think you already know why.\n\nIn conclusion, it is really nice to get a glimpse behind the scenes, not just a corporate puff piece;)",
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      "body": "Binance has just burned 1,821,586 BNB. If you don’t understand why we did this or think we are just plain crazy, please read our whitepaper. As I have been less vocal in our public groups recently, I would like to take this opportunity to share some random thoughts again.\n\nFees\n\nOur trading fee is not the 0.1% as advertised. Realistically, it is far lower. If you pay fees with BNB, you get a 50% discount. If you were referred by a friend, your friend gets another 20% (previously 50%) of the remaining fee. Thus, our effective trading fee is around 0.03%, whereas the industry standard looks to be around 0.25%.\n\nCalculations\n\nPrice fluctuations complicate the calculations. BNB price was lower at the beginning of the quarter. If you were to convert our revenue to fiat using those rates, it would have been lower. When we do calculations, we just count how many coins we have and convert to the target currency using current price, and we reach a simple answer. The point is though, if we do the same calculation again an hour later, using new current prices, we will get a different result.  \n\nExpenses\n\nOur expenses are also increasing at a rapid pace and incurred at different times. Looking at the beginning of the quarter when we had to sell some BNB/BTC to pay for things, those are very high costs by today’s prices. But you can’t look at things that way, it was what the price was at the time.\n\nGrowth\n\nIn a nutshell, last quarter was all about growth. Just phenomenal growth in every aspect, from the number of traders, volume traded, servers and bandwidth usage (expenses), support requests and issues.\n\nSome interesting stats:\n\nOver 10B USD worth of cryptos changed hands on Binance in one day at the peak, averaging $110,000 USD / second.\nBinance’s matching engine handled 3.5 billion requests that day, or roughly 40,000 requests per second.\nBinance receives more than 25,000 support requests (tickets) every day, with a 20 agent support team, that means each agent can only spend 20 seconds or less on each ticket. Unfortunately, as a result, we have a backlog.\nChinese account for only 3.3% of our total user base, according to Alexa.\nBNB token increased 220x from its initial value 6 months ago, outperforming even BTC by about 30x, during the highest growth period of BTC in history.\nWhat’s the Secret to Our Growth?\n\nThis is the 2nd most frequently asked question I get. Sorry to disappoint you, but the secret sauce is: “there is no secret sauce”. It’s a combination of hard work and luck. We have a severely sleep-deprived team that works day and night to improve products, run creative marketing campaigns, and solve the increasing number of support tickets. I believe hard work creates luck. We also have a large number of dedicated Binance Angels watching over us and taking care of our communities. They don’t get paid, they volunteer their time and effort, just to contribute to something they believe in. I am happy to announce two of our angels became full-time employees this quarter. This is something we will continue to do. Welcome to the (sleep-deprived) team, guys!\n\nIssues\n\nWith this tremendous growth, we are facing many issues. While our matching engine is keeping up pretty well, other parts of the platform are under severe stress. Popular blockchains are often congested, causing unexpected issues with deposits and withdraws. Most wallets can’t handle the number of addresses or transactions we are dealing with. Our support team can’t grow at the exponential pace as our users do, resulting in a slower response to users and a temporary increase in dissatisfaction. Rest assured, we are working hard to address all of the above issues.\n\nSecurity\n\nExternally, we have seen an increase in hacking, phishing and fraud attempts. We worked closely with US Department of Homeland Security on the EtherDelta hacking case, and locked a large part of the stolen funds that were sent to Binance addresses. We also worked with other law enforcement agencies on other cases. We will lock stolen funds that are sent to Binance on first notice. We wish hackers would stop sending stolen funds to Binance addresses. It will save them a lot of money, and us a lot of work.\n\nWe also worked closely with NetCraft to shut down a large number of phishing sites. We have written many articles educating people about security. We will continue to increase our efforts in this area.\n\nCompetition\n\nAt the beginning of the quarter, I received many questions about competition, “hey CZ, this other group said they will do an exchange, just like yours, are you worried?” I get it less often nowadays, for whatever reason.  \n\nHere is my view on it. We are at the beginning of a new industry, new landscape, new era. There are far more unexplored territories than anyone of us can cover. Many countries don’t have a crypto exchange at all. In fact, most countries don’t have one. There is more to collaborate between exchanges than there is to compete. We need to work together to develop the industry further, improve infrastructure, security, compliance, and service. Binance welcomes other exchanges, DEX, etc. We listed no less than 5 DEX projects on our exchange, we want them to grow, and to help grow the industry.\n\nMany new exchanges have copied our model. We love it. Nothing is more reassuring than someone else copying our business model, our coin model, or even down to the last details of our product interfaces. No need to worry, there are some things they can’t copy, our backend architecture, our team and our culture! These copycats help us in many ways. Some of their coins often reach or surpass BNB market cap at times, even with 100x less trading volume on their exchange. What does that do to the BNB price? Up! Thanks guys.\n\nExpanding BNB Utility\n\nIn the last quarter, we have added more uses for BNB. You can now use BNB to buy virtual gifts on Gifto (GTO), a live video streaming platform with more than 20,000,000 users. BNB will also be an accepted payment token in the Monaco (MCO) ecosystem. We will be adding more of these type of uses in the future.  \n\nIn fact, if you wish to list your coin on Binance, proposing a well thought out integration of BNB into your app/ecosystem will significantly increase your chances of being reviewed first.\n\nListing on Binance\n\nNow to the question I get asked most often: “How do I list a coin on Binance.com?”. The process is simple. The Founder or CEO of the coin project team should submit the Binance Listing Form (google it). Our review team will review it. IF the application passes the review, someone from Binance will be in touch. It’s that simple.  \n\nA couple of points. After filtering, more than 1000 coins are waiting for listing at the moment, and the queue is growing longer by the minute. We want direct contact with the CEO or Founder - a decision maker. We don’t want to waste time. Also, if there ever was a fork in your blockchain, a bug in your wallet, we want a direct communication route to the top. If your CEO is too busy to talk to Binance, then we have plenty of other coins to list.\n\nLastly, I wish this question to become the least asked question going forward. Please don’t approach me and say “hey CZ, can I talk to you about listing my project?” I only look at projects after our team reviews them. I don’t have the time to listen to 1000 project pitches, which will take three years full time, doing nothing else.  \n\nService\n\nWhere do I want to spend my time? Service. Next quarter will be all about service. I may not necessarily be responding to your message “hey, can you look at ticket 123456 for me?”. I can’t do that for 5 million users. It won’t scale. But I will be spending a significant portion of my time building up our service, team, process, and quality. Please bear with us during the recent temporary delay in response time. It will improve.\n\nOnce again, thank you for all your support in Binance, and Happy New Year!\n\nChangpeng Zhao\n\nBinance CEO",
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      "body": "I have being working behind the scenes since 2012 and started mining very early, but have been very hush hush and only helped the inner circle of my friends since then.\nThat being said. My Twitter is going to blow up with trade signals, tips, informs and who or what is the best to mine, upcoming goldmines etc so keep yourself posted on my Twitter and a lot will be shared soon ;)\n\nLets all become millionaiers in 2018\nhttps://twitter.com/PatrickHocking",
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