On Monday, September 16, 2019, 07:37:24 AM EDT, LA Blockchain Week [email protected] wrote:
City of Los Angeles and Goren Holm Ventures Partner to Host BlockTankLA at CIS and Issue $25K Pilot and $25K Minimum Investment to Blockchain Startup
The Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Budget & Innovation (MOBI) and Information Technology Agency (ITALA) partnered with Goren Holm Ventures (GHV) to host a “Shark Tank” style pitch contest for blockchain startups called Block Tank.
The winning team will receive a $25,000 minimum investment offer from GHV and a $25,000 pilot project with the City of L.A. to use blockchain technology to address one or more important initiatives.
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BlockFi has removed the minimums required to earn crypto interest for BTC, ETH, and GUSD
As far as I know, this is the only platform that is paying for your cryptos investments. They are linked to gemini.com and if you exchange to USG or Gemini stable coin you will get a whopping 8.6% interest annually, payout via cryptos that is, and if you need usd then you can sell it and make sure you pay tax.
On Friday, September 13, 2019, 04:51:21 PM EDT, BlockFi Product Updates [email protected] wrote:
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BlockFi Removes Minimums and Fees for Its Crypto Interest Account
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We are excited to announce today that we have removed all minimums in the BlockFi Interest Account (BIA). BIA clients will no longer have to meet a minimum deposit amount in their Bitcoin, Ether, or GUSD balances in order to earn interest. Additionally, we have removed the early withdrawal penalty from the account and are now offering one free withdrawal per month for all clients.
Due to client feedback and the increasing demand for the BlockFi Interest Account, we have decided to remove the minimum to earn interest to make our products more widely available to all crypto investors. Dropping the minimums to earn interest will allow crypto investors holding any amount of Bitcoin, Ether, or GUSD the opportunity to benefit from our wealth management offerings.
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Although there is no longer a minimum balance required to earn interest, accounts are still subject to Gemini’s withdrawal minimums: 0.003 BTC and 0.056 ETH. Withdrawals for balances smaller than these amounts may take up to 30 days to process.
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Walmart credit card “Synchrony Bank” website will be down
Just in case you use Walmart credit card and maybe other credit card by Synchrony Bank may be down as well for maintenance.
By the way using Walmart credit card to purchase items from Walmart and get credit when price drop of the items you have purchased. It’s awesome. I bought a TV and got 2 credits already because the price dropped.
To report a lost or stolen card, please call us at 866-611-1148. This site will be down the evening of September 20th AND from 3:00 PM ET October 10th thru October 13th ; during this time you will not be able to setup payments online; payments will only be accepted by mail. FICO® Score access will be discontinued as of October 10th.
Latest update from ebay “Updates to the eBay User Agreement”
If you use eBay, might be a good idea to review latest update to user agreement. Nothing major, but if you done lots of selling or buying, might want to review it. Better be sure than sorry.
On Saturday, September 14, 2019, 11:52:45 PM EDT, eBay [email protected] wrote:
Learn about updates we’re making to your eBay User Agreement
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At eBay, we strive to make our policies clear and our services easy to use. As part of that commitment, we’re announcing some changes to the eBay User Agreement.
Our updated User Agreement will take effect on August 30, 2019 for all users. You can read the updated User Agreement as of August 30, 2019, on eBay.com.
Key updates:
● The changes relate to eBay’s on-going rights and responsibilities related to marketplace tax collection.
Thank you for being a part of the eBay community.
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Yahoo Security Breach Proposed Settlement “www.YahooDataBreachSettlement.com” is real not fake or scam
www.YahooDataBreachSettlement.com is real not fake or scam. I have done the research and it appeared on many legit news media source like abc 7 news. Better claim for free credit monitoring, when your current one expires, you can trigger this new one in.
On Saturday, September 14, 2019, 02:53:34 AM EDT, Yahoo [email protected] wrote:
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If you had a Yahoo account anytime in 2012 through 2016,
a pending class action settlement may affect you.
A Class Action Settlement has been proposed in litigation against Yahoo! Inc. (“Yahoo”) and Aabaco Small Business, LLC (together, called “Defendants” in this notice), relating to data breaches (malicious actors got into system and personal data was taken) occurring in 2013 through 2016, as well as to data security intrusions (malicious actors got into system but no data appears to have been taken) occurring in early 2012 (collectively, the “Data Breaches”).
2012 Data Security Intrusions: From at least January through April 2012, at least two different malicious actors accessed Yahoo’s internal systems. The available evidence, however, does not reveal that user credentials, email accounts, or the contents of emails were taken out of Yahoo’s systems.
2013 Data Breach: In August 2013, malicious actors were able to gain access to Yahoo’s user database and took records for all existing Yahoo accounts—approximately three billion accounts worldwide. The records taken included the names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, passwords, and security questions and answers of Yahoo account holders. As a result, the actors may have also gained access to the contents of breached Yahoo accounts and, thus, any private information contained within users’ emails, calendars, and contacts.
2014 Data Breach: In November 2014, malicious actors were able to gain access to Yahoo’s user database and take records of approximately 500 million user accounts worldwide. The records taken included the names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, passwords, and security questions and answers of Yahoo account holders, and, as a result, the actors may have also gained access to the contents of breached Yahoo accounts, and thus, any private information contained within users’ emails, calendars, and contacts.
2015 and 2016 Data Breach: From 2015 to September 2016, malicious actors were able to use cookies instead of a password to gain access into approximately 32 million Yahoo email accounts.
Plaintiffs claim that Defendants failed to adequately protect their Personal Information and that they were injured as a result. Defendants deny any wrongdoing, and no court has made any ruling in these matters.
Who’s Included? If you received a Notice about the Data Breaches, or if you had a Yahoo account at any time between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2016, and are a resident of the United States or Israel, you are a “Settlement Class Member.”
What does the Settlement provide? Yahoo has enhanced, or, through its sucessor in interest, Oath Holdings Inc. (“Oath”), continues to enhance security of its customers’ Personal Information stored on its databases. Defendants will also pay for a Settlement Fund of $117,500,000. The Settlement Fund will provide: a minimum of two years of Credit Monitoring Services to protect Settlement Class Members from future harm, or Alternative Compensation instead of credit monitoring for Class Members who already have Credit Monitoring Services (subject to verification and documentation); Out-of-Pocket Costs for losses related to the Data Breaches; and reimbursement of some costs for those who paid for Yahoo premium or small business services. The Settlement Fund will also be used to pay for attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses, and Service Awards for the Settlement Class Representatives. These are only a summary of the benefits. For complete information, dates, and details on the benefits, visit the Settlement Website www.YahooDataBreachSettlement.com.
What are my options? In order to receive any benefits, you must file a claim online or by mail by July 20, 2020. If you want to keep your right to sue the Defendants yourself, you must exclude yourself from the Settlement Class by March 6, 2020. If you exclude yourself you will not receive any credit monitoring or monetary relief from the Settlement. If you stay in the Settlement Class, you may object to the Settlement, and/or the amount of attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses, and/or the amount of Class Representative Service Awards by March 6, 2020. If you do nothing, you will not receive any credit monitoring or monetary benefits but you will still be bound by the Court’s decisions. Complete information and instructions on Filing a Claim, excluding oneself from the Settlement, or Objecting are available on the Settlement Website at www.YahooDataBreachSettlement.com.
The Court has scheduled a hearing in this case at 1:30 pm on April 2, 2020, in Courtroom 8 of the U.S Courthouse, 280 South 1st Street, 4th Floor, San Jose, CA 95113, to consider: whether to approve the Settlement; any objections; a request for Class Representatives’ Service Awards; and attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses for investigating the facts, litigating the case, and negotiating the settlement. The motion for attorney fees, costs, and expenses will be posted on on the date it is filed or as quickly thereafter as practicable. You may ask to appear at the hearing but you do not have to.
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More XLM Stellar luments coin airdrop? “Onboarding everyone,” a Giant Space Drop, and Identicons!
On Monday, September 9, 2019, 05:51:24 PM EDT, Stellar. org Team [email protected] wrote:
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August 2019
Stellar Ecosystem Updates
Megha Bambra, the Technical Lead for StellarX, talks about onboarding everyone and the StellarX mission.
SDF Board Director and Stanford professor David Mazières co-wrote an SOSP Paper about global payments on the Stellar network. This paper will appear at the 27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in October.
This month, we launched the new stellar.org website! It’s got a brand new look, plus new tools and resources for devs and the community. Check it out: www.stellar.org.
The 2B Lumen Keybase Space Drop:
We’re excited to announce we’ve partnered with Keybase for our largest airdrop ever.
SDF New Hires
Jason Chlipala, COO
Jason started his career as a tax and corporate attorney, but then made the switch to the tech world when he joined Palantir. There he led teams of engineers, data scientists and designers building custom solutions to data problems at large companies. Prior to joining SDF, Jason was the COO of Interstellar, where he worked on all areas of the business.
Sara Mai, Corporate Controller
Sara is a seasoned and active CPA professional who has worked both in public and private sections cross auditing, corporate accounting, tax, SEC reporting and Fund accounting areas. Before joining SDF, Sara was an Associate Director in Gen II Fund Service and an AVP in BNYMellon and Deutsche Bank to serve various clients with their accounting in Private Equity and Real Estate Investments. Sara loves Chinese Dance and enjoys attending Toastmaster clubs.
Siddharth Suresh, Senior Software Engineer
Siddharth is a software engineer joining the Core team. Prior to SDF, he worked on low-latency systems to trade futures and equities at Wolverine Trading. Siddharth likes to golf, play video games, and explore new restaurants on the weekends.
We are hiring! Apply today.
Stellar Developer Updates
Horizon v0.20.1 released, along with a blog about the new ingestion system: https://www.stellar.org/developers/blog/our-new-horizon-ingestion-engine
Stellar-Core v11.4.0 released: https://github.com/stellar/stellar-core/releases
Go SDK v.1.4 released: https://github.com/stellar/go/releases/tag/horizonclient-v1.4.0
Kelp v1.7.2 released: https://github.com/stellar/kelp/releases/tag/v1.7.2
Are you a Stellar developer? Take a moment to voice your opinions on the Stellar Developer survey. SDF wants to hear from you!
Stellar Community Articles
LOBSTR Introduces ‘Identicons’ for Stellar Addresses
“Identicons are distinct pixel-style icons generated based on the public keys of Stellar wallets using a simple API-based tool. These easy to remember icons are like an avatar for your wallet.”
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Stellar Dev Digest Issue #13
Welcome to another issue of the Stellar Dev Digest, a weekly recap of all things related to the development of the Stellar Network. Read now
How to Stream Ledger Data from the Stellar Network Using Python
SCF Round 2 is accepting submissions. Deadline to submit projects for voting is very soon, so get your proposals in today!
Project Releases & Updates
Franklin Templeton Investments has proposed a tokenized government money market fund on Stellar Network.
XLM is now available on eToroX.
StellarX hosted an AMA on Reddit, answering questions from the community.
Uphold now supports Stellar, giving users access to fiat currencies and digital assets around the world!
Pedity, a distributed content platform, is now Tree3 Network.
Swplug has introduced a WHMCS module for the Stellar network.
Stellar Events
Upcoming
Meridian tickets are now on sale. Today is the last day to purchase early bird tickets before standard pricing kicks in. Grab yours now!
Boris Reznikov and Tomer Weller of SDF will be speaking at the Blockchain Bridge conference being held in San Francisco this September 18th and 19th.
Past
Nikhil spoke about Kelp at Blockchain Center SF.
Lisa spoke with DASS about new use-case opportunities for stablecoins.
Tomer Weller hosted a Stellar webinar for devs during the Coinlist and IDEO CoLab Hackathon. Check out the full video here.
Nikhil discusses Stellar’s use case as a payments network on the Hashing It Out podcast.
SatoshiPay hosted another successful Stellar Meetup in Berlin.
SDF and the Blockchain Innovation Associates teamed up for a Meetup in Manhattan on Thursday, September 5.
Reminder: Beware of “Hard Fork” Scams and “Giveaway Scams”. Learn more about how to protect yourself and your accounts in our Security guide.
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kraken ICX Trading Starts September 12!
On Thursday, September 12, 2019, 03:25:58 AM EDT, Kraken [email protected] wrote:
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We are pleased to announce that ICON (ICX) will be listed on Kraken starting September 12.
What is ICON (ICX)?
ICON is a South Korea-based blockchain project. It aims to be an interoperable blockchain on which multiple industries and business types can coexist on a single network
ICON communities and nodes are independently governed with varying rules and consensus algorithms. These respective communities are all connected to the central ICON Republic which serves as a communication point without governance authority over the individual communities
ICON’s enterprise blockchain implementation, loopchain, is one of the oldest and largest operating blockchain networks in the world. It is being used by some of the largest and most reputable companies in South Korea, including major universities, governments, hospital systems, banks and financial services firms
The ICX token powers the ICON network and will be used as a vehicle for value transfer and transaction. ICX will also be used by DApps that are built on top of the main network, thus allowing network participants to utilize ICX for various services provided in the ecosystem
The promotion and development of the ICON protocol is overseen by the ICON Foundation https://icon.foundation
What time will funding and trading start?
Funding: Kraken will enable deposits and withdrawals for ICX at approximately 13:30 UTC on September 12
Trading: The first trades will start shortly after funding is enabled, because sell orders cannot be placed until deposits clear (see the required confirmation times for deposits here)
Updates will be posted on the status page near launch time
To learn more about the ICX listings, check out our blog post.
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Phishing attack message from phone provider Android user? You could be at risk
On Thursday, September 12, 2019, 10:02:44 PM EDT, ZoneAlarm News [email protected] wrote:
Flaws Leave Android Smartphones Vulnerable to Phishing Attacks
CheckPoint researchers recently discovered a vulnerability to advanced phishing attacks in a wide variety of Android phones (including models by Samsung, Huawei, LG and Sony).
These attacks trick users by using a phony provisioning message controlled by an attacker and disguised as a legitimate sender. You’ve probably seen those provisioning messages in the form of text messages coming from mobile operators when crossing the borders of a country and landing in a foreign airport, or when changing mobile carriers.
Now imagine if it isn’t the mobile operator behind these text messages, but a hacker on the other end of the link. This scenario poses a significant risk to the personal data contained on mobile devices.
ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2019 is the most powerful multi-device protection, preventing attacks over WiFi and cellular networks and any attempts to route the messages to a malicious server. Moreover, it blocks all phishing links and detects any malicious behavior attempting to compromise your device and steal your data.
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paywithmoon Join Us for Happy Hour on September 19th
On Thursday, September 12, 2019, 02:42:35 PM EDT, Ken from Moon [email protected] wrote:
Drinks and crypto!
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Keep yourself safe and secure while being online now a day where ever you are
The best way is to secure your operating system. Use Linux operating system such as *ubuntu, and keep it updated. Now a day we do not really need to install much software on our computer, the average computer users would need the internet, and some Words or Excel applications which can be done with Google Doc Spreadsheet and storage on Google Drive. Google can be secure if you know how, basically turn on 2FA with both phone # and Google Auth app. store your data on the cloud is safe if you enable highest security settings, and never allow anyone to access it beside you, like sharing, you can even create death notification, meaning it will notified whoever if you don’t use google for more than certain period of time like 6 months, it will send out a message you probably dead and give access to whoever you gave access to your google account, off course you can set permissions and access level.
So basically having a secure operating system like *ubuntu and google chrome or firefox keep it updated at all time, and use incognito mode as it will erase everything after you exit out. Don’t worry exit out doesn’t mean all the files get deleted, it just delete your cookies browsing history and so on. Your files and whatever you do within google drive is safe, and being saved automatically. You can access these files anywhere anytime, make sure you use incognito mode on other computers as well.
I’ve been using the computer and internet since the 1990s. I remember playing around with the black and white screen of the Apple II computer and I was very excited. I came to the US back in late or near end of 1980s by the way. Back then, the computer is not connected or network as widely as it is today, in other word the internet wasn’t available until the mid 1990s. Therefore a lot of people not noticing or worrying about being hacked, scammed online … but now a day is a different story since most if not all computers and other devices such as mobile phone and even your shoe is connected to the internet.
So now a day, most if not all your devices are connected, and you know how dangerous it is if you don’t know how to secure your devices that connected to the internet. If you still don’t know how or would like to double check and I think you should, just google search for “secure yourself device the internet” and there should a bunch of top search result with documentations from the top security software companies that will show you how to secure yourself and device on the internet. Basically your first line of defense would be your home router, make sure you have a secure admin password to control panel and a strong SSID name and password/passcode, change it frequently if you can and maybe use a strategy for your password so that way you will know what the password is.
As for me writing about this, I just want to focus on one thing for now, which is your computer, whether it’s a netbook, laptop, desktop pc, server … how to secure it? well the short answer is, there isn’t a 100% way to secure it, even if you disconnect your internet or have no internet hook up to your computer, there are many ways you can hacked if you’re being targeted. There is only the best way, best method, best solution, no such thing as real solution.