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Stellar lumen STR coins latest update “Stellar.org November 2017 Newsletter”

From: Stellar. org Team
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Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:15 PM
Subject: Stellar.org November 2017 Newsletter

November 1, 2017

Hello

October was a huge month at SDF with the announcement of our partnership with IBM and KlickEx! We were overwhelmed by the encouraging words of community members around the world and we are working around the clock to keep the momentum going with more exciting partnerships in the near future that will continue to strengthen and broaden the reach of the Stellar network.

As always, for current news and updates, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. We wish you a wonderful month ahead!

Feature Story

IBM and KlickEx Choose Stellar to Power the Future of Cross-Border Payments
Stellar is partnering with IBM and KlickEx to develop a blockchain-based cross-border payments solution proven to significantly reduce transaction costs and increase transaction speeds. This solution will help financial institutions and consumers eliminate inefficiencies and frustrations in current cross-border payment systems, including high fees, slow processing, error-prone transactions, and inefficient capital utilization.
[Read More]

New Partnerships

KlickEx
KlickEx.co is an award winning regional cross-border payments system delivering financial infrastructure for emerging markets. It has been responsible for dramatic uptake in digital financial services in unbanked regions of the world, and lowering costs for banks, central banks and consumers in low liquidity currencies.

Remitr
Remitr is a global platform for cross border payments, licensed in Canada. Remitr uses the Stellar network for international settlements for businesses as well as other payment partners. Remitr’s own payout network of 63 countries comprising several currencies, is extended onto the Stellar network.

Chaineum ICO Advisory Services
Chaineum is positioned as the first “ICO Boutique” in France, providing a range of end-to-end services to companies and international start-ups wishing to develop with this new funding mechanism. Chaineum will use the Stellar network to support some of its upcoming ICOs.

MSewa Software Solution (MSS)
MSewa Software Solution (MSS) Payments provides a one-stop digital payment service available across the Globe. MSS Payments aims at serving the consumers (Banked, Unbanked and Underbanked) with mobile banking facilities on the move from anywhere by transferring funds in their mobile phone.

PesaChoice
PesaChoice is a leader in international bill payment services for the African diaspora. PesaChoice aims at making international bill payment process easy, seamless, secure, with reasonable and competitive service fees, and up to date technological advances.

ICO

Webinar | Why Stellar Is An Ideal ICO Platform
In this 15min webinar, Lightyear’s Boris Reznikov discusses why Stellar is ideal for ICOs, gives a demo of the Stellar Decentralized Exchange (Stellar DEX), and showcases Bifrost (an ETH/BTC bridge). Part 2 of the webinar includes a brief video tutorial on how to issue tokens on Stellar.

Smartlands.io
The Smartlands platform is designed to create a new class of low-risk future-proof tokens, secured by real, profitable assets in agriculture. The Smartlands team aims to build an appropriate infrastructure for ICOs of such tokens that protects investors from the major part of risks. ICO will start on the 2nd of November 2017 12:00 UTC+00:00 and end on the 17th of November 2017 12:00 UTC+00:00.

Mobius ICO starts November 8 — Whitelist Closing Soon
We first wrote about Mobius in our July newsletter. Mobius aims to be Stripe for Blockchain by helping developers easily connect internet apps, devices, and real world data to the blockchain economy bit by bit. The Mobius token sale starts November 8th, 2017 but you can still join the pre-public sale by reserving a limited spot on the whitelist before it closes soon.

Community

bext360 Announces Partnerships in Africa, Europe and North America
Bext360 this week announced two pilot programs with three partners in Africa, Europe and North America to produce the world’s first blockchain traceable coffee, as well as the use blockchain to trace payments made to coffee farmers.
[Read More]

Host a Stellar meetup!
Want to host a meetup in your city? We’d love to help you! We’ve put together a simple guide on how to get started as well as some other useful tips and resources to create the perfect meetup.

Got questions or need help? Feel free to contact us at [email protected]

Give Feedback on projects for the Stellar Build Challenge
The 5th SBC is coming to a close on November 15th and we are calling on you, our community, to help them get their projects past the finish line by providing participants with your feedback and suggestions. Head here to check out the projects and leave feedback if you have something you want to share!

Developer Updates

Deadline for submitting your project for the SBC is November 15th
Quick reminder that the deadline for submitting your project for the 5th Stellar Build Challenge is November 15th. We are excited to see your final submissions!

Stellar is hiring!
Interested in working at Stellar.org? We’re hiring for a variety of developer and designer roles. We don’t care about pedigrees but we do care if you are smart and can get stuff done. Be nimble. Be enthusiastic. We want spirited debates about how to build tools that will impact the future of money.
[Current Openings]

Events and Meetups

November 7th – Zug, Switzerland
Stellar meetup in Europe’s ICO capital! As more and more ICOs decide to incorporate in Zug, we’re hosting an event to discuss what makes Stellar a great alternative ICO platform, touching on both commercial & technical aspects. Event starts at 5PM!
[Event Link]

November 10th – Berlin, Germany
Stellar meetup with Tempo and a surprise guest in Berlin at TechCode on November 10th at 6PM. Join Boris of Stellar and Anthony Barker of Tempo plus a surprise guest as they discuss the Stellar Network, Stellar as the ideal ICO platform, cross-border payments and much more. Stay tuned for RSVP details!

November 11th – Tokyo, Japan
Ella Qiang will be speaking at the Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Conference in Tokyo. More details on the local meetup coming soon!
[Event Link]

November 16th – San Francisco
Stellar meetup! Join us at 500 Startups where we will discuss ICOs & Smart Contract Misconceptions. Event will include a presentation from Lightyear’s Boris Reznikov, a lightning talk/panel and a night of networking. Tickets are free, but space is limited!
[Register Here]

November 29th – Singapore
Ella will be at Block Show Asia in Singapore, sharing Stellar’s solution on using blockchain technology in the cross-border payments use case.
[Event Link]

November 30th – Seoul, Korea
Ella will then head over to Seoul for the Inside Fintech Conference, where she will be participating on a panel about future of payments and a separate session on introducing the Stellar project to an audience of fintech leaders. Stay tuned for more details on the local meetup!
[Event Link]

Welcoming New Team Members

Tom Llewellyn-Smith, Developer
Tom Llewellyn-Smith is a Unix systems engineer specialising in large-scale distributed systems, configuration management and systems security. Prior to Stellar Tom designed and managed infrastructure for gaming, science and finance companies.

Onwards,
Team Stellar

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Stellar does not endorse any third party organizations that are named in this and/or any other communication(s). Please conduct due diligence and interact with these organizations at your discretion.

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Coinbase will credit Bitcoin 2x b2x segwit2x “Reminder: Upcoming Bitcoin Fork”

From: Coinbase
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Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 5:11 PM
Subject: Reminder: Upcoming Bitcoin Fork

Coinbase
Dear ,
We wanted to remind you that the upcoming Bitcoin Segwit2x fork is projected to take place on November 16 and will result in 2 bitcoin blockchains.
In our effort to make Coinbase the most trusted, safe, and easy-to-use digital currency exchange, we are working to ensure we maximize your benefit from this event. So, following the fork:
Any user storing Bitcoin on Coinbase at the time of the fork will be credited with an equal amount of the new Bitcoin2x asset on the Bitcoin2x blockchain. No action is required – we will automatically credit your account. If you have 5 Bitcoin stored on Coinbase before the fork, you will have 5 Bitcoin and 5 Bitcoin2x following the event.

Coinbase users will be able to trade both Bitcoin and Bitcoin2x shortly after the fork.

Coinbase will disable buys, sells, sends and receives for Bitcoin and Bitcoin2x approximately 24 hours before the fork. We will re-enable them following the fork once it’s safe to do so.
For a detailed timeline of events surrounding the fork please see our blog post and FAQ.
Thank you,
Coinbase Team

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Latest BOScoin update “TokenNet Newsletter” “How to claim your BOScoin”

From: BOScoin
To:
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 8:40 AM
Subject: TokenNet Newsletter

Newsletter – October 30th, 2017

Ladies and gents, tomorrow is the big day! Hope everyone is as excited as we are. TokenNet will be live soon and we are doing our preparations as best as we can so that every process goes as smooth as silk. To do so, you need to read today’s newsletter extra carefully. Please read through and pay extra attention regarding how to claim your BOScoins!

IMPORTANT

Web-wallet
Web-wallets will be available upon launch. You will not be able to create your account before because your Web-wallet needs to register into the blockchain. You can access your Web-wallet by clicking on “Wallet” on our website and follow the instructions on how to create your Web-wallet. PLEASE KEEP YOUR SECRET SEED AWAY FROM PUBLIC EYES. We cannot stress this enough. DO NOT LOSE IT. Store it somewhere safe. If you lose your Secret Seed, there is nothing we can do to recover it, so do be careful.

How to claim your BOScoins
If you have participated in the pre-sale, fundraiser, and/or bounty program, you can receive BOScoins by following the instructions.

A brief summary of the flow is as follows:

Create your Web-wallet.
Send the Public Address of your Web-wallet from the same e-mail you used to participate in the pre-sale, fundraiser, and/or bounty program to [email protected].
Send your full e-mail account and Public Address again via Telegram. The Telegram ID you are looking for is [BOS_tokennet]. Beware of the caps.
If the information of the e-mail and Telegram message do not match, it will be put aside for further review, so make sure you are sending the right information.
Do not send any pictures, your Secret Seed or any other information whatsoever. Just your e-mail and Public Address.
If the information matches, we will send BOScoins to your Public Address and a confirmation e-mail will be sent to you upon remittance. Check if the correct amount has been received.
In case of any issues, send us your query at [email protected].
IMPORTANT : If you feel your e-mail account has been hacked or if you feel your e-mail account has been compromised in any way, DO NOT follow this process and alert us immediately. Send notice of any issues with your email account to [email protected].

The extra process of matching the contents of the e-mail with Telegram is to ensure the validity of your Public Address because there is a possibility that contents of your e-mail may be altered while reaching us. We will contact you separately via e-mail if any information does not match or we feel the need to confirm with you once more. We are aware that you wish to receive your BOScoins as soon as possible and we will do our utmost to send you what you have been waiting for as fast as we can, but the matching process will be carried out manually, so please understand that it will take some time to validate your information. Sending your information exactly according to the how-to guide will ease and quicken the verification process for us.

Security

We have asked two firms to take a look at our source code and Web-wallet, and both have confirmed that there isn’t any point of vulnerability. A group of white hackers were not able to breach the network so we can pretty much say that the network is safe, and we plan to make periodic checks with the help of multiple security firms to prevent anyone tampering with the source code.

TokenNet Release Note
You can find our TokenNet Release Note by clicking TokenNet Release Note and see the purpose and objective of TokenNet, including policies and how TokenNet will run. It should provide a clear understanding on what TokenNet is and what we are trying to achieve. A short summary of the TokenNet policies are:

Transaction Fee will be set to 0.001 BOS
Redistribution ratio of Transaction Fee will be token holders 7 : Commons Budget 3
The minimum requirement to receive redistribution of Transaction Fee is 10,000 BOS
Only the Top 3,000 holders of BOS will be eligible to receive redistribution of Transaction Fee pro rata on a weekly basis.
The Minimum Balance will be set at 0.1 BOS. An account must hold at least 0.1 BOS and cannot go below the minimum balance.
For further information on the logic behind the policy changes, please check out the TokenNet Release Note.

Exchanges
As we mentioned in our last newsletter, progress regarding exchanges has been slow and we plan to let the community know where to write and demand to list BOScoin. As you were probably aware, HitBTC will be the first platform where you will be able to trade BOScoin and cash deposits and withdrawals will be possible very soon. We have been in contact with the major exchanges for months now, and if we do not see a significant progress from the exchanges within a few days, we will let the community know.

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Latest update from BOScoin “revamped BOS homepage” That’s it?

From: BOScoin
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Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 5:17 AM
Subject: revamped BOS homepage

BOScoin Homepage Renewed!

Surprise!

We said the newsletters will be rolling out on Mondays, but we do have a brief announcement to make and these short announcements will come in the days to follow and the first of the series is that our website is renewed and up and running. The renewed website is more focused on a design overhaul, to be in line with the design theme of BOScoin, whereas the old website wasn’t in conjunction with the overall design theme of BOScoin. We have updated some other material to reflect current status regarding the team and development.

When you visit our website, you can see “Wallet” for you to access our Web-wallet on top of the page, but this will only be available once the blockchain network is live so this has yet to come.

“Blog” will redirect you to our Medium blog and we will post our materials and newsletters in that space as we did before, so you can check out the progression since the very beginning of the project.

We also added “Forums” which we did not have before. Forums will be on soon and this space will be our primary channel of communication. We are not planning to leave Slack or any other channel as of now but we do expect a gradual migration. You can create your own topic and post replies to get a discussion going. The default language will be English but if you feel your language is not represented given the size of the community, you can ask an admin to create a new Category dedicated to your language. A more detailed description on how Forums will be managed, please refer to general policies once forum is up.

We will keep you posted on how development is going, so we will send you an announcement every so often until the actual launch of TokenNet.

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latest BOS coin update “BOS Newsletter October 23rd, 2017”

From: BOScoin
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Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 6:55 AM
Subject: BOScoin Newsletter – 2017 Oct. 23rd

BOS Newsletter October 23rd, 2017

If you were wondering why you didn’t receive a newsletter last Friday, it’s because we are sending it on Mondays from now on:)

Development Updates
TokenNet launch is due next week and our devs are saying it is ready to go live apart from a few configurations that need to be finalized. The flow of transaction fees are also being monitored but no problems have come up so far, so we expect a smooth launch at the end of this month.

Security
We have received confirmation from one of the security firms that no point of vulnerability was found regarding our code and the Web-wallet which is good news, but the other firm which we have asked to take a look still has not submitted their report. We will let you know on further developments regarding security.

Homepage and Forum
The renewed homepage is going live this week! The old homepage was looking somewhat shabby, we must admit, but there have been major design modifications and updates will be made regarding the team, development roadmap, etc. For the upgrade, some work needs to be done and we will be shutting down the website on the 25th of October and the website may be down for two days at most, so don’t be surprised if you are unable to access our website.

A forum will be added on the new website as well and we will have further information on how the forum will run later on, but the official policy is our primary channel of communication will be on the forum. Announcements and major topics of discussion will be posted on the forum and though we are not planning to abandon Slack or any other social media platforms right away, we expect a gradual migration.

Web-wallet
Tests have been running for a few weeks now and we are grateful for the community’s comments and suggestions. Minor UI modifications are still being done to the Web-wallet, but will be complete within a few days. A manual will be added in the website on how to use the wallet and what to watch out for. We will also let you know how you can claim and receive your BOScoins, but this will be announced in a separate piece, so please do stay tuned.

TokenNet Release Note
TokenNet launch is only days away now and we are planning to release a ‘TokenNet Release Note’ that contains a comprehensive policy guide regarding TokenNet. Although TokenNet functionality will be limited and is only set to last until the launch of MainNet, a coherent set of rules and policies are necessary and the general public should be informed of such policies. The note will contain all the policies and details that should provide a clear and complete picture about TokenNet.

Exchanges
We are aware that many of you are concerned with BOScoin getting listed onto exchanges. We have set out to launch TokenNet on the 31st, but getting listed on the exchanges is a totally different issue. We feel your concern and realize people are getting anxious and rightfully so. However, we believe it wouldn’t be prudent to reveal any names of the exchanges and how they stand at this stage. There are many things to consider before listing a coin and the current climate surrounding cryptocurrencies are making exchanges hesitant in some countries. As mentioned in our previous newsletters, we have contacted over three dozen exchanges and we acknowledge you want to know who they are and which ones have responded positively, and we will reveal the names of those who are positive in due course, but only when it is an absolute certainty. Revealing the names who have turned us down or are moving slow is the last resort because the exchanges may hold that against us for future considerations. You need to understand, the exchanges are calling the shots in this current environment and we do not wish to push them over the edge. If we do not see things get done by the exchanges, we will call upon the community to give us some supporting fire to write to the exchanges demanding BOScoin to be listed, but TokenNet isn’t even out yet, so this may be a little too early.

Have You Met… Yezune Choi?
The person we would like to introduce this week is Yezune Choi, our CTO and co-founder of BlockchainOS, the mastermind of everything leading up to this point:) He is a visionary/dreamer and likes to refer to himself as an anarchist but still keeps his faith in the system – a system that is based on blockchain. He is not so much of a classical introvert, but is shy and does not like to reveal himself that much, so it was quite hard to make him sit down and answer to our interrogations;)

Background

After graduating university with a degree in Computer Science, Yezune joined the military as an officer and stayed in the military for five years before becoming an entrepreneur in the IT industry. He has managed several businesses, developing educational software, mobile applications and conducting software quality assurance for larger companies, such as LG Electronics. Yezune became interested in blockchain when he was involved in a cooperative. The economic network of a cooperative functioned similar to a torrent file sharing network, according to his opinion, and so dug a little deeper in how peer-to-peer networks worked so that he could improve the IT infrastructure of the cooperative, and found Bitcoin. Although still in its early stages, he was convinced blockchain could change everything. Yezune saw the potential of blockchain and after extensive research, he launched a local cryptocurrency based on Litecoin for the citizens of Suwon, a city south of Seoul. This was probably the first cryptocurrency to be in circulation in South Korea and he could witness that cryptocurrencies work for everyday users in the real world. As his conviction grew, he started working on the white paper and developed the concept of a blockchain platform that incorporates easier smart contracts and a governance feature with a Commons Budget that can be used to enhance the ecosystem.

Interests

Yezune also calls himself an anarchist because he believes the current system has too many flaws, especially regarding distribution of wealth and thus keeps a distrust of the current governance system. He seeks to, and firmly believes, changes can be made with blockchain for the better, regarding redistribution, social transparency and productivity. Yezune is a complex person and has many interests and ambitions for BOScoin. Fully homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation and zero-knowledge proof are among the immediate interests that he wants to see implemented to the project at a later stage. He also likes to see blockchain combine with AI, a model that enables higher production while maintaining trust.

RIF (Random Interesting Fact)

Yezune has a wife, two children and two dogs. The two dogs came up to Yezune’s doorsteps and refused to leave, so his family took them in. Yezune would like to know how to make the dogs stop biting. If anyone has a good tip, please let us know. We will pass it on:)

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Anything new to localbitcoins TOS?

From: LocalBitcoins.com
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Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 8:17 AM
Subject: Terms of Service & Privacy Policy Update

Dear LocalBitcoins customer,

We are updating our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The new terms will go into effect for all existing users on the first of November 2017. The updated Terms of Service include more detailed and informative provisions on resolving trade disputes and our stance on new cryptocurrencies or blockchain forks.

With the updated Privacy Policy, we want to be more transparent on how we process your personal information, including the purpose for processing it and the legal bases we rely on in doing so.

These new terms contain a few other significant changes that we feel it is important for you to know, we strongly recommend that you read through the new terms of service and privacy policy.

If you do not agree to the new terms of service please stop using our service by November 1st 2017. By continuing to use our services after November 1st 2017 you agree with the changes to our terms of service and privacy policy.

You can find the updated terms of service and privacy policy here on our website.

Please get in touch with us if you have any questions regarding this change.

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