#Alpha Re-Patterning workshop

[weekinethereum]

March 22, 2018

Ethereum News and Links

Protocol

Sharding research compendium

Sharding phase 1 spec

Cross-shard contract yanking

Panels on sharding in Taipei to cap a 3 day sharding workshop

Jon Choi writes up results from the workshop: Cross-shard Communication & Developer Experience

A simple way to compute rent fees?

VB: "realistically with a laptop you'll be able to keep up to date fully with something like 1-10 shards"

Phil Daian: Incentivizing a Robust P2P Network/Relay Layer

Notes from the web3 Foundation and Giveth ScalingNow conference to accompany the videos

Alex Miller: Plasma and the Internet of Money

Stuff for developers

List of EVM opcodes, including proposals, from Trail of Bits

Reversing Ethereum smart contracts

Upgradable ERC20 pattern

NuCypher unveils threshold proxy re-encryption for scalable e2e encrypted data sharing

The phenomenon of Ethereum honey pots

HackerOne report on Coinbase bug - throw a transaction from a contract and revert prior transactions

Remix IDE updates

Ethereum programming 101 video by Joseph Chow

How to change your web app to a dapp tutorial

Gitcoin now has an ETH faucet to help bring devs into web3

Release

Mist and wallet v0.10.0 -- light client now default sync mode

Parity v1.10 -- support for WASM on Kovan (!), the wallet UI now disabled by default

Ecosystem

Interview with Vitalik Buterin where he talks through some of the early Ethereum history.  The interview clearly happened at least a few months ago.

More on how Parity is helping the World Food Programme feed refugees

Taylor Monahan's "Decentralized Future is People" MIT Bitcoin Expo talk

Project Updates

Numerai is airdropping Numeraire tokens to Kaggle accounts.  I signed up and got mine!  Finally got some value out of all those hours on Kaggle.

Cellarius' CellCon0

Decentraland Market to buy and sell LAND

Toshi revamps its dapp browser

Imogen Heap on her work with Mycelia

New Projects

Key Mesh -- an Ethereum address book with private chat. Running on Rinkeby.

EthernalGo -- play Go onchain.  Reddit thread.

CryptoCup -- World Cup predictions.  But I don't have an octopus?

Tabby -- an escrow middleman to avoid sending to wrong address. From Blockcat

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

I talk decentralized insurance with Stephan Karpischek from Etherisc

Software Engineering Daily with Jarrad and Oskar from Status

Andy Milenius talk on Circles universal basic income

Mark Beylin talks bounties on Pressurecast

Epicenter episodes with Bob Summerwill and Peter Van Valkenburgh

Truffle's Tim Coulter on Changelog

Tokens

Pangea is tokenizing a 5 unit apartment building in Brooklyn.

Reality TV star Kevin O'Leary claims a $400m NYC hotel will do an on-chain securities offering in "the next 3 weeks" that is "SEC approved."  My guess is that if it happens it's not on Ethereum.

The state enforcers fighting crypto fraud. In Texas, enforcers can go undercover.

CryptoKitties raised $12m VC round.

Lots of tokens trading lower than value of the ETH they hold

Virtue Poker announces token sale.  No US, no discounts or bonuses, access to the alpha but tokens locked until the site is live.

General

Ledger discusses its updated firmware in response to Saleem Rashid's "breaking the ledger security model" post.  Or check Matthew Green's tl;dr tweetstorm.

Microsoft announces that Niavura settled Principal Protected Notes on the Etherem main net

ConsenSys to do pilot project with World Identity Network to fight human trafficking

Time says "Russia" helped the Venezuelan dictatorship with its Petro scam to evade sanctions

A Vitalik Buterin interview on why he donated a few million to SENS to fight aging.

Bloomberg: Google is working on blockchain tech

Long section on blockchains in the Joint Economic Report starting at p201

Dates of note

Upcoming dates of note:

March 24 -- ERC721 conference in Dallas

March 27 -- Pathfounder: Cryptoeconomics in London. 15% off with discount code EVAN.

April 3-4 -- Deconomy in Seoul

April 17 -- DappDev in Kiev

April 24 -- Oslo Blockchain Day

April 25 -- Virtue Poker sale

May 3-5 -- Edcon in Toronto

May 11-12 -- Ethereal (NYC)

May 16-17 -- Token Summit (NYC)

May 18-20 -- EthMemphis hackathon

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[yogaadvise]

What Is A Sound Bath?

YogaHub is truly delighted to be bringing the really knowledgable Tom Toher to our studio this weekend for an amazing Noise Bathroom workshop. Below is a Q as well as A we made with Tom so he can inform you more regarding what audio bathrooms are.

Hope to see you there!

Hey Tom! So, what is a sound bath?

As the name suggests, an Audio Bathroom is an immersion in beautiful sounds as well as resonances that are healing for your body, mind as well as spirit. An Audio Bathroom is a deeply relaxing, reflective experience which can take you on a journey of deep leisure, healing and also self exploration. Everything in deep space, including our body, is composed of resonances. Every body organ and every cell in our body shakes at a specific frequency. Noise and also vibration travels up to five times more effectively via water. As the human body is comprised of over 70% water we can recognize that noise and also vibration can impact us at a mobile degree.

During an Audio Bath you will certainly experience deep leisure and an extensive sense of peace and wellness. At the beginning, I will certainly lead you in a short guided-meditation to prepare your body and also mind for the experience which adheres to. You will experience the healing power of Tibetan Vocal singing Bowls, Gongs, Shamanic Drums, Koshi chimes and also Voice. The recovery regularities as well as resonances will get rid of all your tension, stress, as well as cares. All you have to do is exist there and permit the healing sounds and vibrations to wash over you.

For the Sound bathroom you will certainly rest on a yoga floor covering, with a pillow under their head, covered with a comfortable blanket. Time is put on hold as you go into a globe of resonance, feeling and experience. Physical injuries can be healed and also old emotional traumas released. Great understandings can be accessed. You feel absolutely, vibrantly active. Once you've had your initial Noise Bath you'll absolutely want more!

Who can have a sound bath?

Sound Bathrooms appropriate for individuals of any ages from little ones to the elderly. There are no opposite indicators. Sound Baths are ideal for expecting females however in this situation the bowls or gongs will certainly not be utilized close to the body. No previous experience of dealing with audio or meditation is required.

What are the advantages of having an audio bath?

One means audio can assist develop deep states of leisure is with changing our brainwave states. When our brainwave state relocates from the regular waking state (Beta) to Alpha (mindful relaxed state), Theta (dreamlike state), as well as sometimes even delta (deep rest) we experience a decline in heart price and blood stress, our bodies loosen up, our breath strengthens, and also we relocate right into a responsive state where deep recovery can occur.

Sound has extensive affects on our nerve system - helping to switch on our parasympathetic nerve system which is our relaxation action. Most of us spend as well much time with an active thoughtful nerve system, which is our battle or flight response ... when we can energetic our parasympathetic nerve system we offer our bodies an opportunity to relax and recover. Through every one of the different tones of the bowls, gongs and also various other tools, the body is provided a possibility to resonate with a healing frequency. You remain in essence offering your body, mind, as well as power an opportunity to move to a greater regularity and also release reduced vibrational ideas, emotions, as well as other issues.

Some of the benefits of having normal Sound Bathrooms are as complies with:

Stress Reduction.

Deep relaxation.

Reduces anxiety.

Lowers blood pressure.

Promotes deeper sleep.

Balances both hemispheres of the brain.

Cells receive a sonic massage.

Cleanses unfavorable energy and emotions.

Helps to connect with your greater self.

Increases crucial power flow, creativity, intuition and also motivation.

Removes blockages and toxins.

Strengthens immune system.

Helps to release and clear old self-limiting patterns of behaviour, routines and also ways of believing that no longer offer us and are dangerous to our health.

How numerous various bowls or instruments do you make use of throughout an audio bath session? Can you name or define a few of them?

Each audio bath session is a different experience but I constantly utilize Tibetan Singing Bowls as well as Gongs. Furthermore I might use shamanic drums, Koshi Chimes, Kalimba as well as Sea Drum. We might additionally utilize our voices to do some chanting.

The Tibetan Bowls I make use of are hand made in Nepal by households who can trace their beginnings back to the moment of the Buddha. The bowls are still hand hammered in the old conventional method and also the families chant sacred concepts while they are beating the bowls. When the bowls are played, the spiritual resonances of these concepts are released.

Could you provide us some background of audio bathing?

Using audio and vibration is among the earliest recovery methods and also was used hundreds of years back in the Aboriginal, Greek and Egyptian cultures. The Indigenous individuals in Australia were amongst the first societies known to recover with noise greater than 40,000 years earlier. The ancient Egyptians used vowel audio chants in recovery, as they believed vowels were spiritual. The Greeks made use of similar healing chants as well as a selection of musical instruments in their mental hospitals. And also, of program, Tibetan monks have actually used vocal singing bowls, whose resonances have actually been explained as "the sound of deep space manifesting" for hundreds of years. It is interesting to keep in mind that many creation tales started with the intro of sound, including Vedic texts as well as the Bible.

Over the past 15 years or so there has actually been a resurgence of interest in the power of noise and vibration in recovery. Passion in audio therapy as well as sound baths has been expanding progressively during this time as an increasing number of individuals, western paramedics consisted of, re-discover its possibility.

Describe your very first personal experience with audio bathing.

My very first experience of going to a sound bathroom was an extremely effective one and also was straight in charge of my decision to educate as a sound specialist. I had actually seen an advert for a talk and also presentation on healing with singing bowls and also determined that I would go along. I had actually sprained my ankle joint the previous day and it was still really puffy as well as agonizing. I was literally hindering along to the venue. I actually took pleasure in the talk and also the sound bath. As I was walking back to the auto after the event I unexpectedly understood that I had no discomfort whatsoever as well as the following morning the swelling was gone. I phoned the therapist that had actually provided the discussion and also she said "I told you that audio and also vibration was powerful." Afterwards I was offered on sound recovery and registered with this educator for my first training course.

Does an individual requirement to do anything to get ready for a sound bath?

No, there is no preparation required. It is handy to keep well moisturized the day prior to participating in or on the day itself if the sound bath is happening later in the day. Wear loose comfortable clothing without belts and ideally without any steel buttons or fasteners.

What need to somebody bring to an audio bath session?

An open heart and also mind and also a container of water!

What do you like about sound baths?

Seeing exactly how completely loosened up and also loosened up individuals are afterwards as well as listening to how deeply they have actually been affected by the experience.