#UserFee

[whatshappeningintheworlds-blog]

“ELON MUSK” CONFIRMS “X”

WILL START CHARGING ALL NEW

USERS A 'SMALL FEE' BEFORE

THEY CAN POST

[inventivaindia]

Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media

Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media

Civil, the two-year-old crypto startup that wants to save the journalism industry by leveraging the blockchain and cryptoeconomics, has partnered with the 172-year-old Associated Press to help the wire service stop bad actors from stealing its content.

Civil, using its blockchain-enabled licensing mechanism, which is still in development, will help the AP track where its content is going and…

[un-enfant-immature]

Blockchain media startup Civil is issuing full refunds to all buyers of its cryptocurrency

Many doubted The Civil Media Company‘s ambitious plan to sell $8 million worth of its cryptocurrency, called CVL. 

The skeptics, as it turns out, were right. Civil’s initial coin offering, meant to fund the company’s effort to create a new economy for journalism using the blockchain, failed to attract sufficient interest. The company announced today that it would provide refunds to all CVL token buyers by October 29.

Civil’s goal was to sell 34 million CVL tokens for between $8 million and $24 million. The sale began on September 18 and concluded yesterday. Ultimately, 1,012 buyers purchased $1,435,491 worth of CVL tokens. A spokesperson for Civil told TechCrunch an additional 1,738 buyers successfully registered for the sale, but never completed their transaction.

Civil isn’t giving up. The company says “a new, much simpler token sale is in the works,” details of which will be shared soon. Once those new tokens are distributed, Civil will launch three new features: a blockchain-publishing plugin for WordPress, a community governance application called The Civil Registry and a developer tool for non-blockchain developers to build apps on Civil.

ConsenSys, a blockchain venture studio that invested $5 million in Civil last fall, has agreed to purchase $3.5 million worth of those new tokens. The purchase is not an equity; all capital from the token sale is committed to the Civil Foundation, an independent nonprofit initially funded by Civil that funds grants to the newsrooms in Civil’s network.

In a blog post today, Civil chief executive officer Matthew Iles wrote that the token sale failure was a disappointment but not a shock. Days prior, he’d authored a separate post where he admitted things weren’t looking good.

“This isn’t how we saw this going,” Iles wrote. “The numbers will show clearly enough that we are not where we wanted to be at this point in the sale when we started out. But one thing we want to say at the top is that until the clock strikes midnight on Monday, we are still working nonstop on the goal of making our soft cap of $8 million.”

A recent Wall Street Journal report claimed Civil had reached out to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dow Jones and Axios, among others, but failed to incite interest in its token.

Separate from its token sale, Civil has inked strategic partnerships with media companies like the Associated Press and Forbes, both of which confirmed to TechCrunch today that the failed token sale doesn’t impact their partnerships with Civil. 

Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media

Forbes became the first major media brand to test Civil’s technology when it announced earlier this month that it would experiment with publishing content to the Civil platform. As for the AP, it granted the newsrooms in Civil’s network licenses to its content. 

Civil, of course, isn’t the only blockchain startup targeting journalism. Nwzer, Userfeeds, Factmata and Po.et, which was founded by Jarrod Dicker, a former vice president at The Washington Post, are all trying their hand at bringing the new technology to the content industry.

Which, if any, will actually find success in the complicated space, is the question.

[weekinethereum]

May 7, 2017

Ethereum News and Links

Top

Ethereum Name Service auctions are live. Here's Nick Johnson's collection of explanatory links.

ENSbot announces the start of auctions on Twitter. It's surprisingly hilarious; half of them make me laugh out loud.

Codetract's ENS Dashboard

If you used MyEtherWallet to bid, make sure to check this out just in case. Also say thank you to MEW.

EthTools releases end to end ENS integration

ETH Gas Station published Safe Low Gas Price to encourage a functioning gas market. To help do that, ETH GasStation has a great tool to see how much hashpower is at each gas price. At the moment ~12% of mining hash power supports a 2 gwei gas price, so if you're willing to wait about 13 blocks at the moment, you can lower your gas fees by ~10x.  Etherchain's gas price tool says optimal gas price is about 16 gwei, but that current price is about 23 gwei.

MetaMask will enforce the Safe Low gas price

Protocol and releases

Ethereum Wallet / Mist 0.8.10

Geth v 1.6.1

Solidity, v 0.4.11, including a fix of an optimizer bug that Christoph Jentzsch reported

There's accidentally no recording of last Friday's dev call

Yoichi: What I do for Ethereum when I’m not writing blog posts

Stuff for developers

Coding dividend-bearing tokens by Nick Johnson

Random Number Generation on Rouleth and Blockjack (and Reddit debate thread)

Slock.it's code running Share&Charge

Interesting discussion on how to save on gas storage fees

Getting data on and then off the blockchain with Truebit

EthSlurp re-released as part of QuickBlocks - fast and decentralized EVM data

Ecosystem

ZCoin (using Zerocoin, not Zerocash) to implement an Ether coinmixer, possibly with Metropolis

ConsenSys is building a Bay Area team

WALLΞTH, an alpha release of an Android Ethereum light client wallet

0x announces investors and its first token integrations

Slock.it shares more details on Share&Charge

Register.eth connects Ethereum addresses to Reddit, Twitter, etc

Some great data viz on the Gnosis sale

FT blogger sensationalizes TokenCard mildly overstating their network. #journalism

How Userfeeds aims to bring "skin in the game" to discovery algorithms (and got funded)

Interviews and Talks

Jarrad and Carl from Status on Epicenter

Tayvano from Myetherwallet on GetCryp.to's debut episode

Event Horizon talks:  Gavin Wood and Vitalik Buterin

Maciej Ołpiński from Userfeeds talk on Reputation and trust in token based economies

Project Updates

Latest issue of The Etherian

What they want to grow into.  

Swarm City to release Boardwalk on June 15th

Melonport: Hedge Fund Scandals & How Smart Contracts Could Help Prevent Them

SingularDTV teases an announcement at Ethereal.

Mihai Alisie: An AKASHA retrospective after a year

Token Sales

The Cofound.it token model and sale details

Why I'm advising Cofound.it

Driving User Adoption and Extending the BAT Platform

Storj token sale details

Nice tutorial videos from Aragon on participating in their token sale

I doubt simple capped token sales will be the long-term norm, because of stuff like this

General

Andrew Keys with a travelogue of his China trip: Ethereum is Growing Exponentially in China

Michael Wuehler's slide on transaction growth

Interesting discussion of how to pass on Ether when you die

Vinay Gupta got lots of attention for "What does $100 Ether mean?"

Korea is the only place where Ether hit $100

Wipro joins the EEA

49ers QB Matt Barkley hodls Ether.

Vitalik sold another 1/12 of his pre-sale allocation

Fortune's Term Sheet daily newsletter talks Ethereum token sales.

This newsletter gets translated into Chinese. And Jeremiah Nichol is producing an audio version.  Both of those make my day.

Dates of note

[For ongoing sales, check previous week]

May 17 -- Aragon sale begins

May 19 -- Storj sale begins

May 19 -- ConsenSys Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn

May 24 -- Cofound.it sale begins

May 25 - William Mougayar's Token Summit at NYU

May 30 -- Bancor Network sale begins

June 1 -- Mysterium sale begins

Bias transparency: if you host a blockchain conference and don't use Ticketleap, I'm much less likely to include your conference, unless you have a good reason as to why we're not a good fit.  But I doubt there is one, because we're likely a great fit.  /shamelessplug

[I aim for a relatively comprehensive list of Ethereum sales, but make no warranty as to even whether they are legit; as such, I thus likewise warrant nothing about whether any will produce a satisfactory return. I have passed the CFA exams, but this is not investment advice. If you're interested in what I do, you can find my investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]

Errors or additions: [first name] @ticketleap.com  

The link for sharing

Here's the link if you'd like to be ever so kind as to share this issue: Good and bad news for me: subscriber count went way over 2000 this last week to about 2150, so now I have to pay Mailchimp $30 a month.  It blows me away that they can charge $360 a year for a commodity: sending a low amount of email.  I'll likely switch to SES when I have a chance. Follow me on Twitter? @evan_van_ness

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[passo-html]

Fotos do Instagram no footer usando JavaScript

Cole isso antes de <style type=“text/css”>

<meta name="text:Instagram User ID" content="" />        <meta name="text:Instagram Access Token" content="" />

Cole isso antes de </head>

<script type="text/javascript" src='http://static.tumblr.com/txfvidw/KaEnvq8sv/instafeed.min.js'></script>        

<script type="text/javascript">            var userFeed = new Instafeed({                get: 'user',                userId: {text:Instagram User ID},                accessToken: '{text:Instagram Access Token}',                limit: '8',                resolution: 'low_resolution',            });            userFeed.run();        </script>

Cole isso dentro de <body> (considere colar antes/dentro/depois do seu <footer>)

<div id="instawrap">            <div id="instafeed"></div>        </div>

Cole isso dentro de <style type=“text/css”>

      #instawrap {            }            #instafeed img {                width:12.499%;             display:inline;             float:left;                opacity:1;                filter:alpha(opacity=100);            }            #instafeed img:hover {                filter:alpha(opacity=80);                opacity:0.8;            }            #instafeed .col-xs-4  {                padding-bottom: 15px;                padding-top: 15px;            }

Obs.: O user id e o acess token só é pesquisar na internet que vocês terão muitos resultados, não estou colocando porque o último que usei já não funciona, então, preferi nem colocar um.

(Sim, sou eu, Carol... Senti saudades e voltei, espero que me recebam de volta.)

[bitmonster01-blog]

Blockchain Startup Aims to Put a Lid on Fake News

http://dlvr.it/P3jhZh BTC invest 👉 https://goo.gl/uIjW1B #bitcoin #btc

[caviblog]

no theme Voltrey, tem c-mo eu substituir as imagens do Flickr para colocar as imagens da minha conta do instagram?

De ter, tem. Cola isso antes de

  Cola isso antes de

                                   var userFeed = new Instafeed({                get: 'user',                userId: {text:Instagram User ID},                accessToken: '{text:Instagram Access Token}',                limit: '9',                resolution: 'low_resolution',            });            userFeed.run();        

Cole isso dentro da sidebar:

           Instagram

                               Cole isso dentro de :

#instawrap {                text-align:center;            }            #instafeed img {                width:32%;             display:inline-block;                opacity:1;                margin:0 1px 1px 0;                filter:alpha(opacity=100);            }            #instafeed img:hover {                filter:alpha(opacity=80);                opacity:0.8;            }            #instafeed .col-xs-4  {                padding-bottom: 15px;                padding-top: 15px;            }

É isso! (Pra não aparecer o flickr só é você não colocar seu id de usuário)

[hariprasadmenon]

High airfare and Userfee ; Trivandrum airport expensive over CIAL

http://dlvr.it/RCDprq

[increaseprofitonline2017-blog]

#200 Ciaran O'Leary: BlueYard - The Disruption of Venture Capital [ad_1]

In the past year, the first killer application of blockchain technology has emerged: venture funding. As blockchain-facilitated crowdfunding is disrupting venture capital at blistering speed, we are joined by Ciaran O'Leary, Founder and General Partner at BlueYard. BlueYard stands at the intersection of this transition. Structured as a traditional VC fund, its thesis focuses fully on the decentralized economy and it invests in tokens too. Ciaran joined us to discusses what blockchain means for VCs and its implications for BlueYard.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Ciaran's journey as a VC

How the VC industry has been changing

Why he founded Blue Yard and its investment thesis

Value creation in a blockchain economy

Buying equity vs buying tokens

Why tokens and ICOs are erroding the distinction between hedge funds and VC funds

Best practices for running ICOs

Links mentioned in this episode:

BlueYard Capital

BlueYard Investment Thesis

Filecoin Investment Article

Protocol Labs Investment Article

Userfeeds & why the web needs a new information ranking system

OB1 & OpenBazaar ?'" BlueYard Capital ?'" Medium

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[theinvinciblenoob]

Many doubted The Civil Media Company‘s ambitious plan to sell $8 million worth of its cryptocurrency, called CVL. 

The skeptics, as it turns out, were right. Civil’s initial coin offering, meant to fund the company’s effort to create a new economy for journalism using the blockchain, failed to attract sufficient interest. The company announced today that it would provide refunds to all CVL token buyers by October 29.

Civil’s goal was to sell 34 million CVL tokens for between $8 million and $24 million. The sale began on September 18 and concluded yesterday. Ultimately, 1,012 buyers purchased $1,435,491 worth of CVL tokens. A spokesperson for Civil told TechCrunch an additional 1,738 buyers successfully registered for the sale, but never completed their transaction.

Civil isn’t giving up. The company says “a new, much simpler token sale is in the works,” details of which will be shared soon. Once those new tokens are distributed, Civil will launch three new features: a blockchain-publishing plugin for WordPress, a community governance application called The Civil Registry and a developer tool for non-blockchain developers to build apps on Civil.

ConsenSys, a blockchain venture studio that invested $5 million in Civil last fall, has agreed to purchase $3.5 million worth of those new tokens. The purchase is not an equity; all capital from the token sale is committed to the Civil Foundation, an independent nonprofit initially funded by Civil that funds grants to the newsrooms in Civil’s network.

In a blog post today, Civil chief executive officer Matthew Iles wrote that the token sale failure was a disappointment but not a shock. Days prior, he’d authored a separate post where he admitted things weren’t looking good.

“This isn’t how we saw this going,” Iles wrote. “The numbers will show clearly enough that we are not where we wanted to be at this point in the sale when we started out. But one thing we want to say at the top is that until the clock strikes midnight on Monday, we are still working nonstop on the goal of making our soft cap of $8 million.”

A recent Wall Street Journal report claimed Civil had reached out to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dow Jones and Axios, among others, but failed to incite interest in its token.

Separate from its token sale, Civil has inked strategic partnerships with media companies like the Associated Press and Forbes, both of which confirmed to TechCrunch today that the failed token sale doesn’t impact their partnerships with Civil. 

Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media

Forbes became the first major media brand to test Civil’s technology when it announced earlier this month that it would experiment with publishing content to the Civil platform. As for the AP, it granted the newsrooms in Civil’s network licenses to its content. 

Civil, of course, isn’t the only blockchain startup targeting journalism. Nwzer, Userfeeds, Factmata and Po.et, which was founded by Jarrod Dicker, a former vice president at The Washington Post, are all trying their hand at bringing the new technology to the content industry.

Which, if any, will actually find success in the complicated space, is the question.

via TechCrunch

[fmservers]

Blockchain media startup Civil is issuing full refunds to all buyers of its cryptocurrency

Many doubted The Civil Media Company‘s ambitious plan to sell $8 million worth of its cryptocurrency, called CVL. 

The skeptics, as it turns out, were right. Civil’s initial coin offering, meant to fund the company’s effort to create a new economy for journalism using the blockchain, failed to attract sufficient interest. The company announced today that it would provide refunds to all CVL token buyers by October 29.

Civil’s goal was to sell 34 million CVL tokens for between $8 million and $24 million. The sale began on September 18 and concluded yesterday. Ultimately, 1,012 buyers purchased $1,435,491 worth of CVL tokens. A spokesperson for Civil told TechCrunch an additional 1,738 buyers successfully registered for the sale, but never completed their transaction.

Civil isn’t giving up. The company says “a new, much simpler token sale is in the works,” details of which will be shared soon. Once those new tokens are distributed, Civil will launch three new features: a blockchain-publishing plugin for WordPress, a community governance application called The Civil Registry and a developer tool for non-blockchain developers to build apps on Civil.

ConsenSys, a blockchain venture studio that invested $5 million in Civil last fall, has agreed to purchase $3.5 million worth of those new tokens. The purchase is not an equity; all capital from the token sale is committed to the Civil Foundation, an independent nonprofit initially funded by Civil that funds grants to the newsrooms in Civil’s network.

In a blog post today, Civil chief executive officer Matthew Iles wrote that the token sale failure was a disappointment but not a shock. Days prior, he’d authored a separate post where he admitted things weren’t looking good.

“This isn’t how we saw this going,” Iles wrote. “The numbers will show clearly enough that we are not where we wanted to be at this point in the sale when we started out. But one thing we want to say at the top is that until the clock strikes midnight on Monday, we are still working nonstop on the goal of making our soft cap of $8 million.”

A recent Wall Street Journal report claimed Civil had reached out to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dow Jones and Axios, among others, but failed to incite interest in its token.

Separate from its token sale, Civil has inked strategic partnerships with media companies like the Associated Press and Forbes, both of which confirmed to TechCrunch today that the failed token sale doesn’t impact their partnerships with Civil. 

Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media

Forbes became the first major media brand to test Civil’s technology when it announced earlier this month that it would experiment with publishing content to the Civil platform. As for the AP, it granted the newsrooms in Civil’s network licenses to its content. 

Civil, of course, isn’t the only blockchain startup targeting journalism. Nwzer, Userfeeds, Factmata and Po.et, which was founded by Jarrod Dicker, a former vice president at The Washington Post, are all trying their hand at bringing the new technology to the content industry.

Which, if any, will actually find success in the complicated space, is the question.

Via Kate Clark https://techcrunch.com

[ellahmacdermott]

Forbes Enters Blockchain Game, Partners With Civil

Civil, an Ethereum-based platform with a heady bid to save journalism, has partnered with Forbes to help the 100-year-old publisher keep its stories free from meddling hands.

Matt Coolidge, Civil cofounder, made the announcement today, October 9, 2018, in a blog post. He called the partnership a “major milestone for blockchain-based journalism.” Salah Zalatimo, senior vice president of product and technology at Forbes, said the partnership would allow the media company to provide “unprecedented transparency” around content.  

Forbes plans to try out the Civil system next year. Kicking off the process, Forbes will integrate Civil’s software with its own custom-built content management system known as Bertie. Once that process is complete, journalists working under the Forbes umbrella will be able to upload metadata (information pertaining to who published a story and when) to the Civil network at the same time they upload their stories to Forbes.com.

The hope is that publishing this metadata onto the blockchain will help to establish the author’s identity and credibility. For added assurance, a Civil “badge” will appear next to articles as a signal that the content’s metadata has been recorded to the blockchain.

Forbes will start experimenting with a sampling of content (starting with its blockchain-related stories) in Q1 of 2019. If all goes well, the media company will begin uploading metadata from all of its new articles on Forbes.com to the Civil platform in the next 12 months.  

According to Axios, which reported some additional information, Forbes also hopes to expand the footprint of its contributor network with smart contracts, which would allow it to publish content through Bertie to outlets like Medium and LinkedIn.

As part of the partnership agreement, Forbes will “possess” CVL tokens. (It’s not clear if Forbes needs to purchase the tokens or if Civil is planning to give  them to Forbes.) Civil founder Matthew Iles said the tokens will play a “vital role” in self-governance on the platform. Participants in the system can use the tokens to vote for or against a newsroom that is being challenged for violating the Civil Constitution.  

Beyond that, CVL tokens also play other roles in the system. For instance, contributors have to stake tokens in order to operate a newsrooms on the platform and propose amendments to the Civil Constitution. Readers can also use these tokens to tip their favorite newsrooms and journalist and pay for premium content where applicable.

Civil is not alone in its quest to put journalism on the blockchain. Other journalism-based blockchain projects include nwzer, Userfeeds, Factmata and Po.et, which was founded by Jarrod Dicker, a former vice president at the Washington Post.  

Last year, Civil received $5 million in funding from blockchain venture studio ConsenSys. The project’s token sale, which started on September 18, 2018, is still ongoing. So far, Civil has raised about $1.4 million in token sales — a far cry from its hard-cap goal of $24 million. If the project does not hit a soft cap of $8 million, Civil has said it will return the ICO money.

Disclaimer: Bitcoin Magazine is an alpha partner of Po.et. BTC Inc., the parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, is an investor in Po.et.

This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.

from InvestmentOpportunityInCryptocurrencies via Ella Macdermott on Inoreader https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/forbes-enters-blockchain-game-partners-civil/

[yahoo-cryptocurrency]

區塊鏈新聞創業公司 Civil 與美聯社達成合作

已成立兩年的加密貨幣創業公司 Civil 希望利用區塊鏈和加密貨幣經濟來拯救新聞業。該公司本周與有 172 年歷史的美聯社達成合作，幫助美聯社阻止不良行為者竊取其內容。

利用仍在開發中的區塊鏈授權機制，Civil 將幫助美聯社跟蹤內容去向，以及內容是否獲得正確的許可。作為交換，美聯社將向 Civil 網絡中的新聞編輯室授權其內容。Civil 已從區塊鏈風投公司 Inversalsys 完成 500 萬美元的融資。該公司計劃，使其生態中的所有新聞編輯室都可以使用這一授權工具。

Civil 的創始人及首席執行官馬修·伊爾斯（Matthew Iles）告訴 TechCrunch，他希望該公司成為新聞業的新經濟模式，根除長期以來基於廣告的收入模式，為記者提供對內容的所有權。除此之外，他還希望恢復對新聞業的信任和信譽。在這個“假新聞”泛濫的時代，新聞業的聲譽受到了嚴重打擊。

伊爾斯在接受 TechCrunch 採訪時說：“我們現在面臨的問題不僅僅是處理字面意義上的假新聞，還需要幫助那些不知道該相信什麼信息的人們進行社交。我們認為，不管有話語權的人可能會說些什麼，（Civil）將為消費者提供更好的信號，讓他們真正了解一家新聞機構是否值得信賴。”

美聯社與 Civil 的合作將帶來雙贏。對 Civil 來說，他們將有機會從一流新聞通訊社那裡學到內容授權業務的訣竅，而美聯社也將獲得區塊鏈技術方面的經驗，從而確定區塊鏈對新聞業的真正影響（如果有的話）。此外，作為交易的一部分，美聯社將成為 Civil 加密貨幣 CVL 的持有者，CVL 將於 9 月 18 日開始通過 ICO 進行銷售。

如果一切順利，作為合作成果，美聯社將獲得更多的收入，而 Civil 將得到區塊鏈授權工具很好的案例用於展示。

伊爾斯補充說，Civil 計劃在未來幾周內宣布更多合作協議。就在上個月，該公司宣布與新加坡媒體公司 Splice 達成協議，兩家公司將在未來三年內向亞洲 100 個媒體項目投資 100 萬美元。

他說：“這個項目建立在這樣的想法之上：數字媒體業務現在和過去都處在危險的道路上。我很想看看媒體平台是如何建立起來的。我們可以從頭開始重新設計一個媒體平台嗎？起初，我用傳統方式思考這個問題，但我發現，我強烈希望讓這個平台去中心化。直到發現區塊鏈技術，我才知道如何做到這點。“。

Civil 是新一代區塊鏈新聞創業公司之一，其他此類公司還包括 Nwzer、Userfeed、Factmata 和 Po.et。其中 Po.et 是由《華盛頓郵報》前副總裁賈羅德·迪克（Jarrod Dicker）創立的。

翻譯：維金

Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media

文章來源：TechCrunch中文版

[un-enfant-immature]

Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media

Civil, the two-year-old crypto startup that wants to save the journalism industry by leveraging the blockchain and cryptoeconomics, has partnered with the 172-year-old Associated Press to help the wire service stop bad actors from stealing its content.

Civil, using its blockchain-enabled licensing mechanism, which is still in development, will help the AP track where its content is going and whether it’s licensed correctly. In exchange, the AP has granted the newsrooms in Civil’s network licenses to its content. Civil, which has raised $5 million from the blockchain venture studio ConsenSys, plans to make the licensing tool available to all the newsrooms in its ecosystem once it’s up and running.

Matthew Iles, the founder and CEO of Civil, told TechCrunch he wants the company to become the new economy for journalism, uprooting the long-standing ad-based revenue model and providing journalists ownership of their content. Beyond that, he wants to reinstate trust and credibility in the journalism industry, which, in an era of  “fake news,” has taken a hard hit to its reputation.

“We have a problem now of not even just dealing with literal fake news, but dealing with the social aspects of people not really knowing what to trust anymore because people are throwing around allegations,” Iles told TechCrunch. “We think [Civil] is going to create far better signals for consumers to really know if a news organization is trusting and credible, despite whatever powerful people might be saying.”

Blockchain media project Civil turns to Asia with fund to kickstart 100 new media ventures

The AP-Civil deal has benefits for both sides. For Civil, they’ll get the opportunity to learn the ropes of the licensing business from the premier news wire service, and the AP will get a lesson in blockchain tech, with a goal of determining what kind of impact, if any, the blockchain can really have on journalism. Additionally, as part of the deal, the AP will be proud new owners of Civil’s cryptocurrency, CVL, which will begin selling via its upcoming initial coin offering on September 18.

If all goes well, the AP will rake in more revenue as a result of the partnership and Civil will have a nice use case of its blockchain-enabled licensing tool to show off.

Iles added that Civil has plans to announce a more partnerships in the coming weeks. Just last month, the company announced a deal with Splice, a media company based in Singapore, that has the pair investing $1 million in 100 media projects in Asia over the next three years.

“This project was founded on the idea that the digital media business is and was on a dangerous path,” Iles said. “I was motivated to look at the ways media platforms were constructed. Could we redesign a media platform from the ground up? I thought about it in conventional ways at first, but one of the things I ran into was a strong desire to make this platform decentralized. I had no idea how to do that until I found blockchain technology.”

Civil is among a new generation of blockchain journalism startups that includes Nwzer, Userfeeds, Factmata and Po.et, which was founded by Jarrod Dicker, a former vice president at The Washington Post.

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The Civil Media Company and The Associated Press (AP) have announced a partnership to license AP news content for use by newsrooms that use Civil. The news was revealed in a blogpost on Civil’s website on Tuesday, August 28.

Potential Synergy Between Civil and AP

Under the terms of the agreement, AP will deliver news content – local and international – to Civil, giving newsrooms easy access to it through Civil’s platform. Newsrooms that want to access AP content through Civil will still need to be licensed directly by AP.

As part of the collaboration, AP will own a number of Civil’s CVL tokens, and the news giant has stated that it intends to use the partnership to explore how Civil’s blockchain platform can help it to track content usage and consumption trends, secure its intellectual property rights and support ethical journalism across the Civil economy.

Speaking about AP’s hopes for the collaboration, Jim Kennedy, AP’s senior vice president for Strategy and Enterprise Development said:

“AP has been pushing into new digital territory for more than two decades, and Civil is opening up another new space with interesting technology to explore and a commitment to good journalism. We’re eager to help cultivate the space and demonstrate our value to a new set of digital publishers.”

AP has previously indicated interest in exploring how blockchain technology can be applied to existing journalism models. The partnership with Civil will potentially allow it to find solutions to some basic journalism problems like establishing ownership, effective licensing and ensuring ethical behavior.

In May 2017, CCN reported that Warsaw-based blockchain startup Userfeeds built a solution for stopping the spread of fake news by linking social media to its Ethereum blockchain platform. The solution links blockchain tokens to the news that is important to the reader, effectively creating a reputation currency scheme.

Using Civil, news organizations like AP will be able to establish the origin and rights ownership of content and carry out flexible and enforceable licensing using Ethereum smart contracts. It will also be possible to better track content usage and consumption across the internet.

Moreover, the reward for quality content sourced ethically is baked into its constitution, which according to Civil will get stronger as the community gets bigger.

The statement from Civil reads in part:

“From day one, we’ve said that we’re committed to partnering with organizations large and small that are committed to promoting ethical journalism standards. We’re not trying to reinvent those on Civil; we’re trying to reinvent the way they’re enforced. We want to build a new economy for journalism, where ensuring quality is the primary incentive for all participants.”

Civil has also revealed that longside AP, initial participants also include the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), the European Journalism Centre, the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the News Co/Lab at Arizona State University.

In June, CCN reported that a group of journalists who left the Denver Post partnered with Civil to start up a publication called the Colorado Sun. According to Civil, its ownership structure removes the chance of a small group of investors or a sole company controlling the editorial policy of a news outlet.

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اگر به سال 2017 برگردیدیم؛ می بینیم یکی از مهمترین تحولات این سال، ضرورت وجود بلاک چین برای افزایش آگاهی جمعی بود. بسیاری از نزدیک شاهد افزایش سریع ارزش بیت کوین بودند و از آن به خوبی سود بردند (البته اخیرا این ارزش کاهش یافته است)، و شاید بهترین شاخص کشش عمومی آن، تبدیل ارز رمزنگاری شده (با همکاری بلاک چین) به خبر داغ روز جشن شکرگزاری باشد بطوریکه شرکت ارز مبادله دیجیتال Coinbase حدود 300،000 کاربر در طول هفته تعطیلات جذب کرد. تا به امروز، تکنولوژی بلاک چین به دلیل توانایی در اجرای قراردادهای هوشمند و معاملات امن و سریع، محبوبیت زیادی را در صنایع مربوط به امنیت سایبری و پرداختها به دست آورده است. صنعت سرگرمی آماده است تا از پیشرفت تکنولوژی بلاک چین بهره مند شود. در این مقاله از آی تی ویکی، در مورد استفاده شبکه های اجتماعی از تکنولوژی بلاک چین سخن خواهیم گفت.

شناسایی و ارزش گذاری شبکه های اجتماعی

همانند صنعت سرگرمی، که یوتیوب، ساوند کلود، نتفلیکس ... استفاده کاربران را کنترل می کنند، ما از رسانه های اجتماعی نظیر: فیس بوک، اینستاگرام، توییتر، لینکدین و پینتریست در تعداد انگشت شماری از پلت فرم هایی که به مقیاس وسیع  دست یافته اند؛ بهره می گیریم. این شبکه ها بر مبنا مدل های کسب و کار مبتنی بر تبلیغات عمل می کنند که دارای یک نقص عمده هستند. کاربران، سازندگان و سیستم عامل ها برای مشارکتشان در پلتفرم به یک اندازه سود نمی برند. به عنوان مثال، باراک اوباما محبوب ترین توییت را در تاریخ توییترمنتشر کرد، اما برای انجام چنین کاری هیچ پاداشی دریافت نکرد. هنرمندی با نام هلن گرین گیفی از دیوید بووی را پس از مرگش درست کرد، اما در نهایت بدون آنکه نامی از وی برده شود در تامبلر و اینستاگرام به طور گسترده ای به اشتراک گذاشته شد. شرکت ها با استفاده از دفتر حساب خصوصی که بلاک چین اتریوم فراهم می کند، بهتر می توانند تعامل کاربر با محتوا را پیگیری کنند. این امر موجب تعیین ارزش کاربر برای شبکه می شود. و بهتر میتوان راهی برای پاداش دادن به کاربران برای فعالیت در شبکه پیدا کرد. اگر چه مفهوم تساوی گسترش ثروت در شبکه تا حدودی رادیکال است، تلاش های متعددی برای تحقق این واقعیت در طیف وسیعی از برنامه های کاربردی وجود دارد. در اینجا سه مورد هیجان انگیز و ویژه در شبکه های اجتماعی را بررسی می کنیم.

مصرف محتوا

ارزهای درون برنامه پشتیبانی شده با تکنولوژی بلاک چین می توانند چگونگی مصرف محتوای اجتماعی کاربران را بطور اساسی بازسازی کنند. شرکت های نو ظهور مانند Rize، که بخاطر برنامه پخش زنده YouNow معروف است در حال تلاش برای بازسازی مدل شبکه های اجتماعی هستند. یکی از مشهورترین تلاش ها توسط یکی از فرمانروایان این حوزه، Kik Messenger است. یک برنامه چت برای نوجوانان به تازگی یک ارز رمزنگاری شده به نام Kin ارایه کرده است و کمتر از100 میلیون دلاردر ICO (عرضه اولیه سکه) جمع آوری کرده است. kin به منظور ارائه انگیزه برای توسعه دهندگان و همکاران شبکه برای ارایه خدمات دیجیتال، برنامه های کاربردی، و ارزش های دیگر به شبکه، بدون هر واسطه ای طراحی شده است. چشم انداز دراز مدت این است که یک بازار درون برنامه را که برندها ها بتوانند از طریق چت (به عنوان مثال، دسترسی به گروه VIP، کوپن) به طور مستقیم برای کاربران تبلیغ کنند و پول دریافت کنند، در حالی که هر کاربر می تواند خدمات را به دیگر کاربران در برنامه عرضه کند و بفروشد. Kik امیدوار است که با انتقال پول خود به بلاک چین، می تواند هم ارزش در برنامه و هم ارزش اقتصادی در دنیای واقعی را تولید کند. هر شخص، چه کاربر Kik یا نه، می تواند ارز خریداری و سرمایه گذاری کند و همه سرمایه گذاران به طور ایده آل انگیزه برای شرکت در اکوسیستم kin دارند و از Kik فقط برای چت استفاده نمی کنند. تصور کنید سرمایه گذاران با معرفی گروه مدیریتی، مارک های تبلیغاتی یا راه اندازی محصولات بر روی پلت فرم و انتقال محتوا توسط افراد موثر از یوتیوب به Kik، برای بهبود جریان درآمد خود کمک می کنند. با این حال، این مدل مشوق، هیچ موفقیت قابل اطمینانی ندارد، زیرا سرمایه گذاران را دعوت می کند تا توکن را خریداری کنند و به جای مشارکت در جامعه بر روی ارزش های غیر قابل اطمینان ریسک کنند. اگر دارندگان توکن کاربران اصلی برنامه نباشند، ارزش اقتصادی نه تنها به نفع کاربران نیست، بلکه باعث می شود که ارز به نوسانات قیمت ها بر اساس انتظارات کوتاه مدت سرمایه گذاران وابسته باشد.

دسترسی به محتوا

در کشورهایی نظیر چین، کره شمالی و سوریه، دولت ها می توانند از دسترسی شهروندان به شبکه های اجتماعی و محتواهای خاصی از جمله اخبار، موسیقی و غیره جلوگیری کنند. اگر چه وی پی ان ها راهی برای دور زدن این محدودیت ها ارائه می دهند، دولت ها عملکرد آن ها را نیز مختل می کنند. مفهوم محتوای غیر متمرکز جایگزینی برای مقابله با سانسور اینترنت ارائه می دهند. شرکت DECENT در حال حاضر یک پروتکل منبع باز برای محتوای حقوقی کاملا نا متمرکز ایجاد کرده است که 4 میلیون دلار در ICO در سال 2016 دریافت کرده است. DECENT با ارائه یک دفتر کل توزیع شده، تضمین می کند که هیچ چیز نمی تواند دسترسی معتبر به محتوا را مسدود کند. افراد می توانند در شبکه DECENT شرکت کنند و با خرید توکن محلی خود، DCT، می توانند از محتوای دیگر کاربران استفاده کنند و مطالب خود را منتشر کنند. فراتر از مشکلات برای دسترسی کافی کاربران به ثبت نام و رسیدن به تعداد معنادار، یک مانع عمده برای پذیرش رسانه های اجتماعی مبتنی بر بلاک چین، خرید ابتدایی توکن خواهد بود، زیرا کاربران به خدمات و دسترسی رایگان به شبکه های اجتماعی عادت کرده اند. در کشورهایی که دسترسی به محتوا همواره دچار مشکل است، توکن میتواند یک هزینه کوچک برای دسترسی دائمی باشد.

اصالت محتوا

یکی از برنامه های رسانه های اجتماعی بلاک چین در زمینه مبارزه با اخبار جعلی مشهور شده است. در آخرین انتخابات ریاست جمهوری ایالات متحده، محتوای جعلی هدفمند در سایت هایی مانند فیس بوک و توییتر افزایش یافت که مورد استفاده قرار می گرفت تا احساسات و دیدگاه رای دهندگان را تغییر دهد. تلاش های سیستم عامل ها برای حل این مشکل در کنار مشارکت با چهره های واقعی صورت می گیرد، اما بلاک چین یک راه حل بالقوه ارائه می دهد که به شخص ثالث نیاز ندارد. Userfeeds شرکتی است که به دنبال حل این مسئله ازطریق دادن انگیزه اقتصادی به کاربران، برای رتبه بندی صحیح محتوا می باشد. در حالیکه توانایی کنترل انتشار محتوای نوشتاری در حال حاضر بسیار دقیق است، آینده اخبار جعلی ممکن است فراتر از نوشتار باشد. پیشرفت های اخیر در AI و یادگیری ماشین باعث می شود که نسخه های صوتی و تصویری به ظاهر واقعی از افراد ایجاد شود. یک نمونه عالی فیلم ویدئویی سخنرانی اوباما است که توسط محققان دانشگاه واشنگتن ایجاد شد. وقتی از موارد امکان استفاده از این فناوری صحبت می شود وحشت برانگیز است. هر گروهی که از تبلیغات منفی به عنوان ابزاری برای استخدام و بازاریابی استفاده می کند، در صورت دسترسی به این تکنولوژی می تواند سبب مشکلات و آسیب های جدی شوند و این اهمیت یک سیستم اعتبار سنجی اثبات شده را نشان می دهد. خوشبختانه، استارت آپ هایی مانند Prover، یک پلت فرم بررسی ویدیو که در بلاک چین اتریوم ساخته شده است، راه حل های امیدوار کننده برای تأیید صحت ویدیوهای تولید شده کاربر را ارائه می دهد. در حالی که غولهای شبکه های اجتماعی مانند فیس بوک در معرض خطر جدی نیستند، بلاک چین یک راه حل منحصر به فرد برای بسیاری از مشکلات عمیق صنعت رسانه است. با همراهی شبکه های اجتماعی و تکنولوژی بلاک چین، امکان یک تجربه تعاملی تر، قابل اعتماد و با ارزش در شبکه های اجتماعی ایجاد می شود.