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moonanagames · 6 years ago

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Good and bad news, CHECK THIS OUT PLZ

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Haro my fellow earthlings and interplanetarian folks!

Today I bring good and bad news altogether, so please bear with me for a bit! Firstly, I wanted to talk about how development has been going since the very beginning, so let us go to our nice time capsule :D

This is a timeline of the development up until now, I tried to be the most accurate as I could, but it can be a bit difficult when I don’t remember many things anymore lol

The game is in development since January 2017. The timeline goes like this:

2017

From January to May, 20, I developed on my own my first public demo of Virgo Vs The Zodiac. It took longer as I was all by myself.

Then my Grandma said she wouldn’t be able to support me anymore if I was going to quit college to develop games. From May to August, I prepared the Crowdfunding Campaign to help me fund the project and my EXISTENCE. The Campaign was launched in September 2017, I think.

After the campaign ended, I could finally get Anglerman onboard! Ay! He does animations for enemies and some party members animations too and is also the greatest deity of our lives. A legend. He helped me a lot with the Game Design Document I was working on because new people would join and I needed to make the things in my head to be a bit more concrete.

From the end of the Campaign until October we were working with a another programmer, but that didn’t work too well since they had another big project they were working on at the time. We had to change the programmer. It was when I found Ben here on Tumblr, current lead programmer. Our lord and savior.

After that I was browsing tumblr randomly and I found Veyerals among asks sent to this tumblr and thought his work with menus was pretty cool (and I liked his game as well, played a lot of that back then). Veyerals joined the project too as the UI programmer and would also be working with the SHMUP mini games, which he had experience with. Bless the UI G.O.D.

From that point on we had to basically rebuild the game from scratch from the moment we got the new programmers. Not only develop the game from scratch, but doing everything RPG Maker already had built in for us into the new engine because that was the only thing I knew in terms of “programming”. That and adding everything new I thought for the project. It was a huge amount of work, and we only had a battle system working fine in December, where we started developing a new build.

(concept art of lady nurse)

2018

In this year things got a bit complicated!

At first, when the battle system was mainly “complete”, as we thought back then, we delivered a 15 mins build for ID@XBOX to be shown at the Game Developers Conference, on January 2018.

We had billions of problems from january to august with the development and also unrelated to the development, like dealing with US taxes. A lot of things weren't working as we wanted them to be, this time was mostly spent on making the timed hits to feel nice, rebuilding the base systems and trying to make the game to have the same feeling as the RPG Maker build had of it being challenging. Also, overall asset production. That was demanding as heck. In RPG Maker the enemies didn't move, while in Game Maker they were animated. I had never worked with Game Maker before, so me and Anglerman (the animator and fellow game designer) had to learn the engine from scratch while developing the game, that resulted in a lot of set backs, but lead us to where we are now. We're confident with the overall game's scaling, difficulty, battles and systems. In Game Maker the maps are also bigger and have way more polishing, so that took a lot of time to get used to on the new engine.

(a really weird, but solved, bug)

From that point on we built Capricorn, and started working on Taurus and other realms at the same time. After some time we determined that doing several realms at the same time, even though we knew which level the player would be wouldn't work well, and we decided to finish the realms before heading to other realm.

Billion lines of code later, in october we started development of the first 2 hours and a half of Taurus. All of it took one month and a half. It was a significant improvement from the previous 5 months to develop the same amount of gameplay! We determined that we can finish the game on the first half on 2019 upon seeing the progress of the development in Taurus. Now we have a stable work flow, as our lead programmer only has to work on random tiny things, for example, "I would like for Virgo to throw Alpacas for an event, can you add that?". Those are small details that Ben can do easily. Everything that was promised on the campaign, like SHMUP minigames and the crafting system is also all working nicely and well.

That brings us to the bad news: The release will be delayed, for all the reasons exposed before. At first we thought of keeping with the date announced in the Crowdfunding Campaign of December 4th and release the game in Early Access. However it all seemed unfair to the Beta Backers who donated first to get access to early builds of the game. Other than that, a save system of something like a RPG such as Virgo Vs The Zodiac wouldn’t work well with the early access system of Steam. Just imagine your save messing up every time the game is updated. That would be just bad. xD Unfortunately I didn’t know that back then when I announced the date, and I didn’t know the amount of hassle I would go through to learn the engine while developing the game. I can only blame my naiveness, honestly. Other than that, December isn’t a good time to release games because of the Steam Sale that makes it harder for new games to be noticed with so many games on sale.

With that being clarified, I can say now that the game would most likely be released in the first half of 2019, around Q2. I apologize deeply and am extremely sad, I was even avoiding saying this here and avoiding social medias in general due to anxiety attacks <_< I’m sorry for that as well! For anyone who said their birthday was in the same day as the game’s release, I apologize immensely, and please send me a message and I’ll send you a card of Sagittarius wishing you a happy birthday. It’s the only thing I can do now, to be honest. S O R R Y =(

O U T R A G E O U S

New possible release date: Q2 2019.

As for the good news now:

Taurus Realm Build For Backers

The Taurus build I was talking about will be sent to backers this week! :D You can expect a bossfight with a Zodiac, millions of new characters, around 1800 new lines of dialogues, new equipment to check, new fellows to beat or spare, quests and the SHMUP minigame, now implemented on the game! Also, as seen on the trailer, you can throw enemies off screen now :3

Kinda Funny Games Showcase

We’ll also be participating on Kinda Funny’s Games Showcase that’ll be happening in December 8th! You’ll be able to see a new trailer of Virgo Vs The Zodiac on the stream that’ll be happening on Kinda Funny’s Twitch. That’s a really cool opportunity for us, so eternal thanks to Greg Miller for chosing VvtZ. That got me by surprise! xD

Date: Saturday, December 8th

Time: 10am PT

I think that’s it! Basically we had a lot of setbacks, but we’re in the right path again now and I can say doing anything is faster as is! The game’s quality improved and the development became more demanding of our skills, but it’s also a nice challenge for everyone. I’m glad to have started this project, my life was pretty dull back then, I had lost many important things before and VvtZ brought sparkle back to my life. That’s important, as even in the most difficult times I can remember I’m creating something I have so much fun with. I’m blessed to have all the people who support me on Virgo Vs The Zodiac discord, who supported me in the campaign and everyone around social medias. It’s what makes my days happier, tbh.

Ever since I began development I lost contact with many of my friends from the other city I lived in, but I also made many other precious friends who helped me along the way! All the good and bad memories on my life shaped this place I created for myself in the world. I like this place, it’s comfy :3 Again, I’m sorry for ruining your expectations to have the game up on Steam this year, it’s a first delaying the development like this. As a Taurus I can say it pains the most to not have things done when I need them to be despite the hard work going behind this game. Damned Bugs. I want the bugs to die. Gotta work even harder from now on to extinguish bugs the maximum we can!

#virgovsthezodiac #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #devlog #big ass devlog #long post is long #S O R R Y AND B I G T H A N K S

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jamiekw578-blog · 5 years ago

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arcadeidea · 5 years ago

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Spacewar! [1962]

Spacewar is still the first video game. Not technically: the developers of Spacewar were already aware of a playable Tic Tac Toe implementation on the very computer they were working on, which by that point was already a more-than-decade-long tradition for computers, not to mention Tennis For Two [1958]. (For greater detail on this cascade of history, watch Ahoy's fantastic and dry documentary The First Video Game.) These prior works are only trivia, though, and false starts all of them. They're what you find if you look at the past not on its own terms but on ours, applying a rigorous schema of definition aspiring to the condition of a science, searching for something specific they couldn't have known they had. Tennis For Two is the only game of that protozoic era to be relevant or even known of to anyone in the field for the next several decades, and even then all that was required of it was the mere fact of its existence (its status as a trivia item) for the sake of a something so banal as a lawsuit. They are worthy of honorary mention, but a medium is not a prescription, it is a chain of tradition. Not only is Spacewar wholly original and something only achievable with a digital computer and not an attempt at transferring a real-life game, but more importantly and ironically, it did not exist in a vacuum.

Spacewar is not something you apply a definition to, Spacewar IS the definition. Although nothing so strident and bold and definitive was intended as it would be with later games, when it was taken as a prototypical guide by those who followed, that is what it functionally became. Not to be too precious and romantic and mythologize it ("First there was nothing, then there was Spacewar!"), not to be too essentialist about it ("Spacewar contains the seeds for all what followed"), not to use it to answer What Doth Games and fall right back into the checklisting trap — but we can read the game itself as a manifesto, a collection of precepts and assumptions, and one of the creators (JM Graetz) was even considerate enough to give us an itemized list of exactly what the MIT Tech Model Railroad Group hoped to achieve in making Spacewar:

1) It should demonstrate, that is, it should show off as many of the computer's resources as possible, and tax those resources to the limit; 2) Within a consistent framework, it should be interesting, which means every run should be different; 3) It should involve the onlooker in a pleasurable and active way — in short, it should be a game.

The expressed reason video games exist as a distinct artistic medium, as anything more than a shadowplay of traditional games and sports, is to show off the power of our computers. I use that word — power — and not the more prosaic and accurate "computer resources" that Graetz used for a reason. It's 1962, and it can not be put out from anyone's mind, viewer, player, or creator, that computers would be instrumental in a real Space War of the foreseeable future. Or even a terrestrial war, which was the sole practical purpose and reason for the existence and funding of computers up to this point in history (if we take pure mathematics for its own sake as "impractical.") It's a show of force, it could even be a threat if it were leveraged in a Cold War propagandistic context against those with weaker or nonexistent computers and not with the giddy, childish innocence that it was created and received with. Better to call the spirit "utopian frivolity," though. Self-proclaimed hackers brought not only Spacewar to the system, but the music of Bach and by extension his rosy vision of the divine and human. Perhaps these programmers may have had their imaginations circumscribed and imprinted with the hitherto military legacy of computing, not to mention American culture... but these eggheads messing around saw the potential of computers reaching far beyond that, towards a hi-tech Arcadia. There's much to admire there, but it carries the unmistakable stench of classical tragedy, and Spacewar serves as a testament of the damnation from within: not just that it is a window into an imagined future of nothing but war, but that its explicit priority is the poisonous ambition to simply use more and more resources, again endemic to American culture as much as it is to future game development culture.

Things like "crunch" weren't around yet, of course. Spacewar is sometimes casually attributed to Steve Russell as the lead or main developer, as in the current lede of its Wikipedia article. The original concept was borne of three-man bull sessions with Russell, but then the very first step towards practical implementation was taken by a fourth man. Russell then created a barebones prototype, including the ships and their ability to turn and thrust and shoot (and it is not mentioned, but presumably, to die.) In response to playtesting, he added background stars. After that point, it became stone soup. Other people in the Tech Model Railroad Club would have a bright idea — bespoke controllers, accurate background stars, freshly optimized ship-turning code, death animations, hyperspace warp, and the big one, the central gravity-well star — and then just implement it themselves. The end result is a game that's simple, but surprisingly polished and full-featured, especially compared to our image of early games as clunky, primitive, blocky things. It reminds one of the hagiographic myth of early-90s Id, a very small team of friends having as much fun making the game as they are playing it, all leaving their personal touch on the work. Steve Russell was not the auteur with a hand on the tiller and an eye on his vision, but one crucial member of the team. It's all very kumbaya, non-hierarchical, no pressure, if we take testimony about its development on face value and don't chuck it out as rose-tinted nostalgia.

This stands in contrast to the game, which is a fantasy of violent domination in competition, with a definite winner. We could unpack the implications of that more, and what it all means that the very first video game was of war, but, well, we'll have plenty of chances to in the future to say the least. Two opponents, precisely balanced and equal in a space ballet, identical in every way except for visually (the distinctive silhouettes of the needle and the wedge are a minor triumph in character design.) Hey, maybe there's some Tic Tac Toe influence there! Spacewar's idea of gaming is inherently multiplayer, and that makes sense. Solo games like pinball or Solitaire card games exist, but the large majority of games at this point that inform what we understand a game to be are all communal activities. The game even came with inviting options to modify the game's parameters to suit the player's preferences.

[I must confess now: other than maybe a couple minutes at a computer museum with a partner, and a few minutes in the middle of writing this awkwardly sharing a keyboard on a browser emulator with my dad, I don't think I've properly played this. I'm just a tourist. Is this an analysis of Spacewar or of JM Graetz's The Origin Of Spacewar? This is more of a programming note than anything about the game, but part of why I'm starting this project is because I've always been on the outside looking in when it comes to gaming. I've always loved reading about games more than playing them, and this writing and canon-exploring endeavor is a hope that I can fill in the gaps and to force me to form my own thoughts. And what's the point if I can't well play the game for myself? Unless I change my mind, I'll be largely avoiding multiplayer games whenever I possibly can, because not only can securing a Player 2 in these early non-online games be an awkward or high barrier to clear for me, and not only are many of them ephemeral, and/or hard to fix in place and get a read on, such as here where the intention is that every run is different because of the guile and fumbles of your human opponent even though the game blatantly remains static, but their basic legibility depends even more than usual on practiced skill that I just haven't personally built up.]

The game is inherently hostile to your continued existence, and both players are only empowered to make it even moreso. Movement is constant, although very slow so as to facilitate strategic marksmanship over spray-and-pray. It's not an anxious atmosphere though, the edge of threat and action is what keeps the player engaged, throws them into interaction and thought. The central star is the key that makes this dramatic and dangerous gameplay: it makes it impossible to stay still, and it serves as the passive threat of death, one that can't be defeated, only negotiated. The only other gameplay element to speak of is your human opponent, but the star serves as the personification of the game itself. It shares something in common with the roulette wheel, not in the randomization which is more in play with the Hyperspace Warp Hail Mary, not even in the gravitational pull, but in the way it stands as an emblem that ultimately, you're playing the game on the terms of the game-maker and at the mercy of physics. Maybe it's only a small philosophical leap from playing against the computer's game and a player to designing a game played against only the computer.

Spacewar exists already at the fruitful intersection of abstraction, simulation, and fiction that games will never escape. You don't get to brake, but instead have to apply reverse thrust, in a nod to simulating what space flight would really be like. But you can pivot freely without applying any thrust at all as though on a Lazy Susan, so that your nose is always pointing in the opposite direction of the thrust for quick visual clarity. Your bullets don't obey gravity like your ship does. These have their respective knowingly-silly technobabble explanations, papering over the gap between simulation and abstraction with fiction. War is its name and theme, but it's really more of a duel, boiling war down to a single dogfight. Space is its name and theme, but it's not empty and it's not infinite, it's a closed area smaller than a sheet of paper that wraps around at the edges and corners, which if I'm visualizing correctly, would resolve to a teardrop shape (which is then projected onto a rectangle, which is then projected onto a circle.) In each case, we are presented with a small slice of what we understand through the minimal text (the title) to represent an almost incomprehensibly bigger idea.

We easily understand its shorthand mostly through intertextuality. We only understand what we're looking at, and why we can regard war with frivolity, because of the pulpy science-fiction wrapper. The inspiration for the concept is explicitly cited as low-culture "genre fiction" for nerds like the seemingly endless procession of science-fiction B-movies through the movie theaters. Specifically singled out is the cheesy space opera book series The Skylark Of Space. The yearning for the combination, a Skylark Of Space special effect B-Movie, was exactly what produced the creative energy in the bull sessions to dream up the totally-unprecedented gameplay concept of Spacewar. That's right: the first original video game was genre trash born of frustrated aspirations of filmmaking. Doesn't get much more fitting an inauguration.

Spacewar spread like a folk song, not a commercial proposition. The determination was made that there was simply no consumer base, so the source was handed out to anyone who asked. Somehow or another, a fellow hacker would catch a look at Spacewar, then return to their own machine to recode it from scratch if it wasn't a PDP-1, and people would keep adding onto it themselves. That's a remarkable method of propagation that has its successors such as the Type-In game but it relies heavily on a baseline of common computer literacy that necessarily dies out as computers get both more widespread and infinitely less demanding on the user to learn how to program just to use it. I can't help but feel a twinge as Spacewar is cloned into Galaxy Game [1971], one of the first if not the first coin-op arcade video game. Money makes it ugly: Is it stealing when it was freely and casually distributed before?

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warninggraphiccontent · 5 years ago

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11 September 2020

The strategy is delivered

It's here!

Nearly two and a half years after it was announced, DCMS has published the framework National Data Strategy. It's open for consultation until 2 December, so do submit your thoughts by then. There's also an extremely interesting-looking report from the Government Office for Science alongside it on 'the future of citizen data systems'.

I'm sure you've not been able to sleep with excitement for my hot take on it all. With apologies to insomniacs, I'm going to take some time to digest the full suite of publications and announcements properly (see Meta Data, below), but some initial thoughts are here. There are also interesting responses from the Open Knowledge Foundation, Prospect, CBI, Peter, Mor, Tom, Owen, Heather Burns and Adam to keep you busy. And well done to the team at DCMS on getting it out.

Elsewhere:

Gaia, head of the National Data Strategy at DCMS, was one of the excellent speakers at this week's Data Bites, one of the best we've done, I think. 13, lucky for some, etc. Watch the event here.

More press briefings about magic data at the centre of government. Will we find out more? Does it really exist? Let's see.

I'll be chairing a few events at the IfG's virtual fringes for both Labour and Conservative party conferences.

Have a great weekend

Gavin

Today's links:

Graphic content

Viral content

Coronavirus UK map: confirmed Covid cases and deaths today (The Guardian)

UK government alarmed over rising coronavirus cases* (FT)

Covid: why Spain is hit worse than the rest of Europe* (FT)

Coronavirus surges in India as infections spread from cities* (FT)

The southern hemisphere skipped flu season in 2020* (The Economist)

Coronavirus: Behind the rise in cases in five charts (BBC News)

Environment and climate

It’s a Race Against Heat, and Humanity Is Losing* (Bloomberg)

California, Washington and Oregon Fire Tracking Maps* (New York Times)

A devastated West Coast (Reuters)

Air attack: How California uses dozens of aircraft to battle wildfires (Reuters)

Net zero: how government can meet its climate change target (IfG)

Ministerial resignations (IfG)

'Permanent' secretaries (IfG)

Brexit bill tracker (IfG)

Cabinet secretaries (IfG)

Measuring up for levelling up (Onward)

What happens to Admin Court JRs (Joe Tomlinson, via Sukh)

There aren't enough jobs for America's unemployed (Axios)

Playing around with making presidential election Galton boards (Matthew Kay)

Trump-Biden Battleground States Shaped by Virus-Fueled Downturn* (Bloomberg)

Voters Face a Complicated Election as the Pandemic Remakes Voting* (Wall Street Journal)

Facebook offers a distorted view of American news* (The Economist)

Americans’ view of black-white race relations hits a 20-year low* (The Economist)

Polling explainer: is the race for the White House tightening?* (FT)

These are 922 of the most powerful people in America. 180 of them are people of color.* (New York Times)

1,018 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year* (Washington Post)

America in Crisis: A Closer Look at a Deeply Polarized Nation* (Bloomberg)

Everywhere else

Elections in Russia’s regions will be test of Putin machine* (FT)

What is at stake in the eastern Mediterranean crisis?* (FT)

How a Massive Bomb Came Together in Beirut’s Port* (New York Times)

Evin Prison* (Tortoise)

#dataviz

BEST OF THE VISUALISATION WEB… MAY 2020 (Visualising Data)

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations (Datawrapper)

VISUALISING UNCERTAINTY: A SHORT INTRODUCTION (Analysis Under Uncertainty for Decision Makers Network)

Meta data

National Data Strategy

National Data Strategy (DCMS)

The future of citizen data systems (GO Science)

Government publishes new strategy to kickstart data revolution across the UK (DCMS)

Digital Secretary launches National Data Strategy at London Tech Week's Global Leaders Innovation Summit (DCMS)

UK National Data Strategy (NDS) consultation (DCMS)

Consumers and businesses to be given more control of data under new laws (BEIS, DCMS)

Smart data: putting consumers in control of their data and enabling innovation (BEIS, DCMS)

Government publishes long-promised national data strategy (Computer Weekly)

UK wants pandemic levels of data sharing to be the new normal (Tech Crunch)

For reaction, see introduction

Viral content

Coronavirus: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan 'frustrated' over 'lack of information' about contact tracing app (Sky News)

More testing alone will not get us out of this pandemic (Nature)

Scotland's new tracing app: What you need to know about Protect Scotland (BBC News)

Royal Society publishes rapid review of the science of the reproduction number and growth rate of COVID-19 (Royal Society)

Statistics, lies and the virus: Tim Harford’s five lessons from a pandemic* (FT)

Ministers warned on Covid freedom of information failures (The Ferret)

The government’s mass testing Moonshot project looks like a 90s Silicon Valley PowerPoint nightmare (Diginomica)

Identity crisis

No, Dominic Cummings isn't plotting to bring back ID cards* (Wired)

Industry ‘cautiously’ welcomes plan to overhaul digital ID, but privacy campaigners warn of weak protections (NS Tech)

Covid-19 strengthens the case for digital ID cards* (The Economist)

Experts slam government digital ID response (Computer Weekly)

I got 'rithm

From viral conspiracies to exam fiascos, algorithms come with serious side effects (The Observer)

The labour movement must be prepared for the age of the algorithm (LabourList)

Mutant Algorithms Are Coming for Your Education (Cathy O'Neill for Bloomberg)

A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? (GPT-3 for The Guardian)

The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with AI media hype (The Next Web)

Google Maps 101: How AI helps predict traffic and determine routes (Google)

Tech

Beware Dominic Cummings’s technology investment arms race* (The Independent)

Why Boris thinks no deal might be worth the pain (Robert Peston for The Spectator)

Inside Dominic Cummings' wild scheme to build a British Google via a no-deal Brexit: 'It's a bit of a simplistic way of thinking about technology'* (Business Insider)

A vision for community-powered tech: a real-time investigation into the relationship between civil society and technology in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (Glimmers)

Internet Society launches tool to protect the open web (NS Tech)

Facebook to be forced to stop sending EU data to the US (Politico)

Facebook to freeze political ads before US presidential election (BBC News)

Facebook’s ban on new political ads won’t change anything (CNBC)

Making the UK a digital clean tech leader (techUK)

UK government

It's the biggest job in tech. So why can't they find anyone to do it? (ZDNet)

The data flows of Universal Credit (medConfidential)

Data stakeholders in government - any research? (Edafe Onerhime)

'Data privacy' (Privacy Matters)

Local authority financial reporting and external audit: independent review (MHCLG)

Our Digital Future Consultation (Labour Party)

Everything else

Bringing Structure and Design to Data Governance (Sage Bionetworks)

Opening up climate data (Open Data Charter)

Inside the secret plan to reboot Isis from a huge digital backup* (Wired)

[Annual Report] Open Data to Shift Power (Open Data Charter)

A data fail left banks and councils exposed by a quick Google search* (Wired)

Opportunities

JOB: Investigator and Organiser (Foxglove)

JOB: Executive Director (Financial transparency Coalition)

JOBS: Deputy Director job opportunities with GOV.UK at the Government Digital Service (GDS)

JOBS: Assistant Deputy Directors (ONS)

JOBS: Data roles - Grade 6 and Grade 7 (DHSC)

JOB: Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer (ODI)

JOB: Policy Research Officer – Part Time (Campaign for Freedom of Information)

JOB: Legal officer (Privacy International)

JOB: Python Developer (Democracy Club)

JOB: AI Imaging Senior Programme Manager (NHSX)

EVENT: Coming together to face the social sector’s data challenges: the data for good festival 2021 (DataKind UK)

EVENT: Exploring Data Institutions (ODI)

CONSULTATION: Artificial intelligence and intellectual property (IPO)

And finally...

Hear, hear

PHANTOM ISLANDS – A SONIC ATLAS (Andrew Pekler)

Interstellar (A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail, via David)

A Data-Led Theory to Generationally Divide Dance Floors (The Pudding)

Everything else

At last - an honest response to an FOI (George Grylls)

Presenting the public beta of my digital government alignment chart (Chris Yiu)

Online testing session: Datopolis - The open data board game (ODI)

Can artificial intelligence create a decent dinner? (BBC News)

Finally, a decent use of not3words. (via Chris Barnes)

Petition for a canonical register of... (Alice)

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6 Tips to Secure Your E-Commerce Site

In the event that you have an online business webpage you are in focus of programmers. Why? Since you are the goose with the brilliant eggs they pine for most. You handle client charge card and individual data that they need to take and endeavor.

They as a rule do it by either capturing the informing between you client's program and your site or hacking into your system to contaminate your site pages with malware. At times they break into databases to get client information.

You can be held at risk for what befalls your client's information, however the harm to your notoriety with your clients can be more awful than the direct money related misfortune 토토 총판. Tainted pages hurt the client as well as take more time to stack. As indicated by the Aberdeen Group, 57% of clients desert a site if a page load surpasses 3 seconds and 8 of 10 won't come back to an internet business webpage after a terrible encounter.

You have to put a high need on making sure about the site and securing your clients on the off chance that you need to ensure your business. Here are 6 basic strides to take that are time after time ignored.

Use Enhance Verification SSL: Consumers are progressively searching for confirmations that a trader is reliable. EV SSL sends precisely that message. Each site that trades money related or individual data requires utilizing the Secured Socket Layer, empowered by SSL endorsements. They give a made sure about, encoded association between your guests and your site. Be that as it may, not all declarations give a similar degree of confirmation to your clients. Toward one side of the scale are Domain Name endorsements that just check that you are the proprietor of the area name for which you mentioned. The most significant level of affirmation is given by Enhanced Verification (EV) authentications where you are confirmed as a continuous and reliable association. EV endorsements cost more, as you would expect, yet they are well worth. Buyers are progressively mindful of the dangers of online exchange and EV tells the client that you can be trusted.

Use PCI and Vulnerability Scanning Services: You have to proactively distinguish and address security issue before they harm your business. Many website administrators expect that SSL is all they have to make sure about their site. SSL gives a basic degree of assurance, making sure about the correspondence between your server and the site guest's program. It doesn't, be that as it may, forestall arrange penetrates and contamination of your website pages with malware and pernicious contents. Tragically, for execution reasons web has don't do the sort of malware checking that you do on workstations and system servers. It would disturb availability to your site. It's dependent upon you to secure your site in case of a break. PCI and powerlessness filtering administrations will check your site on consistently premise to recognize issues that would make you be rebellious with Payment Card Industry security necessities and different issues that compromise your clients. PCI and helplessness checking are frequently packaged together, however have various destinations. PCI Scanning, for example, Comodo's HackerGuardian, are intended to make it simple for you to meet your quarterly PCI consistence announcing prerequisites. Inability to do so can bring about enormous fines and even suspension of your capacity to assume praise cards. Weakness filtering, for example, gave by Comodo's Web Inspector, recognizes issues, for example, tainted site pages that would download malware to your clients. Web Inspector likewise screens boycott webpage that report pernicious and traded off locales. Web crawlers, for example, Google will square such locales from being returned in look. In the event that buyers can't arrive at your site it is adequately down.

Bring in the White Hats! Use entrance testing to remain in front of the trouble makers: If you work your site from your own system, your site is just as secure as your system. In the realm of system security we some of the time call the individuals who hack into PC systems with accursed thought processes as "Blackhat Hackers". At the point when an association needs, nay needs to go the additional mile to guarantee they are protected from the Blackhats, they can bring in the White Hats for Network Penetration Testing. System Penetration Testing, otherwise known as pentesting, incorporates similar exercises of the Blackhat Hackers, aside from they are led by "heroes" as a help. They test systems and sites by physically recreating a programmer assault to check whether there are security openings that could bargain delicate information. White Hat analyzers recognize basic assault ways in a system's framework and give guidance on wiping out these dangers. They endeavor to sidestep security shortcomings to decide precisely how and where the framework can be undermined. They use progressed hacking and social designing procedures and the most recent instruments. On the off chance that powerlessness exists in your system, the trouble makers will in the end find and the ramifications for your clients and your notoriety can be serious. Better that the White Hats discover the issue first!

Use multifaceted confirmation: When the web was first presented for business purposes in 1994, it appeared that validating clients with a client id and secret key was adequate. Less today. In spite of upgrades to SSL and progressions in organize security, programmers have shown the capacity to capture client ids and passwords. There are two basic procedures. To start with, the "man in the center" assault where the programmer embeds a procedure in the middle of the program and web server and catching the correspondence between the two. On the off chance that the web server is utilizing Enhanced SSL the web use ought to be cautioned that there is an issue, yet that expect the web client is focusing. Second, if a programmer can contaminate a site with malware it might have the option to download a key lumberjack and sniffer projects to the client's PC. The programmer would then be able to screen where the client goes on the web and catch their certifications when they login to secret word secured destinations. Regardless of whether you have secured your system as examined over, the guest could have been tainted from another site. You may have seen, however budgetary organizations like your bank or business firm don't depend entirely on a client id and secret phrase. On the off chance that you change the PC you regularly login from, they include an additional degree of validation to ensure it is truly you. This is designated "Multifaceted Authentication", at times known as 2 Factor Authentication. For instance, my bank will send me a verification code to an email address or phone number that they as of now have on record. I can utilize that number with my secret word to login. Except if the programmer additionally approaches my email or cellphone, I am the one in particular that it could be attempting to get entrance.

Trust seals matter. Use them: Trust seals will expand your change rates and rehash clients Trust seals are pictures given by an outsider that confirm that your site has satisfied a lot of guidelines and models that make you dependable. Studies show that buyers are bound to buy from locales where they see such seals. They will build your change rates and rehash clients For instance, the Web Trust seal on the webpage of a Certificate Authiority that issues SSL testaments bears witness to that they fulfill the most noteworthy guidelines and work with the prescribed procedures for a Certificate Authority. In the event that you utilize Enhanced Verification (EV) SSL you the issue approves you to show their trust ocean to tell your site guests that they can have a sense of security working with you. An astounding number of destinations have put resources into EV SSL, however don't noticeably show their seal. Today, with the entirety of the worries about wellbeing and security when on the web, buyers need all the confirmations you can give them.

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The winners of The Europas Awards 2019 display Europe’s continuing diversity and ambition

The Europas Awards for European Tech Startups came around again last week (Thursday 27th June), and once again proved that Europe’s enormous diversity in startups continues to shine through on the world stage.

Once again TechCrunch was the exclusive media sponsor of the awards, alongside new “tech, culture & society” event creator The Pathfounder. Attendees, nominees and winners were given discounts to TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin, later this year.

The awards cover 20 categories, including new additions such as cover AgTech / FoodTech, SpaceTech, GovTech and Mobility Tech.

After an intense round of public voting and judges’ deliberations, the awards were held in the ‘Summer Festival’ atmosphere of the lawns of the iconic Geffrey Museum in London’s ‘Silicon Roundabout Area’ of Shoreditch and featured street trucks, lawn games, music and a fantastic after-party!

The judges came from the creme-de-la-creme of the European tech scene and their picks for the winners were combined with the results of a week of online voting.

Photos from The Europas Awards are now on Flickr where you can download them. They are also on Facebook here. The Live stream hosted by Hermione Way starts here, the panel sessions are here and The Europas Awards ceremony starts here.

You can sign up to get news of next year’s awards and similar events here.

The sponsors this year where: Bizzabo World Datanomic Forum Currency.com Target Global Bayer G4A CommsCo Isotoma iHorizon FieldHouse Associates Rocketmakers Burlington PR Home Grown

So without further-a-do here are the winners and finalists for The Europas Awards 2019!

The Europas Awards — Hottest AgTech / FoodTech Startup WINNER: Small Robot Company: Building small robots to transform farming Presented by Gemma Evans, HealthHackers

FINALISTS: Agricool: grows and produces fruits and vegetables inside shipping containers Allplants: Delicious, plant-based meals, delivered. Breedr: a productivity and marketing platform transforming the livestock supply-chain iFarm: Data-driven urban farming technology Ynsect: Designs, constructs and operates giant vertical farm of beetles (Molitors) to produce high grade proteins.

The Europas Awards — Hottest CleanTech Startup WINNER: Solar Foods: Produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources Presented by Laurence Kemball Cook, Pavegen CEO

FINALISTS: Asperitas: a clean-tech company focused on greening the datacentre industry Naefos: A fintech-IoT platform for enterprises to access off-grid households Bulb: affordable renewable energy for homes and businesses Orbital Systems: a Swedish clean-tech company that develops a water recycling technology to be used in domestic appliances VoltStorage: Solar power storage for your home

The Europas Awards — Hottest CyberTech Startup WINNER: Panaseer: A continuous controls monitoring platform Presented by Pratik Sampat, iHorizon

FINALISTS: UK Barac: Using AI and behavioural analytics to detect malware hidden within encrypted traffic without the need for decryption Cymulate: Breach and attack simulation UK Immersive Labs: A fully interactive, on-demand, and gamified cyber skills platform Passbase: a digital identity platform to streamline the identity verification process and enable identity ownership and reuse across different services PixelPin: a secure authentication system using pictures instead of passwords uBirch: Securing IoT data using blockchain

The Europas Awards — Hottest EdTech Startup WINNER: Perlego: Textbook subscription service

FINALISTS: Busuu: Online community for language learning Get My Grades: online learning platform for English, Maths and Science MyPocketSkill: Connecting teens to pocket money earning jobs Pigzbe: Crypto-friendly, digital wallet for 6+ PitchMe: Skills-based talent marketplace Robo Wunderkind: developing modular and programmable robots to teach children robotics and coding Lirica: Learn languages with the power of music

The Europas Awards — Hottest FashTech Startup WINNER: Metail: virtual fitting room service for fashion retailers that allows customers to create a 3D model of themselves and try on clothes

FINALISTS: Bump: making commerce social Euveka: develops connected smart-mannequins, using custom software, to assist fashion, sports and medical professionals in the prototyping and sale of individual garments Heuritech: anticipating brand and product desirability through the eyes of millions of fashion influencers and consumers HUUB: a logistics and tech platform for Fashion brands Little Black Door: intelligent inventory platform that captures the value of your wardrobe and opens it up to a premium managed marketplace Finda: Professional model booking platform

The Europas Awards — Hottest FinTech Startup WINNER: Auquan: data science platform for financial services Presented by Malin Holmberg, Target Global VC

FINALISTS: Curve: a platform allowing consolidation of all bank cards into a single smart card and app Cytora: Using AI to enable insurers to underwrite more efficiently Divido: a retail finance platform that allows companies to offer instant customer finance Holvi: digital banking for freelancers and entrepreneurs Monese: an online banking platform that offers quick current account opening for all EU residents Moonfare: a technology-enabled platform allowing individuals to invest in top-tier private equity funds Nuggets: Login, pay and verify ID without ever sharing or storing your data with anyone PremFina: White label software to manage insurance policies Yobota: cloud-based platform allows financial services to design and deploy financial products

The Europas Awards — Hottest GovTech, CivTech, PubTech, RegTech WINNER: New Vector: decentralised, secure communication for governments, businesses and individuals Presented by Eloise Todd, Anti-Brexit Campaigner

FINALISTS: Adzuna: digital service that connects jobseekers with employers online and through job centres around the UK Apolitical Apolitical is a global policy insights platform and network helping governments and companies advance their work and business Clause Match: end-to-end solution for fully automating regulatory compliance Luminance: document analysis software to secure big data systems novoville – novoville is a Citizen Engagement Platform, that bridges the gap between local governments and their citizens Safened: Digital KYC Solution SafeTeam: NHS community lone worker app

The Europas Awards — Hottest HealthTech Startup WINNER: BIOS, creating the open standard hardware and software interface between the human nervous system and AI Presented by Rafiq Hasan, Bayer Health

FINALISTS: Ada Health: an AI-powered health platform eQuoo: evidence based mental health game for young adults Lumeon: providing care pathway management solutions to the healthcare industry Natural Cycles: a digital contraceptive app Pregenerate: “cartilage-on-a- chip” to accelerate drug development for arthritis Siilo: secure messenger app for medical teams Straight Teeth Direct: Direct to consumer teledentistry platform that connects users to online dentists globally enabling low cost at home teeth straightening

The Europas Awards — Hottest MadTech (MarTech or AdTech) Startup WINNERS: Ometria: a customer insight and marketing automation platform Videesha Bockle, signals Venture Capital

FINALISTS: Codec: AI-powered audience intelligence for brands MeasureMatch: find, book, pay & rate independent consultants or consultancies to accelerate marketing, commerce & customer experience capabilities PlanSnap: a social planning platform that gets friends together StreetBees: Connecting brands with real people on the ground to gather real time insights Uberall: location marketing cloud Vidsy: helps brands create original mobile video ads at scale Waive: an intelligent trend spotting platform

The Europas Awards — Hottest Mobility Travel Tech Startup WINNER: Voi Scooters: owns, operates, and manages electric scooters for urban commuters Joelle Hadfield, HelloFresh

FINALISTS: Culture Trip: inspiring people to explore the world’s culture and creativity daytrip: platform connecting independent travelers with local drivers Dott: scooter startup minicabit: an online minicab and taxi price comparison and booking service Snap Travel: on-demand coach service Trafi: Mobility solutions for connected cities Wejo: unlocks the value in car data to help create smarter, safer, better and greener journeys for drivers globally

The Europas Awards — Hottest PropTech Startup WINNER: NPlan: machine learning – based risk analysis for construction projects Simon Calver, BFG

FINALISTS: Casavo: market maker within the residential real estate market Good Monday: a digital office management system Habito: digital mortgage broker Home Made: property tech rental agent Hubble: online marketplace for office space Mews Systems: property management software for hospitality operations Planner 5D: 3D home design tool using AI, VR & AR to create floorplans and interior design Reposit: tenancy deposit alternative Urban Jungle: A fully digital insurer, for a new generation of customers

The Europas Awards — Hottest Retail / ECommerce Tech Startup WINNER: NearSt: building the world’s source of real-time local inventory Presented by Audrey Soussan, Ventech

FINALISTS: Festicket: marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras Keep Warranty: app that saves the warranties and purchase slips of your appliances Picnic: online supermarket, that delivers groceries for the lowest price to people’s home Pimcore: digital experience platform to manage product information Spryker Systems: a commerce technology company store2be: Online marketplace for short-term retail and promotion space Trouva: curated marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops

The Europas Awards — Hottest B2B / SaaS Startup WINNER: Infobip: Full-stack Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) Sally MacDonald, Partner, CommsCo

FINALISTS: Chattermill: Using deep learning to help organizations make sense of their customer experience Dixa: conversational customer engagement software that connects brands with customers through real-time communication Meero: On demand photography service combined with image processing artificial intelligence Paddle: platform for all software companies to run and grow their business Peakon: a platform for measuring and improving employee engagement ProoV: a PoC platform that enables businesses to test new technologies SeedLegals: platform for all the legals startups need to grow and get funded TravelPerk: business travel booking & management platform for companies Unbabel: a ‘translation-as-a-service’ platform, powered by AI and a worldwide community of translators

The Europas Awards — Hottest SpaceTech Startup WINNER: Open Cosmos: Simple and affordable space missions Presented by Dr Barbara Ghinelli, Harwell

FINALISTS: Aerial & Maritime: A Danish nanosatellite-based solution for monitoring aircrafts and maritime vessels Aerospacelab: Develops a constellation of micro-satellites for earth observation and imagery aXenic: Design, development and production of optical modulators for communications and sensing Global Surface Intelligence: Environmental data service Hawa Dawa: Combines proprietary IoT smart sensor data with other sources of data (including satellite data) to give highly accurate data on air quality Monolith: Machine Learning Platform that helps engineers to predict the outcome of unknown, new tests or simulations by reusing historical data Trik: Enterprise drone 3D mapping software for structural inspection Unseenlabs – Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload Xonaspace: Uses an XPS and LEO satellite constellation for extremely precise GPS systems

The Europas Awards — Hottest Tech for Good Startup WINNER: Beam: help a homeless person for the long-term by funding their employment training Paula Schwarz, World Datanomic Forum

FINALISTS: eWaterpay: Using mobile technology for the accountable collection of user fees to pay for the maintenance of water supply systems forever Idka: a platform for private groups and organizations, where they can connect, communicate, share and store anything – while their privacy remains intact OmoLab: develops tools that make easier for people with dyslexia to read SafetoNet: an app that protects children online by using AI to detect harmful content, whilst respecting children’s privacy Tick. Done.: a micro-video platform for instant knowledge sharing Winnow: digital tools to help chefs run more profitable, sustainable kitchen

The Europas Awards — Hottest Blockchain Project WINNER: Argent: a smart wallet for cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications

FINALISTS: Aeternity: a scalable blockchain platform that enables high-speed transacting, purely-functional smart contracts AZTEC Protocol: building privacy technology for public blockchain infrastructures Colendi: decentralized credit scoring protocol and microcredit platform with blockchain and machine learning technologies Edge ESports: blockchain-based platform for professional gamers FilmChain: blockchain enabled platform that collects data, verifies revenues and executes stakeholder payment splits for film, TV etc Orbs: a blockchain Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for large scale consumer applications Veratrak: a shared workspace for collaborating with your supply chain partners

The Europas Awards — Hottest Blockchain Investor WINNER: Outlier Ventures: invests and partners with tokenised communities that will create the new decentralised economy Presented by Kaisa Ruusalepp, Funderbeam

FINALISTS: BlueYard Capital Catagonia Capital Earlybird Venture Capital Fabric Ventures: A venture capital firm that invests in scalable decentralized networks FinLab KR1: crypto token Investment company supporting early stage decentralised and open source blockchain projects Mosaic Ventures

The Europas Awards — Hottest A/A+ Investors WINNER: Atomico Presented by Madhuban Kumar, Metafused

FINALISTS: Accel Anthemis Group Balderton Capital DN Capital EQT Ventures Index Ventures Northzone Project A Ventures Ventech Capital

The Europas Awards — Hottest Early-Stage / Accelerator Investors WINNER: Founders Factory Presented by Jenny Judova, TechHub

FINALISTS: Seedcamp Forward Partners Generation S Entrepreneur First Techstars London The Family 7percent Ventures Backed VC Firstminute Capital LocalGlobe Episode 1 Ventures

The Europas Awards — Hall of Fame This category recognises a person who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to enhance the tech ecoosystem not just for themselves but for others. WINNER: Brent Hoberman of Founders Factory, Founders Forum, Firstminute Capital, Lastminute.com and many other initiatives for startups and entrepreneurs

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Local libraries are often thought of as places to check out books or engage in some silent reading. But libraries offer so much more than just what can be found on their shelves or done in hushed tones.

And, in some instances, libraries have become places to make some noise.

From laptops and 3D laser printers, libraries today are providing the public with access to new technologies and education. In our research project on public libraries in smart communities, in which I serve as the principal investigator, we found that a public library serves as an anchor institution for these communities. It is a role libraries can be expected to fullfil even more in the future as technology continues to evolve in new and fascinating ways.

Here are seven examples from throughout the country of libraries offering more than books.

Robots

The Westport Free Library in Westport, Connecticut – population of roughly 28,000 – has a Robot Open Lab where the public can learn how to program robots to respond to simple commands, catch and kick a small soccer ball and even dance. The library’s two robots, Vincent and Nancy, autonomous, programmable humanoid robots, arrived in September 2014. Since then, more than 2,000 people have learned how to program them.

Some libraries offer patrons the chance to program robots. AP photo

Wi-Fi for your home

For those who may lack the financial resources to buy Wi-Fi, libraries such as the Chicago Public Library offer Wi-Fi hotspot lending programs that allow patrons to access the internet from home. Some have collections of laptops, e-readers and MP3 players available for check out.

Creation tools

Along similar technical lines, public libraries offer free access to maker spaces, which are laboratories filled with advanced technical equipment like 3D printers and laser cutters.

For instance, the 4th Floor in the Chattanooga Public Library in Tennessee is a 12,000-square-foot public laboratory and educational facility with a focus on information, design, technology and the applied arts. The library also has classes to teach citizens how to use the equipment.

The goal isn’t for every citizen to start their own new tech company, but to expose people to the technology as a matter of education and empowerment.

Recording studios

Chattanooga also has a fully functional music studio.

Members of a band record music at a Chattanooga public library. Author provided

With a valid library card, a patron can reserve a three-hour session in the studio – which is filled with state-of-the-art recording studio equipment – to work on projects and learn the art of recording. A studio instructor is available to help inspire, educate and spark creativity.

For those who want to build and fix things, Chattanooga also has an extensive hand- and power-tool collection filled with hammers, wrench sets, drills and saws among many other tools. Cardholders who are 18 or older can check out up to three tools at a time for one week.

Open data

Some libraries serve as places to learn more about how to take advantage of open data – particularly since the January passage of the OPEN Government Act. The new law requires federal agencies to make the data they have on anything – from health to crime – available to the public by publishing it in a machine-readable format, such as an Excel file, that allows for use and reuse. The benefits of accessing these data include informed debate, better decision-making and the development of innovative new services.

The Chapel Hill Public Library in North Carolina offers Chapel Hill Open Data in partnership with the town. The library also organizes open data events for academics, business entrepreneurs, civic hackers or anyone who’s interested in transparency and open data use.

Unique collections

Even with all of this technology, libraries are also places where the public can learn about and appreciate the unique and artistic sides of life.

The art gallery at the Hillsboro Public Library in Oregon opened in 2013 to serve as a community cultural space. Since then, the library displays local art for two-month exhibitions between November and August.

Since its first growing season in 2014, the Duluth Public Library’s Seed Library in Minnesota has offered the community varieties of tomato, pepper, bean and pea seeds. In addition to the seeds themselves, the library has education and resources about growing and saving seeds and organic gardening. Typically, seed library patrons return some seeds from their harvest to make the library self-sustaining.

Virginia’s Arlington Public Library has an American Girl doll collection available for people to borrow along with related books.

Health care

No library service will be of much use if you’re not in good health.

Recognizing this, the Free Library of Philadelphia, one of the largest public library systems in the world, offers myriad health-related options for its patrons. For instance, the library loans health equipment such as blood pressure monitors. It also has resources to help people find health care, sign up for federal benefits and get free or low-cost food.

Beyond traditional health care, the Free Library of Philadelphia also has a Culinary Literacy Center that offers a wide range of programs for eaters of all interests and tastes. At the Parkway Central Library branch, nurses and social workers are on-site every weekday to talk about mental and physical health, answer questions, check your blood pressure and help schedule an appointment with doctors.

But this is not the only library focusing on health. The Miami Library in Oklahoma has made health literacy a central part of its operations, offering everything from diabetes prevention to yoga classes, as well as healthy cooking demonstrations and even a community garden.

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Among the first supporters, adopters, and also factors to bitcoin was the receiver of the first bitcoin purchase, designer Hal Finney. https://bitcoin.org/en/ downloaded and install the bitcoin software the day it was released, and also obtained 10 bitcoins from Nakamoto on the planet's first bitcoin transaction. [31] [32] Other early fans were Wei Dai, developer of bitcoin predecessor b-money, and also Nick Szabo, maker of bitcoin precursor bit gold. [33]

Deals are defined utilizing a Forth-like scripting language. [3]: ch. 5 Transactions contain several inputs and also one or even more outputs. When an individual sends out bitcoins, the customer designates each address and the quantity of bitcoin being sent to that address in an output. To prevent usitech-int , each input should refer to a previous unspent result in the blockchain. [44] The use of numerous inputs matches to the use of numerous coins in a cash deal. Considering that purchases could have several results, individuals could send bitcoins to several receivers in one transaction. As in a money transaction, the sum of inputs (coins utilized to pay) could go beyond the intended sum of repayments. In such an instance, an extra outcome is used, returning the adjustment back to the payer. [44] Any type of input satoshis not made up in the deal outputs become the transaction cost. [44]

The Dutch situation involved a 2012 Bitcoin sales purchase as well as agreement in between 2 unnamed events that was not completely carried out. The purchaser had attempted to acquire 2,750 Bitcoins from the offender seller but just obtained 990 Bitcoins.

Merchants accepting bitcoin normally make use of the services of bitcoin payment company such as BitPay or Coinbase. When a consumer pays in bitcoin, the settlement company accepts the bitcoin in support of the vendor, transforms it to the local money, and also sends the obtained total up to merchant's checking account, charging a cost for the service. [101]

Some Argentinians have actually acquired bitcoins to secure their financial savings against high rising cost of living or the possibility that governments might seize cost savings accounts. [76] Throughout the 2012-- 2013 Cypriot financial situation, bitcoin acquisitions in Cyprus rose because of concerns that interest-bearing accounts would be confiscated or strained. [111]

More just recently, in August 2014, an additional federal judge, Katherine Forrest, of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York found government money-laundering statutes "include usage of Bitcoin"-- which "any various other reading" of the law would certainly be "nonsensical."

Bitcoin

A wallet stores the info needed to transact bitcoins. While wallets are frequently explained as an area to hold [54] or store bitcoins, [55] because of the nature of the system, bitcoins are inseparable from the blockchain transaction ledger. A much better way to describe a wallet is something that "stores the digital qualifications for your bitcoin holdings" [55] and enables one to access (and spend) them. Bitcoin uses public-key cryptography, in which two cryptographic keys, one public and also one private, are produced. [56] At its the majority of fundamental, a budget is a collection of these keys.

Bitcoin Money

In September 2015, the facility of the peer-reviewed scholastic journal Ledger (ISSN 2379-5980) was announced. It will certainly cover research studies of cryptocurrencies as well as associated modern technologies, and also is released by the College of Pittsburgh. [160] [161] The journal motivates authors to electronically authorize a data hash of sent documents, which will certainly after that be timestamped into the bitcoin blockchain. Writers are likewise asked to include a personal bitcoin address in the first web page of their documents. [162] [163]

According to an article in The Wall surface Street Journal, since 19 April 2016 [upgrade], bitcoin had actually been a lot more secure compared to gold for the coming before 24 days, and it was recommended that its worth could be much more steady in the future. [137] On 3 March 2017, the cost of a bitcoin went beyond the market worth of an ounce of gold for the very first time as its price surged to an all-time high of $1,268. [138] [139] A research in Digital Business Research and also Applications, going back through the network's historical information, revealed the value of the bitcoin network as measured by the rate of bitcoins, to be roughly symmetrical to the square of the number of daily one-of-a-kind users taking part on the network. This is a form of Metcalfe's regulation as well as suggests that the network was demonstrating network effects proportional to its degree of customer fostering. [140]

If the exclusive trick is shed, the bitcoin network will certainly not acknowledge any various other proof of possession; [8] the coins are then unusable, and efficiently shed. As an example, in 2013 one customer asserted to have shed 7,500 bitcoins, worth $7.5 million at the time, when he accidentally threw out a disk drive including his exclusive secret. [45] A back-up of his trick(s) could have avoided this. [46]

Inevitably, the judge ended that none of the definitions of common cash under the Dutch Civil Code put on Bitcoin. The judge did acknowledge that Bitcoin can be accepted as a type of repayment in the Netherlands. Had Bitcoin been regarded cash, the transaction would have been considered a foreign exchange agreement, as well as hence the purchaser could have been qualified to currency exchange rate loss.

Bitcointalk

On 12 September 2017, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, called bitcoin a "fraudulence" and also stated he would discharge anyone in his company caught trading it. No Bush asserted that the exact same day Dimon made his statement, JP Morgan also acquired a big quantity of bitcoins for its customers. [149] On 13 September 2017, Dimon subsequented and compared bitcoin to a bubble, saying it was just helpful for medicine suppliers and countries like North Korea. [150] On 22 September 2017, hedge fund Blockswater ultimately implicated JP Morgan of market control and also submitted a market misuse problem with Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. [151]

The blocks in the blockchain are restricted to one megabyte in size, which has actually produced problems for bitcoin deal processing, such as raising transaction costs as well as delayed handling of transactions that could not be suited a block. [86] On 24 August 2017 (at block 481,824), Segregated Witness went live, raising optimum block capability as well as making deal IDs immutable. [87] [much better resource needed] [88] SegWit likewise enables the application of the Lightning Network, a second-layer proposal for scalability with immediate transactions. [89] [better source needed]

Bitcoin Graph

Bitcoin was originally led by Satoshi Nakamoto. Nakamoto went back in 2010 and handed the network sharp key to Gavin Andresen. [85] Andresen mentioned he consequently looked for to decentralize control stating: "As quickly as Satoshi stepped back and also threw the project onto my shoulders, among the very first points I did was aim to decentralize that. So, if I obtain hit by a bus, it would certainly be clear that the project would certainly go on." [85] This left chance for conflict to create over the future growth path of bitcoin. [68]

Bitcoin Chine

According to bitinfocharts.com, in 2017 there are 9,272 bitcoin wallets with even more than $1 million worth of bitcoins. [120] The specific number of bitcoin millionaires is unclear as a bachelor could have greater than one bitcoin budget.

Bitcoin News

In 2015, the variety of sellers accepting bitcoin exceeded 100,000. [13] As opposed to 2-- 3% normally enforced by bank card processors, vendors accepting bitcoins commonly pay charges under 2%, down to 0%. [96] Companies that accepted payments in bitcoin since December 2014 included PayPal, [97] Microsoft, [98] Dell, [99] as well as Newegg. [100]

In the early days, Nakamoto is approximated to have actually mined 1 million bitcoins. [34] Prior to going away from any type of participation in bitcoin, Nakamoto in a feeling turned over the reins to programmer Gavin Andresen, who after that came to be the bitcoin lead developer at the Bitcoin Foundation, the 'anarchic' bitcoin area's closest thing to an official public face. [35]

The International Monetary Fund (component of the World Financial institution) defines cash normally as a "store of value," which suggests people can conserve it and use it later on-- smoothing their acquisitions in time; other meanings refer to loan as a:

Bitcoin Core

As lawmakers and also firms throughout the globe attempt to understand, classify, and control Bitcoin, one could only really hope that they will certainly offer more clear assistance to ensure that those who engage in Bitcoin deals can prepare for how the regulation might impact those purchases.

Bitcoin

The blockchain is a public ledger that records bitcoin purchases. [40] A novel option accomplishes this with no trusted central authority: the maintenance of the blockchain is carried out by a network of communicating nodes running bitcoin software application. [8] Deals of the type payer X sends out Y bitcoins to payee Z are broadcast to this network utilizing readily available software program applications. [41] Network nodes could verify purchases, include them to their duplicate of the journal, and after that relayed these ledger additions to other nodes. The blockchain is a distributed database-- to attain independent verification of the chain of ownership of any and every bitcoin amount, each network node shops its own duplicate of the blockchain. [42] Around six times each hour, a brand-new team of approved purchases, a block, is developed, added to the blockchain, as well as swiftly published to all nodes. This permits bitcoin software to determine when a specific bitcoin amount has actually been spent, which is required in order to stop double-spending in a setting without central oversight. Whereas a conventional ledger documents the transfers of actual costs or cosigned promissory notes that exist in addition to it, the blockchain is the only location that bitcoins can be said to exist in the form of unspent outputs of deals. [3]: ch. 5

To be accepted by the remainder of the network, a brand-new block must contain a supposed proof-of-work. [40] The proof-of-work needs miners to discover a number called a nonce, such that when the block material is hashed together with the nonce, the outcome is numerically smaller sized than the network's difficulty target. [3]: ch. 8 This proof is simple for any kind of node in the network to verify, but incredibly lengthy to generate, as for a safe and secure cryptographic hash, miners should try many various nonce values (usually the sequence of tested worths is 0, 1, 2, 3, ... [3]: ch. 8) before meeting the problem target.

Bitcoin Cost

Mining a block is tough because the SHA-256 hash of a block's header should be below or equal to the target in order for the block to be approved by the network. This issue could be simplified for description purposes: The hash of a block have to start with a specific variety of nos. The chance of calculating a hash that starts with many absolutely nos is extremely low, therefore numerous attempts need to be made. In https://www.bitcoin.com/ to produce a new hash each round, a nonce is incremented. See Proof of work for even more info.

Bitcoin Cash Cours

Bitcoin is pseudonymous, implying that funds are not linked to real-world entities but instead bitcoin addresses. Proprietors of bitcoin addresses are not explicitly recognized, yet all purchases on the blockchain are public. Furthermore, transactions could be connected to people and companies via "idioms of usage" (e.g., transactions that spend coins from multiple inputs suggest that the inputs may have a common owner) and also proving public purchase information with known details on proprietors of particular addresses. [75] Additionally, bitcoin exchanges, where bitcoins are traded for traditional money, could be needed by regulation to accumulate personal information. [76]

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AMD Vega Next-Gen GPU Architecture Revealed: Here’s What We Know

FreeSync 2 isn’t AMD’s only announcement this week. The company has also revealed its upcoming Vega architecture which will power its next-generation video cards. The price or exact product names are unknown at the moment, though an early release of the Lenovo Y520 spec sheet has alluded Vega could take the form of the Radeon RX 500 series at first.

AMD shared a few details related to Vega with Gadgets 360 and other select media outlets at an event in Sonoma, California last month, and while specifics were hard to come by, here's everything we know so far.

AMD Vega high bandwidth memory According to Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group, Vega is the "world’s most scalable GPU memory architecture". It features high bandwidth cache, eight times the capacity per stack and twice the bandwidth per pin versus last year’s Radeon Fury and up to 512TB of addressable space.

What does this mean? These specifications are related to Vega’s second generation High Bandwidth Memory or HBM technology — which first made its presence felt in the Radeon R9 Fury. HBM2 offers eight times the capacity and twice the bandwidth due to higher clock speeds versus the last flagship Radeon.

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AMD Vega vs AMD Fury Comparatively, first-generation HBM maxed out at around 1GB per stack and 128GB/s of bandwidth per stack. Safe to say HBM2 comes in stacks of up to 8GB and 256GB/s of bandwidth going by AMD’s claims. Furthermore, the company claims that it is five times more power efficient versus other graphics memory and has a 50 percent smaller footprint versus GDDR5.

As for the high bandwidth cache controller, it allows for 512TB of virtual address space, quite likely made possible by swapping data in and out of it. This results in adaptive, fine-grained data movement. More importantly, a smoother experience in games such as The Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 at 3840x2160 at ultra settings. The performance was gauged via internal tests of an early Vega sample using an AMD Summit Ridge pre-release CPU with 8GB DDR4 RAM, Vega GPU (exact model was not disclosed), Windows 10 64-bit, and an AMD test driver as of December 5, 2016. We will of course test how this plays in the real world when we get our hands on it.

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AMD Vega programmable geometry pipeline AMD Corporate Fellow Mike Mantor explained that thanks to a new programmable geometry pipeline gamers can expect over twice the peak throughput per clock as well as improved load balancing to allow for a smoother delivery of frames.

With a new programmable geometry pipeline comes primitive shaders. This could break down complex shader operations into simpler, smaller tasks that are quicker to render, while ensuring your games look just as good.

AMD Says Virtual Reality Hasn't Found Its Killer App Yet

AMD Vega next-generation compute engine Also new is Vega’s compute engine. Dubbed as next-generation compute unit (NCU), it’s optimised for high clock speeds and more inter-process communications (IPC). This allows Vega GPUs to process more operations in the same timeframe compared to previous implementations, freeing up cache and memory for other tasks faster.

Given how erratic graphic workloads are, it will be interesting to see if there are any major tangible benefits to NCU. AMD states that its possible to complete 512 8-bit operations per clock, 256 16-bit operations per clock, and 128 32-bit operations per clock.

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AMD Vega next-generation pixel engine Speed aside, Vega has a few tricks to render images a lot more efficiently by reducing memory bandwidth consumption. The result of this is the next-generation pixel engine. This contains what the company calls a Draw Stream Binning Rasteriser. Fancy nomenclature aside, what it does is fetch image details crucial to a scene once, storing them in an on-chip bin cache and renders only those details visible in a scene rather than every part of an entire 3D image, possibly designed to compete with Nvidia’s Tiled Based Rasterizer that debuted with its Maxwell video cards as per this patent filing.

AMD Vega is gaming and a lot more? Game developers seem excited by what AMD has brought to the table. Billy Khan, Lead Project Programmer at id, makers of 2016’s superlative Doom said “console and PC development is now closer than ever.” Lending credence to the notion - though it’s still speculation at this point - that parts of Vega, if not all of it, will find its way into Microsoft’s Project Scorpio.

However, we won’t be surprised to see it find its way into Machine Learning, Natural Data Processing, non-gaming VR, and high-resolution HDR content creation among other spheres. After all, the enterprise segment is one crucial market AMD has been trying to gain a foothold in for awhile, and Vega just might be what it needs.

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Will you actually be able to buy one? This will be a major point of concern for many. In the past AMD’s high-end GPUs have been a pain to find in India. Compounded by a poor RX 480 launch, the company is aware of its shortcomings in terms of distribution. Given that it would cost more than an RX 480 or the more economical RX 470 and 460, we won’t be surprised to see AMD take an alternate approach to distribution that Koduri alluded to in an interview with Gadgets 360 late last year.

Disclosure: Gadgets 360's hotel stay for the briefing in Sonoma was sponsored by AMD.

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