Sirin Labs’ $999 Blockchain Phone Will Start Shipping in December

Finney, the blockchain phone announced at the apex of the 2018 token craze, is expected to start shipping in late December.

Unveiling its final design for the first time at an event today in Barcelona, Sirin Labs, the phone’s maker, promises to advance the user experience of decentralized apps (or dapps) with its new hardware.

The company claims to have raised over $157 million with an initial coin offering (ICO) announced early this year to fund the device’s development. Still, with so few dapps yet launched it remains to be seen if there’s an appetite for an improved user experience of the decentralized web.

Sirin wouldn’t commit to a precise date, but Nimrod May, the company’s chief marketing officer, said the firm projects that shipping will start sometime between Dec. 15 and 25. Sirin has partnered with one of the top electronics manufacturers in the world, Foxconn, to produce the devices.

The $999 phone can be pre-ordered now for holders of the sirin (SRN) token. More payment channels will go live soon, and May explained the company will always exchange whatever form of payment buyers use to sirin as it closes each sale.

There’s no relationship between SRN and the price of the phone, so those who purchased them in the token sale are at the mercy of the spot price. The token has bounced between $0.06 and $0.18 over the last three months, though trending up and occasionally spiking since last October, according to data site CoinCap.

More players have entered the market since the Finney was first proposed. In particular, long-time handset maker HTC has promised a device designed with crypto in mind. Upstart Pundi X has also entered the fray.

Sirin’s May declined to give CoinDesk a pre-order figure, but he did give a projection for sales: “I’m pretty confident that we’ll pass the 100,000 in the first year.”

Security chops
As a phone designed to carry around cryptocurrency, Finney makes strong claims about its security.

May emphasized the team’s depth of experience in cybersecurity and its application of artificial intelligence to intrusion detection. The phone is also built with a modification of the Android mobile operating system, called SirinOS, which is designed with blockchain functionality in mind.

That said, the security feature that will undoubtedly get the most attention will be its cold storage wallet. As May described it to CoinDesk, this wallet is effectively a second device in the same housing as the phone.

He said it has a separate processor and users will interact with the wallet on a second LCD screen. Seed phrases will only be inserted through that screen. This can be seen in a design video released by the company.

In order to get people to use new apps in the company’s “dCenter” or decentralized app store, Sirin will make it easy for app makers to send Finney users free tokens.

“We incentivize the user by incentivizing with airdrops,” May said.
User experience
Sirin Labs has said from the start that Finney aims to make crypto easier to use.

For example, if users want to use different apps, they shouldn’t have to think about paying in the right form of crypto. Finney has been built to convert between different tokens as needed. At launch, it will only convert BTC, ETH and SRN.

When CoinDesk first reported on Finney, the firm’s plan had been to use the Bancor network to run its swapping. May says swapping will now run on Sirin’s own software.

One of the tokens running in the dapp store will be the sirin token. “The sirin token is designed as a utility token from the beginning,” May said.

Its only utility, for now, is phone pre-orders. Later, it is meant to run Finney-specific features, such as allowing phone users to sell each other bandwidth on the go. A forthcoming software development kit will allow engineers to brainstorm and advance their own peer-to-peer use cases.

Much as with Bancor, the original plan had been to power these services with the Iota protocol, as previously reported, but Sirin Labs no longer plans to do so. SRN runs on the ethereum blockchain, for now.
Source:
https://www.coindesk.com/sirin-labs-999-blockchain-phone-will-start-shipping-in-december

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BitPay app not vulnerable to malicious code

A malicious code was found in one of the third-party NPM package which could be used to capture users' private keys.

BitPay assured to users that "the BitPay app was not vulnerable to the malicious code". However, "if [users] are using any Copay version from 5.0.2 to 5.1.0, [they] should not run or open the app".

However, we at CoinGecko advises you to assume that private keys any BitPay/CoPay app to be comprised, and to move your bitcoin to new wallets immediately.

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The blockchain isn’t just for web applications, silly rabbit.

Scatter is a digital signature provider for the blockchain. Learn more about what we are building here.

We’re in a good place right now with blockchain user-experience, at least relatively speaking. It wasn’t too long ago where interacting with web applications running on the blockchain was incredibly hard and not something the majority of even those that are computer literate could accomplish.

Before MetaMask came out with the brilliant idea to interact with web applications through a secure extension users had to go through a tedious technical process to sign and send transactions to contracts from the command line or any wallet capable of doing so ( which there actually weren’t many if any at the time ). Either that, or they had to forfeit their private key to untrusted applications on the web. This of course led to hindered adoption of smart contract fueled applications because it’s not only unfriendly, it’s down-right dangerous.

Now, we’ve come even further. We have mobile wallets with built in dapp explorers so you can use blockchain enhanced web applications right from within your favorite wallets. These tend to provide a wonderful user-experience since the users are already familiar with the wallet.

In both of these cases though we’re stuck. We’re stuck using web applications only, and in some cases only the web applications that someone has said we can use. There’s a lot of issues with both Web Extensions and Dapp Explorer Wallets. Some of them are pretty bad to boot.

Let’s look at some of the shared pitfalls of both Web Extensions and Dapp Explorer Wallets

- They both only support Web Applications

- They both put the user’s private keys into the same scope as the website.

Dapp explorers have a few more downsides/restrictions as well

-          The team behind the wallet controls what dapps you’re allowed to use, which puts centralization back into the mix.

-          Dapps often have to pay a fee to be placed in popular dapp explorer based wallets because space is limited. When large dapps become included sometimes smaller dapps are pushed out.

-          Some dapps can never be put into a dapp explorer because they would impact the dapp explorer legally, such as dapps that have aspects of porn, drugs, or gambling.

-          You will never be able to put native applications into these explorers at full capacity. They will always be wrapping those applications in whatever framework the explorer is built in, and significantly limiting the resources available to the now-non-native-application. This makes them almost useless for anything that isn’t a web application.

Web Extensions have special downsides too!

-          Popups for web applications can be mimicked quite easily, and there is no way to discern a popup from a web application from one of an extension. This makes them particularly susceptible to click-jacking and limit their possibilities considerably.

-          Extensions auto-update, and some browsers don’t allow you to disable that feature ( fuck you chrome )! Now this one here is a bit more than a downside, it’s a security concern and a large one at that. There’s nothing stopping the team behind a web extension from updating your extension and getting access to your keys. Hell, you wouldn’t even be notified that it was updated. Edit: This just happened 2 days after posting this.

-          Because of both of the above new extension popups can’t be trusted. If a user gets a new popup they haven’t seen before and don’t know it’s new, they will not trust it ( and shouldn’t ). This makes new functionality hard to roll out.

-          Some of these extensions also just give away your information the second you land on a website, making privacy an issue as well. ( though this can be solved with a bit more work, it usually isn’t )

-          Extensions don’t work on mobile! At least not broadly. There's cases of using Firefox ( thanks Dan Finlay! ) For MetaMask and chrome extensions inside of Yandex as well.

Not a very pretty picture is it?

But we’ve learned a lot. You don’t call it computer science for nothing, and these experiments are necessary on our journey to a free and decentralized internet.

At Scatter I started with a web extension because the community needed something fast and dirty to get the job done, that extension is now known as Scatter Classic. Classic did a lot of things right ( privacy model using a permissions-first philosophy, higher encryption schemes, identity, whitelists.. ), but it still suffered from all of the things mentioned above, apart from the giving away of information.

After almost a year of deep shower-thought contemplation I came to the conclusion that an extension wasn’t working for the way I see the future of the blockchain and Scatter. It’s too limiting, still fairly insecure due to being in the browser, always at the mercy of breaking-browser-changes and it’s really not the best choice for users. So I started work on a desktop application. But.. how the hell are we supposed to connect to web apps?

Scatter needs the ability to return results to applications which makes deep-linking not even a choice ( deep linking is something like scatter://transaction?blah=whatever ). Going through return URLs ( such as yourapp.com/logged_in ) to backend servers means the user’s information has to actually touch the internet before it can even reach the application which is horrible, it’s a particularly bad developer experience, and also nullifies local native applications so that’s a bust. I did the natural thing. I created a web extension to talk to the desktop application. ( insert :facepalm: emoji here )

But an amazing thing happened. In order to talk to the web extension from the desktop application I absentmindedly created a WebSocket Server within the desktop application and a client on the extension… I didn’t even realize the door I had just opened as it was such a normal thing to do. I was in the shower when it actually hit me, and I practically slipped and broke my neck rushing to get out and get to my computer. “Of course”, I thought.

That day I created a WebSocket Client JavaScript library called scatter-js. It allows web applications to directly interface with Scatter Desktop after going through some basic authentication and user approval to make it secure and only allow applications the user wants to talk to it, talk to it. But it doesn’t only work with the web! Native desktop applications can use their own WebSocket clients to talk to Scatter Desktop too!

Why is this important?

With blockchains becoming extremely fast and scalable this is an important upgrade. We want to be able to play First-Person Shooter games integrated with the blockchain without exposing our private keys, for instance. This new way of contacting signature providers ( like Scatter Desktop ) allows us to do just that. But it’s not all it allows us to do. A prototype of Scatter Mobile just hit the market. It can instantly connect to all web applications that are using scatter-js, and can also connect to native mobile applications, without wrapping them. This is a huge leap forward from dapp explorers and web extensions. Web developers only have to write code once and they instantly support both desktop and mobile. On top of that games written in frameworks like UnrealEngine4 and Unity3d also only have to write code once and can then export to Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and soon iOS without changing any of their code. It became write-once use-anywhere. Which is what all developers strive for.

“ I expect within the next year more and more signature providers will start moving over to this type of system as it puts an emphasis on the user’s privacy, and app accessibility. Let it be known we did it first :)”

Aside from the obvious benefits let’s look at some of the other problems having Scatter on the Desktop and Mobile solves for both web extensions and dapp explorers.

-          No more untrusted popups from within the browser since it’s easy to discern desktop/mobile popups from browser popups. No more click-jacking. ( mobile does this with real phone notifications )

-          Keys and private data are never kept within the scope of the dapp anymore, instead they are kept on your desktop/device. This completely removes an entire attack vector. ( albeit while adding another one through websocket connections, but that’s a far simpler problem to solve )

-          No more limitations about what apps you can use! Instead of Scatter telling you which dapps you can use, it’s the dapps telling you that you can use Scatter. This puts the power back into the hands of the user and the developers.

-          No more forced auto-updates. If you don’t want to update, don’t. This is of course a massively important one. “How do we know you’re not updating the extension on us?” is one of the hardest questions I had to answer with Scatter Classic. The answer was always “You’ll have to trust me”, which I hate because it totally breaks the whole reason we use blockchain. Don’t trust, verify. ( Scatter is open-source of course )

Native Applications are the next big thing in Blockchain.

Mark my words. With Scatter Desktop and Scatter Mobile we no longer have to limit dapps to the web. We can now support native mobile applications, native desktop applications, MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android, Tablets, and soon iOS ( hopefully, Apple don’t fuck me on this one ).

This opens up a brand new expanse for blockchain usability and productivity. Imagining the possibilities is almost intoxicating.

-          Native decentralized exchange applications. Native market applications.

-          Native games with built-in marketplaces.. First person shooters, Real time strategy, Virtual Reality, Gambling… so so many options. Native game CENTERS like Steam but for blockchain games.

-          Native banking & budgeting applications, loans.

-          Full developer suites integrated with Scatter for easier testing and deployment of contracts.

-          Native messaging applications.

The list goes on and on, we could sit and dream up things we couldn’t do before this all day. This is truly an untapped resource. I can’t wait to see this ecosystem explode as developers catch on to all the possibilities. We’re in for a wild ride, I hope you’re strapped in.

Source: https://medium.com/getscatter/the-blockchain-isnt-just-for-web-applications-silly-rabbit-926a4ea5ccd1

Chelan PUD Unveils New Proposed Cryptocurrency Rate Structure

The Chelan County PUD recently unveiled their proposed rate structure for cryptocurrency activities, and local miners are crying foul.

At the heart of the issue is the increased variable and fixed costs crypto-mining activities bring. Customer Utilities Rate Adviser Lindsey Mohns explained the new proposed rate structure.

“This rate structure is built the same way as the existing rate structure that cryptocurrency miners are paying right now, which is referred to as Schedule 35. What this new rate structure (Schedule 36) does is brings into it a market consideration on the energy price because we will have to purchase power on the market to serve the variable load associated with cryptocurrency.”

In other words, the costs of increased demand data mining would bring would be passed onto the crypto-miners.

Said Kimberlee Craig, Chelan PUD’s Public Information Officer, “Chelan PUD is addressing (the rate structure) in a way that captures the cost and protects the investment for the customers that are already here and invested greatly in our system.”

The ‘investment’ Craig spoke of are the PUD’s fixed costs, which would include dealing with the wear the extra power capacity brings.

“Our upfront capital charges are intended to recover the accelerated cost of infrastructure investment in our system, mainly in our substations, which is kind of the main component of the distribution system.” explained Mohns, “So the upfront charges take into account the capacity that’s used by cryptocurrency miners.”

It also should be noted that the extra power the PUD would have to purchase on the open market would not necessarily be hydro-power. Like all energy purchased from the national grid, it would be a blend of renewable energy and fossil fuels.

During the November 7th meeting in which the Chelan PUD explained the newest proposed rate structure, the end of the meeting was left to questions from the public. This quickly descended into more of a public comment-like forum, in which many members of the cryptocurrency community expressed their displeasure at the proposed increased costs.

Denton Meier, part owner of Firefly Technologies as well as Silicon Orchard, a crypto-mining company, was on hand at the meeting and spoke candidly about how he felt data miners were being ignored and left out of the process.

Said Meier, “I think it’s nice to be able to make comment but I seems like they’ve already made up their mind. What’s been missing is actually a round-table discussion and more of a brain storming session. How can we really affect the local economy, how can we work together? Let’s create a business-case scenario and include the PUD in that. ”

Meier and many other local data miners expressed that, if this rate structure were to be approved, they would move their business elsewhere. Idaho, Montana, Virginia and Ohio were all alternate locations brought up at the meeting.

“Looking at it in a bigger picture it’s not just mining but services that can happen around that. Like jobs creation in programming, finance, and other things that will happen over time with the cryptocurrency market. We have the opportunity to become a hub for that.” explained Meier, “With rates that price us out of that ballgame it’s not that root that we need to then grow those other businesses, so that will happen elsewhere.”

Meier also warned the Chelan PUD that the proposed Schedule 35 structure might only kill local data mining operations but leave the door open for hedge funds to operate in their place. Hedge funds have much greater cash reserves than a local resident operating a few computers out of their basement. That affords the hedge fund the ability to operate at a loss for several years in an effort to keep to a long-term vision.

As of the November 7th meeting, there were roughly 20 cryptocurrency operators with applications pending approval. Local members of the cryptocurrency community stated they expected that number to drop off after the most recent meeting.

However, Mohns doesn’t expect that drop off to happen, “We have had several public meetings on the rate itself. We continue to take into account the feedback we’ve heard from cryptocurrency customers so I would have expected if they we going to drop out they would have already, and not necessarily after this (meeting,) because this has really taken some of their feedback into account.”

source: http://www.kpq.com/chelan-pud-unveils-new-proposed-cryptocurrency-rate-structure/

5 Mitos Seks di Dunia Wanita

Bahasan tentang seks hingga kini masih menjadi hal yang tabu. Tak banyak orang yang berani membahasnya di depan publik. Kebanyakan orang mengetahui bahasan tentang seks melalui kabar burung atau dari mulut ke mulut. Inilah yang membuat bahasan seks tak pernah lepas dari mitos.

Uniknya mitos tentang seks banyak berkembang di dalam kehidupan wanita, bukan pria. Tak percaya, perhatikan mitos-mitos di bawah ini, seperti yang ditulis idiva.com, Kamis (22/10/2015).

Wanita berbeda dengan laki-laki ketika bergairah

Ini sama sekali tidak benar. Baik wanita maupun pria memiliki keinginan seks yang sama. Kebutuhan biologis tidak dibedakan melalui gender.

Orgasme tanda kepuasan wanita dari seks.

Jika Anda berpikir orgasme adalah titik puncak kepuasan wanita, Anda salah besar. Dalam seks wanita mengingin foreplay dan belaian dari pasangan bukan sekadar orgasme.

Seks saat haid tidak akan hamil

Ini adalah mitos besar yang berkembang di masyarakat. Sperma yang dilepaskan ketika wanita sedang haid dapat tumbuh berhari-hari di rahim, sehingga tak menutup kemungkinan jika wanita dapat hamil. Apalagi jika si wanita memiliki siklus haid yang pendek.

Porno tak untuk perempuan

Siapa bilang libido wanita tak terangsang ketika menonton video porno? Wanita juga menikmati video porno sama dengan pria. Jika merasa sulit membuat wanita Anda bergairah, tak ada salahnya Anda mengajaknya menonton video porno.

Orgasme wanita hanya di Miss V

Untuk membuat wanita orgasme, tak selamanya dengan seks vaginal. Wanita memiliki begitu banyak zona sensitif dibandingkan pria. Puting di kedua payudara juga bisa membuat wanita orgasme.

Sumber: https://www.liputan6.com/health/read/2346112/5-mitos-seks-di-dunia-wanita

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