LISK Highlights from 17th — 21st Dec 2018.
Hello everybody. The LISK project and it’s enthusiasts are always busy, and this week past has certainly been no exception.
Seeing is believing, so here is a recap of the highlights and interesting items from the past week on the LISK subreddit and beyond…..
A major personal highlight for myself was hit this week, and that was being voted “Community member of the year 2018” at the first ever Liskies aka the Lisk Community Awards. The results were announced here on reddit yesterday and I was really happy to read the results. Great to see a fellow mod in Tony getting in there as well as “Best technical content creator”. Also nice to see folk with a close connection to GNY/LML like Lemii (Best community tool) and sexor (Most helpful Lisker) well up there among the award winners also. Quite rightly Lisk USA were represented also by E1337 with his award for “Best nontechnical content creator”. I nominated Jedrzej for “The merry Lisker” award, so it was also good to see that worked out with it resulting in the community bestowing the accolade on him.
Thanks to all who took the time to nominate and thanks to those that voted. I aim to continue with my support of the Lisk project, its sidechains and all positive aspects of the ecosystem and that will include my final weekly roundup of the year which continues below. Read on, and thanks again.
I hope you all have a Happy Christmas and a prosperous and healthy New Year.
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“Lisk Being at the Forefront of Technological Disruption” Says the Project’s Co-founder!
“I see Lisk being at the forefront of technological disruption and building the foundations of future blockchain infrastructures…I believe in this technology because I see the benefits and real work applications of it through my work with Lisk,” Max Kordek was quoted as saying in a recent interview on financemagnates.com. Finance Magnates is an online publication which describes itself as “the world’s only multi-asset online/electronic trading knowledge hub; Finance Magnates literally caters to the needs of the entire global trading industry; Finance Magnates offers a one-of-a-kind knowledge opportunity for industry professionals and trading savvies alike”.
Max continued… “I have seen many bear markets since 2012, but I think once you believe in the underlying potential of blockchain then you really aren’t going to be influenced by the position of cryptocurrency markets. It may stabilize in the future but, for now, I’m more interested in meeting and working with people who are optimistic about blockchain”. You can read the full interview here and see Max’s comments on the newly introduced LIPs (Lisk Improvement Proposals) and the further development of the projects consensus algorithm.
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Lisk Center Utrecht’s Interior Design Previewed!
Things are looking to be quite green, organic, and weathered at LCU (Lisk Center Utrecht) if the plans for its interior design are anything to go by. Judge for yourself by viewing an image of the plans here. This image was posted by /u/joo5tylisk on his twitter channel @joo5tylisk. joo5tylisk is one of the main drivers behind this multipurpose Lisk base which will be located in JIM/Beatixgebouw. Community driven and supported by Lisk HQ, this Lisk center will act as a shared working space for those building within the Lisk ecosystem. Over 200 square metres of office space with around 60 places available…. and all 100% free to users. This center is set to open its doors in Q1 2019.
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LISK Sidechain Project’s Founder Reassures Us on AI Danger and Market Flash Crashes!
Richard Jarritt, Co-Founder and Chief R&D Officer of GNY.io, the team behind the LML (LISK Machine Learning) project, spoke recently with none other than MacMac007 (he of the “Let’s Goooo” saying). They chatted about… What is AI?….Should we fear AI?…. AI bots and the markets….Corporations investing into AI & Blockchain, and much, much, more. Lots of interesting angles looked at, and no airs and graces with Richard either in the “interview”, which comes across more like a chat between friends….. and that is a really good thing. You can listen to the the chat here and discover what the two talked about.
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LISK Sidechain Project’s CEO Lays Out His Plans to Bull.io!
Bull.io, which describes itself as “a revolutionary new Blockchain, Technology and business website” recently caught up with Christian Junger, CEO and Co-Founder of Madana at the Blockchain Live exhibition in London. Christian spoke to the London based website about the growth of Lisk, the benefits of and tech behind the MADANA project, and how he visualises blockchain will evolve the future. Two comments he made really jumped out at me. Speaking about the Lisk project he confidently said….. “With sidechain technology we want to solve the scaling problem, and we will show this soon with MADANA as the first sidechain project”. On Madana he said with a smile…. “In a short sentence we are the Uber or Airbnb for information”. Big if true, as they say. You can watch the full interview here.
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Lisk Financial Plan Hedges Against Downside of the Crypto Market, Without Removing Its Upside!
In the recent past we had reassuring statements from Lisk HQ staff regarding the healthy state of the projects finances. We had Tech Evangelist, Rachel Black’s reply to a query regarding whether Lisk has funding to last past 2020, the one where she said “our finances are being handled carefully by our finance team, and are managed to cope with this market downturn”. We also had Community lead Mat Piaggi replying to a query where one reddit community member asked…. “would appreciate an update on your finances though — like the one we had during he presentation back around the rebrand time; would like to appreciate the effect the bear market has had”. Mat’s statement was… “Firstly, we have the liquidity to fully support our roadmap to the end. That takes into account the hiring requirements, development, and marketing strategies etc. The current focus is on diversifying Lisk’s assets between cryptocurrency markets and more traditional assets. Once I have more info about this process — you’ll get a more in-depth update.”
Now we have Max Kordek, Lisk’s Co-Founder and CEO providing the best clarity yet in the latest “Lisk NOW” video posting. The main points to take away from the video are that HQ will diversify a portion of their Bitcoin and altcoin holdings into Swiss Francs as a hedge against downside of the current crypto market without removing its upside, as they will still retain at least 50% of their Bitcoin holdings. Most importantly, they will not be selling any of the 7 million LSK they currently hold. Personally, I applaud the clarity that has been given to this financial strategy and I loved how it was presented in such an infomal and easily understandable manner.
Want to learn more? You can see the full video here.
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Lisk Core Running on a Raspberry Pi….. The Video!
A community member has been working on this project recently and got it up and running on his raspberry pi 3b+ with a good level of success. To achieve this /u/zOwn3Ds has used the source code for Lisk core, plus followed some steps from Sexor AKA Minions delegate and his installation on FreeBSD (a free and open-source Unix-like operating system). Now /u/zOwn3Ds has created a youtube video tutorial for the installation of Lisk-Core on the Raspberry Pi. You can find it here. To accompany the video you will find the README here. Great work, /u/zOwn3Ds!
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Lisk Lists on ABCC, and the Exchange is Giving Away 3,000 USDT to Folk Who Trade it!
This good news was announced via a tweet from the official ABCC twitter account stating…”Starting from today you can trade #LSK with the LSK/ETH trading pair. To celebrate this listing we are hosting a #giveaway contest, with up to 3,000 #USDT to be given out!” ABCC is a multi-cryptocurrency exchange with service centres based in Singapore. They state that their mission is to “embrace the philosophy of Dеcentralized Technology and focus on helping investors identify valuable Dеcentralized Technology assets, offering a secure online trading platform and providing professional trading services”. The initial Lisk pairing is LSK/ETH.
During the giveaway period, if the total trading amount of LSK/ETH of ALL TRADERS is no less than 170,000 LSK (Trading Amount = No. of LSK bought +sold), each LSK/ETH trader will share a total reward pool of up to 3,000 USDT proportionally. The higher the total trading amount, the bigger the reward pool! You can find full details on the giveaway here, while the Lisk trading markets can be found here.
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That’s it for the recap of the week’s Highlights.
These Highlight posts also go out daily on the….
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The Highlights are also included in my weekly roundup on the bitcoin talk forum’s LISK thread and within my LISK Highlights weekly roundup on Medium.
So keep an eye out for them on these outlets also.
