Word up Word up my friends, it has been a while since we interacted on this platform. There is the other side of me (apart from being a crypto enthusiast that I would love to share with you, my friends. I love creativity and in this respect, creativity to do with art and design in the public transport industry.
World over, public transport is a common means of transport from one point to the other, be it train, taxi or bus. In Kenya, we have ‘Matatu’ a word used to refer to public transport buses or minibusses.
In any business, competition is inevitable, and it is for this reason that investors in the ‘Matatu’ industry have to think outside the box to outdo each other and make higher profits. Investors, especially in Kenya’s main cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nakuru, have come up with ways to improve the looks on their ‘Matatus’ so as to attract more clientele. And it is for this reason, we have creative designers involved in bodybuilding, creative color and graphic designs, top of the range music systems just to mention a few. A swopped up ‘Matatu’ is referred to ‘Nganya’ on the streets. The ‘Matatu’ industry is a multi-billion industry in Kenya judging huge amounts of revenue generated each day in profits, and the huge employment created for the youth.

I will be highlighting on a weekly basis great ‘Nganya’s in Kenya, their theme and creative designs.

Nganya name: Brain Freeze

Make: Isuzu NQR

Theme: Freezing, Ice

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The sharing economy has grown tremendously over the past few years. Thanks to companies like Uber & Airbnb, new livelihoods have been created. With some service providers earning millions of dollars in payments annually. But even with all its benefits, users engaged with centralized P2P enterprises are always at risk. Whether it’s from unethical data mining firms or from actual criminal hackers.

It just wasn’t possible to get the perfect platform, one that’s not only reliable but safe too. Until Now!

Thanks to the power of Neo Blockchain, we have one in BizShake. Assuming you haven’t heard of it yet, BizShake is a complete ecosystem comprised of a bevy of dApps that all work together to ensure the platform’s users get the most value out of P2P sharing.

The BizShake platform provides individuals and enterprises with all the necessary tools and protocols to enable them to develop their own custom applications. The best part is, the applications can be tailored depending on conditions or needs specific to the creator and his/her platform’s potential user base, for example, factors like the dApp can support the local language, be targeted to various user groups etc.

But seriously you can’t have the perfect burger with just the buns and a patty, you need all the little extras to make it perfect; the cheese, the tomatoes, the lettuce. BizShake is great on its own, but if you consider all the ‘little extras’, their offering becomes legendary. Let’s talk about some of these extras, shall we?

The Cheese — SmartRent

Let’s say you have the date of a lifetime coming up and you need a timepiece to complement your outfit, normally you’d have to either spend thousands trying to get the said timepiece or survive without it, but it’s the 21st century — you shouldn’t have to do either.

Thanks to SmartRent you can quickly search for the timepiece you’d like, comb through relevant entries and depending on conditions such as your credibility level, item location, lease rates, item availability and deposit details, rent the timepiece until you’ve completed your purpose. It’s basically how Airbnb works but with a slight twist.

This twist is what i refer to as SmartCertify (the lettuce):

SmartCertify.

As a lessor, if you’re giving away your prized timepiece you need to be assured that you won’t be left hanging in case the timepiece is damaged or isn’t returned at all. BizShake allows lenders to ensure their items against any misfortunes and thanks to a proprietary concept called Non-fungible tokens, users can inspect listed items to ensure nobody lists a knockoff. Certifier users put in place via an affiliation program act as buffers further protecting ‘expensive assets’

But what if there’s a dispute, what then. Time for SmartDispute (the tomatoes).

SmartDispute.

Is basically a conflict resolution system that allows users to settle any dispute that may arise during transactions. For example, is in scenario 1, The borrower returned the timepiece damaged, the lessor will file an issue addressing the situation, he may then ask for a portion of the deposit, this depends on the lessor, once complete this file will be delivered to the accused. He/she may decide to pay immediately or provide a counteroffer.

All these services will be conducted by the BizShake Smart Contract. If after two rounds of offers and counteroffers an agreement isn’t reached, the file will be presented to a randomly-chosen review panel of five highly credible BizShake members. They will give the verdict. A smart contract will then facilitate transfer of the compensation deposit. All this with no outside interference. Very cool!

Speaking of cool, let us discover the cucumber of the equation: The SmartPawn

The SmartPawn.

I personally think this one will prove most useful, we’ve all had those times when you need extra cash fast, but you have nowhere to turn.

SmartPawn is perfect for this situation, allowing users to give away any item they own for a fee and for a period of time, once they pay the loan back the item is returned. This process is managed by smart contracts.

Lastly the onion in…SmartIdentity

SmartIdentify

We all have information about us that’s locked in some sort of data agency, BizShake plans on partnering up with IDV service providers for KYC services. If a company wants to run a company as sensitive as pawning or asset lending it needs to set up legitimate user profiles.

This profiling system will curate information such as Credit Score, User interests and preferences, their digital identity etc. This information will be used to personalize services within the platform as well as come up more accurate user rankings.

The Team

They say without a great team; no venture can survive its second year. BizShake has a great team.

Founder and CEO, Giuseppe Lo Presti is a born leader, having managed and founded ventures throughout his life, he was one the finance director at TRUSSARDI, an Italian fashion house founded in 1911, with over 100 million euros in yearly revenue. Before this he was a finance director at La Perla, a luxury fashion house. Giuseppe holds a BSc in Computer science from the Università di Bologna and master’s in finance from SDA Bocconi, his skills in business, entrepreneurship and technology will allow him to come up with all the right strategies necessary to grow BizShake.

His Co-founder and the person in charge of overseeing the planning, growth and implementation of BizShake’s marketing and outreach efforts, Yuting (Valentina) Gu, has a master’s degree in economics from Università Bocconi and a Bachelors in Arts from the Shanghai International Studies University, Ms Yuting interned at Louis Vuitton before heading to lead marketing and PR for TRUSSARDI in the Asia Pacific, her time has gathered her significant skills with not only marketing but also in communication and building relationships. Which are crucial.

Useful links.

This post is by no means conclusive, if you need to find out more about BizShake, check out the links below-

Official Whitepaper: http://BizShake.io/sites/default/files/BizShake_Whitepaper_1.2_ENG_2.pdf

BizShake on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Umi33FjbNsE

SmartRent on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OTpZFySzm7M

SmartPawn on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0Kz0jiwQzcY

You can also join BizShake on Telegram: https://t.me/BizShake

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See here’s the thing, when blockchain was introduced to the world in 2008 nobody really knew what it was, and up to now most people still don’t know what it is. In fact, an acquaintance of mine once looked me straight in my face and told me he thought blockchain was a new form of Wi-Fi. Laugh now but this shows there are so many in the world who don’t have a clue why blockchain technology is so revolutionary. So, to get the thrill of it they need to be placed in a situation where they can use blockchain in their daily lives and there’s nothing more ‘daily life’ than buying something.

Sidera wants to get the world to adapt to blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. This is one of the biggest reasons why it’s looking to invest in covering shopping malls, convenient stores, retail shops, cafés, restaurants etc.

But how will this whole system work? You may be asking.

It’s as simple as placing an offline digital wallet inside something most of us have with us every day. A watch. Sure, the concept is simple, but the company has invested a lot to make sure this revolutionary technology is possible.

The world is a big bad place, every minute there’s someone lurking behind a computer at a masked location waiting to steal all the data you leave behind with your smartwatch. Smartwatches such as the Fitbit, the Skagen Wristwatch are great until they’re not. See all the data you log in to your device can be automatically synced to an account or profile you hold inside your phone or tablet, and because all this data is stored at a central location by the parent company, it’s very vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

Sidera is using a completely new way of dealing with this data, it’s making it so that there is no middleman and that you oversee all your information. Sidera’s Smartbit (A decentralized wearable device) for example — is very cool because it works like a bank on your wrist that can be accessed using your secure pin and can be used to facilitate wrist to wrist exchanges all from an offline environment. So basically, anyone can send or receive bitcoin or any other ERC20 token securely and at fast times. The platform can support up to 500,000 TPS, compared to bitcoins 7 TPS.

The Smartbit devices will work the way every other smartwatch company does. Users can access the date and time and receive important notifications such as missed calls, messages, weather, news stories, trade alerts and much more from their phone anywhere, anytime. Other than the basic, the watch will also have a bevy of other features unique just to the company. The one I’m personally most excited about is the continuum which is a secure and decentralized digital asset exchange that will allow users to trade directly amongst themselves on a peer to peer level completely bypassing the middleman and all through an automated process.

Other cool features integrated into the watch are its bitcoin wallet operations which allow anyone with a wallet to send tokens to anyone with a crypto-address. Basically, if the Smartbit detects a suitable crypto-address nearby it will alert its user through a notification and ask them to take a course of action, you can then decide whether to transfer some coins/tokens or not. Receiving the crypto is just as simple, users can generate a new crypto address, which will be conveniently integrated into a QR code, this QR code can be shared to friends or on social. Friends can send crypto thanks to this code.

To ensure the wallet is always secure, Sidera has introduced something called a Ghost Mode which allows a user to completely mask all the wallet and crypto functionalities so that every unsuspecting individual sees a normal smartwatch, the company says all these functions will be kept away in their own military-grade encrypted crypto-layer only accessible to the owner of the Smart but.

Conclusion

In this digital age, we all want everything happening faster. We want faster cars, faster phones, faster services, faster internet and faster transactions. Current NFC-enabled wearables have this fast portion nailed down but when it comes to security they fall short. Sidera is doing both things really well and all inside a neat beautiful package. Here’s your chance to participate with the company.

Getting on the — Sidera action -

Ever since the founders of Sidera came up with the concept for the company back in 2016, the company has come a long way. The founding team has been established, a lot of research regarding the workings of both the hardware and software conducted and a prototype developed.

Tokenomics

Sidera has in supply 51,000,000 EQUOES and is looking to raise 15,000,000 USD to fund its activities. The company has also already conducted a pre-distribution campaign and will be launching its actual distribution campaign from 1st September 2018 to 30th September 2018 with the eQUOS price set at 1 eQUOS for 2 USD.

Roadmap

Please note that you need to invest at least 100 USD to get your foot in the game, which is chump change compared to what you get in return. Think of it like this — by investing you get to be a part of changing the world and because the company has promised to give away 1% of all the funds it has collected to charity, you will most likely be making the world a better place. Everyone likes a hero.

This post isn’t conclusive, to get juicier information you can either:
Browse their main website here: https://Sidera.io or

Read the company’s 54-page whitepaper here: https://Sidera.io/docs/v1.0/Sidera_Whitepaper.pdf

To get extra information, you can also follow and engage with Sidera on all their regularly updated social channels:

On Twitter — https://twitter.com/Siderabc

On Medium — https://medium.com/@Siderablockchain
On Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/Siderablockchain/
On Telegram — https://t.me/SideraOfficial
On Reddit — https://www.reddit.com/user/SideraBlockchain?st=JIRSDIAI&sh=dd548a81

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I stumbled across an uncommon platform called DCC, short for Distributed Credit Chain, that’s pioneering a unique kind of credit card, a card that’s designed to work for the blockchain … Thinking Visa or MasterCard? Think again. This is something entirely different something that’s not susceptible to fraudulent activities. DCC’s blockchain credit card promises to lower the costs associated with default rates — by integrating the users' amount limit and credit information freely submitted by various credit providers and making it available to credit card reimbursement institutions thus saving them a lot of money, in the long run, translating to lower costs for customers.

Credit cards aside, Another big reason I am not the biggest fan of banking systems is that certain checks too much time to get cleared by the bank even if you deposit the check directly into your account the funds would still take time to be available for use. Yeah! I get the future is digital and very soon users will only need cards to transact but still can anyone explain to me why the check thing is still an issue? Any little error that you make with your record will be expensive over the long haul since a few banks report the least and unimportant oversight like late installments or one-time overdraft occurrence to the ChexSystems reporting office. An agency that screens each and every little error an individual makes with respect to their funds and once that individual is in the ChexSystems database then that individual won’t have the capacity to open a record or request a credit for the following 5 years.

Disrupting the current monopolies.

To maintain a steadily developing economy, finances are crucial; Work, Innovative developments, advancement in the field of science and technological ventures all can’t be made possible without adequate and stable financing.

Banking systems today can be described as fragmentary reserves because they are all controlled by an all-powerful central bank. This is the reason for inflation and the reason why currencies go through highs and lows.

The capacity of central banks to puppeteer entire markets is why they manage to achieve their monopoly status, they can add reserves to the banking systems at whatever point they choose without regard for the public’s best interest. Although there’s nothing wrong with the idea of fractional reserve banking, the only solution to the corrupt banking industry involves getting rid of the central bank and denying the government from intervening and making decisions that only benefits central banks. DCC’s unique decentralized platforms are meant to take out the middleman by giving individuals or bank users not only the right to own their data but also have the right to use it, current centralized systems don’t allow this. So, if executed properly, there would be no need to have an intermediary because the transparency already exists.

Without any traditional banking systems to govern the central bank would be a toothless giant. Also, thanks to the blockchain credit card, zero-knowledge authentication and homomorphic encryption, users and financial institutions within the platform can access user credit and overdraft information and grant credit to qualifying users and thus maintaining credit amount within the platform. This directly benefits users because they won’t need to pay premiums asking for middleman services as everything happens on a peer to peer basis. Through the DCC contract set, the ownership of underlying assets such as vehicles or houses can be registered on the ecosystem by legally registered institutions such as law firms and certification bodies so that If and when these assets need to be re-used, the process of mortgaging will be simpler for both parties. This is because the life cycle of the entire asset can be checked from records in a cheaper and more efficient manner. This method also prevents repeated mortgage financing from ever happening.

A new revolutionary structure for running banks.

It’s more complicated than this, but here’s how the current banking system works commercial banks accept customer deposits, raise investor and lender capital and then use the money to give out loans, buy securities and provide other financial services, like acting as payment agents (Wire transfers, credit card payments, check issuances etc.). Investment banks, on the other hand, specialize in the capital market — aiding in the sale of securities, underwriting new debt and facilitating mergers and acquisitions.

Lastly the central banks, it’s the central bank’s job to manage a state’s currency, money supply, and interest rates. They also oversee commercial banks within their respective countries. Unfortunately, with the current banking system, all the financial resources collected in the smaller, ‘less profitable’ regions are transferred to the bigger head office centers. Encouraging regional imbalances in the country with higher interest rates being charged in the developed areas to compensate for the lower rates being charged in the less profitable areas.

To fix problems the current tree structure implemented by banks has caused DCC is implementing a new flat structure to bring about improved efficiency. By eliminating multiple layers of middle management, a flat banking structure will save DCC millions of dollars in costs, translating to a reduction in overall costs for the platform users. Also, by implementing a flat structure it’s much harder for information to be misinterpreted. Instead of having to gather information through an intermediary, information comes directly from the source.

DCC provides every user with a DCCID, that basically acts like a member ID that identifies you within the platform, because the DCCID is based off a decentralized accounting system, any individual or institution can generate their ID while offline so whenever any information is relayed it is stored on the ecosystem and can be looked upon at any time. To prevent any incidences where data is tampered with, DCC implements a digital signature technology that guarantees no data is interfered with. All this goes into strengthening the flat structure, bringing decision making close to the customer and making it as seamless for both parties as possible.

Helping governments gather more conclusive data.

Regulation. a rule of management that’s drafted by subject matter experts and that’s meant to enforce a statutory instrument. Bank regulation subjects banks and other financial institutions to specific rules or regulations under governing law to create market transparency between banks and the individuals with whom they conduct business with but unfortunately, because of the disconnect within the banking industry and the hold the national and global economies have on banks, it becomes difficult to regulate. Let’s face it modern banking systems need to be closely regulated to prevent a bank failure and the economic crisis that would follow, regulations also keep banks in check and prevent high-interest rates and inefficient operations.

DCC will do its part to adhere with state regulations, one way it hopes to do this is by using — the ABS Asset distribution — a model that ensures all contracts created on the DCC platform are decentralized, binding and most importantly tamper-proof. Assets will be highly divisible and liquid to ensure asset securitization never entirely requires the transfer of assets by a single equity holder. Rather, any other credit organization that rises can bundle records and offer loaning resources provided by DCC through identification, screening, combination, and structuring. All so that regulators can analyze all the data on the blockchain to find underlying assets faster thereby responding to industry risks more effectively.

Cyber Sheng Foundation Ltd. the organization tasked with growing the platform will ensure a smooth transition process and once DCC catches on, Cyber Sheng will hand over maintenance rights to the public blockchain governance structure, so it can reach newer levels of adoption.

In conclusion

With trillions of assets held globally, banks are obviously a crucial part of a nation or global economy. While peer to peer transactions may be as old as the first currency, banking was first introduced and only started catching on in the 15th century medieval Italy. In fact, banks played a major role in the rise of the Italian city-states as world biggest and most influential economic powers. Since then, the conditions of an economy are tied to the overall condition of the banking system thus in case of failure everything breaks down. This is exactly what happened to bring about the financial crisis of ‘07-’08.

Even then nothing has changed, sure some tweaks have been made but the system has remained predominantly unchanged. It’s time for a new solution, luckily DCC has stepped up to the plate, with a system that’s not only transparent and low cost but also comes in with a broad-based mechanism of coming up with interest rates.

Don’t take my word for it, hit these links to read their website and whitepaper for better information. Promise you’ll like it.

• Official website — http://dcc.finance
• Whitepaper — http://dcc.finance/file/DCCwhitepaper.pdf
• Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DccOfficial2018/
• Twitter — https://twitter.com/DccOfficial2018/
• Telegram — https://t.me/DccOfficial

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Recently, Cryptocurrencies have become more popular as different industries and enterprises embrace the blockchain technology bearing in mind the potential innovation it can impact on the various industries. At the moment, Cryptocurrencies are being utilized to store wealth and for the remittance of funds with the aid of a peer-to-peer approach that is achieved by the blockchain technology. It is important to note that the most effective and successful Cryptocurrencies have the capability of providing simple p2p remittance and a vehicle that provides speculative investment. There is a huge window of opportunity that is can be easily tapped by the current Cryptocurrencies but before that, they first need to provide solutions to the current challenges. The major problems facing this industry include: poor or low transaction speeds, ease of use and fungibility.

Through the use of AIAScoin, a solution to these problems can be obtained by establishing a blockchain platform built on the basis of a Proof-of-Stake agreement mechanism while at the same time utilizing masternode technology in order to provide privacy and fungibility.

AIAScoin aims and vision for the future is to work out the development and advancement of blockchain technology to a point it is properly integrated with day-to-day aspects that are paramount for modern life. Before these vision can be achieved, blockchain’s own failures and inefficiencies need to be addressed. One of the key issues that need to be addressed is fungibility. Basically, fungibility means the ability to exchange one unit of currency for another unit of currency. For example, one Chinese YUAN can be exchanged for another Chinese YUAN. Contrarily, there some other currencies that cannot be exchanged because of their transparent transaction nature. These currencies which cannot be fungible include Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Another challenge is minimized blockchain adoption by online and offline merchants. This needs to be addressed before blockchain technology can be effectively integrated into the mainstream market. Many of the existing Cryptocurrencies of the merchants compel dealers to have expensive hardware so that they can open networks and receive payments. This is not appropriate because it raises the expenses for the dealer. In addition, many of these Cryptocurrencies are not user-friendly. It is not simple to use and the ease of use needs to be addressed because only the blockchain enthusiasts are the ones using it as a payment option.

Most problems have solutions right? The most probable solution here is to establish a privacy coin. But, because of low transaction speeds, privacy coin’s remittances are slower than other public alternatives. Most transactions that are done on privacy coin ledgers are recorded in minutes and sometimes hours and clearly, this is not conducive to be used for payment processing that should be fast and efficient. The key barrier for increased transaction speeds is the Proof-of-Work ( PoW ) consensus mechanism. PoW relies entirely on the hardware that is used to validate the transaction. These generates complicated transaction blocks and expensive mining environments, and these eventually results in decreased blockchain speeds because the transaction blocks become larger and more detailed. This creates the urgent need to establish an effective approach that has the capability of providing privacy and fungibility without hindering or limiting the speeds of these transactions.

Solution through Aiascoin

AIAScoin is the premier solution to revolutionizing cryptocurrency and payment processing industry. The company’s platform rotates around a fast, private and secure Peer-to-Peer (P2P) blockchain and an automated payment processing system that will be integrated to all blockchain websites that need it.

AIAScoin platform focuses on fast transaction speeds while at the same time providing security, fungibility and transparency on the blockchain. The company relies on Proof-of Stake as the agreement mechanism and makes use of masternodes to provide privacy which makes their network to be a fast platform that can execute transactions instantly all over the world. AIAScoin’s key aim is to make it easy for dealers to integrate blockchain technology by creating an integrated plugin that permits merchants to accept AIAScoin as a means of payment with a user friendly system.

AIAS Masternodes

AIAS Masternodes use the same kind of wallet software used in the AIAS blockchain to provide services to the network. The company employs the use of masternodes to ensure users data is secured and also fast transaction speed which combined creates the ideal ecosystem for a user friendly network.
The masternode technology used by AIAScoin also provides fungibility. These masternodes are used to make the coins untraceable. AIAScoin can be used to represent PIRVX fork. Since PIRVX fork is Dash fork, and Dash is a Bitcoin fork, then we can confidently note that AIAScoin has the functionality of these different Cryptocurrencies.

AIAS Features

Payment Processor

AIAScoin targets at developing a system that will be of advantage to both sellers and buyers. The company’s platform will permit the sellers to accept payments using AIAScoin easily. This payment processor will be easy to integrate and will also facilitate payment processing in the world as a whole. AIAScoin will make the setup time fast and simple so that even non-tech specialists able to configure the AIAScoin payment system

Easy to setup API

AIAScoin’s API will be easy to integrate on any merchant’s website. It will be as simple as plug and play. It only needs the merchant to register then add the plugin to their website. This feature will be connected to the merchant’s account giving them the ability to accept payment and remit to other businesses easily.

Negligible transaction fees

This is an incentive to the merchants since the company only requires low transaction fees. Since it is founded on PoS confirmation, there is no need for users to invest their hard-earned income on expensive, resource demanding hardware. The funds obtained from the AIAScoin system will be used for the AIAScoin system stakeholders.

Cross-Platform payments

In order to provide cross-platform functionality, AIAScoin creates several access points for wallets and accounts using a web platform through plugins. These eventually make the network easy to use across different platforms. AIAScoin permits its users to access the platform using Android, iOS phones and Windows, Linux and MacOS devices.

Safety of the Transactions

The cryptographic nature of AIAScoin makes sure all transactions are properly secured. Wallets that store coins are cryptographically secured no matter which platform they fall into.

Instant and easy payments

Here payments are almost instant and easy to make. It takes only a click from the user and payment is made without requiring an extra step. And since it is developed on PoS consensus, that transaction is processed without the problems related to resource demanding PoW computations. This makes AIAScoin effective for making online computations. You completely have no reason why you should not invest in these project.

Transparency and anonymity

As a block-chain solution, AIAScoin is transparent. All transactions are verified and permanently recorded over the blockchain as ledger blocks and in the long-run, these process ensures transparency and also minimizes and completely eliminates internal and external cases of fraud.

Conclusion

There is no doubt that Blockchain technology is taking the world by storm and has proved to be key in improving day to day entrepreneurial transactions. AIAScoin targets to improve blockchain technology by introducing a platform that is fast, secure and private, and that in itself sets it ahead in this cryptocurrency age.

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Content distribution basically involves promoting content to a targeted online audience by using various media formats through channels and networks. Today an individual with an internet connection can easily create and promote their content widely. But the big question is, how effective will it be? Content marketing is growing day by day, brands are booming, content creators are becoming more creative. But there is a problem, brands are losing lots of money, publishers are unable to reach the targeted market, at the expense of the content consumer.
For some time, content distribution has been through social platform and search engines, they have been making lots of cash from the engagements in the expense of the consumers, while publishers and creators earn so little.

Media protocol

Thus the idea to come up with MEDIA Protocol which will be an open architecture that focuses on creating a multi-directional economy, by bringing together publishers, creators and content consumers to a single platform of content, data, and incentives exchange. MEDIA Protocol will allow publisher and content creators to interact directly with consumers to a more transparent, efficient and uninterrupted online content experience for all users. MEDIA Protocol believes there is no need to use middlemen in data, content and reward transfer. By taking the lead to change people’s perception, MEDIA protocol will use its dedicated team and their advisers by using the available resource for sure they will achieve a milestone in building a new content distribution platform.

How media protocol will solve content creation issues

MEDIA Protocol Will see that it creates smart URLs that allow publishers and creators to directly reward content consumers for viewing, liking or sharing their content. The publisher will have to creates and posts authentic content, then forward it to the MEDIA Protocol smart contract, then the consumer earns token rewards every time they view, like or share that content.
MEDIA Protocol is the foundation for an ecosystem where publishers, creators and any variety of content distribution platform can interact directly with consumers to further a more transparent, efficient and enjoyable online content experience for everyone

Publisher and content promoters will have to associate a URL to an Ethereum address in order to register a promotion, receive tips and for paywall payments. the publisher will verify the URL by including a destination wallet address for payment purposes within a meta tag in the page. Publishers and brands will have to promote URLs using media protocol tokens to increase views. a publisher initiates a smart contract request using their wallet, then submit a combination of The URL to be promoted. Promotion parameters, List of acceptable identity verification services for consumers and affiliates also including maximum affiliate commission level.

Similarly, for promotions aimed at publishers or content creators, one will submit a combination of The URL to be promoted, the Promotion and The address that will receive the tokens after the promotion is submitted, it creates an entry in the smart contract which validates the promotion period, after which the promotion has to be renewed.

URL Consumption

For every impression, like, click, vote or share on social media for a URL that the dApp is aware, dApp submits a notification to the smart contract. A preset algorithm with the smart contract will then assert whether the consumer is verified as per publisher’s specifications and will credit the consumer with tokens.
Media protocol gives an opportunity to brands publishers and content consumers in the platform to interact and share ideas. Content promotion will make a paradigm shift by decentralizing the distribution. Consumers will be rewarded for their data and their role in interaction while publishers and content creators will earn more.

MEDIA Protocol ECOSYSTEM

MEDIA Protocol has come up with a smart contact to create a functional token economy that will bring all the stakeholders together. Through the smart contact, a reward based economy I will see those token earnings, within the economy, though it will be possible to exchange the tokens to Ethereum currency
Media protocol has come up with a third party application, CryptoCatnip dApp will provide Proof-of-Concept for the protocol, a reference architecture and monitor engagement inside the ecosystem while promoting adoption and onboarding users.

MEDIA Protocol platform

MEDIA Protocol platform will run on top of the Ethereum blockchain and is designed, ensuring it is user-friendly for content creators who will actually require little to no technical know-how to add to a commerce site. Publishers and content creators will to registered URL against an Ethereum account this will form the basis of transactions between content publishers, promoters, distributors, and consumers. Content creators will promote their content using the protocol or choose to use their current balance of MEDIA Protocol tokens to promote the URL itself.

MEDIA Protocol TOKEN CIRCULATION

MEDIA Protocol has come up with a two-way token interaction between the content promoters and consumers. Giving an opportunity for affiliate apps which are generally third-party apps i.e CryptoCatnip app and content distribution platforms. The reward algorithm is defined in a way that it represents the impact to the publisher/promoter of the specific interaction.

MEDIA Protocol will allow publishers to incentivize consumer interaction with content to earn tokens attached to a specific piece of content. Tokens distributions as specific rewards for defined content interactions via apps and content distribution platforms that support MEDIA Protocol.
Content consumers that use platforms supporting MEDIA Protocol will have the option to both earn and spend tokens. With media protocol:

Consumers are able to

• Receive rewards from publishers and content promoters
• exchange tokens to make purchases
• pay tips to publishers and content distributors
• pay subscriptions in the platform

Content promoters

• add funds inform of tokens
• receive tips and make payments to consumers

Content distribution

• receive commissions from distribution
• receive payments from brands

Content consumers have a chance to participate in the bounty program, affiliate program, and receive compensated from publishers when they share personal information in return earn MEDIA protocol tokens. For investors MEDIA protocol ICO presale will give them a chance to invest in this project and see this project bring a revolution in this industry. Token security is guaranteed, MEDIA protocol team has vast experience writing secure code, and will stay up-to-date with Ethereum security vulnerabilities and in case of anything response is immediate.

CryptoCatnip dApp

Media protocol has come up with a mobile application that has the news and media for the crypto world, it has an accessible and user-friendly interface. it allows content interaction to be incentivized and tracked through the blockchain. The CryptoCatnip dApp will provide a Proof-of-Concept for the protocol.

The app will have a reference architecture for those building dApps on the platform while it bootstrapped engagements inside the ecosystem this will encourage adoption of the protocol.

Originally published at steemit.com on July 15, 2018.

Media protocol

Media protocol is a recently established platform that aims at compensating content creators for their job in the proper manner without the need for middlemen taking a pinch or collecting personal information from the opportunity of interacting with consumers. The company is keen to incentivize the consumption of content using MEDIA tokens by basically turning a random URL into a blockchain wallet where funds can be circulated to consumers on the basis of how often they interact with the content URL. These generates a new audience economy with the aid of each participants’ contribution to the success of these pieces of content in their network.
The MEDIA Protocol is designed to create a direct link for the publishers to promote content distribution by enabling the exchange of value between the content consumers and the content creators for a mutually beneficial arrangement that is set to benefit both parties.

Media protocol market niche

At this age, with numerous technological advancements, the problem that accompanies content creation is lack of participant incentive. Content creators invest time and funding in the development of valuable content but only to receive little compensation for their work at the end which clearly demoralizes them. Many of the existing economic models do not have the capability to fully compensate the audiences for the roles that they play.

What Media Protocol is offering

The Protocol has come up with a prototype app called CryptoCatnip with a plan to avail a reference that will help software developers and computer programmers create their own applications. CryptoCatnip is a localized community centered application that deals with publicly available data. With the aid of CryptoCatnip, the MEDIA Protocol will be able to create an accessible and friendly and user experience whereby the content interactions are incentivized and followed up through the blockchain. In a plan to speed up the adoption and development of third party applications that meet the users’ needs through the distribution of great content, MEDIA Protocol provides a transparent model that rewards the third party app developers based on the volume of content served and consumed on their ecosystem.

MEDIA Protocol lays the background for CryptoCatnip to generate an economically viable content channel without being forced into the content distribution platforms. The company is the core infrastructure in the creation of a new open internet in which it will be easier to look and find relevant content and information served by localized creators and publishers.

MEDIA Protocol’s Ecosystem

After building a token and smart contract, the next step involves building an ecosystem that addresses every participants requirements and this involves the following key components:

• MEDIA Protocol
  The core MEDIA Protocol is a clever contract which ensures the rewards-based economic model, avails token exchange within the economy and enables token exchange with third-party tokens/Ethereum/ fiat currency.
• CryptoCatnip
  These provides: proof-of-concept for the protocol, a reference architecture for app developers and bootstrapped engagement in the ecosystem providing adoption and onboarding users.
• Third-Party Applications
  It is important to properly motivate and encourage the creation of locally developed applications. Such applications could contain different features and aim on different topic areas than CryptoCatnip. Just as an example, these applications may contain more features for content or maybe different ways of sorting and filtering through content or lastly may entrench aspects of MEDIA Protocol into broader app.
• Publisher Tools
  The company will be creating simple tools for non-technical staff at publishers to submit URL promotions to the blockchain.
• Analytics Tools
  The MEDIA Protocol platform will create example analytic tools to enable publishers obtain analytics from the blockchain without needing in-house development skills.
• Documentation
  They intend to create accessible documentation on their protocol to assist the publishers

The Team

Media protocol is led by an experienced team of experts and advisors and this gives hope of a successful project.

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Since time in memorial, there has been need to store data in day to day life. Factors such as security of data, cost, availability and compatibility have driven evolution of data storage and currently we have cloud storage. Enterprises and businesses today are embracing cloud storage in data management and there has been need to have efficient and best cloud storage systems and platforms. Choosing the best cloud data storage provider that knows your exact business requirements can make life simpler for you and contrarily failure to choose the right data storage provider is a total failure because it will place you at a disadvantage with respect to your competitors

Having a cloud storage comes with many benefits if and only if one could avoid the common problems. It becomes tricky when trying to select the right cloud storage provider before giving up your data for cloud storage and it is therefore important to consider the following:

• Downtime History — This will give you a summary of how the cloud storage platform has been in the past and therefore an overview of how efficient they maybe in the coming days.
• Data accessibility — These comprises of what bandwidth they accommodate within their data center, between their data centers and also to the internet.
• Cost Budget — includes fixed charges and bandwidth charges to move data in and out

The ‘Ubbey’ Network

Universal Labs has developed a decentralized blockchain network platform that is called Ubbey. Ubbey network refers to the decentralized network that is powered by Universal Labs and permits its users to do exchange of digital and physical assets in a peer-to-peer way. These company allows an asset to be transferred from one Internet Protocol to another once the asset has been registered on their protocol. This is completely different from the traditional cloud storage because no information about the user is collected. The company also ensures that the users’ files are encrypted and distributed across its decentralized network and only permits the user alone to have access to their data and files.

The Ubbey Network is keen to develop the worlds’ top rated decentralized cloud storage network where users are given total control of their files while enjoying the cheapest pricing tied together with personal ownership, maximum privacy and enterprise grade security.
Currently individuals are creating huge amounts of data (ranging from new photos and videos, new audio recording from lectures and conferences and new documents from work or school) each day just on their mobile phones and computers. The challenging issue is that all this information is enormous and these devices simply cannot accommodate the increasing volumes of information each day. These individuals are left with an option of cloud storage which has been accepted despite the hitches in security are intimidating the transparency of these services especially when we consider the cost users have to pay in order to sustain their accounts.

The Ubbey account system functionality

The following is the functionalities of the UBBEY account system. They are the basis of a starting point for the development of the UBBEY account system:

• Subject of Ownership
• Exclusive data controller
• Smart Contract Authorization Controller
• Multi-Party Signature Access Authorization

Ubbey Box

Ubbey box is a hardware device developed by Universal Labs and may be used in place of a Personal storage for individuals or group of people and avails participants in the ecosystem with huge data storage space on its platform. It permits the users to store data and backup the same data on one place and also allows them to access the file from any place and at any time.

Ubbey box is definitely the answer to offline storage and cloud storage. It is actually the first storage that provides solutions to both online and offline storage challenges. It provides users with a huge space of storage ranging from 1TB to 2TB options available in its initial version.

Key Highlights of the Ubbey ecosystem: An indication of a successful project

• Embracing Blockchain technology
• The breakthrough of bitcoin has raised public awareness of the value of blockchain technology. Blockchain is actually a new idea that enables systems to be properly guarded and transparent at the same time. The Ubbey box integrates blockchain technology in their system and these helps secure the files of their clients and sustain privacy of these files. The blockchain technology makes it possible for Ubbey box to store the data safely and in a secure manner. Only the user is given permission to access his/her contents and the data generated by the users is kept confidential by the Ubbey network team.
• No downtime

• With decentralization, a situation can be generated whereby the Ubbey Box is ever running. These situation allows users to retrieve data and information from anywhere and at any time. As long as a minimum number of nodes is active in the network, the participants of the network shall receive services at all times without any problems. • Only by pressing a key, Users can retrieve their data at any time and from any place in the world and this saves users their time when it comes to accessing their files.
• Data Security
  As long as data and information has been uploaded into the Ubbey Network platform, it is stored with top security in the Ubbey Box Network. These data and information will stay in there for many years without the owners worrying about forgery or alteration. This is also supported by Blockchain’s technology.
• Cloud data storage at Best Affordable rates

• The Universal Lab’s decentralized global cloud storage network charge cheap affordable prices for participants to store data in their ecosystem. This feature alone saves the users an estimated 90% of storage cost compared to other options including Dropbox and Amazon Web services.
• Users Earn additional income for sharing their storage — When the users share their storage space with the Network they in turn earn YOU tokens, which is a cryptocurrency that can be used to compensate for services within the network or cashed out for real world dollars.

Token information

The Ubbey token is known as You tokens. These tokens have several uses which include:

• Purchasing storage space in the Ubbey network and vice versa: receiveing reward for sharing storage space in the network.
• Used as a medium to facilitate sharing of digital assets.
• Used as a medium to access Ubbey network in order to use its services in the development of decentralized applications supported in the platform.
• One will also need to use You tokens to create and execute smart contacts in Ubbey platform.

The company intends to release a total of 10,000,000,000 YOU coins into the public. The following is the distribution of the tokens:

• 40% to be sold during the private and public crowd sale
• Another 40% to be for core foundation and team members
• The remaining 20% to be used to facilitate mining-related activities.

Presale took place in June and Public sale is still ongoing.

Conclusion

By coming up with a product that will solve people’s vast storage needs and offer something more than just storage, Ubbey network has set itself up for huge success. Having a product out already inform of Ubbey box (can be pre odered here http://ulabs.technology/pre-order) gives it more credibility as the public can experiment on it live. The network and platform also has a team of experts and developers leading the team and experinenced team of advisors too.

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At this point in time, content distribution suffers inefficiency and is mediated through social platforms and search engines that regulate huge audiences. As a result, these content distribution platforms assemble large amounts of useful data and information from content consumers but offer the creators and publishers very little or completely nothing in return.

The MEDIA Protocol was established to address these issues. It achieves these by enabling the exchange of value between the consumers and content creators for a mutual benefit.
The MEDIA Protocol platform was developed to create a direct link for the publishers to promote content distribution by the use of balanced consumption motivation techniques directly for consumers, for the consumers to pay directly for the content provided and to spend tokens rewarding various randomly selected content creators and publishers. The company (MEDIA Protocol) was developed to support a network of localized and community centered content distribution apps that at the moment cannot overcome economies of scale perpetuated by incumbent podiums.

Why MEDIA Protocol

MEDIA Protocol is an open and transparent platform that was designed to make sure that content creators are protected, rewarded/compensated directly without the need to have middlemen. Let us consider a case scenario about John who is a regular person fascinated by technological advancements and regularly reads articles on latest technological advancements. Currently, John finds all information he requires on Google, YouTube and maybe Facebook but in future John will be able to use any app that integrates MEDIA Protocol to read and write tech content, receive rewards for all the activities that are of advantage to the content creator. John interacts with content written in these ways; MEDIA Protocol sends her consumption rewards in form of MEDIA tokens for her participation in reading their content. John can in turn use the tokens he earns to convince his preferred publishers or else use the funds to pay for his other subscriptions.
When a situation arises, that a publisher makes great content and wants to distribute it to people like John, then the publisher will publish their content on their web then he will post the content’s URL to a social network. After this is done, then the publisher will fund the platforms to boost the post while being optimistic that John will click on that link.

The MEDIA Protocol platform creates a direct channel to motivate the content consumers to view its information and also log their content interactions on the blockchain. What is important is that these John does not have to let the publishers know his Personal Identity. John gets paid for consuming content online while the publisher receives transparent information about how its content is performing.

Token Flow Overview

The MEDIA protocol makes it possible to have a two-way token interactions between content promoters and the consumers. The company’s platform also provides the developers and the programmers the opportunity to integrate applications which are majorly third party apps to take pieces of the transactions they initialize. Token information Fund raiser goal: $15000000 Token for sale: 2,600,000,000

Accepted Payment: ETH

Originally published at steemit.com on July 8, 2018.

Content creation has grown extensively in the last decade with the surge in uptake of the internet as a mode of communication. People are increasingly creating content that can be shared easily thanks to the digital area: through different media such as web, video and so on. Multinational companies are gradually moving from conventional methods of advertisement and content creation is progressively being used in adverting and product/services promotions and sale. It is evident that individuals responsible for content creation should be well compensated and not exploited.

What is Media Protocol?

Media protocol is a platform developed to ensure that content creators are protected. It seeks to eliminate middlemen and being able to compensate/reward content creators directly. MEDIA Protocol is a smart project that founds an ecosystem that allows content creators to be compensated for their work without the middle-men taking part in collection of private data. The platform also allows the software developers and programmers to generate their own decentralized apps.
The MEDIA protocol platform aims at motivating the consumption of content using MEDIA tokens. The company achieves these by turning a random URL ta blockchain wallet where funds can be circulated to consumers on the basis of how they frequent they interact with the content URL. Eventually, these process generates a new audience economy which is achieved through a joint effort of each user’s contribution to the achievement of these pieces of content in their network.

The Problem

Currently the problem with content creation is the failure to have user motivation. Just as an example, the creators of content spend time and energy to generate valuable content and in the end receive only a small amount of compensation for their work.
The economic models we have at the moment cannot manage to properly compensate the audiences for the roles they play.

The solution through MEDIA Protocol

Through Blockchain, Media Protocol has created a decentralized platform where content creators can receive direct incentives from their work. The company has created a prototype app called CryptoCatnip in a move to make available a reference to assist software developers and programmers to create their own applications. Through the use of the technology embedded in CryptoCatnip, the company creates a platform that provides an accessible and user friendly experience where content interactions are incentivized and traced through the blockchain. The MEDIA Protocol platform ensures all the users who participate in the creation and consumption of content recognize the useful role played by audiences in reception, perception and circulation of a random piece of content.

By use of their direct two-way flow of tokens between the publisher and the consumer expedites payment for pay walled content tipping the capability of content promoters to reward creators. The MEDIA protocol foundation makes it possible for publishers and creators of various content to interact directly with consumers and users are motivated to consume the content thereby creating a more transparent ecosystem for everyone to participate in.

MEDIA Protocol’s Technology

The MEDIA Protocol platform depends on their key technology which is basically a software development kit that was initially created to enable the software developers and programmers to come up with their own decentralized applications that in turn used to share media including videos, music and/ or text. The generators of content can directly publish their work and earn profits from consumers who use their content and these is achieved if they setup a subscription feature from advertisers who gain exposure by means of the traffic they generate. The consumers can also earn tokens just for their participation as a reward for their job of distributing information across various social networks .They may alternatively earn these tokens from the advertisers who decide to pay for their attention. The MEDIA Protocol platform has a Content Recommendation Server whose purpose is to integrate the team’s existing ability with Artificial Intelligence to connect users with content that they require.

The company’s platform is said to be an Open Source making it simper for the users and participants in the ecosystem to analyze the code and validate its stability.

The MEDIA Protocol’s team

The MEDIA Protocol platform was developed and launched by a large team of sixteen experts, many of them being highly skilled computer programmers with remarkable educational backgrounds. Most of these team members have recently worked for Codec.ai, which is an AI company that develops very powerful platforms for the marketing and communications industries.

Conclusion

Protection of content creation is important to ensure to ensure that we can continue having useful and important content creation. To ensure that content creation is protected, it is paramount to safegurd content creators by ensuring they are not exploited by middlemen. Media protocol is leading the way in ensuring content creators are well compensated for useful content and that is why i believe this project will succed.

Important Links

✅Website: https://www.mediaprotocol.org
✅Whitepaper: https://www.mediaprotocol.org/papers/whitepaper.pdf
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