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Bitcoin Cash Price Analysis: BCH/USD flirts with pivotal $230.00, bears are on the alert – FXStreet

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) tested the intraday low of $224.04 and recovered to $230.00 by the time of writing. The coin takes fifth place in the global cryptocurrency rating with the current market value of $4.24 billion and an average daily trading volume of $1.4 billion. BCH/USD has lost over 2.6% in the recent 24 hours and stayed mostly unchanged since the beginning of the day.

Bitcoin Cash has lost over 4% of its value in a matter of hours after a failed attempt to settle above $240.00. The price slipped below 1-hour SMA100 at $239.00 and smashed 1-hour SMA50 at $237.00 as the downside momentum has gained traction. A sustainable move below $230.00 is an ominous signal for the coin, as it is a pivotal level in the short run. If it fails to return above this barrier, the sell-off is likely to continue towards the intraday low os $224.00 and the lower line of the 1-hour Bollinger Band at $213.00.

On the upside, the initial resistance area is created by the above-mentioned MAs. Once it is out of the way, the upside is likely to gain traction with the next focus on $240.00.

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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Down $0.26 Over Past 4 Hours, Fares the Worst Out of Top Cryptos to Start the Day; Moves Down For the 5th Day In A Row – CFDTrading

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Bitcoin Cash 4 Hour Price Update

Updated July 18, 2020 07:19 AM GMT (03:19 AM EST)

The back and forth price flow continues for Bitcoin Cash, which started the current 4 hour candle off at 223.02 US dollars, down 0.12% ($0.26) from the previous 4 hours. Out of the 5 instruments in the Top Cryptos asset class, Bitcoin Cash ended up ranking 4th for the four-hour candle in terms of price change relative to the previous 4 hours.

Bitcoin Cash is down 0.66% ($1.48) since yesterday, marking the 5th day in a row it has gone down. This move happened on lower volume, as yesterdays volume was down 34.18% from the day before and down 27.85% from the same day the week before. Those trading within the Top Cryptos asset class should know that Bitcoin Cash was the worst performer in the class during yesterday. The daily price chart of Bitcoin Cash below illustrates.

Coming into today Bitcoin Cash is now close to its 20 day averages, located at 229.63 respectively, and thus may be at a key juncture along those timeframes. Also of note is that on a 30 day basis price appears to be forming a base which could the stage for it being a support/resistance level going forward. For additional context, note that price has gone down 7 out of the past 10 days.

Behold! Here are the top tweets related to Bitcoin Cash:

@rogerkver Bitcoin = Satoshi Nakamoto White PaperSo as such, #Bitcoin is Bitcoin Cash (#BCH)While Bitcoin Core is a shitcoin that no longer follows the Original White Paper. Bitcoin Core should NEVER be called Bitcoin. Its simply Bitcoin Core, Bitcore or BTCPlain and Simple

Now that I am loose enough to be honest, I feel the need to mention @MultiBitcoiner offered me bitcoin cash for dick pics. I wont say what my answer was, but does @Binance_Info exchange BCH for BTC?

@SkyHODL @rogerkver #Bitcoin wasnt created to be an investment asset to be speculated on. It was created to be electronic cash that everyone could use as cash, free from the banks debilitating control.Bitcoin Cash (BCH) keeps that dream alive.

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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Up $0.7 Over Past 4 Hours, Fares the Worst Out of Top Cryptos to Start the Day; Started Today Down 0.81% – CFDTrading

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Bitcoin Cash 4 Hour Price Update

Updated July 15, 2020 11:19 AM GMT (07:19 AM EST)

Bitcoin Cash came into the current 4 hour candle up 0.31% ($0.7) from the open of the last 4 hour candle, marking the 2nd candle in a row it has gone up. On a relative basis, the last 4 hour candle were pretty good: Bitcoin Cash bested all 5 of the assets in the Top Cryptos class

Bitcoin Cash closed yesterday down 0.81% ($1.87); this denotes the 2nd day in a row a decrease has occurred. This move happened on lower volume, as yesterdays volume was down 48.37% from the day before and down 27.72% from the same day the week before. On a relative basis, Bitcoin Cash was the worst performer out of all 5 of the assets in the Top Cryptos asset class during yesterday. Lets take a look at the daily price chart of Bitcoin Cash.

Coming into today Bitcoin Cash is now close to its 20, 50 and 100 day averages, located at 229.89, 237.7 and 239.12 respectively, and thus may be at a key juncture along those timeframes. Also of note is that on a 30 day basis price appears to be forming a base which could the stage for it being a support/resistance level going forward. For another vantage point, consider that Bitcoin Cashs price has gone up 7 of the previous 14 trading days.

Behold! Here are the top tweets related to Bitcoin Cash:

ADA after having taken over Litecoin has now surpassed Bitcoin SV in the global crypto market and is now ranked at 6th position after Bitcoin Cash#ADA #cardanofoundation

Stablecoin Tether Is Now Circulating on the Bitcoin Cash Network$BCH for the win

Whether for Bitcoin Cash (#BCH) or any other cryptocurrency, growth is not a one way path trials and errors lead to winning..@BitcoinCash

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Twitter Hack Used Bitcoin to Cash In: Heres Why – Yahoo Finance

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Someone hacked Twitter Wednesday and used bitcoin to capitalize on it.

Why?

Bitcoin is an alternative money system based on the value of censorship resistance. In other words, Bitcoin was built from the ground up to evade third-party interference (think banks, governments and law enforcement), making it a natural tool in the hands of a world-class hacker.

Related: Twitter Hack 2020 Was Probably Done by a Bitcoiner But Not a Savvy One

The Crypto Daily Movers and Shakers July 13th, 2020 – FX Empire

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Bitcoin, BTC to USD, rose by 0.76%% on Sunday. Reversing a 0.63% decline from Saturday, Bitcoin ended the week up by 2.50% to $9,315.8.

It was a mixed start to the day for Bitcoin. Bitcoin fell from an early morning high $9,303.8 to a late morning low $9,251.2 before finding support.

Steering clear of the major support and resistance levels, Bitcoin rallied to an early afternoon intraday high $9,368.4.

Breaking through the first major resistance level at $9,305.37 before hitting reverse. Coming up against the second major resistance level at $9,364.43, Bitcoin slid to a late intraday low $9,175.0.

Bitcoin fell through the first major support level at $9,193.67 before bouncing back to $9,340 levels.

The rebound saw Bitcoin break back through the first major resistance level at $9,305.37 to wrap up the day in the green.

The near-term bullish trend remained intact in spite of the early July pullback to sub-$9,000 levels. For the bears, Bitcoin would need to slide through the 62% FIB of $6,400 to form a near-term bearish trend.

Across the rest of the majors, it was a mixed day on Sunday.

Tezos rallied by 4.97% to lead the way on Sunday.

Binance Coin (+4.03%), Bitcoin Cash SV (+1.73%), Cardanos ADA (+1.45%), Ethereum (+1.52%), Moneros XMR (+0.82%), Ripples XRP (+0.18%), and Stellars Lumen (+0.37%) also saw green.

It was a bearish end to the week for the rest of the majors.

Bitcoin Cash ABC (-0.40%), EOS (-0.19%), Litecoin (-0.07%), and Trons TRX (-0.85%) saw red.

For the week,

Stellars Lumen led the way, surging by 41.84%.

Binance Coin (+18.26%), Bitcoin Cash SV (+19.58%), Cardanos ADA (+29.24%), Ripples XRP (+13.79%), and Tezos (+23.31%) also made solid gains.

Bitcoin Cash ABC (+6.20%), EOS (+8.78%), Ethereum (+6.67%), Litecoin (+7.50%), Moneros XMR (+9.32%), and Trons TRX (+7.24%), trailed the front runners.

In the week, the crypto total market cap rose from a Monday low $254.55bn to a Wednesday high $274.58bn. At the time of writing, the total market cap stood at $268.46bn.

Bitcoins dominance fell from a Monday high 65.58% to a Thursday low 63.55%. At the time of writing, Bitcoins dominance stood at 63.60%.

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The People Of Blockchain: Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Satoshi Nakamoto is famously attributed to having created the cryptocurrency Bitcoin (the Bitcoin protocol that is), and the blockchain technology behind it, which has since exploded into an entire industry. The truth of the matter is that no one seems to really know who Satoshi Nakamoto is, as he has remained reclusively anonymous. The ideas that he is Japanese, or a single person, or even a male, are all assumptions. Many people believe that Satoshi Nakamoto is actually a pseudonym for a group of developers, and not any one person.

Bitcoin Begins:

According to legend, Satoshi began working on the Bitcoin concept back in 2007. In August 15th, of 2008, an application for an encryption patent application was filed by Vladimir Oksman, Charles Bry, and Neal Kin (all have denied any connections to Satoshi Nakamoto). The ball was rolling, and on August 18th, 2008, bitcoin.org was registered with a site called: anonymousspeech.com. The website claims to allow users to use their email addresses completely anonymously, that they completely ignore any requests by governments or agencies for any identity information of their clients, and that their servers are constantly moving, and all located outside of the US and Europe.

Then, just a short time later, on the infamous October 31st, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper, which described the cryptocurrency and solved the problem of double spending to prevent the currency from being copied. It was published through metzdowd.com a cryptography mailing list.

On November 9th, 2008, Bitcoin was registered as a project at SourceForge.net which is focused on the development and distribution of open source software using collaboration by the community. There, people can find, create, and publish open source software for free. The Genesis Block (Block 0) was mined on January 3rd, 2009, at 18:15:05 GMT. And Version 0.1 was released on January 9th, 2009. On January 12th, 2009, the first Bitcoin transaction took place between Satoshi and a man named Hal Finney. And finally (though there is much more to the story), on October 5th, 2009, an exchange rate was established by New Liberty Standards, at $1 USD to 1,309.03 BTC (Bitcoin). The exchange rate was based on an equation which took in the cost of electricity to run a computer that generated Bitcoins. Of course Bitcoin mining technology has come a long ways since then. Compare the above exchange rate to what it is today at around $1,246.63 USD to 1 BTC (Wednesday, March 15th, 2017, 05:35 05-39 UTC).

Thats pretty incredible. Now, as mentioned before, the creator(s) of this disruptive innovation, Satoshi Nakamoto, has decidedly remained anonymous, and it would seem that no one has produced any real solid evidence of his identity. But the search has been strong

People have put their best guesses out there as to who they believe Mr. Nakamoto is.

The Guessing Games:

Joshua Davis of the New Yorker, thought that Satoshi Nakamoto was a man named Michael Clear, who had graduated as a cryptography student at Dublins Trinity College. You can see his report here. His conclusion was based off of analyzing 80,000 words of Nakamotos online writings (this guys dedicated), and after he had searched for linguistic clues. Hardly a conclusion, as he also suspected Vili Lehdonvirta, an economic sociologist and a former games developer from Finland. Both of course have denied the claims.

Clear is noted as having told Davis:

Im not Satoshi, but even if I was I wouldnt tell you.

Clear also made his point that Nakamotos identity shouldnt matter, because the currency is both real and elusive, just like its founder (Satoshi) [summarized].

But people do care apparently

Adam Penenberg of FastCompany has surmised that Nakamoto may have been Vladimir Oksman, Charles Bry, and Neal King, all together. This was done by taking certain unique phrases from the Bitcoin paper and putting them into a Google search.

One of them, computationally impractical to reverse, turned up in a patent application made by these three for updating and distributing encryption keys. The bitcoin.org domain name originally used by Satoshi to publish the paper had been registered three days after the patent application was filed.

The patent in question was filed in Finland, however, Bitcoin.org was registered using a Japanese anonymous registration service and was hosted using a Japanese ISP. Could these three men really be Nakamoto? We may never know. All three of them however, have denied the claim.

Others think that Nakamoto may be the man who wrote this article (Martii Malmi). A bitcointalk.org member named The Fool started a thread, and after quoting from the above article:

It was 2009 when I was studying computer science at Helsinki University of Technology. Inspired by libertarian ideals, I came up with the idea of a decentralized Internet currency that cannot be controlled by any government or other single entity. I contacted some guy named Satoshi Nakamoto, who had drafted a technical proposal of such a system just a couple months earlier. He called it Bitcoin.

Had this to say:

He was removed from the list of project developers on bitcoin.org in June 2011. The same time Satoshi left. He still owns the bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org domains.

Strong evidence or conjecture? You decide.

Well, it would appear theres no shortage of people to be claimed as the notorious Satoshi Nakamoto. Jed McCaleb, is among the growing group of persons honored with this usually (& largely) baseless allegation. McCaleb created the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which ended disastrously, and co-founded Ripple and Steller (decentralized payment systems), and has also been involved in a number of other innovative companies.

Michael Peirce and Donal OMahony (both computer scientists), as well as Hitesh Tewari are all suspected of possibly being Satoshi. The three of them co-authored a book entitled: Electronic Payment Systems, which has put them in the spotlight as potentially being the elusive Bitcoin creator. Tewari and OMahony went to the same college as the aforementioned Michael Clear (Trinity College), which raises even more suspicion.

Two Israeli mathematicians (Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir) had alleged that there was a link between Satoshi Nakamoto and the man arrested and charged with running the notorious Silk Road (a black market site for drugs, which used Bitcoin): Ross Ulbricht. However, the man they had believed was Nakamoto actually turned out to be Dustin Trammell, who has himself refuted being the founder of Bitcoin, and explained that he had no personal connections with the Silk Road or its founder. The two researchers have retracted their claim. You can read about that in this article.

Their retraction was recorded in businessinsider.com:

We no longer believe that the very early Founder account we identified in the full bitcoin transaction graph belongs to Satoshi Nakamoto, Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute said in a statement. We will revise our paper accordingly.

You can read their full retraction, as well as a fuller explanation of their research by reading the full article, again you can find that here.

And the list doesnt end there! Other people who have been alleged to be Bitcoins founder include:

-Professor Shinichi Mochizuki, a Japanese mathematician. Suggested by Ted Nelson, who says the evidence was circumstantial at best.-Nick Szabo, founder of BitGold, was proposed as a likely candidate by financial writer & comedian Dominic Frisby, as well as by some Aston University forensic linguistic experts. Szabo has denied the claim. -Michael Weber, Wei Dai, Hal Finney, and many other developers are also among those periodically named as suspects.

Others Seek The Glory:

As opposed to those already mentioned, many of whom have denied the claim of being Satoshi, another man has claimed that he is Mr. Nakamoto: Craig S Wright, an Australian. Wright is also seeking after Bitcoin and blockchain patents. See this article and this article.

Bitcoin developer, Gavin Andresen, says he regrets his involvement in trying to verify Wrights claims.

Some believe that Wrights claim hold weight, as a cache of transcripts, emails, and other documents (turned in by an anonymous person believed to be close to Wright), which point to his role in the creation of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Another person claimed to have hacked his business email account (producing a cache of revealing documents) and claimed to have tried to interview people who were close to him. While some believe this connection to Satoshi to be a hoax, the evidence provided will certainly keep speculation going well into the future.

Has Satoshi Nakamoto Been Found?

According to an article by Heavy.com, Satoshi Nakamoto has already been found and its his real name:

An article by Coindesk.com collaborates the story, but leaves some (though very little) room for doubt at first glance that is. Even more interesting is that Satoshi Nakamoto has worked on classified military projects.

His background is not entirely clear, but he apparently worked on classified projects for major corporations and the US military.

And that type of lifestyle normally comes with a cloak of secrecy.

However, Dorian S. Nakamoto, again, claims that he is not the right one, and that his words were misunderstood by the initial reporter (Leah McGrath Goodman from Newsweek). The initial Newsweek article even went as far as to post his location and pictures of his house many agree that this was a severe breach of privacy.

You can read about Nakamotos denial in any involvement in Bitcoin in an article written by cryptocoinsnews.com, which had this quote from Mr. Nakamoto:

I never was involved, he said to a Times reporter, saying there was only one reason he had agreed to even talk to a reporter. It was all for a free lunch.

In fact, another article by Bitcoinmagazine.com claims that the hunt for Satoshi has turned this mans life upside down, and not necessarily for the better.

In February 2014, Newsweeks Leah McGrath Goodman claimed to have tracked down the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Dorian S Nakamoto has since denied he knows anything about bitcoin, eventually hiring a lawyer and releasing an official statement to that effect.

As tempting as it may be to automatically stamp this man as Satoshi, its important not to jump the gun, and to look at all the facts and not bombard the mans house with a slew of reporters.

Satoshi Nakamoto In And Out:

IN: Published his paper on Bitcoin in November of 2008, through the Cryptography Mailing List.

OUT: In the Spring of 2011, after working with Bitcoins open source team, while remaining unidentified, Nakamoto said that he had moved on to other things.

In just roughly 3 years, Mr. Nakamoto created a legend and then retreated into the shadows of modern history.

So what do you think? Are any of the people above likely to be the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto? And does it really matter? Should the hunt continue? Let us know in the comment section below.

Thanks for reading, well see you next time.The DinarDirham team

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http://www.coindesk.com/information/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto/

http://www.observer.com/2011/10/did-the-new-yorkers-joshua-davis-nail-the-identity-of-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto/ http://www.bitcoin.org/

https://sc5.io/posts/sc5er-intro-the-bitcoin-guy/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=144445.0

http://www.Bitcointalk.org

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-mccaleb-4052a4

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/022614/bitcoin-mass-hysteria-disaster-brought-down-mt-gox.asp

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Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin Creator, Found in CA: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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The People Of Blockchain: Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Satoshi Nakamoto Could Be Rhodesia Born Criminal …

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

One of the most enduring mysteries of modern times has produced another enthralling twist. Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoins pseudonymous and enigmatic creator, has not been seen online in more than eight years. Evidence has now surfaced that points to a new Satoshi candidate, whose known life has a number of parallels with that of Bitcoins inventor. His name is Paul Le Roux and, if proven to be Satoshi, there is a good reason why his 1 millionBTChasnt moved the Rhodesian has been in jail since 2012.

The Kleiman v. Wrightlawsuitunfolding in the Florida courts has been filled with misdirection, red herrings, mistruths, forgeries, and bizarre theories, often floated by the defendant Craig Wright.Document 187, Dr. Craig Wrights Motion For Protective Order, was recently filed with heavy redaction because Wright supposedly has a well-founded fear that these criminals and their associates would seek retribution if they learned of his involvement in their apprehension and incarceration.

Someone forgot to redact one of the corresponding footnotes, however, enabling a sharp-eyed sleuth to identify the master criminal in question: Paul Le Roux. The 46-year-old cartel boss is a character as flamboyant as Wright himself, but cut from a very different cloth. Readers may already be familiar with Le Rouxs life story, which surfaced in a seven-part series onAtavistand subsequent book titled The Mastermind. As the blurb summarizes:

He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss, who became a prized U.S. government asset.

It has now been suggested that Paul Le Roux may be Satoshi Nakamoto and that Craig Wright is in possession of encrypted hard drives containing Le Rouxs multi-billion-dollar stash of bitcoins. Its a crazy theory, and yet, on closer inspection, there is a prima facie case for Bitcoins mastermind being criminal mastermind Le Roux.

As his Wikipedia page the very same page which escaped redaction in the Kleiman v. Wright case notes, Paul Calder Le Roux is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He created E4M, an open-source free Windows disk encryption software program, in 1999, and is a suspected creator of the open-source TrueCrypt, which is based on E4Ms code.

Then it drops a bomb: Le Roux is currently in US custody for ordering the assassinations of six people.

If any screenwriters mulling a Satoshi Nakamoto movie are searching for inspiration, they just got a huge shot of it. With a career thats included logging, precious metals mining, gold smuggling, land deals, drug shipments, arms trafficking and money laundering, Le Roux is a one-man movie waiting to happen and thats before the Bitcoin connection is thrown into the mix. In one of the many passports Le Roux owned, he goes by the Satoshi-like name of Solotshi and thats just the beginning of the curious coincidences.

A Daily Mailarticlewhich also slipped through the redactors net, leaving a trace of the URL visible in document 187 cited at the outset, calls Le Roux a real-life Bond villain behind a cocaine and gun empire spanning four continents whos now turned super-snitch and quotes U.S. agents as calling him a very bad guy.

As the anon whopostedon 4chans /biz/ messageboard on May 12, after spotting Le Rouxs name in the Wright case postulated, Bitcoin was a project of a evil genius Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux. He intended it simply for the purpose of money laundering Unfortunately, soon after he went quiet with the Satoshi identity, he was captured by law enforcement, and hes going to spend the rest of his life rotting in jail cell.

Even if Le Roux did create Bitcoin, it does not follow that money laundering was his goal: it would likelier have been an extension of his obsession with cryptography, which can be traced back to the 90s. Before Paul Le Roux broke bad, he was by all accounts a brilliant programmer and privacy ideologue. In 1997, he began work on E4M (Encryption for the Masses), software which is capable of encrypting entire disks, and optionally of plausible deniability (denying the existence of an encrypted volume), Wikipediaexplains. It continues:

In the Politics section of the E4M website [archive], Le Roux published a kind of manifesto stating that governments are increasingly relying on electronic data gathering. Citing projects such as Echelon, linked to the five nation states which would become known as the Five Eyes more than a decade later, he stated that encryption is the only way to preserve civil liberties.

The E4M manifesto finishes: Strong Encryption is the mechanism with which to combat these intrusions, preserve your rights, and guarantee your freedoms into the information age and beyond Paul Le Roux, Author, Encryption for the Masses.

For those intent on comparing Satoshi and Le Rouxs personas for similarities, there are several attributes and actions that align plus a few that dont. Given that both entities were adept at assuming false personas and concealing their natural language and idiosyncrasies, identification is no easy task. Heres whats known about the pair that points to them being the same person:

And then theresthispost from 2002, seven years before Bitcoin was released:

It doesnt read like Satoshis voice, but it does read an awfully lot like someones early idea of Bitcoin. The IP address of the author hassupposedlybeen traced to the Netherlands a country where Le Roux once lived.

For all of the surface evidence that suggests Le Roux could have been Satoshi, not all of the points align. In 2009, for example, when Satoshi was diligently refining Bitcoin, Le Roux was already dabbling in drug smuggling and gun running. Would it have been possible to maintain such a double life, one chaotic and the other scholarly?

In an IRC chat dating from around the time of the Bitcoin Cash ABC/SV split, user CSW (Craig Wright) connects Bitcointalk and r/Bitcoin moderator Theymos to Paul Le Roux, claiming that the pair used to be partners before Le Roux was arrested. He also asserts that Theymos is still in the pharma spam business, which dovetails with Le Rouxs illegal pharmaceutical business.

There is a caveat to all of this, of course: Craig Wright is a habitual liar, whose every utterance must be fact-checked. Given that Le Rouxs name has been linked with Satoshi sincelate 2018, it is possible that Wright latched onto it, and wove it into the fanfic hes been crafting for the Kleiman case. As such, any evidence from the mouth of the man known as Faketoshi should be treated with caution. Few, aside from Calvin Ayre, believe that Craig Wright created Bitcoin, but many believe that by luck or design he could have been lurking in the background from near the start.

Could this involvement have been due to Wright serving as an informant on Le Roux, himself now an informant following his arrest in September 2012? It sounds fanciful, but its certainly an intriguing notion. As one anontheorized, Craig Wright was an employee of Le Roux, who was vaguely aware of the bitcoin project. Craig was an informant who helped bring down Le Roux, and after his arrest, Craig managed (via long time friend and partner in crime, Dave Kleiman) to get his hands on the wallets that hold a million bitcoins, but unfortunately for Craig, all of Solotshis coins are locked away in secure TrueCrypt volumes (TrueCrypt being another software that Le Roux developed). He has been trying for years to crack them but with no success.

Another of Craigs long time friends, Calvin Ayre, has set up warehouses of computers to try to crack Solotshis password and unlock the vast fortunes; his mining activity is simply a front to make these massive datacenters look legitimate. Craig is being set up as the real satoshi so that when the coins are finally unlocked, they can legitimately sell them off.

If the Rhodesian crime boss is Satoshi Nakamoto, it means that the two biggest contributors to Bitcoins early success, Paul Le Roux and Ross Ulbricht, are both in the custody of U.S. authorities. There they will likely see out the rest of their lives, while the rest of the world profits from the innovations of these flawed geniuses. Interestingly, in little more than 24 hours,Gotsatoshi.compromises to reveal the identity of Bitcoins creator. While the cryptosphere will not be holding its breath in anticipation, the countdown adds further intrigue to the most enduring mystery of the digital age.

What are your thoughts on the Paul Le Roux and Satoshi connection? Let us know in the comments section below.

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5 Lessons from the Life of Satoshi Nakamoto – The man …

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

So finally, Satoshi Nakamoto, the man behind the Bitcoin phenomenon has been identified. For long Bitcoin has been considered something built by a Japanese whiz kid who used the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto.(Learn more about Bitcoin)

Leah McGrath Goodman, a reporter for the Newsweek magazine after months of investigation uncovered the man behind Bitcoins.

What surprised most people is that Satoshi is 64 years old and is a Japanese American living in Los Angeles for years, has worked on classified stuff for the defense industry and something of a mathematical genius.

Apparently even his family didnt know.

So whats the learning for entrepreneurs from this amazing man called Satoshi Nakamoto:

Age is never a barrier to your passion

Learn when to let go and have other capable people drive decisions

I wish you wouldnt keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure, Nakamoto wrote to Andresen.The press just turns that into a pirate currency angle. Maybe instead make it about the open source project and give more credit to your dev contributors; it helps motivate them.Source Newsweek Magazine

Today developers around the world have shared in the wealth that has been created by the Bitcoin phenomenon.

Sharing the rewards is as important in scaling your venture as making it successful

Keep yourself grounded; if you are passionate, it almost never is about the money.

There will be more lessons to learn as additional details trickle out about his life but Bitcoin will now probably never ever be the mysterious and rebellious online currency that promised to taken on the might of the banks and the governments worldwide.

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New theory claims Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto – Decrypt

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

A new theory has been put forward which claims Blockstream CEO Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin. The theory, laid out in a video entitled Bitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto, was posted on May 11 by YouTuber Barely Sociable.

The video draws comparisons between Adam Back and Satoshi based on the trail of breadcrumbs left by Satoshi before he disappeared from the internet altogether. The video points out similarities in Back and Satoshis writing style, coding ability, and constructs a timeline which seeks to connect the two men based on the timing of their appearance (and disappearance) on/from the internet.

When asked for comment, Back told Decrypt, "Just that people speculate, but I'm not Satoshi. To cut short Google searches and digging."

Adam Back had also taken to Twitter to refute the claims. Back admitted that the timeline may look suspicious, but attributed it to mere coincidence.

Some claim to be Satoshi, days google research blogging stories, and in court, to widespread non-belief. Seems I need the opposite: I am not Satoshi despite recent video / reddit claiming so. Some factors & timing may look suspicious in hindsight; coincidence & facts are untidy, Back tweeted.

Here, the CEO of Blockstreama private company which sells off-chain Bitcoin solutions like the Liquid networkis referencing self-professed Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright. Wright has sued multiple members of the crypto community, including Back, who claimed he is not Satoshi. The latest states of all five lawsuits can be seen here.

Back continued on Twitter, It goes deeper - some of what they google researched is true: I moved to Malta, an EU tax haven - in 2009. Pure coincidence, though ofc I did know about Bitcoin in 2008 via emails from Satoshi. I was born in London. I do use double-space and native spelling British. Can code C++, said Back, he said.

The video pointed out that all of Satoshis original emails with members of the cypherpunk community are still publicly available. All except oneBacks. The explanation offered by Back is that he purposely deleted all of his correspondence with Satoshi in order to protect the Bitcoin creators identity.

The video also references Backs deep involvement in the cypherpunk space, particularly his early focus on Ecash and b-moneyboth precursors to Bitcoin (created by David Chaum and Wei Dai respectively) which formed the cryptographic building blocks for Satoshi Nakamotos final invention.

Back again admitted the apparent similarities between his and Satoshis interests, but said it still doesnt amount to proof.

Back stated that he was interested in ecash, implementing Chaums ecash library and proposed cryptographic techniques similar to ecash.

Still not Satoshi [though], he added.

The video ends by pointing out that Blockstream is now involved in building centralized off-chain solutions for sending Bitcoinas a for-profit company. Products like Blockstreams Liquid take Bitcoin transactions off the main chain, and instead funnel them through the privately owned products named above.

But if Back was Satoshi, he wouldnt need the money.

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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Down $0.01 On 4 Hour Chart, 5 Day Down Streak Broken; Price Base in Formation Over Past 30 Days – CFDTrading

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Bitcoin Cash 4 Hour Price Update

Updated July 19, 2020 01:35 AM GMT (09:35 PM EST)

Bitcoin Cash entered the current 4 hour candle at $224.69, down 0% ($0.01) from the last 4 hour candle. Relative to other instruments in the Top Cryptos asset class, Bitcoin Cash ranked 3rd since the last 4 hour candle in terms of percentage price change.

Bitcoin Cashs 5 day negative streak has officially concluded, as the candle from yesterday closed up 0.81% ($1.8). This move happened on lower volume, as yesterdays volume was down 19.52% from the day before and down 23.51% from the same day the week before. Relative to other instruments in the Top Cryptos asset class, Bitcoin Cash ranked 4th since yesterday in terms of percentage price change. Below is a daily price chart of Bitcoin Cash.

Notably, Bitcoin Cash is now close to its 20 day averages, located at 229.72 respectively, and thus may be at a key juncture along those timeframes. Price action traders in particular will want to note that the 30 day period appears to show price forming a base; this could indicate that a support/resistance level is developing. For another vantage point, consider that Bitcoin Cashs price has gone down 7 of the previous 10 trading days.

Behold! Here are the top tweets related to Bitcoin Cash:

@newbie_6 @rogerkver If youre transaction fee was too low then your BTC transaction is probably stuck. Thats because BTC has been changed to not accommodate low fees causing huge problems. You should use Bitcoin Cash instead, where fees are typically under a penny and are fast!

can we get xrp, bitcoin cash, and litecoin out of the top 10 already? the ghost chains need to go

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Bitcoin Cash price analysis: only bullish above $245

Bitcoin Cash technical analysis shows that bulls need to keep the BCH/USD pair above the $205 level to avoid a $75 sell-off.Watch out for a powerful technical breakout if price moves above the neckline of the pattern, around the $245 level. Bitcoin Cash technical analysis shows that the cryptocurrency needs to move above the $245 level to activate a bullish reversal pattern.

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Wynn Resorts expected to lead out Macau recovery – Seeking Alpha

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Union Gaming upgrades Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ:WYNN) to a Buy rating from Hold with the Macau recovery expected to begin tomorrow amid relaxed quarantine rules.

"We expect the initial recovery will be in the premium mass and VIP segments and anticipate a flight to asset quality for both investors and consumers. As we have seen so often in the past, we expect the shares of Wynn Resorts/Macau to lead the initial recovery in the Macau names," writes analyst John DeCree.

DeCree reminds that the recovery won't be instantaneous. "While alleviating border restrictions in Guangdong is a solid first step, well look forward to more good news hopefully later this summer on reinstating IVS and green health code reciprocity with Hong Kong," he notes.

Shares of Wynn Macau (OTCPK:WYNMF)closed up 6.56% today in Hong Kong. Wynn Resorts are0.15% higherpremarket in the U.S. after yesterday's sizzling 9.63% rally.

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A Grip on Sports: If sports are to return, we all might have to invest in a little fire insurance – The Spokesman-Review

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

A GRIP ON SPORTS It's hard to believe its Saturday morning again. A Saturday morning in late July. And I still haven't seen the comet. Or a baseball game. Which will come first? That depends.

Once, a long time ago, a minister I admired told me he was, basically, selling fire insurance. If he was right, and heaven and hell existed, those who followed the path he was laying out avoided the latter. And if the two didnt exist? Those folks never had to use their fire insurance. And they lived a life filled by the golden rule and powered by love. What was the downside to that?

Ive thought about the Rev. Reed quite a bit recently. Im sure hes found out by now whether his fire insurance policy paid off. It already has for the rest of us that came into contact with him. He exuded love and empathy out of every pore, living that others-centered life many of us just aspire to and never reach.

Meanwhile, there is his analogy flitting around in my brain. An analogy that seems apropos in these times.

Say we all decide to buy into the policy every reputable epidemiologist, virologist and Jake from State Farm is selling. We wear a mask whenever we are out of our house and in contact with others. We stay socially distant. We wash our hands meticulously. Everyone of us. Within a few weeks the coronavirus numbers begin to drop, the disease begins to leave us behind and, as if by magic, we are free to watch sports again in the fall and beyond. That would be cool, right?

For arguments sake, say they are wrong. What have we lost? A few weeks of the comfort of walking around the park without a face covering. Of being able to read the ingredients of the pizza dough at Rosauers. Of easy conversations with the young person at the drive-through window. So? Weve all invested in low-cost fire insurance and we never had to make a claim.

Yes, I understand there are a small group of folks who, for medical reasons, have trouble breathing through a mask. And they cant stay at home, even though they may want to. Lets all, their friends and neighbors, pull together and help them. I cant think of a better application of the golden rule than that.

Its what our forefathers did throughout this nations history, they banded together and helped each other. No one had to order them to, they just did it. Your neighbor didnt have a barn? One was built. Your neighbor needed help with the harvest? Everyone showed up. The schoolhouse was destroyed by a tornado? Lets build a new one. Americans have always worked together to reach a goal of moving forward.

Besides, the folks around these parts yesterday protesting the mask requirement were emphasizing personal liberty more than they were medical issues, if their signage was any indicator. They seemed to feel it is an imposition to be told to wear a mask. Yes, it is. Being told to do anything is an imposition. But sometimes it is necessary.

Take sports for instance. How successful would your favorite football team be if, when they gathered in the offensive huddle assuming your team actually huddles the right guard decided it was time to assert his rights. See, he didnt believe the coach was correct. It would be better if he blocked the outside linebacker instead of the 305-pound defensive tackle over his inside shoulder. So that was going to be what he did. Deal with it.

Chaos, right? There is no chance any offense in America could be productive if one player did whatever they wanted on each play. Of course that doesnt happen. Everyone understands the idea of binding together for a goal, putting the ball in the end zone. Do it right enough times and we win. Fail, and we dont. Simple.

Saturdays havent been the same around these parts since the S-R pulled the plug on the days printed product. Yes, I know. Not as many of you get a printed paper as once did. But as someone who stained his hands with newsprint long before his ninth birthday, the daily newspaper is a comfort and joy. Even if the only thing I cant live without is the comics page. That Earl Pickles is a treasure. Reminds me of someone I know, though I just cant put my finger on precisely who.

Funny thing, though. Saturdays are the days lately in which I find the most links. There are always a few stories from the S-R staff, along with the usual pieces to pass along from Seattle and down the West Coast. But its also the day to catch up on Big Sky news. At least it has been since the pandemic hit. The conference schools dont make a lot of news, so checking in once a week the past few months is enough.

Just thought I would explain why there are more links from around the Sky this morning.

WSU: Nick Rolovich waved the flag, virtually, again this week and Theo Lawson discovered his latest reeled-in recruiting commitment. Its from a California defensive tackle. If you happened to catch the Portland Thorns NWSL Challenge Cup match yesterday, you probably saw former Cougar star Morgan Weaver score against a North Carolina team again. The Thorns won, 1-0. Around the Pac-12 and college sports, if the football season is pushed back to after the first of the year, every game in some areas may be played in ice and snow. As the Pac-12 schools cancel nonconference games, do they have to pay the schools that now are without an opponent? The Rose Parade has already been canceled. Does that mean the Rose Bowl is also going to be axed? There will be competitive battles for Colorados starting defensive back spots. Arizona seems to be doing well with its testing, especially considering how poorly the state is doing overall. In basketball news, Oregon State is about ready to begin its summer workouts.

Gonzaga: There is little in the way of competition, unless you consider recruiting competition. You should. One of the big prizes of 2022 became a big prize for 2021 yesterday. Jim Meehan has all the info on Caleb Houstan reclassifying. Mark Few is slated to be honored at Dick Vitales charity event in September. But the honor will be done virtually, as will the entire event. Jim also has that story. Elsewhere in the WCC, the University of the Pacific announced yesterday nearly all of its fall classes will be held online. Mark Pope believes he is building BYUs roster the right way.

Idaho: More and more lower division conferences and schools are pushing back or canceling its fall sports seasons. The latest in this area is the GNAC, the Division II conference in the Northwest. The Vandals were scheduled to open it home football season against Western Oregon on Sept. 5. That game is off. Around the Big Sky, the conference is moving its media days, held virtually, up a week. Montana also lost its home opener with Central Washington, another GNAC member. The Griz also lost a defensive tackle who is transferring to Montana Tech. Montana States womens basketball coach, Tricia Binford, makes more in base salary than the mens coach, Danny Sprinkle. Despite the uncertainty of the upcoming season, players are out there preparing. Include Weber States players in that group.

Seahawks: Remember that one guy who carried the ball for the Hawks, Marshall or was it Marshawn Lynch? Ya, just kidding. We do too. And we are looking forward to hearing from him in a new movie.

We are tired of writing about the pandemic and its impact on sporting events. Im sure Bryson DeChambeau would only have had an eight yesterday if there would have been fans in the gallery at the Memorial. So mask up, stay distant from others, wash your hands and lets see if we cant kick this virus butt, like it is just another Friday Night Lights opponent. Then we can all get back to reading and talking about the Cougars and the Zags and the Eagles and whomever from now until the Comet NEOWISE returns. By the way, the Rev. Reed had a really tough left-handed curve ball. I used to catch him in my younger days. He was so much older than me, I couldn't help but say things like "throw it in here, Mr. Reed" or "let's get a ground ball and turn two, Mr. Reed." He would always tell me to call him Stan, but I just couldn't. It didn't seem right. Besides, I dated his daughter once and I didn't want him to hate me if she ever said yes to a second date. She still hasn't. Until later

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POWERFUL WORDS: Take proper pride in family with teaching moments – Newsbug.info

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Our friend Tony Sullivan tells of a teacher assigning a 200-word essay to her class on the topic, My Hero.

One boy chose his father as his hero. When Dad read the paper his son had written, with a lump in his throat he said to his son, I am really touched, Son. Why did you pick me as your hero?

His son replied, Because I didnt know how to spell Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Maybe Dad shouldnt have asked!

Say, I wonder how your family is building each other up emotionally and spiritually? Many bits of advice appear in the Bible regarding how to interact with family.

A good starting place? The Golden Rule: Therefore, whatever you want others to do to you, do also to them. (Matthew 7:12)

What better place to begin practicing this rule than in the home! Learn to treat brothers and sisters, parents, children and other family members in the way you wish to be treated.

When a sibling mistreats another, parents should step right in and bring up the importance of the Golden Rule. Is that the way you would want your sister to treat you? No, then why are you treating her like that? And do it every time there is a need for it!

Reinforcement is one of the greatest tools of parenting. It wont take long before children begin to get the idea. Then extend the concept to how they treat other children they play with, or even adults they interact with, like teachers or friends from church.

From this foundational point, parents can learn to teach such great Bible passages as Deuteronomy 6:5-9. Read it right now if you have the time. This passage tells us to take every opportunity to teach our children.

Teaching moments come at the dinner table. Make sure, parents, that you insist upon everyone eating together at supper time. Make bedtime a moment the kids will always remember, the time you take, Dad and Mom, to sit on the bed after tucking in that child and telling a Bible story lesson.

When you run to the grocery story, take one of the kids and use it as a time to talk about their needs and desires. Find a way to bring the Lord into the discussion.

Waiting in the doctors office, in line at the bank, or taking a walk in the neighborhood; there are many opportunities arise in which you can teach a great Bible lesson. They will remember what you are teaching even if they dont realize you are teaching!

On the other hand, the Bible says, Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Ephesians 6:1

I cannot get over the rudeness of children toward their parents, speaking back angrily at a parent who has simply told them to clean her/his room. Then the parent tries to reason with the child! Seriously? No child should be allowed to backtalk a parent without serious punishment! Help your child memorize Ephesians 6:1 (above) and recite it often.

Ephesians 6:4 also commands fathers not to frustrate their kids. Be careful how you train and discipline the kids. Failing to encourage when they do well, but always noticing a fault will frustrate a kid and cause him/her to wonder why even try to do right.

Much more help is in the Word, parents. Powerful words! Find them! Use them! Glorify God in teaching them!

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Masks work and it only makes sense to wear them – The Daily Telegram

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

To mask or not to mask? Why is that a question? Just when we were starting to finally shake off some of the restrictions brought on by the COVID virus, we are starting to go back to where we were when it all started.

The number of daily new cases in Michigan are higher now than they were since late May. It does not have to be like this, but too many people are refusing to wear a mask when they are out in public even though mask-wearing and social distancing are effective, as reported in the June 26 edition of Patient Care published by the University of California San Francisco.

Two case studies are particularly informative. One case was in a salon in Springfield, MO. Two hairstylists tested positive for COVID-19 but had met with 140 clients between May 12 and May 20 while wearing masks. The clients had close contact with the stylists for up to 30 minutes. Six other coworkers were also in the salon. Neither the clients nor the coworkers caught the virus.

In another case study, a man flew from China to Toronto. He had a dry cough and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. He was wearing a mask. The 25 people nearest him on the flight (within 6 feet) all tested negative.

Masks work.

A study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation published on June 24, 2020, reported that if 95% of the population wore face masks, it would reduce forecasted deaths from COVID-19 by over 33,000. So, why is there such resistance to wearing a mask?

For some people, the fact that the government, or someone else, is telling them what to do appears to be an irrational application of individual liberty. They abide by other dictates such as stopping at red lights, wearing seatbelts, or lining up to buy a ticket to a sporting event or some other form of entertainment. And I have never seen a person rip off his shirt or argue with a retail owner over a No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service sign. But if a store or restaurant were to enforce No Mask, No Service, the fireworks would start. Irrational. But, how did we get here?

You need to look no further than a comparison between the United States and Canada. On March 1 the United States had 69 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Canada had 20 cases. By July 6 Canada had 105, 524 confirmed cases and the United States had over 2.89 million cases. The difference between the two countries boils down to the difference between the two governments in how they responded to the pandemic. Donald Trump played down the threat if not outright denying it. Justin Trudeau saw it for what it was, a danger to his citizens. He listened to his scientists. Trump did not.

In times of uncertainty, our emotions tend to override our rationality. When that happens, we look to leaders for guidance. Donald Trump refuses to wear a face mask. The head of his COVID task force, Mike Pence, did not wear a face mask until June 28, after the resurgence of the virus. Justin Trudeau began wearing a face mask in mid-May, urging all Canadians to do the same.

Another factor that plays a role is political affiliation. According to a survey reported by Gallup on July 6, 98% of Democrats responded they always wear masks, compared to 66% of Republicans. Why are Republicans less likely to wear a mask? Chris Jackson of Ipsos Public Affairs may have answered that when he stated that, "Once [Trump] very clearly did not wear a mask in public, that transmitted a signal that if youre a good supporter of the president you dont wear a mask." (Market Watch, June 28, 2020)

Remember, wearing a face mask is not so much to protect you as it is to protect others. It helps to prevent a person from passing the virus to others. Remember the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Hank Cetola is a Professor Emeritus at Adrian College and the founder of Lenawee Indivisible. He can be reached at lenaweeindivisible3@gmail.com.

Masks work and it only makes sense to wear them - The Daily Telegram

Where are the now? Aloha spirit still burns strong for former UH-Hilo softball standout – West Hawaii Today

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Melanie Hipwell left her hometown, of La Mesa, Calif., to play for the UH-Hilo softball team more than two decades ago, not knowing anyone or much about the Aloha spirit.

She returned home a changed person, impacted by the Hilo community and filled the UHH record books in her four years from 1997 to 2000.

Hipwell was a sweet-swinging left-handed hitting catcher who established seven long-standing career records for games played (203), at-bats (628), hits (223), RBIs (146), doubles (37), walks (79) and fielding percentage (.976). She ranked second in triples (12) and third in batting average (.371).

In the curious case of where are they now?, Hipwell is now Melanie Brandt and lives in the same area, San Diego, and works for the same school district in education.

The year 2010 was significant for her. She was inducted into UHHs Hall of Fame in September and married Travas Brandt, an electrician, in November. (She jokes he may be the only one who spells his name that way.)

Their daughter, Clare, is 8 years old and as soon as she could pick up a bat was taught to hit left-handed. She was blessed with good hand-eye coordination because her father played hockey in high school.

Its a family affair for Clares 8-and-under softball team. Mom is the manager, dad is a coach, and Melanies mom, Antoinette, is an assistant. Like her parents, Brandt is raising her daughter much the same way. She isnt force-feeding Clare to play softball.

Shes still young and we dont want her to burn out, Brandt said. We allow her to play soccer, do theater, art, different things. We want to find out what she enjoys. She enjoys the friendships from softball. Shes an only child and has made great little friends.

We want to support her, like my parents did for me. My dad comes to all the games and my mom is in the dugout. Ive taken everything theyve given me and give back to my child and community.

During her time at UHH, the Vulcans always had winning records but never qualified for the postseason. Hawaii Pacific ruled the landscape, but what Brandt remembers is the connections formed during her time.

Everybody got along. We had a good group of girls and good families, she said. Michelle Canchola and I were freshmen roommates and a battery for four years. We talk on the phone and reminisce. Those were the best days of our lives, our years in Hilo.

There was always the Aloha spirit, be kind to others. That was the golden rule. I didnt know anyone but everyone became an uncle or aunty to me. It was life-changing, and Im grateful to coach Callen Perreira for what he did for me and my family.

Whenever the Vulcans play in San Diego, Brandt makes it a point to watch her old team. One of the highlights for her was when Perreira and assistant Fred Entilla attended her wedding.

Brandt picked up a lot of her coaching cues from Perreira, who remembers his catcher fondly.

She had the sweetest swing Ive seen in all my years of coaching, he said. Beautiful swing, great kid, very respectful, worked hard and great all-around person. We still keep in touch as well as her mom and dad. They appreciated the Hawaiian culture and how we took care of the student-athletes.

Thats what Brandt remembers most: How she was treated.

He took good care of us, she said. If we needed anything because we were so far away from our families.

He was very organized with practice. He taught me how to be organized. I plan everything on a clipboard. He supported us and never yelled. If we made a mistake, learn from it. There was always a good vibe because we had good people.

Her family is practicing softball, with safety precautions in mind, but do other things as well. They enjoy camping and the beach. There wasnt a Womens College World Series this year, but in years past Brandt claimed the remote and turned into a catcher, calling pitches.

Hilo was more than an old college town for her. It never leaves her mind. The memories of her good times still live on. Its not a far stretch to state that a return trip is possible someday. Melanie and Travas dont have anchor jobs.

Who knows? In a decade, Clare will be old enough to go to college. Maybe UHH, playing for her moms old coach?

I love what I do, but Hawaii is always on my mind. Every day I think about Hawaii, she said. I think about the people and friendships made. How welcoming everybody was. Im very thankful for all the love and support I felt instantly. Hilo is always in my heart.

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Editor’s letter: Boris Johnson’s endless attempts to suppress the Russia report could be more damaging than the dossier’s revelations – The…

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Boris Johnsons endless attempts to suppress the Russia report could be more damaging than the dossiers revelations | The Independent Independent Premium > Editors letters

It seems clear that there must be some pretty embarrassing stuff for the Tories in the 50-page dossier, writes Andrew Woodcock

The PMs efforts to suppress the findings have been unedifying and damaging to his reputation ( PA )

Its a golden rule in politics that the cover-up is usually more damaging than the crime, and the longer I look at the furore over the Russia report the more I think that may be the case here.

It seems clear that there must be some pretty embarrassing stuff for the Tories in the 50-page dossier compiled by former attorney general Dominic Grieves Intelligence and Security Committee in the far-off days of March last year.

But however damaging the revelations may be, the endless saga of Boris Johnsons attempts to suppress them is so unedifying that the harm to his reputation from that could be even greater.

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Online civility improved in APAC during COVID-19, declined in Latin America, Microsoft study – Microsoft on the Issues – Microsoft

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Teens and adults in the Asia-Pacific region reported an uptick in online civility and more respectful digital interactions during the COVID-19 global pandemic, results from a new Microsoft research study show. Meanwhile, respondents in Latin America said online civility worsened, punctuated by an increase in the spread of false or misleading information.

Nearly one-third (31%) of respondents in nine APAC geographies said online civility improved in the COVID-19 stay-at-home environment, a 5-percentage-points increase compared to the worldwide reading of 26%. A total of 32 geographies1 were included in this years study, which was conducted in April and May. Across other regions, participants in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the combined grouping of North American and Western European countries,2 said online civility improved by smaller percentages: 30%, 17% and 20%, respectively.

Meanwhile, in Latin America, 31% said online civility declined during the crisis, topping the worldwide reading of 22% by 9-percentage points. APAC, Central and Eastern Europe, and the combined North American and Western European block, posted worsening percentages of 22%, 28% and 17%. (Additional details shown in the chart below.)

Worldwide (52%) and regionally, a majority of respondents said online civility was unchanged by COVID-19. Regional unchanged percentages break down as follows: APAC: 47% Central and Eastern Europe: 55% Latin America: 39% North America and Western Europe: 63%

Overall, results underscore that despite anecdotal reports of declining online civility during COVID-19, the global picture is more nuanced.

The findings come from the latest study, Civility, Safety and Interaction Online 2020, which polled teens aged 13-17 and adults aged 18-74 about their exposure to 21 different online risks across four categories: behavioral; sexual; reputational; and personal/intrusive.3 This research builds on similar studies about digital civility that Microsoft has conducted in each of the last four years when fewer countries were included.

A total of 16,051 individuals participated in this years poll, and weve surveyed more than 58,000 people on these topics since the start of this work. Full results, including the release of the latest Microsoft Digital Civility Index (DCI), will be made available on international Safer Internet Day 2021 on February 9. The DCI is a measure of the tone and tenor of online interactions as reported by consumers in all surveyed locales. Last year, the index stood at its lowest level since the research began, indicating a high level of perceived online incivility.

Of the 26% of global respondents who thought online civility improved in April and May during COVID-19, people helping other people and a sense of were all in this together were the primary reasons behind their responses. More than two-thirds (67%) said they saw people helping others and 60% said they had a greater sense of were all in this together. Meanwhile, in APAC, nearly three-quarters of positive respondents (70%) saw people helping others, and the second most highly rated reply was people being more encouraging to one another (66%). Other positive responses in the APAC region included a greater sense of community, people coming together to deal with the crisis, and people reconnecting online with family and friends.

In Latin America (70%) and globally (67%), an increased spread of false or misleading information was the primary reason given by those who thought online civility had faltered during the pandemic. Other standout worsening responses in Latin America included people taking out their frustrations online and people being less tolerant. (Check out our factsheet on helping young people to identify misinformation and hate speech, and read about what Microsoft is doing to combat COVID-19 misinformation more broadly.)

Given the toll the global crisis was taking on people around the world both online and off, we added some special questions to this years study to explore the perceived impact of COVID-19 on online interactions in this fifth milestone installment of our research. Thats also why we added (or re-added) seven geographies to the 2020 study: Australia, Denmark, Philippines, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and Thailand. (The first Microsoft Digital Civility Index reading for each of these geographies, bar Australia, will be made available on Safer Internet Day 2021. Australias 2020 index will be the first reading since Year Two of the study.)

And, while more of the world starts to re-open following what was truly an unprecedented event in most of our lifetimes, many of us are still working and learning from home, and practicing social distancing. These circumstances underscore the need for safer, healthier and more respectful interactions both online and off. We only need to look to last years research to recall what people hoped for in this new decade of the 2020s. Respondents in 25 countries said they wanted respect, safety, freedom, civility and kindness to define online interactions in the 2020s, and they added a few predictions for some more sensitive scenarios. A third of all respondents said they expect fewer women to be sexually harassed online, fewer teens to be bullied and online political discussions to become more constructive in the new decade.

To get back on track and help realize some of those uplifting 2020s predictions, we continue to point to our Digital Civility Challenge: four common-sense principles to help engender compassion, empathy and kindness. Everyone can commit to the challenge actions and pledge to adopt positive online habits and practices. Those actions are: Live the Golden Rule; respect differences; pause before replying; and stand up for yourself and others. Learn more about the challenge here, and visit our website and resources page for additional advice and guidance for tackling almost any online safety issue.

1 Countries polled in 2020 were: Argentina, Australia*, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark*, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia*, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines*, Poland, Russia, Sweden*, Singapore, Spain*, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand*, Turkey, U.K., U.S., Vietnam*Indicates country was added (or re-added) to the study in 2020

2 Regional groupings are as follows: APAC (9) Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam CEE (3) Hungary, Poland, Russia Latam (6) Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru NA + WE (12) Canada, U.S., Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, U.K.

3 The definiton of the four categories are as follows:Reputational Doxing and damage to personal or professional reputationsBehavioral Being treated meanly; experiencing trolling, online harassment or bullying; encountering hatespeech and microaggressionsSexual Sending or receiving unwanted sexting messages and making sexual solicitations; receiving unwantedsexual attention and being a victim of sextortion or non-consensual pornography (aka revenge porn)Personal/intrusive Being the target of unwanted contact, experiencing discrimination, swatting, misogyny, exposure toextremist content/recruiting, or falling victim to hoaxes, scams or fraud

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Former Garces coach was a positive influence on area youth – The Bakersfield Californian

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

John Roberts meant so much to so many different people.

That was apparent during his 66 years of life, just as it is following his death Sunday evening.

When news of his passing began circulating on social media earlier this week, the outpouring of former players, students, friends and family demonstrated the influence Roberts had on so many, from a variety of walks of life.

First, and foremost, he was a family man. He and his wife, Jan, started dating as freshmen at Garces High, the start of what would eventually lead to nearly 45 years of marriage and three children, Jeremy, Shelly and Justin.

All are Garces graduates, which is fitting considering Roberts impact on the school.

As a quarterback, he guided the Rams to the 1971 Central Section championship. After graduating, Roberts returned to his alma mater as an assistant football coach, where he was part of six more section titles during a 25-year stretch.

(He was) a true servant to God, his family, his friends, and the youth of Kern County, said Jeremy Roberts of his father. He taught me and countless others that true leadership is a selfless act which should be focused on growing and developing others. Thats what success is. Not the wins and losses, not the stats, not the trophies and championships although very impressive. Success is making someone or something better. Thats what my dad did and thats why he is heralded today.

Roberts impact on the areas youth then extended to another segment of the population, working for the Kern County Probation Department for 33 years. He was promoted to chief probation officer in 2004, a position he held until he retired in 2010.

He was a great leader and mentor, said Kevin Keyes, who coached with Roberts and also worked with him at the Kern County Office of Education in Gang Prevention and as a juvenile probation youth counselor. He surrounded himself with good people and got out of the way. He was not a micromanager, but he had no problem letting you know who was boss.

He really had a heart for serving our most at-risk kids. John was a part of a movement that was proactive in prevention and early intervention to keep kids out of going into juvenile hall. He will truly be missed by the educational community, as well.

Roberts returned to Garces as head football coach in 2010 and guided the Rams to a two-year 21-4 record with two Southeast Yosemite league championships and an appearance in the section Division II title game.

He was a great coach and very successful in the probation department, but more importantly, he was a great husband and father, said John Fanucchi, who coached with Roberts at Garces for more than 20 years. He was a wonderful mentor for the student-athletes that he coached, and greatly respected and loved by the different families whose lives he touched.

He was a great person to be around. You always knew where you stood with John. He would let you know how he felt, what he thought, what his opinions were. But he was also a very fun-loving guy.

Former Rams player Nick Sakowski also has fond memories of his former coach.

"Coach Roberts was way more than just a football coach," Sakowski said. "I learned so many life lessons in such a short period of time from this man. The Lord welcomed a new family member into Heavens gates this week."

Despite the success in his return to coaching, Roberts decided to retire following the 2011 season, saying at the time:

"We had a great group of kids, and Garces has a great future with or without me. Part of our philosophy was treating the kids respectfully and taking care of them. It paid off for us, and you can tell by our record. I'm proud of what I did over the last couple of years, and I feel like the program is going full speed ahead.

"My career has been wonderful. I had the opportunity to be involved in six Valley championships, plus one as a player. I'm proud of all the things that were accomplished. No regrets."

The same could be said for Roberts life in general, where his actions will live on in the many families he touched.

He was critically important to so many student-athletes and so many families at Garces over all his many years as coach there, Fanucchi said. His friends loved him He was a giant among men. He was a very, very special person who will be greatly missed, and I know that there are a lot of people that appreciate the fact that he had a part in their lives and a part of the lives of their children.

In lieu of flowers, the Roberts family is asking that any donations be made to the Alzheimers Disease Association of Kern County or to the Garces Memorial football program.

He helped develop young boys and girls into men and women, Jeremy Roberts said. With humility, love, humor, and hard work he made everyone better. Through his actions, he taught us the massive importance of leadership and mentorship with our youth, our future, and now we must pay it forward. A simple man with enormous impact. Treat people right, do things right, work hard, play hard and never forget the golden rule. It doesnt get more simplistic than that. Rest in peace pops, we got it from here. You showed us what needs to be done.

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Erin Napier Announced That She’s Turning Off Her Instagram Comments Until 2021 – Country Living

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

Cant we all just remember the golden rule and treat others how we want to be treated? Its pretty safe to say thats what Erin Napier wishes.

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On Wednesday, July 8, the Home Town co-host took to Instagram to share a not-so-candid post of herself and her husband Ben, accompanied by a powerful caption about her plan to take a stand against harmful Instagram hate.

Turning off comments till 2021 feels like a good move, she began her post. Its getting harder to shoulder every opinion from every direction at all times about everything when everyone is freaking out constantly. Theres too much noise. Its like this: Were each making a bed and cant see how far the sheet is hanging on the other side. We cant see what we cant see. So the best we can do is show compassion in our differences and understanding that were never going to be able to see all things the exact same way because our experiences are not the same. Its nothing to freak out about. No need to shove. Have mercy. Show grace. Social media is for fun. So here, enjoy this totally candid and unposed image. (P.S. I am bad at analogies).

While were unable to see how her followers felt about the social media movegiven comments are shut off, of coursewe bet many of them (ourselves included) are supportive of the choice, while others might be disappointed

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EOS, Ethereum and Ripple’s XRP Daily Tech Analysis July 14th, 2020 – FX Empire

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Danzig

For the day ahead

Ethereum would need to move through the $240.60 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $244.22.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Ethereum to break back through to $244 levels.

Barring another extended crypto rally, the first major resistance level and Mondays high $245.37 should cap any upside.

Failure to move through the $240.60 pivot would bring the first major support level at $235.82 into play.

Barring another extended sell-off, Ethereum should continue to steer clear of sub-$230 levels. The second major support level at $232.19 should limit any downside.

Major Support Level: $235.82

Pivot Level: $240.59

Major Resistance Level: $244.22

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $257

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $367

62% FIB Retracement Level: $543

Ripples XRP fell by 1.31% on Monday. Reversing a 0.18% gain from Sunday, Ripples XRP ended the day at $0.19889.

Tracking the broader market, Ripples XRP rose to a mid-day intraday high $0.20698 before hitting reverse.

Ripples XRP broke through the first major resistance level at $0.2047 before sliding to a late intraday low $0.19246.

Ripples XRP fell through the first major support level at $0.1983 and the second major support level at $0.1950.

Finding late support, Ripples XRP broke back through the major support levels.

At the time of writing, Ripples XRP was down by 0.54% to $0.19782. A bearish start to the day saw Ripples XRP fall from an early morning high $0.19877 to a low $0.19778.

Ripples XRP left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

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