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It's absolutely infuriating how cybercriminals get away with their heinous actions with little to no consequences! We’re living in a digital age where everything—from our most personal information to critical national security data—is stored online, and yet these cyber scum are free to exploit these vulnerabilities without fear. It’s like our legal and regulatory frameworks are stuck in the Dark Ages, hopelessly out of touch with the sophisticated and constantly evolving threats posed by these digital marauders. The primary danger of cybercrime is the horrifyingly low rate at which guilty criminals are caught or prosecuted. This pitifully low conviction rate leaves governments and businesses exposed to relentless, targeted attacks, creating a breeding ground for digital chaos. A measly 0.3% of all reported cybercrime complaints actually result in enforcement and prosecution. That's a pathetic 3 out of 1,000 malicious cyber incidents where the perpetrators are arrested and brought to justice. This enormous enforcement gap gives these malicious actors the boldness to carry out their nefarious activities without fear of being caught, prosecuted, or punished. To make matters worse, a significant percentage of cybercrime victims don't even bother reporting the cases, meaning the real enforcement rate might be less than a laughable 0.05%. It's also crucial to highlight that cybercrime has skyrocketed in recent years, as more and more individuals dive into this vice for the lucrative rewards. Recent research shows that some cybercriminals rake in up to $2 million annually, while others earn between $40,000 and $1 million each year. The attackers spend as much time meticulously planning and designing their malicious activities as they do devising ways to remain hidden and under the radar. The dark web serves as their perfect playground, a shadowy marketplace where they can freely engage in various cybercrime activities, further compounding the difficulty of apprehending them. I’d like to point out,  the sheer gall of these cybercriminals is beyond infuriating. They hide in the shadows, comfortably ensconced behind their screens, wreaking havoc on individuals, businesses, and governments alike. And when they do get caught? What do they face? A laughable slap on the wrist! A short prison sentence or a measly fine that does nothing to deter them. These so-called "penalties" are a joke, a disgrace considering the monumental damage these tech-savvy crooks inflict. They can easily vanish into the digital abyss, only to resurface and start their dirty work all over again. And don’t get me started on the international aspect of cybercrime. These digital parasites can operate from anywhere in the world, exploiting legal loopholes and hiding in countries that refuse to cooperate with international law enforcement. The lack of global coordination is a glaring weakness that these criminals exploit with glee. Why should they fear any repercussions when they can simply jump from one safe haven to another, always staying one step ahead of the authorities? It’s a pathetic game of cat and mouse, and the mice are winning! Then there’s the infuriating issue of underreporting. Businesses and individuals alike are often too scared to report cybercrimes, fearing damage to their reputation or believing, rightly, that the authorities are useless. This only emboldens the cybercriminals further, creating an environment where they can operate with impunity. It’s an outrage that the cumulative damage of cybercrime goes largely unacknowledged because victims are silenced by fear and helplessness. The scale of the threat is astronomical, yet it’s treated with a casual indifference that’s maddening. The financial toll is staggering. Cybercrime drains billions from the global economy every single year. Companies are forced to pay ransoms, invest heavily in cybersecurity, and deal with the fallout of data breaches, all while consumers bear the brunt through identity theft and fraud. Yet, despite these catastrophic financial implications, we allocate a pittance to combat cybercrime. We need more funding, more resources, and more political will to tackle this menace head-on. The current state of affairs is a travesty, an absolute dereliction of duty by those in power. The Human Cost The human cost is equally maddening. The victims of cybercrime suffer immensely, experiencing stress, anxiety, and a profound sense of violation. These aren’t just abstract attacks on systems; they’re brutal assaults on real people. Whether it’s an individual whose identity has been stolen or a business owner whose life’s work is being held hostage, the emotional and psychological toll is immense. And what do the cybercriminals face? Virtually nothing. It’s a gross injustice, a slap in the face to every victim. Our legal system’s response to cybercrime is pitifully slow and outdated. Laws lag behind technological advancements, and by the time we catch up, cybercriminals have already found new ways to exploit weaknesses. We need agile, forward-thinking policies that can anticipate future cyber threats and adapt quickly. This requires not just legal reform but a complete overhaul of our cultural approach to cybersecurity. Pandora's Box - Opened By Us It's downright maddening that we humans have opened Pandora's box with our insatiable drive for digital advancement, only to watch in horror as cybercriminals run rampant without facing real consequences. We created this monster, and now we're helplessly watching it tear through our lives, our businesses, and our governments, all while these digital parasites cackle from the dark corners of the internet. It’s beyond infuriating that we’ve unleashed this chaos upon ourselves and yet seem utterly incapable of reining it in. Our relentless quest for connectivity and convenience has left us exposed. We’ve put everything online—our bank accounts, our personal information, our deepest secrets—like lambs to the slaughter. We’ve built this intricate web of technology, only to be ensnared by it ourselves. It’s our own damn fault that cybercriminals are having a field day, exploiting every vulnerability we’ve created in our rush to digitize every aspect of our lives. And the worst part? We’re the ones who suffer, while the criminals laugh to their offshore accounts. Think about the absurdity of it: we’ve invented all these incredible technologies, but we’ve also handed cybercriminals the keys to our kingdoms. We’ve armed them with the tools they need to wreak havoc, and now they’re doing it with impunity. It’s like we’ve built a fortress but forgot to lock the doors, and now we’re surprised that the thieves are helping themselves to everything inside. The sheer incompetence is staggering. We’ve also created a perfect breeding ground for these criminals by being so ridiculously dependent on digital systems. We can’t go a day without our phones, our emails, our online banking. We’ve woven technology so tightly into the fabric of our lives that we’re left vulnerable at every turn. And yet, despite this dependency, we’ve done a pathetic job of protecting ourselves. It’s like we’ve built a house of cards and are now shocked that the slightest breeze is bringing it all down. Where Is The Accountability? And where is the accountability? Where are the harsh penalties, the deterrents that should be striking fear into the hearts of these cybercriminals? Nowhere to be found. Instead, we have a system that’s slow, outdated, and completely outmatched by the speed and sophistication of cybercrime. We need a radical overhaul, not just a few tweaks here and there. We need laws that are as fast and ruthless as the criminals they’re meant to catch. Until we get serious about this, we’re just spinning our wheels while the criminals race ahead. We’ve also been incredibly naive, trusting blindly in the security of our digital systems. We’ve bought into the illusion that technology is infallible, that our data is safe. Well, guess what? It’s not. Cybercriminals are constantly evolving, finding new ways to exploit our weaknesses, and we’re always playing catch-up. It’s a losing game, and we’re losing badly. Cybercriminals should be terrified of the repercussions, not laughing at the pathetic state of our current defenses. Until we tackle these issues with the urgency and seriousness they deserve, we’ll continue to live in a world where cybercriminals run rampant, causing untold damage with impunity. And that is utterly unacceptable! It’s us humans who opened Pandora’s box, and now we’re reaping the whirlwind. We’ve created the technology, we’ve built the systems, and we’ve made ourselves dependent on them, only to see it all turned against us by cybercriminals who face little to no consequences. It’s a colossal failure on our part, a stunning display of hubris and incompetence. We need to wake up, get serious about cybersecurity, and start holding these criminals accountable with real, severe consequences. Otherwise, we’re just going to keep watching as the chaos we unleashed continues to destroy everything we hold dear. It's absolutely infuriating how cybercriminals get away with their heinous actions with little to no consequences! We’re living in a digital age where everything—from our most personal information to critical national security data—is stored online, and yet these cyber scum are free to exploit these vulnerabilities without fear. It’s like our legal and regulatory frameworks are stuck in the Dark Ages, hopelessly out of touch with the sophisticated and constantly evolving threats posed by these digital marauders. The primary danger of cybercrime is the horrifyingly low rate at which guilty criminals are caught or prosecuted. This pitifully low conviction rate leaves governments and businesses exposed to relentless, targeted attacks, creating a breeding ground for digital chaos. cybercrime A measly 0.3% of all reported cybercrime complaints actually result in enforcement and prosecution. That's a pathetic 3 out of 1,000 malicious cyber incidents where the perpetrators are arrested and brought to justice. This enormous enforcement gap gives these malicious actors the boldness to carry out their nefarious activities without fear of being caught, prosecuted, or punished. To make matters worse, a significant percentage of cybercrime victims don't even bother reporting the cases, meaning the real enforcement rate might be less than a laughable 0.05%. It's also crucial to highlight that cybercrime has skyrocketed in recent years, as more and more individuals dive into this vice for the lucrative rewards. Recent research shows that some cybercriminals rake in up to $2 million annually, while others earn between $40,000 and $1 million each year. The attackers spend as much time meticulously planning and designing their malicious activities as they do devising ways to remain hidden and under the radar. The dark web serves as their perfect playground, a shadowy marketplace where they can freely engage in various cybercrime activities, further compounding the difficulty of apprehending them. I’d like to point out,  the sheer gall of these cybercriminals is beyond infuriating. They hide in the shadows, comfortably ensconced behind their screens, wreaking havoc on individuals, businesses, and governments alike. And when they do get caught? What do they face? A laughable slap on the wrist! A short prison sentence or a measly fine that does nothing to deter them. These so-called "penalties" are a joke, a disgrace considering the monumental damage these tech-savvy crooks inflict. They can easily vanish into the digital abyss, only to resurface and start their dirty work all over again. And don’t get me started on the international aspect of cybercrime. These digital parasites can operate from anywhere in the world, exploiting legal loopholes and hiding in countries that refuse to cooperate with international law enforcement. The lack of global coordination is a glaring weakness that these criminals exploit with glee. Why should they fear any repercussions when they can simply jump from one safe haven to another, always staying one step ahead of the authorities? It’s a pathetic game of cat and mouse, and the mice are winning! Then there’s the infuriating issue of underreporting. Businesses and individuals alike are often too scared to report cybercrimes, fearing damage to their reputation or believing, rightly, that the authorities are useless. This only emboldens the cybercriminals further, creating an environment where they can operate with impunity. It’s an outrage that the cumulative damage of cybercrime goes largely unacknowledged because victims are silenced by fear and helplessness. The scale of the threat is astronomical, yet it’s treated with a casual indifference that’s maddening. The financial toll is staggering. Cybercrime drains billions from the global economy every single year. Companies are forced to pay ransoms, invest heavily in cybersecurity, and deal with the fallout of data breaches, all while consumers bear the brunt through identity theft and fraud. Yet, despite these catastrophic financial implications, we allocate a pittance to combat cybercrime. We need more funding, more resources, and more political will to tackle this menace head-on. The current state of affairs is a travesty, an absolute dereliction of duty by those in power. The Human Cost The human cost is equally maddening. The victims of cybercrime suffer immensely, experiencing stress, anxiety, and a profound sense of violation. These aren’t just abstract attacks on systems; they’re brutal assaults on real people. Whether it’s an individual whose identity has been stolen or a business owner whose life’s work is being held hostage, the emotional and psychological toll is immense. And what do the cybercriminals face? Virtually nothing. It’s a gross injustice, a slap in the face to every victim. Our legal system’s response to cybercrime is pitifully slow and outdated. Laws lag behind technological advancements, and by the time we catch up, cybercriminals have already found new ways to exploit weaknesses. We need agile, forward-thinking policies that can anticipate future cyber threats and adapt quickly. This requires not just legal reform but a complete overhaul of our cultural approach to cybersecurity. cyber threats Pandora's Box - Opened By Us It's downright maddening that we humans have opened Pandora's box with our insatiable drive for digital advancement, only to watch in horror as cybercriminals run rampant without facing real consequences. We created this monster, and now we're helplessly watching it tear through our lives, our businesses, and our governments, all while these digital parasites cackle from the dark corners of the internet. It’s beyond infuriating that we’ve unleashed this chaos upon ourselves and yet seem utterly incapable of reining it in. Our relentless quest for connectivity and convenience has left us exposed. We’ve put everything online—our bank accounts, our personal information, our deepest secrets—like lambs to the slaughter. We’ve built this intricate web of technology, only to be ensnared by it ourselves. It’s our own damn fault that cybercriminals are having a field day, exploiting every vulnerability we’ve created in our rush to digitize every aspect of our lives. And the worst part? We’re the ones who suffer, while the criminals laugh to their offshore accounts. Think about the absurdity of it: we’ve invented all these incredible technologies, but we’ve also handed cybercriminals the keys to our kingdoms. We’ve armed them with the tools they need to wreak havoc, and now they’re doing it with impunity. It’s like we’ve built a fortress but forgot to lock the doors, and now we’re surprised that the thieves are helping themselves to everything inside. The sheer incompetence is staggering. We’ve also created a perfect breeding ground for these criminals by being so ridiculously dependent on digital systems. We can’t go a day without our phones, our emails, our online banking. We’ve woven technology so tightly into the fabric of our lives that we’re left vulnerable at every turn. And yet, despite this dependency, we’ve done a pathetic job of protecting ourselves. It’s like we’ve built a house of cards and are now shocked that the slightest breeze is bringing it all down. Where Is The Accountability? And where is the accountability? Where are the harsh penalties, the deterrents that should be striking fear into the hearts of these cybercriminals? Nowhere to be found. Instead, we have a system that’s slow, outdated, and completely outmatched by the speed and sophistication of cybercrime. We need a radical overhaul, not just a few tweaks here and there. We need laws that are as fast and ruthless as the criminals they’re meant to catch. Until we get serious about this, we’re just spinning our wheels while the criminals race ahead. We’ve also been incredibly naive, trusting blindly in the security of our digital systems. We’ve bought into the illusion that technology is infallible, that our data is safe. Well, guess what? It’s not. Cybercriminals are constantly evolving, finding new ways to exploit our weaknesses, and we’re always playing catch-up. It’s a losing game, and we’re losing badly. Cybercriminals should be terrified of the repercussions, not laughing at the pathetic state of our current defenses. Until we tackle these issues with the urgency and seriousness they deserve, we’ll continue to live in a world where cybercriminals run rampant, causing untold damage with impunity. And that is utterly unacceptable! It’s us humans who opened Pandora’s box, and now we’re reaping the whirlwind. We’ve created the technology, we’ve built the systems, and we’ve made ourselves dependent on them, only to see it all turned against us by cybercriminals who face little to no consequences. It’s a colossal failure on our part, a stunning display of hubris and incompetence. We need to wake up, get serious about cybersecurity, and start holding these criminals accountable with real, severe consequences. Otherwise, we’re just going to keep watching as the chaos we unleashed continues to destroy everything we hold dear.

Cyber Scum Are Free To Exploit Vulnerabilities Without Fear

Recently, a growing rumor has taken hold of social networks: Saudi Arabia has ended the petrodollar system. Accounts on X, which follow news from the BRICS countries, are having a field day announcing the death of the petrodollar. According to these X accounts, a 50-year-old agreement between Saudi Arabia and America has expired. This agreement obliged Saudi Arabia to denominate its oil in dollars. Henceforth, Saudi Arabia would be free to sell its oil in RMB, Euros, Yen, or Yuan and no longer exclusively in US dollars. Some then went even further, saying that the death of the petrodollar would benefit Bitcoin. For some, everything is supposed to benefit Bitcoin despite common sense... These same influencers found a shortcut by announcing that this would promote the emergence of Bitcoin as the world's reserve currency. Rather than let the influencers dictate what you should think on the subject, I thought it was essential to take stock of the issue so that you can form your own opinion. That's what the Bitcoin revolution is all about: Don't Trust, Verify. I'll give you some arguments that you can incorporate into your thought process, and then you can decide for yourself! To begin with, you need to understand that there has never been such an agreement between Saudi Arabia and America. The petrodollar did emerge in 1974, three short years after the end of the Bretton Woods Agreement, but there is no written agreement. The U.S. dollar is not backed by Saudi kings or oil but rather by the fact that U.S. Treasury bonds are the most liquid market in the world. An agreement between Saudi Arabia and America has nothing to do with that. On the other hand, if the BRICS governments want to break away from the US dollar, they're not going to do it with press releases. Nor can they do so by choosing to denominate their oil in anything other than US dollars. That would have no impact. Denomination doesn't matter; what matters is what's held in cash balances. To weaken the US dollar, governments can only choose to put their cash reserves into assets other than US Treasury bills. The problem boils down to that phrase you've been hearing for decades about the US dollar: There Is No Alternative. You may be more familiar with the acronym TINA. The Euro is a dollar to which you add European risk. China doesn't have an open capital market for foreign governments to hold its bonds, unlike the US dollar. The other economies are too small. What's more, their monetary and fiscal policies are frequently worse than those applied in America. Gold is too expensive to move and verify. If governments wanted to move into gold, they would negotiate and work out authorization mechanisms instead of issuing meaningless press releases. Such a gold switch could only take place if governments were to return to a gold standard, but this is not the path being followed, as all countries are statist. A move towards gold would, however, open their eyes to an obvious reality. To challenge the domination of the dollar king, we need to turn to Bitcoin. But the BRICS countries are still a long way off. As you can see, China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia have no desire to cede their monetary sovereignty to a neutral, apolitical system that belongs to the people. Bitcoin is synonymous with freedom in the broadest sense of the word, whether financial or personal. Do you think that the Chinese Communist Party wants to offer its people such freedom on a platter? For the Chinese Communist Party, freedom is synonymous with danger. The CCP has installed a society of mass surveillance in China over the past few years, and there's no question of turning back. On the contrary, the e-RMB is in an advanced testing phase and is the last missing piece in China's mass surveillance system. The idea that the BRICS countries are opting for Bitcoin together seems to me to be mistaken, but only time will tell. In any case, beware of all these announcements of the imminent death of the dollar king or the petrodollar system. These announcements have been going around for years, yet the dollar is still the hegemonic king! Recently, a growing rumor has taken hold of social networks: Saudi Arabia has ended the petrodollar system. Accounts on X, which follow news from the BRICS countries, are having a field day announcing the death of the petrodollar. According to these X accounts, a 50-year-old agreement between Saudi Arabia and America has expired. This agreement obliged Saudi Arabia to denominate its oil in dollars. Henceforth, Saudi Arabia would be free to sell its oil in RMB, Euros, Yen, or Yuan and no longer exclusively in US dollars. Some then went even further, saying that the death of the petrodollar would benefit Bitcoin. For some, everything is supposed to benefit Bitcoin despite common sense... These same influencers found a shortcut by announcing that this would promote the emergence of Bitcoin as the world's reserve currency. Rather than let the influencers dictate what you should think on the subject, I thought it was essential to take stock of the issue so that you can form your own opinion. That's what the Bitcoin revolution is all about: Don't Trust, Verify. I'll give you some arguments that you can incorporate into your thought process, and then you can decide for yourself! To begin with, you need to understand that there has never been such an agreement between Saudi Arabia and America. The petrodollar did emerge in 1974, three short years after the end of the Bretton Woods Agreement, but there is no written agreement. The U.S. dollar is not backed by Saudi kings or oil but rather by the fact that U.S. Treasury bonds are the most liquid market in the world. An agreement between Saudi Arabia and America has nothing to do with that. On the other hand, if the BRICS governments want to break away from the US dollar, they're not going to do it with press releases. Nor can they do so by choosing to denominate their oil in anything other than US dollars. That would have no impact. Denomination doesn't matter; what matters is what's held in cash balances. To weaken the US dollar, governments can only choose to put their cash reserves into assets other than US Treasury bills. The problem boils down to that phrase you've been hearing for decades about the US dollar: There Is No Alternative. You may be more familiar with the acronym TINA. The Euro is a dollar to which you add European risk. China doesn't have an open capital market for foreign governments to hold its bonds, unlike the US dollar. The other economies are too small. What's more, their monetary and fiscal policies are frequently worse than those applied in America. Gold is too expensive to move and verify. If governments wanted to move into gold, they would negotiate and work out authorization mechanisms instead of issuing meaningless press releases. Such a gold switch could only take place if governments were to return to a gold standard, but this is not the path being followed, as all countries are statist. A move towards gold would, however, open their eyes to an obvious reality. To challenge the domination of the dollar king, we need to turn to Bitcoin. But the BRICS countries are still a long way off. As you can see, China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia have no desire to cede their monetary sovereignty to a neutral, apolitical system that belongs to the people. Bitcoin is synonymous with freedom in the broadest sense of the word, whether financial or personal. Do you think that the Chinese Communist Party wants to offer its people such freedom on a platter? For the Chinese Communist Party, freedom is synonymous with danger. The CCP has installed a society of mass surveillance in China over the past few years, and there's no question of turning back. On the contrary, the e-RMB is in an advanced testing phase and is the last missing piece in China's mass surveillance system. The idea that the BRICS countries are opting for Bitcoin together seems to me to be mistaken, but only time will tell. In any case, beware of all these announcements of the imminent death of the dollar king or the petrodollar system. These announcements have been going around for years, yet the dollar is still the hegemonic king!

The End of the Petrodollar With Bitcoin As the Big Winner? Mind You, It’s Not Quite That Simple!

2024 is touted as the “The Ultimate Election Year” by Time magazine and rightfully so as more than 50 countries prepare for national elections, roughly more than half the population of the planet. Some of the largest democracies up for elections from the stated list are India, the US, Mexico, Indonesia, and more, making 2024 a turning point in the geopolitical landscape for democracy. Media is the fourth pillar of with the responsibility of upholding the truth to the public, but a closer look at the current scenario would show you a different perspective. There is no one sinister plot at play, it is a series of unfortunate events catalyzed by well intentioned citizens misplacing their enthusiasm to further the misinformation chaos. democracy Systematic erosion of democracy may now be a field day with the advent of AI, specifically massification of it through Generative AI Systematic erosion of democracy may now be a field day with the advent of AI, specifically massification of it through . For instance, , an organization that tracks misinformation, just since May 2023, websites hosting AI-created false articles have increased by more than 1,000%, ballooning from 49 sites to more than 600. Propaganda operations that were usually menial tasks performed by underpaid cyber armies are now easily enabled by AI that is strikingly similar to official news. The lines of real and fake are easily blurred, even for the well informed and well read consumers and this freefall of misinformation may lead us soon to question the nature of news altogether. Generative AI according to NewsGuard In Here, Lies the Opportunity If AI is the poison that contaminates the well of information, it is also the said antidote, or at least a key ingredient. The technology can also be deployed to detect misinformation and text generated by AI and also launching counter to contain the spread of misinformation. campaigns Even tech companies are huddling to create proactive solutions to mitigate the risks. Industry leaders, including OpenAI, Microsoft, TikTok, X, Meta, Amazon, and Google, disclosed a new agreement, ‘ ’, that aims to minimize the risk of AI interfering in the 2024 US elections. They have pledged a series of commitments that include developing new technologies to mitigate risks, detecting distribution on their platforms, more transparency and launching public awareness campaigns on media literacy. Tech Accord to Combat Deceptive Use of AI in 2024 Elections However, this is mostly focused on the US elections, and as important as they may be, media literacy is a much bigger issue in the developing countries. An independent alternative powered by the honchos of the media industry could be a viable solution. It is an opportunity in disguise where the whole industry can unite to fight this deviant and also create a wholesome database of accurate news links. This also creates an easy access for the user to consume news of their preferred news networks while comparing the headlines. If not through an industry initiative, but with help of veteran experts this is an achievable task. An unimpeachable mecca of news, the ultimate utopia or rather resetting to the original DD news in India or PBS in US days, no nonsense shows, just news. In fact, the silent period rule in large scale democracies like ours, could be even extended from 48 hours to 6 months as public perception is moulded constantly with accessibility of news on their phones and these laws predate the notification technology. When it comes to AI, this is still a manageable expectation, for instance Midjourney’s CEO, David Holz was considering banning creation of political (in context of the US elections) images for 2024. If there are guardrails installed on the creation process by AI companies, it is a beast that can be possibly tamed. This article was originally published by on Sanjay Sehgal The Tech Panda.

The Influence of AI on Voter Decision-Making: A Global Democracy’s Crossroads

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How Slack's Huddles Gave Us The Boost We Needed To Launch Remote working makes it hard to have the spontaneity that offices can bring. Slack Huddles managed to bring that to one team's successful bid for ProductHunt 20. Just Launched ConnectDome to Solve Networking for Developers Interacting to exchange info and develop professional or social contacts can be tricky. Check out the newly launched ConnectDome for a potential solution. 21. Compare Twitter Social Graphs with Vennly Search Vennly to see the intersection of any 2 Twitter social graphs. 22. Every GTM Should Be A Phased Launch and Here's Why The “big splash” rollout is often a big mistake. Methodical phased launches lead to higher success rates and lower churn rates 23. How I Got To #1 on Product Hunt as a Nobody I am a nobody on the internet; not an influencer, not a VC, and not a serial entrepreneur. I only had about 100 followers on Twitter prior to launching. But my product, One Profile, was recently awarded #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt (PH) and that has changed my life. 24. I Outsourced Label Manufacturing To Jump Start My eCommerce Business Private label manufacturers can be a game-changer for any e-commerce business.  We're discussing how they help and how to work with them. 25. Why Do Product Managers and Product Designers Need Each Other? Teammates, not opponents. That’s how product managers and product designers are expected to work in product teams. 26. I Took Ownership of a Major Product Feature as a PM Intern This post will cover Denis’ workflow from planning to execution around the Preferences project as well as his experience working with the Courier team. 27. 7 Benefits of MVP for Startups In this article, we are considering key peculiarities and benefits of a minimum viable product that will help you enter the market more successfully. 28. Efficient Deployment and Release Management “Do not deploy on Friday” is not a joke after all even if you have continuous deployment. With deciding to deploy anyway comes the subtle concern... 29. How We Made a Slack App in 11 Days Hey, everyone! We, the Indie Hackers SPB Community, organized a one-week Bootcamp: in our free time, we built a product from scratch and launched it on Product Hunt. We got the #3 Product of the Day badge and over 30 installs of our app in the Slack Workspaces. Now, I want to share our experience. At the end of this article, I will share our Notion checklist, that we found extremely helpful for the launch preparation :) 30. Convert PDF Document in Three Steps using DynamicDocs API Advicement newly launched DynamicDocs API gives businesses the ability to automatically generate PDF documents with dynamic text, tables and charts. 31. How to Launch a Product Successfully The phone balanced high-end quality with a mid-range price tag, offering a top of the range smartphone on the level of a flagship Samsung Galaxy for half the price. When word got out — through social media and tech sites who marvelled at the quality to price ratio — consumer interest spiked. 32. Kempus is What Facebook was Intended to Be An interview with a CEO you're about to hear a lot about. 33. SPARQ Launches on App Store and Google Play After months of validating the concept and testing the app, SPARQ’s time has finally come! 34. Chase Bowers Got His First Thousand Customers Without Spending Any Money - Here's How! How Did Chase Bowers Get 1,000+ New Customers Without Spending a Dime? He gave away 1,000 free plans, used feedback to improve, & then launched paid plans. 35. Don't Make These Common Mistakes When Launching Your Website On October 22 I've launched online my first website. I'd like to share with you my experience. 36. How To Sustain Your Business In The Post-Pandemic World I decided to cover today the concept of how to push your business in the post-pandemic world since I think it is more than ever a tragic and unprecedented situation that we are in today. 37. 4 Creative Ways to Generate Buzz for Your Product Launch Are you having trouble generating buzz around your new product launch? Check out our guide on how to generate buzz for your new product launch. 38. Looking for a New Smartphone Led Me to Create a Platform That Aims to Reverse the Product-Market Fit We have hundreds of brands producing the same things and no one catering for any other needs, be it in terms of size, keyboard, or other characteristics. 39. How to get featured on Product Hunt Everyone dreams of making it to the front page of Product Hunt. It’s a chance to show off your creation to thousands of tech enthusiasts. 40. Gradual Code Releases: An In-House Kubernetes Canary Controller Our short-term strategy involved developing an in-house Canary deployment process powered by a custom Kubernetes controller. 41. Hacking Your Product Hunt Launch [A How-To Guide] If you still don’t know what Product Hunt is and why you should do your launch on this platform, I suggest you read this article, this is the official Product Hunt post, a must read. 42. Scoping Out The Elements Involved In Effective Product Management Product management has seen a lot of takers in the last few years. This field is so varied and versatile that putting bounds to it is a daunting task. Nevertheless, based on my experience and knowledge gained from the circles of product community; I have listed down different fundamental elements of product management. 43. An Overview of our PH Launch for AskMakers v2.0 Oh…I am so sleepy…because I launched AskMakers 2.0 on Product Hunt and I have been monitoring it almost without sleeping😪 44. How to Get Featured on Product Hunt Without a Hunter How to launch on Product Hunt and get to the top-5 products of the day? I share fresh tips and heads-up based on successful and failed 2021 ProductHunt launches 45. 🚀 Ultimate Startup Launch Checklist: 2020 Edition 🚀 Over the past few years, I've had the great chance to help some awesome SaaS startups with their digital marketing. 46. Minimize Risk When Launching Digital Products And Make Passive Income Launching a new digital product is risky... unless you're following this zero-risk validation model Thank you for checking out the 46 most read stories about Product Launch on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo

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The introduction of blockchain technology brought a novel way to conduct financial transactions. Absolutely trustless, Bitcoin and other removed the need for users to rely on trusted third parties to send and receive money. However, that is limited to peer-to-peer transactions. decentralized digital assets Centralized institutions, like the ones in traditional finance, mushroomed to offer utility and convenience that otherwise don’t exist with self-custody and peer-to-peer transacting. Today, the Web3 industry comprises several centralized entities operating alongside decentralized implementations to provide users with a burgeoning ecosystem of finance and tokenized use cases. However, that poses critical challenges. The Woes of the Web3 Ecosystem Trusting institutions to hold and transact user value can lead to bad behavior propelled by the selfish motives of those operating said institutions. Due to that, many – institutional and retail – have their assets stolen. Look no further than the to know how things can go very wrong. Web3 users FTX fiasco The story does not change with any other centralized enterprise that looted its customers. Money-hungry founders adopt corrupt governance practices to part clients from their assets. The growing adoption of the asset type creates a massive need for honest governance practices. Decentralized Web3 protocols also face their own threats, with hackers looking to exploit the large amounts of liquidity they manage. Many protocols have fallen victim to cybercriminals attacking their storages and transactions to walk away with tremendous value. Regardless, the issues faced by centralized and decentralized Web3 platforms are beatable. And what is better than using technology to combat the issues faced by technological advancements that are blockchain and digital assets? Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology has become the answer to governance-related issues in the centralized and decentralized parts of the Web3 ecosystem. As MPC-based wallets get integrated into the asset storage infrastructures of centralized and decentralized platforms, the ecosystem is moving towards secure, efficient, and simplified institutional governance. The Governance Dilemma in Web3 The governance problems faced by digital asset institutions are nothing new. In fact, the issue of institutions and enterprises behaving poorly with user assets has remained a recurring theme throughout the existence of digital assets. Not using appropriate storage infrastructure, misappropriating funds for self-serving gains, and scamming clients outright have all been repetitive occurrences in the ecosystem. Poor governance in relation to asset storage and access has been why enterprises lose client assets to hackers or decide to steal the value themselves. Web3 protocols operating on decentralized models face governance-related issues as well. The wallets they use for storing and transacting assets and interacting with their user bases are vulnerable to internal and external threats. Like the large amounts of assets stored by institutions, protocol-related wallets attract bad actors in droves. The holes in asset transactions and storage security can allow hackers to have a field day and steal in the millions. If not obvious, such occurrences are related to how the protocols and institutions manage the assets. Relying on traditional single-signature wallets and even multi-signature (multisig) wallets is neither the safest nor the most efficient way to handle them. Single-signature wallets pose the . Essentially, hackers can access the funds stored in a single-signature wallet if they retrieve their private keys. issue of a single point of failure Despite using cold wallets that store private keys offline securely, over the more vulnerable online hot wallets, the threats posed by social engineering and phishing constantly loom. Bad actors can take advantage of the redundancies present with using cold wallets in the enterprise setting to penetrate through their high-level security. Then, there is always the issue of rogue players within the enterprises, taking advantage of the single point of failure possessed by single-signature wallets. How hard is it for an employee or anyone from the top-level management to misappropriate funds from their company’s wallets? All it takes is access to wallet private keys and the motivation to steal. While the most logical approach to evading such issues is using multisig wallets, they are not without their drawbacks. Multisig wallets require multiple keys in an m-of-n configuration to sign a transaction. That means multiple signatures get broadcasted on-chain, and when the required number of signatures are broadcasted, transactions get initiated from the . However, that poses security vulnerabilities. multisig setup Hackers who have narrowed down on protocol- or institution-related wallets can figure out the wallets signing the transaction and the number of keys required to sign any transaction. Over a long enough period, they can theoretically gain access to the needed number of wallet private keys to launch successful attacks. Similarly, corrupt organizational members can retrieve the private key information of their peers to take control of funds and manipulate transactions. Also, several key signing transactions increase transaction fees at the blockchain level. Furthermore, multisig wallets are not interoperable and often just support one chain. So, interacting with assets from different blockchains will require enterprises and projects to utilize multiple multisig setups. Keeping track of all those wallets and spending heavily on the numerous transactional requirements are not feasible. Single- and multi-signature wallets may be ideal for the average retail investor or user. But institutions need wallet solutions that are more secure and efficient without one canceling the other, which is usually a dilemma with anything blockchain-related. Introducing MPC Technology: A Paradigm Shift in Governance MPC technology is nothing new – it has been a staple of cryptography since the ‘80s. With developments in MPC technology and blockchain’s introduction, MPC has integrated into the functioning of digital asset wallets. MPC technology is used to create separate shards of data. These shards, when combined, can compute a specific result. During the computation, no information about any shard is revealed. MPC algorithms are designed to hide the sharded data of users from one another while revealing just the results of computations. Transposing this capability to digital asset wallet functionalities generates possibilities where multiple individuals, again m-of-n, can approve transactions. It might sound like how multisig wallets work, but several differences exist. The major one is MPC wallets not consisting of several private keys like multisig wallets. Instead, they work with one key divided into multiple shards. When all the key shards, or the needed number of shards, initiate a transaction, the algorithm computes the data from the shards to generate a transaction signature. This signature then takes the transaction on-chain for verification. The computation itself is executed off-chain. Thus, hackers cannot learn about the key shards responsible for initiating transactions from MPC wallets by looking at blockchain explorers. This security comes on top of that offered by the multiple key shards needed to initiate transactions. MPC wallets are, thus, highly resilient against cyberattacks. Several MPC wallet providers now also implement key refresh features, which allow MPC wallet users to generate new key shards after every transaction or set intervals. Therefore, it is nearly impossible for cybercriminals to gather information about the needed shards over a long period to make unauthorized transactions. Institutions and protocols relying on MPC wallets for asset storage can avoid cyberattacks better than with other wallet types. Attacks launched by internal threats are obviously also averted. , reigning in the ideal governance measures through distributed access to digital assets in the most secure way. MPC wallets prevent the possibility of initiating corrupt transactions MPC wallets also offer high levels of transparency to enterprises. Those in charge of enterprise storage have access to wallet transaction history, including information about the value transferred and members approving or declining the transfers. Such improvements push MPC wallets above multisig ones despite both wallet types allowing for distributed digital asset transactions. MPC wallets also offer increased efficiency compared to multisig wallets and cold wallets. They transmit a single signature on-chain, making transaction confirmation much faster than confirmation on multisig wallets. Also, their enhanced security allows institution personnel to store the key shards safely online. Because of that, institutions can transact digital assets much faster than cold wallets while achieving similar levels of security. While cold wallets are still the industry standard for concentrated asset storage and can also come in MPC configurations, institutions can utilize hot wallets in MPC configurations for enhanced security while maintaining the efficiency needed to provide instant liquidity for customers. Another advantage of MPC wallets is that they are highly scalable. Say enterprises want to increase or decrease the number of personnel possessing access to their MPC wallets. They can generate or delete additional key shards with ease. Furthermore, MPC wallets are interoperable with most blockchains. So, enterprises and protocols can store several crypto assets in these wallets without maintaining dedicated wallets for each blockchain. The benefits do not stop there. MPC wallets can easily be plugged into platforms, removing the need to rebuild parts of the platforms to accommodate MPC storage. With a long list of advantages, MPC wallets are the logical choice over other wallets for platforms managing multiple wallets in their infrastructures and committing high-value transactions. Their efficiency and scalability are unmatched. MPC Technology in Action: Practical Applications for Institutional Governance MPC wallet providers are making a cutting-edge difference to the dilemma of institutional governance in Web3. Let’s look at some wallet providers and custodians providing the best MPC solutions. Fireblocks Fireblocks is an industry-leading custodian known to address all kinds of digital asset storage needs. Their non-custodial MPC wallet solution is one of the easiest to integrate into applications and platforms. It operates with the natively developed MPC-CMP algorithm – a leading innovation in MPC-based asset storage. The algorithm is open-source and can be audited before implementation. Fireblock’s MPC offerings are compatible with 50+ blockchains and hundreds, if not thousands, of tokens. Signing transactions occur with some of the fastest speeds while using Fireblock’s MPC wallets. These capabilities have let the custodian process transactions collectively, moving over $4 trillion. Liminal Custody Liminal is a fairly new entrant in the segment but is witnessing rapid adoption. Over fifty crypto enterprises use its services, including banking-grade MPC storage solutions. It also boasts more than $550 million worth of assets under secure storage and has processed transactions collectively worth over $6000 million through its custody solutions. Liminal has achieved such feats by making the most difference in the MPC wallet segment with its increased security protocols. digital asset custody That involves enterprises setting up measures like transaction limits and whitelisting receiver wallet addresses. These processes occur through ceremonies where enterprise personnel accept or decline wallets during the whitelisting process and set limits on transaction values. Through truly distributed governance, Liminal’s MPC wallets transform institutional governance and set the benchmark for Web3. Blockdaemon Blockdaemon – one of the best-known MPC wallet providers, has offered such solutions since 2018. Interestingly, the company is the first to issue MPC-based custody solutions. Not surprisingly, its MPC wallet solutions are some of the most widely used today. Several crypto enterprises and traditional finance institutions rely on its digital asset storage offerings. The wallet provider’s solutions come fortified by its “Advanced MPC” technology, a self-developed MPC module securing wallets on multiple levels. Like the other entrants here, Blockdaemon’s wallets are secured through distributed signing capabilities by dividing private keys into shards. However, what makes them highly interesting is the use of MPC technology for transaction-related policies. Blockdaemon uses cryptography to store policy-related information with key shards. Policies are, thus, merged with the key shards, making transaction manipulation highly unlikely. Therefore, transactions are secured by MPC technology at two layers, bringing increased security and good governance. These industry innovators offer solutions embedded with to take institutional, enterprise, and protocol custody-related governance to the next level. Despite the more touted benefits of distributed and secure access and storage of assets, MPC wallets bring other benefits like accountability and transparency to governance trails. So, whether it is an enterprise or a web3 protocol, permitted stakeholders always know how funds are accessed and utilized. MPC technology The Future of Institutional Governance with MPC Technology There is no doubt that MPC technology is spearheading the much-needed transformation in institutional governance that Web3 requires. By merging security, efficiency, and distributed access, MPC wallets avert major issues with the concentrated asset storage of enterprises and protocols. The entire ecosystem can rest easy now that their assets are stored much safer against cybercriminals and internal exploits. With that level of safety, more institutional investors will begin interacting with digital assets. The enormous value they pump into the ecosystem will remain secured by the enterprises of their choice. Of course, the safety will also extend to Web3 protocols. MPC wallets handling their massive liquidity will come set with predetermined parameters and distributed signing to ensure only correct transactions occur. DAOs will also move to implement MPC wallets if they are not already. All aspects of the will undoubtedly benefit from MPC technology. With calls for increased security, transparency, and efficient governance practices from user communities and regulators, MPC wallets hold the potential to fill all existing gaps. Web3 ecosystem Conclusion Web3 platforms have always had evident governance and security problems. They mainly stem from how the platforms store digital assets. MPC technology’s integration in asset storage infrastructure addresses the related governance issues and improves security and efficiency in handling large amounts of liquidity. Thus, it is important to understand how MPC technology plays a role in making the ecosystem better. Web3 enterprises must adapt to the changing times to meet the desires of users and lawmakers, and integrating MPC wallets into asset storage infrastructures will help them do that.

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Let's learn about via these 60 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Makers /Learn Repo 1. Open Source Series: Starting a Project or how to open your project to the world 2. Build Data-Driven Web App Without Backend During the last couple of decades websites' functionally has increased dramatically - from simple landing pages serving simple static ads to complex progressive web apps whose functionality close to native applications including user authorization, location tracking, bluetooth handling, and offline mode. 3. Complaint About BitMex’s WebSocket API, and Update On Profitable Market Makers 4. Open Source Ventilator Projects: Status, Challenges, How You Can Help At this moment, there are thousands of intelligent, diligent, well-meaning engineers trying to help the design of open source ventilators to address a possibly imminent life-threatening shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This wealth of creative technical energy is currently disorganized, scattered, and unfocused. Rather than being a tremendous force for saving lives that it may become, energy and time is currently being wasted on oversimplifications of the problem and the belief that the projects are closer to deployable than they really are. 5. Bye Bye Google: How I Botched My Company's Launch After Leaving I like to analyze my past work through the prism of evaluating my mistakes (I’m sure my therapist would have a field day with that one). I launched my first publicly available engineering project in early December and as George W. Bush once said, “Mistakes were made”. 6. 3 Lessons That I Learned From my Failed Indie Hackers Project Earlier this year, I shamelessly ripped off an idea and built an app for making printable place cards thinking I too could generate some passive income. 7. Build an eCommerce Mobile App using Google Sheets, Stripe And Glide Last week, one of my Product2kit customers who bought a no-code template asked if I can create a template for eCommerce use cases. I took his idea and came up with this online sneaker store. Here’s my app building process: 8. How To Track All Your Side Projects in 1 Notion Template Note: This article is part of my toolkit newsletters↗️ where I share resources about building things. Join me :) 9. Top 3 Online Mentoring Platforms For Startups Stop passive learning and hack your growth with a mentor 10. Mozilla Summer Startup Studio and MVP Lab TLDR: See mozilla.org/builders for more details regarding our summer programs! 11. Our Secret Recipe for Product Hunt 👀 Hey Folks, we recently launched on Product Hunt and are proud to announce that we won Product of the Day! 12. The Best Way to Learn Arduino for Beginners Are you interested in Arduino, but don't know where to start? Here are 5 resources to help! 13. Finding Market Fit Modern startup advice is to launch and grow revenue as quickly as possible, as aggressively as possible. 14. How No Code ML Can Create an Impact on Businesses There’s a process for solving business problems via machine learning. If you Google “learn machine learning,” you’ll find a bunch of guides, online courses, and such that walk you through the coding languages of ML and the processes it takes to solve data predictions. You conclude it takes a lot of time to learn technical machine learning. 15. An insight into Asia's Tech Startup Scene With the boom in technology, tech startups are booming all over the world, especially in the Asian region. In recent years, it has been noticed that startups are growing the track record of success stories in the business world. 16. Top Management Tips for Startup Founders Here are some top dos and don'ts for startup founders, alongside some management tips for startup founders from successful entrepreneurs. 17. A Year in Review of My Developer-Focused SAAS This is the first annual review of Snipline. The shell command bookmarker app. [18. Building End-to-End Digital Onboarding Workflows Using Low-code](https://hackernoon.com/building-end-to-end-digital-onboarding-workflows-with-low-code-solution-2nak3y9x) On average, organizations admit they have identified around three major time wasters inside their companies: 19. Keeping People Focused by Distracting Them In developing my Chrome Extension Serenity, I believe I have hit the perfect balance between keeping users focused on their task while also distracting them with what your app has to offer. 20. Open Source Series: Intro or where the journey begins 21. How we built ToDoBot for Slack in 3 days Technically, it was four days, but we were working on it in between taking customer calls and fixing OneBar bugs so, let’s call it three ;) 22. Why You Should Always Build a MVP First Let’s take a look at a classic example of a situation that I have observed numerous times. An enthusiastic maker has an idea for a great product and starts building right away without checking for competitors, creating a landing page first or getting some feedback from potential users. The maker sits down in front of his computer and starts building his product blindly. 23. 5 Important Books For Indie Hackers: 2020 Edition In this post, I’ve listed five books that helped me to shape my mindset and that help with creating and marketing a viable product 24. My First Pitch to Investor: From Outsourcing to Product Hi community! My name is Sergii, I'm a CEO at WellSpeak from Kyiv Ukraine. We build a mobile app for practicing English speaking skills. 25. How We Iterated on 10 Ideas in a Month After a discussion (that lasted 30 seconds, as it was an obvious decision for us), we decided to share our complete journey with our new startup, Dataline, with as much transparency as possible. Learnings should be shared! Anybody can leverage our journey, and it’s also a good way for us to take a step back and understand what we did right and what we could improve upon. So here is our first story: how we iterated and sorted through 10 ideas in our first month of working on a new startup. 26. What to do when you hear about your idea: “That’s been done…” About twenty times in my career as a Computer Scientist and Public Inventor I have somehow informally presented an idea to someone or a group of people, only to hear them say, “That’s been done.” 27. Abstract + Flawless App Introduction Hello to all designers here! 28. Sergio Mattei: The Beautiful Humans Of Hacker Noon (Noonies Winner for Under 20ish Award, 2019) In Hacker Noon’s inaugural awards last year, we wanted to recognize the brightest and best, in tech, and the award category ‘2-or-3 under 20ish’, is for the ones who are super young, yet entrepreneurial and motivated. This is our sweet little Q&A with an awesome human named Sergio Mattei, who is the winner of the award. 29. Meet a Simple API for PDF Docs PDF API, fill, generate and e-sign PDFs 30. Creating a Free Feedback Platform From Scatch During Pandemic Hey there, sit back, relax, and enjoy the story about how namelss, an anonymous feedback platform was created all from scratch during the COVID pandemic. 31. Why We Need Open-Source Spirit We have gone through an era in which software and the Internet have devoured the world, and now we are all enjoying the convenience brought by software and the Internet. After returning for a few years, we can not imagine that express delivery is so convenient now, and takeaway is so convenient, everything is completely different from before. Even when we went out for tourism, a new model Airbnb or short-term rental appeared. In the old days, few people could imagine that there are so many people who rent out their free houses or even rooms for tourists. This was impossible to imagine before the prosperity of the Internet and software. 32. How To Code Faster with Hundreds of Shortcuts in TeaCode TeaCode is a time-saving app from Apptorium that gives you an enormous library of expendable code snippets for any programming language. Instead of typing the whole action, you can only put down the expander and it with unfold into a full section of code. Every time you use an expander, you save loads of efforts on hand-coding every line. Plus, you can create your own expanders in any language. 33. How I Made My Side Project Going Viral on Hacker News In December 2019, I finally decided to kill my side project after 12 months of coding. It was a tough moment, I felt disappointed and angry. 34. Bourbon Makers Face a Major Problem: Tariffs Kentucky distilleries are expected to pay more than $33 million in aging-barrel taxes in 2021 alone. That figure is 140% higher than it was 10 years ago. 35. Three Bs to Avoid That 2AM alert Solo founder, CTO for a small team, or side-hustler. The story is the same. When your app goes down, you’re on the hook. So, what can you do to reduce those dreaded 2AM page alerts? 36. The Unseen Areas Augur Your Future Failure It is 1943 and you are Head of the United States Eighth Air Force. Your mission is to destroy Germany's ability to wage war and free up the skies for the Allied Forces. The problem is that your Bombers are being zapped out of the sky like mosquitos drawn into the fire in a summery night. 37. How to Go About Planning a Hackathon? Hacks are novel creations or solutions to problems and the purpose of a Hackathon is to create them.  The word “Hackathon” comes from combining the words ‘Hack’ and ‘Marathon’, and implies a long sprint to create something useful in a single event. 38. How to Build a Product in Public And Get Traction Image by Jorge Guillen from Pixabay An increasing number of indie makers decide to build in public. Some do it via their blog, on Twitter, on an open page or via communities. But it can be incredibly daunting to makers who are used to build their products in a more private fashion. 39. A Couple of Nomad Makers: finding friends and side project profits This article is the second in a three part series. If you want to read the first one you can do here. 40. AVC Room Booking System Introduction Service Overview 41. Do You Know How to Fail Fast With Your Next Idea? I am sharing all the knowledge I gathered during my research in four months of testing different business ideas. Before starting investing lots of time and building an MVP (minimum viable product) you can test ideas with adtotyping and get some metrics without writing a single line of code. This process shows a powerful way to validate ideas with the help of Facebook. 42. Coding Does Not Need to Be A Curse While having an ability to build things is definitely a blessing, sometimes, however, it can prove to be a curse as well. I realized it when I was building KnowyKnowy. 43. Using a Spreadsheet to Build a Mobile App (in 3 hours) As a product builder↗️, I built micro tools to solve my own problems. For example: article tool, portfolio tracker, SaaS tracker, habit tracker, and finance tracker 44. How to build an effective MVP in 3 steps Building a startup! You have an epiphany and say to yourself: 45. 10 Ideas to Create a Daily Writing Habit This writing discusses ways to reduce barriers to creating a daily writing habit. 46. Skip the SSL w/ Serverless Telegram Bot via Now.js Note: these directions come without much conversation, let the hacking begin! 47. Elimo Impetus: a tiny S3 OSHW, FOSS System-on-Module In case you missed our latest update, Elimo Engineering designed a small, powerful Linux System-on-Module, designed for low cost and fast system integration. It’s FOSS and OSHW and sports all of the following: 48. Divide et Impera: Tips On Content Creation From a Full-Stack Founder When I'm working on any single project, I'm becoming bored pretty quickly. I'm sure that a lot of people will empathize with this feeling. When a project is fresh and new everything is interesting about it. However, when the newness is gone, and you're actually doing the day-to-day routine of just hardcore work, it can become pretty dull. 49. Find The Right Sponsor for Your Open Source Project The ongoing maintenance and growth of open source projects are clearly in the best interest of the software companies using them. And yet, raising money for an open-source project is difficult, and many developers struggle with finding the right sponsors for their projects. What is the best way to get the resources open source developers need to keep developing? 50. Product Marketing Tech Stack Options Under $100/Month User acquisition is one of the biggest struggles growing SaaS and app companies face. The right product marketing tech stack will push the number of new and active users up and decrease customer acquisition costs at the same time – the perfect recipe for a growing product. But marketing tools cost money, and growing businesses have tight budgets to keep. Use these tools to build a killer product marketing strategy at a total cost of less than $100 per month. 51. My Journey Of Going Viral With A Humble Github Project 🚀 I made a simple project which got spread in various tech communities and social media. Github featured it in 'Trending repositories of day' section. 52. Don't Make These Common Mistakes When Launching Your Website On October 22 I've launched online my first website. I'd like to share with you my experience. 53. Top 5 Challenges For Indie Hackers It's a tough lifestyle being a solo indie hacker. Here are some of the hardest parts. 54. A Beginners Guide to Developing, Recording and Releasing your Podcast This is how I developed and launched my first podcast, The Brave, in under 2 months 55. What if I got Hit by a Bus? – Taking Care of the Code You Created You, and you alone managed to birth your solution, despite the ambitious deadlines and resource constraints. The solution works - it’s standing tall on its own, but you know that it is but a gentle gust of wind away from needing your delicate and nuanced maintenance. 56. Top Articles This Week In Tech: WN 14 We hope you did have an awesome week! Here is your dose of the best
articles that came up over the last week. Have fun reading them! 57. Pet Projects are Fun I love pet projects, they are great excuse to use libraries and other technologies that you can’t use at work. Lately I’ve been working on a bigger pet project that needs to parse Go files, I’ve used ANTLR before to make this kind of things but unfortunately, ANTLR’s Go target has poor performance. So I began to search for alternatives written in pure Go and came across with this one, which took a different approach on creating parsers with Go, but before we’re going to understand how this library is different from others, let’s cover some basic concepts about parsing. 58. Our Nomad Makers Origin Story Our journey so far has comprised of one year in South East Asia, five months in Australia and New Zealand, two months in Berlin, two months in the UK, and one month in Eastern Europe. Now we’re working our way through South America, having explored Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia. At the time of writing we’re actually on a bus to Peru, trying to type while bouncing around on the terrible roads out here! 59. How and Why Makers Should Set a Deadline They Can't Extend Hi, makers:) 60. How we built an A.I Radio Presenter "Radio, we still love you." Thank you for checking out the 60 most read stories about Makers on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo

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It's truly mind-boggling how we, as a society, are funneling vast amounts of money and precious resources into combating cybercrime instead of dedicating those valuable assets to fueling exciting innovations that could genuinely benefit mankind. The state of affairs is nothing short of exasperating. Cybercrime has become an insidious monster that devours our financial and intellectual resources at an alarming rate. We're talking about billions upon billions of dollars spent on security measures, investigations, and legal proceedings, all to combat the ever-evolving threat of cybercriminals. Meanwhile, while we're chasing after shadowy figures in the digital world, we're neglecting the monumental potential for positive change that awaits us. Think about it: with the colossal amount of money and resources being channeled into the never-ending battle against cybercrime, we could be fostering technological breakthroughs that have the power to revolutionize the world. Instead of the never-ending cat-and-mouse game with hackers and fraudsters, we could be channeling these resources toward exploring new frontiers of human knowledge. Medical research, for instance, is perpetually underfunded, with countless diseases still plaguing humanity. With the resources dedicated to countering cybercrime, we could be curing cancer, addressing the challenges of aging, or tackling the rampant issue of antibiotic resistance. The solutions to these problems are just waiting to be discovered, and yet, our priorities remain tied up in an endless cycle of battling malicious actors online. The environment is another pressing concern, and we all know how urgently we need innovative solutions to combat climate change. Our obsession with cybercrime is diverting our attention and investments from sustainable energy sources, carbon capture technologies, and more eco-friendly infrastructure that could save our planet from environmental disaster. The costs of inaction on these fronts are simply too high. Education is another area that desperately needs a financial boost. Millions of children across the globe lack access to quality education, and many talented minds go untapped because they can't afford an education that could enable them to make a difference in the world. Imagine if the were funneled into programs to enhance education accessibility and quality. We could unleash a generation of innovators and problem-solvers who could truly change the world for the better. resources wasted on cybercrime Innovations in renewable energy, space exploration, healthcare, and education could all benefit from the resources that are currently being sunk into an eternal struggle against cybercrime. It's not just about money; it's also the collective human brainpower and creativity that's being squandered on this uphill battle. What if all those brilliant minds currently occupied with outsmarting hackers or developing stronger encryption algorithms were working on projects to provide clean drinking water to impoverished communities, or to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease? Our priorities are skewed, and it's time to shift the balance back in favor of progress. We must acknowledge the importance of cybersecurity, but we cannot afford to let it consume the lion's share of our resources. We need a more rational allocation of our efforts and investments to prioritize the innovations that will genuinely benefit mankind. It's time for us to break free from the cybercrime quagmire and embark on a new era of exciting advancements that have the power to reshape our world for the better. The State of Global Cybersecurity The state of global cybersecurity has been nothing short of a rollercoaster in recent years, and let’s not sugarcoat it – it’s been one wild, treacherous ride! As if the world didn’t have enough problems to deal with, enter the opportunistic cybercriminals. The pandemic threw everything into a tailspin, as businesses hastily transitioned to remote work setups, creating a playground for these digital delinquents. In 2020, malware attacks shot up by a jaw-dropping 358% compared to the relatively calm year of 2019. It was like ringing the dinner bell for these cyber hoodlums. But the madness didn’t stop there. Cyber-attacks globally jumped by 125% through 2021, and the onslaught persisted into 2022, where our digital nightmares continued unabated. And then, Russia decided to waltz into Ukraine, setting off an explosion in the cyber threat landscape. Russian-based phishing attacks against the email addresses of European and US businesses surged by a mind-boggling eight times. It’s like they decided to go all-in on their digital conquest! Meanwhile, nearly 3.6 million Russian internet users had their digital doors kicked in during the first quarter of 2022, marking an 11% surge compared to the previous quarter. In an attempt to shield Ukraine’s vital infrastructure from these Russian rascals, the UK launched the ‘Ukraine Cyber Programme’ in 2022, slapping down an initial £6.35 million to combat the growing menace of Russian cyber shenanigans. The program is the digital guardian angel for Ukrainian government entities, providing incident response, DDoS protection, and a whole lot of digital fortifications to keep Ukrainian citizens informed and secure. Cyber battles, anyone? But here’s the kicker – phishing, that devious online crime, continues to reign supreme. In 2021, a staggering 323,972 internet users found themselves duped by phishing attacks, meaning that half of all data breach victims had fallen for this deceitful trick. As if 2020 didn’t have enough surprises in store, phishing incidents soared by a whopping 220% during the height of the pandemic. It’s like the bad guys just decided to kick us while we were down. And just when you thought things couldn’t get any crazier, 2021 saw nearly 1 billion exposed emails, impacting a whopping 1 in 5 internet users. No wonder phishing attacks are having a field day! But here’s the silver lining: despite its prevalence, phishing attacks seem to inflict the least pain, with victims typically losing an average of $136. That’s a far cry from the staggering $12,124 average cost of a data breach. In 2022, investment fraud took the crown for the costliest form of cybercrime, with an average loss of $70,811 per victim. If that’s not a slap in the face, I don’t know what is! The data breach epidemic is on a roll, folks. Since 2001, the number of victims has skyrocketed from a mere 6 per hour to a staggering 97, marking a jaw-dropping 1517% increase over two decades. You can’t deny the pandemic had a hand in this madness – 2019 had a relatively tame 53 victims per hour, but in 2020, during the height of the pandemic, that number shot up to 90, a whopping 69% increase. Digital mayhem, anyone? The price tag for data breaches is also on the rise. Back in 2001, individuals were dishing out an average of $2,054 per hour. Fast forward to 2021, and we’re staring at an eye-popping $787,671 per hour. Ouch! Businesses aren’t having it any easier, with data breaches costing them an average of $4.35 million in 2022, up from $4.24 million the year before. It’s like a heist that just keeps getting bolder! But here’s a glimmer of hope – the rising threat is finally making organizations worldwide sit up and take cybersecurity seriously. Seventy-three percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) agree that it’s time to take action, and 78% plan to beef up their investments in cybersecurity in the coming year. It’s about time! However, the bitter pill to swallow is that 67% of SMBs admit they lack the in-house skills to tackle data breaches. But fear not, because they’re teaming up with Managed Service Providers for cybersecurity, with the number climbing from 74% in 2020 to a whopping 89% in 2022. We’re not sitting idly by either. We’re in the trenches with various industries, especially those dealing with compliance and regulations. We’re right there, providing crucial IT support to law firms and financial services companies, because there’s never been a more critical time to fortify your cybersecurity defenses. Ransomware attacks, those digital ransackings, continue to haunt individuals and organizations and advanced attack methods are forcing victims to pay up, and roughly 236.1 million ransomware attacks were reported in the first half of 2022. Our Constant Waste of Time and Resources Leading cybersecurity firms are no strangers to pouring considerable time and resources into meticulously crafting extensive reports, replete with intricate statistics and profound insights. Yet, the critical issue at hand beckons us to delve deeper into this practice: does the relentless dedication to producing eye-catching charts and elaborate reports indeed form the cornerstone of a proactive strategy against the ever-present specter of cyber threats? This is a query that not only merits contemplation but also unravels the layers of a complex problem that extends well beyond the surface. I question whether these meticulously designed reports are enough to keep us ahead of the curve. The arms race between cybercriminals and cybersecurity experts rages on, with hackers constantly devising innovative techniques to breach defenses. The time and energy spent on compiling these reports could be seen as a valuable investment. After all, knowledge is power, and the insights offered can help organizations understand the evolving threat landscape. However, there is a growing concern that the approach taken by cybersecurity companies is, in some ways, reactive rather than genuinely proactive. It's not just about gathering data and showcasing it in an aesthetically pleasing manner. True proactivity involves actively developing strategies, tools, and countermeasures to stay one step ahead of potential threats. The reality is that we find ourselves at the intersection of art and science, where pretty charts and profound insights may not necessarily equate to a robust security posture. What we need is a shift in the paradigm, a move towards proactive problem-solving that isn't solely based on historical data and extrapolation. We Are Not Hunting Down Cyber Criminals Hard Enough! It's absolutely infuriating how we are failing to go after cybercriminals with the urgency and dedication that this modern age demands. In a world where our lives are increasingly digital, our dependence on technology is at an all-time high. And yet, despite the constant barrage of cyberattacks and data breaches, it seems like we are merely tiptoeing around the issue, rather than taking concrete and aggressive action against these criminals. First of all, let's talk about the sheer audacity of these cybercriminals. They operate in the shadows, exploiting vulnerabilities in our digital infrastructure, and they do so with impunity. The audacity of hacking into critical infrastructure, stealing sensitive data, and causing untold financial damage to individuals and organizations is appalling. Yet, it often feels like the consequences of these actions are far too lenient. Why are we not pouring more resources into tracking down these criminals? The sheer number of attacks on everything from government institutions to multinational corporations, and even everyday individuals, is staggering. It seems like we're more focused on a reactive approach, cleaning up the mess after a breach occurs, rather than actively pursuing and dismantling the criminal networks responsible. Part of the problem lies in the nature of cybercrime. These criminals often operate across borders, which makes prosecution more complex. But that's not an excuse for the lackluster response. We need better international cooperation and treaties to facilitate the extradition and prosecution of cybercriminals, regardless of where they hide. international Cybercrime is not a minor nuisance; it's a global threat that can have devastating consequences. We should treat it as such. The lack of urgency in going after cybercriminals sends a message that they can act with impunity. We need to change that message. It's high time that we make an example of these criminals. We should be imposing harsh penalties and sentences that act as a deterrent. The lack of significant consequences for cybercrimes only emboldens these criminals, making them believe they can evade justice. Ultimately, the world is far too interconnected and reliant on technology for us to continue to be so lackadaisical in our approach to cybercrime. We should be going after cyber criminals with every resource at our disposal, from the best technology to the toughest laws. The time for half-measures and reactive responses is over. It's time to take the fight to cybercriminals and show them that their actions will not go unpunished. You know, it’s really grinding my gears! The fact that so much of our precious time and resources in the technology sector are being funneled into cybercrime and cybersecurity. Don't get me wrong; I understand the importance of protecting our digital infrastructure. But isn't it time we started prioritizing innovation instead of constantly playing catch-up with cybercriminals? Billions upon billions of dollars are poured into fighting off cyber threats, and it's not that I don't appreciate the effort. We need to keep our systems safe and our data secure. But it feels like we're stuck in an endless cycle of reacting to attacks rather than taking proactive measures to prevent them. It's a bit like constantly patching up a leaky boat instead of building a more robust one. And let's not even get started on the allocation of these resources. Are we channeling our funds effectively towards hunting down these cybercriminals? Are we pursuing them with the tenacity and ruthlessness that they deserve? Or is it all just going down the drain, wasted on half-hearted attempts to stop the inevitable? It's time for a paradigm shift. We should be directing some of those cybersecurity billions into fostering new innovations in the tech sector. We're living in the 21st century, an age of rapid technological advancements, and yet it feels like a significant portion of our potential is being squandered on just keeping the lights on, so to speak. Innovation is what drives progress, what propels us forward as a society. Look at the monumental strides we've made in the past. But now, we're devoting so much of our attention to putting out digital fires that we're stifling the creative spirit that should be at the core of the tech industry. It's not just about the money. It's about the human capital, the brilliant minds, and the countless hours spent on tackling cyber threats. Imagine what could be achieved if we redirected some of that energy towards groundbreaking technological discoveries. And don't even get me started on whether the money allocated to cybersecurity is being used efficiently. Are we really making significant strides in identifying and prosecuting cybercriminals? Are we investing enough in international cooperation to bring these criminals to justice? Or are we just creating an illusion of safety while the true culprits roam free? It's time for a reckoning. We must balance the equation, not only defending against cybercrime but going on the offensive to dismantle the networks that propagate it. Let's stop reacting and start acting. Cybercriminals should be pursued with the same fervor as any other criminal. My Cyber Rant Concludes We need to channel our resources more wisely. Let's put some of that cyber-defense money into nurturing innovation in the tech sector. We can't keep pouring money into plugging digital leaks; we should be building a stronger, more innovative ship for the future. And as for chasing down cybercriminals, it's about time we allocated resources effectively and made them pay for their crimes. It's time for a shift, a change in the status quo, and a new era of technological advancement.

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Let's learn about via these 65 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Ethics /Learn Repo 1. The Development of AI: Balancing Convenience and Ethics AI isn’t completely free from controversy. 2. Stop Teaching Ethics to Software Engineers 3. The Implications of Open-Source AI: Should You Release Your AI Source Code Publicly? In this article, I will share my thoughts on why it's better and safer to bring the new AI tech into the hands of business rather than release it into the wild. 4. The Ethics of Software Development with Uncle Bob Martin The clip is an excerpt from episode 15 of the Level-up Engineering podcast: 5. Creative AI ‘Shakes’ the Core of Humanity and Requires a Broader Discussion About Ethics The boundary between machine and humans was clear. But now the machine has become creative! Can self expression still be at the core of our humanity? 6. Ethical Hacking 101: Part 2 Ethical Hacking 101: Part 2 7. Is Building Digital Escapes Ethical? Digital escape is the idea of escaping the ‘real world’ through consumption of online content. In my piece on 2019 predictions, I wrote about how “in everyday life, you’ll take a stroll, but in electronic life, you take a scroll”. Since the beginning of time, humans have found escape in stories, art, games, human contact. In today’s world, we’re finding digital escapes in the form of scrolling through our Instagram feed, playing online games or even watching others play them on Twitch. Either intentionally or unintentionally, many social media platforms today have become spaces for digital escape. By building for user engagement and retention, platforms are incentivized to maximize the time users spend — essentially, building deep wells for digital escape. In this piece, I will explore the argument that building for digital escape, within clear boundaries, is not morally objectionable and can be value additive and creditable. 8. A Free Ethical OS Toolkit for Woke AI Enterprises Are your algorithms transparent those they impact? Is your technology reinforcing or amplifying existing bias? 9. Don't Be Data-Driven. Become Purpose-Driven and Data-Assisted. 10. On the difficulty of creating a data science code of ethics undefined 11. Can we be honest about ethics? The “manifesto for data practices” (datapractices.org), was produced by a Data for Good Exchange, sponsored by Data for Democracy and Bloomberg, promoted by former U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil. The document’s creators incurred no risk by creating and promoting it, so it should not be surprising that the product fails to live up to its own ethical standards. We won’t fix ethics by fixing those tools, the creators of those tools built systematic bias into their products before deploying them. 12. The Ethical Implications with Algorithmic Trading Between the 2000 dot.com boom and bust and the "Big Short" of the 2008 credit crunch, we heeded the wisdom of the legendary traders of the 20th century - guys like Jesse Livermore (1920s) and Paul Tudor Jones (1970s). The wisdom was to be dispassionate (no emotion) and trade methodically (like a robot) - executing trades mechanistically every time. Of course, for the previous generation of traders, the rise of the PC and internet and exchange APIs meant that much of this "mechanistic" work could be automated. Most of the technical and methodical signals can be algorithmically determined and acted upon. The trader is merely the strategist and commander who decides when which algorithm (trading method) should be applied. 13. How to save A.I in 3 easy steps Do the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the risks? 14. Ethical AI: Who Watches the Watchmen? The Axial Age saw the independent rise of multiple societies, each with their own set of religious and cultural practices. The silk road arguably marked the end of the Axial Age, connecting these previously isolated cultures together in a network that traded not only goods and germs, but also ideas. 15. The hidden risk of ethics regulation Regulating the tech industry won’t fix its ethical problems, it might make them worse. Mike Monteiro has written the most compelling argument I have seen for regulation. Regulation would address many of the kinds of ethical risks that have made headlines recently. But I think it would leave many risks in place and introduce new risks — a more systemic risk, in fact — that in the long term would actually expose the public and the industry to more potential downside that it currently faces. Regulation at scale requires rules that stipulate what is ethical and what is not, in the case of the discussion of the ethics. 16. Why You Should Learn Ethics of AI With This Free Online Course Besides being known as the happiest country in the world, Finland is a technology leader, ahead of China and the US. 17. Revisiting Open Source in The New Decade Lots of times, companies that are hailed as heroes of open source often do things that violate human rights or go severely against freedom. These can range from predatory practices and anti-repair designs to even using child labor in third world countries. 18. The Question of Ethics in Decentralization The importance of ethics in a decentralized world. 19. The Metaverse isn't New - So Why is Big Tech Acting Like it is? We already had the tech for a VR renaissance in the mid-aughts. What's The Metaverse and why the renewed interest? One word: Money. 20. We Need to Teach Silicon Valley to Be Ethical The tech industry’s ethics problem is the longest running game of “Not it.” No one wants to take responsibility for teaching men-children millionaires and honestly, that’s fair. We’re not the ones at the forefront of Silicon Valley, however, someone has to do the dirty work. 21. Data Analysts As Arbiters of Truth Coming out of college with a background in mathematics, I fell upward into the rapidly growing field of data analytics. It wasn't until years later that I realized the incredible power that comes with the position. 22. Alternatives to Corporate Consciousness We must conceive of a new kind of group consciousness, something alternative to corporate consciousness, that is capable of production on a large scale. 23. The Ethics of Machine Learning: Understanding the Role of Developers and Designers We know that the whole world is fascinated by the tools that are using Machine learning and deep learning algorithms and they are fun to use. 24. The Universal Benefits of PDF/UA With over one billion people worldwide affected by disabilities, there is good reason to make digital content more accessible. When it comes to digital PDF docu 25. Five Questions About AI Bias You Probably Wanted to Ask 5 main questions from a panel discussion on bias in AI. Panelists offer insights into the sources of bias, the responsibility of developers and Ai's future. 26. The New York Fashion Act is a Step in the Right Direction The recent New York Fashion Act is a revolutionairy demand, setting precedence to enabling transparency in the fahsion industry. 27. The Importance of a Media Strategy in Communication Plan Media strategy is a medium-term communication plan that taking into account the marketing tasks of your brand. The main objectives of the media strategy is to make a fundamental choice of communication channels and marketing promotion of the brand products and assess the estimated costs of its implementation. 28. Towards Cruelty-Free Fashion with Lab-Grown Fur and Leather With consumer conscientiousness on the rise, more and more brands are finding ways to adapt to an ethical production of fur and leather. 29. Deus Ex Machina: fA.I.th in the age of Artificial Intelligence Religious doctrine may yet be of some use in the New Tech World 30. Ethical Concerns About AI are Overrated Thanks to AI, we can send, receive and process vast amounts of information near-instantaneously.  But there is still much work to be done. 31. Victim Bias and Blockchain We live in an age where "Fake News" is rife. Could a verifiable voting system be the solution? The problem is "fake evidence" is at best a self-serving distraction. It's a way of pretending to believe in an alternative world. 32. 11 Reasons Why CEOs Got Fired And Companies Got Sued in 2020 Although a typical CEO remains in the role for about seven years, legal issues pose major threats to these positions and, ultimately, company or shareholder val 33. 5 Ways We Can Work to Close the Gender Gap in Tech It’s really not as hard as it sounds 34. Understanding the 'Data is the New Oil' Analogy Earlier, we lived in industrial and post-industrial societies, and gas and oil were the only things of value. Now, it’s the age of information society and data has replaced petrol as the economy’s driving force. The reason is that with the help of Big Data, people significantly improve production efficiency and business economics. That’s true. 35. A product manager’s 64 insights from 2022 In an attempt to hedge my bets against AI, many of my insights this year reflect on the human vocations I believe a machine will always struggle with. 36. Intelligence Explosion by AI and Its Impact on Superintelligence “What if the great apes had asked whether they should evolve into Homo sapiens [and said] ‘Oh, we could have a lot of bananas if we became human’?” — Nick Bostrom 37. How Biodiversity is Harmfully Affected by the Overlapping Effects of Fast Fashion Biodiversity is crucial for the sustainability and fruition of Earth, however, the effects of fast fashion are acting as a major detriment. 38. What Is the Future of AI Rights? As AI advances to a point where it could become conscious, even autonomous, when is there a moral requirement to consider the extension of human rights for AI? 39. Looking Within to Battle Intrinsic Bias in AI Intrinsic bias. We’re all guilty of it; it’s part of what makes us human. But we should always strive to be better and fairer, and to eliminate these biases when they arise. This is especially true in today's workplace, where the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technology risks hardcoding these biases into the future of work. 40. Refocusing Your Business: From Profit to People Rethinking The Bottom Line: From Profit to People 41. ChatGPT: A Potentially Dangerous New Source of Misinformation ChatPGT sounds credible but it is frequently wrong. 42. Is it Ethical for Media Outlets to Use AI to Write Stories? If media outlets are hiding their usage of AI-generated content, is it because this is ethically wrong? 43. Polyester: A Sustainable Option? Polyester is the most widely used modern fabric in the world, yet raises a question between the boundaries of sustainability and convenience. 44. Ethical Considerations When Approaching Scientific Content We need to employ healthy doubt and curiosity when reading scientific content as popular science books do not always get their facts straight. 45. Poll Finds About 1 in 3 Professionals Use Cannabis at Work Companies might have another concern to navigate: drug use. 46. Bitcoin Is the Currency of the Gods Discounting is the single most important concept in finance and possibly economics. It’s the idea that money (cash) is less valuable tomorrow than today. The reason is quite existential: our impending death. 47. What Is the GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN) Certification? You need to ensure your resources are put to the best use. With that in mind, it is important to know more about what the GIAC Penetration Tester Certification 48. Affiliate Marketing Can Be Dangerous But Is It Always Bad? Affiliate marketing has become the norm among review sites. I don't know if a review site exists without any affiliate links. On one side, people hate this because the reviews are poisoned by green. But, on the affiliate's side, why would they write something without getting compensation? 49. 🖥 The Ethical User Interface What makes the user interface ethical? Give the user enough options, that they keep their autonomy. But not too many, that they become paralysed by choice. 50. Podcasting And Ethical Dilemmas When starting a podcast, it is normal for a host to want to grow the podcast as much as possible. The desire to grow might lead a host to take actions that are not moral. A host has to keep in mind that taking these shortcuts are short-term solutions. Any misdeeds will either backfire or not help in the long-term. 51. Gene-Modified Babies: Essentials of the Bioethics Subjecting 'Designer-Babies' for Future Parents The ever-moving technological advancement has led us to the era where maintaining a downed Facebook server has become more important compared to the preservation of our own species, which is now considered as 'optional'. 52. The Sinister Side of Instagram Filters Over time, social media platforms have grown and transformed into abilities and features. They first started as platforms used for tagging and connecting with long lost family members and friends. But now, they have transformed and are used for uploading and sending selfies with filters thanks to apps like Snapchat. 53. Google's Search Algorithm Affects Our Lives in More Ways Than One [A Deep Dive] For better or for worse, Google has become one of the biggest vendors of information in the world. Its library of search results shape and/or reaffirm opinions on a daily basis. The search giant's algorithm dictates what information searchers receive and thus has a direct impact on every person's knowledge base and understanding of numerous topics. 54. 4 Things Humans NEED in an AI-Led World As the world moves forward, those working with AI — meaning almost all of us — need to take the ethical matter into our own hands. 55. IoT: Is Data Beyond Ethics? Over the last decade, the Internet of Things has been delivering heaps of data and remote device control across virtually every industry, from healthcare to hospitality. 56. Great News About Self-Regulation In VPN industry: i2Coalition’s VTI Essentials In the last decade, the VPN market has been steadily growing, and this growth was spiked even further in 2020. Two main reasons contributed to an even more expansive use of VPN software: 1) Covid-19, quarantine, and work from home set the needs for home network security; 2) cybercrime has been on the rise and cybersecurity became a more common issue. 57. Why Algorithmic Fairness is Elusive In 2016, Google photos classified a picture of two African-Americans as “gorillas.” Two years later, Google had yet to do more than remove the word “gorillas” from its database of classifications. In 2016, it was shown that Amazon was disproportionately offering one-day shipping to European-American consumers. In Florida, algorithms used to recommend detention and parole decisions on the basis of risk of recidivism were shown to have a higher error rate among African-Americans, such that African-Americans were more likely to be incorrectly recommended for detention who would not go on to re-offend. When translating out of a language with gender-neutral pronouns, and into languages with gendered pronouns, Google’s word2vec neural network injects gender stereotypes into translations, such that pronouns become “he” when in conjunction with “doctor” (or “boss,” “financier,” etc.) but become “she” when translated in conjunction with “nurse” (or “homemaker,” or “nanny,” etc.). 58. How to Embed AI Ethics into your Work Culture AI ethics has long been a hot-button issue. For some, it’s reduced to debate about whether AI should be making decisions traditionally reserved for humans. 59. Lessons Learned From Sharing 30 Fake Stories Created With ChatGPT Insights and lessons from a fake news experiment. 60. Coronavirus: A Test For Modern Technology and Tethics ICYMI: The spread of the new strain of Corona virus known as Covid-19 has caused massive disruption to daily life- be it social or economic. 61. A Summary and Review of The Ethical Algorithm A summary and review of: The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design by Aaron Roth and Michael Kearns. 62. Ethics, AI, and Responsible ML: Design Principles and Potential Dangers As we enter the 2020s, it is interesting to look back at how life has changed over the last decade. Compared to your life in 2010, most of you reading this probably use a lot more social media, watch more streaming video, do more shopping online and, in general, are “more digital”. Of course, this is as a result of the continued development in connectivity (4G becoming prominent, with 5G on the horizon), the capability of mobile devices, and lastly, the quiet and transparent adoption of machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, in the services that you consume. 63. Open Source is Broken The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns. Openness, they claim, is an absolute good, from which all other virtues flow, not to be questioned or criticized. It doesn’t matter if that openness enables evil in the world, without openness we cannot have truly collaborative software development communities. So the claim goes. 64. Make Software Great Again: Can Open Source be Ethical and Fair? Is there a way to go beyond open source, and have ethical, fair software in a cloud-first world? This is what some people in the open source community think. 65. AI is Not Something to Be Trusted or Not Trusted Is A.I. a revolution or a war? A god or a pet? A hammer or a nail? Do we really need more metaphors to describe it? Nowadays, A.I dictates what information is presented to us on social media, which ads we see, and what prices we’re offered both on and offline. An algorithm can technically write and analyse books, beat humans at about every game conceivable, make movies, compose classical songs and help magicians perform better tricks. Beyond the arts, it also has the potential to encourage better decision-making, make medical diagnoses, and even solve some of humanity’s most pressing challenges. It’s intertwining with criminal justice, retail, education, recruiting, healthcare, banking, farming, transportation, warfare, insurance, media… the list goes on. Thank you for checking out the 65 most read stories about Ethics on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo

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Day trading is like a fascinating game that rolls chess, poker, and gaming into an exciting package, adds the adrenaline rush of a roller coaster, and flavors it with a few dashes of lemon and a pinch of salt. Trading is a great struggle between illusion and reality, and in many ways, a cruel maze of tricks within tricks. However, if you are one of those who can create a plan, follow a strategy with strong discipline, handle your gambling demons, and accept trading as a profession, you can possibly make it... after 3-5 years of hard study. Trading attracts people who love challenges. However, only a lucky few can stand out of the crowd and make a fortune out of thin air. These people need to have a vast amount of experience, know how to keep their cool in the face of natural greed/fear impulses, and be savvy about the psychology of the masses. They need to gather some initial trading capital, but also have some money in reserve for critical situations and slump periods, because these are statistically proven to happen to all traders - it is just a matter of time and cardinality of trades. Knowing when not to trade, when to take a break and step back is a critical part of risk management. Most of all, you need a working trading system that suits your needs and trading style. If you have all of these, the last piece of the puzzle is to embrace the following tenets: “The goal of a good trader is not to make money; the goal is to trade well.” “Making money is more important than proving to yourself you were right.” “Your effectiveness in trading is proportionate to the hard effort you put into trading.” “The greatest lesson in making money is the experience gained from losing money.” “Try to enter as close as possible to the point where you were wrong. Never fight or question the price action.” “If you have a will to win, you will win. This article is split into two sections. The first part is a window to the life and mind of a master trader with more than 15 years of experience in both crypto-related and regular stock markets. This is the part of the knowledge sharing. The second part introduces you to basic trading products such as spot, swap, or margin. Part 1: What the life of a day trader is like: an interview with a successful cryptocurrency trader, who wishes to remain anonymous. Thank you so much for accepting my invitation for an interview. To kick this off, tell us something about yourself and what led you to trading crypto and the stock markets? I actually didn't get straight into trading at first. I was participating in classical hardware and cloud mining for cryptocurrencies, and then doing some minor investments, which led me into stock market trading. After that, back in 2016, I learned about crypto trading, and I can say it was a blessing, since I could use existing methods used in the stock market that worked pretty effectively in crypto, too. How did your journey start? My first experiences with trading were unusual. I made quite a bit of profit during several week-long periods without any knowledge but inevitably broke the streak then and suffered brutal losses. Many people quit after losses, but in your trading failures, you can gain plenty of experience to become a success. That's why it is important to journal your losses and find what connects them, fix the issue, and move forward. Many people have a great start when they start trading, but they get drunk on early success and crushed a few months later. How were your first trading months? I agree some people do get drunk on trading in crypto because it is such a speculative market, but in the stock market, it's a lot tougher. How many years do you think it could take for somebody to become a successful trader? It depends on the person and their lifestyle. The traits you grew up with can naturally make you a successful trader. So I don't think it's measurable in time, and it's really about who you are that determines how quickly you can adapt to the market. Consider thinking about one's lifestyle habits overall and make game-changing life adjustments such as tuning sleeping habits and adding regular workouts. Sometimes, it is not about trading only but more about building a better life. What was your breaking point from an average trader to a successful trader who can do whatever he wants? Discipline was the only thing I needed to learn. As soon as I realized the importance of discipline and persistence, I started to grow and become what I am today as a trader and as a human being. That and a lot of backtesting. I recommend this to all who are at their trading beginning to add a daily 30 minutes backtesting timeslot to their daily schedule if they really want to improve and boost their confidence when entering trade setups in real-time. What are the key aspects one needs to embrace to become a decent trader? Tough question, but again it can be summed up as discipline, patience, and persistence. Many people fail a couple of times and fall for what's called “revenge trading”, which means irrational trading after you lose, hoping you get lucky and win back the losses quickly. But as you can guess, they will only go further down the spiral most of the time. It is also critical to absorb a lot of knowledge that will help you to create your own opinion. When you start to listen to your inner voice while following the plan, you are on a good path. Only following others simply gets you nowhere in the long run. Then, hide your Profit and Loss (PNL) indicator. (PNL is the difference between profit and loss in trading.) Don't observe the money you may be gaining or losing; trade the setup, not the PNL. What are the most frequent trading demons that could possess a trader and cause account bankruptcy? FOMO (fear of missing out), greed, and not following your backtested trading plan. But if I were more specific, it would go like this: Exited too soon Exited too late Entered too soon Entered too late Taking too much risk Didn't take a planned trade because of self-doubt To fight these demons and get rid of them for good, avoid these pitfalls and give yourself a point for each successful and flawlessly executed trade. You are cured when you have five positive points at each of these. However, If you collect ten bad points for a single item mentioned below and you cannot stop, you are probably doomed to be a non-trader. (Screenshot from 2011 - explaining the Demon Finder principles) Feel free to make a copy of the above-mentioned GoogleDoc and use it. What about the path to becoming a trader? What milestone do we need to pass first before entering the Valhalla of trading? Always try to protect your capital. Trading is one of those professions where you need to have both skills and capital. Without money there is no trading. Also, you need some money to back yourself up. At least a month of paper trading to start. Then, develop 2-3 strategies and backtest them hard on at least 100 samples. Then start with 1% of your capital per trade. You can move this up to 3% per trade but only if your hit rate is about 60%. When you hit a sequence of 4 losses in a row and you feel that you are completly out of the zone, decerease the trading size from 1% to 0.5% until you will get like 2-3 winners that will get you back to the game mode. Of course, there are traders that have 85-90% hit rate. These guys trade big numbers and the only thing they need other than meeting trade conditions is to have enough liquidity. Trades like this usually have from 0.8 to 1.3 R (Risk/Reward Ratio) while not using much leverage. Personally, I found that around 2.5R is my mostly reached﻿ target. What method do you use for trading? I use many things now since I like the effect of pulling a lot of Aces from up my sleeve. I'm always trying to add essential books to my library and use something new here and there. Currently, I trade crypto using Elliott Wave (EW), Price Action (Pat) combined with some basic Candlestick knowledge, and some Moving Average (MA) strategies. But one needs to understand the smart money concepts to create a successful trading method. Some great sources are free to watch on YouTube, such as: PhotonTrading MentFX PhantomTrading In the stock market, it's a bit harder, so I use Volume Price Analysis (VPA), EW, Candlesticks, trendlines, and some chart patterns even though some of them are getting obsolete. It is also good to have a basic overview of the news that moves the market. However, I am not a “news” trader. The capability of reading the market bias is more important than the strategy used, though. Markets tend to seek liquidity that lies in zones of inefficiency. Markets return to these zones to balance themselves. Try to use monthly, weekly, and daily charts to spot those inefficiencies, such as fair value gaps (FVG), equal highs or lows, and other liquidity stores, such as liquidity pockets that form around multiple touched trendlines. When you mark these zones, try to imagine a path the market needs to accomplish to reach these areas before it changes direction or continues further after a pullback. What is your top advice for somebody who wants to be a great trader one day? Do it for yourself, not for the money. Really, the best thing about trading is it can teach you a lot about the values of life that will guide you to a better lifestyle. A better lifestyle then morphs you into a better version of yourself, and as the better version of yourself, you can make the people around you happier. Personally, I get a lot of these values from a fellow named Jim Rohn, who left his teachings for the world to learn from. He was an avid businessman and motivational speaker who amassed a vast fortune from nothing. Then also, don't try to make each day a trading day. Sometimes you can observe the market and not make a single trade since the stars don't align in your favor. Never trade when you don't have an edge. Trading is like poker with one critical difference. In a game of poker, you need to play each hand with cards you got. In trading, you can wait for the proper hand and then trade it perfectly. If you have a will to win, of course. What was your greatest win and your most "redonkulous" fail in trading? Well, my greatest win would have to be everything compounded that I've acquired over time, but the most in one single trade, if I can remember, is 2500% on a leveraged BTC position. I've lost it all before, so nothing can be more of a failure than that. But I believe that failures will give you the experience to succeed. Do you have any more secrets for being a good trader and long-term success? There aren't any secrets. All the information is out there, and most of it is free… However, you need to be passionate about what you do no matter what it is. If you don't like what you're doing, you're not going to be successful in it. That's what I believe, but I do have a passion for the art of trading. And yes, I do like the money that comes with it, but I love the ability to predict. It might seem cheesy, but it's like being a wizard and seeing into the future a little bit. Sure, sometimes I'm wrong, but those times I'm right are just great. Then, of course, learn to anticipate, not participate. Stop chasing pumps or the moves that are already on the go - good traders don't trade because something is moving. Your time to enter this was 5 minutes ago. You can jump into a trade for a quick grab and go, but if you stay in it, you are just sacrificing your capital for somebody else's success. Do the opposite. Start laughing at the chart and be glad that it is going so well without you. Then, prepare to trade the retest, since almost every good entry is retested at some point. Then, you have to learn to have patience with great trades, but also imperial impatience with trades that don't look good or that are eating through your stop-loss (SL) zone. Observe, adapt, execute within a few seconds. It's all about doing non-stop quick adjustments as the situation develops. And lastly, be aware that as a retail trader, you are easy prey for Market Makers (MM), when trading on emotions. To be successful in the market, learn to move with MM, resist their calls to sell, when all they are doing is selling a ticket to “destination fucked” for as many traders as possible before they do the counter move. Defeat the market by defeating your emotions and your urge to trade first. Then, be patient and execute as your backtested setup showed you. That's right. I agree. As an intelligent trader with experience under your belt, you agree that no guru is going to make you rich in the long run, is that right? Exactly. You need to love what you do and be ok with doing it on your own. Only then can you do it for endless hours and still feel full of life and motivation. Tell us about your average trading day. Well, it's just like any other person's day except for the fact that I don't drive to work. I walk across the hall to my office. I wake up at 5 in the morning, take a shower and get to the charts, watch pre-market for stocks, and check my overnight holds for crypto. Then, I do a few hours of trading, and sometimes I don't trade if the opportunity isn't there. I'm only really working for 1–2 hours, and I usually just read until something pops up. Some days I don't even bother checking and go out for the day. I like to keep my life balanced between work and play. What are the most inspiring books you have read? Trading or otherwise! Lots of reading and knowledge from people who have been successful in the field. As a kid, I read The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason, and this was my gateway to more comprehensive books like Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas. For self-improvement, I really enjoyed Master Your Hidden Self by Serge Kahili King and The Truth by Neil Straus. If you could time travel and give advice to yourself before you started trading, what would it be? Don't wish for things but make sure you are doing the maximum to make it happen. And of course, enjoy what you do. If you don't enjoy what you do, it will be hard to get through the part in which you are not profitable, and you will mostly give up. And maybe also that the pain is temporary, while the pride is forever. Well said. The end of the knowledge-gathering section. The next part will introduce you to the world of Bitcoin DeFi trading products that could be considered as an alternative to other DeFi platforms such as Uniswap (Ethereum-based) or Centralized exchanges (which mostly require KYC and deposition of your assets to their control). Decentralized finance (DeFi) is an emerging financial technology based on secure distributed ledgers similar to those used by cryptocurrencies. The system removes the control banks and institutions have on money, financial products, and financial services. Decentralized finance uses the blockchain technology that cryptocurrencies use. A blockchain is a distributed and secured database or ledger. Applications called dApps are used to handle transactions and run the blockchain. Part 2: Find the proper trading playground So, did you enjoy the interview? Are you motivated to go explore, learn and participate in this high-risk/reward environment now? If the answer is yes, then I say good! The following will introduce you to other trading prerequisites and to common trading products. While studying, reading, observing, or doing courses is a vital part of learning, the most crucial part of the learning path of becoming a day trader is getting down in the figurative trenches, and trading—making decisions in real-time, writing notes, and analyzing your trades. To start your trading journey, use a browser-based technical analysis (TA) tool, such as , for paper trading or just as your "trading sandbox" for all your charting observations, and journal entries. TradingView Then, you will need a trading platform with an easy-to-use interface. Start by experimenting with small amounts of real assets. This is the best way to start, as you will experience what it’s like to trade with "real money," even if just a few dollars are on the table. A brief introduction to the world of cryptocurrency trading products or is where you buy an asset you believe in or have researched, with the plan of selling the asset for a profit in the future. 1) Swapping Spot buying allow you to Long and Short, which means you don't buy the asset per se, but put up collateral to take a position on market direction. You make money by forecasting the market's future price. Using leverage (1x-5x) can enhance your profit if you have a technical analysis or fundamental edge. 2) Margin trades NOTE : Very often, you do buy the underlying asset using margin trading. If you use bitcoin as collateral and buy bitcoin on margin, you hold that bitcoin that you purchased. But when bitcoin’s price rises in the future, it is highly likely you will have to sell it to pay back the loan (that you leveraged) but still hold onto the bitcoin 'profit'. It depends if you are trading derivatives or not. Lastly, 3) Perpetual Futures A perpetual futures contract—or perpetual swap—is somewhat similar to an ordinary futures contract in that it allows traders to speculate on the future price movements of cryptocurrencies. The core difference is that perpetual swaps do not have expiration dates. Traditional futures have expiration dates, which forces the price to track the spot price due to arbitrage between the contract and spot price, with the settlement date in view. You can take on the risks and rewards of the spot price movement without actually buying or selling the asset. You cover the risk by supplying margin assets that cover any losses you experience if the price moves against your position. Outro Good luck on your trading journey! Learn from your mistakes. Journal your trades and mostly your aftermath-like observations! If you have a will to win and keep improving, you are on the pathway to success! Don't get discouraged in the first 2-3 years of learning and trading since most traders made it into positive months after five years of active trading. So, don't think about you as a trade you will be in next year, but think about yourself as a trader who needs to be here five years from now, working hard to improve and adapt Remember: -> Stay patient. Also, . Find a trading community, be proactive, work hard and talk about your journey with others. If you simply don't know where to start, I can give you two tips: -> don't be afraid to ask for help 1) of 2) Monthly subscription-based (150 USD) trading group called with many live streams you can watch, many chat possibilities to ask and grow, and a lot of materials delivered by skillful traders you can use to your advantage. However, the best thing is their kind and friendly attitude. Optionally, signup to the Whop platform, from the space of which you can and get a 5 USD bonus. Free discord community Mindo Chroma join Chroma using the following link -> Be rigid in your rules but flexible with your expectations﻿. And lastly, if your trading portfolio is below 1000 USD, . Buy a book, watch a course, practice what you have learned, and journal what you found out. -> invest in yourself and your future success first Don't trade to make money; learn first how to survive, protect your capital, and trade well overall. - Mickey Maler See you in the trenches!

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