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This answer was originally posted on Quora. . For more trending tech answers from , visit . You can view the answer here Quora HackerNoon.com/quora First off, you have to start with the right assumptions and the right understanding of the risks. To make a 50X return on your investment, you have to take some really big risks, even by cryptocurrency standards. This also means accepting that, likely, this won’t happen. But if you to get 50X, here’s how I would think about the problem… have . You will have to invest in something that is a very low value today, meaning you’ll have to see something the rest of the market doesn’t value today and hope that the market eventually corrects. Investing in Ethereum, Bitcoin or any other top 10 cryptocurrency is likely not going to cut it I’m not talking about finding a token, visiting their website and thinking they ‘have a shot’, I mean actually having a fundamental hypothesis on how the market is going to change and how your particular token is going to benefit from that. Not only that, but you’re going to need to make two bets with your token purchase: That the cryptocurrency you’re interested in will change relative rankings (let’s say going from less than 200 to the top 20) That the whole market will rebound (go from $300 Billion to much, much higher) If either of these assumptions fail, you’re not going to make a 50X return. For comparison, , and this was a breakout year for cryptocurrencies. only 9 tokens last year (in 2017) were able to make a 50X return I’m not giving you a particular token (and never will), but here’s would be my methodology if I were to try this: So, if you want a 50X return, what should you invest in now? Find a token not in the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap that have ‘good’ fundamentals. This is a large topic that , but the meat of it includes having an experienced team, a solid mission, the technology to achieve that mission and not screwing up. I cover in detail in my other posts and platforms When you have a list of a few cryptocurrencies that pass your first test of being worth the investment, find the one you connect with the most by joining their slack, reddit and any other communication channel. Get deep with these teams to understand which one you want to be with for the long haul. Invest heavily, lock your investment away as securely as possible and become part of that community. Seriously, go write documentation, help write articles, get really acquainted with the project and try to build something. You can help improve the project without becoming a total shill for it on social media (and art that’s lost on most) and eventually find something you really love in the project. And finally, don’t sell until you hit 50X. Otherwise, what’s the point? Brian Schuster is a developer and writer in the blockchain industry. His content has been viewed over 5 million times since January 2017. You can view more of his content on his pateron page , where he is producing content to help his audience find their place in this emerging industry.

If you wanted to make a 5,000% return on $10,000, only buying cryptocurrency, what would you invest…

This answer was originally posted on Quora. . For more trending tech answers from , visit . You can view the answer here Quora HackerNoon.com/quora At it’s core, I think that cryptocurrency asks some very important questions about who has power and who gets control… questions whose answers will impact the financial industry greatly. One of the most remarkable things about Bitcoin that we still don’t fully appreciate is how BTC is controlled at the individual level. You don’t need a big organization tracking how BTC is shared among the population, it’s all held in the public ledger. This is crazy, not just because this hasn’t existed before, but because the power of the financial institutions comes, in part, from being this authoritative ledger. If you don’t need to trust a bank to keep an authoritative record, then you don’t have to rely so heavily on a bank account. If you don’t have to rely on a bank account, there will be less money that will circulate through banks. This means that banks have less funds for things like mortgages and other financial vehicles, which cuts directly into their profits. This is a massive shift in power. Financial institutions won’t be powerless in this transition, but it will be a time of reflection and disruption. I can’t tell you where this is going, but I know that the current power structure doesn’t make sense with this capabilities. Brian Schuster is a developer and writer in the blockchain industry. His content has been viewed over 5 million times since January 2017. You can view more of his content on his pateron page , where he is producing content to help his audience find their place in this emerging industry.

Do you think that blockchain technology is the future of financial industries?

This answer was originally posted on Quora. . For more trending tech answers from , visit . You can view the answer here Quora HackerNoon.com/quora I don’t think there’s a way to know if an ICO is truly ‘good’. I gave an answer on what , but that article would be better titled “How I Avoid Bad ICO’s”. I think makes a good ICO investment some time ago It’s much easier to spot bad ICO’s that don’t have a chance than the opposite. Some negative traits for me include: Teams raising funds that have yet to put significant work into their platforms Tokens that are only there to drive fund raising Team Members that won’t name themselves or have a history of scams Terrible Crypto-economics Lying (this includes plagiarism, fake ICO Advisors, stealing content, etc) Each of these indicators are designed to disqualify a project and make it easy to ignore most ICO’s. But none of these will help you to pick a ‘winner’. We’re not creative enough to imagine the future and often discount great ideas because of this. To name a few recent example: This is due to a profound realization about the history of innovation: truly great products often hide behind seemingly dumb ideas. Uber (why would you get a ride from some random stranger?) AirBNB (and then sleep at their house!?!) Snapchat (Why ‘snap’ my friends? What’s wrong with Facebook?) Twitch (Who’s going to pay me to play pokemon? Gamers would rather play themselves.) Each of the people who founded these organizations could start a University with the wealth they now possess. All from ideas that seemed too stupid to work by most people’s standards. Cryptocurrency is no different. . Not many people can without a giant leap of faith. There are likely ground breaking ideas right under your nose and you’re not going to be able to recognize it So, I take a different approach to investing: I disqualify as much as I reasonably can ( ), and then go with my gut ( ). I can’t know with any certainty if a project is truly a great idea. But if I fail, I’d rather fail on something I believe in, rather then fail based on metrics that supposedly leads to success. “Don’t Be Stupid” Nassim Taleb style Brian Schuster is a developer and writer in the blockchain industry. His content has been viewed over 5 million times since January 2017. You can view more of his content on his pateron page , where he is producing content to help his audience find their place in this emerging industry.

What makes a good ICO (Initial Coin Offering)?

This answer was originally posted on Quora. . For more trending tech answers from , visit . You can view the answer here Quora HackerNoon.com/quora The opportunities are numerous. No matter how long I spend writing a list on this, there’s going to be more opportunities, many that will eclipse the potential earnings of what I will discuss. But these can be used as a starting point to get you thinking about your own adventures in this space. Here’s a few examples of entrepreneurial endeavors I’ve seen people execute with a lot of success: Create a project on top of the blockchain to extend it’s functionality. Projects like , , and take the base blockchain properties and extend it’s functionality. This can be done with a token or without a token. Variabl.io NuCypher Auger Lightning Create a community around blockchain technology for people excited to talk about it. , an organization I’m an active part of, has grown their community to over 2,000 people and are now expanding their product offerings. is another example of someone who took his following on Quora and turned it into a community. Cryptominded Michael Taylor Create informational products around cryptocurrency. People like , and even myself have gotten their start by creating high quality content explaining how blockchain technology works. This can be turned into paid offerings through classes or paywalls for your content. Or it can remain free so that you can widen your audience. Ivan On Tech Cryptocandor Write a book. This is an extension of the previous point, but it has the potential to hit a much wider audience. People like , and have all written important books on this industry, and have used that influence to expand their impact. Chris Dannen Andreas Antonopoulos Chris Burniske Become a consulting firm about blockchain technology. There are a few firms, including ‘s organization and the folks at , that focus on providing high quality blockchain talent to emerging blockchain organizations. If you’re excited about building apps, but don’t have an idea you want to execute, you can always work as a contractor. Lukas Kairys Lightmatter And here’s a quick list of other opportunities: creating a mining rig, building an exchange, building a price tracker mobile, building an app to figure out tax liability, building a wallet service, and many, many more. If you have talent in one industry and have the ambition, you can find an opportunity in this space. Brian Schuster is a developer and writer in the blockchain industry. His content has been viewed over 5 million times since January 2017. You can view more of his content on his pateron page , where he is producing content to help his audience find their place in this emerging industry.

What are the entrepreneurial opportunities in cryptocurrency industry?

Last week, I released — an API to extract content from any web page as JSON. It got 10 paid users within the first 24 hours, and it was just an idea I scribbled on paper 7 days ago. Page.REST Here’s why I built it and what I learned from it. I left Atlassian a year ago to bootstrap Pragma Labs. We’ve been focusing on a for web teams. While we had some early adopters, traction hasn’t been great. We haven’t found the right the product-market fit. The feeling of being distant from customers created an inertia to ship (“we need this one more thing”). building modern CMS I started to feel we need to shake up our mindset. We need to taste what’s it like to have people paying us. I challenged myself to get a paid customer within the next 48 hours. “For a batsman, a decent score — whether it be at club or first-class level — prior to an international series is crucial.” Ian Chappell # During my time at Atlassian, there was a quarterly event called ShipIt — you drop whatever you’re currently working on to ship an idea within 24 hours. I decided to try my version of ShipIt. Build something in 24 hours — then get someone to pay for it in next 24 hours. Find a Minimum Sellable Product The challenge was to find an idea I can build in 24 hours that’d be enticing for someone to pay at first strike. I thought making a Slack or Trello integration would be a good bet. I knew a few people who had successes from them. However, browsing those marketplaces didn’t instill much confidence. There were already a lot of integrations, and I didn’t stumble on a good niche. Then I reversed my thinking. If there are a lot of people building these bots, is there anything I can sell to them? I noticed most of these integrations rely on an existing web site as a data source. Public transport timetables, today’s weather, package tracking, menus from local restaurants, dad jokes — all these were built on some existing web site, and most of these niche web sites didn’t have public APIs. My hypothesis was integration developers waste time reinventing the wheel on extracting content from a site. A solution to save time on this would trigger them to pay. Think like a consumer If I followed my usual developer instincts I would have written an API to solve the problem, open source it on GitHub and put a Pateron page to accept donations. I would hope people to donate. Give up hopes after a week and move on to something else. Then in the future, when issues start to pile up I’d go to Twitter to rant about why open source model doesn’t work. Instead, I wanted to put myself in consumer’s shoes. If I were the consumer what would I need? I want to use this through an API. I prefer to avoid the troubles of setting up and maintaining it myself. Give me a playground to quickly test if the API works for my use case. I don’t want to do complicated authentication dance to access the API. Give me an access token I can include in API request. Give me some expectation on uptime & availability (will this vanish tomorrow?) It’d be good to have a code sample I can copy and modify Is there a way to contact the developer and are they responsive? Personally, I would’ve paid for such a service. I started to believe there should be at least few others out there who’d think like me. Avoid Rabbit Holes When I started working on it, I thought I could use , a library to control headless instance of Chrome. But I soon found out headless Chrome didn’t work out of the box in cloud functions (Google Cloud Functions or AWS Lambda). I wanted to stick with cloud functions, so I don’t have to setup infrastructure or worry about scaling & availability. Puppeteer Instead of wasting time on trying to get Puppeteer to work, I decided to find an alternative solution. I decided would be good enough for my need. It will not work for sites that use client-side rendering (a la React), but I decided not to worry about it until people complain (which is what I’m doing now since I got people willing to pay for it). jsdom Don’t overthink pricing After building the API, next challenge was figuring out how I should charge for it. If I can get people to pull out their credit cards after going through the landing page and playing with examples (that’s like max 5–10 minute attention span), then this experiment would be a success. Having a simple pricing model would make that decision easy. I chose to charge a one time fee in exchange for an access token (which has a generous validity period and a daily limit). Use early customers to find direction As an early-stage idea, it was important to figure out how I can evolve it further and understand where the opportunities exist. Does my original hypothesis still hold? One of the great things about having early customers is they can help you with figuring out this direction. I added after few early customers requested it. Also, I picked to work on parsing client-side rendered content next as it came up multiple times in feedback. OpenGraph support Also, I started to uncover some interesting niches from early customers. For example, I didn’t know it’d be useful for academic research projects. I started using these insights to fine tune how I can reach more customers. Try multiple channels to get the word out In the past, when I do such a I would just share it on some mainstream channels like Twitter and Hacker News. If I were lucky, it might get picked up by some influencer and get some viral traction. side project However, this time I tried to experiment a bit with the distribution strategy. I plan this to be a continuous exercise which I would iterate based on learnings (currently I set aside 1 hour a day for Page.REST’s distribution experiments). Rather than going public first, I started promoting it on niche Slack and Facebook groups first. As I got positive signals, I moved to bigger channels like Hacker News and Reddit. Luckily it got picked up by HN audience and reached #10 on the homepage. Page.REST climbed to #10 on HN In Reddit, it got some traction from . /r/sideproject My current focus is to find strategies to keep the stream flowing after the deluge. Feel free to if you have any interesting ideas to build on Page.REST. Happy to explore how we can collaborate. get in touch

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"It's no use! I can't run an end-to-end test with Flutter's integration tests", exclaimed one of our customers about 9 months ago. I asked what the problem was and they explained that they were using Google Authentication for logging in and used the package but it wasn't possible to use Flutter's integration tests to interact with the login screens. I still didn't quite understand what the problem was, and then it clicked: this plugin uses which the integration tests don't work with. google_sign_in native UI components I was quite disappointed that I couldn't offer a solution at the time and had to leave it at that. However, fast forward to today and an awesome new solution has presented itself called by . I'm going to tell you all about it, but before we dive in let's just recap why it's important to run tests, what tools you had available until now, and then talk about how to get started with Patrol. "Patrol" LeanCode Why test Flutter apps anyway? One of the main reasons development teams use (CI) services like is to get immediate feedback on the code they are committing to their repo. Tests can be run automatically as part of your pipeline to ensure a level of both quality and stability because bugs or issues can be caught early and rectified straight away. We always encourage customers to implement testing when setting up their workflows, but it's not uncommon to hear "We haven't got time to write tests". Hopefully, you're not in that boat, and use testing as part of your app development cycle to deliver great quality and bug-free apps! Continuous Integration Codemagic What are the main automated ways to test Flutter apps? There are four main testing methods that can be automated as part of your CI workflow. Testing is a topic unto itself, so I'll keep it brief, but using a combination of these testing methods will help you improve the quality of your app and catch problems sooner rather than later. Firstly, there is which is commonly used for testing your functions and methods in isolation to make sure they work as expected. Unit tests can also be written to make sure your business logic works in different scenarios without any unexpected results. "Unit testing" Next, we have Flutter which allows you to test your UI components and make sure they render correctly and work as you expect. "Widget tests" Then there is which is where you test if the units and components of your application work together as expected. "Integration testing" Finally, there is where you test the application as if it were being used by a real user. In a CI workflow, this is usually automated using simulators or emulators to test different pathways through your app to make sure there aren't any issues after you make changes to your code. "End-to-End UI testing" This is where the customer I was talking about at the beginning was stuck because they couldn't run their End-to-End UI tests because it wasn't possible to log in to the app. At the time they tested a 'dev' version that bypassed the log-in part. However, that's no longer required now that is available! "Patrol" Enter, stage left, Patrol! So first of all, what is Patrol? Well, I think the docs say it best: Patrol is a new and open-source UI testing framework for Flutter developed by LeanCode. It builds on top of Flutter's existing test tooling to let you do things which were previously impossible. Patrol lets you access native features of the platform that the Flutter app is running on. The most important part here is that it lets you access the of the platform your app is running on. native features Flutter This means that you can now do things such as: Interact with Permission Request dialogs to dismiss or accept requests. Interact with WebViews. Minimize and maximize your app. Interact with authentication flows like Google or Apple authentication. Interact with other native features such as opening the Notifications tray, pressing the Home button, turning Wi-Fi connectivity on or off, or changing the device to dark mode, etc. Okay, this sounds great, but what's the catch? Well, there isn't one! And what's more, it's not only but also ! free open source Moreover, Patrol also introduces which gives you a more concise syntax for writing your tests. You can read more about them . 'custom finders' here Installing and setting up Patrol To get started with Patrol you will need to install the CLI, add the to your and set up some configurations in your iOS and Android projects. Patrol dependency pubspec.yaml has created some great documentation which takes you through the process for each platform which you can find here. Their step-by-step guide will take you through the setup for both and . LeanCode here iOS Android If you run into any problems, the best place to get help is in the server which you can join . Patrol Community Discord here If you find any bugs, then you can raise an issue . here Installing and setting up Patrol To get started with Patrol you will need to install the CLI, add the to your and set up some configurations in your iOS and Android projects. Patrol dependency pubspec.yaml has created some great documentation which takes you through the process for each platform which you can find here. Their step-by-step guide will take you through the setup for both and . LeanCode here iOS Android If you run into any problems, the best place to get help is in the server which you can join . Patrol Community Discord here If you find any bugs, then you can raise an issue . here Writing native feature tests with Patrol Now you are all set up, let's start testing some native features. To try it myself, I set up a simple Flutter app with an elevated button that when clicked opens a alert dialog. native Clicking "OK" or "Cancel" simply dismisses the dialog. Again, I would recommend using Patrol's own documentation which you can find to get your first test file added. here So for my test, I wanted to click on the elevated button that has the text "Click me!". It's a standard Flutter widget so it can be tapped using the following Patrol finder: await $('Click me!').tap(); The native dialog should then be displayed, so we can now start interacting with a native UI component. So let's add the native finder that will allow us to tap the "OK" button: await $('Click me!').tap();
await $.native.tap(Selector(text: 'OK')); That was easy! I also want to test the "Cancel" button, so let's tap on the "Click me!" button again and then tap on the native dialog's "Cancel" button by adding a couple more lines as follows: await $('Click me!').tap();
await $.native.tap(Selector(text: 'OK'));

await $('Click me!').tap();
await $.native.tap(Selector(text: 'Cancel')); Your completed test file should look like this: import 'package:cmpatrol/main.dart';
import 'package:patrol/patrol.dart';

void main() {
  patrolTest(
    'Native tests',
    nativeAutomation: true,
    ($) async {
      await $.pumpWidgetAndSettle(const MyApp());

      await $('Click me!').tap();
      await $.native.tap(Selector(text: 'OK'));

      await $('Click me!').tap();
      await $.native.tap(Selector(text: 'Cancel'));

      await $('Click me!').tap();
      await $.native.tap(Selector(text: 'NO'));
    },
  );
} You should now be able to run that test on your emulator or a real device using the command to launch the test. My integration test file was called so I started the tests from Terminal as follows: "button_test" patrol test -t integration_test/button_test.dart You'll see if your tests pass or fail directly in the Terminal. If the tests fail you will get a link to the full test report. Alternatively, If you are running your tests on Android like I did then this should you can access the report by clicking the in the following directory: index.html ./build/app/reports/androidTest/connected You can experiment further with other native features such as opening the notifications tray, disabling the wifi, enabling dark mode, minimizing and maximizing the app: // minimize app
await $.native.pressHome();

await $.native.openNotifications();

await $.native.disableWifi();

await $.native.enableDarkMode();

// maximize app
await $.native.openApp(); ⚠️ Note that it is not possible to completely close your app and then re-open it because doing so would end the whole test and, therefore, make it fail. Consult the Patrol for more examples. documentation Using Patrol in your Codemagic workflows To incorporate Patrol into your workflows, you'll first have to install the on the build machine. This only takes a few seconds and once that's done, you can run your test script. Below is an example of how you would add these steps to the "scripts" section of your configuration file. I would recommend running the script to install the Patrol CLI as one of the first script steps and then you can run your Patrol tests either immediately after that or after any other tests you might also want to run beforehand. Patrol CLI codemagic.yaml Before running your Patrol tests you will need to start the emulator so we'll add a script to launch the emulator and wait for it to be fully booted. Note that the Android emulators are not available on machines using Apple Silicon M1 or M2 machines due to the Apple Virtualization Framework not supporting nested virtualization. Therefore, I would recommend using a instance when testing Android apps. linux The scripts section of your should look something like this: codemagic.yaml scripts:
  ...
  - name: Install Patrol CLI
    script: dart pub global activate patrol_cli
  - name: Launch Android emulator
    script: |
      cd $ANDROID_HOME/tools
      emulator -avd emulator &
      adb wait-for-device
  - name: Run tests with Patrol
    script: patrol test -t integration_test/your_test.dart
    ignore_failure: true
  ... Showing Patrol test results in the Codemagic build logs The Patrol test results are also available in format, which means they can be displayed in the build logs on the Codemagic build overview screen. You just need to add the property pass in the path to the JUnit XML file that is generated. You can use the property with a boolean to control whether you want the rest of the workflow to continue running or not. If you want to upload your results to a test management system as described in the next section, you should set this to . JUnit XML test_report ignore_failure true Here's an example of what your script should look like: scripts:
  ...
  - name: Run tests with Patrol
    script: |
      patrol test -t integration_test/your_test.dart
      test_report: build/app/outputs/androidTest-results/connected/*.xml
      ignore_failure: true
  ... A failing test might look something like this: Gathering the Patrol test report as a build artifact One additional thing you might want to do is gather the test report output as a build artifact so you can view the full report should any errors occur. Doing this will make the report available for download as a zip file on the build overview screen in the "Artifacts" section on the left-hand side. The easiest way to do this is to copy the directory the report files are in to the directory Codemagic uses to export artifacts. There's a built-in environment variable called that references this directory which you can use in your script. $CM_EXPORT_DIR The script to do this should be like this: scripts:
  ... 
  - name: Export Patrol test report
    script: | 
      cp  -r build/app/reports/androidTests/connected $CM_EXPORT_DIR/report
  ... Conclusion has finally overcome the problem of running UI and integration tests that involve native features. It's now possible to test native features and interact with authentication flows, native dialogs, and even toggle native features like wifi, cellular, dark mode, and even minimize your app and maximize it. Additionally, it's both and and provides a solution to a real problem that's been around since Flutter was launched. What's more, it's straightforward to add and use it in your Codemagic workflows. If you want to support the great work LeanCode is doing, give Patrol a like on pub.dev and give the Patrol GitHub repository a star . Patrol free open source here here This article is written by Kevin Suhajda, Head of Solutions Engineering at . You can find Kevin on , , and . Codemagic X GitHub LinkedIn Also published . here

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