Hey Hackers! Here we are again with the results announcement for The bought to you by HackerNoon and . Let’s see who won! Blockchain Writing Contest Tatum The Blockchain Writing Contest April 2022 Nominations We picked all the stories tagged with the tag on HackerNoon, published in April 2022. Then we chose the top stories using weightage respectively to: #blockchain 60:30:10 Number of hours read The number of people reached The freshness of the content Here are the top 10 nominations: by An Intro to Bitcoin and How it Works @mpyllan by 6 Crypto Launchpads to Watch in 2022 @elinasterina (Part 1) by A Quick Look Under the Hood of an NFT Smart Contract @cryptomadhatter by Crypto Staking: Everything You Need to Know @elnazsarraf by The Proof of Stake Trojan Horse @atrigueiro by A Deep Dive Into My Cryptocurrency Investment Process @cryptoengineer by The Crypto Market is Nervous: Options for Investors to Protect their Capital @dmitriidanilenko by Is Proof-of-Stake the Future of Consensus? Blockscale Doesn’t Think So! @callcryptocharlie by NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens Breakdown @cryptopawa by Rug-Pull: How to Spot the Fraud Easily via Smart Contract Codes @talktomaruf Winners! As usual, editors voted for the top stories. Here are the winners for the month of April: In the first place, we have by A Deep Dive Into My Cryptocurrency Investment Process @cryptoengineer Congratulations on winning @cryptoengineer! You have won 500 USDT! :) Even in crypto, you should think what is the provided by your project, unless you are trading and considering only the price. Fundamentals don’t matter in a short term, but as the crypto market becomes more mature, the value prevails. Unique Value Proposition by has won the second place! Rug-Pull: How to Spot the Fraud Easily via Smart Contract Codes @talktomaruf Rug pulls are a lucrative fraud in which developers create new crypto tokens and market them to investors to increase their value and overall liquidity. They then drain the funding pool and crash the token's value to zero before finally disappearing into thin air and vanishing with the cash. Rug-pull scams were responsible for more than US$2.8 billion in unlawful activities in 2021, close to an all-time high and up 81 percent from 2020, according to the Blockchain data tracker system, Chainalaysis. Great story @taktomaruf! You have won 300 USDT! In third place, we have (Part 1) by A Quick Look Under the Hood of an NFT Smart Contract @cryptomadhatter We say that a smart contract is the heart of an NFT and for good reasons - one being that it is the smart contract that makes it possible for a non-fungible token to be what it fundamentally is, from being scarce, non-fungible, verifiable, self-executing, to embedding utilities that give this asset more intrinsic value. Yay @cryptomadhatter! You have won 100 USDT this month! The most-read story this month is by An Intro to Bitcoin and How it Works @mpyllan Congratulations @mpyllan! You’ve won 100 USDT. With Bitcoin, a person can open, at no cost, a digital account and store as much money as they want; if done correctly, their money will always be accessible to themselves and protected from access by others. Once you have your money in your Bitcoin account or wallet, you can move it 24/7/365 to other Bitcoin accounts worldwide in moments and with costs that approach zero, independent of where you send the transaction. These accounts include businesses where users can purchase goods and services directly with BTC. On that note, let’s wrap up the announcement! We will contact the winners shortly. Keep an eye on to see the current and upcoming writing contests! contests.hackernoon.com See y’all next month!

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