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VUZI - Stunna Shades of the FutureSeems like VUZI is on a bull run, solidified by the successful completion and pass of the FCC emissions requirements for it's Blade Smart Glasses on July 6th. It's started it's volume manufacturing, and will probably start its sales campaign soon. A company like this can easily be acquired by Google, or another huge tech company. "Volume manufacturing of the Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses from our West Henrietta, NY facility has commenced. With FCC and EU certifications processes now complete we can commence broad shipping of our Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses to the application and enterprise Vuzix Blade Edge developer communities located within the USA, Canada and Europe," said Paul Travers, President and Chief Executive Officer at Vuzix. There seems to be good support in the $5.50 range and resistance in the $9.00-$9.50 range. Anything under $6.50 might be a good buy, but if you can pick up this stock at sub $5.50, that would be ideal. HOLD for now- let's see what happens when it gets to $8.25 Happy Trading!
NASDAQ:VUZILong
by GPI-Legacy
Progress Slows On Once-Hot Ethereum Privacy Projects////ETH has all but given up on being private, we will need fungible assets like XMR to power the smart contracts of the future if we want to retain our privacy from all/// thereum's moon math is showing signs of coming back to earth. Such was the feeling at EthCC, an ethereum developer conference in Paris, Thursday, where a dedicated privacy track struck a somber note compared to years past. Indeed, despite a software upgrade in October that saw improvements built to pave the way for confidentiality, such methods have been shown to exceed ethereum's processing capacity, with the computationally intense cryptography all but bringing the blockchain to its limits. So, while developers like Andrew Miller had predicted a rise in privacy-centric ethereum applications just months ago, the conference showcased how an almost eerie silence has followed as scaling and security obstacles have proven more difficult to solve than foreseen. As evidence, ZoKrates, a programming language aimed to equip average developers with the ability to code private contracts, has struggled to find its way out of the setup phase. Speaking in a presentation today, the code's creator, Jacob Eberhardt, said that ethereum will need to add more cryptographic variables in a system-wide software upgrade for the concept to work. Still, Eberhardt also bemoaned that, given the controversy that can follow such a suggestion, it's perhaps not one that will be adopted quite so easily. "We don't want to keep adding new crypto," Eberhardt said. Matthew Di Ferrante, developer at the Ethereum Foundation and founder of smart contract company ZK Labs, echoed this cautionary tone. In a discussion on the relationship and trade-offs between privacy and scalability on ethereum, Di Ferrante went so far as to warn the audience. "If you think ethereum isn't scalable now, or that blockchains aren't scalable now, the further you get the more alarming it is. Everyone likes to talk about the magic, but not many people can write the code," he said. The statement is notable considering the urgency of the ideas at stake. In particular, zero-knowledge proofs, due to their ability to compress information in a concise format, could eventually work to reduce information on the ethereum blockchain, thus enabling better scaling. According to Di Ferrante, such achievements are still possible, they're just a little further down the line. He told the audience: "Progress is slow but that doesn't mean it's not possible." Waiting for privacy As an example, Di Ferrante pointed to blockchain voting to illustrate the problems faced today. "A vote of a thousand people would require a thousand signatures each a thousand bytes each. You would never be able to check a single signature due to the block gas limit," Di Ferrante said. Such a use case is the core emphasis of Di Ferrante's research, which seeks to anonymize proofs through the use of ring signatures - a way of obscuring information in a retrievable way that works by aggregating the data within a group. Di Ferrante has found that by using bi-linear pairings, a form of elliptic curve that is active within the ethereum virtual machine, various shortcuts in the complex cryptography can be made to minimize the scalability trade-off. However, while his prototype has a working implementation, Di Ferrante told the audience, "It's just ridiculous, it's way too inefficient, if people started using that as a main service the chain would go down again." And that wasn't the only sobering note struck at the conference today. Currently, in order to generate a ZoKrates contract, each individual needs to enact the setup phase themselves, a fact that is perhaps slowing the adoption of zero-knowledge cryptography into businesses built on the ethereum platform. In the generation of a zk-snark, information is produced that could allow the holder of the information to falsely manufacture transactions, providing the data generated by the zk
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by Emperor_Penguin
[HOLD] Ripple Chart. My thoughts and Prediction.THOUGHTS: Some people are thinking that the price of the ripple will go down to 1,6-2.00. I myself don't think so. Not only because I haven't heard any bad news of the ripple, but also because it seems to be supported at the range of 2,45$. Yes. It wasn't added to coinsbase. Does this mean it isn't a good currencie? Did the price or volume spike harder then the days before? No. I think this crypto has great potential but has to show some news or working proof, since more and more people seem to be into ripple. When news comes out is uncertain for most of us, and is also unpredictable. But I do think ripple is catching a bigger audience and will still be growing. You might not like centralization but that doesn't mean other people do. PREDICTION: Now what I think will happen: I think that around in the morning to midday of 8 january the price off ripple will rise again. Where it will break its resistance and will either go up even more or stay at a price range of 3,20-3,70$. This is my first ever chart and I'm following the cryptocurencies since October. I would love to know what you think will happen or have any tips. Goodluck
BITSTAMP:XRPUSDLong
by MarkJansen
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