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I can only imagine the troubles serious digital artists encounter these days. The muddle of tools and colors on the screen, the limited space for viewing the "canvas," and so on. I think it's natural to have two touchscreens: one to hold all the tools, colors, and layer information, and the other to simply be, well, the picture.
I'm pretty sure it'll be like that eventually, but this curvy concept device is more sentimental than functional. Not to mention they're trying to fit an optical drive into what is clearly a peripheral and not a primary PC. Good idea, but I doubt Wacom is sweating it at the moment.

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WizKids announced Wednesday upcoming products based on the Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 video games from Valve. With a license from Valve, WizKids plans a Dota 2 HeroClix collection and an entirely new "game platform" for Team Fortress 2.
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The Team Fortress 2 game will be called NextChess. It's a Chess variant where the pieces wear hats that can be exchanged and captured, transferring the movement characteristics of their original owners.
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Since 1986, Derby Dinner Playhouse has been committed to presenting theatre as both entertainment and education for young students. The 2013-14 season will be no different as the children's theatre presents four varied works for the young and young of heart to enjoy.
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First Page: YA Fantasy
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously.
The agony of sixth period geometry had ended at last, and Frederica Fitzgerald shot out the back gate of her high school to freedom before the bell had even ceased to sound. She adjusted the weight of her backpack and slogged uphill to her house. Quiet prevailed in her neighborhood, with only the swaying rustle of pine trees and the scratch of her sneakers on the sidewalk for background noise.
The promise of a storm loomed in the sky and, with a sigh, Freddy pulled the hood of her sweatshirt up on her head. Yesterday was gorgeous, she thought. Sunny. Warm. Now we have a sludgy dish drain for a sky. She dug her music player out, tucked her headphones in and cranked the volume.
She'd only taken a few steps before halting. Her nerves prickled, and a strange tension took hold of her. The air itself seemed wrong, too thick, sparking with a strange power that weighed her lungs down as she breathed in.
A black stallion suddenly appeared before her on the road. She gasped as she fell, her nerves jolting, certain he'd flatten her. The horse reared. Freddy's stomach flipped, but his rider, with a firm hand on the reins, brought his mount back under control. The brutish horse glowered at her, but his agitation eased at last.
Freddy gulped in a breath, and her heart stopped trying to batter its way out of her chest.
Where did they come from? Even with her headphones on, she should have heard the horse coming, she should have seen it on the road ahead of her. Had it just materialized with its rider out of thin air?
The rider dismounted. A floppy straw hat screened his face from view, and he kept his back to Freddy. Obviously, he preferred soothing his stallion to checking on the girl he'd almost KILLED.
Somehow this didn't gel for me. I wasn't feeling like Freddy was reacting to the details you gave.
She shoots out of her seat and slogs home and muses over the threatening sky, like it's merely a pity. In fact, it's about to pour and she's wearing a sweatshirt that is going to get soaked if she doesn't get home before the storm breaks. She stops to put her earphones in, implying it's a longish way home.
The horse appears before her, she gasps as she falls. I have no sense of where she is. I assumed she was on a sidewalk. Even if she's in the road, one presumes she's walking along the side of the road, expecting cars to pass. Presumably the horse would be in the center of the road.
Her nerves jolt, but I never got a sense of where she was relative to the horse, so it didn't feel real. She doesn't scramble up, crawl onto the nearest lawn, etc. She just lies there, watching the rider get his horse under control and dismount.
She notices that it's a stallion, but doesn't notice the rider. When I first read it, I assumed there was no rider.
Normal people automatically make assumptions about behavior: He was planning to ride her down — in which case she runs away, possibly abandoning her backpack. He was careless — in which case she might yell at him, from a safe distance, etc. She shouldn't have been walking in the middle of the road with music blaring in her earphones — she takes them out and walks on the sidewalk, etc.
You have her still lying there and we don't know if she is hurt. She might have been killed and she's still lying in the street.
And what rider wears a floppy straw hat? That's really odd, but Freddy didn't notice it until now?
I don't see why she fell. Was she scrambling to get out of the horse's way? Last we heard, she'd halted. Most people don't fall down when standing still.
You need to go back and make this work.
I'm not someone who needs a story to start with a bang, but I think if this one began with the rider appearing it would be more interesting.
Also the self involved teenager response of why-is-he-trying-to-control-his-horse-he-nearly-killed-me-me-me is cliched.
Maybe not quite the right tone for today's YA? Seemed a little overwritten or formal–and Freddy's description of the weather seemed unnatural. Think you need to do more showing of the 'strange tension' rather than telling. And I agree with the previous commenter who though Freddy's reaction to the rider was cliched.
I came back to mention, after some thought. that calling an MP3 player or ipod, Rio, Sandisk, Zune, etc, a "music player"
felt– odd and stilted. The author might want to listen to some Jr. High and High School students talk among themselves (or at least read a few places on the internet where they congregate).
Vanessa Jaye
The first thing that struck me is what TBel has aleady mentioned, the tone of the story doesn't sound authentic for a modern teen's voice. The other thing is, I think you need to deepen the POV, which would help make things feel more immediate and flesh out the character.
Marianne McA
I'm stuck trying to imagine what a glowering horse looks like…
The writing here is competent, but I agree that this needs a bit more connection to the surroundings and Freddy needs to be more of a person. You, obviously, can picture the scene very clearly in your head, but you aren't giving the readers enough information so they can visualize it.
I've never yet seen a school let out that wasn't awash with screaming, talking, milling kids, but she is alone far too quickly. No one else in her school goes out the back gate or walks/bikes/drives the same road home as she does?
What is "a strange tension"? What exactly is "strange" about it? If you don't define it, I will automatically assume it is a cliche and think of something wildly inappropriate. Her left elbow must feel connected to her left ankle as she walks and she can't swing her arms! That's strange enough to be why she stops, or does the "strangeness" manifest in some other way? Be specific. Let me feel her change as the weirdness builds, rather than just she's walking, she's standing, she falls.
And if the air is weighing down her lungs, shouldn't she struggle to expand her lungs or do something other than just keep normally breathing in?
She does not react at all to this strangeness, it just is.
I'm also trying to figure out how she can tell the horse is a stallion at first glance. What position is the horse in that she can see that it is indeed a male and not only that, not gelded? Side on? What does it say about her that the very first thing she notices about this apparition is the horse's gender and the state of the balls and nothing about the floppy-hatted rider? Does the horse materialize so close that she can't see the rider clearly? If that's the case, tell us! That's not just "before her on the road" , which implies distance. And a stallion? Seriously?
If the horse is facing her, there is no way to tell it's a stallion, until it rears up. And, if a horse is rearing and flailing its hooves inches from your nose, checking underneath to see if it's gelded is not high on the priority list. Is he erect and waving it at her? In which case, just saying "A black stallion" seems understated in the extreme. And if its not facing her right in front of her nose, how threatening is it, even rearing? Was it standing still when it appeared? Running towards her? Moving across her line of vision?
And about that fall: was she knocked down or did she trip or just take a dive or start to faint? Just falling down for no given reason is an odd response to being faced by a "brutish" horse and it makes her TSTL to boot. "I am suddenly being faced by a brutish stallion. Shall I dodge behind one of the many pine trees on this road or run to the nearest house and get on the porch or behind a gate where it cannot easily follow? No, I know! I will fall down so it can trample me more conveniently!"
Other than the fact that she was named, you have not given me any reason to care about Freddy or what becomes of her. She's a complete nonentity. No clue as to why she runs out of school. No clue as to why she's friendless and does not seem to care. No clue as to why it matters that today's weather is worse than yesterday's.
A person in a floppy straw hat riding on a teleporting brutish stallion, on the other hand, sounds pretty interesting. Maybe you are in the wrong POV?
Lynne Connolly
This reads like a first draft. The scene is sketched out, but there's no depth, nothing there to seize the imagination of the reader. There's a good skeleton here, but it needs a bit more detail.
And why would he ride a stallion? Showing off, much? He obviously wants to soothe it first, because otherwise an agitated stallion will try to hurt both of them.
@Marianne McA: All horses glower, in my experience. Especially when you're trying to make them do something they don't want to.
But I totally agree with everyone else about the writing and especially with John about the capslocking in this page. Sorry.
Marianne McA
@Ros. Failure of my imagination, then – not a failure of the writing. And, to be fair, if I don't object to Black Beauty narrating a book, it's hardly fair to quibble at a fictional horse that's merely a bit moody.
(I would never try to make a horse do anything it didn't want to: horses are large and v. scary. I spent a very long hour on a pony trek once, only because I was totally unable to work out how one got off the damn thing.)
I agree with what's been said so far.
One way to take care of the music player is to just not mention what kind it is; when people see "headphones" or "earbuds" they assume it's hooked into an MP3, ipod, etc.
I like the "dish drain for a sky" line but it seems like it should be in the narrative rather than something she's thinking about. Though I'm not sure why she's thinking of the weather, period, since she's already been out and about during the day for at least seven hours in school.
In all it just didn't work for me–it felt too much like the initial stages of something, rather than the finished product, as someone earlier said. In fact, in the first page alone, it kind of mirrors the situation–horse appearing out of nowhere as the unsuspecting protagonist is heading to her destination, rider that is unnoticed until he dismounts, rider that soothes his horse before even checking on the protagonist–of a YA I read not that long ago. As someone pointed out above, it seems to be a cliche, in which case, there's nothing wrong with keeping the basic idea, but change it. Make it your own! It's a great situation to reveal potential aspects of your character. Is she fiery tempered? Have her temper flair at the rider. Even if she's mild-mannered, there's ways you can show this while building this scene that would keep it from trending into old familiar territory. Own the scene, rather than letting it become formulaic.
The language of the piece kind of added to the problem. In the first sentence alone I ran into trouble–first because the notion that the school day ends at six periods, instead of four, or seven or eight (as with all the high schools in my experience) jarred me, but since the setting isn't plainly stated I could chalk this up to being a different country, different time, etc.
However, the thought that your protagonist could conceivably make it out of the school before the bell had finished ringing seemed far-fetched for me (it's a small quibble, and odd, because I'll suspend my disbelief for bigger things, but small things like that seem to be asking too much of me…). Regardless of that, the first sentence has this energy: she bolts out of school! She's so eager to get out of there! Yet in the rest of the paragraph the tone is abruptly less energetic, and suddenly the protagonist is slogging up a hill. I think maybe you're trying to show that strange tension you mention later–if it's hard to breathe and she's going uphill then she'd hardly keep bolting. However, the quick change, with no real transition, is disconcerting.
There's promise, but it definitely needs polishing.
"The language of the piece kind of added to the problem. In the first sentence alone I ran into trouble-first because the notion that the school day ends at six periods, instead of four, or seven or eight (as with all the high schools in my experience) jarred me, but since the setting isn't plainly stated I could chalk this up to being a different country, different time, etc."
That's funny. Both the middle school and the high school I attended ended at 6 periods, with optional 0 period (at the ass crack of dawn) and 7th period (mostly sports and college prep courses). This was in Southern California. That kind of thing varies wildly from district to district.
@tsukishine: "that the school day ends at six periods, instead of four, or seven or eight (as with all the high schools in my experience"
My high school had six periods. :)
@valerie, Beppa: Oh, good to know! I attended two high schools, one in South Korea and another in NC, and my siblings have gone to high school in AZ, GA, and HI, so we've had fairly varied school experiences, but clearly not as varied as I had thought, heh.
Learn something new every day. :)
This read like a…to do list to me.
Shoot out of school
Adjust backpack
Slog uphill home (both ways?)
Scratching sneakers (sneakers squeak on highly polished floors, they make a sucking sound in the muck, they scuff in the gravel and sand, but I can't recall hearing them 'scratch')
Insert weather report
Insert character's telegraphing of something paranormal/fantasy related coming
Make assumption on gender of horse (I would think it's an assumption anyway)
Don't notice anything about the rider, even though he was most likely facing Hn (I'm guessing FF is your Hn anyway)
Rider dismounts all the while keeping his back to the Hn
Check rider's floppy straw hat
All of those things can be interesting and drive the story forward, but the way you've presented them here gives them no life. No energy. No reason for me to care what comes next and when you're writing YA, regardless of sub-genre, you need to entice your reader with almost every word. Teens have so much stimulus in their lives, you want to pull them away from all of that and into your story and this, I'm afraid, isn't ready to do that.
Jo Ramsey
On the subject of high school schedules: A lot of schools have moved to "block" schedules, usually 4 periods a day of 70-80 minutes each. Some still do 7 or even 8 shorter periods. (Had to look all that up for my YA series, because my publisher had never heard of block schedules.) Here in the district I live in, in Massachusetts, my middle schooler has 6 periods a day, and my high schooler has 5. So it really does depend on the district.
As for this piece: Some really awkward phrasing threw me out of reading, such as "She'd only taken a few steps before halting." I can't quite put my finger on why that sentence doesn't sound right to me… some verb tensy thing, I think.
As others have said, there are other issues with this. I've worked in half a dozen high schools, plus attending one. In my experience, it is not physically possible to be out the door of the school before the bell stops ringing. Maybe if she jumped out the classroom window. Otherwise, she'd be fighting her way through the throng of all the other students who are also trying to get the heck out of there for the day. Freddy's musing about the weather doesn't seem very teenish (I have a 14-year-old; all she cares about weather-wise is whether it means Mom's giving her a ride to school.) I think you jump from her leaving school to being in her neighborhood, which might explain why it's suddenly so quiet, but the transition isn't clear.
I don't have a problem with the horse suddenly being in front of her, because I took that to indicate that the horse did, in fact, materialize or teleport. However, as others said, it sounded to me at first as though the horse was alone; the rider should be mentioned earlier.
And please, please take out the full caps at the end. If you really feel the need for emphasis, italics are your friend.
Imho, if the author would pay attention to situations like this, he/she could tighten the writing considerably.
"The rider dismounted. A floppy straw hat screened his face from view, and he kept his back to Freddy. Obviously, he preferred soothing his stallion to checking on the girl he'd almost KILLED."
If the rider's back is to Freddy, then how would she know the floppy hat "screened his face from view"?
In what manner did he "soothe" the stallion? Whispered words? Strokes? Did he have his hand on the halter (sorry if that is the wrong word, not my story, LOL) to keep the beast in place as he soothed?
Basically, what I am saying is that this doesn't seem deep enough.
While the author can clearly see the scene unfolding, the writing is leaving the reader in the dark. Motion and positioning is a difficult thing to master, and this page has problems in that area, as others have pointed out.
My humble two cents.
I didn't have an issue with the assumption that the horse was male. Most people assign a gender to a critter before they know whether it's male or female. How familiar the pov character is with horses can limit or expand the author's ability to describe the animal more accurately, but it isn't uncommon, in my experience, for people to think that stallion is just another word for horse, colt means any baby horse, and just stare at you blankly when you try to explain what a gelding is.
The story didn't work for me, for most of the reasons already mentioned, I just wanted to throw in that the use of stallion isn't going to make everyone assume she's checking out Black Beauty's junk.
If the protag knows anything about horses though, I would have her assign a breed to the horse, rather than a gender.
"A black stallion suddenly appeared before her on the road. She gasped as she fell, her nerves jolting, certain he'd flatten her."
First thing that came to mind when reading this was, "Why'd she fall?" My reaction throughout the whole equine encounter was pretty much, "Huh?" It feels like, in the interest of making the scene move fast, the narrative was stripped of detail and now feels rushed.
As for horsey gender. While I understand why someone might assign "male" as a default gender, the use of the word "stallion" felt like the writer doesn't know much about horses.
The whole rearing stallion schtick is really cliche. (In my experience horses, including stallions, are more likely to buck or bolt sideways than rear.) The text suggests that the writer grabbed for the first dramatic imagery/noun that came to mind when thinking of horses.
But I'm a horse person and a stickler for accuracy when it comes to things equine. A non-horsey person may have a very different assessment.


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I've been writing the Lost and Found series since 2012. That was the date I first published The Embattled Road, scared to death that people would think I was crazy writing about disabled veterans. But now, 5 years later, I realize that making the public aware of vets is just as important as it always was. More so now, maybe, because we're not seeing war coverage everyday on the news. Don't be fooled, though, people are still dying. We just aren't hearing about it as much. The new President and the circus in Washington just take top billing.
I told my husband the other day about something one of my characters had done in a book (specifically, John Palmer complaining about puppy training from Forget Me Not) and he looked at me like I was crazy because I was talking about the incident as if it had really happened. And in my mind it HAD happened!
These men are so real to me that yes I laughed when I wrote that scene, then had to tell a friend and my hubby about it.
How could I ever NOT write about them?
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Pop, Pop, Fizz, Fizz: Activision Skylanders In Love
Lovey Dovey, All the Time…
"The love bug will get you if you don't watch out", or so says the song. This Saint Valentine's Day the Activision Skylanders Team wants to make sure you feel the love so they've designed a special edition character to spread some much needed amour in the ether of Skylands.
The punky pink Love Potion Pop Fizz joins the ranks of game piece collectibles that form the core of the Skylanders experience. His hypnotic eyes and heart shaped tongue will surely make him the game's premiere Valentino.
The Activision folks reveal his origin, "When his latest attempt to concoct the ultimate raspberry soda totally backfired, Pop Fizz was caught in a blast that turned him pink and gave him an alluring aroma. At least that's how he tells it. But with Valentine's Day right around the corner, the Skylanders are all wondering if Pop Fizz is telling the truth – or if there is a special someone that he's trying to impress!" Hmmm… seems like he took some lessons from Leiber and Stoller's Madame Rue.
Love Potion Pop Fizz is a non-exclusive, all retailers, item but limited to a short availability time frame. A neat rarity to add to your collection at $14.99. Seek him out.
Outside of game play, a line of Skylanders themed Stickers and Valentine's Day cards will keep your kids busy – and off your iPad for a while – writing real script on real cards. What a concept.
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I had to chuckle when I read Pop Fizz's backstory and saw his psychedelic pink continence. It immediately reminded of the day-glo colors of Fizzies, a do-it-yourself soda pop tablet that was extremely popular when I was a kid. Essentially flavored, sugared up, Bromo-Seltzer for youngsters. "In seven great flavors," grape was my fave. The whole process definitely fueled my "monster kid" Dr Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde play scenarios. Had'a love the 1950's.


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Agency - State Department that arranges with the card issuer, Bank of America, for the issuance of 'LaCarte' cards to authorized employees and agrees to accept liability for their employees' use of the cards.
Agency Program Administrator - Person designated by the department head to coordinate, monitor, and oversee an agency's purchasing card program. Serves as liaison between the cardholder, the agency/budget unit head, State Program Administrator and the Bank of America. Processes new card applications, changes to cardholder information, maintains cardholder profiles within WORKS, the software provided by Bank of America, while providing assistance and support to all sections within their department.
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Cardholder Agreement Form - This form states that the cardholder has read and understands the policies and procedures of the State and his/her Agency relative to the procurement card use and agrees to comply with all of these established procedures. This form must be signed by the Cardholder prior to issuance of the card.
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There's a lot of focus right now on short-term speculation in the cryptocurrency space.
But at some undefined future point, a reversal from speculation to value is going to happen. And when it does, you'll want to be in the right positions.
Investing exclusively in tokens with real world value creation is the philosophy that my crypto hedge fund, General Crypto, is predicated on.
Unless you're a skilled day trader and don't mind incredible stress levels, it's wise to buy-and-hold coins with game-changing value rather than just jumping to and from the flavor of the week.
Analyzing the validity of that value isn't easy. So I thought it would be interesting to hear what some very smart people who dedicate themselves full-time to crypto are betting on in the long-term.
Here are each of their top three picks that they intend to hold (and not decrease position size) for at least the next two years, and why they believe in them so much.
Food for thought: there is estimated to be around 100 crypto hedge funds currently spinning up in Q3 and Q4 2017.
100! Our fund was featured on Forbes as one of 15.
This means a massive on-ramp of institutional capital — the likes of which crypto has never seen before — is about to be opened. And smart money is going to pick the smart cryptos. Here is what myself and nine others think they are going to back.
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I'll start with my three favorite.
RIPPLE (XRP) — Ripple is going after SWIFT, and their token XRP could entirely change the way we send money internationally.
Why? Currently money takes days to move internationally, and the fees are enormous. There's literally no way today to send money from one country to another same-day, other than by boarding a plane with a suitcase full of cash. XRP can transfer value (read: money) anywhere in the world in four seconds, at a cost of pennies.
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And unlike other coins, it doesn't get bogged down when hit by huge volume.
Why am I bullish? The market size is as big as it gets (SWIFT moves $5 trillion USD per day), the technology is already built (Ripple has been working on it since 2012), their team is world-class, and nearly 100 banking partnerships are already in place with pilots running or about to start.
The CEO of SBI Holdings believes XRP will become the global standard in digital currencies.
Bitcoin maximalists like saying that XRP is not a true crypto because it's not decentralized.
The reality is Ripple is working towards making XRP even more decentralized than Bitcoin. It could take a while, but they're already off to a good start.
What some people miss about XRP is the timeline. Ripple stands to revolutionize the entire banking industry. That's not going to happen overnight. It will have its rallies and its steep corrections, but I expect it to consistently go up. Don't buy this one expecting big things to happen as fast as other coins.
(And don't get cold feet when it drops half.) The key difference is that XRP is predicated on an extremely strong use case, team, and technology. Be willing to buy now and hold this token for minimally the next five years and I think you'll see an incredible return on investment.
If you want a simple way to think about Ripple: XRP is going to let us move money across borders in the same way that we move information across them today.
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And that's an astronomical upside.
Here's a long article I wrote about XRP if you're interested in knowing more.
Price when this published: $0.266
FACTOM (FCT) — Factom offers the promise of immutable records. This could be huge for the (trillion-dollar) mortgage industry, banks and audit records, retail with huge databases like Target, studios with enormous catalogs of movies like Warner Bros., and governments for historical documents.
Factom's competitors are currently bounded by only proving the positive (e.g. "can we show X has existed in the chain?"), which would pertain to proof of existence, integrity, ownership, etc.
— which is limited for the overall problem they are trying to solve. Factom can prove both the positive and the negative and see if a piece of information didn't exist at a certain period in time, or whether it's the latest version. Factom could change how major record keepers keep records and ensure eternal existence of all records.
Price when this published: $25.61
MONERO (XMR) — One of the original promises of Bitcoin was anonymity.
It turns out it's not quite as anonymous as a lot of people initially think. While who owns a particular wallet address is unknown, the transactions can be easily followed. So if your identity gets associated with a wallet address, some analysis can essentially turn your transactions into public bank statements.
Enter anonymous coins (or "anon coins"), of which XMR is leading the field in privacy. It scrambles your address automatically each time, so you don't have to worry about leaving a trail. I can see XMR becoming very popular among those seeking anonymous transactions. What's still up in the air is whether or not it can scale. Hours before publication, XMR experienced a 50% price surge, which saw vastly extended transaction times.
Price when this published: $83.59
Spencer Bogart, Managing Director and Head of Research at Blockchain Capital
BITCOIN (BTC) — Bitcoin has proven its ability to efficiently serve a few use cases that represent giant market opportunities.
Amazon first proved it could efficiently sell things online and it focused on this ability before growing into other opportunities.
I think the same will be true of Bitcoin.
Price when this published: $4,180
MONERO (XMR) — If I were forced to pick one thing that I was most concerned about for Bitcoin, it would be a lack of privacy. Each Bitcoin should be worth as much as any other Bitcoin, regardless of who owned it before you or what they did with it.
For now, this isn't a big problem.
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But Monero is a good hedge against this risk, since it's more private than Bitcoin and therefore doesn't have the same degree of fungibility risk.
LITECOIN (LTC) — Silver to Bitcoin's gold. The code is so similar to Bitcoin that Litecoin is able to leverage Bitcoin's developer network and improvements.
This is a big advantage over other coins that try to build a developer community from the ground up. If anything catastrophic happened to Bitcoin, a decent portion of the capital would likely flow to Litecoin.
Price when this published: $51.63
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DASH (DASH) — Bitcoin's reign as the gateway cryptocurrency is coming to an end.
The question is, what will replace it? Arguments can be made for Litecoin, Zcash, Ripple, or Monero. I like Dash because of its focus on consumer-friendliness and its flexible, decentralized governance protocol. For example, it took just 24 hours for the Dash community to approve a proposed blocksize increase back in 2016, while the Bitcoin community took three years to address its scalability problems, and the debate ended in a hard fork.
Price when this published: $296.56
ETHEREUM (ETH) — While Ethereum won't replace the function of Bitcoin, it will continue to play the important role it currently does as a smart-contract engine, and as a master blockchain to spawn new application tokens.
Price when this published: $324.99
STEEM (STEEM) — Imagine if your social media posts could earn you money based on how popular they were.
Imagine if you could get paid as tastemaker and curator of content published by others.
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Now what if the content creators kept 100% of the ownership rights to their content, and there were no advertisers or special interests getting between creators and fans? Steem is the first utility token that is truly being used for this function. Platforms like Reddit, Medium, and even Facebook should be nervous.
Price when this published: $1.25
Brad Mills, Fund Strategist at Alphabit
BITCOIN (BTC) — I've been holding Bitcoin since 2011 when I started mining in my basement, and I will keep holding until it's at least $100,000 per coin, which I expect in three to five years.
Fundamentally strong, this is the original blockchain that is and was designed to be money.
I get excited when I see Bitcoin becoming legal tender in countries like Japan, South Korea, and India.
It's only a matter of time before a Bitcoin ETF is approved, and we see sovereign wealth and endowment funds allocating money into Bitcoin as a new asset class.
METAL (MTL) — Metal is one of Alphabit's core positions that we will be holding long-term.
Currently, it sits at only a $190 million market cap, which we think could grow to $1 billion or greater over the next year.
Metal has the dual-use case of being not only a crypto-rewards token and peer-to-peer payments app like Venmo, but also an FDIC-insured fiat on-ramp bank in your pocket for the average person to make it easy to use cryptocurrency. For a competitor in market cap, I look at Dash which is currently at $2.3 billion, and also focusing on mass user adoption.
Price when this published: $8.78
WAVES (WAVES) — Waves is Russia's largest blockchain project.
At it's core, it's a decentralized exchange and user-created token fundraising platform, forked from the NXT codebase. An ICO was held in 2016 that raised $16 million, which has grown to a market cap of over $300 million.
This month, a partnership was announced between Gazprombank and Waves.
The partnership focuses on holding ICOs for Russian mining and metals companies, bringing a lot of legitimacy to the platform.
Price when this published: $4.64
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LITECOIN (LTC) — It's the second oldest and most trusted blockchain to date, and in addition to being about four times faster than Bitcoin, it has successfully managed to activate Segwit well before any blocksize debate, which to me is a sign of positive adaptability.
For being a fork of Bitcoin with only minor differences in algorithm, trading at about 1.5% of Bitcoin's value is utterly insane, given it's a more convenient payment coin.
Bitcoin will primarily be a store-of-value, just as silver versus gold.
ETHEREUM CLASSIC (ETC) — The reason ETC's price is so low compared to Ethereum (ETH) is the confusion about what happened during the hardfork a year ago.
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In July 2016, the community decided to hard fork the Ethereum blockchain in order to restore lost funds of DAO investors by rolling back the blockchain to a point in time before the hack.
There was huge resistance in the Ethereum community because of their devotion to the immutability of blockchains. Part of the community decided to violate that "law" to bail out those affected by the DAO hack, creating ETH.
ETC is currently trading at 14.3% of ETH's value, which is a severe undervaluation in my eyes, given it's loyalty towards the core principle of cryptocurrency.
Price when this published: $15.51
ZCASH (ZEC) — There are many undervalued coins offering anonymity to users, with Zcash and Monero being the most prominent.
I think Zcash is positioned to be one of the biggest winners. It has huge interest, is elaborately designed, and has a high-security creation process and very limited supply.
Its lack of recent price advancement indicates to me that traders are accumulating it.
Price when this published: $231.04
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STRATIS (STRAT) — Stratis makes blockchain easy for enterprise.
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They offer simple and affordable end-to-end solutions for development, testing and deployment of native C# blockchain applications. Ever see an article that talks about a bank starting to use blockchain technology? They don't use the Bitcoin blockchain, but a private chain like Stratis. Stratis makes it easier than ever before for organizations to deploy private blockchains.
They're in talks with many huge companies like Microsoft, Jaguar, Reuters, Cashaa, AIA Group, RBC Capital Markets, Deutsche Bank, etc.
Price when this published: $6.09
DECRED (DCR) — Decred will soon get the Lightening Network.
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Which means you can send small transactions for almost no fee, instantly. The Lightening Network is a big thing which many underestimate. Notable about Decred is that they've learned and implemented a lot from the success of Dash. But whereas Dash has a lot of outside funding (and is accountable to investors), Decred is self-funded via block subsidy (accountable only to its users) and they are entirely transparent about the allocations.
Decred has decentralized voting, Charlie Lee (Litecoin's lead developer) on their team, and their code looks clean and is beautifully written.
Price when this published: $29.97
ZCOIN (XZC) — While a lot of other anonymous coins bill themselves as completely anonymous, they are not, as this video explains. This is also a great article explaining why most anon coins aren't actually completely anonymous.
Only ZCoin is completely anonymous and I think at some point the market will recognize that and it will be in the same league market cap wise as Monero.
Right now, ZCoin looks very undervalued to me as their market cap is only $26 million (compared to Monero's $1.2 billion). Also worth noting: Roger Ver has said good things about ZCoin (and I don't like Roger Ver at all, but he has very deep pockets).
Price when this published: $9.55
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RIPPLE (XRP) — Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), the technology that powers Ripple and its associated coin XRP, allows anyone anywhere in the world to transact money in the same way as sending data (at fractions of the cost).
For markets such as international remittance, this means monumental change is underway. ($500 billion is transacted yearly in the remittance sector.) Many of the largest banks in the world (more than 100) have plans to leverage DLT and Ripple to cut costs for their payment servicing.
In fact, even the Federal Reserve and the Central Bank of England are testing out Ripple for real-time payment capabilities.
AUGUR (REP) — Businesses around the world pay a high premium for actionable intelligence for their own internal and strategic needs.
With Augur, anyone in the world can obtain information on the probability of a future event. Think of it as the Google search for future events, peering into the future using a fascinating principle known as wisdom of the crowd.
Such a technology could drastically impact many industries, including trillion-dollar or larger industries like gambling and sports betting.
Price when this published: $22.59
QTUM (QTUM) — Think of Qtum like an Ethereum for China, except that it's a Proof of Stake coin. It's a more environmentally friendly way to secure the network, with a drastic reduction in the consumption of electricity compared to Proof of Work systems like Bitcoin.
Like Ethereum, Qtum will host a number of applications developed by independent third parties, has an all-star cast in terms of advisors (one of their co-founders was recently cited in Forbes China's "30 Under 30" list.)
Price when this published: $13.49
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BLOCKNET (BLOCK) — Of all projects competing to release a decentralized, native cryptocurrency exchange, Blocknet's technology is far and away the strongest, easiest to implement, and closest to market.
Blocknet removes the third-party risk in sending your coins to trade on an exchange.
You can collateralize 5,000 blocknet in a service node, run any wallets you want on the same machine as that node, and earn BLOCK in trade fees whenever someone trades a currency your node supports. The blocknet protocol will fundamentally advance the use of blockchains the way IE or Netscape standardized and unlocked the World Wide Web.
Price when this published: $14.12
UBIQ (UBQ) — The DAO philosophical failure and Ethereum network split opened the door to competitors on smart contract blockchains.
Ubiq is the strongest: immutable unlike ETH, and with a brand focus away from experimentation and toward corporate professionalism. Once the Ethereum ICO craze breaks and that platform loses trust, Ubiq's secure network and failure-free track record will present it as a viable smart contract competitor.
Price when this published: $1.55
PARKBYTE (PKB) (Soon to be ParkChain; PKC) — Parkbyte is my appcoin bet.
It's a simple premise to disrupt a ubiquitous and unsexy industry with better tracking, standardized UX, and lower costs and efficiency throughout.
Via industry experience, the developers acutely understands exactly what needs to be pitched to whom in order to disrupt existing pay-to-park systems with a blockchain implementation.
Price when this published: $0.278
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CIVIC (CVC) — Civic is a secure identity platform that uses the Civic tokens for identification purposes.
Vinny Lingham is the CEO of Civic and he's one of the "Sharks" on Shark Tank South Africa. Civic has both the concept and the team. With Vinny's connections and influence, many sites have already integrated Civic. For this type of identity verification, user adoption is very important. Without adoption, there's no use case.
Price when this published: $0.546
TEZOS (TEZ) — By far, the biggest ICO funding, with $230 million.
It has huge names backing it like billionaire Tim Draper. Their algorithm runs on a delegated proof of stake system. It is also capable of anonymous transactions which utilizes the Zcash's proof circuit on a side token.
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They have plans to replace this process with a better option in the future. It is also possible to create applications on Tezos similar to Ethereum. I have no doubt that it will hit a multibillion market cap in a year.
Price when this published: (not publicly traded yet)
LISK (LSK) — This is one of the underdogs that a lot of people missed. It's currently at $233 million market cap. Lisk (similar to Tezos) is utilizing the Delegated Proof of Stake system, where "delegates" verify the transactions and have voting capabilities that steer the direction of Lisk.
The main development plan this year is to create an SDK for developing and deploying blockchain applications (smart contracts).
They have a strong development team and they have sufficient funds ($62 million) to keep it going for tens of years.
Price when this published: $3.42
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DECRED (DCR) — Decred is perhaps the most innovative Proof of Stake coin on the market today, and boasts an impressive (and production ready) decentralized governance system. In addition to governance solutions, Decred is preparing to throw their hat into the ring of anonymous transactions later this year.
The Bitcoin scaling debate and increasing government scrutiny of the cryptocurrency ecosystem emphasize the importance of both governance and anonymity, setting the stage for Decred's growth through the end of 2017 and 2018.
UBIQ (UBQ) — Ubiq has an upgraded codebase, newly-designed difficulty algorithm, monetary policy, and several million-dollar projects running as tokens on its chain.
Additionally, it was launched in a spirit of fairness with zero ICO or developer premine. Currently valued at less than 0.5% of ETH's market cap, Ubiq provides a top-tier alternative to ETH at a dramatically cheaper rate.
BASIC ATTENTION TOKEN (BAT) — The free and open internet as we know it runs on advertisements, and yet adblockers are seeing increasing adoption among internet users.
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BAT seeks to solve this problem by creating a mutually beneficial common ground between advertisers and users, centered around their internet browser, Brave.
Price when this published: $0.200
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