July 28, 2018
Hello and thank-you for coming to my personal section of the Quantaloop blog ‘Sandra’s Desk’. In this section, I hope to share thoughts and topics that get you to know me more on a personal level and in particular why I co-founded Quantaloop. I plan to write in a very journal-esque format so that you can hear my heart a bit more transparently and really see what goes on behind…
The ability to profit from cryptocurrency and blockchain markets might be more complicated than one would think. The creation of bitcoin and blockchain in 2009 was an evolution of decentralized products and a path to give users more control. Since then, many adopters of this technology have been working to give options to people that the internet in its current form cannot. Central authority has spread across every digital space as…
July 20, 2018
When it comes to the cryptocurrency space, one way you can readily make passive income “while you sleep” is through hosting a the buzzword “masternode”. Masternode is simply a server on a decentralized network aka. a cryptocurrency full node or computer wallet. just like how Bitcoin have full nodes which is always up and running, masternodes keep a full copy of the blockchain in real-time and can be used to…
If you were ever interested in learning more about blockchain or cryptocurrency, you can get this Udemy course on the essentials for free using this promo code “bb_free” – Original price of $199.99 for the Blockchain & Cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum) Essentials course. Not sure how long it lasts for but at the time of this post I confirmed and tested that this code works as I just got mine in…
July 19, 2018
When someone creates a piece of art (music, art, film) it needs to get copyrighted for them to be able to claim it as their own. For digital media, this process is called DRM (Digital Rights Management) and the current process is broken and not very transparent. There are many people involved in the completion of a song and it is very hard to determine who gets what percentage of…
July 18, 2018
In my learning of tokenomics, today I am tackling some online research of stable coins. Here are my summary highlights for those of you also exploring whether a stable coin is right for your token economy or not: At the moment, stable coins are seen as highly ambitious and highly experimental. As such, there is not one perfect stable coin out there with 100% successful implementation. A stablecoin claims to…
July 13, 2018
Assets are things of economic value and they are normally associated with financial assets, such as estate and shares. Digital assets on the other hand are not tangible and they contain information such as online accounts, images, videos, audio files… The Wikipedia definition of a digital asset is “any item of text or media that has been formatted into a binary source that includes the right to use it. A…
July 5, 2018
Blockchain technology and the modern free-to-play gaming model (where game and apps make money from selling virtual currency and goods) go together seamlessly. As the emerging blockchain revolution takes form, a number of blockchain based games have sprung up and have become vastly popular within the crypto community. At the heart of the emerging blockchain gaming trend is the shift towards owning virtual objects generally classified as crypto-collectibles and the store…
July 1, 2018
In lieu of Canada Day 2018, we wanted to recap why Canada is one (if not the) strongest leaders in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Partly Canada’s dominance in Blockchain innovation stems from being home to Vitalik Buterin, inventor of the Ethereum Blockchain. Ethereum is consistently top tokens in the world for as long one can remember, sitting right beside bitcoin. Canada is a leading crypto nation based on its innovation,…
On June 9th, 2018, Canada has published draft anti-money laundering (AML) legislation amendments that apply to companies dealing in virtual currencies like bitcoin on blockchain technology. Here is a recap in this article and the links to the draft amendments to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) and its enacted regulations for further exploration. The new regulations will treat crypto exchanges and payment processors as money…
