Cybernetic Economy Report 2015 H1

I’m happy to inform you that cyberrep 2015 H1 is now available. You can find it at:

http://bit.ly/cyber•Rep2015H1

Enjoy and give us your feedback on cyber•Talks

Crowdfunding Monitor

Spells of Genesis

Spells of Genesis is an upcoming trading card/arcade game from Swiss-based company EverdreamSoft (creators of Moonga). The game’s economy will be integrated with Bitcoin Blockchain through Counterparty Protocol. This means that all the game items and in-game currency will be tradable outside the game. Also the project team plans to integrate the game with FoldingCoin, Storj, GetGems.

The crowdsale of BitCrystals, the tokens of Spells of Genesis, starts on July 29th 2015 at Swarm and will end after 30 days. 70,000,000 BitCrystals will be available during the token sale, about 30,000,000 CitCrystals will be distributed among the early adopters and investors before the sale starts. Initial price will be at the rate of 15,000 BitCrystals per BTC and it will increase every 5 days.

All raised funds will be held in a multisig wallet controlled by a third-party (@tonilanec and @jdogresorg). The project will receive funds after reaching the planned milestones:

• #1 — Alpha version of Spells of Genesis with 10 different game levels (end of September 2015) (33% of funds)
• #2 — Fully featured beta version of the game with all components present (February 2016) (33% of funds)
• #3 — Final development of the game with over 100 game levels and 150+ cards (April 2016) (34% of funds)

The funding goal is $200k to finish development in time.

More details you could find in this Blog Post.

cyber•Fund Private Equity 2013 Portfolio

On 23 July 2015, our Portfolio showed a growth of +1.38 in BTC and +$145 in USD terms.

Despite a decline of the Bitcoin price, our Portfolio increased due to growing prices on the most major assets. Top performers were MaidSafe (+0.99 BTC), GetGems (+0.29 BTC) and BitShares (+0.11 BTC)

More details about the portfolio performance you can find in the

Portfolio Performance Table

From the Cyber Battlefields

Bitcoin v0.11

New version of the Bitcoin Core brings both new features and bug fixes.

To solve a problem of the network flooding with a low-fee transactions developers introduced two major improvements:

• An ability to restrict a relay of the transactions by a minimum transaction fee (default fee is 0.00001 BTC). If a transaction fee is less than a predetermined value, the transaction will be rejected and will not be relayed to other nodes
• An ability to restrict a relay of the free transactions (by default it is 15). The smaller the number the smaller a speed at which the mempool can grow due to free transactions.

Other improvements:

• Block file pruning that allows Bitcoin Core to run a fully validating node without maintaining a copy of the raw blocks and undo data on disk. A user specifies how much space to allot for the block & undo files (min. 550MB). It is a “middle” version of Full-Node Wallet and Lite-weight Wallet
• Memory usage optimization
• Better algorithm for a fee estimation
• Possibility to disable broadcast of the wallet transactions
• Stream isolation for Tor

More details you could find in this Blog Post.

NEM

Several good news came from the latest Blog Post.

The new version of the NEM client (v.0.6.42) is ready. It contains a lots of nice improvements, including:

• Editable multisignature that allows you to change your M to N at any point of time, add or remove signers.
• Client update notifications
• Import/Export bugs fix
• Ability to sign using a token that allows you to enter a string of data and get a hash that can then be then used for signing
• Activation and deactivation of delegated harvesting via multisig

Though Mosiacs, the NEM’s asset program, is mentioned in the post, there are no details when it will be rolled out. It is also unclear when Namespaces, a naming system, will be integrated.

In addition, Makoto, one of the core developers of NEM, is quitting his job and going to work on a project built on NEM. You can read his interview at Cointelegraph.

BitShares

The latest Nullstreet Journal v0.5 arouses much interest to the upcoming Bitshares 2.0.

Here is a quick overview of its contents:

• Major indexes SHANGHAI, SHENZHEN, NASDAQC, NIKKEI and HANGSENG are trading on BTS DEX
• DPOSHUB - beta release is coming soon
• CCEDK partners with BIT-X and BitShares
• Banx Capital has announced that it would join the BitShares Exchange Network
• MetaExchange Coin voting allows users to vote for the addition of a particular coin or asset to MetaExchange. Users can vote by sending BTC to the address of the coin or asset they want to include and when the maximum votes are reached, it will be added to MetaExchange

Details you can find in a full version of the Nullstreet Journal.

cyber•Rating

I just want to remind you that we have released a beta version of our cyber•Rating that you can find on our site:

https://cyber.fund/

To get better understanding of it I recommend you to read @21xhipster’s post Releasing the Rating.