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Canadian Bitcoin (BTC) Mining Community Expects The New Quebec Government To Raise Barriers For Miners

In Quebec, Canada, new expectations have been generated in the community of Bitcoin (BTC) miners about possible changes in the regulations of the electrical supply for this activity. That as a result of the elections held this October 1st in the Canadian province did not favor the governing coalition.

Throughout this year, the government of outgoing Prime Minister Philippe Couillard implemented a series of controversial measures that directly affected the Bitcoin (BTC) mining. However, since Monday’s electoral event resulted in the defeat of the ruling Liberal Party, the miners’ community hopes that the new authorities will correct the situation.

Francis Pouliot, CEO of Satoshi Portal and representative of Canadian Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem, expressed his opinions with the election results on Twitter. In his view, there is “little hope” that the new government will reverse the “infamous regulations and taxes” applied to Bitcoin (BTC) mining.

The Liberal Party will be replaced by Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ), a conservative group created seven years ago, focused on job creation and private sector investment. However, CAQ representatives have not yet established an official position on crypto mining. In spite of this, some media reflect that the locals consider that this political platform, elected today, is, in general, the most friendly for the industry.

Controversies over electricity supply for Bitcoin (BTC) mining in Quebec, Canada

Quebec had earned a reputation as a “paradise” for crypto mining activity, thanks to its favorable electricity tariffs, the lowest in North America. Even at the end of last year, the government itself encouraged the installation of mining operations in the region.

However, the reaction of the authorities to the great demand generated by this expectation was to announce the suspension of the distribution of cheap energy to the Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies. In March, Quebec Prime Minister Philippe Couillard himself argued that Bitcoin (BTC) mining does not return any value to society, so his government was not interested in promoting such activity anymore.

In mid-2018, new measures implemented by the official electricity company Hydro-Quebec generated controversies among the Bitcoin (BTC) mining community, as some criteria were established for the distribution of cheap energy to certain companies. These criteria, based on the companies’ investment, were described as “discriminatory” against small Bitcoin (BTC) mining startups.

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Best Tips to Get Leads For Your Business – Quora and Twitter Marketing Automation

Want Some More Leads For Your Business? Here Are Some Tips That Could Help

If you want your business to succeed, you need to promote your business in order to gain customers. Getting leads is essential if you do not want to fail. However, not all business owners know how to generate leads. We have a couple of tips that should help you get started when it comes to getting leads.

New technology is important

When you are investing money, new technology should be on your list of priorities. You should see which technology is popular and do your best to use matching marketing strategies. For example, nowadays most people use their smartphones in order to browse websites, which means that, in order to reach more users, you need to make sure that your advertisements are compatible with their devices.

Tweets are important

If you want users to engage with your content and pay attention to your tweets, you need to put in some effort. For example, including images in your tweets is very effective. You should also remember to use hashtags so that you can enlarge your audience. If you use the right hashtags, your content will be found by more users which means that you will get more leads.

In order to find more potential leads on Twitter you might need to use other tools as well. For example, there are websites that can tell you important details about your followers, such as the times when they tweet, or they location. You can use this information to adapt your tweets so that they will reach a wider audience.

Offer answers on Quora

Quora is a social network where persons post questions every day. Offering answers on Quora can be a way of making users notice your website. This isn’t something that requires a lot of effort and it can help you gain loyal customers.

Marketing automation

We live in the era of technology and you should take advantage of that. You don’t have to do everything on your own, especially when marketing automation tools exist. There are applications such as Drip which can be used to turn information about possible clients into actual leads.

Social media marketing is also important, so you might want to use management tools for that as well. You can create content queues and then create time slots for them so that they can be spread through the day.

Engaging with your leads

You need to engage with your leads if you want your business to be successful. A FAQ can be a great first step, but this is not enough. You will have to think about direct engagement as well. For example, you should try to add live chats or help centres or perhaps create a forum for your business. Customer service is essential, and someone should be available at all times.

Use both outbound and inbound marketing

It is recommended that you combine outbound and inbound marketing because they both have their advantages. Usually, outbound marketing tends to be more effective, but this does not mean that you should ignore inbound marketing.

If we are talking about the inbound approach, you should make sure that you are involved in online communities and you share content constantly. Communication is also vital and you should do your best to solve your customers’ issues.

LinkedIn

If you find it hard to get an audience, you should use websites that already have one. LinkedIn is a social network designed for businesses which can prove to be great if you are looking to promote your business and attract new clients.

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GTA 5 Complex Control Mod Brings New Chaos

The Grand Theft Auto game has a mod equivalent to “What if…bu?” called Complex Control.

What it that question includes battle and roguelike royale elements, a century of characters, dozens of superhuman abilities, permadeath, stats, and maybe permanent progression? Would not that improve the game in so many ways that we can’t count them? We might even get some husky decoy dogs to make user aggressors are distracted.

This is what Complex Control is, but we will explain it better for you, so you will understand how interesting this concept is. Maybe it will even become your new passion if you understand it well.

After over 1,500 hours of solo work, Complex Control can transform the singleplayer mode from Grand Theft Auto 5 in the game you have always wanted. The creator, Theaetik, says that the project started to be worked on from late 2016 and it began with the learning of C#. They started with the main idea that they would transform this game into a fully-replayable one with multi-mission bomb defusal and even hostage rescue mod that would simply develop the game in such a way that you can’t say the difference between game and reality. During this project’s development, they started to change the plan.

With 55 unique abilities, 100 idiosyncratic characters, and a whole host of moving parts and in-game systems, we can say that we are pleased with those 1,500 hours of work that were put into the project even though it was not how they said from the beginning.

Now, this is a new some-some compared to the popular Fortnite and PUBG that are now played and are famous among dedicated gamers around the world that get together and play them.

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We’ll Soon Celebrate 10 Years of Bitcoin (BTC) and Blockchain Technology

A decade after the birth of the Bitcoin (BTC) protocol, there are still many unknowns around this technology and its benefits. Is the blockchain technology today what it promised it would be in its first days of existence?

Since blockchain technology emerged in 2009 with Bitcoin (BTC), the interest in this technology has not stopped increasing. Experts affirm that it will be the next industrial revolution, the era of the Internet of value. A blockchain is nothing more than a database that is distributed among different participants, cryptographically encrypted and organized in blocks of transactions mathematically related to each other.

The first blockchain was the Bitcoin (BTC) one, launched in 2009. But how is it now, almost ten years later? In its latest edition, The Economist has included a special report on this technology, saying that “Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies are useless.”

It wasn’t supposed to work that way, The Economist says. Bitcoin (BTC) emerged after the 2008 global financial crisis, as a kind of techno-anarchist project to empower and protect people who shared a deep distrust of governments, banks, and big trusts. Its original objective was the creation of a popular currency as an alternative global financial system that is controlled by governments and banks. In short, Bitcoin (BTC) is a decentralized project.

A decade later, Bitcoin (BTC) and blockchain technology are hardly used for their purposes set in their first days of life

Relatively few suppliers accept Bitcoin (BTC), disillusioned by their volatility and grim reputation. Its decentralized nature and mining-based working environment make it slow as this blockchain handles less than ten transactions per second which is very really sluggish compared to the tens of thousands of transactions per second conducted by existing payment networks or other blockchain technologies, as well.

While the infrastructure based on Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain is highly secure, crypto exchanges that handle the conversion of this digital asset into fiat money have been repeatedly hacked over the ten years of Bitcoin (BTC) and blockchain technology existence.

As for the blockchain technology that supports Bitcoin (BTC)and almost all the other cryptocurrencies, “the advantages of blockchains are often oversold,” said The Economist.

While we know that the cryptocurrencies market is more and more attractive to investors, it’s volatility is one of the main challenges someone has to tackle when putting money on cryptos. Blockchain technology, on the other hand, is a very promising solution in comparison with the conventional payment system, even though it’s slower at the moment.

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Ethereum (ETH) Constantinople Update To Deploy On The Blockchain On October 9th

The Ethereum (ETH) developers community met and reached an agreement to apply the Constantinople hard fork to the Ethereum Ropsten TestNet from block 4.200.000. The objective of implementing this update in a test network is to minimize the possible risks associated with this type of forks. The agreement was total, and the proposal was accepted without inconvenience. Thus, the tentative date of application of the hard fork would be October 9th, taking into account the current block generation speed. The fork will also be made in Kovan, from block 9.200.000.

Jameson Hudson moderated the meeting, and the co-creator of Ethereum (ETH), Vitalik Buterin, participated, although he did not offer more information.

Let’s remember that EIP 1013, Constantinople, created on April 20th, 2017, by Nick Savers, will allow for the transition of the Ethereum network consensus from Proof of Work to Proof of Participation. The beginning of Constantinople marks the end of the first phase of Metropolis, a planned hard fork for the development of the network.

This update will help the network to solve its scalability problems, according to its own developers, lowering the commissions for the transactions made in it by increasing the efficiency of the blockchain.

Constantinople to deploy on Ethereum (ETH) blockchain on October 9th

Additionally, they discussed the status of Prog PoW, a working test algorithm designed to “close the efficiency gap available to specialized ASICs.” The goal is to extend the lifespan of Ethereum (ETH) mining equipment. According to Kristy-Leigh Minehan, the code is ready.

However, the dev assured that until the community demonstrates a real interest in implementing the algorithm, the team will not advance further in its application throughout the network, since it involves a considerable investment that might not be included in the implementation of the hard fork.

“Until then I don’t think it’s worth wasting work hours or money on a project that could be ignored,” the dev said during the meeting.

In another meeting held this year, the team of developers decided to reduce Ethereum (ETH) mining and delay the application of the hardship pump on the network, to revalue the cryptocurrencies, in the middle of a tough year for ETH, especially concerning the fall in its price.

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