Lowyat.NET: Latest topics by V-Zero

Blockchain Assets - ICOs

V-Zero — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:44:04 +0800

Welcome to yet another sub-thread of cryptocurrencies!
Here we focus on investment-grade ICOs while staying away from shady and obfuscated ones.

New to blockchain and cryptocurrency?
Might want to start with the pinned cryptocurrency thread: https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4320604

What is blockchain? I only know about bitcoin.
Blockchain is the technical foundation that bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies are built on.
In other words, blockchain = the technology, bitcoin/other coins = the application that runs on the technology.

What is an ICO (Initial Coin Offering)?
As of Q4 2017, ICO is a largely unregulated way to raise fund for blockchain ventures/start-ups.
It opens up the once exotic investment opportunity to the mass market, which is the opposite of traditional funding models. (regulated, strict review and pitch process etc)

Generally, every ICOs try to raise fund at varying stage of development, some have live running prototypes while some are still on planning stage.
Most ICOs provide a white paper, which is a piece of document that explains the ICO thoroughly, covering the business model, technical schema, the team, roadmap, funding utilization etc.

If you are positive about the ICO, you can invest in it in which you get tokens representing your investment.
Most tokens are utility token, which means that the token grants you the right to consume the services offered by the ICO.
Some ICO issues tokens that represents a stake in the company itself, in other words you own part of the company (similar to stock equity), however more and more ICOs are moving away from this as it involves complication with their respective country's investment regulators.

By product of an unregulated industry is that there will be significant amount of ventures that will fail, underdeliver or straight-up scams.
Hence our goal here is to filter out the bad guys and maintain a living list of healthy ICOs.

What makes a good ICO then?
While not exhaustive, generally these are good points:

Presentation:
- Is the ICO site well made or it looks like one made by editing free web templates?
- How is the presentation text written, funny layout, grammatical errors?

Business model:
- How feasible is the business model?
- Read the white paper.

The team:
- Check the background that they are indeed who they claim they are, including their credentials.
- Pop their names in Google, you might be surprised sometimes. (not in a good way)

Generally avoid ICOs with these signatures:
- One that claims to do everything without details on how they plan to do it. (breadth without depth)
- Strongly emphasize on post-ICO price surge ("Your coins worth 10x in 6 months! Join now!") rather than the ICO's vision and impact.
- Integral part of the ICO is getting people onboard as your downlines via referral aka MLM, usually with lucrative referral bonuses.

Article from TheNextWeb:
https://thenextweb.com/investing-2-0/2017/1...yptocurrencies/

The don't(s):
- Don't openly share your referral links, keep that private.
- Strictly no MLM-esque ICOs.

Happy investing!

EFSET: Test your england level

V-Zero — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 20:17:25 +0800

Just discovered this EFSET thing.
Can be mapped to IELTS level yo.

Jom /k do to get a gauge of how good our england are.

https://www.efset.org/

Office no amoi, how to motivate self?

V-Zero — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:11:39 +0800

Sup mang,

Sure alot 20k engineers or IT kuli here (amoi-less industry), how you motivate yourself when office no amoi?

Everyday lunch see other office so many amoi is so demotivating.

Sold

V-Zero — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:34:08 +0800

Item(s):
2.5' Crucial M4 128GB

Package includes:
SSD, Box, receipt

Price:
Sold

Warranty:
Can't remember if it's 5 years from Crucial?

Dealing method:
COD / post

Location of seller:
PJ SS2 / Sea Park / KLCC

Contact method/details:
PM

Age of item:
2 years+
---

Item(s) conditions:
Used but perfect

Picture:
Will upload upon request

Reason for sale:
Changed laptop with M2 sata, no additional SATA slot.

close

V-Zero — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:12:38 +0800

Item(s):
Lenovo Y410P

- i7-4700MQ CPU
- GT750M GDDR5 2GB GPU
- 8GB (2x4) Ram
- 1TB HDD
- Free Caddy for SSD

Package includes:
Laptop + Power Adapter + Box

Price:
close

Warranty:
Expired

Dealing method:
COD / Postage on buyer risk

Location of seller:
PJ Sea Park / SS2 / KLCC

Contact method/details:
PM or Whatsapp 01 Zero - 225 819 Seven

Age of item:
1 year+

Item(s) conditions:
9/10

Picture:

Reason for sale:
Upgrade.

Who here always work from home?

V-Zero — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:45:45 +0800

Any of you get to work remotely regularly?
Work = macam no work, just reply some mails.

Kompeni gt gib proper VPN but lazy bring laptop back so use teamviewer.
Though recent maxis fibre so cacat, my teamviewer maciam powerpoint slide show on pentium II pc.

Lost car found by stranger

V-Zero — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:15:18 +0800

Dear K,

So I lost my car about 3 weeks back, reported on the same day.
Done all claim submission and stuffs.

And just then a stranger called me saying he saw my car left somewhere for 2 weeks already. He said the car is fine.

So I asked him how he got my contact, he said from some documents in the car.

So I need advice how to deal with this? Go to abang police?

sold

V-Zero — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:18:06 +0800

Item(s):
Acer W4

Package includes:
Full Package + Flip Case + Keyboard Case

Price:
sold

Warranty:
Few more months to go

Dealing method:
COD / post

Location of seller:
PJ / KLCC

Contact method/details:
PM

Age of item:
< 1 year
---

Item(s) conditions:
Good

Picture:

Reason for sale:
Unused, collecting dust.

TP-Link TL-MR3040

V-Zero — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:32:18 +0800

Letting go a almost new MR3040 portable router, used for few days and kept in box.

Comes with receipt and everyth.
Bought from ALL IT Digital Mall for +- 100.

Selling at RM 65 nego.

Interested PM me.

Ayam Golek 5 Bintang @ Pantai Dalam

V-Zero — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 09:51:07 +0800

I'm sure some of you had tried the Ayam Golek 5 Bintang at Pantai Dalam / Bangsar.

Just wondering are they open today? Puasa
After buka hours of course.

sold

V-Zero — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:38:30 +0800

Item(s):
Canon EF 100mm F/2.8 Macro USM

Package includes:
Full boxed set + Hoya HD UV Filter + Original Canon Hood Worth RM155

Price:
sold

All negotiable!

Warranty:
None.

Dealing method:
COD/post.

Location:
Sea Park PJ, SS2, KLCC area.

Contact method/details:
PM

Item(s) conditions:
Excellent

Picture:

Reason for sale:
No longer active in photography

sold

V-Zero — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:38:07 +0800

sold

V-Zero — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:37:14 +0800

1.5-1.6k Rig

V-Zero — Thu, 15 May 2014 10:08:19 +0800

Okay guys I know you guys love pseudo building rigs.

Help me 1 with 1.5-1.6k rig.

Already got monitor, speaker, keyboard, mouse.

sold

V-Zero — Tue, 13 May 2014 10:17:38 +0800

Item(s):
CM Storm QuickFire TK Rapid Brown Switch + White Backlight
This model: http://gaming.coolermaster.com/en/products...ds/quickfiretk/

Package includes:
Full package includes receipt, bought from HeavyArm

Price:
sold

Warranty:
Few more months

Dealing method:
COD

Location:
PJ

Contact method/details:
PM

Item(s) conditions:
Perfect

Picture:
Crappy phone pic:

Reason for sale:
Prefer low profile keys

Techno with Acoustic Guitar

V-Zero — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:56:15 +0800

I don't usually start tered, but this is too good to not be shared!
Any /k guitarist can do this?

[YOUTUBE]eXqPYte8tvc[/YOUTUBE]

close

V-Zero — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:25:52 +0800

closed

V-Zero — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:49:47 +0800

closed

V-Zero — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:40:58 +0800

closed

Which taxi company good?

V-Zero — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:02:58 +0800

So later 5am morning ayam heading to KLIA from PJ.

Anyone got any good taxi contact?
Need formal printed receipt for claims.