News https://www.counos.io/news counos blogs http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification mojoPortal Blog Module en-US 120 counos blogs counos blogs no verified social networks of Counos Platforms Given that social networks have become prevalent and the need for raising proper awareness about the Counos Platform project in the world, we will introduce all the verified social networks of Counos Platforms in this post.
To prevent possible exploitation with regard to the increase in the number of fake unofficial accounts in the social media, please only refer to these social networks for news, events, and important announcements about the Counos Platform. Updates are possible in the future, and new social networks can be added to this list.
Only those social networks introduced in this article are approved by Counos Platform:

twitter

instagram

telegram

facebook

bitcointalk

medium

linkedin

reddit

tumblr

youtube


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Counos Escrow Service on Blockchain Want to Secure Your Online Purchases or Sales? Just Use the Counos Escrow Service on Blockchain!

The buyer always needs a guarantee that he will get the purchased goods or services. And the seller wants to be sure that the payment will be received on time and in full. So the special type of a secure financial arrangement was created, in which an independent third party acts as a guarantor between two parties from the deal. The Counos Escrow service provides the secure and safe online trades based on cryptocurrency payments.


 
What Is the Counos Escrow Service and How It works?


The Counos escrow service is a special type of financial relationship in which, in addition to the two parties to a deal, an independent third party is involved (escrow agent). 
 
As in Any Escrow Service, There Are 3 Main Roles in Counos Escrow:

1. Seller, who wants to sell goods or services through the escrow service.

2. Buyer is the person, who intends to purchase some goods or/and services offered by the seller.

3. Escrow agent is an independent party admitted to the transaction, which ensures that the contract is executed properly by both the seller and the buyer.

Counos Escrow differs from many existing escrow services because it provides an increased level of security through the MultiSig (Multisignature) wallet technology, which uses the escrow check with 3 private keys. In other words, the goods will be sent to the buyer (or the online services are transferred), and the money will be sent to the seller only after the following condition is met - all three signatures are received: from the buyer, seller and from the escrow agent. This is a completely new level of protected deals provided by unparalleled security of Counos Escrow.

The Main Stages of the Counos Escrow Procedure:


The First Step. The seller and the buyer enter into a contract, using the Counos escrow service. At the same time, they do not necessarily see each other, but they can be sure that the whole process of buying and selling will be held in strict accordance with the requirements of the contract. This will be taken care of by the escrow agent and the Counos escrow system based on the Blockchain technology. At this stage the seller sends the buyer all the necessary goods or provides a list of services specified in the contract. 
 
The Second Step. The buyer’s payment is held by the escrow agent, until he is satisfied that the promised goods or services will be delivered to the destination in full. 
 
The Third Step. As soon as the goods or services are received by the buyer (what he confirms using his private key), the previously frozen payment from the buyer will be sent in full to the seller. If the seller is also satisfied with the completion of the transaction, he confirms this using his private key. All the steps listed above are under the strict control of the independent escrow agent, who also uses his own private key as evidence of satisfaction with all stages of the deal.


 
The Top 3 Reasons Using the Counos Escrow Service:
1. Secure online purchases and sales, thanks to the MultiSig wallet innovative technology and the blockchain-based Escrow system with encryption.

2. Customer (buyer and seller) satisfaction guarantee through the provision of a simple, convenient and secure service for selling or/and buying.

3. One of the most important nuances is that final approval of any transaction requires private keys and confirmations from all parties involved in the 
contract, as well as confirmation from an escrow agent who has access to the deal. 
Want to take full advantage of modern safe escrow deals? Then try Counos Escrow

 

 

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Five Advantages of Counos Dex Five Advantages of Counos Decentralized Exchange

Counos Decentralized Exchange

Counos platform has unveiled its decentralized exchange service in recent weeks. It is some time that the attentions to cryptocurrency decentralized exchanges have dramatically increased. It can be said that the speed of ongoing welcoming of decentralized exchange has been so high that many critics believe that in the foreseeable future, an extensive volume of cryptocurrencies in the world will be conducted through decentralized exchanges. But what is the reason for the high interest of many users in decentralized exchange?

So much new about hacking, illegal measures, and money laundering at centralized exchanges has been so high that they have encouraged the users to apply various methods of cryptocurrency exchange. The volume of stolen cryptocurrencies through centralized exchanges has been estimated more than 1.5 billion dollars. Of course, it does not mean that centralized exchanges are unsafe for the cryptocurrency trades in all cases. The fact is that with the development of security cases and also adopting anti-money laundering policies, the world’s credible centralized exchanges have been successful in maximizing the security level of cryptocurrencies transfers.

All in all, decentralized exchanges donate high advantages to users. At decentralized exchanges, the users can be in touch with the other users directly and transfer their cryptocurrencies to each other’s wallet without transferring to a central wallet. In this transfer method, in addition to removing the cryptocurrency change fees at the centralized exchanges, due to the lack of storing cryptocurrency assets in a centralized wallet, the security level of cryptocurrency exchange significantly increases.

Decentralized exchanges have demerits, such as the limitation in the amount of cryptocurrency change and fake financial trade requests. Counos platform has resolved many of decentralized services through offering a new decentralized exchange.

 

1.     The Possibility of Changing Fiat Moneys to Cryptocurrencies

In many decentralized exchanges, there is not the possibility of exchanging cryptocurrencies with fiat money or buying cryptocurrencies through them. It causes many problems for the users, since many users are willing to buy cryptocurrencies directly through valid currencies such as U.S. dollar or euro. Counos decentralized exchange has made possible changing cryptocurrencies to fiat money or vice versa for the users.

2.     Supporting Major Cryptocurrencies of the Market

Counos decentralized exchanges supports many credible cryptocurrencies of the market. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Counos Coin and many other cryptocurrencies have the possibility of being exchanged at Counos decentralized exchange.

3.     No Limitation in Volume and the Number of Trades

At Counos decentralized exchange, the users are able to create the number of sale offers they will. Moreover, the possibility of buying cryptocurrencies is there without any limitation.

4.     Avoiding Making Fake Sale Offers

One of the biggest criticisms at decentralized exchanges has been the existence of fake and unreliable offers. To avoid creating fake sale requests, Counos has created deposit payment algorithm. With this algorithm, the users who create a new sale offer should put 3% of the total amount of their cryptocurrency exchange request as the deposit in a safe shared wallet. It will remove the possibility of making fake sale offers.

5.     Using Escrow Service

Using Escrow service has got the users assured. Via Counos Escrow service two trade parties get engaged in a wallet with three safe private keys concomitant with an agent. The existing assets in the shared wallet will not be unblocked for both parties unless they verify at least two private keys from three ones. Hacking the users’ asset and internet fraud will be avoided using Escrow service.

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The New Version of Counos X The New Version of Counos X Was Released

The newest version of Counos X has been released. Counos X is a secure, fast, and pioneer cryptocurrency that has been developed according to the new version of Litecoin. With increasing the level of the users’ privacy, this cryptocurrency has created many expectations according to the newest methods of cryptocurrency technologies and also increasing the efficiency and the speed of transactions transfer.

In the new version of Counos X, from Block 73000, just the Valid and Trust miners will be able to mine newer blocks. With these changes, the security level of the Counos X network will raise to higher levels. Valid miners at Counos X will be the miners which will not receive any reward for the mining process; however, they can receive the transaction fee through mining new blocks. On the one hand, Trust miners will receive the block reward as per the blocks, which they have mined 2.5 minutes after the previous block.

Releasing the newer version of Counos X was followed by a 40% increase in Counos Coin price in the last month. Counos platform has recently launched its decentralized exchange for the users’ P2P trades.

 

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Thailand Technology Development Center Set to Use Blockchain in Voting Bangkok Post reported on January 2 that The National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) in Thailand has introduced Blockchain for e-voting.

NECTEC is a statutory governmental organization that operates under the supervision of the National Science and Technology Development Agency and the Ministry of Science and Technology. The organization is in charge of the developing calculations, electronics, IT and telecommunications. It will be developed consistent with Thai people gradually trained in technology. According to NECTEC, once 5G is fully implemented in Thailand, all voting procedure will be conducted through this new technology. Chalee Vorakulpipat, the head of the cybersecurity laboratory at NECTEC told the Bangkok Post that NECTEC had developed Blockchain technology for e-voting, and it could be applied at national, provincial or even smaller levels. The mission is to reduce frauds and maintain data integrity. He further added that “in order for our system to be efficient, we need controllers, voters, and candidates. Prior to the election, the controller can verify the voter’s identity and the candidate’s qualifications. Voters will be able to vote by the email verified by a smartphone.”

While Blockchain-based voting mechanism has enough potential to make elections faster, cheaper and more secure, it will take time to ensure that each voter has access to mobile internet connection. According to Vorakulpipat, Blockchain-based voting can be developed in a shorter time, provided it is applied in a closed environment. For example, Thais living abroad could go to their embassy and vote there through this mechanism. He also said that “the system can be applied in smaller elections at organizations like universities, provinces, and committees.”

Other countries have also taken steps towards using Blockchain in the voting process. In the 2018 federal mid-term elections in the U.S., the secretary of state of West Virginia reported that Blockchain technology has been successfully implemented in the voting process. This system had been activated for the residents of West Virginia living abroad. Both Zug, Switzerland and Tsukuba, Japan, used Blockchain-based voting in the municipal elections. In the city of Tsukuba, the election was limited to some programs. Voters could select which of the 13 proposed initiatives they want to support and vote for, including developing a new cancer diagnosis technology, constructing objects for outdoor sports, and creating sound navigation in the city. Earlier, South Korea had also announced that it intended to use Blockchain technology in the voting system.

The idea of using Blockchain technology in elections is valuable enough to be considered as more than just a simple trial. Using this technology will eliminate fraud in elections and will allow citizens to be able to vote comfortably anywhere in the world. With Blockchain it can be assured that all the votes have been counted and that the results are completely transparent. Those who participated in this kind of voting in West Virginia were identified using biometric tools such as fingerprints. Each vote forms part of a chain of votes, the voters’ identity remains completely anonymous while you can easily follow the information about the results of the election. According to the founder of Votem, “we are two years away from holding elections totally based on Blockchain in the U.S., and as governments change, the role of Blockchain in these elections will become stronger.”

Different companies could use tokens to grant employees voting rights. For instance, the more coins an employee has, the more valuable his/her vote will be. It will encourage good behavior and performance on the part of employees. Currently, companies such as Ethereum use this mechanism to provide more transparency as well as distributing power appropriately.

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Recent Study Exposes Major Telecoms’ Throttling Of Mobile User’s Data Telecom companies are obviously enjoying the authority that the Federal Communications Commission have bestowed in them.

Upon the demise of net neutrality, each telecom companies devised their own way of blocking and throttling contents and data of the consumers. Based on the latest conducted research from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Northeastern
University, the increase in consumer’s mobile data throttling by major US telecom companies have been alarming. They found out that four leading US carriers are throttling mobile videos especially YouTube and Netflix.

Americans have enjoyed using the internet, most of the times, for communication, broadcasting and advertising, leisure, online shopping, binge watching and much more. But as soon as Ajit Pai became appointed as the FCC chairman by the Trump administration, the use of internet and wireless communication has never been the same.

The federal agency’s decision to repeal net neutrality unleashed broadband and wireless providers from the chains that prohibit them from blocking and throttling of the user’s contents.  The rollback of net neutrality enables key telecom firms to restrict or give access to consumers who can or cannot pay for certain websites. This also provides consumers with lesser choices for a resource in favor the consumers themselves.

A wireless carrier such as T-Mobile typically offers “unlimited data plans.“ However, the said plan actually throttles the consumer’s video after reaching a specific data amount. As a matter of fact, a majority of the plans limit mobile device video streaming to barely 480p by default. What good is an “unlimited data plan” if there is a data cap?

This could partly help alleviate congestion and better manage network traffic. BUT, it also gives telecom firms the excuse not to update or upgrade their network infrastructure except for the necessity to do so.

The researchers used the Wehe app and asked 100,000 people to sign up to gather data in a year’s time. Study author, David Choffnes noted that the telecom’s throttling practices not only apply to YouTube but also to Netflix, NBC Sports app, and Amazon’s Prime Video App.

Wehe app has been used to variegate data from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Starting January to May, Verizon has 11,100 throttling incidences, AT&T with 8,398, Sprint recorded 339, and T-Mobile had roughly 3,900. The number of incidences is based on the scope of the networks, but the figures don’t lie. It is evident that Verizon got the most number of throttling incidence compared to the other carriers. Now that 5G connection has been introduced, how will this further affect the consumers’ way of using their devices for connection?

Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Policy Director Jeremy Gillula said, “As we saw with Verizon throttling the Santa Clara County Fire Department, ISPs are happy to use words like ‘unlimited’ and ‘no throttling’ in their public statements, but then give themselves the right to throttle certain traffic by burying some esoteric language in the fine print.”

Verizon’s data throttling of the fire department during the time of an emergency could have fueled the making of SB 822 into a law. Governor Jerry Brown endorsed Sen. Scott Wiener’s bill on Sept. 30 that will take place on Jan. 1, 2019. The telecom company knew of the exceptions especially during an emergency but ignored them.

States cannot be blamed if they forged they own net neutrality law to protect their people.  Adversaries including Big Telecom, the FCC, and the Trump government itself is obviously not a dire fan of an open internet. Their lobbyists are playing dirty by calling senior citizens through robocalls which provide misleading information about SB  822.

With the several issues arising regarding net neutrality, there is a platform that still believes in an open internet. That is why Decenternet makes an effort to provide users with boundless access to the decentralized and centralized websites. In this way, consumers have the liberty to openly communicate online. They would not have to worry that contents will be blocked or throttled since the Decenternet platform does not discriminate but rather treat them equally.

Moreover, Decenternet developed Anuvys OS, the first blockchain operating system that could process a minimum of 10 million transactions that only takes a second. It addresses all issues concerning data security and privacy. Just by using the Osiris-D browser which is built in the Anuvys Operating System, users will be highly compensated through its Spyce mining activity.


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