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Jan 15 2021

High-tech Babel fish: How the Timekettle WT2 Edge Translator breaks language barriers

Normal conversations are energetic and messy. You and your friends might talk over each other, interrupting each other with new ideas and clarifying questions. Which means that if you and your friend don’t speak the same language, a traditional translator would slow down your conversation to the speed of a walkie-talkie. Helpful, but not exactly a replacement for a fluid chat.

The Timekettle WT2 Edge is the first in-ear translator that preserves the nuances and flow of a natural conversation. The WT2 Edge are bi-directional simultaneous translation earbuds that translate in real-time as you speak and listen, delivering what you said to your listener’s ear in as little as 0.5 seconds with up to 95% accuracy in 40 languages and 93 accents. 

We sat down with the Timekettle team to learn more about how they made a working Babel fish and how they hope to foster more connections worldwide by breaking down language barriers.

Who are the team members of your project? What’s their story?

Timekettle was founded in 2016 by Leal Tian, who was named to the Forbes China 2018 30 Under 30 list. Over the past four years, the Timekettle team has acquired a number of rising stars: Doctor Liang Tian, who works in neural machine translation; Wei Shiei, one of the leading experts in the vector voice algorithm field; Yuman Wang, a software and hardware architect with over a decade of experience; and Alex Qin, a serial entrepreneur who has generated millions of dollars with his business successes. Timekettle has become an open and international start-up, and our staff includes specialists from Japan, the United States, France, and more.

How did it all begin?

We knew we could make a handheld translator faster than an in-ear style, but we believe the cross-language conversation is more than the translation itself. A face-to-face conversation involves exploring and enhancing a relationship from start to finish, and we knew that our design would determine whether our translator would push the conversation forward or hold it back. The in-ear translator seemed to be the best way to achieve our goals, but we lacked a technical solution to make the concept a reality. We re-rooted codes and architected the software and hardware. We spent more than one million dollars and worked on it for a year and a half, but we still failed. We thought about abandoning the in-ear concept and reverting to a handheld translator instead, but we believed in designing a product that made the conversation so natural, it was like the translator wasn’t there at all.

We were lucky: We broke through our technical bottleneck and created a wearable, in-ear translator in 2018. Timekettle WT2 series Translator earbuds are still the best experience translator in the world. We appreciate the backers who supported Timekettle’s product idea, and media outlets like Techcrunch who introduced our idea to the world. They inspire us to feel what we’re doing is worthy. We’re excited to help people break the language barrier in a new way.

How did backer feedback help you make this latest version of your earbuds?

Over the past year, more than 100,000 backers and users from 89 countries and regions have used the WT2 Plus Translator. We received thousands of emails with feedback on the product that helped us design new features. We’ve created a more intelligent voice pick-up capacity, and we also released a feature that allows people to chime in while the other person is still speaking. With other translators, speakers have to wait their turn to talk, but that isn’t how a real conversation happens. Simultaneous Mode lets people speak more naturally. It also enables people to use the Translator in places where there might be a lot of background noise, like streets, restaurants, shopping malls, and more. We’re excited to showcase these features with our new model, WT2 Edge.

Can you briefly explain what your product is? 

Timekettle WT2 Edge Translator Earbuds are the world’s first two-way translation earbuds, meaning you can speak and hear other people’s translations at the same time. The vector noise reduction and bi-directional simultaneous translation make our earbuds different from other existing translators. The WT2 Edge effectively prevents interruption from the external environment and improves translation accuracy significantly to give you a natural and fluent conversation with your friends around the world.

What are you raising funds for? What is the purpose of your campaign? 

It takes years to transform our ideas into a final product. Indiegogo is a global platform for innovative products from all over the world where we can receive feedback from backers around the world. Crowdfunding for the product allows us to continuously update the hardware and improve the software to bring our customers a refined user experience.

What inspired you to make your product? 

Our team was inspired by the Babel fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Babel fish is small, yellow, and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. When the main character, Arthur Dent, puts it into his ear, it translates the universe’s languages for him and allows him to finish his exploration of the galaxy. 

We wanted to make a real-life Babel fish — something that made communication between people who speak different languages as easy as it was for Arthur Dent. We believe that communication is connection. Translation is about more than words: It’s expression, eye contact, and body language. The WT2 Edge expands on its predecessors to make connections even easier. 

Why did you choose to do crowdfunding? 

Language barriers have divided human beings for thousands of years. For most people, language translation is very expensive. Plus, it’s difficult to find a good interpreter. And learning a new language yourself is time-consuming and hard to do well.

In 2016, artificial intelligence technology was growing fast and neural machine translations were already being used in travel, social networks, business communications, and more. However, very few people were paying attention to the industry back then, and they didn’t realize that this new technology could be turned into a wearable device and bring consumers a cost-effective translation experience. We knew we wanted to launch our Translators through crowdfunding to find our early adopters.

Crowdfunding backers are engaged and supportive. They’re passionate about sharing their ideas for how to optimize products, and passionate about telling their friends and family about a product they backed. Through crowdfunding, we build the Timekttle brand together with our backers.

What have been your biggest challenges so far? 

2020 was an unstable year, and the pandemic has restricted most of our international travel. Timekettle is also a startup, and as a new company, our staff’s time is limited. While some companies were spending 2020 changing directions and putting their efforts into new businesses, our team was working hard to improve our translating system to create an accurate and stable technology that encompasses multi-lingual support. We believe in our mission because of the encouragement, love, and anticipation that we see in our backers all over the world. We made our Translators because we believe that language barriers should be overcome. 

Want to support Timekettle? Check out their campaign page to back their campaign today!

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Jan 13 2021

CardFlight Announces Small Business Pay Solution Expansion With SwipeSimple Register Product Line Addition

CardFlight, a U.S.-based SaaS payment technology company, announced on Wednesday the addition of the SwipeSimple Register product line to its hardware offerings. According to CardFlight, the product will feature the following models:

  • SwipeSimple Register 8: has an expanded 8-inch touchscreen that delivers full POS/cash register capabilities. Its easy swivel mount conveniently shows customer prompts for tips and digital receipts, to provide a speedy check-out experience without adding clutter to counter space
  • SwipeSimple Register 6: designed for less complex sales environments. It features a convenient 6-inch touchscreen and swivel base station with a built-in receipt printer, packing a complete point of sale into an elegant device
  • SwipeSimple Register 15: target merchants requiring specialized features, including more advanced retail and food & beverage establishments, and quick-serve restaurants. It features an extra-large 15-inch touchscreen to quickly ring up complex sales, even from a large catalog

CardFlight explained that with these new payment solutions, small business owners will gain access to sophisticated countertop devices that run the powerful yet easy-to-use SwipeSimple software.

“SwipeSimple Register offers merchants sleek countertop devices integrating a physical check-out experience with modern point-of-sale and payment acceptance technology.”

while sharing more details about the product and features,  Derek Webster, CEO and Founder of CardFlight, stated:

“The addition of SwipeSimple Register to the SwipeSimple suite of products furthers our mission to serve the full range of small businesses across industries. No two small businesses are the same, and neither are their needs—SwipeSimple Register product line will offer storefront merchants a range of countertop options, to meet the needs of their business.”

CardFlight went on to add that SwipeSimple Register’s Initial launch will begin in late Q1 2021 full line to release throughout the year.

Founded in 2013, CardFlight states it is committed to making payment acceptance easy for business owners.

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Dec 31 2020

Bitcoin Analyst Argues that BTC Mining Is Not Wasteful, but Rather an Efficient Process to Secure a Highly Valuable Network

As Bitcoin (BTC) continues to set new highs, it became clear to many people that the digital asset could serve as a hedge against the traditional financial system. This year, many well-known investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller (a hedge fund manager with a net worth of $4.4 billion) have changed their mind about Bitcoin in the current macro-economic environment.

Druckenmiller thinks Bitcoin could serve as a hedge against US dollar depreciation and the ever-rising American stock market.

Sampo, a Bitcoin analyst, points out that stil, “not everyone has changed their mind, though, and the seemingly ever-present nay-sayers are also back.” They note that a popular or common argument against BTC is that it wastes too much energy. Although it’s true that mining BTC (or other proof of work cryptos) requires a very large amount of electricity, “the argument that it is a waste of energy has been debunked,” Sampo (a guest author/analyst) writes in a blog post published by LocalBitcoins.

According to Sampo, Bitcoin is “the ultimate cost-efficient way to spend electricity, and … [crypto] mining minimizes wasted energy and increases the use of sustainable energy solutions.”

At present, 900 new Bitcoins are created each day or every 24 hours. New Bitcoins are minted by using computing power to solve very complex mathematical problems. This requires large amounts of electricity. In fact, the total energy consumption of the BTC network is about 77 terawatt-hours (at the time of writing). This is even more than the total energy consumption of developed nations like Switzerland and the Czech Republic, Sampo confirms.

But since the total value of the BTC network has now surpassed the “total value of most major banks,” it’s clear that “a lot of energy is needed to secure the network,” Sampo claims.  They argue that “all this immense energy is used to secure the safest value network ever created [so] it’s not wasted.”

Sampo further noted that “in practice, what it means to secure the Bitcoin network [is that] new bitcoins are created by validating blocks, which also contain the transaction information of all transactions on the Bitcoin network.” At the beginning, when the genesis block was mined, this “could be done with computer processors, CPUs,” Sampo notes.

But GPUs (graphics processing units in PCs) were a lot more efficient in solving the mathematical equations. And after the BTC network gained a lot more recognition, and Bitcoin acquired more value, hardware companies began producing ASICs – which are “optimized to solve the equations involved in mining Bitcoin,” Sampo explained.

GPUs may still be used for mining purposes, however, it’s quite difficult or even impossible to do it “profitably as an individual,” Sampo notes. They confirm that the process was “commercialized and optimized years ago.”

They added that the total hash rate of the BTC network is around 131.791 TH/s – which is an “immense amount of computing power protecting the network from outside attacks since any significant threats would require 51%, the majority of the hashing power, to force changes into the network.”

Sampo compares this to the hash rate of a typical gaming PC. They point out that “this is all very hypothetical, but let’s say that the potential hash rate of a low to mid-tier PC is approximately 23 MH/s.” Then “dedicating the GPU of this PC to bitcoin mining would account for 0.000017% of the current total hash rate of the Bitcoin network.”

Using these numbers, of the 900 new Bitcoins, “the daily share of this setup would amount to 0.000153 bitcoin, or 15,300 satoshis, currently worth $3.60.” When we “reduce the mining pool fees and the price of the electricity needed for running the PC 24/7, [then we can see that] this operation would be unprofitable.” More than likely, this setup would never be able to recover the initial investment.

This suggests that mining might be possible for individuals, however, it may not be profitable. But we can also see that a massive amount of energy consumed “protects the network” and “profitable mining requires optimal hardware, and optimal mining conditions,” Sampo states.

They added:

“Optimized hardware equals optimized returns. Cheap electricity prices equal optimized returns. When these two conditions are met, an optimal environment for Bitcoin mining is created, and Bitcoin mining incentivizes electricity users to minimize wasted energy. In other words, the game theory of Bitcoin mining eliminates actors who waste energy….mining favors countries with cheap electricity which usually equates to countries that are struggling financially, such as Venezuela. Unfortunately for Venezuelans, the industry has recently been forced into the national pool and even the Venezuelan army has started mining bitcoin.”

Sampo argues that if it were a waste of energy, then “why would governments do it?”

They further noted:

“Mining bitcoin is not only for countries where cheap electricity is available everywhere. Cheap electricity sources exist all around the globe, and they are the future trend in bitcoin mining. …oil and gas fields are using their excess energy to mine Bitcoin. This way, they can reduce their carbon footprint by utilizing the previously wasted energy. The same is true for hydropower plants and since renewable energy is an inexhaustible source of energy, these solutions have huge potential in powering the Bitcoin network in the future.”

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Nov 19 2020

Zimperium Names Proven Finance and Operations Leader, Brian Szeto, Chief Financial Officer

Zimperium Names Proven Finance and Operations Leader, Brian Szeto, Chief Financial OfficerZimperium Names Proven Finance and Operations Leader, Brian Szeto, Chief Financial Officer

Brian Szeto has joined Zimperium as our Chief Financial Officer, where he will play a strategic role in accelerating our industry-leading growth and expansion by leading all finance, accounting, real estate, human resources, and information technology efforts.

“Brian adds so much to the Zimperium team,” said Shridhar Mittal, our chief executive officer. “He has more than 20 years leading finance and operations for several start-ups and multi-billion dollar SaaS, software and hardware companies, including Workday, Juniper Networks, TIBCO and ThoughtSpot. Brian brings operational excellence as we rapidly scale and accelerate growth.”

Prior to joining Zimperium, Brian was the VP of Finance for ThoughtSpot, a hyper-growth startup. While at ThoughtSpot, he established investor relations and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) functions and defined KPIs for long range planning. At Workday, Brian built the product and marketing finance functions before leading corporate finance activities including quarterly, annual, and multi-year strategic planning and associated key business analytics. 

“I was first exposed to mobile security while at Juniper Networks,” Brian said. “Since then, I’ve had an eye on the mobile security space and I’ve seen how Zimperium – the global leader in mobile device and app security – has gained a tremendous amount of market traction in various sectors including financial, government, automotive and healthcare.” 

Brian continued, “The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announcement – in which we will be delivering comprehensive Mobile Endpoint Protection to the unclassified government furnished devices of servicemen and women around the world – is just one such example of how the market is beginning to come to us. I can’t think of a better time to join this team and mission.”

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Nov 01 2020

Bitcoin hits $14K, UNI airdrop rejected, scammers target Trump: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 26–Nov. 1

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.

Top Stories This Week

Bitcoin price hits $14,000 — Exactly 12 years after white paper released

On Oct. 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released a white paper setting out his vision for Bitcoin.

Fast forward 12 years, and BTC has hit $14,000 for the first time since January 2018 — a rally fueled by institutional investors. Bitcoin’s monthly candle also closed above $13,000, indicating a technical breakout.

The question now is this: What’s going to happen next?

It seems like the likelihood of a new bull cycle is heavily increasing, as the price of Bitcoin continues to make new higher highs and higher lows. Crucial levels to watch include the current resistance zone surrounding the $14,000 threshold. 

Breaking through this level would initiate further strength to the next threshold around $16,500–$17,000. “These two levels are the final hurdles before a possible new all-time high,” Cointelegraph analyst Michaël van de Poppe said, adding that current market behavior is comparable to the cycle seen in 2016.

A different kind of election prediction

Bitcoin can’t help bank the unbanked, claims Mastercard CEO

The enthusiasm surrounding the world’s biggest cryptocurrency right now is palpable.

Overall, the crypto market cap has managed to edge above $400 billion at the time of writing, and according to a survey by Grayscale Investments, 39% of U.S. consumers say they find BTC more appealing in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alas, not everyone is convinced. One of them is Ajay Banga, the CEO of Mastercard.

Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum conference, he said he is deeply skeptical about cryptocurrencies and far more enthusiastic about central bank digital currencies.

Banga also warned that Bitcoin cannot help the unbanked and foster financial inclusion. 

He said: “Can you imagine someone who is financially excluded, trading in a way to get included through a currency that could cost the equivalent of two Coca-Cola bottles today and 21 tomorrow? That’s not a way to get them [included]. That’s a way to make them scared of the financial system.”

Digital yuan will work with WeChat and Alipay, says bank exec

Speaking of CBDCs, we’re starting to learn more details about China’s digital yuan.

This week, a senior executive at the People’s Bank of China said its new digital asset will be compatible with major mobile payment wallets such as WeChat Pay and Alipay.

Mu Changchun also stressed that the CBDC is not designed to compete with these companies, adding: “They don’t belong to the same dimension. WeChat and Alipay are wallets, while the digital yuan is the money in the wallet.”

This appears to be a U-turn from earlier reports that suggested Beijing intends its digital currency to serve as an alternative to these hugely popular platforms. Together, WeChat Pay and Alipay have 94% of China’s market cornered.

In other developments, Huawei announced that its upcoming Mate40 smartphone series will include an integrated hardware wallet for the digital yuan — the first smartphone to do so. The tech giant said users will be able to protect their anonymity and complete offline transactions, enabling the transfer of funds with friends and family by touching their devices together.

Uniswap vote on new five million UNI airdrop defeated

There was a buzz this week after Uniswap held its second-ever governance proposal. If approved, it would have seen 12,619 wallet addresses that interacted with Uniswap via a proxy contract receive 400 UNI tokens each.

The treasure chest of 5.05 million UNI would have been distributed among users of MyEtherWallet, Argent, Dharma, DeFi Saver and others. Dharma had put forward the proposal, claiming its users felt “left out” by the initial distribution of 150 million UNI.

Final results show that voters were overwhelmingly in favor of the measures: 37,555,068 voted for the airdrop, and just 1,280,632 voted against. Despite this, the proposal was defeated because it fell 1.1 million votes short of a quorum. The same thing happened with Uniswap’s first governance vote.

The airdrop would have been worth $908 at the time of writing, substantially less than the cash value of the first airdrop seen in September.

Indian bank to offer crypto services across its 34 branches

An Indian bank has announced plans to offer crypto banking services online and across its 34 physical branches in the country’s north.

The United Multistate Credit Cooperative Society has teamed up with Cashaa for the new service, which comes amid India’s uncertain crypto regulations.

While the Supreme Court of India took down the crypto banking ban put in place by the Reserve Bank of India in March, most banks are still skeptical of providing services to crypto companies and individuals dealing in digital currencies.

The new venture — called Unicas — will allow United account holders to integrate cryptocurrency wallets directly with their accounts. Customers will also be able to directly buy Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Cashaa, and they’ll be able to take out loans against cryptocurrencies if they so wish.

Winners and Losers

At the end of the week, Bitcoin is at $13,807.80, Ether at $388.95 and XRP at $0.23. The total market cap is at $402,023,178,116.

Among the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies, the top three altcoin gainers of the week are Kusama (18.95%), Nexo (18.15%)and Velas (10.11%). The top three altcoin losers of the week are ABBC Coin (-35.39%), Yearn.finance (29.85%) and Band Protocol (26.98%).

For more info on crypto prices, make sure to read Cointelegraph’s market analysis.

Most Memorable Quotations

“Bitcoin has held above $10,000 for over 90 days now, currently ~30% higher than this key level. This is the longest period in its history.”

The TIE

“The majority of the investors definitely want to see a straight line toward $200,000, but that’s simply not happening.”

Michaël van de Poppe, Cointelegraph analyst

“If stocks crash, Bitcoin powered by its large adoption s-curve, swallowing ever more capital, will present perfectly good safe haven properties.”

Willy Woo, crypto statistician

Can’t hack this

“Although this guidance has been coming out over the last year and we’ve seen enforcement, the IRS really hasn’t understood crypto.”

Wendy Walker, Sovos solution principal

“Interest is on the rise: More than half of U.S. investors are interested in investing in Bitcoin.”

Grayscale

“If another country has one and we don’t, that could certainly create some problems. So we want to make sure we’re ready. Currencies move across borders, and so we certainly wouldn’t want to be surprised by some other country.”

Tiff Macklem, Bank of Canada Governor

“Bought $100 in BTC on @PayPal! Great milestone for the market!”

Jeremy Allaire, Circle CEO

“We [need] to prevent dollarization. This is one of the major designing points of the Chinese DCEP.”

Zhou Xiaochuan, former People’s Bank of China governor 

“Can you imagine someone who is financially excluded trading in a way to get included through a currency that could cost the equivalent of two Coca-Cola bottles today and 21 tomorrow? That’s not a way to get them [included]. That’s a way to make them scared of the financial system.”

Ajay Banga, Mastercard CEO

“On a risk-adjusted basis, BTC is an easier bet today than it has ever been. It’s being de-risked daily.”

Mike Novogratz, Galaxy Digital CEO

“We haven’t made any decision on whether or not to launch a retail CBDC. But we are exploring the pros and cons with interest.”

Tom Mutton, Bank of England fintech director

“Digital currency could create value and we should think about how to establish a new type of financial system through digital currency.”

Jack Ma, Alibaba Group founder

“Cash, or government-printed money also called fiat, is actually becoming worthless, while Bitcoin’s value remains constant. There will never be less fiat printed than is now. Cash is only going to get more and more worthless.”

Bill Barhydt, Abra CEO

Prediction of the Week

Market is proving Bitcoin is “ultimate safe haven” — Anthony Pompliano

Anthony Pompliano has claimed that Bitcoin “could not be more uncorrelated” with the stock market — and says the world’s biggest cryptocurrency is leaving macro assets behind.

The Morgan Creek Digital co-founder also rejected critics’ claims that Bitcoin is a poor store of value, writing: “So how did Bitcoin do during an economic downturn? It outperformed stocks, bonds, gold, oil, and pretty much everything else.”

As Cointelegraph reported, a consensus has been building that Bitcoin is not only abandoning its correlation with stocks. Last week, crypto statistician Willy Woo tweeted: “The decoupling is upon us.”

Unfortunately, we might not be there just yet. On Oct. 30, the price of Bitcoin abruptly dropped by 4% from the day’s peak as sell-offs on Wall Street intensified — fueled by uncertainty about the U.S. presidential election.

FUD of the Week 

Crypto scammers deface Trump campaign website, one week before election

The website for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign was taken over by hackers this week.

The scammers managed to replace donaldjtrump.com’s usual campaign rhetoric with a page spoofing the FBI and declaring: “This site has been seized.”

The attackers went on to claim that they have obtained “strictly classified information” and encouraged people to make donations to two Monero wallets if they wanted this data to be released.

It was even claimed that the hackers had proof that Trump’s administration “is involved in the origin of the coronavirus.”

The communication director for the president’s campaign, Tim Murtaugh, said: “There was no exposure to sensitive data because none of it is actually stored on the site. The website has been restored.”

The Hoff has thoughts

Tax professional explains the most important thing for U.S. crypto holders

An expert has told Cointelegraph that crypto enthusiasts in the U.S. need to have greater awareness of their obligations come tax season. 

Wendy Walker, solution principal at the tax compliance company Sovos, described reporting as the most important aspect of tax filing.

“Even if you don’t owe income taxes, you still have to report details of the transactions,” she explained.

Walker added that the IRS has some catching up to do when it comes to regulating this space, warning: “Although this guidance has been coming out over the last year, and we’ve seen enforcement, the IRS really hasn’t understood crypto.”

In other developments this week, Gemini — the exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins — said it is partnering with a tax compliance firm to ensure its users can count their crypto taxes in real time, as well as reduce their liabilities.

Best Cointelegraph Features

Back on track: U.S. macro events unlikely to fully derail Bitcoin price gains

As the U.S. stock market enters earnings season, analysts explain how Bitcoin could perform after earnings and the presidential election.

Gotta collect ‘em all: An overview of NFT marketplaces

As NFTs gain traction, here are some of the top marketplaces for finding NFTs, as well as the future outlook of this industry.

Indian crypto industry expanding, but regulators seem reluctant to engage

As Cashaa launches crypto banking services in India, the cryptocurrency industry continues to grow despite uncertain regulations.

Bitcoin hits $14K, UNI airdrop rejected, scammers target Trump: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 26–Nov. 1

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