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WIN STEEM - PLAY STEEMIT NFL PICK’EM + PLUS

PICK THE WINNERS AND WIN STEEM with @paradise-found

Howdy to all STEEMIT sports fans. Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 5th, @paradise-found & @thedailysteemit will begin a fun contest offering NFL football fans the opportunity to win STEEM. NFL COVERAGE @thedailysteemit.

Visit @thedailysteemit for @paradise-found weekly NFL column.

The NFL column will include @paradise-found and a guest Steem-lebrity (Steemit celebrity) both making their picks for the next week’s NFL games. Also featured will be @paradise-found weekly updated NFL Team Power Rankings. In addition the STEEMIT NFL PICK’EM + PLUS winner’s will be announced each week in the Monday edition of @thedailysteemit. Contest format is as follows:

STEEMIT NFL PICK’EM + PLUS

Contest rules

Visit @paradise-found NFL post on Tuesday for weekly contest game list
One entry per contestant
Entries placed as a comment to weekly contest post
All picks must be placed by Friday 9 PM EST
Winners announced on Mondays
Weekly contest posted on Tuesdays
NFL games listed for contest only
Contestants must pick a team to win each game
Contestants also must guess total score of Green Bay Packer game
Whoever has the most correct picks wins
In the case of a tie, whoever has the closest GB Packer total score wins
If a tie occurs with the same total score, first contestant to enter the contest wins

MORE RULES

All contestants must UPVOTE the post to play
All contestants are encouraged to RESTEEM the post/contest
Winners get 50% of the Tuesday contest post’s liquid earnings
There will be 1st and 2nd place each week
The winner’s share will be 1st - 66%, and 2nd - 33%
NFL PICK’EM winners announced on Tuesday @paradise-found blog

WIN MORE STEEM

To enhance STEEMIT NFL PICK’EM @thedailysteemit has offered another 40 STEEM to award the winner of an additional weekly game.

This puts the PLUS in STEEMIT NFL PICK’EM + PLUS.

Here’s how PLUS will work:

Each week @paradise-found will add a College game to that week’s game picks
To enter PLUS you need to pick the winner and the total score of the College game
To win you need to choose the correct winner and correct total score
The winner will receive 40 STEEM
If no winner - the 40 STEEM gets added to the next weeks prize (etc.)
If a tie occurs with the same correct total score, the first contestant to enter the contest wins

A FEW MORE THINGS TO MENTION

Resteeming is encouraged to boost the weekly payout with added contestants
Please list your picks in the same order I post them, thanks!
GOOD LUCK AND ENJOY THE GAME

SOCCER

Mbappé and Dembele: The French Wonderkids Are On the Move

By @mraldo

M&D

What a summer this has been for soccer fans. So much activity, so many long-drawn sagas, so much drama, so much money being sent around, the third best player in the world switching teams... and it is not even over yet. Deadline day madness is coming this week!

And among the biggest transfers on this window are two of the hottest French prospects currently: 20-year-old Ousmane Dembélé and 18-year-old Kylian Mbappé. The first is already at Barcelona FC; who paid Borussia Dortmund €105m + around €40m in possible bonuses. As for the latter, it seems to be a matter of time before the most coveted teen in world soccer officially becomes a Paris Saint-Germain player.

The scouts of the biggest teams such as Arsenal FC, Real Madrid, and Barcelona already knew about him and his incredible potential, but it wasn't until last season when Mbappé truly presented himself to the world and demonstrated what he's capable of at just 18 years-old. Scoring important goals in Ligue 1 to help Monaco win the league title, and most importantly, helping them reach the semifinals in the Champions League; competition where he shined.

For most of the summer, he was linked to Real Madrid in a deal that would see him remain loaned at Monaco for one more season before going to Madrid, but Monaco was keen on asking more than 150 million euros and for Florentino Pérez that might have too much for a kid with only one good season as pro.

Not for PSG, though. They already had a marquee signing after prying Neymar Jr. from Barça by paying his €222m release clause and breaking the record for most expensive transfer by some 120 millions. Now they will add Kylian Mbappé to their squad after reaching an agreement with Monaco to loan the player with an obligation to buy him next season for €155m with a series of add-ons that could see the transfer cost a total €190m. This was done so Fifa Fair Play regulations would not be breached.

On the other hand, Barcelona now desperately needed a replacement for Brazilian superstar Neymar Jr., and to fill that spot, Borussia Dortmund's Ousmane Dembélé was chosen.

After a long-drawn saga where the player threw a temper tantrum, refusing to partake in the training sessions, thrashing the home where he was a tenant, and fleeing to France without his club permission, a deal was reached with FC Barcelona. Now the pacy French winger gets to fulfill his dream of playing for Barça alongside the likes of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, and Ándres Iniesta.

An AI That Uses Bitcoin's Blockchain To Help Find Victims Of Sex-Trafficking

By @mraldo

A new and perhaps unexpected use is being given to Bitcoin; Rebeca Portnoff, a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley and her colleagues have developed a new tool with the intention of providing law enforcement authorities help in finding the whereabouts of sex-traffickers.

The tool uses machine learning as a form to detect common patterns in any suspicious ads placed on Backpage.com, then, it uses the publicly available information left on the blockchain by the use of Bitcoin, in order to help identify who placed them.

Backpage is an advertisement website; the second biggest classified ad listing site, where people can place ads for all kinds of things, be it goods or services. However, in recent times, the site has also become associated with sex ads and sex trafficking.
The US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has stated that the majority of child sex trafficking cases they receive are related to ads on Backpage.

Due to this reputation, credit card companies stopped allowing the use of their services on the website, making Bitcoin the only payment method accepted to place adverts. It is because of that, that Portnoff's tool can use the Bitcoin blockchain in order to trace the wallet addresses that are associated and recorded alongside with every transaction, to identify which wallet was used to place the suspicious advert.

This tool was already used to help find and convict the trafficker who kidnapped Kubiiki Pride’s daughter; a 13-year-old girl who was held against her will and forced to work as an escort for 270 days, until her mother found her on an ad on Backpage.

Successfully prosecutions such as this one are not common, however, the man who kidnapped, drugged, beat, raped and sold Pride's daughter was sentenced to only five years in jail.

North Korea Does It Again: Launches Missile Over Japan

By @mraldo

North Korea continues with his provocations by firing a missile over Japan. Said missile was fired just before dawn in Japan, setting off the warning sirens in the northern part of the country and urging people to seek preemptive shelter. Today's launch is the first time North Korea has successfully managed to fire a ballistic missile over Japan. Regarding the launch, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that it represented a most "a most serious and grave threat", while President Donald Trump released a statement declaring North Korea's latest message was received "loud and clear".

This would be the fourth missile that North Korea has fired in the past four days, as part of a series of ballistic missiles tests done in order to try and showcase their strength, as well as serve as a provocation. South Korea responded to this, by conducting bombing drill intended to demonstrate to its sister republic that they have the capability "to punish and destroy the North Korean leadership". It seems the tensions between the United States, South Korea, Japan, and North Korea will only continue to grow in the coming days. Meanwhile, China; North Korea's major ally, has asked for restraint from all parties involved in order to avoid the conflict from escalating further.

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dakster (50) 7 years ago (edited)

Very Interesting ! I liked the idea of launching an AI program that runs to trace the wallet adresses of Bitcoin's Wallet and find the whereabouts of sex-traffickers but in the sametime I'm worried about the freedom in the future of the blockchain

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