CrowdConscious - Surfing The Cryptoverse

I am the original creator of this article and the original published article  can be found here on my Medium blog account. Hello! Welcome to the wonderful world of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and creative minds! Today , I want to bring focus to a project I have been passively working on for quite a few months now:  Virtual Reality Shopping District or VRS District , an  418-unit plot of land  within the  virtual world of Decentraland  aiming to  solve very real problems in the entrepreneurship landscape . If you are  unfamiliar with the Decentraland project , I strongly urge you to dive into their  Medium publication here . In a nutshell, Decentraland raised approximately $25m in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) some months ago to build out their vision of a fully decentralized virtual world on the Ethereum blockchain. The  project greatly resembles a 14-year old virtual world called  Second Life  which  reached a peak of $600 million economy  in 2009 — the same year   residents

This post was originally published on my Medium blog and can be found here . I hope you enjoy and find this helpful! The content below is  heavily built on  this investigative article  from  FinanceFeeds .  For context , the author tells the unfortunate tale of  Social Trading  and its perilous pitfalls as Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) acts as a global regulator  of investment operations, implementing the ‘Iron Fist,’   MiFID II . The story gets interesting when Brokers find themselves under pressure because of the conflict of interest caused by incentive schemes implemented on Social Trading platforms. Social Trading Further Catalyzes the Convergence of Financial Regulation & Technology Social Trading  is really just the utilization of user-generated content as trade signals and wisdom-of-the-crowd to make online investment trades.  Social trading sites  usually  provide their users  with a  suite of community-based tools  in order  to give them the info needed