Covered this Hangout

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#1 w/ $91.28 -- @Peerplays

Jonathon Bahai of Peerplays gives an update on the peerplays testnet, which is still set to launch on Monday, September 26th. This testnet is planned to launch with the first ever peerplays on-chain game.
After the testnet is launched will come the scheduled crowdsale auction for 500,000 Peerplays tokens.
Cryptoprometheus takes the time to teach about sharedropping theory and explain how Peerplays went about the process of doing the sharedrop. Asks people to follow @peerplays and upvote their updates and content in the future. He also gives an explanation of why they are doing their sports betting on Graphene-based chains as opposed to a competitor on the Ethereum network.

Check out the Peerplays Homepage for more info on #Peerplays including how to join the coming testnet!
Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates and news articles on the Peerplays Sub-Steemit.

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#2 w/ $8.81 @cm-steem

@cm-steem makes a continued appeal to active BitShares witnesses to publish price feeds for the 'GRIDCOIN' Market Pegged Asset (MPA). He also requests open ideas regarding recommendations to improve this MPA. Gridcoin is expected to go live on OpenLedger.info before next week's end. The intent is to bring liquidity to their own assets that is traded on Decentralized Exchange (DEX) with no counterparty risk via Gridcoin MPA as well. If you have opinions on how to improve their MPA meet up with them at their weekly hangout or contact @cm-steem directly.
Cm-steem thanks the community who join the Gridcoin hangouts every Saturday @9pm GMT on the Beyond Bitcoin Mumble server, where Gridcoin has its own dedicated room and links to important GRC content.
Next he updates that now only four (down from eight just two weeks ago) whitelisted projects in Gridcoin are currently failing to meet the established standard of using Secure Socket Layer (SSL). This means the vast majority of community-whitelisted BOINC projects are using encryption between browser and webserver and is important for BOINC users so important information (Private Keys being a chief concern) are not intercepted when connecting to earn Gridcoin with your general computing capacity.
Project Rain is also mentioned, which is a means of sharedropping tokens easily on the over 500,000 active Gridcoin IDs in use today. It now supports 36 different cryptos. Listen for more deatails!
Check out the @cm-steem's Steemit Blog for Updates!
Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates on the Gridcoin Sub-Steemit.

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#3 w/ $4.09 -- @pro4never

@Pro4never (aka Chris Cook) w/ the #Jewels project announces that the dashboard for jewels project has now launched. You can visit here.
Want to Play Conquer Heroes and stress test it? Do so at the Downloads Page next Friday, September 23rd.
Roy Khan talks about how accounts will earn and store value in the jewels ecosystem. Explains about how the blockchain can be used to let people protect an account in a decentralized manner. Details the benefits of blockchains in gaming marketplaces with special focus on the Jewels projects games, where items can be bought and sold for jewels. He also covers potential platforms Jewels might integrate with, but has not made a final decision on this. As the discussion ran over, we will direct you to a post that covers this and more in their steemit post Jewels and the Future of Blockchain Gaming.

Remember you can buy Jewels off exchanges Yobit and Alcurex Exchanges.
Check out the @pro4never Steemit Blog for Updates!
Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates on the Jewels Sub-Steemit.

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#4 w/ $4.78 @Nonlinearone

Are you less than a Minnow? LessthanKrill? @nonlinearone joins us to talk about his most recent post and some findings (backed by number) that will make you scratch your head about a pretty apparent voting power discrepancy in steemit that the community should consider. He shows that if an account A has 1 million SteemPower (SP), and account B has 1000, although it should only have 10 thousand times the voting power, Account A actually has 1 million times the voting power of account B. So the bigger you are, the higher the multiplier for your voting power.
Though the multiplying effect is used to incentivize users to use only one account instead of making many fake accounts, @nonlinearone posits that N^2 might better be replaced by N^1.1 or potentially a new algorithm altogether.
Check out @Nonlinearone's Steemit Blog for updates and support his efforts!
**Upvote and support those joining in his initiative by supporting quality posts on the LessThanKrill Sub-Steemit

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#5 w/ $8.13 @Intelliguy

Though #blockchain tech is very powerful, they are generally based on open sourced and reproducible code. As such, oftentimes when a developer truly innovates, there are coins that are created by simply altering a few parameters (or maybe just the name!) and then restarted as a new chain. As though that isn't enough, there are many times when individuals from one community holding a token will go to other communities and spread lies about other blockchains to get more users and holders of their coin. Intelliguy talks today about FUD and blockchain communities getting along and working together to truly innovate instead of getting lost in an ocean of FUD on a field of perpetual battle. Will he be successful in his quest to change this? Only the future will know...but here are a couple words from the speaker himself:

Lately, I'm getting tired of FUD in cryptocurrency, and it happens too often. FUD is fear, uncertainty and death to spread news in hopes of changing followers, coin price, and project interest. ~ @intelliguy

Check out @Intelliguy's Steemit Blog for updates and support his efforts!

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