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Can You Last a Year on Mars? NASA Is Recruiting Crew Members for Analog Mission – SciTechDaily

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Want to try living on Mars, but not sure you want to experience the nine-month flight time to get there? NASA is looking for applicants to serve as crew members for a one-year analog mission in a habitat to simulate life on the Red Planet, beginning in Fall 2022. All you have to do is get to Houston, Texas, and youll even get paid.

NASA is looking for highly motivated individuals to participate in the year-long test to see how astronauts might respond to the rigors of a long-duration, but Earth-based Martian simulation.

Requirements for applying is that you are a healthy, motivated U.S. citizen or permanent resident, age 30 to 55 years old, nonsmoker and proficient in English for effective communication between crew and mission control. Crew selection will follow standard NASA criteria for astronaut candidate applicants.

Mars Dune Alpha Conceptual Render: Visualization on Mars. Credit: ICON

NASA will be doing a series of these analog missions known as Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, and they hope to set up three one-year Mars surface simulations, with subsequent missions in 2024 and 2025. The simulations will be based at NASAs Johnson Space Center, with four crew members for each simulation who will live and work in a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed module, called Mars Dune Alpha. NASA says the analog missions will support research to develop methods and technologies to prevent and resolve potential problems on future human spaceflight missions to the Moon and Mars.

Mars Dune Alpha will be a 3D printed structure that will simulate a realistic Mars habitat to support long-duration, exploration-class space missions. Credit: NASA/ICON

The analog is critical for testing solutions to meet the complex needs of living on the Martian surface said Grace Douglas, lead scientist for NASAs Advanced Food Technology research effort at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston. Simulations on Earth will help us understand and counter the physical and mental challenges astronauts will face before they go.

Some of the challenges the test subjects will face will be resource limitations, equipment failure, communication delays, and other environmental stressors.

Earth-based astronauts work on a simulated Mars exercise. Credit: NASA

Many space experts and behavioral scientists believe one of the biggest challenges facing human Mars missions will be limited and delayed communications with Earth.

A huge watershed moment will be when we dont have real-time communications with Earth, said Dr. Albert Holland, a senior operations psychologist who leads NASAs Behavioral Health and Performance Group at JSC, in an interview with me in 2020. I think people underestimate how much this will change space exploration as we know it today.

Communication to the Moon has a 1.3 second delay, so real-time conversations are still possible, where crews can still feel connected to Earth, their families, and ground control. But once a comm lag is introduced, missions will undergo a radical change.

Crews will need more autonomy and more self-sufficiency, requiring overlap in key technical areas in case one crew member is incapacitated or lost, Holland said. Crews will need a stronger, vertical, hierarchical line of authority compared to what we currently have on station, where the chain of command is rather flat. There will be a huge operational difference between a vehicle in LEO and something out beyond the comfortable, real-time communications point.

Previous analog astronauts have tested a ground-penetrating radar named ScanMars at a Mar-like area in Oman. Credit: OEWF Austrian Space Forum

Some of the crew tasks NASA anticipates for these analog missions include simulated spacewalks, scientific research, use of virtual reality and robotic controls, and communications. The results will provide important scientific data to validate systems and develop solutions.

NASA says they are especially interested in people with a masters degree in a STEM field such as engineering, mathematics, or biological, physical or computer science from an accredited institution with at least two years of professional STEM experience or a minimum of one thousand hours piloting an aircraft is required. Candidates who have completed two years of work toward a doctoral program in STEM, or completed a medical degree, or a test pilot program will also be considered. Additionally, with four years of professional experience, applicants who have completed military officer training or a Bachelor of Science in a STEM field may be considered.

NASA says this mission is for you if you have a strong desire for unique, rewarding adventures and are interested in contributing to NASAs work in preparing for the first human journey to Mars.

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Data mining tools combat COVID-19 misinformation and identify symptoms – UC Riverside

UC Riverside computer scientists are developing tools to help track and monitor COVID-19 symptoms and to sift through misinformation about the disease on social media.

Using Google Trends data, a group led by Vagelis Papalexakis, an associate professor in the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering; and Jia Chen, an assistant professor of teaching, developed an algorithm that identified three symptoms unique to COVID-19 compared to the flu: ageusia loss of the tongues taste function shortness of breath, and anosmia, or loss of smell. The algorithm was developed in collaboration with two graduate students, Md Imrul Kaish and Md Jakir Hossain, at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Much of the work using Google Trends for flu has focused on forecasting the flu season, Papalexakis said. We, on the other hand, used it to see if we could find a needle in a haystack: symptoms unique to COVID-19 among all the flu-like symptoms people search for.

The researchers located symptoms on Google Trends for 2019 and 2020 and used a technique they called nonnegative discriminative analysis, or DNA, to extract terms that were unique to one dataset relative to the other.

We assumed that symptom searches in 2019 would lead to influenza or other respiratory ailments, while searches for the same symptoms in 2020 could be either, Chen said. Using DNA, we were able to find the difference between the two datasets. This happened to be terms clinicians have already identified as unique to COVID-19, showing that our approach works.

Papalexakis and Chen expect their work will help epidemiologists and other public health experts track and monitor COVID-19 using Google Trends as a proxy for hospital data.

Google trends data is very noisy, but hospital data is not publicly available. People might search for symptoms because they are experiencing them or because they have heard of them and want to know more, Papalexakis said. Searches reflect interest in symptoms better than people actively experiencing them, but given the lack of other data, we think this tool could help researchers understand symptoms better.

Chen said that the algorithm is simple and easy to implement as part of a potential tool that can help scientists researching other diseases learn about potential symptoms.

The paper, COVID-19 or Flu? Discriminative Knowledge Discovery of COVID-19 Symptoms from Google Trends Data, was presented at epiDAMIK 2021, a workshop on data mining for advancing epidemiological knowledge. The workshop was organized as part of the largest annual data science conference, the Association for Computing Machinerys, or ACM, Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. The paper is available here.

Papalexakis and UC Riverside doctoral student William Shiao are also developing a tool that not only identifies COVID-19 misinformation but shows why the information is flagged as false in relation to a database of scientific articles about research on coronaviruses.

Papalexakis and Shiao used 90,000 articles from the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19) prepared by the White House and a coalition of research groups, and collected 20,000 articles in the wild with misinformation about the novel coronavirus. Using a similarity matrix-based embedding method they called KI2TE, the articles were linked to a set of reference documents and interpreted. The documents used for reference were a set of academic papers on coronavirus research included in the CORD-19 dataset.

When tested on articles that had been labeled by humans as false or identified by Google Fact Check as false, their method not only correctly identified the false stories but also pointed to the scientific sources that corroborated the systems decision.

We are not interested in censoring what people see. We want to go beyond hiding something altogether or simply showing a warning label, Papalexakis said. We want to also show them sources to educate them.

Although the tool developed by Papalexakis and Shiao is a prototype under active research development, it could eventually be incorporated into a smartphone app or into social media platforms like Facebook.

The results of this research were presented at the Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis workshop organized as part of the ACM Web Conference, and the paper, KI2TE: Knowledge-Infused InterpreTable Embeddings for COVID-19 Misinformation Detection, is available here.

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Creating the Materials of the Future Using Machine Learning – USC Viterbi | School of Engineering – USC Viterbi School of Engineering

A machine learning model, called a recurrent neural network (RNN), is being used to predict a better polymer structure with high energy storage capacity. A polymer structure is fed to the RNN model (the green gear), resulting in a list of polymer structures which likely have better energy storage capacity (the red tetrahedrons). Illustration/Chris Kim

As the world sees rapid advancements in areas such as renewable energy, water management, transport, and quantum computing, the need for new types of advanced materials to support these emerging technologies is increasing. However, developing new materials is laborioustaking decades from concept to implementation.

The manufacturing sector is now turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning methods for faster materials discovery. But for those looking to pursue a career in this brave new world of materials engineering, there have been few graduate degree options tailored to the integration of materials with machine learning, until now.

To address this significant knowledge gap, the USC Viterbi School of Engineerings Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science has launched the new M.S. in Materials Engineering with Machine Learning, a first-of-its-kind Master of Science course, taught by experts in computational materials science and machine learning methods.

Chair of the Mork Family Department, Andrea Hodge

Andrea Hodge, Arthur B. Freeman Professor and chair of the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, said that the course reflected an emerging interdisciplinary field that harnessed data and combined modeling and simulations, experiments, and machine learning technologies to create a new approach for materials discovery and manufacturing.

Currently there are several online courses on materials engineering and courses on many aspects of machine learning, but there is no MS degree program that provides machine learning integration into materials engineering, Hodge said.

An increasing number of companies are incorporating a data-driven approach in their business models, she said. However, current materials engineering curricula are not addressing the demand due to the lack of integrated machine learning education.

Machine learning can be used to discover new materials for a range of applications including 3-D printing, creating materials and membranes for water filtration, quantum information and computing, and to accelerate autonomous manufacturing and processes.

Machine learning can also be used in research and development, such as autonomous laboratories and high-throughput screening based on materials databases to develop high energy density capacitors, novel catalysts, solar panels with improved efficiency, and new drugs to combat viruses and diseases.

Ken-ichi Nomura, a senior lecturer in the Mork Family Department, said that machine learning would bring a paradigm shift in materials engineering.

The aim is not to replace existing materials engineering education, rather reinforce it with new skillsets to significantly accelerate materials development and innovation, he said.

Ken-ichi Nomura, Senior lecturer in the Mork Family Department

The new masters degree program focuses on machine learning that will allow the materials scientists and engineers of the future to find useful information for materials discovery using large amounts of data that humans otherwise would not have the capacity to process.

Nomura said that machine learning has shown tremendous success in areas such as computer visionwhere systems can learn information from digital imagery and videosas well as natural language processing, process automation, and other areas.

However, domain expert knowledge is essential to fully take advantage of the power of these new technologies, because machine learning technologies are not directly transferrable to materials, Nomura said. The new masters degree program will train the future generation workforce and offer exciting opportunities for USC graduates in industries that have incorporated data-driven discovery and materials development.

Commencing in fall 2021, the program is aimed at graduate students with a broad range of science and engineering backgrounds, who are interested in the intersection of materials and machine learningincluding students with a B.S. in physical sciences and engineering disciplines. The program is also geared toward those in the industry looking to expand their skill sets and apply machine learning techniques to their research and development efforts in materials and processing projects.

The program will cover the following key areas:

Students will also have an opportunity to present results from their projects at the annual Mork Family Department student symposium.

Priya Vashishta, Fluor Chair in Chemical Engineering

There are also opportunities at startups that are using machine learning, as well as research careers in universities, industry, and at national laboratories, said Professor Priya Vashishta, the Fluor Chair in Chemical Engineering.

Mork Family Department faculty who will be teaching in the program include Nomura, who has research expertise in high-performance simulations and machine learning, as well as Vashishta, Director of the Materials Genome Innovation for Computational Softwarecenter, who will focus on computational materials modeling and machine learning. Rajiv Kalia, professor of physics and astronomy, computer science, chemical engineering and materials science, will teach deep learning methods and their applications. Additional materials science, machine learning and data analytics classes taught by experts within MFD and USC Viterbi have been included as part of the elective courses to provide a broad educational experience in materials engineering with machine learning.

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Assistant Professor with focus in Cybersecurity job with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis | 372675 – The Chronicle of Higher…

Purdue School of Engineeringand Technology, IUPUI

Assistant Professor withfocus in Cybersecurity

The Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IndianaUniversityPurdue UniversityIndianapolis (IUPUI) invitesapplications for one tenuretrack position in the Department ofComputer Information and Graphics Technology. The start date isanticipated to be either January 1, 2022 or August 1, 2022.Applicants should have a strong record of research, showsignificant potential for establishing and sustaining an externallyfunded research program, be committed to teaching bothundergraduate and graduate courses, and mentoring M.S. and Ph.D.students.

We are particularly interested in applicants whose researchfocuses on Cybersecurity. Applicants whose research appliesCybersecurity to existing School strengths, such as IntelligentTransportation, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, and other areas ofintelligent systems are strongly encouraged to apply. A doctoratein Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering,or a related discipline focusing on Cybersecurity is required bythe start date of the position.

The Department of Computer Information and Graphics Technologyoffers several degrees, including a B.S. in Cybersecurity, an M.S.in Cybersecurity and Trusted Systems, and also participates in theComputer Engineering Ph.D. program. The Purdue School ofEngineering and Technology at IUPUI has 7 academic departments withan extensive undergraduate and graduate degree portfolio, includingnumerous CAC, EAC, and ETAC of ABETaccredited B.S programs. TheSchool has over 3,000 students, including approximately 500graduate students pursuing either M.S. or Ph.D. programs.

As the states premier urban research institution, IUPUI iscommitted to being a welcoming campus community that reflects andenacts the values of diversity, equity and inclusion that informacademic excellence. We seek candidates who will not only enhanceour representational diversity but whose research, teaching, andcommunity engagement efforts contribute to diverse, equitable, andinclusive learning and working environments for our students,staff, and faculty. IUPUI condemns racism in all its forms and hastaken an antiracist stance that moves beyond mere statements tointerrogating its policies, procedures, and practices. We hope toidentify individuals who will assist in our mission to dismantleracism so that everyone has the opportunity to succeed atIUPUI.

Applications must include a letter of interest, curriculumvitae, and a summary of scholarship including research and teachinginterests, and contact information for at least threereferences.

Apply for this position at https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/11332.Applications are welcome until the position is filled.

IUPUI is an EqualOpportunity/Affirmative Action educator and employer and affordsreasonable accommodations to persons with disabilities.

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How I Got Here: Dr. Kristin Austin helps women bridge the gap between higher ed and tech jobs – Technical.ly

Women make up just a quarter of computing roles and continue to be underrepresented in collegiate tech departments. Meanwhile, both rates are declining. An idea for reversing that trend: Bring them into a supportive community, sooner.

When West Chester-based Dr. KristinAustinentered Bloomsburg University in 1999, she knew she wanted to end up in higher education in some form. She came to admire the work college leadership professionals did with students, and knew she found her niche as she started to take on those roles herself, including as an admissions director and head of new student programs for different universities.

Today, Austin is the director of I.D.E.A.S thats inclusion, diversity, equity and access for Rewriting the Code (RTC), a nonprofit that aims to increase the representation of women in tech careers by intervening at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her online community currently consists of approximately 13,000 women majoring in college and graduate school programs, said the Ed.D.

K-12 has many STEM awareness-building groups and opportunities, but the disconnect happens once women get to college and actually declare a tech-related major, so that is where I wanted to invest my attention, Davis said.

During a recent AMA interview on Technical.lys Slack, Austin shared insight on her professional journey, women finding space in tech education, pay equity for women technologists and more. This interview was edited lightly for length and clarity.

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What are some reasons you find that women dont declare tech-related majors?

Generally speaking, women enroll in introductory tech classes at similar rate as do men, especially so at institutions where computer science courses are a general education requirement. Furthermore, women tend to perform better than men in those intro courses. However, when it comes to converting the women into full majors, many do not because they report experiences of exclusion, microaggressions, lack of representation, imposter syndrome and lack of support.

Their persistence in the major is not a matter of grades, but a matter of inclusion and belonging. Thats what I want to disrupt.

What are some misconceptions you find higher education professionals have most about making college a more inclusive experience for people of less represented backgrounds?

First, the college culture caters to socioeconomically secure, traditional aged, able-bodied, generational college students. If you dont fit those criteria, you face numerous hurdles that are seen and unseen. The pandemic is certainly changing all of that, and higher ed is being forced to really see student diversity for what it really is versus what is presented on brochures.

Colleges are learning (or, should be learning) new and innovative ways to accommodate and include what students really need. This is everything from offering more online learning options, to even restructuring how we measure and define learning. Getting rid of standardized entrance requirements, for example, is a huge win. We will see if that continues post-pandemic.

With your own firm, K.E.Advancement, part of your work is helping families get their kids to college. How significant is it for first-generation college students interested in tech to make that jump in 2021? I ask particularly because we hear of new bootcamps opening up in Philly and elsewhere so frequently.

When I meet with first-generation college students, one of my first questions is always, Have you thought about computer science? Many first-gen students default to more visible or obvious careers because they havent seen behind the scenes opportunities. For this reason, I bring it up. I lead with, Every job is a tech job, because it is! I help them to see how they utilize tech in their day-to-day lives, and how tech can offer seismic changes in their family, and the generations to come. I love seeing the light bulbs go off!

Bootcamps, as long as they are financially accessible, are amazing jump starts! I refer students to bootcamps to test the waters all the time! Its no secret that higher ed is not known for innovation. Industry is known for innovation, but not higher ed. The pandemic painfully revealed this. Look how hard higher ed struggled to pivot when we had to move online.

I would attribute this to the fact that higher ed never anticipated being challenged by YouTube, industry specific training and colleges, upskilling and all other self-taught modalities. I think higher ed thought they would always be like water: irreplaceable. Tech is proving that is not the case. There will always be a place for higher education, but I dont think that place will always look like what it has for the past so many years.

How does having fewer women in computer science majors affect the way in which women technologists are compensated for their work?

Freshly coming off of Black Womens Equal Pay Day, this is a great question. This is an area I am still researching. In general, women do not have pay parity with men, and the gap is even greater for women of color. That said, because tech is working toward including more women in the workplace, I am seeing a lot of incentives and pay transparency and equity in the latest hiring practices. So that is very positive!

The organization I work for, Rewriting the Code, just wrapped our Career Summit. We had over 50 companies all of Big Tech plus tons of startups all there drooling over the chance to hire the talent of RTC. There were so many jobs and internships that the students attending the summit could barely keep up with submitting their resume. That is a goodproblem to have!

I will add, though, that we are also teaching the women in RTC to look at all forms of compensation. We teach them to negotiate non-monetary benefits, too, because we want our women to know that pay is important, but so is frequent time off, work-life balance and the freedom to volunteer!

What advice do you have for women interested in pursuing or pivoting into tech careers?

My advice is to find community! Community exists in abundance online, but maybe not always in the physical. And thats OK! Join online social groups and spaces that are likeminded and safe. There, you can encourage, uplift, and find solidarity.

My organization exists entirely online and the women report feeling more connected to their RTC peers than their own fellow, in-person majors. So the big takeaway is to find community. It takes a village to raise a child, and a goal!

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You can join or just follow along with conversations like this one in the #ama channel on our public Slack. Coming up on Thursday, Aug. 26, Technical.ly reporters Holly QuinnandPaige Grosswill lead a discussion with women-in-tech meetup organizers from across the mid-Atlantic.

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Finally, All-India Chess Federation merges with warring side Chess Association of India – The New Indian Express

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CHENNAI:Putting an end to years of internal fighting, the All-India Chess Federation (AICF) and the breakaway Chess Association of India have merged into one single entity to administer the sport in the country.AICF president Sanjay Kapoor revealed at a press conference in Lucknow on Saturday that all the warring factions have now come together under the umbrella of the AICF.

I have personally had several rounds of talks with all the stakeholders and have brought everybody on the same platform for the development of chess and all the chess players in the country, Kapoor said.Like other federations, we too are struggling to organise our annual events and championships due to the Covid pandemic and could not afford to let our internal differences derail the sport even more, he added.

As has been well-documented in recent years, Indian chess has been hampered by infighting of administrators in the past. Once we formed the new body, one of our first goals was to address all the concerns of every member and bring everybody together for the sake of the sport, AICF secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan said.

On Saturday, AICF also tied up with Kalinga University in Bhubaneswar to launch a top-class academy Avijai Chess Academy for chess. The federation, under its current set of office-bearers, had announced a number of plans and initiatives to revitalise chess in the country. But the Covid pandemic affected their plans.

We are eager to launch at least some of our key initiatives at the earliest and are waiting for the conditions in the country to improve to get cracking, Kapoor said. That hasnt stopped us from tying up with the Kalinga University in Bhubaneshwar to set up Indias first state of the art academy for chess, he added.

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Selecting the best Altcoins, the Gulzar way! – Moneycontrol.com

If an altcoin is trading at extremely low levels, it's best to stay away from it, since trading volumes are a direct representation of the market sentiment and investor confidence in the potential of the coin.

Altcoins or digital tokens other than market leaders Bitcoin and ethereum are in rage these days, as investors seek to diversify their cryptocurrency allocations and venture into new waters. And while this might be a fleeting, and almost touch-and-go phase the world witnesses, theres no denying that there is a certain evergreen-ish quality about some things, be it stock fundamentals, books, movies, or movies more likely and importantly, music.

Old Hindi melodies, just like timeless investment advice, weather the test of time and relevance very successfully. And when it comes to penning down these heartfelt songs, from Tere Bina Zindagi se Shikwa nahi to Musafir hu yaaron to Satrangi re, it's hard to dismiss the classical significance of Gulzar and his words, which, almost compulsorily form a part of almost all our nostalgic and memorable family evenings, reunions, intimate gatherings and more.

Somehow, his words never seem to lose pertinence and expression, even after 87 years of age, a landmark he celebrated just yesterday. But how does one master the art of effortlessly merging the new and old, the traditional and modern, something as dynamic and nascent as the cryptocurrency market and something as profound as this legends lyrics?

His songs, over the years, have held many, many life lessons, and rewinding my Gulzar playlist, I could not help but look out for such gems to properly identify rewarding altcoins in his never-ending list of tracks. Take a look :

Jinke sar ho research ki chaanv, portfolio main achche altcoins honge

Theres hardly anyone who hasn't grooved to this iconic song and re-enacted SRKs amazing moves atop the train, making its way amidst the rainy mountains. While this song might make you break into impromptu jigs and rightly so, that is certainly not advisable while choosing the altcoins for your portfolio.

For this, you can glance over the whitepaper of the currency. As Edul Patel, C0-founder and CEO, Mudrex, explains, whitepapers provide key information such as practical use cases, scalability, future roadmap, community engagement and growth prospects.

Look out for launch dates and steer clear of altcoins which are clearly riding on the back of a bullish cycle and do not have any fundamentals backing them once the run ends and the hype dies down.

Thoda Hai Thode Ki Zaroorat Hai, portfolio main zyada risks lene ki kya zaroorat hai?

Kishore Kumar serenades this eternally soulful song to perhaps explain the many shortcomings of greed, which is generally followed by an unbalanced appetite for high risks. Agreed, many altcoins have been booming, recording good growth figures over the last week, like Solana (82.42 percent), Polkadot (26.97 percent), Cardano (27.63 percent), and more. But, why choose erratic growth spurts over consistent progress?

Just like you balance your asset allocation between risky and stable investments, make sure the altcoins in your portfolio do not exceed a certain threshold, lest the novelty and extreme volatility of the coin might adversely affect your returns. Again, steer away from altcoins not available on regulated exchanges.

Per Anant Deshpande, Co-founder at FinBox, credit underwriting expert, and crypto enthusiast, Invest only your surplus, since it's a frenzied speculative market, Investors must not put all their hard-earned money in these super-risky asset classes. Prefer going mainstream within the alternative, as well.

This also means sticking to your basics, like preferring altcoins with a larger investor base and market capitalisation, among others. One way to go about it is to set parameters for your altcoin basket, like choosing from amongst the top 30 altcoins only, or restricting your investments to coins with a minimum market capitalisation worth 5 million dollars, etc.

As Patel further elaborates, An Altcoin having a market cap of $50 million, might not grow 10x as fast as an Altcoin with a $2 million market cap. So, for investors who would want higher returns might look at coins with a lower market cap, but within some defined limits.

Markets are, indeed, as volatile and eruptive as Gulzar Sahab describes Ishq to be. And in a space where fortunes are built and demolished overnight, one needs to be especially careful of tracking the daily activities of these altcoins. If the 24-hour trading volume is sustainable, and remains at 50 percent of its market capitalisation, along with traded volumes stay buoyant at 10 percent, it indicates that the coin is liquid, allowing you easy sell-offs in case of a crash.

If an altcoin is trading at extremely low levels, it's best to stay away from it, since trading volumes are a direct representation of the market sentiment and investor confidence in the potential of the coin.

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Here Are the Top 5 Altcoins To Watch Right Now, According to Crypto Analyst Michal van de Poppe – The Daily Hodl

Popular cryptocurrency analyst and trader Michal van de Poppe says he is currently watching five altcoins that can potentially surge in the coming weeks.

First on Van de Poppes list is blockchain indexing protocol The Graph (GRT) which he says is poised to end its downtrend and possibly revisit its all-time high against Bitcoin at 0.000061 BTC, worth $2.82 at time of writing.

I think that given the fact that were changing the entire cycle towards a bullish one, the chances of it running towards [0.000035 BTC or $1.62] or maybe even the all-time high are significant.

GRT is trading at 0.00001864 BTC ($0.86) at the time of writing, according to CoinGecko.

The token of Ethereum-compatible network Skale Network (SKL) is the second altcoin on Van de Poppes watchlist. The crypto analyst and trader says that on the SKL/BTC chart, the token must take out its immediate resistance of 0.0000076 BTC, worth $0.35, to ignite a strong rally.

If it breaks out of here, youre going to look at a run towards the highs around [0.0000145 BTC or $0.67]. And probably were going to make new highs overall, meaning that Skale is going to be one of those big runners.

The token of crypto debit card issuer Swipe (SXP) is the third altcoin Van de Poppe is watching. According to the crypto analyst, he doesnt expect SXP to immediately take out its resistance at $3.64.

We are facing resistance with Swipe, so breaking through that is not expected to be happening. Where do we want to take the entry? This is the first real entry point that you are looking at ($2.59) or when it flips here ($3.64 resistance into support).

Scalability-focused blockchain Zilliqa (ZIL) is the fourth altcoin on Van de Poppes radar. The crypto trader says the ZIL/BTC is ready for a big run after finding support at 0.000002 BTC or $0.09.

If we are going to get ourselves a new high, the chance of it going towards [0.000007 BTC or $0.32] or at least above a [0.00001 BTC or $0.46] are just quite normal to be expecting.

Van de Poppe ends the list with the token of layer-2 scaling platform Celer Network (CELR). According to the crypto trader, the CELR/BTC pair looks ripe for a rally after retesting crucial support at 0.0000007 BTC ($0.03).

The crypto strategist says that the targets for the pairs potential surge are 0.0000029 BTC or $0.13, 0.0000046 BTC ($0.21) and 0.0000063 BTC ($0.29).

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Top 5 Altcoins That Will Blow Up in 2021 By CoinQuora – Investing.com

may be king but altcoins are here to stay.

The word altcoin refers to just any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin. Thats right, Bitcoins first move was so powerful and revolutionary, that all coins that entered the market after it is in a separate category altogether.

However, theres no reason to give up hope on altcoins. In fact, there are chances that many cryptocurrencies will grow larger in 2021, even enough to pose a challenge to Bitcoins reign as market-topper.

So, without further ado, lets look at the top 5 cryptocurrencies that will explode in 2021

Top 5 Altcoins

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Created in 2013, Ethereum is smart contracts platform that hosts most

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Dogecoin, Solana and One More Altcoin Could Ignite Big Rallies While Bitcoin and Ethereum Cool Off: Top Cry… – The Daily Hodl

A prominent crypto strategist and trader says hes expecting Dogecoin, Solana and one more altcoin to ignite huge rallies while Bitcoin and Ethereum take a breather.

The pseudonymous trader, known in the industry as Pentoshi, tells his 291,000 Twitter followers that Dogecoin (DOGE) is poised to rally to $0.42 after taking out resistance at $0.23 and converting it into support.

DOGE about to melt faces. I dont make the rules, and certainly wont bet against meme culture, Elon Musk, and Mark Cuban.

Another coin on the traders radar is smart contract platform Solana (SOL), which he says is the most bullish asset in the space right now.

While Im over the top bullish on SOL, I dont think this is the spot you buy (after a 26% pump in a day). Wait for the new weekly low and a dip after a little consolidation early in the week. Be patient, but [in my opinion] major upside coming.

Next up is the Dogecoin competitor and meme cryptocurrency Shiba Inu (SHIB). According to the crypto analyst, SHIB is gearing up for a 33% rally from its current price of $0.000009 to $0.000012.

SHIB Looking to play this if [a] white line is given. Super clean range, looking for a break and retest for entry.

As for Bitcoin, Pentoshi expects the leading cryptocurrency to correct in the coming days as it trades close to critical resistance of $48,000.

BTC also not getting as much push up and lower volume (to be expected here). Next week looks like some discounts coming and good buy opportunities to reload some fresh long positions.

Looking at Ethereum (ETH), the trader also expects the second-largest crypto asset to cool off and print a higher low at $2,800.

ETH has been hanging in this area for a week now, roughly.

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