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Floyd entrepreneur cashes in on virtual currency craze
http://www.roanoke.com/

After tomorrow:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/floyd-co-entrepreneur-cashes-in-on-virtual-currency-craze/article_d07256fc-a66f-11e3-b845-0017a43b2370.html

One thing I notice as a fellow geek, that is a bad ass multi-monitor setup. I am jealous.
Does it boost productivity as much as I think it does?

Yes it does.   

FYI the two monitors were purchased a year prior to starting Invictus and the iMac was purchased long prior to even PTS launching... just in case anyone thought I was using AGS funds to buy computer bling.   

if it's a dev pc then i wouldn't mind

+1  ...gotta have the right tools!

Not to mention the 10,000 ft runway we had to put in so that Federal Express could airlift the pallets of 12oz pressurized liquid caffeine cartridges needed to keep those monitors fully utilized 24x7...

I told you to just buy the factory and be done with it!

but seriously, i think that more costs of development should be from the fund. Even Stan deserves a high chair.
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Floyd entrepreneur cashes in on virtual currency craze
http://www.roanoke.com/

After tomorrow:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/floyd-co-entrepreneur-cashes-in-on-virtual-currency-craze/article_d07256fc-a66f-11e3-b845-0017a43b2370.html

One thing I notice as a fellow geek, that is a bad ass multi-monitor setup. I am jealous.
Does it boost productivity as much as I think it does?

Yes it does.   

FYI the two monitors were purchased a year prior to starting Invictus and the iMac was purchased long prior to even PTS launching... just in case anyone thought I was using AGS funds to buy computer bling.   

if it's a dev pc then i wouldn't mind

+1  ...gotta have the right tools!

Not to mention the 10,000 ft runway we had to put in so that Federal Express could airlift the pallets of 12oz pressurized liquid caffeine cartridges needed to keep those monitors fully utilized 24x7...

I told you to just buy the factory and be done with it!

but seriously, i think that more costs of development should be from the fund. Even Stan deserves a high chair.
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Floyd entrepreneur cashes in on virtual currency craze
http://www.roanoke.com/

After tomorrow:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/floyd-co-entrepreneur-cashes-in-on-virtual-currency-craze/article_d07256fc-a66f-11e3-b845-0017a43b2370.html

One thing I notice as a fellow geek, that is a bad ass multi-monitor setup. I am jealous.
Does it boost productivity as much as I think it does?

Yes it does.   

FYI the two monitors were purchased a year prior to starting Invictus and the iMac was purchased long prior to even PTS launching... just in case anyone thought I was using AGS funds to buy computer bling.   

if it's a dev pc then i wouldn't mind

+1  ...gotta have the right tools!

Not to mention the 10,000 ft runway we had to put in so that Federal Express could airlift the pallets of 12oz pressurized liquid caffeine cartridges needed to keep those monitors fully utilized 24x7...
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Floyd entrepreneur cashes in on virtual currency craze
http://www.roanoke.com/

After tomorrow:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/floyd-co-entrepreneur-cashes-in-on-virtual-currency-craze/article_d07256fc-a66f-11e3-b845-0017a43b2370.html

One thing I notice as a fellow geek, that is a bad ass multi-monitor setup. I am jealous.
Does it boost productivity as much as I think it does?

Yes it does.   

FYI the two monitors were purchased a year prior to starting Invictus and the iMac was purchased long prior to even PTS launching... just in case anyone thought I was using AGS funds to buy computer bling.   

if it's a dev pc then i wouldn't mind

+1  ...gotta have the right tools!

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Floyd entrepreneur cashes in on virtual currency craze
http://www.roanoke.com/

After tomorrow:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/floyd-co-entrepreneur-cashes-in-on-virtual-currency-craze/article_d07256fc-a66f-11e3-b845-0017a43b2370.html

One thing I notice as a fellow geek, that is a bad ass multi-monitor setup. I am jealous.
Does it boost productivity as much as I think it does?

Yes it does.   

FYI the two monitors were purchased a year prior to starting Invictus and the iMac was purchased long prior to even PTS launching... just in case anyone thought I was using AGS funds to buy computer bling.   

if it's a dev pc then i wouldn't mind
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Floyd entrepreneur cashes in on virtual currency craze
http://www.roanoke.com/

After tomorrow:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/floyd-co-entrepreneur-cashes-in-on-virtual-currency-craze/article_d07256fc-a66f-11e3-b845-0017a43b2370.html

One thing I notice as a fellow geek, that is a bad ass multi-monitor setup. I am jealous.
Does it boost productivity as much as I think it does?

Yes it does.   

FYI the two monitors were purchased a year prior to starting Invictus and the iMac was purchased long prior to even PTS launching... just in case anyone thought I was using AGS funds to buy computer bling.     
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Thanks for your frank explanation. Judging from the great differences between the original strategy and the one implemented under your leadership, I feel so grateful that you are in charge now, abandoned the POW.

My question :
The unspent pts/btc through AGS donation can get huge amounts of bts. How will you spend these bts ? The DACs R&D or 3I investors (Bitfund.pe and Mr Li) profit ?

This is a good question.

Any gains from AGS donations ("eggs" from the PTS "golden geese") are also reserved to grow the industry, not for Invictus.  Thus, there are now PTS-generated XTS "eggs" in the development fund that can be used to pay for more development and promotions.  Invictus has promised not to directly profit from these geese or the eggs they lay.  If we can grow the value and number of the golden eggs in this basket faster than we spend them, then the industry will have a perpetual flywheel to keep it going and growing.  Another reason to weigh when and how to responsibly use these assets.

Meanwhile, Invictus owns its own supply of PTS and AGS "geese" (earned by mining, purchasing and donating our own funds) and XTS "eggs" which will grow the same way for our investors as we work to grow their value for everybody.

Thus, when somebody says III "doesn't care" about about the value of any of these products, it should be clear that they have no understanding of how we are structured or how we have worked to keep our own incentives aligned with those of the rest of the community.

I like the "geese" analogy for PTS, you could explain that to a 5 year old.

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Thanks for your frank explanation. Judging from the great differences between the original strategy and the one implemented under your leadership, I feel so grateful that you are in charge now, abandoned the POW.

My question :
The unspent pts/btc through AGS donation can get huge amounts of bts. How will you spend these bts ? The DACs R&D or 3I investors (Bitfund.pe and Mr Li) profit ?

This is a good question.

Any gains from AGS donations ("eggs" from the PTS "golden geese") are also reserved to grow the industry, not for Invictus.  Thus, there are now PTS-generated XTS "eggs" in the development fund that can be used to pay for more development and promotions.  Invictus has promised not to directly profit from these geese or the eggs they lay.  If we can grow the value and number of the golden eggs in this basket faster than we spend them, then the industry will have a perpetual flywheel to keep it going and growing.  Another reason to weigh when and how to responsibly use these assets.

Meanwhile, Invictus owns its own supply of PTS and AGS "geese" (earned by mining, purchasing and donating our own funds) and XTS "eggs" which will grow the same way for our investors as we work to grow their value for everybody.

Thus, when somebody says III "doesn't care" about about the value of any of these products, it should be clear that they have no understanding of how we are structured or how we have worked to keep our own incentives aligned with those of the rest of the community.

Thanks, Stan.

Appreciated.

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Thanks for your frank explanation. Judging from the great differences between the original strategy and the one implemented under your leadership, I feel so grateful that you are in charge now, abandoned the POW.

My question :
The unspent pts/btc through AGS donation can get huge amounts of bts. How will you spend these bts ? The DACs R&D or 3I investors (Bitfund.pe and Mr Li) profit ?

This is a good question.

Any gains from AGS donations ("eggs" from the PTS "golden geese") are also reserved to grow the industry, not for Invictus.  Thus, there are now PTS-generated XTS "eggs" in the development fund that can be used to pay for more development and promotions.  Invictus has promised not to directly profit from these geese or the eggs they lay.  If we can grow the value and number of the golden eggs in this basket faster than we spend them, then the industry will have a perpetual flywheel to keep it going and growing.  Another reason to weigh when and how to responsibly use these assets.

Meanwhile, Invictus owns its own supply of PTS and AGS "geese" (earned by mining, purchasing and donating our own funds) and XTS "eggs" which will grow the same way for our investors as we work to grow their value for everybody.

Thus, when somebody says III "doesn't care" about about the value of any of these products, it should be clear that they have no understanding of how we are structured or how we have worked to keep our own incentives aligned with those of the rest of the community.

« Last Edit: March 10, 2014, 03:30:50 pm by Stan »
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They've said that they're going to be used the same way as the AGS funds
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Thanks for your frank explanation. Judging from the great differences between the original strategy and the one implemented under your leadership, I feel so grateful that you are in charge now, abandoned the POW.

My question :
The unspent pts/btc through AGS donation can get huge amounts of bts. How will you spend these bts ? The DACs R&D or 3I investors (Bitfund.pe and Mr Li) profit ?

This is a good question.
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Floyd entrepreneur cashes in on virtual currency craze
http://www.roanoke.com/

After tomorrow:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/floyd-co-entrepreneur-cashes-in-on-virtual-currency-craze/article_d07256fc-a66f-11e3-b845-0017a43b2370.html

One thing I notice as a fellow geek, that is a bad ass multi-monitor setup. I am jealous.
Does it boost productivity as much as I think it does?

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Rational agency only makes sense with primitive, qualitative goal(s) in mind; e.g. maximizing ones own happiness, or the happiness of others, or maximizing pain, or maximizing money, or avoiding death, or avoiding the death of other people, etc. Besides, rational action is typically construed with respect to a limited perspective (e.g. a person at a place at a time with a finite goal), but with consensus technology both the scope and quality of rational action can change drastically.

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We are a culture in decline. I really hope everyone can still work together and make something productive out of all this. We need to see that greed is a learned human trait, in our epigenetics, which is proven, and not human nature. Our culture and it's for profit incentives has corrupted our sensible, pro-human side. So all I ask is ask yourself if you are being the mature, rational human.

Selfishness is rational. A system is culturally beneficial to the extent that it denies undeserved enrichment. It is true that our culture has been corrupted, but that comes from undermining natural rights that generally ensure that profit comes through respectful service to others through mutually beneficial exchange. Our culture is in decline as laws have become predatory toward the rights and property of individuals.

Agree with what you said.
But one should distinguish and not confuse rational selfishness (you could also say selflove which will also make you love others) with the obsession/dissease of hording material goods / greed.

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We are a culture in decline. I really hope everyone can still work together and make something productive out of all this. We need to see that greed is a learned human trait, in our epigenetics, which is proven, and not human nature. Our culture and it's for profit incentives has corrupted our sensible, pro-human side. So all I ask is ask yourself if you are being the mature, rational human.

Well said :)
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