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maybe I can help you out .. wanted to checkout reddit themeing anyway ..
I introduced Mark to Daniel and Charles in Georgia this last October.
Why would Mark evangelize this project if he doesn't already have a stake in it? There are many other projects trying to enable exactly the same thing.
This guy, who's article is below, would be an incredible ally for bitsharesDNS. Perhaps III could approach him?
"Mark Jeftovic is the CEO of easyDNS Technologies Inc. the Toronto-based domain registrar and DNS provider who lives by the credo "Power & Freedom™". In his copious spare time he blogs about anarcho-capitalism, bitcoin and tectonic shifts at Wealth.net and is the guitarist/singer for indie-rock sensations The Parkdale Hookers."
The soft underbelly of everything you do online are your domain names and DNS. (Briefly, your domain names are the labels people use to reach your website or send you email: i.e dollarvigilante.com. DNS is the mechanism computers use to map where these various connections are to take place).
Before anything can happen on the internet, at least one successful DNS lookup has to occur, and no matter how much money you spend on things like firewalls, offshore data centres, redundant network connections, penetration testing, high availability switches and routers; if your DNS stops resolving or your domain name gets yanked, none of that matters because you will simply disappear from the internet.
This is why every time I come across websites of like-minded libertarians, an-caps, contrarians, whistleblowers (and other egregious truth tellers) I often cringe when I lookup their domain names and find out that their registrar is Godaddy, or some other registrar that is notorious for throwing their customers under a bus at the slightest whiff of trouble and with a complete lack of due process.
People who read websites like TDV or ZeroHedge (another client of ours who keeps us on our toes) have a certain understanding of the world we live in, what's happening, and within broad channels, what's going to happen.
In other words, everybody here knows things are going off the rails and we talk about that freely. However "the powers that be" don't like it to be widely known that things are, in fact, going off the rails, that our monetary regime is headed for systemic failure, or in a wider sense, that nation-states are becoming obsolete.
So various governments, quasi-governments, non-governmental and law enforcement agencies understand that when it comes to the internet, one really effective method of silencing a voice of dissent is to squeeze their domain registrar or DNS provider to take their domain names offline.
We became aware of this first in 2010 with Wikileaks (a situation which we were embroiled in through a case of mistaken identity but it made an impression on us to be sure).
Since then we've had numerous run-ins with people "out there" who wanted us to take down some customer website for the sole virtue that they weren't fans of what that website did or said, or because the domains represented a new business model that threatened entrenched interests.
The problem is this: most registrars, when they receive a "Takedown Notice" (which is what these requests are called), simply shrug their shoulders and go along with it. In other words, it's trivially easy to knock almost any website in the world completely offline by simply telling their domain registrar that a domain is "doing something wrong" and they had best comply with a takedown request and pull the website offline. Sometimes with catastrophic effects.
Web services company jotform.com was taken offline in 2012 after a faxed takedown request was received from the US Secret Service, rendering over 2 million web forms across 700,000 user accounts inoperable. It caused a big stink and people wondered if it would prompt their registrar (Godaddy) to incorporate some modicum of "due process" into their takedown process. They didn't. The takedowns continue, most recently the prominent Mexican political dissent website 1dmx.org was taken offline by Godaddy after the US Embassy asked them to.
We had our turn to prove our point when the City of London UK police sent out takedown notices to multiple registrars late last year. The London Police's newly formed Intellectual Property Crime Unit had deemed numerous domains (without any court proceedings it should be emphasized) to be "profiting from illegal acts", and requested that the registrars not only take down the domains, but redirect their traffic to an IP address controlled by them, which featured what can only be called "advertisements" for competing industry players (all based within the UK).
Everyone complied, except for us, and when word got out about this some of the websites affected understandably tried to move to us but were blocked by their registrar from doing so. We pursued the matter through the highest levels of the ICANN Inter-Registrars Transfer Policy and were finally vindicated with a ruling in January from the National Arbitration Forum. The ruling found that even if a registrar wants to obey a takedown order that has no legal basis, if they do not have a court order in a competent jurisdiction then they cannot prevent that domain from moving to a more clueful registrar. It's an important ruling and I mention it for a reason.
No sooner had this ruling come down, some non-governmental group (although they have been accused of improperly using their government influence to have policy enacted) called the National Association of Boards Pharmacy (NAPB), sent a letter to all ICANN registrars that said, in effect:
You have to take down any domain we tell you to
Registrars are responsible for enforcing the NABP's IP interests in every jurisdiction in the world
Registrars cannot allow a domain that has been taken down to transfer away, and
There is no real appeals process
All of which was in direct contravention of the aforementioned ruling we had just obtained, and all of which is clearly blustering because the NAPB has no legal authority of any kind. They're just an industry trade group out to protect their stakeholders, who are basically big pharmaceutical companies (and, incidentally, also the brains behind the new .pharmacy top-level-domain initiative. Wouldn't it would be nice if you could make all your competitors "go away" under a thinly guised ruse of "public safety"?)
But it didn't matter. We had a customer running a perfectly legal business selling peptides (chemicals used in laboratory research) over the internet, based here in Toronto, selling goods that anybody in Canada can walk in off the street and purchase whose primary business website was taken offline (again, by Godaddy), after an "internet investigator" in London, UK sent them an email telling them to. I've read the entire transcript between that "internet investigator", the Godaddy Abuse desk and our client and it is nothing short of Kafka-esque and chilling.
The website was down for months, we went to Godaddy, new ruling in hand and battled our way up the chain to find somebody high enough in the organization to finally admit that while it was their prerogative to play ball with any kind of nonsensical legal demand that comes through the door, they couldn't prevent any domains from transferring away after they took it down. Our client was out of there the next day.
The point of all this is: you need to be aware of all these "gotchas" with respect to domain names. In some cases US legislators will even bypass your registrar and go straight to the registry operator to seize your domain there (usually happens under a sealed warrant, blessing it with a veneer of Soviet-era legality).
If you are doing anything that could be deemed as "controversial", including but not limited to: telling the truth, objecting to government policies (like wars, mass surveillance, assassinations, torture, or fraud), getting mixed up in threatening technologies or disruptive business models like: bitcoin, cryptography, p2p or you are some kind of lunatic fringe advocate for privacy, peace, economic sanity or the Constitution; then you are highly cautioned to take all of this into account.
If your activities rely heavily on your web presence, you need to plan for catastrophic failures like takedowns and the like. I don't want this to come off as an easyDNS infomercial, so the following tips can be used anywhere, not just with us:
Know which legal jurisdiction your domain is under. If it's .com, .net, .org, or .biz it's ultimately operated by a US registry operator, even if your registrar is in another country.
Know your registrar: do they have an official takedown policy? Or do they just make it up as they go along? What are their views on due process? Will they simply capitulate to any request or do they have even a modicum of backbone?
What is buried in the Terms of Service? Usually the provider reserves the right to screw you in every way imaginable. (We recently re-released ours in Plain English and are the only registrar in the world that incorporates the Non-Aggression Principle into ours.)
Have a backup domain name or two under different top-level-domains. Preferably non-US ones. Switzerland is a great jurisdiction for this because anybody can register .CH domains and they are fairly laissez-fare when it comes to takedown orders. Also, if you setup a business entity in Switzerland, the entire legal system is geared toward due process and heading off frivolous lawsuits.
Have your data backed up offsite If your entire operation is going to be taken offline you want to be able to relocate and relaunch. Ideally these backups are encrypted (especially if they contain your customer data).
Going forward, it is just a matter of time before the same technological-market forces that brought us Bitcoin will obviate a lot of this by eliminating a centralized DNS root (something I personally thought to be impossible until Bitcoin - and its blockchain ledger model came along).
Namecoin and even Ethereum are in the early stages yet, but it is happening. Until these emergent forces become ready for prime-time, all the action will happen within the legacy naming systems and you'll have to keep your wits around you and partner with a clueful naming entity (registrars, DNS providers) to be able to navigate it.
For one, most of this is extremist fud. 3i is here to make a profit, not abort the govt
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Any thoughts, concerns on the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability and PTS.
http://www.bitcoinfeed.net/news/bitcoin-bitcoin-security-company-bitgo-responds-to-the-heartbleed-security-threat
“It’s fundamental to tell everyone to check all their servers and update ASAP [...] I can’t obviously be positive about it, but bitcoin-specific software (local wallets, etc.) should not be affected even if they use OpenSSL, since the bug is only triggerable in live TLS connections.”
Ps. Vertcoin has released an update to their wallet.
the cryptogenic bullion reddit look very professional! take a look!t
http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptogenicBullion
Charity has it's own featured services like distribute feed market, so I think
Charity = Gaming service + Feed market Service
If you want to talk about topics about Lotto, which broad would you like to be in, Charity or Gaming, any ideas?
Thanks, hackfisher.
I see how it could go under either, but I think gaming would suit better.
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Super glad to see some discussion percolating over this topic - it's something I'm very passionate about. I've been working in the decentralized autonomous food production space for a couple of years now and co-founded my first startup (called Future Tech Farm) on the basis of the question "What is the most efficient way to produce food?" We believe, it's within your own living space. Zero food miles with no physical labor or extensive knowledge of agriculture. We've proposed the hypothesis of: what if people had 'personal home grow systems', like an appliance, that autonomously grows a certain percentage of one's fresh produce needs, year round. What personal computing did for information technology in the 70's, we'd like to attempt do with agriculture.
It would looks something like this: Each unit, outfitted with a sensory system, would collect data and allow for monitoring and control of the biometric variables (pH, water temps, C02 concentration, nutrient levels, air temps, daily light integral, etc). All the data collected, would be stored on an open platform - allowing anyone else to review and/or analyze the data.
I envision the world's food production system could inevitably be a 'single farm' that is completely decentralized through these units - all units upload data, learn from each other, and utilizing negative feedback loops; improve upon their own efficiency until humankind produces food at the pinnacle of what physics allow. (it's an extreme idealistic perspective, I know ;P)
The research we've conducted for this project is actually what led me to bitcoin and very shortly thereafter - bitshares. This is why I'm here. I don't know how blockchain technology would tie into decentralized food production, or if it's even necessary, but I'm here to learn as much as possible to potentially apply these ideas to the next paradigm shift in agriculture in the coming decades.
Thanks fuznuts, for initiating conversation!
right, yes! But iam thinking III wants first to get this things done with crypto community and not outsourcing it to extern design sites...
All of this motivational self-improvement talk is nice and motivating, but it fails to address what the guy is really asking.
Guy, nobody is going to give you good investment advice for free.
Why? Are people just dicks?
No.
Well yes, but that's not the reason why they won't offer you investment advice for your one grand.
I'm in a similar position to you except I'm a wage slave instead of drawing social security, same difference really though, I make enough to barely scrape by and end up being able to only put the little bit that I am able to hustle up on the side into these kinds of things. Having so little to invest means one has to put ALOT of careful thought into where they invest it.
So why won't people help?
Because anybody with good intentions wouldn't tell you to where to invest. It's something you really have to figure out for yourself, so you can be responsible for your own losses should your investment tank. Nobody wants to shoulder the burden of being the guy who told you to invest your thousand dollars in Xcoin right before it tanks, at least, nobody with good intentions.
What does leave? People with vested interests who are motivated to convince people to invest in whatever they hold. Obviously you can't trust those opinions, because they're biased.
So here are my biased opinions, and why I decided to form them. You should learn about these things for yourself though.
Bitcoin - The next highest marketcap for a crypto is still like 1/15 of bitcoin's (not counting ripple). With so much riding on it, more people are motivated to make bitcoin succeed than any other cryptocurrency. It has the most infrastructure already in place, and if a crypto were to go viral tomorrow, it would likely be the one just because of precedence. That's not to say that it can't supplanted easily enough, if the right app goes viral, or a more empowered community get behind a different crypto for whatever reason, that's totally a possibility, but so far Bitcoin is arguably the safest (most likely to see increased demand in the near future) investment for your money.
Peercoin - Proof of Stake makes sense to me. In a world where crypto has supplanted the dollar, I see peercoin serving as something of the crypto equivalent to a saving's account. If you don't spend them, you get about one percent back a year from minting proof of stake. Meanwhile, the fixed transaction fee, which will become significant when ppc gains value, would prevent people from using the currency for frivolous spendings. But when they do spend, that fee gets destroyed instead of going back to miners. So the destroyed transaction fees balance out the new money coming in from proof of stake minting. This creates an equilibrium. When too many people horde their money, much more of it gets created from stake, and without fees getting destroyed it loses value from the inflation, giving holders motivation to spend some and destroy some fees. Then when people go spend crazy, it destroys fees, and therefore supply, causing prices to go up motivating people to save more. Because it's not being used for a flajillion little spammy transactions, and because proof-of-stake reduces the need for traditional mining, this makes it the most enironmentally friendly coin I know about. A perfect backbone currency. For buying bread, the same developer made Primecoin, which uses the PoW necessary for a flajillion spammy transactions to also discover prime number chains. Together the two coins create a more environmentally friendly two sided approach: energy reduction (peercoin), and energy multi-use (primecoin).
Bitshares-PTS - Well... I think you know about this one. DACs have the potential to change the way we do business. And angelshares prevent me from being tempted to sell my investment for cigarettes from CVS. That's why I view them as good for people like us who caught the ass end of the social stratum. Anyone who tells you never to invest more than you can afford to lose is someone who can afford to lose something-- the truth is you'll never get ahead in life without taking a little bit of risk.
Those are pretty much the ones I feel strongly about.
By the way, you don't need to justify your position in life to anybody here. Had any of these people caught your circumstances, they'd probably be in the same exact situation give or take a little bit of success. Anyone who would judge you for whatever it is that makes it difficult for you to work just lacks the imagination to fathom the reasons that this might be so, possibly because they come from a more prosperous era where jobs were so abundant and gainful that there was no excuse for not providing for one's self, and they carry these outdated judgements into modern times. Or maybe its because they are so rigidly narrow minded that they were taught one way to live, provided with the means to achieve it, and completely fail to even want to understand how anybody else's life could be different. The fact that those people have to live in their own minds, and that they'll miss out on so much life has to offer for their one sided approach, is punishment enough for them that you can just safely ignore them and feel sorry for them.
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