Ze Germanz strike again. Miner turn-off! Somebody set us up the bomb!

Heh, I decided I won't, I terminated my droplet and I will certainly not pay them their 90$
I find it very strange that a 10$ prepay is apparently considered some sort of contract while DO obviously lacks every means to back it up. They try and screw me but at the same time they leave all doors open for me to screw them back. I find that strange.

First of all, thanks for this highly needed philosophical sit-down.

A long long long time ago I wrote a paper on the politics of a community driven MMO game. You'd have several game servers with different rules and policies and the total control of each one of them residing in the hands of one single person (commonly referred to as a god). I identified an interesting dynamic: although the god in the virtual environment had total control over every single aspect in virtual life, they had no incentive to abuse this. If the abuse would outweigh the server's benefit people would move to a server with a more benevolent god. Leaving the abusive god with an empire of dirt. A server being all abandonware, open source and running on a Pentium I, the successful servers thus had an an omnipotent yet benevolent tyrant.

So to arrive at the discussion at hand:

The blockchain does indeed offer a model of total surveillance if correctly implemented into a society. The concept of the blockchain is however, by definition, open source and community driven. Abuse of a blockchain would therefore prompt the community to make up a new blockchain and a government that would try to impose a malevolent version onto an unwilling population would soon find itself emperor of the aforementioned dirt empire. The power of the blockchain ultimately resides with the people. The abusive government would stand and fall by the veto of the network. Any attempt at centralization would spark a decentralized alternative, and put the power right back where it belongs.

We should not be afraid and not be hiding in the ever diminishing illusion of anonymity. We should stand up and realize we wield the power that can force our tyrants to be benevolent.

Your ID is then no longer a mark of the beast, but a mark of liberation.

Quote from: Mrrr on December 16, 2013, 07:27:01 pm

This is weird:

"Following the logic that 10 PTS were offered for 1 MMC by FreeTrade,
I would like to sell 2 MMC at .1 BTC each. " - quote from BTC talk buy and sell topic.

Somehow people on BTC forums feel 1 MMC should be worth somewhere in between .02 and .1 BTC.
This could mean that things that are based on Protoshares are in high demand, in which case you'd expect a prise rise for PTS. It is down 20% however.

The other option is that people don't seem to get it. Hopefully I'll finally find a block some time soon so I can sell it for 1BTC just to prove my point.

Yeah  saw that too.  Interesting idea to essentially just mimic/scale PTS's price to new coin.  but it's in very early stages so I doubt it'll stay that consistant. 

Kewlio I even got a block.  one of the midget blocks though but 70mmc is better than 0mmc I guess

Following the thread developing I think a lot of people seem to be under the impression that PTS owners can trade their PTS for MMC at a 10:1 ratio. Which is obviously not the case. Perhaps some clarification is needed there.

I am not so sure about the whole 'exodus address' concept. Sounds to much like 'Mastercoin' to me. Drop a BTC and get 10X returns in two weeks at no other price than a mouse click. The point of mining in this regard is that it serves as a tool to make a somewhat even distribution of wealth possible based on the effort and time people are willing to put into something, as opposed to a system where capital the only motor.

Invictus did a very good job at that. They put Protoshares in the market and it required nothing else than time invested. Mastercoin* in my opionion is a school example of the deranged capitalist paradigm in which only the rich get richer; the exact same paradigm that sparked my interest in crypto in the first place. On a sidenote: Memorycoin 2.0 launched a couple of hours ago and is already struggling with god knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rented servers thrown at it.

*where as the name already made me vomit the part where the devs spoke of a 'group of Chinese investors' expressing interest made me want to eat my vomit and regurgitate.

There is 'Dave Bitcoin' who has a rather good reputation on bitcointalk. He'll make a custom brute force script based on whatever you can remember and might get you your coins back for a reasonable fee.

http://www.walletrecoveryservices.com/

I;m not going to complain but I went from 8/min to 90/min. Big bravo and thank you and all. No tips.

bump, price updated