Try and nurture your devs in such a way that it is all a bit distributed. This DAC some more protein on Tuesdays, that DAC some more carbohydrates on Fridays. And whatever you do make sure bytemaster doesn't OD on Koolaid.

We have all seen what happened at the februari snapshot :/. While back then it was the right thing to do, looking at it now it made no sense whatsoever.

If you were to have 5 DAC's launching in 1 day followed by months of nothing this would certainly not help the cause. This mile high spike of buzz will haunt you till the day that you die I can promise you that .

4 years ago I drove through southern Serbia in the first week of August. And I drove through dozens of villages that each had multiple trucks filled with watermelons on both sides of the road. Selling their watermelons at dump prices. I got one as big as a skippy ball for 2 euros. Poor man couldn't even lift it. It was so huge in fact that the Montenegran border police took fotos of it.

2 weeks later I drove back and the stench was unbearable. No more trucks but huge piles of watermelons rotting by the side of the road in every village I drove by. We stopped at a supermarket for supplies and there it was: a watermelon in the fridge, imported from Israel. For 6 euros A KILO.

Moral of the story: this is the kind of shit that made Adam Smith think about the basics of economy back in the 18th century. And it is the kind of shit that should make you think about how to structure DAC releases .

NEM is looking stronger every day. Trading on the Nxt asset exchange now and the dev team is competent.

Mastercoin is crap, don't buy at whatever price.

XCP looks better. Sports betting to be implemented any day now. Since the announcement alone already made prices spike I suppose the world cup will do the rest.

My holdings follow my opinions, not the other way around

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Quote from: Mrrr on May 01, 2014, 01:30:01 am

If I were to strand on an island in the Caribbean. And I'd get to take 3 things with me, it would be a can of Coca-Cola, 'Cosmo's Factory' by Creedence Clearwater Revival and the complete works of Martin Luther.

Why Coca-Cola?

 

Coca-Cola is in my top 10 inventions of all time also. Not #1, as this place must be taken by air-conditioning…
If I were to strand on an island in the Caribbean - I will take a fishing pole; as books I will take F Nietzsche and… for music I do not know (yet)

Nietzsche should take care of any urge you might have to sustain yourself in this particular situation. So you won't need the fishing pole.

Capitalism is a cancer that is destroying the planet.
Thats because its based on infinite growth.
Growth means increasing productivity and increasing the use of natural resources and energies, it also increment the impacts of these processes in nature . These are in contradiction with the limited existence of natural resurces and the physical limits in our planet.
Capitalism is based on growth and thats why it cannot be sustainable ( in an ecological way).
Unsustainability means that its inevitable the collapse of capitalism. Or at least the structure of the actual world and the actual capitalist system is gonna change into something radically differente ( im not sure if calling this capitalism).
Our economic theory (liberal economics) decoupled energy and natural resources from the function of the economy and this mean all the economic theory and mechanisms are wrong and obsolete and we need to create a new economic system and theory.

I see theres a lot of people with interesting ideas trying to innovate with block chains technologies and crypto stuff.
But they are trying to integrate these technologies into the actual capitalist system.
I think the real potential is the opposite: Using these technologies for creating new kind of infrastructures that would allow communities and society to create a new  economic system parallel to capitalism that cannot be integrated to capitalism.
Using these technologies for building alternatives to capitalist system,  for example to create a new sustainable world.


what do you think?

Capitalism is not responsible for turning out planet to shits. It happens again and again that an idea, in essence pure, is grabbed and corrupted. Human greed is the cause of the great smog of china, the extermination of the tuna and the decimation of the rainforest. Not capitalism.

Free enterprise, as just mentioned by our resident Prophet, would imply a capitalist society in which greed is no longer the driving force, and a society in which no man can subject another man by the use of force.

If I were to strand on an island in the Caribbean. And I'd get to take 3 things with me, it would be a can of Coca-Cola, 'Cosmo's Factory' by Creedence Clearwater Revival and the complete works of Martin Luther.

Martin Luther took the 15 centuries of corrupted Christianity, looked at it, distilled the original and pure idea, and nailed it to the church doors in Wittenberg. The ensuing Iconoclasm made that the cathedral in my home town is now painted white on the inside. With the only detail being a cross on the wall. 

This hasn't happened in the Islamic world. Even though I believe Islam to be, in essence, the foremost tolerant and liberal way of life yet it was hijacked and corrupted in the same fashion. A very dear friend of mine is a devout Muslem and struggles with the fact that the birth grounds of the Prophet Muhammad in Mekka were recently razed to make place for luxury hotels. I told him that the Muslem world needs an Iconoclasm as well. I told him we should raze Mekka as a whole and we should burn the Burj Khalifa to ashes. In the ruins we could then once again find Truth.

It also hasn't happened in capitalist society. Here we sit behind our laptops designing a new world order but whenever I venture outside I see nothing but theft, pain and abuse.

Satoshi nailed his 95 theses on to the church doors of Wall street. Its up to us to smash the idols of capitalism and denounce the false gods. So that we may return to the pure idea.

I realize I took a strange path of reasoning here, and that my analogies are far from perfect. I must also say that I'm not a religious person, but these ideas where formed in deeply religious societies, and I pretty much have to stick by that in order to get my point through. I hope the above makes any sense at all, and I beg you pardon if it doesn't.

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The Peter-R guy throws with around the most absurd arguments..
The only rational argument I have seen was this:

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But the hashers are mobile if a pool turns out to be a bad player. If a bad player acquires a significant portion of the PoS coin that mobility does not exist.

this exists in dpos

If a malicious player has a significant portion of a dpos coin he can always vote for his malicious delegate or for more malicious delegates if he has more than 2 % of the coins. Not that POW or any other POS is better here. But that should be possible.

edit: thinking about it... There is the option for the benevolent shareholders to vote down whatever delegate the bad player comes up with. Is it known to everybody who votes for who?

Yes...

Anyone with 51% of the shares by-definition controls the network.   Anyone with less than 50% is unable to harm the network without getting voted out.   If they own 49% and wish to cause mischief, then another 49% of the network can cancel them out and the remaining 2% will decide.   

Compare this to other POS coins like Nxt and you realize that someone who has 49% of the shares would end up with 90% of the forging power.

This is (to me) an effective rebuttal for the angst toward "reinventing the wheel", which (meaning no offense) should be known to anyone who has a basic understanding of the evolution of protocols and the history of the internet. Evolutions in protocols are in effect "reinventing the wheel", but in a way that changes it from stone --> to wood with spokes --> to metal --> to metal w/ rubber sheath --> w/ composites --> w/ nanocomposites.  So, in essence, reinventing the wheel is actually redesigning it with a deeper understanding of the original design's flaws. 

The argument against "reinventing the wheel" so you can be among the first to release another stone wheel with a slightly different color/size/density stone confuses me...especially if you want a platform to serve as an infrastructure that is stable enough to build on.

This discussion is directly connected to Invictus' willingness to work on solutions with Longevity, which is precisely why I have patience with this project.

Any invention or idea is either a combination of two pre-existing concepts, or of a pre-existing concept applied to a new situation. The wheel was a combination of a ball and a truckload of stones that needed to be somewhere else.

Our code-monkeys are doing both, they are trying to apply the concept of 'blockchain' to new situations and while doing that they discover all sorts of connections that will make our lives easier in the long run.

So indeed we should keep the monkey's den well ventilated and well supplied with bananas and cool-aid, and not slap them around to much with deadlines. The end product will benefit.

This made me laugh and cry at the same time:

'Which one of you asic companies just brought something online?'
https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=19177.0

Difficulty just spiked by quite a bit, just a little over %15 in a matter of 2-3 days.

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/litecoin/difficulty


I dont follow all of the asics, but anyone want to tell me when each company is set to deliver and speculate which one this is?

So an asic company again uses customer's pre-order money to bring an asic farm online that is big enough to be able to cause a lot of mischief to the network. They'll mine for a month or two and ship out. As a miner you pay three times (or get robbed three times), once for the manufacturers asic farm, once with a loss in ROI for your GPU setup caused by the asic farm, and once since the scrypt asic you ordered is technically worthless by the time you receive it.

Crypto needs POS, and it needs it now.

Its the Duke Nukem forever of crypto

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Quote from: sfinder on April 23, 2014, 11:10:44 pm

改用DPOS算法，这个算法目前正测试。然后挖矿将由你钱包中的pts来进行。按照目前的难度，pts最终的数量将是170万左右，所以对所有pts的持有者来讲都是利好

Why not write in the same language you are reading here. If you want answers to should go by english! Thx

coz @Kickky is a Chinese.use Chinese is more easier for them to communicate with each other.

There might be other people here looking for the same answer. Proper etiquette would be to post in Chinese with an English translation underneath. This is a forum, and there is a PM function for private talking.