have a little list I keep:

Of course! It's just taking me a bit of considered time since forgoing my first plan, and so, I like taking my time whenever possible

I would like to honor a couple other great Aquarians who made a most positive impact on me with my time here in this community:

RyNinDaClem, because I really do appreciate all the time you take out to educate me with anything you know, as well as anyone else willing, just because of your sheer enjoyment of doing so. For being who you are, please receive 200mBTC well!

Otoh, because you saved me at one point a couple years back when I was much younger, financially amidst all the Securities and Lending schemes taking place, and soon after, spiritually, through showing me another side of life. Please receive 100mBTC, for being who you are. The 100mBTC is not because I value you any less, my friend, but because I've already gifted you in the past and it's more of a public token and acclaim for my appreciation and spreading good will and energies than anything.  

Sirs, not only have you personally helped me, but from what I can tell, you are paragons for everyone around. We're especially in a unique position at this cusp in time—and we lead the future by living our lives through example and getting what we want to see. The force of God lives all around us and as such, through us. I like to think we have what we have—whether faith in the face of doubt, wisdom and tolerance amidst the darkness and ignorance, wealth amidst poverty, and whatever, Love from hate—it is only so that we show the way by "passing it on". With the remaining 700mBTC, my intentions are to sow some seeds for universal love and peace, tending them so that we soon fruit more seeds (I'll be sharing those later on  )

Appreciate it guys!

Much love,

Risto's gift has been making it very difficult for me to put into words the thoughts I want to convey. At the same time I feel wonderment, I feel blessed and empowered, but above all, I feel happy, and I've felt this way ever since one of my best friends texted me last Friday to share the news about this and from all the positivity that has been radiated since.

I just want to share a few thoughts, thoughts that have stuck with me from Life:

Pastor Jose, a great man who helped rebuild the 9th Ward in New Orleans, remarked to us during a magical lunch when he invited my friends and I into his home one day we were passing through the city:
The purpose of life is to leave it better for the next time we come around.

And I shall with all of you here. Do you realize how special we are to be alive, to be here where we are now, to know what we know? We're lucky! But we're not just lucky, resultantly, we're imbued with meaning and purpose as well; we dance, we laugh, we cry, we suffer, we learn, we die, but, we live, and we're in this together and we owe to ourselves to help and love each other. So be nice, have fun, follow your dreams, for our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

To Risto, thank you sir, you are a true gentleman of the ages. And thank you friends, everyone, for being a part of this journey homeward. This is a hell of a good universe—I'm honored to evolve through it with you all

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

Love always, love eternal,
Đông Anh

wow yeah!!

hehe if you superimpose the pyramid with its opposite it completes a Star of David whose points point to

Echoed. The community would do very well to learn from your independent thinking and heed your analyses.

Thank you for standing stalwartly and helping the community in your own away, sir.

For different individuals, perhaps some forms of contribution are more efficient than others e.g. action over posting on a forum, in AnonyMint's case.

Risto Pietila, in my experience and recollection of him the past two years, has always stood to be a character of utmost integrity in my eyes, for what it's worth. While "Jesus" can be interpreted or perceived as dogmatic, Mr. Pietila is a pretty swell guy and to my limited knowledge, acts in his communities' best interests, i.e. I've never witnessed him misleadingly manipulate others but rather uses the gifts the Universe has given him to do what he does best for some ideal of "better".

I'm just tired of dogma and its followers

I don't lean any which one way except for peace and love but this is one factor (below). The escalation in conflict, especially that of the media war is probably the primary factor.

http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/07/11/israels-government-is-paying-college-students-to-spread-pro-israel-propaganda-on-social-media/

Try
Poloniex.org

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/07/25/israels-iron-dome-is-more-like-an-iron-sieve/

"Ted Postol, a physicist at the university and an expert in missiles and missile defenses, has found evidence that only about 5 percent of Iron Dome engagements result in the targeted rocket being destroyed or even sufficiently damaged to disable its explosive warhead. In the other 95 percent of cases, the interceptor either misses entirely or just lightly damages the enemy munition, allowing the rocket’s intact warhead to continue arcing toward the ground."

I think the disease is so deadly that it caps its own virulence and spread

anyone know what's up with Poloniex?

Hail Eris!  

Seven Stages Of Empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdSq5H7awi8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEdSq5H7awi8&app=desktop

Bitcoin down probably because of too many people are expecting a bubble rise and margin calls on Bitfinex

In the works hmmstrange! We are organizing at least some of these (most feasible and beneficial) items and some others to be executed upon in the short term (after Mastercore), though, I will allow the relevant voices to share when ready since I don't like speaking on others' behalf. I apologize for being perhaps cryptic and not offering more details, but certain developments have to occur first.

I would very welcome us sharing a summary of any general or specific concerns, grievances and suggestions we have in the meantime—we intend to address everything. My thoughts, which I know many of you probably share that we are currently immediately addressing, include operations, expenditures, and organizational structure.


Commenting on your suggestions thus far, proper elections—very much agreed.

Dissolving and handing over remaining funds, since the members of the board tends to have the majority of the MSC distribution, it seems to me to be unnecessarily risky to hand funds over to any entity that may not have the Mastercoin constituents' best interests first. A better alignment of interests would have to first take place before something like this can be considered. I understand that running lean is a forte of XCP et al., but we would do better to emulate that according to our project's needs rather than giving another entity sudden and full responsibility for said needs. In the works.

And re: MaidSafe, I don't think it'll do their project any good to necessitate distracting them have responsibility for the Mastercoin Foundation on top of their respective efforts. We share a lot of aligned interests yes, but governmentally/operationally it doesn't make sense when Nick and David already have a very respected and well-heard voice working together on our board. We are lucky to have them in that capacity, I would not wish any inconvenience on their part having a day-to-day responsibility past the influence they already have since they can achieve the same ends. Of course, I am not speaking for the good sirs but humbly sharing my point of view: it doesn't seem to be very feasible or optimal, at least at first glance.

why not just sell into bitcoin if you want traceability/transparency?

Yeah, it might've been my biggest regret as a board member. It was never even really considered though I did ask what it would cost to have Robby (some six-figure stake and board membership, iirc) before never following up (at least, on my part) because JR seemed confident saying we'd be better off without his offer. Water under the bridge and all that, but pride indeed begets the fall. Lost time we can never get back... but progress nonetheless. dev@ has been amazing especially since they now have a sense of (coordinated) direction moving forward.

Honestly I don't know. I just received an informational report from the bitangels on Storj on that like 20 minutes ago, so I would assume so if the report is valid, which I also would assume. But assumptions are a terrible thing, from what I've learned reading Demian recently

okay this was what I gathered...

here's the full text of the report:

and from the first link,

a bit disappointing upon further review, but again, my guess is that it probably has to do with mastercore. Robby was so right about the importance of a reference client

It has to start with MasterCore before anything else can happen. While we're at it, is there anything you guys want to see the most during the next iteration of features?  I apologize if I haven't been engaging us enough in this aspect. I do know the devs would like some UI input if anyone has anything to say there.

anyway, yes, XCP is winning battles, though the language in the previous posts may be a tad misleading. XCP is also getting the privilege of hosting Storj's crowdfund. This opinion probably is not worth much, but to me it's a testament to how fair a competitor the Counterparty team is and the sheer amounts of investment and sweat that has poured into the decentralized apps scene as a whole.

from the bitangels' mailing list posted a few minutes ago: