For a start Javascript is about the worst possible language you could use to code anything in (so if Solidity has much in common with that then it is doomed from the start).

But in more general terms I think the problem is that "any high level language" is at this stage a bad idea as people simply don't realise how easy it is to find and exploit bugs in code (so you don't want anyone but experts writing such things).

The approach that was taken with AT was to simply do "machine code" (now assembly) and get every nuance correct in each smart contract.

It should be noted that Automated Transactions (AT) has been running for over 1 year on two separate blockchains without incident (and yes I will accept the fact the two blockchains involved don't amount to a huge amount of capital but certainly ATs have been handling amounts above 1 BTC regularly).

There is a reason why we didn't provide a high-level language and developed each "smart contract" ourselves (with literally months of testing).

Getting smart contracts "right" is a very difficult thing to do so you need the "attack surface" to be as small as possible.

AT doesn't run on Nxt (it runs on Qora and Burst), and sure I do accept your point, but I am pretty confident that the design (being much simpler) does not have any similar flaws (the Crowdfund AT is about as minimal as such a thing could ever get).

I would also be happy to take a "bet" in regards to being able to hack one of the existing ATs that have been created by the CIYAM team (we literally spent months testing each one we created).

AT isn't a ledger - I was comparing smart contract systems (i.e. "apples and apples").

(but if you want to add AT to Ripple then you are welcome to do so)

And in the meantime Automated Transactions (AT) is working on two blockchains without issue (and has been doing so for over a year now).

Why not just strip the quotes (if you end up with nothing else other than say +1 it was a pointless post anyway)?

As much as you probably won't like it - if you just got rid of every single ad-sig post then you would get rid of at least 99% of the spam (and my guess is that any AI type analysis will probably end up identifying the ad-sig as being the key indicator for spammers).

(to keep posts made by people such as yourself would require a few exceptions to the ad-sig rule but I haven't seen more than a dozen accounts with ad-sigs that are not spammers)

I am not a supporter of conspiracy theories at all.

The simple test about an exchange is how fast you can buy or sell coins and then how fast you can withdraw your coins or fiat (nothing else much matters IMO).

Perhaps if some independents set up something that just does such tests every day we might have a better guide as to which exchanges are actually the best ones to be using.

It should be up to those trying to claim that western exchanges are legit to prove that they are (so far I've seen no proof at all).

Also - in regards to "what is taxed" the simple answer is "fiat" (not crypto).

So if any tax department is looking at anything they are only going to look at the fiat bank accounts.

My guess is that any "auditing" that is going on is purely on the "fiat" side and that the actual crypto side is not audited at all.

Well even if all of those - that is three out of how many?

And I'm still waiting to see public auditing reports (from any Bitcoin exchange).

And which exchanges are actually "regulated"?

(the firms that audit them should be public as well as their audit reports - if not then I wouldn't say they are any more trustworthy than the "unregulated" ones)

It seems to some extent that this thing about exchanges often is just a "racist" thing - if you're non-western then your exchange must be suspect but if you are western then somehow it is not.

Perhaps it is just sour grapes from western exchanges that can't work out how to make a profit without charging trading fees.

And you are very wrong to think that any Bitcoin exchange is being properly run in the way you are stating (show me who is auditing them for a start).

NOTE: It is possible that Gemini is being run this way but I doubt any other western exchange is (they would be the exception rather than the rule).

The tax authorities don't even understand crypto (so they are hardly going to be sending experts in to check the trading records logs which can all be forged anyway).

In many western countries the "tax man" has actually been outsourced to the businesses themselves (it's known as GST or VAT).

This is nonsense - if the bots are run by the exchange then the fees "cost nothing" (as it is coming from their own profits).

You can't trust *any* exchanges volume in Bitcoin (and never have been able to).

People seem to confuse Bitcoin exchanges with things like regulated stock exchanges - a very naive thing to be doing.

As I didn't do an ICO to raise a huge amount of funds then I don't think we are really talking about "apples and apples" (also my software actually *works*).

Please show us any software that uses "trinary logic" (my preferred comic spelling of this joke) and does something actually useful if you can.

It isn't BTT - it is BCT (for BitCoinTalk) there is no second T word in the name at all (unless you think it should be spelled BiT).

Seems that your IQ is rapidly slipping (you'd be best advised to write down your passwords on paper before you forget those as well).

You can't remove topics from "unread posts" (unless you have blocked the entire board) - but perhaps you mean "new replies to your posts" in which case just don't use that link (you can't remove stuff from there unless you delete all of your posts in the thread).

Not sure why I am bothering to teach you shit that you should already know.

Strange why someone would ask how to "unwatch" something that they never had put on their watch list in the first place (but I did say "half a brain").

Then again - some people have invested thousands of dollars with such a person in the hope that "ternary logic" will be of some use in the future (perhaps it will be suitable for calculating the locations of "super-humans" or something similar).

Remind us all again why we need "ternary logic"?

(maybe you should use that to work out your watch/unwatch problems)

Bottom right of the entire page (next to the "reply" link).

Well - someone with "half a brain" would click on the "Unwatch" link.