What email service are you using?

I just tried registering another account there. It's been about a minute and I haven't gotten any confirmation email. I'll update us in the case it comes through.

edit:I got an email at the time of this post [X:49] in my "junk" folder. Using Gmail.

I don't know about that. Their KYC/AML policy looks put together with some diligent effort. either way, noobs beware is prudent advice

https://btcxindia.com/downloads/BTCXINDIA%20KYC%20AML%20procedures.pdf

I think MaidSafe is rewarding those who host decentralized storage with safecoins, and the means through which you buy/rent storage space are via Safecoins

Mr. Irvine, please correct me if I'm wrong

The miracle of love

without it we probably wouldn't have Bitcoin

Are sidechains secured by a separate set of miners? And will transaction fees from side-chain transactions be the only thing supporting securitization of that side-network? (not entirely rhetorical, I actually am not too familiar with this)

AnonyMint, what do you make of this?

http://www.infowars.com/intel-ceo-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-whether-nsa-can-access-processors/


"Last Summer, shortly after the Snowden leaks began to escalate, Steve Blank, recognized as one of Silicon Valleys leading experts, noted that he firmly believed NSA has backdoor access into Intel and AMD chips. He noted how the leaks highlighted how backdoor “hacking” is the NSA’s go to technique because it is much easier than trying to crack encryption."

I'm convinced you can't 'win' mining unless you happen to be a manufacturer of the latest iteration of ASICS, and even then, it's not a sure thing.

Bitcoin's current model of mining encourages centralization and is highly vulnerable to attack

So... is the plan to integrate the functionality of pools in the protocol instead of how it currently is with Bitcoin mining pools now?

So, going from what you're saying, if the blocksize was unlimited as to increase bandwidth (as opposed to the artificially-imposed 1MB block-size limit), a reliable anti-trust mechanism/protocol would have to be in place to prevent collusion, nefarious or accidental. It seems to me that miners lack a check on their power, at least as of present in the current crop of cryptocurrencies. Currently, the only possible solution seems to be forking the chain, but without a fundamental anti-trust check, that does nothing to prevent future intra-blockchain monopolies and weakens stability.

So, how to check against the ability of mining monopolies to delay/reject transactions of their choosing:
if they're artificially raising the costs of transactions through monopoly power?
if they're targeting/censoring transactions by means of blacklists (for instance, MasterProtocol, Counter-Party, ColoredCoins)?

Does this mean that we have to scale the ability of small miners to be as relevant in proving a block as a monopoly is, am I thinking in the right direction here? It seems that solo miners in the Bitcoin mining scene though probably have just as good a chance of profiting if not better through lack of pool fees (tradeoff: variance increases the smaller the % a miner is of the total hashrate), consequently in a democratic setting, they have as much power as a minority does in any given democracy, which is almost none (though they may have voice).

Instead of the gamble for one entity to receive the one block reward which allocates disproportional power to leading pool operators, how can the nature of the block reward be changed to promote decentralized mining as opposed to the centralization that the current schema promotes?

I apologize for any immaturity of these musings, I just wanted to get these questions out so as to flesh out the details with you all.

that's actually a decent contrarian indicator

Can you have perfect trust with perfect anonymity? Or are they dynamic dualities
I'm having trouble conceiving how trust might work with perfect anonymity and vice versa

No sir, not me. Perhaps it was something else that advised such judgement. Anyways, I volunteer my entire time for this project as does everyone else on the board.

Ad homina and irrelevant, but alright. To clarify, I am in support of the idea of a counter-economics/agorist based seed community with something like the sustainable and scalable ideas that the Venus Project has tried to develop. I agree their idea of economics can use some work, but it can be done. The type of community this product could "sell" would be modeled to promote a positive feedback loop on creating value, socially and economically. This is in the 5+ year plan for me when the world helps itself figure out a provably fair, multi-layered enforceable programmable wiki-governmental protocol. The Leviticus to our Genesis and Exodus, if you will.


The problem Herp, is that your communications have most recently originated a lot of unnecessary dissonance within our very own camp and that is just not something we can afford to continue projecting. I agree, I could've advised you in a more cordial manner Herp, I am sorry and I was wrong there. Like I said, this is something I am against, have fought, am fighting, and will fight in the efforts of the greater cohesion.  Even so, us few Masterminds now are the model for those to come and we cannot afford to unfairly and offensively perpetrate hostility against the other efforts in the field when doing so will only propagate more distractions—this is not a us vs them fight as much as it is a bunch of similarly minded people with similar goals with different manners of accomplishing said goals racing.

I hated the Hobbit movies

Anyway, this may help? https://groups.google.com/a/mastercoin.org/forum/#!forum/dev
Also, ask dominik@mastercoin.org to add you to the dev mailing list if you'd like. There are some xposts from the mailing list to the forum(s), but most serious discussion does take place in a mailing list like Bitcoin does.


quotes from some emails:
Me: moreso from their actual fruits of labor, is there anything we can learn from their [Counterparty's] development process that we can adopt? Craig? How will our focus change from before the release of our attempt of a DEx? JR mentioned that our development process will be a lot more streamlined because we’ll only focus on one implementation, but what is the actual battle plan?

Ron: We have already cut down on development to any implementation other than Masterchest desktop wallet and Omni web wallet, starting from April 1st.

Me: How might this bode for the extraneous implementations' devs?

Ron: The migration process has been interesting. One developer (of the lesser Windows wallet) just silently left for the time being (even though he said he'll start contributing to the other Windows wallet).

The other developer of the web wallet - we actually had a very productive talk with him today, and are looking forward to defining our cooperation in the future. It's still not all rosy, but I think we broke down a long-standing barrier today.

Craig: I agree with JR’s assessment that things will be going smoother post launch.  We were previously moving all of the pieces around at once (spec, outgoing communication, implementation development x 4, etc).  We now (after April 15th), will be able to put each of these pieces into cycles that will feed one another, instead of juggling concurrent priorities.  

We don’t have that luxury between now and April 15th (in order to get Smart Property issuance launched by the deadline), so expect to see a scramble for the next three weeks.

The good news is: we will be focusing on a single reference implementation (thanks, Ron!) and building integration tools for third parties to work off of a common base.  We have not had that up until now.

Me: Very happy to hear, thank you friends

I apologize Herp, this is definitely a very personal topic and I should have made it clear as such.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=265488.msg5756327#msg5756327

I tend to remember the things that stick out to me and at least these messages and onward were fresh on my mind and the last recent messages bothered me to the point that I felt compelled to say something about it not just to you, but all the other unnecessary mudslinging that takes place on these types of threads. I do acknowledge your probably hundreds of other helpful writings.

To me, hostility is not behavior typical of mature adults, but considering your dog-eat-dog view on this world, I understand that it will exist but it is something we can utilize better than most do.



Very much agreed on the second paragraph. To me, there's reason to be the bigger man by not condoning such lower conduct. Yeah, there will always be some nefariousness at play, but most often times that comes from the result of the hostile back-and-forth natures of some entrenched players without getting us anywhere very constructive. You write that conflict is good and a highly creative force. Is it not something that is better applied to us rather than being dismissive with the "enemy" and wasting that force? For instance, the back and forth on page 164 was entirely unconstructive. There was good criticism and conflict and it was more or less dismissed by you when it is apparent that yes, we did need to be more focused on the end-user product and experience rather than rush a product out by a somewhat arbitrarily-set deadline (I say somewhat because deadlines do push progress), and that we should take that criticism to heart from our fellow masterminds. I'm sure the people you fought have just as good intentions as you do for our project, which is what I meant when I fear that your hostility can drive who might be our best supporters away. Ethos, pathos, logos—let's use them.

I welcome criticism more than anything and my best learning and help comes from it, so I  try to integrate said criticism rather than adopt a holier-than-thou attitude towards it and dismissively attack it. For instance, your criticism of the current PR in place is very valid to me and warrants more discussion and is among the topics we should be discussing, not just being hostile to trolls but creatively turning that troll energy into something positive for us. Just some thoughts.

"When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing."
Ch 5, Art of War

Yours,
Antony

Robby Dermody, an individual many of us highly and humbly respect. I wish we could've worked closer than we did with him. I'm still open to do so and talked to Craig about it a month or two back I think. I fear that barriers have been drawn however. Whether or not they can/will be transcended is unknown to me at this point in time.

Herp, while I love the enthusiasm for the project, your brash, hostile defensiveness on this thread is not doing MasterProtocol's image any favors. In fact, your behavior on this thread is quite inflammatory and something I cannot support because it also creates dissonance within our own efforts and drives people away, despite however good your intentions may be. Risking being pedantic, please read what you write before posting and perceive how such writing may be perceived by others. We're all working together here, we all live in the same Yellow Submarine. Let's be a little more friendly, no?

For the record, neither bitcointalk user Herp nor anyone else not officially representing and working specifically with the Mastercoin Foundation reflect the Foundation's viewpoints and positions.

Thank you for your understanding,
Yours,
Antony

I'm just not sure how it can be said this is certain misinformation if you already accept the 7 Chakras.  None of this is falsifiable anyways. These are all metaphysical ideas and perhaps your claim of misinformation is more a reflection of some close mindedness rather than exploring past what you've known or have been told thus far. The point is that these metaphysical ideas offer a meaning or lessons behind them in how to live life well.

Same exact experience, my friend. Changed my life for the better since. Also, look into neutrinos. I'll be abstract since astrology is abstract as all hell, but neutrinos theoretically travel at slightly less than the speed of light because they carry a certain amount of mass, yet are still small enough to pass through the space between atoms. So light from the sun can be seen as "breath from the stars" and can conceivably affect us at a basal level, possibly crystalizing part of our nature (DNA) at the moment of our birth or sometime at or after conception. Also, if subscribing to an As Above, So Below type of viewpoint, abstracting into the fractalized deterministic nature of the Universe can conceivably explain why movements that happen in the stars might reflect what happens here.

http://www.humandesignnw.com/neutrinos.htm

Look into human design as well...wrote this on another forum:

Everything's good