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EP2: Geocaching Madness In the Carolina Wilderness



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gm9CRPZdyk

In episode two of 'Adventures with Microguy', the geocaching film crew take an aging Micro deep into the Carolina wilderness where they brave wild rabbits, rabid squirrels, rarely traveled trails, and ravenous black deer.

Don't miss a moment of the mayhem as the team fights the elements, finds the hidden geocache "Hook, Line, and Sinker", and buries its second flashdrive containing 5,000 GLD of digital treasure.

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Thanks! It's amazing how many people don't read anything I write. lol

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We're going to make this the greatest Facebook group ever created. The people that can read will be a major part of that achievement and be well rewarded.

Bitcoin will never disappear, but the most troubling event at this stage is how "the person Satoshi left in charge of the code has now left the core team."

This has made a dire situation in terms of development, leadership, and direction. With that being said, however, Gavin does have some pretty dumb ideas from time to time. His hairbrained scheme (BIP101) to double the block size every two years is probably the worst idea since the invention of software.

The best thing that could happen would be for me to take charge of the development. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you simply raise the block size limit to 8 MB now, monitor network growth, then implement future forks/updates as needed. This is one line of code change basically.

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Currently, we have around a 25% approval rate on posts. Posting in this thread before a post is approved is unnecessary and causes confusion.

I think this was a business decision based at least partly on the fact that bitcoin core development has reached a standstill. It's pretty obvious to anyone that looks carefully that bitcoin is badly broken in terms of development innovation, adaptation, and growth.

Circle has too much invested to just sit around and wait for the core team to get their act together. We'll probably see a continued business exodus and overall market disintegration until the core team can find some agreement and direction.

The only thing these guys seem to be good at is raising venture capital and burning through cash. If I had been running the company, I would have placed equal focus on payroll integration and kept costs at a minimum. The executive that sent $1.8 million to the wrong person should have resigned/been forced out immediately.

Here's the RT show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5rVjD1XCHE

I can't see any possible way this company can survive under its current management. The company's co-founder was on RT.COM just a few days before this announcement. He should have been at the helm of a company war room instead of jetting around having fun.

Your company is about to crash into an iceberg - not the best time to be traveling around doing interviews.

I was watching an interview with Gavin a little while ago and he said at least 5 or 6 times during the video that Coinbase and Bitpay should have the greatest input over the block size decision. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2&v=B8l11q9hsJM

So a company that can't manage to stay afloat and has an executive sending millions of dollars to the wrong person should have the most input? This is the kind of thinking that is killing Bitcoin.

In my view, Gavin should simply rejoin core and lobby for 8MB blocks now with no auto doubling. Then they can fork again down the road. The XT project should probably be scrapped altogether.

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Good luck with that one. Circle is backstabbing the community, coinbase is trying to coin the entire market with patent hording, Bitpay is about to go belly up, and the core developers are playing tiddlywinks instead of fixing one line of code. How hard is it to change a '1' to an '8'. lol

Have you been keeping up with the news? Circle is distancing itself from Bitcoin and Bitpay is on life support. Why would the price go up?

Unless the core developers get their act together, you can expect a lot more bleeding.

Coindesk finally chimes in: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-processor-bitpay-reduces-staff-in-cost-cutting-effort

Bitcoin is currently a rudderless ship about to crash into a regulatory iceberg.

I guess it would depend on your definition of the word "dead."



It's currently #8 in overall market capitalization with $45K in volume over the last 24 hours; that's more than the #6 and #7 coins combined.

Maybe you could post a screen shot? I'm not finding any Google results (other than this thread) for "Watchable Mode."

As new rumors begin swirling about possible insider hanky panky at Bitpay, another giant in the industry is wreaking havoc on the Bitcoin community.

Circle Internet Financial, a Boston company specializing in global money transfers, has stopped mentioning Bitcoin in its advertising, put an end to instant ACH bitcoin purchases, and severely restricted the amount of BTC users can send and withdraw. Basically, it appears that Circle simply used the bitcoin community to jump-start another Venmo type venture and is now ready to move on to phase two of their master plan.

The following video was published yesterday and now headlines the company’s website. It contains no mention whatsoever of Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ojmQoesKS4

In addition to removing Bitcoin from its advertising, the company is also strongly encouraging all users to convert their balances to USD, and now forces a pop-up during login – with the option to stick with Bitcoin all but greyed out. And to add insult to injury, the company has disabled instant ACH purchases of bitcoin, and placed tight restrictions on the amount of bitcoin that can be sent during any given week.

Some community members are hot under the collar after discovering it will take weeks, and in some instances months, to move their stored bitcoins out of their Circle accounts.

Circle interestingly decided to make this move at a time when they had a cover story related to their new $5,000 Bitlicense, which is peanuts compared to the New York money transmitter license which they needed anyway to conduct their non-bitcoin related money sending activities.

Of course, many Bitcoin industry publications fell for the shell game – hook, line, and sinker – and wrote glowing articles about the Bitlicense achievement whilst ignoring the fact that Circle has just thrust a butcher’s knife squarely into the back of Satoshi and his digital-coin dreams.

Full Story: http://altcoinpress.com/2015/09/circle-spanks-bitcoin-with-account-restrictions-bitcoin-free-ads-and-sending-limits/

First of all, don't segregate men and women into different categories when it comes to these matters. You're basically saying women are stupid when it comes to technology and that's a really bad assumption.

The correct question would be, "how can we all come together and save Bitcoin from the egomaniacal core developers before they flush all of our hopes for Bitcoin down the tubes with their infinite circle jerk?"

How hard can it be to change one line of code!

That fact that Satoshi vanished and the man he left in charge is also now gone.