https://www.sec.gov/investor/alerts/ia_virtualcurrencies.pdf (Issued Jan 4th 2016)

The authorities will always be able to track down the criminals because metadata is nearly impossible to perfectly obfuscate reliably. Analogous to cash where authorities didn't have a block chain but could still track down the criminals.

Thus I don't see any great harm with providing greater block chain obfuscation that didn't already exist with cash.

Users buy drugs with cash. What is the big change with Silk Road? I believe the main reason the government too down Silk Road so aggressively is because the DEEP STATE of our government does not want competition to its monopoly over money and drugs. They don't want a market with economies--of-scale to develop. They prefer small time drug pushers which they can control with their corrupt police and lie of War on Drugs. Former HUD undersecretary Catherine Austin Fitts explained how this underworld operates which she discovered when she used computerization to correlate statistics and patterns on low income housing. Gary Webb apparently "committed suicide" due to his investigative journalism on this topic.

Btw, my detailed post alleging some technical flaws in Apple Pay relative to a hypothetical crypto currency, seems to have disappeared from this blog. Out of respect, I will not repost it. I did think of another flaw:

"Apple Pay can't scale because it requires users change the way they pay with credit cards, i.e. it fights against significant engrained inertia. Adopters need a smart (and secure!) mobile device. They need to choose from competing technologies. The billions can't sign up instantly in a permissionless, decentralized mannner."

I am not at all happy about what is happening to the world right now. We are sinking into totalitarianism. The large companies do what ever they can do protect their fat profits by supporting corruption of the government where it suites. For example, Uber pushing for regulations that lock drivers into their 20% fee.

I am not against the good that a company can do. I understand that vary levels organization is required to accomplish varying goals. I understand some projects have higher minimum economies-of-scale.

But first of all, the scientists say there is a Maunder minimum coming 2030 (declining sun spot activity), with the cooling kicking off in earnest as soon as 2020. They recently correlated that it has predictable cycle. So I don't conflate the global ambient temperature with the pollution of the local environment. The former is a fake propaganda created by Al Gore to enable a global taxation corruption. The latter is real problem that each local community has to decide on. China defecates in their own backyard and uses substandard concrete construction which collapses; U.S.A. typically doesn't.

I could wholeheartedly support Apple's niche if I didn't have to fear that one day as an App creator I might be at odds with Apple's vested interests. And even then I would be at odds with getting my work out to the greatest number of poeple, which is why you guys hired me to help debug the Windows version.

I actually like refined art. I am sort of a perfectionist also. I rejected so many ideas for my new logo because they just weren't good enough for my standard.

I wish I had a really great idea for Apple, but the problem is they are such a huge company already, so they need huge wins now. That is much harder to do.

That being said, I am happy Apple is there to balance Google and I am hoping they find a way to be clever about the problem of network effects.

I'll surely keep my mind open.

Investigative journalist and former CBC News reporter Sharyl Attkisson explains in a TEDx talk why Wikipedia is propaganda for the powers-that-be.

Wikipedia is obscuring the new science:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/12/mini-ice-age-likely-from-2030-to-2040-european-sci/

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/maunder-minimum-petri-dish-of-political-change/

Mark it not just that. Any rational person who studies the evidence about AGW can't but help conclude it is junk science. I am extremely surprised that you have been hoodwinked. Is it because you don't follow the scientific method and thus don't have the necessary rational skepticism.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aesr.ibiblio.org+global+warming

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aarmstrongeconomics.com+global+warming

The main analyst I followed was Eric S. Raymond, the 160 IQ genius who wrote the manuals on open source and who apparently advised or approved of Google's long range plan to disrupt the iPhone so as to make sure no one would have a monopoly to filter Google's ads nor limit the rate of adoption of mobile devices and thus the internet. His prediction that Google would surpass iOS's market share and eventually relegate iPhone to single-digit global share has been consistently correct on trajectory and now finally is complete. In a couple or few years comes the next stage of total collapse of iOS market share due to network effects which I expounded in prior comments. This was never a prediction about a peak in Apple's sales or revenues, although those will follow down later if the collapse in market share due to network effects comes as predicted. Sorry to be so negative but walled gardens and centralized command centers are antithetical to promoting maximum network effects. It just seems to be a cultural mental block that Apple folks can't seem to admit and thus they are destined to repeat the same mistake over and over again. I read that is the definition of insanity. I just don't understand it. How can such intelligent people be so blind.

If Apple doesn't open up iOS so anyone can design, manufacture and sell an iOS device, then afaics they can't avoid the network effects collapse on the horizon. But doing that will remove the status symbol and controlled attributes reason that people buy the iPhone, which would also collapse iOS. In addition, Apple banning Apps such as crypto-currency wallets, porn, gambling, etc., means there will network effects accruing to Android that eventually break the dam in a waterfall collapse of iOS market share as Armstrong explains is how all natural things collapse.

The nominal level of Apple's and iOS App developer's sales are not the relevant data point. When imbalances accumulate, they do so in a way that they can be ignored or wished away for those who want to cover their eyes and ears. While fighting for those highest integration profits, Apple is also setting up their long-term collapse by conceding the network effect. Perhaps they could do both...

Perhaps Apple could open source iOS but keep some proprietary aspects such as Siri that it could maintain the value of its brand.

And lose the dogmatic curation. Don't allow malware, but do create a "Immoral Category" which users have to sign off acknowledging that Apple has not curated such Apps for their ethics and potential risks, outside of being technological malware.

Mark I am so happy to read that you are symphonically or symphoniously applying your creative juices and knowledge.

I started digesting the Bentonite clay (your tip) and also Oregano oil, and in only two days so far I see a significant improvement! Hope it sustains. Apparently the Oregano oil is effective in vitro against MRSA, fungal infections (as effective as anti-fungal medicines and more effective against resistant strains), bacterial infections, Giardia, rashes, etc..

Seems I am feeling good enough to sketch again. I sketched a music and game theme. We'll render that metallic. The social network name will be in the Dope Jam font.

I remember you and John Derry constantly jamming on new art experiments, effects, and Painter brushes. I remember the day you introduced me to one of the band members from Crosby, Stills, and Nash. You were a rockstar programmer, mathematician, and artist to me and on that day I realized they were rockstars to you.

I hope the world can be filled with creative and learning fun for everyone; not all this dark stuff floating around these days.

To keep this post on topic I would just mention that we should see a bit of a DarkFlarb...

Strange that partitioning is listed as scaling option #2 now and scaling option #1 is the exact same thing as B​i​t​c​o​i​n ....

Re: Is there a thread on the funny way B​i​t​c​o​i​n, etc., is showing up in these forums?

Bill Clinton a.k.a. Slick Willy argues that everyone who invested in D​arkcoin a.k.a. D​a​s​h made a profit. I guess he flunked basic math.

For the slowminded, the relevance is that someone took the profit and someone else didn't. Now go review the facts that I presented upthread as to the dominance the insiders had due to the instamine and the ongoing concentration of tokens via the masternode scam. This slime ball argues that if we can't go round up those fools who lost their money and left cryptoland in disgust or who are too embarrassed to admit they invested in the scam, then that means they don't exist. Yet basic math tells us they must exist.

Some people don't seem to know the definition of 'racisim' and conflate it with 'nationalism' or 'patriotism'. They also seem to lack reading comprehension (at least of the English language). I wrote upthread that the G20 had pledged to coorperate to enforce each others' laws on financial crimes. Someone seems to conflate a mutual respect for each nations' laws as stating the USA is dominating the other members of the G20. If anything, it it the old world banksters from Europe and London such as the Rothschilds who are controlling the USA.

So the ethnic Russian totalitarian developer of IOTA threatens to report me to authorities to attempt to violate my free speech rights. 

Why not just inject me with some plutonium with the tip of an umbrella; would be more efficient.

I hope readers are paying attention to nefarious actors we have here in cryptoland. And to the danger of being murdered or otherwise attacked personally simply for attempting to share the facts on the law that is. And for calling out scams and the criminal mindset of a small subset of the population (apparently a large percentage of which live in countries behind the former Iron Curtain where ostensibly corruption is the norm and is apparently engrained in the culture).

@TPTB_need_war, I'm switching into more intense work mode, so I won't have time to reply to your posts. To finish the last unfinished convo: I find your posts about Europe (Belarus particularly) and superiority of USA and its laws too racist and very close to extremism. I think you should be stopped before it's too late, so if I see that this issue progresses I'll report you to your local authorities (not for punishment, but for taking you under a closer control). Your sort of mindset and intolerance can escalate into really destructive behavior. Nothing personal, take care and use your chance for the last word.

Neologisms for the innate, learned conscious, and learned unconscious circuit models:

instinct or archetype
adoptation
sublimina or subliminotion

Good idea. Looks like noone really pays attention to your words so few guys successfully convicted should add some weight. If I were you I would start from CFB to prove that USA jurisdiction is omnipotent (it's one of your wet dreams IIRC - global domination of the US).

You should research Bitmessage to see their protocol.

The unethical slights-of-hand legalese criminal minds make.

Bill Clinton said, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.".

Of course Evan and his accomplices such as yourself have succeeded in defrauding those who bought the P&D when the price rose to nosebleed levels and then crashed. The P&D that was enabled by insiders controlling the float through this shell game, thus able to buy DRK from themselves pushing the price, market cap, and volume up to nosebleed levels which fooled the naive.

Come on, don't think you can get away with that shit with me. Slime-ball AlexGR you are out-of-league trying to debate me. You will lose.

Recent SEC enforcement actions demonstrate there are serious consequences for acting as an unregistered broker, even where there are no allegations of fraud.

 Common Scenario with Risks

The broker-dealer registration issue commonly arises when a company or private investment fund raises capital from investors in a private (unregistered) securities offering using its own employees or third party “finders” to locate investors. When these individuals solicit investors on a regular basis or are specifically compensated for their efforts, they may be required to register as a broker or to be associated with a registered broker-dealer firm.

A company or individual acting as an unregistered broker-dealer is in violation of applicable registration requirements and faces possible government enforcement action, monetary penalties and investor lawsuits seeking rescission of the investment and recovery of the purchase price paid. Registering as a broker-dealer is a significant undertaking and will subject the firm to extensive regulation by the SEC, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and/or state securities regulators. It is normally not a practical alternative for companies engaged in limited or infrequent capital raising activities.

Who is a Broker-Dealer?

The test for broker registration is broad and depends on the particular facts and circumstances. The principal factors the SEC considers include whether the person (1) actively solicited investors, (2) advised investors as to the merits of an investment, (3) regularly participated in securities transactions and (4) received commissions or transaction-based remuneration.

 Finders Exemption. It is generally thought that persons who do nothing more than introduce prospective investors to the issuer, do not participate in negotiating the transaction, and who receive compensation not dependent on or related to the purchase of a security are “finders,” not “brokers,” and are not required to be registered. While a few no-action letters support this position, the SEC has been reluctant to create a “finder’s exemption.”

The SEC has cautioned that persons who find investors for issuers, even in a “consultant” capacity, may need to register as a broker depending on a number of factors, including whether (1) the finder participates in the solicitation, negotiation or execution of the transaction, (2) compensation is related to the outcome or size of the transaction, (3) the finder is otherwise engaged in the business of effecting securities transactions and (4) the finder handles securities or funds of others. A “yes” answer to any of these factors indicates that registration may be required.

The unethical slights-of-hand legalese criminal minds make.

Bill Clinton said, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.".

Of course Evan and his accomplices such as yourself have succeeded in defrauding those who bought the P&D when the price rose to nosebleed levels and then crashed. The P&D that was enabled by insiders controlling the float through this shell game, thus able to buy DRK from themselves pushing the price, market cap, and volume up to nosebleed levels which fooled the naive.

Come on, don't think you can get away with that shit with me. Slime-ball AlexGR you are out-of-league trying to debate me. You will lose.

Has Evan "substantially ripped off" anyone in order to be in a list where actual scammers that stole people's money are in?

An adaptation is only as homomorphic to a theory as it is homomorphic to a function. A theory is a prescient presumption; whereas, adaptation is a non-terminating process of species fitness.

Having studied economics at university I know what currency is.

I fancied Moaneuro but I guess you guys have become less vocal since DarkFlarb broke out of its downwedge (as priced in BTC) recently.

DarkFib or Pinocchio would have been more appropriate for D​a​s​h.

E​t​h​e​r​e​u​m​.... B​i​t​c​o​i​n....
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