Store your password-protected wallet in one place (few places) and the password itself written on paper in another place (few places).
Make sure that those two sets of places don't intersect and hard to link together. That eliminates the risk of physical theft.

The problem with security is not in a cryptography itself (yet), but in the fact that people are unable to protect their secret keys and passwords.

I bet much more secure authentication mechanizm would be for client to register its public key with the server and for the server to issue one-time strings that the client would need to sign with its private key stored in a air-gapped USB hardware gadget (like those USB BItcoin hardware wallets in development). The server can then check if signature is valid against client's public key.

At least trojans and keyloggers won't have a chance against such system.

Thanks. I guess that would be a proper way going forward as soon as all the bugs in the system are ironed out.


Thanks for your interest!
I sent you PM.

The price was bumped to 0.15 BTC for 10k XRP to match current market offerings.
Also smaller batches are possible and negotiable.

Here are the rules:

1) Post the amount of XRP you are willing to sell (in multiples of 10K)
2) Post your XRP originating address
3) Post your BTC receiving address (you'll get 0.10 BTC for every 10K XRP)

The price is subject to change depending on demand.
If demand is low, new price will be announced with new post in the thread and any posts before that will be honoured with the old price.

If you trust me, then you can send first to my XRP address below:
rsp9SHF1eUc5PSySCpB1C1dRtLHpoFffCN
I will fund your BTC address within 24 hours after your post (usually much faster when I'm at my computer).

If you don't trust me you can arrange an escrow with some of the mods on this forum in which case I will send BTC first.
Mod would need to post his receiving BTC address himself after receiving XRP from you.

The process will stop once either 1 Million XRP or March 10th 2013 is reached.
Any XRP I receive after that point will be refunded to their originating addresses within 24 hours after which any activity will stop.
I will be posting updates on how much progress has been made and when the finish line is reached.
You can either post your offers in the thread or PM me. I will be processing requests in batches every few hours.

Welcome!

The situation is actually quite similar.
The decline a year ago was partially caused by the lack of interest/attention from developers (no updates to the client, no news).
Then it exploded when coblee released a new client after a few months of silence.
Guess what? coblee is working on a new client as we speak!


It's fairly easy to imagine that LItecoin would match Bitcoin's popularity today in a span of a few years reaching a few hundred millions USD in market cap (doh.. if those USDs are still around). That doesn't mean that Bitcoin will stay where it's at today.

Remember that Litecoin is just 1.5 years old and it already has a lot going on for it.
1) A diverse ecosystem of pools with Stratum support and P2Pool.
2) Several exchanges for BTC and fiat currencies.
3) It's own stock market (one of the best in the industry) with satellite Bitcoin stock market trading shares of the whole company denominated in LTC.
4) Add to the mix that Litecoin blockchain will get all the optimizations earlier in its evolution (compressed public keys, pruning, etc) to avoid bloat and you are looking at a very neat and clean currency with a lot of loyal users and great potential.

To those who question the competency of Litecoin developers, I would like to remind that Litecoin survived multiple severe transaction spamming attacks in the past (holy war with Solidcoin) and coblee did a good job to provide solutions for them as quickly as possible. The fact that Litecoin is heavily based on Bitcoin was a design decision from the start and it definitely has its own pros.

While Bitcoin software is still in development, SatoshiDice provides an invaluable service to the network by stressing those attributes of the system that would become a larger problem in the future when adoption grows.

It does it in a very careful and controlled way (centralized, easy to shut down) thus providing an incentive for developers to prototype solutions that would deal with an ever increasing volume of transactions gracefully and ahead of time.

We probably wouldn't have performance improvements that we do (in bitcoin-qt 0.8.0) if it wasn't for SatoshiDice. So it seems like a natural component of the ecosystem at this point which might get less popular as the network rebalances and changes some of its characteristics that make SD viable right now.

Litecoin was at the lowest (~ 0.0005 BTC) in February 2012, now it's February 2013 and we see a similar decline (though the absolute numbers are quite a bit higher). It probably has something to do with its natural cycle of evolution. Seems like a good time to buy.

And if you look at the text in the genesis block, you will see that the spirit of Steve Jobs himself is protecting this altchain, so I wouldn't worry too much about its long-term strength and vitality.

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That sounds like a paradox.
I don't see how one parallel reality can affect the existence of other parallel realities (or somehow make them non-existent).
What I can imagine is that such a reality would restrict you from shifting to other parallel realities for some time and create an illusion for you that they don't exist. But if there is a way in, then there always is a way out (even if through the same gateway).

How do I know?
Well there aren't many options here. The experimental evidence suggests that either we can affect the laws of physics with our intent in the same one reality, or we don't actually affect anything with our intent but instead are shifting ourselves to a slightly different parallel reality where the outcome of the experiment is slightly more inline with our intent. But from our perspective there seems to be only one line of continuity of those shifts that we perceive as our past. I prefer to think of it as we are shifting billions times per second from static frame of one parallel reality to a static frame of another parallel reality and the compass indicating where we shift to is in fact our intent.

Also I don't like the idea (as some physicists suggest) that the Universe is forking into parallel realities. It seems more likely that all those parallel realities are already there and have always been there, what really forks (or shifts) is our attention, our point of view or awareness.


Any objectivity exists there only by agreement.
If we both look at the sky on a sunny day and agree that the color of the sky is "blue", then what we have created is a shared token of our experience of that color, however the actual representation of how we see it in our mind's eye might be very different from one another. I will never be able to explain to you how I actually see it. Never.

And as crazy as it might sound, as we are looking at the sky (and therefore measuring it in QM terms), the sky is looking at us (that's what symmetry in QM math suggests) and therefore it might as well be very well conscious, though it wouldn't always give us a hint about it.

That's what the presenter in the OP video meant when he said: "we're correlations without correlata". What we perceive is the difference in vibrations between each other, but not the vibrations themselves, if that makes more sense.


Yes, and mathematically it is way more elegant and consistent.

"You are what you've been looking for"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyf38s4pjD0

Seek no more!

Can you objectively tell me how I see colors?

The many-worlds interpretation is a second leading among the physicists after the Copenhagen interpretation which turns out to be a hoax.



It's the other way around.
The experimental data demonstrates that you can change the result of a measurement with your intent. Google "random number generators experiments" or watch the videos that I posted in my second post.

So you in fact are shifting between parallel realities with your intent although the immediate effect isn't as big as you might expect. That comes with training.

Does statistically significant result (as in Dean Radin and Rupert Sheldrake videos i posted earlier) qualify as mystical nonsense?
I'm not sure who is talking science here

Very good point!
There is no objective proof that the person who attempted to stop the bus with the power of his mind and the person who got splattered on the pavement is the same "observer" (even though we perceive them both as the same human body). So maybe he actually succeeded and is alive somewhere, but we forked into a possible universe and observed a version of that experiment where he failed because this is what our beliefs suggest should happen.

So the real experiment turns from "can this ever happen?" to "can somebody change my beliefs so that I can observe it?" and it is more up to you than the person conducting the experiment. What we see is only there for us to see.


Well It's a matter of taste. I personally liked it.
it's on topic because the video in the OP mentions one of the interpretations to be a simulation on a quantum computer (when stretching the analogy to a breaking point) and that's what the whole movie is about.


I like this idea a lot, but it seems that consciousness playing the game would still be a singularity and can transcend any such system. So in that sense the simulation would still be an illusion and not the thing onto itself and that's what the movie demonstrated very well.


Well obviously the computer needed to simulate physical reality would need to be built from something other than matter and operate in something other than space

Also we shouldn't extrapolate our experience of starving for energy based on our little knowledge of where we are and how things work to the conclusion that energy is somehow not abundant.


Thanks, I will look into that.

From the presentation in the OP author suggests that "measurement" and "entanglement" are mathematically the same process. So we can only measure something by becoming entangled with the system we are measuring and that makes our state (what ever we are) part of the overall equation and therefore affects the outcome of the measurement (only for us). Also in the same sense as we measure the system the system is measuring us, since entanglement is a symmetric state. So in an attempt to find greater degree of unification one can assume that if we are conscious and our relationship with the system is symmetric then the rest of system is made of consciousness as well (it wasn't mentioned in the video but is an extrapolation on my part)

As I understand decoherence model still doesn't give a complete solution of the measurement problem and requires extra layers of interpretation as opposed to many-worlds theory, which seems to be gaining some experimental evidence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMoyu3K0wtY

How is "consistent histories" different from "multiple worlds" interpretation in brief?
They both seem to avoid the term "wave-function collapse" which was artificial to begin with, but the former still suggests that "classical measurements" are irreversible macroscopic phenomena while the mathematics presented in the video in OP says that everything is reversible.


I guess it would be interesting to find different laws of physics in different galaxies. That would put the nail on the idea of a Universe as some objective underlying reality and focus our attention back to who we are and what we do about it.

The question in the OP implies there is a difference, where in fact there isn't.
We all create the Universe as we go by observing it.
Think of it as a Universal Blockchain of consensus reality in which everyone of us has some divine hashpower.
"Us" doesn't imply just humans, but all beings.

Apparently, some of us do...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnLj8DMqaC8

I agree, but it seems that scientific evidence is more than just ignored, it is being actively suppressed and ridiculed. I see only one reason for such behaviour - competition. The real science is being developed under the closed doors, while big money do as much as possible to misguide the open popular science to keep the rest of the population uncompetitive and therefore easier to control. It's as simple as that.

Here is another few examples of how statistically verifiable data is not even being looked at because conclusions it leads to are considered to be impossible by definition. That's not how real science should approach things IMO, and surprisingly one big corporation gives those shouted down scientists a platform to talk to the world about these ideas and the data they have collected. So, Google seems to be a good guy so far.

"The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence" with Rupert Sheldrake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnA8GUtXpXY

"Science and the taboo of psi" with Dean Radin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_O9Qiwqew

And if you haven't yet watched the movie "The Thirteenth Floor" (1999), I welcome you to do so, it's quite on topic and it's brilliant!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/

It turns out that the most popular and widely taught interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, so called Copenhagen interpretation, which states that the waves of probabilities somehow collapse as a result of measurement is mathematically untenable. Well, it was just about time... Author leaves us with two options: multiple worlds model (read parallel realities, which is mathematically valid) and his own interpretation called zero worlds model, which states that there is no underlying objective reality at all and we are all creations of our thoughts. He didn't say where those thoughts come from though, but that would probably be outside of the scope of his presentation.

So the bottom line is - be careful with what you read and who you trust in mainstream science.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
Enjoy!

These are simply different manifestations of the same one energy.


I'm speculating here (as I haven't studied pyramids extensively), but I can imagine that certain geometric configurations might have non-local effects on distribution of energy within certain regions of space (either inside of the pyramid or somewhere outside). As a result it might have certain effects on consciousness of the people within those regions of space (either inside or some place outside). The rejuvenation temple comes to mind as an example, but I'm not sure pyramids were designed for that exact purpose.

So again it's not that they were necessarily built to harvest energy per se, but more likely to focus energy in a certain way to have certain effects. And if you are tempted to ask again what kind of energy, then my answer would be "The Field Energy", the one that permeates everything and the one we are all made of. Think of it as a stem-cell energy which can take any form depending on the geometry it traverses. Even in modern particle physics scientists observe phenomena of one type of "particles" decaying into another type of "particles", so those types of energy (heat, electricity, magnetism, electromagnetism and kinetic energy) that you mentioned are not intrinsic to themselves.


The right part of my brain (a quantum part) triggered a pattern recognition scheme and highlighted that particular video as fitting for the conversation content-wise, however the left part of my brain (a sequential part) recognized the form of the presentation as way too unusual for the population of this board to conceive and advised to proceed with caution. I then made the decision to proceed with posting and study the effects it would cause, as by not doing so I would have achieved nothing. So, yes, I like to troll at times

Here is another video that shows how interconnected everything is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4mDcvOsBDY
This time it discusses several scientific experiments that are being conducted at present time and touches upon topics of non-local effects related with frequency, vibrations and energy. We are making a very good progress in this area and maybe at some point our civilization will be able to comprehend the mystery of the pyramids and their purpose.

I'm not sure I understand the question, are there different forms of energy?
There is only one form of energy I know of, the one that animates this whole thing called Universe.
The rest of it boils down to geometry.
How this energy is distributed and how it interacts with itself is defined by geometry and geometry alone.
Even what we experience as forces in physical reality is just a product of geometry of the space-time itself.

There is a good video about it, but the background setup is way too new age for many people to take it seriously...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7R-QsYMX20

I'm not saying that pyramids were built to harvest the energy, maybe they were or maybe they focused energy into the Earth or something else entirely, but I wouldn't easily let go of the idea that geometry of the pyramids wasn't coincidental.