I also had similar on-topic posts (often disputing or refuting their false statements) deleted on the self-moderated threads (if I have time I will dig out the deletion messages from my PMs and post here). Be careful reading or posting on any self-moderated threads run by Vcash/Vanillacoin scammers, as they selectively delete posts to leave a very misleading impression of the discussion.

Remember this is the coin being run by someone who ripped off Bitcoin's code, violated the MIT license (hard to do) and fraudulently sells it as written from scratch. Nothing they do or say can be taken at face value, it is a scam from the core.

Refs:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=920344.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1151160.msg12128046#msg12128046

I don't know what Steemit Inc. plans to do for signup options. They are giving away money (minimum 10 Steem to open an account) so they have to be careful to protect against abuse.

I'll offer another signup option here for bitcointalk forum members:

If I know you and have interacted with you: free

Hero/Legendary: free
Sr.: 1 USD
Full: 2 USD

Any: 5 USD

Payment in advance and can be made in any top 10 crypto.

You will receive a new account with up to 10 powered up Steem. Powered up Steem gives you access to the network (bandwidth), voting power, and earns interest. It can't be powered down (converted to liquid Steem that can be traded on an exchange) until you reach 10x the minimum account balance (currently 10 Steem). Powering down, when possible, is 1/104 of the balance per week.

PM me to get your account.

Steemit link

Possibly.


Unlikely as the structure of the code base is quite different. Monero's implementation could be a source of sample code for people wanting to use LMDB for all sorts of things though.


It seems quite portable when moving one application across platforms but different applications using the same database are still different.

I speculate that AP has made a huge profit on Siacoin so far. Nice pick dude.

It was. When the original dev abandoned it and interest dried up before I took his place, they deactivated it. They still have the wallet and could reactivate it, but they seem to be in a phase where they aren't adding many coins. Still having been there before and that they already have a wallet may help.

Well you mostly got lucky on the transfer. The block time is 4 minutes which makes it faster than BTC but not a transaction speed star.

One of the things I've been thinking about is fast transactions and I have some interesting ideas that seem implementable, so that may improve but I can't promise anything right now.

Anyway, welcome to AEON, happy to answer any questions.

That's basically my point. The project has been derailed so Greg can work on distributed algorithm math problems he finds more interesting. To me it looks like a misuse of ICO investor money, but I guess it is possible ICO investors were told about that. I don't really know. Ether way it looks like serious lack of focus and raises severe time to market issues.

All of those accounts are mine (except those that have been transferred to the associated person). No Monerians other than me voted or did anything else with steem afaik. I wouldn't even say I "voted" either, I mined it. For all you know I could have bought Synereo tokens too, either at ICO or after (but I haven't). As far as which platform will be successful if any, I really don't know, as I said earlier.

Then how can you possibly judge competence? You say, "Please point me to one commit that exhibits actual competence" but how is that even possible if you aren't qualified to assess competence when it is right in front of your eyes?

Most of the commits (virtually all in fact) are quite competent. There are a few errors here and there, of course, but that's normal for software development.

One could say the same thing for the other metrics that were pointed out. Market cap, trading volume, market cap ranking, coingecko ranking, etc. None of these point to a failed project. It is blatantly obvious as demonstrated by verifiable ongoing work that your claim that "development has halted" is nonsense or a deliberate lie. You're just 100% full of shit and it is obvious. Maybe you really aren't trolling, I can't say. But if not then incredibly stupid.

Interesting stats:

Total coins on deposits: 61520.53000000 (26.16242123%)
Amount of active coins:  173627.92760719 (73.83757876%)

Over 25% of the supply has been placed in deposits. That number is quite a bit higher than it was several days ago.

Seriously dude, WTF is wrong with you? Development has not halted, there is development like every day, a significant new update with massive performance increases is imminent. It attracts not only capable (many) but also top tier developers like hyc and the unfortunately now-deceased warptangent, and even idiots like me who help (if you could call it that) with debugging occasionally.

There is no reason to insult the excellent developers who have worked hard on the project for little money or as volunteers and done great work. If you want to insult me, go for it. Don't insult them with your retarded trolling.

Maybe they have to work together but it isn't really clear at what level. It may end up more like an investment club where the DAO members just pick where to put the money and don't get more involved than that. (I'd say that is about the best case; anything other than that is more likely to be a horrific failure, if that also isn't). The whole thing is a novel experiment and will likely fail one way or another, but 1) we don't necessarily know how, and 2) it isn't certain.
 

Exactly. When Steem first started none of us really know what we were doing. One of the few things we figured out is that you needed to mine with multiple accounts, and possibly using all different accounts on different computers. So I figured I would mine a bunch of well known forum names, etc. to protect them from squatters and then turn them over to the original owners. The coins I mined with them I transferred to my main account.

@ap, I contacted you about access to the account, let me know if not received.

@jwinterm, I agree with you to a large extent. It is a crowded space and all new platforms, ventures, etc. are risky and usually fail. My main quibble would be that there does seem to be a fair amount of churn, and even for reasons that are well addressed by a blockchain platform. Specifically, you mentioned voat, which I don't know a lot about but according to wikipedia, acquired a lot of users who left reddit in response to censorship and policy changes. Voat itself has faced outside pressure in the form of its Paypal being closed and being kicked off hosting. It is possible that users may churn between various platforms as they are pressured to adopt policies the users don't like, and then the users end up on a blockchain which is more resistant to such pressure. Or this may not happen, and it even if it does, it might be neither Steem nor Synereo that ends up benefiting. I'd also quibble that while mining, vests, etc. is interesting to those of us in the crypto space, it will be ignored and largely invisible to end users who will just see growing power (like karma) and rewards denominated in dollars.

@DecentralizeEconomics, I watched the Synereo youtube videos and I saw a very theoretical approach and major issues with lack of a core concern about time to market. I don't know what all the work on Ethereum/Casper has to do with Synereo at all or helping users in the social media space, other than Greg's interest in both. To me the project looks in danger of being unfocused on delivery and derailed into a vehicle to support Greg's math habit.

Some are but my experience in the past with other coins (most recently HODL) has been plenty of trading via a thread. In fact even after the coin was on a couple of small exchanges there was still trading via the thread because some people are more comfortable with that. I only closed the thread because the dev wanted to consolidate trading on the exchanges and asked me to. This coin just doesn't have enough interest currently.

Just let me know, the name is yours for the asking, kid.

You're lying because for one thing the forum names I reserved are only held by me (no cabal, no IRC anything) and for another they are all open to be given to the original user of the name at no cost, including you. Please explain how that is a stunt.

So stop making shit up.

I'm glad we've come to an agreement. Do be sure to let me know when you want the steem account I reserved for you.

It was not an instamine. Unlike well known instamines such as Dash, coins were not mined instantly or at an accelerated rate due to any kind of flaws in the code. They were mined at a almost exactly a constant (but fast) rate, as designed and stated in the white paper. That's a fastmine, not an instamine.

Also, I'm not "involved" in any meaningful sense, I just mined it. If anything my presence as an independent outsider demonstrates that it wasn't entirely rigged.

Premine? No. Steem was not in any way a premine.

Fastmine sure. (Only qualifier there is that it has unlimited supply and mining so eventually even the initial fastmine will be diluted, but it will take a long time.)

It wasn't an instamine; coins were created at the specified rate and nothing happened to create a big chunk of coins instantly (difficulty adjustment was excellent). It was certainly a fast-mine, with a large chunk of coins mined in a week. It had barriers put up to participation, and yet at the same time everything was fully disclosed, including that fast that there were deliberate barriers put up.

I've stated all this on the Steem thread BTW. People can make up their own minds whether to support it in any way, I'm not out here selling it. Given the clear disclosure and distribution according to the stated schedule I don't see anything even remotely fraudulent. "Unfair" perhaps (and only perhaps because "unfair" is so subjective), but fraudulent, no.

Oh, I see, your agenda is that you're one of those Vanillacoin/Vcash retards who doesn't accept that your dev stealing Bitcoin's code and lying about it makes both him and the coin worthless pieces of shit, and you hate that I'm one of the people telling people about it. Can't fix stupid.