Well you've sure got a point there.

I always thought that if I stuck $100 into Apple I should have as much say as these guys. I've got some pretty neat ideas for Apple that I think are better than theirs anyway.

See if you can't convince them of your "one man one vote" idea. Sounds ideal to me  

(P.S. Speaking of whom, here's quite an entertaining little skit for those looking to fill 2 minutes).

Well even if you invest now you should still be able to afford yourself some nice accommodation to cope with up and coming developments by the time they arrive



...here's a fellow traveller who might offer to keep you company.

Dash market shorts starting to cover as 4-hour correction now closing.
Somebody make Charlie Lee a nice cup of tea

I think the consensus was that that slack had become so toxic and conflicted that it wasn't worth a cent.

So as you correctly say...genius move

This illustrates a couple of significant points.

a. That every coin is going to support some kind of privacy or other and for that reason it's going to fade into the background as a USP soon

b. Of the above, Dash is the ONLY (yes, only) case that doesn't do it by either diversifying the coin supply into transparent/opaque = resulting in destruction of fungibility, the very thing you're trying to optimise - or with recourse to an offchain solution

i.e. it inherits the bitcoin model and supports on-chain transparent fungibility. Thats the cash model going back 10,000 years and the reason Dash could support it is because its network has a pro-active protocol that takes a holistic approach to mixing, rather than doing it transaction by transaction. i.e. it's organic and its privacy improves over time because all of the coin supply is subject to mixing on an ongoing basis. Even if you don't use the "private" option in your particular wallet, someone before you did and someone after you will. History is constantly being scrubbed, day after day.

The other beauty of this approach is that it's not centralised in the protocol. Hypothetically de-anonymise one transaction ? So what. You need to do it all again just to find one more. On the other hand, protocol-based obfuscation is an all or nothing math-based tightrope. You solve one problem and you've cracked the whole chain.

Well lets hope for the sake of my remaining XMR holdings it isn't already priced in

He might have a point though. Maybe we should create a new coin..."the Charlie Lee way !":

 • start from scratch and dismiss the formally expressed community will to conserve it as an "original"
 • ditch the articulated protocol so...
 • no native network monetary value
 • interest on holdings
 • ...or incentivised nodes
 • ditch the idea of making crypto "user friendly" through the worlds first active-consensus based DAPI
 • ignore 10,000 years of monetary history which says that transparent fungibility is a high value monetary property and worth doing properly
 • forget the idea that a monetary "bearer instrument" (commonly known as "cash") ceases to be that unless the blockchain can scale natively
 • dismiss the problem of giving all 4 stakeholders a voice that allows them to assert their views on the asset's governance, instead of only bitcoin's 3

Only 1 problem to solve then - how would we gain any traction after creating Charlie Lee's "perfect cup of tea"  

Ah ! Get Evan's brother to list it on the world's biggest bitcoin exchange exclusive of any other altcoin - that should do it.

(Oops, Evan hasn't got such a brother - he might have to succeed on merit   But wait, @SatoshiLite has maybe we can use his He's a "fair" guy after all).

The nodecount is around 70 off the ATH at the moment which isn't abnormal. It can easily be a few of hundred off it from time to time as node collateral changes hands.

http://178.254.23.111/~pub/masternode_count.png

When the price rises there's more market liquidity and therefore an increased number of trades of a magnitude that can count for node collateral, so you get nodes disappearing and reappearing. Answer therefore is likely yes - it could be the reason for the price drop (or at least the two are related, though we don't know which is the chicken and which the egg ).

Well none of mine are as effective as that little "squiggle" on your flowchart.

That sure is a handy tool for when you're short on cognizance

Well at least your spelling's an improvement on your analytical deductions, even though it has some ways to go

Feel free to demonstrate this claim at your convenience 

Meanwhile, if you include the one design priority you deliberately left out then you'll in fact discover that Dash is as yet unsurpassed as a privacy coin 

Speaking of which, how's your forehead these days ?

I hear these come in handy. You might even be able to pick one up on alphabay using a certain stealth coin that doesn't tax your sense of injustice so acutely. There you go - relief for you on 2 fronts at once - don't say I'm not helpful !

You'll need it because apparently...



Your trading tips are of course also appreciated. Hopefully you'll stick around

A visit to your local optician should fix that.

One theory:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg17475939#msg17475939

And:

You might be right but I think the techno-trainspotters usually prefer to stay on the platform. Their anoraks have more impact there and "business priorities" have more to do with locating the nearest cludgie than anything industrial.

We must always keep an open mind though since I see that re-enfocements have arrived and their market is being scaffolded up as we speak to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars, so the "threat" has been picked up on radar alright  

(I just hope their anoraks don't melt in the intense heat of the train passing   )

A solitary sugar grain tells the story...


Bitcoin: Some traceable ‘lumpiness’.



Dash: Bootifully transparently fungible and not traceable.



Obscurity Tech: wtf ?! (Am I looking at a sugar bowl or a steaming plate of bat's p*ss with one floating grain that I'm allowed to see   ).

Out of curiosity, what is the "Great Gustav" ?

Cups and handles are fractal patterns that you can see at any scale. Take your pick and we can sell each other the bridge  

What's "different this time" is that we're at the right end of a humungous great 3-year cup & handle trading pattern instead of the left end  

Yes. It is indeed the Huobi Bitcoin exchange.

Apologies for my eccentric take on common terminology. Gives me occasional boredom relief.