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2101  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 08:15:54 PM
Definition of Non-flawed?

It's obvious, isn't it? For example, if someone is able to spend someone else coins then it's a flawed cryptocoin.

By April,  I will have a Nxt clone that uses a database and does not have the idiotic 'secret phrase' security.

How about that,  very specific,   1 BTC wager?
2102  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 08:12:33 PM
Based on some of the comments in the past few pages, I'm reposting my PoS economy vs. PoW economy example. I hope this shows that the Nxt PoS forging system is as fair as it can be in a free economy, and is a big improvement over the Bitcoin PoW mining model. Wealth will always give you some advantages in any free economy, but at least in Nxt, these advantages don't come at the expense of the poor.
Pandaisftw also made some great points above regarding rich vs. poor in Nxt and Bitcoin.



"...

It seems to me that the distribution of wealth in a bitcoin economy can be altered much more easily in comparison to a 100% PoS coin economy simply because of the fact that spent coins do not somehow reappear in the wallet of the spender just because he happens to own a lot of coins.

..."

From a discussion in my FB page (I quote the other guy).
What are your thoughts?


Here's my take on it klee, complete with example economies.

That guy has some good thoughts, but he doesn't consider the fact that with PoW, due to economies-of-scale, it will always be easier for the rich to secure an increasingly greater percentage of the profit from mining. For example, the average joe will have to spend top dollar to buy one miner, but someone (or government/corporation) who has a lot of money can either buy them en-mass and receive a huge discount, or manufacture them directly at an even larger discount. This means that the little guy's slice of the PoW pie will get increasingly smaller because it will always cost him more to maintain his hash rate, while the rich who are already making a much higher ROI will always be able to maintain their advantage at a discounted cost.

In PoS the ROI is the same regardless of how much money you have. As a simple example, suppose we have a PoS network of 100 people, and they all have their accounts open for forging 100% of the time. The richest person has 5% of the total wealth, the poorest person has 0.01% of the total wealth, and everyone else has something in between. For simplicity's sake, let's assume this is a closed system and no new wealth enters the economy. Let's also assume the the richest person decides to be a "parasite to society and offer NOTHING back", i.e. he just sits on his 5% and collects fees from forging. Now, the poorest person doesn't have this option, so he decides to be industrious and starts a business that provides him a moderate amount of income that allows him to earn more than his cost of living/doing business. After one year in this economy the poorest person will still have no less than 0.01% of the total wealth thanks to the interest he earned on forging, and will in fact have gained extra wealth thanks to his successful business. Let's say he now owns 0.02% of the total wealth. Now let's look at the richest person. After one year of doing nothing except collect transaction fees from forging, he earns no more than 5% of the total interest from forging thanks to the way PoS forging works. However, he had living expenses, so we must subtract these from his earnings. Let's say he was wise and didn't exceed the amount that he earned from forging; however, when you subtract his expenses from his forging profits, his net income for the year is obviously less than 5% of all interest earned from forging that year. Since everyone else was also forging 100% of the time, this means his wealth has grown at a slower rate than even the person who earns just enough from his job to pay for his living expenses. Suppose this continues unchanged for the next 10 years. Each year the parasitic rich person's wealth grows at a slower rate than the basic forging interest rate, and each year the poorest person is able to increase his wealth at a greater than basic forging interest rate, thanks to his savings. This is just a little scenario to illustrate that in PoS, while the rich may be able to sustain their lifestyle by doing nothing but forge, their wealth will grow at a slower rate than anyone who has a job that can support their living expenses, so long as everyone is forging. Forging is a trivial task, so there is no reason why everyone shouldn't be able to forge. Who is rewarded the most in a PoS system? The industrious, just like in every other healthy economy.

Now let's take a look at a simple PoW economy. Again, let's suppose this is a network of 100 people, the richest person has 5% of the wealth and the poorest person has 0.01% of the wealth, and no new wealth enters the system. Lets be optimistic and assume everyone is committed to mining, and they all set aside 10% of their wealth to pay for mining hardware and electricity costs. The poorest person can only afford one of the newest ASIC miners, and since he is only buying one, he pays the full retail price. The richest person realizes that he can save a lot of money by manufacturing his own ASIC miners, and he can even sell some to the other members. So he sets up a nice little ASIC farm of 1000 miners for himself which he was able to finance for much less than full retail, and he pockets the money the poorest person and many of the other members gave him to buy one of his miners. So, at the end of the year, the richest person owns a large percentage of the 10% everyone set aside to pay for their mining costs,  and he was also able finance and operate his miners much more cheaply, giving him a much higher ROI. So the richest person has earned much more than 5% of all mining profits for the year, and the poorest person has earned much less than 0.01% of all mining profits for the year. The poorest person is a pretty industrious guy though, so he has his own business which has enabled him to earn a small profit, and he's doing okay, and he might just be able to justify upgrading to one of the new model of ASICs that the richest person is releasing for next year. His neighbor is not so industrious though, and he is thinking he won't be able to afford a new mining rig next year. Obviously, the richest person in this example is also industrious, because he set up an ASIC manufacturing business, but this is an opportunity that is only afforded to the rich. Lets say his neighbor, who is not quite as rich, and not as industrious, simply bought 800 ASIC miners from him at a 40% discount rate from full retail, and then sat back and did nothing all year except to be a "parasite to society and offer NOTHING back". Well, he is still receiving a MUCH higher ROI than the poorest person who could only afford one miner at full retail.

So, your guy was right in saying "the distribution of wealth in a bitcoin economy can be altered much more easily in comparison to a 100% PoS coin economy". It can be altered much more easily in favor of the rich than a purely PoS economy.

I have to quote this... looks really long.. but important to read.
2103  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 08:10:39 PM
Would you like to make a wager on that statement?  BitBet?  Friendly wager?  1 BTC.

What conditions? I may accept this bet.

That FrictionlessCoin will not create a Nxt clone. Pick a time bound.

Non-flawed Nxt clone by the 3rd of April, 2014. 1 BTC, escrow via Anon136, I pay for his service. He will hold 2 BTC and give them to one of us on the 4th of April. Ok?

Definition of Non-flawed?

Improved version yes,  but which flaws need fixing?  I heard that there were too many of them to fix and that it's fundamentally broken.
2104  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 08:04:39 PM
Would you like to make a wager on that statement?  BitBet?  Friendly wager?  1 BTC.

What conditions? I may accept this bet.

That FrictionlessCoin will not create a Nxt clone. Pick a time bound.
2105  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 08:03:40 PM
I dont think nxt could get sued. Theres no one to sue? No official body? And all were doin is making lego nxt more viewers

The conye guys got sued.  So they can sue any exchange that holds Nxt.  
2106  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 08:02:34 PM
You clearly have a lot of energy and now a lot of NXT, so why not work to make NXT increase in value? It will only help you add to your NXT that you have been "borrowing" from the poor newbies with weak password and your NEX suckers

Just BUILD on NXT and that would add value. You don't need to be a troll anymore now that you have so much NXT in your pockets.

The issue here is that Friction unfortunately has no skills to build anything worthwhile

Would you like to make a wager on that statement?  BitBet?  Friendly wager?  1 BTC.
2107  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 08:01:21 PM
You actually made a useful post or two, thats progress! Then you went back to your old self...
You clearly have a lot of energy and now a lot of NXT, so why not work to make NXT increase in value? It will only help you add to your NXT that you have been "borrowing" from the poor newbies with weak password and your NEX suckers

Just BUILD on NXT and that would add value. You don't need to be a troll anymore now that you have so much NXT in your pockets.

yuriygeorge converted (where are his nice orderbook charts?) maybe you can too?

darkNXT is what I called the NXT that is in an account without any public password. Kind of like dark matter. Only 64 bit protection so you can easily crack the publicly accessible NXT. I think you said you can crack any such acct in a few hours instead of the years it is supposed to take so clearly you are the master cryptographer we need to bow down to.

James

What is this aboud darkNxt?  Sounds interesting,  what exactly happened and how much bounty is in those accounts?
2108  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 07:59:06 PM
is it too late to buy nxt for 100x profit ?  Undecided

Not too late for a 100x profit with NEX.

You do know that Nex used to be camera line by Sony?

They might sue you for trademark Wink

And even if not, you will be completing on search engines with Sony cameras

Sure... and Nxt can be sued by Lego Mind Storms.

http://www.nxtprograms.com/
who would get sued?


Using the same name as a 'robotics toolkit'  or the same name as a camera.

Who do you think will get sued first?
2109  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 07:53:29 PM
is it too late to buy nxt for 100x profit ?  Undecided

Not too late for a 100x profit with NEX.

You do know that Nex used to be camera line by Sony?

They might sue you for trademark Wink

And even if not, you will be completing on search engines with Sony cameras

Sure... and Nxt can be sued by Lego Mind Storms.

http://www.nxtprograms.com/
2110  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 07:39:16 PM
is it too late to buy nxt for 100x profit ?  Undecided

Not too late for a 100x profit with NEX.
2111  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 07:38:45 PM
And emule gets an answer he cant come back to. Loser him and fc are probs siamese twins or summat.
Nexern definatley said march for an estimated fully working client.
I dont know where emule the homosexual donkey gets his false facts from?

March?  Can we get it earlier?  Is the source code out there?

you dont need him there are two other clients just use them! till the time hé is finished we have moved on to eterum and Emunie and many other.

I'm not familiar what is open source in Nxt and what is not,

Which clients are available for the taking?

What about block explorers,  any available that I can take?

Instant wallets,  does one exist?

How about Android and iOS apps,  any one available?

lol, thanks FC.


Yes "take".  Oh, that's not polite... my apologies .. "borrow".  What can I borrow?
2112  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 07:31:52 PM
And emule gets an answer he cant come back to. Loser him and fc are probs siamese twins or summat.
Nexern definatley said march for an estimated fully working client.
I dont know where emule the homosexual donkey gets his false facts from?

March?  Can we get it earlier?  Is the source code out there?

you dont need him there are two other clients just use them! till the time hé is finished we have moved on to eterum and Emunie and many other.

I'm not familiar what is open source in Nxt and what is not,

Which clients are available for the taking?

What about block explorers,  any available that I can take?

Instant wallets,  does one exist?

How about Android and iOS apps,  any one available?
2113  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 07:18:12 PM
And emule gets an answer he cant come back to. Loser him and fc are probs siamese twins or summat.
Nexern definatley said march for an estimated fully working client.
I dont know where emule the homosexual donkey gets his false facts from?

March?  Can we get it earlier?  Is the source code out there?
2114  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Nxt source code flaw reports on: January 31, 2014, 06:41:48 PM
Good algorithm works equally good on 2 wallets, 3 wallets and 101 wallets and indefinite number of wallets. Bad algorithm needs someone like Come-from-Beyond to make unverifiable claims that 'it works, believe me!'

C'mon! It's not religion, it's programming!

The right way to do this is to have some penalty for fat wallets and encourage a lot of small wallets.  So 100 small wallets should make more than 1 fat wallet.

ok so then i break down my one 50M account into fiftty 1M accounts

come on you're going to have to do better than this.  if you fell for this logical trap, I dont see how you are EVER going to do your own coin...

Then go with proof of burn... the bigger the risk the bigger the gain.  Just like Bitcoin,  the bigger the investment on mining hardware,  the bigger the gain.   That sounds more fair to me than a bunch of fat cats earning coins for just hoarding them.
2115  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 06:29:20 PM

However, I already know your tactics and nothing I say will matter to you. You are set to play the victim and will keep trying to pin it on "us".


Of course the blame is going to be pinned on the 'Nxt Posse'.

Who else would care about a Nxt competitor?

I don't see the Mastercoin folks or the Invictus folks up in arms with the NEX development.

It's just the Nxt folks who are trembling in their boots.
2116  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 06:26:27 PM
I'm tired of people making these dumb assumptions that proof of stake forging makes the rich richer, leading to some sort of financial crisis when they have all the nxt. this is only true if they hoard them forever and never trade them... also, the only reason someone has >10k in transaction fees is because of the alias landslide... im sure the fees each day is pretty insignificant right now.

says the guy that had 28 million NXT in the account...  http://87.230.14.1/nxt/nxt.cgi?action=3000&acc=7579216551136708118

I wish I was that rich!
2117  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ixcoin TODO on: January 31, 2014, 06:24:14 PM
Friction,

I see the same exact coins at the top so no evolution of any kind.

There's now some coin logo drawn by a 5 year old and a couple by Luke (he forgot to put his name on them) and some arrogant Asshole put his face up there (and actually got votes, lol).

So really we're still at the same main 3 choices.


Edit:  wait, you said thread?  What thread?  I looked at the voting site.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=369142.0
2118  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 06:20:01 PM
Quote
Some Nxt folks lobbied

Tinfoil hat much?
Quit the victim routine.


Let me guess,  you and your kind are responsible for lobbying for the thread to be locked.

You folks really don't know how to play fair.

Just read the earlier thread about 'copyrighting' the source code.   Sheesh!  
2119  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 06:12:08 PM
Did I miss something here?  
Why you stopped fair distribution of NEX?

Some Nxt folks lobbied to lock that fair distribution thread.

They didn't want a clone that was fairly distributed.

But you can still reserve some NEX, that reservation thread is still open.
2120  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information on: January 31, 2014, 06:09:27 PM

much easier than bitcoin mining, right?  and imagine how dirty filthy stinking RICH these people are going to be when transparent mining REALLY kicks in to allow 1000s of transactions per second, and NXT spreads wide...

just imagine.

or heres a thought:  instead of just imagining, you can risk your $ like everyone else here has and get your own hoard.

Why would I do that when I can make my own coin?

Isn't that the same thing you're doing?
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