To be honest it is now confusing exactly what is on offer (it got rather technical and I didn't have enough time to delve into it).

Perhaps a simple summary of the two options could be provided?

You might try and be a bit more polite if you want someone to actually reply to your questions (and "peasant' doesn't really work that well as an insult to me so you also might want to try a bit harder if your point is to try and upset me).

Okay - this is a good point (and it's actually flattering that someone would bother to fork a topic of mine to even make such a point).

I have not advocated that no-one has rights over things at all.

It is a question of *rules* and the rules about copyright and patents are not good ones (IMO).

The rules of a "topic" (such as being able to lock it) are not in conflict with my thinking whatsoever. I recently made a topic stating that "no ad sig posters" are welcome to post.

Did they respect that? (no) So that is why I had to lock that topic (and others due to a general lack of respect that I don't care for).

So I have no problem with you creating this topic (have a go at me and enjoy it) but if you respect "freedom" then of course you would respect my right to lock any topic any time I want to.

Okay - well - thanks for being honest (I'll just unwatch now then should I?).

Okay - so is this going to be actually about the concepts or about me locking the other topic?

(if you've seen the various topics I've raised about ad sig posting you might get an idea why I have locked recent topics I've started)

My point was that simply the concepts of Intellectual Property make very little sense in the 21st century (and that great projects such as Bitcoin itself have arisen out of this new thinking).

I thought you guys were headed towards a consensus - but now we have two ideas?

Basic blockchain functionality has been completed (including rewind and checkpoint logic).

A huge advantage that CIYAM blockchains have over all other existing ones is an automatic checkpoint system (that will let you prune old blocks and transactions from history).

Work is now underway of converting the legacy "packages" to work with the blockchain approach (the "Standard" package has already been converted and the User package is expected to be completed in the next few days).

http://www.reddit.com/r/counterparty_xcp/comments/2y0apx/contract_news/

Any reaction to that (I don't believe that any puppies were hurt btw) ?

So whilst we have added an Assembler and a Debugger to AT I see this from Ethereum: http://www.reddit.com/r/counterparty_xcp/comments/2y0apx/contract_news/

We are now going to consider moving our 20 BTC bounty from creating a Bitcoin Script implementation of AT to instead be to create a C/C++ smart contract implementation for AT (which I am pretty sure can be achieved in only a month or two if we can find an LLVM expert which we are recruiting for now).

Could Ethereum offer C/C++ smart contracts before mid-year?

Let's see if they'll take up the challenge!

Also it should be noted that our UI generator is under construction (that provides UI for both AT creators and users).

Each AT has its own "account" so you can simply use that account id for such promotions.

Actually while I am thinking about that - the stupid format used in the alpha-numeric NXT (and BURST) accounts doesn't work at all well with clipboards (i.e. you can't just double click on them or "touch" them to highlight then entire account as it uses "dashes"). I had actually brought this up back when it was first added to Nxt but was ignored (and the separator has nothing to do with the RS algo).

A character other than a dash should really be considered (as Bitcoin addresses are *much better* in this manner - so being "worse than Bitcoin" in usability isn't really a very great thing for a "2.0" platform).

Although I do not recommend "Ethereum bashing" (and I think the PR team should tone it down) this is probably of some interest:

http://www.reddit.com/r/counterparty_xcp/comments/2y0apx/contract_news/

There is a good reason why we didn't focus on creating a HLL for AT.

Calling someone naive and offering zero analysis yourself just shows you made that post for your "sig money" rather than for any other reason.

Seriously writing HLLs for an entire new VM is something that takes years (so it is not surprising at all to me that Serpent is failing) so I very much doubt you can just create a new HLL and keep going (but please feel free to prove me wrong).

I have actually worked on such a project (around the time that Java was being designed and built) - so maybe you might want to consider looking at what we have done with AT (our approach will allow C/C++ to be implemented as the smart contract language in only a couple of months - we just need to find one LLVM expert and we already have the funds to pay that person).

Understand that I actually was privy to the Ethereum white paper before it was publicly available and had stated my concerns back then that the design was *wrong* (but hey I'm only a guy with more than 25 years software engineering experience - not a "wonder boy" with my own online magazine).

 

I pointed out a simple use case as to why I like this idea.

You are "out and about" and have an opportunity to say exchange some BTC for some fiat (person to person) but you don't have your computer handy.

If you can use a system like this then you can find a payment address just from memory (rather than copy and paste).

Firstbits was a way to do this (but has now been abandoned) so this is another idea (and yes I am well aware that re-use of addresses is not advised).

Of course if we all have apps we trust on mobile phones to store our payment addresses the point is probably mute (so just how needed this idea might be is hard to say).

But still if you have two separate computers (and no ability to use QR codes) then having an easier way to "type in the address" can be useful.

(you did notice the guy has an ad sig post and so is just posting to get his count up?)

This topic is about Bitcoin addresses not private keys.

To get back on topic - unfortunately I seriously doubt that as those who "own this property" are ever going to give that up (and I am not advocating to "take their property from them" as some seem to think).

I think our best hope is for things like creative commons, open source and blockchains that simply "don't care" about such antiquated ideas (i.e. they can hold on to Mikey Mouse to the bitter end but eventually a new character will replace it that isn't *owned* by anyone).

Now I am being accused of being a communist and a totalitarian - I guess this is just because I happen to live in China?

(you are almost amusing me now)

Hmm... good attempt at trolling perhaps but not really very interesting.

I think that the problem is now that there is simply so much spam the mods cannot even find time to delete it all (and yes I also have complained numerous times about how shit the posting quality has become to no absolutely avail).