probably just a guy who wants to share. it's nice to know that there are such people in the bitcoin community
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Yes. Of all the alts, it seems that NXT actually offers something genuinely groundbreaking rather than tinkering around the edges of bitcoin.
Just what is offered, in your view? The community seems relatively robust, but PoS is substantially less secure that PoW. The layered products will emerge in any coin that has traction, so I'm not sure layered features are a big plus. Anonymity is huge, in my estimation. Much bigger than the little features that derive from layered applications of the blockchain. A coin is neither required nor suitable for most of those. Parasitic protocols are not viable in the long term. Merge-mining fees is the correct way to use blockchains as infrastructure for layered apps, not cramming stuff into the core coin, but other ways of funding a distributed transaction db may be more efficient. Anonymity on the other hand is part of the core, necessarily. Part of the core implementation, and part of the core value proposition. For that reason, of the alts, I like MRO. BCN would have been interesting, but suffered from pre-mine. MRO forks BCN and fixes that. The upside is the best anonymity in a working coin, CPU-mined. The downside is extreme immaturity of the software, no market yet: It's roughly 2 weeks old. FWIW I concur. I gave up on NXT quite a while back and started cpu mining MRO a few days ago. Immature is right; but the potential... For the anonymity alone? |
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have you ever share that address? maybe you post something in this forum or in another site, he likes it and give you tip  Maybe. Seems like a long shot given his other recipients. |
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Yeah, seems I'm rubbing shoulders with some fairly high-calibre organisations there.
I sent a small amount back with a note attached to say thanks and ask why.
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Yes. Of all the alts, it seems that NXT actually offers something genuinely groundbreaking rather than tinkering around the edges of bitcoin.
Just what is offered, in your view? The community seems relatively robust, but PoS is substantially less secure that PoW. The layered products will emerge in any coin that has traction, so I'm not sure layered features are a big plus. Anonymity is huge, in my estimation. Much bigger than the little features that derive from layered applications of the blockchain. A coin is neither required nor suitable for most of those. Parasitic protocols are not viable in the long term. Merge-mining fees is the correct way to use blockchains as infrastructure for layered apps, not cramming stuff into the core coin, but other ways of funding a distributed transaction db may be more efficient. Anonymity on the other hand is part of the core, necessarily. Part of the core implementation, and part of the core value proposition. For that reason, of the alts, I like MRO. BCN would have been interesting, but suffered from pre-mine. MRO forks BCN and fixes that. The upside is the best anonymity in a working coin, CPU-mined. The downside is extreme immaturity of the software, no market yet: It's roughly 2 weeks old. Not familiar with MRO myself. I do like the idea of forging rather than mining, though that has downsides, not least in distribution (though bitcoin suffers from that anyway). I think transparent forging could turn out to be quite significant too. And I do think designing something as a complete platform from the ground up will have advantages. |
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Sorry, there's no bounty for this - hope this is the right place. Someone just sent me 0.002 bitcoins from this address: 1E75aBtdS6X4pDFoaxYXEkzvFMaEdPDmKe They've done this periodically to other addresses recently. Addresses they've sent to include Pirate Bay and the Bitcoin Foundation: https://blockchain.info/address/1E75aBtdS6X4pDFoaxYXEkzvFMaEdPDmKe Sometimes the same amount, sometimes different. Any ideas what that's about?! |
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Afternoon, thought I'd show my face in this thread.
Uniqueorn asked me to do some writing for NXT.org, and the more I find out about NXT the more impressed I am.
It's an outstanding project, and I can't wait to get more involved and see where it goes.
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Those look really interesting! Possibilities on top of NXT are unlimited!  Yes. Of all the alts, it seems that NXT actually offers something genuinely groundbreaking rather than tinkering around the edges of bitcoin. I think they are also looking at integrating bitcoin payments via the NXT protocol, which would hopefully complement bitcoin rather than competing with it. |
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Great gig from NXT.org - thanks! Fantastic platform.  |
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Have you considered adding in (or adding separately into another graph) other indicators - whether those are MACD or something else like Google trends figures, Twitter mentions, etc?
As I recall I think there's some kind of long-term correlation between Google trends and price.
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Yep we're still following the fractal:
You've said you're a current bear but long-term bull (I think). So where do you see the bottom? I don't really know actually. Bottom hunting is just too hard and all I do is play the MACDs week by week. I did notice that this 6 week cycle seems a little bit stronger than the last in that there is more volume and accumulation going on in the upper channel of the trend than there was last cycle. So the bottom might not be too far away. Maybe $250-$350. I don't think it will possibly go below $150 unless there is some catastrophic failure or U.S. ban, based on connecting the support from the 2011-2012 chart. Of course all of this can be changed by major events. For example exchanges could open in New York. Worth being prepared for lower 300s/200s, at any rate, I'd think. |
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It is dumb.
I am sure I'm not the only one who just gave up. I'm almost positive that no one is even trying. There is $25 bucks at stake. I spent 4 hours and now I wanna kill myself.
And even the clues are dumb. So one of the clues was 360' and from that you need to decipher a 2 character answer. Well in crosswords their are "crosswords" that help you get the answer but in this it is a total guessing game. Then the guy comes out with a clue saying it could be 360 ft or 120 yeards but it is probably minutes if you convert it to hours. WTF? So 6 hrs. uh 6h? If 6h is the answer this is the dumbest f'n game ever. And last time the Whitey being YT, well now when you think an answer is 40 or 60 or 65 now you have to think 4t or 6t or 6t5 or could it be 4d or 6d or 6d5.
I mean honestly one of the clues is this: ... and you are supposed to come up with a 1 character answer? Uhhhhhhh, dumb.
Lastly, the last 8 or so character, which are about 4 clues, are all bold. And the game maker says, "The last row is bold, not sure what that means" Well WTF? How would anyone? It could be reverse all of them or just the ends or just the inside or maybe the bold goes first. Moral of the story is, me and another guy tried for two hours and it just isn't worth it. The writer needs to realize that this is not a crossword where if I don't know 8 down, 7 across and 6 across will help me. In this game, it's a crap shoot and getting 30 in a row is impossible.
My 2 Satoshi
Just for the sake of your sanity: http://bitscan.com/articles/missing-keys-clue-hints-revealed |
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But at the moment I am second guessing every answer  "(u+m)(u-m)"? "360'" so 360 minutes is 6Hours or a Quarter Day? My pathetic maths tells me (u+m)(u-m) = u 2-m 2, which is called "Difference of Squares". The grid says the key is 3 characters long, so may be it is "DOS". I believe it is safe to assume "360" is "6H". "QD" (quarter day) is too many twists for just 2 charactors  I've tried not to make things too abstract. The first version was too easy. It was a bit like the Telegraph's cryptic crossword (which is only going to be meaningful if you're in the UK - though you seem to be, despite the name). This one is a bit more like the Times' crossword from what I can tell (never could get more than one or two clues...). Much the same but an additional layer of abstraction. Multiple twists wouldn't be reasonable. |
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Yep we're still following the fractal:  You've said you're a current bear but long-term bull (I think). So where do you see the bottom? |
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And last time the Whitey being YT I assume that was cuz of: whitey 0.4 : Python Package Index which is a "Command-line YouTube client" With command: yt Not insanely impossible, but definitely not easy either :p the problem is indeed that there can be 5 answers for most. Script to at least check that (like semi-bruteforce) is helpful. Salisbury is A1
Can't have 1  Vides is indeed tricky, I also got the answers you got, but not sure if it's correct. You might be overcomplicating it. Whitey was just phohectic! |
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This is supposed to be fun! If it's not, then it's time to stop - unless you really, really need that $25. You don't do a crossword for the prize money. (I'm hoping, in any case, that BitScan will double the prize money when the winner gets in touch. They had to rush to get it out before Easter as it was so that detail wasn't finalised at the time.) Take a look at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=574700.0;all People seem to be bouncing ideas around there and coming up with some good stuff. Even enjoying themselves in the process. I take your comments on board, though. The first episode was too easy and the prize went too fast. There's also no way of stopping people using password crackers, so that had to be factored in with tougher clues. Regardless, please don't kill yourself. Sorry... I wasn't serious. I will not kill myself. I can only speak for myself and they guy working with me that at a point it just got to be too much. I think the game is fun but where we just gave up was with the "bold" idea and the ... clue and another one we thought the answer was A470 but it can't have a 0 so we are lost is it A47T or A47D or are we wrong all together. ANd if those are missed then it is back to the drawing board to guess all the rest. Great idea though, I can't lie it was fun for about 2-3 hours, then I was just cursing kinda incessantly Good to know Since it was misleading, I'll tell you now that the bold text doesn't matter for this one but it might start to make more sense in the next episode. "..." is one of the clues that will get a hint shortly. |
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This is supposed to be fun! If it's not, then it's time to stop - unless you really, really need that $25. You don't do a crossword for the prize money. (I'm hoping, in any case, that BitScan will double the prize money when the winner gets in touch. They had to rush to get it out before Easter as it was so that detail wasn't finalised at the time.) Take a look at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=574700.0;all People seem to be bouncing ideas around there and coming up with some good stuff. Even enjoying themselves in the process. I take your comments on board, though. The first episode was too easy and the prize went too fast. There's also no way of stopping people using password crackers, so that had to be factored in with tougher clues. Regardless, please don't kill yourself. |
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i hope they are in bitcoin congress in bonn . IŽll bring my camera to make a prof !
but i would rest more to know that some one had met them
i had invest over 23.000 USD and re invest all my daily profit
so cross my fingers that they not doing a GOX thing for the 2years that coming
You invested $23,000 without knowing more? We clearly have a different definition of 'disposable income'! |
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Yes, time up and running is a good sign. But I'd like a few others for peace of mind, since 6 months really isn't that long and they're expanding their client base right now. I'm struggling to find any reliable material on them and no one seems to have met the founders first hand.
Like I said: open minded, but not naive either.
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