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What I was going to say originally: The maximum Greek ATM outflows are about EU840 Million a day according to Loukia here. <imagine-if> ...Varoufakis were to: 1. quietly accumulate about 200,000 to 400,000 BTC off-exchange (which would only cost him about 50-80 million Euros) 2. announce they were going to match the maximum weekly ATM withdrawals with a bitcoin airdrop to 5 million citizens (using a procedure pioneered by Aurora coin) The bitcoin price could probably reach between $5000 and $10,000 just on that bombshell news which would give him the leverage to pull such a stunt off successfully and 'parachute in" a massive liquidity boost to his economy at the same time. Off course, he'd make the announcement AFTER accumulating. </imagine-if> When you're all out of options, that's the kind of mad thing that has to be tried. Put it this way, someone's going to do it somewhere, sometime and things are starting to not look too rosy in the fiat garden anymore. It would work if there was more BTC-familiarization and a more tech-savy population. At the state where Greece is right now, it would only cause the undermining of the government in terms of reliability/seriousness/ability. Bitcoins instead of "real money" would quickly be dismissed by the opposition and the press (controlled by the opposition) as ridiculous / not serious. There are various things the government could do to raise money (like BTC buying, using their gold reserves in a similar manner, playing the market by using inside info etc), but they have no balls to do these. People around the world think the government is some kind of leftists radicals, but in all seriousness they are only "left" in things like gay marriages, prisoners rights, immigrants and stuff like that. Total NWO-alignment. Yet, in all things economic, they are almost indistinguishable from all the prior governments. They got elected to provide a relief-plan that would cost ~12bn euro and instead they offered the troika a plan of 8bn ADDITIONAL AUSTERITY MEASURES. They are willing to sacrifice the local population in favor of the euro. The troika said no, we want even more than those 8bn, we actually want >11bn, so that's our offer, take it or leave it. One guy even said to Tsipras, that's it, game over if you don't take our offer. So they were forcing Tsipras to either say no, or get totally humiliated by saying yes - which would not even pass the local parliament vote from his party. Tsipras went the referendum way, which is problematic for the following reason: He says you have to vote yes (to what the troika wants) or no to those measures, and always within the framework of EU & the euro. So if I vote "no", and if that's still within the framework of EU & the euro, Tsipras will say "yes, but now that you rejected the troika deal, we have to make another deal, somewhat lighter - like our 8bn measures proposal". Yet Tsipras wasn't elected to pass 8bn austerity measures. Nor should my "no" to the 11bn+ measures be counted as a ...yes for Tsipras 8bn package of measures. Fuck them both, not because I don't like austerity, but because macro-economically they are both destroying the economy and burying it in the negative recession-debt spiral, where debt is always growing due to the drop of the GDP. Totally unsustainable. As the situation is right now, there is a pretty vocal no movement, and a quite silent yes crowd. The yes crowd is those who value their comfort more than the austerity measures, naively thinking that it's more of the same that we've had the last 5 years - but it's far worse than that. Food prices would instantly rise by at least 15%, as would electricity, water etc - while income would drop further still and further recession would make the debt go to sky-high levels (>200% of GDP). I'm not sure which way it'll go, but I fear for the "yes", as the ECB flow stop and the ATM situation is a pretty effective blackmail against certain demographics, like pensioners. Interesting AlexGR. Here's a summary from a major newspaper/media site down here in Australia; I would be interested in your view on its accuracy or whether it's missing the mark. http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/greece-explainer-what-the-financial-crisis-means-20150628-gi05r2.htmlThis bit about Syriza engaging with Putin is particularly interesting for the longer term euro political situation: Is it just an economic problem?
No.
This could also drastically change the political balance in Europe. If Syriza makes a success out of splitting Greece away from the rest of the continent, it will embolden other nationalistic parties such as the National Front in France or UKIP in the UK.
Future elections in Europe could see a surge in nationalism, a rejection of the European project, potentially enough to threaten Europe's stability as a political union.
Speaking of which, the UK is in the early stages of debate on a referendum on whether to stay in Europe, next year. If Europe is a basket case this time next year, public opinion (currently in favour of staying in) may drastically change.
Then there is the question of Russia. Syriza has already made overtures to the Kremlin, with Tsipras a star speaker at Putin's recent big international summit in St Petersburg.
If Russia comes to Greece's aid, with money, other support (or both), it will be a new factor in the current Cold War-like tensions between east and west.
Greece has already expressed its anger at Europe and NATO for not doing enough in its regular chest-bumping with Turkey. If Russian warships find a friendly berth in Greek ports, the strategic map of Europe is drastically redrawn.
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What I was going to say originally: The maximum Greek ATM outflows are about EU840 Million a day according to Loukia here. <imagine-if> ...Varoufakis were to: 1. quietly accumulate about 200,000 to 400,000 BTC off-exchange (which would only cost him about 50-80 million Euros) 2. announce they were going to match the maximum weekly ATM withdrawals with a bitcoin airdrop to 5 million citizens (using a procedure pioneered by Aurora coin) The bitcoin price could probably reach between $5000 and $10,000 just on that bombshell news which would give him the leverage to pull such a stunt off successfully and 'parachute in" a massive liquidity boost to his economy at the same time. Off course, he'd make the announcement AFTER accumulating. </imagine-if> When you're all out of options, that's the kind of mad thing that has to be tried. Put it this way, someone's going to do it somewhere, sometime and things are starting to not look too rosy in the fiat garden anymore. As outlandish as your imaginary scenario sounds, it's not that far out of the question. The Greeks are in a battle for their economic survival. I watched the Greek Prime Minister Alex Tsipras address the nation. Regardless of what you think of his politics you cannot help but be impressed that he's leading his nation. youtu.be/wbAz430ADMA He's telling the people to stay calm and he's attempting to engage with the bully boy troika who're bringing so much pain and difficulty. It's a game of brinkmanship and what you've described would be a stunning move that would catch the lot of them out. Can you see the stunned faces at all those meetings (it will make the referendum announcement look mild! Ha!) |
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Something fairly major (in terms of potentially a DDOS attack) has been happening at BTC-e. Bitcoinwisdom hadn't updated BTC and LTC trades on BTC-e for over an hour (but has just refreshed in the last few seconds as I write). People on the troll box were complaining their posts weren't appearing for some time and for a while there it appeared to have completely stalled.
Ah ! Is that what it is. My bitcoin feed went wonky and I just thought it was the usual bitcoinwisdom dying on me again (I no longer get a cryptsy feed any more and so have no idea what's going on in the Dash market from minute to minute). I get Bitfinex but there's less volume there I think. Maybe BTCe's being DDOS's as you say. Yeah they've been talking about it on the troll box there. For a while the box just completely died and wasn't updating at all. Then when it came back there were all these nervous BTC-e-ers saying "Phew...my balance is okay....is everyone one else's okay? Thought we'd been Goxed for sure...." Re Bitcoinwisdom and Cryptsy, I know a lot of people are having trouble getting that feed (depending on where you are in the world it would seem). From the day the clickable link for Cryptsy on wisdom's front screen disappeared, I've simply opened two tabs for Dash and replaced 'bitfinex' on one of the URLs with 'cryptsy' and it's come up for me without fail every time. Still don't know why Bitcoinwisdom chose to remove it as Cryptsy is clearly the more liquid exchange for Dash. Strange. |
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Something fairly major (in terms of potentially a DDOS attack) has been happening at BTC-e. Bitcoinwisdom hadn't updated BTC and LTC trades on BTC-e for over an hour (but has just refreshed in the last few seconds as I write). People on the troll box were complaining their posts weren't appearing for some time and for a while there it appeared to have completely stalled.
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Mmm...dominoes....
It would not be surprising to see a BTC rally in the next few days. It could take off at any moment.
The butterfly effect. Suddenly things are starting to become far less predictable. The public having a referendum. The public hoovering up all known liquidity and shoving it under their beds. I imagine there must be a few late night pow-wows going on at hedge-fund central command tonight before markets open. The stock markets will probably take off on a screaming rally in the morning on the basis that things are so bad that massive multiple QE will be on the cards again. (i.e. good news is good news and bad news is also good news  ) Yes, this week everyone's gonna be singing: "Greece is the word Is the word that you heard It's got groove it's got meaning Greece is the time, is the place, is the motion Greece is the way we are feeling...." Problem is it's as uncertain what exactly will happen as watching a young driver in a hotted up car showing off to his friends and ending up losing it fishtailing down a narrow road in between parked cars. As you watch you know a disaster is guaranteed and but seconds away; you just don't know how many of the parked cars will be involved and how much damage will be inflicted. |
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Check this...  Mmm...dominoes.... It would not be surprising to see a BTC rally in the next few days. It could take off at any moment. |
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From the very begining, DASH price has been pretty flat lined. We've had a couple of pumps back in May 2014 and March 2015. We are not a good trading coin, never have been. I didn't know anything about trading when I started here back in December 2013, and have learned a lot. Like you, I've gotten frustrated many times on the price. Especially because we're tight on money and I have to sell my masternode income each month to help pay bills (not much, but it always seems like the price goes down just when I want to sell! LOL) Anyway, I've since come to terms with it. It's not going anywhere until 1. the foundation of the coin is complete and stable with any attacks fixed and the whole project solidifies. 2. We begin the ad campaign. and finally 3. real adoption happens.
1 &2 should happen within the next 3-6 months and 3 should happen in the next 2-5 years.
In the meantime, I have to not lose my 2 masternodes and survive. Then maybe I'll have my retirement (fingers crossed).
But trading? Worrying about the price? I've resigned myself not to even think about it anymore. I just enjoy the excitement of the crypto currency and block chain evolution and learning from Toknormal, minotaur and all the rest of you.
I know a lot of people have bought above the current price. I was in that situation too, last year, and I think I'm pretty much where I bought some of my coins right now. And there is nothing I can think to say about that except I'm pretty sure we'll see DASH go up in price in the next 5 years. Either it's going to take the world by storm, or it'll fail and won't be worth anything. My money's on it taking the world by storm.
Right now 99.9% of the world have no clue what we're doing and why we're doing it. But soon they will see, eventually understand and finally become dependent on crypto currency because guv paper will devalue so badly due to mismanagement and corruption of the current system. But I can't tell you for certain it will go our way. If it hurts too much, you may want to cash out some of your coins the next time the price is high enough and do something more conventional. But these fluctuation, long term, mean nothing.
Just so you know, I also talked my young son into buying a masternode at the end of March for over $4 a coin. He lost well over $1000 now. But I can never judge the market, and you never know if it is going to break out and find a new bottom. So he bought it, and we sit and wait. We still think this is a good time to invest because of the potential for huge returns. But this will take a while, and we're willing to hang in there.
I don't trade, Tante - I only speculate on FOREX, over 51% of the time successfully  - and yes, providing this thing does not end up in the dust, even one MN would bring you (at this rate of return and at this dollar price) roughly $9,542.23 a year income on 20th year from now. (assuming you NEVER sell a single unit MN provides and keep creating MNs out of the profit; compounding really starts kicking in after 10 years) So even with this price you are (I am, we are...) well positioned. Alas, I just hate seeing an investment losing the purpose other than money. (and even more so if it loses the money) I made some real money on silver years ago (during the spike in April 2011, when it went over $40.00), sold it and never came back. I am still a huge believer in silver's value but the price does not reflect it because it is in clutches of Morgan Stanleys, J.P. Chases of this world and manipulated shamelessly. It lost its purpose. The people did not stand behind it and it now lingers aimlessly...
A Genius's Vision in Jeopardy (?)In our realm, I do believe Evan is a genius that comes once in a decade (or more) and this belief is my ONLY reason why I am staying with the investment I lost faith in, wanting to be proven wrong. The shit (silence) going on with the video many of us forked some money for to be made is currently my biggest beef with the non-tech portion of the project; after the same people had buried the best brand ever, they are not making any visible progress with the video project. ("It is not Ben Hur, damn it, it's just a simple video") But when I see your ideas (you're one of the most respected people in our community and for sure one of the people I respect the most) here and the time frame in your reply I became depressed. It seems like wishful thinking, almost myopic refusal to see the truth. "The ad campaign should happen within the next 3-6 months," statement by itself almost made me close the MN and leave this community for good. The video was supposed to be ready a while ago... And in today's world, in which no one knows what would happen on this coming Monday, to hope "real adoption happens in the next 2-5 years" makes no sense at all. You, better than most, fully understand we (the people) are all being treated as enemies by our respective governments, all of which are hopelessly enslaved to the moneyed Overlords and do only what Voltaire said ("In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”): steal and pillage from the weak, imprison defenseless, cheat on the world, kill at will and spy on us for their masters. Satoshi Nakamoto RevolutionCrypto-currencies, starting with "Satoshi Nakamoto" and his Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System original paper started what had a chance to be a revolution, a "revolution of human consciousness,"** and our only hope, as humanity, to fight the Financial Crime Cartel and its sociopath insanity. What Evan has created (Darkcoin) resolving (almost) all the BTC problems has also given us a real tool I was ready to die for, rather to work for all my free time - a powerful, human oriented cash, money, store of value, means of exchange, that gives us freedom from the snooping eyes of Big Brother and its minions. A tool to build a new economy on. I simple want to buy a fucking book or sell my services without being traced by hundreds of sycophants in thousands of governmental and para-governmental institutions, not to mention their fascist, corporate Overlords and live and breathe free. Let have some normalcy restored (yes, I'm invoking that proverbial, myopic, short-sighted and perhaps ultimately lethal misconception of this technology being used solely for nefarious purposes, a notion that killed the brand and with it my passion for this project and let me only as a suspicious investor) and let "them" prove that I am "guilty" if I had purchased a book, supported Wiki-leaks or Occupy or whatever that's legal by using Darksend. Fuck them all. Paypal, Amazon, all these idiotic criminals we seem to be unable to live without (in the so-called West, namely the U.S.) shot down Wiki-leaks finances and we had a chance to build a new society with those that are already sacrificing their lives and / or livelihoods for it, for that better world. “Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way,” Dr. Marshall Rosenberg wrote and he was correct. We should have been (and we still have that chance) on the forefront of fight, offer the people to fund, support, purchase from, all these people like Snowden, Assange, Manning, Binney and many others, we should've been a tool for Occupy not only to fund itself but to have a means of communication without being spied on (that was a PEACEFUL, LEGAL protest, let us not forget that, a movement of the people the Overlords crushed mercilessly, treating them like cockroaches), we should've offer our support to the people like Hedges, Greenwald, Pilger and build a lunatic fringe that might be able to change the world. (and that would be, if anyone of these people would embrace us, a real marketing activity as well)
A lost chance (?)
And what we did instead? We, almost deranged, want a megalomaniac "mass adoption" from the VERY SYSTEM that deems us enemies. (and that while Bitcoin is hardy adopted at all, on a large, global scale of trade) How short-sighted, how blind for the realities of this world. A merchant cowering before the lowest IRS bureaucrat will put our logo to his or her store and accept our digital cash just like that? Give me a fucking break. I think we have lost a historical, once in a life time chance to be a part of something big, to create something big. Instead we opted for a compromise with a devil. Sure, this thing might end up being a part of a mainstream, adopted, tweaked and twisted, and even successful and we'll all be happy slaves of the system that gobbled us up for our MN are giving us some meager or modest or spectacular income (and this is my investor's speculation) but a perspective of this outcome saddens me even more than the perspective of my MNs value goes to zero. Sic transit gloria mundi, I always say  GG ** "Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed -- be it ecological, social, demographic, or a general breakdown of civilization -- will be unavoidable.” Václav Havel, Czech President, (addressing a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C. on February 21, 1990) Wow, what a post wozzek23! I don't agree with a portion of what you're saying but other parts, yes, agree totally. Then there are the bits I've not thought through properly yet; quite a bit of it. Regardless, appreciate you spending the time to post such thought provoking concepts and views. |
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Thanks. We need more upvotes, it's time to stand together guys! Done too. Still only at 3 upvotes though. Come on everyone. |
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If you want other people to pay your bills for you while you develop TRON further, you could make a NXT asset to fund your development, campaign for fundraising on kickstarter/indiegogo/cryptocurrency crowdfunding...
I don't have much sympathy for you man. Speaking as an entrepreneur, asking for funding so you can work on crypto full time-- IE take care of your personal expenses-- is not the best way to sell supporters of you and your coin on further development. Creating a lottery-staking coin for the express purpose of funding your further full-time cryptocurrency pursuits is just counterproductive and takes development time, and thus value, away from TRON. It's zero-sum.
In such a space as cryptocurrency, with anonymity and distrust or trustlessness, you have to build the value first and then convince speculators that your altcoin has value. It's more difficult every day to do it the other way around where you promise "if I get the funding I need then I'll do this".
I guess it's just very rare to find a skilled developer like yourself who's also entrepreneurial enough to bootstrap their project on their own. Two disparate, high-level skillsets. If you can't find a way to make TRON happen whether or not other people are willing to kick in, then maybe you're just not as passionate as you need to be to make it happen no matter what. Or maybe, more likely, you are more interested in the title of Full-Time Cryptocurrency Developer than you are in doing the very hard work it takes so that you can't help but be known as that.
I mean no disrespect, and I can see you're trying to come up with creative ideas to get what you want, but if you *already have* an idea with legs (TRON) at some point you need to stop looking for shortcut ideas to leverage others and do work yourself. Get a second job completely unrelated to crypto. Take on some freelance coding work. Find an angel and convince them to float you while you dev. You're already spending time on TRON, and it's not enough, so you need to take some additional personal risk and put some of your own skin in the game besides your time (which if you love cryptocurrency you would be doing anyway). If you're not willing to take on that risk personally, ask yourself if you really believe in your project's potential regardless of its value, or if you're just trying to find ways for others to pay you for the programming hours you put in.
Mmm...well written post notsofast. Cryptowest I'm a little stunned by the deterioration of this project from the grand optimism and enthusiasm it had just a month or so ago. I've exited and sold all my Tron (and lost about half what I've put in; so pretty disappointed) but I just can't see you're comprehending what needs to be done to give the project a sense of purpose and future potential. The last few posts indicates to me you're clutching at all sorts of temporary adjunct ideas that aren't directly related to seeing Tron increase in value and shore up its future. And now you're talking about making another coin to help fund you! (With an ICO no less!!! Arrgghh ICOs are disastrous!) You have all these stakeholders here who've now probably lost a fair bit of BTC on Tron and you're wanting more put in, but it's not specific as to what it will do and achieve. Man-oh-man, this sounds like desperation. None of this is giving anyone any confidence. I think you need to be asking the question what is Tron for? If it's not becoming clear it's something that people want to use (even if it's just on gambling sites) then there's really no point to it. Masternodes won't fix this issue; they'll just give a temporary spike but potentially cause a whole lot of heart ache when you miss the deadline again (which you're almost certain to do; it's been the only consistent thing so far; stating a date/time, missing it then needing to apologise). Honestly, like many I gave you the benefit of the doubt but clearly you're over committing on your time and resources again and again. It's confidence sapping (for Tron holders as well as for you) I think you need to have a really big think about what it is you're doing here because there doesn't appear to be even the most rudimentary strategy and business plan that will stack up and make Tron increase in value. I can't see how it's going to recover to anything like the pricing it reached unless the project has a clearly defined purpose, the road map directly ties in to that purpose and there's consistent delivery and achievement of milestones. I appreciate that you really put yourself out there with the doxing but I have been worried from the beginning about your seeming inability to focus on Tron specifically. Shortly after you revealed your identity you started talking about helping another completely unrelated coin by getting involved with that dev and asking people to look at it (I almost sold all my Tron then as that had red flags for me....wish I had; I''d be in a far better position as Tron was probably around 40K or more around that time). I think you're a good guy but you're terribly naive posting so much rhetoric and expression of difficulty about how people you've engaged have gone MIA and you have no money, etc. I understand it (we've all been there....or are there) but once you start putting this stuff into the public domain you've just pulled the rug out from under yourself as you're not expressing confidence about what you're doing. It's a vicious spiral that's almost impossible to stop once it starts. I'd encourage you to really take time out...think carefully about what it is you're trying to achieve with Tron....how it can be commercially viable and what resources you need to execute. If you can't get that all clear in your mind, there's no point coming on here and blurting out all sorts of bizarre out-of-left-field ideas that don't have any specific relationship to core features/capabilities of Tron and this project's objectives as it just makes you look like you don't know what you're doing. I hope you can find your way. I've lost a few BTC on this. I'm not upset about it (but don't have BTC to be throwing around either) as I knew the risks when I thought I'd have a go at it. The Dynamic PoS staking was a lot of fun, but the project's on its knees now because I don't think you really know what it is and what purpose it serves. |
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...Crouton Mansions is a MS free zone.
You are hilarious Lone Crouton! That's incredibly idealistic of you. It would be harder than being vegetarian I'd reckon. |
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BTX Faucet Is Back Online
Instant Payouts
Now using the new wallet and chain (v2.1.0.0)
Instant Payouts are set to 1 - 5 BTX
4 hour wait time for address/IP pair
Let me know if you have any problems. Currently funding it with 250 - 500 BTX a day until I'm sure it's working correctly. Thanks MCDev Working fine now MCdev. Was awarded 3.7131 BTX and it arrived within seconds. Great! |
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Can someone do me a favor and try using the faucet at http://faucet.btx.rocks/And let me know if you are able to get an award. I modified it for the new wallet / chain and need someone to test it. Instant Payouts are set to 1 - 5 BTX 4 hour wait time for address/ip pair Thanks MCDev Can't open the page. Gives: "Not Found The requested URL /install.php was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at faucet.btx.rocks Port 80" |
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Q. How do you comprehensively destroy a cryptocurrency's fungibility ?
A. By wrapping it in various altcoin crispy coatings and creating a heterogeneous coin supply from a previously homogeneous one.
Time to release CrispyCryptoCoin! A new currency that's an old one with a lovely bitcrunchy coating! And what's just so great about it is that it morphs into dozens of different types (and values) of crypto when it gets out into the field. There's all the colours of the rainbow, soft centred, hard centred, versions that can be pegged against the Euro, the dollar and the yuan. There's offshoots that are auto-swapped for real gold (that's in a vault in the cayman islands) and other's that are automatically hedged again the S&P500. You can mine it, dine on it, drink wine with it and go online for it. Yep CrispyCryptoCoin is going to CHANGE EVERY way you think about money! It'll be all things to all citizens, a true crypto for the people! |
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I would have expected to see more fiat coming into BTC from the Europe Zone at sites like this http://fiatleak.com/Perhaps the Greeks aren't using the exchanges covered on that site. It just goes to show you how tiny and minuscule is Bitcoin and the public's awareness of Bitcoin. I'd hazard to guess that millions of Greeks are physically going down to their banks to withdraw physical Euros and put them under their mattresses (I expect we may see lots of crime as physical notes are flapping around in a multitude of insecure and volatile situations). As the article said (bearing in mind it's NBC - mainstream media - so I don't give it a lot of credence) the banks are probably going to run out money by Monday. You'd think that people would be pouring into Bitcoin right now; it's a no-brainer. But maybe there's just so little awareness that something like crypto even exists it's barely registering. You know we (us crypto nerds) sometimes forget just how little comprehension the average person has that the world we live in with all its countries, borders and jurisdictions is all just a construct of the human mind; there's not really any definition of these structures, zones and limits outside of us all agreeing to them. The mountains, hills, valleys and rivers and oceans are all still doing what they've done for aeons (albeit with great stresses on the eco system than ever before). It's only the humans that have this whole set up in their minds. An example of what I'm talking about can be seen here. This is a conference in France with three Bitcoin "experts" presenting their views. It's actually quite good and Nicholas Cary from BlockChain.info does a pretty good job at the beginning of explaining what Bitcoin is and why it's important. But what highlights this realisation that, what we all take for granted here about crypto, is just not comprehended at all by someone who hasn't yet (potentially) thought through how a global peer-to-peer distributed network sits completely above countries, borders and jurisdictions. Watch as this audience member (who identifies herself as working in the mobile payments space) asks the panel about how the blockchain deals with AML and the need to report to authorities on movement of money, etc. I'm not picking on her specifically, but it just highlights the likelihood that we forget just how many billions of people there are in the world who may have heard of Bitcoin but have absolutely no comprehension of what it's all about and what it means on a global scale. https://youtu.be/rtI52BcFUoo?t=58m2sAgreed, I took a bit of a break from Crypto the last few months and speaking to people at work about it, a lot of them said "Oh, Bitcoin, doesn't that guy who went to prison control it?" Hmmm... Job done commercial media... Not sure what's happening around the globe, but Australian banks are spending tens of millions increasing their digital/smartphone presence. You can withdraw money from a teller machine without a card now, pay someone with a mobile phone number/QR code and even NFC "Bump" payments are coming online. They aren't ignoring crypto, they are taking some of it's best features and incorporating them into their value offering in a very polished way... Patience, my friends. Yes, they can try to disguise themselves as digital cash, but they never will be. Crypto is naturally superior to any of these systems. The word will get out, slowly at first, and then faster and faster until crypto is the norm, not the exception. Dash is positioned well because the code is constantly improving, and proceeds are going to be re-invested in advertising, development, and new services. We all knew going in that this investment would be long term. Bitcoin (and Dash) is not going anywhere, and the longer it sticks around gives it validity. I for one am looking forward to the slow shift in public opinion towards crypto. Keep your heads up, chaps, it will be slow going for a long, long time. Yes, well said Tao. I know it's long term and the banks will grab hold of things like Ripple and IBM's Internet-of-Everything blockchain tech and start deploying them. Then you'll have these oh-so-obnoxious, excuse-me-while-I-vomit banking big-wigs talking about how they've taken the best aspects of crypto and refined and honed them to robust standards and how they're going to "revolutionise" banking yada yada. We'll have to withstand all of that BS/spin/rhetoric and a whole lot more yet. But they'll never be able to come clean and point out to Mr and Mrs average that the entire circus tent is held up by ongoing creation of money (via a wholly corrupt central banking system) that's then turned into debt for the masses to keep the wheels of supposed prosperity rolling. That's what Dash's bringing to the realm that's so completely and utterly at odds with the charade the whole world's caught up in. Very exciting to be part of it. |
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I would have expected to see more fiat coming into BTC from the Europe Zone at sites like this http://fiatleak.com/Perhaps the Greeks aren't using the exchanges covered on that site. It just goes to show you how tiny and minuscule is Bitcoin and the public's awareness of Bitcoin. I'd hazard to guess that millions of Greeks are physically going down to their banks to withdraw physical Euros and put them under their mattresses (I expect we may see lots of crime as physical notes are flapping around in a multitude of insecure and volatile situations). As the article said (bearing in mind it's NBC - mainstream media - so I don't give it a lot of credence) the banks are probably going to run out money by Monday. You'd think that people would be pouring into Bitcoin right now; it's a no-brainer. But maybe there's just so little awareness that something like crypto even exists it's barely registering. You know we (us crypto nerds) sometimes forget just how little comprehension the average person has that the world we live in with all its countries, borders and jurisdictions is all just a construct of the human mind; there's not really any definition of these structures, zones and limits outside of us all agreeing to them. The mountains, hills, valleys and rivers and oceans are all still doing what they've done for aeons (albeit with greater stresses on the eco system than ever before). It's only the humans that have this whole set-up in their minds. An example of what I'm talking about can be seen here. This is a conference in France with three Bitcoin "experts" presenting their views. It's actually quite good and Nicholas Cary from BlockChain.info does a pretty good job at the beginning of explaining what Bitcoin is and why it's important. But what highlights this realisation that, what we all take for granted here about crypto, is just not comprehended at all by someone who hasn't yet (potentially) thought through how a global peer-to-peer distributed network sits completely above countries, borders and jurisdictions. Watch as this audience member (who identifies herself as working in the mobile payments space) asks the panel about how the blockchain deals with AML and the need to report to authorities on movement of money, etc. I'm not picking on her specifically, but it just highlights the likelihood that we forget just how many billions of people there are in the world who may have heard of Bitcoin but have absolutely no comprehension of what it's all about and what it means on a global scale. https://youtu.be/rtI52BcFUoo?t=58m2s |
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new wallet looks great! syncs immediately, too. great job guys thank you.
downloaded newest version from OP and coins aren't showing in wallet - taken the same steps i always have, just delete old btx wallet and open new one but this time coins aren't showing in wallet. any ideas? thank you
Have u send ur old BTX to C-Cex for the swap ? C-Cex Wallet is open !!
When u Withdraw, pls wait after each Withdraw until u have atleast 1 Confirm at ur Wallet
This is only to prevent any problems at C-Cex Thanks. There was another swap? Am I still able to send my coins? GetGuap$ I'm not an official part of the project team here; just a participant from the beginning when this was first BitcoinT. PrometheusX and the other people have put an enormous amount of effort in to saving this project and have been steadily improving things over the past month. So to save them the heartache of yet another person (potentially) complaining about how things are being done, I'll deliver the bad news to you. The announcement of the new wallet and the resulting need for a swap of existing BTX for new BTX via C-Cex was made back on 10/June (see announcement copied into this message below). We had until late on 15/June to get our existing BTX across to C-Cex. Quite a few people had difficulties, including myself, given the old chain's penchant for stalling. But eventually it appeared from the postings on this forum everyone had successfully moved their BTX across. There was some 24-48 hours delay by C-Cex executing the swap but finally all was completed around 12:00utc on 17/June and we're now on the new chain and new wallet. There's an issue with the masternode implementation which the dev is working on, however everything else went smoothly and most (I think) are busily staking their BTX again. I'm sorry you've missed out but with these types of projects so early in their lifecycle that become community take-overs it's essential that you check in with this thread at least every couple of days to see what's up. I am proud to say that the time of waiting is over. After hard weeks of coding and testing we can present u the new BTX Walletwith MasterNode's, Improofed network stability and other stuff. We had to fight with errors, PC problems, and RL problems too. But the whole Team made a fantastic job and now we all proud of our work. The MasterNode BlockChain needs an swap of the actual coins to
the new BlockChain.We are doing this with our partner C-Cex, they already have done a very good job with the takeover of this Coin. The swap will be 1:1, starts now and ends at Monday 15th June at 3PM UTC. At this time C-Cex will close their old wallet and creating the new one. U should be sure that u stop staking as soon as possible and send ur coins to your C-Cex account. The new Wallet will be released at Monday 15th June at 6PM UTC.Here some Screens of the brand new Wallet     |
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 ...Yes. And here's why Santa Claus has come early in the form of a company called "ELLIPTIC"  The mindlessness of these people thinking they're doing something soooo useful for Bitcoin just knows no end. They be won't satisfied until the whole thing's turned into the biggest god-awful mess with unravelling suggestions/"evidence" of people who've done nothing wrong except buy some BTC being implicated as holders of "black bitcoin". This is surveillance gone mad. As you've pointed out Tok many times, a fundamental property of 'money' is its fungability. Without that, it's doomed to failure. They're determined to make two bitcoin markets with two differing streams. How long before those idiots at Coinbase starts sending emails such as this? "Dear Coinbase customer, it's come to our attention that 6.786538 of the 10.0 bitcoins in your account have been associated with past illegal activities. Whilst we understand that many of our customers have never used their bitcoins for illegal activities, as a holder of bitcoin you are responsible for ensuring you're not taking part in the proceeds of crime.
To that end we have isolated your illegal bitcoin into a separate quarantined area within your wallet. You have 30 days to prove to us you did not intentionally acquire bitcoin through illegal activities and send them to your Coinbase wallet. Failure to do so may subject you to the full force of the law as you have broken one of the key conditions of your agreement with us.
Alternatively, there is an amnesty period of 7 days in which you can click on the new 'Black Bitcoin' Purge button to remove all traces of your illegal bitcoin holdings from your Coinbase account. If exercised within the 7 days, no further action will be taken against you."....Yes, Christmas may indeed be coming early for Dash! |
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