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2661  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: A question about the release of Darkcoin/Dashcoin on: December 30, 2015, 05:08:20 PM

Is this correct, or have I been misled?

If it is correct , did Evan Duffield ever explain why, the release time was moved?

Yes, this is correct.

And no, he never explained the early launch.

I'm just trying to think through what might happen if Dash ever tried to become well known or widely used. I imagine if it ever started to become widely used Evan would have to explain what went on

If you are trying to think this through, maybe it would help to actually read his account of events here:

https://dashdot.io/alpha/?page_id=118
Unfortunately that article doesn't deal with my questions.
That article just seems to be rather unsophisticated and amateurish promotional piece.

If that does not please you, maybe the more sophisticated thing to do is wait a few years and see what happens.

I agree.

If you are planning on making an investment and those who represent the investment can't answer your questions directly and in a meaningful way, you should wait until the murk has cleared and you can ascertain whether the investment is on the up and up. That's what a sophisticated investor would do.

Now a noob on the other hand will give himself over to fear of missing out and invest too much, too quickly, and hope others will bail him out once the buyer's remorse sets in.
2662  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: A question about the release of Darkcoin/Dashcoin on: December 30, 2015, 04:24:12 PM

Is this correct, or have I been misled?

If it is correct , did Evan Duffield ever explain why, the release time was moved?

Yes, this is correct.

And no, he never explained the early launch.

I'm just trying to think through what might happen if Dash ever tried to become well known or widely used. I imagine if it ever started to become widely used Evan would have to explain what went on

I doubt it will ever get that far, but if it did, Wall Street media would have a field day grilling him on the instamine and the early launch.
2663  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: A question about the release of Darkcoin/Dashcoin on: December 30, 2015, 03:46:16 PM

Is this correct, or have I been misled?

If it is correct , did Evan Duffield ever explain why, the release time was moved?

Yes, this is correct.

And no, he never explained the early launch.
2664  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [AEON] Aeon Speculation on: December 29, 2015, 07:57:44 PM
Its the guy with largest wallet on trex. he has 400k aeon second one 175k coins.

That's American Pegasus and he's on the record that he's done buying (which I believe since he's a stand-up guy and it doesn't match his public nature). Also, owning all the aeon would be counter productive unless he plans on using it to fund development, but again, why do it out of the public eye when all his other purchases were announced with a lot of fanfare?
2665  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: [XMR] Monero - Marketing Team & Tactics on: December 28, 2015, 01:04:36 AM
If you are calling monero a pyramid [scheme], you are still calling it a scam. Pyramid schemes are scams, so we're back to square one--you calling something a scam (a pyramid scheme to be precise) and not providing any evidence of the scheme or scam.

Evidence?

You can ask the French police or just use google. Is not difficult, believe me.

I like to see you climb on mirrors. Grin Grin









So you're conflating David Latapie being ripped off (who is not a Developer) with the Monero Devs starting a pyramid scheme? I've seen evidence of your inability to comprehend who is involved, what took place and what constitutes evidence, but no evidence of any Monero Developer being involved in a scam or scheme. You are simply wrong if this is the story you're basing your accusation on. David was ripped off, the culprit is in jail, and no Monero Devs were ever involved.
2666  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: [XMR] Monero - Marketing Team & Tactics on: December 28, 2015, 12:41:35 AM
It is an honor for me to have a negative TRUST by smooth. Because i'm an honest person.

A liar and an honest man will claim to be honest, but luckily we have you going thread to thread calling Monero a scam without a shred of evidence. If you cry scam without providing evidence of a scam, you are the scam.

Anyone tell you have the same Smooth obsession as bobafett, blockafett and ceti? Weird coincidence.  Roll Eyes

I never say that monero is a scam, so.. you say that!

Thanks!

@Spoetnik

Thanks man, go ahead!

one day this forum will return to the origins.

When we are discussing together a common project: an alternative economic system.

another scam by smooth and MONERO team

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1233817.0

I get that you're hair splitting over calling Monero itself a scam and calling the Devs of Monero a scam (sad and slight), but the point remains you called something a scam without evidence of a scam. My point stands: If you cry scam without providing evidence of a scam, you are the scam.

Ok you are right, my fault. I used the wrong term to describe a very risky investment like that game

MONERO is not a SCAM, Is a pyramid that has invaded this community aggressively without compromise.




If you are calling monero a pyramid [scheme], you are still calling it a scam. Pyramid schemes are scams, so we're back to square one--you calling something a scam (a pyramid scheme to be precise) and not providing any evidence of the scheme or scam.
2667  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: [XMR] Monero - Marketing Team & Tactics on: December 28, 2015, 12:20:47 AM
It is an honor for me to have a negative TRUST by smooth. Because i'm an honest person.

A liar and an honest man will claim to be honest, but luckily we have you going thread to thread calling Monero a scam without a shred of evidence. If you cry scam without providing evidence of a scam, you are the scam.

Anyone tell you have the same Smooth obsession as bobafett, blockafett and ceti? Weird coincidence.  Roll Eyes

I never say that monero is a scam, so.. you say that!

Thanks!

@Spoetnik

Thanks man, go ahead!

one day this forum will return to the origins.

When we are discussing together a common project: an alternative economic system.

another scam by smooth and MONERO team

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1233817.0

I get that you're hair splitting over calling Monero itself a scam and calling the Devs of Monero a scam (sad and slight), but the point remains you called something a scam without evidence of a scam. My point stands: If you cry scam without providing evidence of a scam, you are the scam.
2668  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: [XMR] Monero - Marketing Team & Tactics on: December 27, 2015, 02:09:23 AM
It is an honor for me to have a negative TRUST by smooth. Because i'm an honest person.

A liar and an honest man will claim to be honest, but luckily we have you going thread to thread calling Monero a scam without a shred of evidence. If you cry scam without providing evidence of a scam, you are the scam.

Anyone tell you have the same Smooth obsession as bobafett, blockafett and ceti? Weird coincidence.  Roll Eyes
2669  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: DASH - Love at first sight user accounts [Looking Beyond the Hype] on: December 26, 2015, 08:06:48 AM
DASH troll post?

nice work ceti

FTFH

He's been using this account to cry scam on the CK thread, the AEON thread, and even called spoetnik a genius--yikes! Can you give negative trust ratings for being stupid?
2670  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] AEON 2nd gen cryptonote, anon, mobile-friendly, scalable, pruning on: December 26, 2015, 08:02:55 AM
another scam by smooth and MONERO team

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1233817.0

You're the guy who called spoetnik a genius, so sorry if I don't take you at your word. Do you have proof of this scam accusation? I'd like some proof of spot's genius too, but I know that isn't happening.
2671  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: [Poll] Is Spoetnik a Lying Troll??? on: December 25, 2015, 09:19:37 PM
[Poll] Is Spoetnik a Lying Troll??? : definitely not, Spoetnik is a GENIUS, one of the few people here that speaks sincerely.

Sincerity is to genius what a smile is to great sex. It's sometimes appreciated, but hardly a prerequisite, and spoetnik's comes with a few rotten teeth and a smell that lingers for a few days (though spoetnik always forgets where it came from and blames it on someone else--and don't bother reminding him; he'll forget almost as soon as you tell him).
2672  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Honestly, which is better? Monero or Dash? on: December 22, 2015, 02:45:01 AM
I am just amazed that you guys are talking techno gibberish in a thread about Dash vs. Monero. You make a very strong case for Dash by doing that.

Users don't want to have to know what libboost or zram is. Of course this is interesting to you geeks, but it is not at all interesting to the masses. If I even mention one or two words like that, my gf starts to yawn and get sleepy. Lol.

I am just wondering if you guys are clueless or don't care or more likely you just acting like geeks sharing good vibes by talking techshop. I understand that, but I also understand marketing.

As you've pointed out there isn't a whole lot of useful marketing that can really take place on this forum.


And isn't the Monero plan to market the technology when it is tested and a nice shiny official GUI (dummy-proof as TPTB puts it) can be downloaded for the masses with no hiccups or over-reaching promises to get in the way of the first experience? Probably a better strategy than market first and hope you can build it later (but that's just like my opinion).
2673  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Honestly, which is better? Monero or Dash? on: December 21, 2015, 07:11:16 PM
I wish I knew what was better but I cant figure it out because I cant find a wallet that works for monero. Oh well guess Ill stick with software that actually functions correctly and gets the job done.

You do know that a shiny wallet can't hide bad tech forever, or did you miss that it takes 20+ hours to do a mix-in of 4 with dash? If that's working as intended, then you don't have very high standards.
2674  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: December 21, 2015, 03:23:59 PM
Reality check.


No matter how far anon tech goes the government can still fuck you if they want. Anon coins will never be legal tender so you will need to put fiat in and out and explain where that came from. Governments can't decrypt the tech but they can still control every place where you can exchange $ to BTC.


And also it's terrible for speculation as no serious trader would touch this stinky shit.



It's some form of fucked up dream-world you've made up for yourselves where you can talk about privacy and freedom trading nickels where the other libertarian sharing your views across the board will fuck you for a foot long sandwich.
XMR hotter than a Fontasy  Grin


jup, cuz governments are almighty and never ever collapse under their own fiat-paper-debt-laden dead weight... historylessons, much? In the (sometimes very) long run, free market wins...



It's not even that.

Who needs privacy more than anyone to conduct their normal business? Sure, you could say drug dealers, but they are small potatoes to the biggest use case for private transactions. Governments and corporations need the protection of privacy to ensure their business doesn't become your business via journalists, spies, or competitors. Anyone who doesn't see this as the primary weakness of public blockchains, either doesn't get the argument or misses that world governments and corporations have the desire and the means to use whatever tools available to keep them beyond scrutiny. It's naive to think they would use a public blockchain and be beholden to the people when private measures are available. For God's sake, the average person is trying to cover up a drug habit, but a government is trying to cover up funding a coup that could launch them into a multi-billion dollar war if the wrong people found out--or worse, a failed war that loses their party the next three election cycles.
2675  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City) on: December 21, 2015, 02:03:37 AM
There was a request for character management on IRC. Is there a list of managers? If not, I'll start one on the CK reddit so it's easy to find and update.
2676  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: [neㄘcash, ᨇcash, net⚷eys, or viᖚes?] Name AnonyMint's vapor coin? on: December 20, 2015, 09:00:01 PM

Evan will eat my dust.

I doubt it.

You're a talker. He's a doer.


Just look how he did you and your cohorts with that accidental instamine story and now he's got you on the hook (12-18 months) with a bunch of vaporware and promises. Yeah, he's a doer.
2677  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [AEON] Aeon Speculation on: December 20, 2015, 03:26:49 PM
On the subject of logos, here is my latest offering.



A better shade of blue coupled with a modern better graphic. Simple, universal and powerful.

This is the direction we should be headed.

Nice--the design elements are still there, but it doesn't hit you over the head with them.
2678  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Honestly, which is better? Monero or Dash? on: December 20, 2015, 12:38:56 PM
Qwizzie, there are so many flaws with that infographic.  Roll Eyes

First, dash doesn't handle its anonymity on the protocol level, which Evan (finally) admitted was inferior to coins that handle it at the protocol level--like Monero and Aeon and Boolberry. Second, last I heard it took 20+ hours to do a darksend with a mix-in of 4--yikes! So item one should read Dash inferior anonymity with 20+ hours mix in times.

Dash's decentralized governance and budget are flawed due to the instaminers most likely having too much control. I mean it would be stupid for them to vote for projects that wouldn't benefit them, and naive for those who are Dash poor to think that those with a lot of masternodes wouldn't push through projects that benefited those already Dash rich. That's not decentralized; that's an oligarchy.

Two of the items are actually spectacular flaws:

IX requires 6 of 10 signatures to create a transaction lock.

Which is exactly what I wrote it must do, and exactly what I wrote when I surmised that your white paper was implying the highly jammable design of 10-of-10.

But as I pointed out in the correct math (which is clear you still haven't grasped), even 6-of-10 can be jammed 62% of the time (and multiply spent the other 38% of the time) given a 50% attack on the masternodes (i.e. the 50% attack on masternodes can attack 100% of the InstantX transactions). Even at 10% attack on masternodes, then every 666th UTXO can be jammed and roughly every 10,000th UTXO can be multiply spent. So if there are 66,600 UXTO, then a 10% attack on the masternodes (i.e. controlling 10% of the masternodes) roughly can jam 100 of the available UXTO and double-spend (actually multiply spend, i.e. unlimited lies can be announced by masternodes) 7 of them.

These sort of flaws are amateurish. You are in over your head. You are a programmer and some sort of finance person and a reasonably good marketer mining the gullible speculators (but not to actual users of currency), but you are not capable enough on the block chain theory.

This entire argument is based on an invalid premise! So your jamming attack doesn't work...

Nope. My entire argument is you apparently still don't know how to do basic probability math.

Will you attempt to copy my design and order Dash's masternode announcements? Then will you try to copy my design and merge all the orphans? If not, you will still have attack flaws in your design. Will you replace the deposit for controlling a masternodes with a nomination by PoW, so as to avoid the flaw of externalities that can finance the purchase of masternodes, e.g. shorting the coin.

Well even if you do manage to copy my design, you still can't fix the fact that attacking masternodes is a one-time cost and not sublinear (ongoing cost) as per attacking a correctly designed PoW coin (which is the point that has been made by myself, monsterer, and smooth). And thus Dash is a proof-of-stake security model, not a proof-of-work. Thus it can be undermined by for example combining shorting with attacking masternodes. And you won't get all the small details correct, because you simply don't have enough smart people helping you, because apparently the smart people don't want to work on your closed source during development (and very well documented allegations: fraud) coin. I would never work on your coin, because you have no usership. It is all marketing to speculators to mine the speculators. What is the point? We are supposed to be creating crypto to change the world and entice millions or billions of users. But that has never been your marketing plan. You've always been mining the speculators instead.

And also I do believe the SEC will be coming after you eventually for very clearly running an unregistered illegal investment security (and you come from the finance world so you know very well that you are skirting the securities law). Hope you've paid off the regulators with the $million you mined from the gullible speculators in crypto. Personally I don't see how it has been worth it. The $million you've perhaps pocketed will never sustain you to be rich for the rest of your life, and you will constantly have hanging over your head the threat of SEC action at any time in the future. That is criminal liability in exchange for $million. Not worth it. You are nearing the end of the road for your run.

When I originally assisted you on some of the errors in your original design which caused you to invent masternodes, I viewed you as a nice guy who was trying to develop something. When all these allegations of fraud and premine crap came out, I was very shamed that I had let you get away with promoting Dash. I always knew that Dash was a barely literate design (come on do you really want me to explain how your new anonymity design will be just as flawed as the current on in Dash!), but I didn't want to interfere because I am not the altcoin police (unlike smooth who sometimes tries to act like a sheriff). But really I have to tell you frankly, that I am ashamed that you have mined the speculators and not proposed any real impact for mass usership. And now you have the audacity to go pumping up this Evolution design as some great innovation and fooling more gullible speculators. I mean if you hadn't of done the fraud thing, I would probably not be hitting you so hard now. Again I don't go around harping on the fraud thing, because I am not the altcoin police. But pleeeaaaseee do not try to argue that you are capable on block chain theory tech. You are not.

I don't want to help you because you are doing evil in terms of the goals we as a community are trying to reach. You are siphoning away money from the community and not putting it towards actual innovation (both marketing and technical) that could really help us deal with the problem of a State gone amok. Help us to reach the ideals of crypto. Instead you are just mining the speculators and they seem to believe you are technically capable. You are capable enough to produce code, and you are capable enough to correct mistakes that are pointed out to you. But you are not capable enough to get the really smart people to work with you on ongoing basis, because you are not going in the correct direction in terms of the purpose of why we are here supporting crypto in the first place, which is to get millions of users to use crypto and to better the world (while also making money from increased adoption, not from mining from each other i.e. extracting money from each other in zero-sum game on this forum).

Maybe if you mea culpa on the premine crap and work towards bettering the world instead fooling (ahem marketing to the) the speculators, then maybe I would feel like helping you. But any way, I am moving forward on trying to move the crypto world forward in the direction it needs to be going. Maybe you should help me! I helped you before and you made a lot of money from me standing aside and not criticizing Dash in the early days. Maybe now it is time for you to pay back to the community.

And most definitely you can't duplicate my marketing plan directly to millions of users.

This is the end of the road for Dash.

It will be evident some weeks from now that Dash has no future.

Edit: I will look at your source code links when I have time. I need to head out the door to do errands. If I discover that any of my points are incorrect, I will mea culpa. Again I don't hate you, but I feel I must be frank about the technology because we really need innovation that help us reach the goals of crypto and not just half-assed tech from guys who design schemes to siphon off the capital of crypto into their pockets. And again I have studied the SEC regulations and all these marketing to speculators is clearly a violation of the Howey test for being an unregistered illegal investment security. It doesn't matter how you've obfuscated it by pretending the masternodes are in control, the Supreme Court has consistently said that the test overlooks any attempts to obfuscate the economic reality of the situation. Then on top of that is the evidence of deception with the premine and the advertised money supply protocol being altered ex post facto, etc.

And afaik you are a USA citizen, so thus you incur the maximum culpability.

And as far as strong focus on research and development goes, that's just like your opinion, man:

https://getmonero.org/design-goals/




 
2679  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Honestly, which is better? Monero or Dash? on: December 20, 2015, 02:18:38 AM
I have to say this:  I consider myself an average Joe Blow type of guy, and I don't even know how I got into bitcoin.  It was just something I read about on the internet and thought was cool.  Bitcoin has value, and bitcoin is the cryptocurrency people are going to use if they get into this.  Both of the coins you have this poll for I've heard of but know absolutely nothing about.  And I don't care to know anything about them.  Altcoins are destined to be ultimately abandoned.  There's no practical use for most of them, and Dash and Monero don't (in my opinion) have a future.  They are tools of speculation and will never be adopted by people like me.

Weird that i have friends who get mad that they have to buy BTC to get Monero--of course these friends have little interest in cryptocurrencies in general, but see the value of online privacy. Still unsure why anyone wants to put their business on a public blockchain, but to each his own.
Yes, and my guess is that we have quite different sets of friends and that yours are far more computer-savvy than mine.  Like I said, common folk have yet to adopt bitcoin, much less any of the other altcoins.  I happen to like DOGE, and I've said this on other threads.  There's no rationale for this, I just like it--but there's nowhere to spend it!  It just makes a good tipping instrument, and there are some strange things for sale using it over on Reddit, but that's about it.  The uses for DOGE and the other coins are pretty limited.  Gambling, dark markets, and speculation.

Edit:  Hey, you're going to be a Hero member quite soon!

Actually these friends are normal people--not technophobes (one is) but not coders either--just understand the value of private money. Even if only the security sector adopts monero, that's a good chunk of valuable users. I'm more interested with what companies and governments will use anyway, as most people will be fine using bank money until someone tells them differently, and those entities won't likely be interested in having their transactions on a public blockchain for foreign and domestic spy agencies, competitors, and journalists to glean sensitive information from.

Thanks for noticing my soon to be hero status--BCT needs higher standards = p
2680  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Honestly, which is better? Monero or Dash? on: December 20, 2015, 01:44:25 AM
I have to say this:  I consider myself an average Joe Blow type of guy, and I don't even know how I got into bitcoin.  It was just something I read about on the internet and thought was cool.  Bitcoin has value, and bitcoin is the cryptocurrency people are going to use if they get into this.  Both of the coins you have this poll for I've heard of but know absolutely nothing about.  And I don't care to know anything about them.  Altcoins are destined to be ultimately abandoned.  There's no practical use for most of them, and Dash and Monero don't (in my opinion) have a future.  They are tools of speculation and will never be adopted by people like me.

Weird that i have friends who get mad that they have to buy BTC to get Monero--of course these friends have little interest in cryptocurrencies in general, but see the value of online privacy. Still unsure why anyone wants to put their business on a public blockchain, but to each his own.
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