So what's next after $240 ? A dump or an other pump ?
too fiddy. |
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Just somewhere new and positive where free, enquiring minds can speculate on all aspects of these two great assets.  |
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Ok, the derpiness is plumbing new depths of sadness, i think it might be time to check out of the gold collapse and I have some other projects I'd like to work on ... so long and thanx for all the fish sn  bitcoin will scale eventually, patience grasshoppers. |
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my $200 robot vaccum cleaner has left me un employed from a lot of vacuuming....however it does require some maintenance/care, and cannot pick somethings up as well as the push upright dyson. However it can cover alot more area than I can as it does all the edges and does not get bored.
This tech will improve.
I enjoy to vaccum and dig in the yard, build stuff though...sometimes.....so maybe it will become like running is now, a recreational fitness thing
When a robot can do dishwashing and hanging up the clothes.....
technologically unemployed house husband ... sounds depressing, only made worse when you realise robo-vacuums are great until the cat gets diarrhea !! |
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The one good thing to have come out of Blockstream is the confidential values technique for blinding output amounts.
What if that technique outlives sidechains and Blockstream?
Perhaps it is time you declared what Monetas's position is on blocksize? And if there is anything in your contracts that allow opt-out "for the betterment of bitcoin" if you become conflicted? You know the same clauses that key blockstream employees have that cypherdoc has glossed over many times in his persistent smearing, defamation and character assassination that you seem to be supporting curiously ... cypherdoc: how's the hashfast debacle progressing? Been sued for your involvement in that scam yet? at least i have the self control not to become as venomous as you. is this a crusade for you? you honor me for putting me up on such a pedestal. do unto others as you would have them do unto you ... do you ever have any real arguments to bring to the debate? or is it always just slander and defamation with you? Unfortunately that is the standard you have set in your own thread, and on reddit also it seems. I'm just obliging after you choose to play the man and not the ball, on enough occasions now to show that it is not just a fluke, but you are intent on poisoning the debate and swerving away from legitimate technical discussion. Endlessly parroting character smears doesn't make them real. I kind of regret that I may have armed you with so many big words and concepts that you might actually sound convincingly smart enough to be dangerous, to the unwary reader. |
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The one good thing to have come out of Blockstream is the confidential values technique for blinding output amounts.
What if that technique outlives sidechains and Blockstream?
Perhaps it is time you declared what Monetas's position is on blocksize? And if there is anything in your contracts that allow opt-out "for the betterment of bitcoin" if you become conflicted? You know the same clauses that key blockstream employees have that cypherdoc has glossed over many times in his persistent smearing, defamation and character assassination that you seem to be supporting curiously ... cypherdoc: how's the hashfast debacle progressing? Been sued for your involvement in that scam yet? at least i have the self control not to become as venomous as you. is this a crusade for you? you honor me for putting me up on such a pedestal. do unto others as you would have them do unto you ... |
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I think Gavin should de-hitch his wagon from Mike Hearn after hearing how Mike proposed centralized checkpointing. The blacklisting thing was his one free pass at a really horrible idea. Now it just looks like he doesn't get what Bitcoin is really about.
I can see why Gavin would utilize XT as an end-run around the political gridlock in core, and I also see that Mike Hearn has a unique perspective and background that is useful, but he should not be a core committer in my opinion. Gavin is the only person qualified to (provisionally) lead the project as far as I can see now, but I think "palling around with Mike Hearn" will be viewed with suspicion, especially if it's unnecessary. Why not just just add in the patch to Core and fork off if necessary?
I'd agree if you're referring to that interview he did, he didn't do the goal of decentralized control any good. If you've been paying attention there is nothing new in Mike's recent activities. Granted, they have become a little more audacious of late. Probably an artifact of getting pretty much complete control of Gavin and an element of desperation given the fairly amazing progress made by the Blockstream folk. His half-decade long hopes for the system (a monitoring tool controllable by his beloved leaders in mainstreamland) are fluttering away. I'm glad someone else is paying attention. The productivity of the current crop of core devs has outpaced the surveillance branch and Gavin's threat to fork is a desperate attempt to regain control, which is fast slipping away from them, just through sheer innovation. They are losing in the meritocracy stakes. Gavin's last major contribution was back-dooring bitcoin privacy through the broken X.409 bolt-on kludge, 'payments security' (theatre). He is not a leader in content, quality or name any longer as far as I am concerned. And he still needs to come clean about how much and when he knew about the Bitcoin Foundation collapse, after drawing a salary from them for so long and being the sole reason it was instituted. He seems to be in a hurry to distance himself from that particular fiasco. |
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The one good thing to have come out of Blockstream is the confidential values technique for blinding output amounts.
What if that technique outlives sidechains and Blockstream?
Perhaps it is time you declared what Monetas's position is on blocksize? And if there is anything in your contracts that allow opt-out "for the betterment of bitcoin" if you become conflicted? You know the same clauses that key blockstream employees have that cypherdoc has glossed over many times in his persistent smearing, defamation and character assassination that you seem to be supporting curiously ... cypherdoc: how's the hashfast debacle progressing? Been sued for your involvement in that scam yet? |
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I didn't get your WaPo remark at first - then I remembered last week's bizarre piece by the same author https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1086015.0What are the mechanisms that get this kind of nonsense from one side of the world to another? (he asks, rhetorically). “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” - Mark Twain is the mechanism you are referring to I believe. |
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And so hath the Sith raised their evil supreme facist capitalistic empire that we call the IMF. Share the LSD next time before posting.
Perhaps some kind of parser to decrypt the incoherent babbling should accompany your messages? |
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11462977 Washington Post propaganda pill. People buy Bitcoins because they think the price will go to infinity and beyond once everybody uses them, but they don't spend their own Bitcoins because they think the price will go to infinity and beyond once everybody else uses them. And so nobody uses them. I'm liking this new attempt at regurgitating the old FUD to manipulate the entrenched misinformation around the functioning of the monetary good, due to decades of indoctrination of the centralised fiat monopoly money. Seems like that's all they have left now.
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It's possible that the covert power grab of the manufactured "governance crisis" by gavin and the MIT g-men may have unintended consequences of their own. (I never took gavin for a blockhead or a hot-head, as he has come across in this debate, but now it is clear there are ulterior motives that fit the observed behaviour much better. Now he just seems like a regular, Machiavellian, conniving politician, it's like he has been media-coached by Hearn.)
Red-team blue-team politics is cat-nip for attracting and fostering interest. We even have referee Garzik to keep the fight clean.
Go at it guys but careful you don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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Is it FUD if the dangers are real, clear and present? Forewarned is forearmed. Anybody who wants to run on the XT fork deserves to know the dangers they are getting themselves into. Attempting to censor me through intimidation is not going to work. |
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If it is any consolation the boys wanting to play with their big blocks XT toy will be able to run it as a Sidechain, in a sandbox, keeping the mess to a minimum. And we can all learn valuable things for when bigger blocks make sense.
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in the end, Bitcoin with larger blocks is what will win. sidechains will die and take Blockstream with it.
bitcoin will get larger blocks, just not now, "not tonight dear" ... sidechains are inevitable because they are a logical evolution of the technology (if you study self-similar network properties arising from the emergent behaviours due to self-interested individual elements you will know this), with or without blockstream (i'm picking with at this point in time). |
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