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What kind of namby pamby crap are some of you feeding this guy?
One man's "namby pamby" is another man's information.  |
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Also remember that "love" is a chemical process in our brain. If you can pull your higher level thoughts above the "primitive" programs running in your brain it will give you more power over your emotions. I recommend this video to learn a bit more about what is happening in your brain: http://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_studies_the_brain_in_love.htmlEnjoy the punt down the river of life. Being a punter is great. There are many great chicks out there you just need to learn to charm them. Go for the whole package not just the beauty. Beautiful girls can often be controllers because they have tremendous power in our society. This is a good song but probably doesn't have to taken to the extreme suggested in the song: http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/ifyouwan.htmIf you enjoyed the advice, I will happily accept BTC 0.01 to this address. ;-) 1MTs6spVYuN7joaXVHxgaB5arVqeAixw3d ANY payment that I receive would be a milestone for me as it would represent my first BTC transaction for "consulting". |
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Be bright and go for a younger girl. You should be looking at 21 and 22 year old girls based on your age. When your 40 and she's 43 you'll be scouting out younger ones anyway. However if you are 40 and see is 33, your girl will still be hot. With today's social networks you should be able to find another. Also check out the girls mother to see how should could turn out. Don't get too fixated on one girl its not healthy.
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Hi, Has there been any discussion about a distributed outcome database. Such a database would be a reliable measure of outcomes. For example, the closing price of the SP500 on a date could be an outcome. Or the values of a futures contract, or sports event etc. Could Blockchain technology be used to build a verifiable distributed outcome database? Nodes could participate and be rewarded for measuring outcomes? Anyone thought through some of the tricky bits here?  It seems like such a piece would be quite useful. Thanks, Dunster |
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It's the offering of securities to Americans that triggers SEC jurisdiction. The offeror has to comply with US law to do that. Many of the GLBSE listed "companies" are in the United States. GLBSE itself is hosted in Portugal, not China. Portugal is part of the European Union, and so the common European regulations on securities, enforced by the European Securities and Markets Authority, apply. I guess this means that the next innovation in self clearing of electronic securities will be happening outside of the US and EU. And, hopefully this innovation can break the monopoly of DTC http://www.dtcc.com/. The future holds self offering , buying, selling and clearing of shares with no corporations just stakeholders in ideas and projects.  |
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Its a very clever piece of software indeed to account for all the naughty vectors.
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If you look at the block chain with a hex editor it appears at the start of every block I believe. I'm looking at bool LoadExternalBlockFile(FILE* fileIn) and bool ProcessMessages(CNode* pfrom) in main.cpp to see if an unexpected instance of the pchMessageStart could cause an issue.
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in main.cpp around line 2,411 in v0.7 we have: // The message start string is designed to be unlikely to occur in normal data.
// The characters are rarely used upper ASCII, not valid as UTF-8, and produce
// a large 4-byte int at any alignment.
unsigned char pchMessageStart[4] = { 0xf9, 0xbe, 0xb4, 0xd9 };
What would happen to the blockchain if this was programmed in especially to confuse things? Would it cause a sync problem in the stream? Just wondering. Thanks, Dunster |
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Thank you for the reference to the wiki,
It looks like this is the same data except that F9 BE B4 D9 precedes this data shown in the Genesis Block wiki entry. I looked "F9 BE B4 D9" up and F9 BE B4 D9 is a "Magic value indicating message origin network, and used to seek to next message when stream state is unknown.". This seems to be the wire format of the magic value 0xD9B4BEF9.
I wonder what happens if the contents of the block are somehow contains F9 BE B4 D9. Will bitcoind interpret this as a beginning of a new block and the chain somehow gets out of sync?
Thanks,
Dunster
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F9 BE B4 D9 1D 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3B A3 ED FD 7A 7B 12 B2 7A C7 2C 3E 67 76 8F 61 7F C8 1B C3 88 8A 51 32 3A 9F B8 AA 4B 1E 5E 4A 29 AB 5F 49 FF FF 00 1D 1D AC 2B 7C 01 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 4D 04 FF FF 00 1D 01 04 45 54 68 65 20 54 69 6D 65 73 20 30 33 2F 4A 61 6E 2F 32 30 30 39 20 43 68 61 6E 63 65 6C 6C 6F 72 20 6F 6E 20 62 72 69 6E 6B 20 6F 66 20 73 65 63 6F 6E 64 20 62 61 69 6C 6F 75 74 20 66 6F 72 20 62 61 6E 6B 73 FF FF FF FF 01 00 F2 05 2A 01 00 00 00 43 41 04 67 8A FD B0 FE 55 48 27 19 67 F1 A6 71 30 B7 10 5C D6 A8 28 E0 39 09 A6 79 62 E0 EA 1F 61 DE B6 49 F6 BC 3F 4C EF 38 C4 F3 55 04 E5 1E C1 12 DE 5C 38 4D F7 BA 0B 8D 57 8A 4C 70 2B 6B F1 1D 5F AC 00 00 00 00
Is this the genesis block? If so, how can I learn more about its format?
Thanks,
Dunster
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It seems like this overall concept could be realized with a "colored coin" overlay on the blockchain? Are colored coins assigned a BIP yet?
Thank you,
Dunster
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Thank you Meni for your links and help they were very useful.
I think that the fundamental difference between "shares" and Bitcoin is that shares can be created at will by Issuers if they want to. There would no proof of work necessary to create a share. I like the idea of using the Bitcoin chain to document the shares but it seems a bit cumbersome on an initial review as it might be difficult to embedded information that is needed into the blockchain. But I suppose "The Share System" could be designed and cleverly overlayed on top of the Bitcoin blockchain assuming the blockchain can handle this with no changes to the current Bitcoin client.
A fundamental concept to grasp is that an Exchange is different than a "share". In an ideal world there would there would be multiple exchanges competing for business to trade in "shares".
If we step back and take a look at how public company shares are handled in the "real" world it can be boiled down to:
Issuers - The company that wants to issue a share in the enterprise in return for capital.
Shareholder - A partial owner of an Issuer
Transfer Agent - The "official" independent company that tracks the number of shares and who owns those shares of an Issuer.
Auditor - The "official" independent company that reviews the books of the Issuer to confirm that the financial statements are accurate.
Regulator - The "official" regulator that defines regulations and performs the regulation to try to create a "fair" market.
Broker/Dealers - The companies that take client funds and buy stock on the client's behalf on the exchanges.
Exchanges - The companies that host computers (and floor trading) to match buying and selling orders.
Custodian - The companies that actually perform the swap of shares for local currency because they have access to both with other custodian counter-parties.
DTC - The mostly single monopoly company that holds the shares in electronic format (book entry). DTC has vast filing cabinets full of paper certificates which they hold in reserve against their book entry database.
An Internet based system does not need all of the above elements.
A peer to peer share tracking and transfer system that supports Issuers and Shareholders is a good start but the protocol should be flexible to add digital signatures from an auditor and other future parties would be nice. If that protocol could be overlayed onto Bitcoin as it stands then that is interesting also.
In the future, I would expect that Issuers could be self existing software (SES) as well as humans. The economic system that we set up should allow an SES to be on the Internet so that it would have its own means to issue shares and buy resources such as computer time without human intervention.
Best Regards,
Dunster
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Hello,
This is my first post.
Now that Bitcoin is now an accepted idea and the network has reached a tipping point towards completion of the blockchain, it is time to think of some features that use the Bitcoin methodology but support different aspects of a more complete economic system. Currency is one part of a system. But, there are others such as ownership stakes, rights, regulation, trust etc.
To begin, it would be nice to have a unit of of ownership. For example a share in a "company". The ownership of this share could exist in a wallet and be transferred the same way as a Bitcoin. Also, to make it very flexible the unit could contain one or more coupons that could be stripped from the initial unit and transferred independently. The coupons could also be reassembled to create the original unit.
This simple concept above would enable a new type of share, bond, and option markets in the same theme as Bitcoin.
The folks over at GLBSE have some good ideas but the centralization of an exchange which tracks ownership is a possible single point of failure. Of course, such an ownership tracking system should be peer to peer and have a blockchain.
Any comments or any other folks working on these ideas?
Thank you,
Dunster
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