Urgent! Still seeking a fellow Bitcoiner who's attending the Super Bowl.

Anybody?

~TMIBTCITW

Exactly what I'm going to do, for I read the same advice on Reddit penned by you or some other.

I have a local printer printing the banner, so that's outta the way.

The only thing left to do is find a fellow Bitcoiner attending the Super Bowl. Anybody?

~TMIBTCITW

Bump!

I was also talking about Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks.

Thanks for the link, bud, although my mining quarrying idea would actually use the player's hands to move slabs of rocks.

Sadly, ONLY 1,386,890 views on the following Minecraft via Oculus Rift video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJD0giGN6Y. Looks like I'm going to have a rough road to climb to find enough people interested in this endeavor of mine. Perhaps, I should have gone with World of Goo and build bridges using balls of goo.

Blast from the past, acting as a reminding to have on hand if the 1K milestone is hit later this evening.

I guess I morphed this from mining for coins to getting paid via crypto for quarrying stones through an exchange, thus eliminating the centralize system you spoke of.

I'm still leaning toward that somehow the actual donning of the VR gear on the head reading subtle brainwaves can thwart any bot. Would that work?

While I hope that the last post I replied to somehow disappears  , allow me to further share what I've envisioned. (the fuckin' woodshop could wait, for I have lights there--and heat)

Pool Owners:

Anybody who "coins" a name for their type of stone to be quarried, is automatically head of that pool of quarriers represented by a symbol, viz. SACG⁷ that I created for illustration purposes a few posts back. One of the main tasks of the quarry operators is to garner more VR workers to quarry their particular or latest stones. The more workers a Quarry Master (just made that up--fuck the woodshop, I want to play NOW) has on average, and the more slabs (so long blocks) they have quarried to date, the better price they can obtain (split among the the QM and his workers depending on their stats) via...

The Quarry Exchange (QE):

The quarry exchange will list all the different types of stones currently being quarried along with all viable stats so that an advertiser can make an informed decision as to where they would like to see their adverts placed and at what price point, of which is predicated on the activities of the various quarries. All ad revenue WILL be paid out via only bitcoins or the most viable alt coins to date, decided upon by the payees. Ergo, the newest Quarry Master would start amassing cryptocurrencies, albeit minute, the very moment they quarry the first slab of their registered stone. The QE takes care of the payroll, taking a small cut from the revenue generated, dispersed fairly among the QMs and QEs depending on how many slabs they quarried, with the QM receiving a premium for his efforts.

Quarry Masters (QM):

As mentioned, anybody can become a Quarry Master, but must pay $10 USD via cryptocurrency (c-c) to have each stoned to be quarried listed on the exchange. They get this back in the form of advert revenue once they reach a certain milestone, different for all QM operations because it's predicated on their past and ongoing performance. A QM can freelance as a QW or for other QMs.

Quarry Workers (QW):

A quarry worker is just that, somebody who works the various quarries run by a QM, freely quarrying elsewhere on a whim, albeit gravitating toward the best producing QM's operation(s), read best paying. A QW can become a QM if they have quarried a yet-to-be-determined X slabs, thus not having to pay a registration fee for their first registered stone. Subsequent registrations of symbols for quarry operations would be at $10 USD via c-c each or again by quarrying X slabs.

Quarry Advertising (QA):

To be further discussed, but wanted to mention at least one aspect here. An advertiser, viz. for some new highly anticipated xBox game, would be able to post advert slots available to quality QM's boards via the QE, whereupon the QM could opt-in depending on their liking for the product and/or what it pays, an important aspect considering that they'll want to keep their QWs happy by continuing to pay them well. Likewise, a QM can request what products they would like to be advertise, predicated on their team's preference.

Moreover, a QM or QW can permanently display a certain product's image that they desire to own, i.e. an xBox game, in the upper right-hand corner, of which a timer counts down the number of slabs yet to be quarried is also seen. Once the goal is reached, a notice pops up on the screen stating that the product is now in the queue to be shipped to their registered address ASAP. This feature is above and beyond where the larger advertised item's image is placed on the screen (or in view, given this is VR).

Slabs, Blocks & Shapes:

I'll use the easiest 3-D object--a cube--to illustrate these three concepts.

The first cube-shaped slab quarried is picked up via VR from Point A and place at Point B. Block 1 is now complete and hauled away, for lack of a better term. The resulting shape was a cube, I cube-shaped slab in size.

Block 2 consists of 8 (2³) cube-shaped slabs. Once stacked via VR, that resulting cube is hauled away.

Block 3 (bored yet?) consists of 27 (3³) cube-shaped slabs. Again, once stacked via VR, that resulting cube is hauled away.

Thus, to date, 3 cube blocks have been created using 36 cube-shaped slabs.

Of course, the math works out differently for triangle- and square-based pyramids, let alone a dodecahedron or some other polyhedron, regular or irregular. And, we're not limited by classic geometric shapes growing ever so proportionally larger, resulting more blocks once each is completed, albeit this IS one of the deciding factors an advertising would be seeking out of a quality QM. A QMB (Quarry Master Builder) may be commissioned, or build as a spec, some monstrosity consisting of tens of thousands of variously shaped slabs that, once completed, would pay off handsomely, split between the QM(B) and QWs.

Bear in mind, the bigger the project and the longer it'll take to build, the better the payday. The QM would also have a say as to who the QWs will be, based on his settings or via special invites or a combination of both. A QW can also request to be on certain projects, waiting in the queue (no pun intended) FUCK IT! waiting in the Q for his chance to quarry on some favorable project. All the while, each and every quarrier will see the same advert, prominently displayed, along with an image of their desired gear in the upper right-hand corner slowly counting down the number of slabs quarried till they're able to have product in hand.

More info forthcoming. Hope you like what you've read so far. I sure the hell do.

~Bruno Kucinskas

"This'll be fun!"                             "Mommy!"

Remember when people were asked if they preferred the young Elvis or the old Elvis after his death?

I did read a thread where there's a coonass who has his Caddy snowed in Louisiana that may be interested in alligator rides. 

Upon reading your post, I was met head-on with logansryche's thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49734.0. There, he was met head-on by bitcoiners who tore his idea apart, but he threw it right back at them with further craziness. Luckily, I'm not that headstrong, and your post makes me think about what's actually reality, but not yet deterred.

Thank you kindly for your input while I digest the above while in the woodshop later today.

~TMIBTCITW

I'm definitely not requesting VR units to be shipped to me. I'm only seeking individuals who have such units that are interested in this project, first to discuss what is and isn't possible to do with these things. Then, if it's possible, start developing software to interact with the VR units, along with coding in a scoring mechanism, of sorts. Luckily, for me, I know more about gaming than coding them, having seen my nephew play MineCraft--ONCE--and the following is the only gaming code symbol I know: < >. That's not to say that I can't develop this project, for I've seen firsthand two guys in the porn industry help develop ASIC-based bitcoin miners, of which they just started to ship out en masse this week.  

If I see a couple examples, I'm sure I could reproduce in via seeing the code when I click the quote button. I know I've seen such posted here before, but would be hard-pressed to hunt them down, hence asking.

Each column would be titled and stay aligned with its intended column text regardless of resolution or other unknowns.

Thanks in advance, all.

~TMIBTCITW

Not stupid at all, appreciating the input, and shall address the concerns in no particular order.

One could argue that when a parent screams "Clean your room, or else!" it's a form of child labor, coupled with threatening a child with violence, yet it happens worldwide, tens of thousands of times (if not more) on a daily basis. Of course, if I express that that phrase is part of the backbone of some game, then that'll be a different story. My example, above, was only meant to illustrate the possibilities of who the player base may consist of, whether such is known outside the home or not. I'm sure parents are somehow being awarded directly or indirectly via their children's gaming activity unbeknown to both parties.

Concerning the OculusVR brand, I'm well aware of the circumstances surrounding their naming rights, but opted to purchase the various domain names chiefly to perpetuate the buzz of what I have envisioned to date via some brand, currently using ORC and A-ORC, of which can easily be replaced down the road as this endeavor comes to fruition.

Any software bot attempted to be created must take into consideration the millions of possible hand movements each and every time one must utilize to virtually pick up the blocks quarried--readied to be move--placing them onto a predefined shaped pile. If a bot could be made, then it's possible to develop a program to thwart them. Remember, the quarrying is all done by hand (movements) and must physically be picked up and place via VR. A bot would not be able to amass blocks faster than humanly possible, albeit, if one's created, it'll be quarrying at a snail's pace. Chinese prisoners, on the other hand...

I truly enjoyed penning this post. Any more questions, for I'm making up the answers as I go along.

~Bruno Kucinskas

I think he was!

Tricked you! I knew you were a Polishphobe the minute I laid my Lithuanian hazel bedroom eyes on your previous posts. 

Seriously! Miners won't be able to compete with a snake oil investment salesman?


It's doesn't matter if one person purchases $5M worth of outdated miners or 100 people purchase same, there's no ROI. Miners know it. Miner makers know it. The snake oil investment salesmen know it. The only people who don't know it are those having more money than brains that jacked off all over themselves when they read an article or two about Bitcoin. Moreover, it's the people who don't know about Bitcoin that have collectively invested their hard-earned money into entities that are seeking investment opportunities like Bitcoin, and the snake oil investment salesmen are more than happy to oblige.

Pete Bartutti would be gobstrucked if he overheard "The New Liars Club" panelist pitch the mining-for-profit version of his "Cordeen School" routine for, at the end of the day, the investor-chain lose.

I think ORC/A-ORC would play well with http://ethereum.org/.

Besides the common dimension stones that'll be quarried, yet-to-be-named exotic stones can just as easily be introduced, all capable of being stack into any predefined shape, limited only by the imagination of creators of A-ORC.

Did I mention colors and textures of the stones increases the number of possilbe A-ORC into the quadrillions, if not further. For instance, there's a myriad of shades of green. Various hardness of stones. Countless shapes the quarried stones could be stack. Multiply all the possibilities together, and what do you come up with? A gazillion to the power of a gazillion? Or more?

Bottomline, any person will be able to start their own A-ORC in under a minute and start quarrying, with the hope that their efforts take off when they tell their peers to help stack. It'll take longer for one to name their A-ORC per yet-to-be-determined guidelines than to set the parameters of what's actually going to be quarried.

Allow me to make one up to illustrate: Smokey Amethyst Cornwall Granite (7) (Color; Location; Type; Hardness; all of which can be fictionally named, and I just introduced geography into the mix of which could also be fictional). The symbol would be SACG⁷.

We could limit the number of characters to 10, the first 9 being one of the 26 letters in the English alphabet, of which is not written in stone (no pun intended), with the 10 character being the subscript, numbers 2-9, inclusive, thus the total possibilities would be 26⁹ X 8. (if my math is wrong, it's because I'm ready for bed)

Apologize for getting the cart before the horse, but there's stones to be had.

~TMIBTCITW

Holy shit! I can incorporate what I envisioned earlier today with this damn thing: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=431248.0

Post a pic with a tin of shoe polish on your head and let us decide.  

<overheard at MsCollec's household>

"Honey, where's the tin of shoe polish?"

"Right next to the camera where you put it last, last week when you wanted to prove something on the internet, dear."