Years ago coins were minted with the kings face on them and became worthless after about three years but
this stopped too much accumulation and greed from taking over but then we discovered a type of encryption
by splitting a wooden stick down the middle and it was know as a tally stick and they remained in use up to about
150 years ago.

I know that trust is a dirty word around here but "Proof" equates to trust really so hello new user and don't be put off
because we are not all of the cloth around here, it just looks that way.

I once got well paid for sorting out a 2GB MS-Access database with about seventy user and put it on RAM-Disk and this
thing flew after that so maybe if your running a cluster of rigs then this might become an option and I am not talking about
sold state disks here but full on DDR3/5

So you own the private keys and the cost is about 1% but you will do a call-back to web-servers or page that is running the script.

Both ETH and BTC have priced themselves out of the small payments market due to transaction costs so IOTA sounds good as does Ripple
for taking payments (Cheap as chips) but then use an accumulator maybe and make payments to clients in BTC or better still ETH to keep
external costs down.

Use the notes field in the transaction to add your order number so that the two ends tie up with each other

Chuck in a little file compression and you can soon get back to the same performance at the cost of
a bit of CPU-Power and memory.

Disk-Drives are as slow as snails and are hardly any faster today then they were ten years ago but today
Microsoft tries to lock everyone else out from writing that kind of software and we are now at the stage
where anything they can steel, encrypt and upload they are doing.

My skills today are so good that I cannot delete index.dat files (these get hidden) on a windows 10 machine
because its no longer an OS but has become a remote terminal for Microsoft and the NSA

Like taking back OUR internet from the government where everything has become hate speech
and anything that can be taxes is taxed.



Here I am talking about SHA-Hash being a hash of all the 2mb blocks making up the file much like used by Bit-Torrent
but maybe I didn't make it clear

Yes total agreement, 100% right and this is why I use public keys throughout the network so I could
send you a WhatsApp type message without the source code being private and needing central servers.
It's a fair bet WA would had been closed down without coming to an agreement with the powers that be and
I trust them as far as I can spit myself.


Nothing wrong with being "theoretical" so that's why I am asking questions and it started off when I looked at crypto coins and realized like
many before me that we needed more of a money network than this coin or that coins and then I kind of went sideways and ended up with a
socket based network that instead of using IP/Port it uses Public-Key/Service so encrypted apps could be built on top of it.

The project really has nothing to do with alt-coins apart from fake "gas" and really does not improve much on Bit-Torrents
when it comes to movies but it does offer secure file transfer without big brother poking his nose in by using the same security that
you trust with your coins which is better than the encryption that was later bolted on to Bit-Torrent when ISPs started "Traffic Shaping"
my downloads.
 

You are half way to creating an autonomous unit of currency here and could even include signatures from
trusted servers (Dirty name I know) in the string so all we need now is someway of stopping file-copy from
working and me and you could both be rich.

Maybe something like deeds are used with property would work where possession is 9/10th of the law but you
need deeds to sell property on so maybe this could be made to work but as crazy as I try to be even I could never have come up with mining
coins as a concept.

You mean the bit where a single transactions gets sent to 20,000 nodes and then you spend $500 worth of energy
just to make all these nodes agree about something ?

Far too much network chatter, far too little useful work is done and DAG seems better but in the end I am
convinced that specialist coordinator nodes is a better solution or you end up with all them nodes pushing and
pulling against each other.

A cluster of nodes (star shaped) does not become a cartel and can introduce some order into a chaotic system
where it's every man for himself, it does not scale like that.

Smart contracts are little more than bean-counters that allow you to store name value pairs in a block-chain and pay gas for the the privilege of
doing so and I was hoping that you could pay gas to host fully fledged sites or application servers using nodes to host the service so that these sites
could never be taken down.

I have looked at contracts written in Simplicity and nothing stops the contract from steeling all the coins after a certain date
has been reached or from changing the rules and it's all about renting out space on the block and does not really offer any free
services like local storage.

Tor can host web-sites (.onions) but it's slow and you need to keep your machine running all the time so really I was hoping to
see the best of both worlds but its missing.

Please correct me if you feel my understanding here is wrong.

Is this like hassle free if I give you all my public keys or let you hold my money ?

No offence but we get lots of scammers here and you can never be too careful can you now.

Yes and they are all working for big money and that includes Firefox plus you have STUN servers and it's so bad that even
if the HTML in the browser uses something like

Then the browser forces the request to be sent out as HTTPS on port 443 for google.
(I needed to fake google advert tracking here)

I run code that scans and replaces all the urls in .exe's and Dlls and google is used as Constance  
all over the place and not just in pak files.

With Chrome you can write browser extensions yourself like "Add-Blocks" but the framework does not call
your J-Script functions on some of the "google call" home requests so your code cannot block them.

Microsoft with it's ETC/Host file won't block some domains when you set them to 127.0.0.1 and
has basically turned into a remote terminal for the NSA/CIA.

I was using vidalia.exe that comes with a proxy server (privoxy.exe) directly from win-sockets within my code to pull pages from
all over the internet and I am sure many of these site would be pushing viruses that rely on javascript and browser exploits but thats
not going to infect a machine that's not browsing and is simply parsing the HTML from the pages and nothing else was even running
on the machine because it was dedicated to this simple task when it picked up WannaCry

No I am not 100% sure it must had been Tor itself but I would say 99% sure this is what happened

My reason for scanning the internet via Tor was to count the number of active web-sites in use that are not just
domain parked or are using 302 redirects back to central servers and part of the process was fooling google search to
give up a few of it's secrets or else they cut you off if you do too many searches.

Believe me I was a big time fan of Tor before this happened, nice tool in the box but look around and you will find
other cracks that people are talking about and also note that the number of exit nodes always stays at around 300
and the other draw back is they have all become well known and blocked by most sites.

I ran Tor once as an exit node and it got little to no traffic and I know this because I was running my own version of
Wireshark on the machine so again I say that all is not as it seems.

I have been working on node discovery that will scale to a hundred million users or more and it uses
public/private keys on a private network that are then used to sub-domain the network into areas of
responsibility so if the public key of a node is abc12345..... then this node would be a good starting point if you
are trying to find the ip-address for a node with the public key of ab99999........

Now I am moving on to a files system that needs to be anonymous and encrypted so that anyone can publish a file
to the network and nodes that host parts of the file (Chunks in Bit-torrent terms) will not even know what they
are hosting because the data was encrypted before it was published.

My best plan so far is to SHA-Hash the whole file and then break it down into something like 2mb blocks and spread them
across the network using a system of PUSH,GOT,GET but again sub-domain responsibility based on the hash of the file plus
caching of file chunks that are popular and to use a system of relays nodes so that a no one knows if the request is direct (P2P) or
is via a relay node (Bit Like Tor)

Ultimately the data is useless without the decryption key that could be sent via an email privately (Secure details for blowing up the world)
or published via a type of torrent-site service that some nodes might be running.

What I am trying to avoid is having to keep encrypting/decryption the the file chunks as they pass between relay nodes or are loaded from
file as this is CPU Intensive and involves too many handshakes on the secure network plus I am thinking of using artificial "Gas" so that
nodes gain credits for services provided to the network and will be placed at the back of the queue if they just act like parasites.

Time stamps will be used to age old files and to free up node disk-drive space so what do you think and can it be improved ?

   



 

For drugs, sex and online gambling or pure speculation always use Bitcoin but for everything else
use VISA but if you love corporate banking then your going to love the Bitcoin lightning network.

The current lightning network map of Bob sending Alice (Cryptography terms) money sure look strange
Mr Tin Man and I am not sure we should look behind that curtain to see the wizard of Oz
https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/  


Yeah so where you living because where I live no pizza express is taking BTC, No mega store, no corner shop
so you must be living on the yellow brick road and buying too much weed because where I live that (weed) is closer to
cash than bitcoin and the dealers use to take BTC until the transaction fees cost four time more than a bag of weed.

I know, I need to move area to where coke becomes cash right !

"Bitcoin As a subject in school"

Yes lets teach the kids how bankers where honest at first but then started to lend out money on gold reserves that
they didn't own and how Bitcoin came to the aid of the world and move on to a lesson that "Virtually free transaction fees"
can equate to $55 per transaction and how the Lightning Network with it hubs turned out to be banks

oh yes I am all for teaching the kids about what money and greed can do and how they took over but i think that a
few of the adults around here would prefer it if I didn't

Tell em about USDT mummy, shush, Daddy will hear you !





 

Come on we who are not "One of the boys" can see whats going on here and unless you sing from the correct book
then you will see few merits because some like myself get banned and others not made from the right stuff get
chased off.

A simple look the the activity to merit ratio tells the story, look at mine and note that the OP fears a ban too.

I tend to find that many of the old threads here keep getting pumped back to the top so that people can get
advert impressions from their posts so please let me know if you see any of that going on around here because
I have spotted a few and they seem to live on the forums here.

  you mean like only the bankers/miners having the BTC to finance the channels even if no money is moved in the account ledger?

Well, yes I guess you could call it proof of stake if Alice is not the Queen of England and Bob's is not even on the map
anymore https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/ and if the Lightning Network looks like this with just $55m washing around as they
test it then what will it look like when real customers move in.

I use to love Tor and was running a program on a dedicated machine to screen scrape data from certain sites and never used
browsers on the machine and just connected to it now and then with remote desktop to make sure things were running smooth.

Well cast your mind back to the start of the recent climb in BTC prices and tie that in to the WannaCry virus because thats what
the machine picked up and apart from my program using sockets to connect to the valindi Tor client code nothing else was running
on the machine and yes the ransom-ware wanted paying in BTC for a decryption key.

THIS IS THE POINT WHERE ABUSE STARTS FLYING MY WAY

Most of the time I keep quite about this but since someone has mentioned it I thought you should read the new that's only a day old
https://www.rt.com/usa/420219-tor-us-government-funded-bbg/

Ask yourself OP if I needed to make this up and do search my old posts if you think that I have just made this up.

I am just bias towards NEO because it is windows based (Not that i am saying windows is not spyware) and
believe that paying interest on coins is better then all this mining rubbish but the killer for me when I last
looked at NEO is the gas was only being traded on one exchange.

The West often locks Asia out when it can and NEO is their version of playing that game too but longer term
something similar to NEO is going to blow ETH and BTC out of the water me thinks and offer a lot more than just
bean counting which is the case with "Smart Contracts" today.

Surly they could use the public address on full nodes because if it's good enough to secure coins and pay miners
then this should fit the bill