Don Tapscott, Published on Sat Jan 23 2016

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND—The World Economic Forum has identified “the blockchain” as one of the core technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

At its most basic, the blockchain is a global database—an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value and importance to humankind: birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, deeds and titles of ownership, educational degrees, financial accounts, medical procedures, insurance claims, votes, transactions between smart objects, and anything else that can be expressed in code. This ledger represents the truth because mass collaboration constantly reconciles it. We will not need to trust each other in the traditional sense, because the new platform ensures integrity. Think trust achieved through clever code and mass collaboration.



The enthusiasm was in stark contrast to my next meeting meeting—with 60 CEO’s of big banks banks. I was leading a discussion on technology disrupters in banking and while there was big interest in understanding blockchain technologies most were not convinced that there was either a big danger or big opportunity.

It kind of reminded me of 1994 when I advocated for something called the World Wide Web and many people’s reaction was “meh.”

Don Tapscott a best-selling author most recently The Digital Economy, Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and the chancellor of Trent University.

this is a relaunch of Smart Chips? http://www.smartpoker.info/ (dead)
now this >> http://blockpoker.org/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1202287 (LOCKED)

a. nice product
b. shit asset

if the project can attach itself to a better asset there might be something to it

yeah credit due to $ETH, FCT, and YB, EMer
i don't play the bluechips for sleeper action but have seen some big capital gains among the Top20 group here in Season 03 Episode 01


I still don't get what FCT is but it now holds sway with NXT, BTS, XCP, and Omni
XEM is making gains too and might cement itself also as a member of the bluechip DAC/platform/asset group


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the $ETH action was a huge sleeper move, set into play +2 years ago, the whole btc block size debate debacle, blockstream, Hearn all part of the play ... the centralized / 'we can fork btc' players knew long ago they'd lose the debate to 'Classic' now they all rage quit into a coin that knows no limits right?  They can increase the reward, block size, block speed, whenever ... just need consensus 'majority ownership' ... they couldn't do that with BTC, even if they had the Nuts.

"Peter Todd calls dash snake oil."
cuz it is

but does NOT matter ... the Duff Buck has run top10 in market cap long enough that Dash likely can hold $3 even if dash whales dump hard to buy sports cars and blow.

Monero ... you're running way back there ... need to give up on the competition and refocus ... say on $10M by creating a cool 'anon' exchange platform

the DvM battle is OVER, focus on the war

I wish Peta Todd was into crypto ;
https://www.google.nl/search?q=Peta+Todd&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY4oee-cPKAhWHCI4KHTtaAeQQ_AUIBygB&biw=1366&bih=653

Full options casino
https://www.betcoin.ag

"what coin has the lowest price relative to potential?"

still not complete
potential over xxx days or yy years or zzz hours or mm minutes?

http://cryptochainer.com/dir/

100 TALK for the website creator
400 TALK for whomever gets the bcc bootstrap posted into the dir

example
www.CryptoChainer.com/dir

As of 1-18-16, the following blockchains are available, for syncing your wallet quickly:

Bluecoin
Bitbean
42
Maza
MintCoin
Philosopher Stone
NobleCoin
CASH
Sync
StrongHands
SuperTurboStake
X-Coin
TruckCoin
TEK
RateCoin
NetCoin
Diamond

DigiByte! and NobleCoin!! and Diamond too!!! author=HR

BURST
Digital author=TTsquared



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$ETH pulled a sleeper move, I saw a down swing (still a coming) but it decided to knock out LTC first ;/

it's a Dudefest!
toke h8tes anything that don't trade +1m$/day
"Yeah you're right.  Buy and hold those coins.  They are undervalued."

"What the altcoin scene has is potential, not value."

that could be said of any coin


"What the bitcoin scene has is potential to reach $100 BILLION, not value."
"What the doge scene has is potential to reach $100 MILLION, but a doge coin itself has no value."
"What the potcoin scene has is potential to reach $1 MILLION"

speculators always look for the potential
traders are working with the value, and that means in quick and back out quick
but you still need a reserve currency at the end of the day
so you look for the coin with the best potential top hold value for xxx days or yy years or zzz hours

halibit i think you made the price hit +1M$


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http://earthcoin.org/velkommen

CLOSED

i'll leave my wallet open, see if it updates, if i does, well you get the promised PRoto 2!

regarding seed node, if it is not profitable to maintain after 90 days, just present a bill, i'm sure that can be covered.

--ps anyone with a direct line to Hex or Sad_dam let'm know PRoto is rolling and nodes are available.
--ps2 whomever can solo PRoto stands to get rich quick, still think the rewards are high and the competition low, ain't gonna have the fairness of UN :/
---ps3 yes PRo reward @ 0.5 ... aka ... era2

MRC markets also

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unobtanium/comments/42fzmy/ive_compiled_some_links_to_make_it_super/
DONE

https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/unobtanium/usd/90_days
considering the BTC roller coaster
and cryptsy drama

UNO did okay on the 90day U$D
the consensus is around $1.75-$2


more CHINA
http://www.sosobtc.com/
like bitcoinwisdom but more!

like the website
http://slick.cf/
go #SLOTH

Thu, Feb 18 at 18:00
Blockchain technology and its applications
By: London Business Society  http://londonbusinesssociety.co.uk/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blockchain-technology-and-its-applications-tickets-19870516249

funny thing is this coin still has a functional network
and craptsy released the coin

if anyone is out there stop by the TALK thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=864994

maybe can keep this sucker alive
besides I think it has a cool name and possible case use yet

https://bitribunal.wordpress.com/

https://www.aricoinpay.com/accounts/login/?next=/aricoin/overview/

it is still on anyone tested if you can deposit / send ?

thanks Graham
didn't even know about the historical feature!


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1. Pure POW, Pure POS, ICO

POW is the most robust ... the network can even grind to a halt and the will kick back in once someone throws hash at it, so even dusty old mine operations are still working a-okay even though the market moved to the next new shiny coin ... age of operation will start to become a valuable stat.

POS also can cling on with a few dedicated stakers, but there is the kicker of coin distro that can cause issues

IOC are and will be always be high scam potential vehicles.  Get the right team assembled and they can work, and after observing crypto for years I can only imagine the type of scams Silicon Valley VCs run into.  Crypto is chump change.

Now a type4 category is on the horizon.
We now have stabilized market cap for +200 coins.
But launching a network is very difficult at this point.
So the platforms ... NXT, BTS, XEM will host 1000s of ICO assets ... but to avoid to prior scam stuff Dev teams will need to demonstrate reserve capital and it can likely be put in a multi-sig escrow (smart contract).  There is also the burn method ... XCP, Master, and now BARR have shown that it can work.

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150M$ seems to be a barrier, right now only ETH and LTC can hold that range.  Ripple is another kind of beast so ignore their marketcap.  But all 3 are standing on 150M$ ... so BTC xrp ltc eth are your 4 horsemen.

Next level down is 25M$ barrier (Doge, Dash are aiming to test it) ... they would be best served by focusing on being the liquidity used by the common man.

then 10M$ barrier (NXT, YB, XEM, BTS, FCT ... the platforms seem to each be acquiring a cap of 10M$ish)
then 3M$ barrier (the okay it's worthy of staying above 1M$ on down swings and basically 'made it' level)
then 1M$ barrier (note how many coins went over the 1M$ line on this recent btc price rise)