CN has a viewkey. If the government takes control of the mining because due to centralization they can regulate 51% of network hash rate, then they can require every transaction publicize its viewkey. Effectively the government can force anonymity to be turned off, if they control 51% of the network hash rate.

Being able to guarantee that the mining will always be decentralized, is required to be able guarantee non-censorship.

This is probably the major flaw of crypto-currency.

I do believe I have a design solution and this should be published this year (hopefully). At this point, I wouldn't take my assertion as 100% given, because without peer review and implementation, one has to remember "devil is in the details" and faults could be discovered.

If I can borrow or rent a car from you, then no problem?

Well let's see what is most efficient. I need to first organize some details from my end.

Thanks very much! I am more interested to go if I someone can help me find my way around. I am so overloaded on tasks right now, I don't have time to do proper planning on knowing the city layout and food arrangements, etc.

Yep.

Reality trumps your emotional problem.

When what I wrote comes true yet again, then you will learn as others have had to.

I believe man and machine will become comingled and thus machines will gain many attributes of man. But never can you remove man from the equation for the reasons I stated in my essay:

http://unheresy.com/Information%20Is%20Alive.html

If machines ever become biological reproducing species under evolution, then they are no longer machines in that sense.

I do believe BTC will make new all time highs 2017 or thereafter.

I have developed a design that has all the advantages Vitalik describes for private block chains, but on a public block chain.

The scalability white paper he linked to in that article is a more abstract and generalized description of the scalability design I had also invented around the time he  published this paper. This is the first time I've seen this research.

Afaics his abstract paper does not deal with some of the intricacies of the economics that have to be solved in order to make the design actually work in the real world. Also he apparently hasn't realized that it is possible to filter out a 51% attack.

I have developed a design that has all the advantages Vitalik describes for private block chains, but on a public block chain.

The scalability white paper he linked to in that article is a more abstract and generalized description of the scalability design I had also invented around the time he  published this paper. This is the first time I've seen this research.

Afaics his abstract paper does not deal with some of the intricacies of the economics that have to be solved in order to make the design actually work in the real world. Also he apparently hasn't realized that it is possible to filter out a 51% attack.

Let's see if you still think that if a Republican wins and allows a massive military buildup leading to nuclear war in the USA.

Again go look at how many nuclear reactors there are in the USA.

The morass can not be fixed. The USA must explode into parts, but first it must stomp on the world some more.

None of this looks good. My logic is there is no "better than". It is all worse than what we had. We are in a systemic collapse and there is nothing that can be done from the top-down to avert that. The only solutions will come from the bottom-up.

Filipinos do not like to be alone. They like a party. They want to be constantly engaged in some activity especially with some social component.

No worries in Latin America, they want to party all the time also. Avoid the dominantly native populated countries such as Central America, northern S.A., Boliva, and possibly even Peru, because then she will complain about them having some of the negative traits of filipinos (things they feel shame about such as their laziness) but liking weird music, etc.. Filipinos are more attracted to (admire, aspire to be like) people with white skin, thus she will be more enamored with Uruguay, Argentina, or Chile. In Buenos Aires, they dance in the streets and they don't like to start the night of partying until midnight.

If your wife was busy managing the production and canning on a farm like this and also a vendor stall along the highway for selling produce, maybe she would be busy enough and enough social life to keep her happy. It depends on her upbringing. My current gf was raised correctly and her mother was from the mountain, so she is okay with a farm:

http://www.byronlutz.com/castropalms.htm

Right now her goal is to earn a few $100s per month to lift her family up out of extreme poverty. I offered the idea to bring her family over to Argentina and start a farming village. She seems conducive to the concept. No visas needed to bring filipinos to Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. I reckon once in Ecuador or Peru, it would probably be possible to find a way to get them into Argentina. Probably sufficient to just go to the embassy and explain that are touring the family around S.A. and appeal to their sense of pride, "can't you help me so I tour them to see the great attributes of Argentina?".

So what I am suggesting is to find some combination of rural and suburban that will balance out for your family. You can't just go live on the top of a mountain and expect your wife to be contented. You'd need to marry a tribal woman if you want that.

I do also like some times the entirely rugged and have spent some days up in the mountains here in Philippines (all the islands) and also USA and Central American countries. You could still get away and do that. Even bring your kids along as they get older.

Your wife may come more to your ways as she gets older. I have Belgium friend 62 years old and he runs 10 kms three times a week. His filipina wife (50s) hated sports and was a "stuff my face with food" typical filipina. Now at this age, she has taken up running and is loving it.

As she gets older, her options decline tremendously. She will either diverge away from you and want to do her own independent thing, or she will come closer to you. My Belgium friend is a very dominant personality and he selected a "humok" wife (means soft in filipino language). His wife does battle him, but she gives in. Note he was a farmer and she was also raised on a farm (in the same small town where Manny Pacquiao was born and I've been there), even though she did attain a college education in Davao.

Also how you raise your kids will likely influence very much what your wife is focused on some years from now.

Poisoned infant's formula. Unlabeled Viagra in health drinks. The above statement is delusional. The government can't enforce such standards.


Totalitarian police state is your idea of safety, freedom, and innovation 

The problem with China's education system is they are too much focused on test scores and not enough focused on critical and divergent thinking. Robotics slaves is what the Communist party wants indoctrinated.

Poisoned infant's formula. Unlabeled Viagra in health drinks. The above statement is delusional. The government can't enforce such standards.


Totalitarian police state is your idea of safety, freedom, and innovation 

The problem with China's education system is they are too much focused on test scores and not enough focused on critical and divergent thinking. Robotics slaves is what the Communist party wants indoctrinated.

Yes the specialist clinic is indeed in Melbourne. Thanks!

I am working on getting my gf's passport. If she can get a visa, she may join (although that adds cost of plane fare and her food while there). But if you can offer me a room to sleep and silent computer work, then it is not so important that she join me, since I won't be totally alone there. Perhaps it is easier if she will just return to her family's place while I am in Australia. Or if you are just helping me find a hotel or place to rent, hopefully you can help me find something that isn't so incredibly expensive. I remember Australia was quite expensive even back in year 1999 when I was in Brisbane. In any case, I think my investors can cover the cost, I am just trying to reserve as much of $ for development expenses (see below).

Do note that afaik the treatment will be 2 - 3 weeks in duration, because complicated cases require numerous transplants.

I feel much better today. Whew that was alarming (not being able to see normally). 100,000 IU of vitamin D3 yesterday appears to control the immune system. I need the fecal transplant to try to address the theory of the root cause (leaky gut, dominant bad bacteria population in the colon, which can't be reached with undigested food to repopulate good microbes, thus the requirement to come up from the anus) which is causing the immune system to go bezerk.

I am in a very good mood today, because the PhD in Mathematics is going to start working with me later this week. So I can be sure my work has been properly peer reviewed. Being also an autodidact programmer, programming productivity may also receive a boost. Roughly a week ago that person had declined the collaboration lamenting that "this isn't going to work out, the security stipulations are too complicated". I appealed to the innovations I have and the importance of the work, and I got a reply that "interesting work is motivating" and "I am agnostic to the potential implications for our future, and you might be correct". I think it is one of the issues of adjustment for someone who hasn't been exposed to sort of things we discuss here.

I am reasonably sure my math is correct. A significant thing this individual can do is to implement wider ECC curves such as Ed41417 (also from Berstein), which is very much a technical need for this project. Ed25519 is only marginally secure in this context.

Daniel Berstein appears to be a very smart dude and very prolific cryptographer. He seems to be a really nice guy too in the one video I've seen of him (something I can't be sure about the strange personalities over there at Blockstream). Wish I could do all the math he knows. In my mids-40s before I got sick I was contemplating teaching myself a lot of math that I hadn't completed at the university. I was thinking about teaching my daughter a lot of math while she was only 12, because her IQ was scoring very high on for example raven's matrix tests. But unfortunately my life disintegrated due to the M.S. from about 2010 forward. Sheer will that I sort of pulled my life back together after the near death ICU-hospitalization for acute peptic ulcer in May 2012 (which is also when my ex demanded to yank my kids from Philippines to bring them to USA). I think the massive antibiotics in May is what messed up my colon. I remember I thought I had some kind of severe fungal infection. It seemed to improve with the high dose vitamin D3 in September 2012 when I brought my kids to Manila to fly to USA, but I didn't continue the vitamin D3 and by November the M.S. had really kicked into overdrive (motor running in the ear, inability to swallow, etc). Over 2014, I managed to sort of contain it and get back my ability to swallow and get the motor out of my ear. But apparently the M.S. has progressed to some extent as well in other ways such as the vision. I do remember my vision suddenly going extremely blurry back in 2010. Around 2009 or 2010, were the first times my feet swelled up to not quite as large as papayas. The earliest signs of M.S. were the feet getting tired and sore back in 2006 if standing too long. My ex infected me with some extremely virulent high strain of HPV in May, 2006 which I suppose she acquired from the drug dealers she was living with when we had to sleep over one night in a hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas to empty a shared storage unit we had from when we lived there 2002. Dumb (young & strong) me as we had separate beds and let myself get seduced into the dirty deed. And then a few days later my sister was murdered by her drug addict husband, and I wasn't able to attend the funeral because I was so incredibly ill from the HPV that I couldn't leave the hotel room for about 2 weeks. Actually I had told my mom I was headed to New Orleans to check on my sister because I had a feeling that something was wrong (my ONLY full sister had refused to talk to me since year 2002 when I refused to loan her $5000 for her to bribe a judge to ger her husband out of jail after he was in a bar brawl ... I didn't get to speak to her before she died). For a long time, I thought my problem was the HPV becausethe high strain she gave me is known to attack the head and throat causing head and throat cancers about 10 years after infection. I still think perhaps the HPV was one of the causes of the autoimmunity, and I think the high dose antibiotics is what exacerbated it in 2012 causing the M.S. to go bezerk. I took so much AHCC in 2014, that I think I killed off any remaining HPV infection. I don't seem to get the throat symptoms that I used to get. So my theory is that now is only remaining the damage to my gut. Hopefully they can get me repaired in Australia and I get back the life I had before I descended into that hell, which actually started around 1999 when my ex picked a fight with a gang and they attacked me blinding my right eye. Perhaps you have some idea why we are no longer together.   I mean I still care about her and the kids, but the practicalities of interacting too closely with her are apparent (not to blame everything on one person, there is to some extent always at least two sides to every story).

Any way, just to give readers some idea of how this sort of illness's symptoms progress even for someone doing his best to eat right, be athletic, and take supplements. I suppose many people here have a story about their life that is equivalently bizarre.

A permanent fixture in my thinking is how can I consider myself to be intelligent if I allowed myself to get into such situations in my life. So I've really tried to be much more thoughtful in my decisions lately. I suppose in my younger years, I was very haphazard in my decisions about life choices. Sort of "let's try that and see what happens" as if playing with bugs in the backyard when I was kid. Curiosity killed the cat.

The USA is in a much stronger debt and fiscal position than many other nations of the world. But more importantly, it prints the reserve currency of the world.

The $8 trillion of QE ended up as a carry trade because due to ZIRP investors were forced to buy emerging market bonds to get yield.

Now the entire world is $5 trillion short the dollar (they owe that much dollars).

And this is one of the reasons capital will exit the periphery and head back to the USA until 2017.9.

Also the USA will be raising interest rates (which they can afford to do as capital is streaming in) and these higher rates will attract capital from the rest of the world.

You have an overly simplistic view of how the world really works. I am giving you an explanation about reality.

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I think perhaps you correlated the noise and didn't apply a smoothing filter.

http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/archives/35782


Paul got straight to the point that is not necessary to violate everyone's privacy in a false strawman that it aids fighting terrorism. He got thunderous applause.

But what we really see is that the American public would much prefer a guy who can top-down manage the world, than a modest guy who wants free markets.

And so the Americans may get their Trump card, who wants to empower the military-industrial complex more.

What this shows is that there is no solution that can come from voting for a government. The only solution is taking matters into our own individual hands. For that, we MUST have anonymity technology else we are doomed to the whims of the collective.

If the first proposition is proven true, then next interesting one is whether crypto-currency can detach from gold and become a public asset, i.e. does Bitcoin become the Govcoin someday.

Or will an anonymous coin someday detach from gold when Gov can successfully destroy gold but can't destroy the anonymous internet (if that happens).

Unknowns.