Can you see how smooth our white knight is, dear reader?
smooth has a negative opinion of Dash's instamine, and said so in public? ZOMG!111!!11`~!~121!  QUICK, ATTACK THE ATTACKER  |
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I wasn't suggesting the concept of crypto is useless (I wouldn't be here if that were the case), only that current implementations cannot be easily used by even the most desperate of oppressed peoples.
Sure, people in refugee camps don't have smart phones or data plans. But there is a large middle ground between the utterly complacent and the most desperate. The NYT article on Argentina illustrates how BTC is making inroads by using in-person exchange to cover the proverbial last mile, thus providing a tool for the people there to use in their fight against financial oppression. The trend hasn't reached its 100th monkey, but the Argentinian equivalents of our brothers are in the near future increasingly like to use BTC for all the mundane crap fiat used to buy. When Kirchner's tax thugs begin to catch up and subscribe to Chainalysis, the people will move to Monero and stay one step ahead.  |
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What does that have to do with the OP? Plz stay on the topic of "Dash's Instamined/Partly Premined Beginnings" or GTFO. Thx. |
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My brother is a perfect example of "everyone else." He's not a technical person. He's not an investor beyond contributing to his 401k or his kid's college fund. For him, money is a tool not a toy, and the fiat stuff works just fine. It buys his groceries and pays his mortgage. It pays for the gas in his car once a week when he visits the pump. These are all things that most people use money for, and for most people, crypto is completely useless.
Complacent lumpenbourgeoisie like our brothers ("Durr...I like to consume, reproduce, and trade freedom for security") won't GAS until the Great Reset begins in their Homeland. They, not crypto, are the "completely useless" entities. Crypto is a tool. Our brothers, the playthings of Babylon, are the toys. But not everyone lives in America or another stable country. Billions of other people live in places like Yemen, Libya, Ukraine, Cyprus, Argentina, and Venezuela, where their money loses looses purchasing power by the day, and sometimes the hour. |
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These aren't merely problems that can be solved with marketing to women or not being "mean on the internet". We can change these statistics a bit with some clever marketing or a "wallet" designed for women but bitcoin will likely remain male dominated.
One of my favorite posts of all time: |
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The issue with darksend is that there is a hardcoded collateral address in there, which I find a little scary. Glad other devs are finally addressing this, havent really ever seen it be discussed. There is some very sketchy stuff going on in the depths of the darksend code, I suggest all you investors dive deeper and take a look OMG, the more you examine Dash the more shitty it turns out to be! I guess this is yet another example of what vertoe meant when she said 'the centralization reaches deep into the code.' The hardcoded collateral address is also another reason why THE DARKCOIN FOUNDATION INC qualifies as a money-transmitting service, although they have thus far blatantly ignored the laws/rules/regulations required by such a business. |
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So sorry, but last time there are a lot of announcements and a little of implementations.
When I read the entire post (which people usually should do, you know: to get the whole picture) it's very clear Evan is making a proposition of an idea rather than a concrete announcement and clearly states that it's too early to publish anything: I make no promises about this idea working though, I’m very early in the research stages, but it does look quite promising. If it works, it means we have solved the ultimate problem with Bitcoin and have made this technology accessible to the whole world. This strategy is just too good to let sit for very long and I need to do some exploratory coding to prove it works. Masternode Blinding is NOT part of this release, while it’s in the code, it’s currently disabled. It’ll take a bit more work to complete and we were running out of time before the March 25th deadline, so it’s being moved to the next release. Has Masternode Blinding been demonstrated to work on the test net? If not, it's just more vaporware. It shows poor planning on the part of THE DARKCOIN FOUNDATION INC to spend time writing the Blinding feature without realizing 'oops, this thing breaks a lot of other stuff.' Evan is making a proposition of an idea rather than a concrete announcement IOW, all the lofty talk of competing with Bitcoin Paypal (thanks vertoe) with NEW&IMPROVED! features is just hype and bullshit. |
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This is a good argument for a secondary chain, such as Litecoin, with a market volume that can support transferring back and forth between BTC and LTC to serve as an additional layer of obfuscation.
Off-chain mixing, such as using exchanges as you propose, assumes the exchanges are not compromised. Mixing must be done on-chain, if you want genuine opacity instead of half-assed obfuscation using trusted 3rd parties. |
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A decentralized prediction market (like http://www.augur.net/) could be an important use-case for an anonymous coin. You'd get better predictions on controversial topics if users' privacy were protected. Is a Truthcoin-like project doable with Monero? Although ideal, the XMR prediction market need not be decentalized. An onion or i2p site would work fine too. |
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Crypto Sex Toys: Over 4,000 Adult toys -- Pay with Dash (second option behind BTC)
OK, I was wrong about there being no uses for Dash.  There are actually three: 1. Laundering stolen BTer coins 2. High-yield investment in THE DARKCOIN FOUNDATION INC's unlicensed "Masternode" financial product 3. Butt plugs |
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Even the hardcore bugs think silver is going to $12/oz. That probably means it will rally back to $50. You don't hear about it much, but there's substantial consolidation (M&A) afoot in the mining sector. EG from my portfolio: New Gold picked up the last piece of their Rainy River project by absorbing Bayfield. Hecla just basically stole a gargantuan deposit in Montana for a song and a peck on the cheek. Revett shareholders are, of course, suing over the lack of lube... This period of peak Bitcoin/gold/silver production can't last forever, though I may not be solvent by the end of it. |
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$480 is not an outrageous sum, especially for xmr.in or Monero.in, you can easily make that money by starting an alias service
Your group is more reasonable than some I see but still not worth the premium for no traffic generated and no services/content. Good luck selling them though. If nobody wants the domains, please consider donating them to the core devs. Maybe try an auction to find out. |
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Well if we want bitcoin the internet to be taken seriously and not be viewed as the exclusive domain of libertarian-leaning, male, neckbeards then we should care about women in the bitcoin internet space. I just don't understand why any bitcoin internet site owner would be angry at any effort to bring more people into the fold. Isn't that the best way to increase the value of your coin internets?
Fixed your statement for 90s nostalgia value. Change "the internet" to "BBS" or "Usenet" for an 80s look. Use "CB/ham radio" for 70s style. This stupid argument never goes away, because stupid people always find a way to make it current and updated with the latest innovative man-fad. The "anger" is actually resentment of the idea we should feel guilty about a particular demographic skew, loathe ourselves for it, and patronize the underrepresented with pleadings/incentives for them to join us (as if they are absent external assistance too inferior to figure it out). Lowered expectations are a form of soft bigotry, and you're soaking in them. |
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XPOST: 1) Dash's developer, Evan Duffield, released Dash before it's intended release date(Which means the instamine could also be partly counted as a premine)
Exactly. The coins which were mined previous to the announced release date are obviously premined, whether or not they were included in the genesis block. |
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1) Dash's developer, Evan Duffield, released Dash before it's intended release date(Which means the instamine could also be partly counted as a premine)
Exactly. The coins which were mined previous to the announced release date are obviously premined, whether or not they were included in the genesis block. |
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Instead, I am beginning to think that the most successful coin will give its users some kind of benefit for HOLDING it. Darkcoin masternodes and Proof-of- stake provide this motivation in a flawed way, but the idea that there should be motivation to hold is sound, and I've come to believe that this is the final key to unlocking viral growth of bitcoin.
Like central banks, Masternodes and other PoS schemes use centrally/locally determined/conjured magic numbers that should be set by the market, not core devs. It is a category error for the software to (attempt to) explicate, in a vacuum, the appreciation motivation with specific reward values better found by the invisible hand, within the totality of the economy. |
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I'm not denying the influence of the cypherpunk movement on bitcoin and Satoshi, and even though I admit it is likely, actually it is not clear at all whether Satoshi and Nick Szabo are the same person/collective or not, but I guess it is not really relevant, people can change their minds.
I know that cryptonote is taking anonymity to the extreme, but isn't that pretty much already possible with cash (obviously not considering the practical advantages of digital money)? Instead public register of transaction with initial but not definitive anonimty without central authority was not possible before Bitcoin, if Satoshi was such a liberist, why didn't he create Cryptonote in the first place? If Bitcoin is simply a step leading to cryptonote (but in fact its contraray) and a prototype, why release it?
Also I didn't say that every follower of the austrian school is a fanatic, but here in the cryptocurrency environment those are the ones who are the most fervent. By the way, to be clear, I refer to socialism in a marxist way, it is not basic private property that needs to be abolished, rather private property intended as capital stolen by lobbyists and capitalists from the workers. Instead, talking about anarchy, sadly you are right, it is a nice dream, but indeed a dream, it would require human beings to be flawless to work.
PS: you got another thing right, I am an university student. I've heard many people telling me that growing old makes you shift from a socialist and altruist point of view to a more liberist and individualist one.
I was born liberist and will die that way. Age has nothing to do with it. Some people never grow out of wishful thinking, others never suffer that enfeeblement in the first place. Szabo gave us the master plan in the mid 90s. BTC is the first step. BTC does one thing (solves longstanding distributed consensus/trust problem) and does it well. XMR is the next stage of The Plan. Bitcoin's transparent blockchain and Monero's opaque one are complementary, like salt and pepper. Austrian praxis is the best way to deal with the imperfect world where supply never meets demand and people are irrational jerks. It is a bottom up method of approximated utopia, in contrast to the top-down perfectionism of the Marxists/statists and anarchist ideologues. Getting back on topic, let's see how Bitcoin's antifragility deals with Chainalysis' shenanigans. Mutating into Monero is one way for crypto currency to route around such putative damage...what will be next? |
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You've got to love how hyper-liberists and fanatics of the austrian school are only now starting to realize that they have helped creating and promoting their worst nightmare, thinking it was their wet dream made real.
Anyway, this was pretty obvious since the beginning, that's why I've never ever considered Satoshi a liberist, rather an anarcho-socialist. This is also what will make Bitcoin huge and widely, universally and officially accepted. It is a perfect system: free from any control or opposition, and completely transparent and consultable by everyone, for fiscal controls by authorities and "hot" money control by the people and security forces (money connected to illegal activities, public money, etc.).
Bitcoin will break the shackles of central banks that imprison politics, and will give that power back to the people.
Students of the Austrian school endure the discipline of praxis, a harsh master which keeps us as far away as possible from being "fanatics." OTOH, anarcho-socialists, with their feverish quixotic fantasies of abolishing the universal institutions of the State and private property, are the very definition of "fanatic." Bitcoin will break the chains of central banking by requiring where appropriate such institutions to be honest and at all times provably solvent. Bitcoin's blockchain technology has also delivered in the form of Monero near-perfect privacy, which is indeed a Liberist wet dream made real. If you had any awareness of the cypherpunk milieu from which Nick Szabo/Satoshi Nakamoto emerged, you wouldn't indulge yourself in daydreams in which they are even remotely friendly towards Black Flag buffoonery like anarcho-socialism. Enjoy the rest of your sophomore year. Uni is good times for sure!  |
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And what does he suggest we do about this exactly? Force women to get involved? It's not men's fault that women aren't getting on board but there are more than you might think but this will change over time but all we can do is keep spreading the word to everyone regardless of gender.
Simple solution. We need to start referring to Satoshi as 'she', but first we'd need to fabricate "solid" evidence that she was a female. Result: every single news, from tech/business press to color magazines will pick the story up. Feminists will absolutely love it and claim it was the greatest invention in modern history (invented by a woman!) and any Bitcoin critique will be taken as misogynist attack. That would be logical, but logic isn't the strong suite of the SJW. EG, they despise Ayn Rand with the fury of a trillion quasars, despite her being a singularly successful self-empowered sex-positive Jewish female immigrant. If we say Satoshi is female ('The Modern Ada Lovelace! Joan Clarke 2.0!') they will respond with accusations of self-hatred or other ugliness. Best strategy is to use their own raging energy against them. IE, every time they complain about 'sexist Bitcoin' we respond by gleefully pointing out ways in which Bitcoin will undo all the rotten crap the SJW and Feminist Left have imposed on society, such as progressive taxation and prohibition. They will respond with alacrity, and in the process say/print/publish the word 'Bitcoin' over and over. Remember, there is no such thing as bad publicity. |
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