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6401  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Today, one year after Hal Finney's Death on: August 29, 2015, 08:47:34 AM
Hal Finney, RIP. Maybe you were Satoshi, thanks for everything.  Cry

Has it been a year already since he died and became frozen in literal time and space.
My respects to Hal and he is surely missed thank you for PGP and for being a key part of the first experiment in cryptocurrency.
6402  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake on: August 29, 2015, 08:41:42 AM
do i need to keep wallet opened for earning clam ?

also how can i do that through wallet ? its odd

Gives it another shot since I think I get what your asking this time, Clams are a proof of stake system in order to receive and earn clams you can store them in a Clam Wallet and participate as a Node (when transactions are received you receive a staked portion of clams for contributing to the network if your node is chosen) or you can participate as an investor in a service such as Just-Dice where you receive rewards from just-dice staking blocks on the clam network in addition to a proportional percentage of gambling profits from users on the site as an investor.

In terms of small balances it makes sense to join as an investor in a site such as Just-Dice as the chance of staking a block is directly proportional to the amount of coins you have staked.

For additional information on how proof of stake works check
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_Stake
6403  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake on: August 29, 2015, 08:17:55 AM
do i need to keep wallet opened for earning clam ?

edit:it says "user not found"

If your running it from your Clam wallet, the faucet is likely is looking for a Just-Dice user account to send the Clams to.
In that case sign into just-dice.com look in your account settings and type in the user ID so it knows where to direct the balance.

Your user ID is ______.

Your username is _______

Then specify your wallets clam address as the emergency withdrawal.
6404  Economy / Services / Re: [5 BTC Bounty] Primedice Media/Graphics Search on: August 29, 2015, 08:15:13 AM
Winners have been chosen!

Great job all, thanks for participating. If you have any unique ideas on giveaways we should do similar to this, email edward(@)Primedice.com

All accounts that won will be credited within 24 hours


Congrats to all the winners some fun ones were in there
Great Job.
6405  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake on: August 29, 2015, 08:12:59 AM
thank you !
im trying to earn some clams but im stuck at this site http://clamcoin.science
this site is giving some clam to just-dice.com users(a dice site)
but site says "user not found" what should i do ?

Looked at the site for you it seems to be a connection problem for one reason or other, doog did change the deposit addresses the other day so maybe it sending to an old one.

There is a connection problem between bot and Just-Dice. You may not get paid if the balance isn't enough.
6406  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake on: August 26, 2015, 01:11:09 PM
CLAMS dropped by a lot today. It even dropped lower than 0.004 when it was more than 0.01 a week ago.
Someone dug up lots of CLAM to dump today.

The wall was just tested again on polo it held up but it pushed down to 0.0041 for a bit
Looks like the dump is still ongoing.

That said well at least Bitcoins not broken just a digging machine cough I wonder if at this point I should just call them a prospector or a miner digging up all those blocks.
6407  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: Siacoin Trading Thread on: August 26, 2015, 03:04:02 AM
Hi Guys,
SIA is on Poloniex now - https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_sc
Cheers!

Wow ! that's pretty good news.

Yep made me notice it through the trading volume there
Congrats on the listing.
6408  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - Working Beta - Currency has been released on: August 26, 2015, 03:00:39 AM
Noticed this coin through the trading volume on Poloniex
Made me a bit curious on the idea will keep watching.
6409  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: Speculate the correct date of S7 on sale at Bitmaintech and get 0.1 btc on: August 25, 2015, 11:20:27 AM
This is a strange challenge
But I feel a strong connection to November 17th
So for fun I'm going to choose that one.
6410  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: List of Major Bitcoin Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses on: August 25, 2015, 11:14:00 AM
Is scrypt.cc included in this thread ,it is the biggest ponzi as far as i know and its cold wallet has an average amount of 1500 + coins and its still running and increasing the coins daily with the help of FANBOYS.

Ponzi scams by their nature tend not to be included as they are considered voluntary
Their are exceptions such as Pirateat40 with his Bitcoin Savings and Investment Trust but generally until the coins are stolen it's not counted.
6411  Economy / Economics / Re: Anybody Taking Bets On The Stock Market Crashing Tomorrow? on: August 25, 2015, 10:56:03 AM
Seems like upwards correction did indeed happen. Wonder if it's going to stay that way, I see a lot of people being worried about China's economy slowing down and how that's going to effect the rest of the world on the mid to long term.

It's interesting because China changed its Yuan rate
Now they just announced an interest rate cut so its difficult to predict how much more the market will decline for now.
And oil at 38 bucks damn feels like a good time to buy it up.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-oil-stocks-hit-hard-on-markets-1.3201890
6412  Economy / Speculation / Re: Chinas Correction - Exchange Rates and Bitcoin on: August 25, 2015, 10:42:59 AM
wow thats a crazy change if its true=0

Na its true the Chinese Stock market had a nice leverage crash today
Led to giant swings in other markets as well blood everywhere even in Bitcoin part of the reason why China's so interesting is that recently it did a litecoin pump as well that made Bitcoin go up and now that its in pain with all that trading volume the price crashed here as well.

That said BREAKING news
http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2015/aug/25/asian-stock-markets-braced-for-steep-falls-after-wall-street-slump-live
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34052618

China just did an interest rate change if predictions hold true Bitcoin should go up now.

Micro speculation at time of posting
http://www.coindesk.com/price/
212.26

Within 12 hours
$220
6413  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Industry Endorses Bigger Blocks and BIP101 on: August 25, 2015, 10:06:29 AM
Big companies wanting a scaling bitcoin implementation so they can scale their operations. Who would have thought?!

They want blacklisting and deanonymization added in XT. It's the only way to get their business extended 100-fold (by cooperating with authorities).

Seemed like a miswording since a Blacklist implies bitcoins fungibility there are only 21 million Bitcoins so affecting supply would be a no go, deanonymization part is fine.

Edit in: Prioritizing would have been better but yah people needed context on that one have it now.
6414  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Dynamically Controlled Bitcoin Block Size Max Cap on: August 25, 2015, 09:56:57 AM
I like these proposals as they factor in growth alongside transaction fees

Setting a dynamically adjusted max cap is the true solution to blocksize problems as it allows for a right size fits all in all cases puts the issue to rest
and is the best middle ground in my opinion it will have a lot less polarization as it makes sense to me and likely others that blocksize growth should match demand with a dynamic margin that grows or shrinks alongside usage in the future.

That said a setting in addition to a dynamic max cap would be a recommended minimum for client installations as it would address concerns about nodes not having the needed resources, adding into that a warning if a node approaches a limit where it would not be able to optimally function in the future.
6415  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: #Blocksize Survey on: August 23, 2015, 09:38:09 AM
Roger Ver:
Bigger Blocks Mean More Decentralization for Bitcoin
https://www.bitcoin.com/news/bigger-blocks-means-decentralization-bitcoin/


Quote
*Currently a very modest internet connection, available in most of the world, can easily support blocks more than one hundred times what is in use today.

*A $100 USD hard drive would take the better part of a century worth of full blocks to fill up at the current block size limit.

I think he did not calculate that one accurately
We are not just concerned about the size but the speed of the internet connection and geographical regions we may see larger adoption but in areas where the requirements for a speedy connection are met.

On the other hand incentivization to run Bitcoin nodes is non-existent per se besides feeling more secure from online exchange risk and nodes do not it face the issues of miner centralization near cheap electricity so I guess there may be a point for an increased userbase resulting in more nodes but in a capacity that can't really be measured till we start pushing that limit.

(mumble did a speed test on wifi down = 16mbp up = 4.87 mbps)
Plan offers 20-50mbp down 10 up ISP's over advertise compared to actual for local bandwidth purposes but sizing aside not the main issue.

MeniRosenfeld
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h9cq4/its_time_for_a_break_about_the_recent_mess/cu6udfe

The mere act of choosing commits, in my opinion, the logical fallacy of privileging the hypothesis. There are millions of possible approaches, and "someone" out there restricted them to just 2. Most of the decision process (culling from millions to 2) was made for me and I'm left rubber-stamping one of the choices that remain. (See also http://lesswrong.com/lw/mi/stop_voting_for_nincompoops/).
But hey, even a noisy bit contains some information, and the question was asked, so...


A voice of reason in the storm sides with Meni on this.
6416  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BlockStream or BitcoinXT? Those are your choices, gentlemen. on: August 23, 2015, 09:21:03 AM
It is nice to see that some real philosophers have joined the discussion, I am a philosopher as well. I have constructed a simple argument of my own, you are welcome to try and rebuttal. There has been a lack of rational responses to my arguments so far, and far to much ad hominem and hyperbole. I believe that good philosophy should be simple.

To put it simply, if we do not increase the block size it will be more expensive and less people will be able to use it, that is to transact on the main chain directly, and instead we will be "forced" to us 3rd party payment processors.

However if we increase the block size then it will be less expensive and more people will be able to use it. Even if full nodes will only be able to be hosted on powerful computers, since miners do not run full nodes, the pools do.

Considering that these would be the most likely outcomes with increased adoption, to me it seems clear that increasing the block size would lead to more decentralization as a whole compared to keeping the restriction in place.

I can go into much more detail of course but I would like to keep it simple in the interest of constructive argument.

Throws in a wrench fork if mining is equal to transaction fees after revenues perpetual increases in block size results in lower rewards, lower rewards = less incentive to mine after halving = Centralization under XT.

A limited supply leads to higher transaction volume above dust = More value per transaction + Miner incentive after halving = Long term growth and development

Spin it how you want it still ='s from both viewpoints.


-
Solution A - Size Increases
Solution B - Side-chains

True Solution
- Will be determined as we approach the true date of settlement in 2016.
6417  Other / Meta / Re: I'm John Fitzpatrick and I want to purchase this forum. on: August 22, 2015, 10:07:32 AM

Not theymos is not really unknown. His real name had been mentioned here several times.Also on reddit as far as I know.
So only Satoshi is still not known who he/she/they is/are.

Easy enough to find Dox on him m lawrence etc but it usually  comes with a ban or warning if used inappropriately
However the forum is not for sale.
6418  Economy / Economics / Re: This is how 0.037 Bitcoins looks like in Venezuela on: August 16, 2015, 06:45:18 AM
Well purchasing power aside I guess the other view is that people are also hoarding a heck of a lot of food to feed the black-market or I guess to starve the community stores.
Instead of waiting in the line to get cheap food.


http://lainfo.es/en/2015/08/16/venezuela-found-tons-of-food-hidden-underground/
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_71293.shtml

The Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) seized 50 tons of food in the San Juan west of Maracaibo (Zulia state), called bachaqueros buried dozens of sacks of sugar in the courtyard of a house in the sector. In other homes, sacks of rice, coffee, pasta, beer, soda, detergent, toothpaste, and chlorine were seized, among others.



...

coinableS

One modern response to hyperinflation has been to go out and buy cars, as they hold their value better than the currency.

If their government will print larger denominations, then the bulk of cash needed is reduced.  The last hyperinflation I saw in Peru had a bank note of 5,000,000 intis worth some $3.00 at that time (late 1980s IIRC).  As hyperinflation continued, they went back to the sol ("New Sol"), their currency has been stable since.


Ahh okay thanks. So like the Trillion dollar bill in Zimbabwe, Venezuela has larger denomination bills? I guess by the photo provided I thought they didn't have larger bills available.

No, they have only small bills.


Na those are small bills they go up to 100 according to wiki the image uses 2 Bolivar Banknotes although they were valued higher historically with the Pre-1998 stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_bol%C3%ADvar

2008 Series
Banknotes are in denominations of 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 bolívares.
6419  Other / New forum software / Re: Can we "Like" a post? on: August 13, 2015, 06:34:45 AM
Dislike is good too, it prevents people from going out of line because flaming will be disliked immediately.

If it was integrated with a tip-jar then a Like button it could be fun to see how people react send a change-tip to users for constructive posts and have a dislike button that demands money for reading their awful ones  Grin
(That or dislike turns posts to hidden after the threshold is reached)
6420  Other / Politics & Society / Re: GOP - Rand Paul's Presidential Highlight Reel w/ his Libertarian Twist on: August 13, 2015, 06:13:31 AM
Seems like a Highlight Reel

Donald Trump mocks Rand Paul, calls on him to quit presidential race
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/12/new-rand-paul-video-basically-calls-donald-trump-a-closet-democrat/

Donald Trump couldn't set the intellectual conservative agenda of anything, not even the tiniest rooms, never mind a country. He is devoid of ideas other than he likes the idea of power and getting attention for foolish statements and bluster.
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