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7261  Economy / Securities / Re: [HAVELOCK] PETAMINE - 1,150 TH/S HASH RATE (1GH/S per Unit) on: July 28, 2014, 10:05:44 PM
Not a chance.  The calm before the storm mon ami...calm before the storm!

Perhaps mon frere perhaps the last difficulty storm was a hurricane so the next hurricane may form soon or a little later  Wink
7262  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2014-07-28] CD: SWIFT Institute Offers €15,000 for Bitcoin Research Project on: July 28, 2014, 09:58:57 PM
SWIFT Institute Offers €15,000 for Bitcoin Research Project

http://www.coindesk.com/swift-institute-offers-e15000-bitcoin-research-project/


they should embrace it.

That is interesting the present world commerce system is putting out a bounty to examine where bitcoin is going
Thanks for the share.

The institute requires all applicants to submit a CV or biography with all relevant information about the applicant, who is also required to submit a 2,500 word description of the research project. The deadline is August 20th 2014. The SWIFT institute told CoinDesk that it currently has a handful of proposals, but the institute typically receives proposals very close to the deadline.

The winning author will receive 50% of the grant immediately, while the remaining 50% will be paid out when the working paper is submitted.

I wonder how long of a research project they plan on receiving if the description is 2500 Words
7263  Economy / Securities / Re: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It on: July 28, 2014, 08:40:11 AM
Well for some related news Rockminer stuff
Rockminer: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwVxGR-76wFeeVplZ3YyeGFxWkU/edit

Seems positive from a ASICMINER perspective.

True enough Rockminer is keeping their relationship with AM strengthening it and making their own mining farm so there will be a strong demand for the chips to build that farm.
Also with AM full time on chips the miners will be immediately supplied when they are ready to them, still quiet on the franchising side though from other groups in terms of reports so its nice the status on one of them.
7264  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Let's get the facts straight about Apple. on: July 28, 2014, 08:33:49 AM
Quote
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(Although if someone makes a whole Platform OS decentralized somehow I might be interested)

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I kind of like that idea but how would that work?
It would mean that your personal documents will be stored everywhere.....

UNLESS, we as a community build an operating system that loads all necessary (OS) files from online (decentralized) sources and the whole thing is open source.
Much like Bitcoin.....
Still, several things, like network adapter drivers should be loaded before everything else, right?

Hmmm, I like this idea.
But it needs work.

We could however start with the best out there, and that is Linux.
Yet, to make it worldwide accepted, we would have to make it user friendly, like windows.

Not a bad idea, but a very diffucult task.

Well it's still a ways down the road but there are building blocks being built now that are laying that foundation.

Bitcoin and its cryptography does wonders for various applications it's just that we haven't thought them all out yet and the underlying technology that could implement it is still being developed in different forms.

One possible implementation would be, maidsafe with its decentralized storage mechanism, that would keep your personal documents secure and safe so that your private documents are stored everywhere and yet nowhere since its secured by cryptography and no one can see whats in there.

In addition if Ethereum can really do what it claims it has the potential to do then it could probably run as an OS far in the future.
Just build enough apps for it, inside the ecosystem like a browser becoming a full feature package then an OS.

That or someone could build a Bitcoin sidechain once some smart developers figure out a solution to that puzzle, its really hard to say what could happen since its predicting the future of where cryptography can go.

But your right at this point its still a very difficult task to do that said it could become a reality if enough related technologies are created and made to accompany it so one step at a time.

http://maidsafe.net/overview

The SAFE (Secure Access for Everyone) network can be best described as a fully distributed data management service. This network manages static and dynamic data as well as communications. Importantly the data held is either :

    Encrypted by clients
    Cryptographically signed by clients

In either case the network cannot decrypt any of the data on the network. This can be thought of as a decentralized server that performs the tasks of today's httpd, ssh, scp, ftp, smtp, pop3, imap etc. servers.

The SAFE network is made up of unused hard drive space, CPU and communications capabilities of commodity computers. These computers are likely owned by the very users of the system, but need not be limited to that. Each computer will effectively mine for credits which can be traded for many other goods and services. These credits are called safecoin.

https://www.ethereum.org/

Ethereum is a protocol that is open to all. Any programmer should be able to write smart contracts and Ethereum apps in languages they already are familiar with.

Programmers should also be able to implement the entire specification with relative ease, in order to minimize the influence that any specific individual or group could have on the protocol.

The Ethereum protocol should be as simple as possible, and optimizations which add complexity should not be included unless they provide a very substantial benefit.
7265  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Great news from Dell and Alienware on: July 28, 2014, 07:41:26 AM
All our guys have high end ASUS

Never had a dell never will



True enough been loving my ASUS has a great balance to cost ratio
LG as well but that is as an aside.
Although an alienware might be a bit tempting if not overpriced though.
7266  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 10 Things Bitcoin Won’t Tell You on: July 28, 2014, 07:02:06 AM
The meaning of life?

42 Coded into the blockchain multiple times
Although the meaning of life would never be something so ridiculous better ask SIRI about it and get the quote about chocolate or something  Grin
7267  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Let's get the facts straight about Apple. on: July 28, 2014, 06:52:01 AM
Apple is quickly becoming the new Microsoft, a company that everyone loves to hate.

I think it reached that point a while ago the apple hate is strong.
But it's still far from a Microsoft  Wink
Although when the mobile phone market is pretty much two companies and a few minors its hard to not hate on something.

Common guys, you cannot honestly compare Apple with Microsoft.

I know you hate Microsoft but let's be honest, they are number one for a reason.
Their software is easy to use and you are not restricted on what to add to them.


Subtract all the good will from the donations they send

Insert a thing called Windows 8  Grin

I commend their charity work but sometimes you just mess up  with the operating system.
And there's no real time slip you can use once an OAS you like goes out of commission and service it yourself.
A user is subjected to constant relearning curves, to find where the things are at.

Pretty much what happened when Windows 8 broke from the tradition of every other windows platform to that date and made a lot of rage.

And whose bright IDEA WAS IT TO KILL MY START MENU!~!!
^_^
(Mumble) Still uses 7 could download the 8 toolbar app but na will wait for a Win 9 to purify itself.

Its all about UI (User Interface) and while I agree MS deserves its role not really much out there but apple and linux doesn't mean we can't hate on it XD.

(Although if someone makes a whole Platform OS decentralized somehow I might be interested)
Install an App loads from there and becomes a fully customizable interface that switches between Operating Systems and has its own internal stuff.

Not the App store though but like using a Windows PC - All Versions and then deciding what features you like then taking the stuff you like from the Linux PC or Apple PC and putting it all in one browser together.
One can dream Smiley
7268  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Drones to Deliver Bitcoins on: July 28, 2014, 05:30:06 AM
Wouldn't it be better if a Drone could deliver you Bitcoins or  two-way cash for Bitcoins.  Could be like a flying exchange ATM ...lol.....

For some reason I imagined Amazon delivering a drone delivery straight to my house
I imagine all the helium balloons that it hits after passing a carnival and poof goes my Bitcoins lol.

(Basically its over the internet no need for an in-person delivery unless its a physical coin ^_^)
7269  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era? on: July 28, 2014, 05:28:11 AM
Wish i am born after world war lll. But hope it will never happen, i hate war.

You want to be born a stone age nuclear winter?

I think he meant after the recovery if there is one and or the beginning of the space age as the damage to the environment on earth caused the human race to leave their planet in search of another location to survive in such as a Plant. (Gundam)
7270  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era? on: July 28, 2014, 05:19:01 AM
I would like to be transient going through time and space in a formless shape
Able to move my soul into a physical form when I wake up from sleeping since the formless shape will be like slowly passing images but moving on a finite timeline in an accelerated sense in relative terms but slow in formless terms.
Then decide what eras I would live in.

But from your list I do not know the future but I would love to see the Cosmic Era myself.
Back in time Japan might be interesting but no anime yet so perhaps not too fun.
The Greeks perhaps and their hedonistic ways lol

At the least I would love to explore their hotsprings and hot spring eggs ^_^.
Get some obsidian from Volcanos
And watch Vesuvius erupt from a boat.

Oh and Beat up or outwit Socrates using modern philosophy to answer his darn questions!
Or at least attempt to. (Mumbles textbooks)
7271  Other / Off-topic / Re: Website for Free games on: July 28, 2014, 05:15:36 AM
I was wondering where your games were but saw them at the top after
At first I thought it was just a blog in general so you might want to make the games display a bit more prominent.
Anyways interesting good luck with your game review site.
7272  Economy / Securities / Re: [HAVELOCK] PETAMINE - 1,150 TH/S HASH RATE (1GH/S per Unit) on: July 28, 2014, 05:09:30 AM
Estimated Next Difficulty:   18,679,795,923 (+7.75%) (it might be less)
Adjust time:   After 149 Blocks, About 23.1 hours
We will get the next dividend before the change...

Looks like we settled
http://bitcoindifficulty.com/
18,736,441,558
Next difficulty (estimate): 18,727,430,107 (+-0%)

So it landed at 18.7 mill

Wow... has the difficulty reached a plateau?

It's summer so its probably just calmed down due to the dog days and increasing electrical costs associated with that.
A plateau for now but wait for winter
Then we may some strong increases again or the next gen of chips
7273  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Let's get the facts straight about Apple. on: July 28, 2014, 05:06:58 AM
Apple is quickly becoming the new Microsoft, a company that everyone loves to hate.

I think it reached that point a while ago the apple hate is strong.
But it's still far from a Microsoft  Wink
Although when the mobile phone market is pretty much two companies and a few minors its hard to not hate on something.
7274  Other / Politics & Society / Re: New York: On the Upper West Side, a House Divided by Income on: July 28, 2014, 05:00:25 AM
Lets put it this way whales go in one door so everyone knows your rich
Everyone else we let you live here but go in through the poor door so just acknowledge that you are subsidized and work your way up to the rich door if you want to avoid this stigma.

It is a difficult question though
How, and to what extent, should the city mandate economic integration? The Riverside development is unusual, and even vaguely radical, in the sense that its luxury units are condominiums rather than rental apartments.

Still having separate doors is a weird way to protest by developers, they get tax breaks so they shouldn't be raising a fire under their feet.
Still a bit snobby though.
7275  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Philippines adoption on: July 28, 2014, 04:57:16 AM
I've only been away 4 months and so much has happened. I can't wait to get back. I will not be starting an exchange. I'm really not even planning a big business. My goals are to educate people about Bitcoin and facilitate getting businesses to accept it.  I will work on a donation basis, but will likely get an SEC license to cover myself. I have ideas in how to expand into a business, but at this point I'll play it safe.

That sounds like great news I hope you have the best of luck in your business venture and don't forget to tell us how it goes I am curious how the Philippines will adopt Bitcoin and its related technologies.
7276  Economy / Securities / Re: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It on: July 28, 2014, 04:53:55 AM
404

Which apparently is called a 4 0 Forbes
Groan
7277  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Attn: Human Influenced Climate Change deniers on: July 28, 2014, 04:24:49 AM
Solar works but the problem is that it lacks intermittency which is that it provides power consistently regardless of the condition
If its cloudy solar does not produce much power or at night unlike gas and oil which is stable and provides energy regardless of the conditions a steady supply of power is a must.

Wind power is popular but its noisy apparently and a large anti-wind coalition is forming against its implementation near peoples houses.
From the CBC a documentary on that issue.
http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episodes/wind-rush

* Comments on this documentary suggest some FUD so will just leave the note that in general the noise a wind farm can make can give people grievances who live nearby.
Guess you need to think who put the money into the documentary at the same time.
7278  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Whos paying more Russians or USA ? on: July 28, 2014, 04:19:41 AM
I think Russia does not have as developed PR system as US does.
Russia does have a PR machine. It is the state run media.

True but the Americans have had that since they took it from the Germans in WWII so it's not really a difference in terms of propaganda and media controls.
7279  Other / Off-topic / Re: FIFA World Cup 2014!!! on: July 28, 2014, 04:14:26 AM
Now in next few days European fever is going to start so what and who is going to start with this I am waiting information about teams and players here on this thread  Cheesy
Shouldn't this thread be locked down and someone can create new threads on upcoming tournaments. Just suggesting as this thread doesn't make much sense now as the tournament is already finished almost a month ago.

It depends there is still the FIFA Under 20 World Cup and this thread seems to have more traction that the general football discussion thread does
Then their is the economic and political analysis of the World Cup that we can all scrutinize later so their are some points of utility still.
What will the stadiums be used for, what happened to those people who were kicked out of their favellas, did they make a profit all the knitty gritty stuff after a tournament ends.

Speaking of the political ramifications
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28508509

World Cup should not be held in Russia, Nick Clegg says

Russia should lose the right to host the 2018 World Cup as part of tougher sanctions following the plane crash in eastern Ukraine, Nick Clegg has said.

The UK deputy prime minister told the Sunday Times it was "unthinkable" that Russia should host the football event.

Pro-Russian separatist rebels have been accused of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines jet. Russia has suggested it could have been the Ukraine military.

World football governing body Fifa has rejected calls to change the 2018 host.

Responding after some German politicians also called for Russia to be boycotted, Fifa said the 2018 tournament could be a "force for good".

So it looks like more attempts to do a moscow boycott like the Olympics during the cold war
7280  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin in the Philippines - any Pinoys on this forum? on: July 28, 2014, 02:44:35 AM
i got a philippino dude into mining bitcoins.. it broke down on him though  Cheesy

Yah its bloody hot down there not the best place for mining although I do recall a few mining centers in a company prospectus or two since the electricity in some parts of the country can be very cheap.
So bad for individuals nice for commercial scale.

funny thing is, his miner fried and he lives in california  Cheesy

Ha-ha woops I thought that this thread was about Pinoys in the forum and you convinced one to mine in the Philippines Smiley
Touche California is hot as well
Its had the Terminator Tongue
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