If we don't know where the person making the self-imposed deadline is, the most reasonable interpretation is to give them the benefit of the doubt for as long as possible, which entails assuming they are on the last place on earth where the deadline has not passed, IE the West Coast.

Lending weight to this standard is the fact that so many significant internet people and companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.) are based there.

Expecting someone in a crunch facing a deadline to game out their promise with parsing timezones is ridiculous.

Most people don't even think about picky stuff like that. 

The best way to look at it is to account for the last place where it is possible that the deadline has not passed.  Wait for the deadline to have passed everywhere before you start claiming it's been missed.  Is that really so difficult? 

Or are you just looking too hard to find reasons to attack CZ?

The code is open for all to see.  Look at that, not the derivative social media.

You are to be commended for DYODD, but expecting dNote to compromise his and his peers' privacy is a bridge too far.

And reddit is a not good place to gather information.  It's just a more pretentious version of 4chan that managed to be enough of an improvement on Digg to attract the slashdot neckbeard types (and some of their kitten loving mums/sisters).   

dNote isn't keeping XDN secret from us; to the contrary, he is here (despite the FUD, trolls, and haters) keeping us updated with [ANN]ouncements.

That doesn't obligate him to tell you in what other circles he travels, although your curiosity is understandable.   

Aww, poor jwinterm and smooth are feeling left out.  All the cool kids are partying at the secret invite-only Cryptonote Clubhouse, while they have to sit here and stew in resentment flavored jelly because they don't speak Russian or have 1337 skillz.   

You are allowed to ask anything, but dNote is not obligated to answer.  Sheesh, sometimes this place is more like BitcoinSTALK.   

You're welcome.  It was in my self-interest, as moneropool.com is a fat target for attacks and downtime costs me XMR.  Also, supporting the devs helps ensure the future of the XMR I've already earned and hlod.

This thread.

No, sorry, you fail again.  America could tolerate the existence of the DPRK precisely because of its powerful military, and the necessity of maintaining the balance of terror to avoid MAD with the other superpower.

So now you are claiming America is not a superpower?  Wow, you are even more delusional than your previous lunacy already indicated.  

We love you, Mr. Kremlin Information Minister!

Or they are using (layers of) intermediaries to obfuscate their origin, as a proper sophisticated adversary should.   

Swatch?  LOL.  If you have to google it, it's not commonly understood (IE common sense).

The most reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous internet deadline is to use the last time zone with a substantial user base, IE PST.

Freaking out because you live somewhere else and it is already past yesterday/now tomorrow where you happen to be is not reasonable.

Only people acting in bad faith pick the uncharitable interpretation which removes benefit of the doubt, so they can seize on an artificial 'gotcha' and claim the deadline has been missed.

You couldn't be wrong (luckily for us).  ID have the strongest claim in the HF bankruptcy and sit on the Creditor Committee.

Unlike retail customers, they actually had a windfall-tolerant 'Full-refund-of-all-BTC-no-matter-what' agreement with HF.

To compound matters, ID's machines were late, and many of them didn't work well or at all.  Not taking MPP turned out to be a wise decision.

It makes no sense to have deadlines expire before midnight in the most populous state, which is also the internet's place of birth.

Did you miss, or simply not understand, the word "commonly" as used in my post?  It was put there specifically to distinguish from the technical sense of Coordinated Universal Time. 

How predictable that a try-hard pedant like you would ignore the "commonly" modifier, just to get in their little wanna-be nerd dig.

Unless specified otherwise, Internet deadlines are by default taken to mean by midnight PST.

The East Cost is the financial nexus, the West Cost is the technological nexus, and I've already partially explained why that is the case.  But since you seem to be a slow learner, I'll elaborate.

Jon Postel, the God of the Internet, lived and worked California, not New York.  As did the Packet Radio Van:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van

If you can't accept that, tough shit.  Go invent your own native internet and maybe it will get its own default time as well.  Good luck!   

Yes, the success of South Korea is due to the hard work and intelligence of the South Korean people, who came back from nothing after the belligerent Maoist Chinese and Marxist Russians destroyed their tiny mostly harmless country.

But absent US intervention, they would have had that opportunity stolen from them, like their miserable cousins in the Stalinist DPRK.

Not all (and not even most) victories are "flawless victories."  Many, if not most, are Pyrrhic.

Being able to rescue the South, while avoiding escalation to a nuclear WW3, is a good enough outcome to label a victory.

At worst, the Korean War resulted in a stalemate.  To call it a failure or defeat only show that you are not a reasonable person (as do your tinfoil hat BS rants).  America got a solid foothold on the landmass of Eurasia, to the great consternation of Moscow and Beijing.  No wonder you are so butthurt about it that you can't think straight.   

Maybe it means Monday on the obscure island (Kiribati?) where you live.  But default Internet Time is commonly understood as West Coast USA (PST), because that's where the first (UCLA to Stanford) transmission occurred and where Silicon Valley resides.

Sweet dreams CZ, see you tomorrow (IE Sunday).

I fixed it for you.  No charge.   

Maybe the CN devs are among us, but my intuition sees them as unlikely to ever directly participate in plaintext discussion on the surface of the clearweb.

Perhaps that's exactly what they want me to think, and I've (gleefully and willingly) embraced their fun teaser-campaign marketing.   

I try to keep an eye out for evidence one way or another, just out of intellectual curiosity if nothing else.

But it makes a better story if left unresolved.  That way the drama may continue unencumbered by pesky facts!   

Nothing can happen until the HF bankruptcy is resolved.  There will be action on that front Soon(tm).

Setting your hair on fire and jumping up and down over some dust is silly.  But if screaming makes you feel better, *here* have a pillow!

I switched my miners to cryptonotepool.org.uk a week ago and am very happy with the results.

Connections are rock solid, plus they give the devs the highest % of any pool.

The market demonstrates its "interest" in a coin by purchasing it.  Thus, the higher the market cap the more the market has found a coin "interesting."

Even speaking strictly to the technology, observing Litecoin as a variable to Bitcoin's control is also an interesting experiment.

Stop molesting my sound logic with your subjective definitions!   

Korea was a failure?  In what way?  We saved Seoul and the South from the red hordes of combined Chinese ground troops and Russian air force, while managing to avoid a nuclear WW3.   

Today S. Korea is an technological and industrial powerhouse, thanks to the 50k Americans who gave their lives to push back the Marxist barbarians.

Strategically, it serves as a knife to the throat of both Asian Great Powers and a tripwire capable of unleashing its own fury (Samsung drones, Hyundai tanks, Daewoo subs, hacker clans, "Invincible" ROKMC Ghost-catchers, etc.) if triggered.

It's a pity we could not also liberate the North, where they have endured 60 years of starvation and tyranny while serving as unwilling pawns for Beijing and Moscow.  But that Iron Curtain will fall sooner or later.

You actually believe that the land of VW, BMW, and Mercedes can't fix a few broken toys (or build better next-gen ones) if they really wanted to?  Please, spare us such nonsense.  They make world-class deadly silent subs for Israel, FFS.

If you think the Germans are not a threat to Russian plans for expansionism, go read some history books.  They pushed the Soviets back to the Urals not very long ago, and only American assistance/intervention (Lend-lease Act, Op Overlord) saved the Kremlin so it could live to continue its oppression for generations to come. 

The only reason we didn't let Patton push the Bolshevik scum all the way back into Lake Baikal was the need for a counterweight to China (and politics, as Americans were tired of war).

It is unwise to poke the Bear, but awakening the Sleeping Giant is an even more dangerous mistake...just ask Japan if you don't believe me!

Wow, look who doesn't know the diff between a "clone" and a "fork" today.  Someone is being a bit of a Grumpy Gus...   

Litecoin was and is very interesting, because it has a known dev (with MIT/GOOG pedigrees) who tweaked BTC in ways he thought optimal, based on the experience of BTC.

The market says LTC is the most interesting crypto coin next to the original.  Sorry if that hurts your feels, but that's the reality.

Using your wet blanket logic, Monero is an uninteresting "clone" also, because Bytecoin...