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Same sentiments to you to OROBTC. You are not really irking me. This is a battle with myself and need to focus it there and not externally. In that respect, your criticism is accurate. I guess I've been behaving like a retired Michael Jordan who wishes he could still do, but instead can only talk and thus frustrates himself on people are not doing what he used to be able to do. Fortunately I think I can still do with my M.S. waning.
We would get along fine if I was relaxing in West Texas as I used to do and striking up chitchats with anyone.
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Superdosing on vitamin D can be a big mistake for some individuals. First of all, most doctors only test for the OH25 metabolite, when you need to know your 1,25 metabolite as well which is the active one, you need your PTH and calcium levels too as well as k2 and prolactin.
You can block for vitamin D receptor if you take more vitamin D than needed.
This. Megadosing with vitamin D is just another trend, just like megadosing with fish oil was another silly trend. You need labs before considering megadosing, since it can be harmful. One of the few vitamins you can megadose on is k2 since it doesnt get stored and most people have a deficiency. Look I am suffering from Multiple Sclerosis. I tried all sorts of remedies since 2012. The only remedy which put my M.S. into remission in 2012 and 2013 was high dose vitamin D3. In both instances, I stopped the treatment due to fear of permanent renal damage. As of March 2015, I became desperate because my condition was progressively deteriorating and worse yet I couldn't get any serious work done and my life and opportunities were slipping away from me. Since the end of March, I have been taking daily doses of vitamin D3 that average greater than 30,000 IU per day. I have also been drinking about 2 - 3L of water per day to flush out my kidneys (and urinating like a sieve), "B Natural" co-enzymated B complex occasionally, Kelp tablets daily for iodine, and dark leafy greens equivalent to spinach daily (as well as any other foods I like). This treatment has given me the energy to program up to 18 hours per day and release a new social network. It appears to have lowered my EDSS symptoms index from roughly 5 to roughly 3. The Brazilian neurologist (graduated and interned in the USA) claims to have cured 95% of the 2500+ autoimmunity (mostly Multiple Sclerosis) patients he has treated over the past 15 years or so, by employing this high dose vitamin D3 treatment. Note he requires the patient to see a doctor who has been trained on this protocol. I unfortunately can't afford the expense and time lost to see one of his apprentices. So I am winging it and not thrilled about that. Hopefully I can soon have enough money and free time to get professional oversight. Glad it worked for you, im just saying I dont see it as a general good advice to tell people to megadose around on D3, maybe for certain cases it is a good idea. Whats the name of that Brazilian neurologist? Find it on the vitamin D wiki (google). I am very rushed at the moment.. |
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Despite his gruff exterior,
Because it appears you lack understanding of technical aspects and of the fundamental change coming, I find I am slightly annoyed (or just realizing I need to move on) by your nonchalant attitude. You ask me to communicate in email and I tell you it is not secure and the NSA can record everything. I offered a simple website for encrypted chat, and seems that is too much effort for you. Any way no bad feelings. I like you as a person. Just trying to get a job done pronto and efficiently. I see a "code red alert" that needs a Herculian effort and focus. I am deprioritizing the lazy or people who think life is like a beach. I love to relax and go to the beach, but this is not the right time to do that. In short, I am very high strung right now and will remain so until I achieve my goals. Then I will relax. I am a very goal oriented and extremely competitive person. When I focus on something, I will win with very last ounce of my effort even I don't sleep for days on end. You are perceiving my competitive fire as gruff. Actually i am very nice and calm person when I am not competing. When I am competing, you can imagine Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I have their demeanor when I am in competitive action mode. And I am not particularly thrilled to have Marxists as investors who think my work is only a temporary need to address an overshoot of the current socialism. Ideally I want investors who truly believe in decentralization as the wave of the Knowledge Age upon us. Alas, he offers few practical solutions (like how to get income, etc.). Still, all of his knowledge goes into my mental hopper each day now. Highly recommended.
There is no way to get passive income any more. I am telling you either you learn to change, or you slowly burn to destitute over the next 2 decades. Everything is changing. I offered you the investment of a lifetime and you snubbed it. My goal now is that you will tell your grandchildren you could have invested and been a $multi-millionaire. Any way, i don't need any more. I need to move forward. This may be my last reply. |
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The best developers don't work for peanuts nor silly badges. We have many other more lucrative offers where we have more equity stake, control, and motivation.
Startup founders (sometimes) do. They do (and I have done several times) because they are getting equity (e.g. stock options or in this case coins). Note I have been rich in the past. I am financially strained due to several years of declining productivity and poor planning due in hindsight to suffering from Multiple Sclerosis and not knowing what it was I was suffering from. Now that I have a cure underway (high dose vitamin D3), my former capabilities are returning. M.S. attacks the brain. I may have the ability to do this all myself to reach the IPO and/or mining launch. I am not going after the IPO investors right now. I would of course have to make a convincing public display if so. I might take on some seed investors who trust me, because I want their support for the coin and a little cash cushion might be wise to insure I don't fail due to some financial emergency interim. I don't think any devs will work with me until the coin is released into open source and they see already the momentum. Devs are notoriously fickle. |
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OROBTC, Bcz u can't leave the USA (bcz ... personal reasons), that is the reason u really need someone to succeed technologically. If the freedom fighters have the tools to work with, they can reform and resist the totalitarianism which can open other avenues such as possibly making gold still viable. Whereas, if TPTB are unchallenged technologically, then there is a great chance all of you will suffer including your offspring. I think it would be a huge mistake to abandon crypto-currency and go 100% old world assets. P.S. I don't think God can help you in this situation because the Bible even says these things are coming (e.g. the 666 can't transact, will throw gold & silver into the streets, the Tribulations). God is some unfalsifiable faith about afterlife. It doesn't have anything much to do with this life other than apparently causing people to not think realistically and to get caught up in mind control. Sorry to give you more stress because what you want now is to enjoy all that you've achieved and work for. I guess leave the technological battle to us younger nerds to wage (but apparently I am only 7 years younger than you  ). |
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What product does Philippine export beside labor?
Fruits, handicrafts (bamboo furniture, pottery, etc), minerals, call centers, chemicals (perhaps to avoid environmental laws in other countries?), any labor intensive manufacturing (e.g. wiring bundles for vehicles), etc. The Manila port congestion was really horrible. My balikbayan box from USA was shipped in October and didn't arrive until February. Note the port congestion will likely return during the fall/winter high season. I doubt they've solved the logistics+corruption rather they've caught up during the slow season. |
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I also read on Armstrong's blog that under certain circumstances they can prevent you from traveling abroad if you have certain debts.
In the USA, they can cancel your passport if you are $2500 late on child support payments. And they are attempting to pass a law that if you owe the IRS money they can cancel your passport. And remember the IRS gestapo can issue assessments you might disagree with.
OROBTC, I would be very frightened about being a US citizen and having financial interest in a foreign business. If I had the means, I would have long ago relinquished my US citizenship to give me distance from the IRS gestapo.
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smooth I am not following that discussion but what about rented hardware attacks? Doesn't that involve the BTC exchange value or does the network hashrate scaling to BTC value negate? (sorry didn't think this out)
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The problem of course is the funding. It could be solved by donating to achieve certain tasks, or having donations done as salaries on a year by year basis and the donators get their names on a plaque or "official" website or on the github page, etc etc. Maybe even a reward such as a physical, collectible, monero coin for (x) amount of donations.
The best developers don't work for peanuts nor silly badges. We have many other more lucrative offers where we have more equity stake, control, and motivation. In my view, having no premine, instamine/tampering of the "core features" is what's needed in a decentralized cryptocurrency, otherwise the average person won't trust it. It's not like it's centralized where such things can just be rooted out by a central authority.
It is unlikely to have something competitive that exists without any leadership. That nirvana you describe appears to me to be communism. The average person trusts Paypal which is 100% premined and 100% tampering of the core features. I believe what drives trust is transparency, i.e. open source and redundant independent oversight. Besides decentralization, anonymity/privacy is the most important aspect if I'm correct.
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Fortunately our company uses old-fashioned methods like "wire transfers" to pay our suppliers and things like "cash" and "checks" from our (Peruvian) customers.
If our company (and our accountant re advising us how to deal with Peru's .gov) and our suppliers and customers can get to BTC, well great! Unless PayPal tries to say it is theirs.
Yeah, PayPal, Molon Labe our sales data...
You lack foresight. Of course the powers-that-be will force you into the same sort of user agreement every where you transact. For example, they can eliminate cash and checks and your bank can integrate with Paypal or one of the other behemoths. And other scenarios... BTC is being taken over by these behemoths. Have you not been reading my upthread posts. Old cars may make a comeback... Or not (Cash-for-Clunkers), hmm, maybe yet another conspiracy...?
Moving backwards into gold, barter, and old things where we have to blacksmith our own replacement parts out of bubble gum and duck tape is not what people will choose. You earn a living on providing people with convenience not with moving backwards towards the Stone Age. |
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Welcome to the NWO fascism... |
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I have one question for goldbugs. Have you ever tested your theory that there will always be a physical blackmarket? I mean have ever really tried to sell some of your gold not at a dealer. France has already cracked down on gold, cash, and crypto. Eventually the governments can force all the dealers to report all transactions and expropriate there. So where do you sell your gold? And if we are in a severe economic collapse meaning most of the people are suffering economically, selling some gold to someone who is not an established dealer will risk: 1. It is a setup to mug you. 2. It is a government sting to entrap you. 3. Gossip spreads you have gold and marks you as a man/household to mug frequently. Fantasizing about barter is loony. The youth will grab crypto and their smartphone before contemplating inefficient barter. Currency is a convenience (over barter). People only move to barter if there is no other choice. Ferfal confirms this from experience in Argentina's collapse. The powers that be are going to leave Bitcoin pretty much open to nefarious activities until it is already adopted as the alternative to barter during this era of financial repression. Once it is too well established as the only crypto that is widely accepted by merchants, then they can start to use the public ledger to expropriate without fear that we nerds can leave en masse. At that point they can close the loopholes we currently use to obtain anonymity on Bitcoin, such as eliminating all unregistered connections to the internet, e.g. no more unregistered WiFi connections and no more unregistered 3G USB dongles. I have been observing the moves they are making to eliminate these options. For example here in the Philippines where we do have unregistered 3G USB dongles, there is a proposed law to make that illegal and also one of the 3 telcom networks (Globe) recently stopped selling simcards with a preset #. Now you have to registered the sim to get a # (so far the registration is over the wire and no name required yet I see this as preparatory step). If we are going to develop an alternative to Bitcoin which can be anonymous in spite of anything the authorities can do, then we need to do it now because we have to build use value in that coin before it is too late to. Monero has onchain mixing which is one aspect of anonymity we need. But it doesn't have IP obfuscation and I assert Tor/I2P are compromised because they are low-latency designs, limited number of onion layer hops, and because they have exit nodes (and some other reasons especially around hidden services). The authorities were able to unmask 100s of Tor hidden services. So once the authorities close the loopholes I mentioned above, then we no longer have a way to propagate data anonymously. This must be fixed pronto. Tor needs to be replaced with something that is more suited to the absolute anonymity we need. All crypto-coins will benefit. Also I relayed to smooth and others that I am concerned about combinatorial attack on the ring sigs in Monero, because the mixing is not adequately structured. I have not followed all issues since relaying that, so I can't make any definitive statement now (perhaps I raise a non-issue and I have no desire to propagate FUD against Monero so pleeeassseee), but I will dig back into that aspect eventually. Also afaics (correct me if I am wrong) Monero's primary use case at this time is (as always speculation in an altcoin and) as a decentralized mixer and then back to Bitcoin again. I don't think it has any widespread adoption as a currency. If we are going to get any use as currency for an altcoin that is not Bitcoin, then it needs to have a compelling currency use case that Bitcoin can't do. I have an idea. I already wrote about it publicly on this forum under one of my other user names. I am not going to mention it again, because I might be moving into implementation mode and I'd prefer it to be somewhat dubious (plausible deniability) as to what if any thing I was a developer on. I am interested to consider the tradeoffs of working with Monero but afaik their business model was not to retain any coins to incentivize developers. Their business model appears to me be Communist. They wanted in their marketing to state that it is the most fair coin because there is no premine nor any ongoing minting to pay developers. So I assume the devs either bought the coin out of their own savings (and suffered for it so far) or they had the early dibs on mining (for example I've read that the guy who optimized the PoW hash code apparently netted himself $100,000 due to having an advantage on mining for a short period of time?). How does someone work with Monero and earn a good ROI? I'd prefer to be upfront and transparent about the funding of the creators and ongoing development, than leave people wondering. I understand there is an unofficial Monero foundation of sorts formed where donations could be aggregated and parceled out for funding development, marketing, etc.. Who wants to be at the mercy of donations? Not me. That is politics, ripe for corruption, political cat fighting, the need to compromise leadership to least common denominator of groupthink, etc.. |
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I have one question for goldbugs. Have you ever tested your theory that there will always be a physical blackmarket? I mean have ever really tried to sell some of your gold not at a dealer. France has already cracked down on gold, cash, and crypto. Eventually the governments can force all the dealers to report all transactions and expropriate there. So where do you sell your gold? And if we are in a severe economic collapse meaning most of the people are suffering economically, selling some gold to someone who is not an established dealer will risk: 1. It is a setup to mug you. 2. It is a government sting to entrap you. 3. Gossip spreads you have gold and marks you as a man/household to mug frequently. Fantasizing about barter is loony. The youth will grab crypto and their smartphone before contemplating inefficient barter. Currency is a convenience (over barter). People only move to barter if there is no other choice. Ferfal confirms this from experience in Argentina's collapse. The powers that be are going to leave Bitcoin pretty much open to nefarious activities until it is already adopted as the alternative to barter during this era of financial repression. Once it is too well established as the only crypto that is widely accepted by merchants, then they can start to use the public ledger to expropriate without fear that we nerds can leave en masse. At that point they can close the loopholes we currently use to obtain anonymity on Bitcoin, such as eliminating all unregistered connections to the internet, e.g. no more unregistered WiFi connections and no more unregistered 3G USB dongles. I have been observing the moves they are making to eliminate these options. For example here in the Philippines where we do have unregistered 3G USB dongles, there is a proposed law to make that illegal and also one of the 3 telcom networks (Globe) recently stopped selling simcards with a preset #. Now you have to registered the sim to get a # (so far the registration is over the wire and no name required yet I see this as preparatory step). If we are going to develop an alternative to Bitcoin which can be anonymous in spite of anything the authorities can do, then we need to do it now because we have to build use value in that coin before it is too late to. Monero has onchain mixing which is one aspect of anonymity we need. But it doesn't have IP obfuscation and I assert Tor/I2P are compromised because they are low-latency designs, limited number of onion layer hops, and because they have exit nodes (and some other reasons especially around hidden services). The authorities were able to unmask 100s of Tor hidden services. So once the authorities close the loopholes I mentioned above, then we no longer have a way to propagate data anonymously. This must be fixed pronto. Tor needs to be replaced with something that is more suited to the absolute anonymity we need. All crypto-coins will benefit. Also I relayed to smooth and others that I am concerned about combinatorial attack on the ring sigs in Monero, because the mixing is not adequately structured. I have not followed all issues since relaying that, so I can't make any definitive statement now (perhaps I raise a non-issue and I have no desire to propagate FUD against Monero so pleeeassseee), but I will dig back into that aspect eventually. Also afaics (correct me if I am wrong) Monero's primary use case at this time is (as always speculation in an altcoin and) as a decentralized mixer and then back to Bitcoin again. I don't think it has any widespread adoption as a currency. If we are going to get any use as currency for an altcoin that is not Bitcoin, then it needs to have a compelling currency use case that Bitcoin can't do. I have an idea. I already wrote about it publicly on this forum under one of my other user names. I am not going to mention it again, because I might be moving into implementation mode and I'd prefer it to be somewhat dubious (plausible deniability) as to what if any thing I was a developer on. I am interested to consider the tradeoffs of working with Monero but afaik their business model was not to retain any coins to incentivize developers. Their business model appears to me be Communist. They wanted in their marketing to state that it is the most fair coin because there is no premine nor any ongoing minting to pay developers. So I assume the devs either bought the coin out of their own savings (and suffered for it so far) or they had the early dibs on mining (for example I've read that the guy who optimized the PoW hash code apparently netted himself $100,000 due to having an advantage on mining for a short period of time?). How does someone work with Monero and earn a good ROI? I'd prefer to be upfront and transparent about the funding of the creators and ongoing development, than leave people wondering. I understand there is an unofficial Monero foundation of sorts formed where donations could be aggregated and parceled out for funding development, marketing, etc.. Who wants to be at the mercy of donations? Not me. That is politics, ripe for corruption, political cat fighting, the need to compromise leadership to least common denominator of groupthink, etc.. |
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http://armstrongeconomics.com/archives/30339Why do Most Computer Models Fail? Computer Models typically fail for the same reason why human forecasting from a gut personal perspective becomes a joke. In both cases, if there is no experience with the past, neither can possibly forecast the future. Such models have failed because they lack the historical database on a global scale. How is it possible to create a model that only goes back to 1971 where free data is available? What will happen is catastrophic. It will work for the period that everything is normal, but it cannot predict the major events like the Great Depression and Sovereign Debt Defaults for it has never seen such events in the data.  To put together this chart would cost over $100 million today. It was a major research project that was necessary to predict the future. The burning question was HOW DO EMPIRES FALL? Was it like a 747 plane coming down gradually for a landing, or was it a collapse out of the blue? If you do not spend this money, you cannot possibly predict how society will perform.
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Superdosing on vitamin D can be a big mistake for some individuals. First of all, most doctors only test for the OH25 metabolite, when you need to know your 1,25 metabolite as well which is the active one, you need your PTH and calcium levels too as well as k2 and prolactin.
You can block for vitamin D receptor if you take more vitamin D than needed.
This. Megadosing with vitamin D is just another trend, just like megadosing with fish oil was another silly trend. You need labs before considering megadosing, since it can be harmful. One of the few vitamins you can megadose on is k2 since it doesnt get stored and most people have a deficiency. Look I am suffering from Multiple Sclerosis. I tried all sorts of remedies since 2012. The only remedy which put my M.S. into remission in 2012 and 2013 was high dose vitamin D3. In both instances, I stopped the treatment due to fear of permanent renal damage. As of March 2015, I became desperate because my condition was progressively deteriorating and worse yet I couldn't get any serious work done and my life and opportunities were slipping away from me. Since the end of March, I have been taking daily doses of vitamin D3 that average greater than 30,000 IU per day. I have also been drinking about 2 - 3L of water per day to flush out my kidneys (and urinating like a sieve), "B Natural" co-enzymated B complex occasionally, Kelp tablets daily for iodine, and dark leafy greens equivalent to spinach daily (as well as any other foods I like). This treatment has given me the energy to program up to 18 hours per day and release a new social network. It appears to have lowered my EDSS symptoms index from roughly 5 to roughly 3. The Brazilian neurologist (graduated and interned in the USA) claims to have cured 95% of the 2500+ autoimmunity (mostly Multiple Sclerosis) patients he has treated over the past 15 years or so, by employing this high dose vitamin D3 treatment. Note he requires the patient to see a doctor who has been trained on this protocol. I unfortunately can't afford the expense and time lost to see one of his apprentices. So I am winging it and not thrilled about that. Hopefully I can soon have enough money and free time to get professional oversight. |
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@anonymint
this might be terribly naive but coudn't you show some trustet (and NDAd) (altcoin)dev(s) for free?
Could you reword that so I can clearly comprehend? Are you suggesting I produce a description of what I want to work on that can be seen after committing to a NDA? Edit: seems you are asking if I can reveal in the public some trusted devs who will work with me? |
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Note Peter R replied to this and stated he was just joking... Russian Finance Minister:
Mr. Putin, the Americans have a cryptocurrency expert advising the White House.
Vladimir Putin:
Is this significant?
Russian Finance Minister:
I'm not sure. The Ministry's initial research suggested this new currency "bitcoin" was a passing fad--just a harmless toy. We're no longer convinced that's the case.
Vladimir Putin:
We need to learn more about this "bitcoin" and what might be the plans of the Americans...
Peter R, seriously don't you see that Putin vs. Obama is a scripted show for the masses to drool over. The global elite are pulling the strings, the same as they did with the Bolsheviks and then handing power to the oligarchs after the fall of the Communism they created. Some homework for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sah_Xni-gtghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAYThe elite in every country are aligned with the current move towards a global Technocracy. Being ignorant (Cypherdoc) of these facts doesn't impress me. Not any more than I would be impressed that someone doesn't know all the facts surrounding 9/11 such as the letter from the SEC to Martin Armstrong confirming that all the tapes he had recorded of the malfeasance of the banksters had been held of the WTC and destroyed. Climb down the rabbit hole and study the facts, not the diversionary bullshit about UFOs, etc.. |
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Peter R, seriously don't you see that Putin vs. Obama is a scripted show for the masses to drool over.
I don't know what I think. But I'm just having fun here…we need a bitcoin movie! Okay I understand. Blowing off steam and hacker humor. Apologies. Edit: it is difficult to form a rational judgement on these matters. I agree. Lacking independently verifiable data. My conclusion is based on a holistic assessment, correlating much information, but it is possible I have a confirmation bias. |
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