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Pool ![Huh](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/huh.gif) You can join here http://bsod.pwThis month we will open new pool.
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Here are some more details:
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ALGORITHM: SHA256
TYPE: PoW
COIN NAME: BlockStamp
COIN ABBREVIATION: BST
COIN SUPPLY: will not exceed slightly less than 105 000 000 BST
CURRENT BLOCK REWARD: 50BST
HALVING SCHEDULE: 2 years
CONFIRMATIONS: 6
TARGET SPACING: 60 SECONDS
Mining policy: https://github.com/BlockStamp/bst/wiki/Mining-policy
Listings and exchanges:
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The aim of the project was to fuel three areas with fast and relatively cheap timestamping
These areas are:
Gambling Digital Document Storage DNS
All the areas will benefit from more transparency that blockchain can offer. If you would like to know more please refer to this Medium article
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We decided to develop the gambling functionality first, and focused on creating the most transparent and fee-free online casino.
We like to call it radically fair (to distinguish it from provably fair only) as there is no other casino like that. You can read about it here: https://medium.com/blockstamp/meet-the-radically-fair-online-casino-89e1bba0dd0
Shortly, what we came up with is: No house edgeNo zero on the roulette, only block-mining fees 100% transparencyall transactions can be retrieved on the explorer. Full info about each transaction and each block can be verified, e.g.: https://explorer.blockstamp.info/block/80000000000006ec8205c670fe11cc415124314ae51114e5d9783e6b2a805fe8 Hashes are used as random number generation system so BlockStamp Games are not dependent on any external randomness source and are free from potential issues related with outsourcing those. 1 000 000 BST from the beginning of BlockStamp Games is available - there is no progressive jackpot, it is only limited by the design and probability. Additionally, we have introduced Millionaire Madness Double Payout! BlockStamp will double your winnings if you will hold the first position in the leaderboard for a month. More info here: https://blockstamp.games/madness
Procedures for bets and for redeeming rewards are built into the blockchain, so it's all fast and secure. We did not want to do yet another ICO and token based online casino that would be built someday in the future with no guarantee. Hence, everything you need is already there and our team is working on new features such as interactive rooms for the players and new games. Start your radically fair gambling experience now https://blockstamp.games
There are 5 already games available:
Roulette Lottery Dice Slots Create your own game
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You can check all the games and strategies by yourself before playing with real stakes with our demo version https://blockstamp.games/app#/
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BlockStamp online wallet - fully secure way to hold your BST BlockStamp online wallet with major security improvements such as PBKDF2 to protect your password from brute force attack is a convenient and user-friendly way to protect and manage your funds.
BlockStamp Games - fully transparent blockchain casino Users can currently play in radically fair blockchain casino, based on BlockStamp blockchain. More games will be available in the future. Check it out here: https://blockstamp.games
Hprox network participants earn in BST Hprox is a BlockStamp partner project allowing users to surf the internet 100% anonymously. Members can rent out their IP addresses to privacy seekers in exchange for BST. Check it out here: https://hprox.com/
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BST mining pool You can join the BlockStamp mining pool via http://bsod.pw/. The GPU and CPU miners' software is available at our github. Check it out here: http://bsod.pw/
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BST Listing on the new exchanges New exchanges for BST - STEX and TOKOK
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Blockchain data sealing via online wallet Users can easily secure and authenticate their valuable data directly through the BlockStamp online wallet.
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Asic Miners prototype In order to ensure BlockStamp’s continued decentralization, we will release a BST ASIC miner for testing.
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BlockStamp Domain Naming System (DNS) To protect their freedom of speech and privacy, web publishers can register web domains securely and uncensorably on a DNS hosted on the BlockStamp blockchain.
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Wordpress Plugin BlockStamp will release a plugin to safeguard the Wordpress content management system -- which powers about 30% of the world’s websites -- and help publishers protect their content from being plagiarized or hijacked.
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ASIC miners released After testing prototypes, our mining devices will be officially released and delivered to users -- and make the project more decentralized and community-driven than ever.
In the meantime, we will be working on the new games and continuing ideas making blockchain technology part of everyday life in a fair, transparent society.
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We are listed at two mining pools:
ZERGPOOL - http://zergpool.com/ and BSOD - https://bsod.pw/en/
In order to start mining using GPU, the OpenCL SDK appropriate for the GPU must be installed (this can be checked using clinfo). When executing the configure script, use the --enable-opencl flag. Below are simple examples for CPU and GPU mining. ./bfgminer -o http://localhost:<port> -u <usr> -p <passwd> --generate-to <BST addr> --no-longpoll --no-stratum --coinbase-sig "<coinbase message>" -S cpu:auto ./bfgminer -o http://localhost:<port> -u <usr> -p <passwd> --generate-to <BST addr> --no-longpoll --no-stratum --coinbase-sig "<coinbase message>" -S opencl:auto --set OCL:kernel=phatk
You can find BFG miner at: https://github.com/BlockStamp/BFGminer
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So, if one begins with the basics, the first principles, so to say, the purpose of all these ad/ bounty campaigns is to discover and reach prospects and convert them into customers/ subscribers. Since everyone distrusts everyone else on the Internet, (and with good reason), bounty campaigns are the seed 'bait' to prove a site's bona fides.
But, this schematic only considers a distrusting set of prospects viewing a distrustable, unknown entity offering them product or service. The other side of this equation is a distrustable/ disreputable horde of superficially appearing prospects who are immune to conversion, and whose only object is to game your system for airdrops and the like freebies. This is the scenario on Twitter. I don't know much about the Facebook angle, but maybe that too has a similar problem.
Hence, the rush for crypto/ blockchain conferences, so that genuine, new prospects can be discovered; and the advertiser can put their best show in front of them. Unfortunately, that angle too has dried out now, it's more like every seller pitching to every other seller at these conferences!
The solution is present but tedious to implement. Also, your project needs to be really sound and convincing for this to work. This solution involves directly contacting individuals, whether via Twitter, or their email, or even using direct mail. So, first you need to identify the genuine people who could be prospects, and then reach them, even using direct mail where necessary.
My $0.02!
Exactly my thought about Blockchain conferences - although they seem a great choice (but quite expensive - especialy if you want to have our own booth) they are becoming a place where everyone wants to sell something but no one is interested in buying.
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Wisecrack- cool approach to pop culture films and series
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I would say national crypto a good idea if it lowers the costs of issuing the money. Anyway its just a little upgrade from current system. National cryptos do not offer decentralization and fixed supply.
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Good news and step in a good direction. I hope someday we will be able to hold ownership of companies only in tokens - not tokens that represent shares created in the old way.
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For the topic question, which I found a bit silly I would rather say not atheists are free thinkers but agnostics which take all possibilities into consideration.
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I think a good idea after college is to work just for a little time in a startup company - you can get to see how young company works and then start your own business . Investing in crypto can be done while having own business or working somewhere.
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What do you think about Hayeks The Denationalization of Money ideas - do you find them too utopian? Anyway, i was quoting his work in my Master thesis and one professor at my uni was very skeptical if Hayek would consider Cryptocurrencies as money and therfore i shouldn't apply it to my work. One of his main also arguments was that in Hayek's theory he considers money to be issued by some institution which has to keep the quality of currency because of free market forces.
This kind of argument doesn't work imo because in crypto we have the whole network of miners who also have an incentive for issuing quality improvements. What is your opinion on this and what arguments would you use in disscusion with old-school professor?
This is exactly my thought on money, euro has shown that it is doable even tough a huge challenge. Even in a continent like Europe where bigger countries exists the euro currency have been going a rough time where Germany tries to make it more valuable while Greece is making it go down the hill. Countries like Greece who have no idea how economy works and have governments that have no intention of fixing the issues will make euro worth less and less overtime, maybe not against other currencies but certainly within itself. So if we make a currency that's worldwide, how could a great nation that makes profits all the time like China could control the value of their currency whereas nations like USA who have no control over money and constantly devalues dollar would be equals ? Hence, it would be insane for countries like UK and China to accept be in the same sentence as USA or Somalia. You are right - in case of one worldwide currency the system would be very hard to maintain becaouse of many powerful stakeholders. Although in hayeks view there would be many currencies issued not only goverments but also private entities. He comes up with the notion of currency competition which is quite interesting concept when applied to crypotcurrency world.
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What do you think about Hayeks The Denationalization of Money ideas - do you find them too utopian? Anyway, i was quoting his work in my Master thesis and one professor at my uni was very skeptical if Hayek would consider Cryptocurrencies as money and therfore i shouldn't apply it to my work. One of his main also arguments was that in Hayek's theory he considers money to be issued by some institution which has to keep the quality of currency because of free market forces.
This kind of argument doesn't work imo because in crypto we have the whole network of miners who also have an incentive for issuing quality improvements. What is your opinion on this and what arguments would you use in disscusion with old-school professor?
The Hayek's idea of denationalisation of money and create private currencies is in conflict with the Thomas Gresham law,which says that bad money drives out good ones.If two currencies compete,the lower value currency will beat the higher value currency.However,Gresham's law is mostly about gold and silver money. Exactly, im not sure if Gershwin law applies here. It is correct for gold and silver coins as people in the past used to cut down the edges of coins to keep little part of it and if they got a coin that complete and not cutted they were hiding and not using it as it has higher value.
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I see so much ideology in this replies here ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) Especially one about working hard and you will be rich - its quite funny if you would tell this to some poor uneducated person in 3th world country. Actually same goes for United States - it is a country where American dream and social mobility doesn't work anymore so well ( look up book: Price of inequality by Stiglitz
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What do you think about Hayeks The Denationalization of Money ideas - do you find them too utopian? Anyway, i was quoting his work in my Master thesis and one professor at my uni was very skeptical if Hayek would consider Cryptocurrencies as money and therfore i shouldn't apply it to my work. One of his main also arguments was that in Hayek's theory he considers money to be issued by some institution which has to keep the quality of currency because of free market forces.
This kind of argument doesn't work imo because in crypto we have the whole network of miners who also have an incentive for issuing quality improvements. What is your opinion on this and what arguments would you use in disscusion with old-school professor?
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Why on earth would we need a crypto bank? The point of crypto is to be your own bank, bitcoin was created to get away from the slavery of the central banking system.
New users will eventually learn how to be more secure and it will be second nature to them. IT is really simple but I think the older generation is scared that they will lose their coins.
It depends what does it mean cryptobank. With the mass adoption of crypto such as Bitcoin the banks are not really needed. Anyway banks are quite powerful institutions so i would see them in the crypto future as kind of intermediaries between people who would like to lend and borrow money. Their experience in rating creditworthiness would be useful.
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Unless we will have proper legislation at least in few biggest countries I dont think we should use word securities. Just try to find how many exchanges actually trade token securities ( not only claim that they do or will in close future)
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I see that most people go for ethereum to stick with sdecond place.Do you guys see any place for ethereum being number one in 2019? In the bearish/ neutral market it seems that cryto on which is also a platform for other projects might behave better next year.
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I say yes..I think that every country should have a central bank. This leads to progress in the country. But if the central bank adopts Bitcoin, So it can be of great benefit to us and we can see a digital world
Yes i too agree on this. Central bank should be there in the country till the fiat currencies are there. Central bank plays good role in deciding the economy of country if they adopt Bitcoin this will be great benefit for making the country towards digital transformation and it will be good for crypto market. I don't really see a point why central bank would be needed if bitcoin becomes the main means of payment unless you are imagining the system similar to bretton woods where the fiat currency is pegged to bitcoin. Otherwise, we would be fine as in the period in history called free banking where banks were issuing their own currencies.
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I don't see a chance for coming back into gold standard - the cost of keeping the gold is too high and the governments are not ready (it seems that they never were) to give up their power of creating money. Anyway after a long period of economy growing, the rising gold price is a natural step because with every year possibility of economic crisis is bigger.
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For me it might be a step into a new kind of society - one in which we don't need to trust in government or intermediaries. Blockchain gives trust in human economic actions - or in other words enabling trust between people.
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If now all of the sudden the SHA256 encryption could be decoded that bitcoin being useless would be our least concern as the banks and web pages also use this technology right?
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