May 22, 2019: Questions about Certain Bitcoin Registrations

As a general rule, when the Copyright Office receives an application for registration, the claimant certifies as to the truth of the statements made in the submitted materials. The Copyright Office does not investigate the truth of any statement made.

A registration represents a claim to an interest in a work protected by copyright law, not a determination of the truth of the claims therein. It is possible for multiple, adverse claims to be registered at the Copyright Office. The Copyright Office does not have an opposition procedure for copyright registrations, such as the procedures available at the Patent and Trademark Office for patents and trademark registrations. Disputes over the claims in a registration may be heard before federal courts, including disputes over authorship of a work. Someone who intentionally includes false information in an application may be subject to penalties.

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In the case of the two registrations issued to Mr. Wright, during the examination process, the Office took note of the well-known pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto,” and asked the applicant to confirm that Craig Steven Wright was the author and claimant of the works being registered. Mr. Wright made that confirmation. This correspondence is part of the public registration record.

Before mostly when incident like hacking exchange will immediately affects the whole industry, panic will start to happen and the value of most coins will fall, but with this setup which binance use the insurance money to cover loses, it's just another news that passed but nothing really affects the industry, and looking now with how the business runs and how the token gained more supports.

Aren't we already on a minor pull back ?
What I think is it's right time to buy Bitcoins and save them , because soon enough the bull ride is going to go again .

Yes it's going slowly but at the same time this slow change isn't bad at all , on the opposite hand it's proving to be tremendously dominant over the low price fall off in the past that always happens when it suddenly increases.

I think slow growth is proving to be better than a can of coke , you shake it hard and all the frizz comes out but again dies down fast , it's better like a tea , takes time to boil but at the same time it will take time to cool... More than the frizz for sure.

Nah resting period won't really matter.

These players are professional and they used to play regularly. Didn't you know that after every game, they do practice the other day and their usual routines. So come to think of it, they are doing that for the whole season.

No such thing as long rest = advantage ; short ones = disadvantages.

Game 7 is on 28th if necessary. 30th is the finals. Neither who will win on ECF will have a good rest. The said team instead will be more pump up and excited rather than tired. Remember that Bucks last finals appearance was way back 1973. Raptors, on the other hand, doesn't have experience.

On Monday, Bare Knuckle FC held a press conference to promote next month's card - with Malignaggi and Lobov trading vicious words - and Malignaggi spitting in the face of Lobov.
A few weeks ago, Malignaggi slapped Lobov in face during another promotional event.

Their rivalry stems from another. Malignaggi has a longstanding beef with UFC superstar Conor McGregor, who is good friends with Lobov.

Malignaggi and McGregor had a bad fallout in 2017, after the UFC fighter brought him in as a sparring partner for a scheduled fight with Floyd Mayweather.

Malignaggi has been discussing a promise to put Lobov in a coma - in order to send a message to the mixed martial arts community.

The veteran boxer feels strongly that MMA fans have been disrespectful of the sport of boxing.

“Lobov and the mixed martial arts community have really disrespected my sport in a lot of ways; boxing, saying that we fight with pads on and it’s not a real fighting sport and what not, but we have all the deaths,” Malignaggi told FightHype.com.

Not a big fan of this token, as it went down even during the bull run. I read the whitepaper for this project and found it interesting. But the fact that the token is going down in value may mean the promoters not honoring the commitments or some other negative factor. And one thing I have noticed is the sudden spurt in trade volumes between 10th May and 15th May. It is possible that some manipulation is going on.

The Greek Freak made another amazing performance tonight. I hope he will endure this beast mode and go all the way to the finals and win the ring because he truly deserves it this season.
Ilyasova wasn't the player that was helping a lot during the season but he has to help the Bucks now that they are in the end. He has the skill to do it and I hope he will continue performing in the next games.

[Lightning-dev] Pizza for (lightning) bitcoins?
Laszlo Hanyecz laszlo at heliacal.net
Sun Feb 25 01:29:59 UTC 2018

I wanted to try out a real trade using lightning network.  I don't know of any pizza places near me that accept lightning bitcoin yet but a friend from London agreed to do it and he sub contracted out the pizza delivery to a local shop.
In short, I paid bitcoin using the lightning network and he arranged for pizza to be delivered to me.  In this trade my friend is just a middle man that is taking the risk on accepting lightning payments, but it demonstrates the basic premise of how this works for everyday transactions.  It could just as well be the pizza shop accepting the payment directly with their own lightning node.
I wanted two pizzas and to try to do it as close to atomically as possible.  I didn't want to prepay and end up with no pizza.  As far as I know we don't yet have pizza/bitcoin atomic swap software but we improvised and decided that I would need to provide the payment hash preimage to the delivery driver in order to claim my pizza.  If I can't produce the preimage, proving that I paid, then the pizza would not be handed over and it would be destroyed.  This works because I can't get the preimage without paying the invoice.  I agreed to open a channel and fund it with a sufficient amount for what we estimated the cost would end up being.  After we agreed to these terms my friend was able to verify that I funded a channel on the blockchain, which shows that I at least have the money (bitcoin).  He is taking on some entrepreneurial risk and prepaying his sub contractor to prepare and deliver the pizza to me, but at this point I have not risked my bitcoins, they're just committed to a channel.  I was given a bolt11 invoice which I decoded with the c-lightning cli to verify everything was as agreed:

One big question here is what the media and pro establishment response will be, if any. There have been numerous news reports of mcdonalds and other retail giants rolling out their own payment processor systems based around cell phone technology. In mcdonald's case, their implementation was reported to be significantly flawed with many having their money stolen and accounts breached. Crypto currency based payment systems associated with cell phones could be poised to provide a stable and functional merchant platform in an era where such technology is in desperate need.

They've already won a championship with that line up so it only makes sense to use that combination again and again. I think they can wipe out the Blazers in 4 games even if KD or Cousins don't play. The current line up might even win it all.