I'm actually trying to use bitcoin now and I've been waiting an hour for zero confirmations.

Whatever solution you think is more viable than raising the block limit, I suggest you implement immediately because bitcoin is becoming unusable.

The upvote system is the same as reddit's.

Whales only determine who gets paid, not what gets seen (unless that has changed since I read that over on bitsharestalk).

Not advocating steem, just answering the question.

I wonder if this guy had access to his coin the whole time, but his wallet just hadn't synced the blockchain, so he couldn't see it...

the answers you seek can but turned up at discuss.nubits.com

as for pegging, bitshares' pegging still works fine. it's just lacking in liquidity.

Here's a curveball:

Camel Turkish Gold

Like the other's I want to know where you're from, whether the cigarettes come factory sealed with the appropriate stampings, and whether there's any added shipping costs.

Also, I'd only be willing to use a reputable escrow.

Resting no doubt.

There's a thread SK posts in every week. As long as he's alive and making progress Peercoin is as alive as it ever was. Lots of other developers are interested in Peercoin as well, using it as a base for Peershares/Nubits/B&C. Even if SK weren't part of the picture somebody else would pick up the torch.

Peercoin is one of the oldest innovative coins, the older a coin is the more people trust it. It was out long before the flood of altcoins. It has arguably one of the best distributions in crypto. It's designed with the specific purpose of being as light and decentralized a blockchain as possible so that it can serve as a "backbone currency," of sorts.

Peercoin is waiting to drop checkpoints and start to phase out PoW. When these things happen you'll start to see the price rise independently of Bitcoin, for the time being though I'm pretty sure it's tethered to Bitcoin in a similar way to Litecoin.

BAY is closed source.

I'll feel a lot better when that gets remedied (he says he plans to in the future).

I'm interested in reading the book but not interested in clicking the link.

Is there a .txt file somewhere you could share the URL for so I can copy/paste? Or can put it up on pastebin and put the URL here?

I'd pay off all my debts, pursue a college education, not quit my job, and hodl as much as possible after spreading the amount out through all the coins I'm interested in, PPC is already the thing I hold most of though.

That would be a life changing amount of money. I'm pretty sure my IQ would go up 20 points just from not being stressed to hell and back anymore.

sounds like you're talking about a backbone currency.

peercoin is specifically designed to be that.

I'm also an American who feels the way OP does. I've researched and thought long and hard about it. Here is my criteria and highly depressing conclusions:

My criteria:

1) Developed enough to have alright Internet access. Not so developed that it feels like a modern country. I miss the way the early nineties felt, and I suspect I would have been much happier if I'd been an adult in the eighties. I want a slower pace of life. I want to drop out of the rat race and appreciate the smaller things in life. I want to be a part of a community, not a competition. I want to be somewhere that still has lines (for things other than voting) and predominately still pays for things with cash (or crypto, heh). I feel like there's something incomplete about the way we're currently living, and it's hard to articulate.

2) Marijuana friendliness. I absolutely do not want to live anywhere with laws that are harsher than decriminalization. I would prefer complete legality, but that's still a rarity. I'm tired of paying obscene amounts of money for a plant that grows freely anywhere, and it should be my right as a human being born on Earth to consume it.

3) Warm weather. I live in an area that sees both winter and summer, and I've concluded that I tolerate heat much, much better than I tolerate cold. Unfortunately it seems like the closer to the equator one gets, the more third world it gets.

4) Progressive values in general: I want to experience the other side of the spectrum after living in a right winger paradise for so long. Please note, countries that claim progressive values, but then allow them to be undermined by fascist regimes don't count for this one.

5) Rural areas are livable: For economic reasons, I've tried living in two major metropolises in my life for a period of one year each. I fucking hated it both times. I need to live in the sticks. But I don't want to sacrifice internet access to achieve this, or be bumped back to a pre-industrial standard of living for it. For this reason I feel like there's a goldilocks zone as far as how well developed a country is. Too developed and it becomes what I dislike about America. Underdeveloped and you're just plain not living a modern lifestyle. In spite of this, I need to be within a couple hours distance from a small sized city (thinking like 20000 to 30000 population), at least.

6) General happiness and work life balance. The mood in just about everybody I meet is cynical and bitter. There's no sense of pride anymore. I want to live somewhere that everybody doesn't feel generally defeated. i don't want to live somewhere that values 80 hour work weeks. I want to live somewhere that people value life.

7) Political stability: I don't want to live someplace where a new government may be installed at the bat of an eyelash, and may bring with it an entirely new set of values by which to govern under. I want to live somewhere established.

I would include cost of living and availability of jobs in this list, but then the entire world is discounted. So instead, this is basically a fantasy about what I'll do if crypto blows up and I can afford to live how I want to.

Highly depressing conclusions:

After spending way too much time thinking about this, the best bet as far as a balance of my criteria above is Uruguay. It's definitely not everything on the last. I worry that it's progressive values aren't necessarily how to population feels, just the government, and it's not exactly the most politically stable place on Earth so it would definitely be a compromise as far point 7 because the politics could change at the drop of a hat. But it's warm enough, has beaches, not too developed but still comfortable, and marijuana friendly.

The second best bet in the world as far as my criteria above is the state of Colorado. Unfortunately it sounds like it's pretty cold over there due to elevation, and it's way too modernized for what I'm daydreaming about. Every progressive in the US seems to be working their way over there for lack of any other viable options, so housing prices are about to skyrocket. It would also deprive me of the experiences of learning a new language and adopting a new culture, something I would look forward to.

If I didn't fucking hate winter Canada would probably be my first choice, but weather really does weigh into my criteria that heavily.

My highly depressing conclusion is that there is no place on Earth where I can live that ideally suits the lifestyle I'd like to pursue. Even if there were, I wouldn't be able to afford to move there anyway so it's all just a daydream.

I am confident that an alt is going to overtake bitcoin, but I'm not sure which one.

Therefore I am ~30% in BTC, ~70% spread over 22 different alts.

you might be interested in this

To most of us buying Bitcoin is labor, and suffering by having to do without while holding.

Unless of course you just cashed out some stock or took a small million dollar loan from your dad to buy your bitcoin...

That sounds like a perfectly plausible way to do what I was asking, so thanks.

I'll be honest with you though, I was trying to backdoor my way into figuring out a way to make a brainwallet without getting a lecture.

Anybody else know the answer to what I'm trying to ask???

no answer for me jimblasko???

I didn't even know Steem was supposed to be a social media platform, and I follow Bitshares closely.

hey there jimblasko,

interested in hodling a bit, but scared to run the software until it's either open source or super popular.

to that end, i'd like to make a paper wallet.

does Voxels share the way it generates addresses and private keys with any of the coins on walletgenerator.net? (example: I used to be able to send Devcoin to a BTC address and access them with the same private key)

I'm looking at VikingCoin, ViaCoin, and Vertcoin, all these coins addresses seem to start with V.

thank you for the clarification. I think I understand now.

DAC = Decentralized Autonomous Company, or you call it a DAO, or however you want to phrase it, it's basically a way of saying a business on a blockchain. BitBay is a DAC, but if it offers its services for free it's not a profitable DAC. I'm asking if BAY will charge people for transactions, and if so, will part of that profit go towards increasing the price of BAY when the peg rolls?