For any parties who may be interested, there's only two days left for ags donations.

If you don't know what that is yet, you it might behoove you go learn what AGS is (a way to get shares in future social consensus honoring DACs at a better rate than would be imparted with just PTS). When the window closes, it closes, and you'll have to buy PTS if you want to get in on future DACs.

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I've been toying with this theory... I call it Collaborative Fiction Theory

I wonder if literature can be improved by open sourcing it.

I mean yea, it's already open source. It's the printed word.

but you never see writers collaborating together on fiction the way software developers collaborate on software.

You see one writer, maybe two sometimes coming up with all the ideas in fiction, and writing them. Then you have another party who edits it for grammar and proofreads it- maybe even offers idea suggestions but ultimately it's all still on the writer who conceived the idea.

What if multiple writers all collaborated to make a story better in ways that one or two authors couldn't have on their own. When Ian Flemming was penning James Bond, he originally had James using a gun that wouldn't actually be associated with a spy in real life, until somebody wrote him a letter to say "hey, thats unrealistic. Bond should be using a PPK." Flemming took his advice, upgraded Bond to a PPK, and the story was a little bit better for it.

I'm not saying divide the book into parts and let a bunch of different people write on it. For the sake of style and consistency, one person would have to write the whole book.

Suppose somebody created a self-moderated forum thread for the purpose of writing a book. Maybe the title of the thread would be "Let's write a book together."

They provide the basic plot just to get idea juices flowing. In a future dystopia the wealthiest 0.01 percent of the population are hoarding all the resources for themselves, successfully using robots created by fully automated seed factories to put down resistance from the human military of the non-wealthy population, who is starving to death. Then post it to the thread.

Somebody comes along and says "Hey that's a great idea, this could be a basic outline of the plot, and here's what should happen in the first chapter."

Then the thread author writes the first chapter. People read it, and say "The robots wouldn't act that way, they should act like this."

Somebody else chimes in, "Do we really want the first chapter to end that way?"
A discussion ensues, eventually ending in either a consensus, or if not, the author gets to read about a whole bunch of different ways he could take the first chapter.

The author, motivated by improving the quality of his book, takes every idea into account and updates the text to best implement all the criticism that gets posted.

Eventually, an entire book gets written in the style of the person who started the thread. But it's a better book than that person could have written by himself. He doesn't have to research as much because he has the whole world discussing all the finer details right in front of him, he can focus on prose. He's even implemented many changes to the core plot derived from public suggestion. Everybody's ideas have made the book much more than it could have been if written the traditional way.

Of course, something like this could be implemented using just a centralized forum. I'd be surprised if it hasn't already been done actually.

Amazon has shown us that self-publishing can work as a business model.

Let's take it a step further.

What if, instead of just people who have the time and care enough to contribute for free to some random other guy's story, people had incentive to:

a) create and moderate these book writing discussion threads.

b) contribute to other's book writing threads- instead of writing being an every man for himself type thing

How much better would the product of a "Let's write a book together," forum post be?

What if there was a DAC that allowed somebody wanting to create such a thread to give incentive to the rest of the world to help him write the book?

Perhaps the actual means of sharing info with each other could still be centralized sure.

Author creates thread. The resulting book will still be the author's work, since one person is still writing the whole book. But, the author can offer a stakes in the book to people who contribute the most worthy ideas. This could be implemented in a system similar to bitshares ME. The author controls one hundred percent of the shares in the beginning.

Over the course of carefully crafting the book in the thread, somebody suggests that Bond use a PPK. Hey thanks! The author awards the guy suggesting the PPK with 0.1% of the books shares-- or however much the author deems appropriate. Somebody contributes something more significant, like a killer twist ending, or just contributes ALOT. Wow! The author awards him 20% of the books shares.

People work together on the thread, shares are awarded, the book gets really good and is completed. The author ends up with however many shares he feels he deserves for writing it. The thread is deleted (so the book can't be pirated as easily, although you know it will happen anyway). The book is then made available so that people can buy it for the steady price of an arbitrarily chosen number of shares. Let's go with a copy of the book costs one share, just for an easy example. That share gets destroyed in exchange for a copy of the book.

Demand for the book then drives the market value of one of the book's shares. As it becomes more popular one of the book's shares' value increases, enriching everyone who helped to write the book.

Writers who create the threads initially would have incentive to distribute the shares fairly to people who add ideas that he ends up using, because he wants people to continue to help him write even better books than he would on his own. Writers would develop reputations based on how fairly they distribute shares to people, and how well they transmute those ideas into the prose. Writers who have both style, and fairness, attract the most brains to their cause, and the book gets that much better for it.

There would also be more people actively seeking to help make other writer's works better, because now there's a chance they can get paid for it.

The DAC would basically be BitShares ME, combined with a centralized forum for throwing book ideas around, and an exchange where people can buy copies of the book in exchange for whatever price (in the book's shares) the author sets for it. If somebody else tries to sell copies of the book that becomes a legal copyright issue.

Say the book gets good enough to make a movie out of it. In case that happens, before publishing, the author sets a price to buy the necessary rights to do something like that. That price is set really, really high, so the studio has to buy a shit-ton of the books shares, driving the price for a share sky high. Contributors who held long on the book become wealthy. After that, the author see's that consumers can no longer afford to buy the book, so he lowers the price to a fraction of the share that prices it at the reasonable price level of a book again. That's messy though.

Even better, so that the book stays affordable for the public the entire time, a separate share could issued for the rights to use the book. Every contribution yields a certain percent of the book's sale shares, and the books rights shares. If the book goes big, people could sell their rights shares to the movie studios, but retain their sales shares for the bump that the book is going to get from the movie.

I call it LitUp.

People have motivation to help authors improve their works, everybody who helps gets paid, society has a more diverse spectrum of literature to choose from.

Think it could work?

suppose they achieved what they're apparently trying to do.

every job has been replaced by robots. every member of the 99.99% is dieing a slow painful death of some kind.

how would they continue to make profit?

what would they do if they've taken control of every single last resource and there's nothing left to take, and they have everything they and their families need for the foreseeable future?

i guess after the 99.99% died off they'd start repopulating the earth with their descendants. eventually, after many thousands of years, their descendants would start to get into skirmishes over how to divide resources. would history repeat itself?

https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares_toolkit/wiki/AYNTK_TITAN


All about TITAN
Where is the name TITAN coming from?

TITAN stands for T ransfer I nvisibly T o A ny N ame and describes that transactions performed are anonymous by default.
How can I use it?

    Just type: wallet_transfer AMOUNT UNIT sender receiver memo
    The wallet will do the rest!
    As you can see it's the basic transmit procedure, thus all transactions are anonymous on the blockchain by default!

What does it mean? What are the features?

    No need to exchange ugly addresses. Instead a Name can be registered with the blockchain which suffices to receive payments
    The receiver is anonymous to everyone except the sender.
    Simplifies accounting in the wallet, as you can register arbitrary names and no one can see your balance (except you, of course)!

How can the receiver be anonymous for everyone else?

    For each payment a temporary one-time address is generated
    The details of TITAN can be summarized to:

    dan   => DANS_EXT_PUBLIC_KEY
    scott => SCOTTS_EXT_PUBLIC_KEY

    scott:  Generate OneTimePrivateKey & OneTimePublicKey Pair
    scott:  OneTimePrivateKey * DANS_EXT_PUBLIC_KEY => SECRET
                DANS_EXT_PUBLIC_KEY.child( SECRET ) => RECEIVE_PUBLIC_KEY => RECEIVE_ADDRESS
    scott:  RECEIVE_PUBLIC_KEY * SCOTTS_EXT_PRIVATE_KEY => CHECK_SECRET
                                                        => SHORT_HASH(CHECK_SECRET) == SHORT_SIGNATURE
    scott-broadcast:   OneTimePublicKey + RECEIVE_ADDRESS + ENCRYPT( from scott + SHORT_SIGNATURE, SECRET )
    dan:   OneTimePublicKey * DANS_EXT_PRIVATE_KEY => SECRET
              DANS_EXT_PRIVATE_KEY.child( SECRET ) => RECEIVE_PRIVATE_KEY =>
                             => RECEIVE_PUBLIC_KEY => RECEIVE_ADDRESS

    dan:   DECRYPT( data, SECRET ) => "from scott" + SHORT_SIGNATURE
    dan:   SCOTT_EXT_PUBLIC_KEY * RECEIVE_PRIVATE_KEY => CHECK_SECRET => SHORT_HASH(CHECK_SECRET)

Isn't that exactly the same as bitcoin's stealth-addresses?

    This is a variation of stealth addresses (http://www.coindesk.com/stealth-addresses-secret-bitcoin-privacy) that leverages the name system to solve the first part of the problem.
    Just type: wallet_transfer AMOUNT UNIT sender receiver memo

Are read-only/watch-only keys possible with TITAN?

Yes. The basic support is already in place.
Where can I find more about about the various types keys used in TITAN

We have a dedicated article about the key structures in place in this wiki:

    Wallets, accounts, owners & active keys - The differences between Bitcoin and Bitshares

What advanced features does it have?

    Ability to encode a message and 'from' data into the transaction for payment details, much like a 'purpose field'

Sources

    https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=4887.msg64091#msg64091
    https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=4699.0

I'm pretty annoyed with myself.

Missed nxt.

sent a little bit of money to edgecoin (not much, thank god)

Missed Qora.

got in on the freebie part of eXo, but didn't invest, because I was skeptical

blah.

I've admitted to myself that I can't pick 'em.

So I'm asking you guys, are there any good IPOs going on right now? Why is it a good IPO?

Don't care about whether it was a P & D or anything... just wanted to say...

IF this coinyeminer you were posting about is real then PLEASE release it for some other coin(s) because it sounded awesome.

devcoind compiles just fine.

but for some reason when I go to compile devcoin-qt, I get this strange error.

Code:

g++ -c -O2 -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat -g -D__WXDEBUG__ -DNOPCH -DUSE_SSL -DUSE_UPNP=0 -fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/local/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-static-3.1 -I/usr/local/include/wx-3.1 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__WXGTK__ -pthread -DGUI -o obj/ui.o ui.cpp
ui.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void CMainFrame::OnIconize(wxIconizeEvent&)’:
ui.cpp:453:16: error: ‘class wxIconizeEvent’ has no member named ‘Iconized’
ui.cpp:461:34: error: ‘class wxIconizeEvent’ has no member named ‘Iconized’

I'm reasonably sure I got all the dependencies. I did compile wxwidgets from source, it looks like the issue has something to do with that...

how can I fix this

Hi.

I'm interested in mining, but my computer is a turd.

Which coin is the easiest to cpu mine?
Is it even worth my time?
Will cpu mining jack up the electric bill like gpu mining?

I've been an mpp supporter for quite some time. They're the marijuana lobby that has, in my opinon, helped to bring about the recent victories in the field of marijuana legalization.

Several weeks ago I sent them an e-mail suggest they accept donations in bitcoin, and to my astonishment, they did it, and wrote back to thank me for pointing this out to them!

You should all go show them some love. If you have the extra coin.

http://www.mpp.org/donating/donate-with-bitcoins.html

I preordered a trezor and find myself regretting it. Wondering if there is any interest in taking over my preorder.

You pay me an agreed amount, after six confirmations I turn over the password and you can set the address to anything you want. I would like to recoup the bitcoin I paid for this, but will consider any offer.

Willing to use escrow or whatever to prove I have the preorder. Any takers?

Sending money orders sounded like an easy and accessible way to deposit funds to an exchange. So I gave it a shot with campbx.

What a terrible idea.

It seems there is a minimum amount to deposit or they will not even honor it, and just shred your money order.

I sent a test money order of ten dollars. And they shredded it.

Now I can't decide if it's even worth the hassle of fighting with western union to reclaim funds  (ever dealt with western union? i think they designed it intentionally so that you want to rip your hair out, so people will learn and they wont have to provide as much service)

The guy didn't apologize for my inconvenience or anything, I got the specific impression he didn't even give a crap.

There kayak thing is awful. They email responses to tickets, but you can't email them back. You have to log in to a completely different site to respond (which isn't obvious). So if you're at work and they respond they keep sending you emails saying "plz advise" like you have all the time in the world.

apparently they shred tons of checks and wrong brand of money orders a day.

Also, if they get a money order from you, and arbitrarily decide to shred it, they don't bother to tell you. They just let you figure it out for yourself.

If they're going to have a minimum amount to deposit they should post that, instead of wasting people's time. That ten dollars would have came in handy right now (fuck not spending what you cant afford to lose, I refuse to be poor forever, thanks).

Can anyone suggest a service that wants my steady flow of dinky money orders (along with my occasional bigass one)? Coinbase is out, no bank account. Localbitcoins prices are jacked sky high.

happy thanksgiving

I had a small hiccup with crypto4games trying to buy minecraft, but cliff was super prompt and super cool about everything and resolved the situation to my satisfaction.

rest assured that crypto4games is legit.

Originally this post was informing you of what happened, and was negative, but I decided to change it to just a generic post from a newbie saying that crypto4games is a decent service, lol.

I would attempt to use blockchain technology to make a decentralized torrent file sharing network.

Eh??

Does this sound possible to you guys??