They could. But without the EXIF data, everyone would complain that "anybody can 'shop a picture", and with it they're exposed.

Personally, at this point I think they've become big enough that it should no longer be an issue to just be public, but they feel otherwise. In private, they satsified me that they were indeed real. But I can't prove it to you guys, and won't try. I've been in profit for some time now, and I still think they're on the up and up. But it is troublesome that they keep secret. While I understand their motives (they had problems with breakins and personal threats early on) I believe at this point they could hire adequate security.

Ah well. They said at some point they would take it all in the open, and my opinion on when that point is likely has no effect on their opinion.

Exactly! I was once a Christian of the worst sort. Jehovah's Witness. I have read the bible many times, and it is NOT a good book.

No Christian church actually follows the bible, or the streets would run with blood. This is a good thing, but the fact of it is disturbing because they CLAIM the bible is their moral authority.

And always, if you point out that they are cherry picking, they have some big problem with it. Why? There is wisdom in ancient writings. You SHOULD cherry pick. My personal philosophy probably derives from over a thousand different old and new books, as well as my own perspective over nearly half a century of life. Damn straight I cherry pick. That's what intelligence is FOR. Pick what works, discard what don't.

If the religious all did this, the world would quickly be a better place, but it would break the back of organized religion. All of it.

Now, there is a religion I truly, actively hate. I was raised in that cult, and my single largest regret in life is that I was EVER one of them.

But at least they're non violent, in the physical sense. Out to destroy your life, but not violent.

Aye. the logical fallacy you reference is "tu qoque" Or "you too" which attempts to justify or deflect by saying, well , you do shit too...

Kind of what I was trying to do here, in fact, was to point out that ALL organized religions do bad shit. I am of the opinion that we could, societally, take the good from all religions and distill it into a basic set of guidelines, dispense with the rest, and be better off.

Those guidelines could be more complex than this, but Bill and Ted's motto is frankly the basis of civil society. "Be excellent to one another". Anything beyond that is details, and anything detracting from that should be discarded as irrelevant and harmful. In my arrogant opinion.

I once flew a Mig-17

At any rate, to answer your question, yes. It will stake, which will show in your wallet, and once it is accepted by the network and confirms a certain number of times (can't recall, but it's probably in the OP) it will appear in your wallet as a mined transaction. It will split into two roughly equal blocks that are the original amount plus the newly minted coins.

Is this your first Proof of Stake coin? If so, you made a good choice of entry point. HYP has few if any problems in it's function, and a very good developer.

I"m very much into both coins. Each has different character and strength. TEK is a hybrid, and HYP is not, so I think that Tek will continue to perform well even while the bumps get sorted on the PoS side. Because it is still a viable currency even if the PoS side of the chain gets frozen. We saw that with the recent problems. Up until the hard fork (where thngs got screwy for a few days), Tek was still tradeable without issue because the PoW side of the chain had no issues.

HYP on the other hand is fubar if the chain freezes. Not that I think that likely, since presstab loves his child, but it does present the difference in the scenarios. Both coins are very cool, and I will continue to support both.

I do think that the POS payout problems need to be fixed to where it used to be again. Or at least close. And it's being looked into. What we don't want, and I think in this I can speak for everyone pretty safely, is another debacle like the last fork. While it got resolved quickly, it did NOT work well out of the gate. I heard a figure of like 40+ chains for a day or two

So for now, it works, just a bit unstable. I figure that Thundertoe and friends should take their time, get it solid, test it for a good while, and THEN fork it. In the meantime, the slowdown in POS makes the coin potentially more valuable as it is more rare. It also extends the time where inflation will become an issue. I consider it growing pains. TEK has always been kind of a low profile coin, and yet it has stood the test of time. It's still here, it's still actively traded, and it's price is pretty decent.

Right now, I'd be more worried about merchant adoption and other things that would break it away from being just a trade coin. Then, once the technical issues are worked through, it will be significantly more valuable.

see my previous post. The coin works fine. What it needs is adoption. For that to happen, people need to STOP looking for another tomcat, satoshi, whatever. If the thing works as intended, why not just USE it?

Not sure.

They allowed it in the past, but there were problems.

True enough, but also not relevant to my point, which is that Christianity did not forbid slavery. Later, the Christian churches evolved and have since (to their credit) condemned the practice, but that is NOT a biblical doctrine.

I've said many times that most people are good despite their religion, and I stand by that. Religions disprove their divine inspiration by the very fact that they DO evolve.

I got into this cuz the OP caught my eye. I have no particular hatred for Islam, I hate religion in general for the evil it has fostered. Most of the adherents are decent enough people. The radicals who use religion to justify their actions would have another cause or no cause if they didn't have that one. Bad people do bad things. But religion does and has encouraged good people to do bad things. And it sometimes works, because the true believer is going to feel guilt for holding back their hand from an evil act if they think their gods command it.

Almost back in the game I have a block that should stake at any time, and it will likely exceed the subsidy block. Probably because it was mature the day I went on the road and I just got the wallet open today, three weeks later

I am curious to see how that plays out. the block is 1600 HYP, the original recommended size, but with what I'm seeing here in the thread, smaller blocks might actually be better?

At any rate, glad things are still working well, and the new wallet is very nice.

As I posted in the other thread, I had a lot go wrong in my personal situation, so I've not been able to do jack. Just got caught up, and I'll be more active after the 30th when my internet gets hooked up. Right now I'm relying on McDonalds wifi

Anyway, on the idea of switching back to pure Proof of Work... Interesting, to say the least. If you do that, I would recommend using one of the newer algos, like X11 or something that has the potential to be CPU mined, so more people have a shot at it. I know it was originally SHA (I mined it from the launch) but if we want newer people, ASIC's are probably not the best answer at this time.

I actually favor hybrid PoW, PoS like TEK and HBN. Fairly low block reward and fairly high POS, it keeps the chain moving even when staking is low, and gets a wider base of interest.

Anyway, at the moment I have little time, but I will be again very active starting on or about september 30th. Glad to see it still happening.

I will be reporting in on or about the 30th. A lot of things went wrong for me all at once. Getting it back on track, and that's the day I get internet hooked up. Right now, I'm depending on public wifi, and I have a lot of catch up to do on a lot of things. Sorry for the longer than anticipated absence, but I was literally on the road with my family until 5 days ago.

In modern parlance this is true. Most translations actually use the term slave, I just grabbed an easy to read one. This is slavery. In the english translations of the bible manservant and maidservant are often used, and they are specifically defined as property, subject to being freed on the Jubilee if they are Hebrew or permanent property unless manumitted if not Hebrew.

I also just grabbed a small sample. There is nothing in the Christian scriptures that is opposed to slavery, and the OT defines it in detail. That definition is based on the Code of Hammurabi, and that appears to be based on an even older set of laws.

In this vein, how about "Tracking Number" for TXID?

No, there isn't. I've staked on a fraction of a coin. But sometimes it takes several days once mature.

Yep.

Does not negate my statement in any way. In the case of Marxism, the superhuman controlling power is the "hive" or collective, which is able, according to their doctrine, to figure out and provide for all the needs and wants of those within the hive. Democracy, posits society as the superhuman force.

You left out the roots of the word, as well. The root meaning is to bind oneself to a creed or philosophy. In a purely personal sense, so long as it doesn't violate others, religion can be a very useful thing. But when it becomes organized and enforced, it becomes more evil than can be tolerated. Thus, eventually, it falls in on itself. Some faster than others. Christianity and Islam have lasted a rather long time, and both have primarily ruled by fear. No different from any other central authority, with one glaring exception to the "godless" religions: A statement that they are divinely inspired by a being of ultimate authority who must not be questioned. Once people are convinced of that particular load of tripe, they may be made to do ANYTHING with a relatively clean conscience, as it's the "will of god".

Show me some place where Christianity, in it's doctrine, does not support slavery? Hell, I'll go look up some scriptures.



There are many more, and I deliberately omitted any in the "old" testament, as Christians tend to try to wiggle out from under that , even if the Gospels and Apostles did say that not one letter of the law would pass away.

Why? Because it's godless? It's still as much a religion as Islam or Catholocism. Particularly after being implemented by Lenin and Stalin...

I can't give you a solid answer right now, due to other obligations. But I will strongly consider this, and talk it over with you and other community members sometime early next week. Right now I'm against a deadline in my job, and simply don't have time. But that's short term, and I've been a TEK head almost since it began, though I made a lot of mistakes early on

If I do it, it will be a completely separate wallet, with a pretty serious plan behind it. I don't want to start something I can't finish and leave myself and looking foolish and cost money for others.

Thanks for the kind words. You're a pretty harsh critic, so that means a lot to me.

Damn, that ended quickly. My enforced vacation made me miss the action. I mined a bit, and I guess I'll hold on and see what happens. I actually was hoping to get more active in this coin, I just didn't have time.

I'd like y'all to reflect on a couple things. Tom's experiment is not proof, because the sample is too small, but it's in aggregate with a lot of other coins very good evidence that a bunch of the people in Crypto are failing to understand what "decentralized" really means. I've seen it with a number of coins. The investors are quite willing to make a profit, or even just accumulate some coins, but they want the development team to do EVERYTHING that boosts the coin.

While a strong team is certainly a desirable feature, the coin itself should NOT depend on the dev team. Right now I can think of just one coin who's users have for the most part given up the tit and started using the coin as currency. Bitcoin. Satoshi developed it to a point, the people he recruited and attracted developed it a bit further, but MOST of the adoption and market innovations have come from the users.

Alts, on the other hand, have yet to stand on their own, even though MOST have more going for them technically than bitcoin. Faster transactions, lower value due to higher amounts of coins, proof of stake in many cases, a great many cool features. And yet they do not take off.

Why? Because most of you are waiting for your Messiah.

Guess what?

THERE IS NO MESSIAH!

Take a look at the guy in the mirror and ask him or her WHY your favorite coin is going nowhere or just making a small move here and there. Ask WHY it's not at a market place attracting goods and services.

Then do something about it.

I am not preaching without acting. I'm involved in a company that intends to absolutely revolutionize crypto trading, and I have side projects that will use a few coins as their exclusive payment option. These are long term plans, as I'm just one guy. But if each and every one of you came up with JUST ONE service denominated in your favorite coin(s) you would see the trade volume on those coins skyrocket. It don't have to be anything crazy. Maybe you can make paper airplanes in a unique manner (yeah I pulled that out of my ass). Sell 'em. Or write a book on the subject and sell that!

Decentralized. Bottom up, not top down. Think about it. If you depend on the developers, you will be disappointed no matter the success or failure of a coin, because it will be THEIR success, THEIR glory, and THEIR coin to do with as they please.