@Davidlatapie

I'll start a thread in politics later today. This is something I have a great deal to say on. In fact, I have for years now Right now, I have a bunch of work to do, but I'm more than willing to continue this.

This.

I can't code, and this is endlessly frustrating to me. I'm going to learn, because I have many ideas for cryptos that I am certain can be done. I don't often put them out, because the correct answer is the one you just gave. Help. Write some code to do the thing you desire to happen. But I can't right now, so I keep my mouth shut. Somewhat.

There are a lot of people on here that DO have the skills. Put your skills to use if you can. I'm a writer and a manager, not a programmer. I do what I can, and m trying to fix the lack.

I frequently ask you for lines of code, and try to figure them out. I'm learning from this, and I will eventually be able to modify other's code. But I need a much more basic understanding of programming, particularly in C++. I'm considering going back to school for that very purpose. At my age, that's something of a daunting endeavour, but not beyond reality

This is pure gold. Anything that people can gamble with, they will. ANYTHING. I used to live in Reno, and I have met literally thousands of people who saved up for YEARS to go on a gambling spree. They blew that whole wad with few exceptions, and had a great time doing it.

Also, poker sites would be a good idea. I'd play. I'm a fair poker player

Agreed, and agreed. However, his post was spot on other than those two errors.

This is probably not the place for this discussion, so I'll keep it short for the moment.

WITHIN their borders, what you are saying is true. But the US dominates and manipulates everybody. It is the largest military empire that has ever existed, making Rome look like pipsqueaks. The ideals that nearly every American subject can pop out of their mouth have been so egregiously twisted in actual practice as to be unrecognizable. What the US figured out that most have not is taht if you can regulate everything and make people BELIEVE that the rgulations have purposes other than sheer enslavement, that teh majority won't complain. Which is why they tout democracy as if it were a virtue. In the long run, no democracy has survived, and this one won't either. Because at it's core, there is no more oppressive system. As someone on this very board has as their tagline: "Democracy: The original 51% attack.

If you truly believe in the principles of democracy (which thankfully almost no-one does), then if 6 people in a group of ten decided that one of their number should be killed (regardless of any reason), he should just stand up and die. A very limited amount of democracy can be useful, but those limits must be explicit and rigid, else you get a creeping, grinding enslavement over time.

The United States was not set up as a Democracy. It wasn't truly a democracy until the 16th and 17th amendments shifted slavery away from piecemeal individual owners to a general system in which all of those born were born in bondage to the "federal authority" via the income tax, and the abolition of the Senate, making the United States of America instead of these United States of America.

I could write a book on the subject. In fact, I mostly have But this thread is about Tek, so perhaps we should continue this elsewhere.

I haven't kept up with TRK. what's the story? I kept my little bit of truck and it staked, but I've not even tried to follow what's going on. I only bought it to get HYP

If you are able to step back from it and look, you'll find that the United States of America, Incorporated is by far the most oppressive nation on earth. It's a hard truth, but it is the truth. I'm not a young man, and I did not become an anarchist easily or without thought.

Thank you! Now I can find 'em

I just took a narcotic (I have a blood clot and it hurts) so I'll leave off commenting on your plans till I'm a bit more sober. I might not make much sense right now

See my tagline. I've no reason to be civil. Like our ancestors, we live under a regime that has no respect for us, little fear of us, and absolutely views us as their personal property, to be used and disposed of in any manner they see fit. I am a human being, not a piece of their broken machine. I'll not only not be civil, I'll engage in destructive compliance. From this point forward, if I do business with anyone who is in the State of New York, I'm sorry, but you'll have to dox yourself or be denied. I will certainly provide you with the proper documentation to show that you have been denied due to willful non compliance with these bullshit laws, should you be so bold as to sue them for deliberate obstruction of lawful commerce, and I'll testify in their kangaroo court on the condition that the media are both allowed and encouraged to attend.

I will follow the court's ACTUAL rules, which are the rules of Parliamentary debate. I was captain of the team, and I only lost once.

Trolls are as much a part of the game as the optimists. The problem with ignoring them is that sometimes trolling is not intentional and they raise legitmate concerns. I try to read everything, and apply a strong bullshit filter. I tend to be an optimist, and it has bit me more than once. So, I see them as a useful debugging system.

That, and some days I just wanna hit somebody, and trolls give you the perfect target.

It's a time thing. As the coin gets distributed, and people use coin control to put the blocks to stake in a sequence, the chain gets steadier. After a while, it will move regularly even on small staking, and there won't need to be a push to get it going.

What he said. I have a solid plan on how much tek I wish to acquire, and the damn dumpers always get it out of their system before my funds are available. Just you watch. Sunday, the price will be back up in the 40's, cuz that's when I can do something about it.

BTW, sunday is because of PBmining, link in my sig. I've done very well with them. They mine BTC for me, I turn it into tek

A small request, Frank? Could you link your plan posts in the OP? I'm sure I'm not alone in being very busy and often tired. It would make things easier.

I'd say it's still in ICU, but has recovered nicely from the surgery so far. Frank's a good doc

If you're the guy that ordered through my link, THANKS! Every little bit helps Especially if you buy that 250...

Maybe I'm just lucky. I've heard the same thing about TEK, but the longest past maturity I've gone has been ~4days, and that was on a trifling small amount. If I'm lucky, I hope it continues

Got my first stake this morning Can now confirm that small amounts do work. It hit about 7 hours later than minimum. Not too bad on only 70 coins

It's nine days (min) per block. If you have more blocks that haven't staked yet, they will get there. The coins that just staked, both the original and the newly minted, are reset to zero for the maturity period. If that's all you have, then yes, it's another nine days. Nothing will help them along. Coin control just helps you organize the blocks into (your) optimum configuration.

I'd call it complementary. I think they both look great, and which is better would depend on context.

I figure brutal honesty is the best policy in this case. I'm gonna tell them they are damn fools while enriching myself on their foolishness. Either they'll ignore me and give me more cheap tek, or they'll listen and quit being idiots, which improves the value of my coins. Either way, I win. One way, they do to

Is this why my pathetic little stash went from time to stake of 8 hours to 27 days over night? (I'm working on more acquisitions, not really worried. This is a technical/curiousity question)

You're furthering my education by quite a bit here I'm going to have to learn to code. It has become imperative to my obsessive brain