LOL. Now I get ya.

"First you get the money,

Then you get the power,

Then you get the women"

-Tony Montana

Don't get what your saying on the first part, but no, I meant christians specifically as that has been MY experience. I do think it applies to any religious group, but my experience has been with just one.

And no, I'm not racist. I think all races are equally worthless. Religion is not a race.

The good things in religion (any religion as far as I've been able to ascertain) are shared by all philosophies. Be decent to your neighbors, don't steal, don't murder, things of that nature.

Unfortunately, they add a lot of shit on top of that, and with a god as backing, believers will ignore the contradictions, embrace the things that destroy the good, and generally muck things up. At the root of all organized religions is the will to power.

Having been raised a Christian, I do have a fair amount of hatred for that particular boondoggle. I try not to. I don't hate Christians, but I do distrust them. Because of their religion, and it's customs. Since I am an unbeliever, a great many of them do not see it as immoral to cheat me, where they would never think of such a thing with one of their own.

In spite of that, I still maintain that most religious people (and I count many of many faiths among my friends) are decent people. Usually in spite of their religion, not because of it. It actually frightens me a great deal when I hear religious people claiming that their particular book/prophet/drug trip is all that restrains them from raping and pillaging. If true, then those people are a deficit to the human race REGARDLESS of their faith. Yet they present this as a positive argument. I don't rape and pillage because it's simply wrong.

so's the freakin' blockchain. 20 minute plus blocks again

Reddit is a forum I simply can't stand, but it does seem to be where most of the technical discussion is going on.

By this logic, in my own case, I should be Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Satanic, Zoroastrian, Discordian, Republican, Democrat, Tory, and on and on. I have purchased a great many books and read even more than that. I claim they have NO authority over me. Have they influenced me? Oh, definitely. Particularly, the first ones in my list. The Bible, the Bhagavit-veda (sp?), the Q'uran, the Torah, all of these have taught me that MEN made god in their image. And that said image was usually heavily influenced by the will to power, and judging by the imagery, hallucinogens. There is no better argument for agnostic beliefs than the holy books of the various religions. Especially if you read a bunch of 'em.

I was thinking much the same thing. Christianity, by and large, has become a semi peaceful religion in which it's most fervent adherents only wish death upon the unbeliever, rather than making it happen. 700 years ago, you couldn't say that. Maybe in 700 years, Islam will grow up some too. (that number is not arbitrary)

True enough. It's a rather complex subject with no simple answers. I personally think that larger blocks are both desirable and necessary, but the XT proposal was poorly thought out and the attempt to force the issue rather than taking the time to properly implement it just makes Gavin and Mike look like idiots. Neither of them really are, but they come across that way with this. Throwing a tantrum might be effective, but it's certainly not the way to conduct important business.

Do you? It represented some good and bad things, but the fact of the matters remains very clear if you bother to study history:

The war between the states was unjustifiable.

actually...

if you look at it in the light that miners drive the network forward, and if the miners decide that "x" hardfork simply isn't going to happen, then they do indeed have a say in it.

Given that at the moment, Bitcoin is centralized between a few large pools, then the syndicate indicated by a pool has a rather large vote in whether or not to accept a hard fork.

The question as stated is a false dichotomy, but your answer is a red herring

Definitely I wish I had a better BTC situation right now. I'd be buying like Imelda Marcos in a shoe shop

But it's still disheartening to see your holdings drop in half.

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

Mornin' Peeps.

Sorry, I haven't been around much lately. It's been a hectic couple of weeks for me, so posting has been pretty far down the priority list. When everything is priority one, you have to rethink your categories

Whining aside, things are happening. We're about to have a new release of the TurboCharged game (stay tuned for that) and it's got some great features. Betting will be re-enabled, so y'all can attempt to make some money, or enrich your friends, depending on your skill and luck.

Multilanguage support is going great, with a bunch of translations! How often do you see an early release game with ten languages?

We got:

English

Russian

French

Serbian

ChineseComing soon.

Croatian

Japanese

Slovenian  Coming soon. I got eager

Spanish

German

Dutch

Italian

We'll add more as time goes on, too. If you speak or write a language not listed, let us know. Might be some GMC in it for you. I'll personally offer 100 GMC for a Klingon translation (it amuses me)

The market has been a little rough lately. Volume has been outstanding, but the dumps have been outrageous. Not sure what to think about that, as it seems that we got mixed feelings going on in the marketplace. Obviously, people are willing to buy GMC or we wouldn't be seeing 50+ BTC volume a day on just one exchange out of several. But the price has dropped almost in half over a two week period, because somebody or sombodies are dumping. I can pretty well swear to the idea that the people buying low right now aren't planning on selling it lower, so y'all might want to get in on it. Before I can get some more BTC and take it all myself

I have a hard time believing the dumpers are regulars here, as it should be obvious by now that the GMC team is working hard on making this a premier coin. But just in case I'm wrong, let me address this. While I fully understand that there are times when the bills must be paid and you just HAVE to take whatever is offered, this ongoing dump is some people cashing out or even deliberately dropping the market. If it's the former, you're going to regret it. No, that's not a threat, it's a promise. Turbocharged is a test bed. A damn cool test bed, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. I've seen some of the development work for Eon, and I've been involved for several months now in third party integration design. We don't blow our own horns very much until we have a product, which I suppose generates some uncertainty. But there is a reason for it. Too many teams have announced plans to conquer the world, pumped the market, and disappeared without producing a damn thing. We keep quiet, build our product, and then release and blow our horns Which, as an investor, would you prefer? A lot of hot air and words, or a team that keeps their mouth shut until they have something to show?

If somebody is deliberately dumping the market down, I can only see two motives for it. One, a competitor. That's the obvious one, but the truth is we have a different approach to anyone that I'm aware of in crypto-integration, so I actually doubt this scenario. The other one is somebody trying to acquire a lot cheap, and willing to sacrifice quite a bit to get it. It's a good strategy from a purely selfish point of view, but if you're interested in the long term success of the project, not so much.

So, my advice to anyone holding right now is to keep doing just that. Market conditions indicate buy, and this team ain't goin' nowhere. We have things to prove, and we're gonna prove 'em.

I'd also like to invite y'all to come to our official forum at http://gamecredits.net/phpbb/index.php , register, and send me a PM. It's a bit slow right now over there (unless you count a massive spam attack <grumble> )


EDIT: corrected a couple of mistakes. Take a lesson from this: Never post on a public forum BEFORE coffee

https://github.com/Crypto-Expert/stratum-mining

Tek can be a royal bitch to mine. The only stratum I"ve found that actually works is crypto-expert stratum mining.

I've tried NOMP, Coiniumserv, and other variants of stratum, and that's the only one that actually seems to break blocks.

Howdy Y'all.

Sorry I haven't been around much, life took a few left turns and I've been extraordinarily busy. Rest assured, I've not forgotten nor abandoned this community.

I'm going to post up some info, speculation, and rants in the near future (as in later today), and kick this pig.

TC, as Shavers noted, was both more successful and more difficult than we had expected, so we're trying to get it as close to perfect as time allows.

Meanwhile, our official forum was spammed mercilessly while I was otherwise engaged. So, if any of you are on there and find yourselves locked out of posting, PM me there or here, and I'll fix it. I'm revising the board rules heavily, and I'm sure I'll miss somebody who should be upgraded. New users cannot post without being verified by Admins now. Sorry about that, but I deleted well over 500 spam posts from several (now banned) new members, and there's still more garbage to take out.

Wow. Just wow.

Ok, reality time. I talk to Thundertoe almost daily. We're friends. No, he hasn't sold his account.

It won't have ANY active connections until it finishes importing the bootstrap. A better way to tell, if you're in the QT wallet, is to click on the "help" tab, then debug console, and see how many blocks it has on the first tab of the console. It should be adding them constantly if the bootstrap is doing what it should. Be patient, it takes a long time. Or, if you're like me and patience is just a word, go do something else for a while or you'll go nuts

Funny, I didn't really notice And I'm allegedly American. Guess I'm just comfortable with both systems.

If you have cats or children, blame them 

Otherwise, you probably did it inadvertantly. Happens to the best of us from time to time. In almost all wallets, it's where Noise told you, so next time it's missing or you have a new wallet, there it is

Hello again Glad you're watching us. If I can depend on anyone to tell me when I'm screwing up, it's you.

You guys got the right attitude I'm a bit jealous, as I have no BTC right now. Ah, well. It's come up quite a bit from the dump.