Agreed.  And thank you for contributing.

It is offered as an example of the sort of thing that can work, rather than a finished product.
It is merely "better" not best.  I don't think we know of something that will work yet.
By better, I mean that Gavin gets his +50%/year, iff it is needed, and not if it isn't.  And if circumstances change, so does the limit.

If it is 100% manipulated, it is only as bad as Gavin's first proposal. (+4% or so)
That of course could only happen if miners with good bandwidth win all block and also want to manipulate.

If we fear manipulation, we can add anomaly dropping  and exclude the 10% most extreme outside of standard variance (so that fully padded and empty blocks are dropped out of the calculations).

It would be good to avoid creating any perverse incentives entirely wherever possible.

And again, the percentages chosen here are samples only, arbitrarily chosen.  A regression analysis of the block chain ought be employed to determine where we would be with this sort of thing as well as how it would affect the path forward.


The point here is to allow market forces to dictate.  If some miners want to shrink block size to make transactions more precious and extract fees, others will want to get those fees and increase block size.  We want something that can work in perpetuity, not a temporary fix which may get adjusted centrally whenever the whim arises.

Our guide must be math and measurement, not central committees, no matter how smart they may be.

Who knows?  May go there is future versions.
SoCal is a gamemaker/movie/entertainment hub so I rub elbows with those guys often enough.

But at the moment the budget for such a game would be above the total market cap of XMR, give it a couple years.

It would seem that there could be a simple mathematical progressive increase/decrease, which is based on the factual block chain needs and realities of the time that can work forever into the future.

Here is an example that can come close to Gavin's first proposal of 50% increase per year.

If average block size of last 2 weeks is 60-75% of the maximum, increase maximum 1%, if >75% increase 2%
If average block size of last 2 weeks is 25-40% of the maximum decrease maximum 1%, if <29% decrease 2%

Something like this, would have no external dependencies, would adjust based on what future events may come, and won't expire or need to be changed.

These percentage numbers are ones that I picked arbitrarily.  They are complete guesses and so I don't like them anymore than any other number.  This is just to create a model of the sort of thing that would be better than extrapolating.  To do even better, we can do a regression analysis of previous blocks to see where we would be now and tune it further from there.

I wonder how much good that will do.  Are there any PTC sites that are not scams?
I remember goofing off with some of these PTC faucets for a while.  They all seem so very dodgy.

In my eagerness for this I even wasted some time on that weird psychodelic 2d world building website you linked the other day.
So yeah, I'm in.  As the saying goes "Shut up and take my Monero!"

If after a look through it seems suitable for a fairly worldly 14yr old, I may be getting my son an account too.

For what its worth, buying counterfeit bills is also not illegal.
Doing so with the intent to pass them into circulation is.
Collectors buy counterfeits all the time, there's nothing illegal about that.

PRO TIP:  Don't even put them in the same pocket or container as legit money.  Keep them packaged and separate.  This is to avoid even the appearance of any impropriety.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_To_Click

My best guess on "PTC site".

The last two are related.
Naked shorts would only be possible by leaving coins on exchange.

Perhaps few disagree that Bitcoin can be improved by a plan for block size maximum adjustment.  My issues with the proposals are less what it achieves (a good thing) but what it doesn't (preventing this from happening in the future).

There are myriad external realities that we can not know about.  The development of the telecom technology is perhaps less the issue than what the world has in store for us in the coming decades.  I don't know, and no one else does either, but that shouldn't stop us from striving to achieve what has not been done before.

Undersea cables are cut accidentally, and by hostile actions, economic meltdowns and military conflicts halt or destroy deployments, plagues, natural disasters etc, OR new developments can accelerate everything, robots might do this all for us.  We can't know by guessing today what the right numbers will be.  We could be high or low.  I am just hoping that some more serious thought goes into avoiding the need to guess or extrapolate (an educated guess but still a guess).  We do not have a crisis today other than some pending narrow business concerns (some of which are on the board of TBF and possibly suggested that Gavin "do something").  I am also thankful that he is doing so.  This is an effort that deserves attention (even with the other mitigating efforts already in development).  Gavin is a forward thinking man, and is serving his role well.  We should be all glad that he is not alone in this, and that no one person has the power to make such decisions arbitrarily for others.

The difficulty adjustment algorithm works without knowing the future.  We should similarly look for a way that can also work for many generations, come what may, and save Bitcoin from as many future hard forks as we can. 

This is our duty, to our future, by virtue of us being here at this time.

This isn't goat's fault, its mine.  I'm too much a perfectionist with these things.
I have prototypes, and much of the work toward this done, but am way behind on most everything I've committed to and this is no exception.

Or VERY right!

Yes, personal responsibility should trump. 
This, I think is the core element of this thread.  If you rely on someone else to protect you, you are at their mercy.

In her case, she was selfish, wanted to be close to the CDC and get the best treatment experimental science could offer.  Others are likely to do the same. 

Still others will feel hopeless and depressed, angry at the world, and viciously try to infect others as a means of unjust retribution.  So few are noble or heroic.

We agree.

As a telecommunication specialist, No. I do not agree.

Sure, we were also able to get x.25 and x.75 telecom to run over barbed wire, in the lab.  (There are places in the world that still use these protocols, some of which would deeply benefit from bitcoin in their area.)
The logistical challenges of implementation is not what you find in the lab. 
This stuff has to go out in environments where someone backs up their truck into a cross country line so they can cut it and drive off with a few miles of copper to sell as scrap.  We live in the world, not in the lab.

Designing something to work and designing to not fail are entirely different endeavors and someone qualified for one is not necessarily qualified to even evaluate the other.

Maybe that is your goal, mine is different.
I'd like it to be used for just about everything that money is used for.

If you get your way, then everyone using it gets charged with racketeering under the RICO act and as soon as someone learns you have any, you're busted.

The game is not all that big of a deal, its just one of the next things coming, but you should recognize that you need this game far more than you think you do.  You are thinking too small.

Good thing you aren't a DA.
She could get charged with a lessor, reckless endangerment, but would easily get off on an "advice of counsel" defense.
You'd do better with a civil suit vs the CDC, but if things go sour, you might not get the best medical care.
The medical profession gets to choose who dies, its been federalized under Affordable Care Act.
Most governments on the planet now have been empowered to decide when their citizens die.
This makes old age and social welfare problems more manageable, since they get to handle both when you die, and only have to pay you up until you do.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/15/cdc-says-2nd-nurse-with-ebola-was-cleared-to-fly/

There may be more than one person at the CDC with different opinions.

Interestingly both can be true.  She may have received permission, having no severe symptoms.
She may also have developed symptoms during transit, and CDC would then say that she should not have flown (even though they told her that she could.)

We also know that one can be contagious without symptoms.  If the virus is replicating in your blood vessels, and you are cut or menstruating or whatever, there is potential for transmission.

Not precisely true.
There has been a significant shift of government budgets.

When people are afraid, they often run to government for help.  Few are willing to attempt to protect themselves and want someone else to "do something".
Those from whom you seek help, you also empower.

It doesn't take a conspiracy for this effect, it can simply be the confluence of interests at play.

If you are following all the local laws regarding taxes and money laundering, then the exchange is not illegal.
The other concern you may consider, is that if you know that the folks with whom you are dealing are committing crimes, you could be charged with criminal conspiracy.  The more likely charge would be one of money laundering.  The particulars matter, and are different in different states.

This can happen no matter which website you are using.  Famously it happened with LocalBitcoins.com in Florida early this year.  Cases are still pending as of this writing.
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-foundation-urges-court-dismiss-charge-florida-localbitcoins-case/

"Pssst...  I need some CKgold to get my caviar, can you spot me some?"
"No, but if some XMR shows up at this address in the next 5 minutes, I might have what you want."