BREAKING HARD: Clinton Foundation Donor Ensnared in Kickbacks Probehttp://freebeacon.com/issues/clinton-foundation-donor-kickback-probe/A major Clinton Foundation donor company that has been granted millions in U.S. federal loans has been linked to a corruption probe in Pakistan, according to reports.
The Abraaj Group, a Middle Eastern investment fund that contributed between $500,000 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation, has not been charged in the case, but its name has surfaced in Pakistani media reports. Authorities in Sindh province have accused a prominent government official of providing illegal favors to K-Electric, a power company owned and managed by the Abraaj Group since 2009.
Former Pakistani oil minister Dr. Asim Hussain was arrested last year amid allegations that he helped harbor terrorists in a string of hospitals he owned and doled out illegal contracts to companies, including K-Electric. Both Hussain and K-Electric have denied the allegations.
The investigation has not impacted the U.S. government’s ongoing partnership with the Abraaj Group, which dates back to at least 2012. That year, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation—a federal agency that dispenses corporate loans under the guidance of the U.S. State Department—selected the Abraaj Group to manage its $150 million Middle East investment fund.
Two weeks later, the Abraaj Group co-sponsored the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting. Drudge siren (or three) in 10, 9, 8.... |
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Well read this: the governance system (what was previously the budget system) will explicitly have a system for tracking what's happening in our economy Dash is money, not a venture capital investor. Venture capital companies have governance systems for "tracking what's happening in our economy" but money sure as hell does not since the whole point of "sound money" is that once you have it you are at liberty to do whatever you want with it. These two objectives just have wildly conflicting priorities. Dash's priorities IMO should be aligned with those of a monetary medium. i.e. [1] - continue to consolidate the technology behind improving fungibility and security [2] - implement a commercial API Those two priorities are consistent with those of monetary media. Dash is on solid ground. The governance system is there to support development of the monetary token - not the other way around IM(H)O. Thanks for your unsolicited opinion and advice, but you of all people should by now know Dash is only what Evan does. No more, no less. If you don't like that dictatorship and Bus Factor of 1, you know how to find the exit.  Don't worry, the "zomg Dash is the next KickStarter" nonsense won't be followed up on with any serious effort. It's obviously just a one-off attempt to hype and pump (just like Evan's "we will implement ring signatures" fake promise). |
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What he does not understand is the fact that he is ruining his own coin with his stupid actions in other threads. I have checked once his fudcoin, but when i found out he was behind it i clicked everything away and never looked back into it. I do not want to support a coin with such backers behind it. It's funny that you are such a n00b you don't even know I've been here since long before anyone ever heard of Monero. But please, by all means try to hold that completely unrelated project hostage and threaten it with Serious Consequences for the crime of one of its boosters having an honest (and well-informed) negative opinion about MAID. Good luck double-charging everyone for internet access. I'm sure we're all eager to abandon the plethora of working and tested free alternatives already available on standard plain old TCP/IP. Oh wait, even MAID is resorting to using TCP since its UDP ambitions greatly exceeded the reach of its devs' technological grasp.  Thanks for the 90s nostalgia. I had forgotten about Kad's XOR 'logical distance' measurement. Fascinating subject, that old stuff from the Golden Age of P2P. MAID gonna bring back DHT like it's a fucking Oasis reunion!  |
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I would prefer a fork of Dash without the instamine. dnet and others are out. These are fair(er) versions of dash. Looks for them. More will start to flow out soon I'm sure. Find the fairer clones and support them. Even dashers should realise a 0.001% stake in dash can buy you a 01% stake in the clones. Far better chance of big returns. Do they have a world-class dev team and a professional, devoted community? I'll stick with Dash. I know a winning team when I see one. Dash has a mere 28 contributors. If that's "world-class" then what are Bitcoin (325 contributors) and Monero (41)? Galaxy class? 
Does Dash has a "world-class dev team?" No, it doesn't.A "world-class dev team" doesn't royally screw up a change to Litecoin's difficulty algorithm, then deploy it without testing, then refuse to relaunch with fair notice after fixing the instamine "bug." A "world-class dev team" wouldn't rip off CoinJoin, then refuse to talk to the creator of said technique about technical matters but insist on using his name for snake-oil marketing. A "world-class dev team" doesn't offer financial advice by make rosy price predictions based on TA tea leaves, nor would they promote Masternodes using claims of high yields for an unlicensed investment product. A "world-class dev team" wouldn't make a product that actual world-class devs GMAX and PTOD refer to as "bad crypto" and "broken." Of course there's no question the DashHole community of bagholders is devoted to a cult-like level, but that's more creepy, unsettling, and (paraphrasing GMAX) depressing about the general state of humanity than a feature. The most noticeable thing about DashHoles vs Bitcoiners (and especially Monero Mustangs) is they tend to lack a background in crypto and be more towards the low-information, socially constructed reality dwelling end of the spectrum, as opposed to the uber-nerd/power-geek/egghead/cypherpunk types you find being excited about esoteric concepts like ring signatures and 100% fungibility. Dash goes out of its way to pander to the dim-witted and/or lazy thinking of those who don't understand all the technical jargon and just want to believe in a brand that makes them feel safe, while still appealing to their sense of greed by promising (or at least implying) a Business Opportunity to Get Rich Quick. When we see such blatant fraud we are compelled to cry fraud, lest we also be frauds. I feel much hate in you. I'm sorry your efforts are not going to be appreciated. Only focusing on the negative leads to health problems, and you won't get me to go down that path. We have a 5000+ thread that documents all of the positive things Dash has done, and that's where I choose to focus. Thank you for bringing that list to us though, It proves that no one is perfect. What else you got? My token post was only a tiny subset of the things wrong with Dash. We can also discuss how a "world-class dev team" wouldn't use a crappy algo like X11, how lame and transparently self-serving Duffsplanations for the instamine are, how vertoe quit because of Dash's one-man dictatorship, etc. Then there's the ridiculous 24+ hour mixing times, the lack of sendmany, the failure to deliver promised Masternode blinding, the endless moving goalposts and complete lack of follow-though on previous commitments, the defense of Cryptsy, etc. And that's not all. I can do this all day; you DashHoles make it way too easy.  Accusing me of "hate" isn't really the most effective way to deflect attention away from the myriad widespread criticisms of Dash's instamine, bad crypto, snake oil marketing, etc. But I understand your target audience is the low-info type you want to keep in the cargo cult, not high-info types who already know Dash is a fraudulent enterprise. Coming from you this is really so so funny. Again with the deflection in the form of attacking the messenger. I like how you imply an appeal to hypocrisy, but don't have the courage to elaborate beyond the insinuation. To be clear, it's not just silly old *me* that finds Dash to be a fraudulently instamined shitcoin of the scummiest magnitude. The criticisms of Dash are not all coming from me. I'm using external sources of expertise such as GMAX and PTOD. |
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I would prefer a fork of Dash without the instamine. dnet and others are out. These are fair(er) versions of dash. Looks for them. More will start to flow out soon I'm sure. Find the fairer clones and support them. Even dashers should realise a 0.001% stake in dash can buy you a 01% stake in the clones. Far better chance of big returns. Do they have a world-class dev team and a professional, devoted community? I'll stick with Dash. I know a winning team when I see one. Dash has a mere 28 contributors. If that's "world-class" then what are Bitcoin (325 contributors) and Monero (41)? Galaxy class?
Does Dash has a "world-class dev team?" No, it doesn't.A "world-class dev team" doesn't royally screw up a change to Litecoin's difficulty algorithm, then deploy it without testing, then refuse to relaunch with fair notice after fixing the instamine "bug." A "world-class dev team" wouldn't rip off CoinJoin, then refuse to talk to the creator of said technique about technical matters but insist on using his name for snake-oil marketing. A "world-class dev team" doesn't offer financial advice by make rosy price predictions based on TA tea leaves, nor would they promote Masternodes using claims of high yields for an unlicensed investment product. A "world-class dev team" wouldn't make a product that actual world-class devs GMAX and PTOD refer to as "bad crypto" and "broken." Of course there's no question the DashHole community of bagholders is devoted to a cult-like level, but that's more creepy, unsettling, and (paraphrasing GMAX) depressing about the general state of humanity than a feature. The most noticeable thing about DashHoles vs Bitcoiners (and especially Monero Mustangs) is they tend to lack a background in crypto and be more towards the low-information, socially constructed reality dwelling end of the spectrum, as opposed to the uber-nerd/power-geek/egghead/cypherpunk types you find being excited about esoteric concepts like ring signatures and 100% fungibility. Dash goes out of its way to pander to the dim-witted and/or lazy thinking of those who don't understand all the technical jargon and just want to believe in a brand that makes them feel safe, while still appealing to their sense of greed by promising (or at least implying) a Business Opportunity to Get Rich Quick. When we see such blatant fraud we are compelled to cry fraud, lest we also be frauds. I feel much hate in you. I'm sorry your efforts are not going to be appreciated. Only focusing on the negative leads to health problems, and you won't get me to go down that path. We have a 5000+ thread that documents all of the positive things Dash has done, and that's where I choose to focus. Thank you for bringing that list to us though, It proves that no one is perfect. What else you got? My token post was only a tiny subset of the things wrong with Dash. We can also discuss how a "world-class dev team" wouldn't use a crappy algo like X11, how lame and transparently self-serving Duffsplanations for the instamine are, how vertoe quit because of Dash's one-man dictatorship, etc. Then there's the ridiculous 24+ hour mixing times, the lack of sendmany, the failure to deliver promised Masternode blinding, the endless moving goalposts and complete lack of follow-though on previous commitments, the defense of Cryptsy, etc. And that's not all. I can do this all day; you DashHoles make it way too easy. Accusing me of "hate" isn't really the most effective way to deflect attention away from the myriad widespread criticisms of Dash's instamine, bad crypto, snake oil marketing, etc. But I understand your target audience is the low-info type you want to keep in the cargo cult, not high-info types who already know Dash is a fraudulent enterprise. |
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I think both MAID and ETH will lose volume because all the money is starting to go back to Bitcoin because at the end of the day everyone just wants more Bitcoin and doesn't care about any other alts, and the halving is near.
This doesn't mean those 2 coins will not go up in the future again tho.
MAID has ALREADY LOST most of the volume associated with last month's irrational exuberance. It's barely more liquid than boring old trash like Dash FFS.  That has yet to happen to ETH, which is still BY FAR the most liquid alt, with 25% of BTC's volume today and a similar figure everyday. Not everyone "just wants more Bitcoin." There are many sore losers who are butthurt about XT and Classic's complete failure that want to find a way to stay in crypto while punishing Core for being the winner of the Great Schism. There are also many pro-Core cyberpunks very excited about smart contracts running on a global supercomputer, as Szaboshi foretold in The Before Time (AKA The Long-Long Ago, IE the mid 90s). |
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Now a 100k sell wall can anyone tell me whats going on
Someone is trying to sell 100k XMR at 355k satoshi each. But but but wat does it all mean? Is it a sign? Is it time to buy/sell/trade/lend/short/panic? Shouldn't we lie down and put paper bags over our heads or something?  Someone is trying to sell 100k XMR at 355k satoshi each.
I hope you don't really believe that. THE WALL IS A LIE  |
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Oh look, here's one of the low-information cultist types I was just talking about.  *the more Dash Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities is attacked, the more you can be sure Dash Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities is winning *the more Dash Lehman Brothers is attacked, the more you can be sure Dash Lehman Brothers is winning *the more Dash Paycoin is attacked, the more you can be sure Dash Paycoin is winning *the more Dash Cryptsy is attacked, the more you can be sure Dash Cryptsy is winning See how that works? It's OK to be confused, since this is probably your first encounter with factual analysis using logic. |
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I would prefer a fork of Dash without the instamine. dnet and others are out. These are fair(er) versions of dash. Looks for them. More will start to flow out soon I'm sure. Find the fairer clones and support them. Even dashers should realise a 0.001% stake in dash can buy you a 01% stake in the clones. Far better chance of big returns. Do they have a world-class dev team and a professional, devoted community? I'll stick with Dash. I know a winning team when I see one. Dash has a mere 28 contributors. If that's "world-class" then what are Bitcoin (325 contributors) and Monero (41)? Galaxy class?
Does Dash has a "world-class dev team?" No, it doesn't.A "world-class dev team" doesn't royally screw up a change to Litecoin's difficulty algorithm, then deploy it without testing, then refuse to relaunch with fair notice after fixing the instamine "bug." A "world-class dev team" wouldn't rip off CoinJoin, then refuse to talk to the creator of said technique about technical matters but insist on using his name for snake-oil marketing. A "world-class dev team" doesn't offer financial advice by make rosy price predictions based on TA tea leaves, nor would they promote Masternodes using claims of high yields for an unlicensed investment product. A "world-class dev team" wouldn't make a product that actual world-class devs GMAX and PTOD refer to as "bad crypto" and "broken." Of course there's no question the DashHole community of bagholders is devoted to a cult-like level, but that's more creepy, unsettling, and (paraphrasing GMAX) depressing about the general state of humanity than a feature. The most noticeable thing about DashHoles vs Bitcoiners (and especially Monero Mustangs) is they tend to lack a background in crypto and be more towards the low-information, socially constructed reality dwelling end of the spectrum, as opposed to the uber-nerd/power-geek/egghead/cypherpunk types you find being excited about esoteric concepts like ring signatures and 100% fungibility. Dash goes out of its way to pander to the dim-witted and/or lazy thinking of those who don't understand all the technical jargon and just want to believe in a brand that makes them feel safe, while still appealing to their sense of greed by promising (or at least implying) a Business Opportunity to Get Rich Quick. When we see such blatant fraud we are compelled to cry fraud, lest we also be frauds. |
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The money in MAID is leaving to chase shiny new hype things. Moreso from Ethereum. How's Monero holding up? Unlike MAID's brief moment in the spotlight (which ended last month), ETH volume is still strong and steady. You must have missed my point about MAID volume leaving and not returning. On Polo, Monero volume is usually second only to ETH and the price is climbing steadily. Agreed...volume is actually a pretty important indicator. Given its heavy volume ETH may easily and rapidly recover from earlier losses and even set new highs. MAID will have much more trouble levitating on dwindling volume, especially since it costs basically nothing to borrow and short. |
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The money in MAID is leaving to chase shiny new hype things. Moreso from Ethereum. How's Monero holding up? Unlike MAID's brief moment in the spotlight (which ended last month), ETH volume is still strong and steady. You must have missed my point about MAID volume leaving and not returning. On Polo, Monero volume is usually second only to ETH and the price is climbing steadily. |
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Hi, I have noticed the recent declining price in maidsafe coin. Have lost some btc in this (only 0.3btc ish) but I'm hoping it will rise again. What do you guys think?
Last month, MAID was the flavor of the month. Now it's all about LISK, Monero, and good old-fashioned Bitcoin. Look at the 1 day volume zoomed out to last year. It came from nothing, enjoyed a brief pump, and is returning to nothing. Market cap is rushing out of MAID because there is no long-term store of value potential (we can always make fork MAID for free so it is not scarce). The money in MAID is leaving to chase shiny new hype things. The failures (pre-RUST codebase), delays (10 years) and disappointments (TCP for now, UDP someday) don't help either. |
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the same as Freebazaar
When Openbazaar is done, the Official Monero GUI will be released along with Freebazaar! Much timing! Very synergy! Openbazaar is ready but https://github.com/freebazaar seems dead. Time for a redo using the FFS? |
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3. Once the issue was recognized, the founder of the coin issued a fix within a few hours to adjust the difficulty more quickly than the algorithm included in the Litecoin code.
Appears they've just incriminated themselves, by admitting they didn't immediately halt the mining by informing the public and declaring a fork with a restart was forthcoming, but instead let the instamine run on for several hours. 4. The only two members of the development team at the time were Evan Duffield and InternetApe. InternetApe sold all his coins early on, and is no longer involved with the project. All other members of the current team joined later. InternetApe was able to accumulate 160K DASH over the first weeks of the project so that should provide an idea of the range a founding member was able to accumulate. So the launch issues and high rewards happened to everyone equally and there was no bad intention, just part of a young hobby project that later became a much more serious project.
How can Evan know that Kyle Hagan sold all his DRK unless Evan was controlling Kyle's mining equipment. Notice how Evan refused to disclose how many DRK he mined. He also doesn't disclose who Kyle sold his DRK to and for what price. Where were the rest of THE (non-profit, WTF!) DARKCOIN FOUNDATION, INC during the Day of The Instamine, and how many Masternodes did they fund with the proceeds? |
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More deceptive and misleading statements about the instamine that Dash continues to use to scam investors even now, this time an in "Official Communication". https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/display/OC/Dash+Instamine+Issue+ClarificationRepeats many of the unsupportable or false claims mentioned in the OP from the old Darkcoin FAQ such as coins being redistributed, the nature of the distribution, and where and how large holders obtained their coins. Omits critical information about key events surrounding the instamine such as the early launch and the deliberate withholding of development plans until after the instamine was complete. Also mischaracterizes the origin of the instamine coins as being the Litecoin difficulty adjustment algorithm which is absolutely false. Most of the "extra coins" came from the absurdly-high block rewards due to a "bug" (500 coins/block IIRC, roughly 285 times higher than now). If Dash had constant block rewards as did Litecoin (for four years), its instamine would have been very small, as Litecoin's was (in fact even smaller, since the Dash had a difficulty adjustments at 4x the frequency of Litecoin). [Duffplanations Intensify] How many coats of gloss is Duffield going to apply in his endless attempts to polish the instamine turd? Does he really think the intrinsic problems with instamines (compounded by Masternode Ponzi marketing) are resolved with hand-waving and probabilistic happy talk? Great catch on the miscaracterization of the instamine as somehow being "Lightcoin's fault." Since LTC has constant block rewards, the immensely profitable instamine fiasco is clearly the result of Evan's incompetence and/or malfeasance in implementing dynamic subsidies. "Oops, we accidentally 33% of all Dash that will ever exist. It was not intentional and is probably fine anyway. Please believe me and invest in a Masternode." -Evan Duffield, basically |
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445 BTC buy wall @XMR isnt this just confirmation were going to the moon Walls are not reliable. However, the individual who put it there has the capability to moon us if he so desires. Putting it close to market price is a new one... Yeah, that was a bit surprising. This is the most epic wall-based drama since the Battle for Castle Black!  |
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I will NEVER invest or do ANYTHING with respect to the troll-coin that iCEBREAKER continually talks about. iCEBREAKER is constantly spamming and trolling and several threads. I refuse to quote the troll-coin and nor should you.
I like the part where you deflect criticism of Maid's outdated design and failure to launch on schedule by shooting the messenger. We can't expect a noob like you to be aware of it, but I was speaking my mind before 99.99% of all altcoins existed and won't stop just to appease some whining pleb nobody. Don't forget to rage-dump all your BTC and rage-quit Bitcoin because I continually talk about block size, Satoshi, cypherpunks, etc. What's that? You were just blathering empty promises and forgot I've owned BTC since 2011, but are not actually willing to act on them? Yah, that's what I figured. It happens a lot, but the stupidity of LOLcows never gets old. The founder of Maidsafe wrote
In the coming weeks.® |
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There is a guy lending 40.000 XMR for 0.02% knowing polo could be hacked tomorrow, or the admin deciding to go scam
Isnt this just plain stupidity ?
It might be plain stupidity, but remember banks and other loan sharks often rope in suckers by using an introductory "teaser" rate, because they may count on people getting in over their heads being forced into much higher "balloon" payments. Same principle as the crack/smack dealer. First hit is free, because they know you'll be back for more and willing to pay anything. Or there may be a whale that wants to add 40k XMR to their stack without moving the market up, so BullWhale offers that many for shorters, fulling intending to buy them back as they dump (possibly triggering stops and margin calls for an ever better deal). Rates down to central banker levels (0.0013%). NIRP on the horizon! Lending demand seems very inelastic w/r/t price, in that when there is no demand it doesn't matter how cheap you offer loans and when demand is high borrowers aren't sensitive about rates (probably because they intend to close them in a few hours or at most days). |
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There is a guy lending 40.000 XMR for 0.02% knowing polo could be hacked tomorrow, or the admin deciding to go scam
Isnt this just plain stupidity ?
It might be plain stupidity, but remember banks and other loan sharks often rope in suckers by using an introductory "teaser" rate, because they may count on people getting in over their heads being forced into much higher "balloon" payments. Same principle as the crack/smack dealer. First hit is free, because they know you'll be back for more and willing to pay anything. Or there may be a whale that wants to add 40k XMR to their stack without moving the market up, so BullWhale offers that many for shorters, fulling intending to buy them back as they dump (possibly triggering stops and margin calls for an ever better deal). |
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