The wildly disparate opinions in this thread are hilarious. Perfect microcosm of Bitcointalk in general.

Can't blame Kelly for not posting here, though. He's dammed if he does, dammed if he doesn't.

Guess we'll see what happens next month.

Yeah, it's a real problem and it's very widespread. I had the fortune of studying material on the human mind (NLP and related topics) from some very good teachers who explained the "4 levels" concept to me back in the late 90s and early 2000s.  With this perspective I couldn't help notice that most computer challenged were being taught by people who either didn't know how to teach but were good at technology, or sometimes people who weren't really good at either. 

The result was about what you'd expect if a driving instructor got in a car with a brand new student who'd never driven a car before and said "OK, drive down the highway to exit 30, turn right on Main, drive three blocks and it's the first building on the right."  Those level instructions would work great for an experienced driver, but a newbie is thinking at a level of "where should my hands go?" "How much do I turn the wheel?" "How much do I press the pedal, which pedal is which?" etc. 

So I resolved to make my lessons accessible to basically anyone - it means I go into more detail than more advanced students want to hear, but it's the way to make sure nobody is left behind. Anyway, happy to help; talk to you about it later.

Maybe I can help.  I teach computers and technology to non-technical students for a living, and have for years.

Like you said in the link, it's difficult for people who are good at something to explain it to those who are not.  Once you reach the unconscious competency level, it can be extremely difficult to explain to someone still in the unconscious competency or conscious competency level.  See this video I posted to YouTube back in 2008:   https://youtu.be/c_jvC2BCZ9M?t=2m48s     (please excuse the video quality; one of my oldest recordings)

So what are you trying to cover? I may already have some of it covered in my existing cryptocurrency course material, or can record new lessons. Paper wallets for example have been on my to-do list.  Let me know.

They're already planning to have multiple giveaways.  Gabe posted about it close to two weeks ago when Bitcointalk was down:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitSeeds/comments/36vjps/future_plans_bct_is_down_so_well_be_posting_here/


I have to take partial responsibility for the radio silence. I spoke with Gabe on the phone last month about some plans we're working on together including multiple giveaways. I had some info I needed to post relating to it, but was delayed due to some technical problems and a couple of unrelated issues that held up my production schedule.  Anyway, check the link above. 

If Gabe ends up not posting here much in the future, I'll pick up some of the slack and pass on what info I have to keep things updated. 

You have 14 posts total, 10 of which are in this thread repeating the same thing. That is what's being pointed out.

Alexandria allows for direct publishing of media to an audience without censorship through DMCA takedown or beause the company in control of the platform dislikes the content. It gives the potential for direct revenue for content creators in an environment that has made it increasingly difficult for musicians and other creative people to make money from their work. It allows for the archiving of information in a decentralized fashion to prevent "data loss" like the original Library of Alexandria. 

You have been given multiple explanations and links to more info. The potential seems obvious to me, and has for the better part of a year. If you don't get it, you don't get it.

Yeah, I haven't had a chance to watch the full video but watched the section where BK said he'd hand over the keys to NAUT to Greece and/or a local community. IMO, any currency that is officially adopted by a real-world community, let alone potentially an entire country, will have a huge increase in perceived value and the price should follow.  

I don't see this as a negative.

Efficiency is very important in this context (although it doesn't seem like you're using the word efficiency the same way I am).

When you're talking about embedding chips in a wide range of consumer devices from larger household items to mobile devices and even their chargers, you need to do so in a way that is going to be seen as a benefit to the hardware manufacturers who will incorporate the chips into their devices -- and at the same time have it either be invisible to the end user, or be seen as a benefit to them. 

In in most cases this will be a lot more difficult to do if the devices generate noticeably more heat and use a lot more electricity, so anything that can improve this will make it an easier sell.

Yes, you can manufacture more efficient ASIC hardware for SHA-256, but you could also use the same manufacturing techniques to make ASICs designed for a more efficient algorythm and get the same hashrates, but for much less electricity/battery use and at a lower temperature.

A competing startup could potentially challenge 21 just by using a different algo and win more manufacturing partners who don't want to lower the Energy Star ratings of their appliances; or partners who want to sell super light, thin, and quiet (no fan) laptops with long battery life; phone & tablet manufacturers; etc.

There may be more efficient algos than Blake-256 - I'm using it as an example because I've mined a little with it and the white paper mentions the design being specifically suited for lightweight environments.

Here's the white paper:  https://131002.net/blake/blake.pdf

I find the 21 Dot Co. plans to be interesting and potentially pretty exciting. Speaking of efficiency though, I can't help but wonder if this could be achieved more effectively with a different algo like Blake256 which, to my understanding, is vastly more efficient than SHA256. 

Obviously that would require using an altcoin instead of bitcoin, and I know this tends to be a very bitcoin-only thread, so don't run me out of town on a rail as a heretic for asking. 

Everything I've seen you say about Alexandria seems to be based on the idea that its purpose is to do something like replace the Pirate Bay. It can be used that way, but that's more of a "bonus feature" than the intended use case.  Here's a new video interview that might help you understand it better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzG7i-eThnw

I've been aware of the project for something like a year now, and I personally accumulated FLO through both mining and buying it up in small amounts gradually over the last 10-12 months.  I did this because I saw the potential in the project for guarding against censorship and rewriting of history, as well as the potential for content producers (like myself as an educator, or like my brother who is a musician) to publish and monetize their content directly to an audience.

I'm not the only person who did this.  

I also know that a lot of people in the #Coinmarkets IRC channel bought up a ton of it right before it went onto Bittrex, and a bunch who grabbed it right afterwards. So that may account for what you're interpreting as the devs trying to engineer a pump.  

The project is not a finished product yet, but it is a real thing; I was invited into the private alpha a few weeks ago and have used it and have it installed on the computer I'm typing this on.

Wait... Someone deliberately misunderstanding a 15 year old slogan from Apple as if it ever meant "it's infallible?" How can this be possible?   

Yeah, an updated Mac client would be nice.

Awesome. It's nice to be able to stake without booting a VM. My iMac is running cooler already.

Checking Bittrex's status page, it looks like their Bitseeds wallet is finally working, too. 

I'm going to put on my conspiracy theory hat and wonder if the weird delay in the updated wallets has anything to do with Blockstream's now-overdue* federated sidechains which is supposed to be implemented in UNO. Doesn't make much sense to me that MM has been planned for block 600K for weeks, yet no wallets were prepared; waiting for Blockstream might make sense.





*here's why I say overdue: https://youtu.be/jE_elgnIw3M?t=1h29m59s

Going on now...

I've got a good chunk of the existing coins, have been staking every day, am right now, and I'll continue to.  

There's an update coming soon. Just temporarily avoid sending funds as a precaution until you install the new version.

My Dad will be 86 in weeks and he holds some Bitcoin. Yes, I took care of the technical stuff, but he's enthusiastic about it and calls me up to tell me about what he read about it in the Times. 

Trying to figure out why you would do this, even if you apparently almost never use Bitcoin. 

I couldn't help myself and bought 4 more just a few blocks before it it 600,000

Guys, give him a chance to do what he's working on. It sounds like he's in the midst of negotiations with another business and typically in that situation would not be able to disclose details, and the timeline for these things can change and be hard to predict.

I very much doubt he's had any real ROI from Nautiluscoin yet and the amount he's looking for is only going to happen with a major deal. You don't have to trust him personally to trust that he's going to want to turn a profit and so is not likely to walk away from it -- but is equally unlikely to want to promote it before it's ready.