are you willing to escrow?

I think that speed is important for smaller transactions, whereas larger one's security is important. To be fair, your point about XRP is a very valid one (single point of failure as well, notice i mentioned something like NEM or Ripple, but not necessarily those two), ripples problem is a problem than NEM does not have as much (it uses a consensus mechanism called proof of importance which I find better in my own judgment than PoW or PoS, though PoW is better than many of the other options out there. If you are buying coffee with your Bitcoin, waiting for it to confirm would be tedious, same as if you were at a checkout. For larger purchases, like an expensive laptop, house, your monthly rent, etc security/decentralization wins hands down. If you wanted one cryptocurrency to do all those things, a delicate balance needs to be struck. The lightning network, if made easier for the average joe would solve the problem of coffee payments being slow, and the blockchain would be the settlement layer I described.

Crypto is still young, there is so much potential, but where and how it goes is as yet, unknown. It is interesting. I won't ever pour my life savings into it, but I have invested a small amount, as I think it has potential in the long-term to be a game changer.

I do think it is the AOL of crypto in some ways. The problem is, all the public saw when they got a taste of it during the last bull run was high fees, slow transactions, community instability, and bickering, and then went back to their debit cards and day to day lives, I know plenty who found this to be the case. In terms of the public eye, it blew any chance of a mainstream adoption in the near future, though this may change in the long term. The lightning network is too complex for the average joe for now. I was getting paid in BTC for work, now I don't as they have rolled back their support of Bitcoin due to the volatility and the fork. So what I have seen is merchants actually stopping acceptance, not starting.

I think it has a chance at becoming a settlement layer or store of value, so will be a digital store of value rather than digital cash. I think something like NEM or Ripple is best placed for the digital cash front. Bitcoin has the advantage that it was the first.

This is coming from someone who has been in BTC for the long term. Does it have a future? yes. But there needs to be some radical changes and time needs to elapse. If like me you have any holding of Bitcoin, it is a long-term not a short-term investment. The 'get rich quick' days are over.

Crypto has solved the permissionless problem and is a trustless system by design, stopping monopolies like paypal and giving you control over your wealth, but it has not solved the problem of people getting greedy, nor of people trying to scam people out of coins. Only humans can fix that, not an invention.

I am careful with my bitcoin keys, but I always lose my socks. Still, I am tempted to buy a pair.

I am looking for an antrouter R1, BTC. I would like one so i can point it to CKs solo pool as another lotto miner.

Unless you were on a pool and noticed you were 'down on your luck' for an insane amount of time, you would not notice and even so could never be conclusively proven either. Sneaky...

Has there been any known cases with MRR or NH?

Thanks for this pool, by the way. I notice that the way you have it set up for insanely fast block changes and the code quality is why I will keep my small miners here. I also saw you paid out a block that was missed due to a fault with this pool a while back, I wouldn't solo mine anywhere else, not even on my own node as this seems the most trustworthy place to put my miners knowing that if I found a block it only has a low chance of getting orphaned... Well worth the fee that is deducted from the found block.

I have an odd question, what is to stop mining rental services from withholding difficulty solving shares? To keep you renting?

Ill just get out my crystal ball for you. I am seeing... A volatile situation. People are volatile, crypto is volatile. I am then seeing black. I cannot see further.

Invest wisely!

I love Singapore. This is great news. Shows adoption is increasing all the while.

I threw a small 20T rental at it, still going.

I partially hope someone with a block erupter solves it hahaha

Does this pool still pay the transaction fees from mined blocks?

This block is like a stubborn nut. Someone needs to take a 100P+ hammer to it! To find some soul with an S3 or Compac Stick will solve it.

Would you escrow? I bet not!

Anyone who wishes to send coins to this guy should probably go to www.bittoilet.com instead, cause both will end the same, you parted from your money.

Nepal. Make local friends there before you go. Consider something like a home stay like himanshu homestay. I have friends i met through them AND some friends from ilam and I have spent time with them, talk to them weekly now. A place where kids can wander their local town with no risk of harm, a place where you can walk around at night in most places outside of kathmandu and even in some areas of kathmandu.

Nepalese are very spiritual, and Nepal is probably for me one of the ultimate destinations that will thrash the pants off of any mainstream tourist destination, especially when you have made local friends.

Very third world, but has a soul.

You will know when you meet a soul who is that on your wavelength. You may have more than one potential 'soul mate' depending on how many of your soul group came into incarnation together. If you have a pre-incarnative plan to be with someone in love or if it is otherwise destined, you will know when you meet them. Even the Veils that come down during life do not block out that aspect!

I do not think money is the root of all evil, but greed for money is evil.

I doubt it. There comes a point when the soul becomes ready to leave. You can artificially extend life, preventing your physical vehicle from ceasing viability, but ultimately you would delay the inevitable. You may become mentally weary, unable to process much.

The body ceasing viability is part of this grand illusion that we call life, part of the process, the process of the curtains on the stage closing, when you go backstage.

You could offer me £1 billion to become immortal, and I wouldn't do it.

Both life and death are part of living here. Your life here is a but a camera flash in the big picture, the picture you become able to see once you exit this world.

To be kind to others, not judge or demean others.