I agree it is discriminatory. However, a lot of voices ask for newbie jail and such.
Also, we all know how many lower rank users are created only for spam or scam.

And.. there are plenty of high rank users that can help out the honest newbie in such cases. There default trust members that actually do that currently.

It may not be the best way, but as you said it nicely: it will decentralize the trust system.

Actually it's a VERY GOOD idea.
People will learn to look and check all the feedback and decide which deserves to be taken into account and which not.


Maybe, just maybe only Higher ranked ones (Member+? Sr+?) should give trust feedback at all, to avoid too many accounts made or bought to "take down" somebody's trust.

If you have an older/upgraded Dropbox account, it could do the trick. Or more dropbox account and 2-3GB archives...
Or you can search for another cloud storage.

I know that Dropbox and Tresorit offer the option to share links to files or folders and this should solve the storage issue.
But the default free accounts are rather small....

I think that Google Drive has 15GB for start, but I don't know if they offer "link" feature.
However, you could research a little on this direction...

OK, I can confirm, payment received, thanks.

Well, one can always mine the most profitable coin, sell it and buy Monero.
I actually do that.

The translation is done for almost one week and I still didn't get neither the payment, neither a word about it.
Maybe you guys do work hard, but while you were online a good couple of times, you could have at least say something...

The one second block "proposal" was an over-sarcastic answer to my post telling that quicker blocks may be good in the future.
Even if it's not an issue now, we still expect the network to grow, so maybe 1 minute is indeed to small. Better have a big margin there.

The benefit vs the risks on changing the protocol is indeed small now. But I think that the proposal to discuss this is good.
Because from such discussions, especially if they are constructive, we can gather a couple of good changes which, together, may make sense done all together (the benefit bigger than the risks).
And mho is that at some point Bitcoin will need a big change (fork).

Currently the "conservative" members are very strong - some with good arguments (which I respect), some not - and give the impression that Bitcoin is afraid of changes. Which is also not good. Because somebody that wants to invest for long time in Bitcoin would like to see that, with good reasons, Bitcoin will do all it takes, even a fork, to stay the best crypto coin.
Right now that doesn't seem to happen. At least that's my feeling.

Of course, it doesn't count much, because I am just a tiny bitcoiner, but how about the bigger ones? How about the ones to come? Selling needs good product and good strategy too.

This is a nice and utopic view, but I think that this is not possible with current terms (algo not changing).
Let's say that the businesses shut down and the home miner will continue mining (for fun, for believing in Bitcoin etc.)

What stops one of the big miners in, let's say, 3 months after shutdown to fire up all the miners and do a 51% attack?
Even thinking on that is scary. It would be the end of bitcoin reign, really.

It was by special request from many users to put those boards together, exactly because they filled up (with crap) the whole Gaming board.
Also, this way you can easily set in your profile to not see that area anymore, which you just reminded me to do 

While spending money will reward miners, miners will indeed stay and secure the network.

But just think that halving is not that far away, the transactions fees are not that big to cover the difference and bitcoin price on the exchanges is much smaller than the miners would like.
If too many miners will shut down the operations, the network may have hard times from the security point of view (Just imagine the scenario when 50-60% of the hashrate will come from 2 mining facilities in China. What if they join up for a huge double spend?)

And here 21 Inc comes and may have a good chance to fill the gap.


Also, 21 Inc is not Red Cross. No. They do it for profit. Their devices will mine in your home, you'll pay for the power costs and will get back some pennies (which may just cover the power cost, or may not even cover it after the halving).

There's MyMonero, there's MoneroX (where you can set remote daemon)... keeping big amounts of money on exchange is plain stupid and history already showed that a good couple of times.
A lot of exchanges were hacked, can you be so sure that Polo will not be the next in line?

If this is indeed correct, then this is the smartest answer I've seen from the "conservative" part.

You may be right here, I am always mixed which is which between CryptoNote and CryptoNight.
Sorry about the confusion. Indeed, the names are very badly chosen.

Then they are Block Erupters: http://www.amazon.com/ASICMiner-Block-Erupter-USB-Sapphire/dp/B00CUJT7TO

The fact that I don't know all the details doesn't mean that others cannot research on this direction, which I think it deserves quite some attention.
However, at least I tried to say something...



It's very hard to revert such process. Especially as the global warming is only accelerated by humans, not created by us.
Earth has a lot of periods of cold, warm, hot, and cold again. At some point this "global warming" will end and another ice age will start.
Hopefully then mankind will be much smarter than now...

One of the classics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYxlKbe0WZY

My advice is to place your kingdom deep inside a continent, else, with the sea level rising, you may lose it.
Now let's find a country that would sell you land for this project....

At some point yahoo mail had a "seal", some words and color you personally set and it's displayed.
That was imho a great way to prevent n00bs to get scammed / lose account.
Maybe this would be needed?
However giving up a great service just because some users are not smart enough or at least not careful enough is not OK.



Now a question, maybe not related: I always see Armory and Electrum as first choices after Core. Is MultiBit bad or flawed? Am I missing something obvious?

Also the massive amount of unsalted water may change the oceanic currents, which translates into severe weather conditions.
But yeah, if we'd REALLY care about this then we would stop sleeping and would start running around screaming. And we don't.

Magi ANN post tells:
M7M is based on the M7 PoW algorithm introduced by XCN.
So I'd say they are not that different.


This is interesting. Thanks for sharing.