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Paleus

-- Add coin mixing techniques too!  SharedCoin (similar to CoinJoin I believe) and bitmixer.io (both tecniques work well for me) appear to use different algorithms...  I would be interested to learn more.

-- As well as TOR and VPNs and other ways to get more anonymous.

-- Perhaps BTC-related basic programming for small businesses, etc.

Yes, I would really like to have such courses explained in language simple enough for someone with a basic knowledge of math & statistics (sophomore college level say).  

Epileptic curves?  (Sorry, too fat and slow a pitch to ignore)    Peace!

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Paleus

I concur that $100 is probably too much.  Price would also have to reflect quality, part of your reputation would depend on word-of-mouth reviews...

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bitmixer.io did its job yet again for me less than 24 hours ago.  I've used them many times.  Their dependability (and their impressive payment signature robot) are why I advertise for them.

They have a TOR version (which I have not used, don't know how to use TOR), you can find it at their website.

It mystifies me why so many don't read before they mix.......

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neurotypical (and members likely to comment below)

IMO, Puerto Rico is just the first of many other high-profile cases to DEFAULT.  We will see it more and more.  Eventually it wil even make the news.

It's not just Detroit, California cities, Cyprus and Greece anymore.

Lots of defaults coming, one way or another:

-- Puerto Rico style defaults

-- "Debt Jubilees" may come back, these have been around for millennia

-- Continued borrowing until the very end: more default

-- Hyperinflation

It's almost always one or the more above in resolving debts too high to pay in real terms.

Would The Philippines respect your sovereignty if someone bought one of the islands on the "margin" (remote)?  Bet they would not, bet they would not respect UN rulez (technicalitiez) re "stateless people".

Only 56 people?  It's not Nauru (my first guess, 10,000 there (Wikipedia)).

Ahh, got it.  Pitcairn.   I wonder how much they would want (and we pay them to leave)?  It is (story link below) a British Overseas Territory, so might not be for sale.  Would guess NOT.

Here's a story with pictures for the readers of this thread on Pitcairn, no one wants to move there (wiki also has an article):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/pitcairnislands/11418280/Why-will-nobody-move-to-Pitcairn-the-Pacific-island-with-free-land.html

Looks kind of nice actually...

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OK, 10-4, rgr that.

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-- No, my computers are not secure.

-- I hear you re travel when you are not optimal, even more so when delicate (well, sort of delicate).

-- Cannot make a good comment.

-- Correct, I would not understand most of it.  But, I know people who would.

-- Hear you re man-hours.  How interesting that no Filipinos will work like dogs, a la some American guys sleeping under desks.


My best wishes are still with you.

Loopholes and other shit won't work in Peru.  And at Casey's Ranch near Cafayete, Argentina, as soon as anything gets rockin' & rollin' there, the .gov will come in and ruin it.

And if one government leaves such a "independent country" (on UN legal technicalities, ah...), the next one Socialist one will undo it, confiscate what they wish, and boot out (or jail) troublemakers.

The UN and its rulez don't mean squat.  North Korea.  Or even look at Venezuela, you think Maduro would leave a wealthy enclave of producers alone?  No way.  No way other countries would recognize such a revolutionary idea as an independent group of high-producers...


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The way I see it, you would have to buy a WHOLE ISLAND NATION, all of it, and bribe the (ex-)sovereigns from then to infinity...

EDIT 2:

"Again my point is they can't take away the land you own, so what can they do to deny your claim of sovereignty?"

Land you own?  We don't even have secure land ownership rights in the USA.  Sovereign countries will do as they please.

Those are the famous marked stones in Georgia I have read about?  Sort-of Al Gore's wet-dream?

I wonder if I would get into any trouble if I took a sledgehammer to them next time I am around there.  Libtards would likely throw me in jail.



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TPTB

OK, I have a better handle on your situation and views.  There is nothing I can do, other than wish you the very best.  Good luck, mate.

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There was a group, some 20 - 25 years ago, who planned to try and buy some land in S America (not Peru, although it was in the running -- Fujimori) AND negotiate with the host government to allow them to have independence.

One of the major incentives the group was trying to offer was that they would let locals from the host country work there (and of course the investors/migrants buy the land).

It seemed like an OK plan, it was detailed, they were raising funds.  But, to my knowledge, it went nowhere.

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My guess is that local sovereign countries will NEVER allow an independent state coming from "their" country.

And, as far as I know, there is NO unclaimed land in the world, every island is claimed.

Let me know if I am wrong.

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mookid

I see "SOS Venezuela" written on cars sometimes here (USA).

Chavez & Maduro have shown how to destroy a country with HUGE oil reserves.

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Your comments on how BITCOIN is catching on down in Venezuela would be of interest!  Argentina is in that game.

Bwa ha ha!

I have only visited Japan twice but feel the same way.  Japan is about the most idiosyncratic place on the planet.  I felt like I was on Starship Vulcan at times...

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TPTB

I am *guessing* that the programming and math talent you need will not be easily found here.  Most talented people are already likely to be employed or otherwise BUSY doing their thing, as you are busy.

Which brings me to my next point.  I would think that in a country of over 50,000,000 population that you could find WHATEVER talent you needed to.  Perhaps at the top university's Computer Science Department?  Mathematics Department?  Or collaboration with any BTC-related companies already there.

Ahh, but you will need some Old Fashioned Money to do this...  Do NOT discount our Current Age.  The Knowledge Age is not yet a done deal IMO.  Nor even a NWO.  Nor even a BAD 2015.75.

Nothing is a done deal.  The future is hard to predict.  Do not lock yourself into a paradigm that might not work out...

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You said that you would not / might not need MONEY.  You will.  And all of us Current Agers will need to see something Real.  And intelligible.  And lucrative.

Money is available!  rpietila just wrote that !!

Hell, rpietila might even loan you a room (dungeon, ha ha) in his castle in Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia just for you and your team to work in!  (Guys, I am just Making This Up for illustration purposes -- I do not expect rpietila to host TPTB's company, it's an EXAMPLE).

My point is, that if you play the game correctly (and that is a psychological decision you must make), then $$$ and TALENT are available.  But, you have to make it so.

You would likely need $50,000 (again, just MSU...) to hire competent guys there in the Philippines (or Lithuania, whatever).  SO DOUBLE that (because almost always costs are underestimated).  $100k.  And you would get the best that the Philippines has to offer (I guess).

No one wants to steal your code.  No one here anyway.  We don't want to code anyway (well, maybe some here do).  A well-structured company could ensure that what properly belongs to you would stay with you.

But, you have to play ball.  At least, that's the way I see it.  Teams are powerful and can get stuff done.  We did not build our bearing company in Peru just through my efforts and funding (hah).  Nor did the DOCTOR who started his software company (that I mentioned in my last comment above) make the BULK of the total money made when ALL the investors decided to cash-out selling to the BIG company for a lot of money.  How much?  Deutsche Bank was "our" adviser.  Goldman Sachs was "theirs".

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If the Big Bad NSA is as big & bad as you (maybe me) believe, then they already know all about you.  BitMessage, etc. is not going to help.  You are already well known, you have "doxxed" yourself already.

The "other" (bad) PTB may not be as omnipotent (now anyway) as you fear.

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There are MANY other places than bitcointalk to look at for raising money.  Your ex-friends at Apple (I did note that one may not be interested anymore).  But, you see my point.  You already (probably) know who you need to know!

If not, you can always offer to arrange a meeting between various interested parties.  On someone else's turf (probably).

Email / PM us enough to chew on (make it intelligible).  Then offer to meet me, rpietila, etc. in San Francisco or something.  

[EDIT: a meeting in person somewhere could relieve you of anxieties that NSA or competitors would steal your intellectual property]

You are the one asking for resources.  So far, I (and I will not speak for others) do not see a probable TEOTWAWKI just yet, though anything can happen.

I believe it was generalizethis or smooth who mentioned that as the Knowledge Age is not here yet, you have to operate under current conditions (or approximately that, sorry to misinterpret anything you two wrote).

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The above is offered in a spirit of friendship and goodwill.  And, of course, just one man's opinion.

Compromise with others may be the biggest logjam you now face.  (Note: I am not a Team Player, never have been good at playing with others in offices wearing a suit, etc.).

Pro Tip: Using your valuable time and brain-power on PHILOSOPHY here at bitcointalk is NOT your highest and best use.  Again, just my opinion, and offered in a spirit of friendship and goodwill.


Mangling Linus Torvalds:

"Show us a Business Plan!"

"Show us that you mean business."



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ALL that I have written here (and likely I would speak for at least some others) shows that we already respect your intellect and have enough interest and empathy to wish you well!

Also, enough interest to be part of a possible revolution!  All of us know that important revolutions do not happen very frequently.  

You want to lead a revolution?  Then play ball!

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Well, Karpeles is not going to like his experience in the Japanese prisons if he is found guilty.

He should have thought about the consequences of breaking Japanese law...

Funny thing is, that Karpeles could have made a lot of money just by running an honest operation.  

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There's an argument, that I have seen explored a little at Zero Hedge, that printing money would be better than taxation.

This is an exotic argument that I have not had a chance nor even the ability (yet) to properly wrap my brain around with it.

A first thought:

Eliminating taxation, of course, would likely anger the poor (they pay low taxes, except various consumption taxes).  Envy and resentment would likely prevent this idea of eliminating taxation altogether.

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I am already convinced that gold ought not be linked to currency (that is, no "Gold Standard").  A Gold Standard would function poorly IMO.  Gold's best and highest value use is as a Store of Value.

Gold <> Money in that sense.  Most define money as roughly filling three roles: Unit of Account, Medium of Exchange, and Store of Value.  But, we are perhaps soon at the point of monetary failure, the US$ will not (cannot) fulfill those three roles of "money".

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TPTB

Please see my comment #707 "Economic Totalitarianism" in which I reply in more detail to your plight re financial help.

I invite any others to read it as well.


(TL;DR version for this comment):

"You will have to offer easy understanding, a clearly unique lucrative technology and very attractive terms to any Angel Investors."

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TPTB wrote re his recent work (blue):

"As many know from my posts in the Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP thread, I claim to have invented a very different form of decentralized consensus network algorithm which employs proof-of-work and a block chain, but which does not have the scaling nor centralization issues of Satoshi's design.

I have recently also invented new math which is superior to both Cryptonote and Blockstream's Confidential Transactions.

I have made also numerous other innovations on crypto-currency design.

I even explained that I would be able to show it is possible to launch a coin by ICO and prove mathematically that the controlling group could not own more than x% of the total coin supply.

You'd think with such designs at-hand, that I would be ecstatic and optimistic. The reason I've been somewhat dismissive about my capabilities lately, is because I nearly wasted the entire past 6 weeks trying to locate a mathematician (with strong interest or knowledge in discrete math and especially applicability to Berstein's EdDSA) who would work with me to peer review my work and also a programmer to help me implement. I am a programmer, but it just seems impractical to try to implement something of such complexity all by oneself.

I had commitments for angel investment (i.e. a controlling group was taking form) in order to hire the help, but I couldn't find anyone who is qualified that is both interested and willing to follow a few basic computer security policies. Even some of the potential angel investors (e.g. rpietila) are unwilling to institute basic computer security policies with my assistance, so it as if no one really gives a fuck about what is happening to the world.

I had one junior-level programmer express interest to work with me and he had some experience coding a block chain explorer in the past, but he refused to learn any new programming language and only is available in Javascript. I eat programming languages for breakfast. One has to wonder how someone with such myopia could really grasp the math and wide range aptitude required. So I respectfully declined.

I am dismayed. My inventions are real and could potentially save the planet, yet no one is helping."


Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists, and similar require details, and in a manner they can understand, or at least that people they know can understand.  "These guys hold the whip hand."  

I have seen this, but not participated directly myself, I was a beneficiary to a small degree and watched the process from start to finish (sale of a start-up small & specialized software company to a big company).  The FOUNDER of that small company did NOT make most of the money, he made a LOT, but more of the gains went to various investment companies and "Family Offices".

The money is out there when you can prove what you have is unique and will make LOTS of people a LOT of money for such high risks (and a complicated program taking on various entrenched parties is high risk, please do not fool yourself, this would be seen by me and everyone as high risk).

rpietila seems to be the one who might know the most about what you are up to.  You may have to humble yourself, approach him again, and offer better terms and more details that he can check out among his own network.  [Of course I have no idea what your relationship proposals were like before.]

If you get ONE rich & smart guy on-board, you will find others.  But, you will have to share the gains, and let them run at least some things should they choose.  You land the money (via a good Business Plan, etc.), you will find programmers, even there in The Philippines.  You are the one seeking money, you are the one who has to convince the CAPITALISTS to pony up...  Prove you have something and that other participants would understand what you are doing and would share the gains, you could probably raise $100,000 + before long.

I know that's not the kind of thing that revolutionaries want to hear, but that's the way it works in my very limited experience.

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TPTB

I don't what it is, but I have seen similar ads/spammo like that.

Usually I find that at the end of such long & involved pitches (without the important info), I find someone asking for money...  And such ads/spammo seem to lead to low value.

But, if you find out what's better than Au or Ag, let us know!  LOL.  


EDIT: Hyperinflation usually does NOT lead to people using silver as currency.  PERU went through a bad hyperinflation in the 1980s, they used local currency and US$ (both).  The local stuff they spent FAST!

herzmeister

Yes, we see that 80/20 Rule in so many places...  Including in our own business.  In fact, we are a bit MORE highly skewed, we are closer to 85/15 (both in our products and our customers).  15% of our customers buy 85% of our bearings.  15% of our items account for 85% of our sales.

Although published in 1998, this book is the best description that I have read of the 80/20 Rule, highly recommended:

Koch, Richard, The 80/20 Principle (1998), Doubleday

The book apparently was published first in the UK by Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

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I have not seen Armstrong cover that, but 80/20 is everywhere.....

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SMTFC! 

Actually, don't, there is NO WAY I would understand it... 

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I understand your problem trying to break through all of his clutter, he is running a business, and high-intellect discussions are probably beyond his time and brain-energy (word?) constraints.

Still, if he were REALLY SMART, he would (should) have someone on his team checking exactly the kinds of matters that you raise.

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Girls, girls, please...  Take it to another thread...  "The rest of us" will thank you.  Perhaps the "How Many Angels?" one...  

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TPTB

Your nestmann link taught me something I did not know but makes perfect sense (blue from the link):

One anonymous ex-IRS attorney says:

Almost every large firm or corporation has a person inside the IRS. It’s a revolving door, with the top two or three management layers all from big accounting and law firms, and this is why they won’t work big billion-dollar cases criminally. Private bar attorneys are, in effect, controlling the IRS. It’s a type of corruption – that’s the word used by one IRS agent I’m in touch with whose case was shut down by higher ups without cause.

THAT makes perfect sense.  Companies with their own good ol boyz inside the machine.

TPTB's link from before (and source of above snip):

http://www.nestmann.com/why-the-irs-goes-after-the-minnows-and-ignores-the-whales#.VbxLLPlVhHw