Sure but just so you know its pretty out dated now. Now it uses things like hash chains. At the time though I really do think it had a big impact on the price. You have to consider nxt was so young and no one had any idea how it worked or if they could trust it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E_ToOMG2l1XThx6YnyXEajXaf6H1k2yjq8XkAF0ScB4/edit?usp=sharing

This essay idea is much better though. It would bring together a lot of ideas I've been working on for years. Ill just say this. When people talk about their dishwasher being able to purchase excess power from the neighbors solar panel, that is good and well and all, but think it misses the much bigger picture.

Don't forget to check the change returns in vending machines.

Of course. That's always a good indicator if you are long.

Any whales who want to sponsor me to write an essay for IOTA similar to the one I wrote early on for NXT?

I think many early investigators found the software unapproachable and so quickly lost interest. We have no GUI yet still to this day. So that stopped any innitial momentum it might have gained dead in its tracks. Since then we have had to slowly build a different sort of community. One not based on currency swing trading opportunists. That has been a slower grind than if we had had those sorts of people in the community all along. But perhaps that carries its own sort of long term benefit, or is at-least indicative of a different tack this project has taken compared to other projects.

Many of you may be aware of the Nostalrius debacle. For those of you who aren't allow me to summarize.

The story:

Nostalrius was the largest, most popular and most respected vanilla wow private server of all time. It became so popular that Blizzard threatened them with legal action and forced the devs to shutter the project. So many people were enraged and heart broken that it turned into a PR shitstorm. Hundreds of thousands of people lost countless hours of time investment. The characters were never recovered.

The problem:

The community is afraid to commit to a new sever because they are afraid it will just happen over and over again. Now you think, why not just switch to a new server. The obvious answer is you would be lv 1 again. So why not just make a server where everyone is level cap right away? Well you could do that but it would rob the game of so much of its soul. The leveling and gearing process segregates the community in a way that is healthy and good.

The solution in a nut shell:

Private servers will periodically publish a database containing all of the character data (probably 10gb or less for a million users) for all of their users while simultaneously publishing a hash of that data on the blockchain. Servers that all play by the same rules and trust each other can federate and the same character could be accessed on any server that was a member of the federation. Your character would "live" on the blockchain, so to speak, making it censorship resistant. Blizzard could censor any server they wanted but they would only ever be hacking at the branches while the roots (our characters and their progress and achievements) are as timeless and immutable as the blockchain they live on.

The technical specifics:

Too be added tomorrow. It is getting late.

You are quickly becoming my favorite person on this forum

Thread made.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1611808

And my first comment is directed at you owl.

Well anyway free speech, its meaning, and purpose, are super interesting topics that I would love to talk about. But it just feels... wrong... here. That's why we should have an off topic thread.

Racism? Are you insane. I don't have anything against the jewish race or religion. I'm talking about one of their most amiable traits... Frugality... And dont even tell me stereotypes don't result from generally true observation, that would just be ignorant.

Furthermore how in the heck did I ever do this "call minorities where I live as "Jews"...". I never said anything about the minorities where you live. I dont even know where you live or anything about the minorities that live there since I don't know where you live. I called myself a jew. Are you trying to say that I am a minority where you live?

Ok so we are going to have a biggest Jew competition are we? You don't want to open that box. I am the kung fu master of being a jew.




We need a monero community off topic thread. I feel bad posting silly stuff like this in the speculation thread but I still want to post it none the less.

That guy was so vocal when the price was low. I cant believe we aren't hearing from him now that its up up up. Where is our other resident equine?

I would guess that's what it is if someone forced me to guess. Don't know if I would bet on it. Sometimes individual action kicks free some loose snow and than momentum begets momentum.

It appears our suspicions are confirmed! Atleast some amount of the bitcoin rally is being caused by someone buying bitcoin as a gateway into monero.

Not me. I'm more scared of missing an up swing than a down.

You and I have similar feelings. So atleast one person shares your position.

Chart starting to show some hints of maybe starting to turn.

He'll be fine as long as he uses escrow.