Money is a fungible proxy for man's ability to reason, labor, create and produce. Once acquired, money is the potential for power/freedom to command/control resources in the future ... (and with freedom comes responsibility, etc). |
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Also it includes a patch that made downloading of the blockchain 8 times faster on a hard disk based system (tested for the first 20,000blocks). Also it's not thrashing the disk any more and is generally more responsive. Are you going to push that into main? khal needs all the help he can get but not sure if this is the right way to be going about it. Well, the performance improving changes are only six lines: https://github.com/phelixnmc/namecoin-qt/commit/9a832fa4b010420990578e18dd0753e9d13366b6The EasyWinBuilder changes pretty much only make things compliant again with the Bitcoin-Qt directory structure. I am also a little worried about us having two diverging Namecoin branches. We should bring them back together as soon as possible. I'm well aware of this ... |
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Point 3) is wrong. Namecoin has a GUI Namecoin-qt ... (not sure how you missed that one). There are at least 2 or 3 other threads that post about "namecoins flaws" etc ... perhaps find those to see what happened to the others who tried to redesign/reimplement namecoin from the beginning and/or if your ideas are at all original. If you find anything useful there you can keep your "tip bounty". Or you could also submit an issue to the namecoin github page if this is a genuine critique to help/contribute to the project https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin/issues |
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I will read all later but:
how long do you think it will be before bitmessage/namecoin has 500 million (or 1 billion) users?
My goal would be to achieve that in 5 years time. This would require making it easier to use than regular email which I believe is achievable. good luck Lol, I will probably need it  . Setting high goals makes life exciting. Hey, if you want to design and implement the next facebook, google, iTunes w/e from the ground up on day one before proving demand go for it ... I'm not sure why you would think that is the way forward for namecoin right now. All it has to be is flexible enough to adapt to the size of the demand actually experienced in reality, not some fantasy football scenario. How's project inviticus coming along? Are those VC's paying you to post random pontifications on forum chat boards all day? |
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Also it includes a patch that made downloading of the blockchain 8 times faster on a hard disk based system (tested for the first 20,000blocks). Also it's not thrashing the disk any more and is generally more responsive. Are you going to push that into main? khal needs all the help he can get but not sure if this is the right way to be going about it. |
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The problem with OTR is exchanging the initial public key. DH does not prevent man in the middle attacks. The problem with Certificate Authorities is they are only as secure as the weakest link. Other forms of key exchange are not 'easy to use' and ultimately result in BM style 'address exchange' over an out-of-band channel.
You want safe and easy? Check this out: https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php/topic,2563.msg4855.html#msg4855This is close to the approach except that Namecoin does not scale to millions of users without the block chain bandwidth growing out of hand or centralizing. This is conjecture ... |
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I have to say, I am a little surprised by silver's weakness.
Yes, but silver tends to snap more violently than gold when trends reverse. What concerns me is JPM accumulation of physical silver, which may be used to continue suppression. Physical gold supply at banks continues to decline, so there could be a revaluation of gold before silver. Either way, I'm confident that the GSR will strongly favour silver for a period. You seem to think that JPM will be on the wrong side of the trade when silver goes on THE mother all of bull runs? |
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Does it spoof MAC address?
From whom? Of the connecting device running WHONIX. It is a known vulnerability of Tor routing that many (all?) ISPs record MAC addresses. So that when you connect without WHONIX the MAC address will be the same as when connecting with WHONIX, unless it spoofs the MAC address on the network connection. In home networks, there is no reason to change it, since its never send to the ISP. In public networks it gets really difficult. Just using a random MAC address isn't sane. It depends on threat models, what is best. There is a whole documentation chapter about that topic: See: https://whonix.org/wiki/Pre_Install_Advice#MAC_AddressAnd to find out how difficult it was to solve the controversy of MAC addresses in public networks, see: https://whonix.org/wiki/Dev/MACAt the moment no one knows the answers, its only clear, that it's not as simple as "use a random MAC". Yeah, I bet there is ... the ISPs are selling their customers out by not keeping private data private. These are not new problems. |
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This thread is ultra depressing.  Even if the natural course of things has shown us that the powers that be are corrupt, can't we replace them with others that are honest? At some point "society" will start again, regardless of how much doom and gloom takes place, so I suppose my question is, do we really have to just give up entirely? Can't we just replace the trust using Bitcoin? There are plenty of people here on the forums I could say I "trust", and we even have a system for recording it, too. Even if the elite aren't worth saving, isn't society itself worth it? No, this has many elements of wrong thinking in it also. When the system becomes so corrupted and complex that it has to coerce and compulse to get work and effort out of individuals to contribute then the only action of defiance left is to dis-engage completely. Working within the dysfunctional system to make it better is actually only making things worse and prolonging the collapse and necessary carthartic events that will allow the new system to begin and rebuild. It will only be when a large enough percentage of individuals take it into their minds and hearts that the collapse is a necessary evil we must go through before will it happen. We are now stuck in a twilight zone where there are still enough committed and enamoured with the bad old ways to prevent letting it go but a portion has awoken and see the way to future. We can't do much but wake others up to the necessity of the collapse and wait, when the threshold is reached it will be like a switch has been flipped and then no one will even remember what it was like now. Take a look at the events in Eastern Europe 1989 for how quickly the mindset of whole societies can change in weeks when the threshold of the wall of denial is breached. Order through chaos. |
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Looks like the socialists taxed themselves to prosperity again ...  I heard Belle Island was going to be put up for sale ... any chance Bitcoiners can buy it and turn it into an economic free trade zone and to boost Detroit commercial activity and innovation park/center aka "THE Bitcoin Island?" |
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Does it spoof MAC address?
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looks like eric's 125k satoshi dice coins are hitting the market pretty quick ... last one out's a beggar?
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This is a battle for mind share and ideas ... the best currency will dominate the competition until the next best use of computing power and monetary properties comes along.
Get your thinking caps on chaps there is a vast panorama of greenfields research and applications in maths, science, engineering, finance and commerce opening up before us ... we are just scratching the surface.
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speaking of androids ... I bet Cherry 2000 takes bitcoins.
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The govts are fecked whatever they do ... think about it.
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 Good work Sunny! ... and Clark, etc for keeping track.
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This is a good idea ... I think you should include Satoshi's whitepaper as the first (foundation) article in your inaugural issue ... it hasn't been published in another journal afaik, except on the web obviously.
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So what do I expect to see with Bitcoin: lower and lower volume on higher and higher price. Looks like that trend has begun. ... send this to anyone who wants to raise the block limit. IF bitcoin succeeds as "store of value" and value appreciates it may well be that transaction volume actually decreases. |
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Of course I didn't have enough money to worry about that back in the 80's. But i was alive during them. First off you are a liar saying that the regs have been around since (forever) in the 80's ... so I wouldn't trust anything you say beyond that, as you seem to have an agenda. Nice story about the big bad IRS showing up ... the agency of fear, intimidation and enforcement for the police state funding mechanism. No anger, just painting it as I see it. |
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