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541  Other / Off-topic / Looking for good Paleo Diet recipes on: October 10, 2012, 08:47:03 PM
Recently, my wife and I have been trying the Paleo Diet (also known as the caveman diet). In two weeks she has lost 14 pounds. We are both feeling great.

For those of you not familiar with the Paleo diet, the underlying premises is that our bodies are evolved to eat certain foods, and much of the modern diet consists of things which have only recently been added which are not digested as well. Modern food also includes large amounts of processings which add useless/harmful chemicals and removes beneficial parts of the food. Essentially, the paleo diet is all about eating real, whole food. Lots of vegtables, fruit, and moderate amounts of meat, nuts and eggs. Things avoided include: processed sugar, alcohol, grains, dairy, legumes.

The only problem is, we are wondering what to eat? We have been making the things we know that fit in the diet, but we don't want to get bored just eating the same dishes over and over. Has anybody else tried this diet, do you have any good meal suggestions?

And just so you know, I have not yet tried a paleo meal that I didn't like. These recipes can be used even if you don't want to follow the paleo diet.
542  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Scammer: Dank on: October 10, 2012, 08:00:05 PM
On a related note:
Dank's guitar is painfully out of tune. Guitar tuners start at only $8 on Amazon.
Anyone volunteering to set up a donation address so we can buy Dank a tuner?


I tought he said in the thread that Senbonzakura had provided him with a guitar tuner? Maybe he just needs somebody to show him how to use it?
543  Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] μ - Bitcoin Venture Capital (Asset ID "MU") on: October 10, 2012, 07:20:01 PM
Will you continue MU without the glbse, or will you just wind it down?
544  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Is stealing Bitcoins illegal? on: October 10, 2012, 07:18:46 PM
Of course stealing bitcoins is illegal.

Which jurisdiction are you referring to?  Can you reference a law, statute or decision that can back up this assertion?

You seem very sure, but I am quite sure that it is a far more complicated matter than your answer suggests.

How about this question: Is stealing bread illegal?

I would answer: Of course stealing bread is illegal.

You: "In what jurisdiction? Can you reference a law?

Me: "WFT man, everybody knows its illegal to steal stuff."

I would hope that laws would be written to cover theft of property, the law does not have to name every possible item that could possibly be stolen.
545  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: A cryptographic direct business to investor bitcoin stock certificate system on: October 10, 2012, 07:13:59 PM
The proposed audit system for Open Transactions is for all receipts to be published to a Disitributed Hash Table.

Is there anything preventing such a distributed table from being "p2p" ?

If anyone is free to participate in the table, then maybe such a table could amount to a p2p network whereby anyone who cares can observe all changes of ownership of assets, as witnessed by the signed receipts.

The plan is that even the normal client software would no longer pick up the inboxes of its accounts directly from the server; the server does not put one copy into the account's inbox and send another to the DHT for auditors to see, the DHT is where they all go and clients and auditors alike pick them up from there.

If people were willing to co-operate / collaborate in forming the DHT, anyone who wished to who is using an Open Transactions server and using a DHT to send receipts could all use the same DHT, making a huge global distributed database of receipts from all such servers who choose to and are permitted to participate in that network.

-MarkM-


The problem I forsee, and it is one shared by bitcoins, is that the distributed hash table just keeps on growing, like the blockchain. The more popular the system becomes, the faster the database grows, and the more memory needed to save it. Is there a way to keep all the nessecary  data without the evergrowing pile of everybodies data?
546  Economy / Services / I will answer chemistry questions on: October 10, 2012, 07:08:27 PM
Hi everybody,

I don't know if this would interest anybody, but I would be willing to answer any chemistry related questions (and get tips in bitcoin).

Questions can be anything from topics you wonder about or are confused by, just want to know more about, or if you are taking a chemistry class and something is stumping you.

My qualifications: I have a BS and MS in Chemistry from Michigan State University (focus on organic chemistry). I am currently working as a chemistry researcher at the largest US chemical company.

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Tips can be sent to: 1FjVtT9e3StFWkkRS4xgQtRfBrB9TbVo9T
547  Bitcoin / Project Development / A cryptographic direct business to investor bitcoin stock certificate system on: October 10, 2012, 06:52:29 PM
I am looking into Open Transactions, this might be able to be a system built on top of it.

With the recent turmoil surrounding the closing of the Global Bitcoin Stock Exchange, I have put some thought into a way to have a bitcoin stock market without a single point of failure. Since there must be trust in the asset issuer for assets to have any value, a completely decentralized system is unnecessary.

The most basic way to have a stock (or bond) system would be for the company to record identities using cryptographic signatures, and correlate ownership of a number of shares and a bitcoin address with each identity.

Transactions would be kept in a database, similar to the bitcoin system, where any transaction must be signed by the current owner.
For example, a Company sells stock. An investor A provides their public key, and the company signs messages transferring shares to A. If A sells shares to B, then they send a gpg signed message to the company with the public key of B and the number of shares.  Each investor sends a gpg signed message with a bitcoin address to the company to receive any dividends. To change the address for receiving dividends they would just send a new signed message with the new bitcoin address.

Each company would run their own database, thus they would always have current information of who owns what.

Each investor would connect to the different companies. They would have cryptographic receipts showing any changes to their own account(s).
What I have described would handle transfers of assets. The bidding could be spread among many exchanges, OTC, etc. Brokers could have accounts for investors.

There could be an option, set by the issuer, on whether or not shares could be transferred to a unregistered account. By this I mean: to register with a company, you send a gpg signed message of a bitcoin address. That way, whoever own the shares there is a bitcoin address associated with those shares to receive dividends. You could also register an email address with the company to receive shareholder notices. If the option is selected to allow unregistered owners, then shares can be transferred to a public key which the company has no record of. This key could be later claimed by its owner to receive dividends or just to transfer the shares elsewhere. There is a danger here that the key was an error, and nobody owns it, thus the company might want to require registration so no invalid keys are used. Also, a company might not want to deal with having dividends owed to shares with no associated bitcoin address.

I suggest using an escrow system for transferring the assets/bitcoins when a sale is made. Without escrow, scamming might be too easy going both ways (I offer to buy your shares but don’t send bitcoin, or I offer to sell you shares take the bitcoin but never had any shares). But doing the escrow would not have to be centralized. And this is actually a common concern in bitcoin businesses (trying to decide who sends fist, and whether to trust a third party). One way to lower the total number of people needing trust would be to have the asset issuer do the escrowing. They can even do a check to see if the person selling the shares is the owner.

Voting would be available too. The company publishes a motion, each shareholder sends their gpg signed vote, and at the end of voting the company correlates the votes with the number of shares held by that key to tally the votes.
548  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Is stealing Bitcoins illegal? on: October 10, 2012, 04:26:11 AM
Of course stealing bitcoins is illegal.

Taking something that does not belong to you by force or by fraud is one of the things governments were put in place to stop.
549  Other / Meta / Re: Rand-om musings. on: October 09, 2012, 03:18:18 PM
I would like to suggest that management just move to finally ban him again. He's clearly back to his old ways.

Even with him ignored, you can see his inanity in quoted replies from other, equally frustrated forum denizens.
How do my posts make you feel? Do you feel threatened when I post?

Your posts make me feel dumber inside. My inteligence feels threatened whenever I see your name.
550  Other / Off-topic / Re: I just want to clear my name from this shame... on: October 09, 2012, 03:16:16 PM
No, I don't believe this religious crud. I have only considered it. I am not a mystic nor a man of faith.


What the hell are you talking about?
551  Other / Off-topic / Re: I only barely found out about Bitcoin- What else do I not know about? on: October 09, 2012, 03:15:09 PM
Jitsi looked interested as I really wanted something like this to replace Skype. But then I saw it was Java based and I hate Java apps. So... what a bummer. I stopped the install.

Isn't there something like this that isn't Java based?

What is wrong with java?
552  Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] Gamma SatoshiDICE Pass Through on: October 09, 2012, 03:09:26 PM
Any news about GLBSE?

They still have the "later today" comment on their website. I think a day is longer to Nefario than it is to the rest of us? Really, an update they put on the site should contain a timestamp of some sort.
553  Economy / Long-term offers / Re: Dank Bank Deposits - dank soul guarantee - 1.2%-2.0% weekly - New music 10/8 on: October 09, 2012, 02:55:56 PM
Securities fraud is a very serious crime, "dank".

You still have time to comply with the law, just rename your "bank" to something unrelated to financial services or shut down.

How about "Dank's piggy bank"?
554  Economy / Securities / Re: GLBSE is offline We will update our users on Saturday. on: October 09, 2012, 02:34:20 PM
When a thread like this gets to be 14 pages long (or more), does anyone actually read EVERY post or do people just read the last few and feel the need to chime in?

Not on here they don't.  A few hundred posts is apparently too many to read to become informed.  Given the relatively short life-span of most things Bitcoin, I guess there's no need to develop a long attention span.

I read them all.

I have been watching this thread since it started, so I come back every so often and read all the new posts.

If I come across a long thread that I have not watched from the beginning, I typically read the whole first page and the whole last page, sometimes a couple pages back from the end to get more context for the current discusion.
555  Other / Off-topic / Re: I only barely found out about Bitcoin- What else do I not know about? on: October 09, 2012, 01:16:59 AM
http://www.researchgate.net/ is a social network for research.
556  Economy / Lending / Re: 30 BTC Loan Request on: October 09, 2012, 01:02:35 AM
i'm thinking...loan me my 1BTC i'll loan you 2BTC:

https://btcjam.com/listings/98

if success, both gain reputation as well as successful use and confidence in this site

You are trying to conspire to be scammers? Wouldn't that work out better if you did it in private?
557  Economy / Lending / Re: 200 BTC investment on: October 09, 2012, 12:59:46 AM
What sort of business is it?
558  Economy / Long-term offers / Re: Dank Bank Deposits - dank soul guarantee - 1.2%-2.0% weekly on: October 09, 2012, 12:56:03 AM
Not any minute, in a couple months still.  I think I might have said this, not sure, I provided my drivers license to senbonzakura and Eisenhower.

My name has no relevance to what I am doing with my life.

Giving your identity to a couple guys on the forum does not help me any.
559  Economy / Speculation / Re: I have reason to believe there is a correction happening on: October 09, 2012, 12:54:04 AM
People are buying it up ~12, therefore it goes up from here, not down.

My 2 satoshis

Here's why your reasoning is lacking: There's more or less 300 BTC above 12 USD. That is not a strong resistance at all. Below 12 USD, there's no support until 11.80. The buys you are referring to are miniscule. The day is only starting.

Even if you there are people buying, the sentiment right now is bearish. There were still major selloffs this morning and yesterday. Things may change Monday when the banks open depending on other factors but with GLBSE gone, I think things may remain bearish.

I see no reason for people to go crazy over buying Bitcoins this time of year.

Are you looking at the current orderbook and trying to call the movement from it? There are so many bots living on there, the orderbook can change directions without notice.

Also, you say only 300 btc, is that just on one exchange?

Why should the time of year have anything to do with bitcoin price?
560  Economy / Long-term offers / Re: Dank Bank Deposits - dank soul guarantee - 1.2%-2.0% weekly on: October 09, 2012, 12:47:21 AM
Send me a PM, this is not related to Dank Bank.  Dank Bank is a name for a program that accept deposits of 'nonexistent' commodities, and pays interest.

Sorry, in the real world that's not how it works.
You must mean the man-made 'real' world.

No, Rarity.

No you don't have an email address, or no he cannot contact you outside the forum?

If you are going to be a famous rockstar any minute now, why are you so scared of people finding out who you are?

You should have a separate website for your bank. It would be a shame to lose business if this forum ceased for ant reason.
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