Although scrypt coins like TBX/FBX/LTC are quite memory hard compared to bitcoin there was some criticism on the TBX launch that it wasn't memory hard enough. Would it be possible to make a CPU coin that increases its level of "memory hard"?

This could offer protection against botnets because it would require mining rigs to be heavy in low level CPU cache and light on operating system and userland.

Ideally the future cost to produce has more to do with the cost of L1 and L2 cache than with electricity.

This would be an alternate form of "difficulty". The hashrate could actually be going down but the interest and amount of people (and hardware) hashing the coin could go up. The more people hashing the more memory hard it gets to mine.

Sorry about that and the decision does rest with you and you are entirely welcome (and encouraged) to run the game for profit but you might get even more interest and thus more profit if a percentage goes to a well chosen and worth-while charity.

Possibly the "International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)"
http://www.icbl.org

I just sent them a message to ask if they accept donations in bitcoin.

Maybe some of the profits could be donated to a charity that provides assistance to victims of minefields.

You will need to float Devcoin to give it value. Something like mtgox but mtdev

https please

they didn't say it wasn't allowed either

I'd use my position to go back in time to early 2009 and mine BTC until I had about 500k coins while I slowly buy another 500k. I'd then sell about 4% of them slowly at the peak of between $22 and $32 using the money from that to put in low buy orders. When those buy orders get filled i'd withdraw half and use them to pay down credit cards that i'd then use to fund CFD accounts and make money taking out shorts/longs on banks.

maybe one day bitcoinica will become a competing exchange

This is good news. I logged in a minute ago and was happy to see that everything was there.

I think your service has the potential to be better than bitcoinica for people that work and don't have time to check their position every 5 minutes.

yes, I am quite concerned about this. Seems there is always a new and innovative way to get goxxed.

Well what's to say that Luke jr doesn't control a botnet as well as a pool?

Why not make each block have a scrypt portion and a SHA portion so that the CPU and the GPU must be used on the same machine?

This is a good idea. I thought someone would suggest using bitcoins instead of starting yet another coin.

yes I was mentioned in the top post. It is completely my fault that I didn't become an early adopter because I didn't search google thoroughly enough.

If I had of simply typed "open source currency site:ning" into google or even just "open source currency" I would have found it somewhere even if it was a few pages in. If I had of searched for "money" or "cash" on sourceforge instead of "currency" I would have found it in mid 2009. Instead I found cclite. I was also asked to setup an online store for one of my customers and I looked straight at Prestashop instead of checking all programs in sourceforge under the e-commerce category which would have also led me to finding bitcoin.

By far the stupidest part was that I started writing an article on open source currency for the advanced civilisation wiki but I used some existing links from the website for a LETS I had setup for my city based on the CES system called Perth Community Exchange.

http://www.adciv.org/Open_collaborative_design/Open_Source_Currency

http://www.adciv.org/Open_Source_Currency

If I had of done my research I would have found bitcoin in March 2010 months before the 10K btc pizza deal and while bitcoin market was still quite new and accepting paypal.

At some point I remember reading about bitcoin but I was looking for a post-scarcity solution for the world as everything I had read about alternate currencies such as on openmoney.ning.com and ripple and so on were post-scarcity ideas. I can remember one of the guys that posted quite a lot on openmoney.ning (his name was Seth) that was also the first to comment on Satoshis p2p ning site post in February 2009. He didn't re-post it on openmoney.ning.com but to his credit his did use the words open source currency which helped make it easier for find on the search engines.

I did also get an message where it was discussed on the cclite list in late 2010 and then another one on the mailing list of the perth-exchange mailing list by one of our members. This was really about the same time it was being discussed on slashdot in relation to wiki leaks. At this time it was still possible to buy them for 20cents or so. I sent a reply to the message saying they should release an android version then I must have forgotten about it completely.

It was also mentioned earlier than this on slashdot for the 0.03 release but I hadn't been reading slashdot around that time even though prior to that I had been reading slashdot since about the late 90's early 2000s. It's also easy to miss slashdot articles as they get posted quite quickly.  

About February 2009 I started work on Rejuvepedia which is supposed to be an open source collaborative effort to build an encyclopaedia on human rejuvenation.

You can see my posts to imminst about it here:

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/27554-rejuvepedia/

So yeah I am blaming myself really bad for not getting into bitcoin early and I feel quite empty and have an unhealthy fascination with somehow entering the parallel universe where I started mining in 2009 with a few commodity PCs and quad xeon servers bought for ~$10 each at auction. The other parallel universe I would like to enter is the one where I didn't meet a certain girl of an internet dating site when I was about 23 but that's another story. If I do both avoid meeting that girl at get into bitcoin early that would be ace. But if it wasn't for that girl I would have never gone done to path to seriously becomming interested in radical life extension which means I never would have started Rejuvepedia.

I did get a lot of work done on Rejuvepedia while the whole bitcoin thing was happening. I was using on trading system called Batercard (I am a call out computer tech) which got me into debt because of the monthly and trading fees and because I spoiled a girlfriend with a lot of gifts I bought through the system. I really wish I had of instead put that money into bitcoin. I joined Bartercard about Jan 2009 *bangs head against wall* I then started perth community exchange because I wanted an alternate currency system that didn't charge fees in fiat.

I can remember sort of trying to strike up conversations about alternate currencies with a lot of people and try to contact a lot of people that were into them already but it didn't help me find bitcoin. Obviously most people back then had no idea about digital coins and proof of work hashcash and so on. I should have searched harder to find it myself.

Obviously though I need to keep focused on what opportunities will come up next and work out what I can do next. I'd like to see rejuvepedia and its spin-off project in-utero succeed as working out how to reverse the aging process is much better than getting rich!

OK I don't know exactly how it would work but the idea is to encourage competition to make more and more powerful chess playing AI.

I was taking a tour of a very large server room feeling a bit insignificant in comparison so felt I needed an idea that could turn into an epic project. I would like to merge Crypto-currency hashing with competitive and exponentially growing AI.

I know that we have computers that play chess and can beat the worlds most advanced human chess players for example deep blue vs kasparov but I would like the explore taking this to the next level in a peer 2 peer project.

The network would be secured with hashing in a similar way to how existing coins operate but the rewards mechanism would be tied to massively multiplayer games of chess. The chess board would start off small but would grow as more players entered. To start a game you would need to spend a coin (either a bitcoin or a coin from this alt chain) this would help discourage players taking up to many sides. You would also need to find a way to discourage alliances.

It could be that once one side engages another side they are locked into battle with each other until one side is defeated or it could be constant all against all war. This is just getting some ideas.

Overall the idea of the network is to encourage competition to increase the AI rather than just the hashing power.

Does anyone have any suggestions, comments, ideas etc?

So what is OP_EVAL?

Do you plan to add support for Open Transactions?

It looks like i'll be a sleeping when this launches.

Lol nice. I was having sex when the genesis block was generated but I wish I was had of known about bitcoin back then!... "Umm excuse me I need to go download something on my computer it's not porn I swear i'll be back in a minute baby!"

Well if you lose money on the market wait at least 12 hours before you masturbate. I cannot emphasise this enough. If your brain associates losing money on the market with being quickly followed
by a dopamine releasing activity (such as viewing porn) you are rewarding yourself for losing money and that's a very vicious cycle. Only reward your brain when you make money.

We dream during non-REM sleep too. REM sleep is aka nightmare mode. My theory is the rapid eye movement is keeping a look-out for predators such as wolves, bears and so on. The dream is a simulation to train us to survive when we get attacked by wild animals or even other people.

The other things dreams can help us do is get used to the idea of making a sexual pass on someone. Because you don't get slapped in the face in your dream you get more comfortable with the idea so that hopefully when you try it in real life you don't look like a creep.

Given this it may be best to give the brain simulated rather than actual data if you want to become a better trader. This risky trades could pay off if you practice risky trading in a simulation.