5970 Radeon
I made .4 - .5 BTC a day mining BTC

• overvolt to 1.225
• 1026 Mhz GPU overclocked
• 171 Mhz RAM underclocked
• Fan 100% / hot GPU 78 - 80 C

At current prices I make .6 - .75 BTC a day mining LTC

• no overvolt at 1.05
• 800 Mhz GPU overclocked
• 1100 Mhz RAM overclocked
• Fan 70% / hot GPU 78 - 80 C

The community is less delusional of surviving the economic collapse in cryptocoin bunkers.
The hardware uses less power.
Hashes are 1000x harder to do (equivalence of BTC Gh/s to LTC Mh/s).
Technological jump is much less risk (51% attack) and less of a shock.
Halving rate allows more development (4 yrs vs 2 yrs) and is less of a shock.
Transactions are faster (2.5 minute target * 6 confirmations = 15 minutes vs 10 minute * 6 confirmations = 1 hour).
Innovative time sensitive products and ideas possible that are not feasible with BTC.

With that I leave you Treats by Sleigh Bells:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhdKnF3-rLk
Drummer boy
Heavens deaf, drummer boy
Heavy metal band sing with me
Deep sleep, we can march to the beat
Heavy metal band deal with me
Drummer boy
Put the move on the beat
Let the other ones stick with me
Deep sleep
Put the heat on the street
Let the enemy sing with me
Ohhhh

Bomb heaven
Can they bomb heaven in
Heavy metal band fall with me
Bomb heaven
They can bomb heaven in
Heavy metal band deal with me
Drummer boy
Heavens deaf, drummer boy
Heavy metal band stick with me
Deep sleep
Put the heat on the street
Let the enemy sing with me
Ohhhh

yes

In the non-living physical world, when too much pressure or force is placed on an object, it breaks from the whole. It does not grow a new leg while the other leg faces blood loss and hibernates.
In the living physical world, you get a fever (which can kill you), a scar develops, platelets heal the wound. Getting shot in the arm does not create a new arm.

Cryptocoins naturally have a mix of both worlds. They are mechanically generated to serve purposes of networks of living people.

First, we should look at 51% as the natural result of a pure contest based model. Whoever is fastest wins.
Second, the threat 51% poses is not due to lack of tyrant nodes. It is due to failing to simply jettison the threat.
Third, it could be more than 51% if we had a design where characteristics worked for certain uses but not others.
Fourth and final, we could actually use 51% as a gentler way to start a new chain.

A few friends are working on this. We'll probably use litecoin than bitcoin as a base because the halving points allow more development between them, and technological jumps are less severe than in bitcoin.

troll harder.

I think my first block also came in the same chain. I don't care. A community in decline and one is rising.

It ain't the blockchain that has to survive. It's us. And we're so good at failing in that dept.

BCX still haven't heard from you: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95948.0

Any successful concept resonates and self-propels once it gets going.
For resonance you need a general motivation, a specific motivation, a way to maintain momentum, and an application of that momentum.
Once you have figured out what they are:
1. Engage the general motivation.
2. Moderate to maintain momentum.
3. Satisfy the specific motivation.
4. Use momentum to achieve your general motivation. See it wraps around.

The unfun stuff... let's find out.

Look at merchants for Bitcoin, they're going down. Look at how many mining companies Bitcoin has, if anything is speculation it's Bitcoin. There's no engagement.

Litecoin is going up because:
I use less power to mine litecoins.
I get more bitcoins by mining litecoins.
Litecoiners want to open stores as soon as possible.
Bitcoiners just want to skim off the surface of whatever everyone else is doing.

The above does not apply to the people who devote a lot of time here.

For cross blockchain transactions: see if this works for you. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95904.0

If "influential people" decide to attack your shit, this community will be split into no less than 4 factions.

LOL AWESOME
Was just contemplating that:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95987.0

All this centralization on one coin is making people paranoid and desperate.

Hashrates can be combined and merge mined. Any chain that has the same algorithm can have the same power to it.

Mine either algorithm as you like.
Monitor changes in hashrates.
Trigger defense mechanism either when too low or too high.
Jump chains to defend.

So much for the so called flaw.

We're almost there.

We can tolerate monocoin nutjobs causing havoc.

Or we can design useful chains with abstract features and exotic properties.

51% is not a design flaw. It's simply an opportunity issue. Timing. Litecoin doesn't have the traffic necessary to discourage it, but that doesn't mean it can't handle it.

ALSO: roads have things on them that can kill people.

My design skills versus your design skills.
No bets.
No code.
Just the pure art of designing something as decentralized as possible.

You keep bringing up Scam Coin features. I find that sad.
Got any ideas of your own?

It could also just announce.
Any blocks produced at that time would start training the new chain.

I work with some activist and "hacktivist" projects and I'm careful not to attribute the work to myself. I've mentioned it a few times.

All of it is just electricity.

Funny how so called capitalists hate competition. Bitcoin is becoming communist (and no communism will never be implemented right so stop dreaming about your favorite definition).

We were wondering about your thoughts on this:

Suddenly raising the difficulty or causing a massive reorg sweep would cause the network to spit out a new blockchain.
Difficulty would be higher than the parent with a training period of one week.
To reduce the difficulty within that week, trading must begin.
Based on the level of trading, interactions, and initial network shape, the network will set fixed parameters for retarget time, maximum coins minted, halving time, and block reward.
If the chain is not retrained in the alloted time it dies.

Telltale signs of 51% attacks would naturally lead to more blockchains.

Questions?

Trust has a specific meaning in cryptography: a point of weakness. The less you have to trust something you don't control, the safer you are.

It has a meaning you're not familiar with, evidenced by how you highlighted what you agreed with and ignored what you didn't agree with.