[...] It was not clear who might have submitted the nomination for U.S. Republican presidential candidate and billionaire businessman Donald Trump. Nobel watcher Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, told the French news agency AFP that he had received a copy of the nomination letter, suggesting Trump -- who drew criticism from around the world for his vow to ban Muslims entering the United States -- should be awarded the prestigious prize for "his vigorous peace through strength ideology, used as a threat weapon of deterrence against radical Islam, ISIS, nuclear Iran and Communist China". http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-pope-francis-among-2016-nobel-peace-prize-candidates/Better than Obama |
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Looking back, was it better or worse to tie your time and money with Armstrong?
vokain, good seeing you back in the game again. For me (as mentioned somewhere above), I really do not know Armstrong's actual track record re making accurate predictions. It may very well be true that Armstrong's paid subscribers get the better material (better trading calls) as TPTB suggests. I have only his blog as info, and as sloanf mentioned, I have NOT done any fact-checking. Nor have I based any trades on his public blog. Still, for me Armstrong reads history and current events in a manner where I learn. So, for me the time spent reading Armstrong has been very positive. I'm glad to hear your time was well spent. I hope the paid subscribers fare similarly. |
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Looking back, was it better or worse to tie your time and money with Armstrong?
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Join a lottery pool with Monero! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1336615.msg13636364#msg13636364Hello! I apologize for the noob account, but it ultimately felt like the right thing to do. I have started a lottery pool service. You send me monero, I buy lottery tickets. If we win, I turn the cash into monero and send it back to you. The primary website is lotteryconnect.i2p , and for those needing to inproxy, lotteryconnect.i2p.xyz Enjoy! Just a reminder that anonymous newbies asking you to send them money are usually a scam. No guarantees in any particular case, so make up your own mind. Much better odds at monerodice.net :p Yes, these are obvious things to consider. But for 5 XMR... take a chance? Well, its impossible to ultimately convince you without defeating the entire purpose of the noob account, and the stupid lottery tickets have a state on them. Oh well. Internet privacy + trust is hard. Expected values in probability are relatively easier  |
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Join a lottery pool with Monero! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1336615.msg13636364#msg13636364Hello! I apologize for the noob account, but it ultimately felt like the right thing to do. I have started a lottery pool service. You send me monero, I buy lottery tickets. If we win, I turn the cash into monero and send it back to you. The primary website is lotteryconnect.i2p , and for those needing to inproxy, lotteryconnect.i2p.xyz Enjoy! Just a reminder that anonymous newbies asking you to send them money are usually a scam. No guarantees in any particular case, so make up your own mind. Much better odds at monerodice.net :p |
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I am imagining that the type of people designing such a technology would do better than generate a masterkey on Windows et al. I'm actually imagining purpose-built, auditable software and maybe even hardware.
Auditable by whom? It comes down to Free Software vs Proprietary software. The same is true for the hardware. There is a reason why my question is being avoided here. By the attendees of said masterkey-generation ceremony. |
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No closed source. The key would be produced publicly at a ceremony.
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Using what operating system and firmware? Of course they will need to convince the public the master key is sound. Or use my idea above of having multiple mixers and timing them out. I believe there is a solution, yet I will agree the current organization of their plans seems legally and structurally flawed. That is why I say we can transition and beat them. But the technology is real anonymity. If you want real anonymity, you have to find a way to use their technology. Period. (and I have been studying this for a long time) This does not answer my question which is cut and dry and goes to the heart of the trust issue. If you apply that line of thinking, then every anonymity is insecure because operating systems and computers are never 100% secure. I already proposed how to spread the risk out and make it non-systemic. Note that Monero (Cryptonote one-time rings and every other kind of anonymity technology) also has systemic risk due to combinatorial analysis cascade as more and more users are unmasked with meta-data and overlapping mixes. Proprietary software solutions have by their very nature a centralized systemic risk that Free Libre Open Source software solutions do not. The type of risks you describe in Monero are trivial compared to the risk of the DRM in the operating system used to generate master key in a centralized proprietary solution such as the one you propose. Furthermore I still do not have an answer to what is a straight forward yes or no question. I am imagining that the type of people designing such a technology would do better than generate a masterkey on Windows et al. I'm actually imagining purpose-built, (encouragedly) auditable software and maybe even hardware. |
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It was not signed. The burden of proof is first to prove it's legit, not the opposite. Satoshi knows perfectly that if it's not signed, it's no better than goat shit. He would have never bother to send something unsigned. He didn't sign much (anything?) when he was active. Given the length of absence it is plausible he would, or plausible that he wouldn't. Perhaps he prefers the ambiguity/deniability. At least he was using known emails and accounts on forums. This email quoted is completely random. What are the odds of being him, choosing not to sign for deniability, against being one of the other 7 billions?... He used satoshin@gmx.com (from original Bitcoin whitepaper) and satoshi@vistomail.com (from email logs). gmx.com is a free email service that may or may not have had location based restrictions on registration at the time. vistomail.com is an email service from anonymousspeech, the domain registrar proxy he used to register bitcoin.org. |
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*some clicks*
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2016-Jan-11 21:26:51.973692 Initializing cryptonote protocol...
2016-Jan-11 21:26:51.973732 Cryptonote protocol initialized OK
2016-Jan-11 21:26:51.973917 Initializing p2p server...
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SYNCHRONIZATION started
2016-Jan-11 21:27:10.768362 [P2P2][OUT]Synced 201/908492
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2016-Jan-11 22:52:46.038280 [P2P8][OUT]Synced 908528/908546
2016-Jan-11 22:52:46.401361 [P2P1][OUT]Synced 908546/908546
2016-Jan-11 22:52:46.401412 [P2P1][OUT] SYNCHRONIZED OK 1h 25m  |
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What does the "vehicle of freedom" means?
Something that hopefully teaches what it means to be free. Mo' money, mo' problems? You tell me. |
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I can't believe I learned about the Monero 0.9 release from my facking Facebook feed of all places. I'm a little ashamed.  But I'm so proud of our programmers and everyone else who has worked so hard to keep the community going to reach this milestone. We are the true digital money of the world. Bitcoin is an amazing large public settlement system, but it is not true digital money. I am still dreaming we are going to the moon. After landing on the surface of Moon with Monero rocket probably we can see if planet Earh is round or flat. I think I can see from here that it's flat rings overlapping! |
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@rpietila
But all of this has to be weighted against the problem of stark raving mad individuals being released too early and starts ranting about saving the world from the imaginary jesuit/zionist conspiracy. Granted, the line between political extremist and dangerous loon might be iffy some times. And even mental health personnel can make mistakes. But just doing nothing is irresponsible. Some people needs to be rescued from themselves. By the way, do you take any meds or do you maintain that it was all a big conspiracy and you're fit as a fiddle? Another thing, was this the same committal you earlier claimed was voluntary?
Best Regards
Whenever exercising free speech is a "problem", we truly have a problem. Labeling entirely peaceful people who have never as much as hit a human, "dangerous", we truly have a problem. Not meddling each others' affairs is now "irresponsible". We truly have a problem. The name of the problem is "1984", people living in dystopia not even realizing it and calling it normal. Orwell called it "controlled insanity". No, not mine. Yours.  I happen to have two good friends who I respect immensely who both are what the rest of us call geniuses. And they both had mental incidents (they coincidentally both ran around naked screaming they were Jesus and were going to save the world) that landed them involuntarily committed. And they both managed to get back to a fairly normal life after their treatment (one of them is now a lecturer at a very prestigious university) as long as they took their meds. Although my language in previous posts might have been coloured by my repulsion at your anti-semitic views, I say this with as much compassion as I can muster: Please get help! Take your meds if you have them and get treatment now! Denial is not a good sign! Thinking you're the reincarnation of Jesus is a common delusion among the mentally ill. Schizoprenia is actually quite predictable.  Yup, that's what I'm saying. This thread turned sad for me. The irony here is we all think we're someone's Jesus. |
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I was hoping for some trading wisdom, instead we got dreams.
I believe he was giving trading advice if you read between the lines. Nope, he was mostly going on about more nonsense and was followed by others of his ilk, who believe in it as well. Anyone who puts higher faith in dreams are no different than early man who had no understanding of our wondrous existence. Putting faith in dreams is stuff you would expect from your great-grandmother from the motherland. I'm glad they had the Dream. If my great-grandmother didn't I don't know if I'd be here! |
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I am still wearing my sun glasses and thus seeing the future pretty dark.
However, I am not selling any of my holdings but I ain't buying either since I have just enough coins for significiant amount of cash in case I am wrong with my bearishness.
Happy Winter Solstice everybody |
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No government is going to be happy about people voluntarily switching to independent currencies, whether they are pseudonymous or anonymous. Bitcoin/Monero aren't illegal because they are basically seen as a sideshows. Insignificant. Non-threatening. Does Fontas think that bitcoin (but not Monero) would be tolerated if 10% of people adopted cryptocurrencies? Get real.
Tolerated? What if there's nothing they can do? And they simply have to buy in, like everyone else. Nope. Any Gov interested in taking over will just deploy their allready existing mining equipement for a 51% takeover. Guildhall/town-hall IT, administration department's workplace desktops, cloud collocations, military facilities. Probably combined with some legal/military attack on some other mining pools, to cut of the "offending hashrate". Easy. Just compare the numbers, some hundred crypto enthusiasts vs. the remaining population. Having to buy in using your tax money? Most probably not. There are 150+ national governments in the world. Very few can realistically consider taking over anything.  |
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It's impossible to experience nothingness, therefore you can only ever experience somethingness, therefore you are eternal.
Mindblown. My roommate asked me a few weeks ago why before, if before this, there was nothing, then why isn't there just still just nothing. It's impossible to experience nothingness because to know what nothingness actually is, one needs something to realize so. Pisceanistically, it's like, how are we to know one, without the other? How are we to understand the value of private ledgers, without public ledgers? "When you have assimilated these two sets of Equations, when you have understood how 0 = 2 is the unique, the simple, and the necessary solution of the Riddle of the Universe, there will be, in a sense, little more for you to learn about the Theory of Magick." http://hermetic.com/crowley/magick-without-tears/mwt_05.html |
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