I am actually quite surprised that this has not taken off faster than it has already, what is stopping this from exploding? I haven't reviewed the code, but there does not seem to be any complaints from current users, so why has it not gained extreme attention?
Two reasons: 1. The software is still a little buggy, not in ways that should lose money, but in ways that make the client hard to use. I have yet to fix some annoying crashes. 2. Until the OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY changes are adopted by each coin, there is a TX malleability attack that can let the counterparty steal the funds that should have paid out to you. I'm working on building out all the code, so #1 should not be a major issue for long. But #2 waits on the coin developers to merge the OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY changes. This is very likely to happen since a lot of other protocols rely on this change, but all I really can do is wait. Has anyone offered to help you out in development yet? Are there any users providing testing feedback? |
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A constructive post by YOU?  Maybe our love for Monero is finally defrosting his heart... Or is it true that their mask is just another constant reminder to verify truths for ourselves? |
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Also I do not like the leaderless paradigm of Monero. I don't believe that is how innovative design in open source gets done. Open source is superior at refining existing things (e.g. Cryptonote), but it usually sucks at radical innovation. For that, you need a leader. And leaders don't work for free. They work for equity in the creation of their babies.
Here are some of my considerations: When you have actors out there (i.e. TPTB) that can work more efficiently to influence individuals versus groups, I see not what you term "the leaderless paradigm" but rather, a distributed leadership that checks/provides redundancy against this sort of vulnerability. For instance, a common law enforcement tactic is separating suspects and interrogating them alone, as individual power is often more easily influenced versus shared. If Gavin Andressen is perceived as the most trustworthy leader on Bitcoin given the nature of his connection with Satoshi, then logically it'd make most sense to influence him first to influence the group. This is an inherent weakness in pyramid structures. Time for collaboration/communication is how innovative open source gets done, whether it's between the neural structures in Ur brain or through a fractalized Internet. A flexible development structure leaves room for 'leaders' to contribute their worth while the system does not have to depend upon any one chokepoint so as to cause detriment to the overall effort. With the possible achievable values in equities of stake in meritorious decentralized projects, the best developers realize that they don't need overbearing ownership in equity for that equity to be worth more than they might efficiently know how to employ in their lifetimes. |
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Risto, have you ever been to the Pyramids?
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I guess it is pretty cool that one can build something by just giving ideas away.
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Turns out God is in us all, all along. No need to wait for anyone. We're all born from stars, after all.
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It is an 'Us' versus 'Them'. You need to accept that as fact.
I accept my freedom to opt out of that kind of thinking. |
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It's not that people want what you think they want, you are making a judgment based on a technology that is being circumvented.
Whether or not a Knowledge Age could alter the incentives people had as serfs is irrelevant to the chasm in front of us on this reset, which Bitcoin does not have the immutable attributes to cross. We get there with the collective wisdom of the crowd, not by a central authority, Bitcoin is just the last key to completing the internet. You are going to reeducate all the 60+ age Boomers (who dominate the political demographics in the West) how to become Knowledge Age workers and abandon their bankrupt retirement plans, all within the next 3 years which is the ETA for the cliff dive into the chasm? Of course not. The individual incentives of the People who are voting can not align with your vision of global optimization within the timeframe of the rapidly approaching event horizon of economic collapse and totalitarianism. Edit: Oxford U. in 2012 predicted 47% of existing jobs would be displaced by automation within 20 years. Thus a majority of the working age population are not ready for the transition to a meritocratic Knowledge Age. Bitcoin can't accelerate this process of adjustment, thus the approaching chasm is unavoidable. There is no stopping the coming economic collapse. It can be delayed but not prevented. The mass populace will look to the governments and banksters to stop the collapse that they have engineered. The Hagealian Dialectic meal plan is serving sheep for dinner and it will be an all you can eat buffet. The new Knowledge Age will never arrive in time because the vast majority do not want it. Also it you are thinking that today's youth will adopt the new paradigm think again. This generation of youth is the most brain dead comatose generation to ever come along. They've got smart Devices that allow them to air their life story on social media. They are a lost cause. They are slaves to the machine. I find your lack of faith disturbing... https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=fW8amMCVAJQAnd, whose generation did my generation have to be parented from again?  LOL I rest my case. You miss my point. We have a responsibility to each other, yet you are attempting to continue perpetuating an us vs. them mentality. |
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It's not that people want what you think they want, you are making a judgment based on a technology that is being circumvented.
Whether or not a Knowledge Age could alter the incentives people had as serfs is irrelevant to the chasm in front of us on this reset, which Bitcoin does not have the immutable attributes to cross. We get there with the collective wisdom of the crowd, not by a central authority, Bitcoin is just the last key to completing the internet. You are going to reeducate all the 60+ age Boomers (who dominate the political demographics in the West) how to become Knowledge Age workers and abandon their bankrupt retirement plans, all within the next 3 years which is the ETA for the cliff dive into the chasm? Of course not. The individual incentives of the People who are voting can not align with your vision of global optimization within the timeframe of the rapidly approaching event horizon of economic collapse and totalitarianism. Edit: Oxford U. in 2012 predicted 47% of existing jobs would be displaced by automation within 20 years. Thus a majority of the working age population are not ready for the transition to a meritocratic Knowledge Age. Bitcoin can't accelerate this process of adjustment, thus the approaching chasm is unavoidable. There is no stopping the coming economic collapse. It can be delayed but not prevented. The mass populace will look to the governments and banksters to stop the collapse that they have engineered. The Hagealian Dialectic meal plan is serving sheep for dinner and it will be an all you can eat buffet. The new Knowledge Age will never arrive in time because the vast majority do not want it. Also it you are thinking that today's youth will adopt the new paradigm think again. This generation of youth is the most brain dead comatose generation to ever come along. They've got smart Devices that allow them to air their life story on social media. They are a lost cause. They are slaves to the machine. I find your lack of faith disturbing... https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=fW8amMCVAJQAnd, whose generation did my generation have to be parented from again? |
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You can never win with the masses. They will always be wrong, for as long as they demand to organize themselves in collectives. The Internet is essentially the mass of masses. Extrapolate the audience averaging effect in the popular game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: "But there’s a third option: You can use your “Ask-the-Audience" life line. You can poll the entire studio audience on the four possible answers, and their responses are instantaneously assembled into a bar graph. Invariably, this graph shows one overwhelming choice, and with rare exceptions the audience is right. “I’ll trust the audience,” you tell Regis. “Final answer.” Good move. But why? No person in the audience is any more likely than you to know where grapes come from, yet the collective intelligence of the group is almost always a better bet than your best guess. Psychologists are very interested in this perplexing statistical phenomenon. If the crowd is always wiser than any individual, what does that say about the way knowledge is stored and arranged in our minds? And can it help us make better choices, even beyond game shows? ... That’s actually what Vul and Pashler found when they ran the experiment. As reported in the July issue of the journal Psychological Science, the average of two guesses for any individual participant was better than either guess alone, regardless of the time between guesses. So polling the “crowd within” does indeed yield a statistically more accurate answer. What’s more, this internal crowd gets more independent-minded with time: Contestants who were asked to second-guess themselves three weeks later benefited even more by averaging their two guesses than did those who second-guessed themselves immediately. The psychologists speculate that the cognitive pull of the original answer loses its power and allows more mental flexibility over time." http://www.psychologicalscience.org/onlyhuman/2008/06/polling-crowd-within.cfm |
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It is possible that one day soon enough, society changes to the point that a new authority pardons Ross. I'm hoping.
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rpietila and vokain
My understanding of the Scriptures is still at a beginning level, but is one of my main foci now. Thank you for your interesting takes on work and Jesus. I need to study what you have written some more.
I would agree that the amount of "work" that most of us actually do is quite low. And working for others (a "job") is not on my radar. Guys like TPTB who actually are working very hard (and producing) are an anomaly now.
It's honestly quite simple and easy, just 'Do good, be good". That's the only Work we truly have here, otherwise it'll just feel like work (i.e. if you do what you love/love what you do, it won't feel like work in the sense of unpleasantness). |
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I kind of considered your idea for 'State' when I first read it, but for 'Power' to be capitalized, I can only assume that to mean divine power. If you could imagine my perspective, it was a bit weird to see Power separate from a presumed divine state/kingdom.
Not really, the divine right of Kings was/is (theoretically) bestowed/delegated by the (capital C) Church. Hegel and Heidegger completed in secular terms the conceptual blend of Church and State. Until Ayn Rand came along and smashed it.  I am alluding not to the Church (Circe, goddess of deception, turns men into pigs) but something else. I guess I had two ways of interpreting your statement... Crypto separates power from the state (men's states), but if it is the true Power bestowed to inhabitants of ~the~ Kingdom of God, then crypto I interpret is actually what seals Power together with such a State, if you can kind of decipher what I'm trying to convey. "Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe." |
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I kind of considered your idea for 'State' when I first read it, but for 'Power' to be capitalized, I can only assume that to mean divine power. If you could imagine my perspective, it was a bit weird to see Power separate from a presumed divine state/kingdom.
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Monero attracts all kinds of people around it. We even had a self-confessed bankster agent joining our nightlife in Berlin! Think about that for a moment Heh, I was just in cypher's thread yesterday explaining how Monero enables defections that Bitcoin cannot. Was just thinking a bit earlier while watching that exchange, I think his mentoring to me inadvertently is making me act the same way with Monero as he did with Bitcoin way back when. And I never did get to mine BTC, but I can proudly say that I was a MRO miner. |
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I love the way my wife thinks about these things. Most people would be tempted to despair of this. But i showed her this story and the very first thing she said was "wow the powers that be must be terrified in australia". Instead of seeing this as a depressing development she instantly saw it as a sign that the good guys are winning. And we are. Thanks to communities just like this one. Just another example of a government shooting its self in the foot. I couldn't be more delighted. "Crypto is the separation of Power and State." -iCEBREAKER This is a good one. Why the capitalization? |
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Only until they find they can't contain the animus/a in Man through fear anymore. |
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I did just read last night a little bit of Revelations that the Lion of Judah (Jesus/Lamb of God) will vanquish evil. Decently relevant: http://www.lofj.comAlso, I remember J.R. Willett telling me about how the Book of John is meant to show us what Jesus's mission here is, and I think that's so with faith/truth/love/compassion/wisdom etc. like Him, we too can maybe realize our potential impact against evil (in ourselves, in the world, and in time). |
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