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3861  Other / Off-topic / Re: Flat Earth on: October 09, 2015, 10:21:48 PM
I watched this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJ7kdJOTUI

Why are there no stars at all visible, and no satelites at that high altitude?

Plus the void looks ultra dark, in all other images it used to be shows as more colored, in this one its looks ultra dark and scary.
3862  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What 2.0 Currency will be the most successful? on: October 09, 2015, 10:01:44 PM
OMG can the 80 IQ people read

My last IQ test score was 47, so, as you see, they can read.

Idk what IQ test you took, but it was probably a crappy mobile phone version (like those shitty ones they advertize).

A real IQ score ranges from roughly 60-250, and I expect everybody on this forum to have an IQ above 110.

You better retake that test, and try a normal one, most likely your test was a fake one.

try this:
http://www.free-iqtest.net/
3863  Economy / Economics / Re: A Resource Based Economy on: October 09, 2015, 09:58:51 PM


You ever hear of management decisions? That's no free market or democracy, but dictatorship.
But governments did ask you when you voted them into office.

Yea but you own the company, not the employees, and the employees choosed to work there.

The country you are born , you didnt choose, and whatever tyrany is inflicted on you, you didnt choosed it.



There's nothing violent or inefficient about an RBE that actually takes care of you - no more competition for the sake of profit or mundane jobs for the sake of "earning" a right to life, just efficient strategic decisions taking scarcity into account.

And who will make thses efficient decisions? A leader? Will he abuse his power? (like the 99.999999999999999999% of leaders that do).

Where is the separation of powers?



If you make a democracy, then the sheeple cannot decide strategic decisions because they are dumb morons.

If you make a dictatorship then you end up with somebody who will abuse his power.

If you mix the 2 then you have todays paradoxical system.

So the only choice left is free market, laissez faire style Smiley
3864  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [NXT] Nxt - Official Thread on: October 09, 2015, 09:54:50 PM

So we need NXT based casinos, and then we will be NR.1 POS currency Cheesy



PangeaPoker and PrivateBet are around the corner soon. Those decentralized applications will be better for Nxt than some centralized casino/betting/poker services.
and you have Neodice just need good interface.
https://nxtforum.org/nxtventures/%28pre-ann%29-neodice/  Wink
https://twitter.com/MagicNxt/status/605794015162724352  Wink

Now thats more like it, then make sure you promote them. They should have some affiliate system, and then I would promote it too Cheesy
3865  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What 2.0 Currency will be the most successful? on: October 09, 2015, 09:53:51 PM

3 people knew bcnext's phone number -> proves that only 3 people invested in Nxt. Seems legit.

But you have a point: Getting into Nxt requires too many skills. Following a step by step guide and transferring some btc requires a min IQ of 80. That's unfair for the less intelligent.

OMG can the 80 IQ people read, i cant understand how a 80 IQ person can put the worlds together in their brains and abstract the concepts and objects from them. How does the logic work for them?

Must be a very dizzy state of being, and a very blurred mental capacity.

But yea the sheeple hardly has higher IQ than that, we need a cryptocoin designed for total morons, probably a wallet that has only 2 buttons to simplify it.
3866  Other / Off-topic / Re: Guys that owns Selfie stick on: October 09, 2015, 09:50:32 PM
Haha selfie stick, c`mon man, thats like for 60 IQ people.

How can people be so silly to follow all childish trends, and I mean adults do that too, totally fucked up world.
3867  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What 2.0 Currency will be the most successful? on: October 08, 2015, 08:34:57 AM
A non blockchain concept is purely for trash.
One of the most dogmatic and short-sighted comments ever  Wink

Sorry but its true, the blockchain is not efficient, but it's transparent and free.

Sorry when it comes to money, i`d rather have a transparent , non counterfeitable system, that is free of control, than a 1 server database that is efficient, but ultra corruptable.

3868  Economy / Economics / Re: Bitcoin or gold? on: October 08, 2015, 08:27:03 AM
Gold has different prices for sell and to buy. You usually pay a premium when you buy and less when you sell, specially if you want to physically have the gold. Bitcoin at least there is no such gap in the sell and buy price

There is but only if you buy from a merchant, if you buy from exchange then it has tiny premium




Don't let other people know you have gold maybe(I think it is feasible unless you have several kg of gold)

Haha thats not a valid argument. From a risk/reward standpoint:

-the safety of not telling your neighbors that you have gold bars in your closet VS they finding out and stealing it is tiny

I mean the risk of losing the gold is enormous, and the safety is tiny, especially in europe where you are not even allowed to own guns.


If you buy a safe then its even higher because that raises suspicion....


If you live in a house you can hide it more easily, but in an apartment, no chance. Home invasion & robbery is inevitable if you have gold bars in your apartment.
3869  Economy / Economics / Re: A Resource Based Economy on: October 08, 2015, 08:21:08 AM
Monopolies, cartels and the state are inevitable outcomes in any market system. Markets are inherently violent, and there is no way to be "voluntary" within them.

That is only half true. What makes you think that any other organization besides the free market will be peaceful.

You admitted that there is no voluntary transaction, so at this point we could just go with the free market as even if its violent, at least its efficient.

Because your system will too be violent, but it will be inefficient, so go with the efficient then.
3870  Other / Archival / Re: Last Drink You drank. (daily thread) on: October 08, 2015, 06:50:56 AM
I tried something exotic, I bought some fruits with high liquid content: grapefruit, lemon, apple, orange, pineapple,etc...

Mixed it all together with mineral water then put it in the fridge for half hour to be very cold and I trinked it.

Man this juice was very good and it was all organic, i recommend it to anybody because its very healthy.
3871  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum RNG audit question on: October 08, 2015, 06:44:03 AM

I dont trust hardware wallets, because its way easier to build backdoors in them than in softwares. Software can be open source, hardware can't...

Foolish and un-substantiated.

You should do some reading before making such statements.  I can direct you to some great read if you PM me.

Sorry but thats the truth, hardware wallet cannot be audited, and cannot have a hash to compare it's authenticity.

It can be easily modified to suit some agenda, and you have no way of knowing unless you check every microprocessor from top to bottom inside the device.


BTW: you advertise a website "CryptVPN" that charges $10/month for a VPN.  Please consider boxpn.com for $3/month...  basic searching and reading can benefit everyone!  Personally used them for the last 3 yrs - but, unlike you, I am not paid to post questions on bitcointalk.com to advertise for them.

My signature/avatar campaigs have absolutely nothing to do with this question I asked here. It is a genuine question and I have concerns about some security issues here, so please answer to those to be on topic.

The same way you could criticize here my beard but that wont make it more on-topic, so please answer to the topic questions Cheesy
3872  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum RNG audit question on: October 08, 2015, 05:45:17 AM

It's just that if Intel compromised the RNG they must have compromised other parts of the CPU as well right? Why stop at just RNG? Everything goes through the CPU so your entire system could be compromised.

Yea you are right there, I will just disregard this risk vector.

Anyway this is all just speculation. You are paranoid and I'm feeding your paranoia Smiley

When it comes to securing your money and not letting it on the hands of hackers, i think the paranoia is justified.

=======================

Ok so what about my original question, has Electrum been audited by some specialists. I know the wallets that are promoted on bitcoin.org have all undergone security audits, so how about Electrum? And where I can find that Cheesy

Thanks.

There has been no formal audit that I know of if that's what you mean. It's open source so lots of interested people look over the code from time to time. Some of them find security holes that they report. Also see open issues

You know you are worried about electrum's security when its open source but you forget about your closed source operating system. Only Microsoft knows what's going with Windows code.

Electrum has been released in Spring 2012 - almost 3 ½ yrs ago.  Plenty of time for hackers to beat the shit out of the software.  Any MtGox-style hack on Electrum since?  None, to my knowledge.   Did people lost bitcoins because of Electrum?  Absolutely...

-  many that didn't follow the instructions to save their seed words on a piece of paper
-  many that didn't even bother adding a password to their wallet
-  few that practiced unsafe internet behaviors and downloaded spooky software that incorporated keylogger malware

Other than the above - mostly flawless! Better than any short-time paid audit... IMHO.  Electrum has passed the test of time.

Electrum supports 3 types of wallet hardware (bye-bye key loggers!):

-  Budget - Sending BTC with Electrum is feasible, but a bit painful (no screens):  Ledger https://www.ledgerwallet.com  - $ 35
-  Great buy - easy integration with Electrum:   Trezor buytrezor.com  - $100
-  Luxury - if you can't read small characters on the Trezor, this one is for you:  KeepKey Keepkey.com - $240

There are no reasons anymore why people should deal with "software" wallets...

Software wallets are so.... 2013 ...
Hardware wallets is the way to go in 2015+

As a bonus, the same H/W wallets above (all three of them) can also hold your Litecoins, Dash, and many others, simultaneously on the same device.




I dont trust hardware wallets, because its way easier to build backdoors in them than in softwares. Software can be open source, hardware can't...
3873  Economy / Speculation / Re: BITCOIN going up or down on: October 08, 2015, 05:11:22 AM
At the moment its sideways, but it can go up in the future.

I really hope the blocksize will be raised soon, and then start rolling out the promo...
3874  Other / Meta / Re: Too many "how to earn bitcoin" threads in newbie sector on: October 08, 2015, 03:43:39 AM
But I`m not asking to delete those threads because that would be censorship and that would be very bad.

What i`m saying is that we can reduce them, just by putting out an example thread, and if they read it, they read it, if they dont then they dont.

I`m sure most of them will read the sticky, and it will reduce significantly the spam.
3875  Economy / Economics / Re: A Resource Based Economy on: October 08, 2015, 03:41:20 AM
Sorry but central banks are centrally planned = communist.
We capitalists are 180 degree opposite to what you just said.

Sorry, but that is a Red Herring since every form of organization or corporation is centrally planned - a hierarchical structure; and people tacitly support governments by using their services such as fiat money - where no one forces you to.

Yes but a corporation doesn't make decisions on your behalf without asking you first. Or atleast small businesses don't, sure there might be corruption at higher levels.

I`m a pro small/medium business capitalist, not a corporatist.
3876  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Did you earn some bitcoin today? on: October 07, 2015, 06:21:07 PM
Nope i`m still waiting for some investments, i hope they will return the profits soon, very soon.

But today is a dry day ...certainly.
3877  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is NOT an MLM kind of ponzi on: October 07, 2015, 06:18:46 PM

I guess but these media shill could twist the interpretations to their agenda.


To be fair the vast majority of the media has moved on from total scepticism. Sadly one can't say the same for those who actually count, The People.

But the sheeple doesn't have an agenda, they are just lost sheeps lost in the field, waiting for a sheepdog to steer them in the right direction.

I already said this in other threads that if more celebrities and popular figures would endorse bitcoin, we would have a much easier job.
3878  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [CATALOG] Good websites to Invest My Bitcoins? on: October 07, 2015, 06:15:48 PM
Check my website : http://InvestBitcoinGuide.com
No Ponzi, no HYIP, only trusted and recognized services. I list them with a honest explanation and review.
Invest only what you can afford to lose but remember, "scary money don't make money".
Nevertheless, as said before, buy and hold strategy is already an investment. Cool

I think i already saw your site somewhere, i dont remember.

Yes you got a good collection about earning bitcoins, i might get some inspiration from you if you dont mind.

Keep it updated and then it will be a very useful site!
3879  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcoin wallets on: October 07, 2015, 06:12:30 PM
I think mSIGNA is becoming a good offline wallet, it is innovative and new, so definitely worth a checkout, just download it and see how it works.
3880  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is NOT an MLM kind of ponzi on: October 07, 2015, 06:09:51 PM
MLM = multi level marketing. the bitcoin blockchain has no affiliate/marketing built in, hence no multi or single level marketing.

It can be argued that since bitcoin is "ethereal" its only purpose is is to buy more and enrich the first buyers.

But if this is the case, then the same logic can be applied to fiat, in which case its much worse, so their MLM argument fails badly...

That sound like improper application of logic, since Bitcoin can be mined and thus reward is obtainable without putting money in a marketing ploy that goes strait in someone's spending cash.

It's true that early adopter that held their Bitcoin have became big winner by now, but that's not what a MLM is. I'd say such is the natural way of the economy. You either have a vision or you don't.

I guess but these media shill could twist the interpretations to their agenda.

I was illustrating that something digital doesnt mean something irreal, most people , who are materialists, cannot comprehend that.

Yet their hipocrisy hits orbital levels when they blame BTC to be an ethereal ponzi (which is not), yet they don't see that their fiat system is a ponzi on steroids.
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