Nah, it was foolish of me to just blindly log in even though I'm always logged in.

Speaking of hacked accounts.

My account was hacked a few days ago.

I only noticed when I saw that "I" had merited 3 different accounts with 50 merits each. All in threads I had never visited.

Long story short, I had googled something several weeks ago which pointed me to bitcointalk.to (a bitcointalk phishing site). Actually if you google search for almost anything related to bitcointalk almost all links are to bitcointalk.to

Fortunately I noticed before they changed my email and password and I was able to track down what happened.

Check your merits. Especially for anything on July 17.

That was the plan. Buy a catamaran and sail around.

But sailing around doesn't allow for growing food locally or fish farming. It doesn't allow for enhancing your surroundings or growing your habitat for the long term. It makes it more difficult to maintain if it is both a home and a place that moves around. Also, moving to different countries is insanely complicated with visas and registering at every marina.

So why not buy a boat and just keep it in one place? A boat is made to be moved around, not just sit in one place. So it has a lot of 'extras' specifically for movement that are costly and unnecessary. A seastead is purposefully built to be in one place. Sure, I could buy a house boat but those tend to be built for being docked to shore in a calm, protected marina.

Ok, I found it in my browser history.

https://bitcointalk. to /index.php?topic=1638278.0

Did a google search to find out how to do animated gifs on bitcointalk.


Damn, sneaky bastards.

Thanks to ibminer for suggesting I check my browser history.

Sorry for causing any trouble for anyone due to my mistake.

Merits all around.


Still scrubbing and locking down my computer anyway...wake up call I suppose.

I agree, we worked every which way to not create a shitcoin. We spoke to so many lawyers, industry experts, all of the big ICO companies (Consensus, etc.), spoke with Vitalik, pulled in as much knowledge on our unique setup as we could. The difficulty being that the project is an international project that will have assets all over the world and maybe some in international waters eventually. Our team is international with 5 founders in 4 different countries, our build team in the Netherlands, staff and volunteers everywhere. We incorporated in Singapore then moved it all to Gibraltar after enough input.

In the end we tried to get a utility token as close to being a security without it being a security but we are still taking the approach that if it is classified as a security we are still covered (no Chinese or non-accredited US citizens, KYC/AML, etc.). While varyon holders aren't directly profit sharing, it's structured in such a way that when we sell platforms the value of varyon 'may' go up (trying to word that in such a way that does not say what the SEC won't let me say).

Personally I bought enough varyon so I can buy a bungalow or villa once they are created. They will also be used to pay for residency, used for voting, and paying for anything related to Blue Frontiers. While anyone is still free to accept whatever currency they want on the seastead (unless you're on the commie seastead under a dictator then you're stuck with the commie coin).

In the bathroom. Next to the kitchen. With fresh water and electricity.



I was just hanging out with a nice couple that is sailing around the world on their catamaran. They have a very nice setup with solar panels, all of their electronics for their Youtube channel (cameras, computers, etc.). Who uses books anymore? lol


*he asks after driving his fuel burning car to his air conditioned building on his computer/Internet that is using electricity from some polluting source eating his remotely delivered processed food*

Are you currently environmentally zero or positive impact?

That's certainly not the end goal of seasteading, it's more of a side benefit of needing to wisely use resources to their maximum while being stewards of the immediately surrounding area for things like cash flow from tourism, being able to swim/dive in our own back yard, etc.

How do you deal with the earthquakes/tornadoes/volcanoes/flooding/mud slides/hurricanes/tsunamis/droughts/snow/ice storms/hail? Is your home built to deal with all natural disasters or you do something crazy like buy insurance and take precautions depending on your location?



And that earns you an ignore.

Thanks for looking into this. I'm just glad that's all the hacker did.

Now I get to spend the day scrubbing my computer for anything suspicious.  

Fortunately I lock my keys up in cold cold storage plus they need to know which numbers I added/deleted.

At what price will the handle of the cup begin forming?

Ya, usually I just go to the address bar and type bitc and it has bitcointalk at the top.

The reality though is I usually have about 20 tabs open at once and bitcointalk is usually one of them. So I rarely need to actually go to the site.

Selling merit? No. I like my merit. That's why I only give 1 away at a time.

I didn't know it could be sold. Maybe that's as good a reason as any to hodl them.

Easy IP check will show my IP has been the same for the past month.

And I doubt a hacker would continue to answer questions about seasteading for me in various threads. Or be able to capture my oh so classy level of wit. Especially since the accounts that were meritted look like russians.

I've been offered the equivalent of about $1 per post for advertising in my signature. Never went down that path (I advertise Varyon because I support the project and volunteer for the project). I imagine the amount of money paid for merits wouldn't 'merit' even a second thought for me.

Unless they're going for like 1 BTC each then PM me...

Are we back to weekend pumps yet or no?

My computer was online and connected but I wasn't posting on bitcointalk. But was likely still logged in at the time. I don't recall if the next morning I had to re-log in.

I don't click on links to go to bitcointalk. I have been using the site for 8 years, I know the address. I just type in the URL.

https://www.blue-frontiers.com

They have several video blogs, telegram, Facebook, etc.

Just did a scan of my computer so I'm not seeing any virus or anything along those lines. I use antivirus but also do a scan with a secondary program periodically.

I'm curious about who I would talk to about checking the IPs I've logged in as over the past week. Should all be the same country if it was me.

The KYC/AML for the ICO is due to the fact that the token could potentially be considered a security by the SEC down the road so we're approaching the ICO conservatively following all of the rules we would follow if we were selling securities just in case. But we're trying to create it as a currency that will be used on the seastead.

KYC won't really be a thing on the seastead (depending upon the governance of whichever platform you're on).

It is definitely not set up to run away with the money. The initial raise is relatively small with a large reserve. This allows for getting just enough money to get the ball rolling, then they have to deliver on promises to keep the value of the varyon up in order to be able to utilize the reserves for building future platforms. It is in the company's best interest to deliver what they promise.

The pre-sale ended last week with the raise about 80% of the way to the soft cap. That is a pretty good floor going into the main sale. Especially with a bull market returning.

I always type in websites before I log in. Bitcointalk is always up for me. But thinking about it I did have to log in again several days ago.

Could be a virus. Will check that out.

I know, I may have been hacked but...

I checked my merits sent and on July 17 it shows 3 different merits given of 50 merits each for threads I have never visited.

Very odd that someone would hack my account just to merit someone.

I have since changed my password but I would have figured a hacker would do some more interesting things with a Legendary account than merit some people.

Or is this a random bug.

We are literally manufacturing oceanfront property. The cost per square foot will be less than comparable oceanfront homes (and will only come down over time). Yes, just like people living on these islands pay higher costs for the same luxuries, we likely will as well. Just here in Tahiti I pay higher prices for most things. Except tuna. I pay about $11/kg (about $5 per pound). Needless to say, I eat a lot of tuna steaks and such. Fruit (mangos, bananas, passion fruit, etc.) is also fairly cheap.

The two responses we all get when mentioning seasteading is "what about the waves" and..."pirates".

So ya, we're aware.

That floating platform I spent last Sunday on has been there since before 2010 (when that news article about a cyclone hitting Tahiti came out).

That platform is about 1/4 the size of the platforms we will be building (25m x 25m).

Personally I plan on building an underwater bar. So maybe we can head down to the underwater bar, grab a pint and wait for the whole thing to blow over.

The closer you get to the equator the less typhoons/cyclones/hurricanes.



The island we are looking at is closer to the equator than Tahiti. But the reason such a storm made such news in 2010 is that they hardly ever get those here.

Either way, we are a few hundred meters from the island where people already live. We will do as the other island residents do. Either hunker down or change to another island that isn't being affected by sea level rise.

But the point of building a pilot project in a protected lagoon is to work on the engineering that allows us to build these in the open ocean. Crawl before you can walk/run etc.

Everything we're building now has been built. It's all out of the box and works in the waters off of the Netherlands. We are just putting it in a different location and creating a community in a special economic zone.