@anonymint was dragged into a debate/discussion about why all extant consensus algorithms are winner-take-all centralization. It is worthwhile to read that debate/discussion because it will give readers insight into why his project could be so important and also educate readers on the flaws in extant consensus algorithms and crypto projects, including but not limited to the flaws in Bitcoin's proof-of-work, Hashgraph, side-chains, Cosmos, NEM, Lightning Networks, block size debate, Iota, Raiblocks, DPoS that powers Steem & EOS, etc. Specifically the last few posts of the debate very educational. IMPORTANT: in a shocking debate with Martin Armstrong and including Tom Luongo's blog which was featured on ZeroHedge today, @anonymint has today explained why Bitcoin is already the defacto new international reserve currency and the implications. |
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It is a structural inevitability that the libertarian voice is drowned out in democracy, and according to Lind it should be.
Ever more libertarians are likely to agree.
‘Voice’ is democracy itself, in its historically dominant, Rousseauistic strain.
The progenitor of this thread asked me to inform you that your post is very astute and refers you to where he blogs now because he is permabanned from bitcointalk.org: https://steemit.com/@anonymint |
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People who join Mensa are in the 95-105 range.
Just like how if someone opened something called "the big dick club", 3/4ths the people in it would have 4 inch dicks.
Hmm... I see how that could work for e.g. facebook groups where anyone can join. However, Mensa has minimum IQ requirement for membership, and I think it's above 105. Can you elaborate how can most members have less than minimum required IQ? |
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it's impossible for any government or banks to shut [bitcoin] down or control it.
They disagree:
A key committee in Arizona's House of Representatives has given its blessing to a bill that would clear the way for the state to accept cryptocurrencies as payment for taxes.
If approved, the bill would empower the Arizona Department of Revenue to collect taxes in the form of cryptocurrency
Illinois is also considering a similar tax payments measure
[...] considering including digital currency addresses associated with its list of persons and entities with whom U.S. persons and businesses are forbidden to transact business.
Financial institutions would be required to screen any virtual currency address provided for a transaction against a list to be provided by OFAC, and to either report, deny service to, or block transactions involving any listed addresses.
The agency's FAQ also encourages reporting of addresses associated with listed individuals, which suggests that they intend to supplement the SDN list on an ongoing basis.
What happens if you receive a transaction from a listed digital currency address?
- It is possible that the received coins would then be "tainted" as being linked back to a listed individual or entity, and that your identity and digital currency address may then be added to the OFAC list.
Are node operators or miners required to screen out transactions from blacklisted addresses?
- Maybe
miners may have a compliance obligation, which would radically change mining and confirmation of new transactions.
Miners may be obligated to not confirm, or to block, transactions involving listed addresses, which runs counter to mining itself.
Does this affect coin fungibility?
Kiss fungibility goodbye.
Circle also said it would create a new cryptocurrency pegged to the price of the U.S. dollar
USD Coin (USDC), will be backed by reserves of U.S. dollars
Circle believes a cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to a stable traditional currency can help drive adoption of blockchain-based systems.
Allaire said the company would provide quarterly audits on the reserves backing the USDC coin and conduct strict anti-money laundering and other checks on individuals and companies looking to buy and redeem the new coins.
The best thing the BTX devs could do for the coins value would be to disappear and make it crystal clear that this coin is fully decentralised and the economic parameters are set in stone, thus making it impossible to compromise.
All cryptos with leadership groups can be compromised, Bitcoin is a black swan because Satoshi set it free.
Bitcoin is not a decentralized scaling solution in the first place, and Bitcore is a Bitcoin-fork. Can you confirm that control of hashrate is decentralized? |
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I don't know who is "Bitcoin Killer" but the other dude sure mastered the art of walltexting. I read a couple messages of his and i agreed in general but walling and walling message after message i'm just tired of scrolling down, so i had no choice but ignore him.
He asked me to ask you if you also fail to comprehend this: https://steemit.com/programming/@anonymint/c-is-not-a-low-level-programming-language
Oops, I didn't take the time to read all 12 pages, but regarding the financial elite turning off financial transfers in a doomsday scenario, thus forcing miners to turn off their machines, why wouldn't the electric provider accept Bitcoin or litecoin as payment for their service?
As of today, everyone who wants to spend BTC in the general economy pretty much has to convert it to fiat first because 99.9% of the entities in the world do not accept it. So fiat is still in control for the moment. This may change someday, but who knows how many decades in future that will be. The electricity provider would at this time only accept BTC if they know they can convert it to fiat to pay their employees, investors, bills, suppliers, etc.. Is it really that difficult to understand? Should be obvious no? |
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In order to cash out these tokens, they must convince new users to invest in the platform.
Or convince speculators to speculate that investors will buy STEEM for their sockpuppets to pay themselves a 4% per month compounded interest rate on top of the appreciation of the STEEM which might be going up to $15 this year. However, it could also go to $0. That is speculation. It’s sort of like an investment game. Monopoly for the Internet. And it’s real money at stake! 4% compounded monthly is +60% more STEEM per year. The site is also effective as a money laundering tool because in theory the rewards don't come from the voter but rather from the blockchain which mints them. There's no direct transfer of rewards. Money laundering is a YUGE industry! |
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I think in time BTC will fade away as each of the characteristics that make it #1 now will be replaced one by one, as they are more effective in other projects.
@anonymint told me to tell you that he thinks Bitcoin will remain the reserve currency because it was created by the powers-that-be and they control the mining. It has an insurmountable lead and ecosystem network effects w.r.t. to capitalization and finance. That is why he is aiming his project more for use of tokens on Internet activity that have less to do with finance. Have you seen his post explaining the flaws of Steem: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1558366.msg35209024#msg35209024
Iamnotback has the ability to start a coin now that could sit in the top five[...]
Those saying hes nuts are waaaaaayyy off.
He is very logical, rational, and of course, sane.
@anonymint wrote to me in chat that he appreciates your comments. And he is very much aware of the weaknesses and issues of balance you cited. As always the single biggest factor was the fact that he was extremely ill with TB that had spread to his gut and caused cysts all over his liver and spleen. These caused massive health problems that are best equated to being shit faced drunk continuously and having constant problems like severe diarrhea, etc. He had this illness from probably 2010 or so but didn’t suspect TB and no doctor did either until he had the funds to go to Singapore in January 2017. By then, the TB had eaten away his internals for years. He had suffered for years. He completed very liver toxic antibiotic regimen by mid-2017 and it was a very slow process of trying to heal but as of Dec he still had cysts on the MRI. He has continued to improve but very slowly. And in past 2 months he is back to working daily and reasonably alert. The health issues are reducing but he is 53 years old and so he is not able to produce as he was if totally healthy and younger. He estimates that he is about at 33 - 50% productivity of his healthier younger years. And the health improvement appears to be getting close to a point of stability and towards normalcy. This month should be very productive. And hopefully every month will inch closer to 80 - 100% health. A person suffering delirium can’t delegate because they can’t keep up with the mgmt load. The health factor is why you saw the worst of him over the past years especially from 2015 forward when he was battling the severe delirium and trying to remain productive. |
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it is interesting, why steemit dont use advertising selling on steemit platform? it can interested a lot of investors. Also it will help to support sbd withou steem dump.
Didn't I already tell you they only have 60,000 active users of which less than 10,000 may be real users and not bots. And of those 10,000 maybe less than 1,000 that are not from India or other impoverished country. What are advertisers going to sell from that traffic? but it can't be forked.
Why not? What can a fork accomplish that is different from the status quo if the underlying reward system encourages all users to abuse it (or be abused by it) and can’t be fixed as you seemed to agree more or less with @anonymint recently in some comments recorded at Steemit which I previously linked to? I guess they could remove the downvote feature so at least it is more difficult to cause content to be censored although busy.org already seems to not hide entire blogs due to flagging. I suppose users still have some protections there against censorship by mods that they don’t have here, as evident by the fact that @anonymint doesn’t post here any more (at least not with his own account) and he instead posts at Steemit. And the masses probably don't care about this aspect.
The masses care about the site being actually used and interesting and not just sockpuppets of the whales spamming the site in order to generate rewards from voting minted from the collective money supply. There’s very few actual users on Steem. It is a steady supply of people who signup and quit because they can’t earn anything and there’s no real interaction going on. In 2 years, the active usership has grown only to 60,000, but only a few 1000s or less are actual unique human users who have been on the site for a significant amount of time. Steem is not innovating on features that could drive the masses to want to use it. Their Dtube/Dlive video apps have no possibility of wide-scale adoption because of the hen-egg critical mass dilemma (and because Steem’s design doesn’t pay serving nodes for the bandwidth costs): https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa
why steemit dont use advertising selling on steemit platform? Here is why: - Advertisers want to target specific audiences, which means a new platform that doesn’t store troves of personal user data is at a severe disadvantage relative to Facebook and Google, which combined control 60% of online ad spending in the U.S.
- Most advertisers want their ads to complement “brand-safe” content. Unfortunately this is a subjective designation, which is difficult to define and enforce. Content, therefore, must be thoroughly reviewed and moderated — an expensive prospect. As YouTube recently learned with the “adpocalypse,” even a single poorly-moderated video can result in a PR disaster and undermine advertiser trust.
- Few advertisers are willing to negotiate direct deals with platforms that don’t have enormous scale, meaning ad-revenue rates are lower for newer platforms. In turn, there’s less overall revenue to be shared with creators, which means creators are less likely to support newer platforms for a sustained period of time.
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Some of my versions of the private key:
Afaik private keys can't be arbitrary. It's probably random value with fixed length: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key#An_example_private_keyThus it's possible that it can be found inside the mp3 file for example, and other clues would lead to line number(s) where it (or its parts) is located. |
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I am afraid the puzzle is much more crypto cipher than logically looking for the path like you do.
Perhaps you are right (I didn't check because I found no indications wrt looking at files with particular tools), but I gave my reasoning why I believe it's not the case.
Don't forget that when you use binary view and load up the lto.mp3 file, looking on hexa decimal values translated to ASCII, you see at the beginning ID3.....vPRIV....PeakValue....PRIV.... That seems more like crypto cipher clue, right? I was thinking more like looking for some peak values of that .mp3 peak frequency spectogram or something like that... or maybe there is some tool to see some peak values of colours in the image? Just a thought...
Afaics you are focused only on .mp3 for now? And yet you struggle which tools to use, and can't make nothing of it. IMO then there should be clues about which tools to use. Try looking for that. Now if you are indeed correct, you would also need to do something similar to the image. And why then would this be a basic puzzle? How many people have skill to do it? Hint is " dont forget the Music !" which implies that something else is also a clue. Can PeakValue and other strings also be found in other mp3 files? see edit belowDid you try downloading original mp3 (or just take first 18 seconds from the youtube video, and save it as mp3) and compare to lto.mp3? EDIT: https://twitter.com/Bitcore_BTX/status/992312346734247937> We didn’t expect that this could be a challenge too. IMO messing with files like that without clues about which tools to use is challenging. So it has to be something simpler than that. EDIT 2: So probably not a clue, but ordinary tags? All of the presented strings could be found here: https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/ID3.html |
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I don't understand this puzzle. I opened the site and was presented an image on that page.
what are we supposed to do with that image? I don't see any peculiar part resembling private key
will there be any clue given after a few days?
Link to puzzle: https://bitcore.cc/contest/My try, hopefully helps someone to get better ideas: Clues: Audio Image Colors _Audio_ is looney tunes soundtrack (my guess LTO in lto.mp3 means Looney Tunes Opening) reverse _Image_ search gives "mess with your brain" http://cdn.emgn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Pictures-That-will-mess-with-your-brain-4.jpgThe Brain is Looney tunes character. Bitcore _Color_ is pink. Pinky and the Brain are looney tunes characters Additional points: If original image is Brain, and bitcore is Pinky, then given image on the puzzle site indeed represent Pinky and the Brain. Also the original illusion image somewhat resembles looney tunes theme (circles around big circle in the middle): http://www.belcourt.org/sm_files/LooneyTunesweb.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zIRDJLOJywChannel logo and name have "CC" - bitcore is on "cc" domain. So I was thinking that private key would be found on secret url such as https://bitcore.cc/pinky-and-the-brain (or whatever is the password we have to find before private key), however there are no other indicators what url should look like, or even where to input password in case we find one (note I'm not talking about private key here). (but since I'm stuck, I believe I'm on the wrong path, thus interpreted the clues wrong)
If Jon created the puzzle, assuming he is core dev then I presume he wasn't paying much attention to the image size, just get the puzzle done. Thus huge image size is probably not a clue. As well as other numbers such as mp3 length because they seem to lead nowhere. Afair they claim puzzle difficulty is "medium", thus I believe password (or private key) is not hidden in the file because not many people know how to use particular softwares for decrypting such clues. After all we have audio file AND image file, thus much more work required (seeing that noone cracked it yet, I guess I'm correct about this).
Possible clues that lead me nowhere: 25BTX_ori.png - trippy image, what does "ori" mean? res: 1000x1000 size: 2,2 MB (2156118 bytes) audio length is 18 seconds Javascript: var colors = ["red", "orange", "yellow", "green", "blue", "indigo", "violet", "gray", "black"]; window.setInterval([...], 2000); css: transition: background-color 2.1s; //2.1 second transition Porky is a pig, and pigs are pink. We can share puzzle only to twitter -> Tweety is looney tunes character " Mess with your mind/brain" could somehow refer to Brainwallet |
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I do not believe the people here in the forum are buying the Steems at Poloniex. Most of the people here and the lurkers including me are a little bit aware of all news and movements of altcoins. The price of Steem now is too steep and of course it is common sense that you have to wait for it to go down. But the smart ones who bought low are now very quiet counting their money. The others who have missed it of course will become noisy because there's no money to count. That is the sad reality but it is ok. It is only human nature.  Well, in my opinion it is better to dig in into an information before believing. Just like before buying ,investing or joining a bounty you must research and know the truth before taking an action. pump is coming
I saw a replay mitm attack... they tried and succeed in unsyncing the blockchain for a while... reverting to past blocks, to psychological destabilize... very vicious.
I saw that one recently also. That has occurred more than once. You can go back and see comments and blogs from users complaining about the recent data disappearing.
Maybe yours.org is the better option.
Did you see this? https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1355-ryan-x-charles-introduces-yours-org/#comment-50280
The question is, whether this is just a small game on a low level, compared to the really useful platform for users they are creating.
If they create something better than facebook, who cares if they split some millions.
The site is dominated by bot activity either monetary with whales upvoting themselves with their sockpuppet voters and blog authors making it appear there is real activity, and worse yet 1000s of paid votes for nearly 0 monetary gain which is all fake bot activity. Steem was launched in earnest in 2016, so after 2 years they have only 60,000 active accounts of which perhaps 80% are sockpuppets and/or bots. Facebook et al adds 1 million new users every damn day! |
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The permabanned former double Legendary has updated the name of his project which aims to fix major flaws in Steem.
Not a zero sum game we all kinda looked at it that way
* please note that he never started this thread insinuating that his project would kill Bitcoin. That was a defense against Bitcoin maximalism that got out of control. Nobody was seriously insinuating that Bitcoin would be killed by an altcoin. That was clickbait sensationalism. |
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