We are back. https://medium.com/@stephen_17820/online-combined-opencyc-wordnet-and-wiktionary-a06757531cbe

SlipperySlope has lost control of his username in one of the past breaches and I asked him if I could post an update to this thread so here it is:

https://medium.com/@stephen_17820/the-birth-of-self-improving-artificial-intelligence-60df743b2505

My Brothers Twitter Profile:  https://twitter.com/stephenlreed (SlipperySlope)

Just as soon regulators finish spinning up their own lightning channels all suddenly agree bitcoin is where settlements post and the narrative about 'bitcoin is illegal' changes.

Sour grapes.

In some strange way we should thank criminals for beta testing bitcoin.

So people overseas (not in USA) might enjoy little to no selling pressure from US investors for a while is my opinion.

If in the USA check with your tax preparer but this wiki link explains it well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_United_States

Short-term capital gains are taxed at the investor's ordinary income tax rate and are defined as investments held for a year or less before being sold. Long-term capital gains, on dispositions of assets held for more than one year, are taxed at a lower rate.[1]

At least in the United States, where holders have only 4 months longer to hold so taxes are paid at 15% instead of 35%, the incentive is to not sell till Decent holdings are 12 months old.

USAA - truly linked where you can see account balances and soon Fidelity (a major retirement account manager) in the United States.

This thread could get comical real fast:

https://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-use-your-cat-to-hack-your-neighbors-wi-fi/

Unbeknownst to Coco, he'd been fitted with a collar created by Nancy's granddaughter's husband, security researcher Gene Bransfield. And Bransfield had built into that collar a Spark Core chip loaded with his custom-coded firmware, a Wi-Fi card, a tiny GPS module and a battery—everything necessary to map all the networks in the neighborhood that would be vulnerable to any intruder or Wi-Fi mooch with, at most, some simple crypto-cracking tools.

Reason 4 - Most people don't understand it

Most people don't understand how a website works but they still use them.

A portion. They have a decent crew assembled and the question is, what have they accomplished with what has been spent.

Here is what Decent ICO has in its favor... $ 16,018,091.96 is the current value of what they collected which is one-million over the original top funding goal if i recall.

Yes some has been spent, but contributors knew that would happen from the start.

At the start of the ICO it was stated that between then (funding stage) and some future point in time a certain product would be ready.

From all reports on the beta there is indeed a product to deliver.

So today the state of Decent from a net asset only value proposition is $ 9,402,773.06 USD in bitcoin held in a multisig wallet with respected third party oversights.

The original ICO raised 5881.35 BTC! and for example let's pick $600 USD value during the ICO last year = $3,528,810.00 USD.

So, in U$D terms, we have 1 year of programming effort, one year of earning the loyalty of a programming and marketing staff and one year of investor enthusiasm not only for free, but with a dividend payment (due to bitcoin price increase) of  $5,873,963.06.

Decent multisig wallet holds 3,456.90185864 BTC valued at $ 9,402,773.06 current.

+ 10% DCT at some future value.

If we were to calculate the gains of all the scammers and compared them to the gains of all the buy and holders there is no doubt that in the end, the buy and holders are way ahead.  I'm sure there's the outlying scammer who is also way out in front but I don't believe I'd trade my buy and hold position for having to look over my shoulder to see who's standing there with handcuffs every time I spend a satoshi.

Uninterrupted since 2009.

0.95.99.2 sorry to be so long getting back.

Thoughts on how I might promote DECENT:

Speak w/ content creators and show them how to upload their content to DECENT - easy enough providing you know some content creators. I am actually working on this in my home town, putting feelers out, 'who uploads videos' and has viewers.

Find content that means something to me and offer to remove the 'paywall' by giving the creator some DCT. Opportunities here might be broader than people imagine. For example, I used to have a blog where I posted stock market speculations and I would sometimes link to articles that were behind paywalls. Now I might be able to negotiate with that provider using DCT, but if not, there's nothing preventing me from using a service like Shapeshift to convert to a spendable unit that the provider will accept. I'm pretty sure that the traditional content providers are going to eventually get on board - newspapers, magazines, etc.

Become a niche or specialist aggregator. Nearly everyone is an expert on something. Find your niche and aggregate the best content, rate it and rank it.

Partner with someone like OpenDNS and provide ratings for content opens doors to the IPFS platform. It will be interesting to see how OpenDNS treats IPFS - will it be an unrated wild-wild-west where everything is at your own risk, surfer beware, or will something like OpenDNS step in and provide some rating service opening up the audience.

Create a DCT faucet where I display teaser content videos, provide a few DCT to get more teasers and then try to get enough traffic so that my sight goes profitable.

Sort of related: I believe the Humaniq effort will be interesting in that they will be giving away tokens to new users. Some readers might recall the Aurora coin efforts with the same idea - get tokens into users hands fairly distributed.

Bottom line, if I have my own website or if I was a partner or an affiliate of a web site that required that I fund a faucet for a period of time for part ownership of that website I would be interested in some sort of deal or partnership.

I would like to see a Decent plugin for the Brave web browser where Decent serves as a consortium using the Brave platform.

Thanks for the quick reply! Working confirmed 

Using Armory ver 0.95.1 & Bitcoin Core v0.13.2

Create:
I made a 1 of 4 lockbox and three of the addresses were funded from the Amory wallet and another was funding from a fourth wallet not stored in Armory.

Fund:
I don't recall if I selected 'Simul' but I did 'Fund from Wallet' for (3 address) with 1 transaction and sent bitcoin from the 4th address.

I did not use the 'Request Payment' procedure to Fund.

Spend:
Click on 'Create Spending TX' nothing happens. (no window opens)

'Review and Sign' opens a windows but I don't have a Spending Tx to input.

Collect Sigs & Broadcast opens a window but I can't locate a =====TXSIGCOLLECT

Collect Sigs & Broadcast opens a window -  need a =====TXSIGCOLLECT

It seems like I've omitted a step or am missing a basic principle.