It's easy to be a critic.. not as easy to create a brand new perfect system.
Bitcoin has thus far been the finest attempt at the holy grail of a crypto currency.
Satoshi's implementation was a masterful and genius solution to apparent problems.
Step back and look at we have here.
It was not done sooner because it took a Satoshi (or a few guys acting as "Satoshi") to pull it off.
These types of visions + the ability to actually code them are rare.
I know i have done it and put my money where my mouth is.
For example..
I was Google searching a line of LG cell phones some years back to see if i could get free content on my phone via Piracy.
I ended up at XDA then Howard forums..
I was told unanimously by the world that it was (and i fucking quote) "Impossible because of DRM"
They were dead wrong !
If it runs it can be cracked.
I AM a cracker so i DECIDED your ass is mine and i WILL have my victim.
I spent many hours each day pounding away at it for a good 2 or 3 months.
(With no previous cell phone cracking experience of any kind before i might add)
After bricking my phone really REALLY fucking badly countless times.. I GOT IT !
Turns out the squakers on the web shooting their mouth off were wrong.. REALLY fucking wrong.
I laughed because there was NO "DRM" at all
Turns out it was simply a custom database storage format used to keep track of what app's and games were installed onto the OS.
So..
All i had to was figure out how it was structured and then how to recreate it.
So i opened Visual Studio on Windows and created a new project called "LG Mobile Tools"
I created two variants.. x86 and x64.
I created a GUI for it with MFC for the purpose of adding custom content to the phone.
Normally my service provider had a super small selection of games only that cost $10 each.
But there was free sites online with thousands of games + app's.. but we were not allowed to add them.
The only drawback of my program was that i had to use "Bitpim" to extract the original database files from the phone then input them into my program then select add new content then put them back on my phone with Bitpim again.
Later i had hoped to add USB connection capability to my program but never got around to it.
BUT it DID work and still works to this day.. right now !
Get it ?It's a bit different loitering around shooting your mouth off than it is CREATING shit that is complete and works as intended.
I am the type of guy who would get a vision and create it.. i have the long track record of doing exactly that.. other wise i do not code anything ever.
I code / crack because i have a clear plan and a goal i intend on achieving.
But i sure as hell am not smart enough to make a new crypto coin.
I am a self taught programmer with gaps of missing knowledge and i also have horrendous math skills.
So in that respect i am sure as hell no where in the same league as many of these guys that make coins.
I am in fact an arm chair quarter back around here.
I made no secret of it either.
I am not the one posting something.. i am entitled to criticize these new "coins"
Or when a guy says he has the "Bitcoin Killer".
Shelby ?
All i heard is in the fucking 80's or some shit he worked on a what he calls a "
famous" program.
..with others.
Big difference than making shit on your own (in a reasonable time frame)
Yup.. i am skeptical