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*Unless a change in POW helps to equalize mining power by making costs harder to scale.
...Your apparent belief that a change in PoW will make any difference in centralization is unpersuasive. No matter the technology, mining power will coalesce to those that possess the financial resources, the BizOps acumen, and most importantly the persistence and pain tolerance needed for entrepreneurship on a grand scale. I don't believe this is true. If somehow PoW can be tied to a smartphone for "one phone one vote", those who have financial resources can screw themselves against the brute force of several billion smartphone users. Just No. Those that have the resources will run hundreds of android emulator VMs on each of hundreds of servers, and we'll be right back with the same centralization problem we have today. We won't, if we switch to to a RAM and RAM-access intensive PoW algo. Let them try to emulate terabytes of RAM in a time efficient way. No eh? Just as I thought. there is some really ASIC-resistant PoW, used by Vertcoin and maybe others. If the PoW has to be changed I'd like that to bring back the VGAs. china asics are a serious threat to democracy and mr robot knows this  lol  |
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October 28, 2017, 04:39:14 PM |
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(nonsense)
Ignored. But it's interesting how Vertcoin is pumping lately. It must be a coincidence. It can't be related to the ASICs politics b/s in BTC.  |
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October 28, 2017, 06:02:13 PM |
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And if the idea you oppose is a good one?  |
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October 28, 2017, 06:24:48 PM |
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Ignored. But it's interesting how Vertcoin is pumping lately. It must be a coincidence. It can't be related to the ASICs politics b/s in BTC. I have 34 of those that I bought back in 2014 or something. Might have to go thru the effort of selling them |
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October 28, 2017, 06:31:02 PM |
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There is no reason to think that genetic differences within the human species can significantly affect reproductive strategy or political belief.
There's that lack of introspection I was referring to... Your daily reading: A surprising turn of events comes your way, but it could be just what the doctor ordered. You could sulk and pout and complain that this isn't what you expected -- and refuse to deal with the situation. On the other hand, you could acknowledge the disappointment, make the best of what you've got and then end up enjoying the recent circumstances, which could turn out to be quite beneficial. |
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October 28, 2017, 06:36:58 PM
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^If you really want to bash your head against the wall, you might want to jump right into the Flat Earth thread. But I should warn you...
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October 28, 2017, 06:48:29 PM |
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On a totally unrelated note, alt gold is down to 1% and I haven't even seen any yet. Not the candied apple windfall some of us had hoped for.  |
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October 28, 2017, 07:03:41 PM |
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BTG could have had "some potential" had they not been so secret about it and didn't premine it. That alone makes it a non-starter.
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October 28, 2017, 07:06:28 PM |
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BTG could have had "some potential" had they not been so secret about it and didn't premine it. That alone makes it a non-starter.
BCH is a non-starter, didn't stop anybody from hucking money at it. |
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October 28, 2017, 07:10:18 PM |
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BTG could have had "some potential" had they not been so secret about it and didn't premine it. That alone makes it a non-starter.
BCH is a non-starter, didn't stop anybody from hucking money at it. BCH didn't have a premine and was better organized... |
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October 28, 2017, 07:12:30 PM |
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BTG could have had "some potential" had they not been so secret about it and didn't premine it. That alone makes it a non-starter.
BCH is a non-starter, didn't stop anybody from hucking money at it. BCH didn't have a premine and was better organized... Well whoever has that premine should be hucking money at it.  I'll wait. |
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conspirosphere.tk
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October 28, 2017, 07:16:56 PM |
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I have 34 of those that I bought back in 2014 or something. Might have to go thru the effort of selling them
Better to keep them while we keep forking a few more years. |
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October 28, 2017, 07:19:18 PM |
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Spoken like a true r.
You buy this stuff, Bob? Should I look into it? What _does_ the scientific community have to say about it? I haven't done much reading lately. |
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October 28, 2017, 07:32:06 PM |
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On a totally unrelated note, alt gold is down to 1% and I haven't even seen any yet. Not the candied apple windfall some of us had hoped for. I transferred a small portion of my BTC to Yobit before the snapshot, so I was able to dump a little bit at a little less than .09 BTC on the futures market they have there. Unfortunately, they opened the market while I was still sleeping, so I couldn't dump when it was around .15 BTG. However, I really wasn't willing to take a large counterparty risk by leaving coins on Yobit. So my gain was not spectacular, to say the least. I suspect the main reason for the 1% value has to do with lack of evidence for what the replay protection is actually going to entail. Once the details of the replay protection are made clear, if it is sound, you may see a small price recovery of BTG. Unfortunately, the huge dumping will begin soon after any small recovery. |
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October 28, 2017, 07:35:30 PM |
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BTG could have had "some potential" had they not been so secret about it and didn't premine it. That alone makes it a non-starter.
BCH is a non-starter, didn't stop anybody from hucking money at it. BCH didn't have a premine and was better organized... Well whoever has that premine should be hucking money at it. I'll wait. Luke is all in https://mobile.twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/923435699084431360    |
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October 28, 2017, 07:40:10 PM |
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You buy this stuff, Bob? Should I look into it? What _does_ the scientific community have to say about it? I haven't done much reading lately.
I'm not here to buy or sell anything other than lulz/bantz. Having said that, as an organism that seeks to understand more about itself and the environment it lives in, learning about r/K Selection Theory in these last few days has been blowing my mind, and I've been consuming a considerable amount of time researching it further. I can't really argue against the core theory. Looking at the path my own life has taken me, viewed through an r/K lense, I see the purity of it all. http://www.truthjustice.net/politics/rk-selection-the-forbidden-theory/Yeah Likewise, almost all human fags are bisexual, and many men become gay only after failing with women. Being gay permits the occasional “experimental” bang with a girlfriend. Hence the K male’s aversion to fags and fag hags. Science... |
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October 28, 2017, 07:54:59 PM |
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Who would win in a fight: Wu Jihan or Adam Back?
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October 28, 2017, 07:57:49 PM
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Who would win in a fight: Wu Jihan or Adam Back?
I think Jihan would. He strikes me as more cunning. I think that he would be able to come up with a dirty low blow tactic much sooner than Adam would. |
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October 28, 2017, 07:58:55 PM |
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Likewise, almost all human fags are bisexual, and many men become gay only after failing with women. Being gay permits the occasional “experimental” bang with a girlfriend. Hence the K male’s aversion to fags and fag hags. Science... I'm not sure if this is a subtle jab at me or not - forgive me, I have been imbibing this afternoon - but I'm not here to debate the genetics of homosexuality. For the purposes of r/K selection discussion, let's - Please - not bring my personality into this. It was a quote from the article. I thought it was obvious I was critical. I'm sorry if I offended you. |
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October 28, 2017, 08:01:18 PM |
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Who would win in a fight: Wu Jihan or Adam Back?
I think Jihan would. He strike me as more cunning. I think he would be able to come up with a dirty tactic much sooner than Adam would. Maybe so, I mean Jihan is so full of rage because he's not the boss of bitcoin, and he probably knows some martial arts way of using it, but Adam is so damn calm... |
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