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[landomata]

wonder if Mark Cuban would ever be interested in NXT...

two of his tweets.

One from TODAY
https://twitter.com/mcuban/statuses/426084456202387456
"On the Matter of Why Bitcoin Matters"

and one from last November 22nd.
https://twitter.com/mcuban/statuses/403916745900978176

"I don't want to invest in bitcoin.  If virtual currency becomes acceptable I want to invest in the soon to be invented competitors"

would having him invest be bad or good lol?

This is a serious Idea.....he would be a good ambassador

Yeah I agree. He could possibly be our Winklevoss? lol (is that a bad thing?? don't know what the general consensus on them is by bitcoiners)

For those who don't know Mark Cuban...the guy is more of a sports guy than anything(owner of US NBA team Dallas Mavericks). but he is a good businessman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban

If he invested in NXT likely his followers would become interested if not wonder what NXT is about.

He has a nationwide audience....the guy owns an NBA team....he just has to plug NXT at an Mavericks game and its game over.

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[bitcoinpaul]

I'd say some nice things about Nxt, and then one guy would raise his hand and ask "can you explain the rationale behind basing a cryptocurrency on a mix of Curve25519, EC-KCDSA, and SHA-256 when no papers exist that assess the semantic security of that particular Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm, and it is has only traditionally been favoured for its calculation speeds?", and I would suddenly smell toast and collapse into an apoplectic heap, muttering "just ask Beyonce it all comes from Beyonce" and weeping.

Hilarious

Also consider this. If we have noone there, nxt related questions may rise anyway. And they can say something not so good about it. So we must have someone to speak up for Nxt.

That's another valid point. Whoever is talking to Adam about the event, I'd recommend explaining the situation. We have a network engineer heading down to Miami that handles some PR and organization efforts with Nxt. He's not a programmer but versed in the direction of the coin and has a pulse on the community involvement. Would that work for your panel?

I've met Adam and been on LTB for Feathercoin in the past. Great group of people, I know they just want the best interviews possible.

Right, explain it and we are good. I really hope we find somebody!

[xyzzyx]

Try Zorin OS.

im pretty much stuck with ubuntu.  only one ive found that supports drivers for my qualcom ar9565 wifi device. even the latest debian couldnt do it.  oh sure i could try to load a backport kernel but those come with godknows what other dependencies that Id have to resolve via another PC and copying files over from a usb stick

fuc*it

Linux Mint.  http://www.linuxmint.com/

Mint is Ubuntu with Gnome 2 and a light-weight window manager.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_mint

I use Ubuntu 12.04 w/Unity for everyday tasks, and I agree it leaves a lot to be desired.  I used Mint on my litecoin mining rig and thought it was pretty decent.

[pinarello]

It's unfortunate that there's no one in Nxt right now up for the challenge of appearing in Miami.

I agree though, that to be absent is better than to be present and keep repeating "I don't know. I don't know."

Let's Talk Bitcoin is hugely influential though, and this is a critical time when several 2nd gen crypto implementations are just coming on line. It will be a shame to have to pass on this opportunity.

I'd just like to say to anyone that could potentially fill this role...I have been listening to Let's Talk Bitcoin for a long time and I've never really heard them ask hard questions of their guests.

Even more questionable people like BFL Josh and the Mastercoin Willet guy get coddled...so if you're on the fence about going, you should probably do it and count on softball questions.

This is an opportunity not many alt-coins can get!

It would be wrong not to send anyone.

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[Come-from-Beyond]

Cfb ? how much would be a Belarus-Miami flight ticket ?

My English is not good enough for that.

[marcus03]

If you have spent any amount of time in the crypto community you should know better.

Yeah... that was me being dumb. Sorry for that.

Any updates on my moral obligations? I feel confused and need guidance.

Or to put it another way: Could you please exit a**hole mode and talk to me like an adult and not like I am your 4 year old mentally challegend child, with you being a cruel father. That would be just grande! Thank you!

[wakasaki808]

Cfb ? how much would be a Belarus-Miami flight ticket ?

My English is not good enough for that.

Can anyone be his translator...lol

[Come-from-Beyond]

My other concern is what if someone has computers creating a database brute force of 20 digit account numbers and corresponding passphrases that open those account numbers, then they just constantly scan the blockchain for accounts that are sent NXT for the first time that haven't sent NXT out yet and if the number matches a number in their database they can go grab the coins immediately?

That sound like a serious issue to me. Any other toughts on this subjet by other members?

EDit: with 64bits per account, to store every accounnts number, it requires a dictionnary of about 2048 petabytes... neverminds!

Anyway, later we'll add "Pay-to-256bit-address" transaction type.

[Come-from-Beyond]

I heard somebody said Next is going to be 30$ in 2 years, what do you guys think? for 1 year and 2 year?

That "somebody" was wrong. By the end of this year we'll see 100$ for 1 NXT.

[Fatih87SK]

I heard somebody said Next is going to be 30$ in 2 years, what do you guys think? for 1 year and 2 year?

That "somebody" was wrong. By the end of this year we'll see 100$ for 1 NXT.

Hahaha xD

[wakasaki808]

I heard somebody said Next is going to be 30$ in 2 years, what do you guys think? for 1 year and 2 year?

That "somebody" was wrong. By the end of this year we'll see 100$ for 1 NXT.

LOL

[LiQio]

I heard somebody said Next is going to be 30$ in 2 years, what do you guys think? for 1 year and 2 year?

That "somebody" was wrong. By the end of this year we'll see 100$ for 1 NXT.

Don't get too excited - could be a huge dollar-crash as well 

[pinarello]

I heard somebody said Next is going to be 30$ in 2 years, what do you guys think? for 1 year and 2 year?

That "somebody" was wrong. By the end of this year we'll see 100$ for 1 NXT.

Oh boy... there he goes again... my Bid will never be filled now!!!   

pssst you must take him with a grain of salt....

[bithic]

Also consider this. If we have noone there, nxt related questions may rise anyway. And they can say something not so good about it. So we must have someone to speak up for Nxt.

That's another valid point. Whoever is talking to Adam about the event, I'd recommend explaining the situation. We have a network engineer heading down to Miami that handles some PR and organization efforts with Nxt. He's not a programmer but versed in the direction of the coin and has a pulse on the community involvement. Would that work for your panel?

I've met Adam and been on LTB for Feathercoin in the past. Great group of people, I know they just want the best interviews possible.

I think dzarmush has made a very strong case for making sure SOMEONE represents Nxt at "Let's Talk Bitcoin".

As it stands, NiftyNickel will be at the conference, and we have not yet heard from him whether he's game. My guess is he'd step up if needed, but of course I don't know him at all. Given the short timeframe we have, instead of asking "who is the most qualified to speak", we should ask "who thinks they'd be more prepared to handle this discussion than NiftyNickel". If NiftyNickel is the best person we have to represent Nxt at the moment, then let's establish that ASAP.

[Come-from-Beyond]

Are any of you technical and articulate folks able to make it for Friday if funds are not an issue? This is such a huge opportunity, and I would love to see someone like Anon or JoeFox there. I bet we can pull together some funds to get one of you there if you're able to clear your schedule. I would gladly chip in a couple hundred $-worth of Nxt, and I think others definitely would as well.

I am technical and articulate and have been slowly sifting through source code to understand things better, BUT I don't feel like I could field questions from cryptographers or software engineers without imploding.  I can talk about Nxt, and some of the challenges it faces, but the CfB-BCNext filter is a little too opaque to be useful for understanding the deep fundamentals (after only two months of this stuff, the exhaustion is overwhelming: "the source code is the whitepaper!", "community must decide", "Enigma!", "Tease!", "u are incorrect check thread for answers plz", "wait for third part of plan", "many riddles in the source if you look", etc.)

I'd say some nice things about Nxt, and then one guy would raise his hand and ask "can you explain the rationale behind basing a cryptocurrency on a mix of Curve25519, EC-KCDSA, and SHA-256 when no papers exist that assess the semantic security of that particular Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm, and it is has only traditionally been favoured for its calculation speeds?", and I would suddenly smell toast and collapse into an apoplectic heap, muttering "just ask Beyonce it all comes from Beyonce" and weeping.  THEN watch the price.

It's a real Catch-22.  Getting a chance to take part in a panel that would be included in the (always awesome and SO VALUABLE) Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast is *exquisite*, but the person to talk about the advent and future of metacoins is currently living in Belarus and busy until April.

MY VOTE would be for someone like wesley, ferment, opticalcarrier, rickyjames or ricot.

I think noone will be able to tell about Nxt. Only BCNext would but he can't due to obvious reason.

Nxt source code indeed is full of riddles and traps. For example, we can't run testnet with another genesis block coz we would definitely trigger some traps.

BCNext modified EC-KCDSA to inject a flaw (we r safe, don't worry) and to increase requirements to hardware Nxt wallets.

Also, it's impossible to write a whitepaper now, coz we haven't seen 2nd and 3rd parts of the plan yet.

[nxtsky]

Are any of you technical and articulate folks able to make it for Friday if funds are not an issue? This is such a huge opportunity, and I would love to see someone like Anon or JoeFox there. I bet we can pull together some funds to get one of you there if you're able to clear your schedule. I would gladly chip in a couple hundred $-worth of Nxt, and I think others definitely would as well.

I am technical and articulate and have been slowly sifting through source code to understand things better, BUT I don't feel like I could field questions from cryptographers or software engineers without imploding.  I can talk about Nxt, and some of the challenges it faces, but the CfB-BCNext filter is a little too opaque to be useful for understanding the deep fundamentals (after only two months of this stuff, the exhaustion is overwhelming: "the source code is the whitepaper!", "community must decide", "Enigma!", "Tease!", "u are incorrect check thread for answers plz", "wait for third part of plan", "many riddles in the source if you look", etc.)

I'd say some nice things about Nxt, and then one guy would raise his hand and ask "can you explain the rationale behind basing a cryptocurrency on a mix of Curve25519, EC-KCDSA, and SHA-256 when no papers exist that assess the semantic security of that particular Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm, and it is has only traditionally been favoured for its calculation speeds?", and I would suddenly smell toast and collapse into an apoplectic heap, muttering "just ask Beyonce it all comes from Beyonce" and weeping.  THEN watch the price.

It's a real Catch-22.  Getting a chance to take part in a panel that would be included in the (always awesome and SO VALUABLE) Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast is *exquisite*, but the person to talk about the advent and future of metacoins is currently living in Belarus and busy until April.

MY VOTE would be for someone like wesley, ferment, opticalcarrier, rickyjames or ricot.

I think noone will be able to tell about Nxt. Only BCNext would but he can't due to obvious reason.

Nxt source code indeed is full of riddles and traps. For example, we can't run testnet with another genesis block coz we would definitely trigger some traps.

BCNext modified EC-KCDSA to inject a flaw (we r safe, don't worry) and to increase requirements to hardware Nxt wallets.

Also, it's impossible to write a whitepaper now, coz we haven't seen 2nd and 3rd parts of the plan yet.

What is the 2nd and 3rd parts of the plan?

[Rycco]

I'm an NXT enthusiastic, but we need it's source code so people can trust the coin before it loses it's value.

[martismartis]

What happened with BTER? There is no action at all.

[BitAddict]

What is the 2nd and 3rd parts of the plan?

Come on CfB! Give us a little more info  

[S3MKi]

What is the 2nd and 3rd parts of the plan?

Come on CfB! Give us a little more info