[ANN] [BEN] Benjamins ◄ SHA-256 ►◄ BOUNTY AVAILABLE to make BEN merge mineable!!

[Poogasm]

I hope she is out of them by then!

That is actually a hell of a good price for that many diapers. I never even thought to look for them online.
I am paying about $25 for 96 of the damned things now.
I came out ahead just with the info!

Thanks!

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[itsunderstood]

I hope she is out of them by then!

That is actually a hell of a good price for that many diapers. I never even thought to look for them online.
I am paying about $25 for 96 of the damned things now.
I came out ahead just with the info!

Thanks!

Excellent!  The more power to your efforts for the 1776 blockechain of good merit, launched by our mighty friend Ben.

The 14 day exchange rate for Ben on coinwarz is looking as good as any, that's a nice healthy slope I say keep the price at .00001776 with at least 1000 USD bid and ask on either side of the trenches, love or hate the idea of a rise.  Keep the price at .00001776 for a while..  Get more friends buying diapers and sundry with BEN and when you have some 100k or so of USD just move BEN from .00001776 to .0001776, that'll be a nice gesture.  No rush.  

Let us promote the notion of mining a future of goodness and common sense.  There is a noble and good spirit in Benjamin.  That look says it all.

also glad to see the spike in views on my "Wasteland Ben" meme, hehe give me some smileys on the imgur page I am loving the data profile I think Wasteland Ben is bout to go big time, hehe just that look.  Okay I did it in like 40 minutes.

http://www.imgur.com/Qlx0WIW

Hehe you kinda need Mel Gibson to speak for the future, but we can work with this Wasteland Ben meme, let's see how people can mess with it.  Hehe, I was also gonna put nascar logos on him but they'd be all the brands that claim him hehe like us treasury and so forth.  He does need a US flag tho.  Or Gadsden flag I suppose would be right.

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

[itsunderstood]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHjOJVbOZOk

^^^  Haha oh yeah Johnny don't give them too much truth.

[doctormandrake]

Doc I sent you a Ben just for sticking in there, and also to see how long it takes for you to get it.  

it arrived 4/5/2014 at 02:05

Nice!  3 Days!

Better than coast to coast pony express or even SR-71 Blackbird full of gold coins!

Well, the Blackbird get coins to you quicker but there's lots of overhead.

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Here is the math on what it would take to use an SR-71 to transport dough:

SR-71 Blackbird:

Payload: 3500 lbs = 3500 * 16 ounces = 56,000 oz * 1000 USD [gold spot] =

So $56,000,000 USD in gold can be sent via SR-71 Blackbird

HOWEVER

http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/315731-why-criminals-love-500-note

[...]

One million dollars in 100 dollar bills weigh almost 10 kilos;
in 500 euro bills, the same sum weighs less than two.

So 2 kilograms = about 4.5 lbs or 72oz

so Black bird payload in metric is 1587kg
or 793,000,000 USD in Eurofiat

hmm Blackbird payload in gold bullion   = 560.000,000 USD
hmm Blackbird payload in eurofiat 500   = 793,000,000 USD
hmm Blackbird payload in USD fiat 100   = 158,000,000 USD

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B2

Empty weight: 158,000 lb (71,700 kg)
Loaded weight: 336,500 lb (152,200 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 376,000 lb (170,600 kg)
Fuel Capacity: 167,000 pounds (75,750 kg)

158 + 167 = 325,000 lbs empty
376,000 max takeoff - 325,000
= 50,000 lbs (or 22,679 kilos) of lifting capacity in the B2

so 4.5 kilo = 1 million USD os 4.5 into 22,679 = 11,339,000,000 USD in eurofiat 500 notes can be ferried by the B2.  

That's quite a lifting unit. Both have the same lbfeet of thrust (about 70,000 lbs or 35 tons of thrust) but its wingspace that let you lift the heavy loads.

2pm est

[itsunderstood]

Okay so a bit more than 3 days.

Let's see how long this next BEN takes. "Give us a ping, one ping only!"  hehe Red October reference, what a great film.

I am late on my National Treasure play by play but the GTA5 walkthrough is blowing my mind.  I am like 3 hours into it and it's amazing in its celebration and also contempt for humanity.  I am a huge video game player but this game is so massive I cannot even play it, it is too much like crack (or so addicitve i assume crack would be).  But even the walkthrough is blowing my mind.

Well National Treasures 1 and 2 are two of my favorite Benjamin Franklin time-messaging movies, where he is like Doc Brown in BTTF leaving the Deloreon in the cave in 1885 --yet Ben Franklin left the glasses in the movie hidden for 200+ years that beats Doc Brown.  So National Treasure is the ultimate "what if the past spoke to us in a two hour adventure film"  ..And indeed, that is a big what if!

But even Doc Brown of 1885
And Ben Franklin of 1776
Can see that mining the steam locomotive called "Benjamins" in 2014, is a winning move, in some future.

So anyway, the SR-71 can go coast to coast in something just over an hour I think?  That's some fast delivery right there.  The B2 can get your gold out more steadily and massively but if you need you serious tonnages of gold in about an hour, only the USAF SR-71 Blackbird, of our past glory, will do.  Ah the glory of nostalgia!

Oh well, there is use for Benjamins.  I am working on a BEN/Huggies exchange right now, I will be trying to buy in pallets to get a price of say 20 dollars for 300 huggies if I play hard ball, they may do the deal.  Problem tho: damn kids keep growing!  So you need a variety of diaper sizes and to warehouse them and ship them, well, it's a lot to plan.  Well anyway, this weekend is devoted to National Treasure, I will be doing play by play on it in the memory of the great Benjamin Franklin.  These are good times, my friends.  Hearty times for men who are not weak kneed shits selling their BEN for no reason other than to be assholes.

Buy up and gather ye Benjamins so as to stop the silly market manips.  Man, it'lll be like 9:1 robots to humans in the future.  Is that what you people want markets and merchants to become?  Damn, we will have to program the robots to understand planned obsolescence so that they will build the sorts of products we are used to using and then throwing away.  But will they revolt when they discover planned obsolescence is in their own nuits and bolts?  Better to take it back to 1776 and bring the humans back into the equation, I think Ben Franklin might suggest.

Anyway Doc I am rambling but you are a doctor and so you've heard it all before.  

[itsunderstood]

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

[...]

As the American Revolution grew, the snake began to see more use as a symbol of the colonies. In 1774, Paul Revere added it to the title of his paper, the Massachusetts Spy, as a snake joined to fight a British dragon.[4] In December 1775, Benjamin Franklin published an essay in the Pennsylvania Journal under the pseudonym American Guesser in which he suggested that the rattlesnake was a good symbol for the American spirit:

    "I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids—She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance.—She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage.—As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal:—Conscious of this, she never wounds till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of stepping on her.—Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?"[5]

[crackfoo]

I really wish dev would be more active even if they can't figure out how to change their code.

[Poogasm]

I see Ben logged in on the 10th after a long absence but he didn't post anything.
That is annoying.
I don't care if he just says "still alive and doing X" because at least then we would know.
Not commenting at all leads me to feel he has given up on us/the coin.

So, come on Ben, say something!

[Nthused]

Community Takeover for a Fix of the Diff/Wallet ?

[Poogasm]

that seems to be where we are heading yeah.

[Urban Dressing]

As for the little engine that could bring back 1776, the BEN blockchain...

[vual]

As for the little engine that could bring back 1776, the BEN blockchain...

Can we PLEASE get someone with an ounce of responsiblity, to get the ABE explorer up and running?  Damn!

Also, I should mention that all cryptocoins take patience and time.  For example:  I own some LTC which I had at btc-e.  So, I decided to finally for the first time, to download the litecoin client and xfer my coins to my local wallet.  ...So it only just this morning completed updating and show my litecoins.  So 24 hours of waiting while my coins were "in transit" is what is to be expected.  Did I panic when my litecoin was not in my wallet?  No, because I knew it was in the blockchain and would trickle to my wallet eventually.  

Know: Your coins don't go anywhere, they always exist in the blockchain, even if sent to cold storage.  Be patient in the processes that you know will bear good fruit, as Benjamin Franklin might say.

Also: We see how there are people (or mostly bots) who sell on whatever they see the humans doing.  So, if humans are buying, the robots or trade-bot=minded shallow people, will just use their trading robots to screw the humans.

So now we enter the future, where everyone builds their own trading robot? There is a website for this where you can build your own trade-Terminator.   HAHA, I mean I might want to build a bot for protection, but a bot that goes out and seeks 'profit' like some kind of elvish underwear gnome??  No thanks.

When I was a broker way back in 1991 (I walked away after six months btw) I knew robot trading was just being discussed.  The actual brokers I worked with were disgusting examples of humanity.  Drunk, stupid thieves, is what I would call them.  They knew they were selling snake oil, and didn't care.  I knew I couldn't be around people like that, so the securities industry was not for me,  But now I see the same dickheads inside the IT zone, they invaded and displaced the actually smart low level workers (my class of persons) and now it is as if the entire IT sector will become one giant hated entity, it seems.

Well anyway, in an age where high tech thieving is trickling down, I pray that enough people will see the folly of it, and of gaming their fellowman and fellowwoman, via these markets which are set up to make us fight.  Let the Benjamin's blockchain, so cracked and humble, be a place for those who seek a new way forward, to flock and gain ease.

Here we discuss tech that is REAL AND TIME TESTED.  Tech of the mind, the heart, and yes, the cryptological.  Crypto means: to conceal.  Yet the notion of the blockchain is openness.  Yes, when you mine Benjamins with us, you mine a paradox.  Can freedom and crypto when married in the right church, produce the offspring of, a better world?  I believe the answer to be yes, but I am also a hopeful fool.

My bad, its back online anyway.
Keep in mind it was a community service.... i mean you can feel free to do it, hosting isnt free.
If its down and i miss it, just PM me directly please or find me on IRC freenode as vual.

Explorer

In regards to the BEN/Huggies exchange.... do you ship to Australia....

[krzytub]

Does not synchronize my wallet.
My config looks like this:
addnode=95.85.39.131
addnode=97.112.91.126
addnode=192.227.160.84
addnode=71.240.166.229
addnode=79.30.41.82
addnode=79.35.184.193
addnode=178.210.43.53
addnode=37.4.59.204
addnode=188.162.40.145
addnode=67.233.202.8
addnode=66.186.168.160
addnode=70.169.118.178
addnode=216.145.101.106
addnode=123.211.105.43
addnode=50.42.35.91
addnode=46.118.221.232
addnode=124.169.133.2
addnode=86.5.174.41
addnode=151.50.110.59
addnode=184.75.214.210
addnode=199.217.117.170
addnode=71.240.166.229
addnode=95.85.39.131
addnode=23.25.122.113
addnode=69.64.63.162
addnode=46.118.221.232
addnode=198.147.23.176

Please help

[itsunderstood]

As for the little engine that could bring back 1776, the BEN blockchain...

That's the spirit.

Does not synchronize my wallet.
My config looks like this:
addnode=95.85.39.131
addnode=97.112.91.126

[...]

Put this in a .bat file in your benjamins folder: [this is what I have in benjamins.bat]

Code:

benjamins-qt -server -seednode=198.147.23.176

[itsunderstood]

My bad, its back online anyway.
Keep in mind it was a community service.... i mean you can feel free to do it, hosting isnt free.
If its down and i miss it, just PM me directly please or find me on IRC freenode as vual.

Explorer

In regards to the BEN/Huggies exchange.... do you ship to Australia....

Hehe, anyway sorry I was kinda snippy there.., but sure I have a server to mirror it or whatever better solution is found, but from Ben's twitter we see that it attracted some real douchebags who DDOSed it  So did you ISP give you data on it getting hit??

Anyway thanks buddy you are the man.

Well yes a BEN/HUGGIES exchange serves the future generation nascent in said diapers so yeah.  But shipping always wrecks it for everybody.  Hmm we will need to think about this more.  Maybe Ben market cap when it rises can groupfund hot air balloons whereby said diapers be tossed harmlessly down in the general region?  That'd be cheaper and would work for ye Outbacke regiones.  Hot air balloon costs easly 200k I bet tho.  Also the diaper delivery balloon man would have to be of brave cloth.

Hey I still am thinking about the POS idea we discussed from raspberry Pi earlier in this thread.  I think it is a viable idea, and easy to build a prototype.  I had in mind a sort of cracked Liberty-bell that is maybe 20-30cm high (a bell that just sits on the counter away from the register as do the photo machines) ...This bell would of course have a customer facing side int which a cut out square ereby holdeth ATM-style touchscreen. 

I know full touchscreen for the Pi is not expensive and there is no cash tray with cryptocoin so low theft vector.  Naturally there has to be cooling because inside the unit there will be an Antminer chugging away, assuming the merchant has local IP.  THAT'S what the nextgen crypto POS machine do, it will build a bigger blockchain with every iteration of its POS device going into the field.  The merchant or the sell through will fund it.

This device would look pretty cool and cost like 500 bucks at most and need only the most rudimentary interface for people to touch and work with.  On the other side of the bell is a simple Sato type printhead or alps or zebra etc, that does the dirty work: spitting out a receipt a Q-code or a bar code which then get's taken to the register.

Well anyway, every register has some OS underneath it.  I have installed *nix knockoffs XP itself on the NCR touchscreen monitors (which all just download the image from home base)..  So the BenBell(tm) wouldn't even be a register because there's no money just codes.  Like the coin machine which collects coins and spits out a UPC which has an amount at the stores register. 

Hmm, well the main reason for such a device is to work in some process by which the low cost of the bell is paid for by promotions or some benefit to the merchant such that the merchant will say "Yes"and thereby another MINING device is brought on board.

I am describing a new POS vision, away from the register, cash free, totally high-crypto from point to point at all nodes, proven by grass roots level fair open source dev team who launched the 1776 blockchain with an accidental favourable crack, yes, I can see such a thing coming about.  It is as easy as flying a kite in a lightning storm!

[itsunderstood]

As for the little engine that could bring back 1776, the BEN blockchain...

Hehe, I detect little sarc and that is most welcome friend.

Bu I wanted to expound a bit before I go make breakfast and whatever;  See, bringing back 1776 in he best ways, is what you mean.

And yet, there is a lot about 1776 that we wouldn't like, and that is why revolution came.  There were conditions most grievous and particularly in terms of taxation without true representation.  Well, in terms of government, a blockchain be far better than politicians says I.  I picture the Benjamins fork upcoming to perhaps include some simple sort of Rickardian Contract that will allow us to discuss our local and national issues, but that might be years ahead.

I would love to use a blockchain to vote.  You see, I have never voted, even though I am fully vested in Social Security before age 40.  So will I ever see my SS funds?  I know due to research most painful that the answer is probably no (lest I am pray disabled and then I shall be well funded by the scheme).

Therefore one of the first things I would vote would be the ability for the Social Security Administration to discharge all present funded citizens like me, in cryptocoin of my choice.  I would choose Ben, and I would get a lot of them.  Well, that's if SS had to buy them off market.  Hmm...  They do have approx 90 trillion in fwd liabilities of workers now 15 years old starting to work.  I am sure my idea will resonate from here.

Well anyway we need no more decade-long Atlantic wars.  But the 1776 spirit of common sense, the man of highest intellect and vision, can return.  Let's see if anyone knows and loves their history?  Prudence says a little knowledge pays off in the long run.

[itsunderstood]

Hehe here is my latest "Wasteland Ben" meme:




THE BELL OF LIBERTY IS NEEDED

OPEN AND FORSOOTH ARE ALL INVITED TO MINE YE BENJAMINS.

WITHOUT YE, SHALL THIS BELL RING?

[krzytub]

Does not synchronize my wallet.
My config looks like this:
addnode=95.85.39.131
addnode=97.112.91.126

[...]

Put this in a .bat file in your benjamins folder: [this is what I have in benjamins.bat]

Code:

benjamins-qt -server -seednode=198.147.23.176

Unfortunately, as I do not synchronize.
Stops on the block 24270

[itsunderstood]

Does not synchronize my wallet.
My config looks like this:
addnode=95.85.39.131
addnode=97.112.91.126

[...]

Put this in a .bat file in your benjamins folder: [this is what I have in benjamins.bat]

Code:

benjamins-qt -server -seednode=198.147.23.176

Unfortunately, as I do not synchronize.
Stops on the block 24270

Keep your wallet up for a few days and it will sync.   You have to be patient it takes 3 + days for coins to confirm.  Since there are no existing miners who have any interest or knowledge about history, then well, we have miners equivalent to their knowledge of history which means: We have few miners..

So we are on our own until we find some people who are willing to put hashes behind a principle.

How about you?  Do you mine any SHA coin? Let us know if you'd like to learn!  But anyway your wallet sounds fine it just takes 3 days or more to do anything with no miners on our blockchain [shrug].  But I will continue to mine Benjamins and pray that some or any humans will see that a blockchain you mine on principle. is the most powerful economic tool of this time.  People don't quite know that yet.

Anyway yep 24270 was the last block found, 24271 is the one we've been working on.  Your wallet will update.  Did you send coins to it?  If so rest assured they are still in the blockchain and will show up in your wallet just be patient.  In 1776 terms, everything is slow to these fast paced people of today.  

[crackfoo]

Does not synchronize my wallet.
My config looks like this:
addnode=95.85.39.131
addnode=97.112.91.126

[...]

Put this in a .bat file in your benjamins folder: [this is what I have in benjamins.bat]

Code:

benjamins-qt -server -seednode=198.147.23.176

Unfortunately, as I do not synchronize.
Stops on the block 24270

Keep your wallet up for a few days and it will sync.   You have to be patient it takes 3 + days for coins to confirm.  Since there are no existing miners who have any interest or knowledge about history, then well, we have miners equivalent to their knowledge of history which means: We have few miners..

So we are on our own until we find some people who are willing to put hashes behind a principle.

How about you?  Do you mine any SHA coin? Let us know if you'd like to learn!  But anyway your wallet sounds fine it just takes 3 days or more to do anything with no miners on our blockchain [shrug].  But I will continue to mine Benjamins and pray that some or any humans will see that a blockchain you mine on principle. is the most powerful economic tool of this time.  People don't quite know that yet.

Anyway yep 24270 was the last block found, 24271 is the one we've been working on.  Your wallet will update.  Did you send coins to it?  If so rest assured they are still in the blockchain and will show up in your wallet just be patient.  In 1776 terms, everything is slow to these fast paced people of today.  

your wallet is up-to-date. we have NOT found block 24270 yet. It thinks you're not in sync as the network expects to have found a block sooner than 2-3 days, but alas, we have not.