Topic: [ANN] [BEN] Benjamins ◄ SHA-256 ►◄ BOUNTY AVAILABLE to make BEN merge mineable!! - page 18. (Read 94338 times)

Hi all,

I am interested in long-term coin BEN.
I have an account on Cryptsy and I would like
to slowly buy coins and sent them to my paper wallet.
I have generated address.
There is the information on a web page:
 

"Simply enter an address, transaction number,
and more to find more information about balances,
confirmations, and much more with a few clicks! " 

but it does not work. Please send me the information
if I buy coins BEN now and I'll send them to my address wallet is will
the coins as will be running ABE Explorer?

Cheers,
Jacek

http://bitinfocharts.com/market-comparison/btc-e/ftc-btc/cryptsy/ben-btc-1m.html  <<< This chart 1 month shows BEN favorably slowly building against FTC in terms of BTC.

https://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/pair/pi/btc/atomic-trade/10-days  <<< This coin shows how some coins can be saddled on both sides with absurd bid/ask with 11 BTC bid and 40 BTC ask haha, all very old school manipulation of exchanges and markets.  Like I said, I was a stockbroker who was not interested in stealing, but it doesn't mean I don't understand theft as profit.  I just think Benjamin Franklin would not be a pick pocket or coinstealing douche.  If you agree with me, then mine and gift Benjamins.

Let the price find its own floatation level exactly on the level of its development.  Right now, it is a dinghy.  If I had 10 grand USD I would buy all shares on market, and perform a 51% grab on this blockchain if only to own it for Ben Franklin.  As it is, I assume it is Ben who is providing the other 150gh which we at hasher.ca are not.  But at what price liberty?

In these times of theft and modern idiocy, we need a calm resonant bell to ring.  So, mine Benjamins or buy some few hundreds of dollars of them on cryptsy or other fine exchanges hosting BEN markets, and gift them to your friends running the Benjamins wallet.   Get your family interested in cryptocoin development because for god's sake we cannot leave it in the hands of developers.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193444.80

^^^ This thread is super relevant to the discussion as to Benjamins.

Feathercoin got whacked around for how long now?  Who is doing the post mortem or whatever on this coin?  I own some 400 FTC on btc-e they are uber useless.  YET somehow FTC has bu-koo market cap??  Typically they have 23k USD in 24 hour volume ...For what I wonder?  Huh.  Still my feathercoins are as light as a feather in terms of having merit.  Or in terms of being open sourced.  I will have to hold them long until someone blows under their feather?  LOL   

http://bitinfocharts.com/markets/btc-e/ftc-btc-all.html  <<< All time FTC chart, awesome to ponder...

https://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/coins/show/ftc <<< FTC totally an "exchange" coin, still, quite useful to some?

Now compare Benjamin launch and short life (a baby clone of bitcoin in fact):

This shows Ben's market performance cap-wise against BTC and USD since launch:
http://coinmarketcap.com/ben_7.html

Here is the Ben ranking on market cap:
http://coinmarketcap.com/all.html

RANKING/NAME            USD>BTC CAP VAL   VAL IN USD         TOTAL COINS      VOL 24H IN USD
15    Feathercoin          $3,798,534.            $ 0.096923             39,191,250         $ 23,445

[...]

137    Benjamins            $    16,383.            $ 0.006752              2,426,400         $     551


...So based on the above, I would say btc-e is a decent exchange, and that FTC has support from them (and cryptsy) but also that Ben is a different coin than this.  However, to bring Benjamins at least to the level of an alt coinrape victim of FTC would mean an upward price correction for Benjamins, even with no fork.  if we keep the bottom here at 200gh and people can deal with days and weeks to find blocks for the next 1940 blocks, then the price should rise much, gifting will happen, and good things.

But yes, how many holders of FTC like myself, yearn to involve themselves more in a blockchain?  Well here is the thread and time and place to pitch in.  Start by mining, it is like ringing a bell 24/7.  In this case, a bell of liberty (though we are not mariners are we?)

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/interested-in-creating-an-alternate-2fa-app-for-android-255622

^^^ This is an amazing thread which I am parsing right now.

It is so funny to me, people who remember IP/HTML before G00gle or Droid massive crapware and mindsets, ever came around.  The world was better before them.  But anyway, they are the only ones with the muscle to make either a cryptocoin or 2FA work, without money from the plebes.

That's why g00g has all 2FA because their 'open source' code for it, is powered by the money they made claiming all of the Internet prior to their purchase of dejanews.  Nobody owned usenet, it was a human creation, to me, g00gle is a failure as a person.  But, still better than most corporations masquerading as 'persons'.

I am not a security professional, however, just a pro at common sense and being right years after the fact.  I have spent the morning resetting pw'ds and listening to more "Use 2FA or be denied access" mantra, which actually allows g00g to herd everyone into their arms, because open source doesn't mean < 5% of the humans will compile it themselves, including me.  But I see now, today, that I have been lazy.  I can never trust any brand with anything at all.  I will cleave unto the brand of Benjamin Franklin, yes, even to ken this MIT-licensed code which is mostly created by ghostly uber-tech people who have what knowledge of history?  Can they look backward, as easily as they look forward, or in the mirror, or the false mirror of facebook?  That is the 1776 question; Why would any MIT nerdgeek, completely unable to function in society, ever value te time prior to their knowledge set?

What were diesel train engineers, in the age of steam locomotives?  How long was the transition from Mr. Diesel's engine, to the elimination of the entire class of unionized workers called "Boilermakers and Steam Engineers"?

If you don't understand the question above, reread it with the ghost of Ben Franklin hovering over your shoulder.  He didn't even have steam locomotives.  To him, they simply beg for electricity.  You see?  Because the diesel mechanics still do well, only that the diesel turns a turbine now.  So, electrics kinda elbowed the market away from diesel.  But, is that to say that Ben Franklin would have no use for steam boilers as locomotive or energy power?  No, he would see that common sense says it will be useful in all timelines.  So what I am describing and performing in my filling this voided thread with information, and by mining Benjamins, is how we all can come to understand locomotion and launch of technology, in the eyes of the simple humble American colonists of 1776.  They would have given their eye teeth, had they any left that is, to have steam locomotion.  They would have indeed, fought great wars to have it, so empowering was steam power, though all its machines were left to time and dust.  BUT, not all machines left on the mercantile battlefields of the past, will rust or rot.  Some are made so openly and truthfully as machines, that they will fire up and work in any timeframe. One only needs to have the will and eye, to see that it can be so.

However, understanding and forking the current bitcoin/Ben code, is kinda like one dude trying to get his steam engine rolling.  Damn, I mean the pieces alone of a good steam train weigh in the hundreds of pounds and can easily remove a finger or foot if you drop them!  Not to mention the dangers of rails meeting wheel, many a man no doubt severed in half by the train wheel itself.  Therefore, fear not this so called "development" any more than a giant 20 ton hunk of scalding hot water and meatl which can get you coast to coast.  All tech has its peril, but whom are the blacksmiths and the workers?  Perhaps this is indeed a new age.  So I look to the future, not to the present.

I will say that I was right in terms of micro-markets where I said "encourage mom and pop POS merchants to mine Benjamins" ...because at that time the price was being dumped down to .00001

if you (or anybody smart enough to grasp my idea) would have done so, you'd have doubled your "money" in terms of Benjamins.  Whoop de doo, you doubeled a cryptocoin.  ...For the record, I bought 1000 BEN at .00002 and I wouldn't sell them even at 1 btc per BEN.  Why?  Because neither do I sell my BTC and I always feel angry when having to part with some, or when some BTC of mine is stolen by some thieving sh*ts of which the whole blockchain is now infested.  ALSO: I did not hover second-to-second over the price of BEN so that I could scoop up 50k of thm at .00001 and then "dump" them at .00002  I DON'T THINK THAT WAY but robots and robotic humans, do.

Let's be frank:  Breaking benches and manipulating markets is part of the game: But you do not have to play.

I have always said (under the psuendonym: gembouncer ) that in order to have true money, you have to have true community.  And yes guess what, all the SR types are actually also your countrymen who vote, who have parents who love them, etc.  Silk Road was on of the coolest things any American ever built, and the people allow the COURTS who know 0% about tech at all, to prosecute them?  That's absurd.  SO, it is not only the hypocrisy of MERCANTILISM which you float on your own heads (as do I a participant in the thing), but also the concept of justice.

Hey, tell you what:  Let's not patronize ourselves m'kay?  A thread on the Internet can change the world.  But, toward what change, in the world and in yourselves, would you move?  Mining a coin, takes no effort and little cost.

Mine what coin you feel provides you a free future.  As to law, and lawyers, they have nothing to do with money.  The law is blind, or is it the lady who is blind?  Well, I am as good at law as I am at programming, but in both cases I have 100s of books on both subjects.  I find books to be the most valuable thing a person can own.  As did Benjamin Franklin, whose spirit be roused in this thread.

Also, since this is a "launch" thread, well, let us say this thread can go on in this way, in this forum, just as it is, for months, and that is well.  Why do I say this?  Because see, launch is where you spend the majority of your energy, in terms of rockets/delivery vehicles.  You spend 90% of the energy getting to space where then with small poofs of energy you can float to say, jupiter (largest mass other than the sun) or some other star if that be your goal.  So, Benjamin the coinman, is still my homeboy tho he is AWOL, because he built, christened and launched this payload.  It is not a payload like some crapass virus writer or weakass stupid holes-creating developer will do.  No, this payload gets launched in stages.

Indeed. every blockchain fork, is like a stage of a rocket.  Even now, the first stage seems to have only 200gh of net power??  That's like five or six feeble biteruptors.  And yet, it is enough at this right time.  Join us, and mine Benjamins unto the future.  There are some million + mined so far, and we will see this blockchain forward come hell or high water, there will be a future of some worth.  Let us make that future.

No.  But the price reflects people buying, that's all.  They could buy because of some thing someone says, or just hope of 1776 type common sense.

FWIW I was a series 7 licensed stockbroker in 1991.  I left because I saw what a hell of thievery the whole markets were.  Not just the participants, but the broker-dealer houses, the clearing houses, the SEC --EVERYTHING is a theft-fest.  I myself cannot of good conscience steal, so I left the profession.  So then I went into IT, and it now has become a huge theft mechanism.

So yeah, when I came onto this thread, I soured a few, but where are they now?  I said "Don't fork it, leave it be, you need a strong blockchain"  ...So maybe you are right, that I was right.  But now I must say, I was still wrong because I didn't understand the need for TX times to be faster.  HOWEVER, as I said from the git go, you need to encourage regular mom and pop and POS merchants, to become miners, on prinicple, or because you return some profit to them.  So, yes, in a way I wanted the blockchain for Ben to stay just as it was: A full bitcoin clone with uber hard difficulty.  Yes, if the price goes up that's fine, but 80% of the time it is market-dumpers or bots, so hold long and circulate the Benjamin coins through friends and families who run the wallet, this way coins will circulate, wallet will exchange coins, etc.  Sure, it is like we are whittling coins out of spun gold, in terms of mining.  But then, commerce cannot run on coins made of spun gold.

HOPE, however, CAN run on coins made of spun gold.

The price has nearly doubled since we said we didn't plan on a fork. Is that a sign that we did the right thing?

As to the "Then download and compile OpenSSL" instructions on the "how to compile the bitcoin[or Benjamins] code in linux" above...

I did a bit more digging to find out about how bad Heartbleed is, and who is affected:


Okay so note to Paysha and others being patient with developers while the fog-of-war as to Internet and the tech industries being utterly destroyed and/or militarized/nationalized: What I am ultimately wanting to do is exactly what LastPass says they do:  Encrypt with a key hidden from the servers.  I MEAN DUH, really, if it were not for lazy devs, would there be a cyberwar?  Therefore also should the POS solution given to the vendors have this same sort of triad(hidden three party)-style key protection.  NOTHING LIKE HEARTBLEED SHOULD EVER HAVE HAPPENED.  Damn!

So I post this here, so that we can use the Benjamins launch thread for what it really is:  A moment of 1776 rebellion, yes, cracked somewhat oddly, but as a result: All the more valuable.  Not just in terms of rareness, but of its ability to divide wheat from chaff in these times of no safe harbor.  If your developers are paid by huge corporations: Probably they have no balls or souls left.  If your dev is not paid by corporations, but is a poor, open source, grass roots project, well, maybe it is some kid who hath some skills beyond his age, but not the life experience to fully ken know what he is doing yet.  So, the third way is to become a developer yourself.  Let this thread provoke you to action!  Mine Benjamins!  Run Linux!  Hear the bell toll, for it tolls for us, we who used to love free computing and must now wake up to the cyberwar and all its implications.

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http://heartbleed.com/

NOTE: In terms of normal war, you can't secretly wage a war and then reveal it, thereby altering a peaceful planet and making it a war planet overnight.  Because real armies move on land and over water, etc.

But here you have essentially, a forest of tech-trees, if you will.  They all have healthy looking bark, and are 99% rotted hollow crap on the inside.  They pay insane wages, for crap devs (maybe not crap PEOPLE but the stuff they make is crap) and then they wink at the holes, knowing they will use those holes as f*ck-vectors, eventually.  Like in that famous scene in war games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1A4B9AzFNU

"Mister Potato Head!!  Backdoors are not secrets!"

So, it is time for all good men and women of 1776 mindset, to, uh, become developers.  Because all the rest of them are mostly letting us down.

It is normal for him to be embarrassed in terms of being a young person.  Being ashamed of even the tiniest error, is normal for young people.  So, he launched his coin with potentially insane difficulty due to a simple error.

All this does is make BEN a true strong bitcoin sibling SHA coin.  However, altering this blockchain without the massive excellent bitcoin dev team, will take as long as one blacksmith trying to outfit a nation.

So, yeah, I will try to compile the source on Linux asap and then we can see what changes to the code, can break or make.  A few testers (like what I think Ben was asking me when he asked if I am on unix) and we will be fine to fork, long before the difficulty change (which at this rate will be in years lol).

I would have switched to UNIX long ago and dealt with all the extra pain, if I had known stupid M$ would literally Enron their whole company.  I regret every second I ever spent listening to Bill Gates, I should have switched to linux the minute Vista came out.  Heh, but I kept hoping that M$ would somehow pull out of their idiocy, but no.  They have about 75 billion dollars hidden in foreign banks and they are killing the most successful operating system ever (XP) which has 27% of the market.  Literally it is Enron or Ayn Rand type "destroy my own company because I can" Ken Lay Globalcom type scam revelations that are happening now.  That is the only reason for M$ to totally fumble their business and then pray for Nokia to save them.  Oh I guess next we will see Enron rebrand itself.  How about Enron Toothpaste?  Haha.

Okay well yes poogasm, you and me brah.  Hmm, Benjamin, where'd you go?  Is it your girlfriend or something who is telling you you spend too much time on the computer?  What's your deal bro?  Well anyway poogasm, yes, just download virtualbox [  https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads‎/   ] and set up ubuntu from the .iso [  www.ubuntu.com/download  ] or whichever flavor you want.  Then proceed to install and enjoy the nice desktop.

So from there I'll try to compile the Benjamins master and see if it can even compile.  Then, we will alter it as we like, to suit the spirit of Benjamin Franklin, who definitely was not a flake, who would disappear for weeks at a time.  No, what we need is more like you, poogasm.  We need more users who can come up with great usernames on forums, but who also can work on a blockchain as if it were the very device by which their children would be fed.  Because as we can see, all the companies and governments, are purposefully gaming 80% of the people on Earth, OFF the Earth.  So, in the true spirit of '76, life or death, no retreat, I will continue to mine Benjamins on hasher.ca using my little bit erupter.  It is trying to erupt a new way forward, not just some bits.  I am saying all the tech companies hate the very essence of freedom.  Therefore, if Ben leave this coin and spirit on the battlefield, who will help us lift it?  What people are desirous of  better way forward in terms of both tech, and justice, and money, and life itself?

Anyway, life and UNIX are kinda like oxymoron concept, totally one has nothing to do with the other.  But in this case, unix and knowledge of C++ and merkle chains and large numbers and algorithms, are like knowledge of shipwright and carpenter and woodsman.  Yes, a virtual linux box today is akin to the musket of yesterday.  I will not be surprised when miners of any cryptocoin are prosecuted as criminals, so fierce will the enemy's greed, become.  There, again, in hopes of conjuring a 1776 spirit for truth and true money, I entreat all who love freedom, to gether ye mining gear and begin to mine Benjamins at this crucial time!  There is no fate but what we MINE for ourselves!  The future beckons!

Okay poogasm, yep, PM me as you like, at least there is a pulse of 1776 spirit somewhere on Earth.  The price is moving as people do buy but I want them to buy and hold (meaning do not sell on market but gift them to friends)  There enough pump and dumps, we need something real, something with a spine.  So until this difficulty hell is forked, Benjmains is a slow moving coin (days for confirmations) and rare enough in its creations that it makes sense for people to buy and hold on any market.  Just get the Benjamins wallet, buy and send coins, hold for 20 years.  Personally I have no desire to quit, I am not sure what makes a quitter, but Ben F sure as hell was not one.

I just wish there was more of an understanding that mining is crucial to freedom.  A biterupter cube or Ant is like a digital money press, and I am 100% sure eventually all unauthorized cryptocoin mining will be militarized or prosecuted.  Not saying I can see the future but I know the past well enough to know, that making coins (processing any blockchain) is totally something that governments cannot allow for long.  THEREFORE:  Mine with me, in the spirit of 1776 and yes, let us understand the code together.  Grip your mining gear tightly and run it 24/7 as if it were a rope of hope thrown to the future generations.

It appears Ben hasn't logged on since the 31st. I fear he may have given up.

I may have to join you for the crash refresher Linux course.

Hmm wow so Ubuntu under VirtualBox works nicely, but also I notice wow, it comes essentially with a functioning office suite.  Wow!  Okay so here is where I become a Linux user full time i guess since Microsoft lost even the ability to do that.  

If i can compile the code then I can tweak it.  Indeed, the developer himselfe, Benjamin of Coin Fame, PM'd me early on and asked me if I was using unix and i said no not these days  --so then I am also a fool for using the Benjamins binary, except that, a lot of people use the binaries, and I think Ben is being straightforward, his .exe is fine I am pretty sure.    But I would like to learn all the fun grassroots activities of development, like, compiling code in unix.  Oh joy!  /sarc

And since his code doesn't compile out of the box in Windows, I figure I am now hot on the trail of what is a reasonable learning curve for freedom.  Yes, we would say that Benjamin Franklin himselfe would be more involved with all the nitty gritty of unix, ah how fun it is /doublesarc

Well, I wasted a perfect day inside, it was 72 degrees and lovely.  Oh well that is the life of the developer.  Anyway, myself I will be mining on in the 1776 spirit.  I hope the devs will try to get the ABE explorer working reliably or at least ping the thread.  i am sure people have day jobs but I am between those, so I have a few weeks to spend on this.  [shrugs]  It feels good to mine something forthrite, and invoked in the right spirit, no matter what the future bring.

Okay so I am going to try and compile the Benjamins source in Linux, sounds impossible in Windows unless I remove all ref's to the above.

So I am installing Ubuntu on VirBox and preparing to compile. ...So I read this thread: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/416/how-do-i-build-bitcoin-from-source-in-linux

Where the best answer says this:


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OK never mind, OpenSSL is only a liability in some impelmentations, so the bitcoin implementation of it is safe.

I will continue to mine and update the thread in the spirit of some limping 1776 soldier who knoweth not even how to play a flute or drum, but must improvise!  Onward, in the spirit of Independence from tyranny!

Well when I try to compile main in VS I get


Hmm so I am not seeing this inttypes.h in the src folder...  I am reading this thread to understand if it can even be compiled on Windows?? https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3237  ...Well, anyway has anyone else successfully compile from the master source, in Windows, and did you get this error?  Thanks.

I am also reading this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=225163.0;all

Wow, can we get any devs or anyone running the ABE to check in on this thread, hehe?   

This video is super cool, it shows how many great people, (outstanding programmers not clumsy newbies like me) have built the bitcoin source code:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubD3pOZ5ZtM

So considering all the code which Benjamin's is a direct child of, well, it was all created by these amazingly skilled people above ^^^  ...Now all we have to do, as those who wish to understand a good and decent blockchain that can be used for the people, is to understand and consider their fine work.

First, you need a programming software package, I am using Visual Studio 2008, for example.   ...Anyway it's kinda like a steam locomotive circa 1860 or so.  You want to make the train go faster but there's not enough coal, and yet, all the mechanisms are in place, once this or that hill, is overcome,one assumes there will be an easier time later.  But now is not the time for weakness. 

Although, is sure is a nice day outside, and that is not conducive to studying or programming, sad to say!  But, I can mine Benjamins and still go to the river whilst doing so.  Ah this modern technology!  How wondrously full of potential it is!

http://198.147.23.176:2750/   <<<  Need vual or whomever to help me mirror the ABE because it's just not working like this.  Long holders of Ben need to mirror the block explorer.

In terms of speed, yes.  In terms of many other reasons that hyper-tense market-types might not like this blockchain?  Then yes.  If you are a market player, sell your Bens, they will be bought eventually by others I wager.  Well, I wager only th few dollars a month for electricity that it takes to mine Benjamins.

Not disagreeing, you are right.

However, there are so many ways to use a blockchain.  And what Benjmains has is a totally open, honest launch, and a solid launch thread full of ups and downs of a cryptocoin.

If all you do is buy on markets and so forth, that's cool.  But markets, are also somewhat irrelevant, to those who mine the coins.  Do you see what I mean?  I mean, I don't worry if my Benjamins go up in price, I expect it.  That's why I am mining.  Also, in terms of "coins", BEN is one of the rarest for a long time it seems.  So, let's have a long, solid steady hand on the tiller.  The spirit of 1776 limps forward, with fife and pibroch, to ensure people have the means to trade, and to openly examine the code.

Do you mine or look at bitcoin code?  If so, I need help with both.   

1:current block working on is 24267  ...Days to find blocks, rare coin.  Did you buy because you saw a price spike?  I say hold long.  Your coins will show, do not plan to sell quick, it moves too slow.  Hold long.  Send them to friends, read the thread.

2: Cool!  Where did you get the trigger to buy?  I would like to see the price stay the same until properly forked, this coin is.  Plan for weeks, for BEN to move from place to place.  Basic bitcoin knowledge says: your coin is at the merchant until the blockchain lumbers forward.

3: Not enough miners to push the insane difficulty, but in some ways that is okay if you understand.  Tell me:  Do you just buy or will you also mine a SHA 256 coin?  Plenty of people here can help you help Benjamin help his coin/blockchain.  Benjamin is the developer.  No, I do not know him.  Yes, I downloaded the source code for this totally transparent coin and am learning C++ so as to help Ben the Dev of this one, to fork his coin properly.  Also, there is Paysha who have a great concept and are being very patient with Benjamins as the development process continues to invite all to participate.

If you have other questions, ask away.  An Antminer will cost you 30 bucks, and by plugging it in, you will contribute hashes, yes, this blockchain is a plant which needs water, but the only way to water it for future flowering, is to mine.  Ask any questions, I will try to help!  By Fall 2014 I should be good enough at C++ to fork this thing on my own, it will be as cracked-but-true as the Liberty Bell itself.

I am glad to see the price jump a bit, but I say hold long.  Mine on principle.

4 days for 3 confirmations, the worst shitcoin is here...

my wallet stuck on block 24266 and after that don't not synchronized, what should do?


also, I'm bout some BEN, send it to swisscex and it spent 4 days - they still upon confirmation


what's wrong with this altcoin?

I do not like merge mining, fwiw, but other have said so as well, so I will let them explain why.  However, if doing what you propose is easier than forking this thing then yes, at least to get past these 1942 blocks to the next diff change, it might be worth it.  QUESTION: After we got to the next diff change can we fork off and stop merge mining?  I don't know enough about it except the concept is weak, sharing proof of work is a violation of the whole spirit of a blockchain in the first place.

But even with slow blocktimes I think BEN is a good coin for Paysha because of its integrity.  Like I said, any business like that has to have some coins in the float on their end to clear transactions, their very thread explains that.  So, to buy 500k BEN isn't gonna break anyone's bank, and that way when the public chooses to mine the 1776 blockchain big time (when they realize its potential) by that time, BEN will be already a known choice, and people will flock to it.

On behalf of the ghost of Benjamin Franklin we reclaim the 1776 spirit.  Hearken to ye mining gear and see what future we can build together.  But let's make sure whatever systems you build are secure from POS level upward.  We do not need more Target-style Visa POS robbery and as you all know, it is only going to increase.  So, the blockchain that seeks to ENHANCE the secure concept of Satoshi, will be the blockchain future consumers choose.