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.
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.