Topic: [ANN][NOTE]DNotes - Celebrating DNotes 3rd Birthday - Forum Now Open - page 202. (Read 814541 times)

"Perhaps this is a good time to offer to set up wallets for anyone who has expressed any interest in Dnotes/cryptos?" I will also support that, Mark.

On a different note:

This is by far the best article I have read regarding Greece’s debt crisis.  If you are a serious observer, it is certainly worth reading. I am deeply concerned that the crisis will spread with very negative global impacts. Some “argued, it might create global financial shocks bigger than the collapse of Lehman Brothers did.”  I hope not, but if the Chinese stock market continues its free fall, I may not be far from that camp. The last time, many major corporations got into serious financial trouble. This time around, it will include local governments, state governments, nations and their fiat currencies.



By THE NEW YORK TIMES UPDATED July 8, 2015
Liz Alderman, James Kanter, Jim Yardley, Jack Ewing, Niki Kitsantonis, Suzanne Daley, Karl Russell, Andrew Higgins and Peter Eavis contributed reporting.

“…………..  How likely is there to be a ‘Grexit’?
At the height of the debt crisis a few years ago, many experts worried that Greece’s problems would spill over to the rest of the world. If Greece defaulted on its debt and exited the eurozone, they argued, it might create global financial shocks bigger than the collapse of Lehman Brothers did.
Now, however, some people believe that if Greece were to leave the currency union, in what is known as a “Grexit,” it wouldn’t be such a catastrophe. Europe has put up safeguards to limit the so-called financial contagion, in an effort to keep the problems from spreading to other countries. Greece, just a tiny part of the eurozone economy, could regain financial autonomy by leaving, these people contend — and the eurozone would actually be better off without a country that seems to constantly need its neighbors’ support.”

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/business/international/greece-debt-crisis-euro.html?_r=0

I hear ya, I used to be in the same boat when we had the ISP, anytime, any day... 

Check this out:

http://insidebitcoins.com/


DNotes is in the Rolling Headline News! Quite cool.

Perhaps this is a good time to offer to set up wallets for anyone who has expressed any interest in Dnotes/cryptos? A year ago, it was "Fiat = stable; cryptos = volatile and unknown."

But now it's: "fiat = less stable; Dnotes = established and rising steadily in price."

I am happily blogging away here:

http://cryptomoms.com/forum/cryptomoms-com/5/crypto-kindergarten/537/msg4348#new

Mark (IndiaMikeZulu), Australia

Well, RJF, at least you don't have to pick-up skype call at 3:00 AM (CST) with some saying "Did I wake you up? Oh, sorry, I forgot that we are not in the same time zone". LOL.

A warning for those using brain wallets.

Brainflayer: A Password Cracker That Steals Bitcoins From Your Brain

FOR BITCOIN FANS, the notion of a “brain wallet” has long seemed like the ideal method of storing your cryptocurrency: By simply remembering a complex passphrase, the trick allows anyone to essentially hold millions of dollars worth of digital cash in their brain alone, with no need to keep any records on a computer.

It turns out, however, that your mind is a surprisingly vulnerable place to put the key to your crypto-liquid assets. And now one hacker is releasing the brain-thieving software to prove it.

Next month at the hacker conference DefCon, security Ryan Castellucci plans to release a piece of software he calls Brainflayer, designed to crack bitcoin brain wallets and let any hacker suck out the digital cash stored in them. In fact, wise bitcoiners have known for years that brain wallets—despite their promise of hiding crypto treasure in the most private depths of the user’s mind—are often unsafe. Castellucci says his cracking program is designed to serve as a public demonstration of that insecurity for those who still haven’t gotten the message, and put an end to the practice for good.

[...]

The problem, says Castellucci, is that humans don’t choose strong, random passphrases as well as they think they do. And any hacker can patiently guess millions upon millions of passphrases, converting them into private keys and trying them on every bitcoin address on the blockchain, the public ledger of all bitcoin locations. Even when a bitcoin user thinks she has chosen a sufficiently strong passphrase for her brain wallet, Castellucci says it often can’t stand up to the cracking resources of thieves motivated by an instant cash reward. “The usual bitcoin private key is long enough that no one is going to guess it before the sun burns out,” says Castellucci. “But if they just have to guess your passphrase, they’re going to do it, because people are terrible random number generators.”

[...]

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/brainflayer-password-cracker-steals-bitcoins-brain/

Good find! Yep, you may need a team lol.

It's getting to be a full time job keeping up with you Alan! 

http://bitcoinist.net/dnotes-alan-yong-comments-regarding-greece-needs-a-global-currency/

Working on testing out a few formats for the site. I will likely be using wordpress as the platform.

If anyone is interested in working on the site layout and design, we would be happy to provide a bounty.

The bulk of the design will need to be around the content and layout of the content. We need to make it easy to find the information quickly. Possibly title/image style, click into the executive brief, with the option of digging in deeper into the content.

It is a bit important to make it easy to read and understand, and everyone reads it the same way. Intended to be read as D C E Brief. That can be achieved by separating DCE from Brief in some way.

maybe dceb should go all in caps like trademark

the big problem of using a QR like logo its the easy supplantation by anyone. but use the QR like end point works too.

They are. Thanks mochillies.

This is going to be an extremely important site that will target VIPs in the political, regulatory, media, and business world among others. If have you great talent in an area you believe could be helpful, please let us know. I encourage our community to give this project the highest level of support.

Great job Mochilles! Plenty of time left.

Yes, nice work, very professional looking and grabs your attention...

I agree!  I love the 4th one and it gets my vote, including best font.  

Those are excellent mochilles.

Not sure if I'm late to the logo party, but as a designer I couldn't help do my own interpretation.

http://i.imgur.com/OkcbZhE.png
http://i.imgur.com/swSpham.png
http://i.imgur.com/AV227VI.png
http://i.imgur.com/zqk95o7.png


And just for fun, extending our brand...

http://i.imgur.com/sgHugyY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ESNIAF9.jpg

That is a very interesting page. I presume quite a few of those top 10 would be DNotesVault addresses.

Nice Feature Story

Story Highlights

The Greek government might need to issue a digital currency of its own in case the country can no longer use the euro

Greece faces a deeper depression and higher unemployment if it returns to a potentially worthless drachma


NewsBTC
Sarah Jenn
By Sarah Jenn
Jul 7, 2015 7:00PM UTC

With the Greek debt crisis still far from over, Prime Minister Alex Tsipras is now considering alternatives to shifting back to a potentially worthless drachma. Bitcoin has been on the rise, thanks to capital controls imposed in the country, leading the Greek leader to consider digital currency solutions.

The Greek referendum has resulted in an overwhelming vote against additional austerity, which means that the country could forego the much-needed bailout and be forced out of the euro zone. However, it might be thrown deeper into depression and skyrocketing unemployment in that case.

Digital Currency Alternative

Greece is stuck between a rock and a hard place, but it appears that it might be better off staying in the euro zone. “Greeks have seen their living standards cut, unemployment is running at 26 percent, youth unemployment is over 50 percent and they’re about to face an even bigger depression,” mentioned former senior executive of PIMCO Mohamed El-Erian.

With that, Tsipras suggested that the Greek government could issue their own digital currency that might have more value in case the country can no longer use the euro. “What Greece needs, is to adopt a global digital currency that is built with trust and integrity for everybody worldwide, so that anyone may participate regardless of financial or economic standing,” explained DNotes founder Alan Yong.

“If Greece chooses to return to a national currency like the drachma, or government backed digital currency, it is unlikely that currency would have much value outside of Greece. Greek citizens will fear that the new currency will be worth much less than their current eurodeposits, and this will be counter-productive to preventing further bank runs. I believe that a digital currency that has its value set globally is the solution; a currency that remains stable regardless of local political turmoil,” he added.

Source: http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/07/07/greek-pm-tsipras-considering-a-digital-currency-solution/

Nice, I certainly wasn't aware there were so many options.