I posted this on Vericoin Face book international but I can't get the link to work
so here it is.
Remember it's for FaceBook-- Newbies and all
AKA Kevondo, I'm a Flower Power Guy, Ya know Peace,Love and Understanding. We were gonna change the world.
This is my first post to this page. It's much too long but I think the reader will come away with an understanding of what crypto Currencies R with a focus on VeriCoin. I ask for your indulgence.
Music was a major catalyst for me. CS&N's implorational "Teach Your Children" spoke to me with the line that you;
"must have a code; you can live by".
Tommy J's writing's assured me of my unalienable rights and thus was spawned "Kevondo's Rules".
They R many. They're always up for review, amendment, or disinclusion.
Here's a few:
"The Fat Lady never sings." (With apologies to Yogi Berra)
"All of Life is part of the Divine." (Hindu saying)
" Life is not Fair. GET OVER IT!" ( C "Eagles" tunes of same name)
IK'sHO The world is it's own dynamic engine and in a state of flux @ all times. What will never change is the "Human Condition", For me Maslow provides context.
http://eppicinc.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/maslowabc.jpgThen.... (in no particular order of importance) there's what I call the Big 3. MONEY, SEX, & POWER.
Next come the issues. Again just a sampling: Racism, Women's Rights, the environment, Sexual Orientation, Tobacco use and on and on.
So what does this all have to do with VeriCoin?
Kevondo's Rules include "Stay Current."
Take the "Integrated Circuit" (IC). Invented by Jack Kirby in 1958. The IC ended the 'Tyranny of Numbers" and opened Pandora's Box. Consumers got their first real taste of them with the hand-held calculator in the late 60's early 70's. By the late 70's "The Woz" (Steve Wozniak) came out of his garage with the microcomputer.
Fast forward to 2014 and Crypto Currencies (CC's). The immensity of the leap from the first common use of IC's to CC's.occurred in less than 40 years. Try to stay current with that!
This "BitCoin (BTC) Stuff" intrigued and confounded me. I listened and read, finally jumping into the pool this past April. I approached CC's as I would a Video Game played with money.
What I found out was, somebody or some group of guys calling themselves Satoshi Nakamoto published a White Paper in 2008. Here's the White Paper. Read @ your own risk. It's a mind messer.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/ui=2&ik=4cb27d6977&view=att&th=146e89762872814b&attid=0.1&disp=inline&realattid=f_hx0lzkh80&safe=1&zwThe identity/identities of the author(s) is an ongoing mystery. BTC sprung from this publication and morphing resulted in Alternative Coins (ALT's) all of which R CC's.
I would describe the CC World as a free for all between the best/worst character traits of humanity. There is no regulating body. The only absolute is the Computer Code which needs to be given instructions. That's what Coin Developers (Dev's) do. Anyone can create a coin ( The Code is Open Source) and It either works or doesn't. Then the free markets rules, and the game is on.
Anyone can play. U don't have to be a Dev. Coins can be bought and/or sold on the many exchanges which emulate the major stock exchanges. Except there R no rules. A MAJOR CAVEAT!!! LOL!
Besides purchasing coins outright. There r others ways to obtain them. The primary way is through cyber-mining.
A CC Dev creates a "Genesis Block". Coins come into being as a Reward to computers/miners for helping find/solve a mathematical problem/ algorithm which finds the next "Block". After a Block is found it has to be "Solved".
The Contributors/Workers/Miners get shares of the "Block Reward" for Solving each Block commensurate with the amount of "HASH"/solving power generated by their "mining rig/computer" and "aimed" @ the Block Chain (Each Block is linked to the previous one in numerical order forming a Chain of Blocks). Then another Block has to be "Found" by the miners and so on and so forth.
Coins R the Reward/Spoils of mining and r stored in cyber or paper "Wallets" where they are available for spending,exchanging, or staking ( another long explanation I won't go into now).
If all this doesn't get your monkey ready to throw a wrench. Read on
So I started mining and trading. Playin' the game. It's a lot of fun. Addictive in the vein of all video games. I'm running up a huge sleep debt, and my head gets tired Like never before. Could be because I'm old!!!! LOL
BTC is The Gold Standard.Iit isn't going any where ( at least until VeriCoin gets up to speed LOL!) and there r many solid coins with honest Dev's
But I'm tellin' ya. The lying, cheating, thievery, scamming and deciet I'm found was disheartening. When I told a friend I was gonna try mining he told me it was the "Wild West" and to watch out. I had no idea.
AND... there R'nt any sheriff's or conseqences. People spread Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt ( FUD in the lexicon of Crypto-Speak) with innuendo, lies, false postings, personal attacks, and Character assassination.
People and Dev's all have screen names. aliases, and r impossible to identify. This only enables and emboldens the under handed. You can't tell who anyone really is.!!
Dev's just disappear, letting their coin die after selling off secret stashes they wrote into the code for themselves.
Don't get me wrong now. There's a upside here. Satoshi's creation was as much a philosophical solution to the unremitting battle between humanity's dark side and the light and the way of peace and harmony. For me Satoshi was espousing the Democratazation of commerce. Taking it out of the death grip the goverments, money lenders, bankers and credit card companies have on modern society and giving it back to the people.
But it's up to the Humans who R involved and when skullduggery is afoot, one numbskull can ruin everything and there r herds of these low roaders swarming around through the accounting journals that are Crypto Currencies.
The way I'm playin' the game is by looking for Satoshi's Disciples. Dev's with a community around their coin who are on the "Light and the Way" Team.
I go about it by getting involved, and checking it out making up my own mind and look to build a relationship with the Dev's and the followers. Kevondo's Rule for relationships states
" ...Trust is the prime ingredient"
I Believe I've found them. They R the VeriCoin Team.
Again just speaking for me. Statoshi is the Yoda of Crypto.
I C the three Developers of Vericoin as The Jedi Knights of the Crypto Universe. Obiwan, Han Solo, and Luke, Han's donated the use of the Millenium Falcon so if U wanta' visit the Deigaba System I'm sure they'd be glad to drop U off on their way by. The rumor is Alpha Centuri is their first stop on the infinite expedition they're on. They R Boldly going.....
Come and Join the VeriCoin Community. Everyone's welcome.
To find out who the Dev's R in the real world.
Go Here
http://www.vericoin.info/ and Click on
The aren't hiding from anything or anyone. They're creating a new paradigm for us all. I call it "Satoshi's Template". But that's just me.