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The math shows no such evidence has been presented thus far in this thread. That doesn't mean something isn't occurring though.

I don't know about my health because haven't done the blood tests, xrays, and head scan yet. Maybe next week. All I can say for now is that with my current condition, I can't work a lot on the computer as it makes me very ill. Getting off the computer and out in the sunshine for days reduces the ill feelings. And concur upthread on the suggestions about natural diet.

Hopefully you're feeling better if you're back on here.

Any thoughts on BCX's claim that an attack is in progress and might take up to 22 days to materialize?

I see 12 blocks in 4 minutes.

We apply the Poisson distribution.

The probability that we will get 4 blocks in 4 minutes when the expected rate is 1 block per minute (4 blocks per 4 minutes) is:

p = 4⁴ / 4!e⁴ ≈ 19.5%, i.e. an occurrence expected roughly every 5 minutes.

The probability that we will get 12 blocks in 4 minutes when the expected rate is 1 block per minute (4 blocks per 4 minutes) is:

p = 4¹² / 12!e⁴ ≈ 0.064%, i.e. an occurrence expected roughly every 1559 minutes which is every 26 hours.

And note that the probably we get 10 - 14 blocks in 4 minutes is going to several times higher because we sum the probabilities for each of 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, thus an occurrence expected several times per day.

The definition of polynomial time is precisely the time complexity class O(n^k).

The relevance is that for NP complexity class, very small increases in n causes exponential (not polynomial) increases in computation cost.

If the best known inversions of SHA256 are NP, then NP is relevant because it means there is some smallish value of n for which no inversion is practical. Afaics, this is what complexity theory gains us.


Sir, in year 2000 I paid $30,000 for a week of work to Jeff Stock a former lead developer of Borland C to code the Objects Window in my Cool Page product. He had tested it with a few objects. I loaded it up with 1000 objects and it slowed to molasses. I asked him to fix the problem. After a few days he hadn't fixed it, so I took an hour to study his code and changed one line which reduced the time complexity from O(n^k) to O(log n).

Afaics, time complexity is relevant to computer science practice in the real world.

You don't care yet you sure have a lot to say.

Pardon me, I'm new around here... But my fresh perspective is that spoutnik comes across as rather hurt in the butt. In fact I can sense his ring burn from the other side of the world.

Spoetnik is maybe the guy who made it on the top 10 idiot list for Twitch.tv chat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfdky8Nmlic


That sounds exactly like something you would say

This may be an imperfect strategy. 
In communications, considering also the source and context may provide information beyond just the text posted.

rpietila has admitted to being and altcoin noob, (even though you don't believe that) so we might expect that he is likely not accustomed to the Alt section of the forum, in the same way that you are.
So it is understandable for me, your reaction to his posts.  Also understandable to me, is his perspective.
Text, and also the source and context may matter.

In every disagreement there is an opportunity to learn, both about the world, and about ourselves.
This is what makes the fight worth the bruises.

I am quoting you only because of your avatar.  The following is obviously speculation but I remember the past the same as the poster. 

Why did you need to fix it for me?

FTFY

When will Monero Labs start offering advanced classes in market manipulation, cult-like community building, and strategic pump and dumps?  I'd like to register.  : )

tough call man.. i believe when BCX said that but hey.. it's all business right ?
ya never know though there still may be a remote possibility he was trying to "sway" the market price.. what do i know ? hahah
don't matter to me either way.. i don't care about XMR's price LOL

smart point i see what your getting at.

i don't care so much who posts what here as WHAT itself is posted.
i will agree or disagree with anyone whether i like them or not.. i come here to discuss altcoins not use this as a hang out.
and many of us just go with it..
some of see each other talk and we don't necessarily agree with everything each other says..
for example, there has been the odd thing say BitcoinExpress or Kelsey has said i don't fully agree with but it's 100% perfectly fine..
we come here to share ides and to hash out some discussions about coins.. derailing things into personal matters is pointless bullshit.

i respect people that can handle a conversation not the ones who like me.. i don't care who likes me and that works both ways of course.
we don't have to agree and we don't have to get along but we need to try and ease up on the back stabbing and trolling and lying to defend bag holding coins.
see what i said in response here to the guys point ?
i don't think people get what i say most of the time they have a very superficial fleeting understanding of what is going on.
my response here relates to what was said.. i am staying ON-TOPIC lol

i say stuff as walls of text so i can be specific and not vague in case people are curious?
and i thank the guy earlier who said something in my defence..
thank you for trying to get the underlying message in my comments (not the tone or reading in between the lines)
all i see is this stuff as way of sharing your opinions.

and i always encourage others to share theirs and please do be passionate about it.. let's hear it.. speak up and take part in things

It's possible.

It's also possible BitcoinExpelled looked into his future, saw 40 years of hangovers and masturbating, and slurred out, "I'll show the bastards", and tried to implement code he knows nothing about.

BCX has been pretty clear in that BCX doesn't care about the price or money.
Change in price is irrelevant, that is just the fear, or whatever.
So far no evidence of an attack other than a DDoS or two, and BCX does not claim that as part of any attack that I know of.

True. But an attack on price was not what BCX said he was going to accomplish. It was in reference to the XMR protocol and its network security.

Thus far it appears the attack is only talk.

I'd like to be proven wrong or right...whichever but nevertheless end this pointless charade of ego inflating. 

Check this: http://chainradar.com/xmr/blocks

Looking fine

Almost 10 days, XMR is down 14% since then, so, I would say the attack was only minimally successful. I think BCX has the ability to disrupt the blockchain but only for minutes at a time.

Speaking of that, there hasn't been a new Monero block in 20 minutes.. 

What attack day # are we on now? Like 8? 9? 10?