Topic: Do you think "iamnotback" really has the" Bitcoin killer"? - page 30. (Read 79971 times)

I think he is really smart, but having great ideas is not the same thing as implementing them and facilitating mass adoption


Bitcoin has scaling problems that need to be addressed. Currently, iamnotback is not even on the Bitcoin threat radar.

I have not followed this closely in a year.... but I see the same thing as before. Discussion about various naming options

Urban Dictionary is an example of an app that should be hosted on a blockchain, so the database and the votes are open and objective and not owned by anyone. One of the many apps I hope to see on OpenShare.

And here is a way to monetize it:

https://urbandictionary.store/products/tshirt?word=TBD

And please put the damn definition on the back of the shirt!

This is an example of how I am thinking "out of the box". More to come...

P.S. You can't scale this on Ethereum. Fugetaboutit.

When can you take my money?

Marketing...

I'll take a peek. Thanks for the tip. Suggestions on good developers are always welcome. I also have some interest in Steem's core developer (he writes excellent code) and we've exchange comments already on Steemit.

The liver pain has moderated (acute pain is gone, just fatigue remains) by keeping my diet focused on meat, milk fat, and rice. Meat fats are actually the most efficient nutritional source. Sleeping about 10 - 12 hours, then have energy for about 6 - 8 hours. But the symptoms oscillate, so might just be an upwave effect. 11 - 14 more days on the intensive phase of the meds. Fingers crossed.

Edit: spoke too soon, as 15 minutes after writing the above, some liver pain has returned only a few hours since I woke up. As I said, the symptoms are quite variable. But I did eat a bean mini-burrito upon waking so maybe that is the cause.

@Iamnotback


Fair enough. Yeah you got to have someone who is public, someone as Nassim Taleb would say has some skin in the game.

There are some good guys out there i think. I have been following Coval on their slack, Michael Sullivan and Shannon Code seem like guys who just want to build something and not build the next scam. Good luck with meds.

I'm also creating a new programming language as well as a new blockchain design. Ambitious. Vitalik-esque but more pragmatic and less Star Trekky space cadet.

Yet you didn't know the difference between equities and money.

Nope. Next question?

Im exactly on this kind of line with my project, on language, typing, and studying this sort of problematic

I dont have online wrote about the theory and study thought, other than some old post on devos forum, but ill write more explanation on the global idea and implementation in some time.

@Fatoshi, there's no need to panic yet. Delegation is also dilution of momentum, focus, leadership, etc. There is a reason Ethereum Classic didn't prosper and that is because Vitalik isn't leading Classic. Leaders can't delegate leadership. If I am not the right leader, then I won't succeed. But I don't succeed by not leading especially at the nascent stage. The Mythical Man Month also applies very profoundly especially at the nascent stage. I'd spend more time communicating everything that is in my head on every little nuance, than the other person(s) would spend actually getting anything done. Open source avoids to a large extent this Mythical Man Month effect, when the contributors are autonomous. How can they be autonomous when there isn't even an existing project and skeleton for them to work from autonomously (i.e. being autodidact). Even Monero had already Bytecoin, a fork, and Cryptonote whitepaper as a starting point for open source collaboration. Once the project reaches a critical mass, then one person is ineffective, and then open source takes over. But at the nascent stage, even two cooks can be less efficient than one in some cases. If the two cooks are co-equals who've been involved together since the beginning, that can work. But bringing in more cooks when one is trying to start the first recipe, is a recipe for muddling it. This is especially true when what is being cooked has never been cooked before and is to a large extent still only existing in one person's head. The draft whitepaper is around 30,000+ words and 250+ cited references. I got exhausted in December and decided I couldn't write everything down. Btw, before @smooth started (or just after) Aeon and got involved in Steem, we explored about the possibility of working together. And he is very skilled and very intelligent. But even then, it was a lot of communication load. It really isn't easy to integrate two cooks, and especially when you are not in the same office daily or at least able to video conference instantly without notice throughout the work day.

The gist of my plan is to try to get as quickly as possible to some point where others could contribute.

P.S. If you are wondering why @smooth and I didn't work together, from my perspective it was probably because a) he is very highly paid, b) he is anonymous (so that means no video or voice communication), c) I didn't have a final design and sufficient confidence yet in 2015, d) slight clash of personalities and priorities perhaps although we didn't get deep enough to know this for sure, e) I felt it would create animosity with Monero's community and I didn't feel confident enough to put this potential problem on him, f) potential conflicts of interest given for example he is the moderator Monero's main thread here. Mostly I would emphasize my illness and that I wasn't ready, then he got involved in Aeon and Steem. Also as much as I respect everything he has done that is publicly visible, his anonymity was point of worry for me.

Sorry to state the obvious cause I haven't followed the full trajectory of your ideas of project but if you are struggling with finding the effort to code your concepts into reality why don't you try to bring in a couple of respected people from this site that you can delegate work too, people with real world identities who can be held accountable if they were to plagiarise your work or try to be less than faithful?


You could do something like NEM did and build coders and community around your core ideas. If done right it seems to me like you can still lead and have full control but be supported in more grunt work. Maybe promising a small percentage of coins to coders you bring in.

Trying to be the astute manager again that enabled me to get projects completed.

Note we really need a better programming language for the apps that will be built on the blockchain. That is what the linked discussion is about.

Looking forward to this.

Even if he made a vastly superior coin to BTC it wouldn't kill it. BTC has had to much time in the public eye for any other coin to overtake it. In the future, with more people involved, we might see a shift to a better coin but for now, BTC is untouchable.

Good luck with your health and project(s).

Thread title is ideal for a prediction market, ain't it? 

I am just waiting for my original health to come back, so I can go vroooooom.


Liver pain (which also causes the back of my head to itch and ache and chronic fatigue) is preventing me from doing any productive work. Just sleeping always (not always comfortably). 12 (to 15) more days on the 4 drug regimen. The meds are toxic to the liver (as was the disseminated TB infection before I started the meds). But there is no guarantee that the liver pain won't continue for the additional 16 weeks (minus 3 days) on the 2 drug regimen.    

I'll go for another liver enzymes test.

At least in 12 - 15 days I stop the drug which is so toxic to the optic nerve. Which is damn dangerous for me considering I am already blind in one eye. And I have become very near-sighted in the other eye.

Please no suggestions. Just have to finish my treatment. There are no shortcuts. Even there is no guarantee this treatment is going to work, but I am optimistic. @dinofelis I can't finish that debate/discussion on entropy right now as I am too cognitively limited for the time being.

There is a much better new PaMZ treatment for TB coming from the http://TBalliance.org in a couple of years. In Phase 3 trials now. Will also be effective against MDR-TB.

The current treatment for MDR-TB is horrific:


I don't know if I have MDR-TB or not. I suppose my risk of having it is greater than 4%. I am not treating for MDR-TB, which is very frustrating because if I have MDR-TB, then the treatment I am doing now is useless (well it might reduce bacterial load temporarily in any case). Unfortunately my filipino doctor did not culture my spitum before prescribing meds, thus I think there is no way to culture it now for testing resistance. We just have to wait to see if the TB comes back again. Any way, the MDR-TB treatment is so horrific, it is probably better to try to wait for the PaMZ treatment to become approved. I will have ingested 480 large tablets when my treatment is completed.

Btw, most of those over age 60 here the Philippines don't survive the medicines. I hear so many first-hand accounts of fathers who died of liver failure when attempting to cure TB. Could be the high rate of alcoholism. I should make it through because I don't drink and I still do some running once in a while on these meds. I think maybe my liver flared up again because I was indulging in eating all the things I used to love to eat before I got sick such as pizza and dark chocolate. Back to my monotonic diet again. Our liver is much less durable after age 50.

I wonder how a distribution would work?



I kind of like the idea of people having to put their nuts on the line in terms of buying a set percentage of a coin with BTC....but not this being like 20% of total coins BUT nearly all the total supply....with 5-10% going to development.  I think it rewards individual and community risk. The byteball distribution just made richer people richer...and zero risk.


lets see what he comes up with...

Kind of... the more accepted definition is that Byzantine fault tolerance allows non-faulty nodes to still form a consensus and produce the same output even with the presence of a high percentage of faulty nodes.  Most BFT algorithms are able to cope with 20-33% of nodes in a faulty state and ensure that the network can still function perfectly well.

A "faulty" node is quite ambiguous though, as you can't ever determine if a node is experiencing a general malfunction, an isolated error due to being sent incorrect information, simply lagging behind (bandwidth saturation, DDoS) or is dishonest.  Thus any schemes that penalize faulty nodes are very dangerous as they could easily escalate to large amounts of honest nodes being penalized for innocent errors.