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November 26, 2016, 06:53:21 PM
Instead of formal advertising, all advertisers need to do is buy some steempower and then automatically upvote anything that has their chosen keywords in it. Writers will automatically start including said keywords, so it is win-win, especially as it is a more natural form of advertising.

The problem is that the advertising industry is stuck in the old days where they advertise like they do in newspapers or on the search engines. It will take them awhile before they wrap their heads around a new model.

The new model will be that your users do your advertising. You can't buy this with money. You buy this by providing something to your users that they need to talk about with others.

Welcome the Knowledge Age that I (@AnonyMint) was writing about and predicting since 2013:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/economic-devastation-355212
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November 25, 2016, 08:31:59 PM
I like the fact that pow burns work because to me it will resolve into a gdp type metric that john nash said was required for the ideal currency...efficiency of power linearily will scale with how well economy is doing.. in general economy is an oraganic mechanism anyway... when you stop innovating you get recessions until a breakthrough evolved to create more efficient and new use cases in technology to help everyday life and understanding... ive been saying it since i first learned of bitcoin..
Disagree on the conclusion. Not every market can be considered the same and hence we may see a dichotomy of a few resilient markets charting their own course different from the larger world economy. On valuations, yes even the Indian markets are perhaps still over-valued by 10-15% from the long term averages, but it does not look like a complete lost case. The tide shall turn, if not in 2016 then surely in 2017 - the world will recover and we shall look back at an event that perhaps promised more than it delivered.
Ballsy saying that the world will rebound in 2016. We're still a decent ways away from getting close to getting out of the pre-recissionary scenario we're currently stuck in, and just a few commodities going up slightly in value isn't worth what you think it is. Companies have a long way to go to recover from this, and even then money has to start flowing again. A ton of people are holding fiat now.
It will if blockchain is a game changing tech which touches all people in thr world like internet did.. then perhaps 2025 to 2030 we may get out of recession and new cycle is.born
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November 25, 2016, 05:41:16 PM
I like the fact that pow burns work because to me it will resolve into a gdp type metric that john nash said was required for the ideal currency...efficiency of power linearily will scale with how well economy is doing.. in general economy is an oraganic mechanism anyway... when you stop innovating you get recessions until a breakthrough evolved to create more efficient and new use cases in technology to help everyday life and understanding... ive been saying it since i first learned of bitcoin..
Disagree on the conclusion. Not every market can be considered the same and hence we may see a dichotomy of a few resilient markets charting their own course different from the larger world economy. On valuations, yes even the Indian markets are perhaps still over-valued by 10-15% from the long term averages, but it does not look like a complete lost case. The tide shall turn, if not in 2016 then surely in 2017 - the world will recover and we shall look back at an event that perhaps promised more than it delivered.
Ballsy saying that the world will rebound in 2016. We're still a decent ways away from getting close to getting out of the pre-recissionary scenario we're currently stuck in, and just a few commodities going up slightly in value isn't worth what you think it is. Companies have a long way to go to recover from this, and even then money has to start flowing again. A ton of people are holding fiat now.
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November 25, 2016, 05:20:28 PM
I like the fact that pow burns work because to me it will resolve into a gdp type metric that john nash said was required for the ideal currency...efficiency of power linearily will scale with how well economy is doing.. in general economy is an oraganic mechanism anyway... when you stop innovating you get recessions until a breakthrough evolved to create more efficient and new use cases in technology to help everyday life and understanding... ive been saying it since i first learned of bitcoin..
Disagree on the conclusion. Not every market can be considered the same and hence we may see a dichotomy of a few resilient markets charting their own course different from the larger world economy. On valuations, yes even the Indian markets are perhaps still over-valued by 10-15% from the long term averages, but it does not look like a complete lost case. The tide shall turn, if not in 2016 then surely in 2017 - the world will recover and we shall look back at an event that perhaps promised more than it delivered.

Markets are organic just like cities are organic.. they all end up dying and being reborn through revolution.. once they reach peak nothing anyone can do but innovate to stop it.
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November 25, 2016, 01:53:20 PM
I like the fact that pow burns work because to me it will resolve into a gdp type metric that john nash said was required for the ideal currency...efficiency of power linearily will scale with how well economy is doing.. in general economy is an oraganic mechanism anyway... when you stop innovating you get recessions until a breakthrough evolved to create more efficient and new use cases in technology to help everyday life and understanding... ive been saying it since i first learned of bitcoin..
Disagree on the conclusion. Not every market can be considered the same and hence we may see a dichotomy of a few resilient markets charting their own course different from the larger world economy. On valuations, yes even the Indian markets are perhaps still over-valued by 10-15% from the long term averages, but it does not look like a complete lost case. The tide shall turn, if not in 2016 then surely in 2017 - the world will recover and we shall look back at an event that perhaps promised more than it delivered.
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November 25, 2016, 01:51:26 PM
I am also from India and facing this issue as well.The main reason behind this have our government is taken a huge step and banned the higher value notes to take control of black money.So peoples here are trying to either buy gold with them quickly and some who know about bitcoins want to buy it.
Every day i see in our india exchange btcxindia.com,the price of bitcoin is just inreasing.

Is gold viable as a currency? How do you trade a gold necklace for a hamburger?

Wouldn't an instant currency transfer with your mobile phone be more practical?

Aren't Indians very fond of having a smart phone as soon as they can afford one?

The government can't stop people from using crypto-currency unless they block the Internet.

Am I correct that Indians hate to pay taxes?


Sadly yes indian dont love to pay taxes but i am totally against it because there is a huge lot of black money in our country which is slowing down country's progress for sure,thats why that strong step being taken to remove all those black money.

Bitcoin can be an option but still to buy bitcoin people have to first deposit their cash to bank account and then buy bitcoin and i that way government can track that big amount is being deposited but yes they can never know how much bitcoins have been holded and hence cannot take tax for that.

Bitcoin has that problem of onboarding, but Steem(it) does not. And there is a better clone/kind of Steem(it) coming which I think is going to make it very easy for the people to get crypto-currency without needing to go through an exchange. And then the world will change. I say this, because I am the person who is creating this new project.

Why is not paying taxes bad for your country? The government is the most inefficient use of resources, so keeping resources out of the government's hands should be the best for growing the economy.

An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.”  ― Lazarus Long

You think the government is the only entity which can build roads, schools, and provide food and health care to the indigent?

Rather the problem in India is your country doesn't allow foreigners to invest there without a lot of corrupt bureaucracy. The problem of India is all the corruption. I read there are corrupt police and officials and it is very difficult and dangerous to attempt to do business there.

So what you really need in India is to stop the caste system and stop the corruption.

With crypto-currency and the Internet, we can empower the people of India to rise above the corruption, because the government officials can't control the Internet, the way they can control the lands, the licenses to build infrastructure and do physical business. The virtual economy is global and the people can increasingly go to it to earn income which can't be corrupted.

This is the future.
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November 24, 2016, 09:23:46 PM
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November 21, 2016, 12:12:18 PM
I like the fact that pow burns work because to me it will resolve into a gdp type metric that john nash said was required for the ideal currency...efficiency of power linearily will scale with how well economy is doing.. in general economy is an oraganic mechanism anyway... when you stop innovating you get recessions until a breakthrough evolved to create more efficient and new use cases in technology to help everyday life and understanding... ive been saying it since i first learned of bitcoin..
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November 20, 2016, 07:10:22 PM
I - Not able to create value, destined to be a tool in the hands of people in (IV)
II - Able to create value, ability to live independently/collectivistically in a voluntaristic world
III - Able to create value to the extent that money is never the bottleneck as you can always exchange value for money as needed
IV - Able to create money
  IVA - Able to threaten, coerce and bribe, (drone-DU-bomb, etc.) all the world to submit to you
  IVB - Able to just let others follow you, and able to enable the leadership position as well for anyone who wishes to pick it up.

Creating as much money as needed is a lie to yourself. Money can't buy knowledge creation:

It is the knowledge creation which is needed and valuable. Money is a claim on resources, but not a claim on knowledge creation (because it can't be, read my essay linked above).

Knowledge is not money, because money is fungible whereas knowledge is not.

Knowledge creation capability does determine where you fit in my scale above, and I have bolded it for you, AnonyMint. No matter how well off you may be with your knowledge creation skills, if you lack the prerequisites to monetize them (the skills, or the knowledge, or contacts, or any subset), you are still in the early stages of my ladder. Also the environment matters greatly.

When all the things that change the world and impact evolution have shifted to knowledge creation, which money can't buy, then influence over and actual knowledge creation are more valued than money. You can go buy all the useless castles you want, while I change the world. Then we will compare accomplishments.

Also pray tell Satoshi that I can't monetize my Bitcoin killer. He certainly did. But money isn't the goal and he presumably knew that also.

My goal is to move us to the next stage where knowledge creation is important and money (hard resources) less so. Atoms are heavy, but finitely so. Knowledge creation is unbounded. Compare.

In short, your ladder is not a metric of greatest importance. It the illusion that is going to trap the capitalists as we move towards the return of Jesus where resources don't matter any more. Jesus is coming technologically even if not literally.

That is why I suggested you should use your money for good while it still has any relevance. Yeah I am in a rough spot right now financially, but Jesus told me to walk with nothing and stay focused on what is important. (that doesn't mean I am a saint!)

The ones in IVB, have the burden on changing the environment (by replacing the existing world system with a better one) to enable us to move on to the next stage as humanity. When that happens, then your dreaming will become true, but it seems others have to make the transition as you are unwilling to raise your level (which I have done, after we did business together in 2008).

Raising your level in the wrong direction has made you much less likely to have any important impact. You are moving farther away from any sensible decentralized lurch towards the knowledge age with your socialist monetary scheme which is competing directing with the TPTB because it is a power vacuum direction.

Whereas, I am creating technological advances which decentralize and eliminate the power vacuum. And also provides a basic level income for a basic level of work. Which is the way it should be, not some socialistic scheme.

It can never be a truth that money which is created by following leaders is an honest/truthful or nonviolent money system, because it will always be a power vacuum.

Is any of the readers buying this? I think the exact opposite is true.

The only non power vacuum will come from technology that renders concentrated control over wealth impotent over anything other than resource capitalism.

Bitcoin failed because it burns a physical resource.

The positive scaling law of Linus' law is the solution. It is the only positive scaling law of software (technology) engineering. And it also applies to truth in a way that I am going to be the first to bring to a money system.

Please continue thinking of me as lower on your ladder. I am confident that is what they thought of Jesus too as he humbly hung out with the bankers and prostitutes because he said that is where the ripe fruit was for saving souls.


Edit: Adam Smith pointed out that those trying to promote the public interest often do worse than those who work for their own optimum economics, due to the invisible hand (or otherwise stated, "you can't do just one thing" ... see how conversationalists destroyed the rivers by trying to save the wildlife from predator wolves). Your goody-goody socialistic coin is in the same genre of myopia:

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/gdp-topic/econ-intro-in-macro-tutorial/v/introduction-to-economics
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November 20, 2016, 12:07:33 PM
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November 18, 2016, 10:58:04 AM
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Gun toting American conservative OROBTC thinks that it may be a TOXIC BREW of Socialism and demographics that will ultimately kill American society as we have always known it.  Letting in more immigrants (particularly toxic ones) willy-nilly will only add to the Democrat Party and the Free Stuff Army.

I wonder how much howling & screaming we will hear if Trump really goes to work eradicating ObamaCare...

I am thinking about this a little bit and the big point that sticks out is that when the US dollar loses its status as the reserve currency of the world, this is going to bankrupt the Federal government.

But the States of the USA, have never been able to run perpetual budget deficits.

Trump election shows us the country is politically divided between rural and metropolitan. The "city slicker" derogatory term from the Civil War is still relevant today.

So it seems to me that Trump is going to be the President that presides over the return of the assertion States rights. He even admits that overturning Roe vs. Wade will return the question to the States. He said on 60 Minutes, "well maybe it means a woman will have to travel to another State to get an abortion".

I am very clearly now seeing Armstrong's computer's prediction for the breakup of the USA into regions.

By Trump lowering Federal taxes, he is making the USA competitive again at the State level. Effectively what this does is take resources from the Federal government and make it available at the State level. He is effectively returning us to States' rights.

And I think the globalists want to weaken the Federal government because it creates a power vacuum which opens the door to world government authority, because those States still need to interopt with the world in an international rule of law, not chaos.

Russia and China are primed to fill some of the power vacuum void vacated by the USA as an international super power on the decline. The elites are moving us towards power sharing with international monetary institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.

So the elites will subjugate the conservatives in the USA by their being outvoted in the international community. The conservative States will not have enough political power at the international level to have their policies and voices matter on any decisions or law, trade, migration, etc.. Eventually at some point, they will simply be overpowered. The elite have taken a long-term view because the conservative bastions within the USA are very difficult to defeat head-on.
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November 18, 2016, 10:40:09 AM
Gold, silver and other assets can still be used by society and held as reserve capital.

Agreed and it will be used by the very wealthy for that purpose (in a weighted basket in the SDRs), but my point is precious metals won't be liquid as a daily unit-of-exchange in a Mad Max collapse scenario.

Precious metals can help you preserve wealth over long periods of time, but it is not a liquid asset when the people around you desperately need food, water, medicine, and guns. And the gold dealers have been basically shut down by the lack of a futures market makers and banking system. You won't have enough size to call up Rothschilds or other wealthy elite and negotiate a deal with your gold. Gold at our size of holdings is really only useful when the financial economy is functioning, not in a Mad Max collapse scenario.
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November 18, 2016, 07:44:25 AM

This is why now physical money can't move us forward. Gold and silver could only take us back to a Dark Age. We must move forward, because the degrees-of-freedom in society had shifted due to technological advancement. I would need to write another essay to explain this in more detail and don't have the time nor cognitive energy to do it now.

Gold, silver and other assets can still be used by society and held as reserve capital.   They dont have to swapped every day as coins to be part of the overall system and I think they will continue to be useful standards of value even in a technologically successfully financed global population.
We need assets not just traded and speculated value.  Even though gold is ironic in its value I think it will be used at some price, it could be at a much lower price.  Its likely to be elevated by the unnecessary volatility of the failing dollar political system

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we'll suffer from the financial crisis that will be the worst the world has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s

The fact you reference a decade not a year is down to government and the perpetuation of a failure that if capitalist would have occurred in one year.  The failure of some being carried by the benefit of those in society now able to progress better for the clearing of the broken companies.   When everybody fails on both sides of a deal you have the idea of a depression and its usually tied to force applied by a government not capitalism itself
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November 17, 2016, 10:41:49 PM
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Gun toting American conservative OROBTC thinks that it may be a TOXIC BREW of Socialism and demographics that will ultimately kill American society as we have always known it.  Letting in more immigrants (particularly toxic ones) willy-nilly will only add to the Democrat Party and the Free Stuff Army.

I wonder how much howling & screaming we will hear if Trump really goes to work eradicating ObamaCare...
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November 17, 2016, 11:10:21 AM
Well the OP of this thread is still correctly predicting the outcome...


Fascinating blog post from Armstrong!

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/understanding-cycles/the-collapse-of-socialismmarxism/

Note that chart is the collapse of socialism, so that rise you see after 2018, is the rise of the move to private assets and out of public assets. It is not a rise in the economy of USA/Europe. Make sure you understand this, so you don't commit a category error.

That chart seems to indicate that Europe's socialism will be in full collapse mode by 2018.

Is it collapse of socialism or rising of socialist revolution from his post of 2 days ago? Can't have both.

Collapse of the socialism economy is normally congruent with the rise in popular outcry and fanatical support for socialism. An example is Germany's devolution into the Wiemar Republic followed by full scale megadeath and eugenics with the Socialist-Fascist Nazi final stage self-destruction.

From the Understand Everything Fundamentally essay of mine which CoinCube had cited in the OP of the Economic Devastation thread:

It amazes that otherwise bright people can’t understand the simple concept that economic collapse doesn’t convert collectivists into anarchists.”


Edit: the USA appears to be unique in that the conservatives are strong enough (and have millions of guns which they won't willingly turn over to any government edict), that the socialists can't ram this devolution down the throat of the conservatives. So it appears Trump has been placed into the office so that the conservatives can be blamed for the economic collapse to further divide the liberals and conservatives. I think the plan is to bring a war of attrition against the conservatives by isolating them. Russia and China are just pretending to be the friend of the conservatives in order to weaken the USA via divide-and-conquer, but when the war comes they will be against the conservatives. It might be a psyops war, so obfuscated. I need to study and think more about this. I don't have a complete conceptualization yet. The elite know that the gun toting conservatives in the USA are a big stumbling block that must be weakened on their way to a new world order. Perhaps it is merely sufficient to create disarray and fragmentations, so that the different factions have no choice but to accept the IMF SDR system after the global monetary reset circa 2018 or so.
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November 04, 2016, 01:58:42 PM
The economic systems that hold us to ransom and the corrupt governments that rule us instead of serve us, are the two melting pots of failure that have plagued us for thousands of years. We need honest governance, or no government at all, I don't mean anarchy but i WOULD PREFER smaller councils, like village councils where all people come together and debate what is needed most to improve the villages etc. That would change things for the better. Stronger micro economic systems are needed instead of us all relying on big government to help us.
Micro management is prevalent in third world socieities is that what you mean? Lets go back 150 years?

Technology is needed ti revamp government.. we still need the current setup but we just need technology to manage it more efficiently
That is right. We need to maintain the current one but what we need is advance in technology that will increse efficiency which will result in greater speedy economic activities that can help sustain everyone instaed of the slow phase economic activities that goes 10 years for something that were supposed to be done in few days.
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November 04, 2016, 08:45:53 AM
The economic systems that hold us to ransom and the corrupt governments that rule us instead of serve us, are the two melting pots of failure that have plagued us for thousands of years. We need honest governance, or no government at all, I don't mean anarchy but i WOULD PREFER smaller councils, like village councils where all people come together and debate what is needed most to improve the villages etc. That would change things for the better. Stronger micro economic systems are needed instead of us all relying on big government to help us.
Micro management is prevalent in third world socieities is that what you mean? Lets go back 150 years?

Technology is needed ti revamp government.. we still need the current setup but we just need technology to manage it more efficiently
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