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And you wonder why I don't try?!


WTF! is wrong with you?  

I will kick your ass in spite of my illness.  

I made extensive and important ontopic posts upthread and there is also a human element to development too. Where the fuck is your humility and compassion?


No you don't have to apologize to that snot fuck. Why do you let him brow beat you and use peer pressure to lower your sensibility and humanity?

Call him out instead. Embarrass him for his lack of human spirit.


I apologize in advance to other readers to introduce so much personal information into the thread (and surely you know I take a great risk that none of you are willing to take by putting your real photos in public!! I avoided this for 2 years!!), but perhaps it is necessary this one time in order to clarify a few points. So let's try to make it once only.

I have always been a jock or athlete, in addition to being a nerd or hacker of sorts. It is rarer combination, but I am not the only one of those. For example, I had a friend and competitor Brad from Bevelry Hills H.S, who had higher SAT scores than me and he beat me in the 800 meter race (the 2nd time, I won the first meet). I think he went on to do something more mainstream than hacking, but I didn't keep in touch. In high school, I ran a sub-4:30 mile, sub-16 min 5K, 35 minute 10K (on a whim and not in best trained shape), yet I also ran 4.5 second 40. For most of my youth, I was in American football (my natural sport since age 5), then I shifted to XCountry and Track when I moved from my birthplace New Orleans, LA to Culver City, CA in 1980. My athleticism is more focused in power and not endurance, but I did the endurance sport because I was in love with the social aspects (running from Culver City to Hunnington Beach and watching the sunset, etc) of it at that age and also I like different challenges and experiences. Frankly I never reached my peak potential in endurance running, because I had too many nerd distractions such as creating WordUp in the mid-1980s which was one of the world's earliest full-feature WYSIWYG word processors.





Here is a pic of myself in 1993-1995 when I worked on what became now Corel Painter:



In 1999, I was at the peak of my career with CoolPage running up to 335,000 published websites users (million or so downloaded copies) and athletically I was in incredible shape. See photo below on the day (Dec. 1, 1999) I was attacked and lost vision in my right eye.



After that my personal life went into disarray and I'd rather not mention all the details out-of-respect for the other party involved.

By 2004 or so, I had recovered physically and emotionally, and in 2005 I started to realize there was a problem in the global economy (my suspicions had started with 9/11) and had discovered gold, silver, etc..




In any case, in 2006 I believe I was infected with a high strain of the HPV virus, and I believe that was a strong contributing factor to my decline thereafter. I still was able to run and even got 2nd place in my 35+ age group for 5K, but it wasn't the same. I didn't have the same oomph and endurance. But it wasn't yet debilitating, just a reduction in my performance. Yet from 2006 to 2010 or 2011, I was still able to pretty much go in the gym or any athletic activity and perform with a lot of power and speed. The deleterious effects up to that point were mainly sustaining energy and endurance and recovery time the next day.

In 2010 or 2011, my feet started to swell, tinnatus in my ears, severe cramping, etc.. The neuropathy had kicked into high gear. You can see the severe eye bags on me in 2010 in the following photo yet also notice how muscular I am (more so than in my 20s).



By 2012, I was hospitalized for h.pylori infection, and after that my body went into a tailspin.

Yet through most of this, I didn't lose my speed and power, except starting around 2013/14, I started to lose power especially on my left side. And in 2014 it was getting so bad that I was getting very desperate. I suppose due to my lifelong athleticism and my continued attempts to fight the M.S. with athletics, I was able to sustain longer than others do with the illness, but yet I was succumbing to it.

But you can see even in this pic in 2014, I was still athletic even though I was struggling every day with debilitating symptoms, I just have incredible will power because of of the long distance running I did over the years where I had to endure extreme pain as a matter of sport and competition:



On my other computer I have photo that shows my face covered with welts and extreme fatigue that was taken also in 2014. Sorry I didn't take many photos of myself when I was feeling horrible. I took photos on those days where I had a burst of energy. M.S. is relapsing thus there can be a good day out of a month. And I would go full blast athletics on those rarer good days.

I had noticed that in all the remedies I had experimented with, only the high dose vitamin D3 that I had tested for 1 week in 2012 (and again for 1 week in 2013) had on both occasions eliminated most if not all of the ill health symptoms. But I was afraid to continue that high dosing of vitamin D3 due to risks of kidney damage. So then my M.S. worsened.

Around the end of March, I got into a horrendous argument with my mother because she expressed no sympathy for what I am going through. I got so pissed off, I felt I didn't care any more if I destroyed my kidneys and I was tired of being this fucking whining ass loser that I become relegated to that my mother could look down on me, when in fact I had accomplished much more in my life (before allowing my life to get involved with the wrong people and venues which lead to my downfall).

My mom and I on better days back in 1995:



So I redid the research on the vitamin D3 and found much  more information than in 2012, such as video from the Brazilian neurologists (graduated and interned in the USA) and his claims on curing 95% of 3000+ M.S. patients.

So I decided to renew the vitamin D3 treatment and sustain it, hell or high water.

And thus far, it is working reasonably well and I have a lot more energy and have been working up to 18 hours daily lately. Unfortunately my M.S. got much worse since 2012, thus the vitamin D3 is not giving me the complete cure in 1 week as it appeared to do before. But the quality of my life is drastically improved already and I am hoping for continued improvement.

So back to your main contention, even when I had these horrendous symptoms 2012 - 2015, I would still force myself with superhuman willpower to go out and exercise hard and I could still run fast or do some power activity, but I could not sustain it long. My sprints dropped from 10 x 150 meters to 1 or 2 x 150 meters.

Since I got on the high dose vitamin D3 (since April 1 at least), my endurance and energy is rising. One day I did 350 pushups, then immediately 8 minutes for 2 kms, then 4 x 150 meters sprints. It is no where near what I used to be able to do and what I am sure I could still do if I wasn't sick, but it is a significant improvement and I am grateful.

My problem right now is I am in a financial stress, because my savings is held by a precious metals dealer and they can't seem to give it all to me. They dole it out a little by little and I am afraid they may stop. And thus I am surviving with very little cash cushion.

And I am diverting my energies onto to projects (hoping to raise cash more surely and quickly) which are much less important than what I think I could probably contribute in crypto.

P.S. when I was 26 I looked like I was 16. The following pic was taken in New Orleans in 1991.

Don't say I haven't tried!

The DEEP STATE doesn't want to double-spend nor destroy Bitcoin. That is myopic, childish thinking. They have $trillions already (admitted on national TV by for Head of D.o.D. Donald Rumsfeld on the eve of 9/11). What they want is control and to enforce the legal bullshit they enact with their control over government. They can use the Sybil attack to force you to submit your identification when you submit a transaction or to delay or blackout transactions from people who challenge their totalitarian grip on power over the NWO and the inevitable one-world reserve currency regime coming.

Bitcoin is part of the grand plan for Global Technocracy and total top-down digital control. And it is a marvelous success. You suckers are falling for it.


I do agree and believe this is the Trojan horse planted by the engineers who created Bitcoin knowing full well that the DEEP STATE would commission others to do it if not them, so they might as well enable the possibility for us to upend Bitcoin.

And damn, I am going to (attempt to) do just that! (especially if I can get some minimal financing to cover my meager expenses so i can work full-time on crypto)

Add: actually I don't want to upend Bitcoin. I just want to provide an alternative that has a compelling use case as well fixes the centralization hole in Bitcoin. I do think Bitcoin will spread out to the masses, regardless of anything I do. I am leveraging Bitcoin as a reserve currency for the altcoins and thus I don't need to disparage Bitcoin for that role. I am not unrealistically trying to stop the inevitable one-world reserve currency new order, rather I am trying to find a way to co-exist with it and maintain my personal liberty.

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Laws are impotent (and nullified) if they are unenforceable. Example, an anti-jaywalking law for isolated rural dirt roads.

The Sybil attack vector is another facet of enforcement and control. The Sybil attack vector is also the historical modus operandi profile of the banksters because they love to have a paradigm where the masses believe the ideology ("one CPU, one vote", "decentralized mining") yet the truth is they insidiously and covertly control the strings behind the curtain.

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There are much more enjoyable vocations I would rather be doing than this shit, like hanging out at the beach at my advanced age with a beautiful lady or raising a family (I am 50 but said I look 30s face and body despite the Multiple Sclerosis). Instead I slog away because I don't want to live in a totalitarian world with no options coming Orwellian global economics collapse starting in earnest 2017 or 18 (with initial effects in at least Europe starting October, 2015).

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Higher orphan rate favors the larger pools since they are going to be better connected and thus will mine the orphaned blocks less frequently. This is related to some of the points and math from the selfish mining paper.

Larger blocks = more centralization (whether it is covert or not is irrelevant). As I said, they can't get a solution without changing to my solution.

Perhaps some of you didn't see that I revealed my math on the solution to selfish mining in my refutation of gmaxell.


Shame on you for conflating individual degrees-of-freedom with groupwise molasses inertia.

Well to be honest I was just thinking about fiat currencies. What totally went over my head was the control and regulation of Bitcoin. The IRS and US government entities are having a heart attack over Bitcoin and trying to regulate the hell out of it. Didn't even cross my mind, despite being on "Bitcointalk"    I do agree with you there is stiff economic control in that aspect.

Inspired to see you understood and/or agreed with my point, despite "Lol" slandering me in your prior post and not quoting or acknowledging that I had made the same point as you did in the post immediately before yours as follows.


The power held by the banksters who have captured the government through the power vacuum of the Iron Law of Collective Action, is not limited to printing money at the Central Banks. This DEEP STATE has the power to do 9/11, unmask 100s of Tor .onion hidden services, and more saliently to our discussion they can render competition insolvent with regulatory requirements they create with the government they control (i.e. democracy is a lie and a power vacuum, and I was making the analogy that pools are also).

If you want to defeat this paradigm, you are going to have to think more out-of-the-box, because it patently obvious to me they designed Bitcoin.

Regarding my design solution to this problem, once you see my solution you will have an epiphany and realize there are a gamut of choices of what we centralize and what we decentralize, and it is those choices which determine whether the crypto-currency falls into the power vacuum or not.

You can start by showing me some mutual respect, which I will then return in kind. Or not. It won't stop me in either case.

P.S. I seriously have Multiple Sclerosis. If you had any clue what it is like to battle this (debilitating headaches, dizziness, and chronic fatigure, etc), you might understand why I was incapable of a lot of coding action from 2012 to 2015, until I discovered what appears so far to be a viable treatment a month ago.

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That is an elegant way of arguing what is the more fundamental tenet or key aspect of Satoshi's contribution and invention, which was my point.

We also have to admit it was likely a ruse to suck us into wetting our ideological underwear and falling into the trap of a centralized public ledger Digital Kill Switch.

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There is. I was very skeptical and had basically given up on finding a solution. But it turns out that I was thinking about the problem the wrong way. Paradigm shift epiphanies are like this. And of course the blinded won't believe it until you spell it out for them.


Of course. But again I detect that you are likely playing politics and preparing to slander something again which is your past pattern of behavior.

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Did you completely fail to read the post I made about pools being a Sybil attack vector?

You have no way of knowing if a Sybil attack in occurring now at the pools. You don't have to see an overt attack.

Did humanity see an attack on their government over the past 80+ years while the DEEP STATE has been festering?

If you were trying to grow Bitcoin into a global centralized ledger, would you reveal your hand too soon and cause the frogs to jump out of the pot? Of course not!

The totalitarianism comes all at once at the end game. You can remain blissfully ignoring that possibility if you want. Most humans cows do and so do frogs that boil in the pot. Bitcoin was designed to suck you into complacency and disbelief in (cognitive dissonance groupthink slander of logical, rational) dissension.

I suggest you retract your pitiful attempts to slander whether I am logical. You won't likely win a logic debate against me. Smooth might, but you are not capable.

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Apparently you don't understand well that a Sybil attack can be not detectable, especially when the power it wields is not yet being fully utilitized in every facet. If I were the DEEP STATE, I would continue to lay the ground work of growing Bitcoin adoption and not disturbing that, while testing and insuring the Sybil attack vector is going to work as planned once Bitcoin reaches the point where they want to turn on the Digital Kill Switch.


If you don't believe the Chinese leadership is in bed with the Rockefellers on the planned Global Technocracy, then I suggest you watch Aaron Russo's video explaining about what Nick Rockefeller told him and then do some googling about Nick Rockefeller and China.

But all of your post belies the main point, which is a Sybil attack hole exists. And we should close that hole.


You have not refuted the economics and technical points that indicate that a Sybil attack vector exists with the pools.

You have chosen to remain a frog boiling in the pot, because the former double-digit pools have been dissolved into single-digit pools, but you can not prove that there are not multiple single-digit pools that are owned by the same entity.

You can choose to remain blissfully ignorant of the fact that a Sybil attack is possible (and likely because of the economics of pools which I had explained in the link I provided to you) and perhaps already occurring (in testing and lie-in-wait mode).

You are just being disingenuous now.

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Can you not read? Try again to read above. I didn't fail to comprehend your point, I was disagreeing with it. Can you not comprehend the logical distinction between not comprehending and disagreeing? That is a category (a.k.a. taxonomy) logic error.

B-listers (or I suspect C-lister in this case) have such poor logic and rationality, it is almost pointless to try to argue with you, because you can't even recognize your illogic.


Precisely that is the fundamental tenet I am referring to upthread where I am thinking about the "one CPU, one vote" and the probabilistic math of Proof-of-Work, but I am arguing that it is not immune to centralization and thus it is an (intentional or not) ruse that is very ideologically compelling.


Subsequent (to yours quoted) posts by myself, inca, and smooth (at least and many others else where such as the Skycoin thread) had argued that the mutual profit motive is not sufficient.


That was the ideology but the reality is that it ain't so.


Cognitive bias.


How did that work out in the past with governments that get stronger and bigger and then always implode. As Warren Buffet says, "when the tide goes out, we know who wasn't wearing underwear".

How did that work out for the quants and the derivative bombs that finally exploded. Etc, etc.

I think you need to read some of Nicholas Taleb's books on Blackswans, Anti-fragility, etc..

Or simply the common due diligence statement, "past performance is no guarantee of future performance".


Indeed. Bitcoin is succeeding. And the DEEP STATE is I am sure quite thrilled.


That does not logically follow, when the bad guys are the government. They will regulate later. Regulation won't kill Bitcoin at that stage when it is already mature. It can enable the Digital Kill Switch where they can turn off your number if they don't like you (i.e. prevent political free speech, expropriate wealth via the ruse of unconstitutional directly apportioned taxation, etc).


I have already addressed this point.

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Repeating yourself redundantly doesn't make your illogic any less so.

I will simply quote myself again above since you clearly refuse to address what I wrote. Asserting that the onus is on me to prove that something that can't be detected is disingenuous. You are not arguing the point, rather just trying to cover your ears and say "nanana".

Oh I don't mean a "100% anonymous individual society". I mean where your individual economic and social activities are by default private/not being spied on.  Currently in this society, the "default" is transparency, where everything is transparent and in order to preserve your privacy, you have to take measures of your own, It should/needs to be the other way around. And that's becoming a very serious issue, our very phone calls, emails, google searches, and more are spied on, not to mention our economic purchases through credit cards, banks, etc.

Hell, the NSA even implanted software in the Windows operating system to monitor computers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-computers-not-connected-to-internet.html?_r=0
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/15/262650392/nsa-reportedly-has-surveillance-software-on-100-000-computers

I know one who would - you. That's one that really need it who is saved. Or, did you think it would be someone else who should pay, not you?

Im all for privacy and anonymity, but there's always a downside. Who would pay for the welfare for the people that really need it (because some do really need it). If nothing is public anymore, how in hell would that be deal with? I don't see it would work in a 100% anonymous individual society.

The only way the morally bankrupt can find solace is by dragging as many people as they can down with them. They need to be able to say, "See, you're no better than me" when somebody else slips and falls into the cesspool in which they live every day. You see, when the corrupt can no longer find "happiness" in the the drugs, ill-gotten gains and sexual deviations, they find it in watching others stumble into the same traps that they are stuck in

Privacy/anonymity is the only cure for the rampant destruction of individual rights that's happening throughout the world as spying tech advances(Hello nsa, google etc...) both in economic and social matters.

the translation's allright(as in not misleading).
thought I'm a bit confused, didn't he forecast a dow low before october? did that move or will there be a second, (bigger?) pullback at the end of the year?
Bonus question: if so, should europeans buy before or after october?

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One more comment about altcoins and being a Monero bug. The video above is quite accurate on the state-of-affairs of 100s of shitcoins and Bitcoin (and basically nothing else).

To attain significant sustainable adoption and a long-term future, a crypto-coin must have something that Bitcoin doesn't that is really needed.

Okay Monero has ring-sigs onchain anonymity (but doesn't have network anonymity and afaik the planned I2P is just another alias for Tor's unreliable network anonymity...did fluffypony ever finish the I2P integration?).

But Monero's use case is mixing and then exchange back into Bitcoin and hold Bitcoin. There is no reason to actually hold Monero's long-term, because there is no compelling case that users are going to use it as a currency and that it will thus experience network effects. It is just a decentralized mixer. That is all Monero is. No network effects. No Reed or Metcalf law exponential effects on adoption and growth.

You personally may wish to hold Monero for the added anonymity of blockchain anonymity, but this is pointless in terms of ROI if most users don't care and thus the network effects accrue to Bitcoin instead.

So sorry, I see a very big hole in the market that still needs to be fulfilled.

The challenge has always been how to correct Bitcoin's designed flaws (Bitcoin was designed to become a bankster centralized coin without anonymity) and do so in way that creates transaction demand and network effects.

To do this is going to require creating transaction demand for the altcoin. I believe I have the only design that can do this. I suspect the greatest demand for Bitcoin was coming from sites like Silkroad before 100s of Tor's hidden services were unmasked by the FinCen and Europol (probably with the NSA's help).

You've got to be an expert in marketing and an expert programmer and an expert at technical design of crypto. Very very few people will have all those traits, myself being one of them.

So are we going to stop losing precious time and get down to business or not?

I need angel funding if you all want me to focus my energies here now.

Risto the entire post was excellent. I thought maybe we were further apart in our thinking, but on the surface of that post it seems we are close to total agreement. Perhaps you've made some changes in your thinking lately?

My quibble is going to be on the fact that silver and Bitcoin are not anonymous[1] and aren't you at all concerned about shielding wealth from socialism deathstar expropriation?

And my other quibble remains that you are not technically qualified to know whether Monero is sufficient to be the big winner. I strongly suggest you need to be more diversified in altcoins if you want to hit the jackpot. One day you are going to learn that in this area (just like you learned on the castle which I warned you was under threat from Russia), my capabilities in some cases exceed aminorex and others you may rely on for technical appraisals (and theirs exceed mine in other cases). Smooth has outsmarted me at times and to the extent he can be objective (considering his close association to Monero) then I would advise trusting his appraisals of any technical writings I make. Aminorex is very smart, but he appears to me to be more of a math guy than a programmer (although my interaction with him is minimal). Smooth is the most astute programmer in altcoins that I have had discussions with. Perhaps there are others but I haven't been able to engage them in productive discussion (e.g. fluffyponey, tacotime, etc).

However, I will admit I don't know of any other altcoins that have sufficient feature sets and ecosystem that give them a better shot than Monero, at least in the anonymity focused subset of altcoins. So in that case I would have to agree with you on the Monero bet up to this point in time. I must mea culpa that I haven't been following altcoins much lately, and I don't know whats up with latest on Nxt, jl777's work, Boolberry, Dogecoin, etc.. I don't even load the coinmarketcap any more.

I am cognizant that you may become complacent/overconfident and miss something. Well I guess it never hurt you to be late and miss the IPO. You missed it for both Monero and Bitcoin. So perhaps it isn't your role to be one of the earliest adopters. And thus I should not be focusing my energy on trying to explain any technical innovation too early in the development cycle. Ditto OROBTC and others. You all can't understand. You all come in much later after the technical experts have already jumped on board. In short, you all must be followers because you don't have the first hand technical acumen.

[1] Anonymity with Bitcoin is is riddled with potential pitfalls. IP anonymity is tricky for any crypto-coin, and Bitcoin doesn't have onchain anonymity. Upthread I already made the case that physical metals will not be anonymous.

Can you elaborate?

How to delineate the taxonomy?

It's not your system you discuss, and it didn't appear spontaneously: abandon Enki's system.

Risto I am not sure it is productive to debate those who appear to me to be high on drugs (or just in "lala" land). Even if all the mythology was true, he is far from making his points relevant.

It is a damn shame that he is cluttering this thread with useless noise and obfuscating the useful discussion here.

Did you write a book about all the gold Enki had removed from earth?

I posit savings had long-ago moved to NIRP in the form of inflation and now with deflation taking over, the NIRP has moved to interest rates.

In short, savings (idle monetary capital) will never again generate positive ROI. You must actively invest now to get positive ROI.

This is why I said say 5% debasement for altcoin (as an alternative to tx fees if the holistic design is viable) was not anything inconsistent with reality. Your appreciation gains far outstrip the debasement (and make the level of debasement basically irrelevant), otherwise you shouldn't be holding it as investment any more (use it as a checking/savings account) in which case 5% is roughly about what banks charge in fees on a small checking account balance.