Topic: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information - page 1350. (Read 2761645 times)

I live in Austin. I can provide transportation   I'm not a native speaker, so I don't feel I'm able to represent Nxt, but I can help. Meet in airport, drive to conference etc.

I am very gratified by this immediate community response, thank you.   So I am going into full-speed-ahead mode here.  Hell, I'll even cover the 10K NXT from my own stash as my contribution to the cause just so we don't get hung up here.

I propose to get listed as a speaker.  There seems to be a January 31 deadline for this.   I would propose to get in the Technical: Development, Implementation and Infrastructure speaker track.  For a twenty minute talk, you've got to have laser like focus.  My theme would be slide after slide: Bitcoin problem, NXT solution: currency distribution, blockchain bloat, PoW arms race, 51% attack, block confirmation speed (10 min vs 1 minute), transactions per second (1 currently / 7 max for BTC, 10,000 ultimate goal for NXT), etc. etc. etc.

Here's details.

http://texasbitcoinconference.com/images/docs/Speaker%20Letter.pdf

Another option would be to use kind of "client-server" architecture instead of "peer-to-peer".
I.e. users of an app send AMs (containing destination ID) to the app Nxt ID instead of sending AMs directly to destination ID.

sounds great, do you have any schedule already when to start with this?

Hey, it's been quiet for some time in here... Let's bring the voting discussion back!

So do we have any practical ideas of reliable voting at all?

The whitepaper is very vague about it, no technical details about how this magical democracy will happen.

done

http://www.cryptmarketcap.com/

upper right corner please vote yes.

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I asked mindtomatter about payment conditions and will post more details, once he responds.

absolutely!

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Of course!

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Agree...you should go....& bring a Raspi with you.

added: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4744922

Hey, guys and gals, I would be interested in representing NXT at the Texas Bitcoin Conference on March 5-6.  I am in the American South not very far away (relatively speaking) and just checked, I can get a round trip jet ticket to Austin for under $300 if I book soon.  The conference fee is $275 until the end of January, $325 starting in February.  If the devs/community could back me for $1000 (currently around 10K NXT), I volunteer to cover this.  I will kick in 20% of my annual vacation time from my day job.  I am an aerospace engineer in real life, one thing I know how to do is make concise, organized presentations of  complex topics...

http://texasbitcoinconference.com

Yup, I'm developing a podcast.  First episode or two may just be me droning on, but it'll grow.  I have a list of "targets" for folks I'd love to interview, so many of you regulars should be expecting to hear from me!

Adam and I have traded email, and I'm keeping him posted as it all develops.  But this is all separate from the ads on LTB, which I think are an excellent idea.  As others have pointed out, the ad spots provide a long-term, consistent messaging platform for Nxt... and since LTB is (for now, at least) a podcast, the ads will stay in archived episodes and be of ongoing use.  

Working title for the podcast, by the way, is "What's Up Nxt" 

agreed when would we have to pay them?

OK, I will have a try ,thank you.

Yeah, 6 months seems like too long and too expensive.

Sorry, but it is still terrible  

"furthering"? Is this even a word? Aren't goals "advanced"?

And "our goal" sounds like we are just trying to manipulate him (which we kinda do, but no need to draw attention to it )



Exactly. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. When it comes to actually sending it we will proofread it by a professional service.

I was just looking at the Ethereum thread, and was wondering: couldn't NXT technically implement what Ethereum is trying to do in a parallel blockchain that allows turing-complete code to execute? IMO Ethereum is interesting, but isn't particularly innovative (not in the way transparent forging is).

A few advantages I see if this is possible within the NXT ecosystem:
1) NXT is already established. No need for massive development of the network, and thus no need for an expensive, over-complicated IPO to get it off the ground.
2) These scripts can interact with other aspects of the NXT ecosystem, which is admittedly much larger in scope than Ethereum will ever be. For example, you can send 0.00001 NXT to "Asset Merchant Rating" script, and you can rate a merchant you had a pleasant/negative experience with, and the program will keep track of it on the parallel blockchain without the bloat that may come if we used AM for this purpose.
3) Take advantage of all the idling CPU power in most nodes. Since NXT client itself does not require much resources to run, perhaps this will give all the miners from PoW-world something to focus on.
4) Provide an increase fees for people willing to participate in the parallel blockchain. People with RPi's can just stick to basic forging, while those running nodes on powerful PC's can additionally use their CPU power to run these programs.
5) NXT has already set the precedent for decentralized development (something I'm rather proud of, and I have to hand it to BCNext, that was a very smart decision), so people making a decentralized effort to create decentralized programs fits the theme rather well.

What's left is to figure out how to integrate a PoW system within a PoS system. But since c-f-b is already working on that, I assume it can be done.