Topic: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information - page 1416. (Read 2761645 times)

My English is not good enough for that.

If you have spent any amount of time in the crypto community you should know better.

Cfb ? how much would be a Belarus-Miami flight ticket ?

It's unfortunate that there's no one in Nxt right now up for the challenge of appearing in Miami.

I agree though, that to be absent is better than to be present and keep repeating "I don't know. I don't know."

Let's Talk Bitcoin is hugely influential though, and this is a critical time when several 2nd gen crypto implementations are just coming on line. It will be a shame to have to pass on this opportunity.

I'd just like to say to anyone that could potentially fill this role...I have been listening to Let's Talk Bitcoin for a long time and I've never really heard them ask hard questions of their guests.

Even more questionable people like BFL Josh and the Mastercoin Willet guy get coddled...so if you're on the fence about going, you should probably do it and count on softball questions.

im pretty much stuck with ubuntu.  only one ive found that supports drivers for my qualcom ar9565 wifi device. even the latest debian couldnt do it.  oh sure i could try to load a backport kernel but those come with godknows what other dependencies that Id have to resolve via another PC and copying files over from a usb stick

fuc*it

I'd say some nice things about Nxt, and then one guy would raise his hand and ask "can you explain the rationale behind basing a cryptocurrency on a mix of Curve25519, EC-KCDSA, and SHA-256 when no papers exist that assess the semantic security of that particular Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm, and it is has only traditionally been favoured for its calculation speeds?", and I would suddenly smell toast and collapse into an apoplectic heap, muttering "just ask Beyonce it all comes from Beyonce" and weeping.

That's another valid point. Whoever is talking to Adam about the event, I'd recommend explaining the situation. We have a network engineer heading down to Miami that handles some PR and organization efforts with Nxt. He's not a programmer but versed in the direction of the coin and has a pulse on the community involvement. Would that work for your panel?

I've met Adam and been on LTB for Feathercoin in the past. Great group of people, I know they just want the best interviews possible.

Yeah I agree. He could possibly be our Winklevoss? lol (is that a bad thing?? don't know what the general consensus on them is by bitcoiners)

For those who don't know Mark Cuban...the guy is more of a sports guy than anything(owner of US NBA team Dallas Mavericks). but he is a good businessman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban

If he invested in NXT likely his followers would become interested if not wonder what NXT is about.

This is a serious Idea.....he would be a good ambassador

I am technical and articulate and have been slowly sifting through source code to understand things better, BUT I don't feel like I could field questions from cryptographers or software engineers without imploding.  I can talk about Nxt, and some of the challenges it faces, but the CfB-BCNext filter is a little too opaque to be useful for understanding the deep fundamentals (after only two months of this stuff, the exhaustion is overwhelming: "the source code is the whitepaper!", "community must decide", "Enigma!", "Tease!", "u are incorrect check thread for answers plz", "wait for third part of plan", "many riddles in the source if you look", etc.)

I'd say some nice things about Nxt, and then one guy would raise his hand and ask "can you explain the rationale behind basing a cryptocurrency on a mix of Curve25519, EC-KCDSA, and SHA-256 when no papers exist that assess the semantic security of that particular Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm, and it is has only traditionally been favoured for its calculation speeds?", and I would suddenly smell toast and collapse into an apoplectic heap, muttering "just ask Beyonce it all comes from Beyonce" and weeping.  THEN watch the price.

It's a real Catch-22.  Getting a chance to take part in a panel that would be included in the (always awesome and SO VALUABLE) Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast is *exquisite*, but the person to talk about the advent and future of metacoins is currently living in Belarus and busy until April.

MY VOTE would be for someone like wesley, ferment, opticalcarrier, rickyjames or ricot.

I am technical and articulate and have been slowly sifting through source code to understand things better, BUT I don't feel like I could field questions from cryptographers or software engineers without imploding.  

MY VOTE would be for someone like wesley, ferment, opticalcarrier, rickyjames or ricot.

im pretty much stuck with ubuntu.  only one ive found that supports drivers for my qualcom ar9565 wifi device. even the latest debian couldnt do it.  oh sure i could try to load a backport kernel but those come with godknows what other dependencies that Id have to resolve via another PC and copying files over from a usb stick

fuc*it

Also consider this. If we have noone there, nxt related questions may rise anyway. And they can say something not so good about it. So we must have someone to speak up for Nxt.

wonder if Mark Cuban would ever be interested in NXT...

two of his tweets.

One from TODAY
https://twitter.com/mcuban/statuses/426084456202387456
"On the Matter of Why Bitcoin Matters"

and one from last November 22nd.
https://twitter.com/mcuban/statuses/403916745900978176

"I don't want to invest in bitcoin.  If virtual currency becomes acceptable I want to invest in the soon to be invented competitors"

would having him invest be bad or good lol?

Nifty could do it. Just be prepared to say I don't know if facing too technical questions . Many loyal nxters could point out many next features and advantages compared to other alternatives. Nifty is one of them. Clearly better than no one there to present.

I disagree.  Having someone there who understands the history, current main features along, and differences between the other coins would be helpful.  Just don't hype the future plans too much as who knows if they will turn out to be vaporware or not at this stage.  A little mystery about Nxt isn't bad, it's intriguing.

I disagree.  It's better to have someone there who understands the history, current main features along, and differences between the other coins is helpful.  Just don't hype the future plans too much as who knows if they will turn out to be vaporware or not at this stage.  A little mystery about Nxt isn't bad, it's intriguing.