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legendary
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White Male Libertarian Bro
Lack of feedback seems to indicate the enthusiasm that was displayed before I wrote the prior post, does not exist if following the posited plan in the prior post.

That has been my feeling all along. There is apparently only one way for me to proceed which is impoverished alone

sr. member
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Moon  Grin
newbie
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I support TPTBs ideas 100%.

Maybe with finances...or with emotions, I would like to see something revolutionary.

 Roll Eyes
sr. member
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That being said, I'm looking forward to your contributions and would be an early adopter/investor for sure!
sr. member
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The lack of enthusiasm for a breakthrough in anonymity seems to spell doom for Monero and Zcash.

Seems people were only excited about JAMBOX, not anonymity. So that is good to know. Thanks.


I don't think it's a lack of enthusiasm really. Sometimes it's just hard to keep up with so many posts and new developments. Gauge the feedback over a few days! Some of us don't spend 10 hours a day on the forums  Wink
sr. member
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The lack of enthusiasm for a breakthrough in anonymity seems to spell doom for Monero and Zcash.

Seems people were only excited about JAMBOX, not anonymity. So that is good to know. Thanks.
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★YoBit.Net★ 350+ Coins Exchange & Dice
Well, good luck with your project.This looks to be interesting.
sr. member
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Lack of feedback seems to indicate the enthusiasm that was displayed before I wrote the prior post, does not exist if following the posited plan in the prior post.

That has been my feeling all along. There is apparently only one way for me to proceed which is impoverished alone, since I refuse for legal reasons and also for the CC's ideal distribution, to be directly involved in any ICO and developers are not willing to join an unpaid project.

So don't complain about the pace of progress. I am still only a human with 14 hours of work a day.

If there no significant change, I ask SOMAcoin to kindly close this thread. We don't need it cluttering the Altcoin Discussion forum.
legendary
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If the community approves, I can continue. If the community doesn't like, then perhaps I will decline the offer and continue working impoverished as I am at my slow pace.

You tell me?

Spoetnik I know you don't approve. Try to read what I wrote above. Think about my situation. I have negative net worth. I have only a small cash reserve which isn't even my own money. I been giving everything of myself to CC research and development. I have been ill for 4 years but doing better now with sublingual oregano oil daily. So which direction does this community think I should go?

Damn the torpedoes!

This is the most focus and direction you've had in recent memory, and the most likely to gain traction rapidly. There may even be some insight gained while working on ACOIN that can be applied to the new PL and social platform. You can't be expected to do it all and you can still go the slow and steady route if this acceleration gives way.

Have you considered taking pictures of your essentials, food and whatnot, and asking for funding to cover them? I'm sure there are individuals interested in supporting real progress in this area.
newbie
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My first message in this special community is for you. I read a lot and is to give you my support in their work. Accept the challenge.

P.S From a small country in the southern end of the world hoping to achieve its objective and work has scope to use and universal community.
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Nobody should live impoverished.
Honcho is the unknown factor. If involved with all other big ico and is well known here this the big factor for community approval. Are they favored by the community. Could we know if it is supernet mastermind? Pick wrong honcho and revealing ID later could be weak spot. j777 not a weak spot to my reading but other well known persons not so favored by all here. Sorry to see your projects meet resistance through no direct faults of your own.
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Is it an ico ?

Sorry, i see now mining mentioned. Ok, well sounds interesting.

One particular question: does it mean JAMBOX is a seperate project from this?

I am writing this after being awake for 18 hours nonstop work. So this is sloppily written. I am rushed.

I don't want to lie. I will give it to you frankly. I did not vet the following statements with HONCHO. So he may have clarifications and I will notify you later if he does.

Okay the good and the bad news.

Everything below is subject to change.

Let me try to lay everything out and get the feedback. I haven't made any final decision yet, so you can possibly influence with your replies, but please pay close attention to every detail below and the logic of my circumstance.

1. I did not plan to launch a CC now. My plan was to finish my work on the programming language I am in the midst of designing, then go launch JAMBOX, then after that launch a CC distributed to the users of JAMBOX who I was hoping would number in the 100,000 minimum or quickly rising to a million+. I have a detailed plan on that, and I have not abandoned it. I want to emphasize that the CC for JAMBOX will not meet my goals on distribution if it is not distributed to the actual users of the network. If it is distributed to investors, then the CC will never widely circulate and nothing will have been achieved. You will never never get a CC to widely circulate if you have the investor hoarding the coin. Period.

2. I stumbled onto a clever way to improve anonymity technology to add some potential benefits which I already enumerated in a post over in my thread:

Here are the potential advantages my co-developer and I quickly enumerated today in chat:

Co-dev: "so ours is less bloat, prunable, more anonymous, quantum-computing resistant, more performant, and IP shielding"
myself: "and our anonymity sets are huge, potentially 1000s per mix"

Note that ours will have the weakness compared to RingCT/Zcash that we won't hide values so the mixing will be limited to transactions that people choose to mix with specific denominations (which is the way the current Monero works). I don't think we plan to mix every single transaction and have a complex wallet like Monero. Monero will simplify that when they implement RingCT. But RingCT can never scale to every (micro) transactions of the masses.

Any way I am talking off the top of my head and too prematurely. I need to go write some of these specs down.


3. I did not expect to stumble onto that discovery now. So I decided to offer the technology for that for sale to the highest bidder. I was expecting maybe I could sell it to Dash or other existing altcoin for some token amount (maybe a couple thousands), and get some money and then proceed on my work mentioned in #1. The highest bidder thus far is my angel investor (who we will name HONCHO) who also happens to be a prolific developer in crypto. And it turns out that he is ready and willing to launch a new anonymous coin which we will name ACOIN. So I wanted to just sell the technology to him and/or consider it full payment for the angel investment, so I no longer owe him anything. But he said that he is very interested in JAMBOX and he said that he doesn't want to launch a coin with my anonymity technology unless I will also somehow tie my JAMBOX to the coin we would launch now. Also he wants to do an ICO, and that is one way he can offer to pay me the most. But I told him that I don't want to sell vaporware and also I can't be involved in any ICOs because I am a US citizen. Please note that I am not against an ICO if it doesn't involve me legally, and also if the ICO does not represent the future distribution of the JAMBOX coin. I would not create a CC for the millions and then ICO it. I wouldn't allow it to be professionally mined either. I would make sure that that only people that can mine it are the social networking users, so that the distribution is as wide as possible. How will I do that? Don't ask me now, but I have a way. Also I had long said that I don't want to launch my coin here on Bitcointalk, because I feel I need to be able to market it to millions of users in order to achieve my goal so marketing a CC to speculators here on this forum is not going to reach the goal. So what can I do?

4. HONCHO offered to pay me to add my anonymity, ASIC resistent proof-of-work (which I think is better than Monero's), and some other work on the coin he will create. In exchange, he wants me to exclusively contract him to implement the DE (decentralized exchange) on any CC I will create for JAMBOX. So what this means is that there will be new op codes in ACOIN and in any JAMBOX CC not supported initially by any other CCs. So this means that for some period of  months after I would launch any CC for JAMBOX, it is very likely if not certain that only ACOIN could be used to buy coins cheaply from social networking users that want to dump their coins which they mined for free. The social networking users will perceive that they are mining these coins for free because they won't even realize they are mining when they are using the social network. So from their perspective, they will never count the electricity because it will be too minute for them to notice on their electric bill. So it is quite likely many of them will dump these coins for peanuts. But not all of them will (else I will have failed in my responsibility to make many ways for them to spend this JAMBOX CC). So what I am saying to you is that I have an offer to do some contract work on a new ACOIN. And users who buy that ACOIN, then have apparently first dibs on buying cheap JAMBOX CC because in return I will contract HONCHO to implement the DE between both of these CCs. Note of course that over time the free market will make other ways to exchange but for some months it will not be very easy for the free market to go around the exclusive contract because just think about it. Social networking users are not going to go register in some exchange like Poloniex just to sell $10 worth of coins each. Over time the holdings between users and investors will balance out to a market equilibrium and then centralized exchanges will be come viable. Over time others will reverse engineer our op code and make other DE. But that won't happen the day the DE is launch. Competition takes time.

5. So ACOIN would be a way for me to emphasize the anonymity/privacy technology that I probably will not get around to adding to JAMBOX CC at least not in the initial release of JAMBOX CC, and to add other features  to ACOIN that I want to put in any JAMBOX CC such as the improved PoW ash function. So I see ACOIN as a viable coin by itself that will have some features the JAMBOX CC won't have. And the ACOIN will have the aforementioned access to the JAMBOX CC. But the ACOIN won't have the scaling that I want to put in the ACOIN CC, because I need to totally rewrite the source code for that. I can't start with the Bitcoin source code and achieve the radical scaling changes. And I am not ready to totally rewrite a CC source code until I complete my new programming language (or abandon the idea of creating a programming language although it is very important for my plans for replacing the web browser with an app browser).

6. The funding I would hopefully gain from ACOIN would enable me to hire a full time top developer (from outside of CC) to help work on both JAMBOX and JAMBOX CC. Most of the money raised for ACOIN, I presume would go to the development of ACOIN. It is possible that the development of ACOIN will mirror the development I do on the JAMBOX CC, but I can't promise that since it won't be my coin. I will be a paid developer on it, but not the only developer on it. The point is I will not go launching my own coin here on Bitcointalk. ACOIN would not be my coin, although I would be having a strong influence on it. And it would be the way for me and others to acquire JAMBOX CC. So you can bet I will hang on to some of my ACOIN (assuming I was paid some in ACOIN and some in BTC)!

7. Let me emphasize that I would not approve of this plan if it involves any vaporware. Any ICO must be for a coin that is already in testnet and ready to launch with all the features as stated. And any ICO must be open to everyone first-come, first-served with a limit on total coins. Or something like that, but any way I am not in control of any ICO. And I am only stating that which I would refuse to be paid to work on. I will tell you that of course HONCHO will make a statement but not yet. And I will also tell you he was involved in all the recent big ICOs. So apparently he knows what he is doing. Because I don't know a damn thing about that and I don't want to know.

8. The person who is helping to set the W3C standard for IoT is asking me to be the co-author of the standard. He and I had conversations in the past. I don't know if I can manage to fit that into my schedule. And I don't know if HONCHO wants to try to target IoT. There are many other ideas that might come into play. We are only 24 hours into this idea so far.


If the community approves, I can continue. If the community doesn't like, then perhaps I will decline the offer and continue working impoverished as I am at my slow pace.

You tell me?

Spoetnik I know you don't approve. Try to read what I wrote above. Think about my situation. I have negative net worth. I have only a small cash reserve which isn't even my own money. I been giving everything of myself to CC research and development. I have been ill for 4 years but doing better now with sublingual oregano oil daily. So which direction does this community think I should go?



sr. member
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I m a bit astonished about you (TPTB) not knowing bad apples are equally distributed and always need biggest self control, just don t care. (Put on ignore)

I m more eager to see code & ideas.  Only this matters.

Cheers!

If I didn't care, I wouldn't produce work with passion.

You either want passion or you don't. Greatness only comes with passion. I will guarantee you that.

Look at all the greats, they have tremendous passion for their goal. And they were also ruthless in taking revenge on their critics by proving them wrong. How many examples do you need?

Go listen to Kobe Bryant talk about what motivated him to work so hard. He used the criticism to drive the fire in his belly. That is my personality. I am intense.

Don't expect me to be bland and level. If you want bland and level go hire the Bee-Gees to make your altcoin.
sr. member
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Maybe this is indeed the continuation of Bitcoin itself unfolding to areas not deemed possible in the past.

You are a man of little faith, it is not maybe. Rejoice, brothers and sisters, we're saved! This time for sure.

I am not close to destroying Bitcoin. Millions of users is still many months or more away from now (and no promises of that of course, just my goal). Baby big steps first. I will explain more soon.

I had many times promised I am not going to launch and endorse my own coin here on Bitcointalk.org. So I will need to explain how I am going to keep that promise.

P.S. we are thinking of forking Bitcoin 0.12 and making the modifications for anonymity on that. And then we will add the advances I want for my ultimate coin in stages.[/size]

Very interesting approach! And it's not because of anonymity, which in a way or another some coins provide.
The interesting part is imho that this is based on a (recent) version of Bitcoin.
Maybe some day Bitcoin devs will make themselves an upgrade of Bitcoin to make it anonymous. It gives Bitcoin a good chance to make the first steps into implementing some of the things altcoins proved that's good and needed directly into Bitcoin. It would mean the evolution quite some of us hope for...

But maybe I dream too far...

Yes I could see this also potentially making it easier to get this anonymityprivacy tech adopted into Bitcoin, but yeah maybe that is just dreaming. I think people who control Bitcoin now (China) may not want anonymity.

But also realize this technology is more about privacy. Absolutely anonymity will never exist. Ever. In any design. Period. You can use it to attempt to be anonymous to the NSA but just like Monero and Zcash, you will probably fail but YMMV. You might succeed if you are very careful about your meta data. As for privacy, that should achievable for just about everyone who uses decent anonymity technology such as this one we want to create, Monero, or Zcash. The difference is the scaling and other advantages I mentioned. Lol I was talking my angel investor and he said his computer locked up for 15 minutes because he was syncing only 1 days worth of the Monero block chain on a computer with just a regular HD not a SSD.

So maybe TPTB will embrace this technology. I don't know.

But there are other reasons to want to have this coin, if you are concerned that Bitcoin could just take the anonymity technology and leave this new coin with no USP (unique selling point). I will explain more on this soon.

Privacy that can scale to the masses is IMO more important than delusions of anonymity that can give you absolute guarantee of hiding from the NSA. No design for anonymity can ever give you such an absolute guarantee. Even I can explain to you how Monero can be unmasked by the NSA.

didnt we have an argument where I was basically saying what you are saying now?  glad to see you have finally moved on to the big picture approach.
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legendary
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Clean Code and Scale
I m a bit astonished about you (TPTB) not knowing bad apples are equally distributed and always need biggest self control, just don t care. (Put on ignore)

I m more eager to see code & ideas.  Only this matters.

Cheers!
sr. member
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Yeah finally man!!++++++

Preparing $1M here, I hope you consider a little bit investors wealth in your distribution design man! Wink Wink
sr. member
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Has your co-developer ever been involved with development of the Bitcoin protocol?

Afaik, no. But I think he knows enough to do a reliable fork since he has forked Bitcoin before. But he wants to fork the latest version. I need him because I have not invested the effort to become knowledgeable about the Bitcoin source code. He may be asking me to help though on the Qt wallet modifications. I may also help on the op code changes we need.
sr. member
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Maybe this is indeed the continuation of Bitcoin itself unfolding to areas not deemed possible in the past.

You are a man of little faith, it is not maybe. Rejoice, brothers and sisters, we're saved! This time for sure.

I am not close to destroying Bitcoin. Millions of users is still many months or more away from now (and no promises of that of course, just my goal). Baby big steps first. I will explain more soon.

I had many times promised I am not going to launch and endorse my own coin here on Bitcointalk.org. So I will need to explain how I am going to keep that promise.

P.S. we are thinking of forking Bitcoin 0.12 and making the modifications for anonymity on that. And then we will add the advances I want for my ultimate coin in stages.[/size]

Very interesting approach! And it's not because of anonymity, which in a way or another some coins provide.
The interesting part is imho that this is based on a (recent) version of Bitcoin.
Maybe some day Bitcoin devs will make themselves an upgrade of Bitcoin to make it anonymous. It gives Bitcoin a good chance to make the first steps into implementing some of the things altcoins proved that's good and needed directly into Bitcoin. It would mean the evolution quite some of us hope for...

But maybe I dream too far...

Yes I could see this also potentially making it easier to get this anonymityprivacy tech adopted into Bitcoin, but yeah maybe that is just dreaming. I think people who control Bitcoin now (China) may not want anonymity.

But also realize this technology is more about privacy. Absolutely anonymity will never exist. Ever. In any design. Period. You can use it to attempt to be anonymous to the NSA but just like Monero and Zcash, you will probably fail but YMMV. You might succeed if you are very careful about your meta data. As for privacy, that should achievable for just about everyone who uses decent anonymity technology such as this one we want to create, Monero, or Zcash. The difference is the scaling and other advantages I mentioned. Lol I was talking my angel investor and he said his computer locked up for 15 minutes because he was syncing only 1 days worth of the Monero block chain on a computer with just a regular HD not a SSD.

So maybe TPTB will embrace this technology. I don't know.

But there are other reasons to want to have this coin, if you are concerned that Bitcoin could just take the anonymity technology and leave this new coin with no USP (unique selling point). I will explain more on this soon.

Privacy that can scale to the masses is IMO more important than delusions of anonymity that can give you absolute guarantee of hiding from the NSA. No design for anonymity can ever give you such an absolute guarantee. Even I can explain to you how Monero can be unmasked by the NSA.
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Has your co-developer ever been involved with development of the Bitcoin protocol?
sr. member
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Sometimes I think I wish it was. But I really don't yet know smooth's coding and productivity. Based on our conversations, I assume he is at or above my level of capability in terms of knowledge of programming (but I might be on a different level of creativity that is hard to quantify, I dunno). But I don't have verification. I should study his Aeon commits but I don't have time.

I like smooth. He has been very fair with me and helped me also. He even paid/donated  a few BTC one time to me. It pains me that smooth is the leader for the community that has a few bad apples who have to be so acrimonious. Having said that, I like iCEBREAKER's humor. He is not the problem for me. I feel debt of gratitude or even a real debt to smooth.

I like smooth, but I think he is going about this community and open source thing the wrong way. Crypto-currency is not Linux. I may be wrong. Any way, I am not feuding with smooth. I just wish he wouldn't delete my posts. I don't make many posts in the Monero Speculation thread.  Any way, no he is not my "co-developer".

Smooth may know things about my plans that others don't know. Not because I told him lately, but because I told him a lot last summer, so he may be able to deduce certain things. I trust him to not reveal to anyone for another month or less. Soon all will be public knowledge. And no deal is final yet. So there is a chance I don't proceed.
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