Topic: Your opinion on the future of "digital money" (cryptocurrencies)? - page 2. (Read 1195 times)

You can start with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_Primer

There is a lot of information in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb

and in its sequel: Dark Sun.

These are historical works, but they contain all the necessary *scientific and technological principles* to build a nuclear weapon, if you complete that with normal engineering competence.  That doesn't mean that you have a *manual* to give to a technician to build a bomb, but all the scientific principles are there.

All the physical data you need can be found on: http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/

This is all the science you need to go of.  The difficulty in making a nuclear weapon doesn't reside in knowing or not knowing the science and technology.  It resides in the capital investment needed, and the visibility of your endeavour.  And you will still need to "tune" practical stuff.  For beginners, I would suggest a U-235 bomb.  That's what the US started with on Hiroshima too.  The plutonium bombs are harder to trigger (all the science is there, but to get the trigger right is tricky, and a matter of classical fireworks).

The reason why people don't make nuclear bombs in their basement is simply that it takes a huge capital investment, and that it will be noticed and that you will get a few classical bombs on your practice area before you really get off.  Not that its science would be hidden.


Economically, that only makes sense if one can use state privileges.  If you cannot use state privileges, the most efficient technology will also be the most profitable.
However, the point is that many embryonic technologies LOOK simple and efficient at naive first sight.  The fact that it isn't done in reality then gives rise to conspiracy theories.  But the real truth is that the technology is MUCH HARDER to put in practice than at first sight.


Do you mean "controlling you" or do you mean "spying on you" ?  Controlling can be fought by learning, informing, and practising logic and science to a limited extend.  The spying can be rendered difficult or useless.  I run things like trackmenot, that do hundreds of random and bogus internet searches.  I'm working on a project to send noise over the internet.  You remember the Danish reaction to the Nazi chasing the Jews there ?  Everybody put up a yellow David star.  


This is nothing but the quirks of the fiat system.  It is a fascinating engine.  Luxembourg is one of the richest countries in the world, btw.  These "debts" don't mean anything.  If anything, a national debt only means how much money the country as put in circulation.  That is the initial meaning of state debt.  It has not the meaning of an actual debt.  This is a very, very deep misunderstanding, because of the very strange nature of the fiat system.  A very high debt only indicates that your country has managed to rip off the rest of the world a lot.  Something to be proud of

This is what I think. Bitcoin will be hard for ordinary people to accept because their definition of money is the one that always involves banks. It is what is "true" for them. What they do not realize is that bitcoin is making money what it used to be. A currency that is exchanged directly from person to person. Our advancement in technology is making this possible on a world wide scale.

Imagine if we are all psionic beings and we are all connected with our minds where we all know who owes who and how much with a quick search in our minds. Do you think we will need "money" if we could do that?

I meant that they can do it from space that is why I used the word satellites, not drones.


Is there any manual to read on how to build a nuclear bomb? I don't think so. And I'm not referring to "retarded technologies", I was talking about technologies, which could be useful, but there are others (less efficient) that could earn more money.


Do you think that you have such possibility? There are literally thousands of ways to control people. Mass media, social media, Internet, monopoly, laws etc. etc... You can turn off your TV, but you'll be vulnerable to your ISP.

Do you know on what I am often frustrated at? I am living in a small and poor country called Bulgaria. The "big guys" reaped off our economy and now everyone in here is under some form control. My point is that richer countries have more choices. It's like a pyramid. You start with the little economies and end up at the top were the guys with the money are. Want to know one of my favorite examples? Luxembourg! How the hell a country with less than 600k in population has $3.6 trillion in external debts?!

Anyway, this has nothing to do with Bitcoin and altcoins.

That's simply optics.  You can do that too, with good optics and a drone
I think it is not the normal print, but the head lines - but of course you can just get any resolution, by increasing the size of the aperture.  That's the whole art of making big telescopes.


Frankly, no.  Some *technologies* may have been retarded somewhat before going public.  Scientific knowledge, no.  Hell, the biggest scientific secret ever, the nuclear bomb, was out even before the war was totally over.  We even know the next biggest secret: the thermonuclear explosion.

Scientific discoveries are like zero-day exploits.  You can find them, and keep them  for yourself.  But if you use them, some will find out about it, and in any case, if you could discover them, then there is a finite probability (growing in time) that others will find it too.

Even better: science works best when it is in the open and communicated publicly.  Every "totally secret science project" has had problems of not sufficient peer review, and going off the cliffs.  The bigger the community, the more open the communication, and the larger the network, the better it works.

So no, there are no scientific discoveries that will be kept secret for a very long time.  First of all because it is very hard to do secret scientific discoveries without a large network of peers guiding and helping ; and second, because if you can do it, someone else can do it too.


But the minority knowing, is still very vast and growing.


You can be controlled.  The question is whether you have the possibility to free yourself from it, or not.  That's freedom.  But of course, trying to control others is not only freedom, it is the fundamental nature of human beings.  So it is normal that it is attempted.  The question is simply whether in principle you can have the means to resist or not.

Facebook was just an example. It is a fact that 25% of the humanity is using it. I'm not obliged to use my cell phone either, but it is something we need. "They" could always track you down. It is a conspiracy matter, but I've heard that agencies have satellites with which they basically can read your book/newspaper you are reading on a park's bench.


I agree. Cars running on water was again just an example. There are a lot of charlatans, but I think it's safe to say that a lot of technologies have not seen light, because of "some interests" (oil, drugs, weapons). Science can be "locked up". I think you will agree if I say that the majority of the humanity doesn't know how much we are advanced at science and technologies. That would scare the "sheeps" and made them think more. Science is one of the oldest ways to control people (priests, wizards...).   


I am saying these things, because it is the reality. It doesn't really matter what are our thoughts about the situation. Our personal opinions won't change the fact that we are indeed controlled... one way or another.

You should read "Debt, the first 5000 years" by David Graeber, to explain how much states have always be involved with money, contrary to appearances, and most economic teachings.

Money has been much much more a state affair than one may think.  Even gold and silver.

I'm not talking about other stores of value, but *currency*.

In England, you don't go to jail because you do not live according to some or other religion, and the prime minister doesn't derive its power from religion.  Religion is not a pillar of power in England.  It is in several African and middle east barbarian countries, still.  But 1000 years ago, religion-based state power was general.  Now it is reduced to some barbaric regions.


I can agree with that, but truth is that the control over people is evolving too and probably it's even worse than 500 years ago. Yes, we're not burned on stake like some "witches", but we do have Facebook, Google... this forum...