“It was a pleasure to burn.”
https://www.treasury.gov/about/budget-performance/strategic-plan/Documents/2018-2022_Treasury_Strategic_Plan_web.pdf
If Craig is even Satoshi, his approval of BCH doesn't say much in this smoke and mirrors world. It could just be more of a distraction. I'm not biting on anything until the shit actually hits the fan. Until then, it just seems like scammers from the crypto world and worshipers of Bitcoin Jesus are proselytizing too much. Ver is a douche who renounced his US citizenship. People are too learned at this point to fall for more empty pump schemes.
There is nothing proved. Only time-stamps…Only future proves past…stop phishing and just wait.
https://www.verdict.co.uk/facebook-alternatives-blockchain-solution-social-media/
From article:
A SOLID alternative with no blockchain
Another alternative to Facebook, one that does not use blockchain, is the pair of social media apps set in competition to each other called Patter and NotPatter. They are being built to run on a “fully autonomous network for the decentralised web called the SAFE Network”, “to test the concept of users being in control of their data, rather than the social media service providers”.
Dug Campbell, head of marketing and outreach at Maidsafe, the company behind the SAFE Network, calls it “a decentralised, private, secure internet – using data structured according to SOLID, Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s linked data project.”
He explained the current problem and its solution to Verdict:
“Many people today use social media platforms to keep in touch with friends and family. But these are platform advertising businesses that survive by giving third-party companies the chance to target their adverts more precisely. That means two things: one – they can’t let you take your data; and two – the platforms are designed with the overriding goal of maximising advertising revenue.
“Sharing information shouldn’t require us to pay a cost in terms of privacy. New decentralised technologies provide the promise of ensuring that users can move between platforms without having their data siloed and kept behind barriers built by the dominant technology platforms. What we really need is an internet in which all of your information is private and secure by default. You then choose your social circle and content that you want to engage in – but at no stage are you locked into that platform.”
The Patter apps, he says, allow users to, “simply close your Facebook account, and within 10 seconds join a competing social platform… where the very first time that you open it up, you can see all of that data that you were using before – friends, likes, messages, interactions – the lot.”
Making the case for a non-blockchain solution
Campbell argues that while beneficial, blockchain is not right for social media.
“We do not dispute that the blockchain can be valuable as an immutable ledger for transactions. But it’s not the right platform to protect vast quantities of data, especially the type of sensitive personal data you find on social networks,” he says.
“Data isn’t encrypted by default on blockchains – in fact, the opposite is required as the whole point is that the record of transactions can be read by anyone. And a blockchain still can’t scale to capture every single transaction (a like, retweet, and so on) if it has any aspirations of being a global platform.
“So if you’re storing the data elsewhere and merely using the blockchain to record the proof that data existed at some point in time, you’re rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic – your personal data is still being stored in a centralised location somewhere around the world and liable to be attacked.
“How does that solve security and privacy? It’s exactly the same problem that we see with today’s world wide web. The network needs to be completely decentralised and autonomous. True decentralisation requires the data to be encrypted then scattered around the network and broken up into fragments. Remove the fixed data targets for hackers and remove the fallibility of humans from the equation. Let the autonomous network itself decide how resources are allocated and ensure that the network is secured.”
The world is fully dependent on social media, a global habit often debated for its merits and failures. Facebook and the rest of the social media giants offer accessibility as well as familiarity. But the failure of big social media platforms to protect user data is becoming more and more obvious.
A blockchain alternative or another solution might already exist, but users need convincing it is not only a viable solution but a friendly one.
Merger.
makes satoshis to me.
I recently met with some family office people. That field has had explosive growth in the last decade around the world, but no one really addresses why. Basically, because public markets aren't working, there are private markets for debt, LBOs, etc. Family offices are basically private secondary and tertiary private equity groups for the smaller LBOs that the big public companies pass over because of the regulatory demands. Lots of value is going to a few private hands and getting sucked from the system. Even between the various players, it's becoming a game of musical chairs, and all this private equity/hedge fund/venture capital money in the hands of wealthy families is going to blow up, then the public markets will be able to buy it back on the cheap because of the lower regulatory impediments. Public pensions win, Social Security saved, America restored. A lot of this alternative investment crap will wilt away and creep back into the hole from which it came or with the specialists and niche markets and out of public pensions and endowments. As for HFT, there is some argument for them, but I think there is much needed regulation of them coming…if not a total ban. The key is to incentivize long-term investing and keep the speculators at the margins picking up the scraps. It would be ignorant to try to get rid of them completely. They just need to be sandboxed.
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666x365?
sounds about right…
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-exchange-bitfinex-suspends-fiat-deposits-expects-to-resume-within-a-week
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/12/former-white-house-economic-adviser-gary-cohn-joins-blockchain-startup.html
GC
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Jesus-Shocking-Return-Chosen/dp/0983618135
Jesus 2.0 tries to kill the FED.
"What if someone told you that you were the reincarnation of Jesus, and that it was your destiny to save the world from political and economic destruction?
Jack Cohen had his whole future before him. Just nineteen years old, he was a gifted athlete, a genius scholar, and a mixed martial arts prodigy, capable of leaving his mark in any number of ways. But his world turns suddenly upside down when a mesmerizing domme, Mary McDonald, enters his life and insists that he is Jesus 2.0 – and that it is his mission to wage spiritual and political warfare on the establishment of Washington, D.C. Beautiful, clever, yet dangerous, Mary also tells Jack that she was chosen from above to lead him to his mission. Though he tries to resist, Jack finds himself thrust into a journey of sexual, spiritual and political awakening that will forever alter his life… and change the course of the world.
A blend of Atlas Shrugged, Fifty Shades of Gray and The Shack, mixed together with a megadose of PEDs, Kill Jesus is a wild, page-turning ride that will open your mind to a new way of thinking, while shattering any notions of a pacifist or puritanical Messiah."
Author's Biography
I am a mystic-philosopher and spiritual teacher and have authored three books – “Beyond the Power of Now: A Guide to, and Beyond, Eckhart Tolle’s Teachings,” “Electrical Christianity: A Revolutionary Guide to Jesus’ Teachings,” and “Kill Jesus: The Shocking Return of the Chosen One.” The first two books are nonfiction, while the third is a novel.
When I’m not writing I regularly abide in a state of blissful at-one-ment with the Spirit. Over the past forty years, I have practiced Transcendental Meditation, Self-Realization Fellowship meditation, Buddhist Vipassana Meditation, Zen Meditation, Tibetan Buddhist meditation (Mahamudra and Dzogchen), J. Krishnamuti's "choiceless awareness," Ramana Maharshi's Self-enquiry, Adi Da's radical understanding, Kashmir Shaivist Shaktipat, and hermetic Holy Communion. I now teach my my own method of meditation: Plugged-in Presence.
Because I specialize in sociopolitical philosophy as well as spiritual mysticism, I enjoy mixing in sociopolitical insights with spiritual ones in my books.
I have a B.A. in sociology from the University of California, San Diego, and currently reside in Tijuana, Mexico. Beyond meditation, philosophy, and writing, my interests include working out, tennis, and travel.
More:
THE SPIRITUAL
POLITICS OF JESUS
http://www.integralworld.net/gardner2.html
Discussion in terms of Ken Wilber's Integral Theory. Interesting philosophy.