Proof of work is pretty easy to understand as a reason to root trust in. "Witnesses like myself are paid directly to secure the network, and we are scheduled through cooperation instead of competition

Thanks so much; glad to be of useful service.

Thanks so much; glad to be of useful service.

No. No cell phone or Internet service. And even better training was focusing the mind to not even think about Bitcoin; let alone its price. I control my bitcoins; they do not control me. ;)

Peter Todd about ZCash.

I think there is a very large market demand for a privacy coin. PIVX probably has the most upside potential given the risk/reward ratio. Monero with a good GUI could really some increased usage. DASH seems

I agree on the ZEC trusted setup. Did you catch the interview I did with Peter Todd about it? Ring CT on Steem would be awesome.

I do. Not sure why the Apple Store is not updating with the latest episode; the Google Play store has so I know the feed is working properly.

First gave this as an impromotu talk (the speaker failed to show up). Enjoy!

The way to increase demand for buying is simple: reduce price. Changing the Power Down rules is an ex post facto action which economically harms those who have already Powered Up in reliance on the two-year

Eeewww!

That is kind of my thinking. This could go on a lot longer than most people think.

Haha! We have someone trying to become the next Onion on Steemit. Perhaps this should be in the 'funny' category!

Creating high quality original content takes a lot of work and is not for everyone! That is where Steemit's model of rewarding curators and people who make comments is so awesome.

Yep. Developing an audience is a form of capital.

I had no idea. Thanks for the heads up!

It is rather insane that some people think they can put other people in cages merely for moving, or transmitting, pieces of paper with pictures of dead people around. I suppose the insanity is only surpassed

Yes, it will take a few more releases before segwit starts going live on mainnet. It has been working well on testnet for quite some time though. Props to Wuille and the rest of the Bitcoin Core team for

Very interesting.

This is really awesome. I need to do some more research on BlockPay but it looks really promising. Thanks for the heads up. What a great use case for transferring Steam Dollars to other users. Like an