Quote from: almightyruler on February 20, 2015, 03:11:42 PM

Quote from: dooglus on February 18, 2015, 06:00:09 PM

Also, I notice that your 98 CLAM output was created on 7th February - just 11 days ago. Maybe you had a similar amount before and were just moving things around, but note that each time you move an output it stops trying to stake for 4 hours.

Brain failure yet again; I have to stop replying to threads at the far end of my awake time. Yes, at that time I believe I gathered various inputs into one, which of course would have reset its weight. My run of luck was bad, but not super bad.
Good news is that I staked about 7 hours ago.

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I still don't get clamspeech.
"Each time a CLAM is minted or moves on the blockchain, the transaction record is now accompanied by text of your choosing. The CLAMspeech feature allows you to pick from a list of religious and political statements, or to enter a custom expression."
"tx-comment" : "Expression of Religious Freedom: Canaanite Mythology"
I take it my client grabbed this line randomly from clamspeech.txt. Fine if you want to participate, and set your own unique statements, but I don't understand why the client will (by default) bloat the blockchain with the same set of text lines that everyone else has?
If I understand correctly, around 20% of this transaction is taken up by the clamspeech comment: http://khashier.com/tx/4683254175f04dd5a10de1c1a11f1c24c7827d279b3380b51c94cd0319cac406
(Warning: this reply is also being written at the far end of my awake time, so may contain content that defies common sense and/or makes me seem like a babbling idiot. If so, please feel free to knock some sense into me.)

Not a bad question at all

You are correct that CLAMspeech places additional weight on the chain.

The concept is deceptively simple: political and religious expression/speech is legally protected in many jurisdictions around the world.

There are two facets of the feature that mutually protect each other:
1. The ability to guarantee freedom of speech by hosting it on the block chain;
2. Possibly more importantly, protection of the block chain by having expressions of protected speech embedded in it.

We think that as some of the various proposals for regulating crypto-currency are challenged in court; this issue will become much more important in the community and public at large.

In reference to the "Bit License", you can read more about the legal arguments behind such a feature in the public comment submitted by the legal representation of Reddit/EFF.

Of most interest is the section starting at page 11, specifically the sub-section at page 14 and beyond.

As an aside, CLAMspeech also provides an interesting opportunity for additional functionality on top of the protocol.
Services such as Counterparty become much simpler to implement with a ready-made field in which could be placed data to be parsed and consensus approved.