Quote from: Lauda on February 22, 2016, 04:44:50 PM

Quote from: BruceFenton on February 22, 2016, 03:56:57 PM

When meetings are covered by media then people tend to play to the press -- they also often focus more on "winning" looking good or will avoid saying things that they can say privately.

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People have concerns with investors, potential partners and so on.
Just like private conversations in a hallway...lots of advantages of privacy.

I understand. What about some public statements, or live-tweets of what is currently being discussed? You don't have to go in-depth though.

Quote from: VeritasSapere on February 22, 2016, 04:01:34 PM

Quote from: Lauda on February 22, 2016, 03:18:27 PM

My transactions have never taken more than 10 minutes to confirm, unless there was unusual block timing.

I am seriously starting to question your knowledge of Bitcoin. Transactions never take longer then ten minutes to confirm? How often do you even use Bitcoin? Most people with some experience or at least some theoretical knowledge of Bitcoin should know that this is not true.

Either you are trying to attack me (in a polite way) or a unable to properly read what was written. Unless there is unusual block timing (i.e. no blocks in the last 10 minutes), a confirmation has never taken me more than 10 minutes. This is because I include a higher fee than unusual. This is true and you can't change that. This is off-topic, stop thread hijacking.

lesson 1.
lets say block 400,000 has just been solved at 12:00:00
you send a transaction at 12:04:00..now then due to your generous fee, you are now added to the very next available block..
but guess what.. its not going to be included in 400,0001 because thats in the middle of being hashed, your too late for that boat.
so 400,001 gets solved at 12:10:00
woo hoo now your tx is part of 400,002..
so 400,0012 gets solved at 12:20:00

so you have waited 16 minutes.. even though your high fee promised you to get into the very next block.. there is no logical physical or theoretical way that you would have got into 400,001..

secondly. there are people that pay a huge fee that are still not promised into the very next block. so paying a fee is not a guarantee, its just a no strings attached bribe with the hopes that the miner will make room for you