My social network will be primarily using Paypal, because Western users have credit cards, not crypto-currency. My early adopters will be the crowdfunders who want my social network to succeed for ideological reasons. Diaspora raised $200k via crowdfund and I believe my logo and Mission Statement is far more detailed and superior to Diasporas.

My IPO (not for coins but for shares in my company) will probably go through Seedr after raising the money for the initial prototype via crowdfunding.

Thus my funding and early adoption will have nothing to do with any crypto-currency, at least as far as the early users and investors are aware of.

The crypto-currency will be a mostly invisible thing that will happen in order to monetize those users who don't have a credit card, i.e. the billions of unbanked in the developing world many of whom who do indeed use a smart phone but don't have a bank account. I only need speculators to provide an exchange price for these tokens. And I expect most musicians and game developers (the creators) to HODL the tokens while taking their cash flow from the Paypal microtransaction revenue.\

Note what I am actually attempting is to disrupt even the native mobile APIs and playstores. I am trying to disrupt all the centralized platforms that are strangling the internet and enabling corruption such as the following:


My plan is so much more (mass-adoption focused) ambitious than anything that has been attempted so far in crypto. I don't need any vulture capitalists, nor investment bankers (at least not until trying to list the shares on a major stock exchange if that ever happens).

The logo for the 6 letter .org domain name is basically done and I am pleased. Working on a second alternative for the logo. I want the crowdfunders to tell me which logo they prefer. Btw, I paid $500+ for the .org domain name. The .net and .com are for sale in the $50,000 - 100,000 asking price range. I don't really need the .net and .com (not at the start at least), but I do need them to be expensive enough that no one else will buy them.

There was some confusion about the logo from those who gave me private feedback because they thought the use of neon light for a portion of the text might be perceived as non-serious by crowdfunders, investors, and creators. I asked that person to ask his teenage kids which version of the logo they preferred and I was correct that the neon was preferred. Our target audience likes color, just go view the clothing of those youth in the video for Psy's "Gangnam Style" music video. Look at the pastel colors of the homes throughout Latin America.

My greatest challenge remains my health. I have made some improvement with this multiple herbs (boiled leaves) and cutting out cooking oil and grains other than oatmeal from my diet. My energy has been reasonably consistent, my brain fog has been much more infrequent, and so my productivity has been good past weeks since I made this change. I've been trying to increase my exercise because my testosterone is so damn low because I rarely get an erection and I can't hold an erection. And this is reflected in weakness and leg pain in my hamstrings. I think this may be because I had cut out all cholesterol meats after getting such horrible symptoms last summer (and the subsequent 10 day water-only fasting in August which seemed to make matters worse). Yesterday I ate 5 eggs and breast meat chicken and I got an erection, was able to do some 80m sprints with power in my legs, and did some barbel (twice in one day) and ran 2kms. But then just now at 1am, I woke up after only 5 hours sleep, after being awake 24 hours yesterday, after 4 hours sleep the prior day. So I still am having issues. And I am experiencing extremely blurry or double-vision right now.

It is very frustrating because I want to work at full productivity and I need this health crap out of my way. It seems this is a complex health problem that I can't realistically diagnose and cure immediately (will require a long process and relocating to a country with tropical disease, peripheral neuropathy, and internal GI tract related autoimmunity experts).

I would estimate my productivity has risen from a low of about 5 - 10% of my normal in 2nd half of 2015, to perhaps about 33 - 50% now. Which is much better and I am not totally displeased. But I don't know if 1/3 or 1/2 of one man is enough to get my project done. To battle this on top of turning 51 in June. I am hopeful I can find a developer who is at my level to join with me. And someone who is not from the finance industry (otherwise I'd be recruiting smooth, but I don't like how he spends his time in the Aeon thread talking about centralized exchanges issues, which is entirely irrelevant for the type of focus I need for my project ... he just comes from a different realm in software ... my impression is that smooth is more than technically qualified and quite intelligent). While searching for a logo designer, I found a female programmer in India who had already been the sole lead developer on an Android app for aviation. She is willing to join for $12k annually and has a masters and PhD in computer science. But I just don't know if that will suck more time than it will add in productivity. Was able to converse with her reasonably well verbally, much better than the heavy accent of some Indian males which I can't understand well.

Any way I fight on.

I'll be going on vacation to Subic during the 2nd week of May. I am hoping to do nothing but gym rat (younger bodybuilder type foreigners there motivate me), beach, sleep, and eat different food than I can get here in Davao. Back in Oct 2012, that had seemed to cure me entirely until I returned to Davao and all my horrible symptoms returned. So I am hoping for that magic result again.

I don't know what else to do, but push on with what I have to work within.


Edit: interestingly 21 Inc is trying to accomplish what I am working on, but they will never get there and I will, because they don't understand that the internet is social and payments will be for gamification so the payments will not be via the browser or wallet but seamless inside of Apps in a social context. Their non-integrated approach will not accomplish the necessary result:

https://www.coingecko.com/buzz/21-inc-bitcoin-computer-change-internet
https://www.coingecko.com/buzz/fred-ehrsam-bitcoin-remove-ads-spam-from-internet

You must listen to this! They came to the same realization I did:

http://www.1776.vc/insights/1776-podcast-fred-ehrsam-coinbase-bitcoin-finance-payments/

And this:

Since I have received questions in PMs, I want to make it clear I am not raising money in exchange for any crypto-currency tokens. There will be no ICO. I am not marketing tokens to investors. I am not promoting tokens here. I will not announce tokens any where. Any crypto-currency tokens (if ever) will be distributed for the use case of monetizing payments in the social and distribution network. I make no statements nor promotion about the value of the tokens, nor will I facilitate speculators obtaining tokens.

I am attempting to create a real software startup with a profitable business model that has unicorn potential, and will crowdfund to have the necessary resources to complete a prototype, then after launching prototype raise more money via Seedr in order to have the best team.

Please note I added an introduction to the Mission Statement in the prior post as quoted above. Hopefully this better tl;dr explains how ambitious this goal is.

I feel so much better when I supplement my testosterone (or is it nitrogen supplementation?). I took Robust (which claims to also promote testosterone, but also apparently has unlisted ingredient which is an analog of Cialis) this evening and it is as if most of my symptoms temporarily disappear or improve when I take that. But the effect is ephemeral. At least I can supplement a once or twice a week, to make it sure I have a couple of very normal and strong coding days per week. At least until I can have the funds and free time to go through the time sucking rigmarole with Western medicine experts (i.e. see primary care doctors first, battery of testing, before being referred to experts then trial & error to happenstance on an expert who can actually diagnose my mystery illness).

Edit: on my health, two interesting tidbits I just discovered; and given that the only abnormal result of my recent ultrasound and lab work was an enlarged prostate:



And then note this and that I have Fordyce's angiokeratomas on my scrotum:



Seems plausible that since the spermatic cord (tube) from the testicles runs upward into the bottom of the abdomen (just above the bladder) before descending back down to the prostate (to prevent back flow), then if my prostate is blocked causing too much back pressure, then this could explain the varicose veins in the scrotum and also plausibility explain inflammation and dysfunction in the abdomen? Or perhaps the symptoms in my abdomen are a separate issue, maybe related or not.

Since this would be elevating with the localized testosterone levels (not serum throughout the body), perhaps it is causing some hormonal and enzyme dysbiosys cascade.

The active ingredient in Cialis (also apparently hidden in Robust) would I suppose relax the muscles in the prostate perhaps relieving some of the back pressure.

Also the varicocele (had the Fordyce's angiokeratomas before May 2012) may have been worsened by my acute peptic ulcer hospitalization in May 2012, wherein I was told my bloated abdomen was due to acid leaking into my abdominal cavity and causing my organs to tear. I remember after I was discharged, I developed pain in my pelvis as if I had a UTI.

Note I think varicose veins are hereditary on my mother's side of the family. My grandmother had peripheral neuropathy, vulgar varicose veins in her feet, and Rosacea.

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Edit#3:

I just checked and my Fordyce's angiokeratomas is significantly reduced.

For the moment it looks like this:



And before it looked like this:




Edit#5: the mod deleted the post I made about Vitalik's genius.

Example of the first and why the masculinity matters for being a genius:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1409663.msg14308301#msg14308301

That betamales are misidentifying genius with a female body language says heaps about the brain damage ostensibly feminism has done to (some of) the Western young men.

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Btw, the following essay explains well my experience with many n00bs on this forum. I have tested > 140 IQ twice on some tests but lower (high 120s to 130s) on other tests. I don't have the score from the only formally administered IQ test I received in elementary school. But from what my mom said, I can correlate my SAT scores to an IQ that is roughly the same ballpark around 130, but note I showed up with a hangover to take the SAT, I didn't study for it at all, and I was clearly more accomplished in mental creativity than my best friend who studied for it and scored a 100 points higher than me. I generally don't perform well on tests that attempt to test skills that I am not interested in, such as puzzles that have no purpose. I am a very purpose driven thinker. I want to explore my imagination to solve problems or challenges that are important to me. If I try to motivate myself to become interested in solving puzzles that I am not really interested in by imagining that the ability to untwist their structure in my mind enables me to solve some other problems I am interested in, then my (especially timed) performance increases. What I have noticed is that I have 2 gears. When I am very motivated, I engage the hyperthinking gear, then my IQ is higher. It also seems to correlate with my energy level and my physical health, because I consume a lot more energy in hyperthinking gear. I don't know if any others have experienced this phenomenon?

https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/why-you-dont-want-to-be-a-genius/

What has been particularly debilitating about my illness is it impacts the energy I am able to extract from food. When I do my best work, I need to consume a lot of calories and fat, but my illness seems to worsen when I do that. Being energy limited, has limited how much hyperthinking mode I can employ lately.