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Awww, what a little cutie that Justin is. 
But...can he turn over 464 transactions in 4 minutes ?
Take a look at these 2 blocks from NXTs blockchain:
Blocks 417719 and 417720 both contain a payload of 232 transactions each.....which is 464 tx in 240 seconds, without a hiccup.
This is one of the reasons why NXT is holding so well compared to the rest of the alt-coin market:
NXT technology is solid, and is actually being used right now.
But...can he turn over 464 transactions in 4 minutes ?
Take a look at these 2 blocks from NXTs blockchain:
Blocks 417719 and 417720 both contain a payload of 232 transactions each.....which is 464 tx in 240 seconds, without a hiccup.
This is one of the reasons why NXT is holding so well compared to the rest of the alt-coin market:
NXT technology is solid, and is actually being used right now.
This is actually a quite pathetic tps which bitcoin exceeds many times(Poisson process). I get what you are alluding to however with the faster confirmation times. A 20MB BTC block limit will allow much higher tps averages of up to 8400 but the user might need to wait for the confirmation to come through (or not). The bottom line is that both bitcoin and NxT shouldn't be bragging about those numbers as they are both unacceptable and pathetic and thus we need creative solutions like https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=970822.0 to get up to 40k and higher tps to be competitive.
+1 there isn't a single platform anywhere out there anyway, not from King BTC down to the lowliest alt and all in between that is offering a good solution that would scale.
In a way that's kind of what SuperNET is doing.
Also, there is the Jay framework: http://jnxt.org/jay/
Thanks, I didn't know Jay. If it is safe/stable enough for merchants, it can be a good solution for them.
SuperNET is a bit off my radar and it surprises me that you mention it, as I thought it was a pretty heavy solution. Must take a read about it.
Anyway, I would really like to see a minimalistic Nxt command line client with only the core features
I would stay away from Supernet. It has like 25 parts and 20 of them are vaporware, and of the 5 that do work, none particularly work well.
But there is solid development going on within the NXT core.
Alright. I spot coins everyday like many other people on this forum. One of the things I notice is that Nxt is among the few coins that holds on tight in the list. Many came and even more have gone but yuet again Nxt keeps in there slowly growing. The transaction on the network keep increasing, however the general market cap is not inreasing ( many know, this is not the right indicator to base on ). I personally invested some of my crypto portfolio in Nxt as I believe it will do very well. Considering all the tech developments they are putting out and the fact that the coin hasn't marketed properly YET. If they do, I think the potential will become clear and the confusion will disapear and Nxt can have a good crypto future ahead. It's a new world which is vastly growing as we all know, even for Bitcoin it's hard to get in, so a lot can happen ! But I got a good bet set on Nxt.
Anyone else here that has noticed the same trend as I did ? If you go to nxtblocks.info it shows clearly on there in the 'chart's section.
Anyone else here that has noticed the same trend as I did ? If you go to nxtblocks.info it shows clearly on there in the 'chart's section.
NXT is a good coin but from 90 million USD marketcap to 9 million USD isn't holding on tightly, that is just plain sinking, and it continues to go down.
That isn't exactly NXT's fault. All of altcoins have taken a hit.
But if BTC every booms again, NXT will probably go back up, so maybe a good time to buy.
Go here and look at NXT price is USD. You can see at its peak it was around 0.10 USD and now is 0.01 USD. http://nxtreporting.com/stats.php?l=detail (click on "NXT price is USD")
I'd vote for Bitcoin, but didn't see the option.
Good choice.
Fixed. Addresses are not people. NEM's stakeholders were verified by device-browser fingerprint, bith IP analysis and taint analysis. NXT's addresses were verified by no one and they even cut their IPO short of the 250 address goal. NXT is clearly the master of sockpuppets and we see daily evidence like people such as 2kool4skewl who are known to have several pseudonyms on Bitcointalk where he trashes coins like Litecoin, Bitshares, et cetera.
Anyway this is a thread about XEM coin and NXT coin, not the platforms, and this might as well be comparing cable internet with dial up. NXT blockchain is slow as heck and takes hours to load, multiple security incidents and Proof of Stake is a waste of time unless you buy millions of NXT. Everything I just said about NXT, but in the reverse, is the opposite of XEM - XEM is very fast, loads quick, best security for a coin and PoI can be harvested with as little as 10,000 XEM.
Anyway this is a thread about XEM coin and NXT coin, not the platforms, and this might as well be comparing cable internet with dial up. NXT blockchain is slow as heck and takes hours to load, multiple security incidents and Proof of Stake is a waste of time unless you buy millions of NXT. Everything I just said about NXT, but in the reverse, is the opposite of XEM - XEM is very fast, loads quick, best security for a coin and PoI can be harvested with as little as 10,000 XEM.
Good to see you Utopian! Actually BCNext did verify all investors prior to releasing Nxt.
You are such a lying shit bag. BCnext was a known sock puppet. He got over half the NXT for himself. There were like 70 accounts, but most of those are BCnext and if you trace the chain you can see how they tie together.
Id like to announce Nxt (pronounced as "next"), a cryptocurrency based on Bitcoin paradigm.
P.S. Im a veteran member of this forum. I have to use this brand new account to remain anonymous but later I may reveal my identity.
P.S. Im a veteran member of this forum. I have to use this brand new account to remain anonymous but later I may reveal my identity.
We all know that coins started with newbie sockpuppet master accounts are scams.
Re: What does NEM, Litecoin and Stellar have in common?
Bitcoin was an awesome idea, but lets face it, it needs to be improved upon. That is why Litecoin is better. I would say NXT and Ripple is better than Bitcoin too, but that is bullshit. Ripple is a full on premine owned almost all by the Ripple foundation. And NXT isn't much better too. It was started by a known sock puppet master. He probably had like half of NXT.
Id like to announce Nxt (pronounced as "next"), a cryptocurrency based on Bitcoin paradigm.
P.S. Im a veteran member of this forum. I have to use this brand new account to remain anonymous but later I may reveal my identity.
P.S. Im a veteran member of this forum. I have to use this brand new account to remain anonymous but later I may reveal my identity.
I don't think the fact that he chose to launch his coin using a newbie account proves that he is a "sockpuppet master". He could have had many sockpuppet accounts, or he might not have had any. It's not something that is known at all.
He at least had one that we know of because he straight up says so, and we know that people that make sock accounts don't just make one. He probably had like 10 of the 20 people that bought large amounts of NXT.
If you examine a history of coins launched under newbie sock puppet names and devs using real names with established post counts, all scam coins almost always start off with sock puppet newbie names, and some of the best and real coins have developers using real names. Like Litecoin, Bitcoin, Stellar and Ripple.
Re: SCAM Darkcoin instamine 2 millions DRKs (50% of darkcoin in circulation)
Looking at the Darkcoin's dev, when people in Bitcointalk talk about the dev's instamine, and it is able to check via Abe explorer.
Today, he decided to do "Airdrop" 2,000,000 DRK ( are you kidding me ?, he instamine 2 millions darkcoins or almost 18 million USD)
Such a good dev, if people cannot catch his trick, he will definitely go with his instamine.
THE FACTS ABOUT DARK COIN
1. released without windows QT so that only dev and pals could mine it.
2. Instamined harder than any other coin out there 12.5% of the current minting was mined in the first day
3. Later they decided to cut the minting by 75% to turn their 12.5% instamine with no windows QT into 50% instamine in 24hours - nice hey
yes that is correct they mined 50% of all the coins available at this time by themselves in the first 24 hours whilst windows users could not mine.
That is the facts.... doesn't matter what else they say... nothing can change what they have done.
Once zero coin, or bytecoin with a decent wallet it released or another darkcoin clone is released.... dark coin will sink like a stone.
Every time they try to spam their coin just post this to remind them of the facts about their coin.
Today, he decided to do "Airdrop" 2,000,000 DRK ( are you kidding me ?, he instamine 2 millions darkcoins or almost 18 million USD)
Such a good dev, if people cannot catch his trick, he will definitely go with his instamine.
The first 24 hours of the coins existence keep causing us problems, an "airdrop" could be a solution to this. We could airdrop all holders (uniquely verified) with a equal portion of coin. This coin would come from a block in the future that paid 2 million+ coins to a specific address that I hold. We could use some kind of verification system like mastercoin (http://mastercoin-faucet.com/github-intro)
The airdrop would be a month or so into the future, so it would give users time to buy coins and become holders creating some demand. Also, we'd have a much larger market cap and the argument about the first 24 hours would become invalid.
How would you get a part of the airdrop?
- You must own 100DRK ( if you're new to Darkcoin but want to be part of the drop, you would need to purchase 100DRK ).
One of the following:
- Github: To redeem this reward, you need either at least three public repositories and your account must be older than August 1, 2013
- Reddit: To redeem this reward, you need a Reddit account with more than 100 karma.
- Bitcointalk: To redeem this reward you need an activity score above 10 as well as at least 10 posts
Any of these accounts would need to be created before April 1, 2014.
Vote!
The airdrop would be a month or so into the future, so it would give users time to buy coins and become holders creating some demand. Also, we'd have a much larger market cap and the argument about the first 24 hours would become invalid.
How would you get a part of the airdrop?
- You must own 100DRK ( if you're new to Darkcoin but want to be part of the drop, you would need to purchase 100DRK ).
One of the following:
- Github: To redeem this reward, you need either at least three public repositories and your account must be older than August 1, 2013
- Reddit: To redeem this reward, you need a Reddit account with more than 100 karma.
- Bitcointalk: To redeem this reward you need an activity score above 10 as well as at least 10 posts
Any of these accounts would need to be created before April 1, 2014.
Vote!
Let's take a look at the first 5 h of Darkcoin (XCoin at that time)...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4589219#msg4589219
Edufield said (after failed launch) that he will wait the next day to launch DRK (XCoin at that time) it is 11 pm.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4591407#msg4591407
Edufield disregard windows wallet and daemon and hurry up his launch, presumably to not have windows miners on board.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4592827#msg4592827
Edufield say he added four nodes for the launch at 4 am (5 hours later, despite his promise to wait). The 4 nodes from Edufield are 3 amazons AWS + another unknown (whois IP). Launch started at 3h54 am.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4593601#msg4593601
Edufield said the github version was not updated, nobody could compile and only Edufield was able to mine until that time. It is 5.09 am and Edufield instamined alone 1153 block at 500 DRK + 60 block at reward 277 = 593120 DRK for him alone in about 1 hour.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4593987#msg4593987
No windows wallet confirmed at 5h47 am, despite a user attempt to make one avaiable, that Edufield dismissed quickly.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4594096#msg4594096
Illodin, understand dev has instamined alot of coin.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4595573#msg4595573
From this list of nodes, at 8h34 am (4h40 after launch) there were 50 Amazon AWS node and 50 microsoft cloud computing instamining DRK (checked using IP whois service). This is 100/124 nodes using cloud computing to instamine DRK. We are at block 2870 and block reward is 500. From block 1153-1729 block reward is 277. After that it is 500 again hence 2294 block at 500 + 576 at 277 = 1306552 DRK (worth about 13M$ now) were instamined in less than 5 hour by Edufield and coworkers using about 100 cloud mining instances. Edufield himself instamined in not even 5 h from 600K to 1169K DRK ((1306K-600K)*100/124 + 600K) depending how many of the 100 cloud mining instance were its own. All this while having purposefully set the difficult ridiculously low and block reward 100 times what it is now.
From 6M$ - 13M$ in 5 h, Edufield did some lucrative work here!
Edufield is nominee for the Master Scammer 2014 award!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4589219#msg4589219
Edufield said (after failed launch) that he will wait the next day to launch DRK (XCoin at that time) it is 11 pm.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4591407#msg4591407
Edufield disregard windows wallet and daemon and hurry up his launch, presumably to not have windows miners on board.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4592827#msg4592827
Edufield say he added four nodes for the launch at 4 am (5 hours later, despite his promise to wait). The 4 nodes from Edufield are 3 amazons AWS + another unknown (whois IP). Launch started at 3h54 am.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4593601#msg4593601
Edufield said the github version was not updated, nobody could compile and only Edufield was able to mine until that time. It is 5.09 am and Edufield instamined alone 1153 block at 500 DRK + 60 block at reward 277 = 593120 DRK for him alone in about 1 hour.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4593987#msg4593987
No windows wallet confirmed at 5h47 am, despite a user attempt to make one avaiable, that Edufield dismissed quickly.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4594096#msg4594096
Illodin, understand dev has instamined alot of coin.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg4595573#msg4595573
From this list of nodes, at 8h34 am (4h40 after launch) there were 50 Amazon AWS node and 50 microsoft cloud computing instamining DRK (checked using IP whois service). This is 100/124 nodes using cloud computing to instamine DRK. We are at block 2870 and block reward is 500. From block 1153-1729 block reward is 277. After that it is 500 again hence 2294 block at 500 + 576 at 277 = 1306552 DRK (worth about 13M$ now) were instamined in less than 5 hour by Edufield and coworkers using about 100 cloud mining instances. Edufield himself instamined in not even 5 h from 600K to 1169K DRK ((1306K-600K)*100/124 + 600K) depending how many of the 100 cloud mining instance were its own. All this while having purposefully set the difficult ridiculously low and block reward 100 times what it is now.
From 6M$ - 13M$ in 5 h, Edufield did some lucrative work here!
Edufield is nominee for the Master Scammer 2014 award!
THE FACTS ABOUT DARK COIN
1. released without windows QT so that only dev and pals could mine it.
2. Instamined harder than any other coin out there 12.5% of the current minting was mined in the first day
3. Later they decided to cut the minting by 75% to turn their 12.5% instamine with no windows QT into 50% instamine in 24hours - nice hey
yes that is correct they mined 50% of all the coins available at this time by themselves in the first 24 hours whilst windows users could not mine.
That is the facts.... doesn't matter what else they say... nothing can change what they have done.
Once zero coin, or bytecoin with a decent wallet it released or another darkcoin clone is released.... dark coin will sink like a stone.
Every time they try to spam their coin just post this to remind them of the facts about their coin.
hehe they will accuse anyone to hide their scam...
LET THEM ARGUE WITH THESE FACTS
1. The block reward was 500 every couple seconds at launch! Not 20 or 50 coins every 2.5 minutes as listed. There was also no windows wallet so only linux users could mine. This allowed about 1.7-2 million Darkcoins to be instamined in the first 24hours. Representing about 50% OF ALL DARKCOINS CURRENTLY IN EXISTENCE!!! All mined in the first 24hours by just a few wallets. Then the rules were changed increasing the block time to 2.5 minutes and eliminating the 500 block reward, (but only after the instaminers had claimed 2 million or so coins first.)
2. Today many of those day 1 instamined coins have already been sold and right now approx 24% of all Darkcoins are held in just 10 wallets. This could be 10 people or it could be simply Evan with 10 different wallets.
3. My opinion is that it is unfair and unfortunate that this occurred and IMO it represents a very real risk to Darkcoin in that there is an opening for a good dev to make an Identical X11 coin that has all the attributes of Darkcoin, plus a few more features, and have a truly fair and equitable launch. The instamining will continue to be brought up as it currently represents about a 10% premine given the Dev recently reduced the total coins that will ever be in existence to around 22million!
noob fools saying i think it is nice people mining early get more coins...lol you silly noobs.
you would all be crying when a coin comes out with no wallet and a HUGE HUGE HUGE % of minting is mined in 24hours that you will never have a chance at you silly people.
keep quiet over thing you don't understand.
Just print this to anything they say!!!!!!
1. The block reward was 500 every couple seconds at launch! Not 20 or 50 coins every 2.5 minutes as listed. There was also no windows wallet so only linux users could mine. This allowed about 1.7-2 million Darkcoins to be instamined in the first 24hours. Representing about 50% OF ALL DARKCOINS CURRENTLY IN EXISTENCE!!! All mined in the first 24hours by just a few wallets. Then the rules were changed increasing the block time to 2.5 minutes and eliminating the 500 block reward, (but only after the instaminers had claimed 2 million or so coins first.)
2. Today many of those day 1 instamined coins have already been sold and right now approx 24% of all Darkcoins are held in just 10 wallets. This could be 10 people or it could be simply Evan with 10 different wallets.
3. My opinion is that it is unfair and unfortunate that this occurred and IMO it represents a very real risk to Darkcoin in that there is an opening for a good dev to make an Identical X11 coin that has all the attributes of Darkcoin, plus a few more features, and have a truly fair and equitable launch. The instamining will continue to be brought up as it currently represents about a 10% premine given the Dev recently reduced the total coins that will ever be in existence to around 22million!
the more they try to justify or excuse it the more people get to read about the scam..............
in the end they will accept it is best to shut up about it and hope people forget.
LET THEM ARGUE WITH THESE FACTS
1. The block reward was 500 every couple seconds at launch! Not 20 or 50 coins every 2.5 minutes as listed. There was also no windows wallet so only linux users could mine. This allowed about 1.7-2 million Darkcoins to be instamined in the first 24hours. Representing about 50% OF ALL DARKCOINS CURRENTLY IN EXISTENCE!!! All mined in the first 24hours by just a few wallets. Then the rules were changed increasing the block time to 2.5 minutes and eliminating the 500 block reward, (but only after the instaminers had claimed 2 million or so coins first.)
2. Today many of those day 1 instamined coins have already been sold and right now approx 24% of all Darkcoins are held in just 10 wallets. This could be 10 people or it could be simply Evan with 10 different wallets.
3. My opinion is that it is unfair and unfortunate that this occurred and IMO it represents a very real risk to Darkcoin in that there is an opening for a good dev to make an Identical X11 coin that has all the attributes of Darkcoin, plus a few more features, and have a truly fair and equitable launch. The instamining will continue to be brought up as it currently represents about a 10% premine given the Dev recently reduced the total coins that will ever be in existence to around 22million!
noob fools saying i think it is nice people mining early get more coins...lol you silly noobs.
you would all be crying when a coin comes out with no wallet and a HUGE HUGE HUGE % of minting is mined in 24hours that you will never have a chance at you silly people.
keep quiet over thing you don't understand.
Just print this to anything they say!!!!!!
1. The block reward was 500 every couple seconds at launch! Not 20 or 50 coins every 2.5 minutes as listed. There was also no windows wallet so only linux users could mine. This allowed about 1.7-2 million Darkcoins to be instamined in the first 24hours. Representing about 50% OF ALL DARKCOINS CURRENTLY IN EXISTENCE!!! All mined in the first 24hours by just a few wallets. Then the rules were changed increasing the block time to 2.5 minutes and eliminating the 500 block reward, (but only after the instaminers had claimed 2 million or so coins first.)
2. Today many of those day 1 instamined coins have already been sold and right now approx 24% of all Darkcoins are held in just 10 wallets. This could be 10 people or it could be simply Evan with 10 different wallets.
3. My opinion is that it is unfair and unfortunate that this occurred and IMO it represents a very real risk to Darkcoin in that there is an opening for a good dev to make an Identical X11 coin that has all the attributes of Darkcoin, plus a few more features, and have a truly fair and equitable launch. The instamining will continue to be brought up as it currently represents about a 10% premine given the Dev recently reduced the total coins that will ever be in existence to around 22million!
the more they try to justify or excuse it the more people get to read about the scam..............
in the end they will accept it is best to shut up about it and hope people forget.
The points are very valid.
Let's see. It walks like an instamine scam, it talks like an instamine scam, I must be an ....................
Yet, some of the whales say it ain't so. Uh huuuh?
Re: What does NEM, Litecoin and Stellar have in common?
They suffer from second child syndrome.
I've been reading a lot about the royal baby about to be born and it made me think. Can this be applied to crypto as well? In particular alt coins? Read the passage below, does this sound familiar? Is this why there is so much FUD and rivalry? Do you agree? This is another reason why I don't believe these coins have any future. Their older siblings stole the limelight.
"... when your second child arrives, the experience is not so new. You've been there, done that. So what if your second child stood up for the first time, you've seen that before. However, it is still a first for him, isn't it? But because you've seen all this you probably fail to recognize this, and many more such achievements throughout, that makes him feel less recognized and unworthy. He may thus also begin to develop resentful feelings for his sibling, which may lead to sibling rivalry."
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/second-child-syndrome.html
Please note: All Truth topics are moderated to ensure we stay on topic.
I've been reading a lot about the royal baby about to be born and it made me think. Can this be applied to crypto as well? In particular alt coins? Read the passage below, does this sound familiar? Is this why there is so much FUD and rivalry? Do you agree? This is another reason why I don't believe these coins have any future. Their older siblings stole the limelight.
"... when your second child arrives, the experience is not so new. You've been there, done that. So what if your second child stood up for the first time, you've seen that before. However, it is still a first for him, isn't it? But because you've seen all this you probably fail to recognize this, and many more such achievements throughout, that makes him feel less recognized and unworthy. He may thus also begin to develop resentful feelings for his sibling, which may lead to sibling rivalry."
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/second-child-syndrome.html
Please note: All Truth topics are moderated to ensure we stay on topic.
Bitcoin was an awesome idea, but lets face it, it needs to be improved upon. That is why Litecoin is better. I would say NXT and Ripple is better than Bitcoin too, but that is bullshit. Ripple is a full on premine owned almost all by the Ripple foundation. And NXT isn't much better too. It was started by a known sock puppet master. He probably had like half of NXT.
Id like to announce Nxt (pronounced as "next"), a cryptocurrency based on Bitcoin paradigm.
P.S. Im a veteran member of this forum. I have to use this brand new account to remain anonymous but later I may reveal my identity.
P.S. Im a veteran member of this forum. I have to use this brand new account to remain anonymous but later I may reveal my identity.
I don't know anything about NEM or Stellar, so I can't talk about them. What we need is a platform that isn't founded in bullshit.
As if this rubbish is worth [a minimum of] $1,000,000... Nice one, mate.
Who'd take investment advice from a dickhead who past up NXT lol Below is Hazard's response to NXT.
Yawn
Look at the date, how often do you lie awake thinking what might have been for your sorry ass if you'd invested just $50 in NXT ... you are a classic crypto loser bro!!
pro tip, if Hazard says no ... BUY!!
Except nobody invested in NXT you shit bag. BCnext was a known sock puppet. He got over half the NXT for himself. There were like 70 accounts, but most of those are BCnext and if you trace the chain you can see how they tie together.
Id like to announce Nxt (pronounced as "next"), a cryptocurrency based on Bitcoin paradigm.
P.S. Im a veteran member of this forum. I have to use this brand new account to remain anonymous but later I may reveal my identity.
P.S. Im a veteran member of this forum. I have to use this brand new account to remain anonymous but later I may reveal my identity.
Here's a nice article about scientific hypotheses: https://philosophynow.org/issues/74/Hypotheses_Forget_About_It
looks like it is very interesting reading material. sadly, I don't have a membership. if you would be so kind to PM me a copy and paste, it would be read and appreciated.
I won't tell if you don't. What a remarkably stunning degree of ignorance, and also an exact match for the message which is hammered home in the various media.
You seem utterly unaware of how grants fund a great deal of academic research (and the funding in the field of 'climate science' is enormous.) You also seem unaware that many professors make a good bit of their income (a majority in some cases) providing services such as being expert witnesses. This is the case with one of my relatives. There is nothing wrong with that, but there could be in some circumstances absent proper procedures including transparency.
You seem utterly unaware of how grants fund a great deal of academic research (and the funding in the field of 'climate science' is enormous.) You also seem unaware that many professors make a good bit of their income (a majority in some cases) providing services such as being expert witnesses. This is the case with one of my relatives. There is nothing wrong with that, but there could be in some circumstances absent proper procedures including transparency.
Again, I am just going to address your opening and I am going to assume that the rest of what you say is built up on the same faulty logic.
Okay, so first, just to be clear earlier when I said "my friend gets $10,000 per article" what I really meant is.... it is me. I am a professor, so you don't need to school me on how the game works. I have been in it for a long time.
Despite your delusion that the whole of academia has been bought out and all are corrupt, let me try to explain to you again how it works.
Yes, you are right there is lots of money that goes into climate science, but it will only go to the top 2-3% of researchers at the top universities. Nobody is giving big grants for your average state school or lower. Big grants usually only go to the big schools with big names. And no matter how much money you think there is, there isn't that much going into it. And next, after that money is given to the profs it isn't conditional. Once the profs get it, its theirs. They can publish any finding they want regardless of who gave them the money. It isn't like the grants come under the stipulation that their findings have to meet the donor's vision or else the researcher has to pay it back. Almost all of the profs getting big grants also have tenure. They don't really care what result their donor wanted.
And yes some professor's make a good bit being witnesses, like about 0.5%. The ones that do, can get paid quite well. The other 99.5% get no gigs. It is much like being a musician. When you make it big, you are set, but the rest stick to their day jobs.
The best way to make money outside of the university is a way you didn't mention. The most common way to earn substantial cash is to become a consultant for private industry. While I don't have any close relationships with anybody that made it to the rockstar level in academia of professional high paid witness, I do know quite a few that have gotten rich being consultants. And of course we know that the private industry in the global warming debate that would hire said profs are the oil and gas companies. They have very deep pockets to hire consultants. Yet only 3% of profs are global warming deniers.
Your narrative sucks.
You remind me of Fox News. Lie as much as you can and then accuse the other side of lying. Stall as much as you can and then accuse the other side of stalling.
This whole debate is stupid.
1. Human science is soooooo premature that humans don't even know how big the universe is, how does gravity and electromagnetism work and many other very very simple and basic parts of physics. If science can't even understand the physical world that is observable, it really has no business commenting on the unobservable (yet), and anybody trying to use it to prove or disprove God's existence probably doesn't realize how silly they look.
1. Human science is soooooo premature that humans don't even know how big the universe is, how does gravity and electromagnetism work and many other very very simple and basic parts of physics. If science can't even understand the physical world that is observable, it really has no business commenting on the unobservable (yet), and anybody trying to use it to prove or disprove God's existence probably doesn't realize how silly they look.
I posted this back in the summer:
God cannot be proved or disproved.
Shame it was ignored. Would of saved months of pointless arguing and anger.
Well, people are always going to think they are right.
If they didn't think they were right, they wouldn't have been thinking that way in the first place.
And to that point, I don't see much point in sitting around putting my 2 cents in when people aren't going to listen anyway.
Good post, although the only thing I would say is that you should remove the "(yet)" from your post as empirical methods of study can never possibly conclude about that which cannot be observed. For that we have philosophy, mathematics, and metaphysics.
Oh come man. Have some faith. (pun intended) New branches and disciplines of science are regularly being created as time goes by. And also lots and lots of theories are postulated in science not by what we can see, but by what we can't see. If I remember for a long time that was the case with dark energy and dark matter, thus the "dark" in their name. Just because it isn't directly observable doesn't mean science can't dabble around the subject and rule out other reasonable possibilities one by one.
Scientists Split on Human Impact on Climate Change
A Purdue University survey shows that the scientific community is split on the question of whether human activities are at the root of climate change, with just over 50 percent of scientists saying that climate change is happening and that it is caused mostly by human activities.
The Media Research Center reports that the studys findings differ largely from the often used statistic that 97 percent of scientists believe in man-made global warming.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/scientists-split-on-human-impact-on-climate-change/
This article is correct. It says the same thing that I said earlier.
Also, as far as global warming goes, 97% of all journal articles that are peer reviewed agree that there is indeed global warming.
The debate in these journals is not weather the Earth is warming, all reasonable scientist believe that. The debate is whether it is fast or slow and human caused or nature caused. http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html
The debate in these journals is not weather the Earth is warming, all reasonable scientist believe that. The debate is whether it is fast or slow and human caused or nature caused. http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html
Basically, everyone knows it is heating up. That is a fact. The 97% agree on that. What is a bit confusing is to "why" and "how much". Some say nature, some say humans are the main cause. But almost all of the 97% say it is a mixture. They just disagree upon how much it is mixed up. Some say it will be a little bit of a problem, some say it will be a big problem, but most of the 97% agree that sooner or later there will be problems of some sort.
There is no conspiracy by professors to lie to the world about their research.
This is how the university works. The students give money to the university and the university gives money to the professors. Professors don't answer to anybody but the university president and often barely even answer to him/her. Some of these profs are conservative and some of which are liberal, just like the rest of America. (though in academia there is a more of a liberal slant)
If you think the professors are acting out of greed when they publish, you certainly have that part right. The more they publish, the more they get paid. It is that simple. It really doesn't matter what they publish. All they have to do is find facts that others haven't found or at least fake it well enough to fool their peers and they will get extra money. These professors aren't all in a mass conspiracy to hide the truth and in doing so willing to sacrifice their paychecks. They have houses and mortgages and kids too just like everybody else. One friend on mine gets a $10,000 bonus for each good article in a reputable journal he publishes.
This is how it works. They all on an individual level just want to get paid just like the rest of us. And to that extent the academic system while having its many faults is still kind of working to generally discover the truth. The fierce competition among the talent to be the next person with the best truth results in said victor getting paid the most. It is constantly a race to be the next person to add the next fact. And yes, this does lead to lots of individual cases where people lie or in haste make mistakes, but it just doesn't simply result in 97% of the professors lying in a big mass conspiracy in peer reviewed journals.
Just so you know what a peer reviewed journal is, when an article is submitted to a journal, a well respected team of academics in that field all read it and decide whether it has any new contribution. They then have to agree. If it does, it gets published, if it doesn't, then it won't. Now there are lots and lots of conservatives that could have made their own journal and form their own little circle and publish for one and another but this hasn't happened. Why? Because they science just simply isn't there. The only real source of anti-global warming science comes from non-peer reviewed articles, often times funded by big corporations, or by authors with suspicious ties to big corporations.
This is how the university works. The students give money to the university and the university gives money to the professors. Professors don't answer to anybody but the university president and often barely even answer to him/her. Some of these profs are conservative and some of which are liberal, just like the rest of America. (though in academia there is a more of a liberal slant)
If you think the professors are acting out of greed when they publish, you certainly have that part right. The more they publish, the more they get paid. It is that simple. It really doesn't matter what they publish. All they have to do is find facts that others haven't found or at least fake it well enough to fool their peers and they will get extra money. These professors aren't all in a mass conspiracy to hide the truth and in doing so willing to sacrifice their paychecks. They have houses and mortgages and kids too just like everybody else. One friend on mine gets a $10,000 bonus for each good article in a reputable journal he publishes.
This is how it works. They all on an individual level just want to get paid just like the rest of us. And to that extent the academic system while having its many faults is still kind of working to generally discover the truth. The fierce competition among the talent to be the next person with the best truth results in said victor getting paid the most. It is constantly a race to be the next person to add the next fact. And yes, this does lead to lots of individual cases where people lie or in haste make mistakes, but it just doesn't simply result in 97% of the professors lying in a big mass conspiracy in peer reviewed journals.
Just so you know what a peer reviewed journal is, when an article is submitted to a journal, a well respected team of academics in that field all read it and decide whether it has any new contribution. They then have to agree. If it does, it gets published, if it doesn't, then it won't. Now there are lots and lots of conservatives that could have made their own journal and form their own little circle and publish for one and another but this hasn't happened. Why? Because they science just simply isn't there. The only real source of anti-global warming science comes from non-peer reviewed articles, often times funded by big corporations, or by authors with suspicious ties to big corporations.
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Transactional Embeddable Data - Check
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Which of these could get included into classical Bitcoin?
One of the early innovation has come from Peercoin, adding POS to POW mining. Sometimes marvelling if Bitcoin will pick that up later on the road, to keep TX fees low and still secure the network on dwindling hashrates.
Perhaps we are a tad to much focusing on a new coin, and not enough on coin evolution of any older one.
He wasn't talking about Bitcoin. He is the developer for Emunie and it was his sly way of saying that he built a platform that has done all those things.
It's a big Internet - there are plenty of places you can go and air your views. Or you can create your own site. Meanwhile, reddit has apparently decided they are serving the market of people who want to discuss the subject without the interjections of those who disagree.
Freedom of speech is a property right - you have the right to use your own press, your own soapbox, etc. Nobody's obligated to provide one. And some people just want to be left alone in private. If they do, of course, the rest of us are free to point them out just in case anyone wants to avoid that group. Maybe that's all you were doing here.
Freedom of speech is a property right - you have the right to use your own press, your own soapbox, etc. Nobody's obligated to provide one. And some people just want to be left alone in private. If they do, of course, the rest of us are free to point them out just in case anyone wants to avoid that group. Maybe that's all you were doing here.
It is perfectly fine that Reddit bans science deniers. It is a private organization. It is kind of like Fox News banning intelligent and honest people from being guests on their shows. Private companies can do what they want.
It's perfectly fine to hold a book burning party as well, and if a majority of a community desires it it's OK to raid the public library for fuel. Democracy. It's mighty unsightly though.
I am going to stop reading and responding to you right here because I am going to assume that the rest of what you are going to say is based on the same kind of logic that you opened with.
1. It is perfectly fine to have a book burning party if you A) own and lawfully came into possession of said books and B) hold said book burning party on your own private land. The point is, if it is your private land you can do what you want. Reddit has its own little private space in the internet, it can do what it wants.
2. If a majority of a community desires to raid a public library and burn the books it is not okay, it is against the law. Right now the majority of Americans want to make Obama quit, but they don't do it because that would be against the law. Just because the community up and has a desire doesn't mean they get their way. I seem to remember some recent Presidential election in 2000 where the majority of Americans voted for one candidate but instead because of silly lines drawn on a map the other candidate won, yet there was no revolution. That is democracy for you; real democracy, not the silly one you are imagining. It isn't perfect and people don't always get what they want, but usually there isn't wild chaos when a community gets some kind of wild spur desire.
Surely Ethereum isn't a scam or vaporware. It seems to be working really good to me (on the CounterParty test net). 
Vitalik very well might go down as the genius who created Ethereum, let other people use it for free, and then just kept all the fundraiser money.
He doesn't really care. He gets rich and this really cool software he invented is used everywhere. He gets awards. It is all around a big win for him. Just because the people that directly paid for it aren't the people that actually directly profit probably shouldn't worry him much.
Vitalik very well might go down as the genius who created Ethereum, let other people use it for free, and then just kept all the fundraiser money.
He doesn't really care. He gets rich and this really cool software he invented is used everywhere. He gets awards. It is all around a big win for him. Just because the people that directly paid for it aren't the people that actually directly profit probably shouldn't worry him much.