Search content
Sort by
Showing 20 of 26 results by a.s.t.e.r.i.s.k
Re: [ANN] Decentralization,privacy prjct. Seeking philanthropists excitd abt freedom
Dear community, Vod and amishmanish, thank you for taking the time to engage. Also amishmanish thank you for your excellent representation in your previous post. Here I will respond to your license and organization questions, then discuss Asterisk vs digital slavery under the oligarch vs self-interest, and finally that your help makes all the difference.
This post is scoped to philanthropists in this pre-release phase. If Asterisk is Bitcoin, then the year now is 2007. This letter and thread discusses mostly vision and values, and a wide range of topics are discussed currently only in private correspondence and personal meetings.
For other readers, please hold during this funding round and another 16 months. Hugely useful decentralized protocols, tools and apps speak louder than words. Our team's thousands and thousands of man hours of effort should currently be very much primarily focused on the release goal.
*Open source license*
For open source license, this will become an actionable question many months into the future however the original or extended AGPL with linking exception (a la LibBitcoin) or Apache (similar to Bitcoin Core's choice of the MIT license) should be fine.
The objective is that the Asterisk parts that you want to embed in your programs, should be perfectly embeddable in a way that is compatible with your purposes, whether you're making free or commercial software. (In comparison, Linux' GNU GPL v3 would be anathema in this role as tools licensed under it cannot be used in non-free programs and apps.)
Remember that beyond open source license choice are equally or even more impactful factors, which relate to ethics. For example, Oracle after acquiring MySQL, pulled the unit tests from open view. This meant that on paper, MySQL was open source because the code was GPLv2, but you couldn't do anything with it due to Oracle's greed.
*Organization*
Organizational matters are discussed on page 4+ in "g) Organizational Structure" and "f) Financial prospects". The appendix is still recent and up to date and as you see we _will_ incorporate a foundation.
*Asterisk vs your digital slavery as hostage to the oligarch vs self-interest*
Under both your questions seems to lie a question about how Asterisk relates to self-interest.
Asterisk's object is to offer an alternative path to the current daily hostage situation you yourself experience online, where your activity is claimed and owned by a middleman.
The middleman is some app service run by a corporation which in turn is owned by shareholders. The shareholders are giving you access to their service that they own, as a favour that they don't charge you for, and they do this exclusively to push the most severe agenda of _their_ interest over _your_ interest. Just like feudalism, where they're the oligarch and you're the peasant or slave.
Of course many of us normal people are vigorously uneasy by this and many simply stay away from a lot of these services because it feels ethically unsettling and also there are real unknowns about their conduct that can mean risk with respect to money and otherwise.
One issue is moral corruption as in the risk that a rapacious oligarch who should not be trusted with anything would be in charge of the service. Here Zuckerberg offers a quintessential example, as he calls Facebook users "dumb fucks", laughs about that he is over the law and decrees that you "have no right to privacy".
Another issue is immoral and or undignifying conduct such as a realization that all your and your family's personal information including vacation photos, medical records, lawyer correspondence, your contact lists and social graph, comprehensive behavioral information as well as your business information most likely has ended up with foreign corporations and governments for value extraction, resale, storage and processing forever.
With respect to self-interest, Asterisk sticks out from the typical maximized-self-interest-by-value-extraction-through-shareholding-in-a-corporation model.
Firstly Asterisk is a decentralized protocol, which in any situation it is not possible for anyone to value-extract much on. For comparison, how much money can the ISO/ANSI organization charge you tops for a copy of the C++ programming language standard.
Second the object of Asterisk is to continue to be a cure for a long time, and it would not be harmonious with this ethical objective to in some form engage shareholders who then could and likely enough would pressure for compromising the ethics later through the control and ownership that belongs to their title as shareholder. There is some space for nonobliged funding model discussion however better keep it simple.
In essence Asterisk is about important aspects of keeping and advancing Earth as a place where you actually want to live.
Thank you again for bringing up these questions. I look forward to discussing this further with you, please raise any thoughts or questions you have.
*Responsibility, karma*
This is written in a way to wake people up but not so much for entertainment.
This thread has bestowed you with real responsibility over your and others' future. The normal principle is that you get what you wish for, independent of whether the vision you buy into is Zuckerberg-Orwell style slavery where you will need authorization to speak, eat, work or date and where your human rights vanish, or a vision of a dignified, respectful civil order.
The usual principle is, with all good causes weighed together: do what you can for a good cause. Sometimes you can talk, sometimes you can help, sometimes you can excercise choice, and sometimes you can fund.
This may sound grave and it is, however also like all things Asterisk should be fun and easy.
Please note again that Asterisk is pre-release. Wikipedia or Red Cross grade crowdfunding campaigning is another day. Aside from competence which we have, additional funding is instrumental in moving forward, which we need as we're not breatharians.
Time is running fast and Asterisk would better be available to the public now or better yet, yesterday.
If you can donate 0.1, 1, 10 or 100 Bitcoins then please by all means do so:
*If you are a philanthropist who loves freedom, we're looking forward to make a decisive difference together with you.*
If you know a philanthropist, send him or her this thread and the letter.
Looking forward to get in touch.
A host of disclaimers apply to this text: this text is not advice of any sort including financial and no responsibility is taken for this text. Only to be quoted in part or whole with the written permission of the author.
This post is scoped to philanthropists in this pre-release phase. If Asterisk is Bitcoin, then the year now is 2007. This letter and thread discusses mostly vision and values, and a wide range of topics are discussed currently only in private correspondence and personal meetings.
For other readers, please hold during this funding round and another 16 months. Hugely useful decentralized protocols, tools and apps speak louder than words. Our team's thousands and thousands of man hours of effort should currently be very much primarily focused on the release goal.
*Open source license*
For open source license, this will become an actionable question many months into the future however the original or extended AGPL with linking exception (a la LibBitcoin) or Apache (similar to Bitcoin Core's choice of the MIT license) should be fine.
The objective is that the Asterisk parts that you want to embed in your programs, should be perfectly embeddable in a way that is compatible with your purposes, whether you're making free or commercial software. (In comparison, Linux' GNU GPL v3 would be anathema in this role as tools licensed under it cannot be used in non-free programs and apps.)
Remember that beyond open source license choice are equally or even more impactful factors, which relate to ethics. For example, Oracle after acquiring MySQL, pulled the unit tests from open view. This meant that on paper, MySQL was open source because the code was GPLv2, but you couldn't do anything with it due to Oracle's greed.
*Organization*
Organizational matters are discussed on page 4+ in "g) Organizational Structure" and "f) Financial prospects". The appendix is still recent and up to date and as you see we _will_ incorporate a foundation.
*Asterisk vs your digital slavery as hostage to the oligarch vs self-interest*
Under both your questions seems to lie a question about how Asterisk relates to self-interest.
Asterisk's object is to offer an alternative path to the current daily hostage situation you yourself experience online, where your activity is claimed and owned by a middleman.
The middleman is some app service run by a corporation which in turn is owned by shareholders. The shareholders are giving you access to their service that they own, as a favour that they don't charge you for, and they do this exclusively to push the most severe agenda of _their_ interest over _your_ interest. Just like feudalism, where they're the oligarch and you're the peasant or slave.
Of course many of us normal people are vigorously uneasy by this and many simply stay away from a lot of these services because it feels ethically unsettling and also there are real unknowns about their conduct that can mean risk with respect to money and otherwise.
One issue is moral corruption as in the risk that a rapacious oligarch who should not be trusted with anything would be in charge of the service. Here Zuckerberg offers a quintessential example, as he calls Facebook users "dumb fucks", laughs about that he is over the law and decrees that you "have no right to privacy".
Another issue is immoral and or undignifying conduct such as a realization that all your and your family's personal information including vacation photos, medical records, lawyer correspondence, your contact lists and social graph, comprehensive behavioral information as well as your business information most likely has ended up with foreign corporations and governments for value extraction, resale, storage and processing forever.
With respect to self-interest, Asterisk sticks out from the typical maximized-self-interest-by-value-extraction-through-shareholding-in-a-corporation model.
Firstly Asterisk is a decentralized protocol, which in any situation it is not possible for anyone to value-extract much on. For comparison, how much money can the ISO/ANSI organization charge you tops for a copy of the C++ programming language standard.
Second the object of Asterisk is to continue to be a cure for a long time, and it would not be harmonious with this ethical objective to in some form engage shareholders who then could and likely enough would pressure for compromising the ethics later through the control and ownership that belongs to their title as shareholder. There is some space for nonobliged funding model discussion however better keep it simple.
In essence Asterisk is about important aspects of keeping and advancing Earth as a place where you actually want to live.
Thank you again for bringing up these questions. I look forward to discussing this further with you, please raise any thoughts or questions you have.
*Responsibility, karma*
This is written in a way to wake people up but not so much for entertainment.
This thread has bestowed you with real responsibility over your and others' future. The normal principle is that you get what you wish for, independent of whether the vision you buy into is Zuckerberg-Orwell style slavery where you will need authorization to speak, eat, work or date and where your human rights vanish, or a vision of a dignified, respectful civil order.
The usual principle is, with all good causes weighed together: do what you can for a good cause. Sometimes you can talk, sometimes you can help, sometimes you can excercise choice, and sometimes you can fund.
This may sound grave and it is, however also like all things Asterisk should be fun and easy.
Please note again that Asterisk is pre-release. Wikipedia or Red Cross grade crowdfunding campaigning is another day. Aside from competence which we have, additional funding is instrumental in moving forward, which we need as we're not breatharians.
Time is running fast and Asterisk would better be available to the public now or better yet, yesterday.
If you can donate 0.1, 1, 10 or 100 Bitcoins then please by all means do so:
*If you are a philanthropist who loves freedom, we're looking forward to make a decisive difference together with you.*
If you know a philanthropist, send him or her this thread and the letter.
Looking forward to get in touch.
A host of disclaimers apply to this text: this text is not advice of any sort including financial and no responsibility is taken for this text. Only to be quoted in part or whole with the written permission of the author.
Re: [ANN] Decentralization, privacy. Seeking philanthropists,please donate/crowdfund
Decentralization .. does not alone make it pure, look at the recent ... debacle for an example of how even in decentralized platforms there can exist a power struggle.
NotATether, this is an excellent point by you and it deserves to be discussed another day. Asterisk
Re: [ANN] Decentralization, privacy. Seeking philanthropists,please donate/crowdfund
Quote
Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission.
a.s.t.e.r.i.s.k - can you post your non-profit license?
The days of this community believing something is a charity just because a scammer says so, are over. :/
(If you delete this request, I'll repost it in your trust)
Hi Vod,
Thank you for your kind message.
I agree that most post-2009 projects have been broken, and that organizations like EOS have committed large crimes by running away with billions of USD. Mostly ICO:s. Again please note that Asterisk is not an issuer, an issuer of 'gas' or some token.
Please specify which part of the Asterisk work your license question regards. If you have followup questions within this question please let me know.
Also again please note that after your and others' philanthropic contributions actual availability is ballpark 16 months away.
It's great to do something that is actually positive for humanity and unlocks doors. For me personally I have a kind of higher gratitude about it.
Any questions or thoughts please send.
Best regards,
Asterisk
This thread was mistakenly moved to the incorrect section "Altcoin Discussion: Discussion of cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin. Note that discussion of how these currencies *relate to* Bitcoin may fit in other categories." (subsection Announcements) by the moderator.
Asterisk is not an altcoin.
The correct section is "Bitcoin Discussion: General discussion about the Bitcoin ecosystem that doesn't fit better elsewhere. News, the Bitcoin community, innovations, the general environment, etc." - Asterisk uses Bitcoin.
Asterisk is not an altcoin.
The correct section is "Bitcoin Discussion: General discussion about the Bitcoin ecosystem that doesn't fit better elsewhere. News, the Bitcoin community, innovations, the general environment, etc." - Asterisk uses Bitcoin.
Re: [ANN] Decentralization, privacy. Seeking philanthropists,please donate/crowdfund
Hi everyone, this thread was mistakenly moved to the incorrect section "Altcoin Discussion: Discussion of cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin. Note that discussion of how these currencies *relate to* Bitcoin may fit in other categories." (subsection Announcements) by the moderator.
Asterisk is not an altcoin.
The correct group is "Bitcoin Discussion: General discussion about the Bitcoin ecosystem that doesn't fit better elsewhere. News, the Bitcoin community, innovations, the general environment, etc." - Asterisk uses Bitcoin.
Here is repost in the correct group: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5241208
Asterisk is not an altcoin.
The correct group is "Bitcoin Discussion: General discussion about the Bitcoin ecosystem that doesn't fit better elsewhere. News, the Bitcoin community, innovations, the general environment, etc." - Asterisk uses Bitcoin.
Here is repost in the correct group: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5241208
[ANN] Decentralization, privacy. Seeking philanthropists,please donate/crowdfund
(* Moderator please also note the bottom of this message)
11 April 2020, Easter
Dear Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
For donation address please contact us, also http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
FAQ
1. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset and dismantle your digital slavery.
2. Is this an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.
3. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. We like details of the work to remain inhouse for now since the work is pre-release. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.
4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.
5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.
6. How can it be that the vision sounds so grandiose?
Because we are more genuine and have more expertise than blockchain projects have. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask respectfully for philanthropist contributions to do this right and so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.
7. How does this work relate to Bitcoin?
It uses Bitcoin payments. There is a lot of detail to cover later.
* Moderator: Please note that this is a Bitcoin genre project that uses Bitcoin for payments. This is not an altcoin. Alas "Bitcoin Discussion: General discussion about the Bitcoin ecosystem that doesn't fit better elsewhere. News, the Bitcoin community, innovations, the general environment, etc." is the correct classification of this thread.
11 April 2020, Easter
Dear Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
For donation address please contact us, also http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
FAQ
1. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset and dismantle your digital slavery.
2. Is this an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.
3. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. We like details of the work to remain inhouse for now since the work is pre-release. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.
4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.
5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.
6. How can it be that the vision sounds so grandiose?
Because we are more genuine and have more expertise than blockchain projects have. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask respectfully for philanthropist contributions to do this right and so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.
7. How does this work relate to Bitcoin?
It uses Bitcoin payments. There is a lot of detail to cover later.
* Moderator: Please note that this is a Bitcoin genre project that uses Bitcoin for payments. This is not an altcoin. Alas "Bitcoin Discussion: General discussion about the Bitcoin ecosystem that doesn't fit better elsewhere. News, the Bitcoin community, innovations, the general environment, etc." is the correct classification of this thread.
Few universities are already teaching about blockchain courses.
Do you notice that these courses use the word "blockchain" and not "Bitcoin".
The university courses I checked out, are misguided at best. They don't distinguish Bitcoin from distributed linked list.
That's like a biologist not seeing being able to distinguish a rhino from a pebble.
I think that proof of work is starting to become obsolete, proof of stake is better and delegated proof of stake seems to be the top contender. I know Bitcoin is the foundation but I think in the future better algorithms will come and replace both proof of stake and proof of work. You also have Byzantine Fault Tolerance and proof of weight. I think the best consensus algorithm is delegated proof of stake, Tron and EOS seem to have the most Dapps on the market and receive the most support.
Hi chaoscoinz,
I respectfully want to point out to you that the reason Proof of Stake, BFT, Proof of Weight, DPOS appear attractive relative to Proof of Work to you, is because you have not really studied any of them.
A signature-based security model can be fine in a limited group. In contrast, a digital currency's blockchain is public and open. Proof of Work means a connection with reality, a reality proof. Meanwhile cryptographic signatures are free and outside of a specific context don't prove anything.
Regarding PoS please see https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-Fallacy and https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/on-stake-and-consensus.pdf . PoS has a "proof of nothing" issue which makes it impossible to sync PoS chains from their genesis block. In other words, there is no security at all.
Also EOS is a billion dollar scam, and Tron according to its founder is a shitcoin.
Just wanted to help you get these clear. Glad to see you in this space, always keep learning,
Asterisk
Try to use monero if you want real privacy. And there are others privacy projects with better than btc privacy too
I wonder why monero isn't bigger than Bitcoin,in terms of price,global market cap and the amount of active users.If everyone in the crypto world wants complete privacy,why aren't people using monero instead of Bitcoin?
davis196, the issue with cryptocurrency privacy currently is that it is a domain that is changing constantly.
Please be aware that *all* the privatization technologies available in cryptocurrencies today (including Monero, Grin) are broken, maybe with the exception of Zcash which relies on too exotic mathemathics and so ultimately you can never be confident that inflation not has happened unbeknownst to you.
Really private would mean that a third person is unable to reconstruct the transaction graph. The way they are broken is either at the networking level or in the cryptography used e.g. dandelion is broken.
Maybe the most promising research is the Lelantus algorithm.
In other words, Bitcoin with its Lightning is biggest because it's still the strongest, best, most rigorous and well understood technology, so much that there has been no wide reason to migrate.
Re: [ANN] Decentralization, privacy. Seeking philanthropists,please donate/crowdfund
Hi amishmanish,
Thanks for picking up the conversation.
That's a critical comment, which does not express appreciation. With more insight you would realize that your response is way below standard, however this forum is a coarse social surface with very limited trust, cultural sharing, such, so as such I don't blame you for coming from a very low expectation, in approaching posts.
Non-https is fine for a codenamed project's publication of one document. Please feel free to post the img tags, that's fine.
Asterisk
Thanks for picking up the conversation.
That's a critical comment, which does not express appreciation. With more insight you would realize that your response is way below standard, however this forum is a coarse social surface with very limited trust, cultural sharing, such, so as such I don't blame you for coming from a very low expectation, in approaching posts.
Non-https is fine for a codenamed project's publication of one document. Please feel free to post the img tags, that's fine.
Asterisk
Re: Is 51% attack a double-spending threat to bitcoin?
⭐ Merited by DooMAD (2)
I see no confusion in what you have quoted from me. It is crystal clear: Your claim about full nodes playing such a crucial role in bitcoin is simply wrong and baseless. As I've extensively discussed up-thread, full nodes have nothing to do with the network security, they are just useful for the entities who own them as a single body to keep them somewhat more secure against some attacks that are not considered realistic anyway.
Either you are incorrect, or unclear, or both.
I read the article you've linked, the day it was published, good statistics about Ethereum but nothing new for bitcoin,
That's great, good for you.
Ethereum's snapshots. The latter is vulnerable to short-range attacks UTXO commitment is not!
Feel free to describe it.
the same blind enthusiasm about current bitcoin. Put some real meat on the table, please. 
.. which is really a stupid paranoia. It could also be considered a forgery of concepts to spread FUD about the mining scene of bitcoin for political reasons, again, stupid.
.. which is really a stupid paranoia. It could also be considered a forgery of concepts to spread FUD about the mining scene of bitcoin for political reasons, again, stupid.It's a challenge to take you for serious when you write like this. It's unclear what you are trying to say, if anything.
A 51% attack would not let through a double-spend
Last to respond to your question in the thread's title, "Is 51% attack a double-spending threat to Bitcoin?", I guess you have the answer already: It is not.
Why? According to you, it is because full nodes won't allow it but my argument is more solid: It is not gonna happen because it will be revealed anyways and destroy the attacker completely beforehand. Bitcoin inflation rules are currently parts of a social contract, rather than some lines of code, it is hard to understand but you should try. Last to respond to your question in the thread's title, "Is 51% attack a double-spending threat to Bitcoin?", I guess you have the answer already: It is not.
Why did you make a thread with the title "Re: Is 51% attack a double-spending threat to bitcoin?" - a question to which the answer is no - to discuss a Bitcoin fork?
You suggest a "it (doublespends?) will be revealed anyways (now how, unlike how else?) and destroy the attacker completely beforehand (how?)" related to "Bitcoin inflation rules" in the "social contract, rather than some lines of code".
Are you trying to communicate a Bitcoin fork or protocol feature suggestion?
Anyhow this was my last post here.
[ANN] Decentralization, privacy. Seeking philanthropists excited about freedom
11 April 2020, Easter
Dear World and Philanthropic Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
Bitcoin address for contributions: http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
FAQ:
1. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset and dismantle your digital slavery.
2. Is this an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.
3. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. We like details of the work to remain inhouse for now since the work is pre-release. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.
4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.
5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.
6. How can it be that the vision sounds so grandiose?
Because we are more genuine and have more expertise than blockchain projects have. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask respectfully for philanthropist contributions to do this right and so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.
Dear World and Philanthropic Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
Bitcoin address for contributions: http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
FAQ:
1. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset and dismantle your digital slavery.
2. Is this an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.
3. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. We like details of the work to remain inhouse for now since the work is pre-release. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.
4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.
5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.
6. How can it be that the vision sounds so grandiose?
Because we are more genuine and have more expertise than blockchain projects have. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask respectfully for philanthropist contributions to do this right and so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.
[ANN] Decentralization, privacy. Public call for philanthropic funding, crowdf.
11 April 2020, Easter
Dear World and Philanthropic Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
Bitcoin address for contributions: http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
FAQ:
1. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset and dismantle your digital slavery.
2. Is this an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.
3. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. We like details of the work to remain inhouse for now since the work is pre-release. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.
4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.
5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.
6. How can it be that the vision sounds so grandiose?
Because we are more genuine and have more expertise than blockchain projects have. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask respectfully for philanthropist contributions to do this right and so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.
Dear World and Philanthropic Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
Bitcoin address for contributions: http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
FAQ:
1. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset and dismantle your digital slavery.
2. Is this an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.
3. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. We like details of the work to remain inhouse for now since the work is pre-release. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.
4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.
5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.
6. How can it be that the vision sounds so grandiose?
Because we are more genuine and have more expertise than blockchain projects have. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask respectfully for philanthropist contributions to do this right and so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.
Re: Is 51% attack a double-spending threat to bitcoin?
aliashraf,
Your original question and discussion in your thread is a total mess. You are using very unclear terms, and you are bending Bitcoin terms in a way that shows that you do not understand Bitcoin's security model.
You don't understand what a "full node" is (as you confuse it with SPV), and you don't understand its role in the network.
It's a headache to read what you write as you appear to be ranting and make half-points all along the way.
Confusion..
Here is only one example of your confusions:
I started out reading your thread coming from a place of being willing to help and to clarify how Bitcoin works, but after reading your responses, I'm not convinced you are interested at all.
Bitcoin safe to double spend, based on fully validating nodes
Just to start somewhere, Bitcoin does solve the double spend problem. This is achieved by that participants run fully verifying nodes, and each such node enforce Bitcoin's consensus on every transaction of every block, and this will mean that in one node's view and perception, no double-spend ever occurs.
Miners are then free to mess up with blocks as much as they like, but they do so at their expense, so as long as the value of your transactions are insignificantly small compared to the Bitcoin miners' electricity expenses, you're safe - it's highly unlikely that someone will want to play appear-disappear reorg games with your 100USD transaction when it costs 10,000USD to mine a block.
UTXO commitments discussion
Regarding UTXO commitments, again you discuss these without understanding Bitcoin.
I'll share with you here that UTXO commitments are somehow similar to Ethereum 1's blocks' merkleized state snapshots.
What happened in the Ethereum community then was that, they fell for the temptation of validating blocks at all - when the Ethereum network is too busy, it will trig a feature that they call "fast forward", where a fully validating node will skipover one or more blocks, and thus simply blindly trusts the other nodes and the miners that they didn't forge anything. This is extremely risky and a viable attack vector for attacking their blockchain.
Further discussion of Bitcoin's security model, the definition of decentralization, and of that, here: https://hackernoon.com/the-ethereum-blockchain-size-has-exceeded-1tb-and-yes-its-an-issue-2b650b5f4f62
UTXO commitments infallible as you suggest is not correct
Your assertion that "UTXO commitments would always be valid because the miners are always attentive, correct and would never want to trick anyone" does not hold.
Again, this reads confused, you need to be more specific and clear.
51% attack does not allow double-spend
Last to respond to your question in the thread's title, "Is 51% attack a double-spending threat to Bitcoin?", I guess you have the answer already: It is not.
Asterisk
Your original question and discussion in your thread is a total mess. You are using very unclear terms, and you are bending Bitcoin terms in a way that shows that you do not understand Bitcoin's security model.
You don't understand what a "full node" is (as you confuse it with SPV), and you don't understand its role in the network.
It's a headache to read what you write as you appear to be ranting and make half-points all along the way.
Confusion..
Here is only one example of your confusions:
There is a very efficient, secure way of running a bitcoin full node on commodity mobile devices very efficiently in economic mode, called UTXO commitment.
Here is more confusion:According to this model miners would have to commit to the UTXO (state of the bitcoin machine) by somehow including its hash in their blocks and a light full-node could besides synchronizing headers like a usual SPV wallet continue to downloading the full state of the machine as of latest couples of hundreds of blocks and act like an ordinary pruned full node thereafter. Right?
For this to happen, you need a simple soft fork which is not getting support, why? Because people are paranoid about miners being susceptible to commit to bad UTXOs for say 500 blocks!
Even more confusion:For this to happen, you need a simple soft fork which is not getting support, why? Because people are paranoid about miners being susceptible to commit to bad UTXOs for say 500 blocks!
Are we clear? This full-node, full-node propaganda is totally fake and misleading. It is not a campaign in favor of empowering bitcoin users by giving them an opportunity to run a full node, it is just a trick to relying less and less on miners in a baseless and paranoid way:
Even more confusion:Who in the hell can imagine a scenario in which miners are colliding for 3-4 days to inject a few false UTXOS in bitcoin blockchain? A paranoid or a politician.
I started out reading your thread coming from a place of being willing to help and to clarify how Bitcoin works, but after reading your responses, I'm not convinced you are interested at all.
Bitcoin safe to double spend, based on fully validating nodes
Just to start somewhere, Bitcoin does solve the double spend problem. This is achieved by that participants run fully verifying nodes, and each such node enforce Bitcoin's consensus on every transaction of every block, and this will mean that in one node's view and perception, no double-spend ever occurs.
Miners are then free to mess up with blocks as much as they like, but they do so at their expense, so as long as the value of your transactions are insignificantly small compared to the Bitcoin miners' electricity expenses, you're safe - it's highly unlikely that someone will want to play appear-disappear reorg games with your 100USD transaction when it costs 10,000USD to mine a block.
UTXO commitments discussion
Regarding UTXO commitments, again you discuss these without understanding Bitcoin.
I'll share with you here that UTXO commitments are somehow similar to Ethereum 1's blocks' merkleized state snapshots.
What happened in the Ethereum community then was that, they fell for the temptation of validating blocks at all - when the Ethereum network is too busy, it will trig a feature that they call "fast forward", where a fully validating node will skipover one or more blocks, and thus simply blindly trusts the other nodes and the miners that they didn't forge anything. This is extremely risky and a viable attack vector for attacking their blockchain.
Further discussion of Bitcoin's security model, the definition of decentralization, and of that, here: https://hackernoon.com/the-ethereum-blockchain-size-has-exceeded-1tb-and-yes-its-an-issue-2b650b5f4f62
UTXO commitments infallible as you suggest is not correct
Your assertion that "UTXO commitments would always be valid because the miners are always attentive, correct and would never want to trick anyone" does not hold.
My take (which is a surprise somehow):
Unlike what is said ever and ever, one could put trust in miners as long as there is proof that:
Unlike what is said ever and ever, one could put trust in miners as long as there is proof that:
- Miners are not inflating the supply illegally,
- The costs involved in defrauding him/her (personally) by re-org attacking the bllockchain are orders of magnitude higher than the assets he/she has put in stake.
Again, this reads confused, you need to be more specific and clear.
51% attack does not allow double-spend
Last to respond to your question in the thread's title, "Is 51% attack a double-spending threat to Bitcoin?", I guess you have the answer already: It is not.
Asterisk
[ANN] Decentralization, privacy. Public call for philanthropic funding, crowdf.
11 April 2020, Easter
Dear Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
Bitcoin address for contributions: http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
FAQ:
1. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset and dismantle your digital slavery.
2. Is this an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.
3. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. We like details of the work to remain inhouse for now since the work is pre-release. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.
4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.
5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.
6. How can it be that the vision sounds so grandiose?
Because we are more genuine and have more expertise than blockchain projects have. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask respectfully for philanthropist contributions to do this right and so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.
Note: This post has previously disappeared. If anyone has a thought of by what force it disappeared, please let me know. There was a scam allegation by the user odolvlobo. I trust however that he loves freedom of speech and so not would censor anyone. Any clarification much appreciated, thanks.
Dear Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
Bitcoin address for contributions: http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
FAQ:
1. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset and dismantle your digital slavery.
2. Is this an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.
3. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. We like details of the work to remain inhouse for now since the work is pre-release. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.
4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.
5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.
6. How can it be that the vision sounds so grandiose?
Because we are more genuine and have more expertise than blockchain projects have. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask respectfully for philanthropist contributions to do this right and so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.
Note: This post has previously disappeared. If anyone has a thought of by what force it disappeared, please let me know. There was a scam allegation by the user odolvlobo. I trust however that he loves freedom of speech and so not would censor anyone. Any clarification much appreciated, thanks.
[ANN] Decentralization, privacy. Public call for philanthropic funding, crowdf.
11 April 2020, Easter
Dear World and Philanthropic Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
FAQ:
1. Is Asterisk an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.
2. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. Since the work is pre-release, we like to withhold details of the work currently, both to preserve the project and also as a responsible disclosure process. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.
3. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset your digital slavery. Being a slave is fine, if you like it this work is not for you.
4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.
5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.
6. How can it be that Asterisk's vision sounds so grandiose?
Simply because we care more [or if you like: we are more genuine] while we have more expertise than any blockchain project. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask humbly for your philanthropist contributions to do this right so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.
Dear World and Philanthropic Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
FAQ:
1. Is Asterisk an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.
2. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. Since the work is pre-release, we like to withhold details of the work currently, both to preserve the project and also as a responsible disclosure process. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.
3. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset your digital slavery. Being a slave is fine, if you like it this work is not for you.
4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.
5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.
6. How can it be that Asterisk's vision sounds so grandiose?
Simply because we care more [or if you like: we are more genuine] while we have more expertise than any blockchain project. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask humbly for your philanthropist contributions to do this right so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.
[ANN] Public call for philanthropic funding, crowdfunding, Bitcoin
⭐ Merited by layer1gfx (1)
April 11, 2020, Easter
Dear Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
Bitcoin address for contributions: http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
Dear Community,
Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:
Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf
Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf
Bitcoin address for contributions: http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html
During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.
We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.
After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.
(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi
PS: Send us an email if you would like to receive future updates.
Electrum also has a feature to increase the fee for a transaction if it is already in the mempool.
(This feature in the Bitcoin protocol is called "Replace By Fee" or RBF for short. https://bitcoin.org/en/glossary/rbf )