BURST.  Completely new algorithm for securing the blockchain, based on proof of storage capacity rather than proof of computation.  Much more efficient than existing cryptocurrencies, lower marginal cost for mining, therefore lower transaction costs.  Forked from and tracking NXT, so it's got all of NXT's sophisticated transactions, as well as a few besides.

FWIW, I asked the burstcoin dev about this thread, and he said he hadn't seen it before.

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I received the princely sum of 1 satoshi from this account recently.  What is the purpose of these tiny transactions?  20000 satoshis for three such transactions to random addresses is going to add up pretty quickly, so it seems unlikely that they're intended to bloat the blockchain.

Isn't every blockchain vulnerable to a similar attack?  For instance in bitcoin when you get a block you could delay releasing it until immediately after you see the next winner.  Some people who are closer to you on the network than to the next winner will then be forked.  If you had enough mining power and fast connections to different places in the world, you might be able to fork off a significant amount of hash power this way.

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out.

Can someone please let me know how to participate in the testnet?

Just watching this part.  It looks like the shop owner admitted complicity in Silk Road drug transactions.  

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Followed by footage of a drug dealer walking into the shop, using one of the computers there to browse the cannabis options on SR, and describing how he's moved to supplying his deals from SR.

That really surprised me.  I hope everyone involved sought good legal advice before deciding to include that in the film.

Java is compiled, there is an implementation of java which basically exists because other corporations need a not-Oracle java, absolutely not under Oracle control, it has a very cumbersome syntax and culture for prototyping, and has approximately the same complexity as the C++ runtime.

How's EXO doing, anyway?  This disinterred thread is the first I've heard of it.

If you had a section which reliably reported on new technical developments like burst's hard drive mining or cryptonote's ring signatures, I would pay to read it.  It is quite painful to keep up when the only source is this drama-drenched forum.

I listened to the interview back when this thread started, and it does have a kind of "underpants gnomes" feel to it.  The VP doesn't really articulate clearly how the coin is going to solve the cloud-support problem, why it needs Turing-complete scripting, or the basis for choosing Ethereum as the base.  It's possible that as a VP, he just doesn't understand these things, though.

Where can I read about SSD's steganographic features?  I didn't see it mentioned in the ANN thread's OP.

Some time ago, Knowles said he's abandoning it due to disinterest from NXT core developers.  However, if you follow the link I gave above you'll see that NxtAT is still very much alive.  Presumably Knowles gave the funds to the developers who are continuing the project.  You might ask them for verification.

The burstcoin community is young, but so far is showing relatively little avarice.

Vitalik's latest talk is very interesting.  He's extremely verbose, as ever, but I'm impressed with the honesty and thoughtfulness with which he's facing up to the potential problems.

I watched it from 37m on.  Antonopoulos is a consummate diplomat, that's for sure.

Wow, awesome stuff, thanks again!

TC might be a bad idea, anyway.  Seems like any sufficiently powerful cryptocurrency may contain the seeds of its own destruction.

Can you please provide some context for this to explain why it's interesting?  So far, it appears to be a parliamentary discussion of economics.  What's amazing about it?

BURST is pretty easy to review if you know java and trust NXT.

Thank you, that is extremely helpful.