Quite astonishing. Especially, that gmaxwell is a super intelligent individual. When I talk to people about Bitcoin here in the UK I often point out that the best software developers of our industry work on BTC and one of the bests is gmaxwell. I am not sure why he navigates himself into this situation.

Let's try to this again. I thought I made this post before:But it disappeared and never appeared in my Inbox as "deleted by a moderator".So let me try to reconstruct my post from memory.Basically I said that I have been looking into Ogg Opus which Gregory Maxwell was an inventor of. I thanked him for producing that and with the word "kudos". I explained that it appears the Ogg container format was designed with a flaw in that it doesn't contain markers for jumping forward in a stream efficiently over a bounded bandwidth connection such as the internet. I said I presume that wasn't Gregory's area of responsibility.I also stated that Timothy B. Terriberry was apparently Greg's colleague on the Opus project and apparently Timothy B. Terriberry was involved also with Mozilla and I think I also read he is involved with the development of the RUST language. I found this to be curious because I remember some years ago writing some criticisms of RUST's typing of invariants when it was first conceived. I stated I would endeavor to locate my criticisms from several years ago and see if they still make sense (I believe so).So I said it is not surprising to see Greg experimenting with the Rust language.I also commended Greg et al for exploring zk-snarks for smart contracts as I think my comments in the "cut & choose" thread have demonstrated the critical requirement for such for scripting in general.I am adding now the fact that I sent Gregory a private message about this yesterday or the day before that, before he posted about this new invention. I also note that weeks ago I posted to Sean Bowe on the Zcash forum the importance of zk-snarks for smart contracts.I also note that I the one who recently exposed that Segregated Witness is a Trojan Horse designed to enable Blockstream to take over Bitcoin by enabling them to version the block chain with soft forks. They are trying to push their technologically flawed Side chains in through the back door. Thus it is not surprising that Gregory has deleted my post (and somehow it didn't even appear in my Inbox as it normally should, so he must have some super moderator powers on this forum).I am sorry folks to inform you about the very deep level of corruption in Bitcoin runs to the core.Okay Gregory send your hitmen. I am ready.Note this copy is being copied all over the place so it can't be deleted.

Oh come now. TPTB made a totally offtopic post-- had nothing to do with Bitcoin at all, and only anything to do with the thread in question is that the rust language was mentioned in the thread and TPTB made a one sentence comment that he previously had complaints about rust but didn't remember them-- and it got moved to another subforum; where.. in fact, I wrote a polite reply to his commentary on audio codecs.TPTB's response was to go on a campaign of insults and allegations; spreading conspiracy theories and such; instead of just looking in his post history to see that the post was still there. His immediate recourse to attacks creates a hostile environment. Most thoughtful people have better things to do than to deal with that, myself included. If you'd like to continue to share a forum with "the best software developers of our industry"-- then you should step up and ask people like TPTB to relax on the attacks, not shake your head with him in agreement when someone else doesn't completely lie down and take a pile of abuse.

Quite astonishing. Especially, that gmaxwell is a super intelligent individual. When I talk to people about Bitcoin here in the UK I often point out that the best software developers of our industry work on BTC and one of the bests is gmaxwell. I am not sure why he navigates himself into this situation.

I failed to see how (even if my comment about using Rust is considered off-topic, which also seems to be arguably relevant to jl777 asking if the source code is in C and your reply that it is in Rust and C++), that the following comment is off-topic and why it deserved to be removed from the threadI am glad to see the post ended up some where. Unfortunately you were very slow to provide any indication of where the post had been moved to, orders-of-magnitude slower thanfrom your thread. Hiding something? Don't want your reputation to be in doubt?

Oh come now.was mentioned in the thread and TPTB made a one sentence comment that he previously had complaints about rust but didn't remember them-- and it got moved to another subforum; where.. in fact, I wrote a polite reply to his commentary on audio codecs.TPTB's response was to go on a campaign of insults and allegations; spreading conspiracy theories and such; instead of just looking in his post history to see that the post was still there. His immediate recourse to attacks creates a hostile environment. Most thoughtful people have better things to do than to deal with that, myself included. If you'd like to continue to share a forum with "the best software developers of our industry"-- then you should step up and ask people like TPTB to relax on the attacks, not shake your head with him in agreement when someone else doesn't completely lie down and take a pile of abuse.

Quite astonishing. Especially, that gmaxwell is a super intelligent individual. When I talk to people about Bitcoin here in the UK I often point out that the best software developers of our industry work on BTC and one of the bests is gmaxwell. I am not sure why he navigates himself into this situation.

I am closing this topic (at least until there is something other than a vaporcoin to talk about).I did manage to get the fresh air working room environment set up, which will be much healthier than being in a room 24 x 7 with airconditioning and no windows.

I wanted to add something about the "rascist" allegation. I once attended an all negro elementary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA where my sister and I were the only non-negro students in the school. The kids had never felt fine hair, so they were constantly rubbing my head from behind (in the halls, etc) when I wasn't looking. I learned that negros have oily hands.I am far from rascist, as I live in the Philippines and have a brown skinned gf. I have kids who are half-filipino.But what is more interesting to me is your generation is so ideologically preoccupied. Perhaps you believe in the lie of anthropogenic global warming as well. I hate to bust your bubble but it was a propaganda constructed to put in a place a global governance and taxation system. The scientists have confirmed we are headed into a Mini Ice Age and our global temperature is modulated by the sun, nothing else. Period.You are also similarly naive about who controls Bitcoin and what their objectives are for global control. You are just a pawn Gregory. I hope you wake up and use your talent to fight for freedom, which means don't stomp on others and fall victim to incorrect perceptions which you want to enforce on others.I wish you the best.

Since the religion of government and socialism will have failed us, I suspect the new religion will be one of rewarding digital intellectual property rights despite the fact that everything digital can be freely copied, because in the Knowledge Age the Theory of the Firm breaks down and the individual relies on the income from his own production. Yet the Knowledge Age is all about sharing.The new righteousness is about individual reputation in the new culture of sharing to banish defectors who would destroy the economic paradigm of the new age.Religions are borne out of necessity.This directly impacts for example what should be the correct designs for file sharing paradigms (why I have stated that MaidSafe, Storj, Sia, etc are all flawed because they are designed for stealing not respecting producers).P.S. Feel free to quote me to the other thread. I can't keep up reading and posting in both threads.

I been intending to reply to this, so now I will since Factom's price is rising:That doesn't address my criticism which is that transactions are not confirmed for 10 minutes. No instant transactions. Thus no microtransactions (since these usually need to be instant).If the confirmation mechanism is attacked (and note that Bitcoin is controlled by China ), then so is Factom.You can't write anything to the block chain if the attacker doesn't allow you to.The point is that one must obtain some tokens or units other than their preferred one in order to run Factom or Ethereum. This limits network effects and use cases, because it adds exchange risk and latency risk.Impossible. You simply don't understand anything about Nash equilibrium and the Prisoner's dilemma . This an entirely broken design. The only possible way it could work is for all Federated servers to have absolute trust in each other.No because nothing is confirmed by a consensus system. You simply do not understand the issues about Nash equilibrium, trust, and the Prisoner's dilemma.

Factom itself must have a majority of Federated Servers following the rules. So a 51 percent attack remains possible. Factom doesn't require Factoids to use the protocol, but Entry Credits. And while Entry Credits are created from Factoids, by breaking the direct connection of the token from the use of the protocol, the use of the protocol can be denominated in any token. So in fact, you could give someone dollars, or Bitcoin, or XCoin in exchange for Entry Credits and make use of the Factom protocol, and never touch a Factoid. The token only exists to reward servers to record data. Meta protocols can thus run on top of Factom, and if those protocols have value, they can be used without any particular user having to have factoids.

Some feedback.Factom only uses the blockchain to secure the record. One anchor is dropped into the bitcoin blockchain every 10 minutes. Even if some anchors do not make it into the blockchain in a timely fashion, they can call be written, and they can also be recorded in other chains and other histories. I don't think selfish mining has much of a way of attacking this.

Someone asked me in a private message if I have compared my planned (currently vaporware) design to Factom There are some key distinctions between my design and Factom's:There may be other differences and I will need to spend more time analyzing to be sure I have enumerated every difference.P.S. still planning to evaluate eMunie.

I will really be leaving this forum soon. Will soon have a new daily social interaction outside this forum and more focused on my project. Scammers and hypester pumpers rejoice. You will soon be able spill your nonsense on these boards unopposed by the fiery and astute AnonyMint. I don't know who else will have the energy to take on that role when I am gone. It has been fun. I learned a lot. Hopefully some of you did too. You'll be meeting me again, but as a lead dev, not as a commentator in forums. Adios amigos.

P.S. for those who have been following my chronic health saga. After 3.5 years of declining health, with delirium taking hold in the Q3 2015, this medicinal multi-herbal tea seems to be working very well. I am very pessimistic about saying anything will cure me, as it seems I tried so many supplements and homoeopathic treatments over the past 3.5 years, including even properly making my owncolloidal silver in 2012 and nothing ever worked out. The effect from the tea is remarkable even I continue to have some undesirable symptoms, something significant may have changed. By the time I know for sure, I probably won't be posting on this forum.

Mission Statement We will decentralize digital age distribution, sharing, collaboration, work, marketing, and monetization in the social networking model. In contrast to other naive attempts (e.g. Diaspora), this will be executed in a profitable paradigm that enables a serious, profitably funded disruption of the large behemoths which are exerting too much deleterious control over the internet and our privacy. Digital age distribution, sharing, collaboration, work, marketing, and monetization in the social networking model, are profoundly reshaping civilization. Scaling the internet to billions did not happen by accident. It was baked into the End-to-end principle on which the core internet protocols adhere. The End-to-end engineering principle dictates that the intermediaries of the system are fungible with each other so that all control rests with the end users and user applications. Imagine the harm that could be done if there were choke points on the internet controlled by vested interests, which could block competitors. Decentralized, permissionless protocols are necessary for scaling, so vested interests cant obstruct the competitive innovation and network effects which drive scaling to all potential diversity and reach. Although the low level internet protocols are decentralized with the End-to-end principle, million and billion user centralized websites are dominating the percentage of internet use. For example, 71% of netizens are on Facebook for 42% of the 28% of their time online spent on social networking[1]. The centralized behemoths are in control of the users data, privacy, and choices. The users do not have the control to choose other competitive innovation within the existing economies-of-scale and history of the system to which they are by the millions collectively invested. Investors may love this vendor lock-in moat around the users but they myopically choose lower return-on-investment due to slower scaling than if they had invested with the myriad of faster scaling diversified entities enabled by a decentralized paradigm. A forgotten truth is that selfishness drives failure. ...to be continued...

[...]This was a similar argument made by the IETF group working on the Websocket framing protocol when I argued they should make the framing orthogonal to the data layer. I quit because they were not going to change their mind and I presume they did not adopt my proposal.I think it is not a valid argument because many implementations may not correctly implement the more obtuse seeking without an index. Thus we get the worst of both worlds.I just don't buy this notion that we should dumb down and make inferior standards, because people are lazy to write and test software properly. Geez did Vint Cerf follow that theology when he design TCP/IP? Did we conflate all the network layers and collapse them into one layer because the OSI model is complex. Hell no! The End-to-End Principle is fundamental!

I found the proposal I made for WebSockets back in 2010, wherein I advocated keeping the framing layer orthogonal to the payload layer. I also had optimizations for the header size. I doubt they adopted my wisdom:When I re-read some of the mailing list discussion linked from the above document, I realized how far I have fallen with my illness. It seems perhaps I can't sustain that level of mental activity any more (or maybe it is the effect of too much foruming).The above exemplifies my design capabilities. My prior efforts got me listed as a contributor to CSS2.1