Posts made by Aldanga

FYI, bitcoinsharp hasn’t seen any commits since fall 2011, so it’s pretty much useless.

I’m glad to see I already do this. Writing a PhoneGap app for the disaster that is the Android 2.x JavaScript parser forces one to learn these little tricks.

This is really sweet. I’m going to take a look at the spec tonight after work.

FYI, the same image shouldn’t cost any more bandwidth if you have a decent browser. It’ll just reuse the downloaded/cached data.

[quote name=“zerodrama” post=“39553” timestamp=“1386167333”]
[quote author=Aldanga link=topic=5102.msg38786#msg38786 date=1386005476]
I believe fairness and freedom tend to be mutually exclusive; if not always, they trend that way.
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You’re confusing equality with fairness. Fairness means risk gets reward. Equality means equal work gets equal pay. Truth is most people wouldn’t be motivated at all if they had to think about every little detail. Too much to think about and keep track of. One advantage of freedom is you don’t have to wait for the perfect scenario. You take a chance.[/quote]

Not at all. Just playing to the many definitions. I think you missed the next couple sentences in that paragraph. ;)

[quote author=Aldanga link=topic=5102.msg38786#msg38786 date=1386005476]
Freedom does not support fairness through any means, if you think that fairness means that all things are equal for everyone. However, if you believe that fairness means that people have the rights and freedoms to make their own way and succeed, then freedom means the ultimate fair playing field. There are no restrictions, no governments stepping in the way of profitable businesses which provide valuable services; there is only the freedom to forge one’s own path and make greatnessâ€"or to fail spectacularly, but that’s the beauty of it all.[/quote]

I don’t think yet another hard fork is going to help FTC gain peoples’ trust. Let’s focus on actual features rather than just trimming around the edges.

You said you would be forced, but, in reality, there is no force involved. That’s the beauty of the market. You’re free to follow the trends of the market or to abandon them, to your own success or detriment. The cream rises to the top.

I believe fairness and freedom tend to be mutually exclusive; if not always, they trend that way. Freedom does not support fairness through any means, if you think that fairness means that all things are equal for everyone. However, if you believe that fairness means that people have the rights and freedoms to make their own way and succeed, then freedom means the ultimate fair playing field. There are no restrictions, no governments stepping in the way of profitable businesses which provide valuable services; there is only the freedom to forge one’s own path and make greatnessâ€"or to fail spectacularly, but that’s the beauty of it all.

Cryptocurrency helps with this because it removes the shackles of the State, something which cannot exist if one desires a free market or freedom in totality. Yes, minarchism and free market ideals are mutually exclusive. One must reject the State in order to achieve a pure free market. (Joke of the day: What’s the difference between a minarchist and anarchist? About six months.)

If we truly desire to move society forward, we must get away from these anachronistic ideals of fairness and equality. Things will never be entirely fair or equal, but freedom must be available for all in equal measures. I believe that is the ultimate test of fairness.

Why does it need to be fair?

His bad attitude notwithstanding, Warren makes several good points that many here have made as well: ACP is absolutely centralization; FTC has had significant struggles because of Bushstar’s lack of development experience and the somewhat closed development process; and there is really nothing that functionally separates FTC from Litecoin at this point in time.

These are challenges we currently face and need to overcome. Ridiculing Litecoin developers is not going to help us do that.

Software Developer.

I believe I read where Hank said somewhere that the Feathercoin Wallet for Android is more proof-of-concept than anything else. If that’s the case, it’s likely that feathercoinj is as well. I’d be careful when using it.

On the other hand, if you’re just using it to check transactions, you shouldn’t run into any destructive bugs.

First result on Google: [url=https://github.com/hank/feathercoinj]feathercoinj at GitHub[/url]
[url=https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/]bitcoinj[/url]

It’s a Java library for building Java apps that utilize the network (mostly wallets) without having to reinvent the wheel. feathercoinj is very much an alpha/pre-alpha release, if I recall my research into Hank’s work on it.

The market is just worried that Silk Road was too important in the Bitcoin economy. The price falling on other cryptos is mostly speculative/related to concern that they’re not as immune to government interference as previously thought.

I expect all of this to blow over in a week or two, if that, and things to get back to “normal”. Being someone who’s long on cryptos as a whole, I’m just chilling in my corner and wishing that I had a lot more USD lying around to pick up more at low prices.

As a former wannabe Java developer (currently .NET), I’m curious about the problem.

[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“28771” timestamp=“1379795899”]
We checkpoint history Kevlar to stop attackers from changing it, more people opted for it than did not. You chimed up to late and people would rather take the protection than take the beating from attackers.
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You might want to check your history. [url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=1878.msg15565#msg15565]Kevlar chimed up[/url] the first day ACP was seriously discussed. There was about 24 hours of discussion, although it seems a decision was made before the idea was debated by the community. I count a total of about 10 people in that thread who gave a strong opinion one way or another. I wouldn’t exactly call that a community consensus.

Rewriting history seems to be a problem around here…

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A step in the right direction.

In the interest of honesty: my confidence in FTC as a currency and as a software project has been incredibly shaky for the last month or two. After how bright things were looking initially, that’s something that’s disappointed me immensely, and a big reason why I basically withdrew myself from the community. I’m glad to see more transparency and openness has come about, and am incredibly thankful to chrisj for helping to facilitate this. Time will tell if things start moving in the right direction again. I am hopeful that they will.

I’ve taken lots of flak in the past for my criticisms, and I’ve given plenty of it when I’ve felt people were not being straightforward about situations or the direction of FTC, especially with regard to UNOCS. I will not apologize for that, because I have always done my best to try and push FTC and this community toward what I believe is best. We all have disagreements; there’s nothing wrong with that. After all, it’s been said that “Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.” Although I know some people don’t trust me and likely think I’m an asshole (the latter is probably deserved, though I don’t apologize for that either :P), I hope we can move forward and turn FTC into what so many of us have hoped: a viable, strong, secure, decentralized currency unbeholden to any man.