RE: Self Voting
Not against bitcoin, but bitcoin against the dollar, not zero, but maybe even as low as $1000 or even $800. This will directly impact steem if its exchange rate does not accelerate against BTC, it will mean we fall as BTC falls. But that doesn't matter.
Even if I finish my task of assembling a giant collection of blockchain analysis, and clearly name and quantify the amount of intentional manipulation going on, look at how long it has taken for the air to fall out of the ICO racket-markets, of which barely 2, maybe, will ever amount to anything.
2-3 months is about typical for the latency of financial systems adjusting to the facts of the marketplace, mainly because the central banks put on such a spectacle, and use the government guns to suppress the information.
People will run to steem if btc plummets, giving you the acceleration upwards I mentioned, and then once the dust settles on segwit, we ride its recovery upwards as well. I may even be underestimating how high it will go before the market figures out, in a part thanks to my investigation and deduction work, that the company behind this, and the mechanisms they baked in, are designed to milk the very investors who will push the price up so high.
Hopefully I am correct in my estimation of the timeline on this, because it will be very convenient for me, in my future plans. I need at least $50k worth of industrial grade inorganic chemistry equipment to manufacture diamagnetic materials, robust resonator chambers, and hundreds of miles of high quality electromagnet windings, rare earth magnets, and probably I will also need something to build quite high strength, non-ferrous frameworks (possibly titanium).
My estimate is not based on what I want, however, but simply, the typical peak to trough ratios well known as fibonacci retracements. The next, and maybe last, peak, of the Steem price has to be at least double the previous at $4.31. Thus $8 is my guess. But it can hit other ratios above this level, thtat are progressively smaller by a fibonacci reverse sequence (the next two price levels above it would be 5 more, and then 3 more, and then 2 and then 1. Thus, all else being equal, the maximum potential for spiking is about 19.
This number 19 is coming up way too often. Did you know that in the Qur'an the number of angels who preside over hell is 19?
Thanks for the info, and good luck with your general plans. Although I rather hope you're mistaken regarding the intentions behind, and the fate of Steem and other cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies, in my opinion, is the project initated by the NSA to prepare the ground for a centralised, single global electronic currency, which has permissions that enable the 'Authorities' to revoke your access to your funds, if you should happen to say something they don't like.
However, I believe that Satoshi was not employed by the NSA, but rather a rogue, who devised a system that solved most of the flaws in the NSA's flawed models, which by the way also inspired the recent anonymising ZKP based protocols (there is an ancient paper by the NSA dating back to the late 90s that lays it all out, in a rough, and totally preliminary architecture design).
Thus, it is my view that in fact what has been going on with Steem, is an attempt to discredit open blockchains, in favour of controlled, corporate/government blockchains. Notice how every other country is announcing blockchain systems for all kinds of things.
This is just a warmup. Steem embodies the core concepts, in a muddled, and corrupt form, of what the 100% anarchic free blockchain will look like. I am working on what I think it should be, once I'm done with playing the Adversary against the corruption I am certain exists. And possibly even, connections to Intelligence organisations.
I've considered this kind of thing myself, but in nothing like such depth. It does seem unlikely that open blockchains would have been allowed to flourish unless they were 'under control'. I'd be interested in any links you have to help confirm or refute your hypothesis, and if you write a book/paper at some stage, I'd like to read it.
Are you anonymous, or do you have a public web presence?
You can chat with me on Telegram at https://t.me/steempunk and I am about to switch to Busy.org, as I also caught out eSteem in 'minor' mischief, and chainbb also in more major, but not so mischievous mischief.
I was working on Dawn, precisely because of these suspicions, which my post-alcoholic brain-in-transition has driven me to such intensive thinking, has now got even more, substantial evidence in the form of game mechanics 'bugs' that allow this exploitation. See my recent post about the number 19 and Dan Larimer, for some somewhat crazy coincidences and semiotics, and my post about eSteem also lays out a rough sketch of the game mechanics 'flaws' and how they play out.
Dawn will not be a controllable blockchain. Whether I decide to implement it or not, really depends on opportunity and resources. I have @faddat back from the near self destruction of his life in Cambodia, who is now starting the path of eliminating the causes of his neurological/psychiatric problems, and I have good reason to believe he may a powerful future ally, when he has made progress to recovering his health.
I can't specifically point to any pro or con citations about this, I just remember one of the steem-coop guys, who is a mathematician, and deeply interested in game theory, started talking about multi-party prisoner's dilemmas. The cogs ticked over and the conclusions started to arise.
So, first port of call for you will be in looking into multi-party prisoners' dilemmas. Then look at how the witness game, the blockchain itself in its infancy, and the growing problem in the 'community' of more and more exploitative, malicious and vicious players.
Not only that, I suspect that specific accounts at steemit.chat had a hit put on them using a hacker-for-hire, and after being 'smacked down' in a particular issue report I made at the steemit github, which mind you, Issue does not mean bug in the simple sense but can also mean logic errors that lead to exploits - I have also been blocked from posting more.
After thinking even further through, I am glad now that I took down my witness, because it would have allowed the breach of my l0k1 account, if they could breach steemd, and then, the docker between them and the file containing the sensitive data.
I had a dream this morning, that someone had their fingers in my wallet and were trying to scoop coins out of it. Then it changed into my leather key-wallet. Pretty big warning, I think. Note that I had effectively restrained them, in the dream, and the last thoughts before awakening were that I had to shut these robbers down for good (the dream ones). Same as the ones outside the dream.
You really post some dark shit.. xD
Where can I read more about Dawn?
It's a work in progress, and I hope to resume work on it, you can see that I have drafted up the initial versions of the protocol specifications, and a fairly skimpy set of architecture descriptions of each component here:
https://gitlab.com/dawn-network/nexus
Which part exactly did you think was dark? I mean, I am very dark, I am not afraid to peer into the abyss. I think it's vitally important that someone is looking at these things or the creatures from that place will rise up and consume us all.
This is very interesting. My father who passed away talked about this and I always thought he was the only one who thought this way and was possibly losing his mind. Always keep a little gold on hand.
We are far from the situation where there is a compulsory, Legal Tender blockchain currency. I doubt even if they do pass such laws that it will stop the 'black market' in crypto money. All the ways to try and stop it are able to be bypassed. It's much too easy to make the traffic look like 'legal' traffic types, if you have to conceal it. Blockchain chatter is literally called 'gossip' by the way :)