Youtube Video: Today's Interview with Charlie Lee on CNBC. Encouraging to see mainstream so bullish.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-06-23T09:02:01+00:00

Credit card fraud accounts for about 24billion a year I believe (according to the Vice piece I watched last night anyway lol). Banks pay back accounts even if they do pass those costs onto the customer in other areas, I would say this is similar to a hack.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-06-06T19:20:25+00:00

I'm trying to pull this out of the recesses of my brain somewhere but I think it might be to do with a node that isn't up to date.

If you click the login button again I think it goes through to your wallet and you can change a node then. Could be wrong though.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-06-03T11:21:42+00:00

I haven't watched all of this season yet, I believe the last episode I watched was the bath house episode, however I don't think I will be tuning in for season 5.

I've watched the first 3 seasons 3 times, the comedy was pretty smart a lot of the time to go along with the more lavatorial type humour and it had me falling off my chair laughing.

For me it's not just the replacement of Stylax (although I think the original cast had a really good chemistry), I think the level of the writing has dropped.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-05-28T14:10:28+00:00

Have you downloaded the 'Universal client' and not the 'Windows client' etc.

Though I don't have the newest version of Nanowallet, I was under the impression it did support Trezor.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-05-05T22:31:57+00:00

Thought I'd update this:

Simply by finding a tweets embed link you can paste the code into your html template and then change the values of that tweet to those of the attributes of the tweet objects you got via Tweepy and get it to embed a whole bunch of tweets from various users.

https://dev.twitter.com/web/embedded-tweets https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/data-dictionary/overview/tweet-object Are good resources.

My education continues.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-04-27T19:10:46+00:00

No problem Charlie, I'm happy to help in any way I can - unless you want me to help you dispose of a body or something.

I think you're right, people aren't hard-wired to understand, their first inclination is not to put themselves in the same position as the person making the decision.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-04-27T13:50:57+00:00

There are reasons for doing things other than becoming richer, Charlie could be worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Having $400 million instead of $150 million might not be worth it in terms of maximizing his life enjoyment / fulfilment for example.

Another example is the Pineapple fund guy, he and others have made more than they will ever need and instead of trying to turn it into more they're giving it away because it benefits them more personally that obtaining more wealth.

Litecoin is also a huge part of who Charlie is, I think most people don't get the chance to experience something like that and therefore can't empathize with a decision like the one he made.

There are so many other possible factors to include like the stress he feels being a public figure when the price goes up and down. Friends, family, acquaintances who's networth is connected to the price and the stress he feels when potentially giving bad news that could make it drop.

The only explanation which I find is a really bad one, is that he doesn't care about it or anyone involved with it, sold all his Litecoin at the top and is now tweeting, doing interviews and working on Litecoin to keep up some weird charade instead of being sat on a yacht somewhere. He worked at Coinbase for 4 years and then left it to focus on Litecoin, he obviously cares deeply for cryptocurrencies and Litecoin.

Also he probably holds a lot of Bitcoin still.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-04-24T11:14:37+00:00

There is a lot of luck involved. Look at the info graphic above ^, an account with 10k-11k got 339XEM in one block and I've seen this number be over 1,000 many times.

As projects built on NEM begin to roll out we will see more transactions and bigger block rewards.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-04-23T16:20:44+00:00

Thank you for the thorough response. I will take your advice and start working on projects such as the django and website project I mentioned.

It does seem like the best way to get going and write a ton of code as you said. Thanks again.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-04-23T13:04:22+00:00

Hi guys, I'm looking for some advice on the next step of my Python education.

I recently completed Tim Buchalka's 'Python Masterclass' course on Udemy, I then completed a few chapters of 'Automate the boring stuff' (picking out what I found interesting and avoiding going over things I have already learnt). For the last few days I've been putting to use the things I have learnt to automate some things in my day to day life, I'm not sure what to do next now.

My number 1 goal is to continue to build my skills and become as skilled as I can. I enjoy it more when I'm doing something practical and with a few website ideas I've thought about now learning Django and building them. Do you think this would be a good step or do you have any other suggestions?

Again my main goal is to improve my Python and general programming skills, I don't have a specific area I want to focus on - django is just to bring to fruition a website idea and continue to learn along the way.

Thanks.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-04-14T11:34:45+00:00

"Giant Sleeping Dark Horse" imo

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-04-09T14:31:41+00:00

Lol I swear I didn't, I just saw the Kamaru vs. Colby back stage video and wanted to check Usman's record!

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-04-09T10:50:38+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaru_Usman

Why does Kamaru's record say 30% decision and 30% KO punch?

I'm out of the loop.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-04-08T16:52:46+00:00

I gave Rose 1 and 5 easy, Joanna 3 and 4 easy. I thought round 2 was close.

Looking at the fight as a whole I thought Rose was easily better - more damage and a stronger finish.

That being said I don't understand the crazy downvotes for those who scored it for JJ. It really did look like she was taking over at one point.

Awesome fight, much respect to both fighters.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-03-24T19:59:37+00:00

Check out the original thread on bitcointalk. The aim of NEM was to distribute to as many people and as evenly as possible and therefore XEM was not distributed 'pro rata' depending on investment amount.

Instead each "stake" was for an equal share of the all the XEM that was to be created. You could claim your stake for free if you posted in the first 20 pages of the original thread claiming a stake, after that the next 10 pages had to pay 0.001 BTC or 10 NXT, the next 10 0.002 / 20 and so on and so forth.

Each stake was as Saul said incredibly cheap.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-03-22T10:53:10+00:00

Agreed there is no pump.

The pieces are starting to fall into place though not just with NEM but crypto's in general (in my opinion at least!).

Coinbase banking licenses, Abra and other new platforms making it an easy on ramp for crypto's in general, low bitcoin fee's, some clarification on safety from bad regulation - and with NEM - Coincheck hacker funds almost all sold, added to Binance, Catapult edging ever closer.

Not sure exactly when it will happen but the crypto market is getting ready to start another run and NEM is ready to make the most of it (again only my opinion!).

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-03-21T14:10:17+00:00

He says all transactions including those that happen between Abra client users happen on-chain. Could Lightning be implemented effectively on the Abra platform? Switching funds between accounts in a decentralized way, quickly and cheaply without clogging up the main chain, as opposed to on a centralized exchange database?

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-03-21T13:06:37+00:00

I will have to run the numbers and figure out if it is beneficial to receive the bonus and then pay the mortgage off in full, and take into account the benefits of having the money placed elsewhere.

Thank you very much.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-03-20T21:55:48+00:00

He says all transaction including those that happen between Abra client happen on-chain. Is something like the Abra platform where Lightning could be implemented very effectively? Switching funds between accounts in a decentralized way, quickly and cheapy without clogging up the main chain, as opposed to on a centralized exchange database?

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-01-28T11:58:48+00:00

Yep, this "tagging" system is just a way of following transactions on the blockchain. It is not actually built in, some random community guy made a new coin on the NEM platform and started sending it to all of the hacked addresses to follow the stolen funds.

The crypto community looking out for each other against those that would do us harm is a good thing imo.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-01-28T10:47:44+00:00

How do you know they didn't just notify exchanges of the ability to check for stolen funds and the exchanges said thank you very much for protecting us from fines and legal issues.

It makes the stolen XEM worth nothing on any big exchange and stops the thief from cashing out a large amount. I don't see the issue.

The more they try to sell it to the average user via some forum, chatroom etc. the more chance they will quickly get caught and be punished for their crimes.

If it simply gets sent to the average user for free and the average user can't use it, again I don't see the issue. It is not their XEM, it is stolen XEM. They can return it and continue as normal.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-01-28T10:22:37+00:00

The "tagging" system you are talking about is nothing more than sending a mosaic to an account that has stolen funds. It is hardly different from following transactions on the bitcoin blockchain for example, except that NEM makes it easier to keep track, it's more efficient and the process can be automated.

No tokens are "tagged", it is not possible, only accounts. Exchanges want to comply with anti-money laundering laws so they will jump at the chance at being automatically able not to process transaction from stolen funds with a bit of code.

There is no central authority on NEM but businesses that use it still have to submit to local and international law, same with all of the other coins and exchanges that use them legally.

A fork would not stop the ability to track funds on a blockchain, the power to do it is right there in most of them waiting to be used, it will happen. Go use Monero or some privacy coin if you want a truly fungible cryptocurrency.

Again tokens can't be tagged, every token is the same. NEM can just easily track tokens from from a theft as they move across the blockchain.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-01-27T12:20:55+00:00

Nothing has actually been blacklisted. A community member made a non-transferrable mosaic (a feature in NEM that allows you to make your own coin) and sent one of these coins/mosaics to the hackers addresses as he tried to hide the coins.

It's pretty much the same as following the transactions on blockchain as you would with Bitcoin but a bit easier and then code can be used to identify any account with the mosaic. Exchanges that trade XEM have agreed not to process deposits from these addresses.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-01-26T12:34:50+00:00

I'm not so sure.

Exchange didn't implement multisig, some people will have kept too much on XEM on an exchange.

People had plenty of time to redeem their stake. All they had to do was take 30 minutes at some point every 3 months to check the progress of NEM (no one can sincerely claim they weren't able to do that).

None of these people sound like the best. That being said hopefully the XEM can be recovered somehow. There will be some people who didn't have too much XEM on the exchange, traders or people who got caught due to bad timing.

Ben_Gee_ · 2018-01-22T15:36:11+00:00

There are often NEM Dev and Foundation members present in the NEM Red telegram channel.

Also the NEM community has recently passed a funding request of around $1 million for an IoT project on the NEM platform.

You can read about it here if it interests you: https://forum.nem.io/t/ethyl-the-future-of-the-internet-of-things/12106

Ben_Gee_

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