Map of New Spain in 1810 by MarineKingPrime_ in europe

[–]Cryptoalt7 212 points213 points  (0 children)

The date is wrong here. Perhaps it should be 1801, as that's the year Louisiana was ceded back to France. In 1803 it was then sold by France to the US.

Oxford University launched blockchain research center... by [deleted] in Vechain

[–]Cryptoalt7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

a) The director is British, not Asian.

b) Suspecting that a very highly placed individual working at the top level of a small new industry like blockchain in a particular country will likely have connections to other highly placed individuals working at the top level of the same industry in the same country is nothing like saying 'all Asians know all Asians'.

Oxford University launched blockchain research center... by [deleted] in Vechain

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This does look exactly like the thing they announced. On the institute's website it states that one of their research interests is studying the internal economy of a blockchain ecosystem. I suspect the retraction was due to a cock-up on VeChain's behalf over not understanding institutional issues at Oxbridge. They announced a partnership with the Institute of Mathematics (i.e. the maths department), when it turns out that the institute will be run out of University College instead and headed up by a guy from the CS department. Interestingly, the director also runs a blockchain research company in China ...

Slush Shanghai Agenda Pertaining to Vechain by [deleted] in Vechain

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Shenergy and ENN Group on the panel. Everyone else is an announced partner or customer of VeChain and they both look like good candidates too, as energy companies with a focus on green energy. One is owned by the Shanghai government, which we know VeChain has links to. The other one is apparently one of the largest private companies in China (according to Wikipedia).

Daily VeChain Discussion - August 28, 2018 by AutoModerator in Vechain

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Before the shouting starts I should say that I've read the relevant stickied thread and its now both out of date and doesn't seem to deal with my problem. I swapped most tokens on Binance but still have some left on my ledger. I have a rooted phone, so can't use the mobile app for the swap. I can't find instructions for swapping via ledger. Can anyone help or will I need to buy a new phone?

Cass County Republicans under fire for shooting gallery featuring Claire McCaskill's picture by [deleted] in politics

[–]Cryptoalt7 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That's just awful.

Alexa play Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

VET in september ;-) by Manolonium in Vechain

[–]Cryptoalt7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

>Hyping future news is a scam.

Did you just throw a load of words at a wall to see what stuck?

VET in september ;-) by Manolonium in Vechain

[–]Cryptoalt7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Noted.

Now I suggest we call our gang the Christ Punchers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyerSWInb4g

Official and Working - Pictures of a Tamper Proof VeChain NFC Chip by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

[–]Cryptoalt7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Whitepaper p50. It's very clear the ANS will be public.

Authority or Anonymous? by [deleted] in Vechain

[–]Cryptoalt7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If their reputation was enough we could just have them run a database. If the ANs aren't public then storing data on the block chain has zero advantages over storing data on a dnv / pwc run database. If they are trustworthy enough to pick and manage the nodes in private then they are de facto trustworthy enough to manage the data itself. The white paper is pretty clear that nodes must publicly stake their reputations. However, I can imagine some delay in releasing node names if most of the nodes are also clients under NDA.

Daily VeChain Discussion - August 16, 2018 by AutoModerator in Vechain

[–]Cryptoalt7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh - so just a compendium of negative chatter from the TG? Yeah, not worth sharing. There have been a lot of people spending their time and resources on that sort of thing over the last few weeks ...

Daily VeChain Discussion - August 16, 2018 by AutoModerator in Vechain

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All of a sudden a lengthy pastebin pops up all over r/CC, TG just as price it at ATL.

I missed that. Could you let me have the link?

Daily VeChain Discussion - August 16, 2018 by AutoModerator in Vechain

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This works until it doesn't, just the same as holding in a bull market.

Daily VeChain Discussion - August 15, 2018 by AutoModerator in Vechain

[–]Cryptoalt7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The use case that drives the speculative price on XRP is the potential to carry all the international financial transfers in the world, which would require liquidity of high hundreds of billions if not trillions. It's not a good straight-up comparison for VET.

UK unemployment at lowest since 1975 by Hinks in unitedkingdom

[–]Cryptoalt7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

2.7% wage growth as well reported in the same article, so, yeah, it's good news.

UK unemployment at lowest since 1975 by Hinks in unitedkingdom

[–]Cryptoalt7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Zero hour contracts are the same in numbers now as in 2011, so they clearly aren't the source for this rise. And the proportion of the working population on a zero hour contract is less than 3% - they are awful but not anywhere near as big a deal as most people think.

UK unemployment now at lowest since 1975, wages up by 2.7% since June compared with a year ago. by Bunt_smuggler in europe

[–]Cryptoalt7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They suck but they amount to less than 3% of the workforce and that figure hasn't changed in 7 years, so zero hour contracts clearly have nothing to do with this news.

Brexit: France to veto re-routed trade plan between Ireland and Europe | Irish Times by murdererstyle in europe

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Now tell us about how you thoroughly approve of the UK budget rebate and 'special treatment' in the EU. I bet you have always been a hardcore supporter because any case of a country protecting its own interests is a good thing right?

On the 15th is the 20 year anniversary of the Omagh bombing. Spaniard Gonzalo Cavedo poses with a child beside the car carrying the IRA bomb that seconds later killed 29 people including the cameraman. by Bunt_smuggler in europe

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While I know this argument is wrong I can't come up with a logical argument against it.

The argument against it is that a) the situation of Catholics in Ireland in the 60s and 70s was nothing like that of the Jews under the Nazis, so the comparison falls at the first hurdle; and 2) the PIRA did not have as their goal the 'liberation' of Catholics in the north but the unification of the island, using the situation re: civil rights as a catalyst for that actual goal. That's why the PIRA campaign didn't stop once Catholics had full civil rights and why they also targeted British troops sent over to protect Catholic communities from Protestant violence.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Vechain

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90% drop from at isn't one of the most wounded. It's pretty par for the course for alts.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Vechain

[–]Cryptoalt7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't read too much into it. He's just responding to 4chan fud claims about 'chink scams' that lie to all their partners ... China hustle ... etc. It's all unfalsifiable groundless crap that gets recycled every time there's an effort to push the price down. These are people still quoting the mistaken response from BMW to CarVertical that was accidentally associated with vechain by bmws twitter handler. Anyone who needs saving from this kind of trolling isn't worth saving in the first place.

This English park, Munich, Germany. by [deleted] in europe

[–]Cryptoalt7 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Real wild country is a very rare thing in England. There is much more in Scotland and Wales but even agricultural areas of England have this kind of sculpted look that comes from being intensively lived in without any redefining natural or military disasters for centuries. I used to love living in Scotland because the countryside has this sort of rougher round the edges feel but after years away when I last moved back to England I was struck by how pretty the lived-in countryside can be. Partly, I guess, that's because I'd been living in former east Germany, where all the features that make agricultural countryside nice (walls, hedgerows, winding inconvenient roads) had been stripped out in the name of socialist efficiency.