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It would be interesting to chat sometime. Are there any revisionist email lists or chat groups you would recommend?

Ishbosheth/ Eshbaal is found in the Mari letters as Ishi-Addu. Addu is a generic theophoric and is in other cases translated as Baal. In the Mari letters we find that the father of Ishi-Addu, whose throne

@harlotscurse, here is a new proposal for the location of Ecbatana. It was the city of Hattusa in Anatolia. According to the Book of Tobit, Haran was halfway from Nineveh to Ecbatana. Hattusa was originally

You lose the appearance of objectivity when you set out to discuss whether or not Troy James is a scammer, and end urging the reader to buy more $DIG coins issued by the man in question. In my estimation,

"What is steemit not possibly doing right?" The curation system sucks. When I look at the feed it's noise and crap posts. The original white paper said content creators would get paid for votes

Did you actually read the patent application, @kushpay? It's for printed document security.

I would have upvoted this if I had seen it earlier. Entertaining story.

So where is the money held? Who audits the bank account? Still looks like a scam to me.

There have been many studies done on seventh day adventists in California who do not take alcohol or tobacco, or most meats. They live only 5-10 years above average, not 250. This is fiction.

Sweden kidnapped a boy from his parents because they homeschooled him and then planned to leave the country with him. The authorities came on the plane and took the kid away. Domenic Johansson was his

It is not the new investors behind the rise of BCC. It is the oldtimer Bitcoin guys like Roger Ver who do not believe in the future of SegWit. They are shifting their assets across to what they view as

Welcome to the white hat side, @crypt0!

In the original Steem white paper it said that "long tail content" would be able to get votes and earn money over time. However, the current voting rules only allow votes on content that is less

I don't think it is likely to happen prior to Nov 1, when the 2X part of the NYA kicks in. Core just released new version that disconnects 2x nodes. I believe that if the NYA fails, there is a strong chance

Point #1, yes, but the difficulty of Bitcoin Cash can only increase after 2016 blocks. So it is not immediate. The difficulty can downgrade in 12 hours, but the difficulty cannot upgrade in less than 2

You need to read the NYA closer. It does not bind the signatories to devoting 100% of their hashpower to the SegWit 2X chain.

First, the NYA agreement says nothing about dedicated hashpower. So any signatory can mine both chains, or neither, without being in violation. Second, Core has already trumped the New York Agreement by

BCH broke through resistance this morning. It's up 50% in 24 hours.

SegWit has a vulnerability that could play out in the next few weeks.

Here is the link to the SegWit discussion: