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williambanks (69)in #viva • 7 years ago
Announcing VULCAN!
The innovating part of Viva is not so much its blockchain, but its lack of a blockchain. Blockchains are wasteful and expensive places to store data. As Bitcoin has been…
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williambanks (69)in #tradeqwik • 7 years ago
Stay strong
I sit here alone in quiet contemplation and meditation. I am writing you so that you know my side of the story. Everything was normal in my life, as normal as my crazy life can…
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williambanks (69)in #tradeqwik • 8 years ago
Upcoming Changes to TradeQwik Voting
This is up and coming and is not yet deployed functionality. There is a bit of confusion as to what is changing at TQ in terms of the voting system and I want to take a moment…
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williambanks (69)in #news • 8 years ago
We made NewsWeek!
http This week Elizabeth Rosales a reporter from NewsWeek en Español ran an article discussing crypto currencies in Mexico . As part of the article she did not one, not…
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williambanks (69)in #life • 8 years ago
Football and Finance Part 1 : Choose An Allstar Lineup!
This is part 1 of a 4 part series on finance for the rest of us. http This series is going to be a break away from my normal writing style in order to talk to any other Joe…
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williambanks (69)in #gold • 8 years ago
How To Refine Your Own Gold!
http I've been going back over my own posting history, reminiscing and found an earlier post from September where I mentioned that I would explain the process involved in…
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williambanks (69)in #vivacoin • 8 years ago
Got Backbone?
Today history was made, of sorts. At least for my family. http We held a funeral where telepresence was used for attendees who were unable to be in attendance in person.…
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williambanks (69)in #life • 8 years ago
Cryptography Using Slang and Scurrility In Numerical Generators
http It's well known that most passwords are inherently insecure and that it's remarkably hard to create a password that is both highly secure and will pass most password…
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williambanks (69)in #vivacoin • 8 years ago
Introduction to VIVA, part 6 : A Game of Chains
http Can loyalty, reputation, power and greed be used to produce Byzantine Fault Tolerance? @dantheman has made some fascinating posts on consensus and designing the…
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williambanks (69)in #life • 8 years ago
TIL - That Despite You Best Efforts Your Passwords are Stored in Plaintext!
http This is going to be short. Early yesterday I had a drive crash and it took out my user data cache. Fortunately I was able to recover everything, except I keep my keys…
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williambanks (69)in #witness-category • 8 years ago
The importance of the upcoming hardfork and how you can cast your vote!
In an earlier post, I explained the importance of witnesses and how you can vote for a witness and why you would want to do that. In short, witnesses are the guardians of the…
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williambanks (69)in #steemit • 8 years ago
How to make Steemit great again in 5 easy steps!
Steemit is in my opinion one of the greatest social experiments to ever come along. I know almost all of us come into steemit and it's like this... http But consider this for…
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williambanks (69)in #vivacoin • 8 years ago
Introduction to VIVA, part 5 : VIVA CAN? You bet!
http What's the solution to cloud blackouts and censorship? It's all in the CAN! My good friend @thecryptofiend made a very interesting post today that I thought I would…
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williambanks (69)in #til • 8 years ago
TIL - How to quickly check if the price of GBG is fair.
I just wanted to share this little tip with you. If you're coming over to Golos from Steemit, this whole GBG thing can be really confusing. GBG is Golos backed milligrams of…
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williambanks (69)in #steemit • 8 years ago
Dear steemit, thank you for dinner last night!
http Last night I had a lovely dinner. Honestly, it was the most delicious Salmon I have ever had and at about $10.00 the price was right too! While I didn't have any cash…
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williambanks (69)in #steem • 8 years ago
How I just made it easy for dozens of exchanges to adopt Steem!
TxBits is a very popular open source package for crypto currency exchanges, that is extremely well built and secure by default. I stumbled on TxBits while searching for a…
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williambanks (69)in #steemit • 8 years ago
TIL - I have a secret account with gold in it and so do you!
I'm not trying to scare you, but look at the chart above. Since Trump has taken office, this chart looks just about the same for every currency you can imagine. What it's…
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williambanks (69)in #witness-category • 8 years ago
How to vote for a witness and why!
Recently team VIVA setup @viva.witness with the help of @someguy123 This node is on a high end server with oodles of ram and diskspace etc and it's being professionally managed…
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williambanks (69)in #steem • 8 years ago
Join the TradeQwik Beta and Win Prizes!
TradeQwik is a brand new exchange with a twist and we're in beta right now! Our focus is on providing a clean, simple, easy to use gateway into and out of fiat. At TradeQwik…
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williambanks (69)in #diy • 8 years ago
DIY Challenge! Can we build steem powered laptops?
http This summer I will be teaching a class of Jr High and High Schoolers in La Mision Mexico how to repair and refurbish computers. My end goal is for them to each walk away…
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