My new wallet shows my coin balance and history but is not synching.. On mac I went to Library/Application Support - and there is no Vericoin folder in there where I can keep the necessary wallet file. Even the old wallet never made it into the application support folder. In Mac Finder - Vericoin Wallet was (and still is) just an item i could eject like a memory stick. So now it has been synching a good 12 hours and nothing. Again, coins are showing but they are not staking and wallet is not synching.

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To expand on a point I made earlier, I want to relay a story from history:

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In World War II the allies relied heavily on bombing the enemy to try and turn the tide of the war. However they were losing a lot of planes from ground fire and air combat. When many of the planes returned, they were often shot up so badly it was a wonder they could fly at all.

"We need to reinforce these planes with armour" said the leaders in charge. But the engineers had a problem "If we put too much armour on them, then the planes will be either too heavy to fly or burn too much fuel to be able to make the trip".

A mathematician named Wald was asked to catalogue where all the bullet holes had torn through the plane. He produced a diagram that reflected something similar to this:

http://www.nww2m.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/plane-damage.jpg

The plane on the left represented the undamaged plane, and the plane on the right was where the damaged was being recorded. The superiors said "ah, we need to reinforce the wings, nose and tail because this is where the damage is occurring".

Wald said "I'd reinforce the areas where there are no bullet holes".

"What?" they said incredulously. "But that's where all the damage is!"

"But Sir" said Wald "these are the planes that made it back"

As the obviousness of Wald's observation sunk in, the engineers began the task of reinforcing the remaining planes
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If cryptocoins are going to win the war and become a viable currency, we have to stop focussing on the holes and start seeing the areas that truly need to be reinforced.

I read in the "first press release from Voot coin" that IconicExpert -my supposed alter-ego for some nut cases- has issued and Yahoo financial published, that "VootCoin's NiteSend feature uses a multilayered protection process to help ensure untraceable, hidden, completely private transactions between parties who are not able to know each other's identities." And this brings to my memore the all kinds of vanilla-flavors anons that now plague every single crypto coin out there (including VRC, of course). But what makes me smile most is the part in which "...the parties (transacting) are not able to know each other's identities." This to me is like the gay (or not gay) baths on Melrose, in Hollywood, where people go, insert their dicks in a hole in a wall and someone on the other side sucks it until business is taken care of... Not a bad deal if you are into that kind of stuff but, for the life of me I cannot think of any transaction in which any normal person would want to be involved in which they would go to such extent to avoid knowing who are they buying from -and even selling to-. Not that I care much about who is selling what if the product or service is  known and highly regarded but, if they are, the people I have known all my life take great pains and considerable expense in making it known to everyone that those are indeed their products/services . Just the opposite seems to continue being all the rage in (some) cryptos.

Now I know that VRC, its community and its devs are not interested in transactions involving arms, terrorist services and slavery (sexual, organ or otherwise). So it would leave only porno stuff (and if you need crypto to pay for that you have problems that no amount of anon is going to solve) and drug cartel activities (where you may knot know the identity of the person you are buying the stuff from but you know its proceedings go ultimately to a cartel. I am quite sure that the devs pursuit of mainstream adoption would gladly leave both those sources of "interest" out too.

So quite glad that anon pursuit is NOT one of the priorities of VRC.

Sorry for the somewhat off-topic. Hopefully some would find it if not interesting, at least slightly humorous.

But they *CAN* be rolled back. That's the point.

Damn...you beat me to it lol

If a disastrous event happened that effected miners and holders of Bitcoin and the only way to fix the problem was the Devs to hard fork....what do think would happen?

no you are not right at all..

miners having 51% of the power to produce coins for very limited period of time is not the same thing as stake holders with 51% of the coins and the power to create 51% of all future coins for eternity.
this is why the vericoin devs had to take such drastic action when someone had a mere 30% of the coins.

also a pool having 51% of the hashing power is not the same thing as a single entity having that much power because miners would simply move if the power was being abused.

pos and pow have very different problems.

no doubt that when a coin is faced with a fundamental problem which could break it going forward the only option is to hard fork.
I think you are missing the point though..

because of the centralization of power it was all too easy to force this coin into a position where it was faced with such a dilema.
and it was all too easy for the devs to force change upon the community.

perhaps you are too busy arguing theoretical when you cannot even see the reality of the situation in front of you.




humans have space flight they *CAN* fly the moon and they *CAN* fly to the next solar system.

your missing the point that one is possible.. and the other is currently practically impossible.

Truth be told, I just wanna see some hacker steal 4+ million Bitcoins, just to see how Bitcoin would react.

Then we could end this silly "right or wrong" debate once and for all.

What he said was, I value idealism, over practicality, I heard everything I needed to, Will never invest in litecoin again.

My money is not safe when someone refuses to help the community due to a certain "purist" view. Certainly allowing thievery? There is a better way. To say he would never fix the blockchain EVER to rollback transactions shows he has a lack of vision for how to ever fix the problem if it happened. So instead he points the finger.

Since I'm sure there is no one place that 4 million Bitcoins are stored and I hope there never is that will not happen.