I was looking for a secure texting and phone call app.  I came across these nifty apps today.  Thought I'd share them here.  Would be useful systems to integrate with SDC

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.redphone
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id874139669

Both systems are open source: https://github.com/WhisperSystems

josh: For those of you who don't know, Rutherford is the shadow community robot, maintained by Ludx. Rutherford links our slack chat to bitcoin talk among other useful things. Both ways. Marlon33 seems to have worked that out now, good for them.

Till the announcement, alt coin markets are closed

China's bad.

Bitcoin and altcoin markets were not around at 2008 morgage crisis, they will taste it now

every spike at prices is a chance to sell coin...it is a falling blade now, releases wont help

ps: u should know when to sell, when to buy...timing is important

What ANN?

Your advice is exactly opposite of common sense, and previous experience. I would tend to follow Jeff Berwick's advice.

https://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2015/08/24/dow-collapses-1000-points-on-open-shemitah-shock-continues.html

Bitcoin should generally follow the price of gold and silver. Everything has been down lately, but that will change as the market route continues.

http://www.kitco.com/market/

“We were close enough in 2008 (if the bank bailout hadn't worked),” he said. “and what's coming is on 20 times that scale”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stock-up-on-canned-food-for-stock-market-crash-warns-former-gordon-brown-advisor-10469509.html

And they have... I've lived through plenty of bear markets. It won't be long until panic sets in. Investors that have anything left will be looking for safety in gold, silver, and Bitcoin. The fork fud will be the last of their worries as the situation gets more desperate.

This looks like it will be much bigger than the 2008 crash, so the upside for gold will also be much bigger. Bitcoin and many alt-coins will benefit as the market implosion becomes more serious. Right now most of the lemmings are in denial and still believe this is a short term correction.

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/NYSE-Margin-Debt-and-the-SPX.php

The other thing to consider is they can't lower interest rates any further, so the only option will be to debase the currency further through money printing. It didn't work last time, or at least the effect was very short lived. This time it won't work at all. Not to mention China, and the EU is already doing so. This spells doom for the rest of the world when it comes to exporting anything. Sort of a Catch 22 for the USA and Europe.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/11/us-china-markets-yuan-trump-idUSKCN0QG1FE20150811

Block sizes are an easy change. PoS coins are slightly different than PoW coins when it comes to premature block size increases negatively affecting the miners ability to mine fairly (or in this case, stakers). The main concern would be in the total block chain size as ring signature transaction volume increases. Pretty sure it can be pruned. And the SPV litewallet also helps with the issue of storing the entire block chain (but cannot stake).

The BTC "event" wasn't about block size.

Any dev update? Waiting patiently of Shadowmarket news.

Agreed. Silver prices are under $15 ?? Definitely time to buy more.

Very interesting. Thanks for the tip. Maybe I'll start accumulating on the way down.

Last recession I bought (10) silver 10.oz around $12/ea and sold for over $30. Easy money in recession.
I believe Gold fell to 800 or so around the same time. 2008-2009

7 year cycle is upon us. The toilet paper fiat printing business is a fools game.