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williambanks
@williambanks Jan 14, 2018, 8:33 AM UTC

Announcing VULCAN!

https://pics.me.me/Facebook-Live-Long-and-Prosper-Ozmin-9eeb5a.png The innovating part of Viva is not so much its blockchain, but its lack of a blockchain. Blockchains are wasteful and expensive plac…

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williambanks
@williambanks Jan 14, 2018, 12:57 AM UTC

Stay strong

https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/hobbies-leisure-vacation-holiday-holidaying-prisoners-prisons-mban3391_low.jpg I sit here alone in quiet contemplation and meditation. I am writing yo…

45 upvotes 4 replies $10.11
williambanks
@williambanks Sep 30, 2017, 7:20 AM UTC

Upcoming Changes to TradeQwik Voting

https://i.imgur.com/4JSMDYU.jpg 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…

57 upvotes 13 replies $3.98
williambanks
@williambanks Apr 19, 2017, 10:52 PM UTC

We made NewsWeek!

http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/M0Sqvo-Iw_aMJX1jAYApr0SH1fk=/1438x0/2014%2F03%2F07%2F90%2Fnewsweek.28687.jpg This week Elizabeth Rosales a reporter from NewsWeek en Español ran an article discussing crypto c…

267 upvotes 27 replies $3.28
williambanks
@williambanks Apr 9, 2017, 3:46 AM UTC

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://i.imgur.com/Jfnyb4z.png This series is going to be a break away from my normal writing style in order to talk to any other Joe…

172 upvotes 20 replies $1.20
williambanks
@williambanks Apr 8, 2017, 5:27 AM UTC

How To Refine Your Own Gold!

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G5Lza58BJ20/maxresdefault.jpg http://gulfgoldrefinery.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/aboutus.jpg I've been going back over my own posting history, reminiscing and found an earl…

203 upvotes 11 replies $0.50
williambanks
@williambanks Apr 7, 2017, 5:04 AM UTC

Got Backbone?

https://www.lawtech.asia/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-28-at-1.09.20-AM.png Today history was made, of sorts. At least for my family. http://www.hizook.com/files/users/3/Telepresence…

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williambanks
@williambanks Apr 2, 2017, 3:51 AM UTC

Cryptography Using Slang and Scurrility In Numerical Generators

http://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-user/_images/trezor-wipe.jpg It's well known that most passwords are inherently insecure and that it's remarkably hard to create a password that is both highly secur…

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williambanks
@williambanks Mar 28, 2017, 10:22 PM UTC

Introduction to VIVA, part 6 : A Game of Chains

http://cdn.playbuzz.com/cdn/f9b50ad7-87da-4d81-800f-d50b1975d3cb/56b64f19-c97e-4908-8eaa-dded74262f79.jpg Can loyalty, reputation, power and greed be used to produce Byzantine Fault Tolerance? @danth…

297 upvotes 50 replies $7.19
williambanks
@williambanks Mar 28, 2017, 7:40 AM UTC

TIL - That Despite You Best Efforts Your Passwords are Stored in Plaintext!

http://memecrunch.com/meme/9Y81X/oops-kitten/image.jpg 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,…

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