intro flim flam

No seriously I really don't.

Italian, yes.
Chinese, 一点点
And a few others but all of them very poorly:

Korean: 조금조금
Ewe: mlakphe king-size packet daka
Vietnamese: toi hoc tieng viet

Anyway I don't speak German. I don't even know if the title of this article is correct.

And I have mainly given up on language learning, I'm passing it down to the next generation, my son is learning English, Khmer and Vietnamese presently. You can pretty much see the neurons in his happy little brain connecting to each other and dancing.

serious stuff

Some misrepresentations have been made and we got to fix that:

• just so you know, I am the only person paying for the servers, and after I pay for the servers, blurt pays me for the servers, via @megadrive.

• the primary front end is down due to dependencies introduced by its former developer, who did not maintain certain API end points, causing the whole thing to enter a very spaghetti state. there may be a way to fix it, there may not be. This is okay because lots of people are going to run lots of front ends. front and interfaces do not fragment the chain in the ways describe in today's discord chat. The reason that additional front end interface is do not fragment the chain is because they're literally just that, they are front ends to a unified back end.

• Tendermint - I just wish to say that I am very happily working as a contractor at tenderment, specifically I'm working on learning kubernetes for validator automation, and on Raspberry Pi integration for the blockchain framework product Starport. There is nothing at all to be concerned about here. Tendermint, and the Cosmos SDK alike our frameworks for building sovereign blockchains and that is why I like tendermint. They are neither taking over nor funding this project.

• Branded hardware - @ramonbril, @megadrive, @syhaunguyen and I are working on a thing called Zoef. So it's like a national blurt for .nl but it has nothing to do with the current blurt code base. It will of course be based on B2, it will have its own blockchain, and it could be as far as a year out. We hope to ship it on fully open source, custom hardware designed by PCBViet.com manufactured at a local Vietnamese company with absolutely zero Chinese components. once we have figured out how financing works for this thing, there's likely to be an airdrop on holders of blurt who make a claim to it. It's front end user interface is likely to be able to interact with B2. Please understand that there are a great many variables here and one thing that's almost certain is that small details will change along the way. another thing that is 100% certain is that I don't know which details will change.

sos

so usually this means save our souls but in this case it means starport operating system.

Yeah actually it's been about done for about 2 months and if you run one of our Raspberry Pi images now, you're actually running a heavily customized version of Arch Linux that will become more and more accustomized over the next year hopefully I can make it smaller too because right now the image file is still a little fat.

development time and timelines

I'm seriously going to try my very best not to make any promises in this department because with the kind of stuff that we're working on sometimes things go 10 times faster than you think they will and other times they go 10 times slower. Instead I'm going to try and give a direction and those of you who wish to monitor progress should monitor progress on GitLab or GitHub.

GitLab vs GitHub vs radicale

so the fact of the matter is that some of our recent issues were caused by code review and GitHub currently has the best suite of tools for doing code review. by making code review easier and less time consuming, they also create the opportunity for more detailed code reviews.

200 raspberry pis

just to be extremely clear, this blockchain does not even need a single Raspberry Pi. But I do want them. Furthermore, we might want to think of it as 400 Raspberry Pi not 200. The reason being is that there is a very complete starport development environment available at the Starport GitHub repository and you might just want to have a b1 witness or full node on one Raspberry Pi, or a B2 witness or full node on one Raspberry Pi, and on the second Raspberry Pi, you may wish to have this development environment, because I have made it so that it works perfectly, so that you do not run into trouble like @afrog experienced.

tactical recommendation

We have this delightful blurt German community and we also have this terrible global covid situation.

I strongly believe that the Germans should get together and drink the following:

https://monkey47.com/

That is a drink that puts you in a blurt mood. At first I recommend that you drink it straight, no additions to it whatsoever. However after that first drink I recommend a little lime and a little olive juice.

The reason why you should get together and drink Lucky 47 It's basically about community plus that stuff tastes really good and it makes you feel great as well It's nice for drinking with friends and that's what we all like to be here.

fact: the original blurt paper, which had nothing to do with this, was written under the influence of the monkey.

Hat tip to @birdinc for the monkey
Also hat tip to @ned for the monkey but then @ned took revenge as @birdinc and Craig can confirm.

Please exercise extreme caution at all times when consuming high end liquor in Seoul. You could be purchasing methanol and that really hurts the next day.

2nd fact: That original paper was so bad that I will never release it. Approximately November 2019, I think. Maybe.

But that had nothing to do with this at all It had no connection to steem whatsoever.

ambiguity

Folks, honesty involves frequently saying "I don't know"-- when one does not know. I would like to give an example of this, I don't know what will become of b1. The way that I'm figuring out what should become of b1 is I am listening to the community and I'm trying to figure out if suggestions are technically feasible or not.

I am also looking at the economic and branding aspects of this as well. So what I mean is it is a complex and multi-variable type decision and the fact is, I don't know.

organizing my silly life

Long ago, I was trying to make daily blurt posts with a somewhat organized somewhat prioritized bulleted list that I would strike through as I completed items. I found this to be the best organizational system that I have come up with yet because moving to the next day is a simple copy/paste also, stuff that never gets done can simply at some point be omitted from the list as it obviously was not that important or it would be done.

trivia

I've actually been working on this for more than 5 years now. In 2014 I left a teaching job in a small city outside of Shanghai in China and I moved down to the south of China to learn the hardware manufacturing industry, but the great firewall was a real pain, and the umbrella revolution was real scary, so I flew down to Vietnam. In Vietnam I met @baabeetaa. he and I did some cloud stuff together and it was real cool. All along though, I kept my passion for orchestrating vast numbers of really cheap computers. I assure you, the Raspberry Pi is not cheap enough, nor is it specialized enough. In 2021, we shall fix this. But for now, we need lots of people with raspberry pies because the software is actually more complicated than the hardware we've got to get that well tested out so that we can do the crowdfunding thing so that we can build the hardware and begin shipping chains on it.

silly blockchain money thing

Okay guys first of all I cannot promise anything. First of all that would be illegal. Secondly, it could possibly be unethical because we are working in the realm of experimental hardware and software development. so what I am trying to say here is that for any of these initiatives, a total failure is in fact possible.

But in this article, I did mention some kind of Dutch language social media chain.

Look the idea here is to get to mass adoption, as quickly as possible.

These days everybody has a router in their home and various types of internet equipment. I think that in the future people can have a node in their home as well on that node will make them some money and It will secure a network for the community that it connects to.

It's just using example for the country of Armenia:

So if you wanted to create a blockchain that assisted with both financing and governance in Armenia, you could set that chain up so that it runs physically inside Armenia on a primary basis but also outside of Armenia as well.

If you wanted to get really really crazy, you could tie citizenship for foreigners to holding the token.

Please keep in mind that this is just a crazy idea.

I would never super seriously look into governance and decide that it could be that proof of stake blockchain technology is what will allow people to escape the tyranny of modern democracies.

I truly believe that steak waited voting leads to making better decisions. Now let's take this a step further, these systems can allow for a single person to be a member of multiple digital and physical communities simultaneously.

So this is where the whole 500 chains thing comes from.

All of them every single one will connect to the token state on this blockchain at some time.

You will do some kind of transaction with your active key. You're posting key will not be good enough.

final note

I tried to write with an air of levity. That is to say in a light-hearted way.

I hope that it does not sound too much like speaking in riddles, because what I'm trying to do actually is tell some stories to keep the story interesting, and At the same time provide you with valuable narrative and contextual information. I believe that this post has now covered all of the topics requested by @double-u.

Starport dev env pi image

https://github.com/tendermint/starport/actions/runs/504524443

Taleb

When a project founder (@jacobgadikian) who controls by proxy about 30 million or so tokens And has announced to the community that at some point he and the other founder @megadrive plan to slowly and progressively each realize about 1 million dollars personally from those tokens and then convert them into some kind of much much much better DAO....

When those people, are buying, pretty sure it signals confidence in price movements.

I mean at least that's how I feel about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book)

Recently I've taken about 1 million blurt off the markets.

I intend to take more blurt off the markets.

As an American, I cannot make forward-looking statements about price. If you like to know where I think that's heading, I believe that you should first read Mr Taleb's book and then follow his "watch what people do, not what they say" maxim.

It's a very good book. You should read it.