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Theology Corner / Acts 24 Bible Study Questions

« on: March 03, 2019, 01:19:05 AM »

Acts 24 Bible Study Questions


Acts 24:1-9 Flattery, what is it? How can we spot it? How can we avoid using it
ourselves? How does flattery show a lack of trust in God?


Acts 24:10-21 What is the foundational truth for Christianity? How does the doctrine of
the resurrection affect your salvation? How does it affect your daily walk with Jesus? How does it affect the truthfulness of our Message?


Acts 24:15-16 Talk about our conscience. What is it and why has God given everyone a
conscience? What happens if we do not listen to our conscience? What happens to our conscience when we fail to respond to God’s Word?


Acts 24:22-27 Talk about how God is faithful to care for His children. How did God care
for Paul and bless him even in his time of difficulty? What are some examples of how God has blessed you in difficult circumstances?


Acts 24:25 Discuss why it is essential that we obey God immediately. How does delaying obedience to God affect us spiritually?


Application:


* Pray that the Lord will watch over your lips this week.
* Pray for someone that needs to know Jesus as their savior.
* Pray that you will not go against your conscience unless it is something that is clearly stated in God’s Word. Pray for today's service that God’s Word would touch the hearts and consciences of all who would hear.
* Spend some time thanking God for all His blessings to your life.
* Pray that you will each be sensitive to hear and obey all of God’s Word.


Source: http://www.cabotbible.com/PDFs/ActsPDFs/Acts%2024.01%20Having%20a%20Clear%20Conscience.pdf

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Archived Proposals / Re: The Future of PODC - Proof of Distributed Computing

« on: March 02, 2019, 11:14:34 AM »

If pog only passes we need a clause in there on how to handle podc balances. many people can't do exec podcupdate with pog. It could a simple message to please move your funds out of Rosetta to a non tithe address. Or change the code to allow bankroll and tithing of podc funds later on.

If you want smooth transition to pog after pog passes, podc users need to be taken care of.

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Archived Proposals / Re: The Future of PODC - Proof of Distributed Computing

« on: March 01, 2019, 02:11:55 PM »

PoBH reward used be around 450 BBP. Is the proposal to increase this to 1k BBP? You technically don't need to participate in PoG to mine a block.

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Discussion and Suggestions / Re: Tipping bot on Discord

« on: March 01, 2019, 12:41:35 PM »

Someone is proposing us a tipping bot on discord

This is another option. I've seen them around on different Discord channels.
http://pandabot.fatpanda.club/wizard.html


Can be useful for bounty payouts, faucet, or tipping for submitting bugs or enhancements that make it into production code, etc.

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Archived Proposals / Re: The Future of PODC - Proof of Distributed Computing

« on: February 28, 2019, 01:58:51 PM »

Overall, I agree PoG is greener than PoDC and support switching to PoG completely. I'd prefer a spork where the payout reduces over time, but I think you said it was too much development hours. So, complete removal of PoDC and move to PoG is my answer.

Some concerns with PoG:

1) If PoG is going to be marketed as "green technology", minersleep=325 as a default is problematic. I think minersleep=950 is better. I actually had a VPS host ban me because of CPU abuse. I thought I could run biblepayd to support the network, but it was solo mining (without my permission frankly) and using up too much CPU. That feels like ill-behaving software to me. mining doesn't need to be on everyone's computer... just the ones that want to intentionally mine and they can do it on a pool. I actually did win a block solo mining using minersleep=950 , so it is possible!

2) BOINC cpid (data outside of blockchain - oracle) was used as unique identifier and had some limits placed on who could mine a block. That restriction is removed. When PoBH reward goes back to previous levels, what's your proposal to prevent botnets? Is there a mechanism using blockchain data only to have similar safeguards? I worry because botnet may not want to upgrade versions or could allow double spend attacks with back to back block rewards.

3) Is auto tithing for android BiblePay still going to happen?

4) Will funding for PoG marketing be available? Having an external consultant to create a marketing plan? Volunteers, bounty, and/or paid workers to execute the plan?
4a) Are there plans to simplify PoG faucet on pool.biblepay.org ? I've had two reports that SMS verification did not work for them (carrier not on list, phone number not accepted)

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Archived Proposals / Re: Cryptoid Explorer for BiblePay?

« on: February 28, 2019, 09:48:27 AM »

Upon further clarification, he does run ads on there. If we don't want ads, cost would be 12.50€/mo

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Archived Proposals / Cryptoid Explorer for BiblePay?

« on: February 27, 2019, 11:34:45 AM »

I've been talking to Cryptoid admin and s/he is offer 6-months at 55€ for 6 months. or 99€ for 12 months.


Verified that BiblePay blockchain is compatible.


Can pay via BTC (market EUR equivalent) or PayPal (needs name, address, VAT, etc).

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/


I was thinking trying them out for 6 months for 55€.


The explorer is very fast. You can see blocks, tx, and address history very quickly since all blockchain data is import into SQL database.

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Archived Proposals / Re: Feb Payroll

« on: February 25, 2019, 12:44:22 AM »

I think investors feel backlog of payroll of any sort of IT expense looks like a liability. Can we cap invoicing back to say 90 days (3 months) back? So if invoiced in the month of Feb 2019, you can ask for Jan 2019, Dec 2018, and/or Nov 2018 but not prior? This is not to say developers should not be compensated... it just looks bad carrying liabilities so far back.

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Archived Proposals / Re: Feb Payroll

« on: February 21, 2019, 11:00:00 AM »

Is the IT budget 3.2M now?

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Discussion and Suggestions / Re: Tipping bot on Discord

« on: February 20, 2019, 10:22:45 AM »

It would require someone to manage the bot i'm assuming.

There are several examples of these out there if we really wanted to .

I was looking at dash tip bot for compatibility reasons... but it seems like any tip bot would work as long as the cli commands are the same. managing the hot wallet is always a potential risk, but I've been wanting to tip people for submitting issues (e.g. bug bounty) on discord. but I don't know if i want to pay someone to do it for us...

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Archived Proposals / Re: March recurring payment for Kairos Children's Fund

« on: February 20, 2019, 10:00:18 AM »

Hi Andrew - Did you submit a proposal? I don't see it on pool.biblepay.org nor my QT wallet.

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: Testnet - Test Proof of Giving

« on: February 12, 2019, 12:46:54 PM »

Thank you sunk818! Why the 1 wallet suggestion?

Why would you use more than one wallet? You can do PoG from multiple wallets, but there's no point. You can just shorten the time you tithe from every 4 hours to as quickly as every 2 minutes. Unless you've got such a huge bankroll where 2 minutes wouldn't exhaust your coin age, then you'd need to spread out to multiple wallets. Until then, it is more maintenance of multiple wallets without a good reason.

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Theology Corner / 1000 PhD's are skeptical of darwinism

« on: February 12, 2019, 12:29:45 PM »

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg49709992#msg49709992


Rob said:

1000 PhD's are skeptical of darwinism:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQgOjHsMEeE&feature=youtu.beThis is the kind of base element that should be in BiblePay.  An exposure to evidence that God exists when you use certain features of BiblePay.

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: Testnet - Test Proof of Giving

« on: February 12, 2019, 11:20:36 AM »

I have 3 laptops running boinc that feed rewards to 1 wallet that is associated with boinc. I each laptop also has a biblepay wallet. Can I only do POG from the wallet associated with my boinc account?

PoG doesn't require BOINC account (distributed computing).

You can do PoG tithe? from any wallet,  In practice though, I'd suggest you do this from one wallet.

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Theology Corner / Acts 22 Bible Study Questions

« on: February 10, 2019, 01:04:40 AM »

Acts 23 Bible Study Questions


Acts 23:6-10 What are some ways that Christianity is different from all other religions? How does the resurrection give hope even when facing dire circumstances?


Acts 23:15 Talk about a time when you have been treated wrongly. How have you responded? What kind of response pleases God? How does knowing God is in control enable us to respond rightly?


Acts 23:11 What are some of the promises that God gives to us that will encourage us in difficult times? Look these up and read them together. Which is most encouraging to you personally?


Acts 23:12-22 Talk about the difference between providence (protective care of God) and miracles. Which is God’s normal way of accomplishing His will? How does that give us confidence in difficulties?


Acts 23:23-35 Discuss the goodness of God. What does it mean to say that God is good? What are the evidences of His goodness? Can you see His goodness even in bad times?


Application:

Pray for strength to trust God in situations when you are wronged so that your witness might give glory to God
Pray for someone who needs to know Jesus as Savior
Thank the Lord for the peace and comfort that He has given to you.
Pray that you can rest in His control in the difficulties you face this week.
Pray that you might see and give thanks to God for His goodness and mercy that are everlasting.

Source: http://www.cabotbible.com/PDFs/ActsPDFs/Acts%2023.01%20God%20Is%20In%20Control.pdf