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I also find it interesting that there are many churches (particularly in the US) that are preaching a gospel different than the one that Paul preached, and DROVES are going to them. My Pastors are preaching directly from the Bible and not watering-down the messages. Praise God for men that aren't afraid to preach the words of Jesus and the full Gospel message!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sLFgC4cRuI
Francis Chan on What's Wrong with the Prosperity Gospel




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I just updated this homepage (Technical Details) a little early:

https://www.biblepay.org/


Looks good. Graviex logo is sadly out of date now.

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Understood.

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If you want to make it automated, you could also do online banking recurring bill pay (are you in USA?) with the child ID as a memo. Pay two weeks ahead of time so they have some lead time to pay.


I've also sent them sponsorships using Venmo.


You can HODL your sanctuary BBP payments and do the DASH-DWS staking thing so you can earn returns on it. You can probably sell half your BBP initially as seed fund, then every month after you are paid in BBP, you can rebalance your investment.

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I performed a withdrawl and it appeared on chainz about 10 minutes, ago I don't see it there any more. My wallet doesn't show the 42353 BBP.My Deposit Report (Ordered by Most Recent Descending)[/size][/font][/color]
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Withdrawf7073494-c26b-4621-b536-4ae13accd5ed8/21/2020 4:51:18 PM-42353215343[/size][/font]

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Hosting the files ourselves is not really a viable option - except for small amounts - since a 40gb sanctuary is not going to put a dent in the storage reqs.  We have 16 terabytes of Christian content already, and this way S3 can handle an influx of large storage reqs. 

With Unchained, today in production, you can upload a 400 meg video through biblepay, and pay for it, and it will successfully host for a year over multiple regions.


I did think what would happen during the tribulation and would Amazon survive. So many web sites depend on Amazon, I'm sure they'd work very hard keeping things going. I also read they wanted to be carbon neutral by 2040 which means part of their infrastructure will run on renewable energy which means even if the power grid goes down, the data center could use renewables to perhaps run in a degraded if not fully operational mode.


Nowadays, I hear there are many S3 clones that offer discounted pricing as well.

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Is BiblePay Unchained hosting files on Amazon S3 regions only (up to 4)? https://wiki.biblepay.org/Using_Unchained


I recall you had CloudFlare at some point and before that we had IPFS node we could run ourselves to support the BiblePay file hosting network.

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Archived Proposals / Re: Should Sanctuaries fund our Orphans?
« on: August 21, 2020, 12:13:44 PM »
https://wiki.biblepay.org/September_2020_Upgrade


I was reading this and was curious how sanctuaries will interact with APM. If I read it correctly, if the BBP price remains UNCHANGED or drops, the block reward will be 7 BBP? Split with miner & sanctuary that becomes 3.5 BBP each?


Could we potentially see a situation where the sanctuary receives 105 BBP (3.5 BBP x 30 days) if BBP price drops or remains unchanged for the entire month? Does that mean sanctuary pay for orphan sponsorship out of pocket with fiat? What's to stop a sanctuary owner from not paying a sponsorship until the BBP price? Other than the child not being sponsored, there's no incentive to keep up a payment if all you're getting is 3.5 BBP per sanctuary rotation.


I'm not saying this is what will happen... I'm trying to think out some scenarios that might occur with APM (if I understand its mechanism correctly). Initially, it sounded like Sanctuaries could potentially earn $99/mo based on your post (to pay off hosting and orphan sponsorship costs).  But the Sep 2020 wiki link makes it sound like Sanctuary payments could be much lower if the price of BBP does not go up.

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Just out of curiosity can you please check if your download of mac was from today?
I found the 1.5.2.1 release was bad and we re-released today with a couple changes.

Once you reinstall, please sync from zero, as llmqs have changed since our last testnet session(s).

Thanks,
Rob


Okay, I'll try DMG again. I think I remember why you said new builds sometimes have the same version number as before.

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At the end of Sep 2019, BiblePay donated over $194k to charities...


https://whitewalr.us/2019/biblepay-charity-donations.html


I was looking at the Foundation. Type CR means the "income" BiblePay Foundation earned. And Type DR means the donations it made to the various non-profits?


So total donated is $227k as of June 2020?

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Feds and SEC make a rule that that coin cannot be traded without a KYC (IE the way BTC deposits must go through AML dumps from coinbase etc).  Im sure the trading could occur on anonymous exchanges, but I wonder if the big govts like China and the US will ever block ports on coins that are privacy coins.


I did consider that since a coin tied to fiat USD value can never be truly free of government intervention. I did like the idea of DAI keeping a stable value of $1 through exchange trader arbitrage, but they've had liquidity issues. I think Bitcoin and altcoins can succeed once fiat fails, but I think it'd be a difficult and painful transition. A stablecoin would be a good intermediary but having anonymity would almost seem impossible. A fork of Monero or ZCash that has a stable value could take what is cash bills we use for buying & selling to be the online equivalent.

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Ultimately it just come back around to control. They've realized that the nature of crypto is actually way easier to track than cash. But they don't want decentralized crypto (especially privacy coins), they want to keep it centralized and have control over the exchanges.

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I don't know if it'd be possible but an anonymous & private stablecoin would be a unique offering. They've busted more than few crime rings laundering money with BTC, or illegal trades online that paid with BTC. FBI just love crypto to track people down using all the global exchanges to confirm the chain of custody.

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Can't get to 100%. I erased the chain data and left just wallet.dat . I've gotten to the same place twice.



2020-08-20 16:11:51 {PNB}: ACC  {PNB}: ACC  UpdateTip: new best=108870ace145be01d3881c59832e404d816ec4d39997e09a8d5c136dbee9b52f height=51850 version=0x50000000 log2_work=48.51148818 tx=86585 date='2020-07-17 19:17:20' progress=0.747391 cache=0.5MiB(2408txo) evodb_cache=0.0MiB
2020-08-20 16:11:51 UpdateTip: new best=4a87ae0853795a71eea3a2bbeb79e3eb75dfd428c982ebaef3d2544789987692 height=51851 version=0x50000000 log2_work=48.51148818 tx=86587 date='2020-07-17 19:29:20' progress=0.747442 cache=0.5MiB(2410txo) evodb_cache=0.0MiB
2020-08-20 16:11:51 CFinalCommitment::VerifySizes -- invalid signers.size=70
2020-08-20 16:11:51 ERROR: ConnectBlock(DASH): ProcessSpecialTxsInBlock for block 7bb375978c124c058c1f3bf897452d02b4f81ba54b515a080199ca4a39a47bc4 failed with bad-qc-invalid-null (code 16)
2020-08-20 16:11:51 Misbehaving: 107.191.44.254:40001 peer=0 (0 -> 100) BAN THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
2020-08-20 16:11:51 InvalidChainFound: invalid block=7bb375978c124c058c1f3bf897452d02b4f81ba54b515a080199ca4a39a47bc4  height=51852  log2_work=48.51148818  date=2020-07-17 19:30:45
2020-08-20 16:11:51 InvalidChainFound:  current best=4a87ae0853795a71eea3a2bbeb79e3eb75dfd428c982ebaef3d2544789987692  height=51851  log2_work=48.51148818  date=2020-07-17 19:29:20
2020-08-20 16:11:51 ERROR: ConnectTip(): ConnectBlock 7bb375978c124c058c1f3bf897452d02b4f81ba54b515a080199ca4a39a47bc4 failed with bad-qc-invalid-null (code 16)
2020-08-20 16:11:51 InvalidChainFound: invalid block=7bb375978c124c058c1f3bf897452d02b4f81ba54b515a080199ca4a39a47bc4  height=51852  log2_work=48.51148818  date=2020-07-17 19:30:45
2020-08-20 16:11:51 InvalidChainFound:  current best=4a87ae0853795a71eea3a2bbeb79e3eb75dfd428c982ebaef3d2544789987692  height=51851  log2_work=48.51148818  date=2020-07-17 19:29:20
2020-08-20 16:11:51 {PNB}: ACC  {PNB}: ACC 


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I had to add the peer manually.


addnode testnet1.biblepay.org:40001 add

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Pretty interesting article. AND it was updated just last week. To me, the most interesting part was the final line: "In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, prominent economists have noted that a digital currency would have made it easier for the government to send stimulus checks to workers." Just like the gov'ment to make it all about supporting the people...

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Hopefully, digital dollar is designed correctly. I know Fed Reserve is working on instant transfer feature (between banks I think) for injecting liquidity, but I suppose the same technology could be used in the context of a digital dollar. Even with the USD having inflationary value, USD  provides a stable value. Some countries use it informally as their currency of choice because their government backed fiat is unreliable or too volatile.


Innovation is occurring with cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, but anonymity doesn't seem to be a characteristic they are considering when building digital dollar. China is building their own digital yuan and it could very well be used to track usage of dissidents and/or limit access to people they disagree with. I could see the same being done in the USA with homeland security, DEA, FBI, NSA, etc.


Bitcoin and the stablecoins aren't any better on the anonymous point. At least stablecoins offer a stable value pegged to the USD. But I'm still not impressed that most of the stablecoins decided to be ERC20 tokens on the Ethereum network. So, none of them will have instant transfer feature like XLM, XRP, or DASH InstantSend.


Still, a digital account for every US citizen would be great. You get your social security, unemployment, federal pension, military pension, irs tax refunds, etc all can be deposited into a US digital account. If the government bails out a corporation, we can all get dividends when the corporate stock is sold at a higher price. Reparations for African-Americans could also be deposited here if it became law.


Overall, I'd support a US digital account to streamline the bureacracy.

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I will pray that he gets the help he needs with a new heart.

My apologies for such a late reply. We have been trying to continue
contacting various hospitals to hopefully get moises the surgery he needs.

He is soon to be moved to Denver, Colorado.


Thank you very much.


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