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2024-06-13 at 5:41 PM UTC in Are fake eyelashes more of a black thing?CandyRein looks welldone
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2024-06-13 at 5:09 PM UTC in Best & Worst User on this site (Opinions)Aren't you like 54? You're probably gonna be dead soon, bruv.
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2024-06-13 at 5:03 PM UTC in Is Sophie the biggest coward on NIS?I like OP
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2024-06-13 at 5 PM UTC in I need help with a police investigation.her dad? Lol
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2024-06-13 at 5 PM UTC in Are fake eyelashes more of a black thing?BradleyB knows a lot about African American hair for some reason
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2024-06-13 at 5 PM UTC in Are fake eyelashes more of a black thing?Yes they are more popular. But you also see Hispanics doing it.
Same thing is edges, like fake curly hair they tape onto their foreheads.
Never understood why. I like black people's unique hair styles so when they start trying to emulate white looks I think it's kinda cheapening their own culture
That's my cracker opinion, but I'd rather be with a black person that has dredlocks, braids, or an afro than someone wearing a wig. -
2024-06-13 at 4:49 PM UTC in Best & Worst User on this site (Opinions)wow you're piss poor and old? You must really be a failure at life.
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2024-06-13 at 4:48 PM UTC in 🍬🍬Candy~Land🍬🍬
Originally posted by Cowboy2013 Candace I have a question for you. Do you consider fake eyelashes a black thing?
I guess white women wear them but it doesn't seem to make as much of a difference with how they look. For some reason it seems to on black women (to me).
Idk if women are supposed to have longer eyelashes than men.
aren't you the guy who made a thread about raping women after candy shut down your advances? LOL -
2024-06-13 at 4:47 PM UTC in 🍬🍬Candy~Land🍬🍬I like candy's eyelashes. I like that she doesn't wear a wig too.
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2024-06-13 at 4:38 PM UTC in Best & Worst User on this site (Opinions)must be nice to be that wealthy
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2024-06-13 at 4:34 PM UTC in I need help with a police investigation.Crispy's dads taking out all the pedophiles out one by one.
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2024-06-13 at 4:23 PM UTC in 🍬🍬Candy~Land🍬🍬
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood DigiByte
Community
Infopaper
V1.0
Introduction & History
DigiByte is a truly decentralized UTXO blockchain that was fairly launched on
January 10, 2014. DigiByte is also truly permissionless, since there is no central
controlling authority. Accordingly, this Community Infopaper is written without
requiring authorization from any single individual.
The DigiByte blockchain is an immutable ledger, a chain of blocks all with
verifiable digital signatures since its creation in 2014 and backed by billions of
dollars of cryptographic computation. Its blockchain is also fully open-source,
released under the MIT license, and completely verifiable by any individual or
entity. DigiByte embraces the Bitcoin core ethos of “Do not trust, verify”, in that
no entity should ever need be “trusted” in order to send/receive DigiByte (DGB)
or to store/retrieve data from the DigiByte blockchain.
DigiByte originally utilized the Litecoin code-base, with a completely independent
blockchain and a unique Genesis Block. It has undergone several
non-contentious soft-forks and hard-forks, none of which culminated in a
chain-split, but rather a complete consensus resulting in seamless upgrades of
the entire DigiByte network.
DigiByte never held an ICO, but was fairly launched in an open and transparently
planned manner. DigiByte does not take a percentage of block-rewards for a
founders fee. The minimal 0.5% pre-mine was given away in its entirety to
community members in the first month of its existence in order to incentivize
early client downloads, ensure the survival of the blockchain, and to develop the
original Android/iOS applications.
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DigiByte focuses on speed, security, and scalability. It prides itself with being
“faster, more secure, forward thinking”. With significantly faster block timings
than any other UTXO blockchain to date (15 seconds), DigiByte has encountered
and overcome a number of issues that many other blockchains such as Bitcoin
will not face until the advent of the next century. It is due to this forward thinking
nature that DigiByte adopted the SegWit protocol through a soft-fork consensus
in 2017, being the first major blockchain to do so, well before Litecoin or Bitcoin
adopted the upgrade.
DigiByte believes in on-chain scalability as a core tenet of its blockchain, with
“second layer” protocols never expected to be the primary “solution” for
increased throughput or transaction capacity. This on-chain scaling coupled
with OP_codes and SegWit allows for a large number of usage scenarios, such
as distributed applications (DApps), document notarization/validation, token
issuance, and asset digitization.
DigiByte has a maximum supply of 21 billion DigiByte, to be fully mined by the
year 2035. While other blockchains only utilize a single mining algorithm to mine
new blocks and introduce new assets into circulation, DigiByte has employed
five unique and independent algorithms in a “MultiAlgo” solution since block
145,000 in September 2014. DigiByte holds the dominant hash-power in 3 of its
5 algorithms globally, by an order of magnitude more than any other competing
blockchain. This provides greater security to the network while helping prevent
any “rented hash power” from attacking the blockchain.
DigiByte continues to pioneer in the areas of security based on the “forward
thinking” of its foundation by creating the Odocrypt algorithm. Odocrypt is a
mining algorithm which rewrites and morphs itself every 10 days in order to
prevent ASIC dominance, focusing on utilizing FPGA mining. Future algorithms
will also likely be replaced as necessary on an on-going basis to ensure
maximum security of the DigiByte network, while simultaneously expanding
upon the decentralization/distribution of the DigiByte blockchain.
DigiByte has been leading innovation with the industry-renowned DigiShield, a
real-time difficulty adjustment mechanism which ensures the stability of block
generation timing, despite exponential increases/decreases in mining hash
power. DigiShield is utilized in a respectable number of other major
cryptocurrency/blockchain projects, such as Dogecoin, ZCash and dozens more.
DigiShield was originally created for a single mining algorithm, and shortly after
DigiByte changed to MultiAlgo, it was ported and upgraded to become
MultiShield. This allows for regular block timings across multiple mining
algorithms, as well as an even block mining distribution between algorithms,
while also preventing mining dominance in the event of a sudden inflow/outflow
of substantial mining hash power.
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DigiByte Key Specifications
Launch Date January 10th, 2014
Genesis Block Hash "USA Today: 10/Jan/2014, Target: Data stolen
from up to 110M customers"
Blockchain Type Public, Decentralized, UTXO, Proof of Work,
Multi-Algorithm
Ticker Symbol DGB
Maximum supply 21,000,000,000
Block Reward Reduction 1% reduction monthly
Block emission schedule Fully mined by 2035
Mining Algorithms SHA256, Scrypt, Odocrypt, Skein & Qubit
Algorithm Block Share 20% per-algo, contested each block
Difficulty Retarget Every block, 5 separate difficulties (Per-algo)
Block Timing 15 seconds per-block (75 per-algo approx)
Segregated Witness Support Yes (First major blockchain to activate)
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Key Aspects of DigiByte
Decentralization
DigiByte is the most decentralized Proof-of-Work-mined blockchain in the world.
Decentralization means there is no central controlling entity that is able to
dictate direction, terms, use of the network, changes, charges and fees, locking
of funds, or undoing transactions. Although the world predominantly
understands centralized control, the mind-shift to decentralization is an
incredibly important progression in today’s global society. Where many other
cryptocurrencies concede significant compromises in one or more aspects of
decentralization (if not all), DigiByte remains unwavering in its dedication to
decentralization as a key aspect of being a globally distributed blockchain
solution.
DigiByte maintains this decentralization through a combination of methods,
namely:
1) Multiple algorithms;
2) GPU/FPGA mining;
3) On-chain scaling;
4) Educating the importance of running a full-node;
5) Embracing code contributions that uphold the ethos of DigiByte.
This decentralized nature is of vital importance not only for the survival of the
DigiByte blockchain, but also to prevent any tampering from malicious actors,
governments or corporations. Due to the lack of any “head” or controlling party,
there is no entity to manipulate, blackmail, or “lean on”. In a world growing ever
divided, there is solace in the consensus of the DigiByte network, that it can be
relied upon as accurate and truthful without reservation.
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Pure Consensus
This consensus is the core foundation of the DigiByte blockchain. Since its
inception in January 2014, DigiByte has had its consensus mechanism reliant on
the belief in on-chain scaling, speed, security, and forward-thinking progression
of the DigiByte blockchain.
This consensus is obtained through a vastly distributed network of nodes
running the Core DigiByte wallet, which holds a complete and continuously
updated copy of the DigiByte blockchain, as well as block creation via the
“Proof-of-Work” (POW) mining method. Other blockchains have shown that
Staking, Distributed Proof-of-Stake, and other such poor attempts at alternative
consensus methods are far too susceptible to centralization, manipulation, and
tampering by various malicious individuals or organizations. Similarly, trusting a
3rd-party for consensus defeats the purpose of being a distributed and
decentralized blockchain in the first place, with users genuinely being better off
with a centralized database.
Permissionless Network
DigiByte is a completely permissionless blockchain. Since there is no centrally
controlling entity to dictate the network, there is no need to seek “permission”
from anyone. As such, permission is implied no matter what “use case” you
would like to implement or accomplish with DigiByte. Examples include
advertising the acceptance of DigiByte as a payment method, listing DigiByte on
an exchange, using DigiByte with your platform/service, or when
spending/sending/receiving DigiByte. In addition, anyone is free to speak on
behalf of DigiByte, to promote DigiByte, or to even author a community Infopaper
such as this.
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Proof-of-Work is the only proven and reliable method of obtaining a distributed
and decentralized consensus (A solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem),
which is why DigiByte proudly remains true to POW. Proponents of alternatives
usually cite delays in block creation and propagation; however, thanks to
DigiSpeed, the DigiByte blockchain overcomes this. Which is why the most
battle-hardened POW consensus method is still being utilized today for DigiByte.
There has never been any rational argument against the ability of POW to arrive
at a sound consensus.
DigiByte’s permissionless nature is both a by-product of decentralization, as well
as an intentional aspect that the community deeply values and celebrates. This
is what also prevents influence, changes, or take-overs by malicious parties,
because the permissionless nature requires consensus from the majority of the
network. It is a key characteristic of DigiByte which has held up against any
would-be attempts from malicious actors for the past six years and counting.
On-Chain Scaling
DigiByte is a network that believes on-chain scaling should be the primary
method for future growth in transaction volume and frequency. A true
transaction only happens when it occurs on-chain and has been incorporated
into the blockchain. Compare this to second-layer methods where transacting
can occur without ever being presented to the network, thus defeating one of the
primary reasons blockchain as a technology was created, immutability.
Broad support & network participation
DigiByte aspires to be broadly supported across a variety of platforms, to
encourage participation from as many entities as possible. Part of pushing the
boundaries regarding block timings / sizes means that not all will be able to
participate with a full Core Node (for example, drivespace / data transfer /
memory requirements), however broad support is available across Windows,
Linux & OSX.
DigiByte development has also intentionally added backwards compatibility for
older versions of Android that are prominent in developing & impoverished
nations. This allows for greater participation, despite aging hardware devices.
Broad network participation is also why the Android / iOS applications have
been translated to 50+ native languages.
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The very essence of the DigiByte blockchain is predicated upon the fact that all
blocks since the very first Genesis Block are able to be replayed and
cryptographically validated, with all transactions being visible. There are no
anonymous/shielded transactions employed, as DigiByte believes a key defense
for anonymity is the significant growth of on-chain transactions and the
pseudo-anonymous nature of the UTXO’s architecture. In keeping with that
philosophy, the DigiByte blockchain will scale in future through block-size
increases, with proposals for the size to double every 2 years.
Protocol Upgrades
DigiByte at Launch
DigiByte was the brainchild of Jared Tate, who wanted to create a blockchain
that addressed many of the perceived shortcomings of Bitcoin. DigiByte
originally started out as a Scrypt-only mined blockchain, with 60 second block
times and a two hour difficulty retargeting frequency. Compared to every other
Proof-of-Work UTXO blockchain that existed during its 2014 launch, this was
considered incredibly revolutionary, and still is to this day. Although the
block-timing has changed with network upgrades, the maximum supply of
DigiByte will always remain fixed at 21 billion and the last DigiByte to be mined
is scheduled to occur prior to the year 2035. DigiByte was created to be
“forward-thinking”, with two primary objectives: cybersecurity and on-chain
scalability. This is why the news article headline “USA Today: 10/Jan/2014,
Target: Data stolen from up to 110M customers” was hashed into the Genesis
Block. These guiding principles have remained in effect over the past five years,
and will continue to guide the future of DigiByte.
DigiShield
During the launch of DigiByte back in 2014, most blockchains utilized either
SHA256 or Scrypt algorithms. Mining pools that would automatically
profit-switch known as “Multipools” would regularly switch back and forth
between cryptocurrencies that they mined, depending on the mining difficulty
and the block-rewards. Miners utilizing these Multipools would have their
hashing power changed between a variety of blockchains - such as from
DigiByte to Dogecoin to Litecoin.
These fluctuations would cause blockchains to sometimes experience
exponential increases in mining hash-power of up to 10 times the normal level,
which would rapidly speed up block production until the next difficulty retarget.
Once the difficulty retarget for the blockchain had occurred, making mining
more difficult and less profitable, the hash-power would then be taken to
another more profitable blockchain. This led to many blockchains seeing a rush
of block production, followed by a complete stalling when the hash-power fell
off. Some blockchains could go for days without a block being found as a result
of the major difficulty adjustment. This unsustainable volatility led to the
development of DigiShield. DigiShield was created as a mechanism for real-time
adjustment of block-difficulty, which allows for the effective handling of sudden
influxes of mining hash-power or the equally significant outflux.
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This prevented “chain-freeze” and also helped smooth out block creation times.
DigiShield was implemented on the DigiByte network as the first protocol
upgrade on February 28, 2018 at block height 67,200.
The DigiByte core developers then directly assisted the Dogecoin development
team to implement DigiShield, another of many blockchains that had been
suffering as a result of erratic Multipool hash-power swings. DigiShield has
since been implemented in dozens of other blockchains such as Zcash, Ubiq,
and Monacoin.
MultiAlgo
DigiByte upgraded its network yet again on September 1, 2014 at block height
145,000 with the implementation of multiple mining algorithms. While some
blockchains had initially launched with multiple mining algorithms, DigiByte was
the first blockchain to upgrade from single to multiple algorithms.
The change to five algorithms (SHA256, Scrypt, Qubit, Myr-gr and Skein) was
initiated in order to improve the security of the blockchain, while allowing for
equitably distributed mining, decentralization, and increased protection from
51% attacks. By having some of the algorithms remaining “GPU friendly”, it
allowed for people to mine DigiByte from home, contributing to the security of
the DigiByte network from their desktop PC.
It was also at this point where the block timing was adjusted from 60 seconds to
30 seconds, which was approximately 150 seconds in between each mining
algorithm finding a block. This further affirmed DigiByte as a leader in the UTXO
blockchain space and was also the second seamless and non-contentious
network upgrade that DigiByte successfully executed.
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MultiShield
Since DigiShield was originally created only for single mining-algorithm
blockchains, this necessitated the launch of the MultiShield network upgrade
which occurred on December 10, 2014 at block height 400,000. The MultiShield
upgrade allowed for the real-time mining difficulty adjustment of DigiByte spread
across all 5x algorithms, which further ensured that block timings would remain
steady. MultiShield also allows for a sudden influx and exit of hash-power on
one or more mining algorithms, all in real-time, further protecting the DigiByte
network.
MultiShield works by increasing the difficulty for an algorithm every time it finds
a block, while simultaneously decreasing the difficulty of the other algorithms,
which protects against a single-algorithm takeover. Should a manufacturer of an
ASIC ever be found to intentionally or inadvertently placing a back-door into their
miners that would allow them to redirect the hash rate elsewhere, MultiShield
would prevent that malicious hashrate from affecting the production of blocks
and a double-spend occurring. Where other single-algorithm blockchains would
fall victim to such an attack, or to pool collusion from 2-3 operators, MultiShield
would render such an attack futile.
Even if an attacker was able to secure 90% of the hash rate on their primary
attack algorithm, and 35% on the remaining 4 algorithms, they would still not
have the majority of hash power and be unable to successfully attack the
DigiByte network.
Rented attacks are the most common types of attacks on single-algorithm
blockchains, however despite there being several SHA256 pools which have over
50% of the hash-power of the entire DigiByte network, that is still insufficient to
attack against MultiShield. Should an attacker somehow gain control of all the
remaining SHA256 hashpower being used by BTC in the whole world (61,000
PH/s at the time of writing), they would have 2^10 SHA256 hashpower
compared to DigiBytes 40PH/s. Attempting to attack DigiByte with that hash
power would double the difficulty every 5x blocks, meaning that after approx 50
blocks (12.5 minutes) the honest miners would have outpaced such a
doublespend attempt. By contrast, that same hashpower could be used to
attack any other SHA256-only blockchain such as BTC, BCH, BSV repeatedly and
continuously. It is for this reason that many exchanges require a mere 40 block
confirmation (10 minutes) for most deposits.
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MultiShield also renders DigiByte impervious to the plague of single-algorithm
51% attacks that rented hash power made so common during 2018, along
with the timestamp vulnerability attacks that affected other multi-algorithm
blockchains.
Since 2018, DigiByte has constantly remained the dominant global hash-power
for Qubit, Myr-Gr, and Skein by an order of magnitude, and now also with the
Odocrypt algorithm.
MultiShield was the third seamless and non-contentious network upgrade that
DigiByte successfully executed.
DigiSpeed
The DigiSpeed upgrade also implemented a block-size doubling every two years
in order to consistently increase the transaction processing capacity twofold
until the year 2035. This was done in order for DigiByte to remain true to its
ethos of always being forward-thinking, in order to prepare the network for
growth and avoid being limited by an insufficient block size. However, the
block-size doubling aspect was grandfathered as part of the SegWit upgrade,
due to it’s 4X weighted capacity increase, with expectations of further
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2024-06-13 at 4:22 PM UTC in Smoothies!~!~!~!I definitely could live on different soups, smoothies, and salads for life. I pretty much do already.
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2024-06-13 at 4:13 PM UTC in Smoothies!~!~!~!I eat a honeybun every couple of years. Same thing with doughnuts and candy bars.
I don't even drink soda regularly. -
2024-06-13 at 4:12 PM UTC in Look at the nuts this squirrel has
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2024-06-13 at 4:11 PM UTC in Look at the nuts this squirrel hasdamn those are some meaty acorns
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2024-06-13 at 4:07 PM UTC in Smoothies!~!~!~!I don't know how that works, your muscles are related to proteins and laborious movement.
You can eat a lot of fruit just don't shirk on eating meat/beans/dairy and you won't lose any muscle assuming you're doing something. -
2024-06-13 at 4:05 PM UTC in 🍬🍬Candy~Land🍬🍬hi candy
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2024-06-13 at 4:03 PM UTC in Smoothies!~!~!~!As many of you know I don't drink milk because it's expensive and I don't consume it fast enough so it spoils.
I do however get yogurt kinda frequently and all the frozen fruit you can imagine.
I got this bag of tropical fruit; pineapple, mango, some other yellow fruit I can't remember.
I got frozen strawberries.
I got frozen tripple berry (Rapsberry, blueberry, and blackerries)
My nigga I even got frozen peaches.
I got spinach frozen and fresh.
Then I buy the bananas fresh. I also just use fat free yogurt. I typically use water but someone gave me a jug of pulp orange juice, I like using the OJ a lot better.
I blend that up, sometimes I add other things like fresh mangos, I tried lemon but didn't like that. Oh and pear halves in the can, I did that before too.
So yeah I run that shit together in the blender as tall as I can get it, it makes about 52 ounces of liquid. so you know me, i'm friends with this old man who is partially blind and never rhas any fresh fruit so I give him a coffee cup full of smoothie,and I fill two 20 ounce glasses, Id rink one right away and one later. I think this is healthy for me.
The frozen cut up fruit is kinda pricey (For me) but after u buy the big bags of all the frozen shit, u just gotta regularly get more yogurt and banana.
I like it because before I was eating a lot of vegetables, taking a lot of vitamins, but other than eating 1 lemon or lime everyday I dindt' get much fruit in my diet. Now I do by drinking dis drank twice a day. -
2024-06-13 at 3:56 PM UTC in Would you come to an award show for members of the NiS community?I think this could be a fun idea. Give out awards to various members of our community for various things that really make them stand out.
Thoughts?
