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Posts by besty
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48Bitcoins - anyone here mining?
by Jim_TX inhowdy!.
it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.
i am, and am having fun doing it.
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Bitcoins - anyone here mining?
by Jim_TX inhowdy!.
it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.
i am, and am having fun doing it.
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besty
I am working with a Bitcoin mining company. We have our own datacenter using hydro power. I would agree that individual consumers buying hardware and running it themselves is not economically viable. I would also agree that there is a lot of background noise and outright scammers.
The value we see is that BTC has the potential to disrupt banking including payment processing, money transfer and ecommerce. Large companies are now accepting it as a means of payment. Expedia and Dell are two examples
It is also a protocol that goes beyond banking - the underlying technology could be used for many things where validating identity without a 3rd party middleman would be useful. Examples include the exchange of contracts and voting systems.
We see Bitcoin disrupting many industries in the same way and at the same scale as the Internet has already reconfigured media and communications.
Whether it will succeed and how it will do so is highly speculative - its difficult to imagine that the concept of digital currency is not going to play out to the benefit of the consumer, maybe starting at scale with the 3 billion new folks that will have mobile internet access but no bank account within the next decade.
Just my 0.02BTC :-)
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Hey you guys...is someone at Bethel having a laugh?
by wizzstick inhas anyone else noticed the below?.
the mountain on the front cover of 'god kingdom rules' segues beautifully into the mountain on the front cover of 'crisis of conscience' (with a bit of cropping):.
coincidence?.
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besty
reading one is all uphill and the only way is down after reading the other?
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2014 SNAP Conference in Chicago; Report by Barbara Anderson & Kerry Louderback Wood
by AndersonsInfo in2014 snap conference report.
posted on august 20, 2014 by barbara.
from august 1 3, kerry louderback wood* and i attended the 2014 annual snap** conference, which was also its twenty-fifth anniversary celebration, in chicago, illinois.. .
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besty
great work Barb and Kerry - thanks for yet another year of commitment to the cause.
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WT Society's Paranoia Over Spiral Binding of Elder's Textbook - Crazy
by flipper inthis letter was sent as an addendum to the elders regarding their latest elders textbook.
i think you'll find this interesting and also disconcerting as well.. to all bodies of elders.
re: spiral binding of shepherding textbook.
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besty
don't forget WTS 'rules' are not the point - the point is the master is jerking the dogs leash.
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2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD
by steve2 inthe october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.
in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.
if so, could you direct me to the source(s).
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besty
Poland and Germany 2014 numbers will be instructive....
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Relative technical sophistication of religious websites
by besty ina quick summary of website trackers used by:.
jw.org - 0 trackers (not even google analytics - wow - they really are in broadcast mode) pagerank 5. mormon.org - 5 trackers - incl.
2 kinds of visitor analytics - they are spending $$ on this as a pro-active campaign with measurable results - pagerank 6. churchofgod.org - similar to jw.org - pagerank 4. adventist.org - google analytics only - pagerank 6. catholic.org - 26 trackers incl.
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besty
1 tracker installed on www.24-7prayer.com/ and Google PageRank 5 according to http://checkpagerank.net/
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Relative technical sophistication of religious websites
by besty ina quick summary of website trackers used by:.
jw.org - 0 trackers (not even google analytics - wow - they really are in broadcast mode) pagerank 5. mormon.org - 5 trackers - incl.
2 kinds of visitor analytics - they are spending $$ on this as a pro-active campaign with measurable results - pagerank 6. churchofgod.org - similar to jw.org - pagerank 4. adventist.org - google analytics only - pagerank 6. catholic.org - 26 trackers incl.
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besty
bumping this, given recent threads on effectiveness of jw dot org
as of today they still have 0 tracking code on their website, meaning if they are analysing traffic they are using offline tools.
mormon.org now has 13 trackers, scientology.org is down to 4 trackers, churchofgod.org has 2 trackers and adventist.org has 5 trackers
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First post
by thedog1 inthis is a very strange thing for me to do.
i have been an active witness for over 25 years.
i currently serve as an elder and i conduct the watchtower study.
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besty
whre its going is you will becoem an atheist, and much happier and contended for it.
the only question is how long your journey will take you ;-) good luck...
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Interesting site in the UK for lurkers
by *lost* insite is housechurchesuk.weebly.com/jehovahswitness-cult-or-christian.html.
make of it what you will.
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besty
www.jwfacts.com is an interesting site for lurkers.