Daily Journal-Jul 2017

Jul 01, 2017: 11:31am updated https://vps1.yellowsprinkles.org/ message with new expected opening date. New York has made the YellowSprinkles.org project near impossibly difficult. Never giving up, just adjusted the time line to something more realistic.
Jul 01, 2017: 5:32pm downloaded, burned, and successfully verified Tails 3.0 ISO.
Jul 02, 2017: 4:30pm spent a good amount of time kicking the tires of Tails 3.0. I'm impressed, but it takes approximately 30 minutes for each reboot and to get logged back in. That amount of time will improve as time goes on.
Jul 02, 2017: 11:46pm successfully tarballed the ethererum chaindata. Going to try using ethereum without having to maintain a complete copy of the entire blockchain since it's quickly consuming massive amounts of storage space and thrashing my SSD.
Jul 02, 2017: 11:51pm hello Parity. Let's see what you can do.
Jul 03, 2017: went grocery shopping
Jul 04, 2017: Independence Day!
Jul 05, 2017: 12:44am read this incredible article and found http://decstack.com/ in the process.
Jul 05, 2017: 1:47am created "YellowSprinkles.org" channel on http://decstack.com/. Met @matias in the process.
Jul 05, 2017: 9:54pm shockingly true video: How I Took The Red Pill And Realized Everything In Our Cult(ure) Is a Lie - Jeff Berwick @ Red Pill
Jul 05, 2017: 11:48pm The bitcoin network is now running at over 5,808,727,020 GH/s according to this article and this page
Jul 06, 2017: 1:04am dropped Authy 2FA in favor of Google Authenticator 2FA for cloudflare login.
Jul 06, 2017: 2:43am updated nameservers of mreth.com to be ns6513 and ns6514.hostgator.com instead of domains4bitcoins.com nameservers.
Jul 06, 2017: 2:45am started trying to install Parity again.
Jul 06, 2017: 4:48am had to upgrade cargo, rust's package manager. Still going on the Parity install...
Jul 06, 2017: 4:53am FINALLY!

  ...
  Compiling parity-local-store v0.1.0 (file:///home/mreth/parity/local-store)
  Compiling parity-ipfs-api v1.7.0 (file:///home/mreth/parity/ipfs)
  Compiling parity-rpc v1.7.0 (file:///home/mreth/parity/rpc)
  Compiling parity-rpc-client v1.4.0 (file:///home/mreth/parity/rpc_client)
  Compiling rpc-cli v1.4.0 (file:///home/mreth/parity/rpc_cli)
  Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 1972.26 secs
  mreth@mreth-primary:~/parity$

Jul 06, 2017: 5:29am Parity started successfully... it's now sync'ing the blockchain... this looks like it'll be a while... nap time...
Jul 06, 2017: 9:30am parity is fully sync'ed now.
Jul 06, 2017: 11:41am need to figure out how to reserve/register an .eth domain name. See http://registrar.ens.domains/.
Jul 06, 2017: 12:22pm absolutely amazing stuff with this name registration process. Mind blowing. Game changing. Finally! A solution to my addiction to registering (and paying for) so many .com domains and other TLD domains! I'm totally fine with .eth domains. The process is very time-sensitive, and I can't adhere to the 72-hour/48-hour right now, but I'm sure I'll come back to this soon...
Jul 07, 2017: 5:25pm took my first Uber ride in New York state to get my hair cut. It worked awesome. It's about time, NY... I've been using Uber for 6+ years in Virginia! I had a bitcoin virgin today. I tipped the driver with bitcoin after showing him how to set up a blockchain wallet.
Jul 07, 2017: 8:01pm took my first Lyft ride in New York state today on my way back home. Again, been using Lyft for years in VA. The driver did not seem intelligent enough to comprehend bitcoin. I was his first Lyft ride ever though, so another virgin. Definitely not as exciting though. I tipped on bitpay debit card through the Lyft app and also gave him a small amount of good old fashioned cash.
Jul 08, 2017: 2:09am getting very close to the likely bitcoin blockchain split coming around the end of July. Everyone should get all of your coins off the exchanges before this time. There will surely be VERY WILD price swings coming soon since if people move coins off the exchanges, that's when the huge fluctuations set in quick. Read this article for good advice.

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