badon: nubbins`: Oooh, you're a physical bitcoin collector. People here suggested that the CC should track those, but the CC would need someone to lead a project to do that.

badon: nubbins`: I'll repaste them, one sec. I started keeping a list of examples based on mircea_popescu questions.

badon: The CC isn't really a search engine. I guess you could call it something like a correlation engine.

badon: For example, every sighting for a coin specimen has a venue URL data bit attached to it. So, if you're posting your coins on your blog and you arrange to have them entered into the CC, then yes, someone could use the CC to buy your coins.

badon: nubbins`: It's a sophisticated storehouse of structured data.

badon: The funny thing is that he had heard of the Coin Compendium before he met me, which is taking a while for me to get used to.

badon: It's in my head somewhere, but the problem with having lots of info is it can take a while to find it.

badon: I think there was a movie scene that showed something like that happening too, which was interesting.

badon: Simply having plutonium just makes you an easy target for a drone missile.

badon: It's extremely difficult to produce plutonium unnoticed, and you have to have a military to tell other militaries not to try to stop you from producing it.

badon: Myself and a guy in Canada were the only people in the world to publish a prediction about palladium. He got lucky. I kept doing it over, and over, and over, for 10 years and counting.

badon: mircea_popescu: I have a lot of enemies at the china-mint.info forum. They have tried to find fault, so ask them if I delete my own posts.

badon: You'll have to look, I honestly don't remember how far back it goes. I have hundreds of articles, and I think there's a chronological list somewhere...

badon: mircea_popescu: The silver chart is eluding me. You can see a review of my predictions for 2014, dating back to 2012, here: https://www.livebusinesschat.com/smf/index.php?topic=5632.msg37706#msg37706

badon: You could ask them. That's a popular site. They used to talk about my articles a lot there. Not sure if they do now, though.

badon: For example, when I was investing in silver, I called the direction and timing of market changes with 100% accuracy. I made a convenient chart of my predictions somewhere, let me see if I can find it.

badon: For example, if you look at a wikipedia list of the largest empires, I think the Romans don't even rank in the top 10.

badon: Actually, the differences between Western mature numismatic markets and China's immature numismatic market, may not be a negative factor for the profit potentials in Chinese coins. For example, important American art might sell for a few tens of millions of dollars. Fairly unknown Chinese art can sell for hundreds of millions of dollars.

badon: mircea_popescu: You are correct in your impression, to a degree.

badon: mircea_popescu: Coins from China with a mintage of 100 can be bought for under $200 if you're lucky. The same coin in a mature numismatic market could sell for millions of dollars.

badon: I could create a project for it at the CC, if someone wanted to oversee it. I'm not qualified to do it myself, and we don't have the funding to have the CC team do it without some major help.

badon: punkman: That's an interesting idea, but I haven't been able to envision a way to make that work. Do you have something in mind?

badon: mircea_popescu: It is a challenge, truth be told, that's why the CC is so handy.

badon: The funny thing is, it's a prominent fellow in China who can't even read English. They have noticed the badon effect all the way in China, despite the fact all my writings are only in English. That's like causing a tsunami in Japan by flushing the toilet in Detroit.

badon: Today I was just notified that someone is sending me a few hundred dollars worth of free coins to me, solely because he likes them and he wants me to write about them more often.

badon: mircea_popescu: Anyway, did you see the simple research example? It's basically checking past sales prices, but the power of the CC allows you to count the number of specimen appearances on the market to determine rarity. Ordinary price guides would just show a bunch of sales, with no epiphany that all those sales are actually only the same 2 coin specimens over and over. The number of sales alone would mislead you into thinking the

badon: We use plain vanilla SMF as a bug tracker, because a bug tracker is basically a forum. Same thing for a blog at LBC.

badon: IT's a great way to abuse a forum :)

badon: mircea_popescu: You haven't seen anything yet. We use SMF at the CC forum as a bug tracking system.

badon: mircea_popescu: Here's a real world research excursion I embarked on: https://www.livebusinesschat.com/smf/index.php?topic=5632.msg38430#msg38430

badon: One moment, let me show you a real world example.

badon: Yeah, we hide most of that complexity at the CC, which is saying a lot considering how complicated it is already.

badon: A coin you hold in your hand is a specimen. Other coins like it are of the same type. When you see one of them being sold on ebay, that's a sighting.

badon: I should really keep a handy thing of usage examples.

badon: "External" people (as you say) can request an account of course. We watch what they do carefully, and I'm planning on creating a class of users that can only edit info, not add more pages. It's much easier to fix mistakes on otherwise correctly entered data.

badon: So, the CC has a professional data entry team now.

badon: No, that was the original plan, but it failed because it's too complicated, and there's too much data that can easily become a problem if it's not correctly entered.