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Main Points Satoshi Nakamoto (programming team of Bitcoin and block chain technology)	SCI Points and Qualities developed by TM Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (and traditional chain of teachers of TM technique and Sidhis program)
The block chain and transaction log is replicated on thousands of computers, which provide a stable foundation for the digital currency network.	Stability
Adaptability is built into the system. The source code can change, through "forking" the programming code if the majority (51%) of the nodes on the network are in agreement.	Adaptability
Thousands of diverse computers and mining machines are integrated into a common network which process thousands of transactions per second.	Integration
Any accidental or intentional manipulation of the system is over ridden and purified out by the majority of machines containing the pure programming code.	Purification
The number of available coins grows at a carefully calculated rate determined by the algorithm which accounts for growth in number of miner nodes, and growth of dollar value.	Growth
A transaction on one computer influences the world wide transaction log	Infinite correlation
The current, fiat currency based financial system is not sustainable. Governments print money to pay debts, sapping the value from their citizens. Ultimately inflation rises too much. The currency loses value and collapses.	Digital currency is sustainable, with has a fixed maximum, for example 21 million for Bitcoin, which cannot be arbitrarily increased. It is released according to a fair and predictable mathematical formula that is fair to all holders.
It is easy - no more high fees and wait to transfer money. Carrying paper dollars or heavy metal coins is replaced by encrypted weightless digital codes. Digital currency mining by high speed computers provides an effortless way to earn spendable money.	Do less, accomplish more
The block chain is a distributed transaction ledger on the world wide web. Any accidental or intentional distortion of the record is automatically corrected by the majority of the correct copies of the ledger.	Order is present everywhere inside and outside
The process of "mining" initializes digital coins in the system, coming into existence. The gradual, timed release of coins rewards people for using their computers to maintain the block chain.	Manifest from the Unmanifest
Valuable currency can come from nothing - from Fiat currencies to digital currencies mined into existence. "You can't get something from nothing" is an old concept.	Meditators experience the field of pure potentiality from which the entire universe arises. Knowledge that everything starts ultimately from nothing.
Money is structured in consciousness. A baby will prefer candy to a $100 bill. People are taught by society to accept paper currency based on their knowledge and opinion of it. Iowa Souix natives used wampum as money	Knowledge is structured in consciousness
Fiat currencies, creating money at the will of government agencies (such as the Federal Reserve in the USA), causes inflation, and benefits only the richest 1% of the population that has access to the power to create money and credit, forcing the other 99% of world citizens to work ever harder.	Purification leads to progress
MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Western Union, and other financial companies benefit from a percentage of everyone's transactions, for the use of their network. This saps about 3% of the value from every transaction. Digital currency uses the free and open internet, with encryption to protect transactions, with very low, if any, fees.	Purification leads to progress
The entire block chain is copied into each computer running a node with digital currency mining software, so that even 1 computer could re-establish the entire world wide network.	The whole is contained in every part
This distributed transaction ledger is the key to the invincibility of the history of digital coins mined, bought, sold, and exchanged for goods and services.	Invincibility
Individual mining machines, usually based on Linux/Unix is are secure and hard to hack. But even if some were, there are hundreds of thousands of them world wide - too many for anyone to hack simultaneously. There is strength in numbers.	Strength of the group is based on the strength of the individual, and is synergistic
The effect of digital currency affects all areas of society touched by money. There will be no more need for bail outs of large banks. No "quantitative easing" (making it easier for the wealthy, but harder for the poor). Governments will have to become efficient, and will not be able to afford wars of aggression.	The whole is greater than the sum of the parts
Metal money and paper are material objects at the surface level of life. Deeper than this, closer to the level of the finest relative. Digital currency is more adaptable, payable to a .00000001 amount, never requiring change to be made. One can pay someone on the other side of the world, with no fees.	Life is found in layers Deeper, more subtle levels are more powerful
The electronic level of life, through the internet, and telecommunications is providing the basis for more affluence in the people around the world, including developing countries, who will be able to join world wide commerce by using digital currency.	Inner is the basis of the outer
Digital currency began in 2008, and has quickly become a billion dollar per year industry. It is life supporting, empowering the people, and grows accordingly.	The nature of life is to grow
BitCoins, BitRaams, and other digital currency exist in the form of electronic impulses or binary digits (1 or 0) traveling at the speed of electricity through the world wide web. 1 is for activity, and 0 is for rest of the impulse.	Rest and activity are the steps of progress
Every action of mining, buying, selling, or transaction on the internet based network is recorded by the block chain and is transmitted to the intended recipient.	Every action has a reaction
The products and services that can be exchanged with the help of digital currency range from computers (Dell Computers, TigerDirect.com) to house items (Overstock.com) to travel or cruises (CheapAir.com) to rent (FairfieldIowaHome.com) and watch TV (DishNetwork.com). Walmart sells BitCoin mining machines. Congressman Jared Polis accepts BitCoin for campaign donations. Jeff Shipley accepts BitRaams, running for Congress. A BitCoin ATM machine is on Capitol Hill. (see list) Over 100000 merchants are listed at SpendBitcoins.com	The field of all possibilities is the source of all solutions
Small micro-transactions that were not practical due to fees, such as sending $10 to a friend overseas, $1 to a starving person in a poor country, or purchasing music online for a few cents per play, are now possible.	The field of all possibilities is the source of all solutions
There are over 400 "alt coins" on the market. Some are for a special group such as MazaCoin for American native tribes. As long as they use different port numbers and are properly constructed, they run smoothly without conflicting with each other. Each coin helps more of the public become involved and learn more about digital currency.	Harmony is in diversity
Maharishi said the Raam "will be the fondest currency in the world" in the Age of Enlightenment. The BitRaam is the first digital currency to help fulfill his vision.	Seek the highest first
You can mine coins with just your own hardware, or join a mining pool, for greater chance of earning coins. For example: iSpace.co.uk, slush's pool, or GHash.Io	You can meditate by yourself for some benefit, or meditate in a group for even greater benefit.
Satoshi Nakamoto (Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, Wei Dai) developed the best algorithm for a sustainable digital coin, and sent the initial transaction in 2009.	Take the correct angle then let go
and more	Highest first. Top universities offer courses in Bitcoin and Blockchain technology Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford...and hopefully soon, Maharishi University could be the first university in the Midwest of the USA to accept Bitcoins for tuition, and the first to offer courses in the light of SCI.
The University of Nicosia in Cyprus is the first accredited, brick and mortar, building based university to offer courses and a degree in Digital Currency. They also accept Bitcoins. http://unic.ac.cy (April 2, 2014) Digitalcurrency.unic.ac.cy - Masters Degree in Digital Currency Infrastructure - buildings Our premises Degree overview Curriculum Semester breakdown Program coordinator Faculty profiles	Maharishi University of Management is a progressive university and could be the first university in America to offer courses in Digital Currency, and the first anywhere to offer the subject in the light of the Science of Creative Intelligence and Vedic Science.
The University of Cumbria in the UK was the first public university to accept Bitcoins (July 2014) www.cumbria.ac.uk/AboutUs/News/Articles/201314/January U of C also offers a course in Sustainable Exchange, as part of their Business and Computing department.	M.U.M. could be the first university west of the Mississippi River to accept Bitcoin for tuition. M.U.M. is one of the first universities to offer courses and a degree in Sustainability
Sthapatya Veda, not mentioned in the 33 lesson SCI course, recommends Fortune Costing Homes for people who attained their wealth in other ways.	SCI and Digital Currency is Fortune Creating Knowledge, and has a strong track record of success for creating millionaires, so they can afford Sthapatya Vedic homes.
AT&T centralized telephone communications companies into a standard. Then in the 1990's the FCC decentralized communications and many innovative companies spring up such as Telegroup and USAGL. In 1913 the Federal Reserve System centralized banks so they could exchange funds between themselves. In 2009 Bitcoin began decentralizing financial exchange.	During the inward phase of TM technique, we experience centralization of our consciousness into a state of unity for 20 minutes, then during the outward phase we come out to the diverse, decentralized world of activity. Cycles of centralization and decentralization of consciousness enable us to experience both simultaneously in CC.
Digital currency is "intelligent nothing"	The field of pure creative intelligence is unmanifest yet the basis of all manifestation.
Satoshi Nakamoto decentralized the financial system, with thousands of nodes world wide carrying forth the block chain.	Maharishi decentralized the enlightenment path, creating thousands of TM centers world wide in the World Plan, with millions of meditators, carrying forth and preserving the block chain of the Vedic tradition.
Bitcoin is a new paradigm in payment methods from the seed node of the first block chain transaction in 2009	Only a new seed will yield a new crop Only a new coin will yield a new age of prosperity for all.