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Hypothesis 3 is accepted. Monero's developers are not capable of developing the coin

No need to wait for part 3 now. /thread

LOL. Total communications failure here. I was referring to yours, and both he and I were engaging in parody. I thought it was obvious but you know how these things can go on the Internet.

Kozi is fine, not a purchased account, and worthy of trust AFAIK.

Obviously a purchased Hero account right there.

So much scam.

Hypothesis 2 is accepted. Monero's trades are artificial.

Don't you see? Their group hails from the "scientific community" as you have been told. You thought those science guys were dead, but in fact they were reincarnated by the aliens to collaborate with Satoshi Nakamoto and Cornel West on the creation of Bytecoin. It would take genius(es) of that magnitude to create such an amazing coin con.

Something feels not right about this coin.

No, you have it wrong.

Windows botnets are not the fault of Microsoft, nor the fault of users who don''t maintain their computers properly.

They are entirely the fault of Monero devs, shills, and whales.

Got it?

$60 was quoted on this thread from the other day. But wow, $4500. Such volume.

Coins $60/day volume don't even belong on a site with "top" altcoins. More like dead altcoins. Killed by the idiots who tried to use fraud to promote it. They could have been Monero, or bigger. That they are not must eat at their souls ever single day.

Exactly!

Here's a twisted theory though. What if Cheesus, Hexah, Rias, Wassnet, et. all are behind the botnets, they actually want to support XMR, not hurt it, and their effort here actually is intended to promote XMR?

It's absolutely brilliant!

In that case, I say, thank you guys! Just keep doing what you're doing.

Yes, Cheesus, Hexah, and Rias are Monero shill accounts. You figured it out, congrats!

Because scorched earth and the type of megalomanic who thinks he can pull off a hidden 82% premine by lying to the entire world creating a fake blockchain, fake documents, fake websites and organzations (cryptonote foundation? plua-ese), etc. to back it up is likely prone to anger when the world does not bow to his obvious greatness.

I appreciate their unintentional support though. Nobody attacks an unsuccessful coin. I don't even bother to try to educate people about the bytecoin fraud any more. It just isn't worth the effort for a $60/day coin.

I don't know if it is all innovations, maybe some of it is.

A lot of it is just transparency, communication, trust, integrity, a team that is too large and diverse for any sort of scam or conspiracy theory to fly (though you know such attacks will be made anyway), a clean and fair launch, etc. Even if XMR were an exact clone of BCN code-wise, at this point I would still put my money on XMR doing better. A lot better. Of course it isn't limited to just being a clone, and your point is well taken on that score.

Engaging in fraud and creating a fake blockchain and fake documents to back that up does not serve as a solid foundation for a coin. Once you start down the road of lies and deception and that's all you'll ever have. There is no escape.

The BCN code was fine (or at least mostly fine), and served as a good starting point for XMR. The whole value system, strategy, and complete lack of integrity behind BCN was most certainly not fine. That, and that alone, got them exactly where they are.

Contact the pool for support, or try another pool. This is not the pool support thread.

It also assumes a fair launch and a distribution mechanism that is transparent and resistant to insider manipulation is unimportant. That is demonstrably false.

Although I will say that given the IPO, premine, instamine, insta-PoW-to-PoS, and other such questionable schemes that are well represented among the top tier coins now, one might reasonably question it.

Also, if you want to be the first to use it, you are already too late by a wide margin.

My question about the PoW-to-PoS coins is what's the hurry. Even if you are convinced that PoS is the future and your coin should transition to PoS (I'm not, but let's assume that for now), why not make the PoW period longer, like a year or two (or five) and then transition to PoS? That would reduce concerns about the legitimacy of the launch or distribution while still resulting in the same long term "benefit" (if you want to believe) of PoS. So why not?

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It is a version of stealth addresses which is only part of the privacy solution in Monero. It provides unlinkability but not untraceability.

Furthermore it is my opinion that the basis for Monero (or any other reasonable coin) as a coin is infinitely more sound than BTSX. But that is just my opinion, do your own analysis and reach your own conclusions

Definitely DB, and definitely network improvements.

On the GUI, many in the broader user community may find the the third party GUI developed by Jojatekok to be sufficient. He's continued to put a lot of work in and definitely has a following. I can't try it myself because I'm a Windows free zone, but I would encourage others to test and give him constructive feedback.

EDIT: thread link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=683365.0

You can still use the old wallets and they are still recoverable (even pre-mnemonic) but I do recommend the mnemonic version -- much, much easier to secure your wallet for all time.