Yes that is correct. I don't know if the letters are case dependent (they certainly aren't for hex in general just not sure about payment ids), but the common practice is to use lower case.

Miners are listed in the first post of this thread.

It is altcoin. Not related to Bitcoin except using the name in an arguably deceptive way. That alone should probably tell you something.

You don't need a payment ID to donate, only to deposit to exchanges (and in the future, perhaps, other merchants). Just send the donation to the donation address.

You can add a payment ID to any payment if you are using simple wallet by putting it after the amount. It must be 64 hex characters.

Some exchanges and pools let you specify a payment ID for the payments the send you, which is convenient for sending those payments directly to an exchange, but otherwise not needed.

I don't know about the minergate one. There is an open source nv miner here that I think gets about 250 H/s on a 750ti so theirs might be similar. https://github.com/tsiv/ccminer-cryptonight

Won't work with your GPU

Hey coindesk guys, get your XMR here: poloniex.com

Most if not all substantive ongoing development is happening on Monero, since Bytecoin has blown itself up with the terrible distribution, shady promotion, insular attitude and numerous other problems. In terms of credit for technical underpinnings, that 100% belongs with cryptonote/bytecoin/whoever-actually-developed-it, but in terms of relevance to news reporting of what of substance is going on now, that is 99% Monero.

Within reason, speed of mining doesn't really change the current fair value price directly. You have either higher inflation for a shorter period or lower inflation for a longer period). Pretty much cancels out, at least to a large extent.

If you think the speed of mining is a feature of the coin (and I'm leaning toward thinking this) that argues for a higher price. If you think the mining is "too slow" in some harmful way that would actually argue for a lower price despite the relatively low inflation (over several years).

If it is an AMD GPU you need the claymore miner which I think (not sure) is Windows only. If it is an NVIDIA GPU you can use the open source tsiv miner linked from post #1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.0)

Of course not. Computers are essential though, and most of them are being turned into glorified iPhones. The rest are contraband. Game over.

There is no solution, because whatever solution you think you've come up with (and I know of one as well, but I won't steal your thunder) is defeated by whitelist laws that require you to only receive coins (or other tradable goods) in a traceable manner, using an "approved" technology (grown up version of iTunes). Everything else can be simply banned, and you go to jail for even using it at all (assuming you can arrange for illegally modified hardware to run it).

Exactly. The car dealer is engaging in a traceable transaction. He got your ID and can identify you to the authorities. It doesn't matter what you use to pay. Cash, gold, bitcoins, Moneros or "fully anonymous" pixie dust crypto coins, its all the same at that point.

But once they get to you with a well implemented ring signature-based coin, the trail ends. There is no way for you deanonymize people who sent you coins. At best, they get some list of candidate outputs and can try to trace them back to some individual, but this too is likely to work far less well than it does for Bitcoin, perhaps even provably so (though we aren't quite there yet).

Unless you collected the sender's ID as the car dealer did with you. If we all turn into car dealers recording IDs for everyone we deal with (and presumably reporting that information or at least having a recordkeeping requirement for it), then no coin technology is going to help you.

They can't demand what you don't know, and in general you don't know or have any way to know who paid you, either physical identity or coin source. If everyone is going around recording the physical identities of everyone they transact with, then sure the authorities can go around person to person and collect that chain of IDs. This is out of scope for the coin (any coin) itself however. At the very least it puts a high burden of cost on such investigations (as opposed to downloading transaction data from Visa or Bitcoin and running big data algorithms on everyone in the world).

Furthermore, you can just delete your keys once you are done with them. They are of no real value to you once the recipient has acknowledged receipt.

EDIT: I also don't think ZeroCash allows this form of tracing even if your keys are revealed. If the authorities force you to reveal your keys, all they get to do is see how much you have and spend it. So if that is your goal here there is already a solution (largely vaporware for now though).

I think you're off base here.

I haven't ranted on it for 50 pages. Since we originally discussed it I mentioned it once or twice. In this context it had to do with the need to optimize the one you have, in fact I was encouraging the catia's efforts, and if you read between the lines of my post I was offering to donate to support that effort.

I agree with you. I was just disagreeing with the "wait for it to break on 32 bit." That's already happened. In fact what is going to happen in the future is not that it will break, but that 32 bit will get fixed by the switch to a database.

That's what I call parity. Once you pick the low hanging fruit, Amdahl's Law kicks in and yeah there might be 10000 things to optimize but reducing each to zero only buys you 0.01%. Plus there is nothing to prevent other people who want to see this coin succeed from contributing tweaks to the open source as well.

Concentrated mining by people with more efficient miners is bad for the coin, especially early on. That's one reason why I slammed your use of an immature PoW instead of one that is already well optimized. But if you (meaning anyone who wants to see the PoW succeed) are willing to put in the effort and get to parity, you can make it work.

BTW, you can't be the only one in the world trying to implement fast open source hashing on GPUs right?

BTW #2, I can't even find where to donate for the miner work. If I can't find it I'm sure some others can't find it either. Nothing in the README for example.

Current bitcoin-size might work. Bitcoin size at the point when it became feasible to develop Bitcoin ASICs clearly will not work since the efficiency gain will be much much smaller.

You're not getting it. Monero does not work with 32 bit Windows and has not worked for months. A few people have complained about it, they have tried PAE and reported that it doesn't work. The only workaround that has been reported to work is migrating their wallet to a 64 bit OS.

XMR has succeeded despite not working on 32 bit Windows, so waiting for it to break on 32 bit Windows is clearly not going to help. Exceeding a 4 GB magic number won't matter on 64 bit Windows (though generally increasing RAM usage is a gradual issue), plus there will be a database implemented by that time anyway.

Huh? Low self esteem or something?


So you (or not necessarily you personally but anyone who is interested in seeing this PoW succeed) optimize the other hashes too.

Wolf0 doesn't have some magic secret hash code optimizing machine delivered him by aliens from the future. He's just tweaking code. He's not the only one who can tweak code.