honestly all I would be doing is building a computer with as many GPUs as can fit on the board. The most PCI slots available on a mobo these days is 6 or 7. The trick to building these things is finding a case to put them in with proper airflow, but thats ultimately what you'd be paying me to do. And then making the mining software work and the pool software (so you could mine on your own node and get ALL OF THE BLOCK). Otherwise you could just throw one together yourself.

Don't quote me, but I think I could sell a 1.6 kh/s rig for $1200.

edited to add: which after 1 year (or whenever your done) you could then pull apart and sell the GPUs on ebay for probably 70%.

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Are GPUs more economical than a multicore Xeon (Phi or whatever) CPU?

There is a "switch" under the the currency icons. And there is a choice at checkout. But i get that it needs to be shown more clearly
As i said there is much work to be done yet!

Actually, that would be 58 000 000 000 000 000 000 (trillion?? quadrillion??) units as Monero's current denomination has 12 decimal places.
Even if you wanted Monero cents you'd still have some breathing space left.

Hydrogen Helix is great! Very good work guys. Blockchain synchronized rather fast and everything worked smooth for my laptop

Now since monero needs businesses accepting it, well, i created a rather noob jewelry eshop for some time now. I was waiting to perfect it but since this is going to take like forever with my lack of time i decided to post it and see what happens. It really is in "beta" stage if not "alpha" and after all it was intended to simply be my family business catalogue. So here it is:

http://monero.gr/eshop/

The products are handmade and are being sold in Greek islands for more than 30 years now.

Much work needs to be done, like more products, better photos, better design, gold items, more info, better way of accepting the coins, better security, etc. But anyway i dont expect to have huge volume for now...

I also pledge to donate 1% of the volume towards monero development.

For any questions please contact me either through the shop or send me a pm here. Even better is to contact me via both ways.

...I would be trading 10 times more if there was a fiat/xmr exchange...

Hi Monero thead.

Can someone give me a few reasons why to invest in Monero.

The coins available and current price are attractive but that doesn't mean moon.

Without reading all 600 odd pages here can someone point me in the right direction with regards to finding out more.




Thanks in advance.

TC says that people cannot be unselfish. You say they can. It's a tough question.

If someone does something with the intention of doing good for all of mankind, not directly benefiting themselves - can it be selfish? Maybe there is no way to separate it.

Example: You give food to a hungry person, or donate to a charity.

The person benefits, as they can eat and live. You do not tangibly benefit, but inside you feel good about your deed and know that you helped someone, or a group of people.

In that way, I do agree it is impossible to be unselfish.

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Yes you probably do not own any significiant amount of coins.
However, you are interested in Monero project and therefore active in this thread.

Unselfishnes there doesn't exist. You probably are looking for honor. For this seeking I recommend to joining in Risto's game.  There are titles for sale I suppose. 

People are divided into two group:

1) No coins and therefore do not care about the price of the coin
2) With coins and therefore care about the price of the coin.

I assume you belong to the former (based on your writing).
I might be cynical but I do not think people are unselfish. Probably some people are seeking other things than financial compensation (like honor or something else) or they are like me, purely seeking the maximal profit.

The bottomline is, each troll here (and elsewhere) has their own utility they want to maximize. For you perhaps it is not financial but for me it is financial as I am investor.
Bear in mind, monero represents currently only a small part of my entire portfolio (I try to keep investments like Monero/btc/Venture Capitalist investments below 5 % of my entire portfolio).
Most of my money is tied in bonds and real estates + appartments which generate me money.

While you were typing I clarified what I think is the difference between "bull market" and rising market.
Been there and done the bull market thing with bitcoins.  To me, bull market is almost synonymous with bubble.  That's just been my experience.  And don't want that for Monero.
If you read my other post you  would know I have a significant long position in xmr.

My only concern is the long term survival of the coin, if you will.  And that's only because, in order for the network to survive, the coin has to survive.  We have a remarkably stable coin.  That's good!

I agree we need users.

thank you - this is the result:
https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/016ec3b76a378ce972169f9c5d833de5646fdad35def8f7932a8c5c0bce2e6fb/analysis/

looks like I am going to stick with the command line

Answered there.

I'm not promising any schedules here, I'm just pointing out that the work requires different skills sets and will likely be done by different people. Once we finish wrapping up some loose ends from the release we'll begin to work more on the forward roadmap.

https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/9c345e62f69c6953cff84e923a325af32c41a3855fe1bc1d1d898c3323c4050c/analysis/

opinions?

The Ring CT work and the GUI work are completely independent. Multisig is likely getting combined with Ring CT at this point.

The Ring CT work and the GUI work are completely independent. Multisig is likely getting combined with Ring CT at this point.