Fully funded! 80 individual contributions totaling 7,245 XMR Too awesome. Prospects remain bright for this project.  Reminds me of the old Ron Paul money bombs. You guys want a blimp? BOOM!!! DONE. Our Mustang community is the best!  |
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The announcement from Jaxx regarding the required removal of Dash from their iOS wallet is a perfect example of the uphill battle anonymous currencies are facing.
"Perfect example?" Nope. WRONG. Try again. Dash's anonymity isn't the reason it was removed from iOS. Sorry, but that was always a crappy excuse given that Bitcoin tumbling (with its much higher volume and lower mixing times) is far superior to Dash's DarkSend. Now we have confirmation Apple is just fine with anon coins, so long as they aren't actually Howey-test-failing unlicensed security fraud and instamined to boot. https://twitter.com/diiorioanthony/status/785821335125528576https://twitter.com/jaxx_io/status/785833459772162048Remember when I told you so? [Apple] looked into dashcoin and decided to press eject on the instascamcoin. They have high standards and morals.
That is the simplest and thus [most] plausible explanation.The conspiracy theories to the contrary are amusing. Only a Kool Aid swilling cargo cultist would actually think Apple is afraid of Dash, or someone would pay Jaxx to lie about its reason for removing it. Call to all Masternode owners hosting at Amazon AWS, please check your firewall rules as your ports are closed !!
The ports are closed for a security reason. Looks like Amazon is blocking DASH too. Amazon does not want the liability of hosting money-laundering HYIP Masternodes. Apple has the best lawyers money can buy. They know the SEC and FBI will be coming after Dash, and now Amazon is also reacting to that reality. |
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Black Mirror
If you like Black Mirror you'll love W E S T W O R L D |
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Monero core devs are working hard in the chocolate factory, making us amazing crypto treats like GUI RingCT caramel truffles.
OK sure, any specific project that needs doing gets funded within minutes or hours.
But what about aminorex and fluffy's appreciation for fine wine and tacotime's passion for fake Canadian Mexican food?
Let's not forget smooth and Risto also need funds to hire trolls, to better vex the DashHoles.
We must get this thread moving again. Time to give until it hurts (or at minimum tingles like peppermint soap on sensitive areas).
Bumpity-bump! |
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Just for fun I looked at the post history of N-rG and plotted his predictions on the actual chart. [img] LiterallyREKT.pngI'm not sure how he made money based on these predictions, but good job. That's a pretty amazing feat.  Great work Kozi2. Stuff like this makes the XMR speculation thread way more fun than the boring old BTC wall observer. |
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One could almost feel sorry for these trolls ....  almost.... I feel sorry for the Dash shills. Remember when they swore to God they would "take back the narrative?" That didn't really happen. Big Rich was so salty when Dash's market cap fell behind the leading privacy coin's, he Ignored me. So much turd polishing and shameless sex-appeal marketing, but even with MadoffNodes locking up supply the price can't keep up with newer technology. |
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As compelling case can be made for each of of these suspects. David Kendall is a high powered DC lawyer to whom normal laws do not apply. He is does not hold the necessary clearance to possess or view classified documents, yet was allowed to control and even abetted in holding the USB drive with Hillary's GAMMA level emails. Huma Abedin is Marxist Saudi royalty and HRC's closest confident. She's married to New York politician Tony Weiner, who is for unknown reasons able to groom and sext message underage girls without being frogmarched into prison. In a nutshell – quoting former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy writing at National Review this week – Huma Abedin “worked for many years at a journal that promotes Islamic supremacist ideology that was founded by a top al-Qaida financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef.” That would be for at least seven years (1996-2003), by the way, during which Abedin also worked for Hillary Clinton. http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/huma-abedin-muslim-brotherhood-princess/Bill Clinton, Dubya's brother from another mother, is a full partner in the Bush crime family. Google 'Mena Barry Seal Bush Clinton' if you don't know the story. Bonus points for appreciating Don Lasater and Bernard Rapoport's roles in making crack babies a thing. Road to Moscow: Bill Clinton’s Early Activism from Fulbright to Moscow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884984/postsAs a Georgetown junior, Clinton inherited his antiwar orientation from his part-time employer, Senator J. William Fulbright. Fulbright’s views on Vietnam had in turn been influenced by scholar Bernard Fall. Fall had an academic background at institutions linked to Chinese Communist apologist Owen Lattimore. He had recently co-authored a book on Vietnam with Marcus Raskin, cofounder of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which disseminated Marxist propaganda aimed to sway Fulbright and other decision-makers. Fulbright’s office was also in regular contact with Igor Bubnov, a KGB operative on Capitol Hill. President Johnson had ordered the FBI to monitor Fulbright and his staff for suspected Communist contact at the time Clinton went to work for Fulbright. Clinton remained relatively quiet about his war views during his first year as a grad student at Oxford from fall 1968 to spring 1969. He took an activist turn in summer 1969 while seeking to avoid being drafted. During summer vacation, he worked with the Vietnam Moratorium Committee (VMC), a US antiwar group which was helping a Communist-dominated coalition called the New Mobe organize fall protests. Upon Clinton’s return to Oxford that fall, he and his friend Richard Stearns helped a British VMC counterpart called Group 68 organize Americans in England for Moratorium protest events. (A supplementary background profile of Group 68 follows the body of the article, exploring the group’s links to a British antiwar network centered around Bertrand Russell and Russell’s associate Tariq Ali. Russell’s network helped the North Vietnamese and Soviets disseminate anti-US propaganda through channels such as the International War Crimes Tribunal, sponsored by the Soviet front the Stockholm Conference on Vietnam.) Over winter vacation of 1969-1970, Clinton toured Moscow, where he had been preceded by his roommate Strobe Talbott. Talbott was then translating the memoirs of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, which had been leaked to him by Victor Louis, a KGB disinformation agent and talent spotter. Clinton and Talbott’s other roommate Frank Aller was doing similar work on the unpublished notes of Edgar Snow, an academic associate of Lattimore. The hidden hand in all these scandals is the CIA, who obviously recruited Hillary while at Radcliffe or Yale and "suggested" she make a power couple with Slick Willy. But who is the puppet master? |
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I think we're doing really well when the Coinfirm thing is the only thing that trolls have to complain about. Consider:
1) Any company is free to conduct blockchain analytics on any blockchain, including Moneros;
2) There are many companies besides Coinfirm that are conducting blockchain analytics. My guess is that somebody somewhere was already doing blockchain analysis on our blockchain and probably everybody else's too;
3) Neither Coinfirm nor any other company needs our "permission" to do blockchain analysis on Dash;
4) Most important, those who use PrivateSend have nothing to worry about, because the financial privacy it offers is pretty much ironclad. ICEBREAKER has been trying to crack a 4-round PrivateSend transaction that I posted nearly a year ago and still can't do it.
tl;dr Use PrivateSend, and we can't control what private companies do in any event.
"Can't control" is a cop out. Blockstream can't control what Chainalysis does, but they don't partner with them either. Instead, they work against them by increasing Bitcoin's fungibility. If you want people to find bugs in PrivateSend, you'll need to offer a bug bounty. That's how it works. Expecting talented hax0rz to work for free is ridiculous, so I must conclude you actually don't want anyone breaking Dash's cheap cargo cult knockoff version of Coinjoin. |
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Classic is coming, like it or not. The alternative is to go down with a ship full of corecoins or popescucoins.
Damn, I wish I had taken Peter_R's ">1mb blocks on the longest chain by July 2016" bet ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68655.msg11881436#msg11881436). It would have triggered majamalu so hard when I donated my winnings to theymos and Core. |
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I just want to ask 2 questions. Who is Coinfirm and did they factor in Evan's ninja mine before partnering with them?
Who made Coinfirm an authority in compliance in the cryptosphere?
These organizations that are created could all be very shady. They claim that they will give you compliance but we really do not know who these guys behind it are. If they are young guys from Eastern Europe then I will not give these people any attention.
Evan's massive ninja mine is what makes Coinfirm's Dash surveillance possible. Using Evan's (and probably Otoh's) 1000s of Masternodes, Coinfirm may Sybil attack the network to unravel DarkSend transactions. Dash should rebrand again and pitch itself as "PanoptiCoin - the only coin that doxes users at the protocol level." |
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While the boys and girls will play with their proprietary snake oil, the men and women will focus on the real market. The perfectly innocent law abiding citizens falsely accused by the snake oil peddlers.
And that's why before he went mental over being told Sorry Not Tonight Dear regarding contentious hard forks, Justus Ranvier wrote this: https://bitcoinism.liberty.me/only-the-black-market-matters/Only the Black Market MattersThis can not be emphasized strongly enough: the underground economy employed half the world’s workers as of 2009, and is growing rapidly.
Every time a new startup launches, or a new software project announces, ask one question: “Does this new thing improve the black market?”
If the answer to this question is “no”, then the thing is useless.
So bring on the money laundering, tax evasion, drug marketplace, and unregulated taxi service software. Anyone who isn’t actively working to expand and empower the informal economy is wasting their time. |
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Roger Ver and the Bitcoin Uncensored guys disagree about almost everything. The only opinion they have in common is their mutual admiration of Monero! https://youtu.be/1-z-zTBHOO8?t=49m26s |
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I came to change my mind on both climate change and population dynamics, based on the evidence and the fact Simon won the bet. Did you somehow miss the Climategate fiasco? That, if nothing else, shows "the consensus is wrong" (and validated numerous critics of the system which produced it). Here's a couple of great places to begin your remedial lessons on debunking the quasi-religious popsci "ZOMG Teh End Is Nigh" Cassandra complex of doom-mongering. Simon–Ehrlich wager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wagerClimategate: Why it matters The scandal we see and the scandal we don't http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/30/crugate_analysis/ROFL. Lets figure out a way to find the size of text from those things in history vs what has been put out about manmade global warming. Lets see if your claim actually holds up. It doesn't. It is the epitome of false equivalence. I am willing to bet on this with the appropriate escrow agent. Just go find a good way to measure it but I don't think we can fairly do that. LOL, of course you had to say "false equivalence." Everybody take a drink, then spin around waving your hands.  And you personalize the debate to avoid acknowledging Prof. Julian Simon (IE NOT iCEBREAKER) won the wager against Prof. Ehrlich. The claims from the Register article certainly hold up; they are based on a whistleblower's exquisitely curated leak of the perverted science behind the ManBearPig-Industrial Complex. Of course you can't read code, so the otherwise damning phrase "fudge factor" as applied to an innocent data array means nothing to you. Your parents and education have failed you so badly and completely you don't even realize how stupid and ignorant you are. That's why you "can't even" why Climategate matters, despite a well-written non-technical article explaining the issues in plain English.  |
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[cult enforcement]
Please state for the record your opinion about Dash's recent(?) embrace of AML/KYC via Coinfirm. Thanks in advance. i couldn't care less. actually it will be great for mainstream adoption by corporate and institutional level investors ($$$) like bitcoin has. AML/KYC compliance and mainstream adoption is not a problem monero xmr is going to have to worry about, stick to the darkmarkets boys and let the men take crypto to the next level... How Are Cryptocurrencies Solving Bitcoin’s Adoption Issue? By Joël Valenzuela - October 3, 2016 “Obviously Bitcoin is stagnating, 70% is distributed to the lucky few who seem to have no interest in getting it in the hands of the general public. Or they don’t know how. It’s difficult to fix something like that and in my opinion a waste of time. It’s just waiting for a better alternative that learned from Bitcoin’s mistakes and understands how to reach the general public.” Eric Sammons, a member of the Dash development team, does not hold the view that Bitcoin is stagnating, but rather that it is simply shifting away from its original goal of being an effective payments system: “I wouldn’t say Bitcoin is stagnating as much as it is going in a direction different from Satoshi’s original vision of a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Bitcoin is becoming more of a store of value than a payment system. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, and it can be something of great use for society.” “It seems to me that no crypto has yet been able to become a replacement payment system that is superior to our current one. But Dash is being the most aggressive at trying to achieve that, especially with upcoming release of Evolution.” http://thedashtimes.com/2016/10/03/cryptocurrencies-solving-bitcoins-adoption-issue/Eric Sammons must not be aware of how payment channels like Lightning and the additional transactional capacity of sidechains will allow Bitcoin to fulfill the payment system component of Satoshi's vision. The talk about Bitcoin suffering from "70% distributed to the lucky few" is ironic to hear from a support of Dash, which is infamous for its massive "accidental" Instamine. Luck had more to do with Dash's supposedly serendipitous Instamine than the early Bitcoiners' coins, who earned them either through keeping up with crypto and mining early or risking their money to buy them later. I asked about "Dash's recent(?) embrace of AML/KYC via Coinfirm" but you answer by talking a different coin. That's called avoiding the question. Perhaps Dash's mainstream adoption is a sensitive issue, given its market penetration stagnation. |
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"George Carlin on Global Warming" should be mandatory viewing for all libtards. So much truth bomb. |
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In my relatively short lifetime the scares have already been through a 'coming ice-age' to 'catastrophic warming' to 'climate change' cycle. The latter being a good catch-all I suppose.
This is more logical fallacies. Just because some very small percentage of scientists talked about global cooling doesn't discount the overwhelming current consensus going on now. So you are a solar cycle denier? How retrograde.  "Very small percentage" = appeal to popularity (a logical fallacy) You are obviously too young to remember the long procession of hobgoblins used to justify destroying freedom, from the neo-Malthusian population bomb and ice age panics of the 70s, and the catastrophic warming and nuclear winter of the 80s, to the climate change of the 90s. You are scared witless of whatever fashionable new bogeyman the Fabians and Frankfort School throw out this decade. You may relax, dear child, because none of those instances of catastrophism (which are merely secular versions of eschatology) have come to pass. If we get wiped out, it will be by sudden planetary (think supervolcanic) or astrological (giant meteor of doom) factors beyond our control. So spare us the hubris, and especially the accusations that doing nothing = violence. Don't press that specious nonsense in my face or you'll get cut. You compare these things that were little more than a few pop (popsci) entries into a magazine with something that has grown in consensus over the past 20-30 years. (Those are your dates, you called climate change a 90's thing.. )We're in 2016 now and nothing really seems to show that the consensus is wrong. I said very small percentage because there I don't have a real number or anything to cite. Feel free to disagree. You will be wrong. Foolish child, you know so very little about these vast, interdisciplinary topics and gain from your smugness only intellectual closure. EG, the Population Wars were not just popsci proto-clickbait but rather fought between two professors, Paul Ehrlich of Stanford and Julian Simon of UM. I spent high school and college diving deep into scholarly journals only found in university libraries researching this stuff, and arguing both sides in debate tournaments. I came to change my mind on both climate change and population dynamics, based on the evidence and the fact Simon won the bet. Did you somehow miss the Climategate fiasco? That, if nothing else, shows "the consensus is wrong" (and validated numerous critics of the system which produced it). Here's a couple of great places to begin your remedial lessons on debunking the quasi-religious popsci "ZOMG Teh End Is Nigh" Cassandra complex of doom-mongering. Simon–Ehrlich wager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wagerClimategate: Why it matters The scandal we see and the scandal we don't http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/30/crugate_analysis/ |
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Please state for the record your opinion about Dash's recent(?) embrace of AML/KYC via Coinfirm. Why should I have an opinion about it either way ? [extenuating deflection] OK. Thanks for the response. Sorry to hear asking for your opinion ("either way") is such an absurd imposition.  I honestly am surprised you (ostensibly) don't care "either way" about Dash embracing AML/KYC. Perhaps that's part of why vertoe accused you guys of only caring about the "golden donkey" aspect of the Evan's Gate HYIP. You've come a long way from DarkCoin's InstantX and PrivateSend's paeans to privacy. But the code has not.... |
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[spurious deflection sperg]
Please state for the record your opinion about Dash's recent(?) embrace of AML/KYC via Coinfirm. |
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In my relatively short lifetime the scares have already been through a 'coming ice-age' to 'catastrophic warming' to 'climate change' cycle. The latter being a good catch-all I suppose.
This is more logical fallacies. Just because some very small percentage of scientists talked about global cooling doesn't discount the overwhelming current consensus going on now. So you are a solar cycle denier? How retrograde. "Very small percentage" = appeal to popularity (a logical fallacy) You are obviously too young to remember the long procession of hobgoblins used to justify destroying freedom, from the neo-Malthusian population bomb and ice age panics of the 70s, and the catastrophic warming and nuclear winter of the 80s, to the climate change of the 90s. You are scared witless of whatever fashionable new bogeyman the Fabians and Frankfort School throw out this decade. You may relax, dear child, because none of those instances of catastrophism (which are merely secular versions of eschatology) have come to pass. If we get wiped out, it will be by sudden planetary (think supervolcanic) or astrological (giant meteor of doom) factors beyond our control. So spare us the hubris, and especially the accusations that doing nothing = violence. Don't press that specious nonsense in my face or you'll get cut. |
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The fight for the no. 1 privacy coin is intriguing. Monero vs Dash. it would be very funny if a new coin like shadowcash would take off with he price. Having said that both monero and dash are good coin and I hold them both.
Either Dash has done a radical u-turn here or something is really wrong. One possibility is Coinfirm is infringing on the Dash trademark by claiming a partnership that does not exist. In any case the kind of blockchain "analytics" that Coinfirm.io claims to do is for the most part useless from an AML/KNC perspective but can be very damaging to the fungibility, privacy and anonymity of legitimate crypto currency users that are engaged in perfectly legal activities. Kind of like testing US currency for say cocaine and then accusing the holder of said currency of drug trafficking etc. I am very strong believer in innocent until proven guilty, so I have nothing but contempt for this kind of blockchain "analysis". LOL, who is going to break the bad news to the DickPillMill.com guys? I would imagine their customers might tend to desire privacy for their potentially embarrassing impotence remedies.  |
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