I understand what you mean that now and days 1 XMR is a pretty steep price in terms of USD; but at the same time this isn't a daily fantasy football league nor am I running a daily fantasy website.  This is for the full NFL regular season and we are just having someone hold everyones buy-ins for the season and pay out to the winner at the very end.

Anyone here interested in playing fantasy football this upcoming NFL season?  Come join the elite few who will end up telling their grandchildren one day that they joined the first ever, first annual Monero Fantasy Football League!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1971415.new#new

Due to the pretty good turnout of Monero Madness, I figured that hopefully we'll get the same good turn out and not dread the upcoming winter months with a good ol' fashion fantasy football league.

This thread is just to be able to see how many people would want to participate, but the tricky part is that for fantasy football to work, we need to get an even amount of players (6,8,10,etc.).  This is why I want to get word out there early so we can have some time to find more people as we get closer to football season.

As of right now we still got some things to decide on:

1.Buy in:  I'm suggesting a 1 xmr buy in, but if people want to do more or less, let me know in this thread so we can discuss.

2.Escrow:  Since we had Jwinterm hold the "pool wallet" for Monero Madness, and the fact that I personally just trust the guy not to pull any bamboozles or flim-flams; I say we use him as escrow. But if someone else wants to recommend someone to hold funds (that is trustworthy) for the league we can do that too since Jwinterm will be participating.

3.Trophy:  I'm willing to purchase a nice little trophy for the winner.  I'm thinking it would be pretty cool to have a trophy passed around over the years to the winners and have their names (pseudonyms) engraved on plaques.  I'm thinking 1st place gets the "Golden Barolo"?  I'm really interested to hear peoples thoughts on this, so please let me know below.

4.Scoring:  Since I'm not quite sure if anyone is super into fantasy football or not, I just wanted to make sure if people were ok with the scoring system that ESPN had on default.  I copied and pasted it here.  If anyone has any recommendations of changes, let me know.

5.Draft Time:  This is flexible.  I still don't know my schedule for work and I'm sure everyone has to figure out what times they are available as well.  I went ahead and set the draft time for Saturday, August 12th @ 5 PM EST or 2 PM PDT.  Let me know what day/time will work for people and we'll figure out a time everyone can dedicate at least 2 hours or so to drafting players.


More ideas to make this better will be well received.  Please post in this thread if you will like to participate and state how much you are willing to put in the pot (1 xmr?).  After you post on here, you can also include your email you want me to send an invite link too, or you could just PM it to me.  From there you can sign up, join the league, and I will put your name below:

Yeah, now I'm genuienly curious what mine are. How much does it cost to get coins graded from them?

^^ Yeah... that duck is a real "quack pot".

Sometimes the most logical thing to do in altcoin markets is to be illogical.

I think there is a way to restore the wallet from using her private spend and view keys (?)... is that what you mean when you say you have her old .keys files on hand?

Good to see you back btw.

Edit: I think the command is something with --restore-private-key or something like that.

To be honest I don't know much in terms of cryptonote history/bytecoin history. I'm assuming the links provided above is all there really is to know about the topic. As for Surae, I'm sure he's still reachable on #monero or #monero-dev on freenode.

Tunahead doesn't really quite roll of the tongue as nicely... and Goldphish is at a lame 1-9.99 Aeon net worth... hmmmm.. 

O YEAAA!?

Well I bought mine in 2004... B.C.!!!!!

beat that!   

You know, this has always been a concern of mine... at the Monero NYC Meetup not too long ago, Surae brought up something that I have been wondering about now since then; and that is, if we got this new awesome crypto algorithm from Bytecoin that we are basing everything on and not Bitcoin's... then how much can we trust it?

That is a very rough paraphrase there, but that's what he was basically saying and he said he was going to look into it in his research at the Monero Research Lab.

I know this doesn't answer your question, lol... sorry. Just was curious if anyone knew any more about that?

This thing is... is that It shouldn't be the responsibility of other people to do things that help mass-adoption.  If you like the technology and you feel that the information should be updated, maybe you should be the one to do it.  Everyone is equally responsible in open sourced projects.

Oh ok, so who gets to be an arbiter?  Does it base off of someone who created the software to pick people, or is there a trust rating system on there or something?

And that makes sense about using your own Monero wallet, but what prevents you from using the GUI?  I use CLI but I'm just curious as to why.

Also, what method (if you have done more than a couple trades on there) would you suggest on using in terms of paying/receiving USD?

So I'm really starting to get interested with trying out different exchanges and have been messing around with setting up bitsquare to use and wanted to see if some people here could help me out with some stuff.

1) clearxchange: has anyone been able to set this up?  To me this sounds like a real easiest way to set up an account that allows everyone to send money to and from, but no luck in being able to set it up.  For some reason I think through my bank it's saying that my email and phone number aren't "registered", even though I know they are. 

2) Would cash deposit be and easier way to receive/pay?  Is it like localbitcoins where you can send a cash deposit and take a picture to your receipt in case there was some sort of dispute?  If there is a dispute, who would you go present your case too, since it's a more 'decentralized' system in comparison to LBC?

3) How do you set up a 'Monero account' on there?  It doesn't seem to let me create a wallet on there to send Monero.

I really am hoping to start trying to do some trading on there (even though it's very little volume) and hoping as time goes on others will do the same.  It's about time for a decentralized way to purchase/cash out.

Yep, congrats! ... fun fact: last year's super bowl I lost $50 to jwinterm... that was 100 xmr. So if we keep that current trajectory we will be putting in .05-.1 xmr buy ins.

I'm no land lubber...

Buy shorts with Monero.
Look fabulous in shorts.
Profit (?)

Please either post here or just pm jwinterm with the address you want your winnings to go too. Too bad everyone else's brackets sucks so hard that we can't have it be decided by the championship game, but whatevs...  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

All in all though, watching the games with some monerojes on the line has been quite enjoyable for me and hope everyone here has had an entertaining time as well. I will try to do something like this for every "major sporting event" like the super bowl or march madness... if anyone would like to do something like this for something else just let me or jwinterm know.

I had fun, and I mean this in the most sincere way...

Yeah no kidding, you are #3 in the projected/possible points category...

I think whoever has their team win the national championship pretty much wins Monero Madness. ... good news for you is that you are the only person who has Kansas picked, and they are playing pretty f'in good right now.

Nova officially ded... wow.  Wisconsinites murdered everyones hopes and dreams, cold blooded.