The link he posted has the XMR.to API in it.
I don't click their links, they have supposedly spent thousands (xmr donations) on bandwidth, as if unlimited data plans are not default nowdays... Please link to a relevant doc on xmr.to... What does spending $ on bandwith have to do with not clicking the link? How slow are you ? I dont want to use up their bandwith, they claim to have spent most of the donations on bandwidth usage : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg10062838;topicseen#msg10062838The Monero blockchain alone is downloaded hundreds of times in a month, with our bandwidth usage regularly exceeding 2tb a month across the download nodes. Obviously this provision is not cheap, which is why your continued assistance to this project is greatly appreciated.primer- I was wondering why are you always so hostile, and use such coarse language towards most posters? (others are hostile too, sure..) |
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Nobody who looks into this problem seriously can possibly be unaware of Nothing-At-Stake. If they pretended not to know about it, then they were not actually looking into the problem. Instead, you may conclude, as I did, that they are doing "research" about as valid as that of climate change deniers and creation-science shills.
In other words, that was "motivated" research, with the agenda of convincing people of something untrue. Ask yourself whose motives it aligns with, and you will find the man behind the curtain.
Be careful of putting yourself or others in one camp. |
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The lack of Monero exposure on these new-websites is solely, and this is a salient point, solely because it is not being paid for. All these junk-sites are usually paid for per article. They are for sale. Coin-desk being one of the most prominent for sale sites in the space. If you want your news covered, you have to lube them up with a payment, OR pay for some advertising or some such. The world is not as it seems, so wake up. When there is more to present (such as a fully merged db, GUI and other goodies on the road-map) it has been alluded to several times that marketing efforts will commence on a larger scale. Maybe it involves paying of these "news" sites. Maybe it doesn't. I hope they never make a dime that way. |
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Are people forgetting the single large volume buys that took us to 400+? Seems weird how people are scared the price went down again.
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guys check out crave , dev just finished testing the masternode system, looking very good  I will save other people from looking it up. It's a POS coin. It's what you'd expect. |
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I have to admit I have been chuckling a lot today thinking about how INSTANTLY the tone of this thread went from "How soon 'till bitcoin parity?!??!" to "OMG!!! we are on the way to all time lows!!!".
It is easier to just breathe deep and watch... Buy a little on bad days... try to sell a little of that on a plus day... never trade so much that when things surprise I don't feel too burned.
Deep breath!
It's crypto currency, and it's acting volatile, and people are surprised?  It's easier to chuckle if someone is well above water though. |
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man i had a buy order sitting at 0.00301 forever and i decided it wasnt going to happen and went ahead and moved the bitcoin off the exchange to avoid counterparty risk... then like a couple hours later... DOH
I am currently on holiday with no Bitcoin in Polo to spend and my laptop at home! I' quite gutted I missed the 280 low. :-( Oh, we only had like, what?.. 5 months below that price. |
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This thread is amazingly quiet having today's action in mind. That being said, it's mostly 1 guy that is selling off since he is pissed at fluffypony.
Meh.. no need for drama-queens anyway. |
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Then why isn't it poloniex's coins? Everyone can claim them, and no one can claim them. Thus only the ones who control the keys can claim them. I am not stating, but moreso asking for the sake of getting that disscussion going. (I agree that they should/could instil community spirit and donate the coins to the development.)
Not spending them does not equal thievery as has been alluded to elsewhere.
Not spending them, says who ? Where's the current unclaimed xmr balance on polo, why isn't it public ? Sure, they can keep them but we can all switch to some other exchange. 80% of their volume is XMR so yeah, there's that. Point of a private and untraceable currency, neh? How do you lose your customers (who buy and sell anonymous crypto currency on your exchange) quickest? By exposing information, or by withholding information? If they start to reveal balances in any sort of way, they will lose so much business. |
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We as a community need to do something about POLONIEX keeping the unclaimed XMR for themselves.
Tens of thousands of XMR have been sent from pools to poloniex without the paymentID, these coins can never be claimed and we can't let poloniex just keep them!
Lets first force them to publish total unclaimed XMR balance, then we push for a new policy - if not claimed within two months all unclaimed coins go to the DEV TEAM
At this point I consider poloniex straight out scammers, they have never addressed this issue.
See, what if they give them away to the devs, and later the rightful owners come claiming the xmr? I have no affiliation with poloniex, but they did honour the btc stolen during the hack a while ago. Doesn't work like that, coins sent from pools (txs) are public, no one/everyone can claim them. Then why isn't it poloniex's coins? Everyone can claim them, and no one can claim them. Thus only the ones who control the keys can claim them. I am not stating, but moreso asking for the sake of getting that disscussion going. (I agree that they should/could instil community spirit and donate the coins to the development.) Not spending them does not equal thievery as has been alluded to elsewhere. |
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the government should be freaking out about the potential implications of this tech. but they aren't. at all. not even a wiff of it. firmly in the ignore stage.
Implications? Freaking out? It makes tax laws almost unenforceable. Not entirely because if you work at mcdonalds and buy yourself a boeing 747 for personal use one day they might just have some questions. But in a lot of cases it does. They could still jail you. Fine you. Disrupt every aspect of your life that's not financial. Alternatively, if StateCoin comes to pass, they'll just centralize the hardware / network and then there will be no way to AVOID tax laws if you use statecoin (and you'll have to if it becomes == USD), because the taxes are the transaction / mining fees. Unfortunately, this is the equivalent of a sales tax, which are not progressive. We already have USD-Tethers there's no point to StateCoin. And there is a way to avoid tax laws if you don't cash out USD-Tethers or any coin for fiat, making you liable to said tax laws. Don't play in their sandbox if at all possible and instead play on this here nice beach we have  No, by "statecoin" I mean a private crytpocurrency network run by the state, on specialized hardware. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/federal-reserve-bitcoin-strategy/i.e., its just like bitcoin in every respect except you can't mine it. no one can mine it except the federal reserve. You can have a wallet software to access your accounts on the ledger. Its still a cryptocurrency. The same hashing and ledger storage will be done, but just centralized. Every existing federal reserve location will be a node / mining farm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Federal_Reserve_branchesTHIS, imo, is inevitable. Yes, and no. There is inherent risk for states running their own specialised coin and network. Imagine a smaller state with less funds. Another rogue state could attack the coin. Heck, even a multinational company could attack such a coin. On a larger scale, such as any of the G7 nations, this could still apply. Rogue states attacking other rogue states. And US is inherently a rogue state, according to many thought leaders. |
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We as a community need to do something about POLONIEX keeping the unclaimed XMR for themselves.
Tens of thousands of XMR have been sent from pools to poloniex without the paymentID, these coins can never be claimed and we can't let poloniex just keep them!
Lets first force them to publish total unclaimed XMR balance, then we push for a new policy - if not claimed within two months all unclaimed coins go to the DEV TEAM
At this point I consider poloniex straight out scammers, they have never addressed this issue.
See, what if they give them away to the devs, and later the rightful owners come claiming the xmr? I have no affiliation with poloniex, but they did honour the btc stolen during the hack a while ago. |
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For those of you that think that mining at a "loss" is stupid, most of the people mining XMR are doing so in speculation that Monero will be more valuable in the future. They technically are not mining at a loss, until they sell at current prices.
Well, if they could buy the coins without mining for a cheaper price then it is stupid from an economics perspective. I mean you have to upkeep the machines and stuff, it's a lot more work than just buying coins. So if mining doesn't produce a profit, then they probably should have another motive other than money. Most of the people mining XMR- that I have met- have said that they mined XMR for "fun". Not everyone has easy access to the banking system or a market price exchange. Hence it can be hard to buy BTC (at market prices) and therefore XMR (at market prices). That's also disregarding sunk costs, and widely varying electricity costs around the world. Why'd wouldn't you mine them if you're not paying for the electricity, and you want to support the tech OR see that it makes sense to mine a private coin if your mining is shady (using uni/corporate/school/etc. hardware). |
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People dont read posts that are too long. Quite the opposite, at least in my case. I long noticed a strongly (but not absolute) positive correlation between the length of a post and its usefulness. I concur. I look forward to long and well-structured posts. They usually have some good information in them. |
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I seriously doubt that he is really concerned, but if so then those papers are no good because they aren't independent.
If I was interested in some kind of attack like your puppets I would do it .. Your puppets? Sorry I didn't follow that. You probably not aware but I was mined your coin during the summer of 2014 with my farm and already hold some coins ..
I'll look over the documentation to see what are you already improved.
Ok then. We're certainly interested in your feedback on the reports. If you also are looking for code improvements and work in progress as opposed to review and analysis you should also check the extended github (the monero-project master and also the various developer and contributor forks). The year-in-review thing might be helpful, though of course that only covers 2014 Smooth, are these all your Monero commits or are there more? https://github.com/iamsmooth/bitmonero/commits/master?author=iamsmooththis guy really loves you smooth: https://twitter.com/BlockaFett/status/580102058365362177Well, that's what he gets paid for. |
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What if monero was funded through fundraising website/programs? I know those websites usually dont allow you to give something in return to those who donate, but they could be directed to a monero exchange where they could buy some if theyd like.
Well, I got excited about checking out kickstarter, but they don't allow projects for "cash equivalent" things... they used some other word than things. I forget. If I'm understanding gingerale correctly here, i think hes saying that kickstarter is a no go. Maybe indigogo though. Hopefully somebody will look into it. Pure speculation here but I wonder if that means you can't give people cash equivalents as a reward. But maybe the project funding with no rewards or different rewards could still happen there (or as you say another crowdfunding site with good visibility). You guys should talk about it amongst yourselves and see what sort of commitment you can come up with for what price. I know we talked about this before and you weren't willing to commit to delivering any particular product, but maybe you could commit to full time development for a given period of time. I think that would satisfy people. If you can come up with something that we could crowd fund than im sure we could find some way of accommodating that. I disagree with this, as I have alluded to in other posts. Promises tend to get broken. If you don't promise much there's nothing much broken (especially the trust of people). And this is one of the core strengths of the core team. Their approach. |
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Saying that a well-designed, intuitive, easily-used Graphical User Interface doesn't matter is simply ridiculous. I realize that fluffypony had a specific issue that he was making a point about when he wrote what he did regarding adoption, business integration, and the GUI.
However, a well-designed, intuitive, and easily-used Graphical User Interface are crucial for the success of virtually any piece of software or hardware in today's day and age.
Why is Apple so successful? I would argue that their GUI's, combined with the hardware to properly utilize the potential of their GUI's, is the entire basis of their success. Sure, marketing and reputation have been vital, but without good-looking GUI's their marketing department would be trying to put lipstick on a pig.
Why is Windows more popular than Linux? Linux is free, Windows costs money. Shouldn't people run the free OS more often? Windows is easily used. Linux has come a long way, but it inevitably requires substantially more effort for the average person.
If the Monero GUI can make the slope of the learning curve so easy to climb that Your Mom Can Use It, it will be vital in propelling the success of XMR that all of us are so eager to witness.
I hope it's been demonstrated with MyMonero that we know a thing or two about UX and simplicity, and that will translate to the GUI. That said, it's simply not acceptable for us (to echo your words) to put lipstick on a pig and ship a GUI that is pleasant enough, but takes 4 days to sync from scratch, requires 6+gb of RAM, sucks a ton of bandwidth, and is accepted nearly nowhere. We will deliver a proverbial work of art, but it requires building out parts of the foundation that we had previously viewed as less of a priority (until the 202612 attack). Oh, and we're doing it on like no money, so there's that. I very much support this approach to the project, and it is one of the reasons (if not the main reason) to get involved with it. |
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I didn't want to withhold this from you guys, it is pretty hilarious in fact -> http://pastebin.com/pPNf8y6LMight have, next to the awareness Peter Todd raised, sparkled some of the rally. That was funny. Thanks for sharing. Just realised zhalox is an old-time (2011) bitcoiner. And looking at the polonibox log it's not the first time he's flashed amounts. |
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It's probably the most talked about topic on the whole bitcointalk's altcoin section. My bad lol, for not reading that forum! I was really referring to the constant popping up of Dash's name here with almost zero mention of the insta-mine. (I read through everything and then some in that link and saw it mentioned in 1 thread explicitly, that I remember anyway.) They should have asked them about that on the podcast interviews as well. It's not the most talked about topic in the alt coin section. Far from. DARSH* name pop up all the time, and should be followed with a legal disclaimer like so. To quote Nassim Taleb (author or Black Swan and Anti-fragility): "If you see fraud and don't shout fraud, you are a fraud". *Please note that DARSH has been instamined for 2 million. |
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Over 300k again.  |
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