I noticed the positive trend on XMR/BTC over the past couple of months as BTC has stagnated in a narrow range.

I was told the Bittrex wallet is working again. I didn't confirm myself.

Also went by TPTB_need_war and Iamnotback

That's not my recollection but I can't say I'm 100% sure. It's been quite a while.

That was bitmonero, a different project. When we forked bitmonero to create monero, it was clearly stated from the start that a tail reward was likely to be included. People had every opportunity to stick with bitmonero (or alternately do some other fork), for that or any other reason. The community that exists today coalesced around that fork, including the tail reward. ("Fork" in this context means code fork and project fork, not hard fork, though hard forks followed later and for all I know the bitmonero chain might still exist somewhere, though probably unlikely since it had critical fatal bugs. The tail reward itself is not a chain fork at all until such time as it is reached.)

I do agree it could have gone another way and not every single person agreed it was the best approach.

They're aware of it, I don't know any more than that.

I see that you reported it on GitHub. Thank you.

If you know of a problem with Ubuntu 20 please report it. I think the readme may just need to be updated.

There is no plan to switch to RandomX.

And kept it poorly encrypted on a cloud service /facepalm

Bytecoin was not launched in 2012. That is a lie.

You can not find a single independent third party reference to Bytecoin anywhere on the Internet or in a printed document that verifiably existed prior to some time in 2013 or 2014 when the fraudulent, premined Bytecoin was actually created and launched. No such reference exists, because Bytecoin did not exist.

Bytecoin was launched in 2014 after being developed in 2013-2014. It was fraudulently premined with blocks back dated to 2012.


Sorry? Everyone knows about the Ethereum ICO and Foundation/dev coins, or if not they can easily find documentation of it.


No meaningful amount of Bitcoin was premined. I personally know people who were aware of it at launch from the public cryptography mailing list and either did mine it or could have if they wanted. Perhaps there was some funny business about the genesis block (I don't recall right now if those coins are spendable) and a maybe a few early blocks, but we're talking about well under 1%. After that anyone who wanted to mine could mine.

Good points @cAPSLOCK

@cAPSLOCK

I was replying to this
For some people such as hyc, "Bitcoin=bad" is probably not a shift, they came to Monero with that view and at least in part because of that view.

We can obviously debate that view, or even try to convince them. That would be a different question. Let's understand that not everyone within the Monero community is or ever was "Bitcoin good, Monero better" or "Bitcoin and Monero both good". There are a variety of perspectives on the matter.

Some people, I think hyc for example, decided to work on, invest in, or support Monero specifically after evaluating Bitcoin and finding it lacking. You can't blame them for having that view, even if you don't share it. It seems to be sincerely acquired, just a somewhat different path from people who were or are Bitcoiners and also found Monero interesting.

I don't gatekeep on development, unless it got to a point were someone was being disruptive (hasn't happened, though some of the rebase discussions got close).

I participate in the discussions and when there is consensus* to move forward with a path of development, I merge the PRs.

As you say, not every idea will get consensus. Those that do may take some time.

*consensus is going to be weighted on the basis of people making substantive contributions for an extended period. If you show up, don't expect to have a big voice right away, but you will be welcome to contribute and offer input.

Download third party binaries or use third party software with caution at your own risk. It may work fine, it may not.

The official source for AEON software and binaries is in the OP of this thread as well as https://github.com/aeonix/aeon or https://github.com/aeonix/aeon-gui

Okay makes sense there is a significant gap there.


I think it's kind of valuable to have in place as a "break glass" option even if not currently heavily used. Centralized pools are a liability, perhaps not an urgent one for any coin though. Atomic swaps are similar BTW. I suspect hardly used (and may never be) but big increase in robustness for that option to be there.

Hmm, that didn't look so complicated, it's adding a few requests, right?

Are we missing ZMQ altogether or something?

Speaking of mining, is anybody looking at porting the Monero p2pool to aeon? It would likely work even better here given the verification-friendly PoW, lower barrier to running a node, etc.

No issues. Somewhat busy but otherwise fine.

I merged one but the later ones looked to still have some ongoing discussion. I will continue to monitor them and merge when there is consensus.