Thx for the info.

I have an 0.8.8.3 wallet (3 files : xxx.bin, xxx.bin.keys and xxx.bin.address.txt) and opened it in 0.8.8.6. I got following message "You had been using a deprecated version of the wallet. Your wallet file format is being upgraded now" and everything looks fine.

Can I upgrade this wallet to a deterministic wallet with seed or do I have to create a new wallet with seed and transfer the coins ? I think I remember reading somewhere you could upgrade an old wallet without seed to a wallet with seed, but I'm not sure. 

Lol, this is the first time I've been called a shill.

I own some Bitcoin and Monero, never been in the Darkcoin forums, I'm what you could call a Monero supporter (look at my history if it helps). I think you assumed incorrect things about me.  

Wow, calm down man. This was an honest question.

Very important.

Maybe I'm jumping conclusions here, but are you saying there is/are probably exploits being exploited in Dash right now, because it's flawed ?

Ok. That was philosophical.

So, people saying Dash is flawed can't prove it, even mathematically. I thought there was more evidence, at least evidence MasterNodes could be corrupted.

  

      

Not really. I was under the impression some like to hack and attack coins for sport or to prove a point or to learn. GingerAle's answer seems to be the correct answer to me : the flaws are only exposable with enough resources.
  

I don't post a lot here, but it just occurred to me, if Dash is flawed, why hasn't it been attacked and it's flaws been exposed ? Or has it ?

Thx for the links.

So loosely speaking, stealth addresses + coinjoin mechanism = ring-signatures cryptonote, right ?

Just curious. What are stealth addresses and how well is anonymity and privacy achieved compared to ring-signatures ?

I got into a discussion on reddit about bitcoin being fungible. I said bitcoins could be blacklisted, hence bitcoins are not fungible and also mentioned unlinkability and untraceability of ring-signatures for true fungibility.

Some say 1 BTC is always 1 BTC for the bitcoin network, only people/organisations can refuse certain bitcoins like some merchants can refuse large fiat notes ... so bitcoins are fungible to them.

Others say nobody should be allowed to blacklist/whitelist bitcoins or bitcoin would break. To me this is proof bitcoin isn't fungible.

I was not able to convince them about the non-fungibility of bitcoin. Maybe our perception is wrong and we don't need unlinkability and untraceability for true fungibility ?

 

Hey, thanks for sharing your work.


I'm not sure the linear price axis graph should look like an S curve. I believe this could be true for adoption or #users, network hashing power + others, their growth is bound by max resources, Bitcoin price however isn't bound by any resources in my opinion. That's why I prefer your model to Stephen Reed's logistic model, you don't have an arbitrarily $1000000 price limit.

EDIT : even #users isn't bound to max resources if you count bots, agents, DACs, machines, ... in the future.

Thx, I thought so. I had weird results because for some reason I used M = 2^256-1 instead of M = 2^64-1...stupid mistake, lol.

I'm looking for a spreadsheet or mathlab/maplesoft/... calculation for "Block reward = (M - A) * 2^-20 * 10^-12". Can somebody point me to one or tell me how to calculate A in atomic units. Thank u.

Acccording to V.Buterin you could implement a ring signatures algo in a contract and have 1 on 1 peg with the underlying ethers (ETH) -> your selfmade currency and underlying ethers would be annonymous.

http://redd.it/2b7gpd

Ethereum is very promising, but we'll have to see if the technology actually works. If it lives up to it's promise, I think it will become THE platform for smart contracts, ... and now is the time to look for options, ideas on how to make them work together.(EDIT Monero and ethereum)

http://redd.it/2b7gpd

Vitalik Buterin answers a question about anonymity on the Ethereum subreddit and mentions the cryptonote protocol. Someone could program the protocol on the ethereum network ... I wonder, if this is done, would we have another 'altnote' ? Maybe someone could port the whole Monero codebase to ethereum and make some sort of extended monerochain ?  

You think this is a glitch in the monerochain.info data ?
If it isn't, I'm wondering what's happening. High volume transfer to an exchange, hence the dump, coincidence ? Money laundering operation ? I'm just speculating. 
Did you find this(those) block(s) with very large transaction ? 

Does someone know how to compare hashing power between different networks.  What's the hashing power of Darkcoin and blackcoin for example, and how big are they in terms of mining investment compared to monero ?

EDIT : didn't see blackcoin is POS until now.
Darkcoin hashing power is 82000 MH, so multiplying with a 1000 to compare monero and darkcoin good comparison ?

Small question : how do you calculate the 'network hash rate' ?
I thought it was 'Diff/60', but that's not what I see on the pool's mainpage (neither on other pools' mainpage) What formula are you using ?
Thx. 
 

aaaahhh, now I see ...