Monero was mentioned before on /r/monero as an alternative to mixers but the article at 99bitcoins is the first time I have seen it mentioned at a mainstream bitcoin magazine. Good article BTW but I doubt you will see the DNM switch from bitcoin as XMR is too complicated. If it should happen it will be big news at DeepDotWeb. The 99BTC article could have mentioned Peter Todd and GMax use XMR "for privacy." I doubt the writer was unaware of that pertinent fact. DNM will proactively switch to XMR on/off ramps sooner, or reactively switch later, when their operators/investors and their customers/vendors start being put in jail due to blockchain analysis. Now that shapeshift-like services are a thing, the only barriers to adoption are lack of a GUI wallet and multi-sig. Tick...tick...tick... BOOOOOOMERO |
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Soooooo....Monero is NINTH in volume on Poloniex right now? At 1124 BTC traded in the last 24 hours? What in the heck is up with all the volume across so many different alts?  EDIT: and the order book is jumping like crazy, from 425 BTC of buy orders this morning to 1100 a few hours ago to 700 now. There is a metric fuck-ton of FUD floating around, thanks to the Classic nonsense about Bitcoin's death/crippling/strangling/immanent d000m/etc. Part of the Gavinista meme-cluster is that the ETH boom is due to Core's supposed mismanagement. There's no way to tell how much of the present alt surge is due to rich Gavinistas trying to spread FUD in the market, and how much is credulous low-information types selling their precious BTC to cynical R3/Coinbase whales for a pittance. Dear LazyNet,
Please provide real-time charts of the total buy/sell orders for all those coins, and graphs of the amounts of available lending coins along with their interest %s.
I'd like to see, without too much tiresome clicking, which pumps/dumps are backed by real market depth and which are mere short term levitation/manipulation.
Thank you!
#PoloDataViz |
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Jeez how much longer until Classic is finally confined to the garbage bin? How & why are some of the community still pushing this crap & backing Gavin?
Classic is a Trojan horse filled with allied Buttcoiners and CoinbaseCoiners. The Buttcoiners failed to get Honey Badger's attention with their futile (albeit occasionally amusing) ass-clowning, so they're trying a new angle. By pretending to be actual Bitcoiners, the media and other low-information institutions/individuals are more apt to take them seriously. We can do the same thing back to them by feigning support for "Satoshi's Bitcoin" (a project that is not compatible with Classic's goals because it eventually changes the PoW). Time to update the Classic #REKT thread with this latest hilarity from the Gavinista LOLcows!  |
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Sorry, I don't know if NXT will ever be able to recover. The all time high for NXT was .10 cents or .11 cents. I have so many doubts to whether that is ever possible again. I don't think it ever will be as I have about 500 NXT. Plus, a large majority of those coins went to those who invested in it. I think the total funding towards NXT was about 21 bitcoins? It just seems super unlikely that NXT can compare with Ethereum in the long run.
So many NXT bag holders are desperate to believe some miracle will save their obsolete coin. But in truth, NXT is outdated and can't compare to next generation platforms like Rootstock and ETH. NXT is based on Java, for God's sake! There's no excuse for using such an insecure, bloated, TLA-compromised language for security and consensus critical financial applications. It's like NXT cheerleaders don't understand the concept of critical mass. That's the only explanation I can think of for why they believe tiny, isolated NXT still has a chance in hell, as giant, popular Turing-complete projects like Counterparty, Rootstock, and ETH do everything it can do, plus much more. After jl777 had a Hearnia and did a whiny rage-quit of NXT, it's time to put some butter on NXT. Because it's toast. |
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KABOOOOOOM
I love the sound of legit coins such as Monero taking off, while the Maid and Dash scams implode into great bloody heaps of FAIL.  Today's 99bitcoins article basically endorses Monero as the best way to unlink/untaint Bitcoins, and that site gets a TON of traffic from their ingenious/hilarious BitcoinObituaries.com redirect (as well as the well written and informative content). It will take time for the article to be passed around, read, and acted upon. Plus more time for receptive readers to move their BTC to Polo and buy coins. But the resulting long BOOOOOOOOOM has already started. How long until most DMN stop sending/receiving BTC directly, and only use shapeshifted XMR for in/out flows? Soon? Two Weeks? ATH and oz/silver parity parties to be held at Monero Manor and Monero Mountain! |
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Today is not a good day to be a DashHole.  First, their attempt to surpass Maid as the #1 scam in crypto failed. Dash's market cap was higher than Maid for like an hour, then went right back down to number two. Then they tried to blame "Monero shills" for their instamined coin's crappy performance. Too bad it was vertoe (ex-Darkcoin core dev, not affiliated with Monero), Peter Todd, and Greg Maxwell (BTC core devs, also not affiliated with Monero) who provided the most potent ammunition to use against the Evan's Gate cargo cult. No wonder they are so enraged. Just look at the amount of Epic Butthurt in this post. To be fair and accurate, Peter Todd and Greg Maxwell (who provided some of the most devastating anti-Dash "FUD") are BTC core devs, not "shills."
To be actually fair and accurate, Eduardo, Hashfast-Scammer, deCastro using PITA Turd and Faggory MaxSell to push your pathetic shitcoin agenda is beyond ridiculous because we can instantly prove beyond any reasonable doubt that those dingleberries are both BUTTHURT beyond compare because DASH robbed them from their opportunities to brag and shine about shitty/flawed ideas they had. Here's the evidence: Greg Maxwell hates Dash because: <gmaxwell> I already have a port of the bytecoin signature system to bitcoind... so I assume someone will do that.
<gmaxwell> (I'm not releasing it right now because all releasing it will do is cause a bunch of additional silly altcoins... created by people who couldn't even do the couple hours of work.
<gmaxwell> ) Clearly referring to (back then) DarkCoin and its superior CoinJoin implementation by Evan Duffield. Maxwell is shaking his fist like an angry old man because Evan took his imperfect and flawed idea (CoinJoin) and improved it in such a way to be actually useful for anonymous transactions (DarkSend). Saying he won't release source code in an open source project to avoid "silly altcoins" is the lamest excuse imaginable to hide his anger and fear that someone might take his idea. Silly child, he is really. Peter Turd, the Hairy Potter faced villain of Bitcoin blocked me on Twitter (LOL) because I thanked him for his double spend attack on Coinbase because it was perfect marketing towards DASH's InstantX technology. InstantX makes his retarded Replace-By-Fee rip-off scheme completely obsolete and that angers the shit out of him. That is why he called Dash snake oil without ever providing a single technical argument as to why. As you can see, iCERAPER, your two toilet-seat icons here are the ones who are devastated. Not Dash. Let's also not forget that these twats are among those choking Bitcoin to death by preventing a blocksize increase through manipulation, tyranny and censorship. As for Dash being "respectable," vertoe debunked that self-serving community delusion when she quit being a Dash core dev.
HAHAHAHAHA! Vertoe? Still? The ridiculed CACHECOIN SCAMMER everyone despises? Are you in love with "her" because "she" is another scammer, like you?  If only we could somehow capture the astronomical amounts of poutrage in Macro's post, it would supply the world with unlimited energy! And here is the cherry on top.  |
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PSA: Users, (solo)miners, exchanges/merchants, and pooloperators must be on 0.9.x (preferably 0.9.2) in advance of the hardfork otherwise you will get forked/booted off the network. If you are mining on one of the following pools, please contact your poolop immediately or switch to another pool.List of pools that haven't upgraded yet: I use the cryptonotepool because it supports the devs, but they have low hashrate. OTOH Minergate is ~1/14 of the network! If they are the go-to pool for bot herders (nice web miner!) it will be interesting to see if it stops the dumping, as GPU hoarders take over their absent portion of the global hashrate. |
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To be fair and accurate, Peter Todd and Greg Maxwell (who provided some of the most devastating anti-Dash "FUD") are BTC core devs, not "shills."
As for Dash being "respectable," vertoe debunked that self-serving community delusion when she quit being a Dash core dev.
I know it's easier to deflect criticism by attacking the motivations of the critics than actually defend/rationalize the instamine and bad crypto, but let's try to stay in fact-based reality.
Come on really?!? Your using Vertoe, who is a "HE" by the way, as meter of some kind of moral light. First he left DASH in a huff when he couldn't bully his was around with his agenda, then He proceeded to scam a bunch of people on CACHE coin that he tried to take on...and realised he couldnt do shit...and left the community hanging. Vertoe is no piller you should be holding up as a ethical anything. You know better...stop being a tool. *deflecting criticism by attacking the motivations of the critics intensifies* Doesn't matter if vertoe is as corrupt as Hillary Clinton. A core dev like her/him is in the best position to know exactly how centralized and untransparent the Dash Incorporated project is. And it was Duffield playing the bully with the Dash rebranding agenda. All those Darkcoin supporters and volunteers (such as vertoe) were used to start Dash, then thrown away. |
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Obscuring the Trail through Altcoin Shifting
Why stop at mixing between Bitcoin addresses? Mixing between Bitcoins and privacy-centric altcoins provides another layer of obscurity. This method requires perhaps a little less trust than using a centralized mixing service. The best altcoin to use for this purpose is probably Monero (XMR).
This short guide covers buying Monero with Bitcoin; to anonymize your bitcoins, simply convert them to XMR, forward them to a new Monero address under your control and then convert them back to new, anonymous BTC.
Two great sites for converting between Bitcoin and Monero are Shapeshift.io and XMR.to. Remember to access them via Tor and don’t worry about sign-up; neither site requires it. |
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DASH just isn't well known or liked yet. Lot of FUD sticked from Monero shills back in the day. Our coin is nothing but respectable. We just need to let people know that monetary policy matters, and in this regard, DASH has Ether BEAT!
To be fair and accurate, Peter Todd and Greg Maxwell (who provided some of the most devastating anti-Dash "FUD") are BTC core devs, not "shills." As for Dash being "respectable," vertoe debunked that self-serving community delusion when she quit being a Dash core dev. I know it's easier to deflect criticism by attacking the motivations of the critics than actually defend/rationalize the instamine and bad crypto, but let's try to stay in fact-based reality. |
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Nice! That's the world famous BitcoinObituary site, and Monero gets much more than a "mention." Obscuring the Trail through Altcoin Shifting
Why stop at mixing between Bitcoin addresses? Mixing between Bitcoins and privacy-centric altcoins provides another layer of obscurity. This method requires perhaps a little less trust than using a centralized mixing service. The best altcoin to use for this purpose is probably Monero (XMR).
This short guide covers buying Monero with Bitcoin; to anonymize your bitcoins, simply convert them to XMR, forward them to a new Monero address under your control and then convert them back to new, anonymous BTC.
Two great sites for converting between Bitcoin and Monero are Shapeshift.io and XMR.to. Remember to access them via Tor and don’t worry about sign-up; neither site requires it. |
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Classic cargo cult now in bed with jl777, treating him like Jim Jones? Amazing.
jl777 views Classic as a headless steamroller with an empty driver's seat he can fill - accruing all glory and power. I did ask for an iguana childboard here, but was totally ignored on that, not even a rejection. Maybe if that wasnt just ignored, I wouldnt be so active elsewhere. bitco.in gave me a child board the next day, so I am more active there. it is as simple as that. I do not agree with classic's position against RBF, that does not make sense to me. I still have not heard any rational explanation about how RBF breaks zeroconf. zeroconf cant work when the blocks are full, as when the blocks are full you cant know when a tx in the mempool is likely to confirm. If anything, defining the RBF behavior allows a much better statistical model to predict when an unconfirmed tx will confirm. Convince me with the math, or you can call me names and I stay unconvinced. With RBF, I came here, asked some questions, got reasonable answers and made my analysis. I dont like the changing of sequenceid into the RBF field, but it isnt the horrible devils' spawn that it is made out to be. However, the people there are much better behaved and nobody trolled me or insinuated that I dont understand bitcoin at all. James We can't make a new childboard for every project you think of. You start like 4 new things every month, and none of them are ever completed. If you demonstrate the capacity to follow through on things you begin, perhaps your latest weekly brain fart vaporware might be taken seriously. Glad you saw through Classic's FUD about RBF. It doesn't make Classic look good to reject such an obviously beneficial feature, especially for the sake of preserving their false hope about zero-conf tx viability. The problem in this thread is you contradicting yourself: jl777: 'I'm just a simple C programmer' (everybody take a shot, per alt sub rules! )
jl777: 'I'm just here to ask questions'
jl777: 'I just heard about SEGWIT and I'm here to fix it!'
jl777: 'I can't be bothered to read the freaking SEGWIT manual (BIP docs) but will still post my melodramatic FUDDY conclusions about "wasting precious blockchain space"' Do you see the problem ^there? IMO, it looks like Gavin helped hype Iguana with the name-drop in order to introduce you as Classic's latest FUDster-In-Chief, following in the ignoble footsteps of Hearn's and Toomin's failures. Your usual 'baffle them with techno-babble BS' strategy may work in the altcoin space, but there are much higher standards in Bitcoin.  |
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 I really don't understand why we need to force our beloved wallet devs through this complicated mess. 
New address format? How to explain to users? All infrastructure needs to be upgraded... What a gargantuan task...
Why do we need segwit again? Have you been in a cave for the last 6 months? Did you miss https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/ ? Segwit has been explained in many ways, from technical BIPS to colorful info-graphics. Most wallet, etc. providers had little to no trouble adding segwit, because they like the idea: https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/jl777 is only whining about his difficulties because he doesn't like anything Core supports and because he's a terrible dev who never finishes a single project he starts (eg SuperNET). I find the shadowy linkages between alt-coin scammer jl777 and Classic fascinating. The bitco.in alliance between him, the DashHoles, and the Frap.doc crew make for an interesting demographic. |
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Hahahahaha. Lauda a female? I would love to see that mate! Assuming that someone's username is their first name is pretty stupid. Anyway, I vote to keep Lauda a moderator as I know he handle reports correctly and if he doesn't know how to handle them, he asks within the staff team. For example, Mitchell and -ck are of the opinion that continuous promotion of custom faucet rotators which have ref link in every link, are to be considered "Ref spam". Well, it depends on the context of the whole post. If you make a thread with a link to a site filled with referral links, yeah, it's most likely getting trashed. It's all about context.
Also, I now know how Cyrus felt as a ninja-mod. It seems that people don't know that I handle shitloads of reports and even send out PM's with information about my actions. Ah wel, I am a strong independent moderator and I need no appreciation! Yes, Lauda is a great mod. BTW, are you the Mitchell taking Bitcointalk ban requests from the malcontents at Frap.doc's forum? |
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"Satoshi's Bitcoin" Officially REKT
The lifespan of these hopelessly contentious vanity forks (XT, Unlimited, Classic, Satoshi's) keeps getting shorter.
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No thinblock BIP = no thinblocks. You are welcome to go deep diving into the esoteric specifics of why thinblocks aren't the best solution, but don't spread lies about how 'they were rejected because bandwidth doesn't matter.' You offer no evidence supporting the assertion that Bitcoin's usefulness is "already declining." The market says you are wrong about that. Your personal anecdotes about banksters are not relevant. VC/fintech investment in BTC is exploding; Hearn's R3 consortium is going hard. And here's the thing that really makes you look clueless: USAA is now offering Coinbase integration on all customer accounts. As for my signature, it's not *me* telling people what Bitcoin is/isn't but rather three noted experts stating the facts. Sorry if that hurts your butt because you think you understand Bitcoin better than Hal Finney.  What's wrong with you? Because there is no BIP we can't talk about it? (there was a BUIP, btw) Saying investments are "exploding" is a strange way to say they are drying out (that's a fact. Most investments go to some other coins currently or to "blockchain" / "sidechain" techs) USAA just completes an integration to a watch-only wallet they startet nearly a year ago. Is that what you were waiting for? And about your signature: you take the quotes that fit your opinion. Do you really think I'm so stupid to don't know that it's possible to lie / manipulate with quotes? Please, show some respect. I'm not stupid. And Hal Finney - do you think you understand Bitcoin better than Satoshi? Once again, you are welcome to discuss xthin blocks all you like, just please don't spread the false idea they are not being implemented in Core 'because bandwidth doesn't matter.' LMK when there is a BIP, and we can go from there. Where is the lie in my quotes? They all seem like solid facts to me. Sorry they don't support your ideas for CoinbaseCoin. Try focusing on the quotes that are actually in my sig, not the general class of all quotes ever (including dishonest, selective ones). |
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If any alt reaches about 10-20% of Bitcoin's marketcap, Bitcoin is doomed in such a great probability that I'll sell mine (in favor of the alt).
All-in ETH? I don't think it counts as an alt. Alt meaning alternative cryptocurrency: It's not a cryptocurrency. ETH is an alternative use of blockchain technology. And it can be monetized, thus gaining currency-like aspects. I like the idea of ETH being the oil to Bitcoin's gold. MAID doesn't even use blockchains, except for its parasitic Safecoin IPO tokens piggypacking on Bitcoin. |
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As for my signature, it's not *me* telling people what Bitcoin is/isn't but rather three noted experts stating the facts.
>noted experts >LukeJr Ahahahahaha LukeJr is a noted expert on Bitcoin. That's a fact. Do you resent the fact so greatly that you must use forced, canned laughter to avoid the cognitive dissonance entailed by accepting it? How sad for you. |
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2mb now (6 months ?). No segwit yet. Nothing else yet.
Couldn't be simpler. "2MB right meow" isn't as simple as just turning a dial from 1 to 2. Complex changes to the signature structure (IE restrictions) are also required, in order to put a (shitty) band-aid on a problem segwit actually fixes. If you could learn the basic facts of the matter before spewing your wishful thinking all over the forum, that would be great. |
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