i believe I2P was scraped for a better idea or not needed after all. if evolution does not take care of it then it will get done but it's not a priority on my wish list.
btw monero will be replaced by zerocash soon, just thought i'd throw that out for no reason.

ring sigs were replaced by a different idea (read the thread) without all the bloating monero suffers from which does not allow it to scale. the failure of monero to produce a official gui wallet has actually helped keep the already massive bloating down. fluffypony said the official gui will be ready soon, 2-3 months? 3-6 months? probably before zerocash makes monero obsolete. but by the time they get around to figuring out how to "significantly" prune the blockchain and implement it monero will be obsolete, replaced by zerocash.


supposedly masternode blinding is being replaced with a better implementation in v13 evolution. waiting for the whitepaper.
it was put on hold last release to implement evans new idea of decentralized governance by blockchain. evan and the community decided to give that priority so we could fund more devs to work on our wish lists.

instamine!

However, it is somewhat unworkable right now. Firstly, it has a trusted accumulator problem that remains unsolved at this stage (although they posit solving this through an RSA UFO). Even if that is solved there is still the very real danger of it being impossible to see exploits in an absolutely opaque blockchain with relatively new and untested cryptography (ie. an exploit that lets an attacker create, say, 2 000 000 ZeroCash in a single day will go unnoticed). Finally, even with their newer ZKP schemes there is still a significant size impact for each transaction, and absolutely no way you'd be able to run SPV-style wallets or perform blockchain pruning. Once the cryptography has been more thoroughly tested, corner cases have been solved, and technology is at a point where the size impact is negligible, then I would imagine some future iteration of ZeroCash will become the dominant form for cryptocurrency payments.

Does your (if at all) comment refer to your view on the difficulty level in adding it or whether there will be a consensus that it is desired?

Here is the version I was originally waiting to post with tag linkability sketched out reasonably completely.

Here is the version I was originally waiting to post with tag linkability sketched out reasonably completely.

Hello from 2+2

Although I have never used it for problems, I hear going on IRC is helpful.  Have you tried #monero or #monero-dev ?

Nicely put. In any case, I believe this time it's his turn. Either he wants to reveal what he has (ie: describe in detail what he has managed to solve / created) or we assume he has nothing at all. Simple as that. In any case if he has something usable and worthy from the XMR devteam, I repeat what I wrote in his "ion" thread; I'm willing to donate some of my XMR stash in order to buy his work if he's for real.

Let's see what he decides.

Your assuming he is correct.

Its not locked, one can simply move their masternode collateral (1000 Dash) to an exchange and sell them if they feel like it. The network just wont regnonice them as operating masternodes anymore.

First off this is the wrong thread for this, second let him do his own thing. He doesn't work well with others.

Yes, it seems to be a fairly strong damping force, the count will move in big price moves but hardly moves at all with relatively small ones. I was expecting it to be way more erratic but folks seem very reluctant to pull their savings when they're gaining interest. There's been some nice in depth posts on the economics and they're proving fairly accurate so far, I was sceptical of the expectations at first but it's looking good.

Does this mean further downwards pressure is expected?

Pretty much all alts are going down at the moment as the BTC rally continues. Look at LTC, NMC & PPC, well established cryptos that usually rise along with BTC; well currently they're not maintaining their natural peg or slight increase, they're all dropping too. It's just one of those periods where everyone gets the alt heebeejeebees and start bailing out. Dash is being affected in the same way. Just need to hang on until the sun starts shining again.

FWIW: Offers decreased from ~37k last night to ~10k today, might explain all the mini walls around 0.0016. In other words, someone could be protecting his short position. Alternative explanation, the offerer just took away a chunk of his offers.

Almost all altcoins are taking a pretty big hit in the last few weeks, saddens me to see it slide like this. Resembles the August-Januari bearmarket a bit.

the problem with my seed has been succesfully solved by fluffypony.
thank you all for your help and support.

lessons learned:

- write bitmonero version number on your seed too, it will help the devs to debug if there should be any problem and a lot of time passed
- keep something to identify your adress, best write the last 4 letters down with your seed on the same paper
- do not use (very) old versions, take the time to upgrade and migrate cold storages too from time to time.
- to have a picture from the seed + address helps, even if it is just to eliminate the doubts about yourself/your hand writing once aou are not able to restore from seed(do i really have the right seed/address?) i had a crappy video but you just need one good frame if you really need it
- if possible, write seed with an offline pc and print or use a writing machine so there is no doubt about every single character, handwriting is not the best way to go for everybody
- use .keys files as your main backup. use seed only as a second parachute

Withdrew a few hundred DASH from Cryptsy, no problems. Maybe the amount was small enough, maybe I got lucky, or maybe their problems aren't DASH related.

Hi, it's me again.

I tried to download and install the wallet. That went well.
Then I started syncing, but after a while I needed to close it, because my laptop become very slow 

Any ideas how to solve this? I'm sorry, I didn't read in this topic yet. Maybe there is a solution already.
If there isn't, i'm sorry, but then I won't be able to test out XMR and just stick with DASH.
I don't want to buy a faster laptop just to test a cryptocurrency.


Meanwhile I managed to test DASH and was wondering how Monero compares to that. Wasn't able to test it due to the problems with my wallet, but maybe someone else knows the details:

FYI: I had 2 DASH in my wallet so I could test out the features.
* Mixing my full balance took 3 hours. How long would it take to mix 10 XMR (about the same value)
* When I was mixing, the wallet showed that sometimes masternodes were idle (probably because they weren't upgraded). Is the mixing network of Monero faster?
* Doing a darksend transaction of +/- 1 DASH costed me 0.1 DASH. What is the fee for an XMR "darksend" ?

Thanks.  I have never been able to really determine that.

Many thanks, I got access to my account back, but no sign of the BTC or LTC as yet and no response for the last couple of days to my many support requests, no explanation, no money, nothing.

I never understood how to read those graphs... What do they mean, and how can you tell if something has "bottomed out" and can only go up from there?