Is there any particular reason why xmr on polo goes up today so fast? Something has happen, such as, new version of bitmonero, or some good news regarding monero?
Nothing of the bolded part happened, but markets don't always go up on news only. We went up several times without any news, could just be a new influx of users. Some bitcoiners getting more privacy aware, you name it. |
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I'd rather wait for my coins to be anonymized than wait for the Monero blockchain to sync, because I could write the book you mentioned in that time. Twice. Not only twice, but you could finish it as a trilogy, provide an extensive appendix and do a 4th part unexpected sequel due to popular demand  So, since this is the drk thread, dnaleor's comment was on topic. But since you bring up monero sync time, i feel it is fair to point out that your information is MASSIVELY out of date. A while back they started using the lmdb database, and about a month ago there was an enormous merge to the main branch on github that includes absolutely staggering optimizations to how it uses the lmdb database. They haven't released official binaries including it yet, but if you compile from the main branch yourself, the client synchs from scratch in a matter of a few hours, assuming you a have a fast internet connection and a decent cpu. This is not a joke or an exaggeration, from scratch to in-synch in a matter of just a few hours.... maybe you should give it a spin... I've seen reports form under an hour (syncing from scratch) from guys with a decent internet connection and a decent computer. |
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anyone knows why bitcoin is going up (pretty strong) the last days?
anyone with some TA-skills who can talk some sense about monero-charts?
thanks in advance
Uptrend remains intact, unless the ascending trendline that lies around 0.0019 is breached (it should be noted though that the uptrend isn't really that strong). However, I think unless there will be some notable releases we'll stay in consolidation (or slight decline). There is strong resistance upto the 0.00265-0.0027 area though. Visualized:  |
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Given current situation at Bitcoin and the dispute between the devs, I figured some people here might be interested in reading the following: We've seen recently how discord between developers and also between factions in the larger community has slowed Bitcoin's development (and perhaps depressed its price), affecting the entire cryptocurrency sector. Monero's politics is more opaque. Here are some questions:
1. Do the XMR devs get along?
2. Do they share a vision for Monero's future?
3. Are there significant points of technical disagreement?
4. Does everyone agree on the development path (for example, that code review and optimization should precede "official" GUI development).
5. Does everyone agree on Monero's "governance model"?
There have been no major disagreements on any of these points. Sure there are technical disagreements at times, but ultimately the vision on purely technical issues comes down to we try something and if it doesn't work out we can change it. There were some heated discussions about the emissions curve debate last year but ultimately we came to agreement on that point too. In terms of overall vision we strongly agree, and have agreed since the beginning of Monero (i.e. well before the block size debate became a big deal), that Bitcoin's development model is badly broken. While I'm not sure I can state a specific consensus of the Monero team as to a root cause, my personal opinion is that it largely comes down to premature maturity imposed on the basis of wishful thinking (i.e. like nearly every teenager). The Bitcoin community and especially some of the devs convinced themselves (the 2013 pump didn't hurt) that Bitcoin was already a big deal ("Billions in market cap!"), was rapidly approaching maturity, and needed to be treated as critical financial infrastructure like Visa or even Fedwire as opposed to a work in progress. That was erroneous in every possible way. No one working on Monero sees it as anything but a work in progress and if I have anything to do with it they won't for a very long time (far beyond Bitcoin's current maturity). |
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XMR devs, I have two question:
1) You claim XMR is untraceable. Does this mean that when Bob pays to Alice, Bob is unable to prove that he paid XMR to Alice?
2) Another question is how this transaction will appear on the blockchain?
wow you're lazy... 1) one way would be the viewkey feature 2) wut? I'll give a more serious answer. [1] No, Bob could, next to using the viewkey, prove on a case-by-case basis that he paid Alice. See -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=753252.msg12083138#msg12083138. In addition, he could use a payment ID to prove he paid Alice. [2] With encrypted payment ID's the transaction will be similiar to a normal transactions. I have to add though that I don't really know the specifics of it. But I hope this helps Then why we say the payment is untraceable if the buyer can prove he paid to the seller? Because from the "outside" (think about observing the blockchain) you can't see if Bob revealed his case-by-case key or viewkey to Alice. |
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thanks, that was fast, so monday is halving day then... BTC started a very nice move a month after it's halving day (28 november 2012)... also after a long period of relative calm. Let's see what XMR has to offer :-) You're welcome. Opposed to Bitcoin, inflation wise nothing really happens with Monero. E.g. inflation of Bitcoin halves from 3600 BTC to 1800 BTC per day, whereas XMR's block reward just smoothly decreases further. Regarding bolded, Bitcoin doubled a few months before it. Nothing really significant happened after it. I personally think XMR's figurative halving won't have a significant influence on the price. |
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XMR devs, I have two question:
1) You claim XMR is untraceable. Does this mean that when Bob pays to Alice, Bob is unable to prove that he paid XMR to Alice?
2) Another question is how this transaction will appear on the blockchain?
wow you're lazy... 1) one way would be the viewkey feature 2) wut? I'll give a more serious answer. [1] No, Bob could, next to using the viewkey, prove on a case-by-case basis that he paid Alice. See -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=753252.msg12083138#msg12083138. In addition, he could use a payment ID to prove he paid Alice. [2] With encrypted payment ID's the transaction will be similiar to a normal transactions. I have to add though that I don't really know the specifics of it. But I hope this helps |
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Are the binaries available for the newest version with improved memory management yet?
Currently only the windows binaries are avaible, if you are on linux or OSX you need to compile yourself.. I sympathize with the child there. Freedom of speech is only ever a good thing when I am free to say whatever the fuck I want, and others can only say whatever the fuck pleases my ears. Smooth must not be allowed to express his opinion by means of post/trust/rating/whatever! Oh ... Wait ... I see what you did there  Guess you were spotted very early on, off you go back on ignore little Inquisitive Troll(TM). Please stop posting off-topic nonsense on this thread. I haven't followed developments as closely as I would like, do we have any up-to-date community built binaries so I could try out the DB version on my Windows box? I know of the cautionary notes and caveats, just wondering if anyone has published binaries yet. This is from last week: https://downloads.getmonero.org/monero.win.x64.v0-9-beta.zipExercise the appropriate level of care with it being a beta. We've recently found and solved what we hope to be the only major, breaking database issue (that could have caused major issues if we'd tagged prematurely), but that means that prior LMDB sync ups have to be resynced from scratch or imported from a fresh blockchain.raw export. & personally i would welcome a freezed master branch for new features and also new "official" beta test bins. We can let it run on different OS, we can support you with testing. Most also can compile it themselfs but you would reach more possible testers if you post some windows bins again.
it seems that the newest work was merged to developement branch, so i guess this is also what the devs have in mind more or less?
is 0.9 "feature complete" ? current state seems very stable to me too, runs fine on my machines, only experienced small and allready known troubles.
All of this. I'd say though that the majority cannot/will not compile it themselves, making official binaries even more important. There are a handful of small things we need to finish and merge into development and master before we can release 0.9 RC, and then go from there. In addition, compiling guides: https://t.co/lcfu2Y6dxz& https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/3jhxkg/how_to_compile_of_various_platforms_thanks/cupj1ni |
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Furthermore, if you think the famous individual is Otoh I have to disagree with it, because he is mostly really transparent about his actions. Indeed. Maybe it's his pal, to whom he sold a pile of Dash, carrying out a precision liquidation of 1013 Dash every 90 minutes  Did you say 1,013 every 90 minutes? How many of these? BTW - all these nonsense trades of 0.05147962 DASH etc., these are robots? Where are they coming from? could these dumps perhaps be from Bitfinex ? dumping any leftover Dash they still had in possession onto Cryptsy ? Not possible. As per https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/announcements/?id=49, Bitfinex allows you to withdraw your coins until midnight UTC on September 30, 2015. In addition: After removal, any darkcoins not withdrawn will be moved to a separate wallet controlled by Bitfinex, requiring users to contact support to claim any remaining funds. So seems like they won't sell off anything. i'm not talking about user restrictions, i'm talking about the exchange itself perhaps dumping the last of the Dash reserves onto other exchanges (in this case dumping it on the exchange with the largest volume) Normally all of the DASH they have would be accounted for, so all of the DASH still left in cold storage should be of the users. I can't really comprehend why they would've additional DASH in storage (if that's what your pointing at). |
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Furthermore, if you think the famous individual is Otoh I have to disagree with it, because he is mostly really transparent about his actions. Indeed. Maybe it's his pal, to whom he sold a pile of Dash, carrying out a precision liquidation of 1013 Dash every 90 minutes Did you say 1,013 every 90 minutes? How many of these? BTW - all these nonsense trades of 0.05147962 DASH etc., these are robots? Where are they coming from? could these dumps perhaps be from Bitfinex ? dumping any leftover Dash they still had in possession onto Cryptsy ? Not possible. As per https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/announcements/?id=49, Bitfinex allows you to withdraw your coins until midnight UTC on September 30, 2015. In addition: After removal, any darkcoins not withdrawn will be moved to a separate wallet controlled by Bitfinex, requiring users to contact support to claim any remaining funds. So seems like they won't sell off anything. |
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Furthermore, if you think the famous individual is Otoh I have to disagree with it, because he is mostly really transparent about his actions. Indeed. Maybe it's his pal, to whom he sold a pile of Dash, carrying out a precision liquidation of 1013 Dash every 90 minutes Did you say 1,013 every 90 minutes? How many of these? BTW - all these nonsense trades of 0.05147962 DASH etc., these are robots? Where are they coming from? If you look at the 5 minutes chart you can get a pretty good idea of it, although the dumps are not really in 90 minutes intervals. Could be bots trading, the purpose is unclear to me as well. |
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The Cryptsy stuff could be market making activities by a certain famous individual. What makes me think that is that the bids keep getting replenished in response to the asks.Dash is now starting to fire on increasing numbers of cylinders: • iPhone wallets introducing a new commercial interface that "plugs" Dash fully into the bitcoin retail economy • an industry wide lead on governance initiatives plus the technology to support it, already launched and trialling • formal methods implementation • professional market making support on exchanges • an authoratitive and growing documentation wiki • increasingly prolific worldwide localisation support I have to make a small refutation regarding this. You are right on the bid side. However, a real market maker wouldn't put up such a big wall, but rather divide his DASH into small(er) asks to provide liquidity (which in essence a market maker is). What the purpose of the wall really is? Probably to drive down the price, but where it will stop nobody will probably know. Furthermore, if you think the famous individual is Otoh I have to disagree with it, because he is mostly really transparent about his actions. |
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This is not meant as FUD towards DASH, but DASH got delisted from bitfinex. Thus, you should remove them from coinmarketcap as well, since currently it kind of skews the volume and price. Relevant announcement -> https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/announcements/?id=49 |
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Thats me screwed for charts now. No Bitcoinwisdom support for Cryptsy and no Bitfinex at all. I suppose I can read the order book and imagine the charts. I've looked at them often enough  There actually is support, but it's "blocked" in some countries. If you are from the USA you should be able to see it with a normal browser. Otherwise, you could use https://www.4proxy.us/ with the bitcoinwisdom link ( https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/cryptsy/drkbtc) to properly see the chart. Make sure you opt-out "[Default] Include mini URL-form on every page", because it will screw up the view. Full credits go to one of your community members, who "invented" this method. |
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Hey, can I ask this community for some advice? If you don't know, I'm gearing up to try a decentralized fiction project soon... The first of its kind. The tl;dr is that I have a written, edited and illustrated book that will be given away for free. At the end will be bitcoin and Monero addresses fans can use to contribute crypto towards the project. Not only will the donations be used to help decide what happens next, but also will be used to pay/compensate writers, artists, and editors for future development in this fictional world. The hope is that this project will become self sustaining and grow on its own. For more info, check here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ing5h/labrys_will_be_launched_on_september_28th_on_the/
Your advice please: 1. It is my intention to reinvest the overwhelming majority of crypto donations back into the project. I also hope to be as open as possible about where the donations are going. To this end I propose I will keep 20% of all donations for original authorship and ongoing project management. 80% goes back as compensation for future writing, art, etc. I feel like this is an extremely fair split that will give everyone involved a good feeling about donating. What do you think? 2. I recently found that it is difficult to have more than one Monero address per client (if my understanding is correct)? My original idea was to have seven bitcoin addresses at the end of the book and seven Monero addresses... Is this unreasonable? Should I not expect to be able to realistically manage more than one Monero address until a robust GUI implementation is put into place? Thanks for your advice. This is a tremendous undertaking, and the first of its kind so I am sure there are many pitfalls ahead of me. However I feel that if done properly this may be another killer 'app' (like Crypto Kingdom) that helps bring cryptocurrency into the mainstream. Regarding [2], see comments in this reddit thread -> https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/3ixusi/generating_additional_addresses/. Perhaps two addresses will be sufficient as well. |
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Here to give you advice again, please refrain from making new threads and stick to either the ANN or the speculation thread. Making additional threads in the altcoin section will only cause a contradictory effect. So please lock or remove this thread.
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