These times always come between the good times. We have all been here several times before. Just always take profit when times are good. My crytptos can go to 0 and I'll still be sitting happy in my beautiful log cabin I had built. For now I sell nothing, if we see boom times again than I will take profit again some day.

https://github.com/monero-project/monero/graphs/contributors

Slight down trend in development since July but that's rather to be expected when times are not very exciting for any crypto currencies right now but development appears to still be within normal bounds.

If you are going to fud try to make it something that isn't easily verifiable/disprovable.

You are aware that almost nobody thinks it's money right? Everyone says crypto-currency for a reason.

The demand zone... I like the sound of that place.

The only omen here is the omen that you are going to die young if you don't figure out a way to get your mind on other things. You, my friend, need a vacation.

Gluten free maybe but so high in sodium. Not sure I can recommend.

What is this strange color that looks like blue and yellow had a baby?

Don't you know you can't just go around saying n*ggers in 2018? I censored a letter out so that I don't say it too.

1) I don't know where you can get a .mdb file. The link for the most current bootstrap is use this link for the most current bootstrap on https://getmonero.org/downloads/#source but that is .raw format.

2) Yea that's true but with the blockchain linked above it will be converted to the correct database format once you run "monero-blockchain-import" on it.

Generally though I find that downloading from the network vs over ftp is not going to be your bottleneck. The bottleneck is typically going to come from the limitations of your hard drive read write speed. It is highly recommended that you use a SSD instead of an HDD if you can. You can even just use the SSD to bootstrap and copy the data.mdb over to an HDD once you are up to date if you need to conserve space on your HDD for other applications.

All that has to happen is for a fiat whale to backstop it and then for people to start to get caught in that greed feedback loop.

Bullet proofs are developed and in testing, they will bring an 80+% space savings on chain.

It's like the one on the right but with crap dangling off of it. There is a large community of full node operators, that community looks like that picture on the right, if others decide to tack their own structures onto it that doesn't change the fact that the underlying one is still there.

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Haha how did that work out for him in the movie?

All you have to do is say what people want to hear. They will listen to anyone if they do that.

We need to see >7000 for this to apply.

That looks most similar to the middle one of the three wouldn't you say?

Also, omg that hr tag. I am so excited to incorporate that into my posts. Just the sort of thing I have been looking for. +merit for you sir.

I have thought enough about this to have some things to say. I'll add more later if I can think of more.

The bitcoin blockchain is an immutable eternal database. You can store something in there and be confident that that information will be stored forever. That is crazy useful. Property titles, ownership tokens, other blockchains will offer this of course, but bitcoin will always be the most ideal place.

Also we can always just not increase the block size, ever, until we feel like miners are more than fairly compensated through transaction fees and all models predict that a modest increase in block size will still reatain adequate network security. In fact we can base our decisions about when to increase the block size on no consideration other than security. I personally feel that everything else is secondary.

Also I don't think there is a world where lightning gets to the point where it isn't unjustifiably cumbersome for large transactions. Nation states that want to use bitcoin as an alternative to SWIFT will probably find the blockchain it's self to be the place to do something like that. So there will still always be a marginal demand for on chain transactions.

I just ran into this. This is so stupid.



No shit it can't look like the one on the right. The one on the right is the problem. That's what bitcoin looks like right now and it's the reason why it doesn't scale.

Bcash is an attempt to make bitcoin it's self look like the one in the middle and in so doing give up all of the advantages that come from it looking like the one on the right. Which could be acceptable as a last resort if there were no other option.

Lightning network is a way to build a parallel network that looks like the one in the middle but doesn't replace the one on right in any way. Instead it lives separate and apart from it while being kept totally in check and made benign by the continued existence of the one on the right.

I'm so tired of all of this ignorant anti lighting network rhetoric that I keep hearing and seeing constantly. Do you guys think Ver is funding this BS. It feels like there is just too much of it for it to be organic.


P.S. Do you guys feel this is on topic enough for the wall observer thread. It's not about jews at least... but it's exactly about the price either... I just wanted a place to rant where it would actually be read and it is about bitcoin atleast...

Lightning network is being rolled out right now and it is finally delivering on bitcoins long unfulfilled promise. As far as the technology is concerned these are the best of times since the early days when bitcoin its self was a shiny new thing. I doubt you will regret that move in the long run.

When the price gets you down, focus on the tech.