I am really concerned with the future of crypto now. Even more than when I wrote cryptofiat (which itself becomes more plausible) or my analysis of Gartner on crypto).
The future of any crypto (except maybe Monero because of its target audience and NXT because of its considerable advance in building an ecosystem and even that, not sure).

Reason: http://www.coindesk.com/ibm-reveals-proof-concept-blockchain-powered-internet-things/

Overstock does not use XCP but clone it. IBM doesn't use XBT or ETH but clone them. That's the power of open-source.

Winners: implementors. Loser: crypto owners
This has nothing to do with bear market or bull market.

Solution: focus on your expertise on cryptos and sell it to employers and customers. Do consulting. Don't rely on your stash. It is probably doomed, whichever coin you have. Remember the dotcom bubble. Use your expertise to work on crypto once the present bubble has stopped deflating.

Financial investment may be doomed, but the expertise investment is only beginning.

Opinions?

Mentionned here: http://xmrmonero.com/article/en/new-version-monero-client-net-v0400

Does it mean that I sell my XMR at present price and if in 5 years it they are worth less than 140% (plus compounded interest) of the current price, it is more profitable than to hold them, right? If this is the case, this means I should gamble that Monero won't be worth more than 0.0017 BTC in 5 years.

Or maybe I misunderstood something.

There are NXT ponzi on a regular basis.

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Exactly. United we stand, divided we fall - the coming rise of cryptofiat

Two more entries in the moneroeconomy blog. https://moneroeconomy.com/blog. For the moment, entries are not on the main page, it may change if people consider it makes sense, even if blogs are personal posts (Monero news is the "news" tab). I remind you there is a forum too (https://moneroeconomy.com/forum), as well as a FAQ (https://moneroeconomy.com/faq-page) and a wiki (https://moneroeconomy.com/wiki which still needs some improvements).

A sample of the todo list:
- Reference section with link to reference page, as well as charts and tutorials <== you can help here!
- Listing external projectswith link to reference page, as well as charts <== you can help here!
- Internationalisation of key content
- Better highlight the differences between this website and the official Monero website. More advocacy articles
- Better carrousel

Me too, I started some days ago. I decided to only combine blocks that are more than 30 days old.

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From the compiled version. You can now have an estimate of how much you "wasted" by hitting the wall (this doesn't take higher compounded interests into account).

It is not clear here, but I was hovering the 1000 HYP stake.

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What we need is more dev. We even are ready to pay them (not much and in HYP). But even that way, no dev and our todo list is growing .

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I could be interesting to update How to build for Raspberry.

Speaking of governements, there is also the possibility to make it irrelevant (for the everyday user) by creating a state-controled sort of clone. PoS with transparent blockchain, cryptofiat.

• Enjoy the "advantage" of a PoS: as long as you have 51% of them, you have them all (you may also premine a PoW at 51% but that would be farther from governement habits). Ripple (and Stellar?) already has the support of banks, this helps a lot.
• Enjoy the "advantage" of transparent blockchain (every non-CryptoNote coin): complete monitoring of the money traffic. Great to fight tax evasion, be sure that no citizen is doing something not allowed, war on terror, etc... and even more tomorrow with pervasive monitoring, i.e. transparent-blockchain-based internet of things (Nick Szabo).

P.-S.: happy new year, altcoin observers!

Can you provide instructions to be added to this page: How to use a remote node? Please make it so that I don't have to refomulate, just check-copy-paste. Thank you.

Welcome and as binaryfate said, this is not scary and definitely not the best reason to choose Monero.

Here they are: Why Monero

Do you plan to allow investement, like in JD?

Eventually, no. Meanwhile, coding takes time.

Minimum is now 50 XMR + 10 XMR for handling fees. 50 XMR gives you only minimal vote power. You can go up to 1000 XMR. In any case, half of them go to the dev fund.

Donation address: mew.moneroaddress.org (openalias from mymonero.com or simplewallet 0.8.8.6) or regular address

I sent you your payment ID by PM. Please inform me once you sent the payment.

Good idea. For the moment, the slider is not "drupal-native" (AFAIK), so it has to be edited by hand, FTP-side. lyth0s could help on this. I would like it to be editable straigtht from Drupal in the future - it might require changing it completely. There are a lot of carousel modules for Drupal, but I did not investigated them. Again, either lyth0s (webdesigne for the site) or someone conversant in Drupal would be of use.

For the rest (i.e. non-carousel-content), yes, you can edit. You must first create an account. After that, you shall normally be able to create blog entries that will appear in the blog tab (https://moneroeconomy.com/blog - for reason unknown, I cannot rename it https://moneroeconomy.com/blogs, with an "s"). Later, I could give access to other contents, but I'd like to start slowly. Blog entries are for personal considerations. Ultimately, I plan to make them available only for MEW members once I created a MEW role (you already are a MEW member so everything is fine).

I purposefully do not give you more instructions, to check how easy/hard it is to create an account and start blogging with no information.

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I created a new tab, "News", which will announce latest news. It will be in-between regular pages like about us, contact, what is Monero... and informal texts like blogs. I started by announcing Jojatetok's newest release.

https://moneroeconomy.com/news

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I update the site information
Title: Monero Economy Workgroup
Slogan: Fostering Monero adoption
Both are open to change, just say and we'll see.

I'd like to have a translation slogan in Dutch, German and Spanish (but only once any potential about the slogan is addressed)
For a link to the official forum, I ran out of inspiration. One possibility is to have a clickable link on the slogan (which I did), but it goes against the principle of least astonishment. There will eventually by an introductory page linking to the official website, but it won't appear on main page (well, it coul, but it would not be highly visible, since it will be in a page, not as a link). Last possibility would a tab to the official forum, but I really don't like this. Tabs are for navigating inside a website, not outside of it.

The FAQ is already here, check the menu bar
Regular blog with news is addressed now, this is the "news" (I understand that the "blogs" menu bar might confuse people, since blogs are users' (or devs') blogs, not official news, maybe I should find another term. Monday Monero Missives will be announced (and duplicated) here too.
Cryptokingdom will have a page or even a section, yet to see.
Infographics, block explorer... I think a "reference" section would make sense.

Instructions for testing the DB shall appear on the website. Both for Linux and GingerAle ones. Ginger Ale, you could even post them as a blog entry.

Thank you for all these constructive suggestions, it proves there is a demand! Don't forget you can participate yourself!

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Exactly. The point of the presentation is to 1) quickly 2) give an idea.

Thanks

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Thus it is not a crowdfunding. It is a donation.
We asked many times (dev fund, hall of fame, MEW) and none of them worked. Maybe it was not announce the right way (like what you propose), but I still doubt it. That being said, why not try again, especially now that I have released moneroeconomy.com

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Trying to see if it works. Some things will, some things won't. All are possible with Drupal with low maintenance and sharing accounts. For instance, if you decide to create a blog, you have you same login for the forum. Plus, the idea of "leaving bitcointalk" is still here.

A lot of people (rightly) complain about the lack of marketing for Monero. There are two reasons for that. The first is that marketing an alpha software is a surefire way to disappoint a lot of people who won’t give it a second chance later on. The second is that it is not the job of the core team, which takes care of the technical development. This is the job of MEW (what is MEW?).

Last weeks, I've been working with a restricted team (namely, ArticMine and lyth0s) on a website for MEW. Contrary to the monero.cc website which is, in both its current and future iterations, a website devoted to the technology and everything the core team is working on, this new website will be devoted to the non technical aspects: improving visibility and fostering economy (this will include crypto-kingdom). As a reminder, I am a member of both the core team and the MEW.

My philosophy (most of it is from The Cathedral and the Bazaar and Wikipedia):

DONE - release early, release often;
       done is better than perfect;
       JFDI, Just Fuckin Do It (© jaybeeuk).
KISS - keep it simple, it'll get complex by itself soon enough;
       when something is done, check how to achieve the same thing, but simpler;
       perfection is when there is nothing more to take away.
PLAN - have some vision, know where you're going;
       this may mean doing "nothing" for days - it's fine.
NICE - assume good faith.
HELP - learn to delegate and to do it well;
       doing everything yourself is a fail, not a success;
       avoid the Not-Invented-Here™ syndrome.
QUIT - You’ll eventually quit so look in advance for competent successor.

So here it is, a Drupal-powered website which is multilingual, mobile-ready, multi-user and has a static part, a forum, a wiki, one blog per user, a CRM and probably more as time goes on. My job now (I am a plant) is much less to add more stuff and much more to allow empowerment: seize this website as yours. I'll be here to help you, but I'd like this website to be driven by the community - irrespective of whether or not you are MEW members - although MEW will ultimately have some advantages, of course.

No milestone, no roadmap, no bullshit:

I just realised something can be improved on the gif. The Cryptonote part shall not show

But
Because even the amount of XMR sent is not known.

Can you remind me who I should contact?

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papa_lazzarou, you should create an openalias, like donate.moneroblocks.eu. Q: What is openalias? How does it work?

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crowdfunding usually has a counterparty: you fund us, you get a discount on the final product.
Since we are fair-launched, there is no "discount on final product" that we can offer.

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You forget one thing: the required technology is not here yet. Bitcoin had 5 years to create it, we've been around for six months. Current development is exactly about that: making the technology able to scale up. The GUI wallet will include everything that is needed for that - that's why the GUI wallet is more than a nice GUI wrapper.
Once the technology is ready, we plan to market Monero big time and have it accepted by merchants. But not before, because it would only lead to disappointment.

Hype is about perception, not accuracy. So it fits well. Hype around "cryptocurrencies".

What I expect to see at plateau of productivity: http://unenumerated.blogspot.fr/2014/12/the-dawn-of-trustworthy-computing.html

Your answer is OK for me.

My attempt at calculating optimal blocksize
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qsvOsodKJsGFx54riDMxznxjXZek95hehftPPIgOHD8/edit#gid=2118064072

Please duplicate a tab and try your own calculation. A database of experienced waiting time would be good too.