This has been an idea I have been speaking about to friends for a long time.  They generally laugh and scoff when I say that the advent of cryptocurrency, when in full bloom, will be seen as an event in human history at least as important as the internet itself.  Being a subset of, or dependent upon the global network, it cannot arguably eclipse it entirely, but since it will be the store of human value it's fundamental nature raises it's importance quite a bit.  Cryptocurrency is the progeny of the internet.  But the child may in time rise to heights not possible for the father.

We naturally underestimate the vast importance of money.  All of us playing tiddlywinks with the future here on bitcointalk will look back with amazement saying "if we only knew".  The game we play is to uncover the clues to what will eventually be seen as inevitable and impossible not to have happened.

It is a very valuable fog we wander around in here, now in the present.

I have merged this a while back... hrm.  Wonder what's up.

https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/blob/master/_data/donators.yml

Does anyone think Andreas Antonopolous will ever get pissed that we stole his hairline for the Monero logo?

Ah. what wonderful discussion... thanks.

The flaw in this is that crypto is so much bigger and more compelling than any one brand.  Nothing can stop it really...  What it becomes is going to be hashed out and at the moment Bitcoin leads the pack, and I agree if it is somehow displaced that will have chaotic effects.

I agree with your conclusion though.  There is room for Monero to gain #2 status in time, and it's unique features allow it to have a symbiotc relationship with Bitcoin.

As you can see from the posted chart we are nearing the end of double digit rewards.

No.  It's impossible.  And I wish I had 80K XMR...  but I do not.

Wow.  You're dead on.  But what address again?

Thanks Risto, naka, mac.  These are good thoughts.  They remind us why we are here.

At the very beginning of my interest in Monero one lightbulb went on which led me to take a stake.  It was the idea that Monero offered the cleanest version of a solution to bitcoins privacy problem.   Or put another way Monero offered a utility that bitcoin could never really offer and remain bitcoin.

My first impressions of Monero's utility were not as the currency of the black markets as some have seemed to think, but as a private store of value.  Monero offered the potential of a private store of value that bitcoin has difficulty doing, and arguably cannot do.  I thought of Monero in the anaolgy of being a "private offshore account".  A place people could find the freedom of privacy with finances in the realm of crypto currency.

If anyone can guess how many monero I hold at a specific address I will give them all of it.

Good luck.

I liked that the devs saw Monero addresses as "accounts" as opposed to wallets since I think it better implies this functionality.

The other key aspect for me has been the fact that Monero is not "feature rich".  It does not try to add a bunch of whiz-bang features to the bitcoin base.  It just implements simple, strong, peer reviewed cryptography.  A kind of cryptography which offers functionality that, like I said, bitcoin probably never will.

My 2 cents.

1.  Huge, gigantic probably lied about instamine.
2.  Too much fancy.  It will be exploited eventually IMO.

And an impossible one without breaking trust in both currencies.  It is tremendously more likely to see the value of one of these coins shift into the other than for them to merge.  In the short term that value will want to go into bitcoin.  But in the long term, if XMR does not shift ALL its value in that direction the probability of the opposite shift rises continuously.

Yes.  Thanks Shapeshift team, and all who helped them know to use the mixins.

So.  This is the way a market works.  Speculators are churning these numbers all the time.  When you say 1.5MM coins dumped then you have to say that also means 1.5MM coins bought.  Why are you mad about a liquid market.  I am glad there are both buyers and sellers.  Your opinion seems to be these 1.5MM coins have been sold by "old bitcoin hands" into bag holders.  That implies a fairly polarized view of who is trading here.  Evil geniuses and idiots.

If there is a conspiracy please shed more light on it for us. 

Not sure you read his post carefully.  Say monero goes to $25.  Is $250 worth the risk to recover 534x$25?  That's a question for you to answer.  But how much does it cost to put the broken hard drive on a shelf until monero is worth $.00003 or $25.00?

Bingo.  Same thing here...

This is the thing.  At the moment Monero are cheap.  One can own a good chunk of future potential for little investment.

The idea that there should be those who do not participate in the risk is foolish.

Pull request sent.  Updates done.


Thanks.  I am glad to have a little part I can contribute.

Updates incoming.

Seriously.  I know "don't quote the trolls", but what about when it is funny?

You really need to try a different game.  You are very bad at this one.

HA.

Oh and to keep this on topic...  I persoanlly am betting XMR price is building a little base here.  I would be happy to see it consolodate for a while.  I am cautiously buying small amounts.  I do think there is a chance we see more lows as it doesn't take very big dumps at market to move the price.  However that works both ways.

Monero's fundamentals are still strong.

Yes.  I always tell myself the swings and the risk are part of the admission price.  There are some small ways to exploit them too though my strategy is fairly conservative.