The MEW has some core team members in it (I am a member, although I generally don't participate in many of the MEW activities due to a lack of time and interest), but it is not sanctioned, appointed, or in any other way related to the Core Team. We have specifically rejected the idea of a Monero "foundation", primarily because of the poor example the Bitcoin foundation has set.

Nonetheless, the MEW is able to do whatever it wants, it's a free planet after all, but the Core Team are not obligated to follow any of their suggestions. That is not to say we are at odds with them, and we respect MEW voting on a particular issue as being indicative of the consensus among a portion of the Monero community, but at best any outcome of a MEW vote would be a "strong suggestion" to us and we would still feel it out and make an appropriate decision.

This separation is important as it means the Core Team can't be bought, even if the stakes are significantly higher.

With regards to the forum, the official forum exists as a platform we're putting together because it will allow us to harness future developments like MoneroID and MoneroTrust (see the Design and Development Goals) and implement them in the forum, a task that would be significantly harder if we used anything else that was more generic.

We already have that: https://forum.getmonero.org/1/news-announcements-and-editorials - I can give Gingeropoulos access to post in that section so the digests can go there too.

I'd also like to suggest that we avoid cross-posting actual content, especially since moneroeconomy.com is a MEW site and not an official/core site. The reason we want to avoid cross-posting content is that Google tends to penalise duplicate content when a site isn't canonical, so something that is posted on the official forum and then cross-posted everywhere makes it more confusing for Google to figure out which site is canonical.

It's also important to understand that we are diverging far from the CryptoNote reference code (and even from the CryptoNote protocol) as we fix its shortcomings and extend it. At some point Monero will be different enough so as to say that it is powered by the Monero protocol, and that day is not far off:)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=320690 - last active two days ago, so I guess he's around but relatively quiet. Maybe he's busy with a write-up for some other currency.

Instead of moving them just import your existing wallet to MyMonero (by logging in with your 25 word mnemonic seed and paying the 10 XMR once-off fee). That way you keep your address, and if MyMonero ever goes down it doesn't matter, because you can still access it with simplewallet or any of the GUIs.

I'm parroting the criticism that is launched at us:)

For reference, and a bit of a laugh-in-hindsight, look at what happened when I *dared* to take a break and go for a walk on the beach with my wife when BCX was banding around his fake exploit scam:

Even worse - Monero means "coin" in Esperanto, so Bitmonero literally means Bitcoin. lol.

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If you're running it on a Linux VM then I suggest compiling the blockchain DB branch and testing that?

"smooth launch" - wut?

"html wallet" - what do they think MyMonero.com is?

"lite wallet" - what do they think MyMonero.com is?

"mobile wallet" - what do they think MyMonero.com is?

Also "anon (mixing)" is subjective, Monero inputs mix your output with other outputs, which is (by definition) mixing.

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no, look at his command line - he's passing --electrum-seed mro instead of --wallet-file.

coomme: just run simplewallet and follow the prompts, don't pass any command-line arguments unless you have a specific reason to do so.

But what was Kara Thrace?

I replied to you on the Monero Support thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=652305.msg10711562#msg10711562

There's a bug with the 0.8.8.6 wallet converter that's fixed in 0.8.8.7 (not tagged yet) - are you able to compile the latest version from Github? Alternatively, you can use 0.8.8.6 and restore from your mnemonic seed, or failing that I can see if I can give you a more recent build of simplewallet for your OS.

We're open to transitioning to something else in future, but you could argue that we will never get away from "Englishisms" on a domain basis. The .com / .net / .org TLDs are all based on English words (company, network, organisation). Even worse - I've been accused by an American of being deceptive by having a South African company own a .com (even though we do business all over the world), because he reckoned that only American companies should own .com TLDs, so weird perceptions definitely exist:)

We don't own monerotalk.org, the forum is at forum.getmonero.org

Nonetheless, we've specifically rejected SMF (and similar) for the forum for a number of reasons. Beyond the scalability and ongoing security issues, there's also the difficulty in customising both the functionality to meet our requirements and the look-and-feel to match our site. But most importantly, it doesn't really play into our requirement to create tooling that works for us both now, and into the future when we start introducing the functionality detailed towards the end of the research portion of our Design and Development Goals.

You are 100% correct - after the block 202 612 attack we completely shifted our priorities. It's not good enough for us to "fail fast and fail often" like some hipster startup, because we're playing with other people's money. We have to get the fundamentals incredibly tight first, otherwise we'll end up burning so much effort constantly updating the GUI to work with the underlying moving target.

The third-party GUIs are great, because it means we can make those underlying changes as we need to, and let the third-party GUI developers deal with compatibility. A good starting point to seeing the options for using Monero is on the "Choose a Monero Client" page: https://getmonero.org/getting-started/choose

Ok so then I went and got the formula from the Darkcoin OP as it was 3 weeks after launch, which was "Block reward is controlled by moore's law: (11111 / (((Difficulty+51)/6) ^ 2))", and I graphed them all:


So reality doesn't match any of the claimed block reward formulae, and this is deeply concerning because changing the social contract destroys the trust (or SHOULD destroy the trust) between the community and the developers of the cryptocurrency.

Now you're just trolling. Timestamps are set by miners and are not universally reliable, and in any event difficulty retargeting relies on the law of large numbers (ie. capacity for statistical variance has to exist).

Also hey, the last 5 Darkcoin blocks tell exactly the same story: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]