Well last July 2017, they got seized by the US Govt (they were operating as BTC-e), some of their bank accounts were seized and the websites, but I believe that they were able to keep a large majority of the crypto, based on their own self reporting.  About a month and a half later, they reopened as WEX and did a Bitfinex style socializing of the loss (about 40%-ish), and they issued tokens that they said would be reimbursed.

In the ensuing year, they have not been able to regenerate their previous trade volume and it appears that a lot of folks are trying to withdraw their funds, which seems to snowball, including WEX restricting withdrawals which continues to exacerbate the lack of confidence problem and the run on the exchange.  So accordingly confidence has been lost about whether WEX has enough money to cover all deposits, and surely they have been a whole hell-of-a lot less profitable after reopening because they have not been able to return to their former self (trade volume wise).   There is likely some other continued legal wrangling behind the scenes too because they USA Govt does not give up in terms of attempting to prosecute folks that they can find associated with the exchange, and that could be continuing to affect their operations and their expenses.. and may even motivate them to do an exit scam if they cannot pay everyone or to cover their expenses. 

Suppose a coin (could be Monero, or could be something else) requires 20 confirmations everywhere (exchanges, merchants, whatever). Suppose this coin also had an update that refused to accept alternate chains deeper than 19 blocks ago. That would, in theory, kill the 51% issue, right? What would the downsides be?

I have a theoretical question.Suppose a coin (could be Monero, or could be something else) requires 20 confirmations everywhere (exchanges, merchants, whatever).  Suppose this coin also had an update that refused to accept alternate chains deeper than 19 blocks ago.  That would, in theory, kill the 51% issue, right?  What would the downsides be?

Cesar Romero's?

The people on /r/ethtrader are pretty bearish at the moment ( normally they are circlejerk permabulls in there ) , many expect a huge dump for alts on both scenario's: ETF approval or rejection.

Monero still shine over the forks
https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/monero/usd

Monero can expect another huge dump i guess now that full privacy is available for Bitcoin.

https://www.coindesk.com/privacy-bitcoin-wallets/

Dude, stopped on their discord and people were talking about "If the price pumps to X, I'll buy a lambo for every day of the week!"

Don't they know the life cycle of a privacy shitcoin? 1. launch coin silently so devs can accumulate 2. make incredible claims (IE. Whitepaper SOON!) 3. work noobs into a frothy lather of expectations 4. go full-shill and attack Monero 5. pump and die 6. take what you learned and start a new coin (only appies to devs and pump masters)

You don't skip to 4

 This could be an opportunity for a seasteading Bitcoinist.  Set up shop in an o-zone (numa numa) to build components for the steads.  Dodge some tax money, employ a few people who need it and help to build your new community in the equatorial zone.  Win win win.

In what way is Hairy's statement patently false?

Sure if you mean the old world alts of pre-2014 back *before* the current nouveau crop like ETH, XRP, DASH, XMR, etc., all the ICO garbage... then yeah, they had a pretty hard bear market. I remember LTC dropping from $48 all the way down to $1.20.

But the nouveau shitcoin crowd has yet to see a significant crash. And trust me it's thin all the way down. Just look how that one whale trader on Coinbase was able to crash ETH all the way down to $0.10. And that was just like ONE guy (or one small colluding group).

None of the major alts have ever endured a full crypto winter.  Even ETH launched at the bottom of the crypto winter and was straight uphill from there. Undoubtedly this has been a learning experience for the Masters of the Altiverse.  

Gentlemen, how confident (or not) are you that the bottom is in?

Not enough money to pump bitcoin and the alts. This is still a really weak rally on terrible volume, hence alts sell for BTC.

No, what I wanna to try to say : they are ways to hide exploits in Open Source code in plain view, not necessarily complex like a backdoor, just something to introduce a bug that could be exploited by a Malicious Actor further.

I'm quite sure Hue was being sarcastically humorous as indicated by the smiley thingy.

But yeah, smaram claims to have received it ~6 weeks ago.

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kek, I wonder who is embarrassing himself right now.

They have been tiny exploit hidden in Linux Kernel code in plain view to tons of reviewers and they didn't see it, why ? Because one character was misplaced and worked after compilation, thanks to C.

That character misplaced was identified further like an Elevation Privilege Exploit.

It's like in C if you forget parenthesis in some Macro you gonna fuck the calculus logic :

Replace x by 2+3, SQUARE_A will fail, not SQUARE_B.

Now try to take a simple project in Go and compile it on different architecture and computer with and without cross compiler, and check the result. Even if you have 1:1 code you will never get the 1:1 binary code.

There was never better place than 127.0.0.1

Hey guys does Anyone know that monero is being used as the main Coín to buy on the deep web?

going to moon or usual pump and dump folks?

What is going to happen on 10th August?

I don't think it's causing a 'sell off'.  BTC is just out performing everything right now.  But it will pass.  Those buyers will run out of bullets and will be forced to hedge in alts sooner or later. 

I got me an alt that I'm bagholding that I wish to god it would pump now!  I feel dirty holding this.  Lmao.

I sent a transaction today that was just a donation so I set the fee to 2 sat/b and it went through the next block.

3 cents.

For once I'd like to hear someone admit it was the cocaine talking.

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You Can Now 51% Attack a Coin for as Little as $500

Bytecoin Could Be Attacked for Just $557

No even if you have all the code with all history of commits, if Monero servers are compromised with binary with a tiny backdoor or an tiny exploit hidden in it, it will be hard to find out unless devs reveal their binary were compromised.

Because even you'll have a fork of project even with the same arch, you could compile and still get a binary code different from official binary.

The only way to check if your binary isn't compromised is to review the code and compile yourself. Until this time you have to trust official binary with the official checksum provided.

Once again you don't trust the binary provided fine, come back further.