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781  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency on: May 03, 2017, 06:00:26 AM
Sweep_unmixable gives me this error:

mixin too low.

This should not happen, is a bug, and should be reported in github if it hasn't been already.

It is supposed to be possible to send pre-existing unmixable outputs with mixin 0. Therefore no mixin would be 'too low'. It can't be guaranteed that you have enough value in the wallet to pay the necessary fees. That's a different issue though, and should not result in the above error. Again, please report the bug.

Report here: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues

Click "New issue" and as completely and accurately as possible describe what is going on. Do not include any private information as those issues are public.
782  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What Happened to Augur? on: May 02, 2017, 10:36:15 PM
Correct, you cannot yet bet on the Ethereum network with real currency. The test net is just like the live net - same code and everything, just no one mines on it and its currency is worthless... you can bet there to play around with the mechanics of it and that is where they are putting it through its paces to work out any bugs.

Aweomse, thank you! Is there any specific ETA for when we will see Augur roll out live? Or is 'sometime later this year' all that anyone knows at this point in time?

It just so happens I looked around on their web site the other day and I saw nothing on their blog or elsewhere other than beta release from a while back. They seem to have a lot of speaking engagements scheduled soon, if you want to guess about one of those being a launch announcement, that might not be crazy.

http://blog.augur.net/2016/05/16/new-team-members-upcoming-events/

I guess I was wrong. However, they are at least updating their blog with development info now, and not just speaking engagements. Maybe that is progress?

http://blog.augur.net
783  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: rpietila's Crypto Kingdom game is a scam, heavily in debt. Do not deposit funds. on: May 01, 2017, 06:53:25 AM
You all should be ashamed bullying Risto like this.

When Risto pays you back (which he will) you ought to be ready to apologise.

He is a good intentioned, god-fearing man, and there's no way on Earth he would choose personal profit at the expense of his brothers and sisters.

You will soon see that Risto pays back every penny, and though you might mock him (even after the event) he will have the ultimate upper hand.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to pass through the gates of heaven.

I'm quite certain Risto is about to make a huge sacrifice and will ensure every penny is paid to every one owed.

But it is he who shall have the last glory, as the father looks on with more satisfaction than ever before.

This will happen in seven days from now. Mark my words.

We shall see.


He is right Smooth! You shouldn't have started this like this! How will you apologies after it's all over?

Everything I wrote is factual and accurate (if not, by mistake, I'm happy to accept corrections). I have nothing to apologize for.

Once I am paid what I am owed, I will update with those new facts accordingly. Others who are owed and, thus far, unpaid, are welcome to do the same.


And you think apologies after payment are not necessary?(I just want to see what kind of person you are since you have id 18 ... I might meet you at Malla).

If I have misstated anything or otherwise erred, then I should and will apologize. I'm not aware of such. Calling out financial irresponsibility and non-payment is not, in and of itself, something that calls for apology, even if the debt is eventually settled.

You, on the other hand, appear to repeatedly downplay and dismiss such irresponsibility and failure to pay, and in doing so tend toward implicating yourself as an enabler at best and a willing participant at worst. If this is not intended, then you might consider modifying your behavior.


784  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: May 01, 2017, 02:56:15 AM
I know its trivial in light of the fact this is a thread about XMR price speculation: but for the record XMR has just smashed the ATH in terms of USD and the buy/sell ratio (while clearly manipulated) looks very healthy, suggesting the next week is going to be extremely positive.

Of course, it could all just be about Risto....

I think the bitcoin price is more important. It means it is taking more market share from bitcoin.

Other comments about whether one is investing in (or speculating on) market share or overall crypto success are valid, but I would also say that the concept of market share assumes there is one market. What if Bitcoin and at least some of the others address fundamentally different (or different but only partially overlapping) markets?
785  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: rpietila's Crypto Kingdom game is a scam, heavily in debt. Do not deposit funds. on: May 01, 2017, 02:52:18 AM
You all should be ashamed bullying Risto like this.

When Risto pays you back (which he will) you ought to be ready to apologise.

He is a good intentioned, god-fearing man, and there's no way on Earth he would choose personal profit at the expense of his brothers and sisters.

You will soon see that Risto pays back every penny, and though you might mock him (even after the event) he will have the ultimate upper hand.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to pass through the gates of heaven.

I'm quite certain Risto is about to make a huge sacrifice and will ensure every penny is paid to every one owed.

But it is he who shall have the last glory, as the father looks on with more satisfaction than ever before.

This will happen in seven days from now. Mark my words.

We shall see.


He is right Smooth! You shouldn't have started this like this! How will you apologies after it's all over?

Everything I wrote is factual and accurate (if not, by mistake, I'm happy to accept corrections). I have nothing to apologize for.

Once I am paid what I am owed, I will update with those new facts accordingly. Others who are owed and, thus far, unpaid, are welcome to do the same.
786  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake, a.k.a. "Clamcoin" on: April 30, 2017, 10:34:17 AM
Take ETH/ETC, if you had ETH when there block chain forked, you had just as many ETC.  This is almost the same.

It is actually not even remotely the same, for better or worse. Giving equal amounts to near-dust as large balances enormously changes the distribution.

In the sense of being a snapshot of a single block, I would assume that part is correct but I wasn't around and haven't looked closely so I can't be sure.
787  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: rpietila's Crypto Kingdom game is a scam, heavily in debt. Do not deposit funds. on: April 30, 2017, 10:17:11 AM
You all should be ashamed bullying Risto like this.

When Risto pays you back (which he will) you ought to be ready to apologise.

He is a good intentioned, god-fearing man, and there's no way on Earth he would choose personal profit at the expense of his brothers and sisters.

You will soon see that Risto pays back every penny, and though you might mock him (even after the event) he will have the ultimate upper hand.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to pass through the gates of heaven.

I'm quite certain Risto is about to make a huge sacrifice and will ensure every penny is paid to every one owed.

But it is he who shall have the last glory, as the father looks on with more satisfaction than ever before.

This will happen in seven days from now. Mark my words.

We shall see.
788  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: rpietila's Crypto Kingdom game is a scam, heavily in debt. Do not deposit funds. on: April 30, 2017, 08:37:28 AM
Did someone present a piece of paper with a stamp of local police or anything similar on it  Roll Eyes

See above
789  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: rpietila's Crypto Kingdom game is a scam, heavily in debt. Do not deposit funds. on: April 30, 2017, 08:04:51 AM
No third party and/or verifiable evidence whatsoever has been presented in support of any of these alleged thefts/fires/floods. That does not mean that they did not occur, nor that they did.
790  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City) on: April 30, 2017, 05:41:49 AM
Risto does have a gift for the economic game mechanics design and storytelling

Agree

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and if that becomes his future focus, then in time I can see the community looking back on the recent events of the last few weeks as a win::win for everyone concerned

Agree, except I can't really see the people facing large losses (my unpaid debt is rather small, though I guess it is all relative to the individual situation) seeing any sort of win-win until the debt is repaid.

Going forward and putting the game back on sound footing, I'm not particularly a fan of the M concept at all. IMO the only reason it was done was as part of an ill-conceived attempt to pump its valuation using fraudulent pegs. If the game is to continue I would strongly favor returning the M/CK token back to its original role as game 'equity' (with potential for dividends if the game is sufficiently profitable) and likewise returning to using a fully-backed hard currency for exchange purposes.

In IRC it was noted that the XMR pump caused problems for the previous XMR-backed M but I disagree. What caused problems was the earlier poor decision to take on a lot of long term debt denominated in XMR (something which was clearly foreseen and strongly and frequently warned about before the fact by ArticMine and others). Such problems can easily be avoided in the future with better application of common sense.

I agree with most of this, but the part of being pegged to xmr. Seeing your ingame funds slashed -(10x) due to the xmr increase, was not pleasant. Now, if the game currency was linked to an asset like tether, or it was its own asset, then I'd be on board--though I'd expect the currency is capped or some other measure is made to garner traders' trust.

Tether is kind of shit, and could very well fail altogether. But anyway, maybe BTC is better than XMR. I have no particular view on that. Making it its own token is fine  (and see below), except that there really isn't any reason to believe that using equity as trade currency is a good idea. You can very well have similar effects as you describe (in terms of other asset prices) if the equity value of the game increases or decreases a lot. Currency and equity should really be separate.

Splitting or reverse splitting the in-game currency token as needed could be one fix for the problem you described, in fact it could happen according to a some predefined rule based on fiat exchange or purchasing power (if tied to and fully backed by a crypto).

Also, I forgot to mention that the equity token absolutely needs to move to a real blockchain asset platform like Counterparty or ETH (and perhaps, though not as urgently, other in-game assets too). This game has potential, but shifting the needle a bit toward 'real' and away from 'bullshit' and (arbitrarily editable) 'database' will do it wonders.


791  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: April 30, 2017, 02:38:03 AM
Let's try not to veer too far off topic. Fraudulent fractional reserve scams and unpaid debts aren't directly related to Monero speculation

Actually it is relevant as this was a marketing decision to help create the ecosystem which is an intrgal part of speculation. Not commenting on this would be akin to not commenting on the adoption from the dark Markets.

Although I am of the opinion that the impact will be small on the ecosystem and by extension the price as those that got scammed are from what I can see the majority of long term holders that will not be put off of XMR because of this.

Good point and the subsequent discussions have demonstrated the relevance. I stand corrected.
792  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: April 29, 2017, 02:40:08 PM
i do not understand but assume its relevant, since i miss the information to dismiss its relevancy for now.

has xmr been stolen (as he claims) ?
have paperwallets (with many coins inside) been destroyed ?

Indeed it was claimed that XMR was stolen. Perhaps that would be relevant. The lost and/or damaged paper wallets, I believe, were claimed to be BTC, but I'm not positive.

I've seen no independent nor verifiable evidence of any of this (in fact none at all), nor any refuting it. It could be true, I have no idea.

What is factual is that debts are unpaid, including a small one to me (but much larger ones to others).

There are better threads for this discussion if you want to continue.


793  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: April 29, 2017, 01:31:54 PM
So you got stolen your CK funds and now you are held liable for this?

Just follow the links in his feedback, all the info is there.

Let's try not to veer too far off topic. Fraudulent fractional reserve scams and unpaid debts aren't directly related to Monero speculation
794  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: April 29, 2017, 05:28:27 AM
In my opinion, the monero will fall and fall and go into oblivion, the capitalization of $ 30 million
Just out of curiosity I checked your posts and just as I though they were all one phrase "up","down", "moon" "fall" etc. posts all in the last 24 hours. When I see someone saying that Monero will fall he always turns out to be a speculative piece of s..t that doesn't understand anything about cryptos.

Activity mining.
795  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: rpietila's Crypto Kingdom game is a scam, heavily in debt. Do not deposit funds. on: April 28, 2017, 11:49:37 AM
Most scammers are bad people

That is debatable. After the fact, it is a reasonable conclusion, but it isn't at all uncommon that many scams (especially fractional reserve scams) start with people not being deliberately evil, but more like a little sloppy or overly-optimistic, and willing to fudge a bit, until matters spiral more and more out of control. I have no particular insight into this case beyond the facts that I wrote on the OP, it is more of a general observation that seems to hold across many scams.

@FenrirCK

I added a link to your cast-of-characters post in the OP
796  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: rpietila's Crypto Kingdom game is a scam, heavily in debt. Do not deposit funds. on: April 28, 2017, 11:04:14 AM
He is claiming to unilaterally change the terms of the deals.

1. All debts denominated in non-Markka, will be converted to Markka using volume-weighted Agora averages for the 24 hours following the timestamp of this post, earliest when the time is up.

No they will not, unless agreed by both parties.

I do not agree that the 2.5 BTC+interest that you owe me (and managed player) will be redenominated or settled in anything other than BTC.

Please pay your debts and stop doubling down on stupid by suggesting that you pay a debt agreed to be paid in BTC (in fact that was rather explicit) using your own worthless in-game fiat.
797  Economy / Scam Accusations / rpietila is a scammer and heavily in debt. New 2020 scam info enclosed on: April 28, 2017, 08:29:58 AM
The Crypto-Kingdom game founded and run by rpietila (forum profile link) started as a legitimate fantasy role playing game with a rich economic model and an in-game currency fully-backed by real crypto (XMR).

However, it was recently turned into a fraudulent fractional reserve scam when rpietila decided to create in-game tokens for himself without depositing, and further being unwilling or unable to pay the resulting debts incurred by the game and himself.

I am personally owed 2.5 BTC which was due 12 hours after transfer of the in-game token. That was several days ago. After 12 hours, 1% per hours interest applies. His offer of this extremely high interest was, I speculate, a last-ditch attempt to prop up confidence in his fractional reserve scheme and reduce the run on the bank. In fact it had the opposite effect and many accepted the offer resulting in >500 BTC of unpaid debts on his part, plus (at the time of writing) over 1000 BTC of interest.

It is unfortunate that what was once a promising game with many contributors in the community has turned into a scam, but such as it is.

Requests for payment are met with excuses or deleted on his self-moderated game thread (Zechariah=rpietila), such as:

Quote from: Bitcoin Forum
A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by the starter of a self-moderated topic. There are no rules of self-moderation, so this deletion cannot be appealed. Do not continue posting in this topic if the topic-starter has requested that you leave.

You can create a new topic if you are unsatisfied with this one. If the topic-starter is scamming, post about it in Scam Accusations.

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<Zechariah> Created Instagram acct. As usual, I give my greatest fan 1,000,000,000 and then the ones who Follow me (so that I see it) get 1/2, 1/3, etc. of the amount WITHOUT LIMIT!!!
 * Zechariah forgot to add: “Hear ye, all peoplez”
<Zechariah> https://www.instagram.com/risto.pietila.1903/

Actually was third and got 333,333,333M


go follow!

Maybe instead of more giveaways Zechariah should pay his existing debts first.

Bottom line, whatever you do, do not deposit money into the game or extend any sort of credit to rpietila, because he can not be trusted to honor his word and pay what he owes.

Cast of characters assembled by community member, linked for being informative without any particular endorsement (though I didn't notice anything inaccurate): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1890786.msg18784244#msg18784244

Other supporting posts:


There are not enough XBT to back all the b1 or EUR to back all of the e1. This is combined with a form of exchange controls. EUR withdrawals are only allowed in cash in person in Tallinn Estonia, XBT withdrawals are subject to certain delays unless one pays a premium for a faster withdrawal (B2).


If you want delivery of your B1/B2/E1, you can take it as follows:

GIVE B1 amount 1 [address] => If (amount-10) mBTC has not been sent to address in 12 matrix-hours from changelog timestamp of this; amount += 0.01*amount, each full hour.

GIVE B2 amount 1 [btc-address] => If (amount-10) mBTC has not been sent to address in 12 matrix-hours from changelog timestamp of this; amount += 0.01*amount, each full hour.

GIVE E1 amount 1 [prio5] => If (amount-100) Euro has not been surrendered to hand of courier in the Throne Room in 336 matrix-hours from changelog timestamp of this; amount += 0.01*amount, each full hour. Total maximum 10000*500 EUR banknote(rounded down (your loss) to nearest unit), first come first served.

GIVE E1 amount 1 [prio4] => If 0.95*(amount-100) Euro has not been surrendered to hand of courier in the Throne Room in 48 matrix-hours from changelog timestamp of this; amount += 0.01*amount, each full hour. Total maximum 100*500 EUR banknote(rounded down (your loss) to nearest unit), first come first served.

GIVE E1 amount 1 [prio3] => If 0.90*(amount-100) Euro has not been surrendered to hand of courier in the Throne Room in 12 matrix-hours from changelog timestamp of this; amount += 0.01*amount, each full hour. Total maximum 10*500 EUR banknote(rounded down (your loss) to nearest unit), first come first served.


The following apply only once per [person;encounter]  with SA Risto, General (meaning: only one exchange per meeting me please & 1 matrix-hour apart in any case):

Give 10,000,000 Markka certificate to Risto's hand => Gain 2*500 EUR banknote to your hand.
Give 5,000,000 Markka certificate to Risto's hand => Gain 1*500 EUR banknote to your hand.
Give 2,000,000 Markka certificate to Risto's hand => Gain 200 EUR in banknotes to your hand.
Give 1,000,000 Markka certificate to Risto's hand => Gain 100 EUR in banknotes to your hand.
Give 500,000 Markka certificate to Risto's hand => Gain 50 EUR in banknotes to your hand.
Give 200,000 Markka certificate to Risto's hand => Gain 20 EUR in banknotes to your hand.
Give 100,000 Markka certificate to Risto's hand => Gain 10 EUR in banknotes to your hand.

EDIT 2017-06-20:

generalizethis claims that the game has gone its own way, kicked out rpietilla and seized all of his assets, and should not longer be considered a part of the scam.

Assets were seized yesterday, accounts were locked weeks ago, and yes, PJ is a hack DEV--but risto paid him upfront and he's all we have atm until we can get a blockchain asset  and fund it ourselves. So unless you have a way to expedite these matters, like creating a blockchain asset with your skillset, you are just repeating what we already know. Though if you are suggesting tying the game's currency to a blockchain asset, you would be damning the game--we were lucky that saddam was never hacked when M was pegged to XMR--risto's actions actually highlight this risk, rather than point to it as a solution. [Note: I am distinguishing between asset and currency]

Also, no one is asking anyone to deposit anything into the game atm--but meanwhile, risto is creating another game--so feel free to protect those people.

EDIT 2017-06-28

@generalizethis, I edited your comments about kicking rpietilla out of the game and seizing his assets into the OP. Now my question to you is whether those assets are going to be used to compensate the players who were scammed?

Yes, if risto does not pay his debt and reclaim his account, his assets will be used to repay the debt he created, and this is a huge IF, if the game is successful enough to do so.

And just to be clear, I am using some seized assets (his M, land, and deposhares will remain untouched as per game rules) to create bounties and fund other projects to help ck become a successful gaming platform.

Also, I did not follow this thread, but will do so as to answer any questions that may arise about the game sans risto.

Thank you for the reply. I will copy this information to the OP so people will be aware of this apparent effort on the part of the current game operators to do something for the scammed players.

798  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] AEON [2017-04-05: update to 0.9.11.0] on: April 27, 2017, 02:58:58 AM
Maintenance Update Phoenix (0.9.12.0)

This maintenance release is recommended for all nodes, but is not urgent.

A future update (not yet scheduled) will begin enforcing the minimum relay fee equal to the current default fee, so nodes that have not yet updated to a minimum of 0.9.12.0 will then be disconnected and banned.

Fixes some Windows build issues
Add option to disable blockchain auto-save (useful to reduce swapping on low-memory nodes)
Prioritize transactions by fee/byte
Disable relay of transactions with legacy fee lower than current default

https://github.com/aeonix/aeon/releases/tag/v0.9.12.0

Windows binaries added
799  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency on: April 26, 2017, 07:34:28 AM
Is there a tutorial on using GUI wallet with a remote node? (i.e. a light wallet setup)

https://moneroworld.com/#nodes

Do you know if there is some kind of node verification process? Like checking if the node is legit. It would be great if the wallet can somehow check and verify if the node is ok. I mean what is the risk using a remote node - risk about the money or risk about the privacy only.

Some modest privacy risks. Some risk that you might get fake or broken chain data. This doesn't directly risk your money but you could be tricked. For example, you might see your payment not being confirmed and be convinced to resend (now you have paid twice).

Your private keys stay on your local wallet itself, running on your own computer, which signs all transactions locally, so your funds can't be directly stolen by the node in any way.

Overall it is reasonably safe, but not quite as fully safe as your own node.
800  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][MRO] Monero - a coin with strong privacy based on CryptoNote technology on: April 25, 2017, 10:49:21 PM
I've never done CPU mining. Is it better to mine with the wallet, or to mine with a program like minerd?

you should try to mine with a software, I've using it now and its great. Im mining monero thru the use of my computer's cpu, although it is a little bit slower than others but still i can mine the coins that I wanted, sometimes Im using both my cpu and my gpu and its great because the amount of hashrate is very big therefore it easy to mine with a program.

Why are you replying to a post that is three years old?
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