Hi opennux, we will be releasing the production system later today. The database will be reset very soon, so you won't want to register until after that point. Watch this space for the go-ahead.

May not necessarily be for immediate selling (though it certainly could be).

Some people just use exchanges as convenient wallets.

Obviously this has downsides and I don't recommend using exchanges as wallets, but we can't deny it is common.

That would apply to quite a few I think and not just in XMR.

Hi Fluffy.  No it is me, Blockafett.  I can confirm that if you want but I would have to recover the account details as I scrambled the password - the reason is I didn't like how BCT was taking up all my time trying to argue with the dozens of posts a day attacking the main coin I am interested in coming from a minority of users here who get a kick out of bullying people and generally make life hell for anyone interested in that coin, now I just use the official forum and hardly look at BCT and life is much better.  I made this second account when I came back temporarily.

You are very very right mate. XMR community shoot oneself in the foot. They should focus on GUI wallet instead of trolling DASH.

Of course the next official release will not only help but actually solve this issue. The Memory requirements are actually below 100 MB.  In fact this has been the case for a while for those of us who are prepared to compile from source. My point is that many people who simply go to https://getmonero.org and download a binary do not see this at all, and this is bound to have a very significant impact on the price.

This discrepancy between the 9 month old official binaries and the source code available today has created a situation that is extremely dangerous for those who are short Monero. The risk of a brutal short squeeze following the release of 0.9 is very real.

Edit 1: I run both. The official 0.8.8.6 release and the recent compiled binaries. There is a reason why I run the 9 month old code. It provides very useful market information.
Edit 2: On Kubuntu 14.04 I get 8.04 8.18 GB for bitmonerod alone with 0.8.8.6 and this memory is not released.

Good list. But please dont forget that one issue there is, that you cant use xmr directly to pay/donate or support projects/websites or whatever. Thus if you think monero has any future and you care and want to support any porject/website, please let them know you can support them through xmr.

The perfect example is recent community effort of asking tutanota to support donations with xmr:
https://tutanota.uservoice.com/forums/237921-general/suggestions/9968298-accept-monero-xmr-for-donations

I'm tutanota user myself (also protonmail), so I fully think that just letting to know privacy oriented service (if you use any) about being able to donate some xmr to them is useful.

After all, its all about privacy.  If privacy oriented services cant see and appreciate value of xmr, than I dont think anyone else will.

For the non-technical contributors, there are always things to do in terms of improving the web site, social media, creative marketing ideas, outreach to merchants, users, and opinion makers, etc. And also crowdfunding of various Monero-related projects which not only helps the projects but gives you a direct say in what projects get done.

However, as a new arrival I'd suggest that you simply learn as much as you can first, then decide how you can help Monero succeed.

don't speak for everyone here I had to google who this guy was. I guess this is the "benefit" of being late to the game.

Thank you.

reading through the source and had a question:

What is the difference between a public address and a public integrated address?

make_integrated_address
   make an integrated address from the wallet address and a payment id
   inputs:
      payment_id: string
         hex encoded; can be empty, in which case a random payment id is generated
   outputs:
      integrated_address: string

split_integrated_address
   retrieve the standard address and payment id corresponding to an integrated address
   inputs:
      integrated_address: string
   outputs:
      standard_address: string
      payment: string
         hex encoded

about zerocash. This is what can be found on the website


There are some issues with this protocol

1) fungibility: by introducing basecoins, payment processors, exchnages, governments etc can force you to use these basecoins. When you use the zerocoins, you are flagged by default. Basically there is no difference when you use the ConfidentialTransactions-Sidechain or coinjoin.
2) zerocoin transactions will probably be larger, so people will try to avoid paying the fees by making as little zerocoin transactions as possible
3) due to the fact that eventually only people who want to hide a crime will use the zerocoins, it will be possible that when you get coins out, there is a possibility to link those coins to coins that were put into the zerocoin-pool. So it's tricky... Be aware of this or you'll use your anonimity.

compare this to XMR:
1) when mixin 0 isn't possible anymore (soon^TM) all transaction outputs (except the minted coins) are mixed by default. So you can't be forced not to use mixing.
2) because all tractions will have a minimum mixin, you can't avoid paying the fees. Paranoid people pay more for higher mixin.
3) everybody uses mixin, so it's impossible to detect money flows on the network

You realise that you're shooting yourself in the foot in regards to labour spent and success just as long as you're contacting everyone with XMRPromotions as your handle.... right? In fact, I'd probably hazard a guess that the labour injected is actually generating more auto-toxic results than positive ones.

So I'm walking along the street and a guy comes up to me and he's wearing a lime green cap, and a lime green T-shirt with white lettering, and lime green shorts, and he's handing out lime green flyers, and he's smiling and he says "Excuse me sir have you...." - -

"NOOO." I would say. "Sorry I'm in a rush I've got an appointment with a dentist who's just died and he's on fire and I... sorry... bye."

He could have just been asking for the time for all I care, but it's "NOOOOooo sorryyyyy bbye bye".

Now consider, a man with a NORMAL haircut, wearing NORMAL clothes, and for all intents looking NORMAL, with a NORMAL attitude and everything about this guy is just NORMAL..... and he comes up to me and he's like "Hey do you have the time?"

"Yes." I would say, "It's 2:15."

"Thankyou o wise one." he might retort.

"Anytime o inquisitive one. My pleasure indeed." I might add. etc etc etc etc

The moral of the story is: Why are you dressed up in a lime green T-shirt?

Just take it off man, seriously, you'd have more results. This isn't some cunting multinational corporation that despatches students to stand on street corners handing out advertisments.

It's a waste of labour relative to success. Just take out the crap and you're good to go.

Best deal in months.  Thank you.

This is false. What you are describing is a privilege.

A right cannot be taken away... only violated. The enumeration in the U.S. Constitution does not create, grant, or define the rights of the people. It merely observes a few important ones (not to imply that all of the infinite unobserved rights are unimportant).

Alexander Hamilton was very much against the inclusion of the Bill of Rights, fearing the exact perspective quoted above—the implication that any right not observed is surrendered, or that the Constitution is defining The People's only protections, when in reality the Constitution places no limitations on The People, and explicitly defines the only powers the government shall ever have, because only people (not organizations) can have rights.