That is by choice, they will reveal themselves later on if they choose to.

There are well know cryptographers, such as gmaxwell and andytoshi who have verified the cryptography independently. You are welcome to either ask them, or look through their post history.

Try again - we've just deployed a fix for a bug that affected users not logged in:)

My wife and I are going to be in LA next week, and I'd like to have a little meetup for any Moneroers in the area on Wednesday, October 29th.

Details and discussion can be had here: https://forum.monero.cc/14/events/70/fluffypony-s-los-angeles-monero-meetup

We don't have any functionality that would do that, but I see your account is marked as unconfirmed. Did you receive the email confirmation? Use this: https://forum.monero.cc/user/resend-activation and then you can reactivate it, and we'll check what caused you to become "unactivated" (probably someone fiddling on the forum administrator side)

You can compile and run it right now off github - we're having some issues with static builds (required for binary releases), and have gotten KitWare involved (the company who created CMake), so resolving it is in progress.

Yes

It's tough to say - what's the bottle-neck with Bitcoin, and what's the bottleneck with Monero?

If it's verification speed...well, single-thread transaction verification with Monero does ~25-40tx's a second on an average PC, multi-threaded verification increase that substantially. If it's network latency, then Monero and Bitcoin have the same bottleneck. There's a lot of moving parts in Bitcoin and in Monero, and we have plenty of time to think and research and test before Monero reaches anything even close to Bitcoin's current transaction volume, forget about more. We do have the advantage of dynamic parameters (like the dynamically adjusting block size), so the move to a greater number of transactions is going to be a lot less "harsh".

No

Fixed

If you could do two things for me -

1. Type 'diff' into the daemon and see what BH you're on (currently we're at a block height of 251414)

2. As smooth asked, type 'print_cn' and see if you have some connections (at least 2 with "state_normal" under the state column)

As soon as it has been completed it will have been completed, and then it will be released as it has been completed so it can completely be released.

The section in the Missives about the forum answers the funding question.

Everything else is ongoing, although we've been spread rather thinly over the last 4-ish weeks with the attacks (both actual and imagined). i2pd is progressing at a clip, you can follow the progress in that repo: http://github.com/PrivacySolutions/i2pd

I've been trying to use Apple's new feature, "neigh Siri", but I don't think it understands me.

SMF doesn't have anything close to the functionality we require, and it's not like we could transition from SMF to something else later on. It's great to want to take shortcuts and deliver things quickly, but history has shown that rushed decisions early on in a cryptocurrency's life will stick with them for ages (see: Bitcointalk, Litecointalk, Bitcoin's Qt interface, etc.)


Donations are less than 20% of our expenditure thus far. You can be safe in the knowledge that the donations have only been used for core development. Or have only been used for blockchain bootstrap download bandwidth costs. Or have only been used for OpenAlias development. Or have only been used for development of the forum. Cut the cake however you feel most comfortable:)

The forum was built by some of our non-C++ contributors


Bitcointalk is not a good environment if we want serious discussion about Monero. That much should be obvious. At some point we have to start cutting the apron strings and disconnecting from Bitcoin, especially since we share few common goals and no common code. It would be unfair of us to force newcomers interested in Monero to dig through thousands of scamcoin, shill, and troll posts on bitcointalk to find the occasional gem of information.

Additionally, you cannot possibly convince me that people needing help in running and using Monero should all gather in a single thread on a Bitcoin forum?? Nah, we've done our time here, there's no value in maintaining all the Monero threads on Bitcointalk. Anyone here who needs to know about Monero already does know about Monero;)

It's a mixed content issue - it'll be added to the list of things to be fixed asap:)

We've fixed that in the code and have to update prod - we pull the key down from a key server, so you need to have sent it for the system to get it. The error message is completely non-specific, sorry about that:)

Pretty much in the next week or so, just need to clean things up a bit:)

Difficult but possible. We are thinking about ways of doing this (besides the obvious hand-your-viewkey-to-a-server), so it is on the cards:)

Jimbob...you read our Monero Research Lab's very first publication, right? You know the one where we spoke about a cascading privacy failure if an attacker owned sufficient outputs? Here's a link for you to save yourself. At any rate, this could occur in a CryptoNote coin where persons unknown to everyone else controlled, to thumb suck an example, 82% of all the outputs. That would be an exceedingly unsafe CryptoNote coin to use, as those person(s) could easily reveal the actual signature of just about any transaction, thus negating any benefit of ring signatures.

When choose a currency to shill for, you really should choose one that doesn't have that flaw.

I want you to imagine you're renting a house. You're a friendly guy, and so often you have people stopping by, sometimes bringing their friends over. You don't mind. One day someone comes over, and brings this friend with him. Let's call this friend-of-a-friend T Roll. The first thing T does is go to your bathroom and has a big fat pee everywhere except the actual toilet bowl. Then he goes to your fridge, takes out a six-pack of beers, and opens each of them, having a sip from each one and then pouring the rest on your carpet. Finally, he goes out into your yard and starts kicking your dog. Enraged, you throw him out your house. As he leaves he turns around and says "you and your Nazi rules suck, you're just like Hitler!"

Who is most embodied by our hypothetical Mr. T Roll is an exercise best left to the reader.