'This individual also provided Motherboard with the password to the email account'
Oh man, imagining having to resist that temptation.
Why would Satoshi hand over the password to a reporter? Oh I doubt it is works. But just imagining not even being able to try. i don't think motherboard has gathered and processed all the facts. this news just broke out yesterday and they came out with an article already.  I would agree, i didn't mean to stir the pot harder, i just thought it was an interesting article - take it as you will.. more popcorn?  |
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These instructions may help you: If anyone wants to sync themselves due to the chance of a dodgy blockchain (mine isn't but I can understand the concerns - see smooth's post below), download the blockchain from the OP and then start bitmonerod with the flag "--add-priority-node 88.151.101.22:18080". That will preferentially try to sync to a known good node (thanks to hegemoOn and his pool [ monero.coolmining.club] for that). It's how I got my chain synced to the right fork. You can still end up on the wrong fork but this gives you a better chance. Also, you can 'save' your blockchain in bitmonerod at around block 202000, so that way if you end up on the wrong fork just close bitmonerod without saving and try again. The best of solve of problem is add to file of start of bitmonerod.exe --add-exclusive-node 178.253.202.230:18080 --add-exclusive-node 79.140.20.93:18080 --add-exclusive-node 78.27.112.54:18080 --add-exclusive-node 114.219.164.13:18080 --add-exclusive-node 89.240.241.74:18080 --add-exclusive-node 37.52.249.122:18080 --add-exclusive-node 128.171.159.20:18080 --add-exclusive-node 75.118.218.3:18080 I did nothing like this, i simply downloaded the 30 day old bin file and it synced to the proer chain. Da fuq is the prob,devs??? Am i a moron here LOL....... |
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These instructions may help you: If anyone wants to sync themselves due to the chance of a dodgy blockchain (mine isn't but I can understand the concerns - see smooth's post below), download the blockchain from the OP and then start bitmonerod with the flag "--add-priority-node 88.151.101.22:18080". That will preferentially try to sync to a known good node (thanks to hegemoOn and his pool [ monero.coolmining.club] for that). It's how I got my chain synced to the right fork. You can still end up on the wrong fork but this gives you a better chance. Also, you can 'save' your blockchain in bitmonerod at around block 202000, so that way if you end up on the wrong fork just close bitmonerod without saving and try again. The best of solve of problem is add to file of start of bitmonerod.exe --add-exclusive-node 178.253.202.230:18080 --add-exclusive-node 79.140.20.93:18080 --add-exclusive-node 78.27.112.54:18080 --add-exclusive-node 114.219.164.13:18080 --add-exclusive-node 89.240.241.74:18080 --add-exclusive-node 37.52.249.122:18080 --add-exclusive-node 128.171.159.20:18080 --add-exclusive-node 75.118.218.3:18080 Ok , i call BS. wtf, i downloaded the 30 day old bin off the ANN thread.. Sooo.. Why is my chain ok? You people are getting far and away from reality and i'm calling you out now... xmr devs or not, this is f'in bs.... Edit - My point being you cant even give us the valid blockchain for x64 windows. for real? |
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What are the thoughts on using multiple wallets?
I have a small amount in my original wallet from mining. I just created another wallet as I want to move most of my stash off the exchange and I'm considering more than one for this. I have multiple btc wallets and understand that the primary reason for doing this does not exist with Monero. I guess for Monero I'm thinking of it more as my own organization, [mining wallet, long term wallet(s), transaction wallet(s)], as well as a don't keep all your eggs in one basket reflex.
I've also heard advice that one should do a test transfer to a new wallet to make sure everything is working. Is this necessary?
personally, i can understand the idea that you dont' want all eggs in one basket. However, with XMR (not BTC), noone but you can know what your address holds for a balance. I admit, I honestly don't know how hard it is for hackers to attack wallets etc etc, but I can say the coin's technical properties make me use only like 2 wallets. one online, one offline..this is the (mostly correct?) procedure i used for my offline wallet, directly from fluffypony, one of the devs. However - It's difficult, because unlike BTC, you cannot actually see your balance unless you verify the txid on the blockchain, but so far i'm ok with that, until viewkey feature is working)! Edit - DO NOT send fromany exchange to your cold wallet/offline wallet (use a temporary Simplewallet address as the middlman)!, UNLESS they can give you the TXID for the monero blockchain verification, otherwise you have no way of verifying the transfer. (Correct me all night guys if i'm wrong and thanks to all for the help lately, especially smooth and fluffypony)! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg8246348#msg8246348 |
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ahh Picked up some monero today.
same here and profited. sorry (butthurt morons?) haters, hate on us/me all you want. IDC.  |
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A principled offended anarchist on Twitter.
I'm too dumb for anarchy. lol. did you not grow up in the 80's, or are oblivious to anything before 1996? Seriously. You said it, not me! edit - or are you just joking? |
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hint. don't feed the trolls. they will only drag us down. |
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This is my first post here, but I am not a "troll". I am a significant holder, accumulating over the last months, and you can tell by my twitter @indiemaps that I have supported Monero in the past. But I can't see how anybody can trust the socialist devs of this project after the revelations of the past few days. I will not dump b/c I believe there is more BTC to be made off this flavor of the season coin. But I have certainly lost my trust and faith in the coin and team.
The developers claim to want to separate the monetary system from the government, yet David Latapie also believes in socialist education, redistributionist schemes, and forced/violent taxation. How this is compatible with an anonymous cryptocurrency is beyond me.
I and I hope all the other anarchists who have supported this coin in the past need to move on....to a coin with nonviolent developers who do not wish to force their views of society on us.
Sweet. what coin do you recommend over XMR then? Thanks!! |
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I pay taxes because I want children to be educated, hospital to work, road to be in working state, science to progress (and the fact that individual corporations can achieve it concurrently is not enough of an argument for me). I believe in society, even if I agree that inefficiency and outright corruption plague the world.
I expressly DO NOT WANT totalitarians to have ANYTHING to do with children's upbringing, health, teleportation or science. Their record in the last 100 years in these areas is so completely abysmal that they need to brainwash you 8-12 hours per day between ages 5-65 to keep you from understanding how terrible and abysmal it is. The fact that I still pay taxes to support this ridiculous charlatanism is a stain in my banner. But remember that the reason is not that I am personally afraid of the thugs, I just happen to believe that I am more useful to the free world when not in jail. Well said RP! Hear, hear! When confronted with a huge rabid dog, the smart thing to do is smile and say 'Nice doggy' while you pick up a large rock. Monero is our large rock, we just need to keep the Beast at bay long enough to bash its head in... Practicality and forbearance are no stains on your banner, oh wise Lord Pietila. Ok. I get all of this and i know about Risto etc. but.. it's really about where you live atm. 1 - I currently reside in the USA. So, as such, I cannot avoid the fact that I rely on "Society" to school my children via taxes, as i'm not "Rich" and there aren't even any private schools where i live. (Yes, blame me or my parents LOL right?) fact is - There is no choice here in the usa about taxes - if you pay, your good, if not, your subject to bs / gov't ruining your life/credit. sad but true. sorry. ANyhow, i guess my point was - "It's Really about you - Your Country, your life, where you live", and sadly/unfortunately in many cases your government will always want a piece of the action - that's how the usa works, at least. sadly enough. /over and out - have a good night XMR d00dz! last thought - i know risto lives in a castle - but, what are the taxes like there, and what country does he live in? Thanks! |
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Anarchists support Monero.
This one definitely does. Many people are using it not only anarchists. I hope many people around the world will be using it everyday The initial users for Bitcoin were anarchists, libertarians and users interested in drug purchases or gambling over the internet. Since then it has expanded greatly to include a wider swath of the population, albeit still rather small compared to competing financial solutions. Satoshi had privacy in mind when he created Bitcoin as he covered that in his original whitepaper. If there's one area where Bitcoin is flawed, it's that it falls short of being truly private and anonymous. Given the momentum BTC currently enjoys and the amount of inertia associated with making major protocol level changes for a multi billion dollar airplane in flight, it's rather unlikely that true privacy and anonymity will be adopted. This is the reason that XMR/Monero is of interest, even in a paradigm with the winner taking most of the market. As a minimum, Bitcoin replaces gold as a superior store of value. XMR/Monero could replace the anonymity of Swiss numbered bank accounts. Absolutely this right here. This is the only fork of Cryptonote that i can ever trust. The XMR devs are real people. Go read Mr. van saberhagen's whitepapers (If you can/handle dealing with strange maths?). He may be a crypto-genius, but he's just a mystery as was SN, but I believe the tech to be sound, no matter the original creator's (Possibly nefarious) ideas. I'm still in awe that someone with that much skill would trash it on BCN.. (As i've read so far - i'm still not too deep in this rabbit-hole, sorry)! Other than that, go look at the tech behind it. if you can't trust it, or don't want to risk it, i would understand, but the XMR devs are alll pretty awesome guys IMO, unlike all the fake devs pointed out here by "Rethink-Your-Strategy" - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740112.0anyhow, do your own research, but i believe this is the coin of the future. true anonymity is like cash, no matter who cares, which is what BTC truly failed at. That's all we all really want right, as to me it's VERY much not about drugs, laundering money or all that criminal bs, it's about basic human rights to privacy, which have clearly been stomped upon in the past 5 years, by many nation-states. /reality sucks.  |
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moneropool.com --- down???
yes, it appears so. Disclaimer - just a miner, not an op... |
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thank you, and sorry for being lazy and not checking first, apologies and great work, keep it up guys! edit - thanks for the link! |
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this... is why i am digging deep as possible into this tech. thanks for that, i missed it, there are so many of them thanks to ES. Edit - jesus, that's creepy as hell... yikes.... |
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XMR devs did an amazing job un-fucking the BCN crippled miners, all points to besides the 82% premine the BCN devs had access to fasters miners and deployed slow ones to the general public on purpose, thank you XMR for saving Cyptonote. +100 Hey does anyone here have a copy of the whitepaper from van saberhagen that both just disappeared (yesterday??) thanks! edit - got em via wayback, sorry! |
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Since some of the Bytecoin/CryptoNote devs seem to have been scammers, how can we trust that the elliptic curve constants in Monero were not chosen maliciously? If they were chosen maliciously, could that be determined somehow? Should a new curve be chosen, just in case?
I'm not a cryptographer, so please excuse me if this is a stupid question.
It's not a new curve. The curve is Ed25519, invented by Dan Bernstein, who's also the inventor of the popular Curve25519 (which is the ECDSA version). The rationale for it is given in page 7-8 here: http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/ed25519-20110926.pdfShit for real? I ran Dan's Qmail Email software for like 10 years back in the day, plus a bunch of his other stuff like dns etc... that's awesome if true, he is very trustworthy and very much old school. Can anyone on the dev team confirm (Sorry eizh, not sure who all is the "Full" dev team so my apologies if you are on it!) Thanks again, this coin amazes me more every day. LOL i just realized. I should have just asked "Is it true?" ... |
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LMFAO... brilliant even tho i'm too in me sauce now to keep up with these maths peoples!! |
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Q. Why is there so much volume for Monero on a small exchange like Poloniex and why does it not really affect the price significantly?
1. Poloniex dumped LTC for XMR pairing a few weeks ago, so i suspect that is why the volume is so high. 2. Because, the price is based on the difficulty of mining it as well as supply/demand, and other market factors beyond anyone's control ie miners dumping and whales etc. |
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If the Bytecoin/CryptoNote devs were scammers, how can we trust that the elliptic curve constants in Monero were not chosen maliciously?
see my post in the main thread - i've specifically asked the devs what / how they think of this and their mathematician's view etc. thanks for reminding me about that. |
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Since some of the Bytecoin/CryptoNote devs seem to have been scammers, how can we trust that the elliptic curve constants in Monero were not chosen maliciously? If they were chosen maliciously, could that be determined somehow? Should a new curve be chosen, just in case?
I'm not a cryptographer, so please excuse me if this is a stupid question.
Hi. I have read about that as well, as i've read all the whitepapers and the phony bcn premine based on rethink-your-strategy's epic post about it etc, but I keep forgetting to ask any devs here. Fluffy, smooth, taco.. can anyone elaborate on your mathematician's review of the code in that regard to constants from nowhere, or what you think/are planning/whatever/to do about it? they seem very wary about those constants and why they were chosen, like suggesting maybe NSA etc. i do know some C, but i'm old/rusty, so i never looked at any of the code based on the fact that i heard it was an absolute mess to undo. thank you! |
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