Are there any independent witnesses of the non-anonymous type?

Credible verification from reliable sources?

Can anyone point me to a good link, legit review from CoinDesk etc.

The many sites I perused just regurgitate the Vcash party line.

Did Vcash (formerly Vanilla) use Bitcoin code, even in part, without indicating that they did so?

Is it a coincidence that minergate.com have all this coins pools (AEON, DASHCOIN, Moneta Verde, QuazarCoin, FantomCoin, ByteCoin, Infininium-8, XDN)?

And some of their miner's exe files are marked as dangerous by antivirus (trojans with MS SE and Kaspersky). https://minergate.com/downloads/admin

Advertising on Minergate.com takes us to hitbtc.com and to DCT (new coin https://freewallet.org/currency/dct). Both suspicious for me. Especially freewallet.org which include orthographic errors even in press kit:
"Freewallet is a team of developers, who aim to solve the “last-mile” problem for cryptocurrencies by creating mobile-first cryptocurrency wallets. Starting from January, 2016 the team has developed and successfully released a number of cryptocurrency wallets, namely FanctomCoin Wallet, Ethereum Wallet, Bitcoin Wallet and Monero Wallet."

Had some clues on minergate so decided to register account on bitcoin forum to ask this question. Not sure if new thread should be opened.

And some of their miner's exe files are marked as dangerous by antivirus (trojans with MS SE and Kaspersky).

edited to add - its obviously more complicated than that, and you'd have to compile your own code or connect your modded simplewallet to a remote daemon that has a lowered fee...... but this is all doable.

Does anybody have an active node list (or at least a link to an active nodelist), I'm sure that will help. Looks like the OP is no longer around - so likely the nodes in the client are not either.

I am a steemit username and I hope it will go on the uptrend now. but, not sure how to keep up the 100% yearly increases.

is there any development going on in aeon?  

When requesting identical transfers repeatedly within a brief time (e.g., one minute), while declining to confirm each time, I've seen large ranges of proposed fees (e.g., 0.03 to 0.20). Is this normal behavior? Is there a better way to reduce fees (for a given amount and mixin) other than trying repeatedly?

On a related point, it seems possible to reduce total transfer fees by manually breaking a transfer into multiple smaller transfers. Is there a good way to select transfer amounts to reduce fees?

It doesn't support anonymity on the protocol level so you can do the same thing in Bitcoin. On top of that there was a huge pre-mine instamine

Yeah but why should the small transactions cost so much to make?

My total of Monero in my wallet is almost worthless because the fees to consolidate the small payments into full coins is almost worth the monero itself.

Now with bitcoin, if i had tons of micro payments made to my wallet, i dont have to do that at all, my wallet sees it joined together.

You can sent from exchange to wallet without payment ID.
Payment ID only needed when sending to exchange, so it can distinguish your payment from others, sent to the same address.

I'll repost this here:

If anyone wants to be included in the auction, GIVE your shares to smoothQC. Any shares so GIVEn will be relisted on the market (details tbd) at a declining price until fully sold. Proceeds will be divided proportionately among participants. Submitting period will be open for 24 hours from this post.

By "tbd" there, I meant and mean, starting price and rate of decline. I had no idea of the state of the market and I still don't. Presumably others don't either, which in part explains the need for an auction. So when the time comes to list shares I will determine appropriate details.

I don't plan to participate. I'm (both directly and via various entities) the largest shareholder of smoothQC. Any action on my part would be a major restructuring. By contrast, I see this auction as being a convenient way for smaller shareholders who wish to liquidate/exit to do so.

Call for shares will reopen for 24 hours.

Imagine a scenario where a "celeb" top-earning author, bags 1000$ per day, and then decides to edit his old posts and remove his content because he had a lame disagreement with someone.

He's now bagged 29-30k over a month for pages that now look like

title: Deleted
content: blank

...I've seen various events like that happen in forums, where members would rage-delete old posts.

One question: What is the maximum amount of XMR one should safely hold in a mymonero web wallet? I have most of my holdings in there and now they're worth a reasonable amount, I'm getting a little sketched out. Transfer to paper wallet maybe?

Having issues getting claymore GPU to work - CPU miner is working fine. GPU activity never exceeds 64% Submits low diff shares when it does. Any pointers?

EDIT* Driver issue caused Low usage - Still submitting Low Diff shares though ...

is this still a mine-able coin or dead one. i can see the price on bitrx on 25k sats which is pretty high may be cause of xmr's fame ??

The edit window is for the first 24hrs. Then it's fixed for eternity...