Isn't that kind of me-too-ish? I would think a well-designed and successful physical and p2p trading site with its own unique brand would be better.

It isn't necessarily your fault. Often the pools do their users, including new users who don't know better, a disservice by paying out in tiny increments. It is not really bad if your goal in mining is to build a stash to hodl for a long time with hopes of a much higher value(in which case fees would likely be lower) but it is a killer if you want to move the coins sooner.

Hopefully this will work out for you eventually.

Best to wait for a future version that supports lower fees. Probably will happen relatively soon. Sorry I can't recommend anything better than waiting, but this is simply a consequence of somewhat inefficient mining.

There is no rule against it. Most coins that get delisted are just dead forever, unlike this one.

The proposal to merge CKG with CON is similar. S-HODL would following such a merger be holding a single asset, and may or may not itself continue to be necessary depending on the nature of the new asset (I suppose automatic and passive dividend reinvestment will continue to be a useful purpose).

The difference is modest, now that people have adapted to using Monero efficiently (not sending payments with lots of unnecessary decimal places for example). Go look right now. Many real transactions using ring signatures (now required) on the live network are <1 KB. Some are larger of course. Median block size last 800 blocks 3500 bytes, average transactions per block 3.5. Average tx size after subtracting block headers is <1 KB.

The bigger increase in transactions size will come with the (pruneable) range proofs of RingCT. The same issue would affect BTC if it added CT and if not then achieving any kind of privacy (though not as good) requires engaging in mixing, chained coinjoins, etc. which reintroduce the size penalty in the form of more transactions.

There is no free lunch.

Monero does not have the same max supply of 184.46 billion coins, it has 18.446 million, 10000x smaller (plus tail reward)

Yes you can turn on "set always-confirm-transfers 1"

Hash rate closing in on 40 million.

No unlinkability and untracability. It improves privacy at the individual transaction level if and when it is ever deployed, but coin histories, tracking, and taint remain.

To put it another way, Monero is adding CT to what we already have (with RingCT), we are not replacing what we already have with CT. That would be a step backward.

Holders of S-CKG S-CON and S-HODL are welcome to express their views on this reorganization proposal to me which I will express as administrator of the indirect holdings of those tokens. Failing that I will remain neutral for the time being, and I am neutral with respect to any other holdings I directly or indirectly control.

Yes


I dispute this, or at least dispute the magnitude of leadership at a minimum (it may still be more secure than any alt, but it just very hard to assess). Highly centralized mining isn't all that secure. Hash rate (i.e. energy burn) doesn't tell the whole story.

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.

It has been well over 24 hours and no shares have been GIVEn to smoothQC. Thus it appears on one wants to participate in the auction and it is cancelled.

The domain is already registered and under my control. I'll set it up soon.

Here's my comment at the time. In particular the horrifically-irresponsible dismissal of the issue as FUD by the leadership is a particularly bad sign. At least they should know what they don't know, but they don't.

I'm not aware that any meaningful changes have been made, but I don't follow it at all, so I may be unaware.


You can click through and read about various other problems with the development and marketing teams and process including repeated plagiarism and repeated false denials of such on that uncensored thread (which needed to be created by a disgusted former community member due to censorship of the original thread)

They fixed that bug (correctness of the fix I'm not vouching for). They did not, as far as I know, fix the process issues that led to it.

I'd tell a sister or female friend to be careful walking around in the dark. Wouldn't you?


Achievement unlocked. Blockchain rational thinker.

FIFY.

Miners of just about every coin, if not every single coin, are bottom feeders, don't give a shit about the network, and want the most money (and I love them for it; no hate here). This was proven in Ethereum where you saw miners jumping between ETH and ETC, in both directions, at the first profitable opportunity. They couldn't care less which coin or network they were supporting.

The Monero difficulty is hitting new highs, making the network more secure and valuable. Virtuous cycle.


People should secure their computers. Failing that, every bot node that is helping to secure the Monero network is one less that could be used to attack it.

How much is the PJ overdraft?