I applaud your work in crytominers. On this particular subject, I have to respectfully disagree. Monero needs a security audit. Until an audit gets funded and completed, the coin will have a serious disadvantage. Currently this is showing in 1/4 the market cap of DASH. Just answer my challenge of auditing it, and I go away. Your choice. Have a good 'un.
Maybe you are right. Please post the link to the security audit of the current Dash code so I can review it. Thanks! |
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Yes, fluffypony says that investing in cryptocurrencies to get a return is not a good idea and that it's better to invest in an actual service or productive activity. But George Soros made a billion in one day shorting the British pound. Currencies go up and down. Of course you can make money in currency speculation.
I think his words are commonly misinterpreted. If I recall correctly, he acknowledges the benefits of everyone that in some way contributes to the ecosystem. Regardless of whether that are speculators/investors/coders. However, he also thinks that creating some kind of service or productive activity is more beneficial than simply speculating. Yes, we all play our role. Personally, I couldn't waste XMR on dice games or buying socks or something like that. If you are referring to alpaca socks (early bitcoin merchant) I disagree with you. It is very important for a currency to actually be used (spent) like a currency in order for an economy to be built around it. I hope everyone here is very supportive of all our early merchants so that more are encouraged to follow. http://www.coindesk.com/alpacas-the-unofficial-mascot-of-bitcoin/If anyone wants to sell socks for Monero you can count on me to become a customer! It didn't matter that you could by Alpaca socks for the socks, but it was an important symbol (its impact evident in that we are still citing it years later) that encouraged further adoption. True. I think the fact that we have some people offering services and goods for XMR is good enough. We don't need to encourage people to spend XMR unless they are going to immediately buy back the spent XMR. The desire to hold XMR is what maintains any market value at all. Otherwise, XMR just becomes a hot potato. I think merchants are kind of neutral to value. Yes you can spend it like a hot potato and the merchant may (probably will) dump it, but at the same time knowing that you can spend it may make you more willing to hold it (everything being based on speculation and selling to a greater fool being another version of "hot potato"). Also some merchants may hold and indeed may be accepting the currency in order to accumulate it (I'm sure some people who work for crypto do this, though that is a bit of a different case than retail). So overall, it is hard to say what the impact on value might be, but that is just my opinion. I know there is a point of view that says merchants are just an excuse to dump and purely harmful to value since (almost) nobody holds, and it isn't necessarily wrong (in the sense that I can't disprove it). |
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Yes, fluffypony says that investing in cryptocurrencies to get a return is not a good idea and that it's better to invest in an actual service or productive activity. But George Soros made a billion in one day shorting the British pound. Currencies go up and down. Of course you can make money in currency speculation.
I think his words are commonly misinterpreted. If I recall correctly, he acknowledges the benefits of everyone that in some way contributes to the ecosystem. Regardless of whether that are speculators/investors/coders. However, he also thinks that creating some kind of service or productive activity is more beneficial than simply speculating. Yes, we all play our role. Personally, I couldn't waste XMR on dice games or buying socks or something like that. If you are referring to alpaca socks (early bitcoin merchant) I disagree with you. It is very important for a currency to actually be used (spent) like a currency in order for an economy to be built around it. I hope everyone here is very supportive of all our early merchants so that more are encouraged to follow. http://www.coindesk.com/alpacas-the-unofficial-mascot-of-bitcoin/If anyone wants to sell socks for Monero you can count on me to become a customer! It didn't matter that you could by Alpaca socks for the socks, but it was an important symbol (its impact evident in that we are still citing it years later) that encouraged further adoption. |
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Monero testnet can be used experiments. Why so many Monero users spend time on Aeon now?
Its a chance to own a bit of crypto history and be part of the AEON early adopters. We think AEON has a very bright future! This is also my opinion. There is room for more than one successful CryptoNote coin. Definitely! Despite it being proclaimed 'dead', Litecoin keeps chugging along. Despite it being razzed as a 'joke', Dogecoin's ecosystem is the biggest in in altcoin land in terms of participation. And these two examples are only off the top of my head. As the Dogecoin example indicates, all you really need is a special kind of branding: a sort of 'club' that certain folks are happy to be members of. You are right. There are a lot of things to be learned about branding and community from Dogecoin. It is interesting to look at historical snapshots of market position and see what has passed the test of time, DOGE being one of them: https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20141228/ |
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@ Smooth
What standalone cpu miner would you recommend for the PI2? Id like to try it for the hell of it.
This one MAY work. I'm not sure if it is 100% portable code. https://github.com/iamsmooth/cpuminer-multiWasnt some people using the PI s for Monero nodes?
Yes that is possible once there is a database implementation to store the blockchain out of memory. AEON doesn't have that yet. Even with pruning a rpi2 is close but still a bit too small. |
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Ive been using wolfs miner for weeks. Ive had mo issues with it after he fixed the timing out and stale share issues. I dont know if he now has a more improved miner now or not. Would love it if he does.
On another subject i have some Raspberry PI 2's lying around and would like to set them up running Aeon nodes. Is this possible? Mining on them possible yet or ever will be? Would be nice to use them for Aeon! I have my other two computers running aeon too want to get everything i can supporting one way or another. Any help would be great!
You can probably mine on them (slowly!) using a standalone cpu miner (not Wolfs which is optimized for intel), but running a node is not possible yet due to the memory requirement. It should be possible in the future. |
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Mining a little AEON on Freya for now - one 290X is doing over 1750H/s... oddly, it's the Elpida one. I don't get it.
Have you pushed a miner that works reliably (at one point I understood that it crashed/hung after a while, but maybe not)? I was waiting for that to pay the bounty, but it's still waiting. I've been doing main development on the XMR miner, but I'd need someone to test it for a few days to be sure. Please post a link to the current AEON version and we'll have someone here test it. It's on git, unless you mean you need a Win binary? No, I just mean the link to the git repo (repost) EDIT: Is this the one? Doesn't look updated. https://github.com/wolf9466/wolf-aeon-miner/commits/masterYeah; the last long test was done before commit 149debbd15d094051084816f04c6a32eeaab9062. Oh, okay. I had no idea. Arux, or anyone, please try testing the latest from this repo. |
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Mining a little AEON on Freya for now - one 290X is doing over 1750H/s... oddly, it's the Elpida one. I don't get it.
Have you pushed a miner that works reliably (at one point I understood that it crashed/hung after a while, but maybe not)? I was waiting for that to pay the bounty, but it's still waiting. I've been doing main development on the XMR miner, but I'd need someone to test it for a few days to be sure. Please post a link to the current AEON version and we'll have someone here test it. It's on git, unless you mean you need a Win binary? No, I just mean the link to the git repo (repost) EDIT: Is this the one? Doesn't look updated. https://github.com/wolf9466/wolf-aeon-miner/commits/master |
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Mining a little AEON on Freya for now - one 290X is doing over 1750H/s... oddly, it's the Elpida one. I don't get it.
Have you pushed a miner that works reliably (at one point I understood that it crashed/hung after a while, but maybe not)? I was waiting for that to pay the bounty, but it's still waiting. I've been doing main development on the XMR miner, but I'd need someone to test it for a few days to be sure. Please post a link to the current AEON version and we'll have someone here test it. |
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Updated with 20 new CLAMs staked (over 3 days). Happy holidays everybody!
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The I2P/IP integration would be champ. It would be great if it defaulted to I2P if available.
The plan is that your outgoing transactions will always default to I2P. Relay of public information from the network will use both I2P and regular clearnet by default, but full I2P-only can be configured (with the risks described in the podcast). |
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MoneroHouse Foundation year-end fundraising drive
A gift of 20*OZ1600J (200 CKG) On behalf of MoneroHouse, the core team and all of the contributors to the Monero project, thank you kind sir! All donations have been noted in the original fundraising drive post, linked above. |
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WTF is iTunes? Looks like something "i" Have to download?
ArticMine, does this have your approval?
I'm pretty sure it does not. Fortunately you don't need it as dEBRUYNE identified a site with a web player and a download link. |
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Where is the podcat? I don't see it at it's usual location on the Monero Forum.
Meow
Half the fun is finding it. I guess the forum listing isn't updated yet. |
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Mining a little AEON on Freya for now - one 290X is doing over 1750H/s... oddly, it's the Elpida one. I don't get it.
Have you pushed a miner that works reliably (at one point I understood that it crashed/hung after a while, but maybe not)? I was waiting for that to pay the bounty, but it's still waiting. |
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Looks like somebody made a nice little 10 BTC buy wall  |
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There is a new Missive podcats.
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The paper was presented at Scaling bitcoin in English. Probably easy to find on youtube but I don't have a link. Though from my recollection of the talk, the slides pretty much cover it. EDIT: here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fst1IK_mrngt=9949 |
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Nice work by Wolf0. It sounds like his open source miner is reasonably competitive with the closed source Claymore miner now.
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MoneroHouse year-end development awardsMoneroHouse is paying out 1200 XMR as thank you gifts to people who have worked as volunteers on Monero development during the year. The gifts go to: 600 XMR to Shen Noether of Monero Research LabsOn his own initiative and without funding, Shen developed RingCT, which is a widely-acclaimed planned improvement to Monero's ring signatures that completely hides transactions amounts. This not only improves the privacy of those transactions but also makes analyzing the blockchain much harder, helping to protect everyone's privacy. In addition, Shen has done other cryptographic review work for the project and written a number of analysis, design and review notes for MRL.200 XMR to warptangentAlthough not an active poster on the forum, warptangent is well known on the #monero-dev IRC channel, and frequently helps solve problems in Monero development itself as well as those encountered by others trying to integrate with Monero. He did an enormous amount of unpaid work to review and improve the Monero core internals. Without his important efforts, the upcoming 0.9 release would likely not have been possible.100 XMR to cAPSLOCKcAPSLOCK has tirelessly maintained the Monero Hall of Fame, an important service that recognizes contributors to the Monero project. Since Monero is entirely funded by contributions from the community, we recognize cAPSLOCK's efforts to in turn ensure that contributors are appropriately recognized.100 XMR to mWo12A well known regular participant on the Monero subreddit, mWo12 worked as a volunteer to create a series of excellent how-to guides to help developers and users learn about Monero's unique technology and code base. The guides can be found here: https://github.com/moneroexamples100 XMR to gingeropolousIn addition to cohosting the Monero Missive podcasts, gingeropolous also generously donated a large amount of his time for editing those podcasts. The Monero Missive podcast, largely the work of gingeropolous, is invaluable in helping to inform and engage the community with the Monero development team. Thank you gingeropolous!100 XMR to XMRpromotionsXMRpromotions worked independently throughout the year to spread information about Monero's project goals and progress. Even if we build the most amazing cryptocurrency, but no one knows about it, that can't possibly succeed. Thank you XMRpromotions!In addition, while we can't make specific gifts to everyone at this time, we appreciate the efforts of every development, volunteer, contributor and others who have helped support the Monero project and keep it moving forward. To all of you, thank you very much! MoneroHouse will continue to provide funding in various forms to sponsor, promote, encourage, and recognize Monero development. This is made possibly by generous in-game donations from Crypto-Kingdom characters, most notably 'pa', the estate of whose former character makes up the core of the MoneroHouse foundation assets. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year on behalf of MoneroHouse and the Monero Core Team.
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