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1201  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: November 27, 2016, 03:25:16 AM
The harder decision for me lately has been what percentage of overall crypto to keep in BITCOIN versus MONERO...


Don't overthink the initial allocation.  Just go 50/50 Bitcoin/Monero.

The hard part comes later, when you must use sound judgement and self-discipline to reallocate, diversify, and rebalance.


Ha... yeah, but see?  That's the thing!  This ISN'T my initial allocation.  My first Monero buys cost me in the 70-cents each range, over two years ago.

That's what I meant when I said that XMR has blown the doors off on my bitcoin ROI so far.  

For Bitcoin to have done as well as Monero's done, in the last two years?  It'd already have to be about $5,000 per coin Wink



Thanks to the benevolence of the Moon Goddess, the opportunity to buy Bitcoin for less than $8 is here again; act (and hodl) accordingly.


Right, but again I agree, but IF ONLY we could *know* that was TRUE for sure, then obviously the right thing to do would be ALL-IN NOW on only XMR!!!

I have this feeling in my gut that'd *really* quite possibly be the RIGHT thing to DO, right NOW, but... but but but... aaaaaaa.... Honey Badger!  Just can't *quite* bring myself to DO it.... LOL

OK so you've done very well with XMR ROI, which indicates the trend is Monero's friend.

We can't with metaphysical certainty *know* the future "for sure."

But we can recognize when we've seen this movie before (history doesn't repeat but it rhymes).

The Cryptonote white paper gave me a tingle not felt since Satoshi's original.

And Monero's follow up implementation over its first 2.5 years has been equally as impressive as Bitcoin's early life.

Sure, Monero doesn't have the first mover advantage nor Lindy effect of Bitcoin.

But Monero covers use cases Bitcoin does not, as well as enjoying overlap and potential overflow.

So why not start moving towards a 50/50 allocation, which balances respect for Honey Badger with recognition of Wild & Free Monero Mustang potential?

No matter how many Bitcoins I acquired (actually mined not bought but whatever) when it was 70 cents, I'd still love to time travel back to the $8 range and buy MOAR.   Grin

Look forwards, not backwards.  Don't drive with the rear-view mirror (unless you are in reverse).
1202  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: November 27, 2016, 02:42:30 AM
The harder decision for me lately has been what percentage of overall crypto to keep in BITCOIN versus MONERO.

XMR clearly has more long-term upward potential, from this current sub-$10 that really IMHO should already be $50-$100, and maybe even better short-term upward potential with possibly less downside too.

So, logically if true, that'd mean "all in" on ONLY XMR would be best, but I somehow can't bring myself to completely abandon Honey Badger either LOL

I still hold more bitcoin than anything else but my ratio of XMR/BTC probably really SHOULD be higher. 

Just can't really decide how much is "correct" lately Sad

Long live The Honey Badger!   Cheesy

Don't overthink the initial allocation.  Just go 50/50 Bitcoin/Monero.

The hard part comes later, when you must use sound judgement and self-discipline to reallocate, diversify, and rebalance.

Right before the price explosion, I sold off my beloved technologically interesting but less socially/economically viable coins (ETH, XPM, XCN, BBR, XDN, VIA) and went 50/50 BTC/XMR.

Best move I've ever made.  But now I am entirely unable to bring myself to rebalance my completely lopsided allocation.

That's because I see Monero becoming what Bitcoin is now (worth ~$750).  And this time I'm not going to sell out too early.

Thanks to the benevolence of the Moon Goddess, the opportunity to buy Bitcoin for less than $8 is here again; act (and hodl) accordingly.
1203  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Dash - Is this code as damning as it looks or nothing out of the ordinary? on: November 27, 2016, 01:43:21 AM
This should be quite clear on what Evan did, he corrupted the value of the bits to return an "easy difficulty" then once he got enough coins he stopped it @ block # 4500. ANY testing would have shown this bug prior to launch as it would have very fast block timing. It was 100% "by design".

https://explorer.dash.org/block/000000000c260a60825cafb0ca292fa5cbd6d2b655ca59ebc7ca895aec54c183

You'll notice all blocks before 4500 are extremely close in timing, not 2.5 mins as advertised.


What is this? clear real coded in evidence for the premeditated captive instamine or just someones interpretation of deliberate instamine measures in the code?

If this is as clear as this person sees it then how has it taken this long to come to light?

coders opinions only please else we are just guessing....

Very damning evidence.  The difficulty adjustment was intentionally disabled, IE sabotaged.

Obviously the code must haven been tested prior to ninja-launch, so we must conclude Evan knew in advance the instamine would happen and was 100% positioned to be its beneficiary.

More damning than the "oops no difficulty adjustments" bug and ninja-launch timing is the fact Evan refused to redo the botched debut.

And it gets worse, as Evan later adjusted the total coin supply downward by a factor of 10, so his instamine hoard represents a much larger percentage of total emission than originally advertised to the public.

The very worst thing is that these facts are all well known, and yet his cargo cult still rationalize them with assorted mental contortions.

The only good thing is that Evan's Darkcoin/Dash/Evolution project is dying, as attrition from the cargo cult is higher than recruitment and the (thinly-traded) price depends on two or three whales propping it up.

Evan's instamined scamcoin is also falling behind Bitcoin's technology, as it won't support advanced new features like segwit, Lightning, Rootstock, MAST, or MimbleWimble.

We should be seeing some law enforcement and/or regulatory action effecting Dash, as it is centrally controlled (albeit by a "non-profit" entity) and thus fails the Howey Test, making Dash an unregistered security  (as well as unregistered money services business) and Masternodes an illegal investment scheme.
1204  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Vcrash??? on: November 27, 2016, 01:19:51 AM

Well. some people may have just made a fortune and some may of lost a fortune. Huge dump and semi recovery.


"even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height"

lol rekt
1205  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released on: November 25, 2016, 08:14:53 PM
most people completely miss the implications of BBR being the selected CryptoNote currency for SuperNet. Supernet is primed to become a huge community of crypto enthusiasts sharing the latest and greatest crypto technologies. Everything from private betting to instantaneous transaction in decentralized marketplaces like the Nxt Asset exchange, means that BBR will be the coin of choice when wanting to complete purely anonymous transactions. As SuperNet has the potential to be used by 1000s or 10000s of crypto enthusiasts in the short term (long term plans for BBR are more for non-crypto mass adoption) this partnership is "killer app" like in its utility.

Anonymous transactions will be included in these shared technologies, so I dont think XDN has leapfrogged anyone. Its one thing to have a technology. Its an entirely other situation to have the technology and a user base eager to adopt it.

Sorry but I don't share you and 777's vision for Supernet, Nxt, and all that overcomplicated Rube Goldberg hoopla.  It's a beautiful theory but I don't see it coming to fruition.

BBR will succeed or fail on its own merits, not those of another party.

XDN's anon msg feature leapfrogged other CN coins by offering genuinely novel functionality in addition to anon token transfers.  That's why its market cap correspondingly leapfrogged BBR's.
./BitcoinDarkd SuperNET '{"requestType":"sendmessage","dest":"13434315136155299987","msg":"hello"}'

Not sure why you call something like the above "overcomplicated Rube Goldberg hoopla"
Adding new functions to the API parser takes a few minutes, of course the code to do anything useful needs to already be there to interface to.

    static char **commands[] = { sendpeerinfo, getpubkey, getpeers, maketelepods, transporterstatus, telepod, transporter, tradebot, respondtx, processutx, publishaddrs, checkmsg, placebid, placeask, makeoffer, sendmsg, orderbook, getorderbooks, teleport  };

The above is the current list of commands.

{"name":"BTC","conf":"/home/ubuntu3/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf","asset":"4551058913252105307","rpc":"127.0.0.1:8332","clonesmear":1,"minconfirms":3,"estblocktime":600}

adding the ability to access another coin is as easy as adding a line like the above in the SuperNET.conf file
Once that is there, then a coin's blockchain can be accessed.

So encrypted onion routed messaging between any two computers on the SuperNET, plus all the API functions I am doing, plus all the API functions all the other core coins/websites are doing.

vs. DarkNote.

you decide which has a brighter future

James

P.S. I take offense at your constant calling what I do pumping.  A pump implies a subsequent dump. This is not what I do at all. I keep adding value so it might rise like a pump, but the dump it is missing. I think a better term would be a revaluation


* Le 2 Years Later *


The market decided "which has a brighter future."

As I predicted, SuperNET went nowhere (24 hour volume = $111) and took BBR nowhere, at it was merely yet another jl777 pump and dump scam-asset.

Meanwhile, DarkNote (now DigitalNote) enjoys continued development and an order of magnitude higher volume than the SuperNET abandonware.
1206  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released on: November 25, 2016, 07:46:34 PM

This BBR is XMR's silver crap is just propaganda. Its now just a matter of time before the crypto world knows the facts.


* Le 2 Years Later *

Silver:Gold ratio = 72:1

BBR:Monero ratio = 82:1

So my predictive syllogistic model is working, and not "just propaganda."   Cool
1207  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released on: November 25, 2016, 06:04:24 PM
...

BBR, aside from the optional 1% tax does not really have any baggage like that. Monero was very aggressively pumped at the start. They did not get their marketcap from anything good, they used a lot of offensive marketing to push their way up. If this were the early 20th century automobile industry that wouldn't matter but in the internet age Monero will probably get a lot of negative press when crypto goes more mainstream.

no-ice-please, I appreciate you bringing an outside perspective to the huntercoin thread, but I totally disagree with you here. What kind of offensive marketing are you referring to? I agree that it was pumped at the beginning, and iCEBREAKER is a douchebag, and maybe a few others, but I don't think there's any real concerted effort to market the coin at all, let alone offensively market it. And what do you mean the didn't get marketcap from anything good? Monero has the best database solution of all cryptonotes, BBR has none, and Monero has developed RingCT which will allow for non-zero mixin ring signatures, something that no other cryptonote has. No offense, but I don't think you know what the fuck you're talking about here.

I may be considered a douchebag for calling fraud by those pushing scams like Paycoin (gone), Neucoin (also gone), and Dash (soon to be gone) but have always been very supportive of Boolberry.

No offense, but I don't think you know what the fuck you're talking about here.   Wink


BBR is a solid and extremely undervalued coin.  It will either be the Coke or Pepsi of Cryptonote coins. 
1208  Economy / Goods / Re: WTS Premium Chocolate bars (US only) on: November 25, 2016, 11:06:50 AM
I want raw/fresh/organic cocoa beans, preferably whole.  Nibs are ok too.
1209  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Smooth VS VNL on: November 25, 2016, 03:17:37 AM
VNL (40%)

Smooth 1
Vcrash  0
1210  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: November 19, 2016, 10:15:04 PM


Chair seems trustworthy.

Ninja-proofing confirmed.
1211  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Drug free in the Philippines on: November 19, 2016, 02:25:15 AM
The drug is not only a problem of Philippines, it is a problem of all mankind. If you do not start to control it at the state level, people will be gone. And for this it is probably necessary to legalize.
You cannot legalize such drugs! The addict will not be cured.

Legalizing drugs worked in Portugal:

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Fourteen years after decriminalization, Portugal has not been run into the ground by a nation of drug addicts. In fact, by many measures, it's doing far better than it was before.

https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening
1212  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Duterte's War on Drugs - 2000 Killed & 600,000 Surrendered & counting on: November 17, 2016, 11:31:46 PM
nothing good war on drugs not brings
only a waste of state budget

Bureaucracy in relation to medical, scientists, teachers etc
this is what the war on drugs in Russia
read links
http://russialist.org/admirals-suicide-shakes-russias-healthcare-system/
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russian-scientist-hounded-by-officials-after-buying-banned-substance-48243

Politics Duterte will bring degradation of the country and innocent victims,
but the problem will not be solved


You may have a point but since it is under the law that it is illegal, you have nothing to do but to comply. Any violent reaction will be dealt with,if it endangers the life of the arresting personnel sorry but its better for the police to be alive than the drug lord etc.

War on drugs is a bloody campaign, there already deads  but still there are people who are not afraid.They are already reprimanded even before Duterte become President.

If you comply with tyrants and their intolerable, violent acts of vigilante murder and statist oppression, you are a domesticated animal, not a human being.

The War on Drugs (Prohibition on steroids) is a giant scam and pure hubris.  It's too bad most people don't realize this until *after* massive damage has been inflicted on their society.

The War on Drugs Is Over. Drugs Won.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a25070/war-on-drugs-is-over/

Can the War on Drugs ever be won?
https://www.quora.com/Can-the-War-on-Drugs-ever-be-won

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No war on an idea can ever be won. Armies can defeat other armies and subdue national populations, but they cannot kill an idea because it isn't a living thing. One might think of killing everyone who has the idea, but in the case of drugs, that would mean wiping out virtually the entire human race, and the idea would come right back anyway. All of us who are not tiny children know what drugs are. If we did not, someone would soon discover them just as our ancient ancestors did. War on Drugs cheerleaders need to ask themselves, "Which do you consider a greater threat to humanity, drugs or mass termination of nearly the entire human race?"

Twelve years ago, heroin addiction in Portugal had reached epidemic proportions. People were dying in the streets because they had no idea what the potency of a street purchased smack was, and no way of knowing what it had been diluted with, or if it had been diluted at all.

Instead of jailing ever larger portions of their populace, the Portuguese  decided to try a different approach. They decriminalized drugs, and focused the money they had been spending on policing, trials, prisons and probation on drug rehab and education. Possession of small amounts of drugs are a misdemeanor similar to a parking violation. Addicts get help instead of jail. The result is they have cut heroin addiction in half and overdose deaths are nearly unheard of because addicts can legally get pure heroin from their treatment program. Costs of the program are also far lower than the War on Drugs approach.

Drugs Won the War
Nicholas Kristof JUNE 13, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14kristof.html

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This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.

“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and higher levels of potency. It’s a dismal failure.”


1213  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Duterte's War on Drugs - 2000 Killed & 600,000 Surrendered & counting on: November 16, 2016, 07:41:29 PM
This figure terrifies me. I do not know how to treat this. Very cruel. Although of course it can, and will benefit the country

No. It is not going to benefit the country. On the other hand, the situation will deteriorate. The law and order will collapse, and the poverty will worsen. If Duterte want to eradicate drug usage in Philippines, then he might need to exterminate up to ten million Filipinos. The easier option is drug legalization and regulation. But at this point of time, I don't think that he will consider that step.


Why would you legalize a drug that can damage your brain. This will not and never be an option. Many innocent victims and crimes are related by drugs. This crime will just go up if it will legalize.

in any case it is impossible to legalize drugs. It will ruin the nation and lead to its complete degradation. President of the Philippines chose the right path, though very heavy

Drug Prohibition increases the price of drugs to ridiculous levels, forcing addicts to commit crimes to gain the required funds.

The drugs themselves are inert, blameless substances, and 99% of drug users would rather just sit around doing drugs than commit crimes.

Drug Prohibition has ruined the Philippines and lead to its complete degradation, as exemplified by Duterte's mass murder of the poor.

All the FUD about "zomg legalization will cause the End Of Teh World!!11!" has never proven accurate.  Not in Holland, nor America, nor Colorado/Oregon/California.

But keep on doing more of the same thing and expecting different results.  Let me know how that works out for you.
1214  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Drug free in the Philippines on: November 16, 2016, 07:36:05 PM
Looking forward to the philippines to be great again. How I wish philippines will be the lion of the Asia that Roar. The power of the philippines will be acknowledge in the future. And how I wish we will in the g20 in the future will superpowers will be born in the southeast of Asia.

Oh sure, the Philippines will murder its way to greatness.

Nothing like death squads executing the poor (on the basis of rumors and snitch money) to make a poor, backward nation competitive with rich, educated nations that respect the rule of law.

Keeping on wishing bro.  Maybe you can wish the PLA Navy out of Scarborough Shoal too.   Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
1215  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: November 15, 2016, 10:30:49 PM
Serious question: How do those of you who support the Monero project, i.e. want it to succeed, justify selling moneroj at this embryonic stage of the ecosystem's development? Doesn't selling moneroj weaken the Monero project by demoralizing and disincentivizing the entire ecosystem?

I'm not judging anyone here, just curious how traders who are also supporters of the Monero project (and not just profiteers) think. I'm a hodler by temperament.

Shorters (and their lenders) help Monero by

1)  Aiding stability and price discovery by providing liquidity, thus absorbing volatility and smoothing out spikes/dips, as KoziTwo explained in detail

2)  Encouraging wider distribution by filling bids when someone wants to borrow and dump, which aids Network Effect (Nielsen)

3)  Causing economic illiterates ("zomg I hate teh nasty shorters and hope tey get h4x0rd1!1!!") to self identify

4)  Increasing profits of the facilitating exchange; IE Polo benefits not only from XMR activity but also the ETH, etc. volume attracted as well, which encourages more exchange adaption via profit motive (you know the other exchanges are mad/jealous Polo is eating 41% of their ETH lunch while they fight over the leftovers)
1216  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: November 15, 2016, 01:27:35 AM
Peter Todd posted his trusted setup description.  It is long, still reading it.

https://petertodd.org/2016/cypherpunk-desert-bus-zcash-trusted-setup-ceremony

Wow, that hot mess of crypto voodoo explains the Z-Crash.  What's next, animal sacrifice and spirit cooking?   Cheesy

Peter Wuille Fact:

Trusted third parties are security holes, unless the third party is Peter Wuille.
1217  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency on: November 11, 2016, 09:56:09 PM
Is it the code that is particularly unique compared to other cryptonote coins , now, or the infrastructure around it?

Uniqueness among cryptonotes?

Already implemented, from the top of my head:
  • lmdb, which makes the daemon have a low RAM requirement and allows a ...
  • stunningly fast sync (when the hardware can keep up)
  • ringCT, ringCT, ringCT
  • real world viewkey utility - there is a way to check is your cold storage's monero are still there
  • built in bandwith management (this is not an issue until it is)
  • json based checkpointing (thanks BcX Wink )
  • You can store it on trezor

In the oven
  • Fluffyblocks
  • 0MQ - As a nice and robust base for future infrastructure
  • I2P integration (and a brand new I2p router side project named Kovri)
  • Multisig, multisig

I am sure there is more stuff, but this is what I remember.

EDIT:
Forgot a very important thing: 24.1 Mh/s

meh.

Oh you must be one of *those* people.  Ok here you go:

Using a flexible, auto-magic market-responsive cap, Monero defeats the Great Satan 1MB blocksize limit of Bitcoin.

Better?   Cheesy
1218  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency on: November 11, 2016, 09:56:17 AM

Change position between Monero and Dash now.


That didn't last very long.




Is segwit going to be active on Dash before Bitcoin?

Or is segwit going the way of Masternode blinding?

The BitcoinUnlimited people think segwit is bad, so perhaps like-minded Dash miners will vote against activation...
1219  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: November 08, 2016, 03:56:01 AM
what kind of idiot would support a coin where founders get 20% of all supply lmao.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.0;topicseen
1220  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Drug free in the Philippines on: November 06, 2016, 07:40:34 PM
It doesn't matter who started. That matters is that must stop. Many poor people suffering, they can't feed the own families, they afraid to trust people because of the guns and they are ashamed for their country. Sad

The vigilantes still enjoy support from more than 80% of the population, and Duterte remains extremely popular. So I don't foresee the bloodshed ending anytime in the near future. By the time the voters realize that this tactic is wrong, tens of thousands of innocent lives will be lost. This is not going to end well for Duterte and his supporters.

It's going end very well for for Duterte, when he's hanging from a lamppost.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS MOTHERFUCKER.

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