No doubt, very strong words. But if he's right, something I could never determine, he's got every right to say it. . . Trickery all over the place in cryptoland.

Yes, Mammoth really focuses it on species preservation. No doubt thats a good cause, but it doesn't really make sense with the coin's technicals. In my opinion 'Mammoth' coin would be something tied to a charity from inception. . . I think the name should be something that says Decentralized, Anonymous and Secure. . . How about DAS coin. or in German, 'the coin'? haha, yea maybe not.

Definitely not. They'd be stupid not to, and they deserve the reward if they actually innovate.

If the launch and initial mining were fair, the devs don't have a step up on anyone. I'd say the only 'evidence' of them trying to take advantage of their position would be a big buying effort right before a tech update. . . And even if they did do that, it would be evidence that they believe in what they're doing.

I haven't got one, part of the problem. The best I can do is be public and I'm easy to look up. If the price soars and I don't make my donation, I look like an ass and everyone knows who I am if they want....Would be better to have a guarantor though for sure.

Curious, is the big dump at 7k still visible somewhere? Can't see it on Bittrex. How much of a percentage of the total coin supply was the sale? Why do you expect the dev made the dump if they didn't have privileged access to mine coins? Couldn't it have been anyone who started mining early in a big way?

This is helpful thankyou. I'm thinking the best way to explain the difference here then will be through the escrow aspect. No other coin is treating it that way yet from my understanding. There are however other coins offering a mixing that occurs across a network of equal nodes.

Would you be willing to make a similar pledge to an animal rights group? That would very quickly dispel the criticism and there is little risk to your personal wealth at this point. I've only pledged my donations starting at basically a %5000 percent growth. If/when that happens, any of us interested in the long term prospect of this project should be more than happy to donate some of our new found value. This is how its worked for many coins. Seeing as there is no premine and anyone holding coins, including devs, obtained them on equal ground, its up to the community to make the charitable aspect work. Promises are good. We need lots of promises from many coin holders besides myself. Dev pledges are of course the most respected though. . .

That's the nature of a new coin. It all has to be promises. There is no financial resource yet or new coin technology. If it hasn't been completed yet, how do you expect anything more than promises?



Knowing already what will be scrutinized, I'd like to be able to strengthen 2 of these dev points.

Supporting Animal Rights
At this point, this is impossible, so all we can do is pledge to do this in the future. The same problem of resources comes up when looking to fund marketing. There is no financial resource here yet. The total market cap is 20k, which is nothing. The best any of us could do, is sell our entire stake in MAMM and donate the measly proceeds to an environmental cause. Soooo, here is my pledge, I hope others will join me and we can post this together as a community.

For every 500k market cap MAMM should exceed, I will donate .5BTC worth of USD to The Nature Conservancy at nature.org. So when/if it passes 1mil market cap, I will donate another .5BTC making 1BTC total. If it passes 5mil, I will have donated 5BTC in total etc. . . .Anyone else want to match my pledge or something similar? If a few of us can do this, and publicly, we can make it legit and add it to the website and video. Public is important if you can do it. I'm an easy guy to look up, I have no intention of publicly cheating on donations I've pledged to charities - who would want that type of reputation? Make a pledge people, this is how we make Mammoth's environmental characteristic legit.


The First Truly Anonymous Coin
I definitely want to be able to use this, but I need a bit more about how coinjoin is superior to crypto-note anonymity. How is it MORE trustless? The advantage over central nodes is pretty obvious, but this coinjoin vs cryptonote aspect I don't quite grasp yet. . .Ultimately. We need someone like me to "get it" so that I can help others like me to "get it". . . .got it?


Would be great to have this moving this week, so next week when testing is done, I'll slam out a video for us.

Thanks! I actually never left though, always been lurking around here.

haha, yea,  no doubt right? And even if they did, so what right? Thats the free market. A dev that's investing his hard earned money into buying his own coin is somebody to watch for sure. Unless they're idiots, which I don't think is the case here at all.

Mammothcoin user did offer me some MAMM for video production. It was a fixed rate and I think reasonable. If I were someone about to release a new cryto innovation, I wouldn't waste my money buying videos. I would buy the currency. When the price soars on the innovation, sell some and buy a video....or make a deal with a producer like myself who is also invested in the project already. If I charged him what I'd generally charge for video production, he'd be forking over about 5% of the total currency supply. Not really a reasonable investment I'd say. If you believe in this project, at this point you're buying coins, there isn't much else going on until phase 2 is actually implemented.

I agree. I want them to have many coins so that the potential for them to be rewarded when they innovate is there. If they don't have any, they won't bother. I also highly doubt they're owning 90% of the coins. I managed to get a lot of over the last 2 weeks and I'm surely not the only person buying besides the devs.

Sent you a message, I'm still here and on board to help. I have lots of experience with videos and marketing to offer. . . Thanks for the update on your progress!

Yes, great to see some announcements, lets hope it works out for them. I had no problem buying lots of MAMM for good prices over the last couple weeks. If they are able to do decentralized/anonymous in a new way, this coin is very undervalued still. There are other coins offering similar characteristics, but not at this market cap and slow inflation rate....But again, lets hope it works out. Proof will only be in the pudding.

My understanding was that XC and XMR are both able to provide decentralized trustless anonymous. . . But I'd love to hear an answer to this from our Mammoth dev.

I did hear on a troll box somewhere that XC is dependent on TOR for its anonymity. Is that true? So you'd need to trust that TOR is really anonymous before believing that XC is....I am not a programer/coder, I may be completely wrong about this!

OK thanks, but what about Monero? How is it better than what they have? XMR's infographic says that it is both decentralized and anonymous. What advantage will phase 2 here have over xmr?

Thanks!

My rep is more important to me than any coin, which is why I posted my proposed script here. Partly to involve the community, but also so that I don't tread across the line of what is marketing and what is bullshit. If this isn't the first truly trustless decentralized anonymous, I can't say it in the video...Devs help me out here? I want to believe!

hmmm. . . count me among those with some questions. I am admittedly not a crypto expert, I make videos. Firedoner user earlier said that  XMR also has anonymous and decentralized. For some reason I had ruled it out, but can't remember why. I check their site and it says decentralized and trustless anonymous. The mixing happens within each wallet I believe, not at a central or master node. So could someone please explain how phase 2 here is adding something new. I realize the solution is different, but isn't the end result (mixing done in a decentralized trustless way) essentially the same as XMR?

no man, you're missing the point of all of this. Bitcoin was invented as an alternative to fiats, the intention isn't to perpetually keep trading BTC for fiat every time you want something. You trade cryptos for goods and its none of the government's business, that's the idea.

When they complain that bitcoin isn't anonymous, they're talking about examining the blockchain and determining who owns which wallet from what they spend - it has nothing to do with the conversion to fiats.

But you're right, at this point there is nothing anonymous. Phase 2 will be the first.

Anonymous to hide your wealth from prying/confiscating governments - remember this has been a major force behind bitcoin's growth. But now the general public knows bitcoin isn't anonymous, enter a bunch of coins that are centralized and offer pseudo anonymity.. NO coin currently offers anonymity, none. The "anonymous" coins are centralized meaning someone has access and someone can shut it down.... If these devs come out with true anonymous/decentralized first, it will be worth a fortune - won't matter one bit what the price is today. It also won't matter how much pre release pandering the devs bothered to do. The innovation is everything. Devs don't waste your time here. Write the code before another team beats you to it - that's all that really matters.

Also, just looking at that bot closer. Its trading less than 1k of MAMM per hour or moving maybe $50 USD per day at the most. Looks like a lot for such a cheap coin, but its really not a big player overall.