|
1242
|
Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation
|
on: June 09, 2016, 01:04:36 PM
|
ZCash (the equivalent of the 3DO) has done nothing to address its technical issues, and has in fact added a host of social issues (backed by a company with a premine) which make it double-damaged.
Well at least Snowdan thinks that zcash is solution to bitcoin's privacy problems. https://news.bitcoin.com/snowden-zcash-bitcoin-risks/People are putting way too much weight on what was said. Zooko was presenting in advance of Snowden, so guess what happened? Oh and, Bitcoin.com is owned by Roger Ver, an angel investor in Zcash. |
|
|
|
|
1247
|
Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
|
on: June 07, 2016, 11:31:08 PM
|
Crosspost: Some backstory:About 14 months ago, some acquaintances and I decided to make some pure gold physical XMR coins. I led the effort, and 9 others agreed to "pre-order" 1 each (10 total), which would cover most of the upfront costs. Depending on how things went, the plan was to offer an additional 5-10 (max 20 total) for public sales. Long story short, after many hardships and delays, all coins are in their owners hands and fully funded with 1,000 XMR, save one: a few months ago one of the guys backed out. Due to a variety of factors, I've decided not to make any more of this 2015 series (there may be something new for 2016/2017 in gold and/or platinum though!). This coin (#10) is all there will be for public sales of this series. All coins are vanity-generated to start with "4Au1", "4Au2", etc. The buyers of coins 1-9 are: 1. luigi1111 2. fluffypony 3. dnaleor 4. binaryFate 5. Lloydimiller4 6. djjacket 7. wpalczynski 8. othe 9. saddambitcoin This is a "buyer funded" coin, but the funding transaction must be created to my technical specifications. By doing this I can ship the coin unfunded to its final destination and store no private keys, yet still have its funding/spent status provable to a 3rd party. A certificate with all the details necessary to prove funding status is included. This coin's address is (0/zero doesn't exist in base58): 4Au1oNBDiYCXRjvYUyPCmyWm5mshnZv1cWa6NSK8dxY9LMDT6ZNm4DnYWomuAS3NisZP1YGaYNuGr84KM4fB L9bHMdHT27r Some pictures:         The coin is quite small, and the text, especially on the obverse didn't turn out as sharp as I wanted, both in pictures and on the coin itself. The date also has an error; it's slightly off its intended location (all 10 coins are like this). Q&AWho are you? Why should I trust you?You shouldn't. The other buyers will vouch for me, however, you should still DYOR. Do you accept escrow?Sure, though it's safer to stay away altogether as only roughly 60-70% of the final value can be ensured by escrow. What is the gold content?1oz 0.9999 purity What does it say? I can't read the text.The obverse says "nenia libereco sen privateco", which is Esperanto for "no freedom without privacy". The reverse says "forto en nombroj", "strength in numbers", and "unu unco .9999 oro", "one ounce .9999 gold". How does funding work?The exact final details will be worked out with the buyer. The funding transaction must be constructed in a particular way to match the details at http://au10.llcoins.net/. 1,000 XMR for funding must be in escrow before the coin ships. How does the coin store Monero?There is a hexadecimal seed on a piece of paper under the hologram. The digital form was never saved to any disk; the only other paper copy was destroyed after the coins were assembled. To redeem, peel the hologram and enter the seed into the provided conversion utility on the coin's page: http://au10.llcoins.net/. The format of the seed is standard for Monero private keys, not proprietary, so any number of tools could offer conversion if the site were to go offline. How is this being sold?By auction, starting now and ending next Friday the 17th at 20:00 UTC (4PM EDT). Bids should be in XMR in minimum increments of 25 (1,000 funding amount not included). A 15-minute grace period applies at the end. I reserve the right to refuse your bid, cancel/move/extend/change the auction, etc. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1502918.msg15120071#msg15120071
just want to vouch for luigi here  Received my coin in excellent condition. Here are some pics (click to enlarge):   |
|
|
|
|
1248
|
Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation
|
on: June 07, 2016, 11:30:48 PM
|
Crosspost: Some backstory:About 14 months ago, some acquaintances and I decided to make some pure gold physical XMR coins. I led the effort, and 9 others agreed to "pre-order" 1 each (10 total), which would cover most of the upfront costs. Depending on how things went, the plan was to offer an additional 5-10 (max 20 total) for public sales. Long story short, after many hardships and delays, all coins are in their owners hands and fully funded with 1,000 XMR, save one: a few months ago one of the guys backed out. Due to a variety of factors, I've decided not to make any more of this 2015 series (there may be something new for 2016/2017 in gold and/or platinum though!). This coin (#10) is all there will be for public sales of this series. All coins are vanity-generated to start with "4Au1", "4Au2", etc. The buyers of coins 1-9 are: 1. luigi1111 2. fluffypony 3. dnaleor 4. binaryFate 5. Lloydimiller4 6. djjacket 7. wpalczynski 8. othe 9. saddambitcoin This is a "buyer funded" coin, but the funding transaction must be created to my technical specifications. By doing this I can ship the coin unfunded to its final destination and store no private keys, yet still have its funding/spent status provable to a 3rd party. A certificate with all the details necessary to prove funding status is included. This coin's address is (0/zero doesn't exist in base58): 4Au1oNBDiYCXRjvYUyPCmyWm5mshnZv1cWa6NSK8dxY9LMDT6ZNm4DnYWomuAS3NisZP1YGaYNuGr84KM4fB L9bHMdHT27r Some pictures: The coin is quite small, and the text, especially on the obverse didn't turn out as sharp as I wanted, both in pictures and on the coin itself. The date also has an error; it's slightly off its intended location (all 10 coins are like this). Q&AWho are you? Why should I trust you?You shouldn't. The other buyers will vouch for me, however, you should still DYOR. Do you accept escrow?Sure, though it's safer to stay away altogether as only roughly 60-70% of the final value can be ensured by escrow. What is the gold content?1oz 0.9999 purity What does it say? I can't read the text.The obverse says "nenia libereco sen privateco", which is Esperanto for "no freedom without privacy". The reverse says "forto en nombroj", "strength in numbers", and "unu unco .9999 oro", "one ounce .9999 gold". How does funding work?The exact final details will be worked out with the buyer. The funding transaction must be constructed in a particular way to match the details at http://au10.llcoins.net/. 1,000 XMR for funding must be in escrow before the coin ships. How does the coin store Monero?There is a hexadecimal seed on a piece of paper under the hologram. The digital form was never saved to any disk; the only other paper copy was destroyed after the coins were assembled. To redeem, peel the hologram and enter the seed into the provided conversion utility on the coin's page: http://au10.llcoins.net/. The format of the seed is standard for Monero private keys, not proprietary, so any number of tools could offer conversion if the site were to go offline. How is this being sold?By auction, starting now and ending next Friday the 17th at 20:00 UTC (4PM EDT). Bids should be in XMR in minimum increments of 25 (1,000 funding amount not included). A 15-minute grace period applies at the end. I reserve the right to refuse your bid, cancel/move/extend/change the auction, etc. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1502918.msg15120071#msg15120071
just want to vouch for luigi here Received my coin in excellent condition. Here are some pics (click to enlarge): |
|
|
|
|
1257
|
Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation
|
on: June 04, 2016, 07:59:36 AM
|
Did somebody say GUI? Latest commit 8f9d98b 9 hours ago Not to mention Ring CT commits and 2 pull requests merged (hi ginger ) So to conclude: [1] The wall is real. [2] Two pull requests merged, which are from radfish and not from gingeropolous, if you meant that :-P See:  [3] A bunch of new Ring CT commits, see:  [4] A bunch of new GUI commits and closed issues, see:  |
|
|
|
|
1260
|
Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
|
on: June 02, 2016, 08:30:20 PM
|
@DeBryne
I really like Monero and all the possibilities it brings with it and I own enough of it.
What I do not like to be honest is some growing FUD against Ethereum. I have read a german blog lastly, about a meeting in Germany, where Fluffypony has also been speaking, and the autor concluded how he liked the idea of XMR but disliked the negative attitude and speech towards competitors. I have stated this one time and do it again, although it might be disliked: The Monero community should concentrate more on own achievements and less on others. Only losers complain about the competitors, while they go far ahead.
To cite from your quote: "It MUST be useful to end users in some way, and that use should be obvious. "Turing complete", smart contracts, etc. is NOT a use case."
With all respect but this is complete BS. It is not the "Turing complete" and "smart contracts" which an end user would use, but applications built on those functions of the Ethereum network. Ethereum is running away and may take BTC crown faster then some think or at least share it with BTC. Serious companies are supporters of ETH or ETH based projects. Big mass media and financial newsletters write about ETH, a whole ecosystem is growing, while an army of ETH developers thinks how to implement more privacy securing functions into the network.
On the other side we wait for the official GUI wallet and call Ethereum a P&D coin?
Cmon.
[1] First, regarding bolded, Fluffypony didn't speak in a condescending way towards other altcoins. It is very unfortunate how this was misreported in that German article, but it is far away from what was really said. I actually agree with the rest of that paragraph and it makes sense to say if you have to rely on the article, instead of what was really said. For what it's worth, I think there will be a video online of the presentation soon. You can determine yourself if it was condescending and I am confident you will conclude it wasn't. [2] First, that wasn't posted by me, but by a reddit user ferretinjapan. This is his own personal opinion and if you want to challenge him on it regarding the Ethereum part you should do so on Reddit. Perhaps I should've made myself more clear to the extent that I agree with the general gist of the post itself, whereas I may disagree with some more specific points of it. |
|
|
|
|
Show Posts
