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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
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on: May 18, 2016, 02:29:21 PM
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Sorry monero noob here. I'm worried I sent coins to an old fork and lost money. Is the latest version of MoneroX safe to use? I should've tested with a smaller amount but I sent 118 XMR to an address it controls but still don't see it. I assume it is because the blockchain is taking forever to sync. Still only on block 40000 and have been running this for a while now. Something else weird keeps happening. Keeps jumping back to 37921 I think this is the txid even tho it shows way more than 118. http://chainradar.com/xmr/transaction/79fbe7a2013436601f4aafa45f442cce601a186c5d39a0957806b1bffc640f43Does this mean we are on block 1049316? This is taking FOREVER to sync. It's so slow. Is there a different way to grab the whole blockchain? The blockchain.bin that I have is already 5.7GB [1] MoneroX isn't maintained anymore and it's generally advised against using it. Better to use the binaries available on the website, see: https://getmonero.org/downloads/[2] I am not sure which version MoneroX uses, but I think it is the version without the database, which takes up a lot of RAM and takes a lot of time to sync. Therefore, I'd advise to download the latest binaries from the site and sync that. There is a linux guide here on how to set it up, for Windows it's pretty similiar: https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/blob/master/knowledge-base/user-guides/create_wallet.md[3] Make sure to backup the .keys file and the mnemonic seed (the words), if you have that you can always restore your wallet or open your wallet with simplewallet (the official wallet). It's unlikely your funds are lost. I'd advise to first try and sync with the official binaries (bitmonerod.exe (the daemon)). Alternatively, you could try importing the .raw blockchain available on the website, see instructions here: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releasesUnder "Updating: Blockchain Conversion" It shows more than 118 XMR because that is how Monero works. Thanks for the quick reply. I'm syncing with v0.9.4 right now and will let that run today. It's definitely going faster. I created a password for my old MoneroX but I have no clue where it placed the wallet.dat This is why I'm thinking I lost money. I don't see no .keys, they have to be generated somewhere. It created an address for me. Do you recall your wallet name? If so, just search your computer for it, it must be somewhere. I think MoneroX placed the wallet files in the same directory as MoneroX itself is located. Bear in mind no such thing as wallet.dat exists for Monero. The file you need to look for is <your_wallet_name>.keys. Thus, if your wallet was called testwallet, search for testwallet.keys. Perhaps searching for just .keys file will also yield the wanted result. Which operating system are you using btw? |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
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on: May 18, 2016, 02:01:20 PM
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Sorry monero noob here. I'm worried I sent coins to an old fork and lost money. Is the latest version of MoneroX safe to use? I should've tested with a smaller amount but I sent 118 XMR to an address it controls but still don't see it. I assume it is because the blockchain is taking forever to sync. Still only on block 40000 and have been running this for a while now. Something else weird keeps happening. Keeps jumping back to 37921 I think this is the txid even tho it shows way more than 118. http://chainradar.com/xmr/transaction/79fbe7a2013436601f4aafa45f442cce601a186c5d39a0957806b1bffc640f43Does this mean we are on block 1049316? This is taking FOREVER to sync. It's so slow. Is there a different way to grab the whole blockchain? The blockchain.bin that I have is already 5.7GB [1] MoneroX isn't maintained anymore and it's generally advised against using it. Better to use the binaries available on the website, see: https://getmonero.org/downloads/[2] I am not sure which version MoneroX uses, but I think it is the version without the database, which takes up a lot of RAM and takes a lot of time to sync. Therefore, I'd advise to download the latest binaries from the site and sync that. There is a linux guide here on how to set it up, for Windows it's pretty similiar: https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/blob/master/knowledge-base/user-guides/create_wallet.md[3] Make sure to backup the .keys file and the mnemonic seed (the words), if you have that you can always restore your wallet or open your wallet with simplewallet (the official wallet). It's unlikely your funds are lost. I'd advise to first try and sync with the official binaries (bitmonerod.exe (the daemon)). Alternatively, you could try importing the .raw blockchain available on the website, see instructions here: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releasesUnder "Updating: Blockchain Conversion" It shows more than 118 XMR because that is how Monero works. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation
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on: May 17, 2016, 02:54:40 PM
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Crosspost: Please Support the Monero Stack Exchange! http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/98617/moneroTLDR: 1. Go to the above site (make an account if necessary) and follow using the orange button on top left. 2. Upvote a question you think should be on a Monero stack exchange site Why start a Stack Exchange?Monero is tough. Its tough for developers, its tough for users. Its tough for developers because the original code from bytecoin was purposefully undocumented, so when a person wants to work with Monero, they have to figure out how the code works first. This usually involves going to #monero-dev on IRC, but not everyone has time to do that, and sometimes the person with the answer isn't sitting in the chatroom. Hell, the monero community funded someone to go through and document the code - this is the state of things. Developing for Monero is tough. Its tough for users in two ways - the primary client is command line only, and any current third party solution requires some fiddling. Sure, the GUI may solve this issue. The second way it is tough is its conceptually difficult. Hell, I still don't understand ring signatures or the upcoming ringCT, but I'm not a cryptographer. Will a SE fix this issue? Probably not. But it will create some good answers that may help. What can a stack exchange do that this forum, our forum, or reddit can't?It can provide a knowledge base of information that is easily updated, curated, and searchable. The problem with reddit, or this forum, or our forum, is that information gets lost. Unless debruyne is available to serve up one of his bookmarks for a given answer, 9 times out of 10 you won't be able to search through the forums or Reddit to find an answer to a problem. More likely than not, someone had the same question you did, and someone provided an answer. But now that answers is gone. It wasn't added to our knowledge base on getmonero.org, and its lost in a thread. With a stack exchange, a good question may lead to a good answer, and both the question and the answer get upvoted, and this information is findable in the future. Some random person that feels like tweaking monero a bit to increase its functionality can get all their questions answered without going to the chatrooms, because some people just don't like doing that I guess. So, please goto the stackexchange, and vote on things that are under 10. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
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on: May 17, 2016, 02:54:27 PM
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Please Support the Monero Stack Exchange! http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/98617/moneroTLDR: 1. Go to the above site (make an account if necessary) and follow using the orange button on top left. 2. Upvote a question you think should be on a Monero stack exchange site Why start a Stack Exchange?Monero is tough. Its tough for developers, its tough for users. Its tough for developers because the original code from bytecoin was purposefully undocumented, so when a person wants to work with Monero, they have to figure out how the code works first. This usually involves going to #monero-dev on IRC, but not everyone has time to do that, and sometimes the person with the answer isn't sitting in the chatroom. Hell, the monero community funded someone to go through and document the code - this is the state of things. Developing for Monero is tough. Its tough for users in two ways - the primary client is command line only, and any current third party solution requires some fiddling. Sure, the GUI may solve this issue. The second way it is tough is its conceptually difficult. Hell, I still don't understand ring signatures or the upcoming ringCT, but I'm not a cryptographer. Will a SE fix this issue? Probably not. But it will create some good answers that may help. What can a stack exchange do that this forum, our forum, or reddit can't?It can provide a knowledge base of information that is easily updated, curated, and searchable. The problem with reddit, or this forum, or our forum, is that information gets lost. Unless debruyne is available to serve up one of his bookmarks for a given answer, 9 times out of 10 you won't be able to search through the forums or Reddit to find an answer to a problem. More likely than not, someone had the same question you did, and someone provided an answer. But now that answers is gone. It wasn't added to our knowledge base on getmonero.org, and its lost in a thread. With a stack exchange, a good question may lead to a good answer, and both the question and the answer get upvoted, and this information is findable in the future. Some random person that feels like tweaking monero a bit to increase its functionality can get all their questions answered without going to the chatrooms, because some people just don't like doing that I guess. So, please goto the stackexchange, and vote on things that are under 10. Bump |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency
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on: May 16, 2016, 04:20:08 PM
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this may be something. could someone from the core team please reach out and see what this is all about, thanks....... ... and the post has now being removed. Frankly fixing Darksend could be worth a lot of money so no hard feelings towards TPTB_need_war for trying. If TPTB_need_war actually has a solution, I am sure the Dash community will pay him for it and it will be money well earned. Does the Monero community have to be concerned about all of this. I doubt it. All mixing that is active requires, obviously, activity. If you don't get activity up you won't ever significantly increase transaction speed of CoinJoin / DarkSend transactions. Fortunately, Monero mixes passively and therefore doesn't require activity of other participants on the network. Actually there is only an activity threshold above which offchain mixing can be just as fast as onchain. Actually to do ring mixing correctly so that rings never can overlap in ways that allow combinatorial unmasking, Monero should require activity, but I was apparently never able to get Shen-Noether to understand this during our Reddit discussions last year (because he is a condescending prick in the same mold as Gregory Maxwell who thinks he is too smart, actually they appear to hobknob together sometimes), so afaik Monero remains "broken" (suboptimal). The advantage of adopting my idea for preventing combinatorial unmasking, is it would also make the block chain entirely prunable, not just compressable (which afaik is what Monero and BBR erroneously label "pruning"). The key breakthrough is to remove the simultaneity requirement (lol, I am the one who fixes Gregory Maxwell's broken CoinJoin in 10 minutes of my spare time while my head is deep in designing a programming language), and on further thought I've decided I want to embarrass noobtrader (to show my appreciation for his disrepect) so I went ahead and I think figured out how to eliminate the simultaneity requirement in CoinJoin! I figured out how to eliminate the short-term trust aspect! Another advantage is it can radically improve the robustness of decentralized exchange as well. It will reduce the block chain size considerably. I also see how to put a viewkey in it. And the mix anonymity sets can be huge, say 50 or 100 transactions per mix (or more!). The disadvantage is the masternode can see the correlation of inputs to outputs. But just like any mixing method, if mix over and over, the probability of your anonymity set being known to any one party diminishes in probability. You'd still need stealth addresses to achieve the delinking from the recipient's public key. Another potential advantage may be that this technique I've just invented gives you IP address obfuscation inherently, which is one of the big weakness of Monero. Monero adds I2P integration to attempt to overcome this weakness. My apologies to ArticMine. I am rushing so much, that I mistakenly (cross-eyed) attributed the above quoted disrespect to him.Adding this for clarity: Dash contacted me.
For the record: Dash did not contact you, rather it was vice versa. And I have your PM to prove it. Your self-congratulatory attitude and arrogant drivel are baffling and mind-boggling considering you're sitting atop an achievement-mountain of nothingness. I also find the timing of your 180° quite fascinating, as it was right before a major breakout in Dash's price. Suspicious as fuck. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation
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on: May 15, 2016, 08:14:52 AM
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He probably wrote the options, I have a hard time believing he would lose that much when merely buying options. Also, I feel like the author didn't really explain why stocks cannot "jump" when using Black-Scholes to price options. The Black-Scholes model assumes that the price evolves according to a geometric Brownian motion. Thus, basically implying that (i) returns on the stock follow a log-normal and (ii) stock prices must evolve smoothly (they cannot jump). The log-normal assumption posits that the (natural) log of returns is normally distributed, i.e., if S0 denotes the current price, and St the price t years from the present you get the follow formula: ln(St/S0) ~ N(μt, σ^2t) However, distribution of stock returns tends to have (i) fat tails (leptokurtosis | extreme observations) and (ii) skewness which are not in line with aforementioned assumptions. Guess bottomline is that one always has to be cautious. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation
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on: May 14, 2016, 05:49:23 PM
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... and the post has now being removed. Frankly fixing Darksend could be worth a lot of money so no hard feelings towards TPTB_need_war for trying. If TPTB_need_war actually has a solution, I am sure the Dash community will pay him for it and it will be money well earned. Does the Monero community have to be concerned about all of this. I doubt it. All mixing that is active requires, obviously, activity. If you don't get activity up you won't ever significantly increase transaction speed of CoinJoin / DarkSend transactions. Fortunately, Monero mixes passively and therefore doesn't require activity of other participants on the network. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
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on: May 13, 2016, 10:27:27 PM
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Do you have a referral code you would like used? How safe is this russian site? No, I just noticed their message on twitter. I cannot make statements regarding that unfortunately, since I don't have sufficient information. I have a referral code but prefer not to share it because my goal was not to make money from this. Monero needs to be listed on more exchanges. Although the original Tweet came from me, I not affiliated with livecoin in any way. I know several people who use the exchange and are satisfied with it. Keep voting! Any idea how high Monero currently is on the list? Or is there no visible list? |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation
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on: May 11, 2016, 05:17:53 PM
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Lots of time without posting in the room. My heart says up, my head says down. Im in a speculative mood... what do you guess?
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There is a support zone and the 23.6% fibonnaci retracement level to support us too, see:  However, due to high correlations I guess most of the price action will, unfortunately, depend on what the price of Bitcoin and/or ETH does. |
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