10000 this, you'll rarely or almost never see any Bitcoin stuff making the slighest hint about Monero, unless the person really likes/understands it, after the scamcoin "bought"(subverted) dashcoin I have enough evidence to support my paranoia that Bitcoins already started to rolling behind the scenes to stop or slow down XMR acceptation. At minimum there is a silent conspiracy to ignore Monero/cryptonote.

Is this irony? I don't understand. I thought there was an understanding (gentlemen's agreement), that from now on the Monero Community is supporting it's (positve) price development.
(-> rpietilas price grow start post)

why do you guys think we need an anonymous cryptocurrency?
i think in future there will be a better feature than darkwallet out there ,that can protect your privacy

It's good that you can see that some see value in it. I think more and more people will see value in it. I agree and disagree with smooth at the same time. I do think that too many people are complacent, agreed. However, at the same time I think that the vast majority of people simply do not know how much spying is going on (be it from official bodies, contractors or just third party companies selling big data). Especially the latter. Very few outside the field knows this is going on. It's hardly ever covered in the mainstream media. We surmise though that it will be a larger and larger issue when people see the ramifications of it.

But let's break it apart a bit and spell it out from my rhetoricals:

- You wouldn't want your health insurance knowing your chocolate bar habits, they might raise your premium because of it. They might even refuse to take you on as a customer.
- If your boss knows your stopping your birth control, he might let you go. Maybe he doesn't want to pay for maternity leave. It would be mighty convenient to do that before you fell pregnant.
- If a merchant knows exactly what you've been willing to pay for items before he will be able to charge different prices to customers. And charge you more.
- If your government isn't friendly towards free speech (as we see governments all over the world move towards) and you hold a political opinion that is against the powers that be, your existence in life can be very troublesome. (this is such deep subject so I will not go into it more).
- If you run a little corner-shop and your customers can see what you pay for prices, they might just go straight to the source. Your competitors might be able to see it too. They can see your suppliers and the prices you pay. It's not necessarily good for your business.
- If people can see that you went to a psychiatrist, and take specific meds you could for example risk not being invited to job interviews, or have that date you were going on cancelled, or..or..
- If you were running a local diner, and customers could see that other people were getting special deals (might be your frequent patronage), they would start asking for cheaper meals - or go somewhere else.
- The last one of my previous questions spoke for itself almost. If rogue elements (be it thieves or whatever) can see when you go to the movies, on holidays, go out shopping they can arrange for a house visit at those times. But not just that - they can see WHAT you are shopping - hey you shop for nice things let's steal that..! - and plan accordingly.)

What's that old song called? "You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.."

Darknote has zero volume. And noone cares about it. It wil probably have a big pump and then the a great dump and slowly die. Right now darknote has such a small hashrate, and with a block reward this small, it will stay like this. This is a security risk.

This is great news for BTC (posted it also to Wall observer). But here's some food for thought... Anyone else sees this as "bad news" for XMR due to its anonymity? I mean, if I'd want to be "visible" to the network for regulation reasons, could I persuade the government that I actually am?

Much like there are plenty of completely legitimate reasons to be private, there are also plenty of completely legitimate reasons to be transparent, be it to anyone or just selected parties. Monero achieves all of this with a mechanism called the view key.

If this doesn't suffice, know that it is completely in a State's reach to kill a crypto (even Bitcoin) if it really wants to. Right now. So, there are two options: to hope no State will care, or to make sure it is not in its best interest. We choose the latter.

In the end of this year the daily emission is about 11 000 XMR.
10 USD price means the emission needs 110 000 usd/day which is not impossible - in my opinion. I don't say it will happen but certainly it is possible. I understand that currently it looks pretty distant as emission is 16 000 XMR/day and price is 0.80 USD/XMR.
Last summer Monero cost 3-5 USD so 10 USD is not impossible in my opinion.

I'm not sure where those graphs came from but A is not correct. B is closer to correct. Although you are right that the rate of inflation will decline over time and that isn't visible in B.  This happens very, very slowly (rate cut in half in approximately 70 years).

In a couple of days we should cross 0.003... The longer the crossing takes, the more violent it will be. 

Well it's not going to happen, the smart mining idea was abandoned.

Smart miner will make it so the bitmonerod miner runs whenever your PC is inactive - similar to how BOINC works (BOINC is a distributed computing network for science and other computation heavy things. if you remember SETI@home, its the same concept). The idea is that mining will become more of a passive thing for some people and it won't interfere with everyday computer use - won't eat up system resources.

Most of the previous "CPU only" coins are really scams and the developers already have GPU miner or know how to write one. There are a very few exceptions, almost certainly including this one.

I don't expect a really dominant GPU miner any time soon, maybe ever. GPUs are just computers though, so it is certainly possible to mine this on a GPU, and there probably will be a some GPU miner, but won't be so much faster as to put small scale CPU miners out of business (probably -- absent some unknown algorithmic flaw).

Everyone focuses on botnets because it has been so long since regular users were able to effectively mine a coin (due to every coin rapidly going high end GPU and ASIC) that the idea that "users" could vastly outnumber "miners" (botnet or otherwise) isn't even on the radar.  

The vision here is a wallet that asks you when you want to install: "Do you want to devote some of you CPU power to help secure the network. You will be eligible to receive free coins as a reward (recommended)   [check box]." Get millions of users doing that and it will drive down the value of mining to where neither botnets nor professional/industrial miners will bother, and Satoshi's original vision of a true p2p currency will be realized.

That's what cryptonote wants to accomplish with this whole "egalitarian mining" concept. Whether it succeeds I don't know but we should give it a chance. Those cryptonote guys seem pretty smart. They've probably thought this through better than any of us have.

Bump. Please vote. We've always done really well on these polls. This one not so much.

I am also watching it closely.  I began by wondering why there is so much action in that coin with what seem like obvious achilles heel issues (insta/premine, semi-centralized mixing) as well as being a bit overcomplicated.

I thought maybe after the big drop after the rebranding there might be a dead cat bounce, but I was too chicken to buy as I was not sure we'd see a bounce, especially with what looked like artificial whale support.  Turns out I am glad I didn't.

But to our topic.  It will certainly benefit the monero blockchain if DRK continues to lose steam.  Still, the network effect there is strong.

Yes.  The roadmap is a juggernaut and we'll be on Craptsy soon(tm).

I PM ' d Sadambitcoin  a week or two ago as you suggested re: CK,   with no response.   Is there another way to get involved?

We have now started exponential bubble phase which is not sustainable and nobody knows how long or how far we go. All I can say, sell into strength, ussually this moves retrace hard and people panick and lose. Then buy back

Is there really a DRK mess? DRK's retracement looks normal. It's had a big run. I don't think its decline will be notable unless it retraces 100% to .006x or below.

Of course, if DRK goes into terminal decline and XMR were to absorb DRK's 100k USD daily trade volume, then XMR would have the next highest liquidity after LTC. XMR's emission as a percentage of daily trade volume would become very small.

I doubt that the rise today was actually caused by darkcoiners abandoning ship for XMR, but if XMR becomes more visible during DRK's decline, then that can become the narrative. And once it's the narrative, it will become reality.

Not for nothing but releasing and marketing something to the general public that is not ready for prime time WILL poison the brand. Even when it gets ready those that tried it and failed with it will never try again. You will sour a huge market if you market to to the uninformed/nontechnical masses.

If on the other hand your just looking for a price surge that will cause a quick selloff then have at it.