I wrote about that too. Here is original link by Fluffypony himself:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/8lgvw4/introducing_tari_a_decentralised_assets_protocol/

Fluffypony is slowly switching from Monero to Tari developing. Tari is an our future platform for anonymous assets & contracts on top of Monero. It will compete with ETH, EOS or NEM for example. Please read the full link.

And I have to say, it is VERY GOOD sign, Fluffypony left to be the LEADER DEVELOPER of Monero. It does significantly decrease the centralization of developing process of Monero itself, meaning Monero has reached a MATURE state and can survive without Fluffypony or any other single core developer.

Apart with Tari, later this year we get 1) Bullet Proofs that compress the blockchain size growing per unit time up to 80%. 2) Kovri alpha release that allows for the first time to flow all the Monero net traffic over I2P.

Including or not Bitcoin Private that you spammed about few days ago? Or you voted up 'Bitcoin Private' exactly because it is not private?

Lol. You are classic troll.

Seriously: no privacy - no coin at all. Cryptocurrencies become just candy wrappers without privacy. Privacy is the most fundamental property of the notion of Cryptocurrency. See my extended posts about why does privacy matter:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg39238948#msg39238948

Just have to emphasize, Monero does already have an adaptive bock size, being recalculated every day. So even before bullet proofs are implemented, Monero has much more scalability than Bitcoin (without Lightning Network that needs a kind of extra-trust) and many other coins with fixed block size (Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Zcash, etc.).

Heard this news too. I did estimate ~25% botnets/viruses and ~25% ASICs in this year beginning. As we can see since April 6, after anti-ASIC hard fork to CryptoNight variant 1, total hash rate became ~1/2 of the previous one. So, actually I did over-estimate botnets/viruses hashrate and under-estimate ASIC hash rate. Now it is evident, ASIC was THE MOST VIOLENT disaster of Monero's hashrate, ~50% of total one!

Now consider botnets/viruses. Most of them might update their mining algo since April 6, or even find new vulnerabilities to inject new mining algo. But total hashrate does not increase, furthermore it does slightly decrease since last Monero price fall at ~June 13. Note, ~2.5 months have been passed since April 6 hard fork. Enough time to improve/upgrade botnets/viruses! So, we CAN NEGLECT botnets/viruses hashrate at all. And this assertion fits with Josh Grunzweig result ~2% (of total hash rate) from the article you mentioned exactly.

From the other hand, essentially the fact that Monero CAN BE mined by viruses does confirm its superior anonymity and decentralization at once. Smart people don't run suspicious software or run them inside a virtual machine jail. Just said.

The great criminal adoption does prove Monero is the most anonymous coin, even more than fiat money: for example, fiat money note does have serial number, Monero coin doesn't have it: see the fungibility property and why it is important.

https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1967/what-is-fungibility-and-why-does-it-matter

Also see my post why ABSENCE of anonymity is HUGE SOCIAL SECURITY VULNERABILITY, not anonymity.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg39238948#msg39238948

Criminals and governments are both equal predators if you leave them into free fly. Only balance in the world, where there exist both transparency and anonymity, can preserve it from self-damage.

As you "officially" hate Monero, despite you can't contradict my proofs

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg39707725#msg39707725

of its fundamental excellence among other coins, especially since the latest release,

https://cryptodisrupt.com/monero-gets-ledger-support/

, I suspect you've just dumped and bought few Moneros "secretly"

Just to say, Bulletproofs and Kovri are developed by two separate teams, so they getting progress simultaneously. According to Monero roadmap, both Bulletproofs and Kovri are scheduled this year, I suppose between fall and xmas.

Guys could we ban a person who generate the same words repeatedly without any proof links like a bot?

Bitcoin Private relies on initialization trust. Say good bye to anonymity. See my detailed answer here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg39707725#msg39707725

Monero is twice as fast as Litecoin and has ADAPTIVE block size unlike Bitcoin, so Monero doesn't need even a Lightning network in the nearest future. Monero's block size is re-calculated every day.

I just leave here a fragment from my full post that I recommend to read too (prelude: Bitcoin Private & Zcash both use "zk-snarks"-based privacy, while Monero uses CryptoNote-based privacy):
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Bitcoin Private uses previously unknown to science, so called "zk-snarks" algorithm to hide payments on the blockchain. For decades there were no scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals that analyze, verify or proof this algorithm. Also "zk-snarks" need to rely on some kind of "initialization trust" - that's exactly because ZCash devs team (uses "zk-snarks" too) made a PR meeting "to fire off initial private keys". There were pictures, videos etc. from the meeting to show ZCash devs are honest.. Are they in fact?..

From the other hand, Monero relies on well-proven CryptoNote algorithm that is known to scientific society since year 2000, when first CriptoNote articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals come to the scene. Furthermore, Monero team goes up and created "Monero Research Lab" to study scientific aspects of Monero blockchain and its privacy. https://getmonero.org/resources/research-lab/
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg39490737#msg39490737


Just add a bit more: Monero is the only currency (from well known top market leaders) that supplies strong anonymity by default, to force end-users do the special steps to downgrade the anonymity level if they want - for example, a view-key feature is widely used by exchanges to deposit and to observe how the deposits flow over blockchain.

Zcash is NOT anonymous by default. It forces end-users to do the special steps to UPgrade the anonymity level. Furthermore, there are many articles and discussions show, that transfers between non-anonymous and anonymous ZCash addresses can destroy the anonymity at all.

https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/zcash-anonymity-protocol-vulnerability-exposed-what-to-know-now/

Did you try to restart GUI & daemon? It may help... Sorry I don't use GUI (always prefer CLI) so can't help you in deep.

What is appear 100% clear: since you (and me) can't find your txId on the blockchain:
https://moneroblocks.info/search/0997e50717d9d023834e79defde9dbd70f34dbbea0b6211e43c1760ae33f3139
- your transaction doesn't exist in Mainnet.

What to do? Read this, it may help:
https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/4298/how-can-i-delete-the-last-x-blocks-from-my-local-copy-of-the-blockchain-and-retr
- typical number of blocks to pop out from your local copy of the blockchain is 1440 (mean 2 latest days).

Non-anonymous blockchains are Total Huge Vulnerabilities in the financial systems. See my full post on this subject:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg39238948#msg39238948

So, Monero should be compared with other anonymous blockchains, like ZCash for example. Look at my another post on this subject:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg39490737#msg39490737

It seems like you was not sync with Mainnet during transaction sending. Did you know about April 6 hardfork? If no, you have to read info about it, unwind your blockchain copy to any pre-April 6 date, and start sync with Mainnet using the latest tools  found at https://getmonero.org/downloads/.

1. Bitcoin Private is much newer project than Monero, their people are not time-verified, so Bitcoin Private has most chance to be scam. Monero devs team has been proven they work very accurately since 2012. Furthermore, unlike other cryptocurrency teams, Monero devs don't promise anything, even more, Fluffypony, the Monero devs leader once said like "consider Monero is a scientific experiment and it has been already failed". Never else I have met such a self-criticism in pair with excellent quality job.

2. Bitcoin Private uses previously unknown to science, so called "zk-snarks" algorithm to hide payments on the blockchain. For decades there were no scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals that analyze, verify or proof this algorithm. Also "zk-snarks" need to rely on some kind of "initialization trust" - that's exactly because ZCash devs team (uses "zk-snarks" too) made a PR meeting "to fire off initial private keys". There were pictures, videos etc. from the meeting to show ZCash devs are honest.. Are they in fact?.. From the other hand, Monero relies on well-proven CryptoNote algorithm that is known to scientific society since year 2000, when first CriptoNote articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals come to the scene. Furthermore, Monero team goes up and created "Monero Research Lab" to study scientific aspects of Monero blockchain and its privacy. https://getmonero.org/resources/research-lab/

3. This year we wait for Kovri alpha release according to the roadmap, and first mass tests of Monero over i2p (Kovri is C++ i2p implementation from scratch). https://getmonero.org/resources/roadmap/

4. Find my HUGE post few days ago where I argue why absence of anonymity is Total Huge Vulnerability for world's financial system. Transparent blockchains like Ethereum offer smart contracts on a public blockchain, adding one more layer of Total Huge Vulnerability. Opposite that, Monero devs introduces Tari, the Private Smart Contracts. Fluffypony will lead Tari, decentralizing Monero development itself from himself. https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/8lgvw4/introducing_tari_a_decentralised_assets_protocol/

Thanks. I meant this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid_helium-4

Son information is superfluid like liquid helium, except critical velocity of info is near to speed of light and just 20cm/s for Helium.

Some days ago I posted my thoughts to Monero speculation thread, but I suppose they much more fundamental, so I re-phrase them here and may be somewhere else. May be you guys help me in ideas where that thoughts should be posted else.

I think people are crazy if they don't respect anonymity or further fight against anonymity, like Japan's FSA that want to ban anonymous cryptocurrencies.

I assert that absence of anonymity is One Huge Vulnerability to the national security of any country. As we know most blockchains are transparent and there is just one tiny line that separates a person that stores his financial info on blockchain from total fiasco - the link between wallet address and person email, photo, address, etc.

As we can see, governments of many countries fight against anonymity (KYS etc.). Also they centralize all the personal info in one hand. But this is fatal fundamental error. As we can see, if personal data may leak it does leak in short finite time at 100% sure. Because info is a super-liquid substance like liquid helium at sub-critical temperature below ~2 kelvins.

Now transparent blockchains come to the scene. WTF???!!! Each gangster for the near future will know ALL the info about you!!! And, if you are rich enough, you will be robbed. Police is just bought or are share-holders or just have been leaked...

Look what Chinese HQ create on the days:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

Is not it fucking heavens holly shit 1984?!

There is a niche for transparent blockchains, for sure. For example, they may control social things and relations in public domain.

BUT MOST OF REAL-WORLD BLOCKCHAINS MUST BE ANONYMOUS! See above...

I am very glad when I saw Ricardo Spagni introduction of Tari:
https://cryptorecorder.com/2018/05/25/monero-xmr-riccardo-spagni-to-introduce-tari-the-new-ethereum-killer/

Also I am very glad that Ricardo Spagni itself introduced his fading participation in Monero developing itself, MAKING DEVELOPING MORE DECENTRALIZED.

And the last drop that overflows my patience to be silent, is just found words of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
HE, BEING FBI CONSULTANT, SAID:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHHo9OXiwE&feature=youtu.be&t=40m35s

Blockchain is the best way to secure the information. I think you will see all banks to come to the blockchain. Keeping records through blockchain, because it will become the best way to do so. You cant break the blockchain, you cant change anything on the blockchain. So that bring us to last thing. You cant change anything on blockchain. To some little things that have to be worked out, like example we have many witness programs. So if we know who the person is and we cant change who the person is, then that become the jeopardy to that witness. So the privacy issue comes into play about. Those are the things that has to be tweaked out.

SO PLEASE OPEN EYES YOUR NEIGHBORS: ABSENCE OF ANONYMITY IS HUGE VULNERABILITY TO ALL THE COUNTRIES, not anonymity!

If one answers why altcoins (I've checked XMR,ZEC,Dash) fall against BTC last days, while BTC itself in flat or Bart's head?

"egalitarian" is a fundamental philosophical principal. Monero must be ASIC-resistant forever. I have to ask devs - whether it is possible to include timestamp dependencies directly into PoW algorithm? Or in general, could PoW entangle some bits from the outer world, that ASIC to stay impossible without regular forks (typically twice a year) to make ASIC impossible?

Great news! I will try to test a Windows version. Hope devs fixed out-of-sync behavior, when I need to restart Monero daemon twice or more to get synced with network.

Also look fine news too: all the Prague, Czech subway stations have been equipped with Bitcoin ATMs that sell... Monero too!
https://bitcoinschannel.com/general-bytes-installs-10-bitcoin-atms-across-prague-subway-routes/

This opens incredible perspectives. Tari is
1) Monero atomic swaps between Litecoin => anonymity defense: Japan's Coincheck sucks delisting Monero. We will just 'atomic swap' it to Litecoin.
2) Anonymous tokens => rules forever!

Many people think anonymity is just about terrorists, drugs and money-laundering.
NO! Anonymity is a Fundamental Financial Base, because otherwise, financial system is One Huge Vulnerability.
If any street gangster KNOWS (via blockchain) WHO owns HUGE money, he will just come to the vulnerable person with anal crypto-analysis, and the person just says the wallet secret key to a gangster under wild anal pine. Cops?! They sucks. they have been already bought by a gangster for profit percent.

So, to avoid that One Huge Vulnerability, the financial system MUST be Totally Anonymous.

Other "anonymous" coins suck. Even ZCash fully depends on the initial secret parameters generation trust. Also ZCash is very vulnerable to transactions between "normal" and "private" addresses.

Only Monero based on deep science research made on ring signatures since 2000, i.e. 18 years of test in both mathematical papers and "war" practice, is THE ONLY TRUE cryptocurrency.

I just having the same issue as obobob, the error is:
"Error: no connection to daemon. Please make sure daemon is running."
but daemon is running and shows too many BLOCK ALTERNATIVES.

Unable to send funds, please help.