Anyone with SCI production in 1k+ range? Also, there are now 10k mead contracts available. They are priced significantly lower than mead's historical price due to risk associated with the possibility of mead production being eliminated--the GM has not hinted at it going either way, so the risk has been priced into the contract. https://cryptokingdom.me/marketplace/item/d-mead10k |
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This isn't a Monero thing, it's a use thing.
Quoting the article no one has seemed to read (at least not very well):
"Since 2013, the agency has seen "enormous growth" in the number of cases involving digital currency payments, according to Battaglia. Of those, 75% involved bitcoin, he said, though he mentioned litecoin and monero as other cryptocurrencies the agency has encountered thus far."
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"Following the event, the special agent said he couldn't provide additional details specifically pertaining to the FBI’s investigative techniques surrounding monero when asked by CoinDesk.
During the panel, however, Battaglia described the FBI as "a reactionary organization", adding that, instead of trying to predict the direction that cryptocurrency use might go, the agency has adopted a wait-and-see approach.
Battaglia concluded:
"We’re going to look at what catches on, and what becomes mainstream, and then we’re going to keep an eye on that, because usually not long after that is when you start to see some of the fraud and some of the more nefarious uses of that technology."
I guess reading the words right there in front of you (and understanding what they mean) is a little too much for some.
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http://www.coindesk.com/fbi-concerned-about-criminal-use-of-private-cryptocurrency-monero/The privacy-focused digital currency monero has captured the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which has expressed concerns over its use among criminals. Following the event, the special agent said he couldn't provide additional details specifically pertaining to the FBI’s investigative techniques surrounding monero when asked by CoinDesk. Thats what you get when you promote as cryptocurrency your direct links to darknet markets, i guess. The FBI's full attention and subject to its investigative techniques. how legitimate is this source? would the FBI actually be investigating an altcoin? LTC and BTC transactions also fall under this type of scrutiny due to darkmarket usage--any coins with noteworthy usage in darkmarkets or tax evasion are going to get the attention of the FBI--it's their job. I think it's weird that people are confusing specific transaction use with the coin as an entity, but I guess it's hard for people who are used to centralized organizations to wrap their heads around opensource software. The only way the FBI would be investigating a coin as an organization is if it were centralized and had a launch that wreaked of financial manipulation and promised ROI--it would be funny if OP's title ends up being the headline for his favorite organization/coin.  |
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It wouldn't even take a big case and all that.
If the FBI would give a recommendation to ban it from complying exchanges, a simple memo from the CFTC would be enough to enforce it.
If POLO and all other US exchanges would have to take it down, what do you think would happen to your beloved coin?
Could legitimize it as THE darknet coin. Also, are you banning Monero or all the cryptonote coins? All future variants? On what grounds? Wouldn't this effect ALL cryptocurrencies as Monero has a viewkey available and is easy for voluntary compliance? |
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All cryptocurrencies are under the scrutiny of the FBI--it's the FBI's job to monitor darkmarkets, tax evasion, and the like--it's the fact that the FBI is worried about Monero that is the point of the article.
The FBI is singling Monero out for the very fact that its special properties put it on the same footing as two of the oldest and most trusted coins used for illicit activities--this is what cash is supposed to do, this is what capitalism is supposed to do. Good money does bad things. You will never see Washington wince when he's used to buy crack, you will never see him yawn when you buy the morning paper, and you will certainly never see him cheer when you buy an ounce of your grandmother's illicit cataract medication. Good money does bad things, period.
Those people fretting and hand waving do not see (or likely choose to ignore) that real freedom is tied to private money--good money capable of exerting its holders free will at any moment, at any time. Those that say big government has already won, have already lost the will to fight, to do what's right in the face of impossible odds, to be vigorous freemen in a time apathetic slavery. At the end of the day, every man and woman's choice is simple, to be a slave or a master--if you are waiting for the powers that be to validate your investment, you have made your last free choice and will gladly take what's handed to you--and though I will feel pity for you, and can even emphasize with the conditions of your slavery, I will never sympathize with the conditions of your failure to break free and set a new course for humanity in this dark time of surveillance states. If you are waiting for an authority to take you by the hand and lead you greener pastures, you will be continually disappointed that greenest pastures, the choicest venues, the sparkling rivers, the places you always wished you could be, are reserved for those you follow.
The digital world before us is as vast as our imaginations, a land beyond the scope of any nation, no matter how powerful they may seem in the confines of their physical state--they are limited by nature's bounds, constructs of hierarchal determinism, incapable of pondering virtual states of each man his own, each woman her own--it is not by accident that the final battlefield is our imaginations, and the quickness in which some give over their ultimate freedom matches the long drawn out physical history of rule or be ruled, and then the cataclysm of the wisdom that asserts--I have only myself to rule or be ruled.
Hard to say what you mean by that. Best bet is that you haven't been busted, yet. But that may change, because "Good private money capable of exerting its holders free will at any moment" is usually kept in best possible secret and the owners usually don't go bragging about their fortunes, promoting their illicit activities almost every day on public forums. I can't even see how that would help the general cause you're addressing. Its a common issue with criminals. After they got away with their trickery for so long they feel entitled to that outcome, and are utterly astonished when "the law" comes knocking on their doors. I bolded the important part for you. You claim not to know what I mean, and then assert that I have used Monero for criminal purposes--your mistake. My point is that good money (like cash and Monero) is indifferent to whether you use it for legal or illegal activities, but only needs to be fungible to allow you the choice. In the case of Monero, it has been promoted as a better replacement for Bitcoin for mostly criminal purposes, and its success is bound to that fact. Fungibility is just a pretext, all criminals have them. Fungibility is a property--all technologies have them. Really? And now you want to claim in all seriousness that Monero's success was due to it being fungible, or what? Go ahead man, take another hit from your crack pipe and try again. You're not arguing my point, you are intimating that Monero's success is due to darkmarkets, which may or may not be true. My point is that good money has to be fungible and fungibility is a property--in this case a technological property of Monero. Do you disagree that fungibility is a technological property? Are you arguing that Monero is only used illicit activities? Those are points I can argue, the rest is hand wavy moralizing and faulty assertions on your part. |
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All cryptocurrencies are under the scrutiny of the FBI--it's the FBI's job to monitor darkmarkets, tax evasion, and the like--it's the fact that the FBI is worried about Monero that is the point of the article.
The FBI is singling Monero out for the very fact that its special properties put it on the same footing as two of the oldest and most trusted coins used for illicit activities--this is what cash is supposed to do, this is what capitalism is supposed to do. Good money does bad things. You will never see Washington wince when he's used to buy crack, you will never see him yawn when you buy the morning paper, and you will certainly never see him cheer when you buy an ounce of your grandmother's illicit cataract medication. Good money does bad things, period.
Those people fretting and hand waving do not see (or likely choose to ignore) that real freedom is tied to private money--good money capable of exerting its holders free will at any moment, at any time. Those that say big government has already won, have already lost the will to fight, to do what's right in the face of impossible odds, to be vigorous freemen in a time apathetic slavery. At the end of the day, every man and woman's choice is simple, to be a slave or a master--if you are waiting for the powers that be to validate your investment, you have made your last free choice and will gladly take what's handed to you--and though I will feel pity for you, and can even emphasize with the conditions of your slavery, I will never sympathize with the conditions of your failure to break free and set a new course for humanity in this dark time of surveillance states. If you are waiting for an authority to take you by the hand and lead you greener pastures, you will be continually disappointed that greenest pastures, the choicest venues, the sparkling rivers, the places you always wished you could be, are reserved for those you follow.
The digital world before us is as vast as our imaginations, a land beyond the scope of any nation, no matter how powerful they may seem in the confines of their physical state--they are limited by nature's bounds, constructs of hierarchal determinism, incapable of pondering virtual states of each man his own, each woman her own--it is not by accident that the final battlefield is our imaginations, and the quickness in which some give over their ultimate freedom matches the long drawn out physical history of rule or be ruled, and then the cataclysm of the wisdom that asserts--I have only myself to rule or be ruled.
Hard to say what you mean by that. Best bet is that you haven't been busted, yet. But that may change, because "Good private money capable of exerting its holders free will at any moment" is usually kept in best possible secret and the owners usually don't go bragging about their fortunes, promoting their illicit activities almost every day on public forums. I can't even see how that would help the general cause you're addressing. Its a common issue with criminals. After they got away with their trickery for so long they feel entitled to that outcome, and are utterly astonished when "the law" comes knocking on their doors. I bolded the important part for you. You claim not to know what I mean, and then assert that I have used Monero for criminal purposes--your mistake. My point is that good money (like cash and Monero) is indifferent to whether you use it for legal or illegal activities, but only needs to be fungible to allow you the choice. In the case of Monero, it has been promoted as a better replacement for Bitcoin for mostly criminal purposes, and its success is bound to that fact. Fungibility is just a pretext, all criminals have them. Fungibility is a property--all technologies have them. |
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All cryptocurrencies are under the scrutiny of the FBI--it's the FBI's job to monitor darkmarkets, tax evasion, and the like--it's the fact that the FBI is worried about Monero that is the point of the article.
The FBI is singling Monero out for the very fact that its special properties put it on the same footing as two of the oldest and most trusted coins used for illicit activities--this is what cash is supposed to do, this is what capitalism is supposed to do. Good money does bad things. You will never see Washington wince when he's used to buy crack, you will never see him yawn when you buy the morning paper, and you will certainly never see him cheer when you buy an ounce of your grandmother's illicit cataract medication. Good money does bad things, period.
Those people fretting and hand waving do not see (or likely choose to ignore) that real freedom is tied to private money--good money capable of exerting its holders free will at any moment, at any time. Those that say big government has already won, have already lost the will to fight, to do what's right in the face of impossible odds, to be vigorous freemen in a time apathetic slavery. At the end of the day, every man and woman's choice is simple, to be a slave or a master--if you are waiting for the powers that be to validate your investment, you have made your last free choice and will gladly take what's handed to you--and though I will feel pity for you, and can even emphasize with the conditions of your slavery, I will never sympathize with the conditions of your failure to break free and set a new course for humanity in this dark time of surveillance states. If you are waiting for an authority to take you by the hand and lead you greener pastures, you will be continually disappointed that greenest pastures, the choicest venues, the sparkling rivers, the places you always wished you could be, are reserved for those you follow.
The digital world before us is as vast as our imaginations, a land beyond the scope of any nation, no matter how powerful they may seem in the confines of their physical state--they are limited by nature's bounds, constructs of hierarchal determinism, incapable of pondering virtual states of each man his own, each woman her own--it is not by accident that the final battlefield is our imaginations, and the quickness in which some give over their ultimate freedom matches the long drawn out physical history of rule or be ruled, and then the cataclysm of the wisdom that asserts--I have only myself to rule or be ruled.
Hard to say what you mean by that. Best bet is that you haven't been busted, yet. But that may change, because "Good private money capable of exerting its holders free will at any moment" is usually kept in best possible secret and the owners usually don't go bragging about their fortunes, promoting their illicit activities almost every day on public forums. I can't even see how that would help the general cause you're addressing. Its a common issue with criminals. After they got away with their trickery for so long they feel entitled to that outcome, and are utterly astonished when "the law" comes knocking on their doors. I bolded the important part for you. You claim not to know what I mean, and then assert that I have used Monero for criminal purposes--your mistake. My point is that good money (like cash and Monero) is indifferent to whether you use it for legal or illegal activities, but only needs to be fungible to allow you the choice. |
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All cryptocurrencies are under the scrutiny of the FBI--it's the FBI's job to monitor darkmarkets, tax evasion, and the like--it's the fact that the FBI is worried about Monero that is the point of the article.
The FBI is singling Monero out for the very fact that its special properties put it on the same footing as two of the oldest and most trusted coins used for illicit activities--this is what cash is supposed to do, this is what capitalism is supposed to do. Good money does bad things. You will never see Washington wince when he's used to buy crack, you will never see him yawn when you buy the morning paper, and you will certainly never see him cheer when you buy an ounce of your grandmother's illicit cataract medication. Good money does bad things, period.
Those people fretting and hand waving do not see (or likely choose to ignore) that real freedom is tied to private money--good money capable of exerting its holders free will at any moment, at any time. Those that say big government has already won, have already lost the will to fight, to do what's right in the face of impossible odds, to be vigorous freemen in a time apathetic slavery. At the end of the day, every man and woman's choice is simple, to be a slave or a master--if you are waiting for the powers that be to validate your investment, you have made your last free choice and will gladly take what's handed to you--and though I will feel pity for you, and can even emphasize with the conditions of your slavery, I will never sympathize with the conditions of your failure to break free and set a new course for humanity in this dark time of surveillance states. If you are waiting for an authority to take you by the hand and lead you greener pastures, you will be continually disappointed that greenest pastures, the choicest venues, the sparkling rivers, the places you always wished you could be, are reserved for those you follow.
The digital world before us is as vast as our imaginations, a land beyond the scope of any nation, no matter how powerful they may seem in the confines of their physical state--they are limited by nature's bounds, constructs of hierarchal determinism, incapable of pondering virtual states of each man his own, each woman her own--it is not by accident that the final battlefield is our imaginations, and the quickness in which some give over their ultimate freedom matches the long drawn out physical history of rule or be ruled, and then the cataclysm of the wisdom that asserts--I have only myself to rule or be ruled.
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Okay, so if we're going to get Aeon relisted on Poloniex it has to have a website. Any recent progress in that area?
Many people have contacted them over the last few months--so they are aware. I ask every few weeks, just because you never know--I've also asked if someone wants to add an aeon depository on cryptokingdom as this would likely take coins off the market, as it did with XMR (currently ~1% of all monero are on cryptokingdom) and introduce a new set of investors to aeon. I like the cryptokingdom idea for AEON Would recommend trying to get AEON added to ShapeShift.io as I think CK is trying to integrate their API so that multiple altcoin to CK currency transactions are possible. Two 3 points on that: 1. With CK, literally the King of the game, has approved it, so no hurdles other than building it. 2. With CK, no transaction fees (within the game--the depository address creator/maintainer may wish to enact fess on deposits/withdrawals--doubtfully as high as shapeshift, but something to consider on the plus/minus side of the debate). 3. You can create derivatives in CK, and AFAIK, no one is offering derivatives on Aeon anytime soon, least of all shapeshift, and when someone does, they won't be doing it with 0 fees. |
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We're working on getting CKGame listed on Bittrex. There are quite a few requirements that need to be addressed, so the CryptoKingdom community is asked to help. The main two that need addressed at the moment are as follows: 1. "Description of your coin - Why does it exist and what makes it unique? What new technology or business concept are you bringing to the blockchain? If your ANN thread only has coin specs on it, you are not going to get listed on Bittrex.?" --Please bear in mind that Bittrex won't list anything that is a share of a company or promises returns, which a counterparty asset of S-HODL does not fall under as there is no promise of returns and CK shares remain in game and are not directly owned by anyone holding S-HODL or CKGame--it's merely a tokenization of the fund that holds them. 2. "A logo for your coin - png format with a transparent background. The logo should be square with dimensions of 1000x1000 pixels with no white space on its border and no taglines. It should only be a logo and expect it to show up in multiple spots in the Bittrex UI." If you are looking for examples of coin logos, here is a good place to start: http://coinmarketcap.com/ Note that it is just the image to the right of the coin's name that is considered the logo--typically less than 3 colors and only 2 or less letters, if any.I'll likely be spending the next few days revising #1 and posting it for the communities input, but feel free to add any thoughts or list your own description. #2 is open to anyone and will likely need community consensus, or at the very least Luigi's approval--as he's CKGame's manager. |
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Don't listen to anyone trying to sell you their coin, do your own research.
NAVcoin was hyped beyond belief, spiked at double its current price, and has hardly grown since. There is also very uneven distribution of coins (90% is owned by the top 100).
I think it's personal opinion in the end, zcash seems very risky given its volatility.
Dash had that dodginess surrounding some sort of premine/instamine (don't know the details), and monero is known to have botnets for mining. Just be aware that no coin is "clearly" better.
What are botnets for mining and why is it bad ? Botnets are malware that infects a computer and mines a given coin for the criminal who infected the computer--most coins have botnets up to and including Bitcoin, so singling Monero out is inane. The argument is that asic resistant coins have a greater percentage of their hashrate due to botnets (which may hold true), but making a coin asic friendly creates mining centralization, so Devs have to choose which problem they want to deal with more--both problems exist in both setups, so it's more an issue of "how much does it happen" than "if it does happen." |
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Monero is the best for privacy.
Every discussion I've seen from people who are really serious into cryptography say that Monero currently has the best privacy features. There are several "privacy-based" coins that actually have huge flaws in their design or implementation. Sho, most privacy but ain't even a drug deala in existence who know WTF a monero is. So you all tell me if'n thet's useful o' not. Fools be pilin' up in the baloney wagon tryin' ta score contraband, but the dealas, they only take cash. An' if you find someone who take crypto of any sort, itsa gonna be bitcoin. Is they anybody really who usin' monero 'cause it's thet private?? Yes, on AlphaBay there are drug dealers who accept Monero, White-Middle-Aged-Male who saw a Madea movie once. |
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They do have high understanding of Crypto. I love listening their podcasts.
I saw pictures of this bathroom before, but I did not think they had interviews in an actually working bathroom. They went a bit to far.
Yes, finally something we both agree on. They went a bit to far. I also think OP went a bit too far with this thread's title but i understand .. he is 'new' to Monero after all and most likely felt he needed to prove something. It's everyone but dash's fault that it is a moronic design--or is the dev at fault for not understanding the coin he works on? |
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Somewhat recently I came across an altcoin called "Tether." Basically it's an altcoin backed by USD/EURO (I know this probably sounds blasphemous to some people because they go to Bitcoin/Altcoins to escape Fiat, but this interests me), so it got my attention. Has anybody ever used them, and if so are they something that you'd recommend using or avoiding?
The only time I use it is on polo to lock in a dollar amount between trades. Has worked fine, but you sometimes have to put in a few orders based on what is available to avoid slippage. |
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Personally i think there could be a lot to gain by bringing these two ventures together as one,any thoughts or beliefs welcome without BS
How might it happen? If BBR decouples from its current pegged price (is it coupled with BTC, XMR or other?) then it would likely create an abandon ship environment where holders are looking for a similar investment to bulwark against catastrophic loss--it makes more sense for bbr holders to just bite the bullet and reinvest than for a complicated merger to stop the bleeding--the leverage isn't there to make this appealing to another coin and the market will create positive effects for the other coin without them having to lift a finger. Quite honestly. I'm unwilling to merge or sell my aeons, unless it is for some cause that will help aeon long term. |
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Okay, so if we're going to get Aeon relisted on Poloniex it has to have a website. Any recent progress in that area?
Many people have contacted them over the last few months--so they are aware. I ask every few weeks, just because you never know--I've also asked if someone wants to add an aeon depository on cryptokingdom as this would likely take coins off the market, as it did with XMR (currently ~1% of all monero are on cryptokingdom) and introduce a new set of investors to aeon. |
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What's beautiful about this game is that anyone can build an in-game company, create an asset for an exchange, or create a site that interacts with its market changelog and only has to worry about what few video-gaming regulations exist. If you can dream it and create it, it's doable. So being "somebody" should never be a perquisite for trying to get something done in CK--going out on a limb and bringing your concept to life is enough--the platform is new enough and open enough for a great many more legacies to be established, so instead of seeing a limitation, you should be recognizing an opportunity.
(gets off soapbox)
To put it less formally, I hope current and future players recognize that this platform is what we make of it. I think it should be bigger than any one coin, but that is simply me applying the idea of virtual currencies and broadening it to all the things.
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3. We have an exchange asset thanks to Luigi's earlier work and atm are looking for an exchange to list it on--the latter is where someone could shine as far as showing organizational skills and/or marketing skills and make a name for themselves within the ranks of CryptoKingdom.
You could create an asset on the NXT asset exchange and use that to trade the CK token. Many projects have used the NXT asset exchange to trade, you just need a trusted entity to act as the gateway. You could also use a NXT monetary system token, and trade using the MS exchange booth. If you use the SuperNET lite wallet you can use the NXT asset exchange without needing to download the whole NXT blockchain. For a NXT MS token you can use web wallet mynxt.info, afaik. Either way, NXT is a good platform to allow (almost) decentralised exchange capabilities, and your investors trust one of your own, not an exchange. Better than nothing. We have a counterparty asset. What we need is a legitimate exchange with some volume. I'm not criticizing nxt, I just want something other than to create another asset and exchange it on the platform that created it. Getting listed directly on an exchange would require them and you to create new code, is that correct... which makes the task seem very large. If you used NXT asset a non-coder from your community can do everything, and adding another NXT asset for the exchanges is a simple job these days, so the overhead is very small, and all could be done and organised by a regular community member. If you want to create a ck ingame asset and list it on nxt, have at it. It's not hard to create an ingame asset, and you obviously know the nxt process well enough to get it done |
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The Quartermillennial Jubilee of Crypto Kingdom - - The GM has granted the King, the permission to be crowned in the Hall of Mirrors in the Royal Palace of Versailles, 9-C (or a place of his choice) earliest 1654, and the King has announced the event to be happen the next year, 1655. - - Is this information up to date still, are we going to parteeeeeh this weekend?  TBH, there's three things I'd like to see happen before we party. 1. Archduke Quest finished (I want to have the celebration take place with gambling and chat and a few hands of high stakes poker). 2. A BTC-->M gateway similar xmr.to added to increase Monero adoption and # of CK players (NewLiberity has agreed to look into this, but no updates as to implementation atm). 3. Be on the way to adding a CK asset to a cryptocurrency exchange. #3 begs the question: what asset is best suited (from an efficiency and equality standpoint) to best represent our Kingdom as an asset on an exchange? When those three things are accomplished (or at least a certainty as far implementation), we can party like we just don't care 1. Syksy is tweaking his design and hard at work making sure it is bug free and ready to go. 2. Saddam is working on adding shapeshift's shifty button to deposits, so we'll be able to accept many more cryptocurrencies and add to CK's and XMR's base of users. 3. We have an exchange asset thanks to Luigi's earlier work and atm are looking for an exchange to list it on--the latter is where someone could shine as far as showing organizational skills and/or marketing skills and make a name for themselves within the ranks of CryptoKingdom. |
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