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Honestly, don't get me wrong, but I am very surprised that you as a core dev do not educate your users on how Monero works, but actually reinforce silly FUD. Luckily, the math is neutral to everyone.
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lol why you no edumacate us fluffypony? No intend to offend anyone, but I think this whole issue could have been extinguished, not escalated. I've made use of chainradar a bit and am glad for its existence. FWIW, thank you for the prompt action, and for your (free?) service to this community and crypto in general. |
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I'm astonished by how alert some of us are to point out each others fallacies and misinterpretations!  This forum is great, it opens up the possibility to both be consumed in greed and at the same time feel good about ourselves, since we are doing the public service of preventing other greedy people in their shenanigans.  Aye! http://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_LawWe as an expanding, increasingly networked society on this planet simply cannot afford to just let unthinking ignorance stand by and spread. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” - Carl Jung |
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Really, how could you not? Unless you're just retardedly swept up in ideology over music  |
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LOL make another thread 2.5x vs 250%  lol! Really appreciated this quip after all we've been through Pride does indeed beget the fall for many (Proverbs 16:18) but it's definitely worth the laughs at their expense! "EDIT: omg just can't stop lolling... I'm talking to a child here... 2.5x is 250%, just found it on google!" hehehe me neither, that went on for way too long. I think we can all be glad something was taught on this thread the past few days (for once?) |
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I find that reason very agreeable, I'm not at all familiar with OpenBazaar. I guess we can wait until OB matures, and if it doesn't atrides still has opportunity to return the funds. Cheers.
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Not exactly to me, the behavior isn't consistent with the words said. If not working more part time because of funds was the case, why would atrides not simply keep donations open?
He did, and I sent a small additional donation after the initial round, but the rate had died down to the point where it was clear the original target was not going to be reached in any reasonable period of time. If it was just a scam to raise donations, why bother with the code work (though it didn't appear to be a huge amount) in March? He's not asking for donations now, so there is no reason to keep up appearances if he didn't actually intend to do the work. Okay I see now. I haven't had a close look at the repo but I thought its lack of work was also suspect, but managing another project would be reason enough to give him some benefit of the doubt, unless he was referring to his mining pool... Speaking of which, a decent reason I'd imagine why he'd bother is that he still has a usable reputation with his mining pool. Why prematurely sabotage that when he can just string suckers along for no cost? I've seen and had my fair share of burns, hence my pessimism when I see things to be weary of. Again, I always hope for the best. |
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On another note... Atrides, dwarfpool owner, is every scammers wet dream, here's why : He operates the second largest pool, dwarfpool. Current hash rate 3.3MH/s. The only pool that DOES NOT publish full block history! I've asked him to make this data available and was told every time to f..off. so I've scraped his "Last 30 blocks" page every 1 hour and have been doing it for some time now. His efficiency for the last 2000 blocks is 81% ! No other pool has such low efficiency, feel free to check them all, both big and small, botnet-friendly and private. Such bad efficiency can only lead to one conclusion - HE IS SIPHONING! Now take a look at https://github.com/freebazaar?tab=activityBack in January Atrides asked the community for 10k XMR in donations to begin work on an openbazaar fork. Devs were quick to give support and asked the community to donate as much as possible. When someone suggested that the coins be kept in an escrow Atrides refused and the devs made no attempt to force the escrow or even suggest the donators do their own due diligence. Move your hash elsewhere people!@# I also expect the community to demand asnwers and a deadline from this professional scammer. ugh. someone should really develop a pay per post forum software. This FUD cleanup is getting exhausting. re: dwarfpool accusation, I have no idea. Based on your other "research" related to monero, my gut is to not trust anything you post. re: freebazaar, this point is so old its getting old. Those that donated get private updates. Also, during the fundraising, there was no cheerleading from the core dev team. I remember being excited about it. I don't have the time to fish and find the posts (maybe Dr. Bookmarks will have them handy). Is it not happening as swiftly as people would like? Probably. But yah know what else has the same problem? Everything in the world thats worth a damn. Discussion starts around here -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg9994963#msg9994963Reading that immediately set off huge alarms for me. Most notably re: asking for donations without any mention of actual costs (10k moneroj for what, exactly?), and using urgency to leverage fear as a lure for donations. He said the money was to fund him working on it part time for a few months. I'm disappointed by the progress, but I'm not ready to call it a "scam"...yet. If I recall correctly the timelines he proposed at the inception of this project were very unrealistic (very aggressive). He also got somewhat offended when someone proposed escrow for the project funds. Both raised flags for me. The red flags are reasonable. However, when the amount raised feel a bit short of his target and people still wanted to go forward, he stated that he would work on it but at a slower pace. So the original timeline's aren't directly applicable. Fair enough. It's not like it is, or was back then a lot of money that was crowdfunded considering the assumed complexity of such a project. If he delivers a working market I'll be impressed even if it takes him a long time. Not exactly to me; the behavior isn't consistent with the words said. If not working more part time because of funds was the case, why would atrides not simply keep donations open? |
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Cheers Wot's next to do? |
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On another note... Atrides, dwarfpool owner, is every scammers wet dream, here's why : He operates the second largest pool, dwarfpool. Current hash rate 3.3MH/s. The only pool that DOES NOT publish full block history! I've asked him to make this data available and was told every time to f..off. so I've scraped his "Last 30 blocks" page every 1 hour and have been doing it for some time now. His efficiency for the last 2000 blocks is 81% ! No other pool has such low efficiency, feel free to check them all, both big and small, botnet-friendly and private. Such bad efficiency can only lead to one conclusion - HE IS SIPHONING! Now take a look at https://github.com/freebazaar?tab=activityBack in January Atrides asked the community for 10k XMR in donations to begin work on an openbazaar fork. Devs were quick to give support and asked the community to donate as much as possible. When someone suggested that the coins be kept in an escrow Atrides refused and the devs made no attempt to force the escrow or even suggest the donators do their own due diligence. Move your hash elsewhere people!@# I also expect the community to demand asnwers and a deadline from this professional scammer. ugh. someone should really develop a pay per post forum software. This FUD cleanup is getting exhausting. re: dwarfpool accusation, I have no idea. Based on your other "research" related to monero, my gut is to not trust anything you post. re: freebazaar, this point is so old its getting old. Those that donated get private updates. Also, during the fundraising, there was no cheerleading from the core dev team. I remember being excited about it. I don't have the time to fish and find the posts (maybe Dr. Bookmarks will have them handy). Is it not happening as swiftly as people would like? Probably. But yah know what else has the same problem? Everything in the world thats worth a damn. Discussion starts around here -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg9994963#msg9994963Reading that immediately set off huge alarms for me. Most notably re: asking for donations without any mention of actual costs (10k moneroj for what, exactly?), and using urgency to leverage fear as a lure for donations. I hope for the best. Whois lookup for dwarfpool.com is not reassuring. |
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I'd bet that BFX started accepting DRK after possibly some underhanded negotiation convinced BFX that accepting DRK would posture BFX as the leading premier exchange of the fancy newfangled anonymous coin of the future, supported by certain DRK whales' (ahem, Otoh) assurances to make the market.
Moncada [masternode] openly stated in via thread that dark is on bitfinex only because of him. He further said he knows big names and can make dark reach places Sounds bullish imo. Any project would benefit from people who can make things happen. It definitely was, and an excellent move on their part. On BFX's part I'm sure they got good commissions, but now, the picture doesn't seem as clear. |
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I'd bet that BFX started accepting DRK after possibly some underhanded negotiation convinced BFX that accepting DRK would posture BFX as the leading premier exchange of the fancy newfangled anonymous coin of the future, supported by certain DRK whales' (ahem, Otoh) assurances to make the market.
Moncada [masternode] openly stated in via thread that dark is on bitfinex only because of him. He further said he knows big names and can make dark reach places He told me: http://imgur.com/e4bhDOVHe thinks his big market for Dash is in medical marijuana shops because they can't work with banks (which is not even true of dispensaries in Colorado, as far as I know) and in gambling |
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I don't remember seeing the exchange but it wouldn't surprise me. David is more of a business and organizational guy on the team, isn't that technical by own description, and certainly isn't an experienced miner. He has some business interest in mining now and has been asking questions because he isn't afraid to acknowledge when he doesn't know something, and wants to become better informed. What's wrong with that?
He is doing Monero PR work ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PRLuaD-qVQ) yet he is completely clueless about technical aspects. Had he mined one single block on the testnet he would have known the answer. If he cant research this on his own then he is no good, a core team PR should know better. He was the person that walked me through every step of mining back in May. I stopped mining, but we should realize that components change rapidly and the most efficient GPUs change. I have no idea what the answer to these questions are, aside from the fact that I could mine one Monero a day on a 4770k last May, and try to do some math and some more math to find the answer just for my existing equipment. Or I could leverage the fact that more hardcore miners already calculated similar math for more scalable configurations and I could just easily reach out and get my answer with a fraction of the effort. |
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I was a bit exaggerating, sorry for that. But you still didn't answer my question why he would even lie about this?
BitFinex is a serious exchange they added DRK/LTC for one reason alone, strong development support. Monero is still in its infancy, its just not going to happen. EDIT: However, if there are negotiations in place, please have someone more technical and more fluent in English represent Monero community! David is not the person for this job! David came into monero-pools channel couple of times in the last month or so, asking what he needs to buy to mine 50XMR/day. He is completely clueless. 18 March 2015 5:08 PM <davidlatapie> Hi
5:08 PM <davidlatapie> What is the most profitable configuration for mining monero?
5:09 PM <davidlatapie> (either CPU or GPU)12 March 2015 2:13 AM <davidlatapie> Hi
2:15 AM <davidlatapie> Question:
2:15 AM <davidlatapie> Which hardware would I need to make more than 50 monero a day by mining?
I'm going to assume that those quotes from "davidlatapie" are fabricated. EDIT: I hope they are! There was also someone that tried to phish (can't believe they associated such a despicable act with one of the most amazing bands ever) me on #monero with some nick very close to fluffypony's, but Riccardo found out about this behavior before and set log alerts to find when this happened and reached out to me personally via Skype to let me know. David is actually probably a rather qualified individual to talk with BFX. Aside from great character and proficiency of this space's nuances, it probably helps that Raphael and David are fellow Frenchmen. |
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I was a bit exaggerating, sorry for that. But you still didn't answer my question why he would even lie about this?
BitFinex is a serious exchange they added DRK/LTC for one reason alone, strong development support. The main reason is not "development support" it is simply that they are Bitcoin clones and it takes little to no effort to add another Bitcoin clone to an exchange that already supports 1 or especially 2. For an exchange to add Monero they have to not only be motivated to do it but also be willing to invest in actual development of their own systems to support it. I'd bet that BFX started accepting DRK after possibly some underhanded negotiation convinced BFX that accepting DRK would posture BFX as the leading premier exchange of the fancy newfangled anonymous coin of the future, supported by certain DRK whales' (ahem, Otoh) assurances to make the market. It may be prudent for someone to eloquently notify them that this is not the case, and the only public decentralized cryptocurrency protocol that has proven anonymity is CryptoNote. Also, that the structuring of DRK's coin distribution is too reminiscent of a pyramid scheme. They could save their amazing exchange a lot of face... With the precedence set by the SEC of Pakistan... http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/04/05/leocoin-yet-another-bitcoin-alt-with-links-to-ponzi-schemes/...it is all the more likely that the rather conspicuous signs of rats fleeing the sinking ship that is DRK suggest that they too realize such a risk is presented by the instamine + masternode reward scheme: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=999084.0 |
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Tristan (from Poloniex): We make liberal use of cold storage -- the majority of our funds are kept in secure offline wallets. (There's a note to this effect on the front page.) The exact percentage varies by currency, and depends on the amount we hold and the deposit/withdrawal activity.
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I like this flattening. Getting closer to finding an equilibrium/turning point. </obvious> .... Offtopic edit: reflecting on writing this, I now realize why I scored higher for "perceiving" than "judging" on this Myers-Briggs test I just took again after someone mentioned the INTJ archetype on the other thread ENTP here. The visionary! I'm an INTP myself though I think the previous time I took it I was INFP, but before that INTP again too. We all have such importance in our lives ENFP here. All N, but I'm not surprised. Must be that future sound gives great context to the upstanding impression I had of you when I was starting out as a challenged yet aspiring miner in #monero way back when, and you babied me through every bit, how to compile, create a wallet, starting mining, setting correct number of cores, etc. etc. Thank you! David is my #2 influencer upon Monero. If it wasn't for his and AnonyMint's help, I'd never be here. I hope we have more of others. We need a good wide distribution with us. |
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Do what thou wilt, because either way you'll learn!
"At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition, and by kindling dispute over the spoils in the hour of success. No obstacle has been so constant, or so difficult to overcome, as uncertainty and confusion touching the nature of true liberty. If hostile interests have wrought much injury, false ideas have wrought still more; and its advance is recorded in the increase of knowledge, as much as in the improvement of laws."
Lord Acton, "The History of Freedom in Antiquity", 1877
Love is the law.
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The lack of Monero exposure on these new-websites is solely, and this is a salient point, solely because it is not being paid for. All these junk-sites are usually paid for per article. They are for sale. Coin-desk being one of the most prominent for sale sites in the space. If you want your news covered, you have to lube them up with a payment, OR pay for some advertising or some such. The world is not as it seems, so wake up. When there is more to present (such as a fully merged db, GUI and other goodies on the road-map) it has been alluded to several times that marketing efforts will commence on a larger scale. Maybe it involves paying of these "news" sites. Maybe it doesn't. I hope they never make a dime that way. And I thought about it last year, funding such an article for Monero, but after a small amount of consideration the software was/is no where near ready for exposure to the masses. That was a lesson I learned with Mastercoin/Omni, letting marketing get ahead of development. By the time the mass-market software is ready, the writers will come at their own accord. |
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Oh well, Monero action is slow currently anyway. So much time otherwise wasted if just looking at charts, might as well share good ideas not entirely speculation related. In any regard, discussing these ideas is important for us as a community for the new world that Monero might accelerate us into. How's that for speculative discussion, on topic enough? And Hue I've always loved that Voltaire quote, because I was born with the Sun in Leo reminds me to aspire to my highest Self. Also, PSA, but the Myers-Briggs test is composed from character traits in part from Jung's archetypes, which are in part based on his study of zodiacal archetypes, the ancient study of personality. |
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