Okay, and then the other piece of the upgrade that people are wigging out over is CARROT.

And the bit that people seem to be tripping over is the idea that what Carrot is actually doing is turning Monero into sort of a mirror image of Zcash, but instead of being public by default with optional privacy, this would make Monero private by default with optional full transparency. 

What this means is everything is as private as it ever was, but there is a new, more powerful view key, which will just show everything in the past, present, and future for a set of hierarchical addresses tied to one master private key.

The negative take is that with that being possible we could see demands for that being made available to third parties increase perhaps at exchanges to be compliant for governments, for example.

I do not yet know how much of that is overblown paranoia and how much of it is a little dose of caution.

I could see this evolving into an ecosystem where exchanges like U.S. Kraken continue to use Monero as they always have, but perhaps this view key could make monaro tradable in other jurisdictions. But the problem is, the more people who have access to information, the less secure the whole thing is, it hurts everyone's privacy.

Anyway, I'm sure that this has been argued to the ends of the earth somewhere, but unfortunately I have been slipping on keeping up a little bit.

And I finally want to add all of what I said above is stuff I have no real opinion on yet. I'm not saying any of those things are true or that it's dangerous or that it's not. I don't know. I have some reading to do, I guess.

Splitting up a serialized matching three coin set sounds horrible, but I understand given the high and growing value now.

Something I probably would never do myself.
But to each their own 🤘😎

Good luck with the sale!

Thanks!

These coins are absolute beauties and were a dream to own for me back in the day.
I guess I missed the XMR dip and now they are out of reach again.

Does anyone have a step-by-step guide on how to redeem Lealana XMR coins (with and without digital certs)?
I'm thinking of peeling a 5 XMR one.

Monero has to improve its accessibility and UX if you want to onboard a lot of new crypto people. I think that is where the issue lies more.

Was it confirmed that this was the case or does it still remain speculative?

Interesting --- just wanted to say about this news.

It is still unclear where this coin came from, is it the result of a hack and then just washed now? It's not like it's coming from a hacked exchange or any platform, it's probably old funds.

But luckily it didn't make the price fall after hearing this news.

Sad to see this old thread nearly dead.

I sustain it was (nearly) killed more by the anti-maxi hoard and "the state" than by anything wrong with Monero.

Bottom line though has not yet changed.  Bitcoin is evolving to be the thing Satoshi meant for it to be.

Monero still points the way in areas Bitcoin has fallen short.

Both will exist for some time.

Eventually?  Tech built on Bitcoin could rival Monero's privacy advantage?

Until then...

Oh.. I forgot to mention... somehow XMR hashrate seems to be organically climbing to all time highs?  Perhaps?

What's up montango?

I believe they were all funded.  If you funded yourself, you would need to track down your TX Hash; if you bought on secondary market, then whomever you bought it from would need to provide you the TX Hash; or if you bought from phishead already funded, you would need to get the TX Hash from him.

^  Funny you mentioned hyc, I was just thinking about him and wondering how the Monero devs became close to him that he eventually became a Monero dev himself.

All I know is hyc was still developing LMDB and I think fluffypony and the guys approached him and requested for him to port LMDB to 32bit so it could be used for Monero..?  Is that right?

But what I really want to know is did hyc make optimizations in LMDB specifically for Monero so that it could get the most performance from the database?