There is on the new website, I created that bit last night.

Published the newly skinned block explorer together with API details. It will be staying on port 3000 for the short term future, a few weeks at least, until everything is migrated from apache to nginx.

Difficulty on network is high, hash rate has halved, the market has dropped a little but not so much. I think just enough such that the blocks mined yesterday at a huge hashrate will have their reward profitability decreased by the time the rewards are matured and able to be sent to market. Mining profitability on the short term really doesn't work with such a long maturity, I'd recommend ignoring such figure in future for the best performance of both network and miner investment.

edit: batesresearch, thank you. The website is far smarter, I hope you'll agree

_{If anybody else would like to take up the funding offer a combined total of 5.5 BTC interest bearing and guaranteed developer loans are still required to help me work on this full time for the foreseeable future.}

is there any live difficulty indicator? when retarget happens(remaining blocks) i know it retargets every 720 but i wanted something that shows the remaining blocks until next retarget.

Alain here from the Stanford Bitcoin Group. I am not related to the CryptoNote project at all, nor is the Stanford Bitcoin Group. I started an open source project called Cryptonote (https://github.com/alainmeier/cryptonote) in May 2013 and then was approached in March 2014 by someone from the CryptoNote cryptocurrency project who wanted to buy the domain, so I sold it to them. It's just an unfortunate coincidence.

Whales are cashing out to buy cheap BTC, weak hands are panic selling, that's what caused DRK price dropped 25% today

Any Ducknote XDN fans in here?

with the recent wallet news and subsequent price spike I have started to dabble

I think it shows potential to be a "fun" tipping type currency in the CN space (similar to DOGE for a different userbase)

thoughts?

The price falls by 25% alone today. Anyone want to shred a light on what's going on?

Yes it is, none of the major coin news website or bitcoin people are publicly talking about it (exception of gmaxwell and a few others), when its clearly the only coin that can surpass bitcoin on the long-term, yet they flirt with an obvious vaporware like Etherium, it makes me mad and sad.

Statistically, monthly estimates smooth over the variation from week to week, and thus are, while more lagging, a less noisy (but more biased) estimator of central tendency.   Adjust for bias, and you end up with a number which is all-around superior.  The first month after public listing is likely to be an outlier (see the price chart for evidence of anomaly), and hence should be dropped.  An argument can be made that price patterns are evidence of a continuing declining anomaly, and hence a weighted average should be superior.

Call me crazy but all this dirt surrounding XMR may actually be good on the long run, I have long lost faith in humanity and seeing clear-as-day scams like Darkcoin being pumped and shilled while XMR still largely ignored hurts any feeling I have left, so thank you OP for the clarification with proof that XMR is in no way associated with these shady individuals and that Cryptonote tech is sound, that being said, XMR being child of a scam project will actually help bring more people on it, because even at a subconsciously level people like having leverage to blackmail you somehow even though associating with you would do nothing but harm at long-term (darkcoin), with XMR some will like to think they have knowledge of some dirt on it but this couldn't be farther from the truth and any insinuation of bad intention on part of Monero's team would be instantly destroyed by equal opposite evidence.
Insane logic but human beings are insane.

gotta agree this is what i wanna say too !
i hope bter is not destroyed because of this

@Jedelqu
it was BTER's fault though but NXT's rep is damaged i think in this no matter what.
but it's not fair to blame the coin when it was BTER's password problem that caused this (or so they say)

Even in Bitcoin there's plenty of people constantly proposing retarded things that would remove fungibility hence destroy the currency itself.
But they are just ignored.

Things are getting interesting, i like that 

Rethink-your-strategy, you showed in OP that you can verify certain claims, but honestly you should provide facts without giving conclusions atm – do not assume that readers are idiots. You gave strong evidence about dates of two documents, paper v1 and v2, but this does not tell much about motives for such action. Your conclusions are very naive and now i'll explain why.

You conclude that whole original CN group had one goal and that is was to scam ppl out of their money, but actually world is much more complex than you suggest. I'll offer alternative scenario by assuming that not every person is the same and that within that group members had different motives for participation. Some may be interested in a technology, some in human rights, other just didn't wont in the future for their girlfriends/wifes to know where they spend all of their money, some wished to produce monetary platform they can invest in long-term in and finally some just wonted to get fruits of their labor quickly and non-transparently. It is not your only mistake that you do not see spectrum of possible motives, with in a group of ppl, but you neglect the fact that there are more repressive states in the World than one you have in the US. This whole 2y in deep web mining by small groups around the globe claim could have been an attempt to anonymise development path of CN, and i can hardly see what is wrong with that. After all, they are not the first who gave monetary platform and wanted to stay anonymous, remember “Satoshi group”? I couldn't care less if they come from China, India, Russia or Iran, as proven later they gave cryptographically solid platform to the rest of the World - a private one that is arguably more valuable than transparent one (in altruistic sense).

Without a doubt, some members of that group did have get rich quickly motives, but to conclude that no other motive exists if just ridiculous. If i was to jump to conclusions as you do i may conclude that your whole effort is to prove that every coin except Monero have devs that know the technology, which puts Monero ~1y behind rest of the CN coins, but that would also be ridiculous. Please give us facts, and skip the conclusions, things are obviously to complex to be able to conclude anything just yet.

Other thing that is dubious in your conclusions imo is that about that guy Andrei. Do you find him guilty that emails work as they do so spaming is cheap, or if he is guilty that certain OS is insecure enough so it can be easily exploited, or because of him pharmaceutical industry is what it is today? Dude, if he made botnet that does not steel money from ppl using banking services “secure” as they are at the moment that does tell a lot about him per se. What evidence you have to claim that he would not do something else (less dubious) if he was payed enough for his talents? You seem to be forgetting that not everyone has the same chance as ppl in US.

This brings me to my last point. Claims made not just by you, that ppl which are not native English seekers are not credible is racist crap and should be avoided at all cost! It is not important how much Hero or whatever status member has – speaking like that just reduces his credibility significantly and mark him as FUDster troll, subtle in some cases but troll nevertheless. On the contrary, i see some of the CN projects as galvanizers that (first time in History?) bring ppl from all over the globe to contribute together for a benefit to all,  without formal obligations and contracts. This is just beautiful, and would not be possible without the Internet. If BTC gave ppl chance to connect despite cultural differences, CNs may be leading in exploiting this opportunity.

So again, please, give us facts but do not be aggressive with drawing the conclusions. If you would travel more around the globe your conclusions may be stronger, but i assure you that this does not sound very convincing to all.

Disclaimer: I never mined or owned BCN, and I have no clue who these ppl are. I'm against premine/ninjamine generally but i do like most other consequences of CN group work.

Well you just go ahead and live in fantasy land.

Luckily most prefer reality.

You are describing the worst altcoin ever.

What the ledger should show is WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE

THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE LEDGER

Not for us to pick and choose what public ledger suits us. lol smh gtfo!!  

Anyone concerned that bter does not have 1.5 million available to make up for this...

Arent they now a de facto fractional crypto operation?

They got 5M back, that's worth >300 btc. Bter won in that trade.

I agree that crypto currencies should focus on people using them in their day to day lives, but in order to do this I feel it needs:

1. Be easy to use
2. Secure
3. Transactions need to be instant (6 sec's or less) and this has to be natively built-in, no third party stuff.
3. Mobile, needs to be mobile, use it on phones and tablets.
4. Bloat free, a user shouldn't have to wait hrs to sync with chain.
5. Price stability, no big swings let we have seen with BTC.
That's what it will take for your co-worker, neighbour, spouse to use it.

This is legendary.

That's basically it, a lot of coins have failed because the devs were not trustworthy or just inexperienced.

It never occurred to me until this whole fiasco how "forging" can also have connotations of illicit activity, and not only refer to forging steel or something (which I think is the intended meaning). If all the forgers agree on a new fiction, then it shall be a reality, or something