Last id seen he went and made a website @ a site levels.fi or something, continued on ever forward with .. whatever it was he was on about. Then i tuned out from that for a while and the last id seen was involved in a head on collision. There was a few stories on it you might have to search on finnish google for it to show up though gl.

Fellas name ill pm u

All links I've got bookmarked on this are here:

https://deposit.cryptokingdomgold.com/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1peOkmuO7fY29xVjYDnCS7JsFTXRo2OZAmvULG-OQxiY/edit#gid=0
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tgIzgMza7NQsTpMO9pHke1ZVXYH7l5Sj5bHdZHItivo/edit#gid=1903677313
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1616976.msg16248889#msg16248889
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tgIzgMza7NQsTpMO9pHke1ZVXYH7l5Sj5bHdZHItivo/edit?pli=1#gid=1331016731
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tgIzgMza7NQsTpMO9pHke1ZVXYH7l5Sj5bHdZHItivo/edit#gid=857517769
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=819073.msg13163328#msg13163328
http://146.148.23.122:8080/?item=M
https://flowscr.bandcamp.com/track/a-song-gently-swirls-the-princes-halls
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1873713.msg18622208#msg18622208
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1874379.msg18629850#msg18629850
https://cryptokingdom.me/changelog/history/B1/offset/0
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tgIzgMza7NQsTpMO9pHke1ZVXYH7l5Sj5bHdZHItivo/edit#gid=868088107
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tgIzgMza7NQsTpMO9pHke1ZVXYH7l5Sj5bHdZHItivo/edit?pli=1#gid=490265376
http://cryptokingdom.wikia.com/wiki/Table:ICconversion
https://www.google.ee/maps/@59.5006491,26.5891445,3a,75y,74.48h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sI1n0sj-vPZZbWguQxmVXVw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lg2-2HgvpQ0q2G24fkVqc5OpbXaLVWb8uyxRD_BvpyM/edit#gid=1603403823
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=819073.80
http://cryptokingdom.me/
http://cryptokingdom.wikia.com/wiki/Crypto_Kingdom_Wiki
https://cryptokingdom.slack.com/
https://bitcointa.lk/threads/crypto-kingdom-1991-retro-virtual-world-city.379795/page-47

Mind sending a link to that there FB page in pm or just posting it somewhere?

Article is pretty funny in that it's titled about xmr making aths in 2019 then finishes saying that it's predicted to be only $150, so whose ever computer is even writing these things at this point is pretty bad at history.

Even more entertaining is that the human name attached to the forged story, Trevor whatever, has allegedly been around since 2011.

Smarter chips? Anyone I've been talking to, which isn't too much, already had updated cards with chips.

Just saying, I mean sure it could just be security being security .. but I'd suppose it's not much of a leap to connect the 'Equifax biggest breach in history' followed some time later with 'many peoples cards are getting replaced before the scheduled due date and was verbally notified over the phone by bank employee of massively compromised' and 'cryptocurrency stops taking credit cards after biggest runup in history' dots.

Any fellow credit card holders notice a major increase in getting new cards shipped out a little more often than normal this year? TBH most people probably wouldn't notice it because a lot of you only have a couple.

But anyways, many of my credit cards were replaced well before their expiration date througout 2018 and I'd like to share the speculation that there was likely mbillions of dollars committedfraudulently spent in credit card fraud and that's what fueled driving the price up to 20k and that's why they got pulled so fast out of gateways like coinbase and others.

I can't necessarily say i disagree (or agree for that matter). It's pretty hard if not impossible to find out what's going on in Monero without plugging in an email address somewhere these days. People are naturally going to feel left out and i think that draws a lot on what I've mentioned a few days ago, where the question of 'Is this by design?' came up.

Reddit is absolutely downright painful. IRC channel has no public logs available (at least none advertised) so it's hard to tell what happens at the primary channels of communication. Chans are about as garbage as ever.

As far as being in bed with core .. whole different ball park and having real access to primary sources in which to found reasonable opinions on, like those found in IRC, would be massively beneficial in discussions going forward.

Now I suppose I can go and fuck with some service to get good logs and not summaries that i gotta pay for but id rather just type in monerologs.com and have them spit back at me in a readable and linkable fashion.

But maybe that would be too efficient, maybe then people would begin having discussions of too high quality? Maybe someone wouldn't like that?

Imagine the power of being able to instantaneously view logs, as primary sources of information, in order to prevent accusations of intentional obstruction of information..?

I dunno sounds like a neat project for someone not wanting to deal with horsehit rules like 'oh there's no constant logs here for your publicly decentralized cryptocurrency we're the kinda folks who don't like that'. Because monero's going to be illegal and monero's never going to make it and you need to pay your taxes and we totally listen to all of those guys right?

But of course now monero becomes factually worth more than freenode and yet we continue to draw the line at some yahoos running a freenode server's opinions without actually ever trying to a) change that opinion or b) disregard that stupid opinion as it's costing people time and effort. I mean if reasonable people trying to enter the community can't look back and see where it came from that would piss me right of .. and currently does so maybe theres a easy way to figure out how to do that but even starting now would be missing four going on five years of history so ouch already.

Obviously this is bearing on too much information to write into a single post so maybe ill go post it somewhere else cause it's getting long .. just tldr: [logs of] primary sources of information are too hard to come by as they are, and not having the ability to see them is hurting not just me. So what can I do?

Come again?

Currently it's becoming more apparent by the day that there is a very well established and constantly growing movement within the community to 'keep the small miners in the mining game'. Specifically that this initiative appears to be growing faster socially than the initiative to cater toward a larger mining network is most concerning to me. This is because, while goals like keeping small miners in the game sound quite 'equalitiarian' .. or 'fair' .. in this particular instance extreme caution should be utilized. I am advising this because those who would work actively toward keeping Monero permanently vulnerable, would also share these exact same goals.

I see measures like: Only cerified pools should be allowed to submit blocks. But which pools are these? Doesn't this proposition in particular entirely ruin the prospect of an individual miner, why was this propsed?

Or like: Make a surprise fork. But using which algorithm for mining going forward? The one that appeared two months ago directly before the hashrate increase? They can't all be infinitely secure, and making too small of a change can be designed/accomodated well in advance.

Or even: Let the community vote for a surprise fork. But which community? And by which form of vote? Hashrate? The .. increasingly vociferous 'small miner' community of late?

Why, with an already aggressive forking schedule, are we hearing calls for more forks?

I just want to make the point that Monero can likely survive a (short-lived) 51% attack. But seeding the community with malicious actors speaking for the 'small miners' and having actual responses being made to protect these people by means of a social engineering attack is a very real and dangerous threat that will kill just about anything. (This applies from the top to the bottom of the 'community')

Just a few weeks ago I had to request coinmarketcap.com to change their main landing page to getmonero.org from monero.cc operating under this very hallucination.

Regardless, I don't have a miner in the game that I'd care to vouch for. Just wanted to state the obvious.

Look there's really just a few choices here that I see at this moment: Do nothing about the algorithm, Change the algorithm to avoid asics, Change the algorithm one final time. Whatever it is I don't necessarily care one way or the other just be very wary of ongoing social engineering attacks that appear to be taking root (yet again) in this community, IMO.

OK thought about it some more and:

Whereby Monero forks every six months, FPGA and ASIC miners have a direct monetary incentive to conceal their identities. Their discovery and persecution being within the scope of the current development teams initiative literally pushes them toward privacy.

This is, of course, making the assumption that they do indeed profit off of mining .. and is likely not the only assumption being made in order to come to this conclusion.

So rather than philosophically, there are tangible, real and measurable benefits to these 'non-approved' miners profiting off of the mining that would otherwise be taking place by the smaller miners.

In much the same way monero users would tend toward utilizing privacy in order to express their freedom to conduct business freely, asic and fpga miners are very likely utilizing privacy to exercise their freedom to mine profitably. Taking their mining nodes offline by [ddos, etc..] due to constant exposing of their personal data and ip addresses to the 'monero-approved network' risks for them a direct monetary penalty and a real thing that has happened before in eliminating the competition.

Still, methinks it's just the beginning of this type escalation if indeed it is FPGA's and ASIC's (which i suspect it is).

RealisticallyIdeally, the best case, in my own opinion, is to hope that it's just some hungry non-approved FPGA's and ASIC's looking for a meal.

Also the ethereum bleedover was a good point.

Anyone care to discuss even a single particular type of voodoo they've used throughout the years to determine exactly how loud the crickets are getting?

I think one of the ones I always liked was navigating to bitcointalk's altcoin section and, at various times of the day, observing exactly how deep the number of posts that show up as the last post having been 'TODAY', was always one of my old favorites.

I think it possibly has a bit less significance now than say 2014 being that there are many other increasingly popular avenues of collaboration, but still that one's definitely within my top ten favorite voodoo's.

Like now, there are 8 topics extending into the second page of the altcoin speculation section .. whereas during peak frenzy mode there have been well over 15 pages worth of posts indicating that 'TODAY' was the last post.

Hey what can I say .. I mean it would be a drop in the bucket if the mining algo wasn't changed and then we'd probably be talking about asics or something instead of 51% attacks but at least we kept our dignities!!1

Realistically I would prepare for the worst and expect a pretty nice re-org myself. But then again this thing forks every six months so worst case is we're down until then, after they unwind a bunch of things and we're all the more broke for it.

Either bend over for asics or get bent over by the people the asics are there to stop, kinda really only two choices when it comes to PoW and not having enough hash rate. I mean, what people are being empowered by a permanently vulnerable chain? But what do I know not enough I guess.

Heh I suppose it's out of the realm of supposition that a private cryptocurrency would necessarily draw a majority private mining base, like the kind not keen on packaging all their miners data and sending their mining data to one source or another, right?

I mean speculating on an 'unknown' mining base is the same as looking at the block explorer and trying to make a rich list without a public facing address/viewkey upload registry for the most part imo.

Sure it could be a lot of things, good and bad. Both nature of privacy and the lack of coin in the pocket more often than not inhibit the spread of information, which contrary to many beliefs does come at a cost.

I agree that there should be no expectation of (direct monetary) payment for voting for people.

With the influx of the newer users over the last few years, there seems to be a gap in especially fundamental understanding of block chain projects.

Arguably, the proposed method dpos provides of bribing new users to get involved in literally the least involved way by voting has very few beneficial aspects. It reeks of entitlement and unfortunately the reality of staying relevant these days more often than not typically employs this methodology.

While I think it's helpful for crypto projects where the typical development involves only merging the most recent upstream developments from the project it was likely forked from in some way or another, with projects that have become as focused as Shift this often becomes a crutch for a busted leg that's long since healed.

Fortunately in Shifts case, much of the actual programming work needed to satiate the entitled poor was already in place so all it's taken to keep them quiet was to put the spoon back in when it fell out, and just unvote the heathen not paying them, change names then vote them back in. Point is is that this hasn't been much of a draw on the scarce Shift development resources available due to someone else aready did the work, so instead they could mostly focus on putting out something at least mildly interesting.

Whether it remains with Shift or goes into something else is beyond my ability to accurately predict for the moment. I'm currently guessing it will be staying here, after watching for the last year or so.

Specifically, I mention this because they have been mentioning for a while now a new core that hasn't been explicitly mentioned as not being lisk, but this also hasn't been said that it won't be either.

The logistics of coordinating a billion dollars worth of transaction volume something worth, in entirety, 2 billion dollars is hardly feasible for a market already risky enough such as gambling.

The time needed to exchange that much without significantly impacting a market that typically only sees a couple million dollars a day would probably leave many a gambler sick to the stomach.

So, point is, aside from technical underlying potential, there are many other legitimate reasons not to use monero.

Like if one group we're to lose a 50+million dollar bet (you know..about 5% of a billion) denominated in USD but exchanged through monero that would surely be a losing proposition even if the opposite were true and the sorry fellas won the first bet.

Also if you've a mass in the five or six digit range, or even report your mass in tonnage at all, often find yourself echolocating from location to location, and can hold your breath in ranges upwards of 80 minutes while under water, and might possibly have swallowed my USB drive or stamped metal plates approximately two years ago in the vicinity of block island you just might be a monero whale

"Because the numbers I plugged into my calculator app made me happy for three seconds"

I'll bid 1.0 xbt, or the equivalent in xmr for this, so around 45 xmr.

Jokes on you this isn't even the shift that you recognize due to better branding.

Oh wait..

One thought I did have is that level of covert privacy revealing can become quite extensive when one considers that chains may exist that exist entirely on a lan.

Consider the vast majority of systems running backdoored Intel hardware, non airgapped cpu's and of course non Foss os's that could just be another brick in the dragnet.

Consider that someone may already have your private keys, but never want a single dollar from you in regards to stealing your moneros.

I think this was always advertised as not tla-secure though, but definitely Enterprise level anonymity..

Just speculation..