An acid test would be to set up a help method that is usable by me and my friends. We are representatives of a very big market segment of people in 30s-40s-50s, lots of dough, short attention span, and if not totally inept in technology, at least highly conservative in installing new stuff etc.
#monero does not qualify. Facebook/skype chat does. Email sucks. I am with you if arranging a help line incurs costs. My type of people also do not generally care if help is not free. What we do care is to find help when we need it and that the solution actually works. David, I think its imperative that some better help channels are set up, I personally believed that it was all quite straight forward and well documented although I will admit I haven't read through the documentation myself.
It is a surprise to me that people are struggling in this way. There are plenty of people who would work on a helpline, myself included, that aren't part of the core dev team but can certainly handle the majority of questions. Particularly if its an extension of the help we already provide on IRC. I don't believe it would be particularly difficult to set up some sort of help methods and more so if Risto is offering to be a test of whatever methods the dev team find appropriate.
I'm finishing a quick FAQ and will think about just after that. |
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- "low" price => wider spread of monero
I am afraid I don't believe this one. Low price just means fewer miners and buyers. High price is higher spread, which is good. Thank you for putting a new light on this question. I will consider it. Having said in May that I like it at 0.004 and like a lot at 0.002 but would not buy over 0.010 (because it will come down so I can continue buying) As for me, since I am using your Sane and Simple Saving method, I might stop buying much before .0.01 (ROI happens at 0.08), at least not now and probably not this year. About official support man: there is none and this is good. There are two major teams: core team (monero account) and extended team (monero-extended account). Oftentimes, members of both teams reply with their own nick (and this is good too).
Actually this might be a good idea to have! Just a technical guy who is reachable by chat from the XMR webpage. Most of the newbie questions can be answered by someone who is not in dev level right (and I know at least one person who had several devs helping him to install a wallet with no success still to this day....  ) This is the case on #monero. We may consider a web-to-irc bridge once the new website comes out (maybe to a specific #monero-help chan with strict policies about no casual chatting, short questions... Just a thought. A regular FAQ is also considered. |
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Price drops because developers are silent. They are late but do not warn us about. Developers has to maintain special 'official support man' who answers user questions here this thread. I can be almost volunteer for symbolic low bounty, for example. Many people wish do it!
But we need distinct official status that reflects in our bitcointalk profiles & avatars. Price is "low" because of the inflation rate and we expect it to be that way for quite some time still, with a low rise, one feature at a time. The "low price" is more than three times what it was when it landed on Poloniex. I am a dev, I am here. I read everything. Most of the time, I remain silent because we believe a community must be able to stand by itself. You want us to babysit you? Go buy another coin. Read the manual. When was the last time I read a newbie mentionning he read the manual before badmouthing the wallet? (answer: last week). Something positive though: - the more people are coming into Monero, the worse the signal-to-noise ratio (hint for those who don't understand signal-to-noise ratio: google for the term, I won't babysit you). So if we have a low SNR, this means that we are enjoying success. - "low" price => wider spread of monero About being late: to be late, you must have given some deadline and failed to deliver. We don't provide deadline, out of "one missive per week" - no, this doesn't mean we're "going Debian" either. About official support man: there is none and this is good. There are two major teams: core team (monero account) and extended team (monero-extended account). Oftentimes, members of both teams reply with their own nick (and this is good too). Official status: there is the "description" field in profile and there is the signature. No need for something else. You want to get sortta rich quick? Go elsewhere. You want to get real rich in two years (expected time for the effects of inflation to get lower)? Hold your coins. You want to get a lot of XMR coins? Either buy with fiat from your source of regular income (salary, welfare...), ride the pump and dump waves at your own risk or invest in creator of store of values (see my sig) You want to participate in the development of monero? I assume if you want and can, you'll figure out by yourself how to do it. |
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Location? Nick of official IRC presence? |
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Thanks for confirming this is correct: extremepool.org US - West dayas 0.1%, zone117x - Fees: 2% |
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Please everyone who is wondering what is PoS, how it will work for NOBL, what should I do, is PoS a bad idea... please come to Noble Stake and either edit or ask question with comment (Insert/Comment). |
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Merci, je vais donc veiller un peu. EDIT: Argh! Ça a encore monté  Je ne sais pas si je vais ternir jusqu'à 3 heures... |
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I believe the Universe is absolutely teeming with (intelligent) life, but not all life is in the form we can see or recognize yet. However I think we will make great discoveries in this matter within the next 100 years which will turn our entire world view upside down, if we don't kill ourselves beforehand that is. I actually wouldn't be surprised if we are already being visited, studied and observed by more advanced forms of life, and that they're keeping a low profile on purpose. Watch this and ponders  Christophe Adami - Finding life we can't imagineThe main reason why we did not find extrasolar planets for so long is that we did not know where to find. Well, Adami is proposing a solution to this "we were not looking at the right place" problem for the matter of alien life. And this is a damn seducing idea Plus, it works for biologic life, digital life and memetic life. One of my favourite TED talks |
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La valeur sure sinon, c'est les métaux précieux. Ca sera la valeur refuge de beaucoup plus de monde que le bitcoin. L'argent-métal, oui. L'or bien moins sûr. http://david.latapie.name/blog/argent-metal-pourquoi-et-comment-investir/Sérieusement, tu connais quelqu'un qui ne sait pas qu'il y a 11 joueurs dans une équipe de foot ?
Tu viens de me l'apprendre. J'avais vu un joueur avec le maillot 22, qui était remplaçant (et remplaçait, lors du match France Equateur que j'ai vu au Maracana la semaine dernière - pas eu de chance, les deux matches que j'ai vu au Maracana étaient ennuyeux - en revanche les deux que j'ai vu à Copacabana étaient très sympas). |
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 J'ai eu du cul ... j'ai acheté en masse hier soir ...  (+35 euros aujourd'hui) Et moi avec Kraken qui avait pommé mon argent, je ne viens d'avoir mon argent que maintenant, je suis vert :/ A votre avis, j'achète ou bien j'ai des chances de voir une réduction dans quelques heures/jours ? |
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I am not denying that the monero devs are good, but xmr is a clone. Maybe the smartest thing I read from Bytecoin aficionados on this thread for a long time (except for the "but" conjunction which implies that a clone is intrinsically inferior - was the Litecoin clone inferior to Fairbrix or Tenebrix?). |
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@username, rather than some superlong string of alphanumeric characters. Landrush anyone? Cybersquatting, now playing in an alias near you. It's not really a landrush if you have to solo a block, unless you're cbuchner1 you're probably not gonna be soloing a shitload of blocks. And if you want to call it a shit feature, that's up to you, I'm sure you've innovated many new features yourself that are far superior. Si my name is David Ford. Say there is another David Ford mining BBR. I'm sure you see where I am heading. |
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@username, rather than some superlong string of alphanumeric characters. Landrush anyone? Cybersquatting, now playing in an alias near you. |
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I get Illegal instruction (core dumped) with the linux binaries, running 64 bit ubuntu. Any solution? It is usually related with the binaries not being compatible with your platform. Compile by following these instructions: http://monero.cc/getting-started/#install_source |
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Is donation to zone117x really relevant? Is there any reason not to show closed source pools?
Donation: for now, the destination address is hardcoded to zone117x's address. It may change later. We do not show closed-source because there is enough open-source pools (contrary to miners) |
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Updated. And since you are donating, I put you on top of the list (other can do the same, of course). I suppose the 0.1% is for 45Jmf8PnJKziGyrLouJMeBFw2yVyX1QB52sKEQ4S1VSU2NVsaVGPNu4bWKkaHaeZ6tWCepP6iceZk8X hTLzDaEVa72QrtVh, right?
monero.crypto-pool.fr will donnate 10% of our earnings for core devs. (fees will be taken from us and not from users). Since you will donate straight to the core team, you now are at the top |
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New pool, http://www.moneropool.netStrong real dedicated server (not Amazon instance or so), 2% fee, no downtime, DDOS protected Location? Payout treshold? admin's IRC nickname? Server is located in Czech Republic, EU (100 mbps for now, upgradeable to much more, Tier1 Premium BW). Payout treshold is 0.1. You can reach me on same IRC nickname as on forum. Latest pool software, latest daemon. Actually, fee is 1.9% + 0.1% for developers. Updated. And since you are donating, I put you on top of the list (other can do the same, of course). I suppose the 0.1% is for 45Jmf8PnJKziGyrLouJMeBFw2yVyX1QB52sKEQ4S1VSU2NVsaVGPNu4bWKkaHaeZ6tWCepP6iceZk8X hTLzDaEVa72QrtVh, right? |
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La vidéo de Juan Enriquez est excellente, comme d'habitude avec lui. Ma préférée reste cependant Will our kids be a different speciesCorollaire de Schroeder à la troisième Loi de Clarke : "toute technologie suffisamment avancée est indiscernable de la nature." A part ça, effectivement, la vraie révolution, ce n'est pas bitcoin, c'est la blockchain. Tout comme la vraie révolution ne fut pas Internet ou l'ordinateur, mais le numérique (la copie est identique à l'original). Je ne peux m'empêcher de sourire quand je lis "In short, it’s impossible." (modifier la blockchain) alors que c'est arrivé il y a moins d'un mois... Ceci étant dit, j'aime beaucoup ces deux passages: The strange thing about these vehicles is not that nobody drives them, as self-driving cars will have become commonplace decades before, but that nobody even owns them. They are what Hearn calls “autonomous agents”, independent machines which earn their own money through fares, pays for their own fuel and repair and operates utterly without outside control. And control could be infinitely fine: say you’re a cyclist, you could hand over voting power on all road safety matters to a cycling charity that pushes for better infrastructure, but retain votes on economic matters and leave everything else in the hands of your local Liberal Democrat office. |
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Tacotime and David Latapie are core team members. Other core team members include eizh, smooth, fluffypony, othe, and NoodleDoodle rpietela, aminorex and GreekBitcoin are very active community members (well, Risto is not that active, but he is special). Other very active community members include Keyboard-Mash, drawingthesun, binaryFate, Quanttek... but also zone117, who developed the pool software, Wolf who optimised the cpuminer like crazy... New pool, http://www.moneropool.netStrong real dedicated server (not Amazon instance or so), 2% fee, no downtime, DDOS protected Location? Payout treshold? admin's IRC nickname? |
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Who knows... May be devs of Monero has to analize Cryptonote whitepaper very accurately and for a long time?.. We mandated PhD-holding mathematicians and cryptographers to do it (on top of our own reading, of course) Among other things: I updated the list of pools on the OP, please PM me or the monero account for any addition. |
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