The design goal of I2P integration isn't to solve the "perfect anonymity" problem. It is purely to obfuscate a single node's traffic so that an attacker with complete control over that node's Internet router has no clue whether Monero is running or not. To that end, using something like I2P is advantageous (over using our own obfuscation such as RC4 (like Skype) or DNS tunnelling) as it means an attacker is at best able to determine that I2P is running, not what I2P is doing.

Of course, someone like the NSA may have methods of remotely accessing RAM of a running system, which means they can access unencrypted data in-RAM. They could also have all sorts of arcane tools and exotic hardware for breaking various encryption algorithms. No amount of cleverness from our side is going to fix that.

I do agree that there are fundamental improvements we can make over a (relatively) short time frame. It is important to note that I am in South Africa, and much of the core team are in Europe and some in Canada - and that's just the core team, all others heavily involved notwithstanding. We're not completely out of reach of an adversary with global reach, but it is unlikely that they can touch all of us at the same time at this early juncture, which means there is *some* time to play with when solving this extremely hard to solve (and practically unlikely) threat.

In a sense - the 60 second block time means that it becomes part of the recipient's utxoset quite quickly, but if want to be absolutely assured that the network is in a state of consensus and you are in agreement with it you'd want to wait anything from 10 to 20 confirmations.

I don't know what I just read but I want the drugs you have;)

The donation addresses are in the OP:

Donations for general development

XMR: viewkey: e422831985c9205238ef84daf6805526c14d96fd7b059fe68c7ab98e495e5703

BTC:

None of us have full-time day jobs - all of us have companies or we work for ourselves or we work as freelancers. I'll let you reboot your logic train from that starting point.

We'll definitely bounce some ideas around to see if we can use Kickstarter effectively as a PR tool - thanks for the idea!

On the topic of dev team leader - I'm certainly very vocal, but there is no "leader" among us. We all contribute in different ways, and we are careful not to do anything in a way that is not transparent (stuff gets discussed at GREAT length on IRC:) Just wanted to make sure that nobody mistakes me for leading anything, I'm just one of the core team.

Work is progressing quite rapidly on a funding system where everyone will be able to fund specific features / tasks. The main reason for donations at present is to enable us and some of the other devs to allocate much larger blocks of time to Monero on an ongoing basis until that system is ready to go:)

They're in the OP in this section:

Donations for general development

XMR: viewkey: e422831985c9205238ef84daf6805526c14d96fd7b059fe68c7ab98e495e5703

BTC:

Ok - we'll investigate it and see what's potting. In the interim, let me know if you need me to send the 1.6 XMR to you from my wallet so that you have it.

Then it means you've already tried to create a transaction with the utxo's. They'll fall out the mempool within 24 hours, and you can rebuild the wallet cache to give you access to the utxo's again.

It's in the OP and in the first Monero Missive: (in no particular order) - tacotime, eizh, smooth, fluffypony, othe, davidlatapie, NoodleDoodle

When what hits? If you have a lot of coins you will, by definition, be able to consolidate them. You were able to move ALL of your coins and are struggling with the final 1.6 XMR. As mentioned, I will gladly send you 1.656924551683 XMR and I will reclaim it from the wallet you have sent me when the fee changes later on.

You're not in #monero-dev on IRC to discuss the dev status of Monero, so it's hard for me to accept that you have any insight into the state of Monero. We are far from sluggish. All 7 of the core team members have to earn a living. Each of us can spend 14 hours a day on Monero, but then we need to draw an hourly payment to cover our time. Thus far we have received well under 1 BTC in donations, a trivial amount. That means that all of our time and energy and effort is completely self-funded.

We are not sitting on mountains of XMR, this is a cryptocurrency that had an absolutely 100% fair launch. Given the current size of the cryptocurrency market I would argue that it had an even fairer launch than Bitcoin, because tons of people jumped on and mined it from day 1. We had no opportunity to amass any sizeable amount of XMR. Thus, our entire effort is a labour of love and completely because we want to see XMR become useful. If we get no donations, we are unable to spend large amounts of time on it, and we will have to peck away at it in our spare time. If you want to see less "sluggishness" (i.e. more time allocated), then donate. If you haven't donated you have absolutely no room to manoeuvre in this discussion.


The embedded database work is in progress (see: https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/tree/blockchain), and the existing binaries work with PAE on, so "obsolete" is not the correct term. The 32-bit Windows binaries work. The PAE requirement is noted on the OP now.


Feel free to make one, or feel free to donate to free someone's time up so they can make this, but this is not at a stage where it is newbie-friendly yet, and is in such a state of flux that this would be a complete waste of effort.


Official site is being replaced, so this would be wasted effort. Even so, HTML markup errors are rather irrelevant given the state of browsing in 2014 - virtually all the sites on the Internet don't comply with the W3C's markup validation, but render just fine.


With the aforementioned donations, it's enough to cover 1 day of a "special man" sitting here and answering questions. If you want that to change, donate.


See above. But over and above that, the Monero Missive is a weekly update. There is no fixed day that it comes out - it can come out any time from Monday to Sunday, but there is one a week. If we skip an entire week then your "1-2 day delay" would be valid, else go back and confirm that from the first Missive there has been 1 a week.

It's not a PR problem, I think you're misattributing what "PR" is. This is alpha-level software that requires a technical person with the ability to enable PAE to run. Eventually it will exit the alpha stage and be beta-level software with decidedly more usability (including bandwidth and memory requirements).

Per the discussion on #monero-dev we will add a note to the OP that 32-bit binaries are not recommended and they require PAE.

We don't control what the mods do. Promoting another coin in someone else's thread a big no-no, though.

I grabbed your wallet, you have a metric ton of small inputs. I understand it's hard not being able to withdraw your 1.656924551683 XMR, so if you can pm me your address I will send you 1.656924551683 XMR from my wallet and I'll keep your wallet to withdraw the dust at a later stage when the tx fee has reduced.

Feel free to PM me the details, or send it directly to dev@monero.cc, or hop on to IRC (#monero-dev on Freenode), or PM the Monero Bitcointalk account, or send the details to the moderators of the /r/monero sub-reddit. It's practically impossible that you have lost coins unless you have forgotten your wallet password and don't have your mnemonic seed.

It's the last little bit where you want to mask your traffic to the point where an attacker with access to your router can't even determine that you're using Monero. The CryptoNote protocol is VERY easy to detect in its current form.

I know not everyone follows the conversations in #monero-dev on Freenode, so to keep everyone in the loop: work on this is already progressing. You can follow the progress by checking tewinget's databasing branch: https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/tree/blockchain

Actually we weren't pushing hitbtc voting at all, most of the core team weren't even aware of their posts in this thread, and next minute they just went ahead and added us. We haven't paid them anything, as I'm sure they will confirm.