Anyone can point me to a pool with decent hashrate?
We have a bunch of pools listed in our OP. They all have a fairly decent hash-rate:) |
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Can someone upload the block chain?
Check the OP of this very thread:) |
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Not really, especially not a transaction with a high level of ambiguity (mixin). Knowing a transaction originated at an IP address would not let you see where the transaction is going, what the amount is, or anything more than is already revealed in the blockchain (look at any transaction on monerochain.info as an example). Their point about Tor stands, and it's the same reason why we've partnered up with the I2P team to implement I2P routing in Monero without reliance on the Java router (and, thus, adding a dependency and an attack surface we can't control - no serious cryptocurrency should allow Java to run on the desktop imho). Premature implementation of I2P would be a bad move, which is why we're taking it slowly. Thus the only real identifiable risk with using Monero for absolutely untraceable and unlinkable transactions at this stage would be that an attacker with sufficient access to your ISP or your router can determine that you are running a Monero node and that you are relaying transactions that may, or may not, be yours. With sufficiently large control over the entire Monero network (practically impossible for anyone except maybe the NSA) they could possibly determine the origination of a transaction (but again, not where it went or what the amount was). I2P allows us to close that hole. On that note, though: we are working on a deeper examination of the risks associated with ring signatures and the CryptoNote protocol in general (and how any risks, if they exist, can be mitigated), and will be pushing some more details out as that sub-project progresses. |
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did monero just get added to bittrex?
It was on there as MRO, they've dropped the MRO market and re-added it as XMR. Whilst they are tightening everything with the change-over the XMR market is locked, but should be live again in a few hours:) |
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I thought this was a gem:
Vexual: usagi hotwallet method:to a hot array of failing hard disks is added a bitcoin wallet, and all backups. Hotter coffee is added splashwise until the hot wallet becomes cold.
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Anyway to open one deamon and use simpleminer or multiminer to solomine?
The daemon has mining built in - just run: start_mining <address> <number of threads>There are also CLI arguments to start solo mining |
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Devs, I can't download binary wallets due to monero.cc IP address blocked from Russia. We have Putin's firewall occasionally blocking some good site because on it's IPs were located some anti-putin websites.
They block CloudFlare? Bunch of punks! I'll setup an offsite mirror at an EU data centre and will push the mirror details up to the OP in the next few days. if the sha1 hashes are published in the OP its easy for anyone host the files elsewhere and you check authenticity, otherwise just use tor browser to download.
Good idea, will do that when I get a chance today:) |
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usagi, I know this is the Internet but you don't always have to "win" or get the last word in. Sometimes it's ok to say something like "you know what, you're right and I'll remember that in the future".
This is specifically regarding your ridiculous post about house fires and USB backups. I can't believe that you are that dim so obviously it was typed with the sole purpose of "winning" the argument.
Such a simple, minor thing should not anger you so.
I'm not really angry. For a long time I was laughing at fluffypony, and I told him so. It's so obvious how wrong they are that past a certain point you just have to pat them on the head and say "there, there".  |
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Also posted in the MRO trading thread but it seems kinda dead. Looking to make a large batch purchase of monero. Any sellers contact me by PM.
That's what the exchanges are for:) |
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"Your logo choice exemplifies this course of action further. It is arguably plain and doesnt have any special features that express anything Monero stands for (whatever that is)."
Industrial orange is a much hated color, VERY hard on the eyes...
The plain Bitcoin logo is brilliant and stylish in comparison (a clever play on $ and gold).
Incidentally, the Bitcoin logo you espouse only came about after nearly 2 years. Back in the days we had this awesome logo (August 2009) Eventually in June 2010 Satoshi Nakamoto himself added this beauty. That crappy icon stayed, despite BitBoy having released his flat icons in November 2010, and was even updated to this bigger version in 2011. You'll be pleased to know that the icon you so love was finally added in May 2013, 4.5 years after Bitcoin was released. Will Monero have the same logo in mid-2018? Who knows, we're absolutely open to improving things as time goes on. But for the foreseeable future, it is our logo. |
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ISO 4217 was definitely not deviced with crypto currencies in mind. In only 3 letters with 1 already reserved (X), there is simply not enough name space to represent all relevant crypto currencies in a recognizable way. Furthermore submitting to those established standards means to submit to the establishment.
Your logo choice exemplifies this course of action further. It is arguably plain and doesnt have any special features that express anything Monero stands for (whatever that is). Id like to understand your reasoning behind your choice. If you indeed payed a professional company to design it for you, they will have certainly asked what you would like to express with it and what your vision is for this project. From what they delivered, I can only tell that you try to fit in with the established norms and customs. If you hope to fleece regulators and the scrutiny of law makers with this approach, I can assure you that you will only get so far before they uncover the anonymous and "potentially dangerous" nature of this technology. You can cloak this project as plainly as you like, you wont hide from their scrutiny for long. When it comes to open arguments among SEC, FinTrac, Monero community & Co. your cover will be blown and you have to come up with some good arguments to justify the degree of privacy Monero dares to provide. Rather then trying to doge the magic bullet, I would advise you to openly tackle the debate with arguments of rights to privacy, abuse of administrative power and civil liberties. Maybe not today but in the foreseeable future you have to step up to the challenge.
What's SEC and FinTrac got to do with anything? Nearly the entirety of the core team live outside of the United States - I am in South Africa and davidlatapie is in France, for instance. The SEC and FinTrac can do whatever they want, it doesn't affect us, nor do we have to engage with them. This isn't the "Monero Foundation" (such a thing would never exist), this is the core team moving the project along regardless of what sovereign states and individuals choose to do (or not do) with it. We neither need their blessing nor yours. The rest of your arguments are quite absurd - how does ISO compliance mean "submitting to the establishment"? You understand that none of your devices would work, you wouldn't be able to use the Internet, so much of what you do would be impossible without bodies like the ISO and the IEEE? Compliance with internationally recognised standards is not "submitting to the establishment". |
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I was in mexico last year, and I saw dollar being marketed every where. I saw this in canada too. The dollar is markted everywhere. you are right, a currency to be dominant needs to be markted first. the country that backs it is of little to no significance.
I lol'd, but it took me a few minutes to realise it was sarcastic;) |
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So just to be clear...
Just to be clear, you have been writing dozens of incredibly hostile posts slamming me because you misread a news release. Then explain it to me and to us. PLEASE explain it concisely and clearly. We understand that the root of the problem is that the VPS slice has been nuked, and we understand this happens. Now please explain in its entirety, stating clear and unobtrusive facts, where your backups are, who they are with, and why they are unavailable. You've been asked this question by a number of people, and you keep deflecting, so this is your opportunity to explain. |
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Usagi I have a question for you - cause I got confused by this shoutout.
You are saying you had backups on other servers maintained by other provider. Tell me in short what goes wrong then? Why you can't recover data from this backup???
My question is still unanswered. Usagi can you answer for me? I mean no offense - just rly want to know the answer. Sorry, I don't know. I was told they're working on it. I had it set up on cron. Presumably if I had the server address, username and password (or whatever) in the cron file, I could restore the backups myself. Maybe I'll fire off another e-mail to the team and ask them about it. So just to be clear...you have remote, regular, offsite backups, but you have no idea how to login to the service if you needed to, I dunno, restore the backup? And you don't know who the provider is? (To clarify that last question: I can't tell if "the team" means your imaginary team of IT specialists or the team at the remote backup provider, but I would assume that if you had working backups and you know who you were paying every month to store them, you would simply pick up the phone and say "hello LiveDrive, I seem to have lost my system, and I'd like to know how to get at my backups") Were those backups on space provided by BitVPS, which is why you're struggling to get hold of them? |
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also why on gods earth would anyone store a wallet on a VPS ? You aren't familiar with what happens ?
Because it was a KVM i.e. not shared, non-production system which was not being developed or used. So what you're saying is that the wallet wasn't in use or required at all, and could safely be stored on your computer with a remote encrypted backup (even DropBox would work for this) and, for good measure, on a bunch of flash drives chucked in the safe? |
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it requires a vastly different RPC API. It more than likely requires a major change to the underlying database design, since payments are made to a single address with a different payment ID per-user. Watching for deposits is also challenging: the get_payments RPC API call needs to be polled for every payment ID instead of just hammering 'listreceivedbyaddress <min_confs> false' as one would for a Bitcoin-forked cryptocurrency.
It would be possible to provide a 99% compatible rpc interface however, making it relatively simpler to integrate with btc environments. We are playing with a wrapper - but I don't think the RPC is the only bugbear here. A lot of the issue seems to stem from rigid design decisions - assuming that every user gets a unique deposit address (where Monero uses the same address but a different payment ID), assuming the unique deposit address will be generated by the daemon (so no infrastructure for creating random IDs and checking for collisions in a scalable fashion), assuming the address will always be X bytes/chars long, and so on. The amount of fundamental, underlying work required for an exchange that isn't well architected would be nightmarish. |
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You've caught me out! Oh dear. Guess I join the hallowed halls of scammers. Let me know where our monthly meeting is, usagi - I look forward to being among such revered company! |
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I think it's best to just tell people it's a form of money. If you try to get into all the nitty gritty details you'll lose their interest. If a talking head gets on TV and talks about Bitcoin to people in a retirement home the last thing they want to do is get into technical details and the potential for future uses. Just tell people it's money and they'll be satisfied and not that far from being wrong.
Anyway the whole reason the word money even came up was in my criticism of the new logo. I don't know, I just don't like the orange and black color, and it doesn't have that hip feel. Darkcoin's newest logo is actually one of the few logos in all of cryptocurrency that I really like and feel that it competes with the best corporate logos. It's sharp, simple, recognizable, unique... all of the attributes you want in a logo. This one is flat, circular, mismatching colors, boring, forgettable. Just my opinion! Not to hurt anyone's feelings who worked hard on it.
We've got someone working on sound-bite sized snippets to explain the facets and features of Monero, we'll probably find that cash-money-currency comes out a lot in those, so I don't fundamentally disagree with you:) It's more in terms of the logo not looking like an ancient Greek drachma than anything else. In other words: it shouldn't conjure up images of money from the logo, that's been done and basically every single altcoin logo I see nowadays has been "made" with this: http://graphicriver.net/item/coin-generator/2532303I think time will tell how the logo goes. We had some really amazing submissions on our 99designs contest, and we settled on the one that was recommended to us by the experts. If anything gets redesigned or heavily tweaked it will be in the years to come; for the moment we're happy with our decision and we want to move on and focus on the real challenges (of which the logo wasn't one;)) |
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New ticker? Again?!
We're planning on changing it every month to keep everyone on their toes. If you don't know what the ticker is how can you know where to look for it? It's like security through obscurity but 150% better  |
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