[XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency

[saddambitcoin]

Shapeshift has partnered with with purse.io to allow Amazon purchases to be made with BTC, XMR and more!

https://twitter.com/ShapeShift_io/status/593429838574260224

EDIT: Addition: PurseIO supports the following countries: UK, Germany, Japan, China, France, Italy, Spain, India & Canada (according to shapeshift twitter)

Purse.io does look cool - lately I have been doing XMR.to -> Gyft for online purchases but it is annoying to have leftover amounts on gift cards. This seems like it could solve that issue.

[Trollero]

Hello, please consider voting in this poll:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1042097.0

It's an attempt to measure whether the altcoin community feels that marketcap is an indicator of success, and possibly discuss it.

I'm targeting ~500+ page ANN threads, and not trying to spam everything with bumps, so please kindly don't delete this unless I've accidentally posted it more than once in your thread.

All opinions are welcomed.

[pandher]

Shapeshift has partnered with with purse.io to allow Amazon purchases to be made with BTC, XMR and more!

https://twitter.com/ShapeShift_io/status/593429838574260224

EDIT: Addition: PurseIO supports the following countries: UK, Germany, Japan, China, France, Italy, Spain, India & Canada (according to shapeshift twitter)

Noice, services like these are what make XMR and digital currencies more useful

[ShapeShift.io]

PURCHASE ON AMAZON.COM WITH MONERO: ShapeShift.io‬ has partnered with Purse.io, a service that matches customers wishing to purchase ‪bitcoin‬ with bitcoin holders wanting to purchase items with retail giant Amazon.com. You can now make your purchases with Monero: http://bit.ly/1JTnSdP

[5w00p]

Yeah purse is cool, except when wannabe scammers buy your Spends and don't deliver the goods. I have had 1 good transaction there, 1 bad one (BTC was returned to me, but I never got the stuff I wanted), and now 1 order in progress from a newbie that has me skeptical...

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Here is a link to an excellent article on BTC in Argentina, a place where govt corruption and banking bullshit make Bitcoin attractive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/how-bitcoin-is-disrupting-argentinas-economy.html?smid=tw-share

Imagine if people there could get hip to the advantages of Monero over Bitcoin.

[eizh]

Here is a link to an excellent article on BTC in Argentina, a place where govt corruption and banking bullshit make Bitcoin attractive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/how-bitcoin-is-disrupting-argentinas-economy.html?smid=tw-share

I went to Argentina a few years ago with little cash, blissfully unaware that their country's government thinks it can dictate exchange rates by decree (without buying/selling on the market using forex reserves).

Every time I withdrew from the ATM or used a credit card, I lost ~40% of my value. It was one of the reasons I got interested in crypto.

[binaryFate]

There is a Monero & OpenBazaar meetup in Geneva tomorrow: http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Meetup-Switzerland/events/222009002/

[krigger]

There is a Monero & OpenBazaar meetup in Geneva tomorrow: http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Meetup-Switzerland/events/222009002/

This is a great news.

[wpalczynski]

Desperate plea

I doubt anyone takes you seriously since it sounds like you're actually proud to support the DASH scam.

"I openly support fraudulently instamined coins." -Otoh

He has no choice.  He's all in on that scam.  Unless he can pass his bags onto someone he is out a tonne of BTC.

[vokain]

I really feel for this community in the same ways I do for the human beans that help build Ubuntu, etc.



Thank you (again)

After reading this post, I stumbled upon a French text (English version) which blew my mind regarding how great ubuntu (the philosophical notion) is.

I like this one too http://www.harisingh.com/UbuntuAge.htm

[GingerAle]

WARNING - these are not "official", as in, someone from the core dev team didn't compile them and gave them the a-ok. I'm putting them here for testing purposes. I compiled following the instructions on the github. Perhaps they are static? Perhaps you can run the LMDB version of bitmonerod on your win 64 box and only use 50 megs of ram?

https://mega.co.nz/#!5YNACDTJ!N0pIow27_Tfsx4dMfMq4HA11ZSlEt7L135HvYEOuBU8

perhaps you can swap in the relevant .exe files from the above into the /resources/software/ folder of MoneroX you can have a monero GUI on windows 64 that sips RAM like a fine wine?

AGAIN - don't trust these. Test them until you trust them. Make sure they do everything they should do. I tested them on the box I compiled on and another windows 7 box.

Hopefully someone will post the data.mdb download link.  

EDITED TO ADD: I didn't test any of the converters, because they require you to have a in-memory blockchain, which I don't have. I've been running the LMDB branch for months now, so I couldn't test the converters.

Dunno if the converter thing is true. Perhaps you give try? Yah?

[Anon136]

I really feel for this community in the same ways I do for the human beans that help build Ubuntu, etc.

Thank you (again)

After reading this post, I stumbled upon a French text (English version) which blew my mind regarding how great ubuntu (the philosophical notion) is.

Even more interesting is that this intuitively positive impulse has lead Africa to no where. Where as the spirit of competition that we see in the west, which is intuatively less desirable than ubuntu, has lead to the creation of astounding wealth and prosperity. Sometimes life is so much more complex and unexpected than our intuitions would lead us to suspect.

[generalizethis]

I really feel for this community in the same ways I do for the human beans that help build Ubuntu, etc.

Thank you (again)

After reading this post, I stumbled upon a French text (English version) which blew my mind regarding how great ubuntu (the philosophical notion) is.

Even more interesting is that this intuitively positive impulse has lead Africa to no where. Where as the spirit of competition that we see in the west, which is intuatively less desirable than ubuntu, has lead to the creation of astounding wealth and prosperity. Sometimes life is so much more complex and unexpected than our intuitions would lead us to suspect.

Until I see wild animals and insects hug-it-out, I'll stick with believing that nature programs us much differently than our intentions do and that is why many times the path to hell is paved with good intentions and good men discover themselves along the path to greed. Off-topic, but maybe we get stronger through surviving aggression and that's why Otoh's dump looks more and more like a bullish sign for our future.

Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger or drives us to a catatonic state after hugging it out with a horse.

[smooth]

EDITED TO ADD: I didn't test any of the converters, because they require you to have a in-memory blockchain, which I don't have. I've been running the LMDB branch for months now, so I couldn't test the converters.

Export and import should still work I would think, but they're not really worth testing because the current implementation is being reworked/replaced.

[smooth]

Mиp тpoллeй, в пoлитикe тpoлли, в кpиптe тpoлли, cпeциaльнo oбливaть гpязью monero, paзвe людям нe пoнятнo чтo вы этo дeлaeтe paди тoгo чтoбы cбить цeнy и зaкyпить пoбoльшe, ecли monero вac нe интepecoвaлa тo вы и нe cидeли бы нa вeткe этoгo фopyмa, тaк чтo monero нaбиpaeт пoпyляpнocть вo вceм миpe и eгo нe ocтaнoвить! Дoнeцкaя нapoднaя pecпyбликa c вaми peбятa! Moжeтe пoмoчь дeтям дoнбaca и o вac yзнaeт вecь миp!

The world of trolls, trolls in politics, in the crypt of the trolls, especially sling mud monero, perhaps people do not understand what you are doing in order to bring down the price and buy more if you monero not interested and you would not be sitting on a branch of the forum, monero that is gaining popularity throughout the world and it does not stop! Donetsk People's Republic with you guys! You can help children Donbas and you know the whole world!

[5w00p]

I really feel for this community in the same ways I do for the human beans that help build Ubuntu, etc.

Thank you (again)

After reading this post, I stumbled upon a French text (English version) which blew my mind regarding how great ubuntu (the philosophical notion) is.

Even more interesting is that this intuitively positive impulse has lead Africa to no where. Where as the spirit of competition that we see in the west, which is intuatively less desirable than ubuntu, has lead to the creation of astounding wealth and prosperity. Sometimes life is so much more complex and unexpected than our intuitions would lead us to suspect.

I think the rioters in Baltimore were really just reveling in all that "astounding wealth and prosperity" the other day, eh?

[Johnny Mnemonic]

I don't remember who stated it above, but I do agree that the lack of exchange/merchant adoption might have something to do with the hassle of depending on users to include payment IDs.

Pay ID serialisation into the receiving address looks pretty far down on the roadmap. In the meantime, is there a reason why Payment IDs can't simply be appended to the address and parsed automatically by the client? That would make it much easier for third parties to manage payments until "stealth" payment IDs eventually get implemented.

[smooth]

In the meantime, is there a reason why Payment IDs can't simply be appended to the address and parsed automatically by the client?

There is no reason. Someone just needs to define a format, implement it, pull request. Done.

[Johnny Mnemonic]

In the meantime, is there a reason why Payment IDs can't simply be appended to the address and parsed automatically by the client?

There is no reason. Someone just needs to define a format, implement it, pull request. Done.

I'm not familiar enough with the codebase to do it myself, but if it's a simple task I'll throw 100 xmr to whoever can get it in.

[smooth]

In the meantime, is there a reason why Payment IDs can't simply be appended to the address and parsed automatically by the client?

There is no reason. Someone just needs to define a format, implement it, pull request. Done.

I'm not familiar enough with the codebase to do it myself, but if it's a simple task I'll throw 100 xmr to whoever can get it in.

It's relatively simple but there are some complications. For example, a single transaction can send to mulitple addresses but it can only have one payment ID. So that case (where the user specifies multiple compound addresses containing different payment IDs) would need to be detected and handled.

If someone is looking for a small project to get started with coding for Monero this could be a good one, especially with the bounty that is offered.