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

[roosmaa]

2 months ago I started working on making OpenAlias convenient for everyone. Today I’m happy to announce that CryptoName is finally ready! Check it out at cryptoname.co.

CryptoName allows you to register aliases on several domains: ibankmyself.com, nobank.in, coindojo.com, nobool.com. DNSSEC is enabled for all of the domains. (MyMonero has problems validating DNSSEC OpenAlias domains currently, which is due too aggressive time-limit it has set for the process to complete. Fluffypony promised to improve it when he has some free time.)

To celebrate the launch, here are a couple of coupons for early adopters:

• L15BT30 - 30% discount on 1-3 year registrations. Valid for 10 redemptions.
• L15BT60 - 60% discount on 2 year registrations. Valid for 5 redemptions.

I’ll also be giving away 3x single-use 80% discount coupons on the #monero IRC channel on Freenode throughout the day. Will give 15 minute notice before posting each of the coupons.

I’ll be happy to answer any questions anyone has. Though it might be better to post them in the Monero forum thread as they might get lost in this thread.

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[Chicken76]

No problem... I just want shitcoin announcements. I mine them and I won 1-3 Monepoj a day.
If I put my processor and my graphics card to the task of mining directly Monero, I would only have 0.5.

I'm curious what coins do you mine with CPU / GPU to get 1-3 moneroj/day.

[OrientA]

No problem... I just want shitcoin announcements. I mine them and I won 1-3 Monepoj a day.
If I put my processor and my graphics card to the task of mining directly Monero, I would only have 0.5.

I'm curious what coins do you mine with CPU / GPU to get 1-3 moneroj/day.

Those are mainly the newly announced coins. They had low difficulty and easy to mine at first.

[florida.haunted]

Can confirm I'm back, see GPG signed message below (my GPG key is in the Monero source tree):

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

This is to confirm I have recovered my Bitcointalk account.

Also we've had awesome and successful Monero meetups in Brussels, Paris, and Berlin. Tomorrow I talk in Berlin again at the Bitcoin meetup (but this time on the subject of OpenAlias), and then on the weekend I am presenting on Monero at Bitcoinference in Amsterdam.

Hopefully after that things go back to normal:)
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Elegantly!

[florida.haunted]

Forgot to add - my travels have disrupted the Missive schedule, but we're trying to get everything back on track now:)

Your travels are important for Monero PR health, because of your meetups with Bitcoin society, so you can consider to talk about that travels as it were an authentic Monero missive.

[coinomat.com]

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[binaryFate]

Vote for Monero to be added at Coinomat.com https://coinomat.com/coinvoting.php
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Crypto to Fiat liquidity can provide a significant boost to Monero.
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#1 - Auroracoin

Is this a joke?

[vokain]

Hey,

we've been at Geneva's Bitcoin Meetup yesterday and gave the following presentation on Monero, privacy and fungibility:
http://www.slideshare.net/arnuschky/monero-geneva

We got quite positive feedback on it, and might team up with some guys here to build the first Monero ATM

Thanks for sharing

Three guys with 'a' Ph.D? 

[binaryFate]

For those who missed it: Gerard Willing is a video producer and editor, and a long time crypto-supporter. He was present at the Monero meetup in Brussels, he got enthousiastic and proposed to make a video about "Marilyn Monero". 
Nobody expected he would make it real so quick...

#0 (teaser): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m9J9QfcX9U
#1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qu5Y9nIhC8
The best is probably to follow the youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF4qw2Fdq6l_UrhtWlQjxaw
Here is Gerard's twitter account: https://twitter.com/gerardwilling

[binaryFate]

Hey,

we've been at Geneva's Bitcoin Meetup yesterday and gave the following presentation on Monero, privacy and fungibility:
http://www.slideshare.net/arnuschky/monero-geneva

We got quite positive feedback on it, and might team up with some guys here to build the first Monero ATM

Thanks for sharing

Three guys with 'a' Ph.D? 

Yeah I noticed the ambiguity afterwards... Sounds like we're sharing it 

[Hueristic]

XMR added.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bitcoin-price-ticker/?src=api

[celestio]

Finally, bitcointalk is back up.

[antw081]

2 months ago I started working on making OpenAlias convenient for everyone. Today I’m happy to announce that CryptoName is finally ready! Check it out at cryptoname.co.

CryptoName allows you to register aliases on several domains: ibankmyself.com, nobank.in, coindojo.com, nobool.com. DNSSEC is enabled for all of the domains. (MyMonero has problems validating DNSSEC OpenAlias domains currently, which is due too aggressive time-limit it has set for the process to complete. Fluffypony promised to improve it when he has some free time.)

To celebrate the launch, here are a couple of coupons for early adopters:

• L15BT30 - 30% discount on 1-3 year registrations. Valid for 10 redemptions.
• L15BT60 - 60% discount on 2 year registrations. Valid for 5 redemptions.

I’ll also be giving away 3x single-use 80% discount coupons on the #monero IRC channel on Freenode throughout the day. Will give 15 minute notice before posting each of the coupons.

I’ll be happy to answer any questions anyone has. Though it might be better to post them in the Monero forum thread as they might get lost in this thread.

Wow, very impressive! Just signed up for one 2 year alias without any issues. Great work.

[5w00p]

Shapeshift may have implemented mixin of 3 for some period of time, but it appears that they are back to mixin of 1.

 

I just observed this with a BTC->XMR transaction.

So, I just sent this message to their Help Center.

I was in communication with a representative of shapeshift a few weeks ago, and I was told that Monero transactions were to be implemented with mixin count of 3.
However, I just made a BTC->XMR transaction and the mixin count for the receipt of my XMR is displayed as 1 on the Monero blockchain.

Please explain this.
Thank you.

EDIT:

Received a quick reply from a Shapeshift Rep:

We had to remove the mixin count of 3 because it was messing up all of our monero transactions. People were not receiving their funds.
We will work on re-adding this in the future when we have time to look into why it was messing up the other transactions but until then, we have to remove.
We have A LOT of feature updates that we are trying to push out this next month and so I don't have a timeline for this for you, but will will try our best to re-add in the future.

[ArticMine]

Mixin with a count greater than 1 needs also the breaking out of transactions into powers of 10 down the the lowest level of precision used. So for example 0.00012959874 gets broken down into 0.00010000000, 0.00002000000, 0.00000900000, 0.00000050000, 0.00000009000, 0.00000000800, 0.00000000070, and 0.00000000004. Otherwise these remainder amounts are unique and cannot be mixed. Furthermore for this to work this change needs to be implemented ahead of the mixin change to provide enough transactions in the blockchain for the actual mixing to work. This needs to be addressed at the protocol level.

Right now anything with more than 2 decimal places cannot be mixed with a mixin over 1 and this is the cause of these problems. Asking exchanges to use higher mixin levels is doomed to failure without addressing this mantissa issue at the protocol level.

[equipoise]

^Could this be a (temporary) solution for exchanges and services?

i tried it, worked well.
unfortunately they send with mixing 0, rest worked fine for me. sometimes the price they offer is not so good, sometimes its better than on the exchange.

Hmm, I haven't tried it myself, but I could've sworn that I read Shapeshift uses mixin 3 now. I thought it was on reddit, but not seeing it now. Did you try within the last week or two, or longer ago than that?

They set it back to zero because of some problems with dust outputs or something. I don't know who received that message, but if you read this, please come and elaborate more on this matter (or perhaps shapeshift itself could elaborate?).

Just fyi,
I just tried shapeshift, (I just can't say no to +500 xmr/btc) - the transaction was done with mixin = 1

Looks completely obfuscated to me, but I'm really only starting to experiment with Monero transactions.

I just looked through my IRC log, and I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like the lowered mixins have to do with too many support tickets cropping up because the wallet software gets messed up with random huge transactions due to "not enough outputs to mix". So, my interpretation is that for personal use, you could fix this kind of error just by retrying with different send amounts etc, but with an automated system (like shapeshift) it doesn't work as well.

In general, I think this phenomenon is on the to do list, wherein the codebase will be modified such that any output can be utilized for a ring signature, as opposed to just unspent outputs. This has the effect of increasing the total number of available outputs for inclusion in the ring signature. This was in one of our podcasts somewhere.

A workaround for shapeshift could be: 1) receive/send with two digits XMR precision + 2) regularly/automatically consolidating amounts between two hot wallets. 2) could help poloniex with the same issue, but I'm not sure they'll want to enforce 1) (one more mining directly to polo problem).  

You can't stricly enforce 1), people can make mistakes, or they can decide to "bloat" your wallet maliciously.

They could round down to the second digit and then also subtract 0.01 or 0.02 XMR (wallet consolidation fee) from each deposit. This way they'll be able to keep the withdraw fee the same or even lower it while increasing the mixin to 3-10 for withdraws. Wallet consolidation fee may also discourage mining directly to the exchange. Whoever decide to ""bloat" your wallet maliciously" would pay the fee to consolidate it again. Could they possibly (legally?) enforce that?

Edit: Note that the two hot wallets could send with mixin of 1 for consolidation. Only user withdraws have to be 3+.

[megges]

Mixin with a count greater than 1 needs also the breaking out of transactions into powers of 10 down the the lowest level of precision used. So for example 0.00012959874 gets broken down into 0.00010000000, 0.00002000000, 0.00000900000, 0.00000050000, 0.00000009000, 0.00000000800, 0.00000000070, and 0.00000000004. Otherwise these remainder amounts are unique and cannot be mixed. Furthermore for this to work this change needs to be implemented ahead of the mixin change to provide enough transactions in the blockchain for the actual mixing to work. This needs to be addressed at the protocol level.

Right now anything with more than 2 decimal places cannot be mixed with a mixin over 1 and this is the cause of these problems. Asking exchanges to use higher mixin levels is doomed to failure without addressing this mantissa issue at the protocol level.

just a quick idea (dunno if it is stupid), if merchants (exchanges) wont adopt it, from my understanding, you could just send the 1 mixin funds to your wallet and resend it with a mixin greater then 1, to another address you own, right?
perhaps this can be done automatically, like generating an address in your wallet which you could mark as an "unclean" receiving address, and your wallet will automatically resend funds recieved to that address to another one of your addresses with a mixin greater then 1.

[Drhiggins]

Can someone in the know please explain to me why orphan blocks are found sometimes when mining?  Is this a GPU, CPU flaw or is it something in the equations that are processed?  Maybe its none of these, I just want to wrap my head around it.

Thanks

[kazuki49]

Hey,

we've been at Geneva's Bitcoin Meetup yesterday and gave the following presentation on Monero, privacy and fungibility:
http://www.slideshare.net/arnuschky/monero-geneva

We got quite positive feedback on it, and might team up with some guys here to build the first Monero ATM

Thanks for sharing

Three guys with 'a' Ph.D?  

smart people love Monero 

Can someone in the know please explain to me why orphan blocks are found sometimes when mining?  Is this a GPU, CPU flaw or is it something in the equations that are processed?  Maybe its none of these, I just want to wrap my head around it.

Thanks

1 min blocks, someone may have found a block a few seconds before you

[megges]

Can someone in the know please explain to me why orphan blocks are found sometimes when mining?  Is this a GPU, CPU flaw or is it something in the equations that are processed?  Maybe its none of these, I just want to wrap my head around it.

Thanks

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5859/what-are-orphaned-and-stale-blocks