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

[Johnny Mnemonic]

Sorry not impressed. The pace of checkins and the quantity of changes being checked in (I reviewed all those commits) is not at all impressive. In fact it seems downright slow. I've made my living coding and running dev teams and if I had a team that was only contributing that amount of code per week there would be some serious changes to the team. Seems like the devs are working on this like two hours per day or something. Time for a much bigger dev team. You guys should be actively recruiting, not turning away help as has been done several times in this thread.

No need for rapid development?
Show me one Coin github which is more active:
https://github.com/i2pcpp/i2pcpp/commits/master (i2p router c port)
https://github.com/mikezackles/bitmonero/commits/daemonize ("daemonizing" the daemon branch)
https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/commits/rocksdb (db implementation started - using rocksdb, a leveldb fork)
https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/commits/rpcwallet (rpc based wallet for exchanges/merchants etc)
https://github.com/Neozaru/bitmonero/commits/wallet_wrapper (high level gui api)
https://github.com/Neozaru/bitmonero-qt/commits/master (Qt based gui for monero)
... plus the sideprojects...


If you want to help, help with the GUI or come to monero-dev on freenode, we have tons of work.
Or if you want to speedup everything and cant help with code, theres a devfund address in the startpost.

Have you submitted any pull requests to the repository? If not, then maybe you should start contributing before accusing the devs of not accepting help.

Last I checked, the devs are not receiving a salary for their work. Would you like to step up and pay them to quit their day jobs and allocate all their attention to Monero?

[villabacho]

Sorry not impressed. The pace of checkins and the quantity of changes being checked in (I reviewed all those commits) is not at all impressive. In fact it seems downright slow. I've made my living coding and running dev teams and if I had a team that was only contributing that amount of code per week there would be some serious changes to the team. Seems like the devs are working on this like two hours per day or something. Time for a much bigger dev team. You guys should be actively recruiting, not turning away help as has been done several times in this thread.

Having more people on board is always better. As you're a software professional, I'm looking forward to your contributions :-)
Where do I find your repo on github?

[bybitcoin]

It will be astonishing if there could be a way to side-embed this with bitcoin (decentralized), or at least conjugate their payment terminals to each other (centralizd). Any idea?

[Anon136]

It will be astonishing if there could be a way to side-embed this with bitcoin (decentralized), or at least conjugate their payment terminals to each other (centralizd). Any idea?

I recognize you from the nxt community. How long have you been involved here?

[bybitcoin]

It will be astonishing if there could be a way to side-embed this with bitcoin (decentralized), or at least conjugate their payment terminals to each other (centralizd). Any idea?

I recognize you from the nxt community. How long have you been involved here?

Not too much, about two weeks I guess. Unfortunately the nice ROI I got from Nxt made me left away from monitoring alt-scene for several months.

[Anon136]

It will be astonishing if there could be a way to side-embed this with bitcoin (decentralized), or at least conjugate their payment terminals to each other (centralizd). Any idea?

I recognize you from the nxt community. How long have you been involved here?

nice ROI

thats a little bit of an understatement. you may literally be a legit guinness book entry world record holder.

anyway yea me too. this is my first foray since my involvement in nxt. cryptonote really seems promising and monero the most promising among them.

[bybitcoin]

It will be astonishing if there could be a way to side-embed this with bitcoin (decentralized), or at least conjugate their payment terminals to each other (centralizd). Any idea?

I recognize you from the nxt community. How long have you been involved here?

nice ROI

thats a little bit of an understatement. you may literally be a legit guinness book entry world record holder.

anyway yea me too. this is my first foray since my involvement in nxt. cryptonote really seems promising and monero the most promising among them.

Unfortunately monero is a bit pricy now to buy a huge pack from, but I bought some..
Anyway for me this one is more of an interesting project to involve and follow than an investment vehicle.

[Anon136]

It will be astonishing if there could be a way to side-embed this with bitcoin (decentralized), or at least conjugate their payment terminals to each other (centralizd). Any idea?

I recognize you from the nxt community. How long have you been involved here?

nice ROI

thats a little bit of an understatement. you may literally be a legit guinness book entry world record holder.

anyway yea me too. this is my first foray since my involvement in nxt. cryptonote really seems promising and monero the most promising among them.

Unfortunately monero is a bit pricy now to buy a huge pack from, but I bought some..
Anyway for me this one is more of an interesting project to involve and follow than an investment vehicle.

I personally dont pay too much attention to price. I try to focus on everything else besides.

[1994461866]

ablout a pool

http://moneropool.org/

http://img03.taobaocdn.com/imgextra/i3/21157051/TB2KbfTXVXXXXXVXXXXXXXXXXXX-21157051.jpg

and

http://img04.taobaocdn.com/imgextra/i4/21157051/TB2v6bRXVXXXXb3XXXXXXXXXXXX-21157051.jpg

why??!

[5w00p]

is that an ARG puzzle?

[cAPSLOCK]

so, how easy will merchant adoption be for cryptonote vs bitcoin?

I am dubious that Monero ever achieves mass merchant adoption.  It's use is further complicated and obfuscated compared to bitcoin.  The need for a payment ID is one thing.  I believe XMR stands a chance to be a better store of wealth than Bitcoin.  And by doing this frees bitcoin up to concentrate on being a currency.

That said, it COULD happen that Monero has success in merchant transactions.  Who can say?

[33zer0w0lf]

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[birr]

All this talk about "No GUI Wallet," then what is this that I have been using for more than a week?

link?

[villabacho]

Here's the GUI bounty thread, you find several GUI's there:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=589561.300

Still under development, but e.g. the GUIs from Jojatekok and neozaru seem fairly good already (can't comment on the other ones which might also be in good shape). Some people have made good experiences trying them out, and the GUI devs are very helpful in general if you encounter problems.

All this talk about "No GUI Wallet," then what is this that I have been using for more than a week?

http://s22.postimg.org/5lsjkrosx/monerow1.jpg

link?

[Kruncha]

Sorry guys, my first post was a bit agressive, so I took it down.

I was talking about the uncertainty around the coin, which is understandable, considering all the goings-on in the thread, but that wasn't the point. The point is: recently I was lurking around the CN coins threads and came to a conclusion that Monero has a lot of potential and I think you guys should put more faith in it. Hence, imo, everything that can potentially bring the coin closer to the Moon should be met with more trust, like its integration into the hitbtc exchange.

To prove that point, I myself bought a market maker's contract and already started trading.

K.

[silencesilence]

link for Top 100 Richest Addresses ?

[dreamspark]

so, how easy will merchant adoption be for cryptonote vs bitcoin?

The main issue I see right now is getting people to think about it as something different to Bitcoin, the payment ID thing is a minor usability issue that can be overcome, in terms of integrated payment points that should be no harder than exchanges systems for trading XMR.

The advantages of using XMR for payments far outweighs the negatives of being slightly harder to use. I disagree with the poster who suggested it as a good store of value and not as a usable currency. I personally think it is very much the opposite of that and due to the privacy features is a much more desirable currency to use for everyday transactions than any other options.

[rpietila]

Do you know of the following:

- paper wallets
- reduced/zero/negative trading fees for market makers in exchanges
- whether it makes sense to buy boolberry as a hedge or not

Thank you in advance

[dreamspark]

link for Top 100 Richest Addresses ?

No such thing as far as I know, hence why you cant search for addresses on the block explorer. Its not even possible due to a  separate public key is generated for each input, privacy and all that

[David Latapie]

Can we stop doing EC2 math with the wrong numbers? Only the uninitiated are paying full price for EC2 instances.

You are correct however that it is not the most profitable on EC2 and it hasn't been since the price fell below about 0.006 - unless of course your name starts with a C and you have a killer nVidia GPU miner.

Plus, c3.8xlarge Amazon EC2 is not the profitable one. A lower one is better. With c3.8xlarge, you spend money for unneeded RAM and such.

Plus, there are cheaper cloud services than EC2 - I used at least two cheaper ones.