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

[avgeca]

What do you think about https://forum.bitcoin.com? They opened Altcoins subforum and there are Ripple, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin subforums for discussion. I think if we want Roger Ver will open Monero subforum too.
I like Monero discussion here but another option would be good too. They will probably get different userbase. We should tell about Monero to newbies.

I don't see anything wrong with more exposure to Monero.

Has anyone here become active on that forum yet? What do you think about it?

I'm trying to keep the monero board over there a little bit up to date, but without having any real plan behind my activity. In case that forum.bitcoin.com should ever develop some more organic activity(I highly doubt that, rogerver doesnt seem to have a real masterplan for the development) I might need another helping hand for discussions. Just keeping TOF more or less up to date however, is no big work atm

I'll check TOF at least once a day currently.

[GreekBitcoin]

I wonder about the copyrights of monero logo. Should someone create something with the logo can he put his "name" on it?

[8XMR]

I wonder about the copyrights of monero logo. Should someone create something with the logo can he put his "name" on it?

What you mean? Why someone put his name on Monero logo?

[GreekBitcoin]

I wonder about the copyrights of monero logo. Should someone create something with the logo can he put his "name" on it?

What you mean? Why someone put his name on Monero logo?

I mean his firm name if he creates something based on the logo...

[QuantumQrack]

I wonder about the copyrights of monero logo. Should someone create something with the logo can he put his "name" on it?

What you mean? Why someone put his name on Monero logo?

I mean his firm name if he creates something based on the logo...

"The majority of the content on this website, including the Monero logo and our Monero Missive podcast, is copyright The Monero Project. It is made available under the CC BY 3.0 license (the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license). This means that you can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. However, when doing so you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests The Monero Project endorses you or your use."

--source:  getmonero.org

[americanpegasus]

This means that you can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. However, when doing so you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests The Monero Project endorses you or your use."

--source:  getmonero.org

It's perfectly fine to say "The AmericanPegasus App now incorporates Monero!" and include the logo. 
It's even fine to make a game called "Monero Miner" using the symbol. 
 
It's not ok to say "Monero presents The AmericanPegasus App." because this implies endorsement.

[Ratatosk]

Hey guys, speaking of logo, does the Monero team need a little help to improve the Monero images ?

I feel very inspired today, and full of energy and good vibes... My artist work is always loved (almost always)...
I could perhaps have succeeded to save Cloakcoin with my art, but they declined, I still don't understand why...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823143.msg12820870#msg12820870

Maybe now it's time for me to contribute to Monero graphics, right ? 

[TheKoziTwo]

About a year ago I parsed a few topics on bitcointalk to see how many unique users were active and which user group they belong to. Today I did it again for this topic. Here are the results:

Monero (October 29th 2015) (1388 pages)

Rank	Users
Staff	2	0.10%
Donator	3	0.15%
Legendary	60	3.09%
Hero_Member	275	14.18%
Sr.Member	357	18.40%
Full_Member	362	18.66%
Member	319	16.44%
Jr.Member	213	10.98%
Newbie	349	17.99%
Total users:	1940 unique users

Let's compare with last year:

September 2014 (700p)		October 2015 (1388p)		Difference (+688 pages)
Rank Users Staff 1 0.07% Donator 1 0.07% Legendary 12 0.85% Hero_Member 56 3.94% Sr.Member 210 14.79% Full_Member 362 25.49% Member 288 20.28% Jr.Member 203 14.3% Newbie 287 20.21% Total users: 1420		Rank Users Staff 2 0.10% Donator 3 0.15% Legendary 60 3.09% Hero_Member 275 14.18% Sr.Member 357 18.40% Full_Member 362 18.66% Member 319 16.44% Jr.Member 213 10.98% Newbie 349 17.99% Total users: 1940		Rank Users Staff +1 +100% Donator +2 +200% Legendary +48 +400% Hero_Member +219 +391.07% Sr.Member +147 +70% Full_Member +0 +0% Member +31 +10.76% Jr.Member +10 +4.92% Newbie +62 +21.60% Total users: +520 +36.61%

In addition, here is a top 30 list of the most active posters in this topic:

#	Username	Post Count	Rank	Activity
1.	smooth	2189	Hero Member	854
2.	fluffypony	839	Donator	0
3.	GingerAle	594	Sr. Member	350
4.	David Latapie	485	Hero Member	546
5.	Anon136	403	Legendary	1106
6.	dEBRUYNE	395	Sr. Member	476
7.	aminorex	373	Hero Member	798
8.	Hueristic	368	Hero Member	700
9.	surfer43	339	Sr. Member	364
10.	tacotime	323	Legendary	1470
11.	nioc	294	Legendary	910
12.	dreamspark	291	Hero Member	518
13.	generalizethis	286	Sr. Member	434
14.	eizh	286	Sr. Member	462
15.	binaryFate	282	Hero Member	938
16.	cAPSLOCK	281	Legendary	1008
17.	GreekBitcoin	273	Legendary	966
18.	5w00p	261	Hero Member	518
19.	equipoise	232	Hero Member	631
20.	superresistant	221	Hero Member	924
21.	iCEBREAKER	206	Legendary	1106
22.	Johnny Mnemonic	204	Hero Member	495
23.	rpietila	203	Donator	0
24.	jwinterm	191	Hero Member	658
25.	Wolf0	184	Legendary	1008
26.	medusa13	175	Hero Member	523
27.	owlcatz	172	Hero Member	560
28.	drawingthesun	171	Legendary	840
29.	Keyboard-Mash	171	Jr. Member	56
30.	sammy007	169	Hero Member	560

[GreekBitcoin]

I wonder about the copyrights of monero logo. Should someone create something with the logo can he put his "name" on it?

What you mean? Why someone put his name on Monero logo?

I mean his firm name if he creates something based on the logo...

"The majority of the content on this website, including the Monero logo and our Monero Missive podcast, is copyright The Monero Project. It is made available under the CC BY 3.0 license (the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license). This means that you can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. However, when doing so you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests The Monero Project endorses you or your use."

--source:  getmonero.org

Thanks

...

1940 unique users is good! Also your post made me notice that i am now legendary

[TheKoziTwo]

1940 unique users is good! Also your post made me notice that i am now legendary

Gratz! There has been a massive increase in both hero and legendary members here. I'd guess this is in large part due to forum users "aging" rather than new influx of users, just notice that there has been 0 increase in full members, so there has been a lot moving up to hero

[elrippo]

About a year ago I parsed a few topics on bitcointalk to see how many unique users were active and which user group they belong to. Today I did it again for this topic. Here are the results:

Monero (October 29th 2015) (1388 pages)

Thank you very much, this is very interesting 

[iCEBREAKER]

Please share your thoughts.

I think your post is off-topic, and you should make a new thread for it to help keep this one on-topic.

[Hueristic]

...

8.

Hueristic

368

Hero Member

700

...

I need a life.

[smooth]

Summary - monero   Picture/Text
Name:   monero
Posts:   53
Activity:   53
Position:   Jr. Member
Date Registered:   April 23, 2014, 09:58:58 PM
Last Active:   October 16, 2015, 01:02:25 PM

Has the dev abandoned XMR?

No. That is just an account that the core devs use to post updates that are worth posting with concerning monero.

Fluffypony
Smooth
TacoTime

Contact them ^ if you have questions. Or just post it in this thread.

Confirm. The main use for that nick currently is to edit the OP when needed.

Also, the official forum is forum.getmonero.org. Announcements and discussions are often posted there instead of here, though may also get cross posted here.

[americanpegasus]

Also, the official forum is forum.getmonero.org. Announcements and discussions are often posted there instead of here, though may also get cross posted here.

 
  
I've tried to use the official forums before and just found them unpleasant... it's hard to put my finger on it; maybe it has to do with the alignment or style of the text, or perhaps the old-school nested comment trees... not 100% sure.  I'm sure someone at one point worked very hard to put them together, so I hope no one takes it personally, but I would almost rather Monero move over to a Simple Machines Forum standard itself. 
 
This place catches a lot of shit, but with a few exceptions its actually very functional and pleasant to use.

[smoothie]

Hard to believe that a significant amount of wise money would enter into a coin based on if it has 20k or 100k posts in the thread without reading a sample of a few pages here and there to assess the quality and the issues discussed.

Dash is floating on hot money imo. But they seem pretty resilient - if they just renounced the claims of instamine being an accident, and anonymity, it might be worth to check out. As long as scamcoin label persists, it is ruled out for me.

Could not agree with you more. 

[wpalczynski]

Also, the official forum is forum.getmonero.org. Announcements and discussions are often posted there instead of here, though may also get cross posted here.

 
  
I've tried to use the official forums before and just found them unpleasant... it's hard to put my finger on it; maybe it has to do with the alignment or style of the text, or perhaps the old-school nested comment trees... not 100% sure.  I'm sure someone at one point worked very hard to put them together, so I hope no one takes it personally, but I would almost rather Monero move over to a Simple Machines Forum standard itself. 
 
This place catches a lot of shit, but with a few exceptions its actually very functional and pleasant to use.

I agree, not a big fan of that forum design.

[olcaytu2005]

In addition, here is a top 30 list of the most active posters in this topic:

#	Username	Post Count	Rank	Activity
1.	smooth(TROLL)	2189	Hero Member	854
3.	GingerAle(TROLL)	594	Sr. Member	350
21.	iCEBREAKERVERY TROLL	206	Legendary	1106

OMG. Where is smoothie. Hummm i think she stopped trolling dash

[digicoin]

Another update:

What's gone in since then ?

New git updates since last time:

- blockchain_export can now create files compatible with NoodleDoodle's fast sync code
- speedup for the one-time database rescan to initialize hard fork into
- database dump utility, intended to detect differences between the several blockchain formats
- a new status command in the daemon, giving more user oriented information
- and random other fixes for DB potential issues, some RPC commands not working properly

Any update from core software development is good news. Thanks

[canth]

Breaking News:

Lead Moronero developer proves he has shit for brains

In a leaked IRC log lead developer of Monero Riccardo "fluffypony" Spagni exposed himself as completely ignorant to the principle of opensource.

The laughable exchange has been acquired by our undercover citizen journalist going by the name of ceti. Enjoy:

<dEBRUYNE> I still don´t get the spork thing :p
<dEBRUYNE> Do you perhaps know what it exactly is?
<dEBRUYNE> It atleast isn´t decentralized
<fluffypony> basically he wraps new code into a little block
<fluffypony> and then he can use Bitcoin's alerting system to enable / disable it
<dEBRUYNE> So if he turns malicious one day they are basically fucked?
<fluffypony> yes
<dEBRUYNE> Or under a gag order or whatever
<dEBRUYNE> That´s kinda scary
<fluffypony> he can leave some dormant code in there and then remotely enable it
<fluffypony> and they're too retarded to even notice

"Too retarded", unfortunately however, are the ideas of "dormant code" and "malicious turning" developer in an opensource project, as anyone can view the code and verify its semantic integrity or -if needed- fork the codebase and continue development.

The amount of ignorance revealed here comes to no surprise among many keen market observers, as Monero technology itself is based on highly inefficient blockchain opaqueness unlike the blockchains of Bitcoin and DASH with their transparency similar to the principle of opensource software.

In our next issue we will shed light on the rumours and investigate the alleged connection of Riccardo "fluffypony" Spagni and a secret underground sect of homosexual "My Little Pony" fetishists.

Come back and troll harder when you learn how to spell, Cyrpto.