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

[nioc]

Today there were 9 pull requests merged from 5 different contributors.  Also much additional work on RingCT from our resident coding cow.

Edit: Let's not forget the continuing work being done on 0MQ by tewingwt.

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[dEBRUYNE]

FWIW, the Zcash launch has been postponed to October 27, 2016. See:

https://github.com/zcash/zcash/milestone/30

https://github.com/zcash/zcash/milestones

[raphma]

It sort of is a scam. Advertised as mining for regular computers when realistically not a single coin on there is profitable on regular computers. It just suckers a bunch of people to mine miniscule amounts of coins they will never withdraw and they TOS might contain something where they seige your balance after some period of inactivity. A newbie GUI miner would do a lot of justice if they hid most of the dead shitcoins and left them to be shown in the settings for the miners who actually want those coins.

I am interested in Monero. I'd like to mine a little bit but my GTX 1070 is just showing an incredibly inconsisstent hash rate on MinerGate and I'd like to know what a real miner would do before I set up a Monero wallet and miner.

i don't see it as a scam... but definitely not profitable.

[ArticMine]

Here is an interesting market possibility for Monero.

The gun lobby in the United States. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-12/obamas-operation-choke-point-unbridled-abuse-executive-power-completely-outside-rule

By the way I am a strong believer that the pen is mightier than the sword.

[schnib]

Monero syncing takes ages with my slow 16mbit internet : 10 hours for 100.000 blocks ?!?

Can i download the blockchain anywhere else ?

Or there any web wallet solution for priv key import?

[ArticMine]

Monero syncing takes ages with my slow 16mbit internet : 10 hours for 100.000 blocks ?!?

Can i download the blockchain anywhere else ?

Or there any web wallet solution for priv key import?

Yes one can download the Monero blockchain. Here is a link with instructions https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.0 and the direct download link. https://downloads.getmonero.org/blockchain.raw.

[dEBRUYNE]

Ring CT just got PRed to master!

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/pull/961

Bear in mind that, even though the code is finished, it will need thorough review and testing before it will get merged into master.

Great work by MoneroMooo, Shen Noether and everyone else involved!

[dEBRUYNE]

Dev meeting in approximately 4 hours (16:00 UTC). Dev meeting will be held at #monero-dev on freenode.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20160814T16&p1=0&p2=56&p3=37&p4=102&p5=240&p6=136&p7=179&p8=137&p9=70&p10=28


Kovri (I2P) dev meeting in approximately 5 hours (17:00 UTC). Dev meeting can be followed at #monero-dev on freenode.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20160814T17&p1=0&p2=56&p3=37&p4=102&p5=240&p6=136&p7=179&p8=137&p9=70&p10=28

[aerbax]

Dev meeting in approximately 4 hours (16:00 UTC). Dev meeting will be held at #monero-dev on freenode.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20160814T16&p1=0&p2=56&p3=37&p4=102&p5=240&p6=136&p7=179&p8=137&p9=70&p10=28
...

Quick summary/notes are available:

https://hellomonero.com/article/monero-bi-weekly-dev-meeting-note-highlights-2016-08-14

[dEBRUYNE]

SIGAINT launches Tor Monero node as "[its] operators firmly believe that Monero is the next logical step in Darknet commerce"

http://monero7tukbkxn57.onion/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/4xqrzd/sigaint_launches_tor_monero_node_as_its_operators/

[forevernoob]

So Monero & Dash are rallying what gives?
I heard about some new controversial things in Bitcoin development.
But I don't recall it having anything to do with anonymity or privacy right?

[rocketsTmac]

So Monero & Dash are rallying what gives?
I heard about some new controversial things in Bitcoin development.
But I don't recall it having anything to do with anonymity or privacy right?

They both goes to da moon     Anon is the hype feature again

[dEBRUYNE]

MAAM #27 Monero Ask Anything Monday

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/4xu1tx/maam_27_monero_ask_anything_monday/


0MQ update (by tewinget)

https://forum.getmonero.org/9/work-in-progress/2564/0mq-by-tewinget?page=&noscroll=1#post-5247

[landomata]

Monero - Crypto market update

https://coins.newbium.com/post/293-crypto-market-update-monero

[pookielax31]

SIGAINT launches Tor Monero node as "[its] operators firmly believe that Monero is the next logical step in Darknet commerce"

http://monero7tukbkxn57.onion/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/4xqrzd/sigaint_launches_tor_monero_node_as_its_operators/

WOW... Just WOW

[Maksim Popov]

How to get invite on Slack?

[dEBRUYNE]

How to get invite on Slack?

Shoot needmoney90 a PM on reddit. This is his account:

https://www.reddit.com/user/needmoney90/

[g4q34g4qg47ww]

still here ...   .. . 

[starmman]

I'm wondering. Is MinerGate a good XMR miner or is it crap?

I tested it with ETH/ETC and the hash rates were awful. I am wondering if MinerGate is the same thing with all coins?

It's a scam site. They run run a 100% scam casino, fairproof.com. Use at your own risk

No, it isn't a scam site.
It was the fist step to go in monero mining for the most of us (because of the GUI miner).
Then we realized that that it was not the most versatile with new miners and we moved in to other pools.
The current situation is, you can run every miner you want in the command line in MinerGate.
But if you care about the monero network, you better avoid large pools.

It sort of is a scam. Advertised as mining for regular computers when realistically not a single coin on there is profitable on regular computers. It just suckers a bunch of people to mine miniscule amounts of coins they will never withdraw and they TOS might contain something where they seige your balance after some period of inactivity. A newbie GUI miner would do a lot of justice if they hid most of the dead shitcoins and left them to be shown in the settings for the miners who actually want those coins.

I am interested in Monero. I'd like to mine a little bit but my GTX 1070 is just showing an incredibly inconsisstent hash rate on MinerGate and I'd like to know what a real miner would do before I set up a Monero wallet and miner.

I'm using minergate for some mining operations, I tested against Claymore and found that (for my rig) minergate was producing more slowly but with less error rate so carried on mining with MinerGate, I'm currently mining BCN but also mined a few XMR - but found that the transaction fee for XMR was too high to make it profitable.

[Blazin8888]

when will gui wallet be released ?


if I download the current wallet - do I just run bitmorerod? and wait for it to sync? What is the other stuff in that download ? blockchain dump etc