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

[owlcatz]

What the fuck triggered this surge?

Lots of speculation pumping price after few large darknet sites announces they will be accepting monero from september. September ride may be amazing one rather than current bull run, price may stabalizes but this is very good acheivement for monero.

Any links?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/monero-cryptocurrency-dark-net-drug-dealers-hope-more-anonymous-than-bitcoin-alphabay

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[saddambitcoin]

xmr.link openalias site and service definitively dead ?

Can't remember who ran that service but it is probably better to set up your own open alias on your own domain if you wish to use it. Imagine if a lot of people started using a service like that, all it takes is a successful hack to switch all the addresses and maybe they steal some XMR before it gets noticed.

[josefelix]

ROGER VER PREDICTS 1 BILLION DOLLAR MARKET CAP FOR XMR IN 2016: https://forum.bitcoin.com/monero/monero-price-speculation-thread-t10274.html#p29049

just pure speculation! 

[googie4]

What the fuck triggered this surge?

Lots of speculation pumping price after few large darknet sites announces they will be accepting monero from september. September ride may be amazing one rather than current bull run, price may stabalizes but this is very good acheivement for monero.

Any links?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/monero-cryptocurrency-dark-net-drug-dealers-hope-more-anonymous-than-bitcoin-alphabay

So price can continue going up until September 1. And then back down.

[googie4]

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master

RingCT just got merged 

What is RingCT?

[dEBRUYNE]

I tried to install a Monero wallet and it doesn't work. The "SIMPLE WALLET" was the most complicated wallet I have ever tried to install. If I have to get on a forum to figure out how to install a wallet then I would call that a FAIL. Good luck with this. Nice price spike. Hope it lasts.

will there be an easy to use desktop wallet that doesn't require command skills being released soon?

If you want to use simplewallet, you can follow these guides

https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/blob/master/knowledge-base/user-guides/create_wallet.md

https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/user-guides/simplewallet

[dEBRUYNE]

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master

RingCT just got merged 

What is RingCT?

Ring Confidential Transactions, which will hide amounts on the blockchain. More information can be found here:

https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0005.pdf

[dEBRUYNE]

Thanks for the help. I found the tx id's of the 3 transactions and indeed the first two can be found via http://moneroblocks.info/ and the last one cannot. When I run rescan_spent though and subsequently run show_transfers the transaction is still there though.

BTW: I'm still 1149 blocks behind. Can that be a problem?

Possibly your tx was invalid and got rejected by other daemons. Had you sent a tx from the same address, but using another machine, within those 1149 blocks ? If so, you probably unknowingly double spent.

In any case, if you use a recent enough wallet, you should see that last tx as "pending" in show_transfers. If it indeed hasn't propagated to the network, you can "flush_txpool" in the daemon, and the wallet will soon notice it and switch it to "failed". There is a bug (fixed in the rct branch) which will need you to run "rescan_spent" after that in order to get the right balance.

But first, wait for the chain to be synced.

I send 2 transactions that succeeded and then a third that I'm asking about because it's not in the blockchain, within those 1149 blocks, but all from the same machine.

I'm using version 9.4.0 and I indeed see all 3 transactions as pending. I will try the commands after it is done syncing. I'm glad the chance of my Monero actually being lost seems to be extremely low

Synced and the other 2 transactions are finalized now and the faulty transaction is still pending. rescan_spent did not fix it so I'm now rescanning the entire blockchain (which is taking a while).

Rescanning the entire blockchain fixed this. Thanks for the help dEBRUYNE and MoneroMooo.

To avoid this in the future I shouldn't send transactions with an unsynced blockchain?

You're welcome!

Yes. It's generally advised to let your blockchain fully sync first.

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[MoneroMooo]

We're forking testnet for RingCT testing. Everyone is welcome to participate and try to break it.

v3 happens in a few hours (just a change on coinbase validation).
v4 happens in a bit more than a day, and rct txes become allowed.
v5 happens in 3 days, and rct txes become mandatory (save if you have old unmixable inputs)

Pull the latest master. You don't need to resync anything if you already have a testnet database.

fluffypony will make binaries in the next day or two if you can't.

[googie4]

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master

RingCT just got merged 

What is RingCT?

Ring Confidential Transactions, which will hide amounts on the blockchain. More information can be found here:

https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0005.pdf

Reading it now. So that will add even more anonymity? If so that will be huge.

[rakesh1_90]

Release the kraken

[dEBRUYNE]

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master

RingCT just got merged  

What is RingCT?

Ring Confidential Transactions, which will hide amounts on the blockchain. More information can be found here:

https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0005.pdf

Reading it now. So that will add even more anonymity? If so that will be huge.

Correct. It solves some edge cases of the current anonymity. I'd suggest to read this article too:

http://weuse.cash/2016/01/09/tying-up-loose-ends-with-ringct/

In addition, read the other MRL papers (in particular MRL-0001 and MRL-0004).

[crowetic]

Hello everyone, I need a little assistance...

I've got an old XMR wallet, and the keys file, but I can't seem to get it to open in the new version...


I don't recall having a password, but every time I tried to load the wallet, it asked me for one... I tried every possible one that I could think of to no avail... but like I said, I didn't remember having to put a password on it, and I thought that if I had the keys file I would always be able to get into the wallet. So I backed that up.


Can anyone help me to recover the funds that are in this wallet? It isn't a ton, but it's something, that I was planning on saving for a long time, just wanted to make sure that I could still access it.


I would really appreciate any assistance with this, have always really liked XMR, would be sad if my little mined wallet from a few years back won't be able to do what I wanted for it.


Thanks!

[Gillette]

Hello everyone, I need a little assistance...

I've got an old XMR wallet, and the keys file, but I can't seem to get it to open in the new version...


I don't recall having a password, but every time I tried to load the wallet, it asked me for one... I tried every possible one that I could think of to no avail... but like I said, I didn't remember having to put a password on it, and I thought that if I had the keys file I would always be able to get into the wallet. So I backed that up.


Can anyone help me to recover the funds that are in this wallet? It isn't a ton, but it's something, that I was planning on saving for a long time, just wanted to make sure that I could still access it.


I would really appreciate any assistance with this, have always really liked XMR, would be sad if my little mined wallet from a few years back won't be able to do what I wanted for it.


Thanks!

Pm smooth aka rpietilla. He can help you.

[cebb]

I used to trade Monero in early days. I dont have Monero at the moment but I am happy for the holders with the price rise. one of the honest coins in the world of scams.

[googie4]

I used to trade Monero in early days. I dont have Monero at the moment but I am happy for the holders with the price rise. one of the honest coins in the world of scams.

You're not irritated that you didn't hold?

[googie4]

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master

RingCT just got merged  

What is RingCT?

Ring Confidential Transactions, which will hide amounts on the blockchain. More information can be found here:

https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0005.pdf

Reading it now. So that will add even more anonymity? If so that will be huge.

Correct. It solves some edge cases of the current anonymity. I'd suggest to read this article too:

http://weuse.cash/2016/01/09/tying-up-loose-ends-with-ringct/

In addition, read the other MRL papers (in particular MRL-0001 and MRL-0004).

When will it go live?

[aerbax]

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When will it go live?

It depends on how testing goes (starting this week on TestNet).  3 or 4 months, at the earliest.

[MoneroMooo]

We're forking testnet for RingCT testing. Everyone is welcome to participate and try to break it.

v3 happens in a few hours (just a change on coinbase validation).
v4 happens in a bit more than a day, and rct txes become allowed.
v5 happens in 3 days, and rct txes become mandatory (save if you have old unmixable inputs)

Turns out noone had been mining on testnet for a day before now, so diff crashed for a good while, and we'll reach v4 a half day early. rct txes should be enabled in a bit more than half a day now.