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

[generalizethis]

If we're still kicking around fund raising, is there a API available for gambling sites?

I'm not sure I understand. How do the needs of these other gambling sites differ from those of exchanges?

Product placement. When i go shopping, I rarely go into the middle aisle--that's where they keep all the crap food--but if a clever merchant puts an end-cap of healthy snacks in the veggie section, I'm more likely to give it a try.

Simple math: Gambling community + knowledge of product with real anonymity = $$$

I heard about Monero on a chance peek on an investment forum. So my question is, "Does the gambling community know Monero exists?" And if they do, what's stopping their integration?

[smooth]

So my question is, "Does the gambling community know Monero exists?"

Obviously some do.  The fairproof site added it. We had them in our third-party services directory (in OP) with referral fees going to donations for a while but we took them off because their affiliate link program doesn't support Monero so we weren't getting paid.

But for the most part I would guess most don't even know it exists. The ones that do are more likely pay attention to the more popular coins with more users (BTC, LTC, etc.). We were close to moving into the top 10 on coinmarketcap recently, and I think would increase our exposure a lot, but we're just below that now.

So generally letting people know about Monero is good but we also need to grow for them to care.

[nioc]

I don't know how much this factors in but this question and answer are from just after this weeks Missive.

Very nice!

Two things:
1) You have probably already asked Zazzle about accepting monero but i would urge you to try a bit more or at least find someone who is willing to accept xmr and pay them in fiat. I would really like to see my XMR being used for buying these things!
2) Any (risky) timetable about blockchain and that awesome GUI? Or maybe we can wait until Friday's chat?

There are a couple of companies waiting the do 1), we told them to wait for proper GUI and blockchain.

[DonYo]

I don't want to be alarmist but http://moneropool.com/ is reaching 50% of the hashrate...

Please post on the main thread and the mining thread

Done 

[OrientA]

I don't want to be alarmist but http://moneropool.com/ is reaching 50% of the hashrate...

@smooth, is there any plan to publish a detained instruction to set up own mining pool in Windows? It is more urgent now.

[smooth]

I don't want to be alarmist but http://moneropool.com/ is reaching 50% of the hashrate...

Please post on the main thread and the mining thread

Done 

If you are mining on moneropool.com please shift your hash rate to smaller pools.

There is a list of recommended pools in the first post of this thread

[smooth]

I don't want to be alarmist but http://moneropool.com/ is reaching 50% of the hashrate...

@smooth, is there any plan to publish a detained instruction to set up own mining pool in Windows? It is more urgent now.

I'm not familiar with the effort to write up those instructions. If no one else replies I will look into it. Meanwhile, just switch to one of the other pools. There are quite a few good ones -- no need to bunch up here.

[iourzzz]

Physical Monero coins (alpha version) are coming much closer. Hope you will like them. My friends who works on it with me would like to give away some coins absolutely for free soon. We will be happy to compliment Monero supporters and (developers later with pure silver coins). Just PM me if you are interested. First batch is just quality silver plated brass coins. If everything is OK and everybody are happy with it the pure silver coins will be available for sale as well. There is also a plan to donate the developers from each sold Monero coin (some percentage of coin price).

[pönde]

Hello. When Monero GUI-wallet will be available? Linux? Windows? Mac?

[pinky]

Hello. When Monero GUI-wallet will be available? Linux? Windows? Mac?

In a few weeks.

[krawallmining]

In a few weeks.

Is there a source for this claim?

[smooth]

In a few weeks.

Is there a source for this claim?

No. The last missive said we were shifting focus a bit to fix the underlying code and that the new GUI would be delayed.

There are however two community-developed GUIs available right now that were sponsored in large part by the core devs and we recommend giving them a try. Links are in the OP (search for "Unofficial downloads and links").

[apofis]

Please help me with RPC monero, trying to get a balance, returns an error, the method is not found, it is not clear where to dig

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import requests
import json

serverURL = 'http://127.0.0.1:18081/json_rpc'


def balance():
    testb = json.dumps({
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "getbalance",
    "params": {}
    })
       
    headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
    resp = requests.get(serverURL, headers=headers, data=testb)
    output = json.loads(resp.text)

    return output

output = balance()
print(output)

[TheKoziTwo]

Please help me with RPC monero, trying to get a balance, returns an error, the method is not found, it is not clear where to dig

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import requests
import json

serverURL = 'http://127.0.0.1:18081/json_rpc'


def balance():
    testb = json.dumps({
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "getbalance",
    "params": {}
    })
       
    headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
    resp = requests.get(serverURL, headers=headers, data=testb)
    output = json.loads(resp.text)

    return output

output = balance()
print(output)

Use port 18082

[smooth]

Please help me with RPC monero, trying to get a balance, returns an error, the method is not found, it is not clear where to dig

Use port 18082

To elaborate a bit, you need to query the wallet -- the node has no notion of a balance at all. 18081 is the node, 18082 is the wallet.

[apofis]

Use port 18082

On the 18082 port, an error, there is no connection. Need to make settings to use port 18082?

[dEBRUYNE]

Quoting AnonyMint

Okay my hunch appears to be incorrect.

https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf#page=9

There is no additional information gained from each ring signature even if they all use the same Pi, because the qi and wi are chosen randomly.

So I didn't find any weakness in the math, unless it is something in the modular math.

So BCX may mean the "implementation" has an error not the math of the NIZKP, in which case after the attack it would be fixable and the anonymity going forward would be fixed. BCX may be implying (note he didn't exclude that) the exploit can only break the anonymity up to the point of a fix of the implementation.

I don't have time to go hunting in the implementation. Not even for 50 BTC.

[smooth]

Use port 18082

On the 18082 port, an error, there is no connection. Need to make settings to use port 18082?

Do you have the wallet running? You need to have that in order to use the wallet RPC

[oda.krell]

Might be good for someone to compare XMR price development over the two days to other altcoins. Might well be that the effect of FUD is not even existent...

Quick scan: Over that period the range of LTC was 2.5%,  XMR 13.6%, BBR 27.4%, XCN 34.5%, and all are within 10% of the range closest to their lows over the period.

What I see is that PoW non-app coins (pure currencies) generally, whether CN or BTC based, have declined in degree best indicated by their market cap.

My intuition:  There is no FUD effect.  It is pure imagination.  The price is down because bitcoin.  

My conjecture is that hot money is flowing out of bitcoin into US stocks (BABA) and GBP bets.  This is ADHD money we're talking about.  I give it a week or so, before btc bottoms.  Unless there is an exogenous jump it would be reasonable to expect continuing XMR\BTC decay.  Yet I am unwilling to sell for a turn-around, simply because the scale and likelihood of a positive shock is too large.  The market cap is too small.  One buyer can double the price forever in 20 seconds or less.  I can't risk that.

I'm not above trading BTC comparably aggressive (after all, some of those profits then go into anon coins like XMR), but agreed on what you write here: Unless you trade rather small amounts (and can get in and out without slippage, and are nimble enough to jump back in on short notice), it makes little sense to trade the current swings that are largely secondary effects to XMR's older brother Bitcoin. Small correction maybe: It does make sense if you aren't attached to your XMR position, as in: if you're skimming off profits in USD only. If your goal is increasing an already non-trivial XMR stash, I find it hard to believe this can be achieved by swing trading, given the current market conditions.

i have swing traded xmr and i have lowered my avg btc/xmr buy in by swing trading, approx 20% more xmr, my first buy was month ago at 0.0037 and then 0.003, then i sold at 0.005-0.004 and then bought 0.0037-0.004, then sold again 0.004 and bought 0.0038-0.004, TA has been triangle and 6h ma20

Nice

Out of curiosity, care to say what range your xmr account is in? 3, 4, 5 figures (in xmr, I mean)? Because my point wasn't that swing trading is impossible, but that I'm not sure if it works with large-ish accounts (but I can be corrected on this).

P.S. Sorry for the OT. Will take the rest of the conversation to the speculation thread.

[Odalv]

I'm not sure what you are trying to do but that isn't allowed at all in the current implementation. All of the ring mix outputs for one input have to be the same value.

Just idea how to more obscure, but I'll require to add  "amout-spent" into prefix.

edit:
It is stupid idea. will not work