[XMR] Monero Speculation

[dEBRUYNE]

If you want to accept Monero (among other things) for your business, consider signing up for the now-open PayB.ee private beta!

https://payb.ee/

https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/875/what-is-paybee-and-how-is-it-related-to-monero

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/52vh64/if_you_want_to_accept_monero_among_other_things/

[ol92]

A publication in the famous french newspaper website "Le Monde" about monero (and a rather good and well informed article) :
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/09/15/monero-la-monnaie-electronique-qui-se-reve-en-complement-indispensable-du-bitcoin_4998143_4408996.html

[smoothie]

https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/875/what-is-paybee-and-how-is-it-related-to-monero

[ChooseASide]

Ready for the next leg up?

http://itsalmo.st/#time_upaux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUwszL6J81I

[luigi1111]

Question in regards it to a cold wallet, moneroaddress.

When depositing coins to your cold wallet, you can check to see if you received them. You just have to enter the view key, public address, and tx id on xmr.llcoins.

Now, how can I check if there have been any transactions since you've initially deposited them? Verifying that there hasn't been a hack on your wallet>

There is currently no easy way to do this. However, in the future there might:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/51i0n7/solved_it_hopefully_heres_how_we_can_make_the/

What would be the best currently available (though not easy) way to do this?

First, you'd have to fully sync the blockchain on an online computer. Second, copy simplewallet, bitmonerod, and the blockchain to an USB and plug that into the offline computer. Third, use bitmonerod in offline modus (--offline flag) and it should use the blockchain you have already synced on the online computer. Fourth, use --restore-deterministic-wallet to create a wallet with your seed offline. Lastly, use refresh to sync your wallet. It will refresh up to the last block you have synced online. It should then show all the transactions (both incoming and outgoing) of your offline wallet up to that block.

That's quite an ordeal. I think someone (moneromooo?) was working on a way of getting the key image from a transaction so you can check the spent status using Moneroblocks API... (like Luigi's coin checker)

Note if you are already checking arrival of funds via the checktx page, there's a rather simple way you could generate the key image offline for just the output(s) you care about. This would take only a minute or two and not require syncing the chain or restoring a wallet.

I would need to set up the code to do it though.  

That sounds potentially very useful. What information would be required on the offline computer to generate the key images in that simple way without restoring a wallet or syncing the chain?

You can generate the key images with the account keys, tx_public_key, and real_output_index (for each output).

You would have to feed your offline machine this information to allow the generate_key_image_helper function to generate the KIs.

The generate_key_image_helper function has a few steps in the KI creation where it calls the base generate_key_image function below:

Code:

void crypto_ops::generate_key_image(const public_key &pub, const secret_key &sec, key_image &image)

generate_key_image_helper code:

Code:

bool generate_key_image_helper(const account_keys& ack, const crypto::public_key& tx_public_key, size_t real_output_index, keypair& in_ephemeral, crypto::key_image& ki)

Sorry for quoting the code, I needed to post it for myself as a refresher given it's been a bit since I looked at these functions.

i speculate c++ code.  

Copying over the JSON for the tx in question would be the simplest way, i.e., http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_transaction_data/56c41127d1a3bc8a896379666c60a0c6aac0b41916ae3b2dfc3057149949bbc1

Put that in a text document and copy over on a flash drive to an offline computer (ideally one that always stays offline).

You would then copy/paste the tx into the utility along with your seed, and it'd spit out the key images (which you can copy to an online PC and watch for in the blockchain).

I would probably just release a webpage, similar to https://xmr.llcoins.net/addressgen.zip (download and use offline), because:
1. the code basically all exists already
2. it's easier 
3. it needs no compiling for different platforms
4. (almost) everything has a web browser
5. performance is irrelevant

6. It's a GOOOOEY (!!!)

[N-rG]

I'm really interested what poor people bought so high and now selling and selling and selling xD loosing money all the time. As long as i dont realize a lost, i win

[TrueCryptonaire]

I'm really interested what poor people bought so high and now selling and selling and selling xD loosing money all the time. As long as i dont realize a lost, i win

Monero has never been high so far...

[Dafar]

Meh, not bad for long term hold

[aminorex]

I'm really interested what poor people bought so high and now selling and selling and selling xD loosing money all the time. As long as i dont realize a lost, i win

Personally, I have, in general, bought every high (and every low, and every price in between) since inception, and I'm up about 20x overall, mark-to-market (as a totally ballpark number).  Some due to value averaging, some due to market making, but most due to underlying appreciation.

This is crypto.  Like Sparta, but less cuddly.

[alphahacktivist]

Meh, not bad for long term hold

[Dafar]

Meh, not bad for long term hold

Oh my 

[alphahacktivist]

Meh, not bad for long term hold

Oh my 

until xmr reaches 0.005.. i have no reason to sell any

[dEBRUYNE]

Crosspost:

https://anycoindirect.eu/en/buy/monero
https://anycoindirect.eu/en/sell/monero

[N-rG]

Crosspost:

https://anycoindirect.eu/en/buy/monero
https://anycoindirect.eu/en/sell/monero

is anycoin new for monero? Totally passed the implementation

[Ratatosk]

Crosspost:

https://anycoindirect.eu/en/buy/monero
https://anycoindirect.eu/en/sell/monero

is anycoin new for monero? Totally passed the implementation

I had to speak the 9 September with support of https://anycoindirect.eu/en (allows you to sell/buy some coins with a lot of payment systems directly in Euros), and I asked at the end of conversation if they plan to add Monero :

"Yes, we are working on the integration. We expect to launch XMR trading next week or early the week after. When we launch XMR trading we will announce this on our website and social media."

It's a great site, with great customer support, I have worked with them for quite a long time.

[Ratatosk]

There is also https://www.litebit.eu/en/buy/monero and https://www.litebit.eu/en/sell/monero

And their company Litepaid for Webshops : But doesn't seem to accept XMR for now

[guesswho1234]

since this is a speculation thread. what do you guys think for xmr the next few weeks?

[alphahacktivist]

since this is a speculation thread. what do you guys think for xmr the next few weeks?

probably 0.01 unless people stop manipulating the price

[guesswho1234]

since this is a speculation thread. what do you guys think for xmr the next few weeks?

probably 0.01 unless people stop manipulating the price

why would they manipulte the price to go lower all the time?
to buy more or just for the hell of it?

[alphahacktivist]

since this is a speculation thread. what do you guys think for xmr the next few weeks?

probably 0.01 unless people stop manipulating the price

why would they manipulte the price to go lower all the time?
to buy more or just for the hell of it?

fact is there are different scenarios.

poloniex could be manipulating the price, keep dumping and make everyones purchase redundant, thus they benefit from the "extra btc" and take it as a profit. thats 1 view of the situation.

the second one is, we have all seen how creepy the ethereum foundation can get and how low they can go to destroy a coin. so they can be buying a lot and then dump in an attempt to prevent the coin from running up because the real dump did happen after xmr took over the price of eth and eth volume decreased by a lot. thats 2nd view of the situation.

the third is, whales could be buying everything as lets not forget xmr is limited to 15m at least for now. so they buy everything they can and hold the monopoly, thus they define when to pump and when to dump. shaking off little wallet off their xmr and controlling the entire market.

and 4th is, the btc whales could be buying and buying, then plumetting the price, thus getting even cheaper xmr to prevent it from parity with bitcoin.

just my 2 cents.