[XMR] Monero Speculation

[7jaka7]

The Monero Moon – A new curated weekly newsletter regarding all things Monero (Issue 2)

https://medium.com/@johnfoss/the-monero-moon-issue-2-c1e4e945ba14

just read a bit. Headlines and intros. Very nice. I assume you are the author or involved? Merits send. Good stuff

Yes I am.

I'll try publish an issue every Monday, however there will also be periods when I might skip a week and publish a fortnightly issue instead.

An update every 2 weeks is good, since you are doing this for free.
Have you think about creating mailing list? Observer was informing us also via e-mail that new issue was published. I liked that.
However you post links to new issues on many different media so no need to rush with e-mails. Just a suggestion.

[1714128223]

1714128223

[elrippos friend]

As a part of the October Hard Fork (Network Upgrade), a Proof Of Work change to mitigate any potential centralisation from ASICs (Monero promotes decentralisation via CPU/GPU mining only) has been taking place over on Github here.

The code merge of BulletProofs to testnet took place early last week. Bulletproofs improve scalability, providing an ~80% reduction in transaction size and cost.

 

Yup, as soon as upgrade happens we will need to pressure all exchanges to reduce their withdrawal fees drastically. More then 0.005 XMR will not be acceptable anymore.

Can't wait for it 

[17men]

any news from bulletproof update?

[dEBRUYNE]

any news from bulletproof update?

They will be included in the upcoming v0.13 and are thus scheduled to go live with the upcoming scheduled protocol upgrade (~18 October).

[bloodchow]

buy buy buy

up up up

hodl hodl hodl

 

[Hueristic]

Wat happened? I missed it. Lol

[johnfoss]

The Monero Moon (Issue 3) – A new curated weekly newsletter regarding all things Monero.

https://medium.com/@johnfoss/the-monero-moon-issue-3-63255585c333

[Asgod]

I believe in this coin, because it seems to me that similar anonymous coins have a great future. People want to be completely anonymous in crypto.

[rinus]

Whats up with polo and other exchanges freezing xmr for the last couple days?

[Billy Bunter]

Whats up with polo and other exchanges freezing xmr for the last couple days?

Rumours abound. I'm not sure anyone knows for sure.

[rinus]

Whats up with polo and other exchanges freezing xmr for the last couple days?

Rumours abound. I'm not sure anyone knows for sure.

To bad the devs don’t give any comment. I don’t now if I should be worried or not

[aerbax]

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To bad the devs don’t give any comment. I don’t now if I should be worried or not

As far as anyone can tell, it's BS.  It's been asked in the #monero-dev channel and no one is aware of anything.  If I had to make my own guess, someone sent a forged email to a bunch of exchanges... some of them took the bait.

Here's a transcript from IRC earlier today.  Times in US-Eastern:


11:19 AM <@fluffypony> ghpg: there's no special email list, there's the announce list that you can join
11:20 AM <@fluffypony> I have no idea why a block explorer would be down
11:20 AM <@fluffypony> we're pretty close to tagging 0.13
11:20 AM <+moneromooo> gingeropolous said he tried to pop blocks on a running monerod, and the importer started a format conersion -> hosed.
11:20 AM <vegasbaby> w00t
11:20 AM <kovri-slack> <woodser> woohoo!
11:20 AM <ghpg> fluffypony: this one https://lists.getmonero.org/hyperkitty/list/monero-announce@lists.getmonero.org/2018/7/ ? it has no history for july and I guess you (monero) contacted exchanges about the duplicate count bug?
11:21 AM <@fluffypony> yes that one
11:21 AM <+moneromooo> hyperkitty... now that's a software I wanna use.
11:21 AM <@fluffypony> lol
11:21 AM ⇐ xnbya quit  •  moneromooo → +hyperkitty 
11:21 AM <@fluffypony> ghpg: occasionally if there's something super sensitive we might just directly email list subscribers
11:23 AM <camthegeek> to clear it up, are the wallets down on most exchanges due to a bug similar to the last double count bug? too many threads on reddit without a clear answer on that
11:23 AM <+hyperkitty> You'll find out if you subscribe to... hyperkitty!
11:24 AM <@fluffypony> camthegeek: Bitfinex and Kraken look just fine
11:24 AM <vegasbaby> camthegeek AFAIK no one knows
11:24 AM <vegasbaby> Its not due to a bug/issue
11:24 AM <vegasbaby> at least not one known by anyone here AFAIK
11:25 AM <ghpg> ok, thank you
11:25 AM <camthegeek> well then, someone has stirred the pot of BS.
11:25 AM <vegasbaby> Yeah
11:25 AM <vegasbaby> r/monero feels heavily brigaded lately
11:25 AM <camthegeek> hyperkitty, love the name. I'd support it.
11:25 AM <camthegeek> it is.
11:25 AM <vegasbaby> Lots of accounts I've never seen, spamming about wallet issues/the latest "bug"
11:25 AM <vegasbaby> That all sprang up at the same time
11:25 AM <camthegeek> I've drifted away from it lately. too much crap :|
11:25 AM → +hyc (voiced) joined 
11:25 AM <vegasbaby> Its normally not too bad
11:25 AM <vegasbaby> But this last week has been rough
11:25 AM <vegasbaby> Idk why
11:26 AM <vegasbaby> But we should take that convo elsewhere
11:26 AM <vegasbaby> Don't think any of the devs here know whats going on with the exchange wallets, and no exchange has posted about why
11:26 AM <vegasbaby> So for now... 🤷
11:27 AM → dog\ joined (~dog@gateway/tor-sasl/dog/x-12068491)
11:28 AM <camthegeek> but as fluffypony said, the larger volume exchanges are still kickin' just fine. I'll poke around with support emails and try to see whats up :p
11:28 AM → xnbya joined (~quassel@ec2-54-72-128-94.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com)
11:28 AM <vegasbaby> Yeah its nothing to worry about I dont think
11:28 AM <vegasbaby> Just a coincidence that people are panicking over
11:33 AM → orbit33, cardboardoranges, p0nziph0ne and coppa joined 
11:41 AM <Mibka> Well, on cryptopia the status reads "24-SEP-2018 - XMR Wallet placed in maintenance at the request of the Coin Developer."  .. Maybe it's a bug the devs aren't willing to talk about before it's fixed
11:42 AM → ndorf joined (~nd@ob.noxio.us)
11:42 AM <vegasbaby> Don't know why no core dev would mention it though
11:43 AM <vegasbaby> They could announce there is a bug they are fixing etc, without announcing details
11:43 AM <Mibka> Yeah, strange :/
11:43 AM <vegasbaby> Could just be Cryptopia BSing
11:43 AM <vegasbaby> But Idk
11:43 AM <vegasbaby> Not sure if moneromooo or others want to comment on any of it
11:44 AM <vegasbaby> Think its all just brigading/trolls tbh
11:44 AM <vegasbaby> Which aren't worth devs time
11:44 AM <orbit33> I suspect it's actually another CN-coin
11:44 AM <orbit33> kraken is fine, bithumb is fine, hitbtc is fine, binance is fine
11:44 AM <vegasbaby> Thats the more probably solution, if there is a CN issue
11:45 AM <vegasbaby> An old, patched exploit some fork didn't account for maybe
11:45 AM <@fluffypony> we're busy with the 0.13 release candidate, which is very very close
11:45 AM <@fluffypony> so don't really have time to deal with it
11:45 AM <orbit33> I don't know, but it's def weird... as said before, to me kraken is (together with bitstamp) the most trustworthy exchange
11:45 AM <vegasbaby> Understandable fluffypony
11:46 AM <orbit33> they would def know if something was up, and they would certainly not take any risk
11:46 AM <vegasbaby> And thats exciting
11:46 AM <vegasbaby> Yeah thats why I don't think its anything of importance orbit33
11:46 AM <Mibka> vegasbaby When I look at other CN coins on cryptopia many of them are in maintenance mode as of 24 sep. 2018 with the note "at the request of the coin developer" so you're probably right their message is bullshit
11:46 AM <orbit33> and indeed, probably devs have other things on their mind
11:46 AM <vegasbaby> Mibka ah nice find
11:46 AM <orbit33> than explaining why some exchange freezes xmr if they don't actually know why

[Febo]

Whats up with polo and other exchanges freezing xmr for the last couple days?

Updating wallets as they did it so many times in past. Always takes them days.

I'm not sure anyone knows for sure.

It is always same. So basically everyone knows.

[joroz]

I don’t now if I should be worried or not

It’s always good to be worried just in case. What if nothing happens and you missed a good opportunity to worry?

[danipay]

I believe in this coin, because it seems to me that similar anonymous coins have a great future. People want to be completely anonymous in crypto.

Something that then makes many people do not hesitate to invest in Monero. This is proven by a research data that Monero is ranked 10th as the most popular and most widely used crypto currency in the world. This fact makes Monero's prospects very promising.

[tokeweed]

Whats up with polo and other exchanges freezing xmr for the last couple days?

Maybe there's a surprise once it goes back up again...  Like a new release, or fluffypony popping out of a giant XXXL cake as a rainbow unicorn or something. 

But the thing is, we wait and not worry about it too much.  It's pretty much all we can do.

[dEBRUYNE]

A Post Mortem of The Burning Bug

https://getmonero.org/2018/09/25/a-post-mortum-of-the-burning-bug.html

[Billy Bunter]

A Post Mortem of The Burning Bug

https://getmonero.org/2018/09/25/a-post-mortum-of-the-burning-bug.html

Well-written and informative. Thank you.

[elrippos friend]

A Post Mortem of The Burning Bug

https://getmonero.org/2018/09/25/a-post-mortum-of-the-burning-bug.html

That explains why all online services have been in maintenance mode the past days 

[cryptokwuk]

LMAO
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you use DASH.