Monero Economy Workgroup - The MEW Thread

[nagrom1981]

I'm in.
20 XMR, payment id 20c1b2c53cfacf19ed6276acb81a6a3886df580e73dce751e1447544296ebf42
Hopefully I can contribute more soon

[nioc]

Maybe I had too many beers but I am at my 5th try and seem not be able to find a working 64 character string that doesn't give me "payment ID has invalid format expected 64-character string ".

sorry for OT but it's driving me crazy.

I need more beer.

Payment ID info below<><><>

For the ignorant the hex characters are the numbers 0 through 9 and the letters a through f.  Is that correct?  Are the letters case dependent?

Yes that is correct. I don't know if the letters are case dependent (they certainly aren't for hex in general just not sure about payment ids), but the common practice is to use lower case.

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Are you aware that there is a space between the d and the n (at the end) in the adress posted at 1.1? I don't know if that's meant to be, just notifying before someone sends to the wrong adress. Will soon send mine.

Yes the space is there, this is what you get when you copy and paste an address from the CLI wallet as the address wraps.

PLEASE CORRECT IN OP.

What address are people sending to?

[McHaggis]

I have send through my membership donation to the MEW, unless I have made a horrible mistake the payment ID should be: 139b678c71acd3dbe5df6c09d91e828366f37384592f06c9c6d10c1cccda515f

The creation of a second group of XMR contributors who are less technically minded but no less enthusiastic about the project is a huge step forward for XMR. I look forward to hearing about the views put forward by the MEW and hope that we can capture some fantastic plans from the graphic designers, website designers, marketers etc who might be involved.

Ideally this group should trigger the creation of other economy groups for altcoins meaning that devs are supported by the community of skilled contributors rather than the slow liquidation of premined coins.

[dEBRUYNE]

Maybe I had too many beers but I am at my 5th try and seem not be able to find a working 64 character string that doesn't give me "payment ID has invalid format expected 64-character string ".

sorry for OT but it's driving me crazy.

I need more beer.

Payment ID info below<><><>

For the ignorant the hex characters are the numbers 0 through 9 and the letters a through f.  Is that correct?  Are the letters case dependent?

Yes that is correct. I don't know if the letters are case dependent (they certainly aren't for hex in general just not sure about payment ids), but the common practice is to use lower case.

_______________________________________________________________________________ ___________________

Are you aware that there is a space between the d and the n (at the end) in the adress posted at 1.1? I don't know if that's meant to be, just notifying before someone sends to the wrong adress. Will soon send mine.

Yes the space is there, this is what you get when you copy and paste an address from the CLI wallet as the address wraps.

PLEASE CORRECT IN OP.

What address are people sending to?

The adress is correct, you just need to remove the space. The adress posted in the sample syntax is correct.

EDIT: Post beneath has the good adress.

This is the adress without space. You can find it in the OP also in the syntax sample of simplewallet.

[myagui]

The forum breaks monero addresses with a space unless it is 'code', like so:

Code:

4AHDacN4rVtFTfyc2hTXqCD5apS25YEtCcG16jVVcyW69MG1PHWua5j1AiJXTdVAk7jDPUZDijBfabdnHk2REKsC7L4qpKK

10 XMR
Payment ID: 417de22ee25d60f528fb92775faa8c61fb6c715755f72ef9475d597b4c383055
Tx ID: 16fc496f8265fde2ad5f1dedd4b3374cc69fe909bacd0e0284c4ea50c1aba1ec

Cheers!
_{Edit: Obsolete information removed, added membership registration details!}

[dEBRUYNE]

[...] This is the adress without space. You can find it in the OP also in the syntax sample of simplewallet.

No. The address above has the space also...
The forum breaks it with a space unless it is 'code', like so:

Code:

4AHDacN4rVtFTfyc2hTXqCD5apS25YEtCcG16jVVcyW69MG1PHWua5j1AiJXTdVAk7jDPUZDijBfabdnHk2REKsC7L4qpKK

Cheers!

I see, thanks for elaborating and fixing it! Will edit my post.

[David Latapie]

What about having a logo for MEW, both inspired by Monero and yet different? Much like the Monero Research Labs?

• Advantage: consistency
• Disadvantage: risk of confusion, people could believe that MEW is an official Monero project, which it is not.

Food for thoughts.

[David Latapie]

Are you aware that there is a space between the d and the n (at the end) in the adress posted at 1.1? I don't know if that's meant to be, just notifying before someone sends to the wrong adress. Will soon send mine.

Thank you, this is a known SMF limitation and an oversight from us. This is corrected. No risk of error, though, the payment would not have been processed.

[smooth]

What about having a logo for MEW, both inspired by Monero and yet different? Much like the Monero Research Labs?

• Advantage: consistency
• Disadvantage: risk of confusion, people could believe that MEW is an official Monero project, which it is not.

Food for thoughts.

Should have a separate logo in my personal opinion.

[David Latapie]

That is smart and I did just that, thanks!

However I still don't understand where the difference between their 64 chars and my 64 chars is....oh well.

Payment ID: 1d4be45c2dccb169c7ccd2868ac6971ad4c2c23574c285ea15f0bc8efb1c4811

PM sent

Hexadecimal. 0 to 9 plus A to F (case-insensitive). For instance, ShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezS would not work, because apart from e, no letter is an hexadecimal number

[pa]

Ok, count me in for 250 xmr; payment ID: 1eb507a5536c2070c73232c91f7dd3fcd2d0fe2a079baa24c92b5e55531cd792

[Shrikez]

That is smart and I did just that, thanks!

However I still don't understand where the difference between their 64 chars and my 64 chars is....oh well.

Payment ID: 1d4be45c2dccb169c7ccd2868ac6971ad4c2c23574c285ea15f0bc8efb1c4811

PM sent

Hexadecimal. 0 to 9 plus A to F (case-insensitive). For instance, ShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezShrikezS would not work, because apart from e, no letter is an hexadecimal number

Thank you David, yeah there was an "x" hidden in there which apparently I fat fingered. The beers made me overlook it.

[iourzzz]

Sent: 100 XMR

Payment ID: 6c3e5b0f4661aa8d4bcc2232566003514005ddc6e7818adc15f549dc1eaf5645

IRC: iourzzz

[xulescu]

Sent 100 XMR. Payment ID: 99cd3b04420824a615b08fa248f5ed48c912a12f9263668690a6a6bb0d147b31

[David Latapie]

OK, the thread is not only for registration but also for discussion. So, which topics should be considered here? Some ideas:

• What is the exact perimeter of MEW (as opposed to "core team" and "neither core team nor MEW")
• How to increase visibility of Monero outside of Cryptoland
• How to better fund the core team
• List of business opportunities, either started or proposed
• What about the governance of MEW
• Others

[Lloydimiller4]

I think we should get our own IRC channel and maybe a Ventrilo/voice server.

[Monero Economy Workgroup]

I think we should get our own IRC channel and maybe a Ventrilo/voice server.

We just created #monero-mew.
The reason for the name is that it fits into the monero- namespace, which will help protecting its existence on the longer term (see freenode policy).

It can be accessed on the web at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23monero-mew.

[Monero Economy Workgroup]

What is MEW?
Who belongs to it now?
What is required for joining?
What is the relation of MEW and the core team?
What can be voted for?
Do I bind myself to something when joining MEW?
Is it possible to become an anonymous member?
Shouldn't the devs decide the priorities? I mean they are the ones who must donate their time to implement features.
Is the MEW focused on funding development projects or does it plan to fund non-technical startups involving XMR in some way?
What kind of business opportunities there are/mostly needed?
Is MEW controlling the members' XMR funds?
To what extent will the MEW's actions be applicable to other (mostly CN) coins?
MEW is a stupid name
Where can I find more information?

[Monero Economy Workgroup]

Q. What is MEW?
A: MEW is a gathering of Monero holders of (almost) any wealth willing to promote Monero and assist in its developement as a major cryptocurrency.
Specifically, MEW will financially support the dev by giving 50% of the registration fees to the dev, advocate Monero to the largest audience and offer a place to allow members to foster the development of the ecosystem (wallets, exchanges, services, merchants, adoption), through joint ventures between them.

Also read: What is MEW? on the Monero Community Thread.

[Ale]

I'm in, 40 xmr sent.

Payment ID: 19722c460ae7d019298e382f733c7c896bf00b52c869cde7190d1718b2f3ab33