Gee, you might be a complete math retard
Macrochip
I'm taking a brief (welcome) break from camping in force-8 gales to tell you to save your energy. Cryptonote is a non-player in the crypto-currency market as I've articulated many times on here.
From a technology point of view, hidden blockchains are quite interesting because they involve lots of challenging programming. From a monetary point of view however they are a gimmick and of speculative value only.
You are having your buttons pressed. Best to focus on practical tasks at hand
I second this.
I've spent some time over the past couple of days reading through the most recent 10 pages on the main Monero thread to try and comprehend where they're coming from. It's quite an eye opener. My impression is that they're classic propeller-head techno-boffins as so much of what they're talking about revolves around very detailed technical discussions involving complex config and setup options. There's virtually no discussion on economics or the fundamentals of money, nor how in goodness' name they'll ever get their stuff to be understandable by anyone outside of crypto.
Furthermore it's no surprise that g4q34g4qg47ww never had the decency to come back onto the Dash thread and explain in detail why Toknormal is a "charlatan" for pointing out these fundamental aspects that constitute 'money' and that the Monero people clearly fail to comprehend. I think 'the game' in the Monero community is the classic (and oh-so-tedious) "who is the 'smartest' techo in the room". In reading the posts and responses, I'm reminded of many corporate IT environments from the 90s where value was supposedly seen in people that could talk-up all this techno stuff and be given kudos for knowing things and understanding how to configure stuff and knowing all the latest buzzwords, etc. When IT became far more important, things like the CMM (the Capability Maturity Model) provided an assessment score from 0 to 5 that took into account sustainability of operations, ability to manage risk, execution via more formal project management processes, achievement of business objectives and measurable customer satisfaction meeting a set criteria. That then transformed many IT environments and elevated CIOs up into a new realm of importance with the other C level execs. But the "CMM score of less than 1" hero-worship IT-culture is still around and you can see it on full display in the Monero thread with people like fluffypony exuding it in all it's banal ugliness (after sitting through his awful Monero Youtube presentation; classic perception that 'value' is in the technobabble and classic indifference to 'newbs' and people that don't know how things work and my previous pointing out of his "we want Monero to be grandparent proof" being so condescending - typical profile stuff for the techno-arrogant - I can see just how lacking in substance the whole thing is).
Anyhow, I expect there are many good ideas within the Monero code and there's probably people that have put a lot of good effort into where it's at today, but that doesn't make for a well-rounded crypto-currency that will perform the 'currency' part of its namesake.
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