Topic: Monero under 25 cents? What the hell are you waiting for? - page 3. (Read 13892 times)

Oh rly then I guess I would only need to spend less than 1 BTC to buy up the entire supply..
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this shit will go to 1 satoshi soon

Preach it Moneroman88.

Monero under 50 cents? What the hell are you waiting for?

Thank you for doing this. Lets try to keep this updated and share it with the world. I just Tweeted about it today:

https://twitter.com/XMRpromotions/status/630838661777461248

no and i dont really give a shite anyway

Do I win something if I am?

are u muneroman88?

So how many of you ignored this OP and did not buy?

How many of you have now quadrupled your money?

You should have bought in when the buying was good.

Now who is going to sell and who is going to Hodl?

$1 land now bitches!

When it comes to the privacy, XMR is the best choice of payment.

Monero is my favorite. If I ever had an ICO for a coin, I would only accept Monero as payment.

Tacotime already had great reputation from way back before XMR existed.

Prof. Aste gave a talk on CN at some fancy confab (that somehow had terrible AV support).   

Including the Monero devs is somewhat pointless.

What did Thomas Aste say about it?

You can add Dr. Tomaso Aste – Head, Financial Computing & Analytics Group  - Department of Computer Science  -  University College London
and TacoTime - Legendary BTCT contributor and Scrypt mining FAQ originator/editor

Well, let's see who is speaking high of Monero or CryptoNote in general and has some reputation.

• Gregory Maxwell (most extensive example)
• Andrew Poelstra, respected cryptographer and prominent Bitcoin developer (most extensive example)
• Nicolas Courtois, academic cryptographer, 8 patents (most extensive example)
• Risto Pietilä, Bitcoin millionnaire (most extensive example)
• Theymos, Bitcointalk founder (most extensive example)
• Bullbear labelled Monero "the most interesting anon coin on the scene in our opinion"
• apparently, a sizeable part of dark markets
• on top of it, several Monero Core Team members, such as tacotime and fluffypony, had already a great reputation before entering Monero
• probably a lot I forgot

I've seen worse ignorance.

More information: Why Monero matters, The Three Pillars of Monero

The current "structure" for the blockchain is just serialised to disk. Not in a straight-up stream of raw blocks, but in a set of objects including the utxoset, key image set, all transactions, and all block headers (specifically: m_transactions, m_outputs, m_spent_keys, m_blocks, m_blocks_index, m_alternative_chains, m_invalid_blocks, m_tx_pool). In other words, all of the sets have to be unserialised off disk in order to have it the latest bits available.

Using LMDB we go from this:



to this:



That's testnet and mainnet on OS X (hence the dual processes in the second screenshot). Even with very heavy artificial activity I haven't seen my mainnet process go beyond ~80mb.


It's not possible based on our current thinking and reasoning, at least not without delegating the same level of trust as you have to with MyMonero. That being said, it's definitely something we're tackling - it was one of the key discussion points at the Monero Research Lab meetup in the USA in November last year.


Thanks, we're trying:) We have long-running HSTS and we haven't tried to stupidly write our own PRNG, so at least that's a step in the right direction. We don't have a self-hosted version, but once we've added sufficient functionality to Monero Core we will repurpose some of the MyMonero code and release it so that anyone can host their own web-based wallet.

Thanks, sorry for my continued questions.  I guess I don't understand the need for such a structure.  The block chain is already sitting there on the disk.  Copying it from one structure to another seems a waste of time and resources, unless I was planning to run a public explorer or something.  I did get it to run with swap but that just means now it takes up twice the hard drive space and lots of copying.  To give you an idea where I am coming from I also consider a bitcoin node to be a resource hog.  Since I have your attention, can I get a quick word on the possibility of SPV clients for monero?     


As much as I like to talk shit about web wallets, this one looks pretty good   Can anybody host their own version? 

No, the OS does swap just fine, it would be silly for us to try and add a layer on top of that (and it would never be as performant).

We have a completely abstracted blockchainDB class, and the first actual implementation (there will be many) uses LMDB, the Symas Lightning Memory-Mapped Database, which is the same embedded database that OpenLDAP and Armory use. We're even listed on the site:)


It uses the same mnemonic as we use in the Monero wallet client, but it's a shortened form (half the space). We are currently adding support for the short-key format into the wallet library, but needless to say if MyMonero (and I) had to disappear today it would not be difficult for someone else to add that support in:)

Thanks for your reply again  

By blockchain branch, do you mean that the chain is not held in memory (or swap)?    I will try it in any case.

As to mymonero..  if the site goes down can I recover the funds?