Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1181. (Read 4671924 times)

Hi,

This is my small contribution the the community. There were some complaints we only had one block explorer so...
Its a little crude but it gets the job done.

It has even got an API (Monero Blocks API)

It relies on Atride's moneroclub node while the DB is not out.

Hope to hear your feedback. Gimme your luv. 

They haven't done a payout in several weeks, so I stopped using them. They only took me for about 10 XMR.  I hate all the scams that give the Crypto community a bad name! it's pretty sad!

Anyone know what is up with extremehash? I had 80+ xmr "pending", as I was gone for a while but rigs were running. Now their site is completely down.

So detailed annual report! I vail the bonnet in sign of respect to you!

Just confused, is bitcointalk.org the main discussion place for Monero yet? Or do you recommend to completely migrate to forum.monero.cc?

Anyone know what is up with extremehash? I had 80+ xmr "pending", as I was gone for a while but rigs were running. Now their site is completely down.

Is there a daily XMR withdrawal limit on Poloniex?

Let's put the Missives aside by just repeating what we said in the year-in-review Missive -

I think to claim they're "broken" is a little silly, given that we've put in over a hundred completely unpaid man hours just on the Missives in the past 8 months.

I don't disagree that marketing is weak...but what is there to market? Accepting Monero is very difficult, spending Monero only recently got easier with the release of the web wallet. Using Monero on a server required several gb of RAM (with nothing like walletnotify or blocknotify), and using it as a standalone client is even worse.

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As you may have already heard, Microsoft is making their .NET Framework's source code open for the public, thus, giving a chance for porting .NET applications to other platforms in the future. That is also a reason behind returning to the development of Monero Client .NET....

fluffypony, did you think about a croudfunding company? On kickstarter, indiegogo, etc?

Look, even missives regular manner is broken, although core devs must NOT to do any in deadline manner. Just write missives regularly... They don't!

You need to read. Missives will be released on Mondays when there is something worth writing about. Now say you are sorry to the team.

Hooray! It's time for me to present a new release of my project. I would like to dedicate it to the core development team, who have been working so hard lately that they broke all the older versions of my client.

There are still many things to be improved, but at least, for people who already have an account since v0.38.1, this release will provide stability along with usefulness. I've also tried to implement account file creation, but it seems that the core team has even changed the format of accounts, thus, new account files are not compatible with my software anymore. I'll resume to the newly-appearing issues later, but let's see what was improved in 2015's first .NET client release:

• Started to utilize the latest stable version of bitmonerod
• Added indonesian translation
• Fixed all the shutdown-related bugs (including one which made saving the blockchain impossible)
• Fixed a menu localization issue

Plans for the future
As you may have already heard, Microsoft is making their .NET Framework's source code open for the public, thus, giving a chance for porting .NET applications to other platforms in the future. That is also a reason behind returning to the development of Monero Client .NET.

I would like to announce a roadmap for those who are still curious about the next things to come.

First of all, I have to tell that v0.39 releases have featured a lot of new technologies in the background. It was the first set of releases to support the "daemonized" bitmonerod and rpcwallet, which are still in a beta development state by the core team. That's the main reason why there wasn't a release of my client which could be labelled fully stable. As it seems to take some time to advance to these new technologies by the core team (merging them with new developments like the embedded blockchain DB or the new account seed generation mechanism), I decided not to continue the development of v0.39 releases, but build a stable v0.40 which returns back to the usage of - the latest - simplewallet and the non-experimental version of bitmonerod.

Further on, this project consists of 2 parts: one which is responsible for the communication with the background workers' RPC interfaces, and one which renders the GUI, utilizing the API subproject. My idea is to separate the 2 subprojects in order to provide .NET developers an easy way to interact with the RPC without the need of implementing JSON data decoders by self. This may even encourage more people to help in project development, and would make it easy to create robust block explorers in ASP.NET (Microsoft's web development platform).

As I have already mentioned sometime before, I'm 17 years old, so I have to study now in order to acquire a great career later. I also have other programming projects to work on, but I do all these things for my own entertainment in my free time. Please bear in mind that it's not easy to keep up with these extra activities I do besides school, so developments will be slower than during the summer.

Enjoy the new release, and donate some XMR to the core development team who made this project exist!

You are right but fullypony mentioned 'chicken or egg' problem in investing process: DB implementation needs money right now core devs have not.
That because I think we should start donations PRIOR to DB is ready.

Look, even missives regular manner is broken, although core devs must NOT to do any in deadline manner. Just write missives regularly... They don't!

Our first Missive was put out on Monday, June 2nd, 2014, and has been instrumental in collating and bringing together various little snippets and pieces of work and threads every week. In the 30 weeks from that first one till the end of the year we put them on pause for 4 weeks during the attacks in August, and took a 2 week break at the end of the year. The remaining 24 weeks had 21 Missives in them, giving quite a bit of coverage and keeping our userbase as informed as possible. Some Missives are easy and only take us two or three hours to put together.

Some Missives are substantially harder due to time constraints, dependencies, research (see: this Missive you're reading, for instance;) or just the sheer amount of stuff that is going on. In total, the 21 Missives we put out over the past 8 months contained nearly 16 000 words over 689 sentences!

You are right but fullypony mentioned 'chicken or egg' problem in investing process: DB implementation needs money right now core devs have not.
That because I think we should start donations PRIOR to DB is ready.

Look, even missives regular manner is broken, although core devs must NOT to do any in deadline manner. Just write missives regularly... They don't!

fluffypony, did you think about a croudfunding company? On kickstarter, indiegogo, etc?

Also I just found the following bitcoin loan resource:
https://btcjam.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTCJam
http://www.orchardplatform.com/blog/marketplace-lending-meets-cryptographic-currency-bitcoin-lending-on-btcjam/

Also we as monero thread readers can consider direct funding to core team. Assume core team = 5 people get $50/hour * 8 hours/day = $2000 per day for core team.
Divide $2000 for 1000 readers = $2 donation per person per day. Now imagine 10000 readers-donators...

fluffypony, I think marketing is weak side of Monero devs team. And imagine, it is simplier to fix: communication with alive people is much easier than sofisticated code writing: just 1 wrong charaster leads to heartblead, etc... If you start marketing company for Monero with alive people and make some mistakes, it indeed brings some profit.
People are more grateful than iron computers! But almost nobody knows about Monero!

Look, even missives regular manner is broken, although core devs must NOT to do any in deadline manner. Just write missives regularly... They don't!