Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1238. (Read 4670643 times)

When opening your wallet with simplewallet for the first time with this update you will be prompted to choose a language for your mnemonic seed words, and you will be given a new 25 word mnemonic. You will always be able to restore from the old 24 word mnemonic seed, but it is of course recommended that you move to the newer, more robust mnemonic.

That is cool! How did you get your the saddam.moneroaddress.org alias you reference in your sig? Did you have to register the domain name moneroaddress.org yourself? Does this mean that to get our own openalias to use with Monero, we have to find domain name registrars that allow anonymous registration?

Smart mining reminds me of what smooth wrote months ago (but even better, since no asking, although there should be an option for explicitely deactivate it, for fragile hardware or competing background programs like BOINC):

Smart mining reminds me of what smooth wrote months ago (but even better, since no asking, although there should be an option for explicitely deactivate it, for fragile hardware or competing background programs like BOINC):

Or simply use Namecoin (NMC), http://namecoin.info/, to register a .bit domain. There is no need to use the ICANN/US Gov. root. Of course all of this creates a business opportunity for selling .bit, Namecoin, registrations for XMR.

Same here, there were some nice comments in it. I like this particular one from Gregory Maxwell about privacy:

This was my first mined crypto too It's a fulfilling feeling

Yes there has been. Some of it is right in the original whitepaper, in terms of view keys and auditable addresses. We have also considered other methods of allowing for transparency on specific transactions. People want to be able to selectively prove payments on demand and generally open up to transparency in a controlled manner, without everything being linkable and traceable to the rest of their transactions.

dump doesnt matter now because xmr is becoming like bitcoin, a long period of low price is good for legitimacy of the coin if it ever reaches a lot higher in the future no one will be able to say that didn't bought xmr because it was too expensive, they can only say they didnt heard about monero or didnt believe on it.

hey guys check this out. wow. no more having to copy and paste huge addresses! cool new feature in the 0.8.8.5, great work devs  

go to https://openalias.org/ to learn how to make your own alias!

XMR:

Very true, it's not - and I'm not saying people CANNOT mine in an extremely low maintenance manner, I'm saying if they're going to do that, they may as well take some cash out of their wallet, burn a small percent, and use the rest to buy XMR, because that's basically what they're doing.

Very true, it's not - and I'm not saying people CANNOT mine in an extremely low maintenance manner, I'm saying if they're going to do that, they may as well take some cash out of their wallet, burn a small percent, and use the rest to buy XMR, because that's basically what they're doing.

Very true, it's not - and I'm not saying people CANNOT mine in an extremely low maintenance manner, I'm saying if they're going to do that, they may as well take some cash out of their wallet, burn a small percent, and use the rest to buy XMR, because that's basically what they're doing.

Welcome, though you're kind'a late...

The vision here is a wallet that asks you when you want to install: "Do you want to devote some of you CPU power to help secure the network. You will be eligible to receive free coins as a reward (recommended)   [check box]." Get millions of users doing that and it will drive down the value of mining to where neither botnets nor professional/industrial miners will bother, and Satoshi's original vision of a true p2p currency will be realized.

Missive!

https://forum.monero.cc/1/news-and-announcements/112/monday-monero-missives-20-december-8th-2014

Monero Monday Missives

December 8th, 2014
 
Hello, and welcome to our twentieth Monero Monday Missive! We're combining last week's one with this week's, as last week's Missive was pulled down shortly after being put up due to breaking issues in the Windows build of Monero 0.8.8.5 (since resolved). Thank you for your patience!

Major Updates

Monero 0.8.8.6, recommended update, please take note of new download links:
 
Windows, 64-bit (monero.cc/downloads/win64) - SHA: facbeb2e408cf8b9a46534363eba161dbb047654  
OS X, 64-bit (monero.cc/downloads/mac) - SHA: 7069de92083fb7831b063cc152e8f35508ff61bf  
Linux, 64-bit (monero.cc/downloads/linux) - SHA: 16f3f55bcfbfae6135cbeda6574f651890a8be64  
FreeBSD, 64-bit (monero.cc/downloads/freebsd) - SHA: 9fd0005b697e146a26a0bf9e3cd0c89b978f7fbd  

NOTE: When opening your wallet with simplewallet for the first time with this update you will be prompted to choose a language for your mnemonic seed words, and you will be given a new 25 word mnemonic. You will always be able to restore from the old 24 word mnemonic seed, but it is of course recommended that you move to the newer, more robust mnemonic.

1. We are (finally) happy to release Monero 0.8.8.6. We released 0.8.8.5 last week, but due to a breaking Windows bug we pulled the announcement down until we solved the bug on the weekend. The major changes for 0.8.8.5 include: OpenAlias support, per-kb fees, multi-language mnemonics, file-based checkpointing, MoneroPulse DNS checkpointing, a move from MSVC to an msys2 / mingw-w64 build environment for Windows, and brand new build CMake. 0.8.8.6 adds some important fixes to the multi-language mnemonic system.

2. Due to the launch of MyMonero we feel it prudent to add a new section to the Missives, called "External Projects". This is a section to provide updates on other projects that are not an official part of the Monero Project or collectively created by the Monero Core Team, but is related to Monero in some way - thus OpenAlias would not be part of this section, but MyMonero would. If you have an update you would like included in this section, please email [email protected] for inclusion the following Monday, or send any member of the Monero Core Team a message. If this section becomes overly full we may choose to shutter the section, so please keep updates brief and only those that are important. It is not a marketing area, and so every new mining pool launched or minor feature added to a pool will not be eligible for inclusion (although if you've done something cool, let us know;)

3. We're also quite happy to announce the addition of a new feature to Monero: Smart Mining. This is a feature that will evolve over time, but at its most basic it is something that will allow everyone running the client software to support the network in an unobtrusive manner. Smart Mining detects your CPU usage, and if your CPU is idle and you aren't on battery power (for laptops and/or connected UPS devices) it will begin mining. As soon you switch to battery power or your CPU activity picks up it will pause mining until it sees it is safe to start again. You still set your Monero address for Smart Mining, as always, and whilst your chances of solving a block may be relatively small (for now;) it is still an easy way to support the network without needing to purchase expensive equipment. This work is complete (for Linux) and is currently being tweaked to work on our other supported operating systems. Ongoing process can be followed here: https://github.com/oranjuice/bitmonero/tree/smart-mining

External Projects

MyMonero: the various modal windows, such as the login screen, should be displaying correctly across devices now. We are fixing the scroll issues which still plagues these on some devices. Just to make sure everyone is aware after the recent blockchain.info issues: the MyMonero code has unit tests using the Jasmine testing framework for JavaScript, as well as tests for other parts of the backend application. These tests are executed and checked for every commit. We also have had HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) enabled from the beginning, and have various other things enabled for client-side security such as X-Frame-Options set to deny, X-XSS-Protection on, and X-Content-Type-Options set to nosniff.

I2PD: for those not aware, the i2pd project is a new implementation of the i2p protocol in C++, and is the software that Monero will use for its connection to the i2p network. The source code of the project can be found here: https://github.com/PrivacySolutions/i2pd - the regular stream of commits is testament to the ongoing progress being made. The i2pd team will provide regular updates on i2p-specific functionality as it is added and the project grows to a point of maturity.

Dev Diary

Build: tests are now disabled when building the build-release, build-debug, or release-static targets. The default make target (all-release) will include tests, as will all test- targets, obviously.

Account: lots of fixes to multi-lang mnemonics, although UTF-8 on Windows still seems to be a bit shaky.

Core: all 0.8.8.5 and 0.8.8.6 changes have been covered over the past few Missives.

Until next week!

I think you're not getting it - you don't adopt a kid if you don't have time to feed it and take care of it

If you're GPU mining at all right now, you understand it requires time and attention. If you're not prepared to give it any, then get on a multipool. They have Neoscrypt, too - all you really need to do is get pretty good configs for the algos, then hop on the multipool, and it'll switch both coins and algos according to profitability.

So will there be the missive & new build today?

it's not really a flavor of the day, like most, more a flavor of the month, which makes it worth the effort.