Getting old blows.
..What is the alternative? ...
Staying young would be preferable.
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Good to see someone recognized.
mr_random recognised it before me, on this very thread
The virtues of inflationPeople who say you can't slow down emission because it looks like a scam... well in a few years 99% of all the currency will be emitted, how will that look like to newcomers (a scam?)
To be fair our tail mining is designed to be small too (like bitcoin after a few halvings but before no subsidy), so until the things are more clear from experience or there is stronger research to support an existential need for more radical changes, we are only slightly better off. Still, at least we have recognized some aspect of the potential failure mode and eliminated it.
Something we did not address is the lack of incentive to maintain full nodes, as
Nicolas Courtois mentionned it for Bitcoin. For the moment, there is enough good will, but what if tomorrow there was not?
Main question: are the dev's paid?
Your question prompted me to add a new entry in the FAQ:
are the devs paid?
What is the best programming language to learn for Monero?
I have a lot of time on my hands and much motivation.
So far, C and C++.
C for legacy code (most of the code at the moment) (
read smooth below), C++ for refactoring (which will take time). FYI, we are also using Go, but very sparsely (mostly URS, for the moment) and Qt is being used for the GUI wallet. But priority is definitely C and C++.
Yes, I know - throw your tomatoes and boo me for suggesting an exploitation of our carnal pleasures, but there it is.
Fact: sex drives economy (major French IT company free.fr? Started with sex money. Wikipedia? Started with sex money. High-stress platform? Porn sites, etc.) So no problem for me
