Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1246. (Read 4671575 times)

XMR is looking good, strong buy walls on Polo.

Buy Orders    Total: 175.88276639 BTC

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yeah, I've got my head in this "finding an application" component.

I recently came up with the LendWallet / Decentralized Autonomous Lending Protocol, but this requires a blockchain-ledger that is ultimately traceable... although perhaps it can still be done with the more anonymous ledger of monero. I posted version 1.0 of what I guess you could call a whitepaper (it was a powerpoint), but it had some typos and the lack of understanding by the few responders indicated I need to flesh it out more, which I plan on doing this weekend... (in between overclocking some 771 xeons to hash some monero! those huge caches are great. I'll be checking the wattage on the wall tomorrow though. probably not great. I'll post it in that google doc thats floating out there)

Anyhoo, I'm rambling.

Or perhaps there's an audience for anonymous lending / borrowing. Whether or not I can code it is a different story. Well, its not a story. I can't code it. Period. Goddamned syntax and complex detailed construct retainment.

Hrm, I just came up with something..... and I'll just put it out there - not that I want monero to start with the same, hrmm.... how do you say...... color, as it were, that bitcoin started out with... but really it fits the bill.


What is one thing that people really want to keep hidden from others, in terms of transactions, etc?


Adult entertainment.


How many times do you think people have made it to a paywall at some ,,,, adult entertainment... site and been like "yeeeaaaahhhh, i'm definitely not going to put that on my credit card"


Of course, unfortunately, at this point in the game, even if there  was a "monero accepted here!" sign on the website.... or physical storefront, for that matter, you'd first have to buy some BTC from circle or whatever, then trade your BTC for monero, and then away you go.


Yes, I know - throw your tomatoes and boo me for suggesting an exploitation of our carnal pleasures, but there it is.


Hrm... what else we got....


I've also been trying to think of good applications for crypto in general.... its main strength is instantaneous, around the world payment. What possible good or service do you want to pay for thats coming from the other side of the world, that you would engage in a transaction with someone you may not trust? And for that matter, what can we do that actually adds to society? (in contrast to the above?)

One of the fascinating things that I've read about cc is the possibility that developing nations may use it to leapfrog development... this phenomenon was seen with cell phones - some countries without established phone lines and what have you just went straight to cell phones. So, what countries exist with limited currency infrastructures that could benefit from these currencies, and how could monero move in to be the one that is utilized? This kind of effort would require actual people going places to do stuff I think.

Agree 100%. I'm interested to see how Monero ecosystem will grow. Especially by developers outside core team. Price/value will increase when large audience jumps in and drives demand up. Until there are applications for large audience like MyMonero and REAL usage for the currency we are in mercy of investors and I don't see a reason why price would go up (besides speculation). At the same time current value is heavily discounted for the long term opportunity.

monero is supposed to be another one to fight against XCP but ,currently ,it seems to follow the downtrend resembling blackcoin.not very optimistic for the future.

we badly need some explorer, chainradar is out there but there used to be a better one called monerochain.info and it disappeared a few months ago.

something nice with charts and stats like transactions per day, hash, difficulty, etc.

I have a couple of nice, short (xmr.) domains.
Would like the idea to use them. I don't need to earn, just to make something that can be good for this coin.
So, domain + hosting = I have. Idea = I don't and would like suggestion(s).
I am good in php and SQL. OK with javascript too.
I know it's not much of knowledge, but that I can offer.

We can't control the price and the price does not dictate the quality of the technology or people using it. In fact we are now seeing new people getting interested in the project. To them, the price is only now becoming attractive, and even relatively modest gains from here would be great. I know that probably isn't what you want to hear, if you have been around a while, as I have.


There are projects being worked on.


Agree!

I ment about coding, sorry for being confusive about it.


Yeah, I'm aware of it. Just liked this coin so much, until those days when price gone so madly down.
I'm still in it, just not giving it so much hope, as support of buyout was really weak.
Strong fiat/buy support can bring the price back up...
But no projects, like app's and market use of currency to make it spendable as a Bitcoin.
Something that make people want it. Somewhere to spend it. Not just buy and sell.

If you want to develop improvements to Monero itself, then C++.

If you want to develop add on software or services that us it (more needed IMO), then any modern language with a JSON-RPC library is fine.

"coins that support multisig transactions could be added in the future " http://forum.openbazaar.org/index.php?p=/discussion/31/altcoin-support

The Open Bazaar project has said they will accept pull requests to add support for other coins (presumably this assumes the coding is good). Meaning other people have to do the work, but they won't stand in the way.  Even if not included directly, we can do a fork. Either way multisig is needed. That is fundamental to how OB works.


You are welcome.

What is the best programming language to learn for Monero?

I have a lot of time on my hands and much motivation.

Thanks, that made sense to me.


NOW I see why everyone has been harping Multisig. I wasn't aware it was a per-requiset. Someday I may read a paper but not today. Thanks for answering all the questions!

If by "dev" you mean people doing the coding, some have, some haven't.

If by "dev" you mean the core team responsible for leading the project, then definitely not. Not only are we not paid but we have covered about 80% of the costs of the project out of our own pockets. We are all negative for a large amount of time and money. We do it because we believe in the project and want to see it succeed.


The boss. We work for the community.


Thank you for your support

There is so many things to do for this coin to success.
Main question: are the dev's paid?
Because if they are, then they aren't doin it so smooth.
Who am I to say that?
I am a single XMR miner & supporter.
It's not about how much do I have or how much will I have.
It's about coin success. Goes slow, work more. Still slow? Go harder. Wanna success? Push more!

Open Bazaar is definitely something we are interested in supporting. We need multisig for that, and some other work that is also planned.

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.

It is another way of saying that centralized miners can start to impose blacklists, whitelists, redlists, and other intrusive requirements on transactions.

Monero has things like ring signatures, stealth address, etc. to protect privacy and reduce censorship but this still relies on the miners to operate the network in a neutral manner. If they are concentrated enough, they can start imposing requirements.

Too much mixing? No "SafeChain approved" tag? Etc. Sorry, your transaction never gets into a block.

Good to see someone recognized. Yes, Bitcoin will die after some third or fourth block halving. Enough pure POW Altcoins demonstrated that exprimentally. And SHA ASICS might get out of operation temporarily to avoid power costs, but that doesn't make them stop existing. Readily available for the attack once Hashrate has fallen into reachable areas.  Then BOOM, simple as that. Predictable.

Staying young would be preferable.


I don't quite understand this.


And Market integration. Is there any thoughts on something like Open Bazaar?

Exactly. Plus even when you find someone, they may have other commitments and not be available right away or full time even for the duration of the project and so forth. It is challenging but only from the perspective of banging out huge quantities of code, which isn't necessarily what we need now. We are able to continue to make steady progress on the coding side. But to really be effective, we need to build the community and network of applications (beyond mining, exchanges, and specualtion -- that's a start, but not useful long term).