Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1256. (Read 4670643 times)

Is there a working block explorer somewhere still? The one with the highest block height I found is http://chainradar.com/xmr/blocks but 325679 is still a lot lower than the 327845 my client is telling me.

OK, this is a virtue of mine and a skill that I have vigorously managed through the years (getting CONSTANTLY off topic all the time).
I think you misunderstood or didn't explain it right. The greed factor fires up the lower instincts of the humans to steal or trick another human towards getting a better stake of something. Mathematics and cryptography can't be fooled. You either do the math job or you don't. You don't get a shortcut where this brings you more crypto.

There are strong efforts now to try and overcome this "obstacle". Those efforts are called "Exchanges". There's a nice article today on coindesk about this: http://www.coindesk.com/many-bitcoins-making-sense-exaggerated-inventory-claims/

I like your freedom goal better than mine, but I think I will try with what I wrote since yours is surely more utopian...

Good marketing is crucial for mainstream-facing projects. A bad-written marketing plan, caused by a ill-conceived strategy, is often the main reason for companies or projects to fail or under-perform. On the other hand, done right Monero can here achieve sustainable competitive advantages, over other coins (now and in future).

I am no team member, just a community member with a background in marketing & strategy consulting. I really want Monero to be successful. So I decided to help the people responsible, to ensure Monero get's all the strategic planing, methodology fundamentals, know-how and ressources needed, to be efficient and successful in marketing work.


This proceeding (research, creating a strategy, which will be the foundation of any well-written marketing plan, the marketing plan is needed to make reasonable decisions concrete marketing actions) is best known strategy and long-term proven, well-documented, absolute standard in marketing science and corporate practice. So it's pretty safe to say Monero will use this approach.
(Would be an error and huge waste of potential not to do.)

The emission D&V round is ongoing. Normally it would take only 1+1 week but this matter is delayed by my decision in search of the right time and consensus of the decision. Having the launch of mymonero.com behind us is also a good one to have. The MEW will vote about it soon.

On the contrary. Bitcoin as a system uses greed to spread and grow itself. The same can be said of capitalism. The real genius of markets is they transform vice into virtue. Individual selfish action creates favorable outcomes for the group as a whole. Friend, make freedom your goal, not equity.

Thanks for the comments. I made some updates as per your suggestions.

Regards,

Globb

The system is not geographical dependent rather than human centralized and distribution dependent (like the current one). Fortunately, or unfortunately, we (the people) are rather unique species. We tend to agree with another human being about a specific equity between two things (coins, commodities, whatever) and when we get the chance we will be the first of the two parts to get the things look better for ourselves. It's funny to think that the first money (banknotes) that were printed had a specific amount of gold as an equity. How long do you think it took to print some more without the gold equivalent?

Crypto is just that. Bitcoin / XMR / whatever is trying to put the human greed out of the equation. This is fair for everybody. If the system is being fair, then the equities will follow. Health care, securities, pharmacy, Land... you name it. This is what's at stake. Now we're based on a system that forces everybody to "steal" from somebody else. Bank "products", leverage, bonds, CDS... what's this? The short answer is "ways to break the deal, that money should be the same for everyone".

Money makes the world go round as they say. So; first things first.

Thanks Globb0,

Please Bold the date

edit: and add mymonero.com

Whirlwind missives (Updated 30/11)!


Jun 2nd 2014

1.   New Logo + branding pack
2.   Repository redesign
3.   Begin website enhancements
4.   live discussions join us on Freenode: #monero for general chat, #monero-dev
5.   MRO changes to XMR to satisfy ISO 4217

Dev diary

1.   Added missing RPC methods
2.   0.8.8 changes to prevent dust attack on block reward
3.   Begun work on documenting the code and providing architecture overviews
4.   Understanding and examining the cryptonote protocols
5.   POW hashing optimisation to improve syncing times and pool verify times
6.   Lucasjones miner optimisation work


Jun 10th

1.   New feature announced deterministic wallets based on mnemonic seed
2.   XMR listed for voting on Mintpal
3.   RPC based Qt GUI wallet

Dev diary

1.   Further RPC work on simplewallet
2.   Added new seed notes
3.   Further code review and implement Doxygen for commenting and code understanding


Jun 18th

1.   Hit number one on mintpal voting list
2.   Begin peer review cryptonote whitepaper
3.   Initial work done on transaction splitting
4.   GUI wallet a lot of work to be done yet and Monero core issues to be resolved first

Dev diary

1.   TX pool handling fix to address high number of orphans
2.   Auto split is now ready for test


June 27th

1.   XMR added to 2 exchanges BTER and Mintpal
2.   White paper review continues http://monero.cc/downloads/whitepaper_annotated.pdf
3.   Bug fix restoring a deterministic wallet and old transactions
4.   Stabilising Monero, pools, merchants and exchanges
5.   Auto splitting ready for release

Dev diary

1.   Slow_hash huge changes to add AES-NI
2.   Major daemon overhaul in progress; windows support to follow
3.   Simple wallet split to Simplewallet (CLI) and RPCwallet (standalone RPC daemon)


July 6th

1.   CryptoNote peer review continues
2.   Auto splitting is now in the main code base

Dev diary

1.   RPC wallet ready for test


July 13th

1.   GUI’s received and bounties paid. Won’t be directly integrated yet
2.   CryptoNote white paper review is coming to close
3.   Begun work to re-implement the mnemonic word list in other languages

Dev diary

1.   Core major work begin to Implement an embedded database
2.   I2P focus moves from libi2pcpp to i2pd. Focus on persistent connections


July 20th

1.   Begun reviewing the implementation of CryptoNote following the white paper review
2.   Embedded database work in progress the hope is to reduce ram requirements
3.   Information security specialist joins the team
4.   German word list complete now moving onto Portuguese

Dev diary

1.   Abstraction of the blockchain storage functions completing (enabler for performance testing)
2.   Daemonising Monero work is largely completed
3.   RPC wallet can now run multiple instances (where machines need to run multiple wallets)
4.   DNS seed nodes work begun that will later replace hardcoded seed nodes
5.   Exchange’s poll get_payments fix for multiple payment IDs is testing


July 23rd

1.   Monero trading pairs added to Poloniex
2.   BSD 3-clause license changes
3.   README build instructions improved
4.   Developer training for Git usage

Dev diary

1.   RPC enhancements a new Get_info
2.   get_bulk_payments developed and ready


August 3rd

1.   Launched fireside chats
2.   Begun tracking downloads 41,425 in the first 3 recorded weeks from 15/06
3.   XMR pairs rise to 5830 XMR of volume after first 12 days
4.   Monero added to coinSource Trust Index with a score of  6 out of 7 stars
5.   Build process streamlined

Dev diary

1.   Windows build script to simplify windows builds
2.   QOS developed and ready, peripherals to be completed
3.   Embedded database is proving complex, work continues
4.   Issues resolved from logs, blockheight parameter and query_key
5.   DNS seeder code available for review


August 10th

1.   First look at the gui in the first fireside chat was positively received
2.   Monero price ticker released
3.   Test environment secured and ready for continuous integration process

Dev diary

1.   Abstracted BlockchainDB functions coming together
2.   CMakelist overhauled
3.   Unit test review/creation has begun
4.   Planning migration to new servers for blockchain and client download


August 16th

1.   GUI test release available
2.   Monero broke 600 subscribers to our sub-reddit
3.   Open source Monero stratum proxy released
4.   Finalising QoS bandwith control

Dev diary

1.   Mingw64 / msys2 largely complete
2.   Wallet code under refactoring
3.   Abstraction and refactoring Blockchain functions ready for some performance testing
4.   QoS ready awaiting testing and then release


September 15th

1.The Monero Research Lab is an open collective academic group continuing to make papers towards the analysis and improvement of the underlying core
2. Second #Monero-Dev Fireside (Fri September 19th, 2014, at 10:00 EST)
3. Merchandise available http://www.zazzle.com/monerogear* coin team gets 15% commission
4. URS released, a Monero project written in Go that allows you to sign messages using ring signatures as part of a group
5. New tagged release, 0.8.8.4, now available for download
6. GUI work delayed due to addressing some core issues following recent events. Progress continuing
7. Monero added to Coin Swap https://coin-swap.net/market/XMR/BTC

Dev diary

1. Development branch on hold, will be brought back into sync following emergency measures implemented
2. FreeBSD Compatability: Monero now works on FreeBSD out the box
3. New Makefile target, release-static, that builds statically linked binaries for redistribution.
4. Wallet: per-kb fees are nearly complete, and will be deployed to testnet within the next week or so
5. Blockchain: Work delayed by  blockchain attacks. Getting back on track with DB work
6. Core: Devs note, all non-critical "errors" and warnings have been moved to log-level 1


October 6th

1. New official Monero forum. Come find us! @ https://forum.monero.cc
2. Working hard in the background on the codebase
3. Mnemonics system overhauled and added new word lists in Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish
4. MoneroPulse added; a loosely distributed checkpoint alert system
5. Backup distribution system in place for recovery
6. Research Lab released Research Bulletin, MRL-0003 – around ring signatures
7. Monero now at number 2 on Cryptsy voting list

Dev Diary

1. File check pointing added;  checkpoints are always enforced regular checking
2. DNS check pointing added
3. Working hard on improving the build system so builds are easier and less problematic
4. PoW algorithm annotated in the code and documented by dga


October 13th

1. Back-porting features and fixes added to the current codebase.
2. The GUI is progressing We hope to update the preview binaries in the next week or two
3. per-kb fees in testing. we expect positive testing results
5. Further tweaks to mnemonic system

Dev Diary

1. Further work on build environment ultimately to reduce build issues further down the line
2. Core: documentation continues, with Doxygen comments
3. DNS check pointing and configuration in test
4. mnemonic lists now support a variable trim length


October 20th

1. Focussing on some of the core issues that have been lagging
2. Blockchain database implementation. Lightning Memory-Mapped Database, LMDB ready for limited testing by next week.
3. Additional implementations will be built to compare performance
4. Implementing DNSSEC trust anchors with the assistance of NLnet Labs. it prepares us for more widespread, secure use of the OpenAlias standard
5. Reworking build environment to conform to Kitware recommendations, especially due to poorly implemented CMake in original reference code

Dev Diary

1. Per-kb fee testing is going well on testnet
2. Downloadable RAW blockchain for import your daemon will fully verify the downloaded blockchain
3. Unit tests have been fixed, change is expected to be merged in the next week.
4. Core tests are currently being worked on to bring them up to a 100% working state for regression testing


October 27th

1. Initial database implementation very nearly ready for broader testing
2. Per-kb fees functionality  added to simplewallet, hope to deploy that for general testing within the week
3. Build system is starting to come together in its final form

Dev Diary

1. CMake is looking a lot cleaner and easier to grok. It also fixes cross-compile
2. Offloaded MoneroPulse checkpoint checks to a separate thread to reduce locking and looking to do this elsewhere in the core now
3. Account: multilang wordlists are now inherent to the wallet/account. we have opted to use RapidJSON instead of eppe's JSON


November 2nd

1. LMDB's is syncing! if you would like to give it a spin you can
2. Per-kb fees are ready to go
3. New CMake there are a few final nigglies on Windows and FreeBSD

Dev diary

1. LMDB implementation is complete, and is undergoing testing for drastic rollbacks and edge cases
2. Switchover to the new fee structure is hoped to happen next week


November 17th

1. On-going Windows static build issues are preventing us from tagging and releasing Monero 0.8.8.5
2. Note: the only trustworthy, official binaries are those release by the core team
3. Monero Research Lab had a meet-up in Salt Lake City for some debate sessions
4. Bolckchain DB testing all looking good

Dev Diary

1. CMake lingering issues exist with static mingw-w64 builds
2. Several bug fixes to the multi-language mnemonic system


November 24th

1. My Monero announced, the first Monero hosted account service. A web wallet for Monero go to https://mymonero.com
2. Significant progress has been made to fixing the last few Windows build issues

Dev Diary

1. Msys2 now successfully compiles. final testing of new builds will happen this week
2. Expect a mass merge of PRs previously waiting this week. Now CMake changes will have to comply with the new, cleaner CMake.


Phew.


Wooo hooo    xxx

Globb0

more than half a year just from this price - 0,0015, DRK rise to above 0.02 whether it can be expected to happen to XMR now?

Since you are aiming for perfection the correct word is perfectly

As you gave a quite detailed and authoritative response, are you on the Monero team, marketing or otherwise? 

Marketing actions will start, after Monero has its fundamentals fully developed & tested (Database, GUI Wallet, stable RPC API, ...) and the coin/software is really ready to use.
Which will be in around 6 months, if no bigger development problems or delays come up.

Don't worry about marketing or things like corporate communication, public relations work, CRM-efforts and related tasks/functions.
They will be managed and operated as perfect as possible.
Moneros marketing will be managed with long-time proven & successfull marketing key concepts & techniques. There will be an (reviewed) marketing strategy [1] based on research and analysen, to serve as the fundamental underpinning of the to be created marketing plan and the instruments used in the marketing mix [3].

[1] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_strategy
[2] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_plan
[3] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_mix

And as nobody is perfect, the marketing team will be open for feedback and suggestions from the community, the targeted audiences or extern experts.
If everybody works hard, we all collaborate and share as many ressources and informations possible: Monero will get best possible marketing and as experience has shown significant outperform all competing projects.

The market doesn't like uncertainty. It's time to set a date for  the emission vote if it hasn't been set already.

Any plans about some XMR marketing moves?
Price is still funny, and now it's already for a long time.
from ~2$ to ~0.5$  

Pretty good list if I do say so.

1. Would you see this as an economic ground globally 'unified' by a network location, rather than a geographic location? What kind of topics do you consider areas of economic ground that is currently unjust? Like higher education costs, and healthcare/pharma? Apart from the possible competition introduced in pharma by having decentralized global marketplaces, what do you see in store for in-house treatments like $400 x-rays, or $3500 MRI scans? What can be done to make that a 'reasonable and fair' cost, if a cryptocurrency were to be a major driving force in the new economic ground? Do you still see health insurance assuming a large role in this new economic ground?

2. I agree, actually I think they already are .. but the technology and science development seems to be heavily subsidized by the gov't, at least in the USA. It's hardly a leap to say that over the last decade, with both tuition costs skyrocketing, and the US gov't taking control over most student loans, we've moved into a position where the gov't is using 18 year old uneducated cretins as middlemen to heavily subsidize technology and science development, in direct competition with private research, and then dump the new costs on those same people. I'd like to see these people receive cheaper education, and instead provide them with some incentive to subsidize private research themselves, rather than the way it is now. I don't know what that incentive would be, other than potentially disincentivizing jacking up the price of consumer goods anyways though ..

3. I agree, the amount of work in this area is so far removed from the public eye that it's getting kind of ridiculous. Of course, you also have large pharma and healthcare standing in direct competition with this ..

4. I believe spacex has promised a moon base within 20 years. There are also numerous articles detailing the recent comet landing, as well as legitimate asteroid mining (for heavy metals/scarce resources) within the next decade.

Well said, David.

To answer the remaining question, the game is "owned" by itself - meaning that the "shares" of the game ("company" if you wish) named gold (CKG) pay their dividends ingame. So if you buy gold and the game becomes a success, you will get periodical rewards to your game accounts. The early players were required to buy gold (to keep the number of players small and dedicated) but now that requirement is no more.

The license is closed source, and will remain. On the other hand, I am not a great fan of IPR so if someone copies all our databases and their formulas (anyone can do it), I won't probably do anything.

Inside the game, architect designs, for example, are royalty free so if a theatre you designed is copied and built a thousand times all over, your joy of contributing to success is your reward

Please provide some feedbacks. Then I will post it on Codex Cryptonica

Crytpo Kingdom FAQ

1. What is CryptoKingdom? Is there any relation to some ancient game?

Crypto-Kindgom is the first hybrid Faucet/MMO
It is a game, so its primary goal is to provide fun. It intents to targets several audiences:
- Free-riders can get some XMR just by hanging around. Having some actual conversation does help.
- Casual gamers can just come and play various games and earn more XMR
- More dedicated gamers can go much beyond that: gain prestige and title, invest and speculate, set up business of almost any kind, enter into politics...

Several games inspired Crypto-Kindgom but as far as we know, it is the only one of his kind. In no particular order:
- Civilization I for the "economy" aspect and the 90's graphics
- Ultima Online for the retro online/community flavour
- PrimeDice for the "game of chance with fun" aspect
- Habbo Hotel for the graphical appearance
- Probably some other. The main creator of the game, Risto Pietilä, has several years of experience in game-design

2. What's the user-interface?
Until December, it was only forum-based with some Google Docs (v1.x, "Ancients")
Starting from v2, the interface is graphical

3. What's the content of the game?
In just one word: everything!
Truly, Crypto-Kingdom is a sandbox so the content will be whatever you, as a player, want it to be. That being said, it will strongly tend toward economy and life simulation. Buying lands, building commerces, organising networks or information, playing the game of thrones, exploring... Again, take a look at EVE Online to get some ideas of what is possible when players are given free rein. Burn Jita!

Crypto-Kingdom will be (purposefully) limited by its game engine so that it won't have any immersive 3D like a FPS. Combat is highly unprobable (except if someone creates an arena, maybe) with the exception of large-scale fights (sieges).

4. How do I play the game? It's a multiplayer game, right?
Yes, this is a multiplayer game, a MMORPG. So you'll need an internet connection. The game will be usable on both mobile and desktop.
During the Ancient era (forum-based) there was a first period when you had to buy 1000 gold with XMR - it was a sort of paid public beta. Then came a second period where, whilst still forum-based, playing was for free - still, actually doing something was difficult without cashing in, since it is mostly land grab.
Very soon, you will just have to go to a web address and create a PC. Some tutorial/"first steps" might get implemented.

5. How are moneroj and gameplay linked? Can I play the game without (having) XMR?
The open agenda of Crypto-Kingdom is to boost the visibility of Monero. This is the reason why Crypto-Kingdom only allows Monero (XMR) as a paiment method. If you don't have XMR, you may either acquire some with BTC (or XUSD, or DOGE) or just play for free and get some by playing inside games or even just waiting for faucets and rains.

6. Who is behind the game? Company? Group of players? Investor(s)?
Risto Pietilä is the lead designer. Some members of the Monero Core Team are helping behind-the-scene and actively playing. Of course, a lot of members of the Monero community are heavily invested. The automated version of the game is funded by crowdsourcing - crowdsourcing here being part of the game itself, since buying land from the king is how the game is being crowdsourced.
Inside the game, architect designs, for example, are royalty free so if a theatre you designed is copied and built a thousand times all over, your joy of contributing to success is your reward . Still, you can be payed for designing (and this is already the case, we have several paid architects), this is just that the ensuing design is royalty-free.
Ultimately, investors are the players, the game is "owned" by itself - meaning that the "shares" of the game ("company" if you wish) named gold (CKG) pay their dividends ingame. So if you buy gold and the game becomes a success, you will get periodical rewards to your game accounts. The early players were required to buy gold (to keep the number of players small and dedicated) but now that requirement is no more.

7. What's the license of the game?
The game uses a proprietary licence and there is no plan to open-source it.

The license is closed source, and will remain. On the other hand, I am not a great fan of IPR so if someone copies all our databases and their formulas (anyone can do it), I won't probably do anything.

Inside the game, architect designs, for example, are royalty free so if a theatre you designed is copied and built a thousand times all over, your joy of contributing to success is your reward Cheesy

8. Why should I be interested in playing this particular game?
Because you want to help increasing the visibility of Monero. Because you like sandbox games rewarding the creativity and empowerment of players. Because you think that a game is a great addition to the cryptocurrency community. Because you like experimentation. Because you like socializing. Because you want money. Because it is fun.

9. Is there some website (or so) set up for the game?
Not yet. Presently, the forum version of the game is located at https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/crypto-kingdom-1991-retro-virtual-worldcity-819073

10. What's the overall goal? Will the game be updated over time? Can I win something?
What is the goal of life? Yes the game will be updated over time. A tentative and non-binding roadmap is available here: http://cryptokingdom.wikia.com/wiki/Crypto_Kingdom_Wiki#Eras

11. Why the name 'CryptoKingdom'?
It is is medieval setting, with a King at its head, hence Kingdom. And it is based on cryptocurrency, hence Crypto.

12. Are there any score lists online? Can achievements or missions or equipment be shared/traded/lost/damaged/renewed during the game?
The forum-era database (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tgIzgMza7NQsTpMO9pHke1ZVXYH7l5Sj5bHdZHItivo/edit?usp=sharing) is a kind of score list, but soon it will be obsolete with the automated version. Score lists, like most thing, will be available if players decide to do it.

13. Is it necessary to continuously play the game? Can I save and load?
This is an MMO, so there is no "save" or "load". When you're not online, the game continues without you. Please follow medical advices to prevent MMO addiction (some links: http://www.wikihow.com/Overcome-an-MMORPG-Addiction, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction, http://www.techaddiction.ca/computer_game_addiction.html)

14. How much does it cost? Any costs involved?
The game is free. It is a non-profit initiative and we expect enough money to be generated to cover server costs. That bein said, injecting some actual cash (in the form of XMR) will probably give you an edge, but first remember there is no winning condition and second that with enough dedication, you can achieve everything without spending a single piconero (or monereto, that's the same thing). Time is money, and money is just a replacement for dedication.

It's more generalized from medicine market. Granted that most of us are crypto-anarchists (with whatever that means) but there are some steps we want to make sure they happen before we move forward (if we ever do, that is...) as a species.

1. New economic ground that will be more just and decentralized
2. Focus on technology & science as primary goals of the society
3. Recalibrate sciences like Bioethics and start "getting the job done" towards stronger and more long-lasting humans.
4. Maintain this planet and colonize AT LEAST one more nearby
5. Educate people on remote areas about essential new tech stuff (Barefoot College is a nice example)

That's just a short list of what is truly wrong from my perspective and if I ever get the chance to contribute to any of the above, I assure you I'll do it as a primary goal of life.

USA has to pay on their (medical) insurance. Everything cost is 10 times more higher (thank UK), because they can gradually creep and manipulate the costs up and up its only the insurance paying, right?

It is possible that eventually some of the smarter (i.e. more paranoid) dark net market operators will not only accept XMR, but make XMR mandatory for buying pharmaceuticals. However, XMR is a long way from that.


Much of the hardcore crypto community are crypto-anarchists, which isn't really compatible with socialized/subsidized medicine. Is that what you're advocating? IMO, the best way to make medicine cheap is to get rid of the FDA. Encourage medical tourism. Get your surgery done in Singapore for cheap. Buy some pharmaceuticals from India. Open up the markets so that people compete over both quality and price.