Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1478. (Read 4670622 times)

Two tx from the attackers are now present in the mempool and are waiting to enter a block. They spend the outputs from the overflow tx.

http://chainradar.com/xmr/transaction/e3b94625d8eb5513dbc98b599a86a3b8622a23dce0124334f5b9982b656c59c5
http://chainradar.com/xmr/transaction/f7a2c4d0c4ccbfae37d550253c5f032156d9e8d0897d76137e26ea5fa8a92f44

Additionally, there is a tx in the mempool that is corrupt for 66 XMR.

http://chainradar.com/xmr/txpool

No clue what the intention of these are.

please help how can i know that my wallet is in the right fork? i have bitmonero v 0.8.8.2  and the last block was 203753
thanks in advance...

Nope - bear in mind that basically without any action from us the "bad" fork died after 35 minutes. It still exists, it's just stuck at block 202647 and won't proceed. This would have happened even if we hadn't noticed it, so there's little they could have done to have any long-lived attack.

The usually count +/-, nothing unusual

But found another interesting thing.
They are some hidden pool with ca. 7-9 Mhs (easy to find, just network-hashrate - all known pool speeds)
And daily difficulty waves depends on this hidden pool.
What now? Today wave is broken (see diff-picture on my pool) and all pools found more blocks this time )))
I think hidden pool on the wrong chain.

Maybe you think you are going to just kill the coin outright or close to it. If you can manage to arrange a short, you don't relay care about exchanges. You short, it goes to zero, you make money.

rpitilla has been selling OTC options. Any unusual put orders?

great satoshi, would love to hear his opinion on Monero...

The usually count +/-, nothing unusual

Forks cause exchanges to freeze up. That would be too risky.

Or it wasn't (directly) economically motivated to attack an exchange, perhaps to simply attack the coin directly (especially if they underestimated us and didn't think we could fix it).

But we are still just guessing.

How many blocks have your servers found since the attack, relative to an average of what they normally find?

rpitilla did say something about what he described as unusual trading that day. i don't know the details.

With price-discovery in the markets, the definition of "artificial" is vague. In one sense, the decline from 510 to 400 and below was "artificial" (if we assume it was, at least partly, a product of preknowledge of the coming attack and speculation that it would further hurt the price). In the other sense, the essence of markets is that all knowledge is taken into account, information is not perfect, and seldom even the best informed players have access to many information that some of the others have, in turn.

If we discount the last week downturn altogether, the price should be much higher by now. The attack failed - it could not damage the confidence towards XMR, it exposed the old scammers more, and proved how capable the devteam is. "Rolling back" the preparation of the attack from price history would lift us to 600 by tomorrow.

But if the market collectively decides that a selloff is in order, we might find ourselves at 300 instead. That some buyers openly like XMR at 400, is no more artificial than others vowing in the trollbox that they will sell every one of theirs, at whatever price they can get once the trading starts. Depending who will prevail, buying at 400 may be the last opportunity to buy at 400, or the last opportunity to sell at 400. Most likely, given the meager actual effect of the attack, it won't be neither, and anyone making decisions based on what others have already done, is just impoverishing himself as a result.

I have a largish number of XMR and BTC in the exchange, ready to react. But my reaction will be to buy if the price goes down, and sell if it goes up. This is my way of making slow and steady profit. Others have their way, and without panickers, my income would be significantly lower.

I agree. What about using foreknowledge of this to trade (assuming people will panic).

I agree. What about using foreknowledge of this to trade (assuming people will panic).

There just has to be a financial motive for this. only thing makes sense