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Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 15. (Read 4670972 times)

legendary
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This made me laugh far more than it should have! Cheesy
WTG Chu

https://twitter.com/hoofnagle/status/1493958297262575620
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As soon as its in the gui i'll do it.  

I got sick and tired of dealing with baby sitting mining rigs at least 5 years ago.
It will be integrated into the GUI soon: https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/3829

I am hoping I can figure out how to slow down the payout, but that may not be possible... not sure.  But that pic is ~5 hours of payouts.  I suppose after I get a zillion of these little UTXOs I will combine them just because they make me itchy.
If you switch to p2pool-mini, you'll get bigger payouts on average because you'll have more shares in the PPLNS window.
legendary
Activity: 3766
Merit: 5146
Note the unconventional cAPITALIZATION!
Is Monero under some heavy attack or what?
One pool had over 50% of hashrate and this is very centralized and dangerous.
If you are mining monero switch to some other pool asap!


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MineXMR hashrate drops from 50% to 38% after Monero community decentralization efforts

https://www.monero.observer/minexmr-top-monero-pool-hashrate-drops-from-50-to-38-percent/

Yes! I saw that earlier today.  Kind of inspiring, really.  The community is stronger than so many other projects.

There are currently 11709 Monero public nodes.  That is effing amazing.  There are only 15k BTC ones (Of course both of these numbers do not tell the WHOLE story).
BTC :15k
XMR: 11.7k
BCH 1k
BSV 36 (lol)
LTC 1330
DOGE 1450
ZCASH 285

Monero is so much more important than most realize. 

you forgot

ETH : 1


Cheesy

HAHA~!  That is a good point.  I suppose good old lazy eye Bezos really is the Ethmaster.

OK!  Just another plug for p2pool.io

This is some cypherpunk shit.  So much coolness happening with monero and no one notices.  You get all the advantages of solo mining with all the advantages of a pool.


I am hoping I can figure out how to slow down the payout, but that may not be possible... not sure.  But that pic is ~5 hours of payouts.  I suppose after I get a zillion of these little UTXOs I will combine them just because they make me itchy.

But then again, Monero as the chain to do this on is perfect as the fees are great.

I know it's probably somewhat wishful... But you know how different fads have kind of come around for a second run over all the years in crypto as a universe?  ETH itself gives way to ICOs gives way to NFTs?  It's like the same garbage gets packaged over and over... and if one is smart (and very lucky) one can benefit from this arrangement.

Well legitimate use cases do as well.  We see it in Bitcoin alone.   In the beginning only a select few really understood why cryptographicly sound transactions would be hard to stop, and hard to censor.  I would love to put myself in this group of people who "got it" early on.  But not really... I just wanted to play poker for something that had value but was not the USD.  But as I played, I began to see why this was not just "Everquest platinum" and it had value.  And over even more time I was able to start to understand why Bitcoin would change the world.

Unfortunately for me, when I evaluated Ethereum what I saw was a HUMONGOUS attack surface and an overly complex sort of Rube-Goldberg machine that was just a bad idea.

Oh, the ETH I didn't buy. LOL.  I was right about the project.  But wrong in assuming that most other people would not fall for it.

I saw several other alts come along.  Litecoin.  Really nothing new, and a marketing slogan that had everything but a real reason to actually mean anything.  Peercoin, namecoin, solidcoin... lol remember that one? What a turd that was.  And then Counterparty!  That was the first one that really did something new.  But it wasn't just a shitcoin.  Never really went anywhere though... And Stacks (Stax?) seems to have stole it's mojo, while having the stink of a shitcoin.

And then Monero.

Wow.  I was immediately amazed.  The main thing about Monero was, it was everything that Bitcoin was but with an obfuscated blockchain.  Privacy was a legit sell.  I saw it as the first project that could exist with bitcoin but still be valuable.  It could exist along side bitcoin and do something Bitcoin never could.  I came onboard.

Well "privacy coins" never really had a heyday aside from a little action bestowed on them by John MacAfee.  And I think that is kind of a good thing.

Why?

Because we are in the middle of the world waking up and "getting" bitcoin.  Thanks to the coordinated attack on western democracies the knife's edge is waking up to seeing the money destroyed, and they know they have very few choices for places they can protect their value.  And Canada just announced it would begin freezing the bank accounts of people they decide are acting the wrong way.

And yet bitcoin cannot be stopped.  So we are about (aboot? lol) to see an explosion of interest in Bitcoin bigger than any previous market.  By a LOT.

But, some of those folks are also going to realize that bitcoin, being transparent has a feature that is also a liability.  And Monero makes a different tradeoff, which creates a DIFFERENT feature set (and different liabilities).  Yes smart contract platforms are interesting.  NFTs are fun to look at.  But the smart money is most likely starting to see that value Privacy is going to be something worth investing in.

I think Monero's first real big explosion is still ahead of us.  It never really got the attention it deserved for a good reason.  

Who needed it?  Not the honest people.  Just the drug dealers.  Because the world still made sense, and if you played by the basic set of rules then having value in a transparant blockchain was not a bad tradeoff.  Well, it is becoming one.

I guarantee you Michael Saylor has thought about Monero, and probably sees it differently than the "VC projects" of things like smart contract chains.  He even said it in an interview when asked.  If someone was in an oppressive regime then Monero might make sense.  He sees the difference.  It is basically bitcoin with privacy, and more risk in auditability.

Well the peac  eful world in which ordinary citizens can get by without financial privacy is going away.  And it's not that PETTY CRIMINALS are becoming more sophisticated and attacking Bitcoin whales.  It's world governments beginning to turn that way.

Sadly, we are on the edge of a dystopia, and that is exactly what Monero was made for.  Some of you have been around here for as long as me.  A few even longer.  None of us wants what I see coming, I am sure...  but thank goodness for Bitcoin, AND Monero.
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THE MONERO MOON (ISSUE 31) IS OUT NOW! Grab a coffee or a beer and kick back for a read. Like, share, and spread the word of Monero as it continues to grow and offer unmatched financial privacy.


https://medium.com/themoneromoon/the-monero-moon-issue-31-39f3fbe6db5a
legendary
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Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
https://www.thecountersignal.com/news/rcmp-ban-34-crypto-wallets-from-working-in-canada

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“The Ontario Provincial Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police are currently investigating cryptocurrency donations being collected in relation to illegal acts falling under the scope of the Emergency Measures Act,” the RCMP order begins.

“Pursuant to the Emergency Economic Measures Order, under subsection 19(1) of the Emergencies Act, there is a duty to cease facilitating any transactions pertaining to the following cryptocurrency address(es).”

Trudeau’s officers list 29 Bitcoin addresses, 2 Ethereum, and 1 wallet each of Cardano, Monero, and Litecoin.

Let them bitches try to stop Monero transactions!
legendary
Activity: 3836
Merit: 4969
Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
Is Monero under some heavy attack or what?
One pool had over 50% of hashrate and this is very centralized and dangerous.
If you are mining monero switch to some other pool asap!


Quote
MineXMR hashrate drops from 50% to 38% after Monero community decentralization efforts

https://www.monero.observer/minexmr-top-monero-pool-hashrate-drops-from-50-to-38-percent/

Yes! I saw that earlier today.  Kind of inspiring, really.  The community is stronger than so many other projects.

There are currently 11709 Monero public nodes.  That is effing amazing.  There are only 15k BTC ones (Of course both of these numbers do not tell the WHOLE story).
BTC :15k
XMR: 11.7k
BCH 1k
BSV 36 (lol)
LTC 1330
DOGE 1450
ZCASH 285

Monero is so much more important than most realize. 

you forgot

ETH : 1


Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 3766
Merit: 5146
Note the unconventional cAPITALIZATION!
Is Monero under some heavy attack or what?
One pool had over 50% of hashrate and this is very centralized and dangerous.
If you are mining monero switch to some other pool asap!


Quote
MineXMR hashrate drops from 50% to 38% after Monero community decentralization efforts

https://www.monero.observer/minexmr-top-monero-pool-hashrate-drops-from-50-to-38-percent/

Yes! I saw that earlier today.  Kind of inspiring, really.  The community is stronger than so many other projects.

There are currently 11709 Monero public nodes.  That is effing amazing.  There are only 15k BTC ones (Of course both of these numbers do not tell the WHOLE story).
BTC :15k
XMR: 11.7k
BCH 1k
BSV 36 (lol)
LTC 1330
DOGE 1450
ZCASH 285

Monero is so much more important than most realize. 
legendary
Activity: 3836
Merit: 4969
Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
Is Monero under some heavy attack or what?
One pool had over 50% of hashrate and this is very centralized and dangerous.
If you are mining monero switch to some other pool asap!


Quote
MineXMR hashrate drops from 50% to 38% after Monero community decentralization efforts

https://www.monero.observer/minexmr-top-monero-pool-hashrate-drops-from-50-to-38-percent/
legendary
Activity: 3836
Merit: 4969
Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
Mining 32 cores on p2pool...  good stuff.  Join it.  We need more hashrate!

I'm too lazy, been throwing my spare cycles to solo for a year in the gui even though I'm getting about a third what xmrig would give me.

As soon as its in the gui i'll do it. 

I got sick and tired of dealing with baby sitting mining rigs at least 5 years ago.
legendary
Activity: 3766
Merit: 5146
Note the unconventional cAPITALIZATION!
Mining 32 cores on p2pool...  good stuff.  Join it.  We need more hashrate!
full member
Activity: 435
Merit: 125
Is Monero under some heavy attack or what?
One pool had over 50% of hashrate and this is very centralized and dangerous.
If you are mining monero switch to some other pool asap!
hero member
Activity: 870
Merit: 585
A private investigator who does missing persons searches and accepts Monero posted here, or somewhere, offering his services.  Anybody has a link?

I saw that in a reddit post.
I assume it was on reddit.com/r/Monero, but I can't find it.
legendary
Activity: 3836
Merit: 4969
Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
A private investigator who does missing persons searches and accepts Monero posted here, or somewhere, offering his services.  Anybody has a link?

I saw that in a reddit post.
hero member
Activity: 870
Merit: 585
A private investigator who does missing persons searches and accepts Monero posted here, or somewhere, offering his services.  Anybody has a link?
legendary
Activity: 3836
Merit: 4969
Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
https://mobile.twitter.com/hyc_symas/status/1492236843584212993

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Pretty good critical analysis of blockchain tech. Monero solves many (but not all) of the problems discussed. It gets a brief mention, but clearly David hasn't taken a close look.
jr. member
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Just in case any of you here expect a refund from Altilly. If you don't have all their deposit confirmation emails, they give you nothing. That's a scam.

Altilly Exchange FAKE Refunds, Possible Exit Scam
full member
Activity: 142
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THE MONERO MOON (ISSUE 30) IS OUT NOW! Grab a coffee or a beer and kick back for a read. Like, share, and spread the word of Monero as it continues to grow and offer unmatched financial privacy.

https://medium.com/themoneromoon/the-monero-moon-issue-30-65b44cbe718e
legendary
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In this Bitcoin Q&A, Andreas M. Antonopoulos talks about how privacy is a human right and is the fountainhead for all other human rights. Without financial privacy, we don’t have human rights.


https://odysee.com/@aantonop:8/privacy-is-a-human-right-bitcoin-q-a:4
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*Brute force will solve any Bitcoin problem*
legendary
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Cross posted.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/slvy2a/making_atomic_swaps_accessible_to_all/

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A friendly user interface for Atomic Swaps has been requested by the community for a long time, and we are proud to announce that the first alpha version of our GUI is now finally out. It allows anyone to perform an atomic swap, withdraw funds from the internal wallet, compare swap providers, and view their past swap history - all without having to use the terminal. For now, though, it's limited to testnet until enough people have tried it and we deem it safe enough to use on mainnet. It's still a work in progress and there are many things we still need to work on, but in our opinion it's already a big improvement in terms of usability over the command line tool, which is currently the only option if you want to try Atomic Swaps.

Visit this page to download the alpha version of the GUI and perform an Atomic Swap on testnet. Please leave us feedback here once you have tried it, it is truly helpful to us.

Stay tuned - we hope to shoot out a new version that will be on mainnet in the upcoming weeks. If you have questions feel free to hit us up in the unstoppableswap or COMIT-monero room on Matrix.
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