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Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1601. (Read 4670622 times)

hero member
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Git training? Really? No words for what this says about the dev team...


4. Since git (and, by extension, github) can be confusing to developers that are working on Monero code (or on any git repositories, really), one of the Monero key contributors, tewinget, will be hosting a Git Crash Course next week Wednesday, July 30th.
You mean how it shows that the team is inclusive? 
I am sure the core devs know how to use git, but that doesn't mean there aren't some decent coders that would be interested in contributing but have never used version control at all (it's sad but true).

Some people will try to see the downside in the most positive things...
newbie
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Git training? Really? No words for what this says about the dev team...


4. Since git (and, by extension, github) can be confusing to developers that are working on Monero code (or on any git repositories, really), one of the Monero key contributors, tewinget, will be hosting a Git Crash Course next week Wednesday, July 30th.
legendary
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I am personally doing a small survey about XMR for all the people interested in completing it :


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform


Thanks in advance

I have no idea how to answer #2, How much of your networth is in cryptocurrencies? because I have no idea how it should be calculated.

If you have non liquid assets they could not be converted to crypto, at least not easily or likely.  In the case of people who own their home it's often their biggest asset by far.




Where can we keep tabs on ONLY answers?

This https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm

PS: If anyone hasn't filled the form yet, please fill the form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform



nice try nsa lol

I wonder what the chances are that we are on their radar yet.

100%
they have an entire floor with people with tabs open on bitcointalk

Why do you believe this?
hero member
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Okay I will abide by your desire to censor this thread. I will not reply unless someone makes a very serious critique of what I wrote that requires a response.

You are welcome to participate in this thread at any time as long as it is focused on topics directly relevant to Monero.

...abstract philosophical discussions of proof-of-work design are not directly relevant to Monero.

If you want to call that censorship, so be it...

...

I got the whole way through, tearing my hair out, before I realised what was happening:)

Maybe I led you to believe that my game was built in the forum and not in the gym. Or maybe...you are just making excuses.

For that reason alone, they are likely to get a lot of attention, and attention equals dollars, and dollars equals hiring more devs. Pretty virtous cycle that XMR should have but doesn't seem able to make happen. They have already sold over 1 million USD worth.

Meaning more Mythical Man-Months to muck up the progress on identifying the sweet spot.

Edit: Vitalik Buterin's intelligence is quite high as displayed on his blog posts. And they have other smart people in their group, with Tual even claiming Ralph Merkel is on their team. Expect great things from them. But it doesn't mean they will necessarily hit the sweet spot. They might though.
legendary
Activity: 1722
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I am personally doing a small survey about XMR for all the people interested in completing it :


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform


Thanks in advance

I have no idea how to answer #2, How much of your networth is in cryptocurrencies? because I have no idea how it should be calculated.

If you have non liquid assets they could not be converted to crypto, at least not easily or likely.  In the case of people who own their home it's often their biggest asset by far.




Where can we keep tabs on ONLY answers?

This https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm

PS: If anyone hasn't filled the form yet, please fill the form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform



nice try nsa lol

I wonder what the chances are that we are on their radar yet.
kbm
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nice try nsa lol

lol. If you've already used an exchange with a known email address or un-obscured ip address then they already have the ability to find out what they'd like to know - "how much do you have?" Cheesy
legendary
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I am personally doing a small survey about XMR for all the people interested in completing it :


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform


Thanks in advance

I have no idea how to answer #2, How much of your networth is in cryptocurrencies? because I have no idea how it should be calculated.

If you have non liquid assets they could not be converted to crypto, at least not easily or likely.  In the case of people who own their home it's often their biggest asset by far.




Where can we keep tabs on ONLY answers?

This https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm

PS: If anyone hasn't filled the form yet, please fill the form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform

kbm
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So, let's say that I wanted to make a Monero transfer to Alice. And let's say I specifically wanted Alice to be able to know/see my payment address (for example to be able to make a return transaction, or as a way of verifying that the specific transaction came from me). How would I accomplish that?

Would it be sufficient to simply choose no mixin for that transaction? If so, what would be the correct command for that? If not, how might I link my address to that transaction?

I know I would be breaking the anonymity, but the situation I am thinking of would be a rare and special circumstance.

I hope someone with a better understanding of the protocol than I have can take a moment and give me a clue on this.

Thanks.

You can do this using the view key. Apart from using the tx_id field, I don't know any other way to use for proof-of-payment apart from giving someone your .keys file

The usage of the view key has not yet been integrated into the wallet's functionality, but devs have implied it will be there in the future.

Using no mixin would break the anonymity of both yourself and inputs you received from other people (thereby de-anonymizing them as well), as it becomes part of the viewable block chain. You'd still have a stealth address though. To prevent this de-anonymization from needing to be done for the type of situations you have in mind, the three above methods can be used.
newbie
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After testing the "--restore-deterministic-wallet" on windows, i lost some transactions.
I re-download the blockchain but only the last transactions appear.

What is the problem?


I am having the same problem as this guy. I just restored my cold wallet with the deterministic key... Only the past day's transactions show up. I read the subsequent replies to his post but don't really understand what to do to fix the bug (I download the windows binaries, I assume they are outdated). Do I have to get the recent updated code from github and compile it (I don't know how to do that ! )? Any help? It's fun learning all this stuff!

newbie
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So, let's say that I wanted to make a Monero transfer to Alice. And let's say I specifically wanted Alice to be able to know/see my payment address (for example to be able to make a return transaction, or as a way of verifying that the specific transaction came from me). How would I accomplish that?

Would it be sufficient to simply choose no mixin for that transaction? If so, what would be the correct command for that? If not, how might I link my address to that transaction?

I know I would be breaking the anonymity, but the situation I am thinking of would be a rare and special circumstance.

I hope someone with a better understanding of the protocol than I have can take a moment and give me a clue on this.

Thanks.
full member
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Will someone please elaborate on the license described in July 23 - Monero Missives #8, how can an open source project require a license?

Most open source projects have a license.  Typically a variant of GPL.

Being Open Source doesn't mean that you're free to do whatever you want with the code provided.  Depending on the license involved, there will usually be certain restrictions.  And some licenses are freer than others.  For example, some licenses require that if you make changes to the code, you have to properly attribute where the code came from.  This is commonly seen in the "Creative Commons" license.

Here's a decent page comparing Open Source licenses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses

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Will someone please elaborate on the license described in July 23 - Monero Missives #8, how can an open source project require a license?
sr. member
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Can i not copy and paste my wallet address into XMR explorers to check balance?
I recently withdrew from mintpal to my address.  How to I check balance?  New to the monero game.

Nope. Only your wallet can see it.

Neither the block explorer nor anyone else can see your transfers or balance given the address (public key).

There is something called a "View Key" (provided to you when you created your wallet) that can be used to view your incoming transfers but I don't think any of the block explorers have support for it yet.



Good to know, thank you sir!
legendary
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Can i not copy and paste my wallet address into XMR explorers to check balance?
I recently withdrew from mintpal to my address.  How to I check balance?  New to the monero game.

Nope. Only your wallet can see it.

Neither the block explorer nor anyone else can see your transfers or balance given the address (public key).

There is something called a "View Key" (provided to you when you created your wallet) that can be used to view your incoming transfers but I don't think any of the block explorers have support for it yet.

sr. member
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Can i not copy and paste my wallet address into XMR explorers to check balance?
I recently withdrew from mintpal to my address.  How to I check balance?  New to the monero game.
legendary
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Sine secretum non libertas
Poloniex is one of the best altcoin exchanges around these days, IMO.  I wouldn't call them amateurs.

I endorse this view.  Any exchange that will make good their customers after a loss of bitcoin in a security breach is head and shoulders above the crowd.  (At least, once their security practices have been changed to harden their enterprise against further assaults, which PLX has certainly done.)  Moreover, it is by far the most liquid venue for XMR trading.  (Weak though that statement may seem.)
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It's wonderful to see how Monero PR team works. Everytime there's a painful topic in this thread, some new members arrive and start posting irrelevant bullshit. You're doing great guys!

To be honest the "PR team" consists of David and me. David is doing all the small announcements and interviews and I'm managing social media and we have unfortunately not the time to create enormous amounts of sockpuppets and also we don't really care, if some ducknote trolls are thinking the dev team is childish
hero member
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Going on 16 hours withdrawal from Poloniex to BTER...anyone else having similar issues?

I have now sent support tickets to both exchanges   Huh

ahhh great, so Poloniex API has been sending out transactions without Payment ID, even if you input everything correctly. So now my account wont be credited on BTER and Poloniex can't man up to the mistake and send me a duplicate tx. 100 XMR is effectively lost in the ether.

Stay away from Poloniex, what a bunch of amateurs  Undecided

Actually, the exchanges have experience dealing with this situation. Until recently, users were explicitly told to never transfer directly from exchange to exchange because the functionality didn't exist. But many didn't follow instructions and transferred anyway. You can resolve this by submitting a ticket with the receiving exchange and having your txid at hand. Unless you publicly stated the txid somewhere, it does reasonably identify you as the person who should be credited.
Indeed, you should be able to resolve this with BTER support.

Poloniex is one of the best altcoin exchanges around these days, IMO.  I wouldn't call them amateurs.
hero member
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Going on 16 hours withdrawal from Poloniex to BTER...anyone else having similar issues?

I have now sent support tickets to both exchanges   Huh

ahhh great, so Poloniex API has been sending out transactions without Payment ID, even if you input everything correctly. So now my account wont be credited on BTER and Poloniex can't man up to the mistake and send me a duplicate tx. 100 XMR is effectively lost in the ether.

Stay away from Poloniex, what a bunch of amateurs  Undecided

Actually, the exchanges have experience dealing with this situation. Until recently, users were explicitly told to never transfer directly from exchange to exchange because the functionality didn't exist. But many didn't follow instructions and transferred anyway. You can resolve this by submitting a ticket with the receiving exchange and having your txid at hand. Unless you publicly stated the txid somewhere, it does reasonably identify you as the person who should be credited.
sr. member
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Going on 16 hours withdrawal from Poloniex to BTER...anyone else having similar issues?

I have now sent support tickets to both exchanges   Huh

ahhh great, so Poloniex API has been sending out transactions without Payment ID, even if you input everything correctly. So now my account wont be credited on BTER and Poloniex can't man up to the mistake and send me a duplicate tx. 100 XMR is effectively lost in the ether.

Stay away from Poloniex, what a bunch of amateurs  Undecided

The coins will have arrived in BTER's wallet. Make sure you provide their support with the transaction ID (TXID) and hopefully, given the circumstances, they'll credit your account. Since they will actually have your coins, they just won't know who's they are.

Don't give up just yet: all is not lost
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