Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1670. (Read 4670614 times)

I understand that all people in this thread mined XMR. Can somebody tell me the main competitive advantages of XMR?

Nonsense.

XMR has a relatively narrow user base, as much of the coin is being mined by the botnets. For instance, 4 MH/s botnet was discussed on #monero-dev and this is one botnet only, which gives about 240M difficulty. God knows how many of them there are actually, but my guess is more than 80% of the whole hash rate.
 
I've been writing a week ago that as long as this is the case, the price doesn't have any fundamental drivers to go up. As you can see nothing has changed and the price is slowly going down as the botnet owners continue to downsell Monero. This is a very profitable short term business for them, and a bit risky too, so they have to make quick profit.

Indeed, external news may boost the exchange rate, but only in the very short term, since bear factors are dominant for this currency.

Isn't i2p damn slow?

What do you think about core of the Monero team?
I have a not good feeling that they have too much power and they can do with the coin everything what they want.

Dead wrong - I know two botnet operators mining it right now.

Thanks, it is an interesting opinion.
Why do you think that all CN currencies are too immature today?

Dead wrong - I know two botnet operators mining it right now.

Until the block reward decreases twofold, botnets are not moving anywhere, as currently it is about 100% margin for botnet owners [no proof, sorry].

Ironically, I'm starting to believe that all CryptoNote currencies are way too immature at the moment. It might take a lot of time for any of them to take off, including XMR.

Sir, you are completely wrong. Don't get me wrong, I love bashing the XMR codebase, which is pretty much the fault of the BCN devs - it's like a hobby. But CryptoNight needing a 64-bit system is NOT an example of the code's inefficiency, it's an example of the algorithm being designed to run quickly on systems that aren't ancient. Optimizing it for 32-bit arithmetic would slow it down by a lot, because it would only be able to process around half the data that it could otherwise (in general). So, the algorithm is made for 64-bit. That's not to say that CryptoNight can't be implemented with 32-bit arithmetic - it's just an ugly hack, and it's slow, and nobody wants to do the work to support a steadily decreasing amount of users - those being the ones on 32-bit.

Here's an example: A very large part of CryptoNight is a loop that is executed 262,144 times. Inside that loop, two 64-bit multiplies are done. Now, on computers, multiplies are fucking slow. The only really common instruction that I know of that is consistently slower (by a lot), is divides, which are ouch slow. Anyway, two 64-bit multiplies. And you can't shortcut it - both the high and low 64-bits of the result are used. Now, on a 64-bit machine, I need to do one or two register loads and a multiply. Done. On 32-bit, not even counting the register loading (and the possible memory accesses you'd need due to register pressure, depending on what else happened to be stored in them at the time), you need somewhere around this much shit: 5 bit shift ops, 5 adds, two AND operations, two logic operations, and the killer, four, yes - FOUR multiplies. Now, this isn't the absolute best implementation, it's what I have in front of me, but it's not absolute shit, either. You can knock off one multiply, I think, maybe a bit shift or two, but you're gonna have to do most of those ops, including the three slow-ass multiplies. This is an excellent example of how the limitations of the 32-bit platform cause issues.

Can anybody describe to me perspectives of the Monero?

I know not everyone follows the conversations in #monero-dev on Freenode, so to keep everyone in the loop: work on this is already progressing. You can follow the progress by checking tewinget's databasing branch: https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/tree/blockchain

It's the last little bit where you want to mask your traffic to the point where an attacker with access to your router can't even determine that you're using Monero. The CryptoNote protocol is VERY easy to detect in its current form.

I don't understand why the developers made integration with i2p. IMO, it is expedient, because CN technology ensures the safety of coins at a high level

if you want it to become very attractive in a short time
contact some owner-commerce sites
who are in the tor network
and propose to insert XMR
you will see that in a short time
get to x30 than it is worth now

Why the fuck isn't XMR surpassed DRK yet, XMR is the only good anonymous coins, the rest are SHITTY GIMMICKS. This coin should be at 0.1. People aren't aware of the value of this coin. In a fair world with common sense this coin would eat Litecoin alive.

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