Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 683. (Read 4670673 times)

FYI, cross-posting from: Want to help Monero? We're trying to find a Mozillian that can champion our project to Mozilla.

Nice work on the infographic!
I was wondering if the image of gold is immediately identifiable as gold.
I searched google images for gold
https://www.google.com/search?q=gold&biw=1920&bih=950&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin28zuzNfKAhWBPB4KHdrVCEwQsAQILw
some of them really say GOLD!  There's several that looked good.  Here's one example

Will do so right away, thanks for your suggestion.

Edit: done.

I think it might have something to do with the transactions getting stuck issue that some people incurred here. Could you send them a reply that if they need help the developers/contributers in #monero or #monero-dev can easily help them?

Monero is offline on ShapeShift.io for multiple days now, this is quite inconvenient if you would like to try monero for the first time or conveniently buy small amounts for actual usage. Sent ShapeShift an email, but the answer is rather cryptic. What do they mean and what can we do to help them?

My email to support, 30 January:

Answer February 1 from support:

Nice! Happy to use it again!
Once thing not obvious: with the app comes a very useful widget to monitor price and hashrate. Head to the widgets on your Android to find it.

Monero Status
My friend made an android widget and app.




App and Widget for the Monero cryptocurrency, with stats from all exchanges.
Google Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tr.monerostatus

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Simple widget and app for the Monero(XMR) cryptocurrency

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Supported exchanges: poloniex.com, bittrex.com, bter.com, hitbtc.com, melotic.com, shapeshift.io
Supported fiat currencies: AUD, BRL, CAD, CHF, CNY, EUR, GBP, IDR, ILS, MXN, NOK, NZD, PLN, RON, RUB, SEK, SGD, USD and ZAR

Monero Widget features (both in 2x1 and 2x2 formats):
•30 minute fixed refresh rate, tap refresh sign to instantly refresh
•Tap Monero logo to launch App in the chosen currency
•Price in BTC from chosen exchange, color coded for recent change
•Price in chosed currency from coinmarketcap.com
•24 hour total volume  in chosed currency from coinmarketcap.com
•Approximate hashrate in Mh/s from moneroblocks.eu

Monero Widget features (only in 2x2):
•Calculated price for your XMR assets
•Calculated mined value per day from your hashrate
•Market capitalization in the chosen currency
 
App features:
•All the widget information and capabilities
•Left side drawer for navigation (Swipe right from the side or press app icon to open)
•Trial fullscreen button, please report bugs
•Tap the refresh icon to refresh, long press to enter continuous refresh mode; exit by tapping again
•Exchange specific 24 hour volume from chosen exchange
•Total market capitalization, 24 hour percentage change and ranking from coinmarketcap.com
•Total coins in existence, block height and difficulty from moneroblocks.eu
•Calculate prices for your amount of XMR
•Calculate XMR mined per day and their value for your hashrate
•Market-Order Depth graph drawing data from all enabled exchanges, plus their total (combined) market depth
•XMR markets for other cryptocurrencies by exchanges that offer them
•Enable the exchanges you want in the graph by tapping on their names in the drawer
•Change the graph's viewed range with pinch in/pinch out gestures
•Added Shapeshift.io as an exchange (one can see it that way )
•Added Ramer–Douglas–Peucker smoothing to the market depth graph, dependant on zoom level
•Using either  moneroblocks.info or chainradar.com (whichever is giving data faster)

Coinmarketcap data retrieved through http://coinmarketcap.northpole.ro/ JSON API

Using the GraphView library from http://android-graphview.org/ , licenced under the LGPL

Donations welcome Many thanks to those that have already donated!
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Updates
•Stuck values bug fixed. (Yeah, it took some time...)
•Unexpected bug fixes!
•Experimental Price Alarms.
The new permissions (receive data from Internet, prevent device from sleeping, control vibration) are only used if you enable alerts. Alerts are using Google Cloud Messaging, so Google Play Services are required. Only the settings on the alerts page are sent to the server, and wakelock is kept just for the duration of handling a message; Play Services handle  reception in a power efficient way.

And please make feature requests or tell us about bugs! It really helps!

This is progressing really nicely. I like it with the text - it may be obvious to us, but for outsiders the description helps.

This chart would be great if there was ever a new informative video made about Monero. Something like a quick flash of each of the three areas to draw attention to them along with a brief commentary to explain them. Good work aiwe.

^^ Indeed better without the text, the icons speak for themselves. Great work aiwe!

I like the coin and community and this diagram shows its advantages I learned about. It's just that simple to throw something in to help it grow.

I can help with some graphic design in my spare time so feel free to contact me.

Same for me. Thanks for your efforts aiwe.

You are right.

Maybe I spam with this chart too much. If so we can move to trello for example.

Thank you for your effort aiwe, this is taking shape.

Personally, I would prefer different colours, more primary and less "mixed". Especially the kind of pink on the "decentralized" portion is kind of muddy and also the resulting mixes, especially the brown in the gold section, are not very appealing.

Please don't take that personally, I'm not even able to use the software to design this kind of stuff so your initiative is very much appreciated. Just an observation.

Maybe make the labels a little smaller or move them closer to the outside. The "D" at the beginning and end of decentralized is too close to the edge. The other two words look much better.

I left decentralized, private, digital

Try this

1. Exit simplewallet

2. Make sure your wallet.bin.keys file is securely backed up

3. Delete the wallet.bin file.

4. Exit daemon

5. Remove poolstate.bin file

6. Restart daemon

7. Restart simplewallet.

8. Wait for wallet to rescan (may take some time).

9. Check balance and resend coins

EDIT: Added steps 4-6

prompt, please, how to return coins?

^ this was my perception

The printed words do not work. Visually it is too cluttered, and in terms of meaning, it raises more questions than answers. Keep the icons only. Let people be intrigued by the design and ask questions. That is a good thing. It also removes the English bias.

This picture targets the Joe Blow demographic?
If so, the word "fiat" won't strike a chord.  The average American doesn't talk like that.  They think about cash, not "fiat." You don't need a word at all.  The greenback icon gets the idea across all by itself.
I would keep the icons for dollars, Bitcoin and gold, without the printed words, and print Monero under the M icon.
Otherwise, people will go what's that M doing there, then look at the other stuff, which they understand, and forget about the M.  
Monero is the thing you want to communicate, and it's the only word left out of a rather wordy picture.
In my opinion, the graphic might work better without any words at all, except Monero.  If you explain too much, people will tune you out.  You want to involve people and pique their curiosity.  Exposition comes after.  A T-shirt with a technical diagram may just make their eyes glaze.  It's transmitting information on a wavelength that us geeks understand perfectly, but it's not going to grab the average person.  The visuals should be enough to get them thinking.
Get them curious and then engage them on a personal level.

Someone should click together a T-Shirt shop with the above infographic, please.
At Spreadshirt, Shirtinator, RedBubble or wherever.


Every design & product should be available in two versions. 1.) No markup and 2.) a small markup, that will be donated to the core team, to be spend where they think it helps the proect the most.



I would buy some shirts, polos, T-Shirts and maybe one coffee-mug. :-)