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legendary
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I think everyone in the world should have a goal to own at least 8 XMR.

A lofty goal.  This is roughly 2000 times what the average would be at the end of normal emission.

Kind of a trippy perspective isnt it?
 
 
Making an extremely lofty assumption that eventually Monero will become the private ledger of the world, let's assume that 3 billion  people on the planet all want to hold Monero.  Their fair share, assuming equal distribution is about 0.006 Monero each!  How exactly do subunits of Monero work, anyway?  Do we have our own "satoshi"?  How many of those are in a single full Monero? 
 

That is something I was just thinking of earlier today regarding monero faucets... Like.. is it a... "Moneri"? Tongue

Fyi, my miner site says i have 0.734201588289 XMR. Is there any real standard on how many decimal places, and what is the minimum transfer limit, or like what is dust level? Thanks! Wink 
hero member
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I think everyone in the world should have a goal to own at least 8 XMR.

A lofty goal.  This is roughly 2000 times what the average would be at the end of normal emission.

Kind of a trippy perspective isnt it?
 
  
Making an extremely lofty assumption that eventually Monero will become the private ledger of the world, let's assume that 3 billion  people on the planet all want to hold Monero.  Their fair share, assuming equal distribution is about 0.006 Monero each!  How exactly do subunits of Monero work, anyway?  Do we have our own "satoshi"?  How many of those are in a single full Monero?  
  
Let's look at that 0.006 Monero per person figure another way...  There is about 60 trillion US dollars in the world as actual and spendable money (not derivatives and other ultra fancy financial assets).  If the same 3 billion people wanted their fair share of all the dollars in the world, we would divide out 20,000 USD to all of those interested three billion people.  
  
But a world in which every active human has a bank account with 20k dollars in it is about as realistic as one where every human has 0.006 Monero.... Impossible.  Wealth will never be so equally distributed.  
  
So how much is 8 XMR in our world where it becomes the global private ledger?  
  
A whopping $26 million of today's value.  That is crazy to think about!  
  
So yeah, if XMR gets as big as I hope it does, 8 XMR is really all you will need to be extremely wealthy.
legendary
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Whimsical Pants
I think everyone in the world should have a goal to own at least 8 XMR.

A lofty goal.  This is roughly 2000 times what the average would be at the end of normal emission.

Kind of a trippy perspective isnt it?
legendary
Activity: 2968
Merit: 1198
Watching the excitement lately i just want to preannounce something.

I was creating an online catalog for my family business and then i thought, why dont i make it into a crypto eshop? Unfortunately due to serious lack of time i am not active at all here and also i havent finished building this eshop yet. But it would be soontm ready and of course accepting monero.

I have to add prices, more products and maybe better photos (well the quality of the photos already do the job i need but i am not sure there are appropriate for an eshop). I also really have to find a way to track monero prices automatically and since i am a programming noob it may take a while since there is not a ready module for that yet.

In any case the shop must be running in mid October as a latest date.

That is all Smiley

http://monero.gr/eshop Hand crafted gold and silver jewellery that are being sold around shops in Greek islands for about 25 years.

Fantastic, and good to see you back!
hero member
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I think everyone in the world should have a goal to own at least 8 XMR.
full member
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Hello everyone,

As I stated in my last update some things are taking longer than I thought
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11997287

I had planned to use some press releases to direct some traffic to 8xmr.com however that site if not yet ready. Currently 8xmr has it pointed to getmonero.org until 8xmr.com is ready to launch

dEBRUYNE mentioned that a David Lapatie article has already been translated into Chinese here:
http://www.8btc.com/monero

The problem is that 8xmr may eventually become a competitor to 8btc so it would be wrong to ask 8xmr to point traffic there now.  I also want to include 8xmr in our China launch plans because it could become our biggest Chinese community portal.  I have no updates on new exchanges yet but hopefully if we all keep frequently contacting them they will add us relatively soon. More translations on the getmonero page will of course help.

A few of you have asked about the significant of 8/8. The number 8 is considered a lucky number. Wedding presents for example may be in denominations of 8. Vanity phone numbers often carry the number 8 as do many popular websites (like 8btc). 8/8 does not directly relate to Monero. It just would have been a good day to launch a campaign.

Sorry for the delays. Please continue to contact exchanges and complete all the missing English content on getmonero.org so that everything can be approved for translation. I communicate with 8xmr often and will let you know when that website is ready for launch.

pa
hero member
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Thanks Saddam, very helpful.
legendary
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Have you been thinking it's “Way too hard to acquire these Monero Bucks”?

A Step By Step Guide to Compiling Monero on OSX:

I've noticed an increase of people wanting to compile the latest code. While there are plenty of Linux resources I haven't seen many for OSX. Also, the bitmonero Github README points to instructions that install an older release, which is not what you want.

The good thing is, the instructions are not much different from Linux, but if you're new to the command line this may be intimidating to figure out.

Just follow these instructions step by step in your Terminal and you'll be running in no time.

1. Install Homebrew.
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

2. Install various packages needed to build the Monero daemon and wallet.
brew install git boost cmake libevent miniupnpc

3. Clone the bitmonero repository to your computer using Git.
git clone https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero.git bitmonero

4. cd bitmonero

5. Finally, compile the code.
make release

6. If you get no errors, you're ready to start the daemon and begin syncing the blockchain.
cd build/release/bin
./bitmonerod

7. Command+T to open another Terminal tab. Now you can run simplewallet and start using Monero!
./simplewallet

8. If you found this guide helpful, feel free to donate 1 XMR like so:
Code:
transfer 3 47Vmj6BXSRPax69cVdqVP5APVLkcxxjjXdcP9fJWZdNc5mEpn3fXQY1CFmJDvyUXzj2Fy9XafvUgMbW91ZoqwqmQ6RjbVtp 1

sr. member
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Saw these on reddit. Can't wait to start seeing these around town some day.

legendary
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K thanks for clearing that up.

As I said not having a dig or insinuating anything smooth was just surprised is all.

True that it is certainly a good test bed for new features where there aren't millions of $'s on the line (not to say the aeon project or community should lose their money either).

It's not only to have a live testbed for features being developed with/for Monero. Importantly, it allows for a divergent path of legitimate cryptonote development, led by one of the most trusted individuals in this corner of cryptoland.

There will be features that - for any one of many reasons - will not make it into Monero.
These could range from things that would not make economical sense, or would be too risky, or would fail to align with the unwritten social contract here, or anything else in between. My expectation with AEON is to see an alternative cryptonote path, fundamentally cooperative with Monero, even if at times it might be considered a competing project.

Disclaimer: I do not expect (nor do I desire) to see any other cryptonote altcoin overthrowing Monero.  Wink
hero member
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Ok so I've only just found out that smooth is also developing another crytonote coin.

Question, is this more of a test bed for features you think maybe useful to XMR or are you working on it as a competing currency?

Of course you are free to do what you like with your time, just as a member of the core team for XMR it just seems strange.

He already answered this question on reddit, read from here on -> https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/3f28bk/whats_the_deal_with_aeon_coin_serious/ctkn0h0

TL:DR: More or less an experimental coin, not really competing but more collaborating since relevant things will get merged upstream to XMR.

K thanks for clearing that up.

As I said not having a dig or insinuating anything smooth was just surprised is all.


True that it is certainly a good test bed for new features where there aren't millions of $'s on the line (not to say the aeon project or community should lose their money either).
hero member
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Watching the excitement lately i just want to preannounce something.

Nice, looks good to me

One thing just struck me, we dont have a Monero accepted here badge Smiley
legendary
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getmonero.org
Watching the excitement lately i just want to preannounce something.

I was creating an online catalog for my family business and then i thought, why dont i make it into a crypto eshop? Unfortunately due to serious lack of time i am not active at all here and also i havent finished building this eshop yet. But it would be soontm ready and of course accepting monero.

I have to add prices, more products and maybe better photos (well the quality of the photos already do the job i need but i am not sure there are appropriate for an eshop). I also really have to find a way to track monero prices automatically and since i am a programming noob it may take a while since there is not a ready module for that yet.

In any case the shop must be running in mid October as a latest date.

That is all Smiley

http://monero.gr/eshop Hand crafted gold and silver jewellery that are being sold around shops in Greek islands for about 25 years.
legendary
Activity: 1105
Merit: 1000
Ok so I've only just found out that smooth is also developing another crytonote coin.

Question, is this more of a test bed for features you think maybe useful to XMR or are you working on it as a competing currency?

Of course you are free to do what you like with your time, just as a member of the core team for XMR it just seems strange.

smooth is a greedy low life, his shitcoin, aeon, is dead.

ROFL, good to have you back.
full member
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Yep, AEON was abandoned.  Smooth picked it up in order to have a testbed for features.  In the last week, a hard fork has been "tested" and we also got some neat automated IP Banning stuff in the daemon.

So it has kind of a "bleeding edge" community feel to it - where the stakes aren't quite so high.
legendary
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Ok so I've only just found out that smooth is also developing another crytonote coin.

Question, is this more of a test bed for features you think maybe useful to XMR or are you working on it as a competing currency?

Of course you are free to do what you like with your time, just as a member of the core team for XMR it just seems strange.

smooth is a greedy low life, his shitcoin, aeon, is dead.
legendary
Activity: 2268
Merit: 1141
Ok so I've only just found out that smooth is also developing another crytonote coin.

Question, is this more of a test bed for features you think maybe useful to XMR or are you working on it as a competing currency?

Of course you are free to do what you like with your time, just as a member of the core team for XMR it just seems strange.

He already answered this question on reddit, read from here on -> https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/3f28bk/whats_the_deal_with_aeon_coin_serious/ctkn0h0

TL:DR: More or less an experimental coin, not really competing but more collaborating since relevant things will get merged upstream to XMR.
hero member
Activity: 798
Merit: 1000
Ok so I've only just found out that smooth is also developing another crytonote coin.

Question, is this more of a test bed for features you think maybe useful to XMR or are you working on it as a competing currency?

Of course you are free to do what you like with your time, just as a member of the core team for XMR it just seems strange.
legendary
Activity: 2268
Merit: 1141
https://medium.com/zapchain-magazine/why-one-bitcoin-developer-thinks-cryptocurrencies-have-a-dreadful-future-93007cff1613


Quote
“I keep talking to regulators at conferences who believe bitcoin simply must change to bring it in line with other payment systems; unfortunately this means adding identity information to bitcoin transactions and making it possible to blacklist funds."


It's like all us moneronians (is that right?) have super secret powers to see the future! Or they're regular powers to see the obvious and most people aren't capable of simple foresight. Either way, i see a big "I told you so" coming, lol.


Dnaleor was already predicting this some months ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/374ss5/the_problem_with_bitcoin_that_everyone_seems_to/
legendary
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Interesting related news...  effect on us?
https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/announcements/?id=49

Well.. two coins competing for the same niche, one is booted from finex because of low volume, while the other one is having a >700 BTC 24h volume.

It probably won't convince the hardcore dashcoiners but it is another great sign for monero supporters.

IMO Dash is dumping and will dump more because of this.

i.e. Dash collapsing. Monero UP.

In all seriousness I don't think it means a lot, other than Dash not taking off explosively (which might well be bad for Monero). The challenges we face in achieving a high level of relevance in the world have very little to do with Dash.
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