Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 839. (Read 4670673 times)

What's interesting to me is in my time hanging out with the bitcoin crowd, altcoins were universally shit on as...  Well, altcoins.  
  
"Bitcoin won't be replaced because you can't replace the original ledger.  And if there is a bitcoin 2.0, we would see it coming a mile away and be able to switch focus in time."  
  
Well, I don't know how to put this, but 'bitcoin 2.0' is here but most of the players in that space are dismissing it as a cute innovation.  They say it's unneeded since hypothetically with some future vaporware upgrades the bitcoin network will be able to emulate some of the features of Monero.  
  
Wat?  
  
You guys, it's right in front of you.  Not only is the future right in front of you, it's so cheap that it is essentially free to hedge your bets with an equivalent amount of Monero.  
  
The more I watch the ruckus with the blocksize debate, the more I realize there are two possible endgames: bitcoin and Monero parity for a global public and private ledger...  Or bitcoin simply gets left behind and Monero eclipses it.  
  
I can certainly see a scenario where bitcoin reaches about $1,000 a coin again and stagnates while Monero rapidly catches up and surpasses it because of flexible blocks and built in privacy.  
  
 Success is determined by the strength of the network, which comes from people dedicating resources to mine the network.  People will only dedicate those resources if there is immediate profit to be made or (the important part) they *believe* that Monero will be worth much more in the future.  
  
Because Monero is the only coin out there that actually has even a theoretical chance to overtake Bitcoin, we will likely see a positive feedback loop where people believe in Monero, it gets stronger, and then people believe in it more and the network grows even stronger.  
  
All money is imaginary, and Monero is no exception.  And when dealing with the imaginary, belief is everything.  

he's still listed on https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/people and iirc someone (fluffy?) mentioned a couple of days/weeks ago, that he's busy with some other stuff atm.

Look what Smooth just pointed out on https://www.reddit.com/r/monero

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/pull/329

fluffypony merger of commit by Wladimir J. van der Laan:

https://github.com/laanwj

There are multiple high profile BTC experts looking at Monero. Not just the ones most commonly discussed in this forum for choosing XMR over DASH

hodlers hate this guy

( booming deep thunder voice, not shouting )

USING THE POWER VESTED IN ME BY SOME DASHER AND CLAIMING MY RIGHTFUL THRONE AS THE ONLY TROLL-APPOINTED DEV IN THE HISTORY OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES, I HEREBY CALL UPON MY LEGIONS AND COMMAND THEM TO STOP CREATING NEW MONERO RELATED THREADS. SPEAK HERE IN THE HALLOWED WALLS OF [XMR] MONERO AND [XMR] MONERO SPECULATION, OR LEARN KRAMDOWN AND VENTURE FORTH UNTO FORUM.GETMONERO.ORG


There we go, we'll see if that works.


I should try to take myself more seriously.

No i shouldn't.

Sorry, my mistake. The file is normally called wallet.bin not wallet.dat.

EDIT: Looks like you worked out your issue. Glad to hear that.

Thanks, that did the trick 

The blockchain is here (blockchain.bin). You can get rid of blockchain.bin.part if yo don't otherwise need it.
The keys file which you need to keep is wallet.bin.keys. The cache file which you can nuke is wallet.bin.
Do that while simplewallet is not running. The daemon can be running.

so because of someones post on reddit, i started searching for financial privacy advocacy groups or something. My search yielded interesting results that some might find interesting.

report to Congress "Financial Privacy, an economic perspective"

https://www.epic.org/privacy/glba/RL31758.pdf

12 U.S. Code Chapter 35 - RIGHT TO FINANCIAL PRIVACY

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/chapter-35

Hy Smooth,
thanks for your reply, but i am not able to find the *.dat file.
Please see my output

Could you please readvise what i can do. I hope i must not reload the blockchain....

I would try backing up all the wallet files first, then delete the .dat .bin file and reopen the wallet. It should recreate the wallet from the .keys file, rescan the blockchain, and hopefully recover the coins in an unlocked state. If that doesn't work, then something else went wrong. Let us know.

EDIT: .dat -> .bin

Hy guys 

I think i am facing a small problem with 0.8.8.6 on Kubuntu 14.04LTS 64bit

I have a locked balance of n and an unlocked balance of n-100
The 100XMR difference comes from a buy at poloniex.com two weeks ago.
Is there a possibility to get the locked 100XMR manually into unlocked state?

Thanks in advance,
elrippo

Damn why did you have to mention Dwarf Fortress! I just wasted my night on it. Doh

Thanks for reminding me about the exact moment when The Orb became shit.  

Let's remember the good times instead.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRKU9odBGNE

I'd be interested to know whether any people have made trades yet through moneroclub.com. Activity on the site seems quite low.

everytime I see doxygen I think toxygene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj0oziPZDTk

the 90's says hello.

Doxygen is supported. It can generate docs and graphs which is better than nothing, but to be really useful requires annotations, which mostly don't exist. Adding them is a good project, but the issue is that incorrect annotations are probably worse than none at all, and to add correct ones require that you already understand how the code works...

Attacking this in bite-size pieces is somewhat feasible though. So i someone feels qualified to understand how some of the code works, pull requests to add annotations are a great way to contribute.

Intro here: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/docblocks.html

You're right.  This is the first time I've ever looked at hard code for a cryptocurrency either (just now).  
  
I've programmed in another life, but even I can see that this would be a nightmare for a new and talented developer to start working on.  They would have to solve a massive labyrinth before they could even begin to contribute meaningfully.  
  
We know that there will be many talented coders in China, Korea, and Japan who would love to assist with the project but may not be able to if there isn't a "Dwarf Fortress for Newbs" style intro for them.  Isn't there some kind of tool out there which can automatically (or semi-auto) create graphic representations of code to help new programmers understand what they are looking at?  
  
Expecting developers to properly document and comment on their code is like expecting the federal reserve to properly manage the economy.  Sure, it's nothing but good intentions at first, but we all know that human nature inevitably fucks things up.  I would even think that an inevitable full time position would be analyzing and commenting on the code, and translating it into vernacular so it's not some mathemagical object that us plebs can't decipher.

Actually I was thinking more along the lines of sensitive data being redirected. I know I would use that vector if I wanted to uncover that info. I certainly would not broadcast erroneous packets to alert the network. But like I said, I'm not up to the code anymore and haven't protected networks in 15 years so I'm so far behind the curve I would probably be useless even if I did catch up.

If the network can accept "harmful" custom transactions then the problem is not where you are looking.