Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 925. (Read 4671920 times)

Das ist nicht Mathematik. Das ist Theologie.

Thank you, eizh, for the link to the transcription of that speech. I stlll haven't finished reading all of it, but what I have read is very interesting.

You quoted an extremely relevant snippet, and I have read further and found another part that is strikingly relevant to Monero:


Wow.    He describes, in reference to paper currency transactions, what Monero allows electronically. FTW

Edited that for you. I agree with you btw, you could also just store it somewhere safe at home and try to recover it when Monero is worth a lot more. However, the mental impact of a non-recoverable disk will be greater when Monero is worth a lot than now.

ATM, Monero is around 30 cents. Spend 260 dollars and you get your moneroj back, in a way. If later on, one monero is worth 250 dollars, so much the better, but right now, it is not.

It would be like saying that the 10 000 BTC pizza guy lost millions. Crap, he did not lose a thing if he bought back (and I am pretty certain he did, at least partially).

Relevant:

Re: webstores, there is a payment script / (php perhaps??) of some sort somewhere in this thread. I wonder if anyone put it in the getmonero forums yet. I think its from TheKozi2 or something like that.

re: openbazaar - there was a guy (I think Atrides) that secured funding to develop, and you can follow some development on github , https://github.com/freebazaar/FreeBazaar/pull/4

Thanks for the detailed response. All great points.

Is this currently the best way for webstores to accept Monero? http://monero.org/add-monero-to-your-website/

I personally feel that enhancing awareness (without blatant advertising, as you indicated) of the values of the currency will help expand the ecosystem, as it entices new users from a diversity of backgrounds. Then the points you mentioned above will grow organically. "New blood" is inclusive and furthers the community -- I think one of the reasons AmericanPegasus (from /r/bitcoin fame) came on board, in addition to the tech, is due to the helpful responses from devs and the no-bullshit approach from the community.

Also: https://xmr.to/ really caught my attention due to the novelty factor.

This kind of innovation will turn heads.

Any leads on whether it will be possible to integrate Monero with Open Bazaar?

That's a great idea, I'd support that 100%. Even if we only raised a small amount for e month it would be something that could be repeated every year:)

How about a charitable event to promote XMR? Something like "Monero for Movember". http://www.movember.com/

Movember is more and more popular these days. Charities might not accept Monero (that I know of) but there are some who will accept Bitcoin, so the Monero could be converted and sent to them.

It might be worth stating this somewhere on the site, to increase users confidence in it's effectiveness.

Speaking of, doesn't the site use Java? Surely not good for users seeking anonymity?

HORSE POOP DISCOVERIES

I'll go find some horsepoop for 10 monero per poop.

Then I'll put little flags in it with the Monero logo on them.

If there were other important things on there, at least the XMR would pay for the recovery. And, if the price goes up...

There are three ways:

1. Make something creative! You don't need permission to use Monero artwork and resources, and all the content / images / podcasts on getmonero.org are covered by a Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 license (see: https://getmonero.org/legal/copyright), so feel free to reuse and remix.

2. Contribute to the website. There's a small learning curve to understand the layout of the website source and to learn the basics of Kramdown (the Markdown flavor we use), but once that's done then you just have to create a GitHub account and use the "edit" button on the various .md files in the site repo (https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site). For instance, to edit the "node" Moneropedia page just navigate to the page on GitHub (https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/blob/master/knowledge-base/moneropedia/node.md) and click the edit pencil icon at the top right of the preview (only shows when you're logged in I think). GitHub will guide you through the fork-and-PR process:)

3. Add to the ecosystem. You can do this by creating a store / website / app that uses Monero, or convincing someone to accept Monero (without badgering them or acting like a vacuum cleaner salesman / religious nut / fair trade organic save the whales level 5 vegan), or by noting that you accept Monero when selling stuff on eBay / Craigslist / Gumtree / whatever.

Above all remember that you don't need to ask permission to do anything. The worst that can happen is you do something and it isn't well received, but at this stage everyone is so hungry for the ecosystem to grow that you could sell horse poop deliveries for Monero and it'd be a hit.

Othe reminds me of Bruce Banner. *chuckle*

Bter is barely working. XMR/BTC is online but... spread is sky-high, basically no transactions... Monero on Bter is done at the moment.

Very nice!

So obverse side: Secure, Private, Untraceable

Reverse:
Digital Currency
It is true

or, True Digital Currency?  Is that right in esperanto?

Yep. FWIW we use mixin >= 3 whenever we send from our xmr wallet (to convert the stash back into btc for instance).

The new .999 Fine Silver physical Moneroj are now available for purchase at cryptonic.net

It isn't the only reason but it is part of the reason. The overall reason is that their deposits are often small and from miners, whether the miners do it direct from the pool or not. If you have people depositing 10 XMR at a time and then someone buys and withdraws 10K, that means 1000 inputs is needed to fund the transaction (i.e. very large).

I don't know that there is a good solution other than building it into their business model and cost structure somehow. It isn't entirely unique to XMR, although the larger ring signatures and transactions make the problem worse.

We're eventually going to break everything all the way down, although it will be up to the parties involved to decide how much precision they actually want, since more outputs means bigger transactions and higher fees. There might also be a minimum acceptable size enforced by the p2p though, since the twelfth decimal place is realistically spam more than anything else at this point.