Topic: [XMR] Monero Speculation - page 1203. (Read 3314325 times)

Nobody is trying to lynch you for asking for something, they're just not complying with your demands. It's not exactly polite decorum to say, "IRC sucks and I refuse to use it, but if someone doesn't give me the logs of IRC conversations I'm going to rage and make implications about scamming."

You are aware that there is a stack exchange site now designed for getting answers to specific technical questions. I actually kind of tried to ask the question for you here:
http://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/808/why-was-0mq-selected-to-replace-the-current-rpc-system

The answerers didn't get into specifics of vetting the security of the system that much, but there are some extremely knowledgeable and dedicated folks answering practically every question there. If you're able to formulate a semi-coherent question, I think that would be the best place to get an in-depth answer that will be preserved and easily searchable for a wider swath of users, not just shitcointalkers.

NP.

shit missed the 1000.

Anyway I'm gonna get back on this in the main thread after everything slows down again. This is not the thread for it anyway. But at least here smooth can nuke it.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/repost-how-anonymous-are-bitcoins-8

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/questions-about-bitcoin-13
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7.new#new

wish satoshi was here...

Crypto may offer a way to do "key blinding".  I did some research and it was obscure, but there may be something there.  "group signatures" may be related...As an example, say some unpopular military attack has to be ordered, but nobody wants to go down in history as the one who ordered it.  If 10 leaders have private keys, one of them could sign the order and you wouldn't know who did it.

Alphabay/Oasis is like the perfect, organic PR campaign we were discussing a few pages ago, descending from heavens, packet and ready to go.

Could you give me a couple of the benefits of Monero? I've never heard of it before and don't even know how to acquire it, although I can't imagine its much different than btc

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How are we as a community supposed to monitor the security of the project from the outside without the simple things I've asked for? You guys try to lynch me when I ask FOR FUCKING LOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If they don't exist say so. I'd rather see shoddy development then have my questions skirted. Scammers don't answer questions. I never thought I'd see that attitude here.

Ah, fair enough. I apologize for that part then, I remembered wrong.

Nope, I said I used to have those skills and they have deteriorated and I can no longer function in that area.

This is kind of an insult to everyone working on Monero currently. I'd argue that with the RingCT development, 0MQ development, GUI development, the conventional adding of features, and fixing bugs, the development is way more active than last summer.

I agree that Wikipedia article isn't as clear as it could be - in that the context of the Bruce Schneier quote isn't particularly clear to readers not familliar with the history of the curves being discussed here.  But I assure you that Bruce was not talking about Curve25519 there.

The reason for the inclusion of that particular quote in the article is to explain why Curve25519 has become popular in recent years:  there are concerns about the choice of constants in other curves, which has resulted in many more people using Curve25519 precisely because there are no such concerns with Curve25519.

Curve25519 is generally considered to be safe.  That said, there are those who worry (Bruce Schneier included) that the NSA may have made advances in the cryptanalysis of ECC in general - but if that's the case then any attacks might affect all curves - or at least, we have no way of knowing which curves are vulnerable.  If that were to be the case, it would be a concern for pretty much all cyrptocurrencies, though - potentially necessitating a move to larger keys (depending on how bad the attack is).

Actually, using a different curve to the one used by Bitcoin and most other coins is a good thing because it gives the market an opportunity to hedge the risk by holding coins that use different curves.  If an attack on ECC is found (by the NSA or someone else) it's quite possible (although by no means a given) that the attack might work better against some curves than others - although there's no real way to know which curves are safer in advance of the attack being found.

Experienced != Legally Licensed to give financial advice.

Can you stop wasting everyone's time ?

Pretty much every post you make is you crying wolf over something you found by keyword matching, and expecting people to reply to your huge sense of entitlement. That's why people ignore you.

Aren't you the one who said who had the skills to help out, but wouldn't do it because we didn't have a map of the code or something ?

I'm fairly certain if you were willing to go out of your way to get the answers to questions you have, you would already have answers. There are other means of communicating than this forum.

Privacy features in a crypto currency do not negate the ability/possibility for thefts/hacks.

Bitfinex is just the most recent exchange hack of the long list of hacks and thefts. XMR can have the same type of events happen. I do not see how you could highly doubt a big exchange could be hacked.

Legally Licensed to give financial advice != even remotely competent to do so.

No different than ETH being on Poloniex and going through a rise. Polo has not been hacked in recent times. Back in the day yes. But not in the past couple years. I highly doubt a hack will come to a big exchange. I have been watching XMR for years and I really think this coin can do well. DNM adoption is big time deal...if AlphaBay does follow...this is unprecedented news. This could be the first truly private currency we have ever had. - BTC was the first decentralized digital currency and solves many issues. Monero solves privacy. - dash may be private to some extent and may have a place in the future....but XMR if used by the blackmarket will be an obvious powerhouse. If a vendor knows the fundamentals of this currency and transacts in it if he/she were smart they would also hold /store their wealth in XMR. - cash out to BTC / DASH when needed....  buying XMR now could potentially be a massive discount on product across all DNM's in the future if they all adopt it. SO early supporters of XMR will have firesale discounts on products across the dark web.

- Also I know XMR is in no way associated with the DarkNET....just pointing out that this will benefit the currency. Also give it more value as their is a major economy now behind it.

Experienced != Legally Licensed to give financial advice.

To be honest I have no idea how high the price will go. I think it will go higher from here but how high - I lack of tools to analyse it and if someone tells what the price will be after a few months (assuming no ability to control the price) I think he lies.
Sure we can guess different scenarios and probabilities for each of them, but also those are at best only guesses. My advice is to dry Poloniex from Moneros completely and let only the miners sell to Darkmarkets their coins. By this way the price of Monero probably goes quite high (especially due to the fact that mining supply is also draining).
5 USD is a possibility, 0.5 USD also and I am not saying it cannot go to 50 USD by the end of 2016 either.

Scrooge McDuck taught me to appreciate money, therefore I owe him. He taught the solid principles of how to make money and how to treat it.

In all honesty brother, do you think XMR will reach 5 USD this year?


What is your ATH prediction for by December this year?


P.S. - Nice Avatar ...Legendary show from my day

This is the best news for Monero so far in my opinion.

Truly private currency. I think as more people begin to grasp cryptonote protocol they will begin to realize this....

game changing?

Anyone know what the price of BTC went to when added to SR back in the day?


Looks like news is official as of 2hrs ago: Oasis XMR ANN: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/4yv1dc/oasis_we_now_accept_monero_xmr/