Topic: [XMR] Monero Speculation - page 1315. (Read 3314316 times)

No, it couldn't.

Focused work on the GUI was suspended in 2014-2015 in order to focus on improving the internals and reducing the memory requirements to a level that could actually run reasonably on a desktop, which was released as 0.9.0 on January 1, 2016. Some issues in 0.9.0 then needed to be addressed leading to 0.9.1-0.9.4 (early ones were more critical).

Of course, the in-progress GUI was available as open-source on github since 2014, and anyone could have contributed to it should they have wanted to work on it (or pay someone to work on it), but no one did.

The current GUI funding was initiated February 10, 2016 with a proposal from a developer who had a good balance between affordability and qualifications, but limited available time for the first few months. It is still in progress.

It was already noted that the cryptography for RingCT and multisig are more recent work.

The real question is when will Polo dump XMR and start ETH markets. It(is) (is)it true? ^TM

GUI funding is a recent development.  RingCT and multisig are also recent.  Higher public awareness of fungibility and ring sigs is a new trend as well, thanks to Chainalysis, ChainAnchor, bootlicking Coinbase shitlords, and Gmax|CT.

Even block reward subsidies were much higher a year ago.

So no, I could not have (truthfully and accurately) said all that a year ago.  But thanks for asking!  

EDIT: And a year ago there was no ETH leading the altcoin sector with up to ~half of Bitcoin's daily volume.   

Couldn't you have said all of that a year ago???

That's crazy talk.  We're living in a golden age of binge watching (and I've never owned a TV, just a Full HD laptop and good headphones).

Yes, there was a very long drought of good (or even tolerable) American shows, with only South Park remaining watchable.  But now we have GoT, Last Man On Earth, Walking Dead, Man In The High Castle, Marco Polo, Major Lazer, Rick & Morty, and our own excellent version of Shameless.  Plus the guilty pleasure of gold mining reality TV.   

Meanwhile, the UK has provided gobs of fantastic entertainment.  Ideal.  Utopia.  Hinterland.  Broadchurch.  Peaky Blinders.  (Original) Shameless.  Wolf Hall.  Doctor Who.  Mighty Boosh.  Nighty Night.  Outnumbered.  Life On Mars.  Black Mirror.  Nathan Barley.  Posh Nosh.  Mitchell & Webb.  Peep Show.  Would I Lie To You?  IT Crowd.  Psychoville.  The League of Gentlemen.  The Game.  Sherlock.  Jekyll.  Look Around You.  Secret Diary of a Call Girl.  Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (LOL).

That's only the must-see blockbuster "you are doing life wrong if you miss these" short list.  Lots of one-off gems including Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, Dead Set, Hunderby, Not Going Out (Season One), The Trip, and Dirk Gently out there as well.

Don't get me started on engrossing documentaries such as Cold War Hot Jets, Joanna Lumley's Greece (and Trans-Siberian Express), A Year In Burgundy, etc.

You need a tracker invite?   

Back on topic, I don't see any whales dumping.  No market sells over 0.1% of mainbody emission (18.4k XMR) as we're drifting lower on low volume.  Yawn.  We'll go back up when volume returns. 

In this secular bear market, 200k is still looking like the new 100k.

The Official GUI is being written.  Emission drops lower with every block.  RingCT and multisig are being planned.  People are starting to find out how much they want/need fungibility and how ring sigs are currently the only proven way to get there.

Monero... the avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

monero whale are dumping their coin     again

Blacks Sails is The Wire for white people

Perfection.  You absolutely nailed it.

I believe that people will be watching The Wire 100 years from now as a didactic/historical tale about the fall of American rust belt cities.  It is probably the most amazing work of literature/art of my lifetime. 

(I have a cousin who is married to a Baltimore city councilman.  He's nothing like Clay Davis.)

Oh by the way, just to ensure this is on-topic, don't you think that Stringer Bell and D'Angelo and them would have been TOTALLY into crypto if it had been around at the time?

Yes virtually all alts seem inextricably tied to btc right now.  This week I have been buying btc with cash.  I buy whatever I can with cash in my day to day life.  Monero is the closest thing to cash.   No I haven't been buying btc with Monero.  In the past whenever I accrued enough btc, that definition varies, it somehow became Monero.  As usual I have no idea what happens from here


Instead of TV I read or wander the world wide web, wow.  I have 2 "videos" that I just started watching.  Gravity and Entanglement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQU9yOtWrQk&nohtml5=False
At around 1:45 an older gentleman in the audience stands up and briefly talks to the audience.  That is Leonard Susskind who is great and at 75 years old is still going strong.  So with only watching a short part of the first I looked at the beginning of this second video,
Leonard Susskind | "ER = EPR" or "What's Behind the Horizons of Black Holes?" - 2 of 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiG_EtVQu5o
As Susskind oft times explains things in a way that lesser minds can grasp I probably will watch his video first.

WONDER

i would say under ... everyone is waiting for btc to move or not move :p

We went under 0,002 a few times now. Wondering if this is the way down or the way up 

such a deliciously offtopic topic

being a cinephile I never was without a big screen but I haven't had an antenna attached for a good 15 years.

However I think I am losing the same amount of brain cells per time unit reading bitcointalk

The Wire > Breaking Bad > Sopranos > GoT

Black Sails > Breaking Bad > New Battlestar Galactica > Mr Robot

I agree Breaking Bad is the only TV show made in the last 10 years worth watching

Not watching Breaking Bad before you die would be almost as bad as dying a virgin. TV celibacy made sense in the old passive free-to-air TV wasteland of the 80's and early 90's, but things are very different now. Just don't watch crap you didn't select yourself. The other day I watched all of GoT season 5 in one sitting, the most fun I've had with my pants on for months, just like Crypto Kingdom but with breasts and violence (alas no $$).

Being proud of not watching TV is like being same about not reading books - I haven't watched a TV advert in +10 years, and every bit of tele I've watched was awesome (I read reviews and go for the gold only)

I love to watch a good documentation about nature, astronomy, historics or a good old Hitchcock on our Sony LED Smart TV in HD 
The rest of the propaganda is not touching me even tangentially, so i am not able to talk about the latest sopes or any stupidity TV, sorry 

i dont own a tv too...but i want one
not because i want to watch tv but i would like to have a big screen to watch downloaded movies and to watch charts (like https://hypron.net/bitcoinwisdom)

i think UHD tv screens are nice since they can display lots of info on one screen for an OK price. But sure, several old 21" TFT's will get you cheaper anyway.

btw yeah interesting to see the price actions. its completely a group thing. its still somehow too high for me to step in aggressively...but if someone else does i might join in too..i hope you understand what i mean. everyone seems to be waiting for the first big shot. for now i just do what i always do, buy some, sell some and earn small amounts of xmr

btw i know some very very intelligent people (math people) who enjoy watching the most stupid shit on TV..i asked one of them why, she told me its very relaxing to her...maybe they can not turn off their minds, so they direct their attention to the most brain dead thing in existence ?

I am also in 20 years without watching club, 16 years without owning.

...even a few years' difference in "time without TV" correlates massively with astuteness.