Topic: [XMR] Monero Speculation - page 1449. (Read 3313576 times)

LOLz


Am I the only one that thinks is good bot nets are securing the network? I can think of hundreds of other extremely bad things they could be doing rather than shoring up a currency that could free the world.


Unfortunately I didn't get much but I'm still happy about it.

There is a metric fuck-ton of FUD floating around, thanks to the Classic nonsense about Bitcoin's death/crippling/strangling/immanent d000m/etc.

Part of the Gavinista meme-cluster is that the ETH boom is due to Core's supposed mismanagement.

There's no way to tell how much of the present alt surge is due to rich Gavinistas trying to spread FUD in the market, and how much is credulous low-information types selling their precious BTC to cynical R3/Coinbase whales for a pittance.

Lets hurry on that Ag parity.  Maybe catch it on the down swing, or it's going to be a race to overtake it once its own rockets ignite    Not that I would mind having that party at $50-$100,  but I'm due for a party soon, so between 10 and 20 would be better timed  

ADD:  metals and oil (and subsequently the Canadian dollar) having a nice little rise today.  Stay tuned for shock and pain to follow. 

Monero was mentioned before on /r/monero as an alternative to mixers but the article at 99bitcoins is the first time I have seen it mentioned at a mainstream bitcoin magazine. Good article BTW but I doubt you will see the DNM switch from bitcoin as XMR is too complicated. If it should happen it will be big news at DeepDotWeb.

Are we seeing a break out?  Volume on hitBTC is up a good bit over the last 24 hours.  Of course they don't do as much volume as Poloniex but over all its up some.  Best ask is 3200 and best bid at 2950.    $1.29 

I love the sound of legit coins such as Monero taking off, while the Maid and Dash scams implode into great bloody heaps of FAIL.   

Today's 99bitcoins article basically endorses Monero as the best way to unlink/untaint Bitcoins, and that site gets a TON of traffic from their ingenious/hilarious BitcoinObituaries.com redirect (as well as the well written and informative content).

It will take time for the article to be passed around, read, and acted upon.  Plus more time for receptive readers to move their BTC to Polo and buy coins.  But the resulting long BOOOOOOOOOM has already started.

How long until most DMN stop sending/receiving BTC directly, and only use shapeshifted XMR for in/out flows?  Soon?  Two Weeks?

ATH and oz/silver parity parties to be held at Monero Manor and Monero Mountain! 

Price should be pumped to 5$ and stabilize there this is nothing

Grats, you managed to be the last person to sell and then rebuy with any significant amount of volume.

Ethereum profits have to go somewhere.  XMR is still pretty low visibility.  I think most people discover it because of price spikes on poloniex.  Ethereum is the headline draw. XMR is the tortoise.

There was a big wall at 220k which got pulled.  Whatevs.  I mean, what is the point of a wall 30% off the market?  It did seem to discourage some buying though, when it was pulled.  I was surprised at that.  The silliness of human behaviour never ceases to amaze me.

Soooooo....Monero is NINTH in volume on Poloniex right now?  At 1124 BTC traded in the last 24 hours?

What in the heck is up with all the volume across so many different alts?

EDIT:  and the order book is jumping like crazy, from 425 BTC of buy orders this morning to 1100 a few hours ago to 700 now.

You seemed quite sure that something was going to happen but unsure of up or down.  Why not both

KABOOOOOOM

Minergate kind of confirmed to the core-team they would upgrade before the hardfork. However, until they really have upgraded I'll include them into the PSA. If pools upgrade I'll take them out of the PSA.

I use the cryptonotepool because it supports the devs, but they have low hashrate.

OTOH Minergate is ~1/14 of the network!  If they are the go-to pool for bot herders (nice web miner!) it will be interesting to see if it stops the dumping, as GPU hoarders take over their absent portion of the global hashrate.

my problem is that i read about xmr and discovered it's the best anonymous coin and so i buy but cant sell.  im found myself digging i to my btc cold storage to switch a good % to xmr. i feel that it's worth many times more than it's trading now but also feel happy that i can buy more cheaply here.

Today,
Price gets knocked down, no problem, when I get home I'll transfer some btc and buy me some more Moneroj.
Get home to see big green dildo so no buy oppurtunity for me, no problem, my Monero house is worth more.
Good fundamentals + hodling = no problem

Thanks. That helps to dampen my paranoia a little. 

Looks like the triangle is getting tighter and tighter before breaking. If it goes up from here (which it probably do - as said many times here, there is too much competition for the coins at lower prices) it will get to a serious war zone with heavy battle as next stop is try to break the high of 2015.

OTB = Over the Border trade?   

PSA: Users, (solo)miners, exchanges/merchants, and pooloperators must be on 0.9.x (preferably 0.9.2) in advance of the hardfork otherwise you will get forked/booted off the network. If you are mining on one of the following pools, please contact your poolop immediately or switch to another pool.

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Approximately the 23th of March there will be a hardfork on the Monero network. Most pools have upgraded, but some have not yet. If they don't upgrade before the hardfork they will get forked/booted off the network. As a result you will miss out on revenue if you are mining on these pools. Thus, if you are mining on the following pools, please contact your pool owner as soon as possible and urge them to upgrade. Alternatively, you can switch to a pool that is on the right version.

FYI: You can plug the blockheader of your pool into "http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/hash_of_blockheader". The minor_version must show "minor_version: 2". This means that the pool is on the right version. If it shows "0" or "1" the pool is on an outdated version. An example of a pool on the right version (Monerohash):

http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/2a88740443bf654e595bba7061509e6a3a80623da5de2478c4a90b45454a7fa8

List of pools that haven't upgraded yet:

• http://cryptonotepool.org.uk/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/064901fae3c4c1f42a10ca066e367ff277b1ae255043e17fad0695b9da775030 | Contact: http://cryptonotepool.org.uk/#community
• http://xmr.alimabi.cn/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/612eeb758358ffa8af784c6c12c59b7cc038474fe525b5d7794be30f585f941c | Contact: http://xmr.alimabi.cn/#support
• http://cryptmonero.com/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/b98ebc9fc8674c2b6cfa303cd9d8770f9187e87664f8acf93446b2ff7e15674b | Contact: http://cryptmonero.com/#support
• https://minergate.com/pool-stats/mro | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/2fb5df3e2967a7679ad5ff6848b6b5eb3cb071ba31e3e84a16b95b7d7c421dd2 | Contact: https://minergate.com/
• If you are mining on a private pool, please check the block header manually (if the pool is on the right version) using the method I described.

List of pools that have upgraded:

You can find most pools here:

https://monerohash.com/#network

Some of the aforementioned pools are listed there as well. If you are switching, avoid the aforementioned pools.

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Binaries:

Monero v0.9.2 - Hydrogen Helix - released! (Urgent and important bug fixes for the upcoming hard fork)

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.2


Information from Github:

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General hardfork information:

Background:

https://forum.getmonero.org/4/academic-and-technical/303/a-formal-approach-towards-better-hard-fork-management

• Blocktime is bumped from 1 to 2 minutes. See:

https://forum.getmonero.org/20/general-discussion/2401/increasing-the-block-time

• Minimum blocksize is bumped to 60 KB. See:

https://forum.getmonero.org/20/general-discussion/2409/increasing-the-minimum-block-size

A big advantage of this is that current individual transactions that sometimes won't go through (because they are a bit above the median due to many outputs (e.g. dust), or the daemon / MyMonero rejects them for some reason) can easily be included in the block without incurring a penalty. Above is a bit of a blunt explanation, I am sure one of the core-team members / developers could give you a more detailed explanation.

• Finally, the recommendations from the MRL team stated in MRL-0004, of which the minimum mixin >= 3 is probably the most salient. See:

https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf

P.S. Due to variance the hard fork will likely be on the 21th or 22th of March. A specific block height was determined for the hardfork, not a specific date. The specific blockheight for the hardfork can be found here:

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/blob/master/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp#L83


P.P.S. As long as you are on any 0.9.x version in advance of the hardfork you are fine.