Well thanks to John Foss' newsletter here is the tech info for Seraphis:
https://gist.github.com/UkoeHB/f508a6ad973fbf85195403057e87449e
And for Jamtis... the new addressing scheme:
https://gist.github.com/tevador/50160d160d24cfc6c52ae02eb3d17024
These are mammoth consensus changes in my opinion. Monero has always had a somewhat progressive approach to consensus level changes.
I am not technical enough to know what the risks are (and I am pretty technical). But I can see well enough that this stuff is going to introduce a lot of possibility of risk.
I am not trying to FUD by any means.. and the Monero community has ALWAYS had an environment welcoming dubious opinion. So I am stating a firsh blush opinion that I hope the right amount of caution is being taken in introducing these changes.
I think it would be naive to assume that there are not powerful, smart, actors that would love to change monero in a way that would cause it to have a chink in it's armor.
How do we know that consensus changes of this level are not exactly that?
https://gist.github.com/UkoeHB/f508a6ad973fbf85195403057e87449e
And for Jamtis... the new addressing scheme:
https://gist.github.com/tevador/50160d160d24cfc6c52ae02eb3d17024
These are mammoth consensus changes in my opinion. Monero has always had a somewhat progressive approach to consensus level changes.
I am not technical enough to know what the risks are (and I am pretty technical). But I can see well enough that this stuff is going to introduce a lot of possibility of risk.
I am not trying to FUD by any means.. and the Monero community has ALWAYS had an environment welcoming dubious opinion. So I am stating a firsh blush opinion that I hope the right amount of caution is being taken in introducing these changes.
I think it would be naive to assume that there are not powerful, smart, actors that would love to change monero in a way that would cause it to have a chink in it's armor.
How do we know that consensus changes of this level are not exactly that?
Here's something I wondering about... First just to let you guys know, I haven't been reading a whole lot of info about XMR in Reddit and Twitter for more around 4 years now, my Twitter account is now exclusively following some guys doing MMA prediction stuff and I've unfollowed everybody in crypto.
The only guy I tag or ping in crypto is Fluffy and that's just in tweets that are related to helping dogs.
Anyway, the thing I'm wondering about is if Fluffy supports the changes or not...
Is he saying anything right now, I wonder..?
I feel the same as cAPSLOCK, I haven't seen a proper conversation over what the changes will mean and who exactly thinks what. Fluffy's thoughts would be welcome but I understand why he is not around to say his piece.
Back in the day there was a lot of chatter and devs would drop by - I always felt pretty reassured. Now it's just 'fingers crossed' it will be OK. Price is looking sweet enough, XMR is easily outdoing the likes of LTC and other coins with a decent rep and respected history. We just have to hope we're being looked after by safe hands.
Happy New Year to everyone, let's hope it's a good one for Monero.
