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Is this coin dead? Asking for a friend. 
#gitlab when?
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[10:32] YES MAN
[10:32] I DID
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What actually happened:
Beg? What the fuck are you talking about, I thought you were bribing them with our donations?
Shopify is a service provider. "Merchant", in the context of this proposal, refers to entities who (mostly) use Shopify right now. Whether we integrate with Shopify or not is irrelevant, the proposal is for integration with the merchants in whatever form that takes, not integration with Shopify.
I do have to ask though Fluffy... Does Shopify actually want Monero as a payment method or is this guy like "doing you a solid"..? Sounds like they want to accept cryptocurrencies in general (maybe to avoid global payment issues). So would they just want just any cryptocurrency, or whichever cryptocurrency community that pays the bounty? And don't you, as the CEO, have somewhat of a say in what cryptos you would recommend for shopify to use?
You misunderstand. Shopify is a service provider, they don't care WHAT the payment method is. If you provide technology to pay people in purple cats, Shopify doesn't really care, because the money is passing between Purple Cat Payments and the merchants. BUT they are the gatekeepers and need to be convinced that they're not actually facilitating Purple Cat Slave Trade.
I'm still a little confused as to why/how other cryptocurrency projects might "beat us to the punch" if the news was leaked.
I feel like I'd just be re-typing what I said to KeyJockey, so scroll up for a response to that.
primer / dr-mike / monero_rs (same person) thinks that it's a massive scam and I'm using the money to buy myself a private jet and an island in the Caribbean.
Can I borrow your jet from time to time?
Han Solo aka Harrison Ford would be my copilot.
Serhack has done already some integrations WP, Prestashop.
So is he helping you in any way?
No need, we already have 23 integration plugins for Globee: https://github.com/GloBee-Official
Shopify integration is harder because it's all closed-source and internal, you can't just add a payment method, you have to beg the company to add you.
And I missed the this in my first skim of the proposal.
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Work closely with G&M to pursue relationships with one or more mutually agreed upon artist(s) that will be[size=120pt] allow us to
create official[/size], stand-alone online store(s) where Monero is the exclusive method of payment. Initial artist targets
include:
Iron Maiden, Ghost, Slayer, Motley Crue, Mariah Carey, Motorhead, Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne, and Five
Finger Death Punch
.
create official[/size], stand-alone online store(s) where Monero is the exclusive method of payment. Initial artist targets
include:
Iron Maiden, Ghost, Slayer, Motley Crue, Mariah Carey, Motorhead, Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne, and Five
Finger Death Punch
.
That's a fall-back in case we struggle with Shopify integration, since all their sites use Shopify. But even if that happens, the non-Shopify stores will still have the desired effect - they'll be official, linked on the artist's site and social media, and will have unique items you can ONLY purchase with Monero.
So, wait... is this "leaked" document intended to HARM this project somehow?
primer / dr-mike / monero_rs (same person) thinks that it's a massive scam and I'm using the money to buy myself a private jet and an island in the Caribbean.
If it's legit (seems possible to me) it looks great, to me: what's the problem? Why did that have to be "leaked" vs just part of the project explainer?
Per the FFS proposal section "Why the Secrecy?" - "Revealing any details might allow others to get ahead of this opportunity, so we unfortunately need to keep it secret." So partly to prevent other cryptocurrencies (some of whom had been offered this) from getting the deal, and partly because it's better to be able to reveal the details when it is a fait accompli.
The pitch is priced in BTC, oddly (not Monero LOL) but the values for the project assuming $4K/BTC now are about correct for Fluffy's FFS funding numbers.
Was originally priced in Monero because their CEO is a HUGE Monero fan, but I asked him for BTC pricing because I was originally just going to approach some whales and get them to put in BTC (more "stable").
Basically, seems to me that getting a strong toe-hold in a market niche like this -- that can then be expanded to e-commerce overall -- would be fantasic, IMHO.
EXACTLY - it gets Monero as a payment option on Shopify, at the very least, and brings in huge amounts of attention.
agree on all points except monero would get .1 for unlimited supply
The tail emission is less than 1% when it kicks in, and given that there is natural coin loss it'll tend towards zero or even be deflationary in nature.
More importantly, the tail emission is REQUIRED to prevent out-of-band payments to miners, which can be used to attack the dynamic block size limiter. I have yet to hear a sound argument for why deflation is required for a good MONEY, although I'm sure it's required for a good INVESTMENT. Monero's stated goal is to be the former, not the latter.
Re: Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero)
Has anyone estimated the amount of work required to fake the chain?
Using the benchmarks from here: https://www.servethehome.com/monero-mining-benchmarks-select-dual-intel-xeon-e5-systems/ we can figure that something like a Xeon E5-26870 V1 (available since March 2012) can do about 375h/s. As you can see in the image below, the Bytecoin hash rate averaged at like 1500h/s for the duration of its fake existence (about 20 months).
So basically if they had 8x of those CPUs they could've generated it in 10 months. And if they had 80x of them they could have done it in a month. Given the AWS cost at the beginning of 2014 it wouldn't have been insanely expensive to just use AWS for it; if I had to hazard a guess I'd say $20k or less in AWS cost.
Re: Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero)
According the research from https://www.reddit.com/user/MR_CHNYD Alan Miers seems to be the chief architect of Cryptonote although his original repo doesn't have a snapshot. "Johannes Meier" is listed on Cryptonote.org as their chief cryptographer so one can safely assume it was his alias. Maybe the whitepaper was altered to remove his github link and name from the Cryptonote whitepaper. He also created cryptonote.me, most likely to introduce plausible deniability of his involvement in the project. Additionally, he was also a founding member of the Stanford University Bitcoin Group (https://angel.co/cognitohq/jobs). That doesn't strike me as someone who is looking to scam people with a pump and dump.
And rekt in 3...2...1...
Link to original Tweet in August 2014: https://twitter.com/alain/status/500765479393177601
You're 👏🏼 getting 👏🏼 scammed 👏🏼 and 👏🏼 you're 👏🏼 too 👏🏼 dumb 👏🏼 or 👏🏼 too 👏🏼 naïve 👏🏼 too 👏🏼 realise.
Re: Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero)
Poloniex is a ponzi exchange and IMO a honeypot. I'd stay away from them. I have friends would have millions in crypto frozen there with slim chances of withdrawal. They had to hire an attorney to get them to begin the withdrawal process and nine months later its still ongoing. If they're freezing large amounts of funds it means theres a liquidity issue. That's probably why they impose their own internal fiat level KYC/AML standards on a crypto-to-crypto exchange to prevent large withdrawals. There is no law or statue that compels them to enforce AML/KYC on crypto-to-crypto exchanges. Interestingly their rise to popularity is also a direct result of Monero's Oasis DNM scam since they were the main XMR exchange.
Utter nonsense - I've just been on a call with a law firm in the USA, and they confirmed that at least half the states in the USA have licensing and AML/KYC requirements for crypto-to-crypto pairs.
Re: Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero)
I know the place very well. As far as I remember he told me you showed up in a jacket and a smart shirt in the middle of summer and I don't take him for a liar. LOL.
So first it was a full business suit, now it's a jacket and smart shirt?
And just to clarify - if I wore a t-shirt then it'd be fine?
So we're judging entire projects based on the clothing that one person chooses to wear?
I mean, if I knew that was the case I would pay more attention to my shoe choice in the morning.
So you broke bread with him then turned around and mounted a full scale smear campaign on his project.. lovely stuff.
Not really sure what you're talking about.
Of course for obvious legal reasons any proper scammer would deny their involvement in the Oasis exit scam.
SO WOULD AN INNOCENT PERSON, YOU IMBECILE.
At best the Bytecoin team is making fraudulent claims about their 2012 launch but they're far from a real scam.
They released something, and lied so that they would own 82% of the tokens and could offload them on the market under the auspices of there being a much wider distribution. That's the very definition of "directly scamming [someone] out of money".
Re: Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero)
Aren't you the same dooshbag tool that invited Ryno out for beers at a beach bar and then showed up in a full business suit? LOL! Then you turn around and mounted coordinated attack on his project? What a stand up guy you are. It seems your Oasis DNM scam worked out well for you. You're even able to donate to the forums now.
Nope, not me. Ryno came through to Plett and we had an excellent lunch at The Grand, I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Summer's in Plett are cooking!
I have not ever been involved with any DNM on ANY level, much less Oasis. You're currently sitting 0 for 3 on your last few statements, you seem to be confused about a lot of things.
Re: Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero)
Do tell us where you found it, and for extra bonus points provide evidence.
Because this is what the web site looked like until March 2014:
http://web.archive.org/web/20140128152612/http://www.bytecoin.org:80/
Because this is what the web site looked like until March 2014:
http://web.archive.org/web/20140128152612/http://www.bytecoin.org:80/
Hah hah rekt!
All of this Bytecoin resurrection stuff is because someone is throwing a tantrum: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/crypto-speculator-threatens-bytecoin-development-team-one-week-then-i-dump/
Re: Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero)
I read the OP. All I see is butthurt, butthurt everywhere (insert meme). I was mining Bytecoin[BCN] back in 2013.. I found it by accident through a simple google search looking Bytecoin [BTE]. Anyone else here could of done the same if they were searching for BTE.
No you weren't.
Im still waitinf for monero to increase so i cna sold this coin of mine i really want to change another coins and try to grab some opportunity and try making profit to other coin where i can get or assured profits.
Well you're in luck! I had a meeting with my spiritual advisor this evening, and after throwing the bones and looking into her crystal glass she confirmed that Monero will increase on March 7th at 3:14pm UTC.
They did mention that they were talking about the block limit increasing, but hey, you asked about an increase.
Considering I'm doing quite well with my 'investment' I fail to see how I was scammed. Must be some weird logic that makes sense to Monero fanboys I suppose.
Good luck with your 'investment' too
Good luck with your 'investment' too
There are a ton of people that made money on OneCoin too...
We already have a replayable log (that's the point of the MySQL log after all), but we couldn't rewind the entire system. Consider, for instance, a new user that created an account and deposited funds. If we roll the system state back we would have to manually allocate all of those and manually recreate the users. And, too, consider the exact issue we've got above, where a user divested and withdrew - how do you roll that back? You can't, so you have to move forward with the system in the current state.
::sigh::
That's not what a replayable log is, at all. A replayable log is logging all the individual events (e.g. bets, investments and divestments), in such a way that if you found a mistake had occurred (or in this case, fraud) you could fix the mistake (in this case, delete the bets) then replay everything so the investors balance is exactly is if the fraud never occurred in the first place.
It's actually just a good practice to be in, when ever I mutate state I *always* store the cause of it. (e.g. if someone transfers money, I log an event of the transfer. If someone claims the faucet, I store the details of that, if someone invests I store a record of it (and things like how much the bankroll was before they invested) etc).
And probably the other mistake people make, is over-constraining their database to not allow negative values. e.g. While a user balance never should be negative, the system should support it as cases like this might cause some accounts to legitimately be negative (them withdrawing gains they shouldn't have) or even deposits reverting after a blockchain reorg etc.
It's great for a disaster recovery situation like this, and it's great from an audibility perspective
Exactly, see http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
Note that even if you don't follow strict event sourcing best practices you should still have a log of everything anyway so that you can replay, just takes more effort. Surely each bet/invest/divest actoin must have a timestamp on his MySql rows?
Guys, you don't know our system design, you don't know our architecture. Even if you did, you can't possibly have all the facts of the matter. The continuous string of commentary is entirely pointless - the decision is not going to be made again, we've already moved past it.
And yes, we have timestamped logs for every single action, every single bet, every single investor credit, every single investor debit.
Fluffy I agree with a lot of what Nico has said. I would like a refund because I do believe I should have received one, but I do not want the refund if you believe it to be out of charity. I want it because you believe its the right thing to do. If you change your mind could you credit it to my account.
We're always open to discussing things like this, and finding an amicable solution for everyone. That's why we have an email address that you can use. Having a messy ideological discussion on troll central is not a fantastic way to achieve that, especially given that we *are* responsive to support emails.
What? Let's say the cheater would have won 50% of the BR, I divested to cut losses, and cheater continues to win rest of BR. Then yes, indeed, I would only have a 50% loss, while others would have a 100% loss. That's exactly right and that's why someone should divest/withdraw when he sees the site is hacked. I don't see why that investor with 50% loss would owe anything to the other investors?
So you're of the position that other investors, who may be asleep due to timezones, should just suffer the 100% loss? So in that event the investor is just "lucky", and the rest are "unlucky"?
And yet in the reverse all investors should be "lucky"?
How do you not see the disconnect here?
I am honestly surprised about the replies here. I have been following your site for months and had a pretty high opinion of it since you are a trusted XMR developer.
lol sure, that's why we're listed on DiceSites, right? Don't patronise me.