Monero has to improve its accessibility and UX if you want to onboard a lot of new crypto people. I think that is where the issue lies more.

Was it confirmed that this was the case or does it still remain speculative?

Interesting --- just wanted to say about this news.

It is still unclear where this coin came from, is it the result of a hack and then just washed now? It's not like it's coming from a hacked exchange or any platform, it's probably old funds.

But luckily it didn't make the price fall after hearing this news.

Sad to see this old thread nearly dead.

I sustain it was (nearly) killed more by the anti-maxi hoard and "the state" than by anything wrong with Monero.

Bottom line though has not yet changed.  Bitcoin is evolving to be the thing Satoshi meant for it to be.

Monero still points the way in areas Bitcoin has fallen short.

Both will exist for some time.

Eventually?  Tech built on Bitcoin could rival Monero's privacy advantage?

Until then...

Oh.. I forgot to mention... somehow XMR hashrate seems to be organically climbing to all time highs?  Perhaps?

What's up montango?

I believe they were all funded.  If you funded yourself, you would need to track down your TX Hash; if you bought on secondary market, then whomever you bought it from would need to provide you the TX Hash; or if you bought from phishead already funded, you would need to get the TX Hash from him.

^  Funny you mentioned hyc, I was just thinking about him and wondering how the Monero devs became close to him that he eventually became a Monero dev himself.

All I know is hyc was still developing LMDB and I think fluffypony and the guys approached him and requested for him to port LMDB to 32bit so it could be used for Monero..?  Is that right?

But what I really want to know is did hyc make optimizations in LMDB specifically for Monero so that it could get the most performance from the database?

I agree. its been damn near a year and the auction funds are just sitting in a wallet hanging out. Instead of trying to get everyone to agree, maybe give the donators the choice in what happens to them. Easier to get 30 people to agree than the whole forum.

If it was up to me, we would find a worthwhile charity who actually could use the funds for good and give it to them. At least then the funds do some good instead of lining the pockets of those not in need of it. 

either way - make a decision. imagine how much more difficult it gets when btc hits 100k!

BUMP for the community to actually do something with these auction funds

Ooof.  randomly came across this post of mine which needs correction. OGNasty a page or two ago is right. I’ve told a few people but at this point I know there’s no hope for Yogg making any good so.. I messaged him via the forum and just told him how shocked I was. I was struggling to come to terms with the the potential truth which is in fact he’s just a scamming pos.  I told him to reach out so we could chat. Few hours later and I see a call to my phone from France.  Long story short I ruled out serious mental health issue/breakdown.  He admitted to me that he had built in a “kill switch “ (keep the keys) form day fucking one. I tried several times to get him to send at least what he had made, funded or not..so that people he screwed over could have something. He had absolutely no interest in that. None. Not to mention what hurt most was that he had rot only ruined a friendship but I never got as much as a single sorry. Then a few days later he sweeps more cards (I messaged him on discord to a now defunct account, and begged him not to do it. Told me he was hungry and needed food) which meant he lied to me on the phone about not having any more keys left.  He also told me he hated cryptocurrency stuff, coding etc and has all along.  So yeah, he played us alll, for years. I’m not quite sure even why he called me at all.
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Anyways..been meaning to share this. Also hoping this drives the “community” to stop dickiing around and come up w/a plan on how to disperse the funds from the charity auction. Personally I’d be pissed off if I was say Kilalara (who’s not said a peep about this) who was not affected by this at all, but out the kindness of his heart donated a valuable collectible… a good while ago now. It was meant to help those whom really needed it, and it’s yet to happen. Suing him is an option that is not even remotely wise. I don’t want anything back to be clear, but if everyone can’t come up with a consensus on what to do ..btc should be sent back to all the donators.  At this point is gotten utterly ridiculous.  Set a date, no consensus, donators refund. 

I second that, it's a good read and always welcome, even for those who (like me) lurk more than comment.

I bought XMR nearly a decade ago when it was first listed on Poloniex and I still have a decent stash - and I use it in real life.  Monero still has genuine use cases and is - and always has been - a great coin. Pricewise, Litecoin looks positively anaemic compared to Monero - XMR is in good health.