Nrg was gone for 5 minutes and the thread is already back to its old self.

Its not just him and his trolls. You can just put them on ignore. Its when well meaning people engage with it that the thread turns to shit.

The end of 2014 I put all my crypto wallets in cold storage and did not think about crypto until about two weeks ago. Circumstances of life took me to a place where even mobile phone service was a luxury, internet was a pipe-dream. It has been very interesting to step away from crypto for about 2 years and come back.

XMR was brought to my attention by Risto, whom I highly respect as one of the brightest minds on this forum. His posts about Bitcoin Distribution, the '(SSS) - A Sane and Simple bitcoin Savings' plan are brilliant and thought-provoking. I bought 55XMR at 0.004BTC, which is all I could afford, just before I left crypto in Sept. 2014. Since then the price of XMR has down to .001 and up to .025 and back again.

I was disappointed and pleasantly surprised at the same time. Pleased the price had appreciated, but disappointed that in 2 years so little seems to have been done in terms of adoption and software. Nothing seems to have really changed, XMR seems only to exist as a hedge to BTC(and has done it so well that it appears to have dethroned LTC) while daily usage has not really made any real headway. The wallet it still clunky, needing the daemon to be sync'ed before opening a barely improved wallet. Maybe I am being too harsh, but it has been over 2 years, not 2 months or even 6 months.

I was pleased to see that Risto, Smoothy, Icebreaker and a few old names are still here and supporters of XMR.

So in summary, over the past 2 days I have bought 945XMR at an average price of about .0104BTC. I am adding them to the 55XMR in my cold storage wallet.

My only question is... should I go away for another 2 years before checking on XMR again?

A few days back Adolf was filling his pants before, during and after each trade: now he's giving trading advice!!

Is there a name for an adult internet pseudonym?

Does a 'Sockpuppet' grow to become a 'Sock-marrionette'? or 'Pantaloons-cipher'? Leggings-mechanical?

You know I'm becoming convinced that these markets are manipulated. Why would a loser project like "pot coin" rise so hard and crash so fast like that? Nobody should have ever even heard of it. People were talking about FOMO on "pot coin". FOMO ON "POT COIN". What!?

I know this is probably not news to anyone but im naturally extremely skeptical of everything. So I wasnt convinced till now. But closely watching the rise and fall of "pot" has convinced me. I just cant comprehend an organic growth driven process for what that "pot coin" chart looks like. So I really think some group of people pushes these things up in large conspiratorial calculated moves.

If this is the case they probably did it to our baby monero too. They used and abused her. Most of the buyers almost certainly had no understanding of the potential like we do. And I mean the market leaders not just the whale chasing FOMO zombies. That's not at all why they were buying.

But hey they say no press is bad press. So we will probably settle at a higher level than we started thanks to this "pump" and we still have the organic adoption to look forward to.

Just for fun I looked at the post history of N-rG and plotted his predictions on the actual chart.



I'm not sure how he made money based on these predictions, but good job. That's a pretty amazing feat. 

i can only LAUGH at your statement

do you forget one important factor "GOVERNMENT CONTROL"?

do you think governments will let these dark coins grow BIG so people can avoid tax?

in your DREAM

honestly, i don't see a good future for these dark coins if governments step into

they will survive if they are still in low profile . Take note at it

i agree that these dark coins has cool tech but in governments' eyes , these coins will be blacklisted if they grow so big

there is a reason why bitcoin still survives up until now. Because every transactions are public, everyone can track them

Note: now XMR is used by dark markets (CRIMINAL markets), do you think governments will let them do that freely ?

thanks for the info.

Unfortunately the report linked from the article seems to have been removed.

Do you have a link or remember the ballpark amount of AUR recovered?

Will it be given back to users?

http://aurpool.com:8080/ is the community pool, but it is offline since yesterday and we have no idea when he comes back.

Digibyte price is starting to come down to reality. Dropped 75% since the peak of the pump, marketing can't keep the price elevated forever, they have a lot of issues with syncing wallets and non functioning wallets. I hope AUR didn't copy digibytes problems into their code.

Multi-Algo is not for lazies, it will take a lot of your time to maintain, 5 times the algos also means 5 times the work but everything good in life comes with more effort.

10 hours later, I meant. In the meanwhile we are 20 hours later and It's confirmed

Hi,
I am on the 2016.03.1.0. wallet. I tried a small withdrawel yesterday. Now 10 later I got only 1 confirmation. Can anyone explain?
Thanks

AUR is special because Balduro was the first person to come up with a solution to the problem of how do you get crypto into the masses without convincing them to go sign up for a shady service like Gox and get screwed in the end or find a drug dealer to sell drugs for Bitcoin with. Because for the first few years of its life that was the only way for a normal person with no mining equipment to get into Bitcoin.

I still remember the drama over AUR when it first broke on this board and all the Bitcoin maximalists frothing at the mouth with hatred, guys like BitcoinEXpress coming in to fork it, people marching in line to call it a scam even though real Icelanders were proving they were getting their coins etc. etc. but how many of these Bitcointalk "legends" would have been willing to give away even 5% of their Bitcoin hoard to people all across the world in hope of spreading its adoption? Virtually none of them. And once AUR's marketcap was driven into the ground they all had a good laugh and went on their merry way.

People on here tell everyone crypto is literally "earth changing technology", yet they constantly talk good projects down like its worth nothing more than a few small burger joints from the midwest. The local business I work for alone pulled in $9 million last year and all we do is print paper products with a 10 year-old website, I didn't even know it existed in town when I interviewed. But there are small businesses like this all across the world making 10x the marketcap of even the top alt coins in crypto.

It kills me when I see kiddies saying things like Bitcoin with a $7 billion marketcap "is alot". LOL, just Mcdonalds alone is worth $90 billion.

It's one thing to attack the technological fundamentals but history has proven time and time again the best tech doesn't always wins. It's all about the best combination of solid and STABLE tech, a bit of marketing pizazz but also commitment to knowing who your customers are. Not trying to say AUR is like a product, but I believe the fundamentals of business and commerce is all the same regardless. It's all money at the end of the day right? The AUR team is one of the few who knows their target market versus alot of github autists who "think" they know what the average person wants or needs. AUR is one of the few alts with potential for real world use, versus all these other coins on CMC which are all designed to trade and make more Bitcoin and have no hope of ever being used for anything.

If you are going to treat crypto like trading baseball cards, than that is all it will ever be. But I personally think it can be much more.

Guys quick question about the bitcoin consensus issue (I haven't been following it so not completely clued into what is happening), my understanding was the consensus was which ever chain had the most core clients open, but from what I hear the miners in china basically controls which chain to follow, is this correct? is that because if they don't upgrade the the amount of hashing power the new chain loses would mean it gets stuck for months+

and does the multi algo mitigate this for digibyte? if not is there a way we can mitigate this issue (not talking about a central authority)

We might need to think about donations to Jared. He only has 5 million digibyte according to his last post and there is a person close around 1 billion digibyte who is going to get rich off Jareds hard work. With all this effort Jared puts in for no incentive other then to see digibyte thrive is something very rare to see in this world.

He might be taking a big risk with his life, who is paying him a salary to live off? Is this part of the $250k investment to keep feeding him and give him living quarters in Hong Kong

This man has integrity like I have never seen in my life. He is the most honest human being in crypto. Please let's get together and donate to poor Jared who only has 5 million coins.

You think my posts in here don't damage DGB, but you're wrong. Majority of people reading here are just altcoin gamblers and don't care that what I say is true. They're in it for the quick buck— they're ATTRACTED to these unethical reward changing schemes.

The guys over at findevr, on the other hand, they will actually investigate the coin's blockchain history and its source code..... To find out I'm completely correct!

I'm going to propose 3 scenarios, in order of likelihood, with 1 being most likely, and 3 least likely:

1. Multi-algo fails or becomes irrelevant. Digibyte, Myriad, and all the multi-algo family go to nothing.

2. Multi-algo becomes the next big thing in altcoins, and after a couple of years Myriad (or a better multi-algo coin yet to be born) secures its place high up in the market cap rankings.

3. IBM and all these other big companies ignore Digibyte's huge red flags, multi-algo turns out to be a flawless concept, and IBM et al. pump it to the moon.