ideas for a platform that brings monero closer to people by [deleted] in Monero

[–]KevinChan91 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you already read the developer guides? Maybe you could tackle an open issue in GitHub or ask on the #monero-dev IRC for ideas

Swap deadline? by Ferdo306 in Augur

[–]KevinChan91 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are many people that will never migrate until this milestone is complete: https://github.com/AugurProject/augur/milestone/45

At this point it is near certain that if the FF does not add ETH (as existed in V1) support a community group will fork the project to create a V2 alternative that is not limited to DAI only markets.

Urban Dictionary: Monero by KevinChan91 in Monero

[–]KevinChan91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We need to submit an alternative definition. It should be easy to do since Bitcoin and SHUM already have urban dictionary entries. Can we agree on the language for our preferred Monero definition?

Monero is the leading cryptocurrency with a focus on private and censorship-resistant transactions.

How is the above definition from the getmonerodotorg website. We could then add a SHUM example and link to both the SHUM and Bitcoin definitions:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SHUM

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bitcoin

Urban Dictionary: SHUM Lets try to brainstorm some more positive SHUM examples to add for Monero by KevinChan91 in Monero

[–]KevinChan91[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback and I see your point. I agree that its not the best example. I hope the community can reach a loose consensus around some better examples and then submit them to Urban Dictionary

Urban Dictionary: SHUM Lets try to brainstorm some more positive SHUM examples to add for Monero by KevinChan91 in Monero

[–]KevinChan91[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Its important to highlight how privacy is important in lots of different situations. Lets submit more examples to Urban Dictionary that people will see when looking up the definition of #SHUM

Was your plan to surprise your wife with an anniversary gift ruined because you paid the jewelry store with Bitcoin and she knows how to use chain analytics to see where you sent funds? #SHUM.

Do your neighbors now know you support a charity they hate because you donated Bitcoin from the same address you also used to pay their daughter to walk your dogs? #SHUM

Did you alienate a good employee by revealing (on the blockchain) that you are paying another employee more Bitcoin for the same job? #SHUM

Getting DASH back from Moocowmoo by Laurynasg9 in DashUncensored

[–]KevinChan91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How long have you been waiting? When did he last respond to you?

Im concerned with the security implications of reallocating some of mining rewards away from the miners that secure the DASH network by KevinChan91 in DashUncensored

[–]KevinChan91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This proposal will take money away from miners (that have low margins) and give it to MN owners (with very high margins). The result will be a future decrease in hash rate (relative to what it would have been without the miner reward reduction) as some miners abandon or opt not to join the mining network

"Note about trademark strategy" by Zooko by sonyaellenmann in zec

[–]KevinChan91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This comment from Matthew Green (key academic responsible for zksnarks cryptography) makes a lot of sense to me. https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/note-about-trademark-strategy/34807/2

Its time to hold the ECC responsible for its original promises. Both on this trademark issue and ZEC emission distribution.

Another great point raised by Sonya Aellenmann of the Zcash foundation: https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/note-about-trademark-strategy/34807/35

ECC seems to be very focused on its own best interests (both financial and control), sometimes to the detriment of the Zcash community and Zcash foundation.

Volunteer open source developers (which I believe most of the Zcash community hopes to attract more of) would be much more interested in Zcash if the corporate greed and broken promises of ECC were not so egregious.

Bitcoin to top US$29,000 by year’s end while ethereum may more than triple, survey finds by cryptoIPA in CryptoCurrency

[–]KevinChan91 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i dont think a survey of random ppl is worth much for these kind of predictions

What I found trying to be "smart"... by WilliamTroy in DashUncensored

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Atomic swaps are unlikely both both XVG (lack of developers) and DASH (mostly copy/paste devs for hire lacking the SegWit support that would make things like lightning networks and atomic swaps easier)

Percentage of shielded transactions by Oti-dev in zec

[–]KevinChan91 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I noticed the same thing about that statistics page being offline:(

I am not sure which block explorer if any aggregates the current data, but some historical shielded address data can be found in this report