I have been mining on crypto-pool.fr for months upon months. You should be careful not to shoot the messenger here. They found the bug and fixed it, and they are one of the most productive pools in existence.

You are entitled to your opinion and you can mine where you like, but I have been pleased with their pool and support work ethic.  I have pointed my miners there consistently, having tried several other pools from time to time.

Well done on the pool fixes, can only imagine how much a nefarious character could have been gaining if the vulnerability has been there since the beginning. Scary stuff and a shame for all the honest miners out there.   

It's feasible, but for now I see side chains as not much more relevant than any other alt-coin exchange. The changes that would need to be implemented in BTC are not trivial nor have they even been presented as pull requests - aka it's vaporware, for now. The only way that side chains get implemented today are by federated servers which hold the private keys to all BTC 'locked' in multi-sig transactions in the main chain, representing value in the side chain.

While I do have a lot of respect for the Blockstream devs, it's just too soon to know if they'll be able to implement anything stronger than a mechanism requiring full trust in Blockstream Inc's federated servers. In this way, it's no different than Poloniex.

TLDR; Not a concern in the next few years.

There's also no way to keep Bitcoin out of our blockchain if we implement sidechains... We could transfer Bitcoin into the XMR sidechain as a token, then transfer it back to the BTC main chain (as long as we switch to a fast-to-verify hashing algorithm).

Conversely, there's no way to stop us from storing XMR on the BTC main chain as a token once sidechains are implemented too. In the future I think we'll see all cryptocurrency types traded in a distributed fashion on many different chains, with their tokens representing "equity" in the developing parties of the respective blockchains.

Trivial, even... you'd just port CounterParty or CoinPrism.

Then every blockchain simply becomes an exchange with varying liquidity and security. I think this might be the actual long term scalability solution.

I seriously doubt what you experienced 6 months ago was this pool exploit, Heuristic.

It is however, a very opportunistic time to point out what a whizbang super sleuth you are.

I never said it was, I have no clue why and when I asked then I was told there was no way and It was luck. Maybe it was maybe not I still have no clue. All I know is it was possible and I didn't know that before.

It's funny that you are doing to me what you are accusing me of doing, shooting the messenger.



Oh and unless you haven't noticed my monikor is Hueristic. But you were close it actually is a Pun on heuristics.

In case you forget in the future here is a ditty so you can sound it out.

I before E except after C and U before E when referring to Me.

Put your dogs on leashes, it looks sloppy and pathetic the constant trolling of the DRK/DASH thread. Let each coin stand on their own merits and the market will ultimately decide.

I do think monero has a very solid basis, yet it remains so that allmost anything can be implemented in the blockchain. What protocol will win, who knows, curious to see which of the "dark" coins will survive and thrive.