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Monero Marketplace Market Research
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Go right ahead then. Most of the hash rate is not on identified pools, at least according to the minexmr chart. Maybe there is a better chart, I don't really know.

https://monerohash.com/#network

minexmr currently shows only 2 pools + small + unknown at 61%
while monerohash shows 8 pools + small + unknown at 34%

It's quite peculiar that monero.net shows n/a there, while a few months ago it had 2-3 MH/s of hashrate. Perhaps it went private, who knows.

I really love this stuff. BUT, am not there yet. I pretty much need to keep my mind busy all the time or else damage ensues. Have some understanding of cryptography, or more like cryptographic algorithms, but does anyone have any resources that might slow down the math behind cryptographic algorithms at a pace I can step through. I dont mind looking up and learning some math along the way, or perhaps a lot of math. But understanding the effects of a cryptographic algorithm, and undestanding how it does what it does are two very different levels of understanding, and I would very much appreciate if someone could point me in a direction that would bridge that gap a bit.

Perfect. Thank you very much.

I'm not sure what you mean by 100% core devs payout fee. Donations maybe?

As far as I know no core team member has been directly involved with any pool.

I don't know what happened to monero.net.

 
  
Seriously?  
  
Am I the only one who just assumed he was already active in the community under a pseudonym?  Of course someone like Szabo either a.) helped create Cryptonote/Monero or b.) learned about it pretty quickly after launch and got interested in it.  Again, this isn't Nyancoin here - this is the most legitimate project since the original Bitcoin. 
  
The only catch is that his name carries a lot of weight (and possibly a lot of unwanted attention at this stage) and so it might be best that he admires "from afar" for now.  
  
This is similar to the fact that you can bet your sweet ass that people like the head of JP Morgan and Bank of America own a personal store of Bitcoins though they would never be caught dead admitting it.  
  
Good news for people like me is that though quiet brilliance like Szabo and Turing moves and alters entire civilizations, it doesn't necessarily sell on stage.    So as long as there are flesh monkeys to persuade, loud and motivational arrogance like me still has a role to play in this game.

Git updates since last time:

- simplewallet can be set to use a different default mixin than 4 (eg, set default-mixin
- more hardfork voting changes: first hard fork will not be voted on, due to complicated issues with alt chains
- block time change from 1 minute to 2 minutes (to take effect at the next fork)
- new show_transfers simplewallet command, to show in/out transactions in a more user friendly way
- more daemon commands now work again on the development branch, using 0MQ