I agree, but Wolf0 has yet to fully tackle the solo mining component, and funding seems to have dried up for that effort because the optimize funds got fux0rd

Good pull requests are always accepted

BTW, if I'm not mistaken BBR has some degree of GPU mining support in the standard daemon so it isn't unprecedented at all.

Nobody is working on it afaik so there is no duplication of effort. FFS on "integrate GPU mining with daemon" is another option; the discussion there would likely flush out any potential duplication.

There is no official policy on smartmining being CPU only. It just depends what code there is.

This reminds me of what Luke-Jr said last February, that he "would expect to see ring signatures in Bitcoin within 2-3 years".

You need to exit simplewallet, or type "save" in there. It can read both encrypted and unencrypted wallets, but always writes encrypted ones.

:-(

A bit more detailed reply:

Funding required for implementation of Ring Confidential Transactions (CT) (by Shen Noether aka NobleSir), which will also enable the implementation of ring multi-signature!

https://forum.getmonero.org/7/open-tasks/2450/ring-ct-c-crypto

Shen's comment regarding ring multi-signature:


All updates, whitepapers etc. regarding Ring Confidential Transactions (CT) can be found here ->  https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/3pw30d/ringct_for_monero_updated_versions/

Fully funded already :-)

Ring signatures are inherent to the Monero protocol and achieve untraceability.

Ring Confidential Transactions hides the amounts (amounts are, even though obscured, still visibile on the blockchain and therefore an attack vector) as well, therefore strengthening the anonymity of Monero. CT basically solves a bunch of loose ends of Monero's anonymity.

Ring multi-signature is basically multi-signature (same idea as Bitcoin) for Monero including transactions with ring signatures (all those with mixin > 0). Previously, only multi-signature for transactions with mixin = 0 was possible. If I recall correctly, they will be indistinguishable from "regular" transactions.  

Hope all is clear now.