I know what you mean. Marketing hasnt really started for monero. Indeed a nice GUI is needed in order to start spread the news. Right now the most important thing is to make this coin a solid coin and develop more things about it. Fix bugs and make it more stable. It is already an order of magnitude better in terms of anonymity from other coins and i guess those that really need anonymity know what to choose whatever the marketing of other coins is.

Right, at 0.003 about 70 BTC/day is required to absorb new coins...
And that is not gonna happen even with a basic GUI wallet...
I can see 0.001 for a few weeks as momentum builds.

It's hilarious reading the last 2 pages about the wallet...
The BTC wallet is ridiculously outdated and something only an ultra-geek could love...
"The masses" have not even adopted Bitcoin... it's so klunky, geez.

I strongly disagree. After monero every new coin that gets out has a difficulty of a few millions after an hour. Now everyone knows how to mine CN coins and set up a new VM to mine at start.

And anyway what that means? If it has low difficulty then it means miners can dump whenever the feel like and there is no need to hold...Just grabbing a few btc...

In the end i cannot understand why you guys fear copy coins? All cryptos are speculative but copy coins are just that with 0 new tech promises. There is no reason for monero to fear copy coins. They will just pump a bit and then dump. Now if a new coin comes out with more innovation and good dev well i will also mine it and buy it and support it. Until then who cares about clones?

There is FUD at the moment going on about Bytecoin, that CryptoNote based coins have a backdoor.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/512747.msg7018325#msg7018325

Personally I think this is a load of rubbish, many people here have read the entire codebase [1] of Monero (that is mostly the original CryptoNote implementation) and there seems to be no evidence of these special keys.

[1] I am sure I heard that some of the Monero developers have been over the code. I wouldn't mind this being confirmed again.

Yeah - we haven't noticed anything even close to a remote kill switch, and I don't see that being practically possible.

Even if it WERE practically possible, someone would just fork it and remove the relevant bits from the code to make sure they don't lose their money. I'm guessing this is just a play for legitimacy to try and cover up the 82% premine.

I have the similar problem, sent few monero with new wallet to https://cryptonote.exchange.to/ , still haven't arrived, after over one hour, but yesterday with same wallet version everything went smooth. Maybe it is due to exchange? Luckily it is just a few monero, but hope it will show up  

they showed up 

The amount of coins per block goes down every block. ~80% of coins are issued in 4 years.

"Massive" buy wall at 280 of 30 BTC... nice to see