Hey!  I resemble that remark!  Max leverage!  Onward!


OK, we can go up now

I wonder...

Frequently when alts crash, XMR holds up better than most of the pack.  But today it is the opposite.  XMR seems to be losing more than usual.

I wonder if this might be somewhat influenced by the fact we could be following the pre-forkcoin selloff as the original date for the snapshot was today.

A certain percentage of people dumb enough to buy XMR to get the forkcoins would also be dumb enough not to have noticed they didn't get them yet and still sell off...

Just a thought.

I didn't hedge XMR specifically. I hedged my whole crypto portfolio in a way by selling my bitcoin when it started falling hard and putting in a stop order at the price that I sold it at. So worst case scenario, if it stops falling and going back up the exchange will automatically buy it back at the same price that I sold. No fancy contracts or anything. I cant even get on bitfinex being an american. Either way though it makes me feel so much less stressed about both the decline in bitcoin and monero.

I think that Monero is the leader among the anonymous coins. And thanks to this, Monero will become very popular. People want to be safe in the crypto world, so they are interested in this coin.

this is just a very late night (and too many g+ts) post....as most of you know i stoped postin here after fluffypony's hilarious 'lets' crach the market post' some months back.

But seriously, can  someone please gime me a precis as to what the fuck is going on..forks/airdrops/etc?

XMR used to be the bes alt coin out thee,,,best etech, tech devs, best map,....this eens to heve gone to shit despite the fact it has been adopted by Dreamarket.

So, what the fuck is going on?

I hve a LOT of capital tied up in XMR (basicLLY ceause Im a privacy nerd) but one thing I've realised in 5/6 yers of crypto is that the tech means nothng...its the polituiics behind the tech that a makes or brakes a project.

Opiions of oldies are most welcome, trolls please keep your council.

Wow! Hello. Haven't seen your face around here in a while.

Development is, if anything, accelerating not decelerating. Look at the explosion of activity half way through 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K33PoKM7vOM Have you heard about bulletproofs? They will bring a space savings of 80+% on the blockchain. Code is written and the peer review process is fully funded.

Anyway the fundamentals are as strong as ever but i'll let someone else speak to the politics. Except maybe that I'll add that John McAfee is running around evangelizing for us now. So that's pretty cool.

How nice it is to see you back. Along with the bulletproofs and the fork coin that's coming up (yuck) there is also the imminent release of the Ledger Nano (whew!) hardware wallet fro Monero. Also, work is ongoing for multisig... I think there possibly was a minor vulnerability found that is being patched hopefully. So I agree with anon that things are on the up and up development wise and as you mentioned real world acceptance is also increasing. It's a weird time post crypto run up.  The price contraction is awfully difficult to watch. That is also obviously part of the reason that the Monero price is decreasing. Also including against Bitcoin just because all alts are under scrutiny and shrinking a little bit right now.

I wish I was smart enough to be able to figure out where it's all going but instead I'm just gonna hold tight and watch the show.

Honestly, I think people are getting tired of hard-forks/airdrops. Look at what happened with Calisto and ETC. Major disappointment and the trend of mooning before fork has dissipated a bit.

I have been suspicious that this was part of the impetus behind the roll out of the Trezor Model T. I think they tried to implement Monero on their original Trezor and found the hardware was insufficient to produce ring signatures. And I'm not saying that the reason they rolled out the model T was for Monero, but rather because Monero caused them to realize that they needed something a little more future proof.

Which Linux distro/version?  We can take this off thread if you are interested.