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What is the proper Freenode IRC channel for my needs?
In general, you can always start out on #monero, and people will point you in the right direction if another channel seems more useful. However, if you don't feel like checking in the #monero channel ...
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Does monero have a dedicated marketing team or continuous marketing contributors?
Not yet. However, we have probably the best community in cryptocurrencies, what you can see on Reddit, the official forum or here at Stack Exchange.
In my opinion, marketing makes only sense after we ...
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How to join the Monero Slack?
PM u/needmoney90 or u/SamsungGalaxyPlayer on Reddit with your e-mail address, or ping them on IRC.
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Any plans to have a Monero convention?
Silicon Valley Monero meetup just announced:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/5h9zo0/silicon_valley_monero_meetup/
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Where is the best place to propose ideas for Monero
#monero on Freenode IRC is probably the best sounding place. Or #monero-dev on Freenode if this is about monero development itself. #monero-research-lab for ideas to do with the theory or R&D.
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Are there any Monero podcasts?
Monero-specific podcasts:
Monero missives : 11 episodes are available on Monero official site. Last one is from March 19th, 2015
Monero Monitor : a podcast started in March 2017 by bigreddmachine
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Monero distribution estimates
As stated in your question, precision in answering this impossible. The most detailed estimate I have seen is from almost 3 years ago and updated 2 years ago.
Based on the continual growth of all ...
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Any plans to have a Monero convention?
There is a meetup scheduled for the 17th of December in Johannesburg.
There have also been other suggestions for a monero meetup.
However, an official convention as not been discussed publicly ...
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Is there a list/repository of online markets / vendors that accept Monero?
Yes! There is, on the official getmonero.org website:
https://getmonero.org/getting-started/merchants
The nice part about this site is that the page is hosted on github, and anyone can add a ...
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Does monero have a dedicated marketing team or continuous marketing contributors?
There's no marketing team, other than the getmonero.org site. Though they have worked hard to brand and identify what needs to be done to attract new users as well as reach out to the media, ...
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Any plans to have a Monero convention?
There was a MRL meetup in Utah back in 2014:
Over the weekend of the 8th and 9th of November 2014, the Monero Research Lab had a closed mini-meetup in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. In attendance were ...
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Which font is used in the Monero logo?
Riccardo Spagni (fluffypony) stated that the logo uses Century Gothic here.
The 'R' used in some versions (current branding package) doesn't seem to belong in the font family though. The 'E' also ...
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In what ways is Monero like Agar.io?
This was posted on Reddit by americanpegasus about a year ago:
In case you don't know, I adore Agar.io. This isn't just because it's literally globs of fun, but because it is one of the most elegant ...
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For newcomers to the Monero community, what can we do to help the project?
One simple thing you could do is to find videos on youtube about Monero and like them, put some comments. It will help spread the word.
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Does monero have a dedicated marketing team or continuous marketing contributors?
I don't believe a marketing team is needed. True, marketing can make even the worst products seem appealing, but once word gets around about how terrible that product is, it will fall on its face. ...
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How to pronounce Monero correctly
"Mon-air-oh"
with the stress on the second syllable - that's how Fluffypony pronounces it on all of the presentations or interviews I've heard him give. And almost everyone else for that matter.
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How to pronounce Monero correctly
Given that Monero comes from Esperanto, it'd probably be best to use Esperanto's pronunciation. As u/Bagatell_ pointed out on Reddit, you can use Google Translate for this:
https://translate.google....
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Where is a good gauge of the development activity and discussions for Monero?
You can see it on the official Monero project site
For keeping up to date with development see Following coding progress between dev meetings
For keeping up to date with broad community, Reddit pages ...
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Where is a good gauge of the development activity and discussions for Monero?
You can look at the commits ready for pulling at https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pulls
You can also idle in #monero-dev on Freenode IRC.
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Aside from the Monero Stackexchange what else are good resources for learning about Monero?
If you just want a chat then your best resource is maybe r/monero, if you want to start running a node maybe go to the monero website, if you want the research papers leading up to Monero/another ...
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What is the purpose of the Monero GitHub Meta repository?
What type of issues is this GitHub meant to address?
From the dev meeting:
fluffypony:: pigeons: do you want to tell people about the new repo we're using for issues?
pigeons: github.com/monero-...
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Any plans to have a Monero convention?
In addition to the meetings above, a new Monero London meetup group was recently announced on Reddit
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Can any one please tell me where I can find the latest python implementation of monero RingCT?
I've implemented the Monero transaction code signing for the Trezor in python, the code is here:
https://github.com/ph4r05/monero-agent
And MLSAG in particular: https://github.com/ph4r05/monero-...
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How necessary are transaction fees?
Two main reasons:
The block reward is going to decrease over time, and even in Monero where there is a tail emission (i.e. the emission rate bottoms out at a nonzero value) the block reward isn't ...
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For newcomers to the Monero community, what can we do to help the project?
To be honest the size of the Monero community is very very small in the grand scheme of things. Even beyond that, bitcoin itself is still a very niche thing in the wider world. Talk to the friends ...
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