What's up Steemit people, I'm Riccardo "fluffypony" Spagni from the Monero Project

in #introduceyourself8 years ago (edited)

Hi! I'm Riccardo, although you may know me as fluffypony (or fluffyponyza on Twitter and on Reddit). I'm one of the Monero Core Team members, who are stewards of the Monero project.

This is me

To verify that this is really me, I've linked to this post on my Twitter account. This saves me the hassle of having to write "what's up Steemit people" on a piece of paper and take a picture, especially because I'm totally having a bad hair day (kidding).

I live in Plettenberg Bay, a gorgeous little coastal town along the Garden Route, which is on the southern coast of South Africa. In Plettenberg Bay we have views like this:

Sea view

And many people live in houses like this:

Such mansion

I'm not one of those people, I live a little further inland with a view of the ocean through the lagoon mouth, and relatively easy access to the river in case I feel like packrafting. I'm married to a wonderful dark-skinned woman with big eyes:

Sealions rock

Kidding...that's just some girl I met. My wife has much lighter skin, being of the blonde-haired-blue-eyed German variety. Her name is Saskia, and she's absolutely gorgeous! I always thought I was going to be a bachelor, and didn't put much value in marriage. All that changed when I met Saskia, and within a few months I knew I had to eventually wife her:

Proposal accepted

We got married in 2010, on the 10th of October. I chose this date because 10/10/10 is easy to remember, and now there's no risk of me forgetting our anniversary, which as you may know is a cardinal sin and may result in your untimely demise. We were totes the most beautiful couple at our wedding:

Wedding pic

As you may have noticed, I enjoy good food and good wine...sometimes a little more than I should. My wife, on the other hand, is a sporty vegan who hardly drinks alcohol, so I figure she makes up for both of us:

Ze German

Being in Africa has its perks! For our 5 year anniversary last year I surprised my wife with an elephant ride:

Elephants

You take for granted how huge an elephant is until you're sitting on the back of one!

Elephant bums

We don't have any children, as we have 6 dogs (SIX!!) and there's simply no space. Plus our dogs are awesome, even though they are getting on in years. One day we found our dogs having their annual Council of the Dogs meeting, which was interesting:

Council of the dogs

Those two brown dogs on the right are Basenjis. They're pretty awesome - they're the dogs that are in the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and are one of the ancient breed that many other breeds came from. They are mostly silent and don't bark, which means they attack intruders without warning. They're also incredibly independent and absolute escape artists! The other 4 are rescue dogs that we've accumulated, and whilst they aren't unique breeds like the Basenjis, they are all fantastic and cute in their own right.

In my spare time I do all sorts of things like collect watches, play with LEGO, and build and fly multicopters (drones). The dogs hate my drones, and think that it's some sort of buzzing animal that they must kill, which leads to hilarious photos like this:

Dogs under drone

I hope to use Steemit as a platform to start blogging again, as I've been out of it for too long. Thanks for reading, and if you want to keep more current with what I'm up to on Monero and in my life then be sure to catch me on Twitter:)

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Welcome! great post i think it is hard for some to understand the bond that is created between humans and dogs. I can relate to your post alot, i used to breed german sheperds but had a habit of keeping one from each litter,lol. They were like my family such much so it was scary sometimes how emotionally tied to them i was. I used to live in Australia sorta out of the city and i would take them to the river everyday for a swim. They new when it was time and they would jump in the van and wait. Heres a snap i took with a van i bought from a kindergarten specifically for my dogs.

Definetly miss my babies.

Hi! Please, how to create such cute icons like you did??? ) Thank you!

Hello Riccardo our friends in Acapulco need our help.

https://steemit.com/life/@cmduncan94/bringing-cisco-home

What Che did not tell you in her post was Casey and her went to the US Embassy on an emergency basis three days ago looking for assistance.

Casey and Che paid the hospital bill which left them with no more money for food and Casey’s insulin.

The hospital would not release baby Cisco until they paid the $6000.

The US embassy is literally holding them hostage in Mexico now until Che and Casey can document they are US citizens with proof of residency with original documents for the past 5 years to get the baby’s documents to travel home.
Who has that when your traveling? Mind you copies? they can not be digital, everything has to be original documents due to the new immigration and naturalization laws.

A Passport is no longer proof you are a legitimate US citizen.
https://www.gofundme.com/u6rz73-help-us-get-back-to-the-us
Can you please spare a upvote and resteem to them? ty

Their annual Council of the Dogs meeting must have been really interesting ahahahha

How much does it cost to feed your dogs?

I'd guess they cost in the region of $200 a month to feed. To my wife's credit, she supplements their expensive high-protein diet with bulk vegetables that she cooks up on a weekend, so the costs are somewhat reduced, but the added tuna, salmon, and some older-dog-joint-problem supplements make up the difference.

I have an impression there is no official GUI wallet from XMR so far, am I right?

I mean official, not some third-party one. I don't trust any third-party wallet. The XMR CLI is really very professionally NON-user-friendly, to be honest.

https://github.com/monero-project/monero-core

Most of the work being done on it is by mbg033: https://github.com/mbg033/monero-core

He could use some help - feel free to submit PRs directly to his fork until he's submitted a PR to get upstream in sync.

They haven't bothered releasing a wallet in over 2 years. The CLI wallet is unsafe. That's how little they think of their users. But FP come here every day to spam this place with Monero propaganda.

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Welcome Riccardo
So we need to sell all our Moneroj.
It seems that after Smooth you too find Steemit much better project :).
Now seriously.
Do you have any plan to finish the damn GUI wallet.
Now when Smooth is full of money, and I noticed he send something to you, it would be nice.
I really hope that you have done everything you have planned.

It's a completely different and unrelated project. I don't run a Steem node, I haven't looked at the code, I have no idea whether it will succeed in any way. But I do enjoy a good Markdown-based blogging platform, which is why I'm using this for the moment.

Re: the Monero GUI, as Monero is an unfunded, open-source project you are welcome to help "finish the damn GUI wallet". I look forward to your first pull request.