How is Monero different from Dash? Like, Monero could be cheaper, faster and with more scale than DASH? Because I think in the last month people start to chose Dash over monero and I do not know which one is better now. I do not want hold so many coins and I need to start choosing the coin that I most believe and that could be useful as a currency.
Monero will probably not be faster or cheaper or scale more than dash any time soon because monero is a decentralized crypto currency. It's easy to scale if you aren't a decentralized crypto currency. Banks scaled perfectly well before bitcoin was invented. |
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I'm curious as to what's pumping the IOTA price so high? I've held IOTA for months, having to go through several recoveries with each new wallet update, and 6-12 hour transaction times trying to get it back to an exchange. In the end I sold the lot due to the frustrations with the platform. The idea is great, but it doesn't feel anywhere near ready for prime time. Am I missing some amazing news that justifies the pump, or is just market manipulation?
It's still in proof of concept stage. Not even beta software. This is alpha. Usually developers would not release software this early in its development however with this particular concept it is useful to have the network under load during development. |
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IPFS is sooo cool. Now it can be used to instantly deploy and connect to a decentrally hosted chat room. So anyway. Thought I would just drop this here and see if anyone is interested. If nothing else maybe someone can help me test it out. See if this link works the way I think it should. https://orbit.chat/#/channel/moneroWhats this mean? NOTE! Orbit is still more or less experimental. It means Orbit is currently not secure, APIs will change and clients can break over time. If you come across problems, it would help greatly to open issues so that we can fix them as quickly as possible. Interesting. I wonder what the theoretical attack vectors would be. I spent a while tonight poking around the github trying to understand how it all works. Can't say I made too much progress in that regard.  |
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This is all temporary. Kovri is under heavy development and once released will make all of this obsolete.
Is the Kovri going to run under TOR? or does it have a different method? From what I understand the Korvi devs are working directly with I2P dev team and are contributing to both. Thats a pretty good feeling if your worried about the end result.  Garlic routing: is a variant of Onion routing that encrypts multiple messages together to make it more difficult for attackers to perform traffic analysis. To protect the identity of the sender, messages are encrypted multiple times with the public keys of selected nodes on the network. To be delivered the encrypted packets must be received by routers selected by the sender, in the order specified by the sender. Differently from Onion routing an encrypted packet ("onion") can contain multiple packets ("cloves") with different destinations, and the sender is not required to specify a return path for the message. Garlic routing is a modest improvement over onion routing but it will probably always be difficult to achieve privacy in a network where messages must ultimately, at some point, be location addressed. To really truly get private networks we will probably need breakthroughs in physics not computer science. Security through obscurity has always been a poor choice but in some systems without a complete rewrite at the base layer there really isn't that much of a choice. There are projects doing that but I haven't kept up on them for over 10 years or so, there was a Swedish team (IIRC) that had written a base protocol but I'm not sure of the adoption. I think kovri plus sending sensitive transactions from a public wifi and not your home will be all the security any normal person needs. Good enough for government work. Do let me know if you come up with the name of that project. Interested. |
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Why haven't we heard anything from wankalone lately  It's like he just evaporated. I can't begin to imagine why. |
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This is all temporary. Kovri is under heavy development and once released will make all of this obsolete.
Is the Kovri going to run under TOR? or does it have a different method? Garlic routing: is a variant of Onion routing that encrypts multiple messages together to make it more difficult for attackers to perform traffic analysis. To protect the identity of the sender, messages are encrypted multiple times with the public keys of selected nodes on the network. To be delivered the encrypted packets must be received by routers selected by the sender, in the order specified by the sender. Differently from Onion routing an encrypted packet ("onion") can contain multiple packets ("cloves") with different destinations, and the sender is not required to specify a return path for the message. Garlic routing is a modest improvement over onion routing but it will probably always be difficult to achieve high levels of privacy in a network where messages must ultimately, at some point, be location addressed. To really truly get private networks we will probably need breakthroughs in physics not computer science. But hey you know, if privacy is really really important to you, you can always make sure your location doesn't identify you personally. The proverbial don't shit where you eat. |
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The good thing about being out of the top ten even at this ath price is that XMR is even more underpriced now. I read so many good things about Monero, it's great to see how much wider appreciation it has found. No other Crypto embodies the "Keeping it real" spirit as much as Monero. XMR is like bitcoin 2013 prices and fundamental values behind the coin anonymous peer to peer digital bitcoins :-D ~XMR is the real bitcoin for anonymous transactions~ ideas? Monero has always felt more like the early days of bitcoin than any other altcoin community I have been involved in. Over $200, ladies and gents.
Price is nice and all but I just have so strange felling. Huge difference with Bithumb compared other exchanges. I dont know. I would give 1 % chance Monero would be $200 now, so I should be endlessly happy as Monero maximalist. But I just dont know. Suddenly we are moving in concert with BTC again, which is making the USD value super swingy! btc is making a correction i see... wonder how deep this will go... hopefully we see 200 by the end of the year again A very good thing that it is making a correction. It was starting to run up too fast. When ever these things start to run away too fast the inevitable correction gets more and more severe. |
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' Blockchain network IOTA...' Those newspapers still live in the old world  Yea... the new phrase is DLT (distributed ledger technology). Rubes. |
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Can you run Monero miner through TOR? If yes, what change would need to made to the bat file on the opening page? I'm using Windows.
thanks Using Tor
While Monero isn't made to integrate with Tor, it can be used wrapped with torsocks, if you add --p2p-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 to the monerod command line. You also want to set DNS requests to go over TCP, so they'll be routed through Tor, by setting DNS_PUBLIC=tcp or use a particular DNS server with DNS_PUBLIC=tcp://a.b.c.d (default is 8.8.4.4, which is Google DNS). You may also disable IGD (UPnP port forwarding negotiation), which is pointless with Tor. To allow local connections from the wallet, you might have to add TORSOCKS_ALLOW_INBOUND=1, some OSes need it and some don't. Example:
DNS_PUBLIC=tcp torsocks monerod --p2p-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --no-igd
or:
DNS_PUBLIC=tcp TORSOCKS_ALLOW_INBOUND=1 torsocks monerod --p2p-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --no-igd
TAILS ships with a very restrictive set of firewall rules. Therefore, you need to add a rule to allow this connection too, in addition to telling torsocks to allow inbound connections. Full example:
sudo iptables -I OUTPUT 2 -p tcp -d 127.0.0.1 -m tcp --dport 18081 -j ACCEPT
DNS_PUBLIC=tcp torsocks ./monerod --p2p-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --no-igd --rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --data-dir /home/amnesia/Persistent/your/directory/to/the/blockchain
./monero-wallet-cli However, there is one gotcha to be careful about that is not (yet) mentioned in the README file. Each daemon has a node ID stored in the p2pstate.bin file. If you switch between Tor and clearnet, this node ID can be used to link the two, associating an IP address with your Tor session.
To avoid this issue either:
Always run over Tor, never over clearnet (not even one time); or
When switching between Tor and clearnet (in either direction), delete the p2pstate file. This will generate a brand new random node ID.
Even when using method #1 you still may wish to periodically delete p2pstate.bin to avoid having your Tor sessions potentially associated with each other.
In the future this node ID will need to be replaced with a different mechanism, but for now, take care and protect your privacy.
Finally, when running over Tor and receiving transactions, you must be careful to ensure that your view of the Monero network is not poisoned by exit node spoofing. To do this check the top hash using the diff command in your daemon, and compare it with the top hash shown on trusted sites such as well-known chain explorers. You can also run your own node on clearnet and use it only for receiving transactions, but not sending. This is all temporary. Kovri is under heavy development and once released will make all of this obsolete. |
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Can someone please explain the difference between a secret and public view key. I think I get it but want to be sure I understand it correctly. Can you give me an example of how secret key would be used vs. a public key.
Also been away from this forum for a long bit, got to catch up. What is the current status of the official wallet? Like I said have not been keeping up.
Thanks.
Secret key is what gives access to your monero. It can be used to sign transactions if you have the requisit skills and it can be used to restore your wallet if you happened to lose your 25 word seed and wallet file. Who ever has that is in effect the owner of your monero. So keep it secret! Public view key allows for audits. It is what makes monero a private currency not an anonymous currency. Show that to someone if you want them to be able to see your transaction history. It is useful for tax compliance or perhaps for non-profits to provide accountability. The official wallet is roughly the same as it used to be with the exception of integrated addresses. This allows you to produce addresses with integrated payment ids. So no more need for copying and pasting addresses and payment id's. Other noteworthy changes. RingCT blinds transaction amounts and removes the need for finding matching transaction amounts to ring sign with. It also makes transaction sizes smaller since there is no need to keep lots of individual different sized outputs. Multisig merging on main net soon. This is a crucial step needed for wide spread darknet adoption. Kovri is well funded and development is chugging along. The very last vector of information leak with regard to privacy is address reuse which is actively being addressed as well. There is a proposal in the works for one time sub-addresses. I'll come back and edit this if I think of anything else. Welcome back. Exciting times for this project. While other projects are hyping all day long our developers are building out real infrastructure. Real innovation. I think we have the best devs in the space. |
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Hey who are the XMR guys from zerohedge comments? Are any of you guys here as well?
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IOTA released over 5 months ago.
Why is there still no application running on IOTA?
IT took over 2 years to get listed and IT was postponed 10 Times or more. So Application i think if we are lucky in 2019/20 Maybe the technology behind iota is just too much to comprehend by these exhanges The vast majority of cryptocurrencies fork the bitcoin codebase. Therefore they all have the same api. So all these exchanges have to do is plug the new copycoin into existing inferastructure. The few that have been developed from new codebase require the site operators to learn a new api. Which may or may not be a difficult task but either way its tempting to apply your time to just adding new copycoins that take no new learning when those are available instead. |
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Difference is bitcoin is fully transparent. If the cost of privacy is extra storage then surely that's a decision for the consumer?
There's little choice when the system becomes unuseable for people to run in the first place. Already it takes several days to do a full sync on a fast connection with proper hardware. Still waiting for your academical research why even 1% or below inflation is too much for a coin to be any valuable... concern troll I would bet my left something that more than 1% of the money supply will be accidentally lost each year. Not in the boating accident way. I mean for real. People dying without giving their keys to someone, user error, forgotten passwords, etc... |
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The reason Monero can never be highly valued is because it doesn't scale.
Basically the same problem as Bitcoin, but even worse.
"But, but, we have second layer solutions."
Fine, go ahead with your second layer centralized off-chain solutions, *poof* gone is your privacy.
Wasn't this privacy why you wanted to use Monero in the first place?
I'm baffled by how very few people realize this. Then again people are only on these forums to make more fiat and have very little interest in the tech itself.
Off-chain scaling does not mean poof goes privacy for Monero, how did you come to that conclusion? I'm baffled by how people just spew nonsense without any merit I'd love to see second-layer solutions that preserve privacy at the level of Monero on-chain transactions. Links or details are very welcome. Hear hear. |
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I certainly do not have enough time for something to read all 1750 pages, and the desire to find out what is the same in a monero, and why such a huge interest among speculators to this coin, that in the speculation section about a coin of 1,750 pages? Is it really really profitable to trade a monero? Share the guys)
Yes, over time it has been and continues to be so. XMR only just passed its all time high in USD in the past few days. You need to get to know Monero and what drives it, and why it is special. Then I have no doubt you will buy. Over the long term it has been stunningly profitable. But of course, you must make up your own mind and decide yourself. It's the only coin I have ever actually told my family to buy a little of. I shall be very popular this Christmas when I see them. It is not only profitable to trade, it has been one of those altcoins that has been growing from strength to strength not just in price but in tech. So defiitely agree, once you read about it you realise this is not just another alt project, this really was one of the most different alts to hit the market. It is also one with real world practical use. Guess why all those faucet sites are asking to mine Monero? Because it is also still profitable to do so. Not any more with Bitcoin and all other alts are just too volatile or difficult to mine with computers. Also the governance structure is really healthy. Monero routinely hard fork with no fork chains appearing. This is an under acknowledged accomplishment. |
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Hey folks, about 16h ago I made XMR transaction. Unfortunatelly the recipient is still waiting for it to arrive. My Monero-wallet displays BlockHeight 0 for that tx. I tried and it seemed to cancle the tx. However I tried to send the transaction again and it is again stuck with a BlockHeight 0. Any suggestion on how to solve this? Thanks, Kryptowerk If worst comes to worse you could always delete everything other than ~/.bitmonero/lmdb/ and start from scratch. That would surely fix it . Please don't follow this. It's excessive and should only be tried as last resort. Besides, it might not even fix his issue. It was intended as a last resort suggestion. |
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Hey folks, about 16h ago I made XMR transaction. Unfortunatelly the recipient is still waiting for it to arrive. My Monero-wallet displays BlockHeight 0 for that tx. I tried and it seemed to cancle the tx. However I tried to send the transaction again and it is again stuck with a BlockHeight 0. Any suggestion on how to solve this? Thanks, Kryptowerk If worst comes to worse you could always delete everything other than ~/.bitmonero/lmdb/ and start from scratch. That would surely fix it . |
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Always click on URLs that end in ".rar". They are the best!
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those who believe in monero, what do you think about the onion? ^^ It's garbage that has nothing more going for it other than shills pushing it, kind of like are doing here. Not to mention the paid sig campain that they are calling an airdrop. It is nothing but one big lie and as long as you scumsuckers get paid to shill it it will continue to drag idiot n00bs into it. So if it is a big lie how it is possible that I am getting over 1000USD weekly just for the Signature? Simple. That is obviously a lie also. |
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