[XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency

[BitcoinExpert101]

XMR chart looks ready for a rally!!!

Check out the XMR chart!!! Looks really good as a perfect entry point!!!


XMR  GO GO GO GO GO!!!!

[blue_hurricanger]

I wish i had bought monero when it was at 1$, So stupid. I never imagine how high this coin would be. Of course, Dark Web has a lot to do with monero growth.

Yeah, moreno always have that stigma from Dark Web so it put a lot of users off.

[Hueristic]

I read something today that Monero cant provide fully anonymous transactions, because its leaking IP-addresses somehow. I dont want to spread fud or anything, this just interests me and you maybe can give me a clear answer here if this is the case or not?!

It's not leaking anything. That is by design for all nodes to be able to find each other on a decentralized platform. It has only been an issue the last year for fudders and alot of "Anon" coins are looking at changing that and XMR is one of them with the best solution which is IP2 where the shitcoins are using TOR which is compromised. BTW you have always been able to run XMR through TOR (well for as long as I can remember).

That right there is funny 

Lol, such a shame I have to qualify my statements these days, of all the things I've lost in life I miss my mind the most.

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/monero

Whats 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.

[Anon136]

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/monero

Whats 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.

[Hueristic]

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/monero

Whats 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.

I just was thinking it's JS based so I'd take a peek before running anything and thats the first thing that popped out at me. I don't know if it's referring to the chat not being secure or the connection? I'm not the trusting type and allow JS only on certain sites.

[Chicken_76]

1. When I type in rescan_bc, there are no transactions, just a zero balance.

2. I did the search for .keys and found a wallet from May, 2017, which is around the time I created the wallet. When I try to open that wallet, it opens with the password I had recorded for Monero.

3a. First, I noticed the following when I started Monerod.exe:
2017-11-30 22:40:59.290 [P2P7]  WARN    net.dns src/common/dns_utils.cpp:487    WARNING: no two valid MoneroPulse DNS checkpoint records were received

3b. This is a copy of the last line before I entered 'diff' and then the line following diff:
2017-11-30 22:44:39.681 [P2P7]  INFO    global  src/cryptonote_protocol/cryptonote_protocol_handler.inl:1521    SYNCHRONIZED OK
diff
BH: 1454598, TH: 02bfba6379a04c8c7fc8495efdaf9eae1a1e7454c39ce613776e15484ae258a7, DIFF: 32213148640, HR: 268442905 H/s

4. Yes I still have the mnemonic code associated with the wallet created in May, 2017 as well as the password and name of the wallet.

1. So you type rescan_bc and you see the counter "Height: x / y" where y is the current height (BH from monerod diff output) and x goes from 1 to y, right?
And when it finishes scanning the blockchain (x reaches y) it displays this?
Refresh done, blocks received: ......
Balance: 0, unlocked balance: 0
If so, then it means this wallet never had any transactions, neither in nor out. Even if someone had stolen your funds, you would still see the amount coming in and then being transferred out. But since you don't see any transactions, it means you never transfered monero to this wallet.
Back in May when you transfered monero to your wallet, did you see the amount in your wallet? Was it the CLI or GUI wallet?

2. So that's the only .keys file you found on your entire harddrive(s)?

3.a. That's nothing to worry about, I get those too.
Here Fluffypony, one of the core developers explains why you get that message:
https://np.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/419qdd/p2p4warning_no_two_valid_moneropulse_dns/cz0npvo/
The post is a bit old but I think it still stands true (if that's not the case, can one of the developers please chime in?)

3.b. Your monero daemon is fine.

4. Try to restore the wallet from that mnemonic seed you have.
Open a command prompt in the folder where the monero CLI executables are and run this:
monero-wallet-cli --restore-deterministic-wallet
and go through the process (give it a name, enter the 25 words, set a password, let it sync)

[DragonETH]

I wish i had bought monero when it was at 1$, So stupid. I never imagine how high this coin would be. Of course, Dark Web has a lot to do with monero growth.

while the anonymity of the coins will be good it came at a price when a new coin with the best anonymity possible everything will go back to 1$

[amaral1977]

I wish i had bought monero when it was at 1$, So stupid. I never imagine how high this coin would be. Of course, Dark Web has a lot to do with monero growth.

while the anonymity of the coins will be good it came at a price when a new coin with the best anonymity possible everything will go back to 1$

What really comes at a price, a really high one IMO, is using coins you THINK are anonymous and in reality they aren´t. AlphaBay has a good story to tell about this.

[dEBRUYNE]

[Seeks Funding] Coordinator for localization group + various maintenance

https://forum.getmonero.org/8/funding-required/89232/coordinator-for-localization-group-various-maintenance


[Seeks Funding] GUI Redesign

https://forum.getmonero.org/8/funding-required/89258/gui-redesign

[richan]

Any legit pool for mining monero ,I want to join and create more of it.

[revelacaogr]

Riccardo Spagni‏Verified account
@fluffypony

We're planning on building out a MimbleWimble system, probably as a layer 2 / sidechain. We'll likely do it in Rust, though, so we won't be able to inherit anything from grin except their learnings in building it:)


https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/936236511628062720

[garytheasshole]

Riccardo Spagni‏Verified account
@fluffypony

We're planning on building out a MimbleWimble system, probably as a layer 2 / sidechain. We'll likely do it in Rust, though, so we won't be able to inherit anything from grin except their learnings in building it:)


https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/936236511628062720

Heresy! Travesty! Torch Flufflypony! That's it, I'm forking Monero Cash.

</joke>

[semiwylson]

I think monero will be pumped in 1-2 weeks like dash

[AlteregoX]

I would really like to buy but i feel like we are gonna crash in a week max

[birr]

Riccardo Spagni‏Verified account
@fluffypony

We're planning on building out a MimbleWimble system, probably as a layer 2 / sidechain. We'll likely do it in Rust, though, so we won't be able to inherit anything from grin except their learnings in building it:)


https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/936236511628062720

Heresy! Travesty! Torch Flufflypony! That's it, I'm forking Monero Cash.

</joke>

The problem with any pronouncement from fluffernutter is that he has a history of bullshit troll practical jokery.  He has already cried wolf.  And we're supposed to believe him now?

[smooth]

Riccardo Spagni‏Verified account
@fluffypony

We're planning on building out a MimbleWimble system, probably as a layer 2 / sidechain. We'll likely do it in Rust, though, so we won't be able to inherit anything from grin except their learnings in building it:)


https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/936236511628062720

Heresy! Travesty! Torch Flufflypony! That's it, I'm forking Monero Cash.

</joke>

The problem with any pronouncement from fluffernutter is that he has a history of bullshit troll practical jokery.  He has already cried wolf.  And we're supposed to believe him now?

No, not really. Either pay attention to the code or better yet contribute to it.

[sgjenks01]

1. When I type in rescan_bc, there are no transactions, just a zero balance.

2. I did the search for .keys and found a wallet from May, 2017, which is around the time I created the wallet. When I try to open that wallet, it opens with the password I had recorded for Monero.

3a. First, I noticed the following when I started Monerod.exe:
2017-11-30 22:40:59.290 [P2P7]  WARN    net.dns src/common/dns_utils.cpp:487    WARNING: no two valid MoneroPulse DNS checkpoint records were received

3b. This is a copy of the last line before I entered 'diff' and then the line following diff:
2017-11-30 22:44:39.681 [P2P7]  INFO    global  src/cryptonote_protocol/cryptonote_protocol_handler.inl:1521    SYNCHRONIZED OK
diff
BH: 1454598, TH: 02bfba6379a04c8c7fc8495efdaf9eae1a1e7454c39ce613776e15484ae258a7, DIFF: 32213148640, HR: 268442905 H/s

4. Yes I still have the mnemonic code associated with the wallet created in May, 2017 as well as the password and name of the wallet.

1. So you type rescan_bc and you see the counter "Height: x / y" where y is the current height (BH from monerod diff output) and x goes from 1 to y, right?
And when it finishes scanning the blockchain (x reaches y) it displays this?
Refresh done, blocks received: ......
Balance: 0, unlocked balance: 0
If so, then it means this wallet never had any transactions, neither in nor out. Even if someone had stolen your funds, you would still see the amount coming in and then being transferred out. But since you don't see any transactions, it means you never transfered monero to this wallet.
Back in May when you transfered monero to your wallet, did you see the amount in your wallet? Was it the CLI or GUI wallet?

2. So that's the only .keys file you found on your entire harddrive(s)?

4. Try to restore the wallet from that mnemonic seed you have.
Open a command prompt in the folder where the monero CLI executables are and run this:
monero-wallet-cli --restore-deterministic-wallet
and go through the process (give it a name, enter the 25 words, set a password, let it sync)

1. It was a gui wallet and yes, I did see funds.

2. There are a lot of .keys files on my computer, but they are all date-stamped with very current dates, And they have names that match the names I was creating. There is a very low chance any of them would contain funds.

4. I ran restore-deterministic-wallet and when it finished syncing, it produced the following:

Restore from specific blockchain height (optional, default 0),
or alternatively from specific date (YYYY-MM-DD):
Starting refresh...
Refresh done, blocks received: 1179028
Balance: 0.000000000000, unlocked balance: 0.000000000000
Background refresh thread started
[wallet 47tXd1]:

What I don't understand is that it says it received 1179028 blocks when the blockchain is currently over 1450000 blocks. Why would it not agree with current height since I started at block 0.

[Chicken_76]

1. It was a gui wallet and yes, I did see funds.

2. There are a lot of .keys files on my computer, but they are all date-stamped with very current dates, And they have names that match the names I was creating. There is a very low chance any of them would contain funds.

4. I ran restore-deterministic-wallet and when it finished syncing, it produced the following:

Restore from specific blockchain height (optional, default 0),
or alternatively from specific date (YYYY-MM-DD):
Starting refresh...
Refresh done, blocks received: 1179028
Balance: 0.000000000000, unlocked balance: 0.000000000000
Background refresh thread started
[wallet 47tXd1]:

What I don't understand is that it says it received 1179028 blocks when the blockchain is currently over 1450000 blocks. Why would it not agree with current height since I started at block 0.

I don't know why it shows it has received less blocks than the current blockchain height. I also see this behavior on my wallet. There must be a good reason though, and I'd love it if a developer or someone who knows why, would explain here.
But even after the initial refresh, if you type rescan_bc you don't see any lines with "received" or "sent"? If so, then that's not the wallet you saw funds in back in May.
Did you use the GUI wallet on a different computer? Did you reinstall the operating system since then? Did you use it on a different user account? Did you look in C:\Users\your_user\Documents\Monero\wallets?
Do you know the wallet address you sent the monero to in May? If so, compare with current address.

[birr]

Riccardo Spagni‏Verified account
@fluffypony

We're planning on building out a MimbleWimble system, probably as a layer 2 / sidechain. We'll likely do it in Rust, though, so we won't be able to inherit anything from grin except their learnings in building it:)


https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/936236511628062720

Heresy! Travesty! Torch Flufflypony! That's it, I'm forking Monero Cash.

</joke>

The problem with any pronouncement from fluffernutter is that he has a history of bullshit troll practical jokery.  He has already cried wolf.  And we're supposed to believe him now?

No, not really. Either pay attention to the code or better yet contribute to it.

Like most, I don't read code.
It looks like anybody who wants to get involved in Monero needs to be a coder so they can figure out when they're being trolled by a dev.
Am I getting warm?

[denysrodman]

Due to the war between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash being the center of all cryptocurrency market, many investors are moving their assets to a safer currency like Monero.