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

[Hueristic]

What the fuck is this bullshit FUD???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero_(cryptocurrency)

Due to its privacy features, Monero experienced rapid growth in market capitalization and transaction volume during 2016, faster and bigger than any other cryptocurrency that year. This growth was driven by its uptake in the darknet market, where people used it to buy stolen credit cards, guns, and drugs.[3] Two major darknet markets were shut down in July 2017 by law enforcement.[6] From the beginning, Monero has been used by people holding other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to break the link between transactions, with the other cryptocoins first converted to Monero, then after some delay converted back and sent to an address unrelated to those used before.

After many online payment platforms shut down access for white nationalists following the Unite the Right rally in 2017, some of them, including Christopher Cantwell and Andrew Auernheimer ("weev"), started using and promoting Monero.[8][9]

The operators behind the May 2017 global ransomware incident WannaCry converted their proceeds into Monero.[2] In June, The Shadow Brokers, the group that leaked the code used in WannaCry, started accepting payments in Monero.[2]

Looks like Wiki is being used to rewrite history with a pretty obvious spin.

See also

    Crypto-anarchism
    Darknet
    Darknet market

Well looks like there needs to be a move to fix this shit.

[nullius]

BTW. good to see you here, been a while, hope you are well.

Thanks.  Same to you. :-)

What the fuck is this bullshit FUD???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero_(cryptocurrency)

Wikipedia is a stunningly successful outlet for mass propaganda under colour of facts.  Its so-called “neutral point of view” is anything but; and although its articles on some mathematical or scientific subjects have attained a decent quality, I would not rely on it for anything politically controversial in any way.

If Wikipedia is smearing Monero, I am not surprised.

coinomi XMR i think is not centralized   

coinomi  XMR privacy ?

I was mistaken about Coinomi being custodial; I will correct my earlier post accordingly.  However, Coinomi is still not recommended:

“Last edit: September 17, 2020, 08:25:29 AM by Lauda”

Not recommended or outdated Wallets

[...]

• Coinomi — Initially open source, then changed again to closed source. Had controversial situations in the past. More information can be found here

From the linked thread, which is quite recent:

[...]

[...] All users of Coinomi have to have complete trust in both your programming skills and your honesty.

The oft repeated mantra of "Don't trust. Verify." is apt here. With closed source software, it is impossible to verify, and you are forced to trust. Why will you not transition to open source?

[birr]

https://xmr.noctism.com/

‘Network Upgrade’ (hard fork) successful!

yeah, according to your link it supposed to happen on block 2210720, looks like it did.  I'm running 0.17.1.0

Code:

2020-10-18 05:16:51.049 I [104.140.244.186:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 2210720 -> 2210766
[Your node is 46 blocks (1.5 hours) behind]
2020-10-18 05:16:51.049 I SYNCHRONIZATION started
version
0.17.1.0-release
2020-10-18 05:18:09.970 W There were 0 blocks in the last 90 minutes, there might be large hash rate changes, or we might be partitioned,
cut off from the Monero network or under attack, or your computer's time is off. Or it could be just sheer bad luck.
status
Height: 2210720/2210720 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 1.47 GH/s, v14 (forking now), 8(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 25m 5s

still waiting for the new chain to get started, the old one is now at 2210766.  Makes me nervous.

the coin merge problem

I haven't heard about coin merge.  Googling monero coin merge returns "Leveraging Output Merging" on the Monero wikipedia page and some stuff about merge mining.
Can you post a link or a few words of explanation?

[bitebits]

You might want to restart your node birr in case your node still hasn’t seen a new block yet. The current latest one is 2210773:

https://xmrchain.net/block/2210773

[birr]

You might want to restart your node birr in case your node still hasn’t seen a new block yet. The current latest one is 2210773:

https://xmrchain.net/block/2210773

I exited the daemon and restarted.  Looks a little better, at least the status shows the new block height.  Waiting to see what happens.

edit: nope

Code:

status
Height: 2210720/2210783 (99.9%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 1.47 GH/s, v14, 7(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 0m 28s
2020-10-18 05:55:40.044 W There were 0 blocks in the last 90 minutes, there might be large hash rate changes, or we might be partitioned, cut off from the Monero network or under attack, or your computer's time is off. Or it could be just sheer bad luck.
2020-10-18 05:55:48.618 I [77.110.216.189:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 2210720 -> 2210783 [Your node is 63 blocks (2.1 hours) behind]
2020-10-18 05:55:48.618 I SYNCHRONIZATION started
2020-10-18 05:57:10.052 W There were 0 blocks in the last 90 minutes, there might be large hash rate changes, or we might be partitioned, cut off from the Monero network or under attack, or your computer's time is off. Or it could be just sheer bad luck.
status
Height: 2210720/2210720 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 1.47 GH/s, v14 (forking now), 8(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 3m 14s

[bitebits]

^ You are running the latest version 0.17.1.0. I assume you are not connected to a remote node (which might be stuck on the old chain)?

Maybe try and delete p2pstate.bin
https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/4462/my-blockchain-is-stuck-how-do-i-unstuck-it

[birr]

Nothing works, I'm re-syncing the blockchain.

[dEBRUYNE]

Nothing works, I'm re-syncing the blockchain.

Please see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/jdct0z/anyone_got_any_idea_of_when_the_hard_fork_will_be/g97as9j/

[bitebits]

Nothing works, I'm re-syncing the blockchain.

Please see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/jdct0z/anyone_got_any_idea_of_when_the_hard_fork_will_be/g97as9j/

Thanks for the link dEBRUYNE. Not good, fortunately the already online nodes are not affected.

[sech1]

Nothing works, I'm re-syncing the blockchain.

Please see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/jdct0z/anyone_got_any_idea_of_when_the_hard_fork_will_be/g97as9j/

Thanks for the link dEBRUYNE. Not good, fortunately the already online nodes are not affected.

The fix is in https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/6906 - you can compile it yourself or wait for v0.17.2.0 release.

[elrippos friend]

Well, then the DEV's and the monero community have to release 17.2.0 for GUI and CLI quite urgently in my opinion

I can connect my wallet to my private node without any problems, but on my personal PC i am stuck at block 2210720 following message being delivered all the time

Code:

2020-10-18 14:13:51.983 I [51.79.173.165:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 2210720 -> 2211044 [Your node is 324 blocks (10.8 hours) behind]
2020-10-18 14:13:51.983 I SYNCHRONIZATION started
2020-10-18 14:13:53.827 W monerod is now disconnected from the network

[sech1]

Well, then the DEV's and the monero community have to release 17.2.0 for GUI and CLI quite urgently in my opinion

I can connect my wallet to my private node without any problems, but on my personal PC i am stuck at block 2210720 following message being delivered all the time

Code:

2020-10-18 14:13:51.983 I [51.79.173.165:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 2210720 -> 2211044 [Your node is 324 blocks (10.8 hours) behind]
2020-10-18 14:13:51.983 I SYNCHRONIZATION started
2020-10-18 14:13:53.827 W monerod is now disconnected from the network

Only monerod (node) has to update, wallets don't need to be updated. It'll be released in a few hours.

[birr]

Does this mean I have to stop my sync before 2210720 and wait for 17.2?
Don't tell me to compile, ain't happening


Note to devs:  test the edge cases before you release a mandated fork.

[dEBRUYNE]

Well, then the DEV's and the monero community have to release 17.2.0 for GUI and CLI quite urgently in my opinion

I can connect my wallet to my private node without any problems, but on my personal PC i am stuck at block 2210720 following message being delivered all the time

Code:

2020-10-18 14:13:51.983 I [51.79.173.165:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 2210720 -> 2211044 [Your node is 324 blocks (10.8 hours) behind]
2020-10-18 14:13:51.983 I SYNCHRONIZATION started
2020-10-18 14:13:53.827 W monerod is now disconnected from the network

Release binaries that include the fix will follow shortly.

[dEBRUYNE]

Does this mean I have to stop my sync before 2210720 and wait for 17.2?
Don't tell me to compile, ain't happening

The sync will stop automatically at that block. In order to sync past that block, you will have to use the version that includes the fix, which will be released shortly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/jdh5to/psa_a_bug_has_caused_some_nodes_to_get_stuck_on/

[birr]

[elrippos friend]

Well, then the DEV's and the monero community have to release 17.2.0 for GUI and CLI quite urgently in my opinion

I can connect my wallet to my private node without any problems, but on my personal PC i am stuck at block 2210720 following message being delivered all the time

Code:

2020-10-18 14:13:51.983 I [51.79.173.165:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 2210720 -> 2211044 [Your node is 324 blocks (10.8 hours) behind]
2020-10-18 14:13:51.983 I SYNCHRONIZATION started
2020-10-18 14:13:53.827 W monerod is now disconnected from the network

Release binaries that include the fix will follow shortly.

Waiting for that, maybe the issue for the bittrex wallet maintenance lasting almost all weekend...

[bitebits]

Well, then the DEV's and the monero community have to release 17.2.0 for GUI and CLI quite urgently in my opinion

I can connect my wallet to my private node without any problems, but on my personal PC i am stuck at block 2210720 following message being delivered all the time

Code:

2020-10-18 14:13:51.983 I [51.79.173.165:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 2210720 -> 2211044 [Your node is 324 blocks (10.8 hours) behind]
2020-10-18 14:13:51.983 I SYNCHRONIZATION started
2020-10-18 14:13:53.827 W monerod is now disconnected from the network

Release binaries that include the fix will follow shortly.

Some more background information on the cause of the issue:

A small unofficial post-mortem from me: at block 2210000 CLSAG should've started and MLSAG transactions (old ones) shouldn't have been allowed to enter the mempool anymore. Whatever old transactions were left there should've been mined in the next few blocks, way before block 2210720. But due to an oversight, they kept appearing in the mempool and eventually 2 old MLSAG transactions were mined in block 2210720. Here comes the second oversight: once a transaction is in the mempool and verified, it's not verified again when it's included in a new mined block. Old transactions were verified with v13 rules, but then were added without verification to block 2210720 which used v14 rules. All nodes that were online didn't "see" the problem and kept working. All nodes that synced later refused to sync that specific block. The patch just adds 2 rogue transactions as exceptions to v14 rules.

The simple fix to this kind of bug is to re-check all transactions in the mempool once consensus rules change, i.e. at the fork height.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/jdh5to/psa_a_bug_has_caused_some_nodes_to_get_stuck_on/g98nuwl/

[fastlight]

Waiting for that, maybe the issue for the bittrex wallet maintenance lasting almost all weekend...

Dex is the way...

https://bisq.network/

Not your keys, not your coins...

[elrippos friend]

Waiting for that, maybe the issue for the bittrex wallet maintenance lasting almost all weekend...

Dex is the way...

https://bisq.network/

Not your keys, not your coins...

Not for those transaction fees