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

[akula999]

http://mro.extremehash.com/pool

Anyone know why maturity is in the negative??

[superresistant]

http://mro.extremehash.com/pool
Anyone know why maturity is in the negative??

Negative maturity... interesting.
You should contact the admin.

[akula999]

There is no way that i can see to contact admin - http://mro.extremehash.com/pool

[aistto]

why sometimes bitmonerod don't finish downloading blocks but show SYNCRONIZED OK ?
14 block behind

http://fotki.yandex.ru/next/users/ss-serj/album/60283/view/728406

[HardwarePal]

Its a minor error I think just type refresh and enter

[superresistant]

why sometimes bitmonerod don't finish downloading blocks but show SYNCRONIZED OK ?
14 block behind
http://fotki.yandex.ru/next/users/ss-serj/album/60283/view/728406

As long as there is block left (14 blocks behind), it is not 100% synchronised.
You must wait for 0 block behind.

Its a miner error I think just type refresh and enter

This. Sometimes you have to type multiple times "refresh" before it refresh properly.

[flower1024]

I would like to ask you about the botnets in XMR. I've been reading bytecoin thread and stumbled upon XMR mining malware.
There was also a topic on the stealth miner: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=639375.0

Did anybody notice any difficulty spikes in early June?

[darlidada]

I emailed to MP, I asked why MP didn't choose XMR before?

The support replied:

Hello,

As it is a completely new codebase, this means we have to build new scripts to support it which takes time. We are now in a position to do this and it is clear that the community would like to see Monero traded at MintPal.

I think Mintpal has done the XMR implementation at MP. See it next monday

Can you provide a screenshot for anti-fud purpose ? Its not that I dont believe you, quite the contrary, but I think it's best that we get used to provide sources for everything we say!

[Hexah]

I would like to ask you about the botnets in XMR. I've been reading bytecoin thread and stumbled upon XMR mining malware.
There was also a topic on the stealth miner: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=639375.0

Did anybody notice any difficulty spikes in early June?

As I know there was a spike somewhere between late May and early June.
Actually all Monero hashrate history looks spiky, so Monero is a new botnet heaven


http://monerochain.info/charts/difficulty shows it well:

[Rias]

I would like to ask you about the botnets in XMR. I've been reading bytecoin thread and stumbled upon XMR mining malware.
There was also a topic on the stealth miner: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=639375.0

Did anybody notice any difficulty spikes in early June?

As I know there was a spike somewhere between late May and early June.
Actually all Monero hashrate history looks spiky, so Monero is a new botnet heaven
http://monerochain.info/charts/difficulty shows it well:

This particular spike looks related to the stealth miner issue as it happened about a week before it was discovered, and as far as I remember it was a second report on the trojan miners [no proof link unfortunately, it's buried somewhere in 360 earlier pages in this thread].

I wouldn't be too surprised, since Monero is easy and most profitable target for botnet owners. I just wonder how much hash rate can be attributed to botnets currently. Hopefully, not that much. But the difficulty growth happens very fast with a long plato afterwards, which might point to new botnets jumping in.

[flower1024]

I wouldn't be too surprised, since Monero is easy and most profitable target for botnet owners. I just wonder how much hash rate can be attributed to botnets currently. Hopefully, not that much. But the difficulty growth happens very fast with a long plato afterwards, which might point to new botnets jumping in.

CPU mined coins are subject to botnets by definition. However, this is not what you want for the coin you're mining or investing in. Large botnet share means that the majority of the coins is obtained by the scammers and is likely to be dumped. This can't be good for the long term development because the coins are spread not among the devs or users, but are obtained by botnet holders.

How much is the case for Monero? I really believe that not all of the spikes are due to botnets, but at least some of them could be.

[eizh]

Checking the y-axis on graphs is hard for some people.

EC2 instances moving in and out move the hashrate much more than the quoted 'spike'.

[Cheesus]

I wouldn't be too surprised, since Monero is easy and most profitable target for botnet owners. I just wonder how much hash rate can be attributed to botnets currently. Hopefully, not that much. But the difficulty growth happens very fast with a long plato afterwards, which might point to new botnets jumping in.

CPU mined coins are subject to botnets by definition. However, this is not what you want for the coin you're mining or investing in. Large botnet share means that the majority of the coins is obtained by the scammers and is likely to be dumped. This can't be good for the long term development because the coins are spread not among the devs or users, but are obtained by botnet holders.

How much is the case for Monero? I really believe that not all of the spikes are due to botnets, but at least some of them could be.

As far as I know this is not a first botnet in Monero history. Heard something about it not so long before june. Well, certainly it’s not a Monero developers fault - they are doing the best they can.

[Hexah]

I wouldn't be too surprised, since Monero is easy and most profitable target for botnet owners. I just wonder how much hash rate can be attributed to botnets currently. Hopefully, not that much. But the difficulty growth happens very fast with a long plato afterwards, which might point to new botnets jumping in.

CPU mined coins are subject to botnets by definition. However, this is not what you want for the coin you're mining or investing in. Large botnet share means that the majority of the coins is obtained by the scammers and is likely to be dumped. This can't be good for the long term development because the coins are spread not among the devs or users, but are obtained by botnet holders.

How much is the case for Monero? I really believe that not all of the spikes are due to botnets, but at least some of them could be.

As far as I know this is not a first botnet in Monero history. Heard something about it not so long before june. Well, certainly it’s not a Monero developers fault - they are doing the best they can.

I'm really glad "they are doing the best they can", but I think botnets have a significant part in moneros hashrate. And THAT'S NOT GOOD AT ALL.
We can’t let viruses and trojans control the currency.

[Rias]

Checking the y-axis on graphs is hard for some people.

EC2 instances moving in and out move the hashrate much more than the quoted 'spike'.

Let's do the math.

Top EC2 instance has around 700 hash/sec. One added instance is likely to have 42,000 difficulty increase.
To get 100,000,000 difficulty increase you'd have to add 2,380 of top EC2 instance. Each of the instances costs more than $1000 per month ($33 per day) and requires some work to increase the limits on your account and prepare the servers for mining.

Not only I don't believe someone invest $80,000 a day to mine XMR, it's very unlikely that it could happen in 2 days.

I'm really glad "they are doing the best they can", but I think botnets have a significant part in moneros hashrate. And THAT'S NOT GOOD AT ALL.
We can’t let viruses and trojans control the currency.

Yeah yeah, doing the best they can instamining the coin with silently updated hash function and FUDing other topics. lol.

[Cheesus]

Checking the y-axis on graphs is hard for some people.

EC2 instances moving in and out move the hashrate much more than the quoted 'spike'.

Let's do the math.

Top EC2 instance has around 700 hash/sec. One added instance is likely to have 42,000 difficulty increase.
To get 100,000,000 difficulty increase you'd have to add 2,380 of top EC2 instance. Each of the instances costs more than $1000 per month ($33 per day) and requires some work to increase the limits on your account and prepare the servers for mining.

Not only I don't believe someone invest $80,000 a day to mine XMR, it's very unlikely that it could happen in 2 days.

I'm really glad "they are doing the best they can", but I think botnets have a significant part in moneros hashrate. And THAT'S NOT GOOD AT ALL.
We can’t let viruses and trojans control the currency.

Yeah yeah, doing the best they can instamining the coin with silently updated hash function and FUDing other topics. lol.

Come on, give Monero guys some credit. They are maintaining the biggest CryptoNote community there is and doing it pretty well. 

[Sev0]

Hey Guys, I'm very new to Monero.
What do you think about the GUI Wallet and Miner from mropool.org ?
Thx for your answers.

[onemorebtc]

I would like to ask you about the botnets in XMR. I've been reading bytecoin thread and stumbled upon XMR mining malware.
There was also a topic on the stealth miner: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=639375.0

Did anybody notice any difficulty spikes in early June?

a bcn shill here? you must be really afraid
i prefer botnets over a 80% premine...

[Rias]

Come on, give Monero guys some credit. They are maintaining the biggest CryptoNote community there is and doing it pretty well. 

Maintaining community is one thing and developing an innovative tech is another.

I really appreciate what XMR does to CryptoNote promotion and development of pools, wallets, etc. However, if you take a look at their recent transaction pool changes, you'll be quite surprised.

Firstly, Monero devs changed the source code so that the transactions could stay in pools forever. This lead to transaction piling up to 250+ transactions in the daemon tx_pools, which were not going anywhere at all and could be stuck for eternity.

Secondly, they took BBR solution to the problem and I assume didn't even bother thinking deeply on what they were adding. The 24h limit for transactions in the pool was a solution but again not a wise one. As there are no wallet notifications, the wallet doesn't know anything about the transactions being reversed. Users, services are not notified on the process at all.

What's more, if there are older daemons in the network, a more interesting case is possible. The transaction is reversed in newer daemons, the inputs are free again for other transactions. But when they're used, the older daemons (which didn't get the transaction out of their tx_pools) have to report double-spending attempts.

This is not how you make critical updates for the currency.

1) Monero developers should evaluate the long term consequences of their commits. Each unthought solution can cause drastic problems in the long run.
2) Monero developers should allow a compatibility window in order to make sure that the network is not split during the update. It's not about "mandatory update" alert on the forum, but a sophisticated approach inside the source code.

And that is why I prefer Bytecoin developers approach. I'm sure they can't ruin the network with one random commit. Can't say the same about XMR devs.

[Rias]

I would like to ask you about the botnets in XMR. I've been reading bytecoin thread and stumbled upon XMR mining malware.
There was also a topic on the stealth miner: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=639375.0

Did anybody notice any difficulty spikes in early June?

a bcn shill here? you must be really afraid
i prefer botnets over a 80% premine...

You shouldn't.

Even if the vast majority of the coins is collected in BCN devs hands, it only reassures their commitment to keep developing the technology. Botnet owners are definitely not the case as the money is wasted.