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

[kazuki49]

Honestly, I could see that never happening any time soon, even if Monero gets super popular because it's so hard to trace and the governments will probably have a time trying to regulate it...  I guess that would be a good and bad thing at the same time.

they can always use mymonero.com

[cAPSLOCK]

Blood is pouring through the alt coin streets.

[Eastwind]

Blood is pouring through the alt coin streets.

Eth is still around $0.9, XMR is still around $0.35. The price is stable. The price based on bitcoin has dropped a lot. That is because bitcoin is more expensive now.

[akula999]

What's happening to Monero? The price is dropping... I this just a move to make profit elsewhere?
Where is monero headed in 2016? I'm not bashing monero, just worried about my investment.

[Quicken]

Sometimes I get the feeling that the development of Monero should be limited to GNU/Linux (or at least to Unix like OS) until most the development goals are reached. Those wishing to run Monero on Windows can be provided with a pre-configured Virtual Box GNU/Linux VM and instructions on installing Virtualbox.

Does anyone seriously believe that one can have financial privacy running Monero on Windows 10?

Major corporations use Windows for billions/trillions of dollars worth of financial transactions all the time, and they care about privacy. Apart from all the innovative accounting/tax dodging, they don't want their rivals knowing their dealings. Just my .02 XMR.
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[GingerAle]

What's happening to Monero? The price is dropping... I this just a move to make profit elsewhere?
Where is monero headed in 2016? I'm not bashing monero, just worried about my investment.

its holding steady in fiat terms.

[smoothie]

What's happening to Monero? The price is dropping... I this just a move to make profit elsewhere?
Where is monero headed in 2016? I'm not bashing monero, just worried about my investment.

Same USD price.

I'll probably never advocate anyone buy XMR.

They can if they want but I will only ever try to see how the technology can fit into a niche of society and show them how it works (if I ever get to a point where I feel I'm confident enough to talk about XMR to others) outside of this forum.

[elrippo]

Sometimes I get the feeling that the development of Monero should be limited to GNU/Linux (or at least to Unix like OS) until most the development goals are reached. Those wishing to run Monero on Windows can be provided with a pre-configured Virtual Box GNU/Linux VM and instructions on installing Virtualbox.

Does anyone seriously believe that one can have financial privacy running Monero on Windows 10?

Major corporations use Windows for billions/trillions of dollars worth of financial transactions all the time, and they care about privacy. Apart from all the innovative accounting/tax dodging, they don't want their rivals knowing their dealings. Just my .02 XMR.
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Well, Windows was never designed to be private or secure. I hope you didn´t miss the "aftersnoden" era, where so called exploits are used by governments and private businessnes to spy on users that use Wndows.
Just because FIAT transactions are processed on a certain OS in 90% majority of cases, does not imply that that specific OS is secure 

That´s why i use Linux for crypto and my personal belongs 

[arnuschky]

Code:

2015-Nov-03 12:22:28.747951 [RPC0]ERROR src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp:1595 
    Ours and foreign blockchain have only genesis block in common... o.O`

Just got this. Nice one, eh? This is on testnet, btw.

Does anyone know what might have caused it? (new self-compiled daemon, but old blockchain data. removed lmdb dir as instructed)

[MoneroMooo]

Code:

2015-Nov-03 12:22:28.747951 [RPC0]ERROR src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp:1595 
    Ours and foreign blockchain have only genesis block in common... o.O`

Just got this. Nice one, eh? This is on testnet, btw.

Does anyone know what might have caused it? (new self-compiled daemon, but old blockchain data. removed lmdb dir as instructed)

Does it otherwise work ? If you have removed the blockchain, the newly created blockchain will only have the genesis block to start with, so any (valid) chain will have only the genesis block in common with it.

[iCEBREAKER]

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Crosspost from [XMR] speculation, thanks to kazuki49

theres a new beta version: https://downloads.getmonero.org/monero.win.x64.v0-9-beta.zip so the courageous folks who use crypto on windows can get on the latest build.

Is that different than the 0.9 windows beta that has been out for a while?

it is still beta but should have bugfixes MoneroMooo constantly pushes on github, fluffy compiled it yesterday: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/issues/474#issuecomment-152823852

Sometimes I get the feeling that the development of Monero should be limited to GNU/Linux (or at least to Unix like OS) until most the development goals are reached. Those wishing to run Monero on Windows can be provided with a pre-configured Virtual Box GNU/Linux VM and instructions on installing Virtualbox.

Does anyone seriously believe that one can have financial privacy running Monero on Windows 10?

Of course not. And any Windows that is not end-of-life is affected by the new policies and will likely have malicious updates pushed to them by Microsoft.

But NOT supporting Windows is a PR disaster, as people will attack it.

Windows installation = teachable moment

Make lusers click-through an "I understand Win10 is logging my every keystroke, and agree using *nix or *BSD would be a much smarter choice" prompt.

Also include link to the spiffy new TAILS: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.7/  

[nioc]

I have downloaded the just released windows 0.9 beta.  When I try to start mining in simplewallet I get the following;

Error: This command assume a trusted daemon.  Enable with --trusted-daemon

I tried using the command --trusted-daemon in both the daemon and simple wallet but get the message "unknown command".  I also tried --trusted-daemon in combination with start_mining in simple wallet which also doesn't work.

[americanpegasus]

Also include link to the spiffy new TAILS: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.7/   

 
 
Tails and Monero are still incompatible due to Tails only supporting 32-bit, true?

[smooth]

Also include link to the spiffy new TAILS: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.7/   

 
 
Tails and Monero are still incompatible due to Tails only supporting 32-bit, true?

There has been some confusion about this for some time:

Does Tails work with 64-bit processors?
Yes. Tails automatically detects the type of processor of the computer and loads a 32-bit or a 64-bit kernel accordingly

I don't know whether Tails and Monero are compatible but if not 64 bit support doesn't seem to be the reason. (The new Monero can be built for 32 bit also.)

[elrippo]

Also include link to the spiffy new TAILS: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.7/   

 
 
Tails and Monero are still incompatible due to Tails only supporting 32-bit, true?

There has been some confusion about this for some time:

Does Tails work with 64-bit processors?
Yes. Tails automatically detects the type of processor of the computer and loads a 32-bit or a 64-bit kernel accordingly

I don't know whether Tails and Monero are compatible but if not 64 bit support doesn't seem to be the reason. (The new Monero can be built for 32 bit also.)

Well, Tails is nothing more than a routingtable with native Tor support -> aka Transparent Proxy Setup.
I am using Monero through Tor, take a look at my Tutorial for rerouting all TCP Traffic through TOR 

[MoneroMooo]

I have downloaded the just released windows 0.9 beta.  When I try to start mining in simplewallet I get the following;

Error: This command assume a trusted daemon.  Enable with --trusted-daemon

I tried using the command --trusted-daemon in both the daemon and simple wallet but get the message "unknown command".  I also tried --trusted-daemon in combination with start_mining in simple wallet which also doesn't work.

Add --trusted-daemon to the simplewallet command line, not in the console. That is, at the same place you put --wallet-file, or --daemon-host, etc.

[nioc]

I have downloaded the just released windows 0.9 beta.  When I try to start mining in simplewallet I get the following;

Error: This command assume a trusted daemon.  Enable with --trusted-daemon

I tried using the command --trusted-daemon in both the daemon and simple wallet but get the message "unknown command".  I also tried --trusted-daemon in combination with start_mining in simple wallet which also doesn't work.

Add --trusted-daemon to the simplewallet command line, not in the console. That is, at the same place you put --wallet-file, or --daemon-host, etc.

I don't know where this place is, nor how to get there or what to do when I am there

[coomme]

Great news, the 0.9 version will be publish

   

[MoneroMooo]

I don't know where this place is, nor how to get there or what to do when I am there

Add " --trusted-daemon" (without the quotes, but with the space) just after the string "simplewallet" in your command, such that --trusted-daemon does not directly touch any other non-whitespace character. If you're using some script someone else wrote, edit it to change that (or post it if you don't know how to edit one, and I'll make the change and post it).

[GingerAle]

I have downloaded the just released windows 0.9 beta.  When I try to start mining in simplewallet I get the following;

Error: This command assume a trusted daemon.  Enable with --trusted-daemon

I tried using the command --trusted-daemon in both the daemon and simple wallet but get the message "unknown command".  I also tried --trusted-daemon in combination with start_mining in simple wallet which also doesn't work.

Add --trusted-daemon to the simplewallet command line, not in the console. That is, at the same place you put --wallet-file, or --daemon-host, etc.

I don't know where this place is, nor how to get there or what to do when I am there

so if your on windows, you need to goto the command line. Hit the start button and type cmd into the search thing. a little black icon will appear. click on that. A big black box will pop up.

type

cd /users/yourwindowsusername/desktop/folderwithmonerobinary

(if you put your monero binaries in folderwithmonerobinary on your desktop)

once there, type

simplewallet --trusted-daemon

boom.