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

[smooth]

Maybe not in your path or something?

Code:

$ ./blockchain_import --help
Creating the logger system
Monero 'Hydrogen Helix' (v0.9.1.0-d2a5f72)

[mutovin]

Hello. I sent to poloniex.com from the purse of xmr, I sent with mixin 0, earlier always so I sent. And mixin 6 was necessary. Transaction of not confirmed yet (https://minergate.com/blockchain/mro/transaction/f9e2551e60ec55c0caca725dd07c6e23c48175398387edfc35289f369d2cea08). It will be confirmed? or what to do?

That transaction probably will not confirm because it is too large. The first 0.9 release had that problem which was fixed in 0.9.1

You should try rescan_spent which may recover the funds back to your wallet and you can send them again after upgrading to the 0.9.1 release

If that doesn't work, check back here.

]: rescan_spent
Error: this command requires a trusted daemon. Enable with --trusted-daemon

what to do?

[turkandjaydee]

server error on mymonero now.
Is there tutorial on how to import mymonero wallet to simple wallet?
Thinking on running fullnode now that I have stable internet connection.

[aiwe]

Would be nice to obtain mymonero to run locally with localhost deamon. 

[iCEBREAKER]

Recommend an exchange for New York residents barred from plx?

Use a (BTC/XMR) friendly VPN.

"Oh hello Polo. I am like, from Singapore and stuff."   

[smooth]

server error on mymonero now.
Is there tutorial on how to import mymonero wallet to simple wallet?
Thinking on running fullnode now that I have stable internet connection.

There is no off-the-shelf way to do this. There is code (useful for an Oh Shit solution if MyMonero went offline permanently or for an extended period) but there are also issues with merging it directly.

In practice the easiest and best way to do this, albeit with a 10 XMR fee, is to create a wallet with simplewallet, and then import that wallet in MyMonero. You will then be able to access it both ways.

[smooth]

Hello. I sent to poloniex.com from the purse of xmr, I sent with mixin 0, earlier always so I sent. And mixin 6 was necessary. Transaction of not confirmed yet (https://minergate.com/blockchain/mro/transaction/f9e2551e60ec55c0caca725dd07c6e23c48175398387edfc35289f369d2cea08). It will be confirmed? or what to do?

That transaction probably will not confirm because it is too large. The first 0.9 release had that problem which was fixed in 0.9.1

You should try rescan_spent which may recover the funds back to your wallet and you can send them again after upgrading to the 0.9.1 release

If that doesn't work, check back here.

]: rescan_spent
Error: this command requires a trusted daemon. Enable with --trusted-daemon

what to do?

Restart simplewallet with --trusted-daemon added to the command line. That means simplewallet may send private data to the daemon (needed for rescan_spent), so your privacy could be compromised if using a remote daemon. If you are using your own deamon, this is nothing to worry about.

[digicoin]

Just done block chain synchronization from the beginning. It took 2 days because it got slower and slower. However, the interesting part is that the block chain database file is reduced to 8,100,100 KB from 10,600,000 KB

[sorrros]

I've got a question on the wallet generator; is it safe to play with the word list to further increase security?
If yes are there any restrictions? i.e. word-length or characters?

Thanks

[dEBRUYNE]

server error on mymonero now.
Is there tutorial on how to import mymonero wallet to simple wallet?
Thinking on running fullnode now that I have stable internet connection.

There is no off-the-shelf way to do this. There is code (useful for an Oh Shit solution if MyMonero went offline permanently or for an extended period) but there are also issues with merging it directly.

In practice the easiest and best way to do this, albeit with a 10 XMR fee, is to create a wallet with simplewallet, and then import that wallet in MyMonero. You will then be able to access it both ways.

To complement, if you merely want to go from MyMonero to simplewallet, it is better to create a new wallet with simplewallet and just send the funds from your MyMonero wallet to simplewallet.

See this thread as well -> https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/424wkw/mymonero_private_login_key/

[dEBRUYNE]

One of the community members made Monero Community Contributions board on Trello, such that we can more efficiently contribute as a community to various things

Thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/42ajfv/monero_community_contributions_board_on_trello/

The board itself: https://trello.com/b/5R2ly4mV/monero-community-contributions

[medusa13]

Just done block chain synchronization from the beginning. It took 2 days because it got slower and slower. However, the interesting part is that the block chain database file is reduced to 8,100,100 KB from 10,600,000 KB

what kind of machine was this? sounds terrible slow.
is the hd 5400 rpm or what could it make this slow?

[dEBRUYNE]

It seems like Shen is going full steam ahead! Some updates regarding Ring Confidential Transactions for Monero:

edit 1/9/2016: Looks like its fully funded! Thanks to everyone who funded - I've started the work (https://github.com/ShenNoether/MiniNero/commit/9ede58897808bee784dab296654b99899a58c109), and I will be posting updates here for the next two weeks as I work on this, rather than updating both here and the stickied reddit post.

edit 1/13/2016: MG sigs + demo are done (git clone https://github.com/ShenNoether/MiniNero.git, cd brief, make, a.exe (or a.out depending on system)). Most of the helper functions are there, so the rest should go a little bit quicker. Also fixed a tiny bug in Monero's keccak function.

edit 1/14/2016: ASNL + demo are done. (https://github.com/ShenNoether/MiniNero/commit/88b2d93e137bd5a2e2a2700ac11136705bd463c5) I will probably do some additional checks on these and the MG sigs once I get everything finished, however they are working as expected now.

edit 1/15/2016: spent an all nighter getting a rough version of all the code finished - I will most likely clean it up, and then make it available early next week.

https://forum.getmonero.org/8/funding-required/2450/ring-ct-c-crypto

Primer, you make it sound like a battle.

Another update:

edit 1/21/2016: Just FYI the code is fully working (available at https://github.com/ShenNoether/MiniNero/tree/master/brief) right now I am just doing some additional checks / testing / looking carefully for bugs, I expect to have all of these checks done by end of the week.

[wpalczynski]

Just done block chain synchronization from the beginning. It took 2 days because it got slower and slower. However, the interesting part is that the block chain database file is reduced to 8,100,100 KB from 10,600,000 KB

Thats very unusual, my sync from scratch took just over 2 hrs I think.  SSD HD and decent internet connection.

[wpalczynski]

Just done block chain synchronization from the beginning. It took 2 days because it got slower and slower. However, the interesting part is that the block chain database file is reduced to 8,100,100 KB from 10,600,000 KB

what kind of machine was this? sounds terrible slow.
is the hd 5400 rpm or what could it make this slow?

Even a slow HD like that should not make it that slow.

[GingerAle]

Just done block chain synchronization from the beginning. It took 2 days because it got slower and slower. However, the interesting part is that the block chain database file is reduced to 8,100,100 KB from 10,600,000 KB

what kind of machine was this? sounds terrible slow.
is the hd 5400 rpm or what could it make this slow?

Even a slow HD like that should not make it that slow.

I run old hardware (2009 era xeons, DDR2, 5400 rpm hard drives, etc). a full sync from scratch can take 2 days even on a 50 MB/s down / 5 MB/s up cnxn. Limit settings were at default.

[ArticMine]

Just done block chain synchronization from the beginning. It took 2 days because it got slower and slower. However, the interesting part is that the block chain database file is reduced to 8,100,100 KB from 10,600,000 KB

what kind of machine was this? sounds terrible slow.
is the hd 5400 rpm or what could it make this slow?

Even a slow HD like that should not make it that slow.

I run old hardware (2009 era xeons, DDR2, 5400 rpm hard drives, etc). a full sync from scratch can take 2 days even on a 50 MB/s down / 5 MB/s up cnxn. Limit settings were at default.

The hard drive is the bottleneck especially if it was small for its day, say 100 - 300 GB. I get like 2 - 4 hours on a system from 2008 with a 2 year old 2 TB 7200 rpm hard drive.

[c789]

Over the past 2 months, I've resynced the blockchain on:

• Intel Core Duo, 4GB RAM, 80GB 7200rpm drive - 2-3 days
• Intel Core Duo, 4GB RAM, 60GB SSD - 3-4 hours
• AMD A8, 6GB RAM, 120GB 7200rpm drive - 2-3 days
• AMD A8, 6GB RAM, 60GB SSD 3-4 hours

...so I think the HD is the bottleneck. All were on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit, and all of the rpm drives were older repurposed drives. Maybe a new rpm drive would be better but I haven't tried. Syncing is something any coin has to do at first and if the coin has been around, it will take some time no matter what. Once it's synced, RAM, HD, and CPU use are minimal.

[wpalczynski]

Over the past 2 months, I've resynced the blockchain on:

• Intel Core Duo, 4GB RAM, 80GB 7200rpm drive - 2-3 days
• Intel Core Duo, 4GB RAM, 60GB SSD - 3-4 hours
• AMD A8, 6GB RAM, 120GB 7200rpm drive - 2-3 days
• AMD A8, 6GB RAM, 60GB SSD 3-4 hours

...so I think the HD is the bottleneck. All were on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit, and all of the rpm drives were older repurposed drives. Maybe a new rpm drive would be better but I haven't tried. Syncing is something any coin has to do at first and if the coin has been around, it will take some time no matter what. Once it's synced, RAM, HD, and CPU use are minimal.

Thats a huge difference in time.  Is that just how slow those old hard drives were are all around or is there something unique about the way the blockchain is written?

[GingerAle]

Over the past 2 months, I've resynced the blockchain on:

• Intel Core Duo, 4GB RAM, 80GB 7200rpm drive - 2-3 days
• Intel Core Duo, 4GB RAM, 60GB SSD - 3-4 hours
• AMD A8, 6GB RAM, 120GB 7200rpm drive - 2-3 days
• AMD A8, 6GB RAM, 60GB SSD 3-4 hours

...so I think the HD is the bottleneck. All were on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit, and all of the rpm drives were older repurposed drives. Maybe a new rpm drive would be better but I haven't tried. Syncing is something any coin has to do at first and if the coin has been around, it will take some time no matter what. Once it's synced, RAM, HD, and CPU use are minimal.

Thats a huge difference in time.  Is that just how slow those old hard drives were are all around or is there something unique about the way the blockchain is written?

I'd theorize its a combination. If the blockchain can be written in parallel (which I think is true), then the whole process can take advantage of the fact that the daemon is pulling down data from multiple blocks simultaneously (which I think is true). A spinny HDD can't really do that much parallel....  (I think).