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

[dEBRUYNE]

I sent an email to cryptonotepool.org.uk. Haven't heard back yet.

I urge other community members to do the same, please send a mail to the pools listed in my previous comment urging them to upgrade. Any Hydrogen Helix version is fine (0.9.x).

Just pull your miners on them. That will get their attention faster.

They obviously don't bother monitoring this thread or Github.

It's not like we didn't know about this fork a year ago. If they want to profit from miners they should at least make the effort to keep the code up to date.

Agree. I also advised this in the thread on reddit and here on bitcointalk in my post.

EDIT: Thanks aerbax for posting those!

[aerbax]

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EDIT: Thanks aerbax for posting those!

Certainly!  I feel like I'm always in a race with you to post the latest news...and you win 95% of the time. 

[dEBRUYNE]

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EDIT: Thanks aerbax for posting those!

Certainly!  I feel like I'm always in a race with you to post the latest news...and you win 95% of the time. 

Hehe. I wasn't taking notes though at the meeting, so you win :-P

[aerbax]

(crosspost from the Speculation thread..it's probably better suited here anyway)

I've spent the last few days working on something for website operators.

The short of it is to hand theming control over to the visitors, but make it cheap (0.1 monero).

I call it "Site Novelty as a Service".

If you want to play around with it, there are more details at https://hellomonero.com/page/snaas

I'm not sure if this is a great idea, or a terribly stupid idea, but it was something I wanted to test.



I was also able to build a little script that watches your simplewallet for transactions, and then sends you a notification on receipt of a payment, but I'm waiting for a specific bug to be fixed before I release that to the public.

[GingerAle]

(crosspost from the Speculation thread..it's probably better suited here anyway)

I've spent the last few days working on something for website operators.

The short of it is to hand theming control over to the visitors, but make it cheap (0.1 monero).

I call it "Site Novelty as a Service".

If you want to play around with it, there are more details at https://hellomonero.com/page/snaas

I'm not sure if this is a great idea, or a terribly stupid idea, but it was something I wanted to test.



I was also able to build a little script that watches your simplewallet for transactions, and then sends you a notification on receipt of a payment, but I'm waiting for a specific bug to be fixed before I release that to the public.

neat idea. You could also possibly tweak it, for instance, if someone (jim) creates a version that others  (sarah and bill) like, sarah and bill can send to Jim's address (the website will say - designed by Jim - xmr address xyz). Then, some of the monero trickles to you (main content creator), some trickles to jim (apparently superior web designer)... or something.

[aerbax]

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neat idea. You could also possibly tweak it, for instance, if someone (jim) creates a version that others  (sarah and bill) like, sarah and bill can send to Jim's address (the website will say - designed by Jim - xmr address xyz). Then, some of the monero trickles to you (main content creator), some trickles to jim (apparently superior web designer)... or something.

That's a great idea.  There's some commented-out code in my script that I could adjust to do that....I had something similar in mind while writing the code that if I was ever to have another "News Manager/Writer" on the site, I could split the payments between us.

[maydna]

can XMR up until 0.007 or something like that?

[explorer]

can XMR up until 0.007 or something like that?

Speculation thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=753252.0

[pönde]

I just updated to this brand new simplewallet.
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.2

Simplewallet can be used to make an ordinary wallet. The way that simplewallet itself creates mnemonic seed, address, spendkey and viewkey.
Simplewallet can be used to make an ordidinary wallet by already known address, spendkey and viewkey.
Simplewallet can be used to make a view-only-wallet by allready known address and viewkey.

How simplewallet can be used to make an ordinary wallet by already known mnemonic seed?

[dEBRUYNE]

"The Secret Behind CryptoWall’s Success" (the ransomware)

http://www.imperva.com/docs/IMPERVA_HII_CryptoWall_report.pdf

1.1 Key Findings
1. CryptoWall 3.0 payment infrastructure can be traced
a. Bitcoin wallet analysis can be done to trace the cyber criminals profiting from the ransomware

The tracking Bitcoin part starts from page 8.

EDIT: Most striking figure in my opinion:

[dEBRUYNE]

I just updated to this brand new simplewallet.
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.2

Simplewallet can be used to make an ordinary wallet. The way that simplewallet itself creates mnemonic seed, address, spendkey and viewkey.
Simplewallet can be used to make an ordidinary wallet by already known address, spendkey and viewkey.
Simplewallet can be used to make a view-only-wallet by allready known address and viewkey.

How simplewallet can be used to make an ordinary wallet by already known mnemonic seed?

You can restore the seed, which will create a new wallet. Subsequently if that new wallet is created you can extract the spendkey and viewkey from it.

[smooth]

I just updated to this brand new simplewallet.
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.2

Simplewallet can be used to make an ordinary wallet. The way that simplewallet itself creates mnemonic seed, address, spendkey and viewkey.
Simplewallet can be used to make an ordidinary wallet by already known address, spendkey and viewkey.
Simplewallet can be used to make a view-only-wallet by allready known address and viewkey.

How simplewallet can be used to make an ordinary wallet by already known mnemonic seed?

You can restore the seed, which will create a new wallet. Subsequently if that new wallet is created you can extract the spendkey and viewkey from it.

To expand on this, use this command:

simplewallet --restore-deterministic-wallet

It will prompt you for the seed and a new password to be used for the new wallet file

[pönde]

I just updated to this brand new simplewallet.
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.2

Simplewallet can be used to make an ordinary wallet. The way that simplewallet itself creates mnemonic seed, address, spendkey and viewkey.
Simplewallet can be used to make an ordidinary wallet by already known address, spendkey and viewkey.
Simplewallet can be used to make a view-only-wallet by allready known address and viewkey.

How simplewallet can be used to make an ordinary wallet by already known mnemonic seed?

You can restore the seed, which will create a new wallet. Subsequently if that new wallet is created you can extract the spendkey and viewkey from it.

To expand on this, use this command:

simplewallet --restore-deterministic-wallet

It will prompt you for the seed and a new password to be used for the new wallet file

Worked. Thaks dudes. That was simple.

[nioc]

Node count continues to increase and is currently at 188

https://monerohash.com/nodes-distribution.html

[elrippo]

Dear DEVS

on https://getmonero.org/downloads/ the downloads say 0.9.1 but actually the Linux, MAC and Win 64bit binaries are 0.9.2
Could you be so kind to correct that with the according Hashes on the Homepage  

[GingerAle]

Dear DEVS

on https://getmonero.org/downloads/ the downloads say 0.9.1 but actually the Linux, MAC and Win 64bit binaries are 0.9.2
Could you be so kind to correct that with the according Hashes on the Homepage  

Troll-appointed dev here -

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/4b5f8o/linux64_sha_sum_is_wrong/

there will be a point release tomorrow, and all the things will be fixed forever.

[dEBRUYNE]

Bump, http://monero.miner.center/ has upgraded to the proper version. Still no progress from the other pools listed below. All others have upgraded and are safe to mine on.

I urge  community members to please send a mail as well to the pools listed in my previous comment urging them to upgrade. Any Hydrogen Helix version is fine (0.9.x). Alternatively, miners should move their hash away from it and go to a pool that has already upgraded. A list of pools can be found here:

https://monerohash.com/#network

Bump, none of the pools listed below have upgraded yet. However, Minergate said they will upgrade soon, see:

https://twitter.com/MinerGate/status/710727384136335361

PSA: Users, (solo)miners, exchanges/merchants, and pooloperators must be on 0.9.x (preferably 0.9.2) in advance of the hardfork otherwise you will get forked/booted off the network. If you are mining on one of the following pools, please contact your poolop immediately or switch to another pool.


Approximately the 23th of March there will be a hardfork on the Monero network. Most pools have upgraded, but some have not yet. If they don't upgrade before the hardfork they will get forked/booted off the network. As a result you will miss out on revenue if you are mining on these pools. Thus, if you are mining on the following pools, please contact your pool owner as soon as possible and urge them to upgrade. Alternatively, you can switch to a pool that is on the right version.

FYI: You can plug the blockheader of your pool into "http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/hash_of_blockheader". The minor_version must show "minor_version: 2". This means that the pool is on the right version. If it shows "0" or "1" the pool is on an outdated version. An example of a pool on the right version (Monerohash):

http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/2a88740443bf654e595bba7061509e6a3a80623da5de2478c4a90b45454a7fa8

List of pools that haven't upgraded yet:

• http://cryptonotepool.org.uk/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/064901fae3c4c1f42a10ca066e367ff277b1ae255043e17fad0695b9da775030 | Contact: http://cryptonotepool.org.uk/#community
• http://xmr.alimabi.cn/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/612eeb758358ffa8af784c6c12c59b7cc038474fe525b5d7794be30f585f941c | Contact: http://xmr.alimabi.cn/#support
• http://cryptmonero.com/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/b98ebc9fc8674c2b6cfa303cd9d8770f9187e87664f8acf93446b2ff7e15674b | Contact: http://cryptmonero.com/#support
• https://minergate.com/pool-stats/mro | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/2fb5df3e2967a7679ad5ff6848b6b5eb3cb071ba31e3e84a16b95b7d7c421dd2 | Contact: https://minergate.com/
• If you are mining on a private pool, please check the block header manually (if the pool is on the right version) using the method I described.

List of pools that have upgraded:

You can find most pools here:

https://monerohash.com/#network

Some of the aforementioned pools are listed there as well. If you are switching, avoid the aforementioned pools.


Binaries:

Monero v0.9.2 - Hydrogen Helix - released! (Urgent and important bug fixes for the upcoming hard fork)

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.2

<fluffypony> will do shasums / gpg signed mesage tomorrow

Information from Github:

This has urgent and important bug fixes to 0.9.0 Hydrogen Helix

• Major performance and size improvements to the LMDB database implementation
• Urgent and important bug fixes for the upcoming hard fork
• Huge bug fixes to the database hard fork handling
• New simplewallet flag to restore from keys
• Initial work on a wallet library / API
• Updated in-source block headers

General hardfork information:

Background:

https://forum.getmonero.org/4/academic-and-technical/303/a-formal-approach-towards-better-hard-fork-management

What are the change(s) with the upcoming hard fork on the 20th of March?

• Blocktime is bumped from 1 to 2 minutes. See:

https://forum.getmonero.org/20/general-discussion/2401/increasing-the-block-time

• Minimum blocksize is bumped to 60 KB. See:

https://forum.getmonero.org/20/general-discussion/2409/increasing-the-minimum-block-size

A big advantage of this is that current individual transactions that sometimes won't go through (because they are a bit above the median due to many outputs (e.g. dust), or the daemon / MyMonero rejects them for some reason) can easily be included in the block without incurring a penalty. Above is a bit of a blunt explanation, I am sure one of the core-team members / developers could give you a more detailed explanation.

• Finally, the recommendations from the MRL team stated in MRL-0004, of which the minimum mixin >= 3 is probably the most salient. See:

https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf

P.S. Due to variance the hard fork will likely be on the 21th or 22th of March. A specific block height was determined for the hardfork, not a specific date. The specific blockheight for the hardfork can be found here:

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/blob/master/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp#L83

// version 2 starts from block 1009827

P.P.S. As long as you are on any 0.9.x version in advance of the hardfork you are fine.

[bitebits]

Bump, http://monero.miner.center/ has upgraded to the proper version. Still no progress from the other pools listed below. All others have upgraded and are safe to mine on.

List of pools that haven't upgraded yet:

• http://cryptonotepool.org.uk/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/064901fae3c4c1f42a10ca066e367ff277b1ae255043e17fad0695b9da775030 | Contact: http://cryptonotepool.org.uk/#community
• http://xmr.alimabi.cn/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/612eeb758358ffa8af784c6c12c59b7cc038474fe525b5d7794be30f585f941c | Contact: http://xmr.alimabi.cn/#support
• http://cryptmonero.com/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/b98ebc9fc8674c2b6cfa303cd9d8770f9187e87664f8acf93446b2ff7e15674b | Contact: http://cryptmonero.com/#support
• https://minergate.com/pool-stats/mro | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/2fb5df3e2967a7679ad5ff6848b6b5eb3cb071ba31e3e84a16b95b7d7c421dd2 | Contact: https://minergate.com/
• If you are mining on a private pool, please check the block header manually (if the pool is on the right version) using the method I described.

Especially considering the hashrate of minergate.com, I think it is highly irresponsible and unprofessional behavior to not upgrade (or hopefully upgrade very last minute). If you are mining there I would move to a pool that acts professionally and actually cares about the Monero network. Ugh.

Can someone that does social media contact them? They have links on their website, bottom right corner:
- https://twitter.com/MinerGate
- https://www.facebook.com/minergate/

[dEBRUYNE]

Bump, http://monero.miner.center/ has upgraded to the proper version. Still no progress from the other pools listed below. All others have upgraded and are safe to mine on.

List of pools that haven't upgraded yet:

• http://cryptonotepool.org.uk/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/064901fae3c4c1f42a10ca066e367ff277b1ae255043e17fad0695b9da775030 | Contact: http://cryptonotepool.org.uk/#community
• http://xmr.alimabi.cn/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/612eeb758358ffa8af784c6c12c59b7cc038474fe525b5d7794be30f585f941c | Contact: http://xmr.alimabi.cn/#support
• http://cryptmonero.com/ | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/b98ebc9fc8674c2b6cfa303cd9d8770f9187e87664f8acf93446b2ff7e15674b | Contact: http://cryptmonero.com/#support
• https://minergate.com/pool-stats/mro | Blockheader: http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/2fb5df3e2967a7679ad5ff6848b6b5eb3cb071ba31e3e84a16b95b7d7c421dd2 | Contact: https://minergate.com/
• If you are mining on a private pool, please check the block header manually (if the pool is on the right version) using the method I described.

Especially considering the hashrate of minergate.com, I think it is highly irresponsible and unprofessional behavior to not upgrade (or hopefully upgrade very last minute). If you are mining there I would move to a pool that acts professionally and actually cares about the Monero network. Ugh.

Can someone that does social media contact them? They have links on their website, bottom right corner:
- https://twitter.com/MinerGate
- https://www.facebook.com/minergate/

They were already contacted by the official twitter account a few days ago, see:

https://twitter.com/MinerGate/status/710727384136335361

But would be good if others contact them too.

[dewdeded]

Is there anything, I should do (regularly) monitor, control or guarantee after deploying an XMR node? Or can I deploy and forget the node after the setup and don't have to do/check anything?

I am asking, because I can't check logfiles & activity of my nodes manually. Because I currently run 15 nodes and consider deploying some more, to help our project with network stability, quality and growth.

Currently I just have a cronjob, that controls if the Monero daemon is running and notifies me, if it can't restart the daemon.
At the moment, I monitor the uptime of VPS hosts via https://github.com/BotoX/ServerStatus


But I want to setup an Centreon instance and monitor all my VPS hosts and XMR daemons, via Centreon.
Later, I want to write an Centreon plugin for monitoring XMR nodes and delivering some stats about the nodes current stats (Block height, Peers connected, etc.) back into the Centreon.
Basically like people have written Bitcoin Nagios plugins, like: https://github.com/linuxconsultantsireland/check_btcpool/blob/master/check_btcpool





I am interested in talking with people, who also run alot of XMR nodes. So we can learn from another.