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[iCEBREAKER]

MAAM #49 Monero Ask Anything Monday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/5v5lmi/maam_49_monero_ask_anything_monday/

Can Monero use Sztorc's ideas for "smart-contract income-smoothing" and "scheduled blocks" to completely removes need for pools?

If yes, that would also remove the need to make p2pool work with Cryptonote.   

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[ozkraut]

Posted some comments re this r/Monero thread but it seems to have died:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/5uko8q/research_goal_new_difficulty_algorithm/


I still think its a worthwhile discussion so I repost here to see what you guys maybe think:


[–]ozkraut 4 points 3 days ago

that is a most interesting discussion which opened up a lot of thoughts about difficulty algorhitms and mining in general. The discussion on moving averages brought up some analogies in my sphere of expertise which is decision support tools for supply chain / inventory optimisation.Which includes a variety of forecast algos where I see some synergies in terms of measuring volatility and smoothing of spikes. Running multiple moving averages with different horizons to weigh the std deviation of each to smooth out peaks and troughs come to mind. Interesting topic. Thanks for the link. I shall think about it some more.

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[–]ric2b 2 points 3 days ago

Maybe contribute to the discussion as well, if you have relevant knowledge

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[–]ozkraut 2 points 2 days ago

Been reading. Deep topic. Do we have historical hashrates stored anywhere? If so : were there any known attacks and can they be related to said hashrate history?

So far: As these events are initiated by at least one bad actor and as such are random from the observers perspective I shall deviate from my earlier view which drew analogies to demand history etc etc. This seems more motorracing related. Specifically suspension. What I understand so far is that it seems the issue of rebalancing the difficulty algo dynamically opens all sorts of opportunity to oscillate difficulty and take advantage at each end of the spectrum. Which gets me to back to suspension. What it seems to me is that we have the spring but we don't yet have the dampers which deaden the spring. Not sure if thats a great analogy but it resonates with me in terms of the randomness of the attack and the response the network has to give. I shall go away and look at some stuff on active suspensions and their approach. Just a hunch but it may be that an attack can be treated like a bump in the road......

edit: looking at this just for a sniff

http://au.mathworks.com/help/robust/gs/active-suspension-control-design.html?requestedDomain=au.mathworks.com

[M5M400]

YET ANOTHER TINY MONEO POOL    HOPING TO GROW BIGGER !
PPS SYSTEM
IDEAL FOR SMALL MINERS AND POOL HOPPERS  

attopool.com

CHECK IT.

where did you get the payout scheme info from the web site is similar to moneropool.com

My pool is a clone.  There are many out there in the web that look alike. The core I am using has PPS implemented from what I know. I am digging to understand more ...  

Not PPS, but RBPPS (round based pay per share), also known as "proportional" payout system

[dEBRUYNE]

Posted some comments re this r/Monero thread but it seems to have died:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/5uko8q/research_goal_new_difficulty_algorithm/

To prevent this, I'd suggest to comment on the Github issue too. Stuff on reddit gets buried pretty fast. In addition, the search function isn't optimal in my opinion.

[racminer]

YET ANOTHER TINY MONEO POOL    HOPING TO GROW BIGGER !
PPS SYSTEM
IDEAL FOR SMALL MINERS AND POOL HOPPERS  

attopool.com

CHECK IT.

where did you get the payout scheme info from the web site is similar to moneropool.com

My pool is a clone.  There are many out there in the web that look alike. The core I am using has PPS implemented from what I know. I am digging to understand more ...  

Not PPS, but RBPPS (round based pay per share), also known as "proportional" payout system

Thanks

I see that your pool looks like Snipa22's  xmrpool.net ...

[M5M400]

YET ANOTHER TINY MONEO POOL    HOPING TO GROW BIGGER !
PPS SYSTEM
IDEAL FOR SMALL MINERS AND POOL HOPPERS  

attopool.com

CHECK IT.

where did you get the payout scheme info from the web site is similar to moneropool.com

My pool is a clone.  There are many out there in the web that look alike. The core I am using has PPS implemented from what I know. I am digging to understand more ...  

Not PPS, but RBPPS (round based pay per share), also known as "proportional" payout system

Thanks

I see that your pool looks like Snipa22's  xmrpool.net ...

that's because it's based on his code and frontend

[TechorMarketing]

The list below is far from comprehensive and in no particular order. If you believe in Monero, there are ways you can help no matter how busy or technologically savvy you are.

1. Support Monero community funding proposals and donate Monero to privacy focused projects:
https://forum.getmonero.org/8/funding-required
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2. Vote for Monero:
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3. Define Monero terms:
https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/moneropedia/
https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1178/how-can-i-edit-a-moneropedia-definition-or-add-a-new-one
http://meta.monero.stackexchange.com/questions/128/improving-tag-wikis-and-usage-guidance

4. Help translate this and other important Monero content:
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5. Add your business to the merchant and services directory:
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6. Get active on Monero Stack Exchange, help keep our activity levels high and share interesting questions with others:
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9. Run an I2P node and help test Kovri when appropriate:
https://geti2p.net/en/about/intro
https://github.com/monero-project/kovri
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10. Join the Trello community board:
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15. Compile from source, test new features and report issues on GitHub:
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If you have more ideas for community tasks that can be added to the list please post them in this thread.

[Millionero]

Ever seen an error like this when running monerod?

Code:

ERROR   {2} {p1} 2017-02-23 10:29:33.958635 [abstract_tcp_server2.inl+515 ::do_send_chunk] send que size is more than ABSTRACT_SERVER_SEND_QUE_MAX_COUNT(1000), shutting down connection

[iCEBREAKER]

Users have the option to prove an XMR tx happened using a view key.

No they don't.

The viewkey is only available to the sender. It's the receiver that wants the "proof".

It's also a third party (arbiter) who may want the proof.

[Febo]

Not sure why no one did not posted this here

Wolfram Warptangent, Point Release 2

This is a necessary point release of Monero v0.10 "Wolfram Warptangent", and is a strongly, strongly recommended update as it includes massive efficiency improvements to the RingCT validation code and various other necessary bug fixes.


Some highlights of this release are:

- massive speed improvements to RingCT validation
- cache tx hashes for failed txs with bad semantics
- added an update notification / download / verification system (to be expanded to include opt-in auto-updating for unattended daemons)
- initial smart mining implementation (Linux only)
- improvements to IBD (initial block download) and sync speed
- switched to a portable serialiser so that wallet files can be used on any operating system
- added uptime to daemon status
- added support for separated mempool / peer datasets for multiple nodes on the same machine (with different p2p ports)
- added a change_password command to monero-wallet-cli
- addes support for restoring wallets from a certain date
- added mempool prioritisation of older txs
- added fixes to fluffy blocks (not enabled by default on mainnet yet)
- add HTTP digest authentication support to all RPC interfaces
- added a connection limit for incoming connections from the same IP
- switched to EasyLogging++ for logs
- added a gray peerlist house keeping system
- added support for multiple daemons using the same LMDB database
- added additional password prompting for monero-wallet-cli actions
- added additional output detail for ring output selection in monero-wallet-cli
- fixed issues with wallets dealing with large reorgs
- massive additions to libwallet_api for additional functions used by the GUI
- removed support for BerkeleyDB, as it is now deprecated
- added support for Android
- added support for DragonFlyBSD
- fixed armv8 build issues

[Ratatosk]

Hi

How must we update the official GUI wallet to use the 0.10.2, please ?

Is LightWallet working with this update ?

Thanks

[Hueristic]

Not sure why no one did not posted this here

Wolfram Warptangent, Point Release 2

This is a necessary point release of Monero v0.10 "Wolfram Warptangent", and is a strongly, strongly recommended update as it includes massive efficiency improvements to the RingCT validation code and various other necessary bug fixes.


Some highlights of this release are:

- massive speed improvements to RingCT validation
- cache tx hashes for failed txs with bad semantics
- added an update notification / download / verification system (to be expanded to include opt-in auto-updating for unattended daemons)
- initial smart mining implementation (Linux only)
- improvements to IBD (initial block download) and sync speed
- switched to a portable serialiser so that wallet files can be used on any operating system
- added uptime to daemon status
- added support for separated mempool / peer datasets for multiple nodes on the same machine (with different p2p ports)
- added a change_password command to monero-wallet-cli
- addes support for restoring wallets from a certain date
- added mempool prioritisation of older txs
- added fixes to fluffy blocks (not enabled by default on mainnet yet)
- add HTTP digest authentication support to all RPC interfaces
- added a connection limit for incoming connections from the same IP
- switched to EasyLogging++ for logs
- added a gray peerlist house keeping system
- added support for multiple daemons using the same LMDB database
- added additional password prompting for monero-wallet-cli actions
- added additional output detail for ring output selection in monero-wallet-cli
- fixed issues with wallets dealing with large reorgs
- massive additions to libwallet_api for additional functions used by the GUI
- removed support for BerkeleyDB, as it is now deprecated
- added support for Android
- added support for DragonFlyBSD
- fixed armv8 build issues

Because the devs don't give a shit about BCT anymore.

Can you explain why this was added?

- add HTTP digest authentication support to all RPC interfaces

[jwinterm]

Hi

How must we update the official GUI wallet to use the 0.10.2, please ?

Is LightWallet working with this update ?

Thanks

Lightwallet has been discontinued since Xmas or so, I recommend using the official GUI with a remote node.

[c789]

Hi

How must we update the official GUI wallet to use the 0.10.2, please ?

Is LightWallet working with this update ?

Thanks

According to https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/5vsmom/psa_monero_0102_is_out_and_is_a_strongly/  the GUI update will be out "in the next few days or so", so I'd just wait for that. If you want to use 0.10.2 in the meantime, you can use the CLI.

[Ratatosk]

Lightwallet has been discontinued since Xmas or so, I recommend using the official GUI with a remote node.

Very sad, I liked your great work, thank you for all ! :-)

How must we configure official GUI to use a remote node, please ?
(this info should be clearly visible on the wallet, or at least on the wallet download page :-)

Many thanks :-)

[jwinterm]

Lightwallet has been discontinued since Xmas or so, I recommend using the official GUI with a remote node.

 
Very sad, I liked your great work, thank you for all ! :-)

How must we configure official GUI to use a remote node, please ?
(this info should be clearly visible on the wallet, or at least on the wallet download page :-)

Many thanks :-)

Thanks always nice to hear someone found it useful.

You can find instructions for CLI or GUI on remote node here:
https://moneroworld.com/#nodes

[Ratatosk]

Thanks :-)

To try, I successfuly replaced the 0.10.1 files by the 1.10.2 in the GUI directory, seems to work :-)

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[dEBRUYNE]

Ever seen an error like this when running monerod?

Code:

ERROR   {2} {p1} 2017-02-23 10:29:33.958635 [abstract_tcp_server2.inl+515 ::do_send_chunk] send que size is more than ABSTRACT_SERVER_SEND_QUE_MAX_COUNT(1000), shutting down connection

Could you paste the outputs of the "diff" and "status" command? Also, is it still fetching new blocks?

[MoneroMooo]

Ever seen an error like this when running monerod?

Code:

ERROR   {2} {p1} 2017-02-23 10:29:33.958635 [abstract_tcp_server2.inl+515 ::do_send_chunk] send que size is more than ABSTRACT_SERVER_SEND_QUE_MAX_COUNT(1000), shutting down connection

Could you paste the outputs of the "diff" and "status" command? Also, is it still fetching new blocks?

That can be ignored, that peer will just be dropped, and replaced if it's an out peer.