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[dEBRUYNE]

how to get an invite for the Monero slack ?

PM needmoney90 on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/user/needmoney90

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[visdude]

Wallet will not sync. It freezes at a certain point.

To clarify, it is stuck on a certain block right? Could you post which block?

Also, which wallet are you using and on what operating system?

I have two W7-x64 each running GUI and another W7-x64 with both GUI and CLI. All are 0.10.3.1.

I don't think the issue is related to a particular block as all my nodes are stuck at different blocks; I guess depending upon when they were last synced. In my case, I last synced each one of them successfully at different times yesterday. It seems they all got stuck when I tried to sync them today (blocks 1317541, 1317523, 1317324 and 1317397).

[dEBRUYNE]

Wallet will not sync. It freezes at a certain point.

To clarify, it is stuck on a certain block right? Could you post which block?

Also, which wallet are you using and on what operating system?

I have two W7-x64 each running GUI and another W7-x64 with both GUI and CLI. All are 0.10.3.1.

I don't think the issue is related to a particular block as all my nodes are stuck at different blocks; I guess depending upon when they were last synced. In my case, I last synced each one of them successfully at different times yesterday. It seems they all got stuck when I tried to sync them today (blocks 1317541, 1317523, 1317324 and 1317397).

Could both you and Fire Rabbit try to add the following flag:

Code:

--block-sync-size 20

On Windows the full command becomes as follows:

Code:

monerod.exe --block-sync-size 20

Note that this command should be executed from the command prompt. If you don't know how to open the command prompt, it is done as follows:

Go to the directory the monerod is located and make sure your cursor isn't located on any of the files. Subsequently do SHIFT + right click and it will give you an option to "Open command window here". Lastly, type aforementioned command.

On Linux and Mac OS X:

Code:

./monerod --block-sync-size 20

Note that this command should be executed from the terminal.

[galaxy5user]

Where is to start with 'monero-wallet-cli'?
1. I have read the 'Getting started' guide and didn't found the answer to obvious questions.
2. I noticed the forum is spammed and abandoned.
Is that over now?

The obvious questions are:
1) Where is the default config file folder and name (like it is '~/.bitmonero/bitmonero.conf' for 'monerod')?
2) What options are allowed in the config file?

[iCEBREAKER]

I disagree with you on this one. Such frivolity communicates a complete lack of professionalism and absolute disrespect for everyone concerned, fluffy himself included.

The point of the prank is to demonstrate how unwise it is to trust (no matter how popular or charismatic) any personality in crypto, where Code is Law, or expect professionalism from non-professionals.

Teaching those crucial lessons, which are dear to the ethos of Monero/Bitcoin/FOSS yet widely subsumed by exuberant hype, is not mere "frivolity."

Fluffy is not a C-level executive of the Monero Corp.  Adjust your expectations accordingly (IE expect trolling and fun, not pumping and gravitas).

Fluffy is our Chief Entertainment Officer.  Are you not entertained?   

[visdude]

Wallet will not sync. It freezes at a certain point.

To clarify, it is stuck on a certain block right? Could you post which block?

Also, which wallet are you using and on what operating system?

I have two W7-x64 each running GUI and another W7-x64 with both GUI and CLI. All are 0.10.3.1.

I don't think the issue is related to a particular block as all my nodes are stuck at different blocks; I guess depending upon when they were last synced. In my case, I last synced each one of them successfully at different times yesterday. It seems they all got stuck when I tried to sync them today (blocks 1317541, 1317523, 1317324 and 1317397).

Could both you and Fire Rabbit try to add the following flag:

Code:

--block-sync-size 20

On Windows the full command becomes as follows:

Code:

monerod.exe --block-sync-size 20

Note that this command should be executed from the command prompt. If you don't know how to open the command prompt, it is done as follows:

Go to the directory the monerod is located and make sure your cursor isn't located on any of the files. Subsequently do SHIFT + right click and it will give you an option to "Open command window here". Lastly, type aforementioned command.

On Linux and Mac OS X:

Code:

./monerod --block-sync-size 20

Note that this command should be executed from the terminal.

Will do. Can't I just put the flag in the "Daemon startup flags" field in GUI in addition to my "--data-dir" flag that's already there (explicit data directory location)? If not, can I just fire up GUI wallet then after it syncs up in the terminal opened with the flag...or how does that work? I wanna be able to use GUI wallet if this flag fixes it.

[dEBRUYNE]

Wallet will not sync. It freezes at a certain point.

To clarify, it is stuck on a certain block right? Could you post which block?

Also, which wallet are you using and on what operating system?

I have two W7-x64 each running GUI and another W7-x64 with both GUI and CLI. All are 0.10.3.1.

I don't think the issue is related to a particular block as all my nodes are stuck at different blocks; I guess depending upon when they were last synced. In my case, I last synced each one of them successfully at different times yesterday. It seems they all got stuck when I tried to sync them today (blocks 1317541, 1317523, 1317324 and 1317397).

Could both you and Fire Rabbit try to add the following flag:

Code:

--block-sync-size 20

On Windows the full command becomes as follows:

Code:

monerod.exe --block-sync-size 20

Note that this command should be executed from the command prompt. If you don't know how to open the command prompt, it is done as follows:

Go to the directory the monerod is located and make sure your cursor isn't located on any of the files. Subsequently do SHIFT + right click and it will give you an option to "Open command window here". Lastly, type aforementioned command.

On Linux and Mac OS X:

Code:

./monerod --block-sync-size 20

Note that this command should be executed from the terminal.

Will do. Can't I just put the flag in the "Daemon startup flags" field in GUI in addition to my "--data-dir" flag that's already there (explicit data directory location)?

Yes, that should work too.

[dEBRUYNE]

Where is to start with 'monero-wallet-cli'?
1. I have read the 'Getting started' guide and didn't found the answer to obvious questions.
2. I noticed the forum is spammed and abandoned.
Is that over now?

The GUI might be more convenient for you. You can find a comprehensive guide here:

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/05/01/monero-gui-wallet-guide/

The obvious questions are:
1) Where is the default config file folder and name (like it is '~/.bitmonero/bitmonero.conf' for 'monerod')?
2) What options are allowed in the config file?

See:

https://github.com/monero-project/monero#running-monerod

For 2, use monerod --help to see the full list. In my previous post you can see how to launch monerod with a certain flag.

[adamvp]

I would like to ask you what caused price drops the day before yesterday?
I heard something about bad presentation at conference? Is this the correct reason and if yes could someone provide a link to this video?

[galaxy5user]

Where is to start with 'monero-wallet-cli'?
1. I have read the 'Getting started' guide and didn't found the answer to obvious questions.
2. I noticed the forum is spammed and abandoned.
Is that over now?

Thanx for suggestion, but I feel comfortable with cli tools (specifically, with 'zcash-cli' and bash). The question is about the lacking of documentation and death of the forum. It will never become mass-adopted with such approach. Who is going to make the change?

[phishead]

Where is to start with 'monero-wallet-cli'?
1. I have read the 'Getting started' guide and didn't found the answer to obvious questions.
2. I noticed the forum is spammed and abandoned.
Is that over now?

Thanx for suggestion, but I feel comfortable with cli tools (specifically, with 'zcash-cli' and bash). The question is about the lacking of documentation and death of the forum. It will never become mass-adopted with such approach. Who is going to make the change?

This thing is... is that It shouldn't be the responsibility of other people to do things that help mass-adoption.  If you like the technology and you feel that the information should be updated, maybe you should be the one to do it.  Everyone is equally responsible in open sourced projects.

[infofront]

I disagree with you on this one. Such frivolity communicates a complete lack of professionalism and absolute disrespect for everyone concerned, fluffy himself included.

The point of the prank is to demonstrate how unwise it is to trust (no matter how popular or charismatic) any personality in crypto, where Code is Law, or expect professionalism from non-professionals.

Teaching those crucial lessons, which are dear to the ethos of Monero/Bitcoin/FOSS yet widely subsumed by exuberant hype, is not mere "frivolity."

Fluffy is not a C-level executive of the Monero Corp.  Adjust your expectations accordingly (IE expect trolling and fun, not pumping and gravitas).

Fluffy is our Chief Entertainment Officer.  Are you not entertained?   

You've done a lot recently to undermine your own credibility, as you're clearly just being a Fluffy sycophant.

[freeBogatov]

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help freebogatov.org/en/

Run a Tor relay with nickname that contains Bogatov or KAction in solidarity.

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Tor Project website has a guide on how to do it. You can run relay at your home (In that case it recommended to not run an exit relay, but middle relay, that way no negative activity will come from your IP.

You can also limit bandwidth if you don't want to give full bandwidth to the Tor network) or rent a server. Here is a list of hosters tried by activists who are running Tor relays. As for April 18, 45 relays and exit nodes have been launched in solidarity with Dmitry. See here and here to view the lists of relays.

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[pönde]

It is told that sync is faster by first downloading the blockchain file that sych from scratch
https://www.monero.how/tutorial-how-to-speed-up-initial-blockchain-sync

But here it is told that It is typically much faster to sync from scratch.
https://getmonero.org/downloads/

Which is true?


Why here is blockhain.bin
http://monero.org/downloads/

and here blockhain.raw
https://getmonero.org/downloads/

[galaxy5user]

This thing is... is that It shouldn't be the responsibility of other people to do things that help mass-adoption.  If you like the technology and you feel that the information should be updated, maybe you should be the one to do it.  Everyone is equally responsible in open sourced projects.

How can I do that? The 'official' forum is bloated. I have no write access to the website nor codebase. I don't know where to process the developing discussion.

[dEBRUYNE]

It is told that sync is faster by first downloading the blockchain file that sych from scratch
https://www.monero.how/tutorial-how-to-speed-up-initial-blockchain-sync

But here it is told that It is typically much faster to sync from scratch.
https://getmonero.org/downloads/

Which is true?


Why here is blockhain.bin
http://monero.org/downloads/

and here blockhain.raw
https://getmonero.org/downloads/

First and foremost, please don't post or use any links from monero.org. It is not run by the core-team and not an official website.

Syncing from scratch is generally faster. However, if you use --verify 0 to import it may be faster. Note that putting verify off is quite dangerous if the blockchain isn't your own. That is, with verify off, the import binary won't verify any blocks whilst importing.

It is generally advised to use the import binary with blockchain.raw if you are limited on bandwidth.

[dEBRUYNE]

Where is to start with 'monero-wallet-cli'?
1. I have read the 'Getting started' guide and didn't found the answer to obvious questions.
2. I noticed the forum is spammed and abandoned.
Is that over now?

Thanx for suggestion, but I feel comfortable with cli tools (specifically, with 'zcash-cli' and bash). The question is about the lacking of documentation and death of the forum. It will never become mass-adopted with such approach. Who is going to make the change?

Regarding lack of documentation, see phishead's answer. The forum has been quite inactive since the beginning. It is currently mostly used for forum funding system proposals.

[iCEBREAKER]

The point of the prank is to demonstrate how unwise it is to trust (no matter how popular or charismatic) any personality in crypto, where Code is Law, or expect professionalism from non-professionals.

Teaching those crucial lessons, which are dear to the ethos of Monero/Bitcoin/FOSS yet widely subsumed by exuberant hype, is not mere "frivolity."

Fluffy is not a C-level executive of the Monero Corp.  Adjust your expectations accordingly (IE expect trolling and fun, not pumping and gravitas).

Fluffy is our Chief Entertainment Officer.  Are you not entertained?  

You've done a lot recently to undermine your own credibility, as you're clearly just being a Fluffy sycophant.

It's rather telling you disputed exactly zero of the facts in my post, choosing instead to merely attack me for relating and analyzing them.

Perhaps you are just still salty because I utterly demolished your attempt at rebranding BBR to the (atrocious and universally reviled) "Rune" label?  

Do you likewise consider GMAX a "Fluffy sycophant" with undermined credibility for posting this?  https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/6dcter/are_yall_on_drugs_help_me_understand_this/

Fluffypony has at every turn that I've seen behaved with integrity and intelligence. His thoughtful manner has been an essential component in the bringing in the support (or at least tolerance!) from intelligent people elsewhere resulting in advancing Monero through things like RingCT and protecting Monero through things like the discovery of the recently disclosed key image small subgroup handling flaw.

I will not be cowed by your attempt to heap retaliatory opprobrium on me for explaining and defending the wisdom and necessity of Fluffy's constructive epic prank.

Everyone can see that my posts contain actual analysis, whereas your own simply asserts your bias and calls me names for disagreeing with your opinion.

My credibility is nearly beyond reproach and I've been here longer than you, so why in the world would I GAF about your plebeian basic bitch opinion?

Your own words, eat them:

#REKT  

[visdude]

Wallet will not sync. It freezes at a certain point.

To clarify, it is stuck on a certain block right? Could you post which block?

Also, which wallet are you using and on what operating system?

I have two W7-x64 each running GUI and another W7-x64 with both GUI and CLI. All are 0.10.3.1.

I don't think the issue is related to a particular block as all my nodes are stuck at different blocks; I guess depending upon when they were last synced. In my case, I last synced each one of them successfully at different times yesterday. It seems they all got stuck when I tried to sync them today (blocks 1317541, 1317523, 1317324 and 1317397).

Could both you and Fire Rabbit try to add the following flag:

Code:

--block-sync-size 20

On Windows the full command becomes as follows:

Code:

monerod.exe --block-sync-size 20

Note that this command should be executed from the command prompt. If you don't know how to open the command prompt, it is done as follows:

Go to the directory the monerod is located and make sure your cursor isn't located on any of the files. Subsequently do SHIFT + right click and it will give you an option to "Open command window here". Lastly, type aforementioned command.

On Linux and Mac OS X:

Code:

./monerod --block-sync-size 20

Note that this command should be executed from the terminal.

Will do. Can't I just put the flag in the "Daemon startup flags" field in GUI in addition to my "--data-dir" flag that's already there (explicit data directory location)?

Yes, that should work too.

Coolness! The flag works. Nodes are syncing again. Thank you.

Is this something to be fixed in the next release or do we have to keep using this flag from here on/moving forward? Just thinking ahead.

[infofront]

The point of the prank is to demonstrate how unwise it is to trust (no matter how popular or charismatic) any personality in crypto, where Code is Law, or expect professionalism from non-professionals.

Teaching those crucial lessons, which are dear to the ethos of Monero/Bitcoin/FOSS yet widely subsumed by exuberant hype, is not mere "frivolity."

Fluffy is not a C-level executive of the Monero Corp.  Adjust your expectations accordingly (IE expect trolling and fun, not pumping and gravitas).

Fluffy is our Chief Entertainment Officer.  Are you not entertained?  

You've done a lot recently to undermine your own credibility, as you're clearly just being a Fluffy sycophant.

It's rather telling you disputed exactly zero of the facts in my post, choosing instead to merely attack me for relating and analyzing them.

Perhaps you are just still salty because I utterly demolished your attempt at rebranding BBR to the (atrocious and universally reviled) "Rune" label?  

Do you likewise consider GMAX a "Fluffy sycophant" with undermined credibility for posting this?  https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/6dcter/are_yall_on_drugs_help_me_understand_this/

Fluffypony has at every turn that I've seen behaved with integrity and intelligence. His thoughtful manner has been an essential component in the bringing in the support (or at least tolerance!) from intelligent people elsewhere resulting in advancing Monero through things like RingCT and protecting Monero through things like the discovery of the recently disclosed key image small subgroup handling flaw.

I will not be cowed by your attempt to heap retaliatory opprobrium on me for explaining and defending the wisdom and necessity of Fluffy's constructive epic prank.

Everyone can see that my posts contain actual analysis, whereas your own simply asserts your bias and calls me names for disagreeing with your opinion.

My credibility is nearly beyond reproach and I've been here longer than you, so why in the world would I GAF about your plebeian basic bitch opinion?

Your own words, eat them:

#REKT  

You've done no analysis. You've merely been enthusiastically parroting what Fluffy's said, with some extra cheerleading mixed in, as would be expected from a sycophant.

I'm impressed you spent so long digging up completely random, three year old posts and using them out of context. I'll feed one of yours back to you: "Yes, and everyone should be forced to take spelling, speech, and debate lessons before exercising their 1st Amendment rights is allowed." I couldn't agree more! Maybe then we wouldn't have to read the rambling, semi-incoherent nonsense that you spam all over these boards.

#REKT and, more importantly, #IGNORED