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

[hedgy73]

This coin is very difficult to set up wallet and start mining unless you are a programmer or hacker

Been trying for a few hours now to get my head around this and I think I'll have to give it a miss until a normal wallet and pools are setup unfortunately.

Well that's just too bad. There are so many people who have reported the exact opposite (thousands based on the hashrate!), so I'm very sorry to hear that you've run into troubles.

I'm not a programmer nor a hacker, but I will be here for the next 10-12 hours, and am willing to help you with whatever troubles you may have run into as I've not had them

If I can't get it done, there are others here who can help you!

Thanks very much for your offer. I seem to be mining but on my i7 quad core I'm probably wasting my time even though I like a challenge.

My mining hashrate seems to be 11.xxx using 4 cores is it worth mining with that?

P.S. I love this coin and the difficulty with mining it really interests me

You are not wasting your time, you have the same chance to get a block as anyone else, and you are contributing to run the network the same as anyone else. Someone with 100 computers has 100 times the hash rate but they spent 100 times as much to buy computers and they are spending 100 times as much on electricity.

You might try bumping up the cores. Does that processor have hyperthreads? Some have reported good results and still having a usable computer with 6 or 7 threads.

Thanks for your reply I really appreciate it.

I have changed mining from 4 threads to 6 and hashrate has only increased from 11 to 12 but cpu usage and temperature has increased significantly but still within safe parameters.

I'll leave this pc mining but try with my other pc tomorrow which has an amd phenom black quad core which seems to have better cpu mining power than this i7.

EDIT: Hashrate is now upto 15!

[hedgy73]

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?

[surfer43]

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?

It will tell you in bitmonerod if you have found a block. Type "refresh" into simplewallet to check your balance.

[smooth]

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?

If you have the wallet open in a window, type refresh. If you find a block you will usually get about 17 MRO but will sometimes be less due to the antispam penalty rules.

In the daemon window you will see "Found block" if you find a block, but since there are lots of messages that come up there it can scroll off. You can also check the log file bitmonerod.log

[hedgy73]

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?

If you have the wallet open in a window, type refresh. If you find a block you will usually get about 17 MRO but will sometimes be less due to the antispam penalty rules.

In the daemon window you will see "Found block" if you find a block, but since there are lots of messages that come up there it can scroll off. You can also check the log file bitmonerod.log

Thanks I've just done refresh and balance is still 0 so will keep mining

[smooth]

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?

If you have the wallet open in a window, type refresh. If you find a block you will usually get about 17 MRO but will sometimes be less due to the antispam penalty rules.

In the daemon window you will see "Found block" if you find a block, but since there are lots of messages that come up there it can scroll off. You can also check the log file bitmonerod.log

Thanks I've just done refresh and balance is still 0 so will keep mining

I strongly recommend not checking your balance frequently when mining with one PC. It will just drive you crazy with discouragement. You should expect to get one block a week or so. Just ignore it and let it do its thing, check back every few days. You might want to back down the threads if it makes more annoying fan noise at full power.

[hedgy73]

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?

If you have the wallet open in a window, type refresh. If you find a block you will usually get about 17 MRO but will sometimes be less due to the antispam penalty rules.

In the daemon window you will see "Found block" if you find a block, but since there are lots of messages that come up there it can scroll off. You can also check the log file bitmonerod.log

Thanks I've just done refresh and balance is still 0 so will keep mining

I strongly recommend not checking your balance frequently when mining with one PC. It will just drive you crazy with discouragement. You should expect to get one block a week or so. Just ignore it and let it do its thing, check back every few days. You might want to back down the threads if it makes more annoying fan noise at full power.

Thanks for your advice but on this pc I have a modified case fan cooling the cpu so it runs pretty cool.

I will however take your advice and check balance every now and again because of low hashrate.

Isn't this coin business all about finding a block or more with low hashrate... that's what my attraction is anyway, someone with no money being able to change it to nice money.

[smooth]

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?

If you have the wallet open in a window, type refresh. If you find a block you will usually get about 17 MRO but will sometimes be less due to the antispam penalty rules.

In the daemon window you will see "Found block" if you find a block, but since there are lots of messages that come up there it can scroll off. You can also check the log file bitmonerod.log

Thanks I've just done refresh and balance is still 0 so will keep mining

I strongly recommend not checking your balance frequently when mining with one PC. It will just drive you crazy with discouragement. You should expect to get one block a week or so. Just ignore it and let it do its thing, check back every few days. You might want to back down the threads if it makes more annoying fan noise at full power.

Thanks for your advice but on this pc I have a modified case fan cooling the cpu so it runs pretty cool.

I will however take your advice and check balance every now and again because of low hashrate.

Isn't this coin business all about finding a block or more with low hashrate... that's what my attraction is anyway, someone with no money being able to change it to nice money.

Yes but its a waiting game with a low hash rate. Once pools come online you will have the option to get a small amount on a much more regular basis.

[hedgy73]

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?

If you have the wallet open in a window, type refresh. If you find a block you will usually get about 17 MRO but will sometimes be less due to the antispam penalty rules.

In the daemon window you will see "Found block" if you find a block, but since there are lots of messages that come up there it can scroll off. You can also check the log file bitmonerod.log

Thanks I've just done refresh and balance is still 0 so will keep mining

I strongly recommend not checking your balance frequently when mining with one PC. It will just drive you crazy with discouragement. You should expect to get one block a week or so. Just ignore it and let it do its thing, check back every few days. You might want to back down the threads if it makes more annoying fan noise at full power.

Thanks for your advice but on this pc I have a modified case fan cooling the cpu so it runs pretty cool.

I will however take your advice and check balance every now and again because of low hashrate.

Isn't this coin business all about finding a block or more with low hashrate... that's what my attraction is anyway, someone with no money being able to change it to nice money.

Yes but its a waiting game with a low hash rate. Once pools come online you will have the option to get a small amount on a much more regular basis.

Do you think pools will come online anytime soon?

[surfer43]

I am trying to optimize the binaries for linux with Intel C++ Composer XE 2013. I'm getting this error.

Code:

[ 33%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/cryptonote_core.dir/cryptonote_core/tx_pool.cpp.o
icpc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-Wvla'
icpc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-Wlogical-op'
icpc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-flto'
/home/ubuntu/bitmonero/src/serialization/binary_archive.h(135): error #63: shift count is too large
          v >>= 8;
                ^
          detected during:
            instantiation of "void binary_archive<true>::serialize_uint(T) [with T=unsigned char]" at line 127
            instantiation of "void binary_archive<true>::serialize_int(T) [with T=unsigned char]" at line 165

 

Without looking too closely that looks like a compiler bug to me, or overly aggressive static checking that gets it wrong. Maybe you can turn off that check?

oh... -Werror was in CMakeLists.txt, so the warnings were treated as errors. 

[smooth]

I am trying to optimize the binaries for linux with Intel C++ Composer XE 2013. I'm getting this error.

Code:

[ 33%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/cryptonote_core.dir/cryptonote_core/tx_pool.cpp.o
icpc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-Wvla'
icpc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-Wlogical-op'
icpc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-flto'
/home/ubuntu/bitmonero/src/serialization/binary_archive.h(135): error #63: shift count is too large
          v >>= 8;
                ^
          detected during:
            instantiation of "void binary_archive<true>::serialize_uint(T) [with T=unsigned char]" at line 127
            instantiation of "void binary_archive<true>::serialize_int(T) [with T=unsigned char]" at line 165

 

Without looking too closely that looks like a compiler bug to me, or overly aggressive static checking that gets it wrong. Maybe you can turn off that check?

oh... -Werror was in CMakeLists.txt, so the warnings were treated as errors. 

OK that makes sense. The line in question is dead code but the warning recognizer doesn't understand that.

[smooth]

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?

If you have the wallet open in a window, type refresh. If you find a block you will usually get about 17 MRO but will sometimes be less due to the antispam penalty rules.

In the daemon window you will see "Found block" if you find a block, but since there are lots of messages that come up there it can scroll off. You can also check the log file bitmonerod.log

Thanks I've just done refresh and balance is still 0 so will keep mining

I strongly recommend not checking your balance frequently when mining with one PC. It will just drive you crazy with discouragement. You should expect to get one block a week or so. Just ignore it and let it do its thing, check back every few days. You might want to back down the threads if it makes more annoying fan noise at full power.

Thanks for your advice but on this pc I have a modified case fan cooling the cpu so it runs pretty cool.

I will however take your advice and check balance every now and again because of low hashrate.

Isn't this coin business all about finding a block or more with low hashrate... that's what my attraction is anyway, someone with no money being able to change it to nice money.

Yes but its a waiting game with a low hash rate. Once pools come online you will have the option to get a small amount on a much more regular basis.

Do you think pools will come online anytime soon?

According to this post good progress is being made: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg6640190#msg6640190

[archit]

Working on a pool for Monero

UPDATE 1: API seems awfully easy, wonder what took the developers here so much time

[Keyboard-Mash]

Working on a pool for Monero

UPDATE 1: API seems awfully easy, wonder what took the developers here so much time

Must be because you weren't here!

Now I'm really excited, any idea when you'll be done?

I'll keep people here updated while you work on it, if you'd like? Unless, you want to keep them updated on your breaks?

[stellarman]

Several times when I have started the daemon after a period of being turned off, I have noticed that I get a message in the daemon saying that I am now synchronized. But then if I wait a few seconds I get another yellow message that says I am still synchronizing. This time, I got the "synchronized" message after about a minute, but I am really still a day behind.

Is this a known bug? Anybody else get this?

[lisalee]

Quanttek will be doing German and David Latapie French. Monero will be soon be very international.

Chinese translation will be one of the most important. If anyone can offer to do a high-quality one (or knows someone that can), that would be great.

Those who want to translate the website: PM me. Do not start with the "getting started" page as it is the one most prone to heavy changes, though.

Is someone translating it to Chinese? If not, could I have a try and do the Chinese translation?

Sure! Right now we don't have any bounties for translation, though, so the translators have been volunteers.

OK. I know that. I will finished it in 24 hours anyway.

[archit]

Code writing begins, found almost everything I need

[eizh]

Quanttek will be doing German and David Latapie French. Monero will be soon be very international.

Chinese translation will be one of the most important. If anyone can offer to do a high-quality one (or knows someone that can), that would be great.

Those who want to translate the website: PM me. Do not start with the "getting started" page as it is the one most prone to heavy changes, though.

Is someone translating it to Chinese? If not, could I have a try and do the Chinese translation?

Sure! Right now we don't have any bounties for translation, though, so the translators have been volunteers.

OK. I know that. I will finished it in 24 hours anyway.

Great! To use it, they might need the mining guide translated as well. It's now here: http://monero.cc/getting-started/

[archit]

Anyone who can give me a VS 11 compilable version of Monero? Would be of great help

[Ivan166]

Important

(Big scary red letters because it really is important.)

First, get the newest builds (all fully updated on the OP).

Second, unless your blockchain.bin predates the May 3rd update, you should delete it and download the latest from the OP and replace yours. You might have saved it and overridden it after May 3rd and that's fine. However, a full sync starting from the genesis block after the May 3rd update may have partially corrupted your blockchain. Clean blockchains have been uploaded for 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Linux/OSX. 32-bit versions don't exist because it was added recently. If you're unsure of when your blockchain dates from, update it.

The attack works by flooding the network with low height (i.e. early) blocks. They would normally be added as alternates but if you're in the process of synching, they might get added as real blocks. This is because the checkpointing in the BCN code is not done well and it doesn't validate the headers of pre-checkpoint blocks. The number of people affected probably isn't that big but we can't have inconsistency in the network.

Because the attack is ongoing, if you resync from scratch you'll grab a few of these invalid blocks (about 1 in every ~500 blocks) so you'll still have a slightly corrupted chain. Update from the OP with the latest builds and chains and you'll be clean and protected. In the future, better checkpointing will be implemented but until then it won't be used.

Updated Russian thread with your important post. Here is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=597225.msg6644349#msg6644349