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

[David Latapie]

I am revamping the whole tutorial at the moment. Should be much easier later.

Edit: done, feedbacks welcome. Special thanks to http://xmr.hashinvest.ws/#getting_started for their Windows and Mac tutorial.

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[Febo]

I am the masses.  I'm interested i'm Monero due to the involvement of people I respect.  I have no computer skills.  My new computer is windows 8.1 with a pentium chip so I wont be mining.  I started using btc over a year ago.  I have never downloaded the blockchain as I have only used the electrum wallet.  I have considered purchasing XMR but the process of downloading, setting up, and transferring is daunting.  I don't want use an exchange for storage.  I see that an attempt is being made to make a deterministic wallet.  Will this mean no downloading of the blockchain like electrum?  

Any advice on how to get started with Monero would be appreciated.

Thanks I'll give it a go when I have some time.  Just to reinforce how clueless I am, in 13 years of owning a computer I have never backed up anything   This is another joy with using the electrum wallet, never a need to back it up.  My seeds are safely stored in several secure locations and my btc will live on when I die.

If you do not have computer skills, for this you should GNU/Linux as it work out of the box (see monero.cc Getting started - for install_monero.sh). Firstly, you can try it from USB bootable stick (see e.g. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows) on which changes will be saved if you set up persistence.

I found out about BTC 6 month ago, and I never actually used Electrum, but I'we been reading about best practices for deterministic wallets and I'we been running bitmonero daemon for a few weeks now. And, for what I understand, if you just wish to create a seed you may not use persistence and can skip installing cpuminer - the script will guide you through the process. Then you would disconnect from the network and generate a wallet, after which should be the same as with your other seeds. I suppose that there are no watching only option for simplewallet, at least at the moment.

One of things that I like about Monero is egalitarian idea behind it (which seems to be working) so if you put to work even old computer, and you let it mine within the daemon, you actually have a chance of finding a block.

You NEED to start mining.  Don:t use a pool. Just be patient.

It would be nice if Monero GNU/Linux distro comes to life, after i2p is reimplemented in c++

I must have less than no computer skills.  I downloaded Monero as all I needed to do was click.  I was following the MoneroTalk tutorial where it said after downloadimg (one of the 5 files they show is a zip file which I don't have, just the other 4) I am instructed to SIMPLY move the file to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming.  After googling and searching for what would be the correct name of my USERPROFILE I came  up empty handed.  One hour gone.

On the Monereo site it basically says their installation instruction only work for Linux.  I had recently saved a link that explains dual boot with linux.  I just read it and stopped when they talk about partitioning my hard drive.  Am I to assume that using a bootable USB stick is easier?  If I am running Monero with linux can I use my computer in Windows as well?  I use my computer a lot during the day and must use windows.

that 5th file "block chain" you have to place in "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming." only if when you open wallet it dont synchronize. Most people that start dont have to do it, you just wait that wallet do it by itself.

But on other hand, maybe Linux is better, at least no one  will there hide files from you as Windows does.

[superresistant]

Can the fucking retarded hacker stop DDOS the pool ??

What's the point of doing that ? Are you 12 ?

[dreamspark]

Can the fucking retarded hacker stop DDOS the pool ??

What's the point of doing that ? Are you 12 ?

Which pool is this ?

[ol92]

Can the fucking retarded hacker stop DDOS the pool ??

What's the point of doing that ? Are you 12 ?

Your pool is a good one and attracts many miners (including me : thanks for your good work) : I suppose someone is happy reducing global hashrate to improve his personnal gains ... It happened for every successful coins. I hope you will find some way to make your pool ddos "super" resistant.

[superresistant]

Can the fucking retarded hacker stop DDOS the pool ??
What's the point of doing that ? Are you 12 ?

Which pool is this ?

http://monero.crypto-pool.fr
It stopped now. He was doing it from 11/6/2014 14:03:40 to 12/6/2014 02:01:37
We where getting crazy with my friend.
We'll try some anti DDOS fixing for this to not happen any more.

Your pool is a good one and attracts many miners (including me : thanks for your good work) : I suppose someone is happy reducing global hashrate to improve his personnal gains ... It happened for every successful coins. I hope you will find some way to make your pool ddos "super" resistant.

Thanks for your support. That's maybe a good thing because it force us to improve.

[dreamspark]

Can the fucking retarded hacker stop DDOS the pool ??
What's the point of doing that ? Are you 12 ?

Which pool is this ?

http://monero.crypto-pool.fr
It stopped now. He was doing it from 11/6/2014 14:03:40 to 12/6/2014 02:01:37
We where getting crazy with my friend.
We'll try some anti DDOS fixing for this to not happen any more.

Your pool is a good one and attracts many miners (including me : thanks for your good work) : I suppose someone is happy reducing global hashrate to improve his personnal gains ... It happened for every successful coins. I hope you will find some way to make your pool ddos "super" resistant.

Thanks for your support. That's maybe a good thing because it force us to improve.

Jeez have some people got nothing better to do ?! I'd go with your thinking that its probably some 12 year old thinking he's doing something clever...

[sammy007]

>>> Join Monero Pool http://xmr.hashinvest.ws / EU <<<

Monero CPU & GPU mining

minerd -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://xmr.hashinvest.ws:5555 -u YOUR_ADDRESS -p x

With instructions for Linux, Windows and Mac users.

[fluffypony]

PM me if anyone wants to start something with the MoneroCoin.com TDL.

Google analitics is showing increasing traffic to my domain.

That domain name is worthless. The name of the this currency is Monero, not Monerocoin. Anyone searching in google(including myself), searches Monero not Monerocoin.

maybe guess ill just point it towards feathercoin in the mean time until Monero gets bigger and MoneroCoin gets more valuable as a TDL

The problem is that Monero means "coin" in Esperanto...so MoneroCoin literally means CoinCoin:-P

[superresistant]

Can somebody compare boolberry and monero for me? Not sure what one's advantage is over the others. I see that monero uses CryptoNight algo while boolberry uses Wild Keccak..

Comparison is on the main Boolberry thread.
It is the only interesting cryptonote after Monero and it is not a copy.

[policymaker]

Hey guys,

I installed the new 11 june win64 binaries(just copy pasted over my old ones, like I mostly do) and I try to start bitmonerod to sync the network, but it seems like it never syncs, and on top of that, it SRSLY hang my network bandwith, like 90%. what is wrong?

[fluffypony]

Hey guys,

I installed the new 11 june win64 binaries(just copy pasted over my old ones, like I mostly do) and I try to start bitmonerod to sync the network, but it seems like it never syncs, and on top of that, it SRSLY hang my network bandwith, like 90%. what is wrong?

Can you pastebin the output from the daemon?

[policymaker]

Hey guys,

I installed the new 11 june win64 binaries(just copy pasted over my old ones, like I mostly do) and I try to start bitmonerod to sync the network, but it seems like it never syncs, and on top of that, it SRSLY hang my network bandwith, like 90%. what is wrong?

Can you pastebin the output from the daemon?

im sry u mean the .txt file? its mostly this"Sync data returned unknown top block: 81531 -> 81902" and keeps going on.... the real problem is it hangs my network! I was successfully using the last edition like 12 hours ago! and I cant find the old version of exe anymore because OP updated it... :/

[Fiyor]

Hi, I have problem with the GUI Wallet , i cant syncronice

" 2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.198170 Starting...
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.200170 bitmonero v0.8.8.1(0.1-g328a52a)
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.200170 Module folder: C:\MONERO\monero.win.x64.experimental.0526\bitmonerod.exe
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.278175 Initializing p2p server...
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.282175 ERROR c:\temp\monero\git-experimental\bitmonero-0.8.8update-x64\src\p2p\net_node.inl:82 Exception at [node_server::init_config], what=input stream error
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.283175 ERROR c:\temp\monero\git-experimental\bitmonero-0.8.8update-x64\src\p2p\net_node.inl:204 Failed to init config.
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.283175 ERROR ..\..\src\daemon\daemon.cpp:148 Failed to initialize p2p server.
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.283175 Mining has been stopped, 0 finished "

Can anyone Help me please ??

Ty

[fluffypony]

Hey guys,

I installed the new 11 june win64 binaries(just copy pasted over my old ones, like I mostly do) and I try to start bitmonerod to sync the network, but it seems like it never syncs, and on top of that, it SRSLY hang my network bandwith, like 90%. what is wrong?

Can you pastebin the output from the daemon?

im sry u mean the .txt file? its mostly this"Sync data returned unknown top block: 81531 -> 81902" and keeps going on.... the real problem is it hangs my network! I was successfully using the last edition like 12 hours ago! and I cant find the old version of exe anymore because OP updated it... :/

That means it's catching up - it WILL use all the available bandwidth till its caught up, there's no rate-limiting on it.

Remember: Monero is still alpha-level software and is not ready for widespread use or in situations where bandwidth is limited. A lightweight SPV-style client will only happen in the future once we've made everything a lot more robust and stable and workable:)

[fluffypony]

Hi, I have problem with the GUI Wallet , i cant syncronice

" 2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.198170 Starting...
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.200170 bitmonero v0.8.8.1(0.1-g328a52a)
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.200170 Module folder: C:\MONERO\monero.win.x64.experimental.0526\bitmonerod.exe
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.278175 Initializing p2p server...
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.282175 ERROR c:\temp\monero\git-experimental\bitmonero-0.8.8update-x64\src\p2p\net_node.inl:82 Exception at [node_server::init_config], what=input stream error
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.283175 ERROR c:\temp\monero\git-experimental\bitmonero-0.8.8update-x64\src\p2p\net_node.inl:204 Failed to init config.
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.283175 ERROR ..\..\src\daemon\daemon.cpp:148 Failed to initialize p2p server.
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.283175 Mining has been stopped, 0 finished "

Can anyone Help me please ??

Ty

That's a VERY old binary - you're going to have to upgrade to the latest version in the OP. Unfortunately we can't provide assistance with the GUI wallets, you're going to have to chat to their authors about it.

[Fiyor]

Hi, I have problem with the GUI Wallet , i cant syncronice

" 2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.198170 Starting...
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.200170 bitmonero v0.8.8.1(0.1-g328a52a)
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.200170 Module folder: C:\MONERO\monero.win.x64.experimental.0526\bitmonerod.exe
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.278175 Initializing p2p server...
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.282175 ERROR c:\temp\monero\git-experimental\bitmonero-0.8.8update-x64\src\p2p\net_node.inl:82 Exception at [node_server::init_config], what=input stream error
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.283175 ERROR c:\temp\monero\git-experimental\bitmonero-0.8.8update-x64\src\p2p\net_node.inl:204 Failed to init config.
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.283175 ERROR ..\..\src\daemon\daemon.cpp:148 Failed to initialize p2p server.
2014-Jun-12 14:03:36.283175 Mining has been stopped, 0 finished "

Can anyone Help me please ??

Ty

That's a VERY old binary - you're going to have to upgrade to the latest version in the OP. Unfortunately we can't provide assistance with the GUI wallets, you're going to have to chat to their authors about it.

Gracias

[policymaker]

Hey guys,

I installed the new 11 june win64 binaries(just copy pasted over my old ones, like I mostly do) and I try to start bitmonerod to sync the network, but it seems like it never syncs, and on top of that, it SRSLY hang my network bandwith, like 90%. what is wrong?

Can you pastebin the output from the daemon?

im sry u mean the .txt file? its mostly this"Sync data returned unknown top block: 81531 -> 81902" and keeps going on.... the real problem is it hangs my network! I was successfully using the last edition like 12 hours ago! and I cant find the old version of exe anymore because OP updated it... :/

That means it's catching up - it WILL use all the available bandwidth till its caught up, there's no rate-limiting on it.

Remember: Monero is still alpha-level software and is not ready for widespread use or in situations where bandwidth is limited. A lightweight SPV-style client will only happen in the future once we've made everything a lot more robust and stable and workable:)

I have been following monero since its launch. This bitmonerod behavior is not normal, after the update it got buged. I will let it update, but filling up an entire 30/2,5 vdsl line for some 12 hours worth of synching bytes is not normal. It is the first time the exe behaves like that. Plz do fix asap.


edit: apparently it synced, but leaving the bitmonerod open appears to have detrimental effect on the network, im not sure whether this was the case before.

[GreekBitcoin]

Hey guys,

I installed the new 11 june win64 binaries(just copy pasted over my old ones, like I mostly do) and I try to start bitmonerod to sync the network, but it seems like it never syncs, and on top of that, it SRSLY hang my network bandwith, like 90%. what is wrong?

Can you pastebin the output from the daemon?

im sry u mean the .txt file? its mostly this"Sync data returned unknown top block: 81531 -> 81902" and keeps going on.... the real problem is it hangs my network! I was successfully using the last edition like 12 hours ago! and I cant find the old version of exe anymore because OP updated it... :/

That means it's catching up - it WILL use all the available bandwidth till its caught up, there's no rate-limiting on it.

Remember: Monero is still alpha-level software and is not ready for widespread use or in situations where bandwidth is limited. A lightweight SPV-style client will only happen in the future once we've made everything a lot more robust and stable and workable:)

I have been following monero since its launch. This bitmonerod behavior is not normal, after the update it got buged. I will let it update, but filling up an entire 30/2,5 vdsl line for some 12 hours worth of synching bytes is not normal. It is the first time the exe behaves like that. Plz do fix asap.


edit: apparently it synced, but leaving the bitmonerod open appears to have detrimental effect on the network, im not sure whether this was the case before.

Yep i have the same problem. If i run bitmonerod i cant do anything else on the internet...

[blaaaaacksuit]

Hey guys,

I installed the new 11 june win64 binaries(just copy pasted over my old ones, like I mostly do) and I try to start bitmonerod to sync the network, but it seems like it never syncs, and on top of that, it SRSLY hang my network bandwith, like 90%. what is wrong?

Can you pastebin the output from the daemon?

im sry u mean the .txt file? its mostly this"Sync data returned unknown top block: 81531 -> 81902" and keeps going on.... the real problem is it hangs my network! I was successfully using the last edition like 12 hours ago! and I cant find the old version of exe anymore because OP updated it... :/

That means it's catching up - it WILL use all the available bandwidth till its caught up, there's no rate-limiting on it.

Remember: Monero is still alpha-level software and is not ready for widespread use or in situations where bandwidth is limited. A lightweight SPV-style client will only happen in the future once we've made everything a lot more robust and stable and workable:)

I have been following monero since its launch. This bitmonerod behavior is not normal, after the update it got buged. I will let it update, but filling up an entire 30/2,5 vdsl line for some 12 hours worth of synching bytes is not normal. It is the first time the exe behaves like that. Plz do fix asap.


edit: apparently it synced, but leaving the bitmonerod open appears to have detrimental effect on the network, im not sure whether this was the case before.

I've been having these exact same issues, but it started before the latest updates.