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[aminorex]

My blockchain is not corrupted since the beginning.
I start the daemon, I leave it sync, I make the transactions I need, I close nicely the wallet (exit), I close nicely the daemon (exit).

(But I agree the blockchain is huge and the deamon starts and stops very slowly, sometimes hangs too.)

But you're still a fish!

I ain't taking no advice from no fish with questionable emotional stability, no sir, not over the Internet, at least.

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[restless]

I'm using latest daemon for 50 days already. And thats 3rd time when blockchain is corrupted. Always after restart of PC and/or after daemon was offline for some hours.

PS: Wish I knew what is the common thing between dota and monero :S

Probably daemon crashing when you shutting down PC, try to run "exit" in a daemon CLI before restart.

Well, last night the PC has crashed... nothing I can do about it once a month its crashing. Probably running daemon which uses 3GB ram is the reason

[florida.haunted]

I'm using latest daemon for 50 days already. And thats 3rd time when blockchain is corrupted. Always after restart of PC and/or after daemon was offline for some hours.

PS: Wish I knew what is the common thing between dota and monero :S

Probably daemon crashing when you shutting down PC, try to run "exit" in a daemon CLI before restart.

Well, last night the PC has crashed... nothing I can do about it once a month its crashing. Probably running daemon which uses 3GB ram is the reason

Don't you say you use 32-bit executables?!

With 64-bit exe, all seems nice. Although I always type "exit" at daemon prompt.

Devs are working on embedded database such as leveldb, with somewhat durability support against your monthly crashes.

[smooth]

I'm using latest daemon for 50 days already. And thats 3rd time when blockchain is corrupted. Always after restart of PC and/or after daemon was offline for some hours.

PS: Wish I knew what is the common thing between dota and monero :S

Probably daemon crashing when you shutting down PC, try to run "exit" in a daemon CLI before restart.

Well, last night the PC has crashed... nothing I can do about it once a month its crashing. Probably running daemon which uses 3GB ram is the reason

Run a RAM test. Replace the bad module if that's what it is. Bad RAM would definitely explain corruption of your blockchain.

[monero]

Monero Missives

August 3rd, 2014

Hello, and welcome to our ninth Monero Missive! Sincerest apologies for the late posting of this one, there were some interesting statistics we were finalising that you will find below.

Major Updates

1. We had a lot of fun giving a Git Crash Course last week Wednesday, and it was well received by all despite some technical issues with the sound. To that end, we've decided to launch a regular "Monero Fireside Chat" session as a way of both introducing the occasional new feature even before its announcement in the Monero Missives, and as an ongoing developer technical resource. We aren't sure of the frequency we'll do these, so we'll announce them as they're planned. Our first one will be this Friday, August 8th, 2014, at 9:00 EST (note: EST, not EDT) which is 14:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC +2 (aka FOST - fluffypony and othe standard time). This week Friday we will have a very special announcement, before going in to a technical discussion, so if you are able to join us live for that then please do so. It will be broadcast live via Google Hangouts on Air, so you'll be able to watch it on YouTube, and during the dev discussion portion following the announcement we'll be available to take questions on IRC in #monero-dev on Freenode.

2. We've only recently started tracking our download stats (since July 15th), and we thought we'd share with you some download stats for Monero over the past 3 weeks. Our most popular download has been our blockchain bootstrap, which has seen 41 425 completed downloads in 3 weeks, around 74tb of traffic usage! Leading the pack on these downloads is Windows with around 78.2%, followed by OS X with 14.5%, and the remaining 7.3% snagged by Linux. The client downloads are quite interesting, too - of a total of 15 000 downloads in 3 weeks, Windows again grabbed 78.4%, OS X only grabbing 9%, and Linux grabbing a surprising 12.6%! This obviously excludes those that clone the github repo and compile, which is the majority of Linux users and OS X users (thanks to sammy007's Homebrew recipe). We'd like to thank the donations we've received thus far - it goes directly to many things, including covering costs like the bandwidth provision to help bootstrap new users.

3. As mentioned in our last Monero Missive, Poloniex added a number of XMR market pairs. In the 12 days since, those markets have had a combined volume of 5830 XMR, and it is growing on a daily basis. The additional liquidity for both miners and traders is certainly a boon to cementing Monero's market position.

4. We're happy to announce that Monero has been added to the CoinsSource Trust Index, with a rating of 6 out of a possible 7 stars. More information on the Trust Index can be found on the CoinsSource Trust Index page.

5. Most of the dev effort recently has been around a smoother and cleaner build process, which is important as we move towards continuous integration (through Jenkins) as well as deterministic builds (through Gitian). This will mean that binaries of the code that is currently undergoing testing will be readily available, and it also means that we will have a secure build process so that the binaries you download from the Monero website will be verified and verifiable. Over and above that, the QoS bandwidth management system is functionally complete, and will go into the main staging branch for testing within the next few days. Finally, the backend for DNS seed nodes has been completed, the source code has been published, and the Monero seed nodes are up and running. Integration of DNS seeds into the network seed procedure still has to be completed, but when complete this will ensure a safer and vastly more secure method of discovering the Monero network and connecting to it.

Dev Diary

Build: we've added a Windows build script to make building on Windows easier (it's in /utils/build_scripts/windows.bat). Tangentially to that, we are moving away from the VS 2013 requirement on Windows, and switching to msys2 for dependency management and mingw64 for Windows C / C++ compilation. Progress on this can be tracked in mikezackles' branch: https://github.com/mikezackles/bitmonero/tree/mingw

Core: QoS is feature complete, although some peripheral components such as bandwidth utilisation tracking is still WIP. Completed work will be pushed upstream to staging for broader testing within the next week. Progress can be tracked on rfree's branch: https://github.com/rfree2monero/bitmonero/tree/dev-rfree

Blockchain: the embedded DB work is exceedingly complex work that requires a lot of thought, but it is progressing at a clip. Abstracted code is being refactored, and tewinget has moved to a clean branch for this. Progress can be tracked here: https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/tree/bc2

Core: jakoblind has closed a number of github issues. The first major one is adding an optional blockheight parameter to a wallet refresh (ie. refresh from that point).

Core: the second issue closed by jakoblind is the addition of a set of RPC and CLI calls to retrieve the mnemonic seed or the view key for an open wallet. The new RPC call is query_key (a generalised call that lets you specify 'mnemonic' or 'view_key' as the key type). The CLI command is 'seed' to retrieve the mnemonic seed, and 'viewkey' to retrieve the view key. Wallets that are not deterministic (ie. very old wallets, or wallets that are specifically created as non-deterministic) will error out when trying to retrieve the mnemonic.

Core: as mentioned in the Missive, the source code for the DNS seeder is available: https://github.com/monero-project/xmr-seeder. It is as simple as possible (and even a little hacky), but it is beneficial in that we don't have to run BIND to service requests. Instead, we use Gandi.net's API, which is advantageous in that Gandi supports AnyCast for DNS (rapid updates). DNS seeds are by and large a convenience feature, so a group of superpeers will still be available as hard-coded seed nodes, and there will be an option to forego the use of DNS seeds. DNS seed support still needs to be added to the client, possibly along with DNSSEC support. The four DNS seeds (delivered as A records for ipv4, and later on as AAA records for ipv6 when ipv6 support is better baked in) are at: seeds.moneroseeds.ch, seeds.moneroseeds.li, seeds.moneroseeds.ae.org, and seeds.moneroseeds.se

Until next week!

- updated by fluffypony

[ray88]

Join the Freenode Irc Chat at http://MoneroChat.com

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1. We had a lot of fun giving a Git Crash Course last week Wednesday, and it was well received by all despite some technical issues with the sound. To that end, we've decided to launch a regular "Monero Fireside Chat" session as a way of both introducing the occasional new feature even before its announcement in the Monero Missives, and as an ongoing developer technical resource. We aren't sure of the frequency we'll do these, so we'll announce them as they're planned. Our first one will be this Friday, August 8th, 2014, at 9:00 EST (note: EST, not EDT) which is 14:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC +2 (aka FOST - fluffypony and othe standard time).

For US participants, this is Friday at:

10 am EDT
9 am CDT,
8 am MDT
7 am PDT

Alaska and Hawaii you can figure it out on your own.

[myagui]

[...] Its annoying not being able to send out coins but i can receive perfectly fine.

You do know that you could just send smaller amounts though, right? Will be the quickest way to move your funds around without any waiting/updating. Going by the transaction size that you posted on that error message, I'd estimate that you can transfer somewhere between 5 to 10 moneritos at a time (assuming the inputs are all of similar size).

My suggestion is that you try gradually decreasing the transfer amount, until you hit something that works, then rinse and repeat. Copy/pasting a transfer command that works (say for 5 moneritos for example), you'll be all done in 30 seconds.

Cheers,
~ Myagui

[Globb0]

This has nothing to do with a fat fingered user mistake. Either the exchange is putting up fake bids/asks that will vanish exactly when market order is executed thus leaving only the thin order book of legit orders to match with and once executed the fake bids/asks

Interesting, I noticed the other day when I specificaly tried to buy/sell the 50 on offer it kept disapearing then coming back a point higher or something. It seemed to be automated.

Despite me filling the order by clicking it directly, or placing the order, mine just ended in the list of buys/sells and it always disapeared unfulfilled (bittrex)

[sab4you]

Maybe somebody can help guide me.

Using my wallet I transfered some Monero to MintPal.  I received a transaction ID
80b31d61c7862b8c94b2fc41536b9a89bb059c8f172e7b2c918a27fbef6b775

When searching http://monerochain.info/search this doesnt show up.  However, the funds have been removed from my wallet and MintPal cannot find it either.

Its been a couple days so it appears lost in the ether.

This is my first time searching a transaction so maybe I just need some help on how to find it? Or maybe I found an issue with Monero?

[saddambitcoin]

Maybe somebody can help guide me.

Using my wallet I transfered some Monero to MintPal.  I received a transaction ID
80b31d61c7862b8c94b2fc41536b9a89bb059c8f172e7b2c918a27fbef6b775

When searching http://monerochain.info/search this doesnt show up.  However, the funds have been removed from my wallet and MintPal cannot find it either.

Its been a couple days so it appears lost in the ether.

This is my first time searching a transaction so maybe I just need some help on how to find it? Or maybe I found an issue with Monero?

Did you include the payment ID when you made the transfer? Exchanges need you to specify a payment ID for cryptonote coins otherwise they will receive the XMR but have no idea who sent it to them.

for example:

Code:

transfer 2 <mintpal deposit address> <amount> <payment ID>

[sab4you]

Maybe somebody can help guide me.

Using my wallet I transfered some Monero to MintPal.  I received a transaction ID
80b31d61c7862b8c94b2fc41536b9a89bb059c8f172e7b2c918a27fbef6b775

When searching http://monerochain.info/search this doesnt show up.  However, the funds have been removed from my wallet and MintPal cannot find it either.

Its been a couple days so it appears lost in the ether.

This is my first time searching a transaction so maybe I just need some help on how to find it? Or maybe I found an issue with Monero?

Did you include the payment ID when you made the transfer? Exchanges need you to specify a payment ID for cryptonote coins otherwise they will receive the XMR but have no idea who sent it to them.

for example:

Code:

transfer 2 <mintpal deposit address> <amount> <payment ID>

Douup! That would be it! I'm sure this is where reading instructions would come in handy! I appreciate the response, will try again.

[fluffypony]

Maybe somebody can help guide me.

Using my wallet I transfered some Monero to MintPal.  I received a transaction ID
80b31d61c7862b8c94b2fc41536b9a89bb059c8f172e7b2c918a27fbef6b775

When searching http://monerochain.info/search this doesnt show up.  However, the funds have been removed from my wallet and MintPal cannot find it either.

Its been a couple days so it appears lost in the ether.

This is my first time searching a transaction so maybe I just need some help on how to find it? Or maybe I found an issue with Monero?

If you delete the wallet.bin (NOT the .bin.keys file) and re-open the wallet it'll re-scan the blockchain and rebuild the cache, and that failed transfer will be available again. Incidentally, it didn't fail because of not including the payment ID - are you sure you're using a current version of Monero, downloaded from the links in the OP of this thread? Transfers can fail to be mined by the network if, for instance, the incorrect fee is attached to it (which would happen with a very old or incorrect version of the wallet software).

[AltCoin555]

Moneta Verde (MCN) is a GREEN COIN.

What exactly does this mean? Well, merged mining.

You can merge mine MCN coin along with any other cryptonote without losing hash power or increasing resource usage in any way.

The entire 19MH/s on XMR right now, could also be mining MCN at the same time. Yes, FREE money that apparently nobody knows about.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=657820.0

Sorry but not quite. The only pool with MCN merged mining that I know of is minergate. Which kinda sucks because merged mining is only supported with their proprietary miner.

IMO, if you want people to merge mine MCN you have to get some proper pools ready.

I'm not using their miner. I'm using the Claymore miner.

It just depends on which port you point your miner to: https://minergate.com/altminers/claymore-gpu

It does not split the hashrate, a 1000H/s miner will still mine 1000H/s on both XMR and MCN at the same time. There's simply nothing to lose in merge mining.

[blaaaaacksuit]

Monero Missives

 This week Friday we will have a very special announcement, before going in to a technical discussion, so if you are able to join us live for that then please do so. It will be broadcast live via Google Hangouts on Air, so you'll be able to watch it on YouTube, and during the dev discussion portion following the announcement we'll be available to take questions on IRC in #monero-dev on Freenode.

Can't tell if I should panic buy moar.  Decisions decisions....

[papa_lazzarou]

I'm not using their miner. I'm using the Claymore miner.

It just depends on which port you point your miner to: https://minergate.com/altminers/claymore-gpu

It does not split the hashrate, a 1000H/s miner will still mine 1000H/s on both XMR and MCN at the same time. There's simply nothing to lose in merge mining.

Well i tried it with yam and wolfs cpu miner. Miners showed hashrate, no errors. Nothing showed up on the pool.

I have merged mined MCN before. It worked intermittently before they added stratum. Now the connection works but, as I said, nothing shows on the pool side.

[AltCoin555]

I'm not using their miner. I'm using the Claymore miner.

It just depends on which port you point your miner to: https://minergate.com/altminers/claymore-gpu

It does not split the hashrate, a 1000H/s miner will still mine 1000H/s on both XMR and MCN at the same time. There's simply nothing to lose in merge mining.

Well i tried it with yam and wolfs cpu miner. Miners showed hashrate, no errors. Nothing showed up on the pool.

I have merged mined MCN before. It worked intermittently before they added stratum. Now the connection works but, as I said, nothing shows on the pool side.

I'm sorry I'm not familiar with the other ones, you should be able to use them however. Maybe check the forums for other people looking to use them the same way.

Have you tried claymore's cpu miner?

[aminorex]

Monero Missives

 This week Friday we will have a very special announcement, before going in to a technical discussion, so if you are able to join us live for that then please do so. It will be broadcast live via Google Hangouts on Air, so you'll be able to watch it on YouTube, and during the dev discussion portion following the announcement we'll be available to take questions on IRC in #monero-dev on Freenode.

Can't tell if I should panic buy moar.  Decisions decisions....

Probably buy the rumor, sell the news.  If it were bad news they would have announced it promptly, I think, but everyone is trying to front-run everyone else, so buy early, sell when you think you should have bought, were you naive.

[TooDumbForBitcoin]

This week Friday we will have a very special announcement, before going in to a technical discussion, so if you are able to join us live for that then please do so. It will be broadcast live via Google Hangouts on Air, so you'll be able to watch it on YouTube, and during the dev discussion portion following the announcement we'll be available to take questions on IRC in #monero-dev on Freenode.



Can't tell if I should panic buy moar.  Decisions decisions....

Here's the betting line on the very special announcement:

official GUI wallet:  3:2
addition of all-star to dev team:  3:1
acceptance of XMR by McDonald's/Victoria's Secret/BevMo/other  5:1
all else 3:5

[darlidada]

This week Friday we will have a very special announcement, before going in to a technical discussion, so if you are able to join us live for that then please do so. It will be broadcast live via Google Hangouts on Air, so you'll be able to watch it on YouTube, and during the dev discussion portion following the announcement we'll be available to take questions on IRC in #monero-dev on Freenode.



Can't tell if I should panic buy moar.  Decisions decisions....

Here's the betting line on the very special announcement:

official GUI wallet:  3:2
addition of all-star to dev team:  3:1
acceptance of XMR by McDonald's/Victoria's Secret/BevMo/other  5:1
all else 3:5

I was about to post about this!

The importance statement is this : "during the dev discussion portion following the announcement we'll be available to take questions on IRC in #monero-dev on Freenode."

It means its at the very least an announcement technical by nature, otherwise why take questions afterwards? this means no cryptsy, no website, no gui (database thingy stuffy problem? ive no idea what i'm talking about lol) -- personally i'm betting on i2p integration ! remember that a few missives ago there were mentions of a partnership with i2p and anoncoin and talks about a fundation of some sort in order to make things smoother.

Or database thingy is done and this is the announcement.