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

[smooth]

Awesome! Good job guys!

I'm eager to learn more about the MRL. Is there a mailing list or something?

Ditto.

There is no mailing list at this time. Any work from the lab will be publicly distributed through the usual channels.

IF the scope expands beyond the current paper writing then we will create more infrastructure for it.

[PeaMine]

I upgraded to a new machine and copied over my wallet.bin wallet.bin.keys and then started the new version I just downloaded today, but my address has changed in simplewallet.
I made sure to load the proper old wallet.bin file.
Is there something else special I can do?
Any way to get my old address back?  I have the viewkey as well.

[David Latapie]

Important notice: this is not a core dev announcement. This is just me as an individual and of course, I get absolutely nothing in return with this post, which is a spontaneous one.

Just a note to announce we are on a new exchange called coin-swap.net/ (https://coin-swap.net/market/XMR/BTC).
coin-swap was among the first one to accept Mintcoin, the first altcoin I ever got (I was not dev, just holder) - by then you could exchange mostly any coin to any coin, but the concept did not become popular so the site was refactored into a much more traditional exchange.

Later, coin-swap was the very first exchange to accept the other coin I develop, HYP. So I know the folks well and coinswap-ian, the owner, and coinswap-jeremy, the new assistant, are nice and helpful on IRC.

Finally and that's probably the most important for most: several times per month, there will be no buying fees for XMR during 24 hours. And this is the case right now ("Coin of the Day Monero (XMR) No buy fees for this market!").

[smooth]

I upgraded to a new machine and copied over my wallet.bin wallet.bin.keys and then started the new version I just downloaded today, but my address has changed in simplewallet.
I made sure to load the proper old wallet.bin file.
Is there something else special I can do?
Any way to get my old address back?  I have the viewkey as well.

That is very strange. It seems you may have created a new wallet instead of restoring the old one.

Hopefully you have safe backup copies of your wallet.bin.keys file that are separate from whatever you are using to try to restore. When working with wallet files always make sure you have good backups stored somewhere else so you can't mess them up.

That being the case, move all of the new wallet files somewhere else, make a new copy of your safely-stored wallet.bin.keys making sure there are no other wallet files there at all. Load into simplewallet.

If you don't get the same address at that point, you have gotten your wallet.bin.keys files mixed up.

[Hueristic]

in the u.s. your rights of privacy and anonymity are constituionally guaranteed.  it is likely that totalitarian regimes will outlaw anonymizing technologies, albeit with very limited success.  the likelihood of criminalization of anonymizing tech in western liberal democracies generally is zero.

By Law you must provide Identification any time it is demanded by authorities whether they are in the right to ask for it or not.

This is not accurate.  There are specific circumstances where ID must be provided or it entitles them to take some specific actions.
Authorities are always entitled to ask, but then so are you.

It's called Obstruction and you can sue civil if they demand it illegally but have fun with that.

[iCEBREAKER]

Monero Massifs

September 15th, 2014

Hello, and welcome to our twelfth Monero Missive! This is our first Missive after a bit of a break whilst we thwarted two related blockchain attacks. Nonetheless, we have not sat by idly, we have been finalising and completing a brand new aspect of Monero designed to protect your privacy now and in the future

    

This is the best one yet.  The Monero Research Lab papers, especially the second one, are top-notch.   

What is the downside to keeping transaction fees high?  Shouldn't the blockchain continue selling it's scarce real estate at a premium, given XMR's exclusive features of high liquidity privacy-as-a-service?

I am a happy cargo cultist today!   

[infested999]

Monero Massifs

September 15th, 2014

Hello, and welcome to our twelfth Monero Missive! This is our first Missive after a bit of a break whilst we thwarted two related blockchain attacks. Nonetheless, we have not sat by idly, we have been finalising and completing a brand new aspect of Monero designed to protect your privacy now and in the future

    

This is the best one yet.  The Monero Research Lab papers, especially the second one, are top-notch.   

What is the downside to keeping transaction fees high?  Shouldn't the blockchain continue selling it's scarce real estate at a premium, given XMR's exclusive features of high liquidity privacy-as-a-service?

I am a happy cargo cultist today!   

scare real estate? The network can handle many more transactions then it does now

[albert3]

cant send XMR to Polo walllet says
Error:Failed to find a suitable way to split transaction

Is that mean I have to send in small increments ? with the high fee,you loose XMR already before you can start trading

[smooth]

What is the downside to keeping transaction fees high?  Shouldn't the blockchain continue selling it's scarce real estate at a premium, given XMR's exclusive features of high liquidity privacy-as-a-service?

It isn't so much a question of high vs. low as it is being more efficient. Small transactions don't take up more of that scarce real estate, so they don't need to be charged as much. We want neither unsustainably low fees (especially for large transactions) nor unnecessarily high fees (for small ones).

Whether it is "scarce" or not requires finding a balance. If the block chain is allowed to bloat up to terabytes while there is relatively little meaningful economic activity taking place it will be prohibitive to even run a node. Terabytes at some time in the future when the network is hugely important and processing trillions of USD-equivalent worth of transactions (and more's law means a throw-away obsolete thumb drive might be a TB) would be just fine

[smooth]

with the high fee,you loose XMR already before you can start trading

If you are mining, you are receiving the fees as well as paying them.

I don't know what the problem is with your wallet (post more specific information if any) but I would guess that sending in smaller chunks will be a successful work-around.

[infested999]

with the high fee,you loose XMR already before you can start trading

If you are mining, you are receiving the fees as well as paying them.

I don't know what the problem is with your wallet (post more specific information if any) but I would guess that sending in smaller chunks will be a successful work-around.

Wouldn't the fee have to be paid for each chunk, thus increasing the fee?

[albert3]

with the high fee,you loose XMR already before you can start trading

If you are mining, you are receiving the fees as well as paying them.

I don't know what the problem is with your wallet (post more specific information if any) but I would guess that sending in smaller chunks will be a successful work-around.

wallet is from the newly release client ,I'm able to sent 100 XMR seems to be most I can send,from this wallet
specific info? like what I posted after hitting enter on the wallet in red color it says.Error:Failed to find a suitable way to split transactions

[smooth]

with the high fee,you loose XMR already before you can start trading

If you are mining, you are receiving the fees as well as paying them.

I don't know what the problem is with your wallet (post more specific information if any) but I would guess that sending in smaller chunks will be a successful work-around.

Wouldn't the fee have to be paid for each chunk, thus increasing the fee?

You can try to maximize the amount you send in each transaction for the current fixed fee. That's all that would happen if the transaction could automatically be broken up. So start with a larger amount and gradually decrease it until it works. That should be close to the maximum size transaction (so minimum fee per byte).

[kingscrown]

XMR doing really good

[tacotime]

with the high fee,you loose XMR already before you can start trading

If you are mining, you are receiving the fees as well as paying them.

I don't know what the problem is with your wallet (post more specific information if any) but I would guess that sending in smaller chunks will be a successful work-around.

wallet is from the newly release client ,I'm able to sent 100 XMR seems to be most I can send,from this wallet
specific info? like what I posted after hitting enter on the wallet in red color it says.Error:Failed to find a suitable way to split transactions

This usually happens if it fails to find a way to make a tx within the given max tx size. I would try sending smaller amounts.

Still, strange to see you get that error.

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/blob/83276bf92d44c1aa1b6acbd9879f70e806f12af6/src/simplewallet/simplewallet.cpp#L1011-L1014

[PeaMine]

That is very strange. It seems you may have created a new wallet instead of restoring the old one.

Hopefully you have safe backup copies of your wallet.bin.keys file that are separate from whatever you are using to try to restore. When working with wallet files always make sure you have good backups stored somewhere else so you can't mess them up.

That being the case, move all of the new wallet files somewhere else, make a new copy of your safely-stored wallet.bin.keys making sure there are no other wallet files there at all. Load into simplewallet.

If you don't get the same address at that point, you have gotten your wallet.bin.keys files mixed up.

I backed up the right roaming folder, but wrong wallet.bin perhaps.
I have the correct viewkey though, is there a way to recover with that and the original address?
If not, at least I emptied it out a month ago, so not too much pain.

[albert3]

This usually happens if it fails to find a way to make a tx within the given max tx size. I would try sending smaller amounts.

yeah i was able to send 100 XMR , seems 100 at a time is my max I can send from this wallet , actually the tx is not that bad if I can send 100 XMR at a time

[spatula]

This usually happens if it fails to find a way to make a tx within the given max tx size. I would try sending smaller amounts.

yeah i was able to send 100 XMR , seems 100 at a time is my max I can send from this wallet , actually the tx is not that bad if I can send 100 XMR at a time

Around 100 XMR per transaction seems to be my limit as well.

[nioc]

Monero Missives

September 15th, 2014



5. We have a new tagged release, 0.8.8.4, available for download (binaries: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD). This adds the following features:

• Testnet: we now have an operating testnet. When using bitmonerod or simplewallet you can now use the --testnet flag to use testnet instead of mainnet. Feel free to run a mining node or just a testnet node, we will be setting up email alerts for testnet nodes when an update is pending (although having a few older testnet nodes on the network won't hurt testing).
• FreeBSD Compatability: Monero now works on FreeBSD out the box. We will add it to the ports tree soon. At the moment compilation is no different from regular Linux and Unix compilation, and the same dependencies apply.
• GPG commits: we have begun GPG-signing commits and merges. This is an important step in maintaining the integrity of the codebase, and will ensure that any compromise of our computers or even the github account won't allow a malicious attacker to push code to the repository without the unsigned commits being spotted. Verification can be done by running 'git log --show-signature', which will show and verify signatures. An example of what you should see is below:
  
  
  
• Versioning: versioning is a lot easier, now, as tagged releases from 0.8.8.4 onwards will show version-final (eg. 0.8.8.4-final) as their version, and those built between tagged releases will show version-commithash (eg. 0.8.8.4-9088ea1). We expect this will greatly aid in debugging problems, as we can immediately pinpoint the actual version / commit a user is on.
• Logging: default log levels have been adjusted so that non-critical warnings are now relegated to log-level 1 and above. Apart from the normal reorganisation notifications, the only messages in red that should show up in the daemon are actual errors.

- updated by fluffypony

I downloaded the update.  Really strange getting no error messages  Is there a reason the update is not on the first page?

I had set up a second wallet which is empty.  I erased the contents of the file associated with that wallet as I confused it with the simple wallet log file.  I thought each wallet had it's own log file but I guess not.  I figured it wasn't correct but did it anyway as it was empty.  The help menu in my working wallet shows nothing for restoring a wallet.  I checked the FAQ and it says that when restoring a wallet from seed it will ask for a NEW name and NEW password.  I would really like to keep both the name and pw.  Is there something else I can do?  I have the keys file.  

[smooth]

This usually happens if it fails to find a way to make a tx within the given max tx size. I would try sending smaller amounts.

yeah i was able to send 100 XMR , seems 100 at a time is my max I can send from this wallet , actually the tx is not that bad if I can send 100 XMR at a time

Around 100 XMR per transaction seems to be my limit as well.

It depends on the value of your inputs. I don't know the exact cutoff but if you aren't using mixing you can fit around 200 inputs in one transaction. So at 0.5 XMR per input that would be around 100 XMR. If your inputs are larger or smaller the maximum value of the TX will change accordingly.