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

[TheKoziTwo]

Emission discussion & voting:
https://forum.monero.cc/19/voting/90/d-v-round-2-xmr-emission-and-related-issues

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[Victoo]

Hi all,

I got myself a bit of monero at these bargain prices, however I have to keep it on an exchange because I cannot get a Linux wallet to work at all. I have tried many things. I am using Ubuntu version 12.04 32 bit.

I would appreciate it if some of the experienced linux heads could help me out here. Don't wanna keep XMR on the exchange the whole time

Thanks

[matrix961]

Hi all,

I got myself a bit of monero at these bargain prices, however I have to keep it on an exchange because I cannot get a Linux wallet to work at all. I have tried many things. I am using Ubuntu version 12.04 32 bit.

I would appreciate it if some of the experienced linux heads could help me out here. Don't wanna keep XMR on the exchange the whole time

Thanks

Anyway you can try to use 64bit version of linux? Right now 32bit isn't recommended until the embedded db is released. If you can try to run it on 64bit linux you shouldn't have any issues. Just make sure you have swap space setup if you have less than 6-8gb of memory. Once the db is released we won't have to worry about needing a large amount of memory.

[kazuki49]

I rather keep waiting for a solid GUI+DB than half measures that will only fool on short-term, I believe monero coin to be a long-term real winner crypto.
just my 0.02 moneroj

[acha]

When will there be an official gui wallet for windows?

never.....

Чeм тeбe simplewallet нe нpaвитcя? He мoжeшь c ним paбoтaть - yчи мaтчacть!

English:

What you don't like simplewallet? Can not work with it - Teach materiel!

[nuxxer]

When will there be an official gui wallet for windows?

never.....

Why do you say so?

6 months from the creation of the coin, no purse, weekly updates are delayed, if the work carried out on it, show us!

I think dev wants to release a good wallet.

official gui wallet is important ?

[smooth]

When will there be an official gui wallet for windows?

never.....

Why do you say so?

6 months from the creation of the coin, no purse, weekly updates are delayed, if the work carried out on it, show us!

Guys, there is an enormous amount of work that is being done and recorded in github. Take a look at the commits on the trunk and the various branches and also the forks.

I understand it is a bit frustrating waiting for the work to make its way to the official releases, but it is being done that way for a reason. We don't want to release half-baked stuff that isn't really ready just to say we released something.

On occasion we will point out specific pre-releases that are useful for testing, as we did in the recent missives that mentioned the in-progress database code (now even farther along and working well for some testers). However, the process is open and anyone is free to test and contribute to any of the forks/branches at any time.

[smooth]

When will there be an official gui wallet for windows?

never.....

Why do you say so?

6 months from the creation of the coin, no purse, weekly updates are delayed, if the work carried out on it, show us!

In one of the fireside chats fluffypony showed a sneak peak of the GUI, and it looked pretty impressive imo.

After that there was a preview build that you could download and try yourself. Another one is expected soon.

[pa]

Hi all,

I got myself a bit of monero at these bargain prices, however I have to keep it on an exchange because I cannot get a Linux wallet to work at all. I have tried many things. I am using Ubuntu version 12.04 32 bit.

I would appreciate it if some of the experienced linux heads could help me out here. Don't wanna keep XMR on the exchange the whole time

Thanks

I think you must use a 64 bit OS.

[smooth]

Hi all,

I got myself a bit of monero at these bargain prices, however I have to keep it on an exchange because I cannot get a Linux wallet to work at all. I have tried many things. I am using Ubuntu version 12.04 32 bit.

I would appreciate it if some of the experienced linux heads could help me out here. Don't wanna keep XMR on the exchange the whole time

Thanks

I think you must use a 64 bit OS.

Correct. 32 bit is not supported.

With 64 bit and correct use of swap you can make do with a relatively small amount of physical RAM. Anything from 2 GB and up is usable (more is better).

[pa]

Weird series of messages on bitmonerod (v.0.8.8.4-unknown), e.g.:

2014-Nov-06 17:19:23.726794 [P2P4][143.239.71.1:55806 INC]Sync data returned unknown top block: 293808 -> 202693 [91115 blocks (-63 days) ahead]
SYNCHRONIZATION started

2014-Nov-06 17:23:52.184309 BH: 293816, DIFF: 1257183999, HR: 20953066 H/s

Is there a problem?

[dEBRUYNE]

Weird series of messages on bitmonerod (v.0.8.8.4-unknown), e.g.:

2014-Nov-06 17:19:23.726794 [P2P4][143.239.71.1:55806 INC]Sync data returned unknown top block: 293808 -> 202693 [91115 blocks (-63 days) ahead]
SYNCHRONIZATION started

2014-Nov-06 17:23:52.184309 BH: 293816, DIFF: 1257183999, HR: 20953066 H/s

Is there a problem?

It means one of your peers is stuck, see below:

MONERO DEV
what's this
 -54 day .... from 2 IP
http://i58.tinypic.com/26204eb.jpg
I'm excited and worried

You're connected to a peer who is still on the block 202612 attack fork. I'm surprised to see that fork still exists at all. I suppose some people just don't update their clients at all. Nonetheless, there is no harm to you and you can safely ignore it.

I had the same thing. Glad to hear it does not matter.

If possible, a statement from the MONERO developers

Thanks 

xulescu's reply was correct.

I'm also surprised there are still so many stuck nodes. Safe to ignore.

[pa]

ok, thanks! 

[TheKoziTwo]

veh vant zeh missives! Achtung!

 

Hah - you and me both!

Internet has been a bit spotty whilst I've been travelling, but we are busy finalising the Missive and will push it out as soon as the new Monero builds are done with testing, so within the next 12 hours at the most;)

 

[papa_lazzarou]

We don't want to release half-baked stuff that isn't really ready just to say we released something.

That's why we love you guys. 

Oh, and because fluffypony rubbed my ears once...

[smooth]

can anyone explain me how i can read the blockchain without block explorer? (if even possible)

You can use the print_block command in the daemon.

[smooth]

i see. do block explorers use this command combined with a looping script + parser or do they analyze blockchain.bin? is there any way to decode blockchain.bin to readable format?
thx a lot

I would assume that the block explorers use the RPC which is similar in function to the command. It is also possible they have modified the daemon somewhat.

I'm pretty sure they don't parse blockchain.bin because that is only written out normally every 12 hours (and writing it out is pretty slow) so it can't be used for real time data.

[tacotime]

 

It's been busy.

The new database code [so far] works great.

Some progress has been made on a major overhaul of the privacy technology of coin via proposed changes to the wallet. Hopefully soon there will be more details about that. We wish to make Monero the high efficiency, high privacy chain with no opt-out for being a mixable element for any given output.

Many of us are travelling at the moment and are all over different countries, so bear with us.

[monero]

crossposted from https://forum.monero.cc/1/news-and-announcements/91/monday-monero-missives-17-november-2nd-2014


Monday-ish Monero Missives

November 2nd, 2014

Hello, and welcome to our seventeeth Monero Monday Missive! This Missive has been horrendously delayed due to travelling, jetlag, and timezones. Nonetheless, we're keeping it short and sweet, as it is a prelude to next week's Missive, in which we hope to have some binaries so you don't have to compile source code to test these new features;)

Major Updates

1. For those following the database development, we are at a point where it is actually syncing! Our initial observations are that as the blockchain grows LMDB's virtual memory requirements will increase, but since it will rarely touch any of the virtually mapped data the real memory requirements are incredibly tiny. We are currently testing rollbacks and edge-cases, but if you would like to give it a spin (or just check out the nearly 6 000 lines of code that comprise of the blockchain DB clase and the initial lmdb implementation) then you need to clone tewinget's repo and checkout the blockchain branch - https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/tree/blockchain (note that this is pretty much Linux only at this stage, Windows and OS X support will come soon)

2. Per-kb fees are ready to go, and has been merged into the master repository! The per-kb fee has initially been set at 0.01 XMR per kb, and we are confident that this will be a suitable fee for the moment. We are not going to enforce a block-point hard fork, but we would appreciate it if major pools could upgrade by Monday. Thereafter, exchanges and users can upgrade over the course of next week as Monero 0.8.8.5 is released.

3. Our shiny new CMake is also nearly ready - there are a few final nigglies on Windows and FreeBSD, and then it'll be all merged in.

Dev Diary

Core: LMDB implementation is complete, and is undergoing testing for drastic rollbacks and edge cases. Please grab and test (link is above)

Core: per-kb fees merged into master, and switchover to the new fee structure is hoped to happen next week.

Until next week!

- updated by fluffypony

[nioc]

Thank you.

How much work is needed to make the DB windows and OS X compatible?