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

[bigj]

Don't worry, I will open a new thread (and link to it here) with results on installing a SSD in a machine and the change in time required to write the blockchain to said SSD, in comparison to writing to a magnetic HDD, all other factors being unchanged.

It's called science.

If you are testing Monero on actual configurations go ahead and post it here. To see the effect I'm describing -- where disk speed stops mattering to a large extent if you have enough RAM (and eventually, at all) -- you will have to include a range of RAM sizes from 4-8 GB and perhaps somewhat higher on Linux.

Honestly, anything below 8GB RAM is so 90th...

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[DoubleSwapper]

Can someone explain to me who only occasionally watches Monero why it's going to shit pricewise? When I took a look at investing into monero but didn't it was at like $2, now coinmarketcap says it's trading at $0.37. WHY? Is Monero still working, is it still an untracable, anonymous crypto? Was it overtaken by a competitor? What's happening? I heard there was some trouble about attacks on the network and anonymint claiming he has broken monero or something. What's the state now? Monero looked super promising to me. Is there any real goods market for it? Shouldn't it attract certain types of markets for it's anonymous properties?

Would be happy to hear a short summary or at least link because there seem to be quite a of very long threads to read through to get informed.

There was one attack, but that happened before the price drop and was quickly patched, and the bcx/anonymint noise turned into much ado about nothing. (BCX was nothing but pure FUD bullshit -- probably run by a competitor. Anonymint now supports ring sigs as the most viable method of anonymity, as far as I can tell, though some minor tweaks continue to be needed in his view, and I don't necessarily disagree.)

Since that time we have added a web wallet, fixed a bunch of bugs, released a few test versions with a database, and now had someone launch a Monero version of localbitcoins. Still, the price drops.

No, the only reason it is going all to shit pricewise is simply supply and demand and nothing about the tech at all. There is a lot of mining and we just ran out of people who wanted to accumulate (in the current overall pretty negative crypto-environment). At this point the only way to find buyers for the mined coins is for the price to drop where people will average down. Until some equilibrium is reached, whenever that might be.

Better discussion for the Speculation thread though, since there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the technology as you say. It is all a market effect.

Thank you. Nice to see that Monero seems live and kicking. I hope it will find some usage in the RL world. Anonymity is much needed and bitcoin doesn't cut it for this purpose aynmore. Many of the super new coins coming with super elaborate schemes with them sound like a whole bunch of vapourware. Monero is something I can get behind.

[bclcjunkie]

thanks smooth!

i'm up and running.. nice to see more p2p nodes, very encouraging sign...

thanks smooth, i'm re-downloading the blockchain and try to resync again...should i remove old p2pstate and poolstate files once i put in the new blockchain?

2014-Dec-14 10:16:47.867387 ERROR C:/bitmonero/src/common/boost_serialization_helper.h:108 Exception at [unserialize_obj_from_file], what=basic_filebuf::underflow error reading the file

Looks like a corrupt blockchain save file. Unless you can restore it from a backup you will need to download a new one, or resync the whole chain.

I don't know why it happened. Maybe you ran out of free disk space while saving it? That is just a guess.

Unless you have other problems you can leave them

p2pstate - list of nodes to try to connect to
poolstate - unconfirmed transactions sent by you or others

[kawa900jc]

Hi all - MyMonero is back up. The emergency maintenance was a situation out of our control, but as you correctly surmised there is nothing we could do to steal funds (we never know or control your spend key).

With regards to future functionality, allowing an import of short-key style wallets into simplewallet, that is definitely something MyMonero will work on and then submit to the Monero Project as a pull request.

i missed you mymonero 


thanks fluffypony!

Great, I'm happy!

[Arux]

Don't worry, I will open a new thread (and link to it here) with results on installing a SSD in a machine and the change in time required to write the blockchain to said SSD, in comparison to writing to a magnetic HDD, all other factors being unchanged.

It's called science.

If you are testing Monero on actual configurations go ahead and post it here. To see the effect I'm describing -- where disk speed stops mattering to a large extent if you have enough RAM (and eventually, at all) -- you will have to include a range of RAM sizes from 4-8 GB and perhaps somewhat higher on Linux.

Honestly, anything below 8GB RAM is so 90th...

certainly for us, but 4GB is the most common in the mainstream market.
and IMO, it's not a problem because there is at least two solutions: new wallet with db (in the future) and mymonero.com (right now)

[5w00p]

SSD installed.

Just under 30 seconds to write the blockchain to disk.
It was just under 45 seconds on the same machine with a HDD.

[netmonk]

SSD installed.

Just under 30 seconds to write the blockchain to disk.
It was just under 45 seconds on the same machine with a HDD.

And even faster if you have ramfs !

[5w00p]

ramfs is a volatile non-persistent virtual disk in RAM.

not the same.

[dEBRUYNE]

hey i started trying to mine monero today .... i think something is wrong with my miner
i tried ALL the ports still give me same results with the error on low diff shares
im using AMD 7790 with windows 7 64x

Just for info, but I think you will get a faster response on IRC. Just use this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/ , set your nickname and set the channel to monero. If you are in the channel, just state your question and most of the time someone will help you immediately.

[dEBRUYNE]

i would of not posted here if no one reply on my on the irc been almost 1.5 hour there with no reply

I think because of the timezones most of them are still asleep, someone will come and help you, just have some patience.

[smooth]

Also try the mining thread

[smooth]

Don't worry, I will open a new thread (and link to it here) with results on installing a SSD in a machine and the change in time required to write the blockchain to said SSD, in comparison to writing to a magnetic HDD, all other factors being unchanged.

It's called science.

If you are testing Monero on actual configurations go ahead and post it here. To see the effect I'm describing -- where disk speed stops mattering to a large extent if you have enough RAM (and eventually, at all) -- you will have to include a range of RAM sizes from 4-8 GB and perhaps somewhat higher on Linux.

Honestly, anything below 8GB RAM is so 90th...

certainly for us, but 4GB is the most common in the mainstream market.
and IMO, it's not a problem because there is at least two solutions: new wallet with db (in the future) and mymonero.com (right now)

At least one more is the current node with ssd.  David reported that worked acceptably well with 4gb.

[smooth]

thanks smooth!

i'm up and running.. nice to see more p2p nodes, very encouraging sign...

You know you are right. There do seem to be more nodes. At least more connected to my nodes. I'm not sure what is the reason but yes a good sign.

[liteon]

SSD installed.

Just under 30 seconds to write the blockchain to disk.
It was just under 45 seconds on the same machine with a HDD.

Nice one ... it's because of SSD 

hey i started trying to mine monero today .... i think something is wrong with my miner
i tried ALL the ports still give me same results with the error on low diff shares
im using AMD 7790 with windows 7 64x

Try to use w0lf's miner:

Code:

https://ottrbutt.com/cpuminer-multi/cpuminer-multi-wolf-05-30-2014.zip
or
https://ottrbutt.com/cpuminer-multi/cpuminer-multi-wolf-05-29-2014.zip

[myagui]

@liteon,

I don't think W0lf's cpuminer cares much for AMD cards 
Don't know if Kahir is still looking for help or not, I responded on IRC but it appears that he dropped shortly after asking around for help.

[acha]

Does not work if I type russian words in path to .keys file. lightWallet automatically closed and then "don't see" .keys file. It's bad. I will not use.

[wpalczynski]

You have russian characters in the path to your wallet file?

Does not work if I type russian words in path to .keys file. lightWallet automatically closed and then "don't see" .keys file. It's bad. I will not use.

[binaryFate]

I've just found one article mentioning Monero, good news is its being mined all around the place:

There are “mining” machines scattered all around the place, all dedicated to producing Monero, a cryptocurrency based on the CryptoNote protocol rather than Bitcoin’s source code. Asked why Monero, Heartline replied: “It’s just where the money is right now.”

http://www.straight.com/life/777136/decentral-vancouver-incubates-bitcoin-community

Thanks, nice found. They know how to keep their place warm for free!

[acha]

You have russian characters in the path to your wallet file?

Does not work if I type russian words in path to .keys file. lightWallet automatically closed and then "don't see" .keys file. It's bad. I will not use.

Yea! Example - C:\Гpeбaныe пoляки\wallet.bin.keys. lightWallet does not work with this path. Sorry for russian words in post, it's required now.

[jwinterm]

You have russian characters in the path to your wallet file?

Does not work if I type russian words in path to .keys file. lightWallet automatically closed and then "don't see" .keys file. It's bad. I will not use.

Yea! Example - C:\Гpeбaныe пoляки\wallet.bin.keys. lightWallet does not work with this path. Sorry for russian words in post, it's required now.

Thanks for the feedback. It currently uses python 2.7, which afaik doesn't handle unicode strings by default, which I think is what this would fall under. I will see if I can correct this before I make the next release. I think one thing I may have forgotten to mention in the README.md is at the moment it automatically selects English as your seed language when you generate a wallet, as well; that is another thing I will change before another release.