Are there any feature ideas for the GUI that are like desired but nobody’s actually done yet?

bevanoff[m], yep. my favorite non existing feature is creating the stuff for RPC-pay

Ohhh okay that’d be cool

That’d be an advanced feature no? Or would you try to incorporate it into the simple mode

well, in a fully functioning rpc-pay environment, i imagine it like this bevanoff[m].

A new user downloads the GUI and wants to use funds immediately. They start up GUI, use simple mode, and get a bootstrap connection

the bootstrap connection is over rpc, so they would need rpc-pay

because its simple mode, i imagine a status box would exist that says "Working for connection" or something

presumably on the backend the GUI would either pick a random rpc-pay node from the p2p list, or try to find the cheapest one

Ohhh I see, I’m only vaguely familiar with the concept

Any links for documentation?

documentation>!>!>!? this is monero! documentations in the code :)

lemme see if i can find something...

bevanoff[m], monero-project/monero 2899379

Thanks!

That list of public nodes via P2P is just full of spies and scammers. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but like so many other things, people happened.

So I'm not sure it's a good idea anymore.

maybe the "mesh of trust" idea could see some revival in XMR node-space

moneromooo: What would you propose as alternative?

Filtering any that's not a hidden service or eepsite.

I have a patch for this but it works only if the daemon is set with --tx-proxy, since otherwise they won't receive tor/i2p peer lists.

i imagine there's gotta be a solution to this

i mean any node can be a spy / scammer, indeed thats why dandelion was implemented.

i think a potential solution is to just use the RPC connection for downloading the wallet refresh data, and then the data for creating the transaction

the wallet then crafts the transaction, and pushes it over the p2p network via a different node. Then it becomes just like a dandelion tx (mebbe)

IIRC mooo said the data for creating a transaction is enough to identify it later in the mempool

but yeah, just restricting to hidden services would do the job too

well we could add noise. so the wallet requests (ABC) from node A, (DEF) from node B, (GHI) from C, etc.

and the tx ends up being created with DJR

well.... would that work? hrm

no, because then if node B sees output G in a transaction, it could know it came from that wallet user

but node B could see output G being used in another transaction from another IP because of ring members

yep, that'll do it. sprinkle some statistics on there, boost ringsize to a bajillion, you got yourself a potential solution.

i guess you might not need the noise, you'd just need to get the ring members information from different nodes

so currently, you would pull info from 11 different nodes

so 11 different nodes would know that tx A that used outputs A1-A11 came from IP A, but presumably there would be another tx B that used outputs B1-B11 and those nodes would know it came from IP B.

and as long as theres some union between A1-A11 and B1-B11, you can't pin a particular wallet IP to a particular tx

maybe? need to run it through the mathimologic confabulator

i mean, or we could just use tor. but the inclusion of dandelion makes me believe that there's a general idea that its better for stuff to be internal if possible

bevanoff[m], another idea would be some kind of pool miner plugin or something for the GUI

Did that not get rejected ? I remember coding this.

why would it have been rejected? something about true decentralization and every user mining a little?

Favouritism IIRC (due to the list of pools).

Might have been other reasons.

And it included a standalone miner, a bit unwieldy.

Then again, it would fit a new GUI program very well.

Does xmrig have a GUI ?

afaik, it does not

the current idea in the mining space is to somehow get mining programs to auto-select a pool, and to switch occasionally

New program ? Same as I did a standalone updater/verifier. Simple UI, pool selection, etc.

the thought being that noobs don't know what they are doing, and just find lists of pools and pick the one on top

Right, that'd be nice.

the one on top tends to be the largest one

I wonder if today's kids would like gamification. "You've hashed 4 million hashes in hte last 24 hours, can you beat this ?"

Share your hash rate on twatter or Faecebook!

i dunno.

"Congrats, you've mined your ten billionth hash!" Here's a worthless medal :D

"You've spent a week on a pool with < 10% of the network hash. You get the STALWART SUPPORTER badge!"

Might work better for a panopticoin like bitcoin I guess.

i think a gui plugin would be great

and mining pools can pay / donate to core team to have their pool included in the GUI

cause anythings better than the current situatio