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Hey all, I'm very interested in the applications of Monero's source code as a basis for the de-identification of data sets. What packages within the source code would you recommend I start looking into to see if there is any relevance here? Interested in the methodology of taking inputs with known values and obfuscating them.

ConsciousFlesh, what kind of system are you imagining?

Sounds to me like taking a DB full of PII and anonymizing it so the data can be used in research

I don't think monero source has anything relevant for that.

a perl or python script to do massive numbers of string substitutions would be more appropriate

or an awk script ...

The channel topic makes me wonder if there's been any nigerian prince monero scams yet

lmao riceandbeans

Risto, is that you?

SoiMatter: ?

<xmr-romine> Hello,

<xmr-romine> I have a synchronized monero node running on a Pi3B.

<xmr-romine> Because it's behind a wifi 4G the node has no incoming connections, but works well enough for wallet operations etc.

<xmr-romine> I noticed that from time to time the node consumes a lot of bandwidth and can add up more than 1GB/day.

<xmr-romine> Is this normal behaviour ?

<xmr-romine> For those of you monitoring your node, which tool do you use ? (I use nload).

<xmr-romine> Thanks

xmr-romine: you can try restrict outpeers, nothing stops a peer you're connected to (with open inbound ports) from syncing up from you

<xmr-romine> Thanks @fluffypony

It's expected. You can use 6243 which saves a fair bit of upload.

deBRUYNE could you please unban Smoofzilla from the Monero forums on reddit? I begged for some moans and was snarky about it but it was long ago. I sort of did it in jest but didn't realise how serious people can be about something so trivial and idle but I do know it aint right.

question can monero blckchain see what OS you are running? i.e. transactions going to a linux node or win node? are there even windows nodes? but i man does it know what lin install u got

liblmdb handles the platform specific code for the blockchain db. The format is compatible across platforms as long as they have the same endianness.

<xmr-romine> Thanks @moneromooo for monero-project/monero #6243

<xmr-romine> I want to open some small monero service which needs having a wallet monitored 24H/24.

<xmr-romine> My monero node is atm eating ~3/4GB/day or even more. ... I must find how to greatly reduce that in order to fit in my 100GB/month connection.

You can also use the --limit switches.

<xmr-romine> Yes, thanks, I have also seen those parameters.

<xmr-romine> While the effect on the bandwidth seems obvious, I wonder what is the impact on the node's functioning ?

<xmr-romine> I wonder also what is all this huge amount of data transferred ? is it mainly some kind of cross-validation of data between nodes ?

<xmr-romine> I did use --out-peers 4 , as suggested by fluffypony , but this has only a very limited effect

hey, are there any disadvantages of using pruning for the blockchain data?

Your node is only able to serve an eighth of the chain to syncing nodes.

You can't access the raw tx data for ~7/8th of the chain if you need it.

The first point means the network "strength" is slightly decreased. OTOH more people running a node if they would other not have run one means the network strength increases.

<xmr-romine> From the "official" doc : getmonero.org/2019/02/01/pruning.html

<xmr-romine> Pruned nodes remove much of this less relevant information to have a lighter footprint. Of course, running a full node is always better; however, pruned nodes have most of the important information and can still support the network.

<xmr-romine> I would add to the previous question : is it reasonable for a merchant to use a pruned blockchain ?

ah, i'll keep running a full node then. thanks for the heads up

Yes, it is reasonable.

i was wondering if the only disadvantage might be more local resources beeing needed

<xmr-romine> From the "official" doc : getmonero.org/2019/02/01/pruning.html

<xmr-romine> _Pruned nodes remove much of this less relevant information to have a lighter footprint. Of course, running a full node is always better; however, pruned nodes have most of the important information and can still support the network._

where is monero blockchain snapshot?

how big is it these days

~160Gb unpruned

isn't the prevailing wisdom that it is faster to just synch it normally?

my monerod uses ~77GB on disk

oh right, ~80GB here

The from-file used to be faster, but now it's about the same. You're welcome.

If you have a really slow internet, it'll still be true though.

I just noticed monero is an arch linux community package now instead of just being in the AUR. When did that happen?

millysoose[m]: about a month ago i think

wow, just slightly before that there was a post "Obviously we're a long way away from being put in the community branch, " old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/e4…ou_can_help_monero_december_edition

and then it happened, nice.

looks like gentoo has xmr-stak but not the daemon or wallet :(