00:37:42 !rooms 01:01:40 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. 03:55:32 ConsciousFlesh, what kind of system are you imagining? 04:28:43 Sounds to me like taking a DB full of PII and anonymizing it so the data can be used in research 04:28:59 I don't think monero source has anything relevant for that. 04:29:20 a perl or python script to do massive numbers of string substitutions would be more appropriate 04:29:42 or an awk script ... 04:47:21 The channel topic makes me wonder if there's been any nigerian prince monero scams yet 05:05:35 lmao riceandbeans 05:09:38 Risto, is that you? 05:29:26 SoiMatter: ? 08:56:25

Hello, 08:56:26

I have a synchronized monero node running on a Pi3B. 08:56:27

Because it's behind a wifi 4G the node has no incoming connections, but works well enough for wallet operations etc. 08:56:28

I noticed that from time to time the node consumes a lot of bandwidth and can add up more than 1GB/day. 08:56:30

Is this normal behaviour ? 08:56:31

For those of you monitoring your node, which tool do you use ? (I use nload). 08:56:32

Thanks 09:36:11 xmr-romine: you can try restrict outpeers, nothing stops a peer you're connected to (with open inbound ports) from syncing up from you 09:51:47

Thanks @fluffypony 09:52:17 * jonathancross sent a long message: < https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/cokqXeCBNtwAoVqkDQeWuhTz > 12:00:53 It's expected. You can use 6243 which saves a fair bit of upload. 12:55:17 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. 14:21:17 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 14:26:13 liblmdb handles the platform specific code for the blockchain db. The format is compatible across platforms as long as they have the same endianness. 14:43:16

Thanks @moneromooo for https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/6243 14:43:16

I want to open some small monero service which needs having a wallet monitored 24H/24. 14:43:18

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. 14:51:40 You can also use the --limit switches. 15:00:43

Yes, thanks, I have also seen those parameters. 15:00:44

While the effect on the bandwidth seems obvious, I wonder what is the impact on the node's functioning ? 15:00:45

I wonder also what is all this huge amount of data transferred ? is it mainly some kind of cross-validation of data between nodes ? 15:01:19

I did use --out-peers 4 , as suggested by fluffypony , but this has only a very limited effect 15:03:37 hey, are there any disadvantages of using pruning for the blockchain data? 15:08:18 Your node is only able to serve an eighth of the chain to syncing nodes. 15:08:36 You can't access the raw tx data for ~7/8th of the chain if you need it. 15:09:14 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. 15:10:11

From the "official" doc : https://www.getmonero.org/2019/02/01/pruning.html 15:10:12

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. 15:12:00

I would add to the previous question : is it reasonable for a merchant to use a pruned blockchain ? 15:12:34 ah, i'll keep running a full node then. thanks for the heads up 15:12:58 Yes, it is reasonable. 15:13:27 i was wondering if the only disadvantage might be more local resources beeing needed 15:20:14

From the "official" doc : https://www.getmonero.org/2019/02/01/pruning.html 15:20:15

_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._ 15:24:35 where is monero blockchain snapshot? 15:24:41 how big is it these days 15:25:18 ~160Gb unpruned 15:25:23 isn't the prevailing wisdom that it is faster to just synch it normally? 15:25:47 my monerod uses ~77GB on disk 15:27:56 oh right, ~80GB here 15:28:30 The from-file used to be faster, but now it's about the same. You're welcome. 15:28:46 If you have a really slow internet, it'll still be true though. 20:43:29 I just noticed monero is an arch linux community package now instead of just being in the AUR. When did that happen? 20:44:30 millysoose[m]: about a month ago i think 20:45:10 https://redd.it/eap47a 20:46:54 wow, just slightly before that there was a post "Obviously we're a long way away from being put in the community branch, " https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/e4mrq1/how_you_can_help_monero_december_edition/ 20:47:01 and then it happened, nice. 20:48:48 looks like gentoo has xmr-stak but not the daemon or wallet :(