07:32:07 <tryphe> nofxx, i'm trading there atm, it's great so far, and non custodial
09:11:21 <user3434> hi
09:11:24 <user3434> can someone help me?
09:11:53 <user3434> when trying to use monero GUI, i keep getting "daemon failed to start"
09:33:39 <selsta> user3434: Are you using simple mode?
09:38:13 <selsta> If yes, can you try restarting your computer. Then start the GUI again and wait 2-3 minutes.
10:45:49 <user3434> selsta, no i am not
10:46:27 <user3434> I am using advanced mode
10:46:32 <user3434> this also happened on two OSes,
10:47:06 <selsta> Can you go to Settings -> Node and look if something is written inside the bootstrap-daemon / bootstrap-port textbox?
10:50:37 <user3434> I see bootstrap port
10:51:01 <user3434> I had choosen a remote node before, because i needed to use it faster
10:51:06 <user3434> but idc either way
10:51:19 <user3434> but it was exhibiting this same behavior before i added in
10:51:38 <user3434> so you can consider the bootstrap port to be exhibiting the same behavior when its blank
10:52:27 <user3434> it says daemon startup flags also, it says "(optional)"
10:57:45 <selsta> Can you make a screenshot?
10:58:15 <selsta> The bootstrap daemon and port textbox should be empty.
10:58:32 <selsta> And daemon startup flags also unless you wrote something in it.
11:09:23 <user3434> eh
11:09:26 <user3434> selsta,
11:09:35 <user3434> its gonna be hard to take a screenshot and upload it and send it to you, im on qubes
11:10:11 <user3434> I do not even have a bootstrap daemon textbox
11:10:27 <user3434> the boostrap port has numbers in it, ill make em blank
11:10:31 <user3434> its only becasue i tried to use a remoten ode
11:10:41 <user3434> that did not work either lol
11:13:38 <selsta> Can you start monerod from the command line?
11:18:33 <user3434> i tried that
11:18:39 <user3434> i will show you what it did 1 sec selsta
11:19:07 <user3434> user@host:~/Downloads/monero-gui-v0.15.0.2$ ./monerod
11:19:08 <user3434> 2020-01-15 05:41:25.458 I Monero 'Carbon Chamaeleon' (v0.15.0.1-release)
11:19:08 <user3434> 2020-01-15 05:41:25.459 I Initializing cryptonote protocol...
11:19:08 <user3434> 2020-01-15 05:41:25.460 I Cryptonote protocol initialized OK
11:19:08 <user3434> 2020-01-15 05:41:25.463 I Initializing core...
11:19:08 <user3434> 2020-01-15 05:41:25.464 I Loading blockchain from folder /home/user/.bitmonero/lmdb ...
11:19:10 <user3434> Segmentation fault
11:19:37 <selsta> Looks like a corrupted blockchain.
11:20:08 <user3434> why would this happen and what can i do
11:20:15 <user3434> and is there any way i can avoid downloading the entire blockchain lol?
11:20:34 <selsta> It can happen if you didn’t shutdown the system properly.
11:20:41 <user3434> I really dont wanna have to wait on that. It may be worth mentionign that I'm doing it over tor, so it'll take longer
11:20:55 <selsta> You can use a Tor remote node.
11:20:56 <user3434> but thatt doesnt make sense, this is the first time ive opened monero-gui
11:21:11 <user3434> I cant use the normal ones?
11:21:19 <user3434> over tor?
11:21:25 <selsta> I don’t know.
11:21:47 <selsta> Did you sync the blockchain on this system before?
11:22:27 <user3434> no
11:23:13 <selsta> Open the GUI, select remote node under Settings -> Node and try ones from this list: https://moneroworld.com
11:23:28 <selsta> Try Tor remote nodes and non Tor.
11:27:58 <user3434> so
11:28:08 <user3434> whenever ive tried connecting to remote nodes
11:28:12 <user3434> its happenign rn also
11:28:17 <user3434> it basically does nothing
11:28:22 <user3434> and the terminal, where i run the gui from says
11:28:26 <user3434> Generating SSL certificate
11:28:31 <user3434> never gets anywhere
11:29:04 <selsta> did you try onion remote nodes?
11:29:28 <user3434> i did.
11:29:41 <user3434> it literally just started working as you sent that message, lol ty, still dont see why my daemon wont start?
11:29:56 <selsta> because your blockchain is corrupted
11:30:07 <user3434> ok. how do i fix that?
11:30:16 <selsta> delete ~/.bitmonero/lmdb/data.mdb
11:30:19 <user3434> okay
11:30:28 <selsta> but I don’t know if sycing will work on Qubes
11:30:36 <user3434> why not?
11:30:50 <user3434> im using it in a whonix-ws qube
11:31:13 <user3434> also isnt there a way to only download part of the blockchain? I read that online somewhere I think
11:31:40 <selsta> I don’t know how Qubes works exactly.
11:32:06 <user3434> lmao, i just started using it a week or so ago, so im only fimiliarizing myself with it now
11:32:10 <user3434> fam
11:32:21 <user3434> its pretty cool though, you should check it out
11:36:12 <selsta> does monerod work now after deleting data.mdb?
11:45:00 <user3434> i need to try
13:12:50 <mfoolb> Hello, I remember some reddit post where they pointed to 'official' Monero youtube video with various information I can't find.. any info?
13:14:04 <asymptotically> mfoolb: they're great videos, some are on the site: https://web.getmonero.org/get-started/what-is-monero/
13:14:07 <asymptotically> (scroll down to Monero Videos)
17:42:25 <kiwi_32> I've a problem, maybe someone can help me, this is what I'm getting when I try to check the downloaded binary for latest monero version: SHA1 hash of monero-win-x64-v0.15.0.1.zip:e8ef14b1808068b516927d38498442c0b820a60aCertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.
17:42:57 <kiwi_32> but i should be getting this according to github: a1d2a4a0a9f2cdb17808c0b7a2a872a70c9f3e6487494b29cc1627b5490f25e9 , no?
17:43:33 <kiwi_32> I followed this guide https://web.getmonero.org/resources/user-guides/verification-windows-beginner.html
17:45:55 <kiwi_32> ah nevermind, I was checking against sha 1, on sha 256 it's okay, it matches
18:35:55 <free28> Hello, how long is the average sync time for a full node? 0% to 100% ?
18:36:53 <nofxx> tryphe, yup... sending some xmr to there too... dexes are very nice, and at least waves isn't only erc tokens
18:40:35 <moneromooo> free28: it depends a lot on your specs, so average isn't super helpful. It can range for maybe 3 hours (SSD, fast machine) to a week (slow rotating hard disk).
18:40:55 <moneromooo> Using a SSD is the main sync speed factor, by far.
18:42:33 <free28> Thanks!
19:12:29 <MalMen> personal tought: anti-DDoS systems based on PoW could be done for monero where you proof that you make some hashs for yourself
19:14:24 <MalMen> ie: You login page of site Y require some PoW for validation, it could give us some random nonces range and expect us to give back and hash with some dificulty inside that nonce range, but we can make the PoW work for our wallet rather than the site owner
19:14:29 <MalMen> I am making some sence ?
19:15:13 <moneromooo> Yes, in general. Monero's PoW is fairly lengthy to check though.
19:15:13 <asymptotically> MalMen: when the site owner validates your shares, he will copy your nonce back into his block template
19:15:36 <asymptotically> and if you change the reward address, the hash probably won't be valid anymore
19:16:22 <MalMen> asymptotically my point is that it is possible to make a anti-DDoS system where the guy that solve the hard problem get the reward instead of the site owner
19:17:30 <asymptotically> sorry i worded that badly. the miner can't do that. otherwise a miner would be able to mine on multiple pools at the same time and get rewards from all of them
19:17:46 <moneromooo> I don't see why it's not possible.
19:18:15 <asymptotically> i thought he was asking if it was possible for the customer/user to cheat the system
19:18:30 <moneromooo> Alice asks Bob for a message. Alice mines to her address, including Bob's message in the tx. If she solves a block, she shows it to Bob, who can check his message in in here, with a block that passes difficulty checks.
19:19:02 <Mochi101> MalMen, http://www.hashcash.org/
19:20:02 <hextionsw> hello
19:20:06 <hextionsw> doss it 10.199.8.166
19:20:35 <asymptotically> .ip 10.199.8.166
19:20:42 <Mochi101> wrong channel
19:20:46 <Mochi101> :P
19:21:19 <MalMen> asymptotically I dont want to cheat the system, I am thinking in a new one that could give some incentive to use PoW instead of the damn google recaptchas that are almost default nowadays
19:21:38 <MalMen> moneromooo yea, kind of that
19:22:22 <moneromooo> You have to be careful not to turn your anti dos system into a dos system where people go to the site just to play lottery :D
19:22:56 <asymptotically> ok i understand now, im just a little slow tonight/always :p - i think it would be much better if you just asked for a small payment to use the site though
19:23:02 <MalMen> well, if the case is to "win lottery" it would be more profitable to just mine xmr directly :P
19:23:25 <moneromooo> Which non technical people don't do.
19:23:37 <MalMen> thats right
19:25:00 <MalMen> https://github.com/tevador/RandomX Web mining is infeasible due to the large memory requirement and the lack of directed rounding support for floating point operations in both Javascript and WebAssembly.
19:25:00 <MalMen> damn
19:25:20 <gingeropolous> eh, but you could do a plugin like primo
19:25:25 <MalMen> such system would require the browsers to make randomX natively
19:26:26 <MalMen> well, its way off my league anyway, but I think it would be a good idea to implement if someone thinks of it one day
19:27:04 <Mochi101> like hashcash?
19:27:26 <asymptotically> maybe you could say give me a valid monero share with at least x difficulty, then keep a log of all of the shares you've received so that people don't give duplicates
19:28:38 <Mochi101> Maybe ask flufflypony what he thinks.
19:28:58 <MalMen> asymptotically yeah, could be something simple like that
19:29:49 <MalMen> well, thinking better, that will make people with large processing power can just hash in advantage and then using it all at once
19:30:09 <MalMen> It may be better to force hashs from the current block hight