not AFAIK. it's perfectly legal to run it, in the US at least

i did once when i was a rookie. none of the streaming services would work for us - my wife was pissed

<ndorf "not AFAIK. it's perfectly legal "> Yes, a DC would be good, home is risky because of ISP, not LE

Most ISPs would kick you

ISP, definitely. but LE also, to some extent. even though it's legal, you might still have to defend yourself (legally) and risk having equipment taken for "investigation"

minor issue if they take your dedicated, hosted box. rather major issue if they take everything electronic from your house, lol

Has anyone tried the hosters who can be paid with monero? Maybe they would be ideal for exit hosting.

mrtrousers: I do trust tor, more than I trust the general internet. It resists passive attacks by most adversaries, and can only be actively attacked by a limited number of people. What's the worst that happens in the event of 'being compromised by the NSA' (save for MITM stuff, which is mitigated by using SSL)? I kind of see the failure-case of Tor to be equivalent (at worst) to just using the general internet,

which is already subject to dragnet surveillance

'actively attacked by a limited number of people' meaning, if you want to sybil the network, you'll have a hard time when three other people are attempting to sybil the network too (and not sharing data)

needmoney90: So you would advocate more for vpn?

with VPN you place 100% trust in the VPN provider.

some providers have a very good reputation but you never really know

ndorf: True...

needmoney90: Do you use tor for your daily driver? I mean you say: "You trust it", but do you use it?

It is not my daily driver, but from a risk analysis perspective, the failure case is identical-or-better than not using tor at all

for surveillance, at least. MITM attacks and DNS are harder, but those are generally not the risk profile for surveillance

not in the risk profile*

I agree on that. Sadly there would be no other option than tor...

I2p, but it's nowhere near as used afaik

DC networks would be cool;)

ACDC networks would be wicked cool...

The information superhighway to hell, wheeeee

I think a lot of the 'tor compromised' chatter misses the greater point, which is that tor is literally better than not using tor

What is xmrig-proxy? Is it a way to manage multiple instances of xmrig?

needmoney: I see it as a tradeoff betweem privacy and being comfortable

Can tor be a daily driver?

Copenhagen_Bram: xmrig-proxy handles all the communication between the miners and the pool server.

If you don't mind getting blocked from a third of the web due to @%&#!$*& cloudflare, yes.

Speaking of that shit.....

I'm not sure what that exactly means. Can you give me an example of an use case for xmrig-proxy?

I hope whoever invented captcha and recaptcha captchas covid and their whole god damn family too

I wasted like 10 minutes trying to convince a site I'm not a bot

Copenhagen_Bram: the use case is exactly what you guessed, to manage many xmrig instances. pool operators usually prefer you connect to them once instead of 100 times

Copenhagen_bram: For instance if you have 10 machines mining and you want to switch between pools frequently you could just edit the config of the proxy and there you go

Oh okay

How many pools are there? Is there a way to start my own pool?

Is pooling a pontential source of centralization?

Yes. Two pools are > 50% of the netowrk hash rate. It's... bad.

Copenhangen: Yes, you could start your own pool. I have tried by the way;) , but I would not recommend it until you have 200khs+ and you dont want to play the lottery.

Hmm. Are there ways to avoid centralization like that?

Possibly, but basically all that was tried before failed.

Oh. What has been tried?

lol

I saw there was once a bitcoin p2p pool

hello

Are there any netbsd monero binaries?

Lulz, in other word im trying to install monero in a netbsd system..

The thing is i cant compile cuz im missing dependencies and im not root..

So I would need a netbsd binary.. ?

i don't think there are official binaries

two options:

1) set up your own NetBSD system, for example in a virtual machine, and build a static binary

or 2) build the dependencies yourself as a regular user in your home directory, then build monero against that

1) I would run ubuntu or plain linux..

2) Guess thats the way to go, but a lot of work lulz..

What do you think about the idea of needing to lock up monero in order to operate a tor remote node?

is there a way to make my phone require both my fingerprint and a password to unlock?

i want two factor authentication so somebody will have to guess/bruteforce my password AND chop my finger off in order to get into my phone

Does 17.6 purge all the spammy blocks from the database file when first run?

All these “unable to find key image” spams at the beginning I’ve never seen before

Unable to find transaction input in key images : then the image hash it appears

no, it does not

does not look v0.17.1.6 related. not sure why you see these messages, does everything else work?

looks like i2p also has sybil mitigations: reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/k9dn5y/is…ny_blacklist_available_i2pd/gf40y77

Yea it seems to work ok. It only happened the first time executing the binaries today

Daemon opens and closes quite quickly now

maybe get some downstream merges some day 😉

I haven’t updated since 17.1.4 iirc and haven’t run since then

Pretty sure I had some of those spam nodes in my peer list. Flushed tx pool as well

@freenode_nioc:matrix.org: Mochi102 ok thanks for the clarification, weird that this issue is resurfacing now..

hello monero channel

I have troubles syncing pruned blockchain again

its been second day now that its stuck on: Your node is 459578 blocks

behind.

I run monerod with: --prune-blockchain --sync-pruned-blocks --non-interactive

and also its newest version I build just before syncing

and also it's on SSD

it also likes to say this error a lot:

get_pruned_transaction_weight does not support older range proof types

horsepatat: is it v0.17.1.6?

you might want to try removing --sync-pruned-blocks, it is experimental (that's why it is off by default)

it should not take longer than 1 day to sync on SSD, usually less than 12 hours (unless the SSD is external)

Monero 'Oxygen Orion' (v0.17.1.5-0833680c7

new release again?

if I remove that key, should I start from scratch again?

I would 1) update to v0.17.1.6, 2) try removing --sync-pruned-blocks 3) if it still fails try from scratch

I just started `./monerod --prune-blockchain --sync-pruned-blocks` on a fresh VM to check if it works for me

in four threads, neverless

it was going strong up until 459578 blocks and then hit the wall

load avarage is very little, so I think it wasnt doing anything

started new version

it wasnt doing anything for 5 minutes and now it storming in, 80% synced from where it left off at 67%

with or without --synced-pruned-blocks?

without

with: --prune-blockchain --non-interactive

Report this idiot to twitter ^

cringe

Yeah. When you think they reached the bottom...

Why does the Saviour of NASA take a group achievement award and present it as a proof of individual glory? twitter.com/hyc_symas/status/1203709575226183683

guys just showing off his award, relax

hi, I have made a successful transaction to a merchant. The transaction checks out via (GUI wallet) checking the proof, tx id, destination address and has 1000+ confirmations. However it does not show up at the receipient. He has fully downloaded the blockchain and is 100% synced. The only problem can now be the address right?

is the merchant updated to v0.17?

I dont know, when was it released (approximately)?

2-3 months ago

it's worth a shot, I'll ask him

else ask him to rescan from height 0

hmmm spam

More i think about it more i'm of the opinion that we should get rid of the word "height" and just use "block", or the full "block height".

any idea why my stats at the top there are all zero? explorer.monero.fyi Network difficulty: 0 | Hard fork: v0 | Hash rate: 0 H/s | Fee per byte: 0.000000000000 | Median block size limit: 0.0 kB

"get_network_info: not connected to deamon. Cant read network info"

maybe because of --restricted-rpc ? can i have it not restricted locally but restricted externally?

azy: if you're on 0.17.1.6, you need to ue --rpc-restricted-bind-ip to bind the restricted rpc to external address

ill look into that, thanks. my goal is to run a public node and an xmrblocks explorer. i think the explorer needs non-restricted access to get those other details

so instead of --confirm-external-bind and --restricted rpc, i just run --rpc-restricted-bind-ip and --rpc-restricted-bind-port

and that seems to work fine...

yeah, you only need confirm-external-bind for unrestricted rpc now

If you’re referring to onion explorer I run restricted rpc and bind ip 0.0.0.0 and it works fine

The explorer that is

holy shit the MoneroOcean Discord is so fucking toxic

there's like a handful of people in there who just keep talking fascist nonsense and there is zero moderation of any of it

Welcome to most mining communities lol

Idk what makes it like that but phew they are rough

I just wish they'd tamp down on the offtopic conversation, at least make them keep it to an offtopic channel Idk. it's terrible for newcomers to come in and that's the first thing they see

makes it intolerable for me to hang around as well

#monero-pools is always on topic and totes not facist or racist

good to know jwinterm :D

that was at least somewhat sarcastic :P

shit

lol

pools has been ways worse in the past

gotta wonder what on-topic thing ever drew any people into those channels to begin with

well MO is a multi algo pool so it's nice to know like when new algos are added and stuff plus I was helping other people get stuff setup

I left awhile ago but I was back today because of a technical issue I was having

Hi, is there an API to get the current block height?

aubergine, you can use some mining pools

or I think any remote node somehow

get_info

getheight also

also this is option aubergine localmonero.co/blocks/api