00:00:16 we need a emergency fork to increase fees 00:00:22 Lol 00:00:25 nono 00:00:27 Chill out 00:00:45 subcents for privacy tx ? lol 00:00:47 60k/xmr @ 0.00003xmr fee is over a dollar 00:01:04 BTC mempool tx count: 5.92 times larger than XMR 00:01:05 BTC mempool size (data): 8.00 times larger than XMR 00:01:05 Bitcoin is bloating harder than Monero with it's oh-so-massive private transactions. 00:01:07 when its 60k come back and ask to lower fees 00:01:15 No 00:01:24 I dont value my monero in $ 00:01:30 I value it in monero 00:01:54 sorry too many monero in market to allow spam forever 00:01:59 we need to get the Monerotopia tickets changed to XMR 00:02:01 and monero is 1:1 better than btc. So, at this rate, btc went from 1k>60k. We can too 00:02:04 https://monerotopia.com/ 00:02:22 Well pnd 00:02:39 I have solutiona that dont involve rolling back changes when usd value says so 00:02:51 dude we cant even go above 150 lol 00:03:01 Says who? 00:03:08 btc was taken in by banks 00:03:13 I havent sold under 180 in over a year 00:03:25 I dont sell my xmr to binance lol 00:03:33 you not selling, doesnt mean i cant buy it below 150 rn 00:03:37 That attack just prove that Bitcoiners are scared af of Monero.. 00:03:38 Meaning, they know... 00:03:43 Or at whatever cmc says kucucks and coinexgf says 00:04:01 You can buy under 150? 00:04:08 ah again, its a attack on privacy and monero in general 00:04:10 0.00003 xmr fee for 1in/2out is not a low fee in xmr terms 00:04:10 Someone else just msg me and said they tried, and cant wd 00:04:18 need to pump price :) 00:04:32 Niocat gets it 00:04:44 obviously look around 00:04:54 yes its an attack on privacy 00:05:04 But yknow what, 🤷‍♂️ 00:05:21 .seen chicken little 00:05:24 Were just gonna fix some problems and laugh while doing it 00:05:32 how many txs can you do with 1000xmr , which you can buy right now without moving price much 00:05:41 Watch these ppl waste their $ and donate the xmr back to miners 00:05:57 liez 00:06:07 You cant buy 1000 xmr without moving the price 00:06:18 oh wait for a few news articles and price drops and they will buy more and keep repeating 00:06:24 Go show me what exchange has that liquidity ACTUALLY AVAILABLE TO WITHDRAW 00:06:32 None 00:06:46 kraken tradeogre kucoin 00:06:51 mexc 00:07:06 Mexc = kucoin = binance 00:07:12 let them cook 00:07:18 file 1709838573899536.jpg too big to download (2290260 > allowed size: 1000000) 00:07:19 1709838573899536.jpg 00:07:35 tradeogre has KAS for sale that isnt even on the right chain 00:07:55 Kraken? Joking right? 00:08:05 you can withdraw from kucoin, i dont use it though 00:08:07 Why I always think about Malwarebytes when I see theses?!? 00:08:13 last time i looked at depth, it was nowhere near low slippage 00:08:31 whats the joke ? i have not had a single withdrawal issue with them 00:08:32 I used to use kucoin pre kyc, and respected them until o saw 9m xmr for loan 00:08:51 you dont need to market buy 00:08:59 How can i margin borrow 9m xmr? Oh yeah, cuz its fake 00:09:01 Mexc honored all my withdraws issue so far 00:09:11 Kucoin never gave me any issues 00:09:20 So it's far better than Binance lol 00:09:42 yeah, both are. Bcuz they get away with the stuff binance cant 00:09:55 But look at particl on mexc and look at the volume 00:09:57 does anyone know what happened to https://cointelegraph.com/news/huobi-to-delist-monero-and-other-privacy-coins-citing-regulatory-pressures 00:10:00 Okay back to the topic, with 1000xmr you can do 33 million txs 00:10:07 because htx ( = huobi ?) delisted monero again in 2024 00:10:37 do we have enemies who cant shell out 1000xmr ? 00:11:45 Oi 00:11:51 Pnd, go to #monero 00:11:54 Were offtopic 00:12:08 ahhhhhhhhhhhh 00:12:16 we grew by 0.33 gb in the last 24 hours 00:12:23 Omg 00:12:27 Lemme call mt btc friends 00:12:31 We need smaller blocks 00:12:39 a shattering 118.8 GB per year oh no 00:12:46 Im gonna die 00:12:53 When om 77, ill have to buy 2tb 00:13:03 This is not feasible 00:13:08 check back after a week 00:13:09 thats like almost 15€ in SSD cost! 00:13:30 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/matrix.org/puPPXrOFGRiEZuYGBtaPxUTu 00:13:30 how can we cope 00:14:16 oh yes, and users waiting for tx to confirm forever bcoz 10 block wait is so normal 00:14:39 My phone has like 10gb free 00:14:41 Hmmm, Signal is down 00:14:41 It's like everyone ddosing everyone or what lol 00:14:44 anyone here even uses monero lol 00:14:49 sounds like btc is for you 00:14:52 yes i did 00:14:56 Its pruned, im ok for a few a while 00:15:05 literally today 00:15:07 Of course lol 00:15:07 at peak mempool 00:15:09 for 1.6 cents i got into the very next block 00:15:19 terribly unusable 00:15:40 absolutely terrible 00:15:42 yes and your wallet didnt select that fee by default lol 00:15:48 Yeah, lol, compare that to bitcorn lol Next block is... what..?!? only 1.31$ lol, smell fishy 00:15:55 Pnd - it was supposed to. its a bug 00:16:19 which is fixed in the next release 00:16:31 Might be fixed real soon 00:16:35 Hmmm, Signal is down <<>> hope not in an hour cause cat2 has her nightly video call 00:16:39 The scaling algorithm is just getting started. On the positive side I hope this is a learning opportunity. Everyone has been spoiled by low volume and zero congestion. First lesson might be "Pay minimum fees, expect minimum service." 00:16:40 ya, lets see how soon its fixed in all wallets and if attacker adopts to it lol 00:16:55 Pnd.. hacker PLANNED for it 00:17:05 Fixing it makes attack a lot easier 00:17:15 Attacker* 00:17:17 which is funny 00:17:31 now they just sit there 00:18:02 whoever irs hired, i hope they get -625k for wasting their time 00:18:26 kek 00:18:38 Tell irs to donate to ccs and maybe we'll show them how its done, the day before releasing the fix 00:19:16 i see, what about effective ring size ? 00:19:34 Already bad 00:20:00 so any fix for it ? 00:20:23 ring size used to be 7 00:20:23 yea 00:20:34 Ring size is probably 4 rn 00:20:52 use wownero, ring size is 22 00:20:57 It was about 13 00:21:02 Wowneros ring size is like 2 rn 00:21:24 what if the attack keeps doubling for days ? do we reach 2 ringsize with current dsa 00:21:28 buy wownero now since cake is adding it 00:21:31 price might go up 00:21:35 what if __________ 00:21:37 not financial advice 00:21:51 no, we reach full txpool in 3 days 00:21:58 yah plan for it lol 00:22:09 Aka you must use higher fees 00:22:21 And at that point, the attack becomes costless 00:22:39 As we pay for blockspace, and they just squat the txpool, forcing us to pay 00:22:57 it is costless 00:22:58 Maybe it's a Bitcoiner churning his Monero for "privacy" 🤪 00:23:10 its not costless, as you burn tx fees 00:23:28 The number of outputs tells me its someone who created these prior 00:23:38 effective fee is zero in terms of fiat 00:23:49 ofrn in that case 00:23:52 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/matrix.org/eqfBodypfmIjADQOqDzwpdDm 00:23:57 dont use the chain till pool is cleared :P 00:24:11 monero has had daily oscillating tx count (abnormal. Only happens on xmr) for years, + 1/16 spam "attack" years ago 00:24:13 so dont use monero in short lol 00:24:32 Mine minero and let em burn their spam 00:25:14 free money from transaction fees 00:25:42 if you cant use monero, the utility value drops to ground 00:26:38 Monero still very usable. 00:26:38 I assume some wallet need some fixin for there auto fees shenanigans 00:26:42 yeah they just need to keep this up forever 00:27:23 It's good stress testing. 00:27:24 xmrchain need some fixing 😂 00:27:26 they have done it on btc, they cant do it on cheap xmr ? 00:27:58 monkey jpegs 00:28:31 once we start using the very expensive fee of 2 cents for a tx the blocksize will increase faster and clear the backlog 00:28:55 😮 2 cents 00:29:14 vs 0.5 now 00:29:21 yes, just need to do PSA and fix wallets 00:29:33 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/matrix.org/LEPYNuUtPjxIlMMvRQvPdFZa 00:29:40 PSA was done 00:30:10 l8r off to see cat3 00:30:10 Current volume is not that far ahead of the block size. Perhaps volume will continue increasing with the scaling, we shall see. 00:30:14 *cat2 00:31:20 319KB block size so far 00:31:51 we still fine compared to competition 00:31:53 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/monero.social/EKQGWtKPHAtkEItZNMVumJLe 00:32:27 lets say backlog gets cleared, we keep paying more fees; but about effective ringsize ? if attack keeps scaling up 00:33:22 That probably depend if the attacker log and release hit TX data 00:35:12 they can just sell it to chain analysis companies or chain analysis companies might themselves be involved 00:35:45 in that case, effective ring size go down to something like 7 00:36:16 they can just sell it to chain analysis companies or chain analysis companies themselves might be involved 00:36:23 they can just sell it to chain analysis companies or chain analysis companies themselves might be involved 00:36:35 except if they manager to keep it up for months, but I'm sure our good devs can workout something in the mean time 00:36:38 nope its much lower right now 00:36:54 current dsa selects too many recent outputs 00:37:11 Doesnt it just use like half of the decoys from the last 72 hrs? 00:37:49 i found 13 decoys from last 24hrs in my tx 00:38:17 While we are considering hypotheticals; what if the attention brings a bunch of new users to Monero? What if the mining rewards excite people? Lots of people have Monero rigs built and ready to go, after all. 00:38:49 well it's not more profitable than ZEPH 00:38:54 or my miner would've auto switched 00:39:01 so I don't think it will really matter 00:39:22 how much is the mining reward ? botnets can only be attracted at this point 00:39:31 🤷 00:39:52 how much is the mining reward ? only botnets can be attracted at this point 00:39:56 I'm making 0.0009 XMR a day mining ZEPH 00:40:14 with 4.4 KH/s 00:42:05 Green 00:42:14 Moneroocean doesnt account for tx fees 00:42:22 0 00:42:26 It calculates based on the standard block reward 00:42:35 they don't charge a fee if you wait to get your payout 00:43:02 Green - mining zeph on MO is fine. It help transfer dumb monero into monero 00:43:14 And help increase monero mining profitability 00:43:19 yeah 00:43:29 And also buys xmr off of cex, so it keeps buy pressure on the orderbooks 00:43:54 and it's free heating 00:44:24 thank the lord for zeph. Sacrificing its credibility and its users funds, to help stablize a price floor for xmr 00:44:59 All the while helping to make xmr more profitable to mine for existing miners 00:46:08 Mining zeph, is really = "buying xmr" 00:46:53 yeah 00:47:00 buying XMR with my electricity bill 00:47:02 KYC free 00:47:17 and buying heating at the same time 00:58:10 Yup 00:58:27 Annnnnnd... dumping zeph on noobs. 😆 00:58:39 What does ZEPH even do? 00:58:46 It it supposed to be a privacy coin? 00:59:00 I assume it uses RandomX or I wouldn't be able to mine it 01:00:14 Its randomx, its haven but without the inflation bug 01:00:38 I see 01:01:13 The ZEPH people probably won't be too happy that it's being used as a Monero dump coin 01:01:30 Its gimmick is a stablecoin 01:01:50 They blocked me after getting mad in my dms 01:01:55 Yeah they're using USDT to inflate the price or something 01:02:00 Stable against what? 01:02:04 Usd 01:02:13 Ok 01:02:15 Not stable against any real object 01:02:21 Tbh stable coins are a mirage 01:02:33 Usd as a foundation is like making babies in a mans belly 01:02:42 Its a joke 01:02:52 If you treat them as anything else things get weird 01:02:52 “Did you know Monero is the first Monero stablecoin???” 01:03:08 Lol yeah 01:03:09 Ngl can’t wait to see the meltdown when tether dies 01:03:09 I WAS going to say "building a house on water", but that may be realistic 01:03:33 Preland < tell that to monerokon 01:03:47 They love evm and fiat 01:04:06 Using USD makes sense for a stablecoin 01:04:06 That is, if you don’t care about cryptocurrency or decentralization or privacy or freedom or- 01:04:09 Lll 01:04:15 Lol* 01:04:18 llololll right 01:04:31 You just want a digital cbdc 01:04:33 Gotcha 01:05:01 Which will happen 01:05:01 After which point all current usd stablecoin get outlawed (rightfully so tbh) 01:05:06 So, lets keep the treasury controlling the value of our entire life 01:05:36 fiat maxis 01:05:50 The worst type of maxis in crypto 01:05:54 Worse than wownero ones 01:06:01 Yeah, and let’s hyperfocus on the price of Monero vs usd 01:06:01 Cuz that’s what people with healthy currencies like the ruble and the Venezuelan dollar do 01:06:21 Chiba just maintains an artificial peg 01:06:36 1xmr = 1.05 btc 01:06:42 Lets use that rate 01:06:52 I mean, it worked for Terra…. 01:06:52 It literally can’t go tits up 01:07:19 "usd is stable", but china has a fake peg tho? 01:07:57 Wow. Sorry irc. Cant see chat name. preland, please cont on #monero 01:07:58 In 01:08:07 To be fair, at least you are legally allowed to publicly criticize the Fed reserve in the US 01:08:11 Yeah sounds good 01:15:52 I like what Monero stands for: 1) Private, 2) Anonymous (notice one and two aren't combined, because they are different), 3) Store of Value, 4) Divisible, 5) Resistant to outside controls (e.g. Govt can't use Patriot Act to hold up my wire transfer). If another crypto does a much better job of those things, I have no loyalty to Monero, I am mentally free to switch once the new 01:15:52 crypto is adequately tested, provided it has all the same characteristics. 01:17:37 I hold Monero for a very similar reason that I hold precious metals, to prevent banks from hyper-inflating away my purchasing power. 01:18:13 One has more utility in person, the other online. 01:42:00 https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxq9xx/the-irs-wants-to-buy-tools-to-trace-privacy-focused-cryptocurrency-monero 01:44:44 That article is four years old, and Monero is still going strong, their bounty has failed! 01:45:13 🎉 01:47:50 "Vice" owned an associated with Great names like Blackrock, Soros Fund Management and Government of Abu Dhabi 01:49:36 they suck 01:50:10 Rich entities owning all the things? Omg 01:50:44 they should by xmr instead 02:15:14 jeffro256 full-time development 2024Q2 has moved to funding! https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/jeffro256-full-time-2024Q2.html 02:26:41 You can find it in my twat from yesterday. 03:28:07 https://www.investopedia.com/tech/introduction-monero-xmr/ 03:28:24 MONERO - TICKER (XME). Is this is a sidechain? 03:30:54 There is no sidechain 03:30:54 Assume anything named Monero but with a different Ticker or running on other scamchain like ETH, to be scams 03:31:12 There is no sidechain 03:31:13 Assume anything named Monero but with a different Ticker than XMR and/or running on other scamchain like ETH, to be scams 03:38:34 Does anyone know a person at investopedia that can correct the record 05:48:25 Maybe: https://invcontent.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new 05:50:07 Remember to bring your KYC info to their platform 🤣 06:44:02 ArticMine 06:45:07 Was i sleeping on the job again monerobull ofrnxmr 07:08:28 I have to say reading this chat often times is really good comedy xD Thanks guys! Also for the nice tech called monero, but mainly the comedy. 07:19:35 > Is Monero a Good Investment? 07:19:35 > 07:19:36 > If you're interested in cryptocurrencies, Monero may be a good investment. The price of the currency jumped more than 64% between Aug. 26, 2020, and Aug. 26, 2023.3 07:19:36 > 07:19:37 > CoinMarketCap. "Monero." 07:19:37 > Additionally, it doesn't cost much to start, as you don't need any special hardware. You can actually use the CPU of your own computer to mine it, and Monero works with all major operating systems. This will save you a lot of money in fees and charges. 07:19:53 amazing 07:31:47 Just curious - is there any privacy/security risk if somebody owns this many transaction on the chain, considering current mempool state? 08:22:45 It shrinks the effective ring size, so the chance of tracking outputs grows. It depends on your threat level how much this affects you I guess. 08:33:54 Note: in order to have a large impact, they would need to own *a lot* of outputs 08:41:40 Rucknium over in the Monero Research Lab came up with a first rough estimate that we may be down to an effective ringsize of 7, if I understood correctly. That would be quite a drop down from 16, but not catastrophic, or at least not yet. 09:10:56 <1​23bob123:matrix.org> Better then none 09:12:22 Blocksize adjusted to 320 KB now 09:14:30 <1​23bob123:matrix.org> Where is that aws bot farm when you need it 09:17:44 Sure, thanks for letting me know 09:17:44 I've sent the edit, should be published within the next 6 hours or so 09:17:46 Thanks for letting me know 10:12:09 why miners picking more than median? its not profitable to take penalty 10:27:54 it's profitable if the transaction fee is higher than the penalty 11:02:26 at this moment its better to drop low fee transactions instead taking the penalty. 11:08:21 it should only profitable if **all** transaction fees are over 20 piconero/byte (0.000002 xmr/byte) 11:24:11 to make profit by taking penalty **all** transactions need to have over 2000 picomonero/byte 11:29:46 to make profit by taking penalty **all** transactions need to have over 2000 nanomonero/byte 11:32:59 Current median blocksize: 328544 byte 11:32:59 0.6 XMR / 328544 byte = 0.000001826 XMR/byte = 1826 nanomonero/byte 11:33:00 but almost none of the transactions are paid over 1826 nanomonero/byte 11:33:39 s​ech1 11:37:28 low fee transactions will be dropped when mempool is full 11:37:48 full depends on a node. Default max size is 648 MB, but it can be reduced via command line 11:38:45 penalty formula is different. Penalty is very little for blocks just above the limit 11:39:01 Usualy it's enough to add 1 transaction over the limit, even if it has the lowest fee 11:44:14 as far as i understand, penalty formula isn't linear, right? 11:49:26 yes, it's quadratic 11:49:39 starts from 0 at 300000 bytes, and reaches full block reward at 600000 bytes 11:49:59 if blocks get bigger, these numbers adjust too 12:07:36 Could someone using a raspberry pi mine a block with the entire mempool in it then create retroactive funding ccs for the missing blockreward? 12:11:32 no, block size is hard capped at 2x median size 12:11:46 so 321*2 kB right now 12:21:16 thanks! 12:21:52 only the block reward? 12:22:04 they should get paid more for their heroic self-sacrifice 12:27:45 Had anyone attempted to calculate how much the attack is costing per unit time and therefore how long the attacker can keep it up depending on financing. 12:27:58 Had anyone attempted to calculate how much the attack is costing per unit time and therefore how long the attacker can keep it up depending on financing? 12:28:23 Id assume it's going to be a non linear relationship as the block size increases. 12:28:32 I'd assume it's going to be a non linear relationship as the block size increases. 12:28:38 4.7 XMR/day now 12:28:49 it will get bigger as blocks grow 12:28:52 Thanks. 12:29:16 And how quickly can blocks double? The median adjusts per 11 blocks is that right? 12:29:36 *median block size 12:29:59 Blocks can double every 50 blocks (100 minutes), if you're generous with tx fees 12:30:05 the attack isnt actualyl pushing blocks to be larger 12:30:14 but this spammer uses low fees, so it's only +1.5 kB every 50 blocks 12:30:16 the attack isnt actually pushing blocks to be larger 12:30:42 basically this attack is designed to make blocks grow as slowly as possible 12:30:48 probably to save the money 12:32:39 Ah, so they are flooding memory pools? Transactions priced above the attackers sats/byte will still get through then? 12:33:02 Ah, so they are flooding memory pools? Transactions priced above the attackers sats/byte will still get moned then? 12:33:09 Ah, so they are flooding memory pools? Transactions priced above the attackers sats/byte will still get mined then? 12:34:41 <1​23bob123:matrix.org> Sech1 will be doing a reddit ask me anything about mempool spam at this rate ;) 12:34:42 yes 12:34:51 priority 2 transactions get mined in the first block 12:35:32 what they're essentially doing now is bloating the chain at the minimal possible cost per GB 12:36:28 What do you mean by "priority 2"? 12:36:54 1 = low (unimportant), 2 = normal, 3 = high and so on 12:37:02 it's priorities in CLI wallet 12:37:25 it defaults to 1 now, which is not good 12:37:38 Is it a flag in the TX? Do you pay more for an increase in level? 12:37:53 it's a parameter in the transfer command 12:38:06 yes, priority 2 is 4x bigger fee 12:38:16 Ah, right, so TX propagation on the network has slowed down? 12:39:08 The last time I sent any of my Monero was a long time ago via the terminal, so a bit rusty on the details... 12:44:13 it didn't slow down, there's just a big backlog of low fee transactions 12:44:26 so if you send a low fee tx, it can wait for hours until it gets mined 13:00:14 It's a feature not a bug, no ? 13:00:57 I dont see the problem of having a backlog of low fees txs 13:06:49 it's a feature, this is how it works 13:07:00 if you tx has low fee and there is a lot of tx with high fee, you'll need to wait 13:07:05 *your tx 13:10:56 also all new tx w/ high fees get priority over your old low fee tx :) 13:12:36 yes, but high fee txs don't even fill blocks now 13:12:46 priority 2 tx get confirmed in the first block 13:25:17 My pruned node is getting too larger. How long until prune++ 13:26:06 `rm -rf ~/.bitmonero/lmdb` 13:26:11 There, pruned to the max 13:26:15 snowman: how big is it 13:27:43 Did you begin with a pruned node or did you download the full block chain at some point and then prune it later? 13:27:58 Began with it 13:28:13 Because from what I understand, if you download the full block chain and then prune it later, you keep the same size, but it does not grow until the prune to node gets bigger than what the full node used to be. 13:28:26 my prune is already: 68G data/lmdb 13:29:05 Oh, that's not too bad. My full mode is around 200 gigs, I think. 13:29:33 Is someone trying to prove that xmr can handle bitcoin level of tx # 13:29:43 you can prune again "faster than downloading" into a pruned copy, then replace current full-node 13:29:52 you must have enough disk space for that though 13:30:06 It has already been proven snowman 13:30:20 no need to begin w/ pruned node 13:30:47 you can prune current full node into a pruned copy, is what I'm trying to say :P 13:30:54 Is there any way to find out who is pushing all these tx? Can a node by identifies 13:30:59 Once the blocksize catches up, the main bottleneck of the transaction rate is network bandwidth between nodes 13:31:00 Be identifies 13:31:04 I just checked and my full mode is 180 gigabytes. 13:31:13 snowman that wouldn't be very private 13:31:29 Doesn’t mean you can’t try using network info 13:31:36 but I mean.,... with them pushing this many transactions.... possibly 13:31:53 would take a good bit of research to have a shot tho 13:32:25 Wouldn't dandelion++#590 that? 13:32:42 With Dandelion++ doing its thing, you'd basically have to sybil attack nodes to find the source 13:32:47 Maybe they’re not propagating them correctly 13:33:00 And you don't even know whether it's one source or many 13:33:08 Wouldn't dandelion++ stop that? 13:33:31 d++ would make it harder but not necessarily impossible especially with this much volume, depends how they are sending the TXs too 13:34:19 I would still like to point out that the cost of doing such an attack is….minuscule 13:34:19 We are talking at this point around 8-10 xmr in transaction fees. This pricing isn’t maintainable long-term, especially as the block size increases. 13:34:19 I think the attacker knows this. Which leaves the question: 13:34:20 Why now? What was/is going on during the last few days that would incentivize someone to slow down transactions using low fees? 13:35:28 bitcoin DNM trying to DDOS the XMR only DNMs by DDOS against XMR 13:35:37 if u want a crazy farfetched guess 13:35:51 its a conspiracy to sabotage my snus order 13:35:56 Lol 13:36:18 IMHO, yes you could probably identify the IP address if the spammer is using one or a few 13:36:25 big dnm market recently went down apaprently, otehrs must be fighting for custoemrs =P 13:36:34 It’s just weird 13:36:34 There were a lot of things globally that could’ve been the cause. There is ofc the ongoing fallout from the Binance 13:36:39 Crap I sent too quickly lol 13:37:00 I blame China 13:37:47 There is the fallout from Binance for one. There is technically the US primaries. There is also the fact that that one hacking group allegedly just “exit scammed” 13:37:48 I don’t know what the motive would be. 13:37:49 I reviewed a paper that showed if a user sends enough txs, Dandelion++ still can't prevent identification. Basically D++ is statistical obfuscation. If your signal is much, much larger than the noise, you can be identified. AFAIK the only known way for network privacy is statistical obfuscation. 13:38:11 Hmm 13:39:00 Sharma, P. K., Gosain, D., & Diaz, C. 2022. "On the anonymity of peer-to-peer network anonymity schemes used by cryptocurrencies." https://moneroresearch.info/index.php?action=resource_RESOURCEVIEW_CORE&id=130 13:39:29 It would be an interesting exercise to find the IP of the spammer, but there may be higher priority things now. 13:39:35 What if someone created their own obfuscation 13:39:35 A “genesis” wallet sends XMR to several hundred/thousand addresses. Each address then repeatedly sends half of the amount of the outputs in their wallets to another address, and rinse and repeat 13:40:27 I’d be shocked if the IP could be traced 13:40:27 Even if it was, it would probably be either a VPN or a darknet node 13:40:29 One of the hypotheses for the 2021 spam incident was a churn-for-privacy script gone out of control. Possible. 13:41:02 Why would you be shocked? Have you read the papers? 13:41:05 I’d believe that, if such a script was known to exist at the time 13:41:27 Not as in the IP being traced 13:41:27 Just that the IP would be useful at all 13:42:01 Ofc a single IP flooding the whole network is gonna be visible 13:42:01 Monero isn’t magic after all 14:26:39 "One of the hypotheses for the 2021 spam incident was a churn-for-privacy script gone out of control. Possible." < lol 14:31:35 like a run away train.... turned my back to make a coffee and chugachugachugaChooChurn!!! 14:32:37 #itwasntme 14:37:00 i thought some university people cam forward 14:37:07 and said they spammed it for 10k 14:37:14 i thought some university people came forward 14:37:44 Did you hear that from ChatGPT :P 14:38:09 is this the ccs proposal where they wanted 5xmr to host a party / use for tx fees/experimentation? 14:38:39 sister universities / crypto club 14:39:31 from the multi modal model running on my brain 14:53:52 in peers dropped from around 150 ish to 25~ just now if that is a thing 14:56:25 hmm 14:56:34 On all 3? 14:56:47 i've had in peers drop on my public nodes 14:56:58 but on my non-public nodes it's all good, 150 still 15:00:35 I am running a public node, and it is steady at 190(in). 15:05:32 Damn, wish I could run my network scanner right now :( 15:07:06 Is it available for someone else to run? 15:07:43 what does marking a node as "trusted" actually do? 15:07:50 i know in gui you have a small shied next to it 15:07:54 but anything else? 15:08:10 it allows for some operations (like rescanning) that would could harm your privacy 15:08:35 ok, thanks 15:08:36 The old version is here: https://github.com/endorxmr/monero-node-p2p-scanner 15:08:46 But it's kinda buggy and much slower 15:11:40 But if you keep the scans small enough (ie the default limit of 100 peers at a time) you should be able to run it reasonably well 15:11:58 Just put the whole thing in a loop or something and keep going 15:13:21 "Fund my next boating accident" 😂 15:13:42 For reference: in my old scans I picked up ~10k "normal" nodes, plus ~30-40k "fake" nodes, some of which had ips in ranges that belonged to the LionLink AS 15:13:46 so are we able to know which ips are flooding ? 15:13:58 No 15:15:22 due to dandelion++ ? 15:15:29 Oops, correction: most of the ip ranges of the fake nodes belonged to LL, but a couple of them belonged to some other AS 15:15:35 Yes 15:16:50 cant nodes see if abnormal amount of txs are being sent from a ip/range even in dandelion phase ? 15:16:57 IMHO, if its a single node or just a few nodes producing the txs, even D++ would not prevent identification. 15:17:27 They had a proof-of-concept for that: Sharma, P. K., Gosain, D., & Diaz, C. 2022. "On the anonymity of peer-to-peer network anonymity schemes used by cryptocurrencies." https://moneroresearch.info/index.php?action=resource_RESOURCEVIEW_CORE&id=130 15:18:13 But just running endor's scanner doesn't help figure out where the txs are coming from. You need multiple of your own nodes with timing data for when the txs arrived. 15:18:57 Right 15:19:17 Well, for one thing I'd be curious to know where all these peers are coming from 15:19:21 yup someone needs to make this and we will be able to identify if its a single or couple of entities flooding 15:19:51 Linkinglion ? 15:19:52 Because many of LL's nodes would advertise an rpc port for example, but would not respond when queried 15:20:01 Yes 15:20:02 Forked networking, one of our sponsors, owns the ips 15:20:15 And sells them very very very cheap 15:20:32 So I wonder if they have suddenly woken up 15:20:43 I have a mempool archiver running on a few nodes, but the polling rate has slowed down to +5 seconds from all the txs. It is too slow for this type of analysis probably. 15:21:12 Would be interesting to compare with some lists of inboud peers (host:p2p_port) from some currently active nodes 15:21:58 If I could get ZMQ to work with my script, then I would have sub-second polling rate. But when I tried I couldn't 15:22:10 sech1 15:23:27 if you need something quick, you can just run p2pool with log level 5 and then parse the logs 15:23:36 it will print all tx ids 15:26:01 I am using the `get_transaction_pool` RPC call. Parsing the JSON takes the most time I think. 15:26:31 this RPC will be very slow, it will send you the whole pool each time 15:27:46 Yeah I did that so I never miss anything because of caching or something. Worked well under normal network conditions 15:33:44 sech1: " it will print all tx ids" Does it print tx txids with the timestamp of when they arrived to the node? 15:36:07 yes, p2pool prints timestamps for all log lines 15:36:25 ZMQ sends tx to p2pool when it enters the fluff phase 15:36:28 not when it arrives 15:36:48 so maybe not exactly what you need 15:38:00 IIRC you can also "set_log 1" in monerod and it will print new tx ids in bitmonero.log, but this log will be massive 15:45:02 all users that use a public node together with a version before v0.18.3.1 are causing unnecessary load on remote nodes, so please upgrade 15:45:21 (meaning all wallet users) 15:46:15 Waiting for Cake to push an update 15:48:47 The mempool (https://xmrchain.net/txpool) shows a handful of transactions which are remarkably older than the rest. 15:48:47 I do not understand why miners would continually pass over them, the fee per byte is always the same. I can see certain txs waiting longer if the block size was mismatched after adding a bunch of other txs to it, but during block expansion that explanation doesn't work. At least I would not think that would happen for 12 hours straight. Miners are confirming transactions that are 15:48:47 almost, but not quite, the oldest. 15:48:48 Can anyone offer me some insight? 15:52:32 Sure 15:52:33 Dm 15:52:35 All of the especially old transactions are unique input counts, though I do not know why that should matter. 15:54:12 Probably slightly below other txs in fee per byte. The unique in/out could could cause that 15:54:13 I have seen txs ignored in the past, I guess misconfigured txs 15:56:09 one of them is slightly higher fee per byte at 23 instead of the usual 20 15:56:15 Oh yeah, when I look at each transaction there is a fee per byte difference. Very small. 15:56:44 ah, nioCat beat me to it. Not the case for all of them. 15:56:52 is the selection that sensitive? 15:58:03 Ive had high fee tx get stuck. My2c 15:58:27 when monerod creates a block template for miners, it orders the txs first by fee/byte, second sort is by oldest tx received. 15:58:41 yes 15:59:05 P2Pool does random sort for the second criteria. So P2Pool could confirm a new tx earlier than an old one. 15:59:06 Nice to know, I was wondering just that (if it was fifo when same fees) 15:59:24 P2Pool just uses slightly different soring criteria 15:59:49 first fee/byte, then smaller transactions, then it just sord by id to ensure a single unique order 15:59:57 *sorts 16:00:00 https://xmrchain.net/tx/32cbd8640fddcf7e9d449382a3d6a4521f065d90f27a7c72984ef2c6d690d5ff 16:00:00 Fee (per_kB): 0.000099060000 (0.000022526636) 16:00:01 By the way, this sorting is statistically detectable with the mempool data and ordinary least squares regression :D 16:00:09 That tx is higher per byte than the ones being confirmed. 16:00:22 of course, but p2pool blocks are detectable right away :D 16:00:41 The R-squared on the regression is about 0.25 IIRC 16:01:30 https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9222 will change p2pool sorting a bit. It will start to pick up earliest transaction too, at least for a part of mempool 16:01:33 I mean that the time the tx appeared in the mempool is statistically correlated with its order in each block 16:01:52 Each confirmed block 16:02:04 order in block? But p2pool shuffles transactions 16:02:19 it sorts, then selects transactions to be mined, then shuffles them 16:02:45 I mean the blocks that the mining pools create 16:03:22 ah, time from mempool to the block. Right 16:03:31 Then p2pool will be different from pools that use monerod 19:15:24 But why? 19:49:46 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/monero.social/iqfXOqWOSVcUGNhdjaLpinwC 19:50:50 https://primal.net/e/note1p8xmq3zr7lgryal45j562eqg9q4gyzq0hz37j7ac4sjecpg28qxspxq6m0 19:53:55 Wow I hope someone repays him by stress testing his public nostr infrastructure 19:54:19 He’s spent a lot of money helping xmr security 19:54:29 indeed 19:57:15 is fiatjaf the owner of Primal ? 19:57:32 No 19:57:36 he created nostr 19:57:45 and i highly doubt he spends his days spamming tx 19:57:55 so best to just ignore him and don't take the bait lol 19:58:11 I think he's trying to take credit for a pre-existing issue 19:58:23 ok, so it could be a good idea to wait for a real confirmation then 19:58:33 That's a possibility 19:58:35 i'm so disappointed. I was excited about nostr, but if its owner is a dickhead then the project can only go down 19:58:56 Do they have a client that actually work (By client I mean something compiled that run on a CPU, not a web page) 19:59:51 Nostr is more than fiatjaf. Simplified Privacy has been making progress with pro-XMR content on there. And we also rolled out Linked-Out.me yesterday with Nostr integration for a monero market 20:00:33 I'd say only 60% of the people are bitcoin maxis, its not as bleak as it appears at first glance 20:01:30 That's cool then. Hopefully we might reverse the trends and monero maxis will come on this platform. It'll be war zone 20:01:40 Nostr and bitcoin are not related. So nothing stops a monero client from being made 20:02:25 i wouldn't be surprised if maxis create mastodon like blocklist 20:02:30 The core protocol is just text messages over relays, signed as proof, like Ethereum or PGP 20:02:42 i wouldn't be surprised if maxis create mastodon like blocklist against XMR community 20:03:02 The images and videos are just regular websites 20:03:14 The payments are custodial, its like a bank account 20:03:32 since lightning can't do non-sync natively, they use getalby 20:03:39 lmao that's exactly like is happening on every federated network: matrix, mastodon, diaspora and bluesky are prime examples 20:04:56 Yes, primal is web, ios app, and android app. There are also several clients on fdroid 20:05:11 whats the license ? 20:05:24 I use my phone mostly for 2fa, I mean, a computer app that actually work without using a browser 20:05:39 I hate typing on a phone lol 20:06:31 Oh, I don't know of any desktop clients. 20:06:40 Gossip 20:06:45 That doesn't mean none exist. I just don't know of them because I rarely use desktop. 20:06:51 Broken, next 20:06:55 Gossip is the most secure and works on Linux 20:07:09 broken? 20:07:41 Last time I tried I could not even get in lol, don't exactly what was the problem, was a few months ago 20:07:52 I tried a few other, they all sucks 20:07:55 differently 20:08:02 I am on nostr, but you need to have a thick skin bc some ppl are dicks 20:08:11 It's Like Matrix if element did not exist 20:08:55 Oh cause myself and other members of the team use gossip as a daily driver on Linux 20:08:56 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/monero.social/OnrHcxHjbVvKzlhuPlKKmuPV 20:10:58 Mind you, that was only one person, but I would not be surprised if that attitude is more prevalent than it would appear. 20:11:29 imajin paying un sat for each zap. 20:11:29 (the fee to pay each time lol) 20:11:37 I think boycotting nostr is the wrong idea. Instead, we should enjoy censorship resistance for our own thing 20:11:48 We need to fork primal, support xmr, then tell everyone on r/monero to switch to our fork 20:11:51 Then what he mouths off about the pre-existing XMR bug is not relevant 20:11:57 if they want war, we'll give them war 20:12:04 primal is centralized, that's my problem with web page 20:12:23 nostr is decentralized but if you ddos the webpage that connect to the thing then..... it's down 20:12:24 primal isn't the one you'd fork, its aggregating the data 20:12:35 If you're gonna fork, you'd do ameythst 20:13:03 idk kotlin unfortunately 😭 20:13:09 Amathyst is pretty bad for accessibility 20:13:16 there's also a XMR one half done with cake wallet 20:13:42 the guy abandoned it I think, the dev stopped posting. but he had a deal with cake 20:15:01 What I would really like to see is a Reddit style interface client because I do better with that than the Twitter/mastodon on style. 20:15:36 What I would really like to see is a Reddit style interface client because I do better with that than the Twitter/mastodon style. 20:31:38 Agree. The Monero way is to make the protocol better as a result of the current attack and move on 20:32:11 Free security testing before mass adoption is good. 20:34:03 That's what Linked-out.me is 20:34:05 It's a reddit style interface 20:34:19 Nostr signing built in. Then its hooked to Session bots which bill in Monero 20:34:53 So the influencers can push notification out the content links, and it has bunny CDN video embedded. So youtube is replaced as well 20:35:09 I agree selsta, & snowman, our community is resilient, and strong. 20:35:10 Our ability to adapt, and grow is what makes monero one of the best protocols. 20:35:10 By attacking others we only prove them right but by building we make them look stupid. 20:46:30 Is this described correctly? "There is currently a fee bug on Monero related to the fee automatically being set too low" 20:47:23 there is currently a bug that the wallet doesn't automatically bump the fee when there is a backlog 20:47:36 at least when the wallet fee is set to default / automatic 20:48:08 gotcha okay thanks for clarifying. How come then there's slow sync to nodeswith first opening a wallet ? they are swamped? 20:48:48 large txpool causes a lot of load of public nodes 20:49:09 *load on 20:50:01 ok 20:50:13 So using self-hosted nodes is a temporary solution? 20:51:17 self-hosted node is preferred, otherwise you have to be patient with slow public nodes 20:51:23 or try to find one that isn't used much 21:22:36 I found one that seems pretty fast at http://127.0.0.1:18081 21:22:53 Please don’t share that on Reddit 21:23:26 Best node ever! 21:23:32 Can I use it? 21:24:04 I like my node on a dedicated machine away from my wallets but that's just me =p 21:25:17 Someone on a different chat shared it with me. I have know idea who’s it is 21:25:29 Seems fast 22:10:02 Thanks! I tried that node and ita working great 23:13:57 rehrar: do you limit p2p on your public nodes ? 23:24:20 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/matrix.org/TGBWIDLTLypbsbIxclUIhRnW 23:24:21 ffs 23:24:36 bitcart node died and apparently cant be changed to a custom one... 23:29:52 <1​23bob123:matrix.org> i would ping ofrn 23:30:01 <1​23bob123:matrix.org> i think it uses sithlords node 23:42:49 you can apparently change it from the terminal 23:55:43 Has anyone calculated approximately how long it should take for the block size to fully keep up with the current transaction volume? 23:55:44 What might be more pertinent, as I’ve noticed the block size changes are quite slow: how long will it take for the block size to fall back to normal levels after the attack ends? 23:56:46 block size increases slowly because the auto fee setting is broken, if people paid higher fees it would increase quicker 23:58:00 auto fee will be fixed with v0.18.3.2 which is hopefully out saturday or sunday