hi

I currently use the timestamp from the get_last_block_header monerod RPC to detect if my monerod process is (roughly) up to date or not.

Is there a better, more precise, method ?

check block height against some other nodes?

GUI v0.17.3.1 binaries are now online, thank you to all contributors

Thank you, contributors :)

epic

Thanks binaryFate!

selsta: do you have any idea what lead to the guy on reddit spending 4 XMR in transaction fees?

I'm looking into it

endor00 and I were looking at the mining reward data a few weeks ago and noticed occasional spikes due to unnecessarily high transaction fees. We figured it could be because of "fat fingers", but maybe something else is at play.

Can't be just a fat finger, since there's no (apparent?) way to set such a high fee on the popular wallets

So it's either a buggy third-party wallet, or bad/weird custom code

this guy was using the gui

Oh

Then I have no clue

some kind of DDOS? i.e. a block full of very-high-fee txs caused observers to think the network fee is very high

merope: You can set a high fee on the GUI wallet

no it's someone trolling with a remote node most likely, but it doesn't seem widespread, saw only one tx with high fee on the blockchain

dEBRUYNE: sure, but even if you pick the highest multiplier (144x? or something like that), it would still be 144 * 0.0001 xmr (rounding up) - still nowhere near 4 xmr

per/kb transaction fees over last days look good; like selsta, that seems to be the only weird case

(looking solely at highest per/kb values - i.e., quantile=1 - imgur.com/a/8KnErtk)

it was mined by minexmr so I hope they'll refund it to the user

utxobr: you need to look long-term, there's like 1 tx/month like that

Why the post on reddit got deleted?

don't wanna scare ppl till we know whats up

<binaryFate> "GUI v0.17.3.1 binaries are now..." <- Cool! But it's sad that [#3808](monero-project/monero-gui #3808) wasn't pushed ahead of release.

could you approve it?

<selsta> "could you approve it?" <- Are you talking to me?

yes :D

selsta: Done

ok will be included in the next release

selsta: OK, thank you