working on monero_c/impls/monero.rs, making transfer &sweep_all and i'm wondering what docs-, unit, and integration tests are appropriate. in pure rust i might try to mock daemon responses and feed it committed blocks from which to scan outputs and build txs, but using wallet2 ultimately i'm not sure what all i can do

might just have to test those live with a wallet example.

<t​heelevated:matrix.org> Can anyone recommended a yt vid on how xmr works, its encryption and how it's implemented in a technical but understandable way

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> Sorry bro. There are no such resources in video format. I would gladly do one in english if it wouldn't imply doxxing myself. Right now there are only flat books and white paper with borrriiiiiiing letters to read.

Hey guys i talked about some error i was encountering last week with "Failed to derive public key", i found out the reason was somehow the server i hosted the node monero on. On DigitalOcean it is working perfectly fine but on other Hosters it does not - does anyone have an idea what the reason behind this could be ? I also tested it on Ubuntu

24.04 and on Debian 12, on both it is working perfectly fine on DigitalOcean but on other providers  it simply does not work - could this be some disk permission issue but i doubt it since i run it all as root ? Just curious and happy it does work on Digitalocean just fine

Heyy guys

How hard is the barrier to entry to contributing to the monero project?

I have a lot of experience writing C++ and a little bit writing Rust

I'd love to contribute to it cause it's awesome

I've only used it to buy a lot of ketamine and a little meth, but overall I appreciate the philosophy behind it

It is a large codebase. Best is to start making small changes to stuff you're interested in. Bugs or improvements. This will let you learn what's where.

tbh I'm not even sure where to start

Use it. See something small you want to improve. git grep around.

In practice I appreciate the anonymity behind it since I use it for buying drugs (though I haven't learned how ringct works)

but technically, the coolest aspect of it for me is that it's hard to mine in parallel, making it more decentralized

I've never contributed to open source before, I might just start with some bug fixes

<d​etherminal:monero.social> Monero's codebase is one of the most complex codebases. I recommend you to start with learning fundamentals of the protocol.

Would it be best to write my own crypto currency first?

or to contribute to a different foss projectt?

Writing your own is much harder, unless a toy insecure thing to learn.

I'd say contribute to software you use and like yourself. It gives you purpose and makes it less likely you'll drop off before you get good at it.

it'd be a very basic insecure crypto just to learn

the other project I wanted to contribute to is dolphin emu, but it's very compliocated

here’s a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy: web.getmonero.org/library/Zero-to-Monero-2-0-0.pdf

oh damn

thanks man

you think that'll be enough to get me started contributing

NoHi

What's Monero backed by again?

FWIW you do *not* need to know crypto to contribute. There are plenty of regular code things that don't get anywhere near crypto in monero.

like what?

would def rather do crypto cause that's the fun part

Networking, concurency, db usage, ui...

Sure, if it's your thing, go for it :)

I'm most knowledgeable about writing optimized code

which is admittedly not that knowledgeable lol

Then it does likely put you near crypto, yes...

What does it mean to "know crypto" ?

If you knew crypto, you'd know that you can't know crypto since it doesn't exist

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> why is the sealion unmuted already?

Why are you not muted?