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15 Feb 2022

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• 03:19
  MobilePrivacyAct
  How's everyone doing?
• 04:10
  dav0h
  hello fellow humans
• 04:31
  MobilePrivacyAct
  What's up
• 05:30
  Bill48105
  opposite of down..
• 06:09
  narf
  zing
• 07:02
  yatix
  hi
• 07:54
  narf
  hello
• 08:00
  MobilePrivacyAct
  Hi.
• 11:19
  alMalsamo
  So ring signatures were replaced with RingCT which is similar but somehow different? Does Monero still use RingCT after implementing Bulletproofs and now Bulletproofs+ or do RingCT and Bulletproofs+ coexist?
• 11:19
  alMalsamo
  Also Bulletproofs are not in original CryptoNote protocol, but ring signatures are?
• 11:26
  Inge
  alMalsamo: Ring signatures and ringCT are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT things that don't have anything to do with each other :)
• 11:26
  Inge
  The first obfuscates which key/output is the real output spent in the tx
• 11:26
  Inge
  the latter - RingCT = Ring Confidential Transactions, hides the amounts
• 11:27
  Inge
  Bulletproofs are the sucessor of RinCT. Neither were a part of the original protocol AFAIK
• 11:38
  alMalsamo
  Inge: Hmm okay strange moneropedia says RingCT are an improved version of ring signatures so I thought RingCT is an update/replacement to ring signatures
• 11:38
  moneromooo
  RingCT is/uses a type of ring sigs. RingCT is currently used, was not when monero started.
• 11:38
  alMalsamo
  What did Monero use to hide transaction amounts before RingCT?
• 11:38
  moneromooo
  BPs are also currently used and were not when monero started.
• 11:39
  moneromooo
  Splitting by denominations.
• 11:39
  Inge
  moneromooo: didn't bulletproofs make RingCT obsolete?
• 11:39
  alMalsamo
  So if Bulletproofs are successor of RingCT why does Monero still use RingCT?
• 11:39
  moneromooo
  They did not. You might be confusing with the original rnage proofs ?
• 11:39
  Inge
  Good thing you are here to correct my mistakes :D
• 11:40
  moneromooo
  Monero uses both. They do different things.
• 11:42
  alMalsamo
  moneromooo: Is there more info I can read about "splitting by denominations" and how they work before ring signatures replaced them?
• 11:42
  alMalsamo
  or am I confused and ring signatures were in Monero from day 1
• 11:43
  moneromooo
  You are confused.
• 11:43
  moneromooo
  Check monero.stackexchange.com if you can (they started blocking tor recently), thre's a lot of old info there.
• 12:00
  ErCiccione
  or getmonero.org 🙂
• 12:24
  alMalsamo
  moneromooo: Yeah I can't access via Tor :( maybe I should finally install Lokinet
• 12:26
  merope
  Use i2p if tor isn't working
• 12:26
  merope
  purokishi.i2p seems to be a good outproxy
• 12:44
  blacked
  hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllo
• 13:51
  pieterse
  when i start the monero-wallet-gui, it asks me "would you like to register monero desktop gui entry?" Wtf is that?
• 13:52
  pieterse
  ah, it's a desktop shortcut.
• 13:56
  pingpongball
  pieterse what you use ? linux/windows/macs
• 13:57
  pingpongball
  use #linux or GNU/LINUX , + emacs
• 13:57
  pingpongball
  :)
• 13:57
  pieterse
  linux. i was confused about the combination of "register" and "entry", a shortcut on the desktop i can understand. :)
• 13:58
  pingpongball
  :)
• 13:58
  pieterse
  do you know how to specify the "datadir" on the command line when starting the gui? or should i preferably run the monerod standalone?
• 14:06
  merope
  In the gui, in the node options/parameters, you add --data-dir followed by the path you want
• 14:06
  merope
  Or you can create a .bitmonero.conf file and put that in one of the default locations, so that you can easily see and edit any parameters you want
• 14:07
  merope
  monerodocs.org/interacting/monero-config-file
• 14:09
  pieterse
  thank you very much!