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7 Mar 2022

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• 00:05
  meireikei
  got a question about the monero-gui wallet
• 00:05
  meireikei
  I'm trying to recover some old monero wallets I have seeds for, I opened the monero-gui wallet for the first time on a new computer
• 00:06
  meireikei
  I put it in simple mode, which I thought would have it use a public monero server
• 00:06
  meireikei
  but the UI is telling me "sychronizing" and it looks like it's downloading something
• 00:06
  meireikei
  I don't want to have the entire monero blcokchain on this computer
• 00:06
  meireikei
  I'm also not sure where it's downloading it to, if it is in fact doing that
• 00:08
  meireikei
  as another question, I *am* trying to run monerod on another computer where I have more storage space
• 00:08
  meireikei
  if I run monerod status, it takes somewhere between 30-90 seconds to give me an answer about how much progress it's making downloading the blockchain
• 00:09
  meireikei
  which seems liek a long time
• 00:09
  meireikei
  the storage array it's writing to is slow, maybe that's why?
• 00:09
  meireikei
  "Height: 2359532/2574003 (91.7%) on mainnet" is what it reported the last time the command ran successfully
• 00:10
  meireikei
  it also seems like it's taking longer to download the last 10% of blocks than it took for the first part
• 00:20
  Mochi102
  Newer blocks have more txs
• 00:21
  Mochi102
  when you run status while it's working it'll be slow
• 00:27
  meireikei
  ah ok
• 00:27
  meireikei
  is there a way I can take the current wallet restore height block and see what date that corresponds to?
• 00:28
  meireikei
  also is the gui actually writing the blockchain to disk locally?
• 00:28
  meireikei
  I can see the "wallet blocks remaining" counter going down
• 00:28
  meireikei
  but it doesn't look like ~/.bitmonero/lmdb or ~/monero-storage are actually getting bigger
• 00:29
  meireikei
  if I open up the wallet in advanced mode I do see the Node setting
• 00:29
  meireikei
  and it says that I'm local as opposed to remote mode, which says it's downloading the blockchain locally
• 00:33
  Mochi102
  I don't use the gui, so I wouldn't know.
• 00:34
  Mochi102
  You can get an approx block date here: xmrchain.net
• 00:35
  Mochi102
  search for the block and look at the date
• 00:36
  meireikei
  ah thanks
• 00:36
  meireikei
  is there a good place to ask questions about the gui wallet?
• 00:42
  Mochi102
  here is fine
• 00:49
  meireikei
  so yeah, the documentation is kind of confusing
• 00:49
  meireikei
  it seems like the gui wallet should be downloading the entire 100GB or so blockchain to my local computer
• 00:49
  meireikei
  but it doesn't seem to be doing that
• 00:50
  meireikei
  it says it's running a local node
• 00:50
  meireikei
  I can see a monerod process running locally
• 00:51
  meireikei
  the Settings -> Node item says that the blockchain location is "default". is that ~/.bitmonero/lmbd?
• 00:51
  meireikei
  that whole directory is only 272K on my system
• 00:52
  Mochi102
  yes.. should be where it is
• 00:53
  meireikei
  hm, so does the actual blockchain download only start after synchronization is complete?
• 00:53
  meireikei
  I"m not sure what synchronization is as distinct from downloading the blockchain
• 00:53
  meireikei
  it's taking a while but it seems to be nearly done, only 20k or so blocks left
• 00:54
  meireikei
  do people really regularly download the entire 100GB and have it on their laptops?
• 00:55
  Mochi102
  I do
• 00:55
  Mochi102
  on both my laptops I have a copy
• 00:55
  Mochi102
  and a pruned copy on a server
• 00:56
  meireikei
  I'm downloading a full copy on a server now, it just is taking a while
• 00:56
  meireikei
  I started more than 24 hours ago
• 00:56
  meireikei
  okay only 3k blocks left to synchronize
• 00:57
  meireikei
  ok wallet is synchronized now
• 00:58
  meireikei
  my ~/.bitmonero db is still just a few hundred KB
• 00:58
  meireikei
  so it seems like there's no local blockchain, even though my wallet seems to be in the local node mode
• 00:58
  meireikei
  and I can't tell where it expects the blockchain to live locally b/c the field for it just says "default"
• 01:08
  Mochi102
  which os?
• 01:32
  meireikei
  Mochi102: linux
• 01:43
  Mochi102
  That should be where it is then.
• 01:44
  Mochi102
  Unless you told it to be somewhere else.
• 02:10
  selsta
  meireikei: did you check the data.mdb file?
• 02:31
  meireikei
  selsta: no where is that file?
• 02:31
  selsta
  inside the lmdb folder
• 08:15
  tigroudark
  hello
• 08:30
  meireikei
  selsta: it's 80K
• 13:28
  jjakob
  has anyone tried btc-xmr atomic swaps? I've found some implementations, but they seem to have some issues (by looking at other people's issues)
• 14:00
  ocb
  jjakob: tried coimit-network/xmr-btc-swap
• 14:00
  ocb
  but all makers were out of xmr
• 14:01
  ocb
  sent some btc but got it back using the refund function since maker was empty
• 20:32
  jjakob
  ocb: hmm
• 20:32
  jjakob
  so localmonero is a better choice still?