00:05:29 <meireikei> got a question about the monero-gui wallet
00:05:58 <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
00:06:14 <meireikei> I put it in simple mode, which I thought would have it use a public monero server
00:06:27 <meireikei> but the UI is telling me "sychronizing" and it looks like it's downloading something
00:06:35 <meireikei> I don't want to have the entire monero blcokchain on this computer
00:06:52 <meireikei> I'm also not sure where it's downloading it to, if it is in fact doing that
00:08:12 <meireikei> as another question, I *am* trying to run monerod on another computer where I have more storage space
00:08:59 <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
00:09:02 <meireikei> which seems liek a long time
00:09:20 <meireikei> the storage array it's writing to is slow, maybe that's why?
00:09:49 <meireikei> "Height: 2359532/2574003 (91.7%) on mainnet" is what it reported the last time the command ran successfully
00:10:01 <meireikei> it also seems like it's taking longer to download the last 10% of blocks than it took for the first part
00:20:27 <Mochi102> Newer blocks have more txs
00:21:41 <Mochi102> when you run status while it's working it'll be slow
00:27:12 <meireikei> ah ok
00:27:43 <meireikei> is there a way I can take the current wallet restore height block and see what date that corresponds to?
00:28:00 <meireikei> also is the gui actually writing the blockchain to disk locally?
00:28:11 <meireikei> I can see the "wallet blocks remaining" counter going down
00:28:40 <meireikei> but it doesn't look like ~/.bitmonero/lmdb or ~/monero-storage are actually getting bigger
00:29:06 <meireikei> if I open up the wallet in advanced mode I do see the Node setting
00:29:19 <meireikei> and it says that I'm local as opposed to remote mode, which says it's downloading the blockchain locally
00:33:54 <Mochi102> I don't use the gui, so I wouldn't know.
00:34:37 <Mochi102> You can get an approx block date here: https://xmrchain.net
00:35:05 <Mochi102> search for the block and look at the date
00:36:09 <meireikei> ah thanks
00:36:40 <meireikei> is there a good place to ask questions about the gui wallet?
00:42:39 <Mochi102> here is fine
00:49:21 <meireikei> so yeah, the documentation is kind of confusing
00:49:42 <meireikei> it seems like the gui wallet should be downloading the entire 100GB or so blockchain to my local computer
00:49:46 <meireikei> but it doesn't seem to be doing that
00:50:06 <meireikei> it says it's running a local node
00:50:32 <meireikei> I can see a monerod process running locally
00:51:12 <meireikei> the Settings -> Node item says that the blockchain location is "default". is that ~/.bitmonero/lmbd?
00:51:26 <meireikei> that whole directory is only 272K on my system
00:52:43 <Mochi102> yes.. should be where it is
00:53:17 <meireikei> hm, so does the actual blockchain download only start after synchronization is complete?
00:53:27 <meireikei> I"m not sure what synchronization is as distinct from downloading the blockchain
00:53:39 <meireikei> it's taking a while but it seems to be nearly done, only 20k or so blocks left
00:54:21 <meireikei> do people really regularly download the entire 100GB and have it on their laptops?
00:55:31 <Mochi102> I do
00:55:49 <Mochi102> on both my laptops I have a copy
00:55:57 <Mochi102> and a pruned copy on a server
00:56:39 <meireikei> I'm downloading a full copy on a server now, it just is taking a while
00:56:45 <meireikei> I started more than 24 hours ago
00:56:55 <meireikei> okay only 3k blocks left to synchronize
00:57:52 <meireikei> ok wallet is synchronized now
00:58:16 <meireikei> my ~/.bitmonero db is still just a few hundred KB
00:58:38 <meireikei> so it seems like there's no local blockchain, even though my wallet seems to be in the local node mode
00:58:53 <meireikei> and I can't tell where it expects the blockchain to live locally b/c the field for it just says "default"
01:08:11 <Mochi102> which os?
01:32:18 <meireikei> Mochi102: linux
01:43:44 <Mochi102> That should be where it is then.
01:44:01 <Mochi102> Unless you told it to be somewhere else.
02:10:18 <selsta> meireikei: did you check the data.mdb file?
02:31:35 <meireikei> selsta: no where is that file?
02:31:54 <selsta> inside the lmdb folder
08:15:25 <tigroudark> hello
08:30:33 <meireikei> selsta: it's 80K
13:28:57 <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)
14:00:10 <ocb> jjakob: tried coimit-network/xmr-btc-swap
14:00:25 <ocb> but all makers were out of xmr
14:01:00 <ocb> sent some btc but got it back using the refund function since maker was empty
20:32:38 <jjakob> ocb: hmm
20:32:53 <jjakob> so localmonero is a better choice still?