05:59:46 Hello, I have a question about OpenAlias. Isn't there a risk that a DNS request could be MITMed and give the wrong Monero address to the client requesting the address? A malicious actor could substitute their own Monero address for the real address in order to redirect transfers that are supposed to go to the real address. 06:29:43 If you don't verify the signature, yes. 06:31:47 Some asshole DNS servers mangle the signature. And some (not criminal because companies that make money and pay taxes so it's fine) ISPs do MITM your DNS and strip signatures. That's right there in the behaviour that'd land a non company in jail but is apparently a good demonstration of the hypocrisy of the legal system in western countries. 06:32:23 So switch if either of those two things is your case, till you get verifiable signatures. 06:36:54 moneromooo: How do third-parties verify the signature? What keys are needed to verify the signature? 06:43:28 I forget the details now, but if you use a library like libunbound, it'll do the verification for you. 06:44:26 It must rely on trust somewhat though, since you don't a key per TXT record. 06:44:53 Kinda like the CA SSL cert system. 06:45:43 Lookup DNSSEC if oyu're interested in the details. 17:36:27 Hello, how do I connect to stagenet using monero-wallet-gui? I want to use stagenet to learn Monero. 17:36:50 Did you try adding --stagenet to the command line ? 17:37:28 (I'm guessing, I don't remember how that one works( 17:37:58 moneromooo: "monero-wallet-gui --stagenet" gives a return code of 1. The error message is "monero-core: Unknown option 'stagenet'." 17:38:20 Then --help ? 17:38:21 It seems that the --stagenet option is only for monero-wallet-cli. 17:39:23 Also for monero-wallet-rpc, it's handled by wallet2, and monero-wallet-gui also uses wallet2. 17:39:39 So it had a fair chance of working at first approximation. 17:39:46 Nothing relevant in --help. The only listed options are --verify-update, --disable-check-updates, --socks5-proxy, --log-file, --help, and --help-all. 17:39:46 --help-all is for listing Qt options. 17:40:25 Kinda sucks. Try opening a stagenet wallet then. Maybe it detects network type and configures itself based on that. 17:40:58 Or maybe I should shut up since I don't know ^_^ 17:42:03 moneromooo: I guess I will just stick to monero-wallet-cli for now. It is a bit weird that there is no stagenet option for monero-wallet-gui, but I'm new to this. There's probably a good reason. 17:42:36 Pretty sure there is, I must have used testnet when I was hacking on it. 17:42:51 Is there a README ? 17:43:10 Or git grep -i option | grep -i testnet 17:44:34 Hmm... I will look around. By the way, I am using the latest Monero GUI: version 0.17.3.1 17:45:47 Perhaps I should start "monerod --stagenet" before starting monero-wallet-gui. Let me try that. 17:48:22 Hmm... No that did not work. Nothing changed in monero-wallet-gui. 17:48:47 By the way, what is the total size of the current stagenet blockchain? 18:05:44 moneromooo: I've figured it out. In the "Mode selection" menu, click "Advanced mode". Then, under "Advanced options", select "Stagenet" in the "Network" dropdown. Then click "Create new wallet". Fill in the required information ... Then, in the "Daemon settings" select the "Connect to a remote node" radio button. Add a remote node (e.g. one of 18:05:44 those listed in https://monero.fail/?nettype=stagenet). 22:54:01 On a pool website, what does "best hash" refer to? 22:57:05 specifically, this page; when one clicks on a contributor https://cryptonote.social/xmr/leaderboard 22:57:54 millican: might want to ask in #monero-pools 23:00:25 thanks selsta! I didn't know of that channel. 23:01:14 #monero-pools is 5% pools related and 95% off topic 23:03:51 sorry about that. I had no idea. 23:04:22 oh wait, you're saying the discussion on that channel is mostly off-topic 23:11:13 Comically so most of the time.