Yes, localmonero.co is a popular platform

DrNick2, Localmonero is good. Make sure you use a reputable seller.

Sweet!

.cz btc usdt

Woo! I got a tiny amount of XMR from the Faucet. Alas it looks like the daemon is down and it can't send any XMR.

Also the amount is way less than the min amount it will send. I guess that's not a huge suprise. :-D

DrNick2: What faucet do you mean?

The one in #tippero

(Wallet)

ah

I see that now.

I'm trying to trade with someone listed as "Seen just now" 2 hours ago and they've not responded. Hope that's not a red flag. :-)

Hopefully no one has collected on this reward: forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2…an-crack-monero-other-privacy-coins

DrNick2: just seen now means that they are logged on not necessarily that they are actively monitoring

nioc: Ahhh, cool. Sounds like I just need to be more patient.

DrNick2: its some bug with the API supposedly. you should be able to withdraw once you collected enough

Anyone here use Kovri?

Ahhhh is the website down or what getkovri.org/index.html

Does not seem updated in a while: gitlab.com/kovri-project/kovri

kovri.io redirects to some GoDaddy bullshit

/r/kovri also seems dead

no one in #kovri or #kovri-dev

kovri development stopped years ago

nothing was ever released

Yeah, it's a pretty dead project.

09:27 moneromooo: The better stopgap is what it always has been. Don't insert your wallet into some random unknown's open port.

09:28 moneromooo: It's a stopgap, a solution, and the right way to do things.

09:29 moneromooo: Start equating this with safe sex and people will start getting the idea.

09:29 moneromooo: (maybe)

just saw that lol

1-65535 are technically 'orifices'..

I'm making this meme and need to choose three adjectives that describes monero, which one? suggestions: private, fungible, decentralised, fair, secure, scarce, open source, untraceable, sound money.

this isn't a meme, this is begging :^)

a begging meme :)

not a meme

nice gfx tho

ok, let me rephrase, I'm utilizing a meme for the qr code, anyway, what I'm stuck on is what adjectives to use!

can't use them all 😅

just nestle that in a comfy bed of adjectives

also, nobody tell him that technically because of tail emission monero also has infinite supply, but shh

question

is a LUKS encrypted USB stick without header enough for a cold storage?

as long as the keyfile is encrypted and it's on a USB stick and I don't have my seed or wallet that should be pretty secure right?

if that's the only copy and you lose it you will hate yourself so maybe have another usb with the same data

and regularly check they still work :P

thanks :P

i have no cold storage though i just keep my seeds in my password manager and trust that it's encrypted in there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

or rather i trust the pm's encryption

but this way i can't accidentally lose my keys

and nobody should get into my password manager in the first place

klaxa: hmm... maybe I should change it to 'printable' ;)

just put "brrrrrrt"

I suspect you're more likely to lose your keys vs have them stolen

depends

Having your keys stored unencrypted where you keep your important papers feels like a good approch.

Unless your talking about huge amounts. Not sure what I'd do in that case. :-)

unencrypted sounds bad, at least password protect it

You've got to think about your threat model. What are you protecting against in that case?

Someone breaking into your house and stealing the paper?

Then they need to recognise the importance of the info and use it.

Vs forgetting the password after hitting your head (or just with the passage of time).

If the risk of physical theft is high in your case, absolutely encrypt it.

good point

What about a vengeful wife who wants to leave you?

Or a wily squirrel who wants to eat your paper seed backup ?

don't marry, no vengeful wife

or marry a dude

still no vengeful wife

Or feed squirrels till they're really really full.

say what now?

what

yes, treat your squirrels well

squirrels are always a threat

in the tropics i have no squirrels

just bats

rats

and mosquitoes

am i to treat them well also? o_0

and lizards

don't know about mosquitos :D

Hello everybody. I've encountered the next warning "Transaction spends more than one very old output. Privacy would be better if they were sent separately." As far as I understood it's a simple warning and I can go simply with "yes" option. But I'm troubled that I don't completely understand what's it about and how to deal with it in "proper" way and not having such warnings

The fake output selection algorithm is heavily biased towards recent outs.

So if you have several old outs in your rings, they are more likely to be the real spends, since it is less likely they'd be randomly selected.

moneromooo: ty. So what can I do in order to calm this algoritm down? Make a transaction to myself for example?

The most private way is probably to spend one of these old outs to yourself then wait some random amount of time.

Well, N-1 of them if you have N.

Or just ignore. It can happen by random chance too.

moneromooo: many thanks

Some old outputs are expensive to spend. :(

Do you really mean that, or do you mean they're not worth shit ? :)

I mean it.

Pre Bulletproof outputs.

Oh. Hrm. I'm surprised, I expected old outs to make smaller txes per input.

Pre-rct you mean ?

ah... yes

Outputs that are like 4-5 years old.

Is my gray showing?

If they're pre ringct and mixable, they're used in the exact same way as rct outs, so same cost.

hmmm

If they're pre ringct and unmixable, they're spent in a v1 tx, with ring size 1, and that's got to be a lot smaller than a rct tx.

I think you're mistaken.

Unless there's a case I'm forgetting...

Could it be they *feel* expensive because it is when spending lots of outs that aren't worth shit ?

could be so

:D

yeah... it may be that

Just checking one of my wallets... oldest output is at about block 2.5m

so not really old.

Dude.

I just realized...

We could get some people get in here to chat, and they'd be born after monero started...

Wild.

This other wallet has outputs from 1.8m

lol... yeah... that'd be wild

"Did you know, before you were born, people were using a non private cryptocurrency called bitcoin"

"lol, what is privacy ?"

I think the chat would go that way.

Life sucks.

Young people have no expectations of privacy.

And their children will have none of freedom. Their grandchildren of life. They won't have grand grand children.

Do you think that all the liberties will eventually shrinks to 0?

Happy Birthday montero

Historically, they do go down till a revolution (usually helped by hunger), then they drop to 0 at once, shit gets really bad for a generation, then it gets better than it used to be if yo're lucky.

It's not always down though, there's a random walk. But typically the average is slowly down.

And as long as people are fed, they can go a long while before revolting agianst the increasing erosion of freedom.

yeap

In a way, if your problem is privacy rather than hunger, you're in the lucky part of hte world.

++

all the successful revolutions I know have happened thanks to the elites

What is "elites" ?

those who have the means of power

folk like you moneromooo :)

So, the people who led a succesful revolution ended up in power ? That sounds circuitous.

Because you can't mean that the people who were in power led a succesful revolution against themselves :)

(or do you ?)

s/circuitous/circular/

There are a lot of groups of power. Usually some of them trying to gain all the control overthrowing other groups

Ah, I see what you mean.

The French revolution, I think, was from the hungry people I believe.

The Romanian revolution wasn't from elites either I think.

But that doesn't prove you wrong of course, since those are just two points.

Nah, I don't thinks so at all. Some "progressive" aristocrats are always behind the scenes.

From time to time they dig their own graves though

OK, re-reading, you said "thanks to the elites", which is less strong that what I originally interpreted it as, so OK, I'm ready to believe you here.

I originally got that as "organized by", which wasn't a fair interpretation.

this is quite fair interpretation

What about the Monerevolution?

Ha! You guys should checkout the Revolutions podcast. Right up your alley. :-)