I am still sitting at about ~450 blocks behind for the past 3 days. Nothing but blocked hosts. Is this because I am not running my node behind tor? Are ISPs now blocklisting know monero nodes?

duso: sounds unlikely

where did you store your blockchain?

a corrupt blockchain can cause your node to be unable to verify blocks which causes it to block other peers thinking they sent wrong data

selsta: rust drives over iscsi to vm

anything happened 3 days ago that you can think of?

usually people unplug their external hdd during sync

which can cause corruption

I was 9 months behind, it synced at roughly 1month a day until 3 days ago and now staying about 450 blocks behind

but not sure about your setup

your setup isn't ideal for a node

fast ssd would be ideal

yeah, SSD would be awesome, but have zfs raidz1 array so not super IOPS, but was steadily syncing up to 3 days ago

hello. i'm a monero newbie, and i'm running the monero-blockchain-prune command to reduce the amount of space used by monero. is it possible to interrupt the command and resume it later without starting again from scratch?

maybe with ctrl+z, but i'm too scared to try

^Z would definitely work.

moneromooo: ok, i'll try ctrl+z then when i get back at my laptop. thank you!

FWIW, if you're doing this on an already synced db, you're probably better off resyncing from scratch with --prune-blockchain.

Ars Technica - new article on out of date topic. crypto mixers arstechnica.com/information-technol…n-investigations-hits-all-time-high

shows biggest use from Russia - bypassing sanctions and Hydra DNM

but Hydra was already shutdown by LE...

gonna take a long time before mass media catches up

ah the entire article is basically a paraphrase of a Chainalysis blog post from yesterday

it's odd that they show that traffic from Hydra peaked in April considering that Hydra was shut down on April 5

and their report data ends in April, which seems odd for a report posted in middle of July. Where's their data for May & June?

could it be, they have nothing to show, because after Hydra went down, the rest of the darknet traffic went to Monero?

the comments on the article are predictably pathetic

I had to comment anyway arstechnica.com/information-technol…ts=1&post=41075034#comment-41075034

wow, you have only 109 posts in 22 years there :D

is any possibility of any gov agency in the near future saying that if i saw monero traffic from your ip u'll get a fine of 0000000

yeah. I've posted more in this year than pretty much ever

lagoon93: did they shutdown bittorrenT?

look after  plandemic they can do anything

maybe without success but they dont care

there is tor for monero  but is difficult for the masses

Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 2667664 -> 2668128 [Your node is 464 blocks (15.5 hours) behind]