08:01:21 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? 08:22:05 duso: sounds unlikely 08:22:17 where did you store your blockchain? 08:22:43 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 08:22:45 selsta: rust drives over iscsi to vm 08:23:25 anything happened 3 days ago that you can think of? 08:23:37 usually people unplug their external hdd during sync 08:23:44 which can cause corruption 08:23:48 I was 9 months behind, it synced at roughly 1month a day until 3 days ago and now staying about 450 blocks behind 08:23:48 but not sure about your setup 08:24:50 your setup isn't ideal for a node 08:24:56 fast ssd would be ideal 08:26:23 yeah, SSD would be awesome, but have zfs raidz1 array so not super IOPS, but was steadily syncing up to 3 days ago 11:45:04 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? 11:46:50 maybe with ctrl+z, but i'm too scared to try 11:54:45 ^Z would definitely work. 11:55:41 moneromooo: ok, i'll try ctrl+z then when i get back at my laptop. thank you! 12:04:52 FWIW, if you're doing this on an already synced db, you're probably better off resyncing from scratch with --prune-blockchain. 19:35:29 Ars Technica - new article on out of date topic. crypto mixers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/07/usage-of-crypto-mixers-for-stymying-blockchain-investigations-hits-all-time-high/ 19:36:24 shows biggest use from Russia - bypassing sanctions and Hydra DNM 19:37:08 but Hydra was already shutdown by LE... 19:38:10 gonna take a long time before mass media catches up 19:46:23 ah the entire article is basically a paraphrase of a Chainalysis blog post from yesterday 19:47:02 it's odd that they show that traffic from Hydra peaked in April considering that Hydra was shut down on April 5 19:47:49 https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy/status/1511336046302216207 19:48:22 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? 19:48:52 could it be, they have nothing to show, because after Hydra went down, the rest of the darknet traffic went to Monero? 19:55:30 the comments on the article are predictably pathetic 20:19:02 I had to comment anyway https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/07/usage-of-crypto-mixers-for-stymying-blockchain-investigations-hits-all-time-high/?comments=1&post=41075034#comment-41075034 20:22:59 wow, you have only 109 posts in 22 years there :D 20:23:55 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 20:23:58 yeah. I've posted more in this year than pretty much ever 20:30:34 lagoon93: did they shutdown bittorrenT? 20:31:23 look after  plandemic they can do anything 20:31:36 maybe without success but they dont care 20:33:39 there is tor for monero  but is difficult for the masses 23:25:48 Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 2667664 -> 2668128 [Your node is 464 blocks (15.5 hours) behind]