01:34:52 <Steven_M> gingeropolous: Hi, may I ask you a few questions about your node, which may aid me in perfecting my new node?
01:47:21 <Mochi101> How will he ever buy his lambo if he cannot mine though selsta ?
02:13:59 <gingeropolous> sure, and just ask in here, others may provide better info than I, or quicker info :)
02:14:46 <gingeropolous> i've been meaning to give this a try. haven't gotten around to really digging into it. https://xmr.sh/
02:38:38 <Steven_M> gingeropolous: I noticed that the connections between your node and wallets, are not over SSL. Is there any reason for this? Is SSL hard to implement?
02:40:47 <Mochi101> wow... that xmr.sh is nice
02:44:28 <Mochi101> oh it's only 2 months old.
02:53:20 <Steven_M> gingeropolous: I want the connections between my new VPS node and wallets to be over SSL, but I'm not quite sure how to set that up yet.
03:04:56 <hyc> that's all supported directly in monerod now but you could always just use stunnel if you didn't want to figure it out
03:11:28 <Steven_M> hyc: Could you please give me the step-by-step info on how to do it directly in monerod (or give me a link to an easy guide for it)? I'm willing to pay you for tech support.
03:28:29 <Steven_M> A question on an unrelated topic: Can anyone recommend a good replacement for xmr.to?
15:49:10 <kyrilasa> Hi, is it possible to sync only the "kth" topmost blocks? 
15:56:58 <moneromooo> No.
15:57:08 <moneromooo> However, you can scan a particular tx.
16:06:51 <kyrilasa> Thanks, I wanted some workaround not to download the whole blockchain on testnet when starting testnet daemon, but then it is not possible. Sorry for asking noob questions, but is there a remote daemon I can connect that is running testnet (so I do not need to download the whole blockchain)?
16:07:41 <kyrilasa> *I mean when specifying the "--daemon-address" flag using cli.
16:07:58 <moneromooo> I believe so. I do not hve a URL though. You can also run with --regtest, you get a fresh chain on latest fork (v16 IIRC).
16:20:42 <selsta> kyrilasa: selsta2.featherwallet.net:28089 or  https://community.rino.io/nodes.html
16:24:11 <kyrilasa> @selsta Thank you!
20:10:39 <garth> Since PoW takes so much heat for being "environmentally wasteful" I am going to open a new pull request in the Monero repo, that anytime the daemon syncs with a fluffyblock it will output FLUFFYBLOCK DETECTED THANKS FOR HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT
20:12:18 <moneromooo> These have no effect on PoW.
20:13:16 <garth> Marketing, mooo. It's all about marketing.
20:13:21 <joke> hate
20:13:29 <joke> hate is motivator and greed