00:55:24 apotheon Not sure if it was all the chain but seems to me it was much more than usual. Also the balance was zero when scanning. I open the wallet regularly and never had that. 01:12:47 chch3003[m], did you happen to be using node.supportxmr.com as a remote node? 01:13:05 It recently was shut down, so you might have moved to a slower node. 06:27:38 MoneroKon 2023 CCS now open for funding https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/monerokon-2023-ccs-1.html 13:50:28 https://getmonero.org 13:50:28 https://github.com/monero-project/ 13:50:29 This is the correct link for the monero github page right? 13:50:53 yes 13:50:53 And monero site* 13:51:17 plowsof11: Thanks 👍️ I'm building it from source code on Gentoo 13:51:41 It's version 0.18.1.2 13:52:21 yep thats the latest, nice to hear 😀 13:53:12 Yeah there is a overlay for monero-gui and a guru package for monero 14:12:25 Can someone explain what is the monero daemon? 14:16:13 the thing that does the things with the blockchain / network traffic 14:18:39 plowsof11: What it does exactly?  14:20:35 what is the blockchain? 14:20:46 plowsof11: Yeah also that  14:22:52 how about an interesting article instead https://serhack.me/articles/story-behind-alternative-genesis-block-bitcoin/ 14:47:12 Anyone else here mining on an Intel i5-8400? What kinda hashrate are you getting? 14:57:06 "Anyone else here mining on an..." <- https://xmrig.com/benchmark?cpu=Intel%28R%29+Core%28TM%29+i5-8400+CPU+%40+2.80GHz 14:59:14 Oh, thanks, didn't know about that. 15:02:26 Read through the RandomX optimization guide on xmrig.com 15:03:31 On CoffeeLake cpus I believe you will see a slight increase by setting scratchpad_prefetch_mode to 2, default is 1 15:03:43 Happy tweaking!