Here are a couple of excellent resources for any Monero hobbyists who want to start learning about Bulletproofs:

I was thinking it would be great to have a Zero-to-Monero extension that included Bulletproofs, which is pretty much what from0k2bp is. ZtM includes these resources as citations, but they are easy to miss if you aren't looking for them. Seemed worth sharing.

Thanks I am dumb I needed this

hi

does the mymonero wallet work already again?

'ello! How is everyone today?

good good

we up ☝️☝️☝️☝️⬆️🆙🆙🆙🔼⤴️⏫

I am definately missing some fonts stuff because that doesn't show right for me.

Still, that's good! Not so much for me since I don't have any yet. Just made the wallet last night.

Was tempted to mine but I forgot my fan curve is fucked, so my glowey pc box became my blowey pc box.

My monero down?

Not sure what you mean

SSpeaking of buying monero, where do you buy yours? Right now I'm thinking I'll use Kraken.

Nigel: i dont buy but i sell

on localmonero only

Mine a lot of it then?

nope

i run kyun.host

and i need to pay server fees with fiat

Oh, so you get paid for hosting in monero, and cash that out to pay hosting fees?

exactly

Aaaah, that's cool. How well's that working for you?

pretty well

a lot better than i was expecting

im just working to fix any bugs and implement features so that everything is smooooth

my goal is to be the reason people get into xmr

That's good!

currently (with some exceptions) most clients are people that were already into xmr

I followed Mental Outlaw's guide. It's good for getting started but I know there's more beyond that I'll have to at some point figure out.

And of course making my PC not a turbine. Open back headphones are not a good pairing for that.

couldnt imagine ever using open back headphones

i produce music & mix songs on cheap noise cancelling headphones xd

Something clicked with me that I can get an open back for main listening, then a nice but cheap pair of buds for on the go/when I need to noise isolate, and suddenly I have the best of both worlds for not much more cost.

Chifi has gone nuts with IEMs. Good ones are CHEAP

i dont like iems

my ears are greasy as hell

and i wear my headphones aaaalll day

except when im taking showers

Fair. I didn't used to like them but I found a pair that works well for a good chunk of the day before I get anoyed at them.

How is localmonero, by the way? I've not looked into p2p exchanges. I assume they're cheaper?

im not sure how buying is but when selling i usually sell for ~1-2 eur under market price

rarely i find offers buying for way more

Well that's good. Feels more in the spirit of a privacy coin to do p2p rather than a centralised exchange.

please build a lending market or bridge to use xmr as collateral

So I'm moving to a place with free utilities and wanted to set up something to mine monero. I've been experimenting with old laptops to see if the "mining calculators" were accurate before getting the hardware, and...... (full message at <libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/v3/do…05db159946f1ae67641b564df173575cf1a>)

Calculators were correct for this hashrate, so you did something wrong.

P2Pool itself worked fine and paid out correctly to other miners reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/…in_vs_mini_40khs_x_30_days_on_gupax

so maybe your p2pool node was unstable, or you didn't get 500 h/s all the time

Even at a constant 400H/s it's a 0.4/mo estimate, to get this low they would've needed to stay at ~150H/s, which I know they haven't. So fairly sure that's not it.

Not sure about the node either. I had to restart one of the laptops halfway through the month, if it picked a new node then one of the laptops would've mined significantly more than the other, right?

Can I force a node change and leave them another 2 weeks to see what happens?

Keep in mind that with such a low hashrate, you're very subject to variance

I'm aware, that's why I left them a month. Payouts were fairly regular at ~6 day intervals

That gets compounded with pool luck as well

So if you find shares at the "wrong" time, you'll end up seeing large swings in the payout

6 day intervals, so you only got 5 payouts? At this scale it's still very luck dependent

the link I posted (40 kh/s) got more than 100 payouts in a month

Ok, I'll accept "luck" as a possible explanation. I'll leave them another month and see if there are any changes.

Thanks everyone :)

Mrrowmeowmeow: Did you say you are using a remote node? That would reduce your effective hashrate on P2Pool

Nope, all of them have a local node.

> Nope, all of them have a local node.

This intrigued a question: If I wanted to have multiple different computers mining, would each need to download the blockchain individually, or can I share?

only one computer needs to run a node

No

You can use 1 node

Oh, ok, because that wording confused me.

* confused me. Thank you.

They are running multiple, it seems.

sounds backwards

Yeah I just didn't want to bother with one node for all my stuff on my home network so I have a local node on each computer

It probably is 🤷‍♀️

Isnt it more of a bother to store multiple blockchains and to split your hashrate

than to pool your hashrate and save resources?

I didnt read the backlog - i assume youre using p2pool? You also only need 1 of those

If youre not using p2pool, you can use xmrig-proxy in its place , then connrct xmrig miners to xmrig-proxy (to pool your hashrates).

xmrig-proxy connects to the node

Storage is not an issue tbh. I'm just learning and wanted to compare actual results to calculator estimates. Wanted to test in two separate computers for consistency.

Consistenly would be using the same node, same storage,

Same conditions

Well they are identical laptops? Not sure what you mean

If one node goes offline,or has a firewall Setup different, different connections, or stealing connections from your other node

Taking time to set up connections within your home network for P2Pool isn't worth the daily P2Pool wage :P

its easier than syncing nodes..

Literally change a startup flag, then instead of spinning up nodes you just run xmrig and point it at xmrig-proxy.IP:3333 or p2pool.IP:3333

If node is on 127001... (full message at <libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/v3/do…e99be42e25a7b95212b26bbd879c4a4503d>)

* start xmrig-proxy** with

"change a startup flag" for p2pool is `--stratum=0.0.0.0:3333`

does p2pools new update of having backup remote zmq nodes if your local one is stuck help here

Sech1?

github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/blob/v3…MMAND_LINE.MD#multiple-backup-hosts

first host provided being localhost 👀

it only helps if the one node is unstable

*the one node you use

great feature, nice work!

"first host provided being localhost" it's because if you use "--host" in command line, it will not use 127.0.0.1 by default - you have to provide it explicitly

ah thanks for clarifying - have to specify it, gotya

<Rucknium[m]> "Mrrowmeowmeow: Did you say you..." <- Really?

I didn't realize that the SEC is about to doxx all kraken users

That's wild

Where does it say that?!

scragglez[m]: Didnt kraken users dox themselves

Kyc

And didnt they go after binance or coinbase customers similarily a couple years ago

Ftw

for unpaid taxes etc

Inremember something like less than 6% of crypto holders claimed crypto on their taxes

Bahahahahah

(Laughs in Monero)

<ofrnxmr[m]> "Inremember something like less..." <- crypto? never heard of her

Chainanalysis indicates that is a lie

s/Chainanalysis/Chainalysis/

<scragglez[m]> "crypto? never heard of her" <- Those users need to do the satoshi dance and never touch their crypto, or be found to be liars

chesterfield: Due to latency. You don't want to be working on a stale block

after running monero-blockchain-prune is the flag --prune-blockchain needed to continue pruning the blockchain? I have read conflicting things.

and is --sync-pruned-blocks useful if you only want to download a pruned blockchain?

for syncing?

How about users, not under US jurisdiction?

👆️ about the SEC/Kraken shitshow.

monerobull: monero.town signup/login ? trasherdk seems to be unknown.

may require manual verification after the restart

Lol

<powerhouse555[m]> "after running monero-blockchain..." <- no

<powerhouse555[m]> "and is --sync-pruned-blocks..." <- Sortof. Lets just say yes

that clears things up. 😆