Guys how do I check if my monero node is discoverable? I set it up as a .onion because my isp doesn't allow for port forwarding.

I'm using monero gui btw

<t​eemo:digitalprivacy.diy> I think you can access your .onion node through browser and there will be some info about the node in json format, so you can verify it’s accessible

<t​eemo:digitalprivacy.diy> Sounds like “I use arch btw” xD

I tried connecting through localhost and it didn't work. the port 18089 is closed

is it possible to enable the port through the daemon startup flags?

<t​eemo:digitalprivacy.diy> It should be enabled, but if you want it to be discoverable by others I think you have to configure port forwarding or maybe get public static ip, idk

<t​eemo:digitalprivacy.diy> Are you able to sync your wallet using your node?

it's still syncing

but my point is that even if I could port forward the daemon doesn't have the port open

ok i figured it out I needed to add some daemon startup flags to turn on the restricted rpc mode and make it a public node and it works now

pxwm46culmrb2sxtbmwkhsczbj3veqeuaex2a5772uszyg2oujxiawad.onion

<c​rimsonleaf363:matrix.org> Verifying the first eight and last eight together should be pretty secure then.

<c​rimsonleaf363:matrix.org> Do you have any resources to back this up?

When I wanted to be sure, I check the first 4 or 5, then check the first 4 or 5 of sha256sum of the address plus a couple random chars appended.

<c​rimsonleaf363:matrix.org> While using a dedicated signing device like a Ledger?

<c​rimsonleaf363:matrix.org> It's interesting that I can't find a strong standard answer. In Bitcoin, we verify the first and last 6 characters.

No, normal software.

If you're comparing with Bitcoin, then you need to know that monero addresses are the concatenation (kinda) of two keys.

So if you're going to compare 1 and 6 for a monero address, it's kinda like comparing 6 at most, not 7.

Probably not quite right since the base58 encoding might avalanche from the start to the end, but nowhere like a cipher.

So if you want to do that, compare 1 and 7.

Best would be comparing 1 and 6 from the first key though.

Though to get the exact same security, you might have to turn the 6 into 5 or 7, depending on the "compression" each of the schemes achieve. I've no idea what Bitcoin uses to encode their addresses.

Also, the first char is not the first textually, since that's the netowrk byte, so will always be 4 for standard addresses, etc. You'd want the second (I think that's where the spend pubkey starts).

<c​rimsonleaf363:matrix.org> I did some more research and the first 16 seems to be the best if you aren't going to fully verify each character.

<p​reland:monero.social> The likely reason for this is because limiting the number of characters that you read at a standards level will effectively reduce the number of unique addresses, as well as create a target for attackers to exploit

<p​reland:monero.social> While it isn’t likely that any one address would have both the first 6 and last 6 matched, someone could run a program to generate and save a bunch of addresses into a database to use against people that are unlucky enough to have those matches.

<p​reland:monero.social> Another smart idea could be to hash your address and check those numbers in addition to the other numbers

<p​reland:monero.social> An actually funny idea I just had: you could also make an algorithm that would generate a unique “chain” of hashing algorithms and you could check that instead

<p​reland:monero.social> That way an attacker can’t also select for matches of a well known hash algorithm

<p​reland:monero.social> Probably overkill, but it should work

<c​rimsonleaf363:matrix.org> I'm looking for a ux friendly but secure way for your casual monero user that's spending from a hot wallet.

<l​0rdkn0cker:matrix.org> Hey guys, trying to set up a monero-cli wallet on a VPS, and the syncing is incredibly slow. It's a 16gb ram, 6vcpu, SSD vps and it's currently at 96%

<l​0rdkn0cker:matrix.org> But it's been syncing for over 12 hours

<l​0rdkn0cker:matrix.org> It syncs like 40 blocks per minute at the current rate

<l​0rdkn0cker:matrix.org> What did stand out to me though, is that when I launched monerod I got the message `The blockchain is on a rotating drive: this will be very slow, use an SSD if possible`. I assume it's because of virtualization that it can't properly detect the drive as an SSD

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> I love the name

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> also, it's normal to see a warning of rotating drive on VPS. That's because their hypervisor (likely QEMU) is passing a virtual drive

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> so on paper it looks like an HDD but it's actually SSD speed

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> However 40 blocks per minute is slow so I suppose it's actually SSD, but instead of files they are using something like LVM thinpool, which is slow at allocating new storage for your VPS

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> Anyway, if you want to check disk speed use Yet-Another-Bench-Script on github

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> this will give you the disk/network speed

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> However 40 blocks per minute is slow so I suppose it's actually SSD, but instead of files they are using something like LVM thinpool, which is slow at allocating new blocks of storage for your VPS to use

<l​0rdkn0cker:matrix.org> Ah I understand, I'm currently testing out another datacenter that provides an NVMe ssd instead, and it's already at 42%. Not really quantitative since the blocks get fatter the further you go but it does seem _better_

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> May I also ask what OS you are running ?

<l​0rdkn0cker:matrix.org> I'll give that a try thank you

<l​0rdkn0cker:matrix.org> Ubuntu 22

some days irc is so dead

matrix-mossad too

at least this channel

<m​onerowinbig:matrix.org> We relaunched. monero.win

<s​yntheticbird:monero.social> This site and idea looks awesome

monero.win was up for sale on reddit 2 years ago, which "we" have relaunched it 🤷

reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/yjdfd4/monerowin_is_closed ~ web.archive.org/web/20221101164419/…comments/yjdfd4/monerowin_is_closed

mochi101

so the original "we" of monero dot win are @ playmonero.com

(imagine selling your auto garage company and then opening a competitor next door to the new owners 😆)