Was thinking about what kind of professions would prefer privacy and thought about therapist as one possible profession. What other kind of (legal) profession would have clients that would want anonymity in payment?

This has been bothering me for a while. I am trying to use best practices to help obfuscate the UTXO trail completely. When I send a transaction, if it includes multiple inputs, then it is pretty much obvious which inputs are mine. Looking at the explorer, I look at both of the input arrays and then for each array see which of the key images come from the same previous transaction.

On a single input spend, this wouldn't happen.

What steps should I be taking to prevent this?

I was trying to start xmrig to solomine for a bit to my own local deamon, but it wouldn't start mining. The problem appears to be that there's not enough RAM available.

It's a Windows 10 machine with 32 GB RAM. In the Resource Monitor I saw that Monerod.exe is using 26 GB of RAM. This is with an uptime of 2 days 6 hours. I don't remember this happening before 0.16.0.0, because I haven't run into this problem before, although I haven't looked for it either.

Obviously I'm synced alright, so before you ask here's monerod's status output:

Height: 2113415/2113415 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 1.38 GH/s, v12, update needed, 8(out)+169(in) connections, uptime 2d 6h 26m 10s 

Startup parameters are:

--p2p-bind-port xxxx --p2p-use-ipv6 --restricted-rpc --rpc-use-ipv6 --limit-rate-up xxxx --limit-rate-down xxxxx --data-dir xxxxx 

The question is: could monerod.exe have a memory leak? This is not normal behaviour, is it?

Hi all,

After a long time working on Monero and having integrated the Ledger Hardware Wallet (the first HW?) into Monero client it's time to me to move on and pass the relay.

Why? Until now Monero was still maintained as R&D project by myself. It is now moving in the coin integration team and will reach a new state level. That's as a good news.

So the new application leader is u/grydz. He has already started to work on Monero and has
fixed and prepared the application for the 0.16.0.x client.

It was so interesting and fun to work on this project. Great thanks to the dev team which always help me! I 'm sure the dev team and community will support him and provide him with the same help they provide me.

On my side, be sure I continue to keep an eye on the Monero future :)

Thanks all again!

I’m looking at which one of the two aforementioned nodes I should use. So, I thought that I ought to ask the community! Let me know what you’d prefer and why.

Let me start by saying that this is not a price discussion, rather a discussion of economics within the monero ecosystem.

please watch this video with balaji srinivasan to understand where I'm coming from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNp2WhSGhqQ&feature=youtu.be&t=1444

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Bitcoin was used at one point as a currency for economic activity for non-speculative reasons. I.e. business using them/ goods and services being exchange. This was the driving force for the network effect that bitcoin currently has. Monero is on that same path. If we keep building, mainstream merchant adoption will come and the ecosystem will grow. If the ecosystem grows, we will have a closed loop system. This is key, as the selling pressure is diminished.

So i am running a Monero full node and started CPU mining through the GUI wallet. I use a Ledger hardware wallet to interact with my addresses. In an older guide i read that the Ledger needs to stay plugged in the whole time. Is this true/still actuell? Sry if this was asked before, i searched a bit but didn't find an answer to my explicit question.

Right now MoneroTipsBot has a feature where you can donate to the CCS with a click of a button (semantically, it sits in /u/MoneroTipsBot's wallet until I send it to a proposal), and it's a feature I've definitely noticed people use from time to time when they have spare change.

I am cautiously proposing a feature like this could be added to the official GUI - MoneroTipsBot makes up a tiny fraction of Monero usage, but has still raised roughly 1 XMR/year since launch. I don't believe the CCS is hurting for donations, but it could still be useful to raise funds in more than one spot.

There's more potential here if options are presented for where the user wants their funds to be sent. Connecting to the CCS itself is a privacy leak, but choosing between development, research, or localization is not. A chance for the userbase to give back might work out better than we think, but I would be cautious of some of the pitfalls.

Borrowed from national politics. If Monero found a way to implement UBI, it's popularity would explode.

Hey everyone!

I've been taking a keen interest in cryptocurrencies for the past few months, last night I decided to get down to action. The plan was to buy one Monero! As I understood, I needed to do three things:

1. get a wallet
2. buy monero from exchange
3. transfer the monero from exchange to my wallet

I downloaded official GUI, installation went fine however I wanted to make sure I don't download the entire blockchain so I did some research on that. After installing I read the pdf instructions and searched the web a bit on how to set up a wallet. As I was writing down the mnemonic key (I understood it's a good idea to write it down on a piece of paper which will be well hidden) a strange thing happened: my table lamp blinked and my pc restarted. I'm using a fairly old pc that has it's problems, however it never restarts out of the blue. At that point I was a bit scared, I heard a bunch of times that cryptocurrencies are associated with hackers etc. After few minutes I got to the conclusion that something must have happened with electricity, there is no other logical explanation since the lamp blinked as well, however it was somewhat peculiar that it happens as I'm making my first wallet...

As I understand it, every time I open my wallet GUI has to go through all the blocks on the blockchain, correct me if I'm wrong. That is what the syncing in the bottom corner should be doing, right?

Next thing that I found out was that buying crypto from exchanges isn't just your regular online transaction, I had to submit a photo of a document with identification, now I'm waiting to get approved.

This whole process took an hour or two, I was expecting to finish the whole thing in an hour, and I haven't even bought any crypto...

Anyway if someone has a different explanation to why my pc restarted while I was making my first wallet, I'd love to hear it. Also, how was your first experience with monero?

I put my seed in Monerujo to use for my wallet instead of my desktop location but on Monerujo I have 0xmr but on my desktop I have 0.04, any reason why Monerjo is showing none even tho they both are the same seed.

I tried sending xmr from my desktop to phone wallet and it came up in Monerujo as receiving and said pending when I clicked on the transaction and my desktop had moved the xmr to locked+unlocked but then after 20 min it just went back to my unlocked only and my Monerujo still has no xmr. Any help is appreciated thank you!

I’m wondering as to what the pros and cons are of the CLI and GUI wallets.

Furthermore, if I run a GUI wallet in advanced mode, does it mean that I have a node, or is the node only available in the CLI file?

What’s the average monthly pay for a CLI owner who enables pay-to-RPC? By this, I don’t mean their salary, but rather, I mean what they get from the feature.

Many thanks.

We're trying to create a simple opensource app for any group to be able to use for organizing and mutual aid. We would like to integrate a monero wallet into the app. If anyone knows how to do this and would like to contribute whatever time they're comfortable with for this project, please msg me.

Hello Monero Land!

Monero Talk is looking for a volunteer to help out with the show during their free time. Since we are also currently running a U.S. Congressional campaign, it has become difficult for us to keep both running strongly. So far we have managed to keep up with posting a weekly show but we don’t want to risk falling behind. We are looking for someone with a Monero-loving-privacy mindset, that will help us out with keeping track and up to date with all things Monero (and the cryptocurrency world), give us suggestions on guests that they (and our viewers) would love to see on the show as well as helping us reach out and book the guests.

Also, we have other show related projects that we would love to take off the back burner and try to grow (Like our Crypto Scramble Game Show)

Unfortunately, since we are still a growing show, we won't really be able to offer much right now - except for our utmost gratitude and friendship (if that means anything haha). On the bright side, you will be able to get to know all the great people in the Monero community that you will be reaching out to for booking shows :) If things do grow and we bring on more sponsors, payment is possible.

With that being said, we are looking for someone that is passionate about Monero, has free time on their hands and wants to help build Monero Talk and the Monero project.

Please email us at: [monerotalklive@gmail.com](mailto:monerotalklive@gmail.com) if you are interested in becoming part of our team & want to help us out with the show :)

Yours truly,

Doug aka u/chowbungaman & Sunita

Without anonymous-inbound your node can only make outbound Tor and I2P connections and will be listed in other nodes sync_info output as <unknown tor host> or <unknown i2p host>.

See https://github.com/monero-project/monero/blob/master/ANONYMITY_NETWORKS.md#inbound-connections

I read somewhere that it is possible to exchange btc to XMR with cakewallet. I don't need or want to hold any currency on cake wallet at the moment, but I read that when you hit exchange, and do BTC to XMR and put the amount of BTC, that it would populate a BTC address for you to send your coin to from whever it may come from and convert it and then send it to the xmr address that you have provided. Is this not the case? because it keeps telling me that I have to provide a BTC address.

I'm not even sure how that works, even if I provide a BTC address its supposed to just take btc from that account and transfer it over to my xmr account? Makes no sense to me.

I've read about researchers restoring the whole transaction chain, deanonymizing, etc. in the past. Has that been fixed or it's just a matter of time before another researcher blows it up?

P.S. I'm newb, please go easy with highly technical stuff :)

I am helping a friend work his Monero into a Ledger Nano S hardware wallet. We have moved his amount to Monero GUI from Kraken and have completely synced the blockchain. Now I have an issue: I typed the Monero address (displayed on the Ledger app under “XMR / 0” character-by-character into the send portion of the GUI but it starts with a “9” and isn’t recognized. How do I move the amount to the actual hardware wallet? I am asking here as a final resort because I can’t find anything on google on how to GENERATE the address, it just tells me to paste the address for the Ledger. Not how to get the address on my clipboard to begin with.

Thank you in advance