Questions tagged [monerod]
Name of monero daemon (replacing bitmonerod) starting with the v0.10.0 - Wolfram Warptangent - release
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How does the dynamic fee calculation work?
A pull request on github for dynamic fee calculation was just submitted. How does this new dynamic fee calculation work?
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What is a "[P2P0]WARNING: no two valid MoneroPulse DNS checkpoint records were received" warning?
At the end of synchronization I saw this error:
[P2P0]WARNING: no two valid MoneroPulse DNS checkpoint records were received
I noticed no effect on the functionality of the daemon or the wallet, ...
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Synchronizing painfully slowly
monerod on my hybrid server is synchronizing painfully slowly, on the order of only about 20 blocks per minute. Port 18080 is open and I have 11+2 connections (varies). Do I just need to wait or is ...
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How do I safely shutdown the daemon in ubuntu? [duplicate]
I have started monerd detached and need to exit it safely. I have tried adding stop to the /proc/(pid of monderod)/fd/0 but monerod doesn't accept the input. Is it ok to kill the process? I want to ...
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Is there any obfuscation in the communications between nodes?
If a dictatorship decided it wanted to block Monero, how easy or hard would it be at the ISP level? Does Monero have any built in obfuscation to counter censorship (of Monero use in general such as ...
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Does the Monero daemon and wallet connect with other nodes by ssl or unencrypted?
Do Monero nodes connect to each other by encrypted channels or non-encrypted? Is Monero resistant to spying by ISP, in other words can Monero use be censored in its current form?
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Why do monerod and monero-wallet-cli have mine commands?
Looking at --help, they each have a start_mining and stop_mining command. monerod includes an argument for an address. How are these different from cpuminer-multi?
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Why is monerod so slow to sync the blockchain?
Only a few days can take more than an hour to sync. It couldn't simply be a matter of downloading x MBs as I download much larger files much faster. Is there that much processing going on, or have I ...
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Overview of what happens when I run monerod diff
Just curious if there's some calculation that happens or what exactly because when I ran it on my machine it froze for a solid minute before giving me the difficulty....froze the whole machine nothing ...
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I run a Monero pool and miners aren't receiving payouts! Please help me thank you [closed]
I run a Monero pool and after finding a block all the XMR was paid to my wallet. Pool miners received 0% of the payout.
Have I set something up improperly? If so how do I fix this issue?
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How to migrate mining pool data to another server? [closed]
I have mined for a pool and would like to transfer my data to another pool. How can that be done?
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Is there any advantage for a regular user to run a node?
What do we gain by running a node and what does it accomplish for the Monero network?
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How to configure MoneroD logging
Is it possible to configure what monerod is logging to the console?
Specifically I would like to filter out the marked as INC.
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Will command line daemon/wallet still be available after the release of the official GUI?
Will the Monero command line daemon/wallet programs still be available after the release of the official GUI?
Will Monerod will be blended in similarly to how bitcoin core node/wallet is?
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What is the bandwidth cost of running a full node?
Simply...how much bandwidth will I use when running a full node at home, without mining?
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Why are there so many different amounts received when receiving a payment?
Do the amounts received correlate to the mixin level when sent?
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How to mix correctly?
I have noticed that Monero mixes are usually a bunch of very small txs and then a much larger one that accounts for almost the whole amount sent. I also hear talk that one should not be sending "...
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How do I use a computer with a wallet to access a headless node at my home?
I'm running a headless, low wattage Ubuntu 16.04 (x86, if that matters) system that I have SSH'ed into, ran Screen, ran ./monerod, and then detached the Screen. This is my node. I also set up this ...
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Is the syncing time a good benchmark to evaluate Monero resource requirement with high tx/s?
It took about 6h to sync my node with monerod 0.10.0
(It might have taken less time, I can't recall the exact time unfortunately)
Monero has about 240,000 tx in the blockchain last year. (...
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Block added as alternative on height xxxxx
I've noticed this message in monerod many times since running the software. Can someone explain what these alternative blocks are?
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Which mining software is most efficient for CPU mining?
Given that there are a couple of different miners out there, such as the standard monerod, Wolfs XMR or lucasjones XMR miner, which one would be best suited for CPU mining? Is there any code ...
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How secure is connecting the monero wallet via SSH tunneling to a self run remote server?
Since running the monero daemon to sync with the blockchain requires substantial bandwidth and uptime, I have recently switched to connecting my wallet (with the local wallet files) to a remote ...
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Is it possible to restrict to scope of rescan_bc in monero_wallet_cli?
Is it possible to restrict to scope of rescan_bc in monero_wallet_cli?
A rescan can be quite long, it would convinient to be able to limit it when rescanning a recent wallet, is it possible?
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If I use the trezor beta and something goes wrong, can I recover my coins with the seed?
If I knew that I could always recover my money with my seed, then I wouldn't be afraid to try out the trezor.
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What is the best way to pop the top block from the monero blockchain and fix a bad "unknown top block" error in the sync data process?
It appears whilst syncing the blockchain the computer halted resulting in a bad block at the top of the chain.
After restarting no more blocks are being added and just repeated errors. There is ...
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Is it normal for the disk activity to be so high while running monerod?
Mine runs at 99% most of the time.
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Is it possible to set up a short cut to launch monerod with a flag and cli-wallet at all at once?
Eack time I use monero I need to start monerod with a flag (I use a different port) and it is a bit tedious sometimes.
Is it possible to set up a short cut to launch monerod with a flag and cli-...
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Why does monerod consume so much CPU?
I'm on an i7 core but monerod consumes up to 300% CPU at times. When I am catching up on the blockchain, it renders my computer nearly unusable. Is this normal?
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Message "Ours and foreign blockchain have only genesis block in common... o.O"
When I'm syncing the blockchain for the fist time, I have this error message 8 times
2016-Sep-26 19:58:50.608535 [P2P3]ERROR /tmp/monero/src/monero-0.10.0/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp:1835 Ours ...
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automatically banned IP addresses
I have not banned any IP address manually but I notice with the command ̀bans that some IPs are banned:
76.3.101.16 banned for 86268 seconds
188.232.79.74 banned for 85817 seconds
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How to bind daemon to inbound/outbound listening port on ubuntu
I would like to connect simplewallet or the GUI to a remote daemon
In my remote compute instance, how would I bind the daemon to the right ports?
Net service bound to 0.0.0.0:18080
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How much time to have blockchain synced?
I am wondering if there's a command to predict / calculate how much time does bitmonerod.exe still need for a blockchain fully synced.
Currently its 404321/1133160 and my network usually has a ...
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Why does my bitmonero fail to load?
I'm trying to run a node for the first time on linux mint, and let the blockchain update while I was asleep. When I woke up this morning my computer was unresponsive, and I did a hard shutdown.
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Where to find a computation example of the monero traceable ring signature mechanism in a small finite field?
In the following coindesk article, The math behind bitcoin, you can find a beautiful example of the ECDSA keypair generation, signature and signature verification algorithms in use in bitcoin. They ...
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bitmonero and simplewallet error cryptonote_format_utils.cpp:148 max_out exceeded
I have a problem in bitmonero node and simplewallet. When I'm starting both I'm getting the same error:
ERROR /DISTRIBUTION-BUILD/src/cryptonote_core/cryptonote_format_utils.cpp:148 max_out exceeded
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Can I run my simplewallet node from an external hard drive?
Constantly updating and scanning the blockchain for newly discovered blocks is eating up a lot of memory on my Mac. Can I run simplewallet and bitmonerod from my 1 TB external HDD and only when its ...
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How do I gracefully stop the monerod daemon process?
I started monerod as a background daemon with the --detach flag.
Suppose I want to restart my computer, how do I gracefully stop the process?
Can I just kill it?
Thanks in advance.
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bitmonerod data-dir in a virtualbox shared folder
I'm trying to run bitmonerod in a VirtualBox VM with --data-dir pointing to a directory in a shared folder from the host system. I get this error:
If I do the same in the host system, using the ...
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What software is included in the Monero Core?
What software is included in the Monero Core?
https://getmonero.org/downloads/
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blockchain_import fails, "Transaction has too many dirty pages - transaction too big"
I'm trying to set up a node and import the raw blockchain. OS is Whonix with 2GB RAM and plenty of free disk space hosted on Win7 ENT.
user@host:~/Desktop/monero$ ./blockchain_import --input-file ...
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Is it safe to share a daemon with a roommate?
Are there any security concerns with sharing a Monero daemon with a roommate to send or receive transactions?
If we each person has their own wallet, encrypted with a very strong password what are ...
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Usefulness of an intermittent full node
I run bitmonerod on my laptop when I'm using the computer but I shut it down for the night. I don't mine due to the computer relatively low capabilities.
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Why is it faster to synchronize from the network than to import from a raw data file?
I've read some places that its faster to synchronize from the network than to download and then import a raw blockchain file. Why is it faster to synchronize from the network?
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How can I manually stop attempting to connect to offline nodes
When I start my full node, there are multiple offline nodes that bitmonerod keeps attempting to connect to.
How can I manually stop bitmonerod from trying to connect to nodes that are no longer ...
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What exactly is the relationship between Monero and I2P
I know they both compliment each other but I'm trying to figure exactly how they both work together. Is it used for the anonymity? Sorry for the newb question, I have just really been trying to figure ...
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What programming language(s) are used in building Bitmonerod, Simplewallet, Kovri, and the Monero GUI?
What programming languages are being used to build Bitmonerod, Simplewallet, Kovri and the Monero GUI? Are multiple languages used within the same application? What is the level of programming ...
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What is MoneroPulse?
I've seen some messages in the daemon about MoneroPulse - what is it and what does it do?
The only reasonable reference I can find online is this Tweet that says "MoneroPulse: a loosely distributed ...
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How do I build Monero for Windows from source?
Are there detailed build instructions for building Monero for Windows?
Does the version of Windows we are building for (7,8, 10) (x86 vs x64) require different dependencies?
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Meaning of "62 days ahead" message after full node has finished synchronizing
What does the message "62 days ahead" message mean?
My full node has finished synchronizing (I confirmed this by comparing my block height with both moneroblocks.info and Explore.MoneroWorld.com)
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Error: send que size more than ABSTRACT_SERVER_SEND_QUE_MAX_COUNT
What does this bitmonerod error mean?
ERROR {6} {p1} 2016-07-24 17:47:31.294360 [abstract_tcp_server2.inl+512 ::do_send_chunk] send que size is more than ABSTRACT_SERVER_SEND_QUE_MAX_COUNT(1000), ...
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