Questions tagged [monerod]
Name of monero daemon (replacing bitmonerod) starting with the v0.10.0 - Wolfram Warptangent - release
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Does monerod generates new block template on a repeat call of get_block_template?
I want to know if it's safe to assume that multiple calls of get_block_template rpc method will give me the same block template until the blockchain is updated. By updating, I mean the appearance of a ...
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Can Monero recover from an inflation bug event?
Is this scenario likely?
An inflation bug is introduced by pushing malicious code / 51% attack on the network by a state level actor
Malicious party prints x amount of Monero and then randomly ...
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Help with Troubleshooting Zero Connections to a New Monero Node
New to setting up my own Monero node. Hoping to join the faithful :)
I have QNAP NAS which I currently have a successful Docker Bitcoin node running on. I am looking to do the same with Monero. The ...
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How might one stop pruning when started in monerod?
How do I gracefully stop blockchain pruning done by monerod?
I have started monerod to update the blockchain and when it finished syncing it I decided to try to save some disk space as the database ...
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Are the blocks mined by a wallet shown as transaction?
How can one be sure that a wallet address has mined 1 or more xmr blocks?
Do they show as transactions or is there any way to confirm?
I ran a wallet with monero wallet cli and upon running ...
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How to keep Monero daemon from crashing during initial sync?
I found that my Monero GUI wallet keeps crashing during the initial blockchain synchronization, and when I start off from where it crashed, data.mdb in C:\ProgramData\bitmonero\lmdb has been corrupted ...
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Updating Monero GUI after a few years (!) [duplicate]
I bought a little XMR years ago back when the most up-to-date GUI was v0.11.1.0 (running a local node on MacOS). I hadn't touched my XMR balance since and just finally decided to try to update to the ...
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monerod.service: Can't open PID file
I'm using the following guide in order to setup a Monero node on my computer:
Monero Node Guide
I am on step 4 and when I run sudo journalctl -fu monerod.service I get the following log:
monerod....
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How to install/use MoneroPHP on my site?
I have the site xmrto.cash and just want to accept and send XMR. I was told MoneroPHP is a good way to do this but am having trouble just understanding how to install and use it.
What is the first ...
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Monerod constantly in sync by lagging behind 2 blocks
I have been running my own Monero Node (Monerod) for some weeks now and it worked perfectly. However, today my Node get stuck in the constant sync limbo at exactly 99.9%. It was always 2 blocks behind ...
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Using a block template to mine
I am a little confused about how I use the block template. I saw this question which leads me to think that perhaps I need to call this function until I get a hash that fits the difficulty. Basically ...
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Coudn't connect to daemon
Wallet do not synchronizing because he couldn't connect to daemon. Win 10. Restore height is 2150000.
I tried:
Reinstall GUI (I had used latest version (17.4) before, but anyway)
Start monerod
Resync ...
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Does Monero have an equivalent to Bitcoin's "blocksonly" flag?
I've looked around on reddit and on here and I haven't been able to find any similar flags. Maybe it just doesn't have it?
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How to fix "Exception in main! locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid" when starting monerod?
If you have upgraded to 17.1.0 of the monero wallet software and run into the error
Exception in main! locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
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Does running 2 Monero nodes behind the same LAN help the Monero network?
I've got two machines running seeds/nodes for other projects, and one of them runs a Monero node as well. If I put a Monero node on the other machine, and it's behind the same IP, does it help the ...
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Monero nodejs mining documentation
I have a simple question. Is there any documentation on how mining software works on Monero with nodejs? Or how should I connect with the blockchain and get some data to process it?
I've looked ...
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How does Dandelion work on old nodes?
AFAIK, Dandelion is not a hard-forking addition to Monero. Meaning, there could still be old nodes in the network that do not support it. How does that work? And what impact do old nodes in the ...
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Monero daemon sees deposit but doesnt record it
Coding a wallet for my website. I built a testnet and stagenet wallet. Both versions same issue so I think it's me. Utilizing xmr.to for test coins and the node address.
I start the wallet RPC like:...
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Get transaction input ring members as public keys
How can I get transaction ring members using the monerod RPC methods?
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Best computer for mining Monero
Hi I am a newbie in Mining.
My question is: which one is the best computer for mining Monero?
I know about the electricity costs (for me are extremely low) and I am not interested in become a new ...
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What is the size of the set of spent key images in Monero?
For research purposes, I want to know the following:
What is the exact size of the set of already spent key images and how it can be checked? Do we need to download the Monero blockchain to get the ...
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failed to connect to daemon on tails
My cli wallet was working before but now I get the error mesage when I log in (or refresh) that the wallet cannot connect to daemon.
Error: wallet failed to connect to daemon: >2xmrnode5itf65lz....
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How to increase monero node connectivity?
I have a server in Germany with a monero node running.
1) I want my node to be informed about the appearance of a new block as faster as possible.
2) I also want other nodes to be quickly informed ...
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How to manually add public nodes to your node?
I want to add peers from a list to my monero node in addition to the nodes to which I am already connected or are connected to me.
I'm using monerod.conf file and add remote nodes (found here) to ...
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Can the expected reward from the block template differ from a actual one after mining?
As we know, we can find a value expected_reward in a response of a request getblocktemplate to a monerod.
Following the documentation:
expected_reward - unsigned int; Coinbase reward expected to be ...
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What's the easiest way to create a unique job for every worker of monero mining pool?
There are several mining pool servers.
Each server polls monerod for a new job.
I want to generate a unique job on each server for all the workers of my distributed pool.
It is very important to ...
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Using the rpc_access_data method Daemon RPC
Monerod command:
monerod --rpc-bind-ip 0.0.0.0 --restricted-rpc --confirm-external-bind --public-node --rpc-payment-address xxxxx --rpc-payment-credits 250 --rpc-payment-difficulty 1000
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What sort of deanonimization attack could someone controlling the majority of nodes pull off?
In the era of Docker containers and how easy it is to spin up potentially thousands of nodes in a minute, what kind of attack could some malicious actor pull off if they performed this? Would ...
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Can someone send monero to my subaddress that starts with "8"?
After I got my wallet onto mainnet, I get an address starts with "8" (normal monero address starts with "4"), and it's a subaddress with a costom label. Can someone send funds to that address?
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How to access to monero rpc from https javascript
I wrote a small javascript to test digest authentication on monerod and monero-wallet-rpc.
When running on a http (no tls) website, authentication works, and I get my response.
Then trying the same ...
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How do you setup a node to communicate with other nodes only over an anonymous network?
BACKGROUND:
My understanding is that at some point in the future i2p will be integrated into monero, so that it is trivial to launch the monerod daemon in such a way that it only communicates with ...
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Having trouble with tx-proxy
I created a test transaction to test broadcasting monero tx over Tor, from a computer running a full node.
On that computer, I started monerod with the following options:
./monerod --tx-proxy tor,...
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Can't start monero daemon under Ubuntu WSL "Attempt to get hash from 0 height failed"
I am using monero v15.0.2 gui version under windows 10 Ubuntu WSL. I am getting this error when starting up. It doesn't seem to be downloading the blockchain at all. How can this be resolved?
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"Error: Problem fetching info-- rpc_request:" when running monerod as service
I have set up monerod to run as a service so it is easier to manage.
Service file:
[Unit]
Description=Monero Full Node
After=network.target
[Service]
User=monero
Group=monero
WorkingDirectory=/mnt/...
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What is the difference between monerod --detach and monerod --non-interactive?
It seems like each of these would run monerod in the background. How does the behavior differ? Under what circumstances might one choose --detached over --non-interactive or vice versa?
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Changing IP tables for Monero on Tails returns error
When setting up Monero on Tails I get an error (Bad argument 'DNS_PUBLIC=tcp') when following the instructions given on the Monero Github site to change the IP tables with the below command:
Using ...
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Please Help! -- GUI wallet Daemon failed to start and can't find log or monerod
I'm running the GUI wallet v0.15.0.2 with a Ledger Nano S (the Ledger is updated as of yesterday) on a mac. When I open the wallet I keep getting this message "Daemon failed to start. Please check ...
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How to reduce the CPU consumption of my Monero node?
I have both a testnet and mainnet node running on my Intel i7 CPU, and the CPU is completely maxed out, leaving little room for my other services. Given that the nodes are both in complete sync, what ...
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What is miner_tx_hash?
I am trying to figure out the Daemon RPC API.
Requesting a block with get_block(), the block header has a field miner_tx_hash.
The block also contains a JSON field miner_tx, which contains the ...
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Does the latest Monero release (Nov 2019) contain I2P and Tor only in CLI or in the GUI too?
Win 10 user, PC, trying to setup Daemon on a local hard drive. Before I do, I want to know about the privacy options regarding IP addresses when using a node.
Does the latest Monero release, to run ...
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Monero blockchain usage after importing .raw file
I am wondering how to use blockchain after conversion of the .raw file through blockchain-import. I already have a data.mdb file, but it seems like the new .raw file is bigger now, so I have to sync ...
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Running a Monero node over TOR from external SSD hard drive with wallet
Pardon my ignorance, the other day, I asked a question about setting up a Monero node and wallet on my PC. I have now decided not to do that, and instead will set up on an external SSD drive. There is ...
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How to find out how big the Monero blockchain is?
Is there any way we can find out how big the Monero blockchain download size is today? I see old threads dated 2018 which say it's around 50gb, but there must be a URL somewhere we can found out the ...
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Running a Monero node from a home PC with Broadband unlimited download over TOR. Doable?
I want to run a Monero node from home.
My PC details:
Processor Intel (R) Pentium (R) CPU N3700 @1.60GHz
1.60GHz
RAM - 4 GB 64 bit operating system x64 based processor
Total space 465 GB, Out ...
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Why is the content of tx different between monero-utils-deserialize and print_block?
I built a private testnet with reference to https://github.com/moneroexamples/private-testnet.
When I used monero-utils-desirialize to check the public tx key, I noticed that the displayed tx content ...
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Questions about ANONYMITY_NETWORKS.md
I find the info in the ANONYMITY_NETWORKS.md document to be somewhat opaque and the cost of misconfiguring your anonymity network could be high.
Some specific questions:
Under what conditions would ...
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Is i2p-zero integration accessible from monerod cli in 0.15?
I've heard conflicting answers on this, and would appreciate a definitive response.
One of the reasons i2p-zero was developed was to provide a version of i2p that could be integrated directly into ...
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Why won't monerod.exe connect to daemon?
I have tried the following to get monerod.exe to work:
placed all monero related folders in the exception section of my antivirus (AV originally quarantined and blocked several files)
removed monerod....
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What ports should I forward on my router to be most useful to the network?
I'm running monerod --rpc-bind-port 18081 --restricted-rpc, and want other people to be able to sync off my nodes. If I port-forward on my router, which ports should I open?
Edit: According to https:/...
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What flags should I run with monerod to be the most helpful to the network?
Additionally, do I have to port-forward in my router to let others sync off me?
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