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Can I change limit_up speed?
You can change them, either when starting monerod:
--limit-rate-up arg (=-1) set limit-rate-up [kB/s]
--limit-rate-down arg (=-1) set limit-rate-down [kB/s]
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Is there any remote node list to connect simplewallet?
Check out https://moneroworld.com/#nodes for a current list and instructions.
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What is the purpose of running a Monero node?
Purpose is to independently transact yourself, and verify the blockchain state yourself. If you don't need to transact or check transactions, you don't need to run a node.
If you don't run a node, ...
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What is the purpose of running a Monero node?
The purpose of running a Monero node is to use Monero, the cryptocurrency.
The monero node is a p2p program which keeps the blockchain in sync with the network at large. It is your connection to the ...
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What is a remote node?
Since Monero has a separate daemon monerod, which synchronises with the network, a command line wallet monero-wallet-cli and a GUI wallet monero-wallet-gui to generate keys, sign transactions etc.
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Peers often report unknown top blocks. How can I find more reliable peers?
Having a partially synced chain does not mean unreliability. It might be that these nodes are syncing the chain, as you presumably did at some point too. Banning these nodes would mean noone can start ...
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Is there any benefit to the network by running multiple full nodes from one location?
It's even harming the network, since every full node will be synching the whole blockchain from other nodes and using their bandwidth without giving more back to the network than one full node at this ...
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How to nodes discover other nodes?
Monero wallet's daemon monerod initially and when all recent peers are offline tries to connect to one of the hard coded seed nodes, currently these are:
seeds.moneroseeds.se
seeds.moneroseeds.ae.org
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Does the ARM v6 have enough power to be a Monero node?
Thanks to Monero Reddit people, I solved the issue. This is the link to the discussion.
The issue was related to timezones because the timezone of the system was set on wrong timezone, one hour ...
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Mitigating Risks of Forking Monero
the link to the original code base is maintained
Depends what you mean by "link". There is a link to the original code that is maintained whether you fork publicly on GitHub or whether you clone to a ...
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MoneroWorld Remote Nodes Not Working
MoneroWorld is not dead.
Unlikely a ports issue, it's all outbound. You are connecting to it then trying to start_mining and herein lies your issue - you are trying to mine on a remote public node. ...
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Should one disable the Windows firewall for the Monero Wallet GUI?
To connect to one of moneroworld nodes, one has to establish an outgoing connection. Default firewall policy is to allow outgoing connections and block incomming connections. So you don't need to ...
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Can a full Monero node be restricted to run only at specific times?
You can use cron to start and stop monerod at the times you want.
Best is to run monerod with the --detach flag to run as daemon, then run without it but the exit command when you want to stop it:
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Opening Port 18080 for Incoming Connections on Router
The methods to open ports are specific to the router you have. You don't need physical access to the router, just access to the routers web admin interface. So, I suggest you search for your specific ...
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Is there a way to see all the transactions coming through my Monero node?
Yes. You will need to increase the log level in the daemon. E.g. set_log +daemon.rpc:DEBUG should suffice.
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What ports should I forward on my router to be most useful to the network?
As I answered to your previous question, you do not need to forward any ports for the p2p interface. This is the interface nodes use to send each other data, such as blocks. transactions and peerlists....
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Can an ISP swap out Monero's default peers? Would this be detectable?
Since those peers are hardcoded into the Monero software, could a malicious ISP intercept initial communications by redirecting traffic to those peers?
Sure, to another valid Monero node. Traffic ...
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Is there any remote node list to connect simplewallet?
In addition to https://moneroworld.com/, there is also an automatically updated list of remote nodes on https://www.xmr.be/ (i.e. nodes on this list should always work).
DISCLAIMER: I am the author ...
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Is there any remote node list to connect simplewallet?
There are more open nodes listed here:
https://moneroworld.com/#nodes
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How can you minimize risks to your privacy when using a remote node?
If it's only about sending moneroj, one could generate locally a signed transaction and forward it through a service like https://xmrchain.net/rawtx using tor/i2p/vpn to hide the originating IP.
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Why isn't communication between wallet and daemon encrypted?
I'm not qualified to answer this but I'll provide this in answer in the hopes that someone more qualified will step in. There is no reason why you shouldn't connect to a remote node, but any node you ...
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What are the 'Login (optional)' fields for in the GUI settings?
These fields are used to connect to a daemon requiring a username and a password (when the monerod daemon was started with the --rpc-login option).
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Number of confirmations and node location
Newly received coins can be spent after 10 confirmations.
I case two conflicting transactions are sent to the network by two clients managing the same wallet, the first to arrive at the node that ...
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What is a remote node?
The simplest way to explain what a remote node is would be to say that it's any node that is not local.
If you are running a node at your home or place or business, you are running a local node. ...
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Lost monero money after switching wallets
What probably happened is that you hit a bug which skips early scanning, but skips too much.
If this is indeed the reason, you can fix it by doing this:
exit the GUI
rename the wallet cache, eg ...
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Backup and Disaster Recovery for Monero Fork
Once you have lots of people using your cryptocurrency, you can back up nothing at all (I'm talking about not backing up your seed nodes. If you have a wallet, you'll want to keep the mnemonic seed ...
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Can't connect to my full node outside my local network
--rpc-bind-ip [IP ADDRESS] Binds the daemon to an IP address. You need to use your External IP if you plan to access this daemon from outside your local network, or an Internal IP if you only want it ...
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How to Generate monero wallet on server-side(node.js) or locally?
Alright, solved generating monero wallets problem like that (using Meteor.js):
Downloaded this AWESOME repo: https://github.com/mymonero/mymonero-core-js
Unpacked this repo to the node_modules ...
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What are some reliable public monero nodes one can connect to using their Monerujo app?
https://node.pwned.systems/ has a listing of nodes you could use, updated every 20 minutes.
If you like to use DNS: node.moneroworld.com:18089
To understand the risks, read this reddit thread and ...
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Running a Monero Node on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) with no incoming connections
If you run a node and do not open inbound connections, then you cannot relay other users transactions or relay blocks. So having a full node in this scenario wont be helping the network. However, it ...
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