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Blockchain shows individual address amounts or cumulitive wallet amounts?
Wtf, Monero GUI sent to a different address?
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> any advantage to an SSH setup over a GUI install Less RAM is used, allowing a higher value for *dbcache*
I started with MyNode few years ago, but after few years the blockchain was not update and I switch to umbrel since. No complain, really like their GUI and approach.
Running a console only (SSH) will use less memory and CPU than a GUI. And on a small machine like a Pi, every little bit counts.
Well, I have the pi and it’s sitting in a box doing nothing. I figure, why not? I do have a question though. I was planning on SSH and self compile. I’d like to only run through the TOR network. Is there any advantage to an SSH setup over a GUI install? I figure, once setup, it can run for years. I have unlimited internet and I’m rarely home anyway. lol
Been thinking about this exact thing myself. I don't have any Linux or cli chops, I'm a GUI guy so I need a visual interface. Is a Pi5 and the Bitcoin code manageable on a Pi for a neophyte or should I be looking for something like an Intel Windows NUC?
Cool! Nice to see some open minded on here :) Here are my favorite resources for learning about monero: https://masteringmonero.com https://youtu.be/O58STfvxZnY?feature=shared https://youtube.com/@SweetwaterDAC?feature=shared https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfJ_JjSwYaa9-Fw10RvwInk6AO3xASmJ5&feature=shared https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsSYUeVwrHBnAUre2G_LYDsdo-tD0ov-y&feature=shared As a wallet I can recommend Cakewallet for IOS/Android and the official GUI/CLI wallets for desktop (getmonero.org)
Ledger supports monero and there are many other hardware wallets that do. Wallet providers are not impacted by financial regulators since they don’t have access to the coins. If it is banned from the app store, you can always sideload the apps (though I doubt it will get removed). Probably the most secure setup is to have an airgapped PC with no WiFi capability and generate the wallet there. Use SD cards / QR code to transfer transactions to/from it for signing. You can use it with ledger. You just need to download the official Monero GUI, as it is not implemented in Ledger live. https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006352934-Monero-XMR?docs=true
Yes but whats stopping you from getting btc with kyc, withdrawing it to your wallet, for example electrum and sending btc to no-kyc exchange that will convert it to XMR and send jt your GUI wallet?
GUI INU on Aptos. Aptos is a sleeping giant 🙌
It's a comprehensive guide. If OP wrote a similar guide on how to use a bank and its web GUI, it would probably be longer since it would include a dozen different bank websites, their menu systems, and the numerous different transfer protocols. The important parts can be summarized in 3 steps: * Get a wallet: Metamask (or Rabby) * Pick any L2: Arbitrum One (or Base, Optimism) * Use L2 just like Ethereum
This guy shitcoins. Use dexscreener for charts/new launches, jup/raydium to swap, phantom wallet for $$ If you want to go true degen OP, can get BonkBot, its a GUI terminal trader for these shitcoins, as sometimes dexs can have latency APE at your own risk, SOL shitcoins are vv risky :)
I have an idea for a simple crypto-related calculator tool to help plan exit strategies. I have enough python coding skill to set it up on my computer (the basic math that is, nothing fancy and GUI related). I would love to code it up as an online tool and share with folks here, but no idea where to start that. Anyone have a good idea how to set up and share online a simple python calculator tool thing? (Or have an idea for which subreddit to ask for advice?)
We all went through this conversation like a decade ago. I use the term millibitcoin and microbitcoin. In the protocol, there's only Satoshis. The decimal placement was an arbitrary GUI decision on the first bitcoin wallet, and we all collectively adopted that to mean 1 bitcoin. But you don't measure a banana with meters or kilometers. Instead, you'll use centimeters or millimeters. use the appropriate units for the scale. As bitcoin grows, we shift to the units that are more convenient. I made an important philosophical shift in my understanding of it all around a decade ago. We must let go of thinking of 1 BITCOIN as a thing. Bitcoin is a scalar quantity, like distance. You can't own "1 distance" and you can't own "1 bitcoin"
>And could barely do anything useful for the ordinary member of the public. A computer that was user friendly with a GUI, and useful software, was a long way away This doesn't detract from it being a good analogy to crypto.
And could barely do anything useful for the ordinary member of the public. A computer that was user friendly with a GUI, and useful software, was a long way away. And the web wasn't invented until the early 90s, when the Internet became useful for most people.
You don't recall what your setup was ? Like did you use electrum as a wallet ? Just plain Bitcoin core GUI ? Not sure what kind of backup code that can be. If it's not a private key.. yeah you either encoded it somehow or it's a code for something else.
I tried to set up a Rocket Pool validator. Bought a NUC specially for it, but couldn't get my head round the non-GUI based Linux setup. I should really look into that again.
That's a small fraction of what the code does. Bitcoin does more than just find other nodes. There's also the chain validation, mining, tx sending, utxo splitting, lots of command line tools and the GUI, which is also a ton of work. Then the really hard part is making it all come together in a way that no one can game the system. Getting the hash rate, block size, blockrate etc... all perfectly tuned and balanced so that it makes sense with a living breathing internet full of people spread across our specific globe. You have to consider the practical limitations of the internet and also human nature. Looking at the code and saying you understand part of it is far from sitting down and writing it all before anyone else has ever written it.
Why has no AI worked out how to do this for itself? Is this because the "I" does not mean "intelligence". I mean, all the tools necessary are digital, accessible via the Internet. An AI could, without additional coding, install a non-GUI Electrum wallet, tell you its Bitcoin address and start receiving donations Two AIs could negotiate offloading work from one to the other in return for appropriate payments. They could even build their own AI2AI micropayment platform and settle net balances monthly on-chain
The ability to show the native and fiat balance of the random shitcoins I own so I don't have to open a dozen CLI, GUI wallets or apps to check. Enter my public address for said coin and the app will handle the rest Even if I can't trade them it would be handy to see all of them at a glance rather than opening a dozen or so apps and wallets.
You came to crypto for making more fiat money and without understanding the first principle. Do not trust third parties hence always control your own keys. There are plenty of better however still more inconvenient solutions that are preferable over using KYC/CEX: Exchange method | Exchanges| Trust level ---|---|---- DEX | bisq, Haveno | ✅ escrow P2P | LocalMonero. AgoraDesk, Robosats, Zapit, Peach Bitcoin| ✅ escrow Atomic swaps | Samourai Wallet, UnstoppableSwap.net, AtomicMonero, BasciSwapDEX | ✅ trustless AMM (automatic market makers) | SeraiDEX, Maya, Thorchain | low for users / medium for liquidity providers (hacks) Electricity | XMRrig, Monero GUI, Grupax | ✅ trustless Earning | any products or services | low - ⚠️ high (scams)
Withdrawls opened back up as of this posting. I was able to get it to a wallet on my PC. I'm just using the Monero GUI wallet that is linked on the Monero subreddit, go check it out and see if you can withdraw
> Do I need Umbrel, MyNode, Start9 No, they're quite useless, eye candy, non-standard config, and insufficient documentation to debug problems in the config > I don't really understand why the services listed above have become so popular? It's the GUI. They're popular with people whose brains freeze at the sight of a terminal window with a command line > is it really that hard to set up a full node? On Linux, download the tar archive. Unpack it using *tar*. Move the 7 binary files into */usr/local/bin/* Windows and MacOS instructions on the same page as Linux https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node
Cosmos? Osmosis is a useless GUI, the whole cosmos defi is a rug pull scam
Whoever pays you for IT support, pays you way too much. That is the problem with kids who were born after Win95. They have NO IDEA what DOS is…no idea that Windows is not actually an OS. Windows is a GUI built on top of the DOS language. A .bat file is an executable SCRIPT (which is the same thing as saying program) compiled and run thru Windows by CMD.EXE because Windows is NOT an OS…it is a GUI. If you were at a DOS prompt (something you have probably never seen) you would see that you could EXECUTE a .bat file freely and totally separate from CMD.EXE
Obviously you can just use something like cakewallet but if you do want to maintain as much privacy as possible setup a full node so when you load your Monero GUI it will sync immediately because all it needs to do is connect to your full node. With umbrel you'll be able to play around with your full node in the browser: 1. Get a Raspberry pi & get a [cool case for it](https://thepihut.com/products/retroflag-nespi-4-case-for-raspberry-pi-4) to look like a gaming console (optional but cool) 2. Install [umbrel](https://umbrel.com/umbrelos#install) on it 3. Run [the monero app](https://twitter.com/deverickapollo/status/1668235335648567297?t=tODRZ4VFiWiNiHQxrQZsxw&s=19) 4. Connect the Monero wallet to your umbrel node via settings
Thanks for the reply. (none of the following directed towards you, all my bad) I actually paid attention to my wording to be clear and still got taught up in the lingo. I swear that is what is holding adoption back more than anything. People keep saying they don't get it, that's because the internet/people use multiple words for the same thing and then swear they're right and the other person spoke incorrectly. I mentioned Electrum Androoid in an effort to avoid that hoping most were familar with its layout. And it shouldn't be called a "wallet" at all! It should be called a "bank". People are always being told, you are the bank now, you dont need the bank, you can always get access to your money, etc... You can then leverage the lexicon they are familar with like "Accounts"-When you make a new account you have a signature page, and go online to the website or mobile app and make passwords. So the Seed words are your signature card at the bank and the PassPhrase is like your password for the website/app. and there is another password just to open the app, :) The "Safety Deposit Box" could be the Cold Storage like Bonds or VAnguard index fund you leave alone, you can't get to it from your debit card account. Your debit card is a hot wallet and your checkbook is a cold wallet. (The wallet GUI's are guilty of this too). For example I know the difference between a wallet "brand"-if you will (Edge Blue Electrum) and an address inside the wallet. However when you start Electrum app it says to enter your password to open the "wallet" and then shows me a button the "create/open a wallet", so it feels like you're only getting one address per wallet. So I have 14 now :) and a cramp in my hand from writing seeds and passphrases. If your still here, thanks, heres the question. So Im erasing all these practice accounts and going to make 1. I'll likely create it with a coldcard and "import" it into electrum android by typing in the public address and passphrase or if the coldcard Q comes out using the QR code that I think has both rolled into the QR code. So is it true everytime i ask for a Receive QR electrum is going to make a unique address foro me to show to the sender and it doesn't top out at like 128 or 256 address? Or at least it would tell me, "used all Receive addresses get another "wallet" ahemm "account", i mean stack of deposit slips. Conversly if you need to Send for some reason, there is an infinite supply of Send QR codes...wait there are no Send codes I generate because im always using someone elses Receive QR code to send to. Then why is there always a Send button in these wallets. There should only be Receive and Confirm. Receive is easy enough generate QR and present. (and bad idea to have a business card or sticker made up of a Receive address as you get too many utxo's to one address you get your clock cleaned in fees, right.) When you pay you get their Receive QR, enter amount, fees, etc.... and "Confirm". I think I just solved btc adoption, that's enough for tonight, thanks for your help.
Tale as old as time. The kids at Xerox in the '70s tried to sell the execs on the idea of a GUI. They got laughed out of the room. They could have been Apple or IBM or Microsoft. They still make copiers. The kids at Sears in the '90s tried to sell the exec on the idea of e-commerce. They got laughed out of the room. They could have been Amazon or Alibaba. Now they're bankrupt. Etc., etc.
Tried mining on my laptop but was worried it was going to overheat if I left it overnight. This was when it had first launched. There was no GUI and the geth cli was the only client.
this is most likely the answer from my experience. the receiving wallet is likely not fully synced, especially if OP verified the hashes of their download personally I've started recommending people to just use feather wallet. the default config for the official GUI is confusing for new users and arguably a little broken. it leads to probably 90% of support posts
How long is the Monero address that you used? If it's not a standard 95 characters address, but a 106 characters *integrated address*, strange things can sometimes happen display-wise, although I would think that the Monero GUI wallet app is clean in this regard.
Before the Pi4 was released, hundreds of people ran Bitcoin Core on Pi3 It takes many weeks to initialize, so it makes sense to initialize on a PC and copy the files. Some people struggle to reliably copy files from disk to disk If you choose to initialize on a Pi3, plugging in a storage device to the USB2 port will cause the initialization to fail part-way through, due to I/O timeouts built into Core > I read online that a RPi4 is recommended Two reasons * recommended minimum RAM is 2GB. Pi3 has 1GB. It will work, if you do not use the Pi X-Window GUI, and use bitcoind, not Bitcoin-QT * Pi3 takes about 6 weeks to initialize. Pi4 about 4 days, because the CPU is faster, and (for the 8GB RAM Pi4) using more RAM for dbcache speeds up the initial load > capable of downloading 1MB every 10 minutes Definitely > and to run the ECDSA algorithm to verify the validity of the block The validity of every transaction. SHA256 is used to validate the block Block by block, the Pi3 has no problem with this processing load Initialization requires the node to process almost one billion transactions. With the default config, it skips the ECDSA for most of them, but it is very slow to build the UTXO database, one TXO at a time
The Pi is a single board computer, there are many operating systems available, but the usual one to run is the official Raspian OS (based on Debian flavour of Linux), which you write to MicroSD using Balena Etcher. You then connect a mouse/keyboard and display (would need something like a microHDMI to HDMI cable). From there the Raspian OS will boot to something like a desktop GUI. You will need to launch a Terminal client from within Raspian and from there you can enter standard unix/Linux commands.
> Have you ever tried to run an ETH node? Actually yes, I did run ETH node. The main requirement is a big SSD and 16GB ram. But the hassle wasn't running a node itself, it was configuring it to work with metamask. The fundamental thing Bitcoin does wong is assuming that everyone has to run full node - which is never going to happen. Satoshi knew it, and ETH devs know it. > Bitcoin also has a built-in wallet, built-in multisig, and GUI These things are separate in ETH, node devs are focused on node, wallet devs are focused on wallets. There are pros and cons to both philosophies but I don't consider one to be clearly superior to other. > Ethereum to get a GUI you have to trust a third party It's fine as long as all pieces are open source and well maintained. I see no difference betwen using two open pieces of software vs one miltipurpose one. This separation also gives the user more flexibility which to pick. > So if by “better user experience” you mean the most shiny, sure. I mean almost no transactions stuck due to fee market fluctuations, quick confirmations and generally much lower fees than in BTC. Users do care about these features. > But you mean the most secure That's a topic for a whole separate debate. In short ETH has smaller market cap, but since introduction of PoS, it actively punishes bad actors by slashing stake. Their security model is perfectly adequate
It comes at a cost. Have you ever tried to run an ETH node? It’s a nightmare, and requires ridiculous hardware and knowhow if you want to run a full node. A Bitcoin node on the other hand requires a fraction of the resources and is a fraction of the complexity to setup and maintain. Bitcoin also has a built-in wallet, built-in multisig, and GUI Ethereum to get multisig you have to create your own smart contract, deploy it, and manage it Ethereum to get a GUI you have to trust a third party, many choose metamask, and many lose everything because of this choice So if by “better user experience” you mean the most shiny, sure. But you mean the most secure (which is what I’d say should be the metric) then Bitcoin has it by a mile
I understand. What I'm saying is eventually someone will figure out a GUI that will make it easier to use and heavily mitigate that risk. Something that sits on top of a hardware wallet. Like ledger live but it would be based around signing signatures offline, telling you when you are properly airgapped etc. A sophisticated wallet graphic user interface, essentially.
This happened with the internet too. Before we had DNS(Domaine Name System). Websites were literally their IP address. Think about wallet addresses and all this stuff we work with. We are still seeing the long form version of bitcoin. We are still in the IP address phase. They will eventually come out with wallets that are probably like little black boxes. Similar to what we have now, but with a more advanced GUI that makes navigating the blockchain and your transactions stupidly easily. To the point where you don't interact with the actual bitcoin protocol anymore than you interact with TCP/IP protocol today.
And what I’m telling you is that services like FixedFloat use the exact same software from the exact same companies that larger exchanges use. There’s literally 3 major companies - Chainalysis, TRM, and CipherTrace. Throw in a few other smaller companies too. Some of them use multiple providers. All of these same companies provide compliance software for any VASP whether it’s GUI or API AND provide investigation software to LE They ALL have the same data