Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1269. (Read 4670643 times)

Are you sure it was starting from scratch. The blockchain download is somewhat out of date so you will need to sync several weeks, but not the whole thing.

Once it is done syncing you should type save in the daemon window to update the blockchain file on your disk (normally this will happen every 12 hours).

A brief question. I've downloaded the blockchain.bin from the first page together with the Monero Client .NET GUI. Is there a trick to force it to look up the downloaded database instead of redownloading the whole thing from scratch?
PS: I've followed the instructions and put it inside the %appdata%/Roaming/bitmonero as well as %appdata%/bitmonero but unfortunately, no cigar.

Thanks

Thats not a real reason to not use British English, of course most denominations are USD/BTC with the USD being the world reserve currency. Most other markets are denominated as so. You dont see much GBP/BTC parings as there isnt much demand to trade in that obviously but what does that have to do with using the correct language?

Obviously American English. The British have been hostile to cryptocurrencies thus far. How often do you see pound/BTC pairing?

--British banks won't deal with anyone related to cryptos.

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British please.
American can sometimes sound like a slang.

Question to core team members:
When writing text for Monero project, do I use American English or British English?

Opinions from non core members also appreciated.

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Yes ?

you re using windows ?

Thanks for the detailed answer and I can understand why you want to load the blockchain into a database.  The blockchain is starting to get big!  I am curious as a IT bod how you are going to index the blockchain as penultimately this is what you have to do.  Does it already contain a multi level index or do you need to add some extra information over the blockchain?  Good luck ;-)  Personally I think long term that blockchain will be held centrally as they will get too big then you just connect to a service for proving personal coins. Have you thought about skipping the interim database approach and implementing a centralised or even distributed block chain ? I am guessing the later options would take too much effort / money....  

I like the first approach as I downloaded yesterday and it had 71 days to catch up.  Can someone please update both Windows and Linux on a weekly basis ?

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Eye can not wait til my monero is live with a wallet for Charlotte.
Like a spider, it will crawl, all over this orb.
Untangled, it will.

...has found a new home on 1 more desktop  

An ambitious official GUI is under development, but there are other things that need to be tackled before being able to release a proper GUI wallet for the masses. One of those things is the blockchain in DB format instead of loading it entirely into RAM (this was inherited from the original bytecoin code). The BlockchainDB version has been evolving and you can try it out on your own if you are capable of building it on Linux, but it still needs some work and a lot of testing.

IMO, It's not about embracing one of the currently available GUIs. People can use and develop whichever GUI they want, that's the nature of open source software. Core members have their own view of what a GUI wallet should be like, and they are aiming for that. They have shown designs and have released a preview version of it.

Good software development requires solid design, capable coders and a lot of time. Core members work for free on their free time, but they are also humans (I think) and they also have a life (I think ).

I would also love for development to go faster, but wishing and pushing for it won't make it happen any sooner.

Hopefully we will see a GUI sooner than later. Some have rumored about it being released around Christmas, but I don't expect that to be true. Core members have not made any promise about it, and won't make any promise they can't keep (except for missives on Mondays... just kidding  )

All I take as a fact, is that it will be done "when it's done"^tm.

Having said that... I do believe in the potential of this coin and I have faith in the team behind it.

There have been two schools of thought on updating, and I think the Windows and Linux block chains are being updated differently (but not 100% sure, as I use neither).

The first approach is to update regularly so they are always up to date.

The second is to update when tagged releases are issued and publish as fixed hash for the download. Someone downloading in between releases will have to do a bit of catch up syncing from the p2p but it will still be much less to sync than starting from scratch.

On the issue of GUIs, the existing open source GUIs are available, but they are rough around the edges. I suggest anyone who wants to see those getting a stronger endorsement and wider use contribute to those projects (or if the original developer is no longer involved, fork it and resume development).