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Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1539. (Read 4670622 times)

sr. member
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Monero devs kick ass noone can even deny it anymore. Attack the block chain and they are on it within minutes, a whole team of them. Fuck yes
legendary
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Merit: 1003
I hope pools will follow and apply this update as soon as possible. We all responsible for this coin.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
why does this matter? don't they have to pay higher tx fee for higher mixing count? Isn' this equivalent to if a whole bunch of people were using xmr as a currency

Current tx fees are very low to keep XMR accessible to all users (about 1 cent per 24.4 KB), but would allow a user with bad intentions to spam about 300 MB into the blockchain each day. Someone has decided to abuse our blockchain in an act of malevolence.

We will be deploying immediate patches to pools to cope with this update. Expect a mandatory update today.


aye aye capn'
legendary
Activity: 2968
Merit: 1198
ADD: It should be blatantly obvious that we don't want to sell 100 GB of blockchain space for $41k. Do the math dudes, for the sake of Monero!

For those that lurk in #monero-dev -


[23:12:40] monero ([email protected]) joined the channel.
[23:12:40] monero: [bitmonero] fluffypony opened pull request #104: Fees temporarily bumped to 0.1 XMR per tx to prevent spam attack (master...master) http://git.io/9_lUdA
[23:12:40] monero ([email protected]) left the channel.
[23:12:55] monero ([email protected]) joined the channel.
[23:12:56] monero: [bitmonero] fluffypony closed pull request #104: Fees temporarily bumped to 0.1 XMR per tx to prevent spam attack (master...master) http://git.io/9_lUdA
[23:12:56] monero ([email protected]) left the channel.
[23:13:01] @fluffypony: oh well, at least they tried


In other words, if you run a pool, pull master from github ASAP. If you know someone who runs a pool, please make sure the message is passed along ASAP. It is important to get as many pools updated as quickly as possible.

New wallet release binaries, etc. are on the way.

donator
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Merit: 1060
GetMonero.org / MyMonero.com
ADD: It should be blatantly obvious that we don't want to sell 100 GB of blockchain space for $41k. Do the math dudes, for the sake of Monero!

For those that lurk in #monero-dev -


[23:12:40] monero ([email protected]) joined the channel.
[23:12:40] monero: [bitmonero] fluffypony opened pull request #104: Fees temporarily bumped to 0.1 XMR per tx to prevent spam attack (master...master) http://git.io/9_lUdA
[23:12:40] monero ([email protected]) left the channel.
[23:12:55] monero ([email protected]) joined the channel.
[23:12:56] monero: [bitmonero] fluffypony closed pull request #104: Fees temporarily bumped to 0.1 XMR per tx to prevent spam attack (master...master) http://git.io/9_lUdA
[23:12:56] monero ([email protected]) left the channel.
[23:13:01] @fluffypony: oh well, at least they tried
legendary
Activity: 2968
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ADD: It should be blatantly obvious that we don't want to sell 100 GB of blockchain space for $41k. Do the math dudes, for the sake of Monero!

It is being increased immediately to stop the attack. We will later introduce per-kb fees to address the issue in a more nuanced manner (many ordinary transactions are fairly small so they don't need to pay as much as needed to mitigate attacks using 24 KB transactions). However, ultimately the fees seem to need to be quite a bit higher than $0.01 based on experience with spam attacks on other coins such as LTC.

legendary
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Wouldn't an order of magnitude increase in fees effect all the 0.1 XMR payments from the mining pools?

Not directly. They pay out multiple users at one time, which means one fee, not one fee for each 0.1 XMR payment. When users spend the 0.1 payments, they generally combine several of them into one payment, so again one fee. So the higher fee is still possible workable without other changes. Pools may wish to increase their minimum payouts or let users set higher minimum payouts to reduce fees though.

legendary
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Wouldn't an order of magnitude increase in fees effect all the 0.1 XMR payments from the mining pools?
hero member
Activity: 560
Merit: 500
simple problem more mixing more fee
0 mixing
0.005
10 mixing
0.05
100 mixing
0.5

It should be fee-per-kb since the amount of data is more fundamental and adaptive than what the data is. Dust attack have been used on the blockchains of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and many others in the past. It's easy to put a stop to with a fee that's fine for a normal user but quickly adds up for a malicious attacker. Monero's is currently unusually low -- I don't think going even an order of magnitude higher would have much effect on regular users.
donator
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Merit: 1036
Current tx fees are very low to keep XMR accessible to all users (about 1 cent per 24.4 KB)

There is no known legitimate uses that require low transaction fees to be profitable. I am happy to raise them 5-10 times higher and when someone comes to me giving a factual example how his monero use actually suffers due to the fees, I will support him from my own pocket, considering this as a donation to monero ecosystem.

ADD: It should be blatantly obvious that we don't want to sell 100 GB of blockchain space for $41k. Do the math dudes, for the sake of Monero!
hero member
Activity: 658
Merit: 503
Monero Core Team
Ah okay. If we decide on a clear charter to be enforced I will be happy to open a moderated one.
As a general rule, any new sister thread shall be moderated. Reason 1 is all our thread (even the FAQ) are filled with shills. Reason 2 is we have for long a reputation of not abusing of the self-moderation feature, so we shall not fear rejection anymore on this ground. Reason 3 of course is that it will be saner to read for anyone.

Surprisingly, this might not be true. Monero already has approximately 3% as many transactions as BTC and this number is likely to grow as improvements to XMR (especially GUI) are rolled out and more avenues for usage appear. So far aside from speculation (exchanges) we have exactly one medical practice and one gambling site.
As well as two contractants: a chef and a servant (although it was only partially paid in XMR).
donator
Activity: 1274
Merit: 1060
GetMonero.org / MyMonero.com
simple problem more mixing more fee
0 mixing
0.005
10 mixing
0.05
100 mixing
0.5

Then you can still spam by creating a tx with a low mixin and tons of outputs. The solution is per-kb fees, which is on our "important" radar and obviously just moved to our "urgent" radar:-P
member
Activity: 109
Merit: 10
simple problem more mixing more fee
0 mixing
0.005
10 mixing
0.05
100 mixing
0.5
legendary
Activity: 1484
Merit: 1005
why does this matter? don't they have to pay higher tx fee for higher mixing count? Isn' this equivalent to if a whole bunch of people were using xmr as a currency

Current tx fees are very low to keep XMR accessible to all users (about 1 cent per 24.4 KB), but would allow a user with bad intentions to spam about 300 MB into the blockchain each day. Someone has decided to abuse our blockchain in an act of malevolence.

We will be deploying immediate patches to pools to cope with this update. Expect a mandatory update today.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Monero currently appears to be undergoing a spamming attack.

Every 5 seconds or so, someone is submitting tx with mixins of 101 to the network:
https://minergate.com/blockchain/mro/transpool

See also recent blocks:
https://minergate.com/blockchain/mro/blocks

Currently I have limited connectivity to IRC. Please alert FluffyPony, Smooth, etc to this if they are not aware it is going on. We may issue temporary mining-level code that rejects tx with mixin >= 20 or some other reasonable number.

why does this matter? don't they have to pay higher tx fee for higher mixing count? Isn' this equivalent to if a whole bunch of people were using xmr as a currency
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1000
It's here guys! First XMR/Monero gambling site is FairProof. Looks pretty legit, I will be trying and reviewing it tonight.

Use my referral link and I'll donate all proceeds to Dev fund.

fairproof.com/qxc


Good luck!

(Also started a thread to discuss:  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--746591)



Update:

It looks like my review thread was deleted?? So I'll just write it here before I put it in my main gambling thread:

Pros:
Site works, nice layout, received deposit and withdraw

Cons:
Affiliate program does not work
Zero response from customer support via forum PM and on-site ticket after several days
Fair Cards returns a server error, and Roulette does not appear to have XMR enabled at all
3% house edge is excessive, does not reduce for "favorite" bets like 99% chance to win...

Overall Rating:
C-, considering they were first I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now. I would hold off considering I have inside info that another dice site will be opening for XMR soon.
legendary
Activity: 2968
Merit: 1198
Monero currently appears to be undergoing a spamming attack.

Every 5 seconds or so, someone is submitting tx with mixins of 101 to the network:
https://minergate.com/blockchain/mro/transpool

See also recent blocks:
https://minergate.com/blockchain/mro/blocks

Currently I have limited connectivity to IRC. Please alert FluffyPony, Smooth, etc to this if they are not aware it is going on. We may issue temporary mining-level code that rejects tx with mixin >= 20 or some other reasonable number.

Being discussed on IRC
legendary
Activity: 1484
Merit: 1005
Monero currently appears to be undergoing a spamming attack.

Every 5 seconds or so, someone is submitting tx with mixins of 101 to the network:
https://minergate.com/blockchain/mro/transpool

See also recent blocks:
https://minergate.com/blockchain/mro/blocks

Currently I have limited connectivity to IRC. Please alert FluffyPony, Smooth, etc to this if they are not aware it is going on. We may issue temporary mining-level code that rejects tx with mixin >= 20 or some other reasonable number.
full member
Activity: 210
Merit: 100
Got my 750Tis up to around 310H/s: https://ottrbutt.com/tmp/xmrwolf1750ti.png

Nice, where can we get your miner ? Do you have an adress for donation ?
legendary
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getmonero.org
      Monero Status Android Widget

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