Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1601. (Read 4670972 times)

After testing the "--restore-deterministic-wallet" on windows, i lost some transactions.
I re-download the blockchain but only the last transactions appear.

What is the problem?

I am having the same problem as this guy. I just restored my cold wallet with the deterministic key... Only the past day's transactions show up. I read the subsequent replies to his post but don't really understand what to do to fix the bug (I download the windows binaries, I assume they are outdated). Do I have to get the recent updated code from github and compile it (I don't know how to do that ! )? Any help? It's fun learning all this stuff!

Yes, you would have to compile it on Windows to get the latest binaries. In future we will have a more automated build process and will offer nightlies for stuff like this. In the meantime you will either have to wait for our next tagged release (which will be coming once the new daemon stuff has been tested more rigorously) or build it yourself.

Linux build is much easier then Windows build, so if you need the funds now it'll be easier for you to build it on linux.

From the getting started monero.cc page (this will build it for you):

Code:

cd ~ && rm -f install_monero.sh && wget http://monero.cc/downloads/install_monero.sh && bash install_monero.sh

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Quote from: smalltimer50 on July 23, 2014, 09:44:46 PM

...core devs know how to use git, but that doesn't mean there aren't some decent coders that would be interested in contributing but have never used version control at all (it's sad but true)...

80% of serious version control users have never touched git. They have used rcs, cvs, svn, bitkeeper, perforce, team server, rational tools, revise, mercurial, darcs, what have you, but not yet git.

80% of git users are not competent git users.

Just estimates, mind you. Some of my best hires have been people who failed simple "obvious" tests. There's really nothing sad about it. There are a lot of people in the world who are not like you. It makes the world a better place. Many of them will be better than you at something extremely valuable to you. Some of them will be better than you at just about everything you care about.

Personally, when I have to work with someone, I put a pretty high importance on their not being a complete and utter rectal suppository. It outweighs things like coming from the right school or using the right text editor.

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Quote from: digicoin on July 23, 2014, 10:49:17 PM

After testing the "--restore-deterministic-wallet" on windows, i lost some transactions.
I re-download the blockchain but only the last transactions appear.

What is the problem?

I am having the same problem as this guy. I just restored my cold wallet with the deterministic key... Only the past day's transactions show up. I read the subsequent replies to his post but don't really understand what to do to fix the bug (I download the windows binaries, I assume they are outdated). Do I have to get the recent updated code from github and compile it (I don't know how to do that ! )? Any help? It's fun learning all this stuff!

Yes, you would have to compile it on Windows to get the latest binaries. In future we will have a more automated build process and will offer nightlies for stuff like this. In the meantime you will either have to wait for our next tagged release (which will be coming once the new daemon stuff has been tested more rigorously) or build it yourself.

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Quote from: phzi on July 24, 2014, 12:51:16 AM

Where can we keep tabs on ONLY answers?

This https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm

PS: If anyone hasn't filled the form yet, please fill the form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform

0-1   9   14%
1-10   15   24%
10-100   27   43%
100-1000   4   6%
1000+   8   13%

From this I infer that at least 8% of the respondents are liars.

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This coin seems to be pretty active. Think I'll have to pick a few up ;-)

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Quote from: Mumbles on July 24, 2014, 12:45:55 AM

Quote from: Mumbles on July 24, 2014, 12:45:55 AM

Some people will try to see the downside in the most positive things...

Are you serious? After they just messed up and forgot to merge a fix to the right branch?

Shit happens... if you've never messed up a commit or forgotten to commit something, then you haven't been a developer very long.

Not sure what you mean here mumbles. I would think that the discussion is taking place specifically because of the forgotten merge. God forbid someone hasn't used git before, or has used it in different ways than they are planning on using it for this project. The fact that they're willing to host the session in order to standardize their efforts on this project after only a few months since launch shows to me that it's growing rapidly. A group of individuals, familiar with the project, offering training in order to better understand how the project should be handled? Not in my open source project Roll Eyes

!

I'm still waiting for even one thing you like about Monero

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Some people will try to see the downside in the most positive things...

Are you serious? After they just messed up and forgot to merge a fix to the right branch?

Shit happens... if you've never messed up a commit or forgotten to commit something, then you haven't been a developer very long.

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Are you serious? After they just messed up and forgot to merge a fix to the right branch?

Quote from: Mumbles on July 24, 2014, 12:40:00 AM

Some people will try to see the downside in the most positive things...

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Git training? Really? No words for what this says about the dev team...

Quote from: monero on July 23, 2014, 11:37:43 AM

4. Since git (and, by extension, github) can be confusing to developers that are working on Monero code (or on any git repositories, really), one of the Monero key contributors, tewinget, will be hosting a Git Crash Course next week Wednesday, July 30th.

You mean how it shows that the team is inclusive?
I am sure the core devs know how to use git, but that doesn't mean there aren't some decent coders that would be interested in contributing but have never used version control at all (it's sad but true).

Some people will try to see the downside in the most positive things...

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Git training? Really? No words for what this says about the dev team...

Quote from: monero on July 23, 2014, 11:37:43 AM

4. Since git (and, by extension, github) can be confusing to developers that are working on Monero code (or on any git repositories, really), one of the Monero key contributors, tewinget, will be hosting a Git Crash Course next week Wednesday, July 30th.

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Quote from: Anon136 on July 23, 2014, 11:37:12 PM

Quote from: digicoin on July 23, 2014, 10:49:17 PM

Quote from: nioc on July 23, 2014, 02:48:54 PM

Quote from: HardwarePal on July 23, 2014, 07:25:53 AM

I am personally doing a small survey about XMR for all the people interested in completing it :

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform

Thanks in advance

I have no idea how to answer #2, How much of your networth is in cryptocurrencies? because I have no idea how it should be calculated.

If you have non liquid assets they could not be converted to crypto, at least not easily or likely. In the case of people who own their home it's often their biggest asset by far.

Where can we keep tabs on ONLY answers?

This https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm

PS: If anyone hasn't filled the form yet, please fill the form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform

nice try nsa lol

I wonder what the chances are that we are on their radar yet.

100%
they have an entire floor with people with tabs open on bitcointalk

Why do you believe this?

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Quote from: smooth on July 23, 2014, 12:43:53 AM

Quote from: AnonyMint on July 23, 2014, 12:23:51 AM

Okay I will abide by your desire to censor this thread. I will not reply unless someone makes a very serious critique of what I wrote that requires a response.

You are welcome to participate in this thread at any time as long as it is focused on topics directly relevant to Monero.

...abstract ~~philosophical~~ discussions of proof-of-work design are not directly relevant to Monero.

If you want to call that censorship, so be it...

Quote from: fluffypony on July 23, 2014, 04:48:35 AM

Quote from: AnnoyMint on July 23, 2014, 04:06:09 AM

...

I got the whole way through, tearing my hair out, before I realised what was happening:)

Maybe I led you to believe that my game was built in the forum and not in the gym. Or maybe...you are just making excuses.

Quote from: Mumbles on July 23, 2014, 01:09:03 AM

For that reason alone, they are likely to get a lot of attention, and attention equals dollars, and dollars equals hiring more devs. Pretty virtous cycle that XMR should have but doesn't seem able to make happen. They have already sold over 1 million USD worth.

Meaning more Mythical Man-Months to muck up the progress on identifying the sweet spot.

Edit: Vitalik Buterin's intelligence is quite high as displayed on his blog posts. And they have other smart people in their group, with Tual even claiming Ralph Merkel is on their team. Expect great things from them. But it doesn't mean they will necessarily hit the sweet spot. They might though.

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Quote from: digicoin on July 23, 2014, 10:49:17 PM

Quote from: nioc on July 23, 2014, 02:48:54 PM

Quote from: HardwarePal on July 23, 2014, 07:25:53 AM

I am personally doing a small survey about XMR for all the people interested in completing it :

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform

Thanks in advance

I have no idea how to answer #2, How much of your networth is in cryptocurrencies? because I have no idea how it should be calculated.

If you have non liquid assets they could not be converted to crypto, at least not easily or likely. In the case of people who own their home it's often their biggest asset by far.

Where can we keep tabs on ONLY answers?

This https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm

PS: If anyone hasn't filled the form yet, please fill the form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform

nice try nsa lol

I wonder what the chances are that we are on their radar yet.

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nice try nsa lol

lol. If you've already used an exchange with a known email address or un-obscured ip address then they already have the ability to find out what they'd like to know - "how much do you have?" Cheesy

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Quote from: nioc on July 23, 2014, 02:48:54 PM

Quote from: HardwarePal on July 23, 2014, 07:25:53 AM

I am personally doing a small survey about XMR for all the people interested in completing it :

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform

Thanks in advance

I have no idea how to answer #2, How much of your networth is in cryptocurrencies? because I have no idea how it should be calculated.

If you have non liquid assets they could not be converted to crypto, at least not easily or likely. In the case of people who own their home it's often their biggest asset by far.

Where can we keep tabs on ONLY answers?

This https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm

PS: If anyone hasn't filled the form yet, please fill the form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqIXkjKpcEpv6lyH6SD22f_Ny0i-rhM9bV21WcOFstw/viewform

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Quote from: stellarman on July 23, 2014, 09:38:39 PM

So, let's say that I wanted to make a Monero transfer to Alice. And let's say I specifically wanted Alice to be able to know/see my payment address (for example to be able to make a return transaction, or as a way of verifying that the specific transaction came from me). How would I accomplish that?

Would it be sufficient to simply choose no mixin for that transaction? If so, what would be the correct command for that? If not, how might I link my address to that transaction?

I know I would be breaking the anonymity, but the situation I am thinking of would be a rare and special circumstance.

I hope someone with a better understanding of the protocol than I have can take a moment and give me a clue on this.

Thanks.

You can do this using the view key. Apart from using the tx_id field, I don't know any other way to use for proof-of-payment apart from giving someone your .keys file

The usage of the view key has not yet been integrated into the wallet's functionality, but devs have implied it will be there in the future.

Using no mixin would break the anonymity of both yourself and inputs you received from other people (thereby de-anonymizing them as well), as it becomes part of the viewable block chain. You'd still have a stealth address though. To prevent this de-anonymization from needing to be done for the type of situations you have in mind, the three above methods can be used.

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