Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 386. (Read 4671575 times)

supposedly this helps:
./monerod --out-peers 1 --p2p-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --db-sync-mode fast:async:1000

I am using linux ubuntu on laptop with ssd. Sync could take like 3 days. That is the estimation. Laptop has not been on all the time. The blocks from 0 to 1,200,000 synced in about 10 hours. But the last 100,000 are very slow.

Any ideas how to speed up the sync?

Even with setting priority low on all the monero processes the blockchain synch is bogging my system to the point of unusability. I have a 6 core system and thats pretty unacceptable that I cannot synch in the background. Win7x64.

I can mine watch video's browse multiple streams and play games on this system but not synch. What is the deal with that?

It took 4 days to sync with blockchain, which is only 17 GB in size. Seems too long.

The decision that i have to take from 1 year ago is holding the bag for monero and finally i get a big profit today, i think it is necessary to be part of the thread

I had similar problems too, could be that some nodes have poor upload speed which results in very slow sync. Saving progress then restarting monerod could result in connecting to better nodes (I think nodes are selected randomly, am I right?) and speeding up the process.
To save progress in monerod just type save in daemon window and hit enter, to close daemon type exit and hit enter. I always start monerod and wait for the message that sync is done, then start the monero-wallet-gui, feels better that way.

Hey all I'm having issues getting everything synced. My blockchain was only 72 days behind, but took a week to sync the Daemon. Now I'm refreshing my wallet and it has been 4 days and counting, still have 20k blocks to refresh through and going at a rate of 1 block every 20 seconds and keeps getting slower. Is there a way to save my progress mid refresh, any flags I can start my wallet with to save as it refreshes, or any assistance on getting my wallet to refresh quicker?

Positive Coindesk article about Monero could also mean that they dumped ZEC at the peak a week ago, now they bought XMR on dip, rinse and repeat with any coin they think its hot atm ...

Also there was one even more interesting article that was released 5 days ago when Monero started to rise:
https://coingeek.com/what-real-leadership-looks-like/

I'm not sure about Coingeek since before that article I didn't even knew about that webpage, but the timing was so ...

Anyway, I don't really need a fancy article to know where to put my last BTC in, last deposit finally arrived to Bitfinex after 10 days of waiting for retarded BTC blockchain to do its job (even with 0.0007BTC TX fee) - instantly converted to XMR 

Now just one friendly suggestion for fellow traders - based on my experience over past few months, trading XMR on Bitfinex feels much better than on Poloniex because:

 - Bitfinex has no withdrawal limits for anonymous users. Its really not cool withdrawing XMR from Poloniex without KYC because of 2000usd limit (only about 50 XMR per day atm). I don't even consider filling KYC form since staying anonymous on exchange acts as additional privacy layer to my XMR stash.
 - Bitfinex trade engine is really good, there were no lags or disabled deposits/withdrawals so far.
 - Bitfinex liquidity and trade volume on XMR markets (especially XMR/USD) improved a lot over past few months. Some really nice fat buy/sell walls there and volume is also good. Any average trader (less than 5k XMR) will find Bitfinex liquidity and volume quite comfortable. Poloniex currently has an advantage only for whale traders (10k XMR or more).
 - With all those shitcoin pumps that smell on insider trading miles away, and insane volume that measures in hundreds of millions USD per day, its only matter of time when Poloniex will get same attention from US regulators as those Chinese markets got from PBOC few months ago.

I'm not advertising Bitfinex here, just sharing my user experience since I've been using both exchanges for casual trade. Also I'm bit worried cos there are maybe millions of XMR on Poloniex right now, and no matter how strong and secure Poloniex may be - they could be the major weakness of whole Monero project atm.

Thanks, this is the best coindesk article I've ever read. I'm quite surprised it does not seem biased at all. I'll be sharing this link.

Coindesk article - suprisingly good:

http://www.coindesk.com/what-to-know-before-trading-monero/

Monero network difficulty going to rush to the moon? Say thanks to botnet (with total hashrate of about 6Mh) from minergate pool

I didn't expect Monero to be that successful.

In other news; I am happy 

The Forum Funding System is used to raise funds for development.  Much but not all is code related and it is up to the community what they will fund with their donations.

The forum itself is being redesigned and this will hopefully increase both the usefulness and traffic of the forum.

You can go to the Forum>Development>Funding Required /or Work in Progress to see some of what has been funded and work that is and has been done.

Are you stuck on a certain block? Or is it just slowly fetching new blocks?


Not necessarily a problem.


You could delete p2pstate.bin. On Linux it's in $HOME/.bitmonero. Note that this directory may be hidden. On Linux you can generally unhide directories with CTRL + H.

A crowdfunding platform. It can be used to fund anything Monero-related.

https://m.imgur.com/a/oPbhI

Synchro lasts for a long 3 days, and not finished yet. There is a lot of messages like this:
Is that OK (that there is A LOT of them)? Is there no way to filter out dead nodes faster?

Not entirely sure if the block size batch will be lowered for next release. I think, however, that it might be prudent to do so, because I've seen numerous people getting stuck on a certain block.

It could be that node.moneroworld.com is offline. Could you try node.xmrbackb.one?