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Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 672. (Read 4670673 times)

legendary
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Just checked. The Dash Electrum wallet takes around 80MB HDD space and eats 29MB of RAM.

Sure - it's small, but does it actually do the job you need it to? With Monero, I don't need to trust some 3rd party to keep my transactions private.

It's not 3rd party. It's open source modified code.

By 3rd party, I am referring to Dash masternodes. There are no masternodes in Monero.
legendary
Activity: 1260
Merit: 1008
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.

So isn't there some light wallet like Electrum Monero that doesn't download the whole chain? Dash has two types of wallets, one that downloads the whole chain and another Electrum light wallet. The light wallet is perfect for storage.
Traditional light wallets just try to alleviate RAM usage which is naturally taken care of in this case by dumping the blockchain data to the hard drive. A recent monero change. If I understand it correctly.

Just checked. The Dash Electrum wallet takes around 80MB HDD space and eats 29MB of RAM.

Electrum has a detrimental effect on privacy too, even when using DASH. You can find the Monero lightwallet here -> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13710902

Like, I've said. I don't wanna get ripped off using dubious wallets. Why isn't this on the official download page?

Is this official? https://getmonero.org/getting-started/choose

scroll to bottom.
legendary
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Still wild and free

Just checked. The Dash Electrum wallet takes around 80MB HDD space and eats 29MB of RAM.

Sure - it's small, but does it actually do the job you need it to? With Monero, I don't need to trust some 3rd party to keep my transactions private.

It's not 3rd party. It's open source modified code.

It's open source here. Not sure what difference you're talking about then.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.

So isn't there some light wallet like Electrum Monero that doesn't download the whole chain? Dash has two types of wallets, one that downloads the whole chain and another Electrum light wallet. The light wallet is perfect for storage.
Traditional light wallets just try to alleviate RAM usage which is naturally taken care of in this case by dumping the blockchain data to the hard drive. A recent monero change. If I understand it correctly.

Just checked. The Dash Electrum wallet takes around 80MB HDD space and eats 29MB of RAM.
Just checked. Nobody cares.

Well I do and Crawallmining does also.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.

So isn't there some light wallet like Electrum Monero that doesn't download the whole chain? Dash has two types of wallets, one that downloads the whole chain and another Electrum light wallet. The light wallet is perfect for storage.
Traditional light wallets just try to alleviate RAM usage which is naturally taken care of in this case by dumping the blockchain data to the hard drive. A recent monero change. If I understand it correctly.

Just checked. The Dash Electrum wallet takes around 80MB HDD space and eats 29MB of RAM.

Electrum has a detrimental effect on privacy too, even when using DASH. You can find the Monero lightwallet here -> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13710902

Like, I've said. I don't wanna get ripped off using dubious wallets. Why isn't this on the official download page?
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250

Just checked. The Dash Electrum wallet takes around 80MB HDD space and eats 29MB of RAM.

Sure - it's small, but does it actually do the job you need it to? With Monero, I don't need to trust some 3rd party to keep my transactions private.

It's not 3rd party. It's open source modified code.
member
Activity: 65
Merit: 10
Will better database compression be integrated into the client?
I just compressed the databse with 7-Zip and it has decreased from 7.9GB to 4.2.
legendary
Activity: 2268
Merit: 1141
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.

So isn't there some light wallet like Electrum Monero that doesn't download the whole chain? Dash has two types of wallets, one that downloads the whole chain and another Electrum light wallet. The light wallet is perfect for storage.
Traditional light wallets just try to alleviate RAM usage which is naturally taken care of in this case by dumping the blockchain data to the hard drive. A recent monero change. If I understand it correctly.

Just checked. The Dash Electrum wallet takes around 80MB HDD space and eats 29MB of RAM.

Electrum has a detrimental effect on privacy too, even when using DASH. You can find the Monero lightwallet here -> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13710902
hero member
Activity: 896
Merit: 1000
Avatars are overrated.
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.

So isn't there some light wallet like Electrum Monero that doesn't download the whole chain? Dash has two types of wallets, one that downloads the whole chain and another Electrum light wallet. The light wallet is perfect for storage.
Traditional light wallets just try to alleviate RAM usage which is naturally taken care of in this case by dumping the blockchain data to the hard drive. A recent monero change. If I understand it correctly.

Just checked. The Dash Electrum wallet takes around 80MB HDD space and eats 29MB of RAM.
Just checked. Nobody cares.
legendary
Activity: 1442
Merit: 1001

Just checked. The Dash Electrum wallet takes around 80MB HDD space and eats 29MB of RAM.

Sure - it's small, but does it actually do the job you need it to? With Monero, I don't need to trust some 3rd party to keep my transactions private.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.

So isn't there some light wallet like Electrum Monero that doesn't download the whole chain? Dash has two types of wallets, one that downloads the whole chain and another Electrum light wallet. The light wallet is perfect for storage.
Traditional light wallets just try to alleviate RAM usage which is naturally taken care of in this case by dumping the blockchain data to the hard drive. A recent monero change. If I understand it correctly.

Just checked. The Dash Electrum wallet takes around 80MB HDD space and eats 29MB of RAM.
legendary
Activity: 3136
Merit: 1116
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.

So isn't there some light wallet like Electrum Monero that doesn't download the whole chain? Dash has two types of wallets, one that downloads the whole chain and another Electrum light wallet. The light wallet is perfect for storage.
Traditional light wallets just try to alleviate RAM usage which is naturally taken care of by dumping the blockchain data to the hard drive. A recent monero change. If I understand it correctly.

Monero did recentl make an official release that moved the db from ram to hd, but there is a way to run a much "lighter" wallet with Monero: because the daemon and wallet are separate you can launch simplewallet using a remote node. Atrides runs a publicly available node that a gui I wrote for simplewallet (imaginatively titled lightwallet) uses by default. You do sacrifice some privacy this way, but you don't need the daemon or blockchain at all.
hero member
Activity: 896
Merit: 1000
Avatars are overrated.
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.

So isn't there some light wallet like Electrum Monero that doesn't download the whole chain? Dash has two types of wallets, one that downloads the whole chain and another Electrum light wallet. The light wallet is perfect for storage.
Traditional light wallets just try to alleviate RAM usage which is naturally taken care of in this case by dumping the blockchain data to the hard drive. A recent monero change. If I understand it correctly.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.

So isn't there some light wallet like Electrum Monero that doesn't download the whole chain? Dash has two types of wallets, one that downloads the whole chain and another Electrum light wallet. The light wallet is perfect for storage.
hero member
Activity: 896
Merit: 1000
Avatars are overrated.
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.
At least tell him about the newest benefit on low ram computers since obviously he is running on recycled hardware. Blockchain on the HD rather than using the crap out of your virtual resources. It enables you to run more wallets which should interest you.

I don't know why I am helping.
legendary
Activity: 2268
Merit: 1141
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?



Yes, you need to start bitmonerod (the daemon) to sync the blockchain. After that you can open simplewallet (make sure bitmonerod is still running) to transact.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Ok screw it. Guess I'll just install the wallet on my other 64-bit machine but not happy about it.

Does the wallet download the whole blockchain?

hero member
Activity: 850
Merit: 1000
As others have posted, you can run Monero on a Raspberry Pi 2.

For the total price of a Raspberry Pi 2 (board, power supply, case, SD card), you can get a used 64-bit laptop on Craigslist and use it for Monero or whatever. A few months ago I got a 2GB RAM Acer for $80. I put Ubuntu on it (it had Windows 7) and I have a Monero wallet on it, among other things.

I'm just saying that it's good to have a 64-bit computer, and depending on where you live, used ones are relatively inexpensive.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250

Thanks but guess I'll stick to Dash. They have two cool types of windows wallets. Electrum and the standard one.

With all due respect, I think we'll be ok if the 32 bit users stick with Dash. Unless you're running ARM, you're behind the times.

Also, please refer to this: https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/622022840330682368

I also have an ARM RasPi2. I guess I can't install it on my Pi cold wallet either since it has a 32 bit processor also. Sad

Guess you guys don't have many RasPi fans using Monero. Dash has plenty and some cool Pi tutorials on how to set up such wallets.

I was initially pretty excited by Monero but what a let down.  Undecided

https://forum.getmonero.org/5/support/360/bitmonerod-node-on-rpi2-working

something like this?

Do you have any video tutorials like this Dash P2 tutorial? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AboQN19lirM

There currently exists none, but the guide itself should be sufficient.

Sad Too bad. I'm not the most tech savvy person and this could have helped.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Where can I download the Monero wallet from? I could only find a web wallet. Needless to say web wallets are as secure as horse shit.

https://getmonero.org/downloads/

Trying to run the windows wallet but won't work. Any ideas why?

Error message? Screenshot? (redact any personal data of course)

Nevermind, my bad. It seems it doesn't work on 32 bit windows Sad

Coming SoonTM, I believe. Use the web wallet for non-life changing amounts in the meantime.

Thanks but guess I'll stick to Dash. They have two cool types of windows wallets. Electrum and the standard one.

The devs are working on finalizing the official 32-bit binaries. Until then you can use the unofficial binaries that are posted here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/433w2u/new_32bit_binaries_for_v091/

Hyc is the author of LMDB (database Monero uses), thus pretty trustworthy.

Interesting but I've got burned in the past using 3rd party unofficial bs code. I'd rather wait for some official version I guess. I'll stick to Dash until then.
"bs code"?
Hyc is the creator of the LMDB database that Monero uses, and also a significant contributor to Monero itself.

Then why doesn't he make a 32 bit working wallet with an installer?
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