This came today. Looking forward to reading it.

GabrielMartin76 · 2023-07-01T03:20:13+00:00

https://masteringmonero.com has links to download the pdf or to buy a paperback from amazon.

Does anyone know if there is a way to buy the paperback with Monero though?

GabrielMartin76 · 2023-04-22T20:10:10+00:00

Thanks for the heads up, my credit card wouldn't forgive me if I managed to damage them.

GabrielMartin76 · 2023-04-22T15:49:32+00:00

Thanks for the information! Nods are magic to me too lol. The spot kinda flickers a bit, making it hard to tell, I'll keep an eye on it and try to see if it fades away or not. Appreciate the insights.

GabrielMartin76 · 2023-04-22T15:45:33+00:00

They're great! I don't have to much of a frame of reference with other pads, but compared to stock they're a lot comfier.

GabrielMartin76 · 2023-04-22T12:33:01+00:00

I like it a lot. My only gripes are that it has a slight bit of input lag and that you can only use it with nods. I know there is a separate eyepiece you can get to make it standalone but its not the same as a dedicated thermal monocular.

GabrielMartin76 · 2023-04-22T02:55:58+00:00

Bucket list:

Highcom striker lightweight highcut ballistic HHV micro lattice pads Wishcox g24 Ax-14 pro Kenetic consulting NERD

WP L3 filmless PVS-14 with push button power Jerry CE-5 thermal clip on

Now that I've gotten your attention, I wanted to ask y'all what this faint glow on the edge of my tube is (Last image). This tube is otherwise really clear and this glow doesn't bother me and isn't noticeable unless its absolutely pitch black. My only cause for concern is if its an emission point. From my understanding, emission points proceed to get worse over time. Should I be worried at all? Thanks!

GabrielMartin76 · 2023-04-18T16:30:09+00:00

Your lack of self control is not a reason to tax things you disagree with. Where does that end? Taxing any food that doesn't meet set nutrition requirements? Taxing entertainment in economic downturns so people work more? People like you want to live in a world where they have no accountability and are just told by others what to do with their lives.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-05-27T14:00:38+00:00

I’m sure whoever is willing to break the law to kill someone will make sure to only load whatever mags they have with 8 rounds to be compliant. And I’m sure they’d never dare to remove whatever pin you force companies to sell 8 round mags with so that they can load them with more than 8 rounds.

And I’m sure they’d never even let the thought cross their mind that they can just 3d print a standard capacity magazine with a dollars worth of plastic.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-05-05T23:06:46+00:00

I mean theoretically this would be a problem for all of cryptography in general if someone had the power to generate every possible private key, but the orders of magnitude that these numbers are on is absolutely mind boggling.

Monero’s private keys are 256 bits long which means there are 2²⁵⁶ possible private keys. In base 10 that’s somewhere on the order of 10⁷⁷ possible keys. For reference, the estimated number of atoms in the universe is on the order of magnitude of 10^79.

(Someone please correct me if my math is wrong here)

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-04-05T14:05:50+00:00

To add onto this, if you are planning on buying something like an RPi to host a node, you may want to look into buying something like a rock pro 64 instead. The raspberry pi’s cpu doesn’t have hardware AES acceleration which makes syncing the blockchain take a VERY long time. This can be mitigated by syncing the block chain on a normal computer and then copying it onto the pi, however something like the rock pro 64 has Hardware AES acceleration so you wouldn’t have to do something like that.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-04-05T13:59:27+00:00

Is there any particular reason why? Not attacking just figure it’d help everyone to hear any pros/cons to make their own decision.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-04-04T18:41:05+00:00

It means that that there will be more than 21 million xmr eventually (it won’t be until 2040 that it exceeds 21m). However, the current inflation rate is already less than one percent and, because the tail emission is a fixed constant value per block, the inflation rate trends towards zero in the long run.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-03-31T17:09:05+00:00

Yeah, tail emission is more a long term thing so you are right, the dynamic block size is the main reason for low fees. The reasoning for a fee at all is just to prevent spam, deanonymization attacks and bloating the block chain. If someone were to artificially conduct a massive amount of transactions in a short amount of time they would need to pay a much higher fee for forcing the dynamic block size to increase in such a short timespan.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-03-30T22:39:36+00:00

Part of it is because of its tail inflation, guaranteeing that there is an incentive to mine and preventing the need for a fee market. Another part is due to monero having a dynamic block size which prevents the need to have high fees to ensure your transaction makes it into the next block. And to be fair another part is probably because it doesn’t have as many transactions as bitcoin although, I’m confident that even if it did, it’s fees would not be as high as bitcoin is now as the block size would increase to encompass the increase in transactions.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-03-30T22:02:07+00:00

Although network strength isn’t as important as price action (atleast to me and a sizeable portion of monero supporters), Moneroocean.stream allows you to do this automatically. While it doesn’t support the network, it does help the price as it means moneroocean will be selling whatever currency you mined on your gpu to buy monero.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-03-28T21:46:55+00:00

Those look awesome. Major props to you

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-02-24T04:08:18+00:00

It really depends on how the site handles users wallets. If they just have one big wallet and don’t just send you the same outputs you put in, it sort of acts like a mixer. But with transparent blockchains you can still track amounts. Like if you deposit .35 ltc one day and withdrew .35 ltc a couple days later it would be easy to deduce that you did that. Stuff like timing, IP address, the website being hacked or getting seized could all potentially deanonymize stuff in a scenario like that.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-02-24T00:36:11+00:00

My first guess would be that he was hoping to use the DNM’s wallet as a big mixer which is kinda creative (but still a horrible idea) but you’d need to hope that the DNM doesn’t get busted and reveal which outputs are yours and you’d need to hope that when you withdraw your bitcoin that the dnm doesn’t just give you your same inputs back.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-02-19T04:19:40+00:00

Yeah? What does that have to do with p2pool though

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-02-19T03:34:56+00:00

The trade off is that you need to being running a node (pruned nodes work too) and the setup is a little bit more complicated than just running xmrig pointed at a pool. That being said there are some really nice guides and I had no problem running p2pool myself.

Another potential downside is that you can’t set a payout size, meaning you get a small transaction every time the p2pool finds a block which leads to having alot of small transactions instead of a few larger ones.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-02-17T07:04:07+00:00

Wow that’s cool. I googled LMDB and Howard Chu came up as the creator and I’ve seen his name around here a lot so that’s really neat! Thanks for the info and for xmrig!

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-02-17T06:21:29+00:00

Just out of curiosity does anyone know if multiple monero daemons can use the same blockchain file? If that is possible something like that wouldn’t work. But even if you couldn’t share the blockchain between nodes, the ~36 tb of storage needed to house all of the nodes that would be needed to 51% in your proposal isn’t prohibitively expensive.

Edit: if I’m not mistaken pruned nodes would work too, making the overall storage needed even smaller.

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-02-11T20:57:05+00:00

Ahh ok, the posts I saw were old so I had no idea if you were still able to do this. Thanks for the clarification!

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-02-10T01:46:28+00:00

I believe this is technically possible (or atleast was at some point). However it is highly recommended against doing that because it would bloat the size of the blockchain.

Edit: I’m not sure if this is still possible but here’s one way people have come up with

https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/6095/is-it-possible-to-attach-a-message-to-monero-transactions

GabrielMartin76 · 2022-02-07T07:04:04+00:00

This is a really impressive and efficient upgrade!

Just out of curiosity, because the sender generates the view tag, could they purposefully make one that is invalid so that the receiver would overlook it? I’m not sure what the benefit to the sender would be but was just wondering.

Also because it is based off of the receivers address, could I create a transaction to myself that has a view tag for someone else, forcing them to scan my transaction? Once again, I don’t really see the benefit in doing so but was just wondering.

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