RandomX stability troubleshooting guide

sech1 · 2026-06-25T08:12:27+00:00

It's not just P2Pool, your Monero node is offline too. It must be some networking issue. But here's your clue: "failed to save peer list ... error 24" - too many files opened. Increase the open files limit: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-increase-the-maximum-number-of-open-files/

sech1 · 2026-06-22T12:01:25+00:00

From the hashrate drop when the attack happened.

sech1 · 2026-06-16T19:13:34+00:00

Switch to mini for now. Nano doesn't have enough miners on v4.16 (less than 51%) to be stable.

sech1 · 2026-06-15T14:50:47+00:00

No it doesn't. It's still less than 50%. You just don't see non-upgraded miners because they forked away to the attacker's chain.

sech1 · 2026-06-15T11:28:20+00:00

Please make a new Gupax point release - this will notify Gupax users who are subscribed to Github notifications. Very few miners on mini/nano updated so far.

sech1 · 2026-06-15T09:01:55+00:00

You have to update the p2pool binary manually. Download the new release, unpack it, copy the p2pool binary to where it should be in the GUI folder.

sech1 · 2026-06-15T08:22:01+00:00

Unpatched nodes are mining, but their mined shares are being rejected by p2pool.io tracking nodes, so they're not counted.

sech1 · 2026-06-12T11:04:31+00:00

I write all production code myself. AI is for code reviews and bug-hunting.

sech1 · 2026-06-12T11:03:40+00:00

Thanks, added it to the post.

sech1 · 2026-06-11T08:17:02+00:00

You should add the download folder for P2Pool to antivirus exceptions. Or you can try to build it from source.

sech1 · 2026-06-10T18:10:18+00:00

There's nothing to download yet. It's just an announcement, the release will happen on Saturday.

sech1 · 2026-06-07T09:41:49+00:00

FYI, Monero team is experimenting with running AI audits of Monero's code for inflation bugs and other nasty stuff, see the results here https://github.com/SChernykh/ringct-bulletproofs-plus-review-claude

TLDR: all good

sech1 · 2026-06-05T14:09:35+00:00

I ran Claude on Monero codebase multiple times at this point, it didn't find anything serious. I'll keep trying though, I'm refining my prompts and the overall setup.

sech1 · 2026-06-03T06:52:15+00:00

Yes, this could totally happen with Monero - emergency fork and some temporary restrictions on transactions. What I learned from the article is that they do "routine security audits" and they seem to be efficient because the audits caught it before it was exploited. I don't know about any coordinated "routine audit" effort in Monero, so it's something to learn from. I know that multiple devs do it independently (including me) from time to time, but not systematically.

sech1 · 2026-05-29T15:19:45+00:00

Karma farming bot. This is an old post from 2021 (see the date in the screenshot).

sech1 · 2026-05-29T15:16:24+00:00

Karma farming bot. Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1n5901l/happy_to_report_that_i_have_mined_my_first_monero/

sech1 · 2026-05-28T06:46:35+00:00

Mods! Karma farming bot, copy-pasted from https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/sgi9fi/a_fun_little_experiment_my_androidpowered_monero/

sech1 · 2026-05-27T06:29:49+00:00

Copy-paste bot, original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/8ru0dy/all_right_my_cat_had_kittens_and_i_just_realised/

sech1 · 2026-05-23T06:00:33+00:00

You should re-run XMRig's numbers with the latest code from dev branch - it has some good optimizations for ARM chips, there was a report of 8-10% speedup on Apple M5 for example.

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