
Yeah, this was not very useful so it's shut down.

It's not too many as it's just in the overall instance sidebar and pretty hidden but it has probably already paid for a domain renewal :)

Monero.town turns 2 years old today 🎂🎉
Hey there, just wanted to thank all the people that have been active on here over the last 2 years :)
We migrated servers earlier this week and still have to fix a bunch of configuration-stuff to get back all our old images & add .onion support but overall it went decently well & town won't dissappear any time soon.
That's about it, see you at Monerokon!

I might need help with the tor config after the upcoming server migration. I should be able to handle exporting and importing the database & this time I'll be using ansible for the install instead of a manual docker config.

The server is getting migrated soon, i did not really know what i was doing when i initially set this up.

It's not really but the paper suggested some improvements that would make the transactions waaaay harder to link to a trade. Definitely a net-positive for privacy.

No, the transaction tracing relies on the transparent bitcoin chain. It does not work for the off-chain payment methods and especially not for something super private like cash by mail.

I think your podcast link might be broken.

Monero is untraceable if used correctly. Aleksanteri Kivimäki was not busted because of "Monero tracing". I don't believe anyone has, usually it is simple amount and timing analysis on the swaps in and out of Monero. If someone gets a 5000 XMR ransomware payment and a random guy suddenly deposits 5000 XMR into a centralized exchange, of course you can "trace" that but you are tracing metadata, not Monero itself. Monero is only one tool in the opsec belt.

Make sure your wallet is up-to-date and pick a trusted community remote node like:
Edit: Removed the kyun node. Apparently it's not an official kyun node and ran by an anon.

It would greatly help if you would actually describe your project instead of having people search for your account on a different site.


We are running the standard lemmy software. The entropy doesn't actually improve after a certain amount of characters so I guess that's why they decided to put a limit on it.

Yes! That is possible, check out this guide. Pruned db is smaller but it will first do a full sync and then prune it so you still need enough storage for the "peak".

Raspberries lack physical AES instructions, I am not exaggerating when I say this could take 5-6 weeks to sync. There are other SBCs like the Rockpro 64 that would be way better suited for a node but the most economical option is getting used mini-pcs from ebay for $50.
It will have high RAM usage because it is constantly writing and reading during sync.

Cakewallet

We are temporarily suspending monero.town signups while this is live to prevent airdrop hunters from joining. Non-local comments containing an address will also be removed. Known community members can still DM me on matrix to get approved.

The DDoS comes from exit nodes via clearnet so Tor PoW doesn't work, most likely there will be a total server migration at some point that adds tor support with pow and a tor friendly frontend.

I'll have a look, thank you!

Is this on by default after v1.5.0?

I've looked into alexandrite and photon before but to be honest, the install is quite messy since I didn't really know what I was doing back then. Makes it pretty hard to figure out how to properly set these up and I'd rather start over on a new server.

Monero.Town is back online!

YouTube Video
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For the last couple of days we were offline due to a DDoS attack originating from Tor.
We are now behind cloudflare (💀) but at least we are online.
We might switch to a different CDN in the future.


Monero.Town is now running on Lemmy v19.5 🎉
This was a massive upgrade from 0.19.3 to 0.19.4 and finally to 0.19.5:
The change with most user impact is that everyone can now see how many upvotes & downvotes a comment or post (hover above the vote count) has. Previously only the sum of all votes was shown via the default lemmy UI.

Happy 10th Birthday! 🎉🎉🎉


geteilt von: https://monero.town/post/2863766
Monero turns 10 today! 🥳

Proposal for Generalized Bulletproofs Security Proofs is now open for funding!
The proposal for Generalized Bulletproofs Security Proofs is now open for funding on the Monero Community Crowdfunding System.
GBPs would be used to replace Monero's Ring Signatures with Full-chain membership proofs.
Let's get this funded ASAP!
Source: @DontTraceMeBruh

Soon-ish server migration coming up.
Hello guys.
In about 50 days the 1 year hosting runs out for the current server. Fitting, since it has only a 100 GB disk that can't easily be expanded and we currently take up about 40 GB of that.
There will be an announcement post once everything has been prepared for the migration and I'll attempt to restore the entire instance on the new server. Ideally the instance should come back up after minimal downtime and all the content remains exactly like it was before.
Consider joining the matrix channel to stay up to date even while the site is potentially down :)

Should we deactivate downvotes?
For some reason posts on our instance have recently gotten more downvotes from outside instances than usual and many posts look like this:



I personally don't like the idea of disabling downvotes but if the feature is mostly going to be used by outside users because crypto is "le bad" we might as well turn it off.

Monero.Town is now running on Lemmy v19 🎉
Here are the patchnotes :D

New payment options and gateway! – monerosupplies.com
Since the old payment gateway kinda broke when we switched the hosting provider I’ve set up a new one :)

Since the old payment gateway kinda broke when we switched the hosting provider I've set up a new one :)

Please report if you encounter any issues. Since about a week ago, the monero payment gateway doesn't seem to work and while setting up and testing the site after the migration I've ran into the site not always loading but that could be related to DNS propagation and hopefully resolves itself in the next few hours.

Monero.Town is now running on Lemmy v18.4 🎉
To be honest, no idea what this entails. I was bullied into updating the instance and the official patchnotes are just all the github changes instead of a proper write-up 😂

We ARE on S3 bucket storage! Instead of 200GB, we now have 1TB (which is very easy to expand should we need it) 🎉


Shoutout to the pict-rs dev asonix for helping me with the migration ♥

Why we were down last night.
Server showed as online on the hosting provider dashboard but it wasn't responding. After contacting support, this was fixed at some point.
This led to a config file being reverted because of a setting I didn't change earlier which led to the page only showing "Server error."
Everything should work again and in the future that config file shouldn't change by itself anymore. I still have no idea what the problem on the providers side was, let's hope it doesn't happen again :P

What kind of RSS feeds should be added to monero.town?
There is a lot we can do but it might become a bit spammy if we add too much. Some ideas would be:
- Monero ecosystem releases (Monero, GUI, Haveno, Serai, etc) either in a special releases community or the regular Monero one
- DarknetLive posts to the darknet community
- Crypto news to the cryptocurrency community
All of these feeds are of high quality and shouldn't completely spam us.
What do you think? Any other suggestions?

Test post that is supposed to get mirrored to monero.town :)
Edit 2: This has been replaced with a bot that posts way more reliably, as well as locally to the instance.
#### Edit: This doesn't seem to work that well, will be upgraded soon.
Posts made to r/Monero can now be seen on monero.town by subscribing to [email protected] 🎉
geteilt von: https://lemmit.online/post/157129
This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/monero by /u/monerobull on 2023-07-10 19:36:45+00:00.
If this works as planned, this post should show up in the feed of https://monero.town/, a monero-focused Lemmy instance.
Comments made on either the reddit or Lemmy side don't get synced, just the post itself.
If you can see this post on .town, congratulations, you don't have to visit reddit anymore 🥳