isnt there something this sat?

in #monero-events for defcon

It would be great if we had a maven who kept track of events and submitted them to the website for us!

Does anyone know of a good intro to Monero for political-ish non-profits who already accept crypto like bitcoin, but may not understand that they’re doxxing their supporters with every donation?

I was going to just reach out, but figured I’d see if there’s any good material that exists already

<ratthing69[m] "Does anyone know of a good intro"> No but I imagine something like this would be useful once it has been completed github.com/monero-outreach/policy-brief

Some nice discussion of Monero in here 👀: cryptoforinnovation.org/resources/A…s_of_Bitcoin_in_Illicit_Finance.pdf

Article referenced in this Forbes article that dropped today: forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2021…t-pushback-from-former-cia-director

* Article was referenced in this Forbes article that dropped today: forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2021…t-pushback-from-former-cia-director

"And while Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency most used in illicit activity, other cryptocurrencies are used far more often for illicit purposes as a share of their total transactions. "

^ stating a guess as if it's a fact

he headed the company behind "WMDs in Iraq" lie. no surprise there

5:57 PM <+rupee[m]> ^ stating a guess as if it's a fact

also who cares if the number of txs are still lower than bitcoins for illicit purposes ( eventual )

in that space absolutes should count , as they are also dealing with absolutes from fiat

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is #monero-defcon still the defcon place or did it move somewhere else?

jwinterm: #monero-events

All events are there now

thanks

I am bored and also hyped for defcon

was gonna go buy ticket but apparently can't yet

Yeah, they haven't set the format yet

rupee[m], DaveyJones: twitter.com/Lewified/status/1382021641845280772

boy, i feel like the 4th amendment is already disregarded

don't see how the NSA's mass data collection is anything other than a warrantless search.

> Morrell also said, “Fourth Amendment is critically important, and it is important that we maintain the privacy and civil liberties of Americans. I happen to believe that although it's sometimes difficult, it is always possible to do both.”

"While it's always possible, we choose not to do so because the risk of being caught by someone like Snowden is low and it requires too many calories to secure judicial approval *insert shrug emoji*" -Three letter agencies, probably

Ok

Hello, I am unable to get started with monero. Monero seems to hold my computer hostage with random io. I have a zpool and it can reach speeds of over 600MB/s. However, because monerod lmdb sends nothing but randomio, my entire storage system is pegged at 4MB/s, stalling out all other proccesses and slowing the sync down to a neverending crawl. I tried setting recordsize=4K redundant_met

adata=most and moving bitmonero into it's own zfs dataset but that only postponed the problem. Now i'm at 98% sync again fully saturated my random iops and never completing sync

SSD is recommended for sync

also try v0.17.2.0, it contains fresh checkpoints for faster sync

Is there a way to run monerod with hdds, possibly a different backend?

you can run on HDD, it simply takes a while

daemon verification is simply random IO heavy

One other thing. Monerod keeps trying to send udp/53 requests to random servers instead of using my system configured resolvers /etc/resolv.conf

lots of small random reading

selsta: how small?

Do you have a specific number?

no

Well how small of io on average you think?

53 is dns I think

It has to look up historical tx / blocks during verification

1 tx = 2kb

That's an important because I can tune my storage pool to send io below a certain size to the 'special' vdevs which can be solid state

Oh, 2K not 4K

it depends on the transaction

it can be smaller and larger

Is there a way to lessen monerod's effect on pool fragmentation?

Just leaving monerod running for 2 days raised my pool fragmentation by 2%

Sync on a different device with SSD and then move blockchain to your storage thing

Oh ok so it's only needed for initial sync then

That's much more reasonable

Is there a way to get rid of these errors and have monerod use the resolv.conf's resolvers? dpaste.com/EUR8KT3AY.txt

try adding --disable-dns-checkpoints --check-updates disabled

not sure if that will help

"Oh ok so it's only needed for initial sync then" <-- monerod only uses a lot of resources during initial sync

It's not the resource use that's the problem. It's the tiny random io that strangles the rest of the system and slows the entire 600MB/s pool down to a steadt 4MB/s because that's as fast as hard drives can do small random io

Supposedly there's a way to work around this if I buy moar ssds and make a mirroed 'special' vdev

Does monero use udp for peer connections?

Not afaik

Great

Thanks for the help

Os there a way to get checkpointing with using my own recursive dns resolver?

Instead of sending out requests to other people's rdns on the net. I firewall off all external rdns servers for privacy and security reasons

DNS checkpoints are not used anyway

Alright