00:02:15 <kinghat[m]> isnt there something this sat?
00:03:05 <nioc> in #monero-events for defcon
00:12:47 <xmrhaelan[m]> It would be great if we had a maven who kept track of events and submitted them to the website for us!
01:07:59 <ratthing69[m]> 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?
01:08:47 <ratthing69[m]> I was going to just reach out, but figured I’d see if there’s any good material that exists already
02:16:28 <xmrhaelan[m]> <ratthing69[m] "Does anyone know of a good intro"> No but I imagine something like this would be useful once it has been completed https://github.com/monero-outreach/policy-brief
15:42:33 <ratthing69[m]> Some nice discussion of Monero in here 👀: https://cryptoforinnovation.org/resources/Analysis_of_Bitcoin_in_Illicit_Finance.pdf
15:43:20 <ratthing69[m]> Article referenced in this Forbes article that dropped today: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2021/04/13/janet-yellen-bitcoin-and-crypto-fearmongers-get-pushback-from-former-cia-director/
15:45:10 <ratthing69[m]>  * Article was referenced in this Forbes article that dropped today: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2021/04/13/janet-yellen-bitcoin-and-crypto-fearmongers-get-pushback-from-former-cia-director/
15:58:33 <rupee[m]> "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. "
15:58:42 <rupee[m]> ^ stating a guess as if it's a fact
16:05:39 <charolastra_> he headed the company behind "WMDs in Iraq" lie. no surprise there
16:25:28 <DaveyJones> 5:57 PM <+rupee[m]> ^ stating a guess as if it's a fact
16:25:28 <DaveyJones> also who cares if the number of txs are still lower than bitcoins for illicit purposes ( eventual )
16:25:49 <DaveyJones> in that space absolutes should count , as they are also dealing with absolutes from fiat
16:36:40 <rehrar> CAPTCHA_REQUIRED: can you repeat?
16:36:44 <rehrar> You were not voiced but now you are
17:07:55 <jwinterm> is #monero-defcon still the defcon place or did it move somewhere else?
17:09:54 <nioc> jwinterm: #monero-events
17:10:10 <nioc> All events are there now
17:10:32 <jwinterm> thanks
17:10:52 <jwinterm> I am bored and also hyped for defcon
17:11:06 <jwinterm> was gonna go buy ticket but apparently can't yet
17:11:47 <nioc> Yeah, they haven't set the format yet
17:26:14 <dEBRUYNE> rupee[m], DaveyJones: https://twitter.com/Lewified/status/1382021641845280772
17:28:29 <rupee[m]> boy, i feel like the 4th amendment is already disregarded
17:29:04 <rupee[m]> don't see how the NSA's mass data collection is anything other than a warrantless search.
17:29:51 <rupee[m]> > 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.”
20:59:22 <xmrscott[m]> "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
22:27:09 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Ok
22:28:03 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> 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
22:28:03 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> 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
22:28:39 <selsta> SSD is recommended for sync
22:28:59 <selsta> also try v0.17.2.0, it contains fresh checkpoints for faster sync
22:29:27 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Is there a way to run monerod with hdds, possibly a different backend?
22:29:44 <selsta> you can run on HDD, it simply takes a while
22:30:01 <selsta> daemon verification is simply random IO heavy
22:30:14 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> One other thing. Monerod keeps trying to send udp/53 requests to random servers instead of using my system configured resolvers /etc/resolv.conf
22:30:15 <selsta> lots of small random reading
22:30:24 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> selsta: how small?
22:30:48 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Do you have a specific number?
22:30:51 <selsta> no
22:31:03 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Well how small of io on average you think?
22:31:21 <selsta> 53 is dns I think
22:31:42 <selsta> It has to look up historical tx / blocks during verification
22:31:52 <selsta> 1 tx = 2kb
22:31:55 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> 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
22:32:05 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Oh, 2K not 4K
22:32:18 <selsta> it depends on the transaction
22:32:22 <selsta> it can be smaller and larger
22:32:31 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Is there a way to lessen monerod's effect on pool fragmentation?
22:33:38 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Just leaving monerod running for 2 days raised my pool fragmentation by 2%
22:35:03 <selsta> Sync on a different device with SSD and then move blockchain to your storage thing
22:35:26 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Oh ok so it's only needed for initial sync then
22:35:36 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> That's much more reasonable
22:35:40 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Is there a way to get rid of these errors and have monerod use the resolv.conf's resolvers? https://dpaste.com/EUR8KT3AY.txt
22:38:17 <selsta> try adding --disable-dns-checkpoints  --check-updates disabled
22:38:21 <selsta> not sure if that will help
22:39:18 <selsta> "Oh ok so it's only needed for initial sync then" <-- monerod only uses a lot of resources during initial sync
22:40:36 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> 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
22:41:31 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Supposedly there's a way to work around this if I buy moar ssds and make a mirroed 'special' vdev
22:54:42 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Does monero use udp for peer connections?
22:55:45 <sethsimmons> Not afaik
23:01:43 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Great
23:01:46 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Thanks for the help
23:12:25 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Os there a way to get checkpointing with using my own recursive dns resolver?
23:12:53 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> 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
23:12:54 <selsta> DNS checkpoints are not used anyway
23:13:02 <CAPTCHA_REQUIRED> Alright