Maybe open a github issue about storing the peerlist locally to fall back on if seednodes shouldn’t be reachable for whatever reason? I’m pretty sure you also can’t start a new Monero node if the seednodes aren’t available so I’d call them more of a convenience feature rather than call their existence a lack of decentralization since you can always join the network by supplying your own initial peers.

10 times more private, from 16 to 100.000.000

hehe

It’s unlikely that you get ddosed as a regular peer. Your .onion is a lot harder to find than the seednodes and if you get attacked, you can easily switch to a new one. It’s also a lot more convenient to use the internal tor for clients because there is no need to configure any tor settings.

Nice!

(Version number in title should be 1.0.10)

Thanks for making this thread. I don’t have any real criticism, just hoping for FCMPs and Serai to work out smoothly. Both of them are absolutely vital for Moneros future.

Recently, the option to trade and withdraw (!!!) Monero was suddenly gone for about a day without a word from them on what is going on. I would stay away.

While it’s true that some targeted attacks can lower the privacy of a Monero transaction, 2-3 churns (or the upgrade to FCMPs) will make even those nearly impossible.

It is arguably waaaaaay more likely that you’ll have trouble when selling Monero for fiat (on the fiat side) than you getting in trouble because of the Moneros “history”.

Oh right, sorry. You need a whole damn lab setup that combines the Foss one with another Foss tts. Tutorial, shouldn’t take too much compute, the more tricky part is getting the right voice model. I’d recommend a gawr gura one ;)

for FOSS: https://github.com/voicepaw/so-vits-svc-fork alternatively https://elevenlabs.io/

This is currently being looked into.

Could be but I don’t think so. We have seen increased transactions around summertime before, imo it’s people buying stuff to use during summer vacation.

There’s also the fact that more and more xmr transactions move away from binance-like-CEX to instant swappers. Oh and of course, the binance delisting was officially concluded 2 days ago and it was the last chance for people to withdraw their coins.

On matrix the meetings are held and people just generally hang out. There is still r/monero & r/monerosupport as well as monero.town but that one’s a bit less accessible for people new to Monero.

The serai coin is mainly used as stake and pair for liquidity pools, it’s not supposed to be used for payments. Imo taint is less of an issue, you’re only at risk when not using Monero and that’s the case no matter if you got the coins from Serai or any other exchange.

Yeah, just dming me on matrix would be enough :)

Im quite happy with the pace monero.town is growing, especially since it was initially only set up as a fallback in case the subreddit gets banned.

Serai requires it’s own coin for the design to work, there is no real way around it.

Most of the regulars are hanging out on matrix. There are actually a lot of exciting things in the pipeline: Monerokon, Haveno, Serai, FCMPs, etc.

People have said the current bullrun in general is boring and the excitement is nothing compared to the last one. And Monero isn’t even participating in the current bullrun :P

Supportxmr is growing uncomfortably large :/

So what? It takes 3 days to sync an ETH node, 10 days for a chia node. These aren’t lightwallets, this is network infrastructure.

Many nodes are actually ran on raspberry PIs.

I very much doubt that considering how raspberries don’t have physical AES and already took +3 weeks to sync before the transaction spike.

We could easily exceed 2TB every 10years.

I’d be perfectly fine with that. Right now you can get 2 TB SSDs for about 1 XMR. At the current rate (and it’s been similar for decades) they will be worth less than 20$ in a couple of years. Monero turns 10 this April and we are currently at only ~200 GB. And we still have pruning!

Storage isn’t the limiting factor, it’s bandwidth.

Great post 🚀

Really like the idea but see some problems with it.

the demand for illegal narcotics from people smart enough to use Tor Browser is probably at the end of its elasticity

While this is likely true, it doesn’t get easier to use Tor depending on whether you want to buy a fake Gucci sweater or black tar heroin.

I do believe Monero still has massive potential in swallowing up many P2P drug transactions should CBDCs be used to really clamp down on cash and when that happens, other sectors will be affected as well: “You’re carbon credit allowance for this month has run out, no more meat for you.”

I don’t actually think 150GB per year is an issue. This still gives you +5 years on a 1TB SSD. That’s half a decade of time, Monero is only 10 years old. Plenty of time for storage to advance.