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.
The site is still being attacked. Biggest issue is the lemmy-ui crashing under the load, the server itself could just about handle it. I've talked to Digilol who I'll likely hire to move town to a new server and set up proper .onion support but the current server is still pre-paid for 200 more days and even after the move it's still possible that the lemmy-ui would go down anyways :/
You can also do this with featherwallet, just get the download link from getmonero.org so you don't click on the phishing site.
Town currently still blocks Tor exit nodes (because it is getting ddosed by them) and rucknium understandably doesn't want to connect without it.
Reply by rucknium:
If I understand your question right, I think you're looking for the inverse cumulative distribution function (a.k.a. quantile function) of the Erlang distribution.
The random length of time to mine the next block has an exponential distribution with rate parameter 1/t. The length of time to mine n blocks has an Erlang distribution with shape parameter n and rate parameter 1/t.
The Erlang distribution is a special case of the Gamma distribution. The Erlang distribution's shape parameter must be an integer, but the Gamma distribution's shape parameter can be any positive real number. We can use the Gamma distribution if Erlang isn't given to us by our calculator.
You would compute T in the R language with:
R
qgamma(p = p, shape = n, rate = 1/t)/n
The results of this simulation match the closed-form computation:
R
t <- 120 n <- 15 p <- 0.4 set.seed(314) mining.times <- matrix(rexp(n * 100000, rate = 1/t), ncol = n) mining.times <- rowSums(mining.times) quantile(mining.times/n, probs = p) qgamma(p = p, shape = n, rate = 1/t)/n # Divide by n to get the mean instead of the total
Sometimes Trocador when I need to pay for something that doesn't accept Monero. If you use the ref-link in the monero.town sidebar it also helps fund the site without swaps costing any extra!
Haveno-reto.com has plenty of links to different guides and most bisq documentation and principles carry over to haveno.
Decentralized reputation is not a thing. Every single approach can easily be gamed by scammers. Bisq2 requires people to buy thousands of $bsq for reputation.
That's even easier, just make an offer selling XMR for the fiat you want?
On haveno you have a multisig that makes sure you actually receive your Monero after paying instead of just getting scammed.
https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno is set to stagenet but I don't know if there are any offers to take.
https://haveno-reto.com is the domain you need if you want to actually trade on mainnet
FCMP is being worked on by kayaba who has delivered in the past.
Reto has been working pretty well for me. Sure, startup can take a while but I've heard they are migrating all the seednodes to tor pow which should help with the ddos attacks.
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
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 :)
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 !monero@lemmit.online 🎉
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 🥳
r/Monero: This is the official subreddit of Monero (XMR), a secure, private, untraceable currency that is open-source and freely available to all.
Onion instance (federation very limited)
xmrtown4e5hj3yivdimt27np24atr7dyd7savkk6of5mdlykret7igqd.onion
This instance doesn't share its backend with monero.town, in fact, it runs on an entirely different (and way less reliable) server.
Edit: Subscriptions aren't working since remote instances don't know where to send their posts (doesn't work with onion addresses). This means that only manually searched posts actually show up, making the whole instance pretty useless ._.
You can still view monero.town and the rest of the fediverse through federation. You can either put communities into the searchbar and subscribe to them (Example !monero@monero.town) or put entire links to posts from other instances into it to make them show up here.
Since this instance is on Tor, it can federate inwards (pull content from other lemmy servers) but CAN'T federate outwards (interacting with posts on other servers). You can still comment and vote but only people on this instance will be able to see this. You are essentially siloed with a
Monero.Town is now running on Lemmy v18.1 🎉
Here is the changelog.
This upgrade brings a ton of bugfixes and performance improvements.
It also broke the nice custom theme we had 😅 I'll try to iron this out but for the time being we will change back to a default theme.
Meta FAQ
How do I participate on Lemmy instances outside my own?
If it's already discovered (see the next section on that) you can go directly by URL in this format. https://yourlemmy.server/c/coolcommunity@coolserver.com or by searching for coolcommunity in the search bar. You will stay logged in with your home server this way but can vote, comment, post using your current identity on that other server meaning you don't need a separate account. Neat right?
Discovering: Hey I can't see [x] newly started community on my server! I can't find [y] popular community from my small server! What gives? (IMPORTANT)
Some communities might not appear from All, until any logged in user of that server searches for it in the lemmy-ui (web) searchbar.
For example, to "discover" coolcommunity @coolserver.com from instance yourlemmy.server, you would type "!coolcommunity@coolserver.com" within yourlemmy.server's search bar and wait 10 seconds. Ensure that community has at least one post that can
150+ people now live in this town 🎉
I hope everyone here is having a great time on Lemmy!
Monero.Town is back (and on Lemmy v18) 🎉
As some of you may have noticed, monero.town was only available for people signed into a Lemmy mobile app for the past few days.
It looks like the Lemmy software had a bug that was exploited to DoS instances which of course happened on evening #1 of Monerokon. In an attempt to fix this DoS issue, I upgraded to Lemmy version 18 which required additional, badly documented changes to the config. Since I didn't have a laptop with me, there wasn't all that much I could do besides the initial analysis. That is why it took until today for me to fix the issue. I hope this wasn't too big of an inconvenience to anyone 😅
Lemmy is still very new software and these are some of the growing pains. Please be reassured that I won't randomly abandon monero.town and will do my very best to never have to do another migration like house->town again.
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Improved default theme & Monero themes
The default theme now fills more of the screen on desktop and makes it easier to follow comment chains.
If you are logged in, you can now select from three new Monero-colored themes:
- Lemmy_Orange
- Lemmy_Orange_dark
- Monero-Town_dark
In case you didn't know, Lemmy let's you use all kinds of custom themes via browser-exertions if you don't like the current selection. You can check out some pre-made ones here :)
Image settings on this instance have been optimized 🎉
Storage is one of the biggest concerns in regards to instance resource usage, the new config should significantly improve storage efficiency via the following:
- Uploads are now limited to a maximum of 1 MB
- All uploads will now automatically be converted to the webp format and original file is discarded
This instance now running on Lemmy 0.17.4
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New and improved optional theme 👍
This new theme makes posts more readable and leaves less empty room. It is also orange colored!
To enable, go to the top right, to settings and select Lemmy_orange!
Improved darkmode theme is the next goal.
This post was edited, the orange theme didnt work well with mobile and thus isn't the default anymore :)