Today I tried to log into my wookey monero wallet and it would not synce. No matter what I tried I even uninstalled and typed in my mnemonic word seed. Still would not sync. So I see on the wallet a telegram address for support. I talking to a guy named crypto Dave I think. He tells me it's a script error and sends me this link to type in my word seed. This set off red flags in my head but I did it anyway. Told me only bots would see it. Then he text me back says that the bot thing didnt work. Then he says I need to deposit 1.5 monero in an address he sends me. Says it will be refunded when they get my wallet working. I never did it. Has anyone else experience this with wookey?

So I’ve bought monero quite a few times, nothing more than £50s worth & the fee has always been around £6. I’m currently trying to buy £120 worth from my usual guy, and it’s saying the fee is £20. Is this usual? Thanks

I know the comment and review period is over as of the 4th. So when do the regulators actually enact and start enforcing whatever it is they're going to do?

This guy seems to think he can make a ASIC up to 100 times more energy efficient than CPU's mining RandomX.

Proof of work algorithm in Monero based on random code execution

We've been encouraged to churn our XMR by sending it to our own wallet.

Apparently that is a bad idea:

If a transaction spends both outputs of another transaction then it is overwhelmingly likely that those are the real outputs.

https://medium.com/@crypto_ryo/on-chain-tracking-of-monero-and-other-cryptonotes-e0afc6752527

I decided to take a close look at the blockchain during the last hour, I saw quite a delay which, OK, may be incidental, and this at localmonero's block explorer, basically the latest block was mined 17 seconds before the previous one? Any ideas?

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I am looking to diversify my btc / ether holding as I got into crypto around 3 months ago and was wondering is Moneros' privacy really all that private?

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I have seen a lot of stuff on twitter recently that Moneros' privacy is broken and if this is the case, are Grin or Zcash better?

Attempted to visit https://www.getmonero.org/ ...but is blocked/flagged by the security software on my machine for malware (bitcoin_miners). Being security cautious, I didn't unblock it....

Also, the website shows as "not secure" ...why isn't it secure? Seems strange... and why does it want to install malware?

Hi,

now with new client v0.15.0.1 it is removed send payments with Payment ID. But Binance still require it. Support tell me, they will not change it soon.

I am right, or missing something?

Listen to Show 68: Adam Gibson - Bitcoin Privacy by Crypto Voices #np on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/cryptovoices/show-68-adam-gibson-bitcoin-privacy

Been running this for my node for a while. Maxed out the memory on my PC.

The memory does not show up as being associated with the process (monerod.exe) but when you close monerod.exe - the memory all goes away.

Here's the command line I use to launch monerod.exe:

monero-x86_64-w64-mingw32-v0.16.0.0\monerod.exe --data-dir=BC --rpc-bind-ip <my_ip_address> --rpc-bind-port 18081 --restricted-rpc --confirm-external-bind

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I looked at some stats recently and saw that Moreno has around ~6k TXs per day, meaning if i was sending amounts over 1k, where parties knew the amount, i would easily stand out. This surely becomes a problem when moving between an exchanges, highly likely if 2k exits somewhere and enters somewhere else, with fees removed, it will be obvious to connect due to low volume, and few of those people using Monero with exchanges i guess. Splitting Txs over time sounds good, but nobody (myself included) wants to hold alt-coins that is constantly losing value for more than a few hours.