You can top up your digital Visa card with crypto. However, you would need to convert a small portion of your Monero into SCRT and send it to your digital NON-KYC Fina card before paying. https://fina.cash
Someone who is active on Reddit can post a link to the Town here as early as possible in the discussion in posts that were originally only available on Reddit but are now also being discussed here.
Or even just reply/contribute to the discussion here but quote there on Reddit and link to here.
Because of this post here, I've been on Reddit again for a long time. It worked flawlessly in the Tor browser. Without user login, just to read.
If someone wants to discuss a Reddit post, they can link that post here on Monero.Town. Then, if the posts here are better than the posts on Reddit, users will start linking to them here. This will eventually bring users here.
In the past, Reddit was the place where the Monero community met for many years. This is now a thing of the past. Ever since people started accepting unacceptable terms and conditions when using Reddit, its use has been frowned upon and widely avoided.
P2Pool will hardfork to new consensus rules on October 12th, 2024 at 20:00 UTC (note that only P2Pool will hardfork, Monero blockchain will not hardfork on October 12th). Merge mining will be enabled at that time. You must update to P2Pool v4.0 or newer before this date.
Changes in v4.0
New features:
Merge mining support (available after the fork)
Stratum: calculate hashing blobs in parallel (improved performance with high number of connected miners)
Stratum: autodiff will use 500k starting difficulty now for faster adjustment
Bugfixes:
Updated internal dependencies to the latest versions (curl to 8.8.0, libuv to 1.48, miniupnp and libzmq to the latest master branch)
Exit early with an error message if the command line is invalid, P2Pool will not try to start in this case
Fixed a few rare crashes and data races
Before you start mining, create a new wallet and don't use it for anything else but mining for privacy reasons - all wallet addresses are public on P2Pool! Only primary wallet address is supported - no subaddresses or integrated addresses.
It is strongly recommended to synchronize your system clock before you start mining!
--out-peers 32 --in-peers 64 is needed to (1) have many connections to other nodes and (2) limit incoming connection count because it can grow uncontrollably and cause problems when it goes above 1000 (open files limit in Linux). If your network connection's upload bandwidth is less than 10 Mbit, use --out-peers 8 --in-peers 16 instead.
--disable-dns-checkpoints is needed to avoid periodical lags when DNS is updated (it's not needed when mining)
--enable-dns-blocklist is needed to ban known bad nodes
Usage:
Run Monero daemon v0.18.3.3 or newer: ./monerod --zmq-pub tcp://127.0.0.1:18083 --out-peers 32 --in-peers 64 --add-priority-node=p2pmd.xmrvsbeast.com:18080 --add-priority-node=nodes.hashvault.pro:18080 --disable-dns-checkpoints --enable-dns-blocklist
Run p2pool: ./p2pool --host 127.0.0.1 --wallet YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS
Start mining to port 3333 on your machine: ./xmrig -o 127.0.0.1:3333
You can set custom difficulty for your miner to get more accurate stats on P2Pool side: ./xmrig -o 127.0.0.1:3333 -u x+50000 (it doesn't affect mining rewards in any way)
To connect another mining rig to your P2Pool node, run ./xmrig -o YOUR_P2POOL_NODE_IP:3333 on that mining rig
Antivirus
Some antiviruses and firewalls may flag any Monero-related executables and archives, including P2Pool, as malware. This is because it contains RandomX mining code and therefore is considered as "mining software". To be sure that you downloaded the original binaries, always check SHA256 sums of what you downloaded - a GPG signed list of SHA256 sums is in sha256sums.txt.asc. You can read the instructions on how to do it here: https://www.getmonero.org/resources/user-guides/verification-windows-beginner.html - but to check P2Pool binaries, replace binaryFate's key with the GPG key provided here:
GPG key to verify SHA256 sums can be downloaded from github or p2pool.io
Price speculation and analysis has always been of little interest or even frowned upon in this community. Monero is a tool that works. If you need it then get it, or borrow it and then use it. It is not meant to be looked at, displayed in a showcase.
Tuta accepts Monero as payment.
Vik Sharɱa has criticized Proton after they advertise with privacy but do not support XMR.
Douglas Tuman mentioned Tuta.