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Is it safe to download full node on personal computer? : Monero | Torhoo darknet markets

I have been trying to setup remote node on tails but for some reason it stops downloading the blockchain after about 3.6gb even though i have plenty of storage left. So i was wondering if it would be safe do download it on my personal windows computer. I would buy the crypto from a kyc -> exchange for xmr through trocador -> to my full node -> to the market. Would it be safe to do this or should i find another way?

/u/monero_desk_support

2 points

9 months ago

It's not safe to use windows.
Best to try to solve the issue. Maybe the free storage is not on the same partition ? You can specify monerod to use another directory to store the blockchain with the --data-dir arg.
Do you use CLI or GUI ?
You could also use another linux distro and configure it to use tor, but you could make an error if you are noob.

/u/Rip92 📢

1 points

9 months ago

I did get to the terminal part yet because i wasnt able to download the raw block chain. I am definitly a noob so im not sure exactly how to tell if i use GUI or CLI but from what ive seen most tails is GUI. Any help at all would be very appreciated.

/u/monero_desk_support

2 points

9 months ago

GUI is meant for using the wallet GUI. You can start a node from here in the settings.
CLI is in the terminal, where you start the program monerod which is only for the node part.
Starting monerod from the terminal will give you more logs about what is happening and surely will tell you what's wrong.
./monerod --log-level x
x can be 0 to 4, more will increase the verbosity of logs.

/u/Rip92 📢

1 points

9 months ago

I just ran it on the terminal and it only got passed this part:

Use the "help" command to see the list of available commands.
I Use "help <command>" to see a command's documentation.

And than it gave me this:

W WARNING: no two valid DNS TXT records were received

I tried researching what it meant but I wasnt able to find anything. Could it be because im running it on tails so it cant locate my IP?

/u/monero_desk_support

1 points

9 months ago

this is only a warning so you can ignore it.
Try setting the log level higher.

/u/Rip92 📢

1 points

9 months ago

I just dowloaded the blockchain on an external ssd and it reads the ssd just fine. however says synced and connected but it doesnt update the blocks. it just wont update the dameon blocks at all but it will say "dameon is synchronized". I tried putting the log level at 4 however that didnt work. For context i downloaded the entire bitmonero file on the ssd. Is there something wrong with the gui wallet itself or is there something im not doin correctly? I also tried deleting the gui program and redownloading it about 5 time.

/u/asfaleia

0 points

9 months ago

Yes, as soon as you have the personal computer safe it is a very good thing to do. Not on Windows please.

To the mixing - what anonymity set is ok for your operation?