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- DrugHub has agreed to fully refund all users who lost money in the SuperMarket exit scam.
- Retro Market has gone offline. Circumstances of the closure unknown.
- SuperMarket has closed following an exit scam by one of the admins.
- The admin of Incognito Market, Pharoah, has been arrested by the FBI several months after exit scamming.
- Silk Road
- darknet markets list
- Popular P2P exchange LocalMonero has announced it is closing.
With that said. Don't use an online wallet to make transactions. You severely reduce anonymity and you're defeating the purpose of using Monero.
Download the official Monero client, download the blockchain and use that. Not sure what problems you're having, but fix those rather than using an online client.
Edit: I see the message when going through Tor. They are intentionally blocking Tor exit nodes.
I see the error message through Tor. MyMonero is blocking Tor exit nodes. It's redirecting them to blocked.mymonero.com which has a self-signed certificate.
Monero is resource intensive. Remember, when you download the blockchain, you are verifying each transaction ever made. This is CPU intensive, and somewhat write intensive.
It can take 1-2 days depending on internet speed and HDD/SSD speeds.
What error message did you get?
I'm on my 3rd time trying to download it. Shit takes 9 hours and gets old real fast!!!
What error message? What OS and what client version?
The feelz for reelz
First time I lost internet in the middle of the download and even though I was more than 75% done, I had to start over because it wouldn't pick up where it left off.
2nd time I don't remember the message. I posted it back on Reddit at the time. Basically everyone said something about using someone else's something and it'd be best to just start over.
Thank you looking at it. Any idea why the'd be blocking Tor? Isn't the objection of both companies all about privacy?
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If it stopped in the middle of download, it most likely was not starting over from scratch downloading. But it will re-verify, which is faster. But the GUI does a bad job telling you that.
You have to understand there is MoneroD (the daemon) and the GUI. There is sometimes lag between the two due to HDD and CPU bottleneck. So the GUI will flop all over the place and give inaccurate block sync info. It took me 2 days on a fast internet connection but typical HDD.
If you want to speed it up, get a SSD.
MyMonero.com is a different entity from the Monero team. I'm not sure the objective for MyMonero.com. But it certainly isn't privacy. Since they block Tor. You also have to be under the assumption that they log all data, and that they have your private keys. Since their servers generate the private key, you are trusting them to not store the private key. This is silly, since the point of Monero, and all Crypto IMO is to be trustless. No one can audit their code, unlike Monero.
I know I'm a bit of a blonde when it comes to anything other than turn a computer on ad off. What is a SSD? What all is it used for? Is it Blonde user friendly? Where do you get them?