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luigi1111
960c215801
Merge pull request #5357
b3a9a4d add a quick early out to get_blocks.bin when up to date (moneromooo-monero)
2899379 daemon, wallet: new pay for RPC use system (moneromooo-monero)
ffa4602 simplewallet: add public_nodes command (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-25 13:38:21 -05:00
moneromooo-monero
ffa46026b5
simplewallet: add public_nodes command
Lists nodes exposing their RPC port for public use
2019-10-25 09:34:41 +00:00
moneromooo-monero
2899379791
daemon, wallet: new pay for RPC use system
Daemons intended for public use can be set up to require payment
in the form of hashes in exchange for RPC service. This enables
public daemons to receive payment for their work over a large
number of calls. This system behaves similarly to a pool, so
payment takes the form of valid blocks every so often, yielding
a large one off payment, rather than constant micropayments.

This system can also be used by third parties as a "paywall"
layer, where users of a service can pay for use by mining Monero
to the service provider's address. An example of this for web
site access is Primo, a Monero mining based website "paywall":
https://github.com/selene-kovri/primo

This has some advantages:
 - incentive to run a node providing RPC services, thereby promoting the availability of third party nodes for those who can't run their own
 - incentive to run your own node instead of using a third party's, thereby promoting decentralization
 - decentralized: payment is done between a client and server, with no third party needed
 - private: since the system is "pay as you go", you don't need to identify yourself to claim a long lived balance
 - no payment occurs on the blockchain, so there is no extra transactional load
 - one may mine with a beefy server, and use those credits from a phone, by reusing the client ID (at the cost of some privacy)
 - no barrier to entry: anyone may run a RPC node, and your expected revenue depends on how much work you do
 - Sybil resistant: if you run 1000 idle RPC nodes, you don't magically get more revenue
 - no large credit balance maintained on servers, so they have no incentive to exit scam
 - you can use any/many node(s), since there's little cost in switching servers
 - market based prices: competition between servers to lower costs
 - incentive for a distributed third party node system: if some public nodes are overused/slow, traffic can move to others
 - increases network security
 - helps counteract mining pools' share of the network hash rate
 - zero incentive for a payer to "double spend" since a reorg does not give any money back to the miner

And some disadvantages:
 - low power clients will have difficulty mining (but one can optionally mine in advance and/or with a faster machine)
 - payment is "random", so a server might go a long time without a block before getting one
 - a public node's overall expected payment may be small

Public nodes are expected to compete to find a suitable level for
cost of service.

The daemon can be set up this way to require payment for RPC services:

  monerod --rpc-payment-address 4xxxxxx \
    --rpc-payment-credits 250 --rpc-payment-difficulty 1000

These values are an example only.

The --rpc-payment-difficulty switch selects how hard each "share" should
be, similar to a mining pool. The higher the difficulty, the fewer
shares a client will find.
The --rpc-payment-credits switch selects how many credits are awarded
for each share a client finds.
Considering both options, clients will be awarded credits/difficulty
credits for every hash they calculate. For example, in the command line
above, 0.25 credits per hash. A client mining at 100 H/s will therefore
get an average of 25 credits per second.
For reference, in the current implementation, a credit is enough to
sync 20 blocks, so a 100 H/s client that's just starting to use Monero
and uses this daemon will be able to sync 500 blocks per second.

The wallet can be set to automatically mine if connected to a daemon
which requires payment for RPC usage. It will try to keep a balance
of 50000 credits, stopping mining when it's at this level, and starting
again as credits are spent. With the example above, a new client will
mine this much credits in about half an hour, and this target is enough
to sync 500000 blocks (currently about a third of the monero blockchain).

There are three new settings in the wallet:

 - credits-target: this is the amount of credits a wallet will try to
reach before stopping mining. The default of 0 means 50000 credits.

 - auto-mine-for-rpc-payment-threshold: this controls the minimum
credit rate which the wallet considers worth mining for. If the
daemon credits less than this ratio, the wallet will consider mining
to be not worth it. In the example above, the rate is 0.25

 - persistent-rpc-client-id: if set, this allows the wallet to reuse
a client id across runs. This means a public node can tell a wallet
that's connecting is the same as one that connected previously, but
allows a wallet to keep their credit balance from one run to the
other. Since the wallet only mines to keep a small credit balance,
this is not normally worth doing. However, someone may want to mine
on a fast server, and use that credit balance on a low power device
such as a phone. If left unset, a new client ID is generated at
each wallet start, for privacy reasons.

To mine and use a credit balance on two different devices, you can
use the --rpc-client-secret-key switch. A wallet's client secret key
can be found using the new rpc_payments command in the wallet.
Note: anyone knowing your RPC client secret key is able to use your
credit balance.

The wallet has a few new commands too:

 - start_mining_for_rpc: start mining to acquire more credits,
regardless of the auto mining settings
 - stop_mining_for_rpc: stop mining to acquire more credits
 - rpc_payments: display information about current credits with
the currently selected daemon

The node has an extra command:

 - rpc_payments: display information about clients and their
balances

The node will forget about any balance for clients which have
been inactive for 6 months. Balances carry over on node restart.
2019-10-25 09:34:38 +00:00
luigi1111
cc46f05f1f
Merge pull request #6002
0136bf7 v12 fork heights (tevador)
2019-10-24 18:57:05 -05:00
luigi1111
be6c5afabb
Merge pull request #6016
afcfb3b easylogging++: windows does not need terminal colour support (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-24 18:41:38 -05:00
luigi1111
2319b9dd9f
Merge pull request #6015
56895ee cmake: Fix generation of version.cpp (ndorf)
2019-10-24 18:39:03 -05:00
luigi1111
81f6c3745e
Merge pull request #5495
28a627c gen_ssl_cert: new tool to generate SSL certs for Monero (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-24 13:02:39 -05:00
moneromooo-monero
28a627c5ac
gen_ssl_cert: new tool to generate SSL certs for Monero 2019-10-24 17:47:52 +00:00
luigi1111
2200767963
Merge pull request #6004
951ceab daemon: print difficulty in decimal, as it used to be (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-24 12:43:38 -05:00
luigi1111
42d84ad35e
Merge pull request #6006
9f3be3b epee: use SO_REUSEADDR on non-Windows targets (xiphon)
2019-10-24 12:41:59 -05:00
luigi1111
87171916ee
Merge pull request #5998
0da09ed protocol: fix syncing from peers being too choosy about peers (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-24 12:38:35 -05:00
moneromooo-monero
951ceab4f6
daemon: print difficulty in decimal, as it used to be
It got switched to hexadecimal when we went to 128 bit values
2019-10-24 17:37:05 +00:00
luigi1111
f6da34c028
Merge pull request #6011
22d1a6c RandomX: update to v1.1.5 (tevador)
2019-10-24 12:09:39 -05:00
moneromooo-monero
afcfb3b32f
easylogging++: windows does not need terminal colour support 2019-10-24 16:00:45 +00:00
luigi1111
f9b5af85ea
Merge pull request #6001
705edd8 daemon: fix coinbase txes always being seen as pruned (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-24 10:57:30 -05:00
luigi1111
8926829569
Merge pull request #6000
641c9cf daemon: add miner tx hash in print_block output (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-24 10:56:20 -05:00
luigi1111
bef8d3e381
Merge pull request #5999
fbf8168 utils: Increase max block size for import/export (ndorf)
2019-10-24 10:53:53 -05:00
luigi1111
5f6a06e74c
Merge pull request #5997
37cccb8 db_lmdb: an empty prunable data record means the tx is not pruned (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-24 10:52:04 -05:00
moneromooo-monero
b3a9a4d99d
add a quick early out to get_blocks.bin when up to date 2019-10-24 11:30:54 +00:00
Nathan Dorfman
56895ee07a cmake: Fix generation of version.cpp 2019-10-23 16:43:30 -06:00
tevador
22d1a6c16d RandomX: update to v1.1.5 2019-10-23 19:46:57 +02:00
xiphon
9f3be3baed epee: use SO_REUSEADDR on non-Windows targets 2019-10-22 18:40:01 +00:00
luigi1111
4233d88341
Merge pull request #5973
abd3763 cryptonote: fill in tx weight when syncing from pruned blocks (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:54:46 -05:00
luigi1111
bb2bcf3521
Merge pull request #5972
9447e72 cryptonote: add function to get weight from a pruned tx (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:52:14 -05:00
luigi1111
6b58d6248a
Merge pull request #5996
23ba69e epee: fix SSL server handshake, run_one() can block, use poll_one() (xiphon)
2019-10-22 10:26:31 -05:00
luigi1111
2c497bc411
Merge pull request #5989
4f583d5 daemon: fix print_pl synopsis missing recent options (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:24:09 -05:00
luigi1111
18f62f89d8
Merge pull request #5986
1080136 abstract_tcp_server2: move 'Trying to connect' from error to debug (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:23:04 -05:00
luigi1111
1e9b577f2a
Merge pull request #5985
6fdaaba node.inl, add xmrchain.net IP to hardcoded peers (Gingeropolous)
2019-10-22 10:22:02 -05:00
luigi1111
35da1ce307
Merge pull request #5983
32d6376 simplewallet: add --restore-from-seed alias (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:20:46 -05:00
luigi1111
8a88d9186a
Merge pull request #5982
bba5bae implewallet: don't trigger idle lock right after a foreground refresh (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:19:35 -05:00
luigi1111
426d2ac8ee
Merge pull request #5981
88c9d90 protocol: initialize block_weight in block_complete_entry ctor (moneromooo-monero)
fe443bb cryptonote: don't leave block_weight uninitialized (moneromooo-monero)
1ba9baf tx_pool: do not divide by 0 (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:18:28 -05:00
luigi1111
3fb85857e0
Merge pull request #5980
ea813cf RandomX: update to v1.1.4 (tevador)
2019-10-22 10:16:39 -05:00
luigi1111
99e4c403cb
Merge pull request #5977
e85c838 simplewallet: do not print warning for locked coinbase txes (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:14:33 -05:00
luigi1111
cf2d4d9a16
Merge pull request #5974
7fcd0b5 blockchain: initialize pow to ff..ff (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:13:34 -05:00
luigi1111
3af7d165d3
Merge pull request #5971
3ed302f Change 'Pootle' to 'Weblate' in Readme (erciccione)
2019-10-22 10:10:51 -05:00
luigi1111
8bb3c6a8e6
Merge pull request #5970
ab96181 blockchain: use effective median block weight for penalty from v12 (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:09:56 -05:00
luigi1111
84ce43a239
Merge pull request #5966
be82c40 Support median block size > 4 GB (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:08:32 -05:00
luigi1111
c81884f088
Merge pull request #5964
fd48461 Print cdifficulty and don't serialize miner tx hash twice (Doy-lee)
2019-10-22 10:07:17 -05:00
luigi1111
6f202844b5
Merge pull request #5919
01f660f blockchain: fill in cumulative block weight for alt blocks (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-22 10:06:10 -05:00
moneromooo-monero
be82c40703
Support median block size > 4 GB
add a 128/64 division routine so we can use a > 32 bit median block
size in calculations
2019-10-21 10:41:07 +00:00
xiphon
23ba69ec88 epee: fix SSL server handshake, run_one() can block, use poll_one() 2019-10-18 18:32:33 +00:00
tevador
0136bf7448 v12 fork heights 2019-10-18 20:32:25 +02:00
moneromooo-monero
705edd81d9
daemon: fix coinbase txes always being seen as pruned 2019-10-18 12:25:08 +00:00
moneromooo-monero
641c9cf19d
daemon: add miner tx hash in print_block output 2019-10-18 12:21:30 +00:00
Nathan Dorfman
fbf81689d4 utils: Increase max block size for import/export 2019-10-17 19:14:41 -06:00
moneromooo-monero
0da09ede86
protocol: fix syncing from peers being too choosy about peers 2019-10-17 17:40:47 +00:00
moneromooo-monero
37cccb8cfb
db_lmdb: an empty prunable data record means the tx is not pruned
as opposed to an absent record
2019-10-17 17:39:05 +00:00
luigi1111
441ed9f2fe
Merge pull request #5990
515e931 functional_tests: fix transfer test - long payment ids are gone (moneromooo-monero)
2019-10-16 13:54:06 -05:00
luigi1111
6c05723981
Merge pull request #5984
7fdaa82 Fix build on FreeBSD/!x86 (pkubaj)
0f4fddc Add also ifdef __x86_64__ (pkubaj)
2019-10-16 13:53:14 -05:00
luigi1111
461a25e1b5
Merge pull request #5962
ec14abd tx_pool: make spent return-by-reference as intended (stoffu)
2019-10-16 13:51:34 -05:00