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probability theory question: mean subsequent block time in c/monero@monero.town

[–] chaser@monero.town 1 points 2 weeks ago

got it. they managed to post it anyway.

does having a hidden service introduce the same issues?

probability theory question: mean subsequent block time in c/monero@monero.town

[–] chaser@monero.town 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

are we having federation issues? or why did you repost it?

probability theory question: mean subsequent block time in c/monero@monero.town

[–] chaser@monero.town 1 points 2 weeks ago

thank you very much, Rucknium. your understanding of my question was spot-on, and the R code works excellently! very useful.

I'd like to ask a few more questions:

is 314 a common seed in R, or just something you randomly picked?
in statistics in general, are there cases where n * 100000 random samples (any distribution) would be insufficient? is it a good rule of thumb?

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probability theory question: mean subsequent block time (monero.town)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by chaser@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

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I'm trying to arrive at the function that describes the following, but can't quite figure it out for multiple blocks. (there are some useful insights for a single block here.)

assume the Poisson point process that is the arrival of proof-of-work blocks on Monero. the mean of the block times is the target block time t (120 seconds).

also assume n subsequent blocks.

also assume p, the probability of n subsequent blocks having a mean block time less than or equal to T.

given t, n and p, how can I calculate T?

What is Carrot and Why It's Important for Monero in c/monero@monero.town

[–] chaser@monero.town 3 points 1 month ago

good point. FCMP++ will be an upgrade to the Monero protocol through a network upgrade. to realize the privacy benefits of it, you need a new addressing scheme. so far the scheme was planned to be Jamtis-RCT. Carrot is a separate addressing scheme to be used with FCMP++. nothing prevents the simultaneous use of both, and they look the same to outside observers. FCMP++ was basically "upgraded" by adding another potential addressing scheme to it.

this doesn't guarantee that both will be used. my guess would be that the industry will converge on one addressing scheme.

the monero.social Matrix server is down. IRC still works. (edit: Matrix up now) in c/monero@monero.town

[–] chaser@monero.town 2 points 1 month ago

yay, thanks!

the monero.social Matrix server is down. IRC still works. (edit: Matrix up now) in c/monero@monero.town

[–] chaser@monero.town 3 points 1 month ago

it is now. the Matrix came back online at 18:00 UTC.

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the monero.social Matrix server is down. IRC still works. (edit: Matrix up now) (monero.town)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by chaser@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

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edit: the Matrix is back now.

I'm hearing that Cypher Stack is working on bringing it back online. posting here for visibility, given that the weekly Monero Research Lab meeting is due in 10 minutes.

you can still join each room via IRC. see the address list here: https://www.getmonero.org/community/hangouts/

Libera.chat's own web client: https://web.libera.chat/

a good desktop IRC client: https://hexchat.github.io/index.html

edit: I vaguely recall that this helped me make Libera.chat work, sorry for not being able to provide better context: https://libera.chat/guides/sasl

How Chainalysis Made Their Way into Popular Monero Wallets in c/monero@monero.town

[–] chaser@monero.town 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

not true. watch the leaked Chainalysis video (e.g. currently available at https://odysee.com/@nyxmr:d/chainalysis:f, may not be in the future). they did a lot of their correlations by running nodes and observing transactions that were directly submitted through those nodes.

run your own full node.

Techlore TutaPrivacy interview in c/monero@monero.town

[–] chaser@monero.town 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tuta accepts Monero as payment.

do they directly take actual XMR, or do you mean that they sell vouchers to Proxy Store that Proxy Store then resells for XMR? as far as I know, it's the latter, and there is a huge difference between the two.