Jaquee - Just a quick note to thank you for all the work you've done on the GUI. If you're ever around Boston I'll buy you a beer or three.
Same here, Jaquee your contribution to the XMR project has been great, thank you for that and we all look forward to your work in 2017.
+1 Thanks Jaquee (and all the other hard working devs
)FWIW, I have not tried GUI beta yet, but I DL'd and installed the Daemon (Wolfram Warptangent) on W10 (don't hate me for that please
) at the weekend. Worked faultlessly. Took about 10 hours to DL and sync blockchain on an Ultrabook with i5 Core, SSD and 4GB RAM. Blockchain is about 8GB. The longest part seemed to be the last few months of the blockchain. Seemed like there were more peers syncing from me and less peers with newer blocks available. I guess that is to be expected ??Now that it's up to date, running as node takes up very little CPU overhead for those that are wondering, and is something I am very happy to do whenever it's switched on (>12 hours a day usually). It is not noticeable running in the background, no noticeable performance effect.
One thing to note was that my total usage was >100GB for the 'sync day', presumably as I was both syncing and others were syncing from me at same time. Not sthg I can do every day, so adjusted the limits in the daemon to levels I can cover (easily done). I guess that could be done on initial sync day, but might slow things down ??
The new wallet worked fine too once I figured out CLI (not hard). Really like the feature that you can choose the block to start refreshing from. On my not-so-great machine, it takes about 10 mins per 2 months of blocks when restoring using mnemonic seed. Did a few tx's on some new test wallets, all good, very easy.
Hoping this info might encourage more people who have not done so yet to attempt the process and fire up a node ... full GUI will be gr8, but what we already have is solid anyway
Thanks again dev team, and apologies if this is not the right place for this post. Just wanted to share