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Windows installer: Updates for 0.12.3.0

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René Brunner
2018-07-27 14:45:02 +02:00
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<h1>Monero Lithium Luna GUI Wallet</h1>
<p>Copyright (c) 2014-2018, The Monero Project<br>
Date: March 18, 2018</p>
Date: July 27, 2018</p>
<h2>Preface</h2>
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<h2>Content of the Package</h2>
<p>You just installed the <i>Monero GUI wallet</i> for Windows, release Lithium Luna, more exact version 0.12.0.0.
<p>You just installed the <i>Monero GUI wallet</i> for Windows, release Lithium Luna, more exact version 0.12.3.0.
The wallet enables you to send and receive Moneroj in a secure and very private way.
</p>
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provides the most security and privacy possible for you.</p>
<p>However if your Internet access makes it difficult to run a full node, or if you have simply no room to store
the blockchain locally (around 50 GB in spring 2018, and of course growing), you can compromise and try to connect
the blockchain locally (around 60 GB in summer 2018, and of course growing), you can compromise and try to connect
to a remote node. One way of finding such a node is checking
<a href="https://moneroworld.com/#nodes">this page</a>.
</p>
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Beside the GUI wallet there is second program, the so-called <i>Monero daemon</i>, which will carry out that download.
You find it in the <i>Utilities</i> sub-folder of the program group.</p>
<p>Depending on your Internet access and the speed of your computer this can take
<p>Depending on your Internet access, the speed of your computer and the type of disk you use (HDD or SSD) this can take
<b>several hours</b>, in some cases <b>more than a day</b>. Furthermore there are unfortunate cases where the
download gets stuck somehow or doesn't work at all, e.g. because a firewall prevents access to other nodes of the
Monero network.</p>
<p>The GUI wallet can start the daemon for you, but that way you will not see much during initial blockchain
download, especially you probably won't see any error messages in case something goes wrong. By starting the
daemon yourself "by hand" using the <i>Monero Daemon</i> icon in the <i>Utilities</i> sub-folder of the
Monero program group you will see it running and displaying messages in a separate window.</p>
<p>The GUI wallet can start the daemon for you. You can also use the <i>Monero Daemon</i> icon in the <i>Utilities</i>
sub-folder of the Monero program group.</p>
<p>If all goes well the daemon will finally display a message like this:
<i>You are now synchronized with the network.</i></p>