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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>