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Questions about Bitcoin as they relate or compare to Monero

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What advantages does Monero offer that are not provided by other cryptocurrencies?

What are the advantages provided by using Monero compared with other popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin? Specifically, what unique features does Monero have relating to privacy, PoW security and scalability that is not provided by other…
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Are atomic swaps possible between Monero and other altcoins or Bitcoin?

Are atomic swaps possible between Monero and Bitcoin / altcoins? What features are needed to make this work?
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Does having a separated daemon add security risks to Monero?

For example, what if someone created malware to get in between the two programs (wallet and daemon), pretending to be the daemon and logging all the info before sending it along to the real daemon? I recently downloaded Bitcoin QT and it didn't have…
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How private is this transaction sequence?

I buy BTC on Coinbase, let's assume that my BTC wallet address is publicly tied to my real identity. I use ShapeShift to convert the BTC to XMR. I receive the XMR in a wallet I've never used before on MyMonero I send the XMR to someone else using…
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Can xmr.to work without javascript?

I found on reddit a post that was created one year ago. And there are links to xmr.to and xmr tor address and there types it work without javascript. But today I went to xmr.to and it said you need to turn on javascript to make it work.
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Is xmr.to fast enough for 15 minute time window on bitpay.com?

I guess there are no guarantees, but how long does it take on average until bitpay.com gets the money (in the sense of having enough confirmations), starting to count time at the moment when I executed the transfer command in simplewallet? I'm…
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List of things that were proposed and rejected for bitcoin but implemented in Monero

This is a follow-up question based on this answer: https://monero.stackexchange.com/a/12600/ Many things proposed and rejected for Bitcoin have found a place in Monero (privacy for starters). That said, it's worth noting that it was Dandelion, not…
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Tutorial on how to make a trade on the Bisq Decentralized Exchange using Monero to Bitcoin?

With the growing adoption of the Bisq exchange, is there an easy to follow tutorial on how to trade Monero to Bitcoin using the Bisq Decentralized Exchange? How does it work exactly? Is there a monero address you deposit your coins to inside the…
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Is deanonymisation via propagation analysis possible for Monero?

In Bitcoin, every node tries to establish 8 outgoing connections and sends new messages to its neighbors with random delays ("diffusion"). This enables certain deanonymisation attacks, where an attacker establishes many parallel connections to many…
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Started back after completion

Monero started back synchronizing after completion or connected ! Should I just close the wallet once it completed the next time?
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Potential mistake in trying to secretly transfer from one bitcoin wallet to another via monero - Theoretical

Highly theoretical question: If I exchanged a long mixed number (ie 5.37894316842) from a bitcoin wallet A to my monero wallet, and then a few minutes later exchanged that same bitcoin amount from the monero wallet to another Bitcoin wallet B, could…
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Which multi currency/token wallet exist for ETH, BTC and XMR?

I saw that Jaxx doesn't support Monero. Is there another multi token wallet, which supports all three mentioned currencies?
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Sign a message with a cold wallet private key and then verifying it with their monero address

I'm looking to setup a monero address for each of my users on my website so they can sign a message to prove that they own the monero address. Since you cannot sign a message with your payment_id, this is the only way it seems. My main concern is if…
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Coming from bitcoin, are there change address with monero?

In bitcoin when you send your coins, your technically sending everything and it comes back to your change address. Does monero have the same concepts of a change address, because I see that in monero you only have 1 address that is reusable without…
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Is "Two-phase Proof of Work" suitable for Monero?

The "Two-phase Proof of Work" is an evolution of Bitcoin proposed by Emin Gün Sirer to mitigate the risk of very large pools getting too much control on Monero. A two-phase PoW consists of a block that has two separate cryptopuzzles in it. Under…
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