Questions about Monero wallets that do use a full node and therefore must connect to and rely on a full node provided by someone else and/or located at another location
Questions tagged [light-wallet]
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How much information is passed from the daemon to simplewallet when scanning for a wallet's transactions?
When simplewallet is connected to a local daemon, the data throughput is mostly irrelevant because communication is done completely locally. But I am curious about how much data/information is transferred between a remote node and simplewallet?
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How do I connect monero-wallet-cli to a remote node?
In the post What privacy or security trade offs are associated with not running your own full node? the privacy ramifications of connecting monero-wallet-cli to a remote node are discussed. However, I cannot find information on stackexchange about…
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Is it possible to create a lighter wallet than simplewallet without giving up a view key?
In the question How much information is passed from the daemon to simplewallet when scanning for a wallet's transactions?, it was clarified that simplewallet receives the entirety of every block from the connected daemon in order to maintain the…
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How do I use a computer with a wallet to access a headless node at my home?
I'm running a headless, low wattage Ubuntu 16.04 (x86, if that matters) system that I have SSH'ed into, ran Screen, ran ./monerod, and then detached the Screen. This is my node. I also set up this system with a static IP, both within Ubuntu and…
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How do I merge wallet data from multiple wallets that control the same address?
Consider a scenario with the following facts:
I have a Monero node at my home. It contains a wallet, but I generally don't use that wallet.
I have a desktop computer where I have a wallet that I restored from the same seed as the wallet on my…
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How does the wallet scan for outputs belonging to it?
In principle it's clear from the CN whitepaper:
Bob checks every passing transaction with his private key
(a,b), and computes P' = Hs(aR)G + B. If Alice's transaction for
with Bob as the recipient was among them, then aR = arG = rA…
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In what ways can a wallet connected to a malicious remote node be abused?
There are several efforts under way at the moment to build easy to use mobile wallets for Monero. The most popular approach is to rely on a trusted remote node (either your own or one provided by a trusted 3rd party).
If we want to run wallets…
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Monero Light Client
Is there any light client for Monero where I can create and import private keys/mnemonic-seed and send and receive transactions like electrum for Bitcoin / Dash ?
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Using remote node still syncs blockchain?
I have restored my previous wallet with the 25 words key (stored in a different laptop). I don't want to download the whole BC in this new computer, just connect to a remote node. However no matter what option I tried, it seems that all of them lead…
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How to build MyMonero wallet for Windows?
I would like to test the MyMonero lightweight wallet on Windows in its current state of development.
Can someone please walk me through how to package the source code to test the wallet on Windows? I understand that this is a pre-release and I don't…
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Why isn't communication between wallet and daemon encrypted?
Best I've heard is that it is to encourage local nodes as using a remote node sacrifices some degree of privacy and may provide a false sense of security - is there anything more?
Are there any technical roadblocks preventing encrypted…
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Can monero-wallet-cli be run as a light wallet?
I've set up a Monero node on my server machine ("barrow.home", 10.8.0.1 on my VPN), which is not entrusted with any private keys.
/opt/monero/monero-v0.11.0.0/monerod --non-interactive \
--config-file…
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If I compile monerod from source, do I also have to compile the GUI to use the GUI?
I monerod running on headless node in my home. Let's say I want to use the GUI wallet as a light wallet on a different computer in my home, and I'll just use the node's daemon/blockchain. Is the process just as easy as downloading a pre-compiled…
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How can I use a private node on Wolfram Warptangent?
I'm using the instructions found on https://www.moneroclub.com/node with no luck. Are these commands still used in monero-wallet-cli?
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NetworkByte for Monero Stagenet
We're using the code here to generate XMR addresses by providing our own mnemonic.
The website above uses networkByte = 12 for Monero Mainnet and networkByte = 35 for Monero Testnet.
But I was wondering if anyone knew what the networkByte is for…
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