With multi-signature transactions you can require than multiple parties sign a transaction. In order to be able to spend the funds approval is required from a chosen number of those parties.
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How to Use Monero Multisignature Wallets (2/2 & 2/3)
Disclaimer: this is written for the pre-release version and for testing purposes only (at the present moment). Use at your own responsibility and don't play with big amounts. To test yourself, you must build the linked multisig branch. I will remove…
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Can you have a multsig wallet with the current Monero protocol?
Can you create a bitcoin-style multisig wallet in Monero in the current protocol?
You would have n participants, such that k of them can authorize a transaction.
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ELI5: How is Multisig going to work in Monero?
From what I understand Monero multisig will likely be a special Monero address, similar to something like a p2sh address to address specific use cases. Will it work like a traditional multisig system where you simply just distribute n number of…
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How does ringct interact with multisig?
When the ringct branch is finished, will it make m-of-n multisig easier or harder to implement?
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How high is Multi-Sig on the list of development priorities?
.... and is there a rough ETA? ( Soon..)
If this isn't being actively developed, then is there things that need to be developed before this can happen?
Otherwise has there been any forum funding proposals concerning this?
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Does Multisig have any privacy drawbacks?
Does implementing multisig at the protocol level raise any privacy concerns? In other words, because several people are now involved in a trx, does that raise the probabilities of de-anonymizing the trx? If you know lets say that 4 people were…
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How sophisticated will Monero's multisig capability be once RingCT is implemented and it's future plans afterwards?
A lot of people talk about the fact that once RingCT is implemented multisig will be possible, but it seems to be a very open statement, can someone give a more comprehensive breakdown of what kind of multisig use cases will be possible initially,…
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How can Monero best be used within a commercial business?
If a business owner wants to hold Monero and potentially use it for business transactions, using for example the GUI wallet, how would this best work?
I'm thinking in terms of who would hold the password and mnemonic seed? If more than two…
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Forum Funding System donations earmarked for projects that are never completed
What happens to Monero raised by the Forum Funding System for projects that are never completed?
Are donations returned to donors (if their identity is known)?
What happens to donations made by anonymous donors?
Once multisig integration of Monero…
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Does Monero/the CryptoNote Protocol support multi signature wallets?
I did not find a question directly asking for multi signatures and Monero. Right now there doesn't seem to be support for multi signatures in Monero. So I want to know if it is technically feasible and if so what are the necessary development…
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What are the chances of Monero having a marketplace similar to Openbazaar?
I realize this would likely need multisig, but are there any plans to add Monero support to Openbazaar? Whether by the OB developers or could we get a FFS to get people working on it to PR the code to the OB repo?
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Multi-sig flexibility
When multisig becomes available for Monero how flexible will it be?
If "M" is number signatures required and "N" is the number of signatures available what is the minimum and maximum "M" and "N" possible for Monero "M" of "N" multisig…
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Do multisig addresses share the same space as regular addresses and produce the same types of keys?
Let me word it another way. Can a normal Monero seed produce the same address as a multisig wallet? And, if so, would that mean that the private spend key generated by that wallet would be able to spend the outputs of what would otherwise be a…
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How does Monero's multisig work under the hood?
I read Luigi's post about how multisig worked when he released the first test version, but I found it very complicated and hard to understand. Maybe it was the format, or maybe it was just more complex than I was expecting. In any case, I was…
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What is the state of development of Multisig?
In this thread it was stated that after "RingCT ready to be released, the work on integrating RingCT with multisig can begin". Ring CT is now implemented in the testnet, so I am wondering if there is anyone already working on coding it. If so, I…
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