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One of two sets of private and public cryptographic keys that each account has, with the private view key required to view all transactions related to the account.

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How to prove my Monero balance to the world?

Viewkey allow to disclose incoming txs. I need to solve a task of making transparent and provable address for our Monero funds. We are investment fund and this feature is mandatory for us.
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Selective transparency in Monero vs Zcash

How does the view key functionalist in Monero compare to the view key functionality in Zcash? Does one system review more or less transaction details than the other? What are the differences?
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If I saved my view key and spend key can I recover my wallet if my mnemonic seed is lost?

I accidentally deleted by my wallet file and mnemonic seed. Can I recover my wallet with my view key and spend key? If yes, then how do I do so?
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Can I fake a balance by giving the view key to an auditor but omitting some transactions and key images?

The viewkey can be used to see the outputs sent to my address, but not the outputs I generate when sending monero. If I need to know the balance I also need the private spendkey. It is suggested that if I were to give the viewkey and a big list of…
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How can a business or charity publish proof of XMR reserves?

Is Monero too private to allow auditing? Without a rich list or transparent blockchain how can a business or charity publish proof of XMR reserves?
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How to use the view key to see amount sent to cold storage?

I know that you can't view both incoming and outgoing transactions of a cold wallet, but I'm still confused as to how I can see if my previous transactions I made have actually reached my cold storage address. I know I should use the view key, but…
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Why is the viewkey able to track incoming transactions, but not outgoing transactions?

This question basically boils down to why can't we have a single key that we can publish, such that an auditor could see incoming transactions, outgoing transactions, and thus a balance of a certain account.
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What are the "public" viewkeys and spendkeys?

If you create a paper wallet at www.moneroaddress.org or create a wallet with simplewallet, you are provided with private view and spend keys. If you create a paper wallet at https://xmr.llcoins.net/ you also are shown public view and spend keys in…
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Is there an online block explorer that supports view keys?

Is there a block explorer that allows you to upload a view key and view the transactions associated with it? If the view key is public (such as a donation address's view key), there is no security risk involved with uploading it to that service. You…
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Problems with creating name and regularly accessing view-only wallet for cold storage

Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I've created a couple view-only wallets using https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/user-guides/view_only , and have been coming across some problems: 1) When I actually do create the wallet that has my…
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Given a view key, can you see payment ids?

So the view key allows you to see all past and future incoming transfers for the corresponding address. Are you able to read a payment id belonging to a transfer if one was set? Is the answer the same for integrated addresses?
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How can Monero defend against a "majority of view keys" attack?

My question is a follow-up on a recent thread on Reddit: In this talk! a question was asked how many of view keys are needed to see through the whole blockchain and deanonymize all the transaction. Riccardo Spagni answered around 80%, which is…
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Easy way to see my balance without having wallet synced

just joined and have a question... I started mining XMR when the new GUI was released and used the address generated to receive payment from pool. Unfortunately the mac I'm using is very old and it is taking forever to sync completely. So my…
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Can view keys differentiate between payments and change?

Considering they track incoming payments as well as change, how do they know which one is which? If an organization wants to audit my account, and I've been sending a large number of transfers, won't they see a bunch of incoming transactions that…
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How do you create a watch only wallet in simplewallet with the viewkey?

We all know that the viewkey can be used to verify transactions you've made, and has been covered to a certain extent in other questions, but how is this employed using the simplewallet client? What steps need to be undertaken to create a watchonly…
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