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Development Roadmap Design and Consensus
Who was involved in the design and development choosing goals for the Monero roadmap?
Once goals are identified, what procedures are in place to determine their level of priority?
Does the Monero Research Lab spend time vetting the conceptual…
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I am using the GUI and my daemon doesn't start anymore
I've been using the GUI for some time and suddenly the daemon doesn't start anymore. How do I resolve this issue?
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What is MoneroPulse?
I've seen some messages in the daemon about MoneroPulse - what is it and what does it do?
The only reasonable reference I can find online is this Tweet that says "MoneroPulse: a loosely distributed checkpoint alert system. Normal nodes occasionally…
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Transaction stuck as "pending" in the GUI
I sent a transaction a few hours ago but it's still Pending (as indicated by the History page of the GUI). How do I resolve this?
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Mandatory vs optional stealth address use
Use of stealth address is optional with Bitcoin and mandatory with Monero.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of mandating the use of stealth addresses?
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Ability to choose your own transaction fee
When using simplewallet and bitmonerod transaction fees are calculated based on the mixin and outputs being used in a transaction.
During times where network usage is high, is there an ability to choose a larger transaction fee than the fee…
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Monero inception and history. How did monero get started, what are its origins and which are important historical events of its development?
I did some research, and I get that the first came Cryptonote and its implementation - ByteCoin, as an "official" coin.
From there came bitmonero, and from it came monero.
During its life, since inception, there were many stories such as:
the…
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What is churning?
I have read a few times on Reddit that churning one's own moneroj would improve privacy. What does it entail exactly? And how do I do that with the CLI or GUI?
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How to restore a Monero wallet from Private Keys
How can one import a Monero wallet via Private Keys (from mymonero.com / moneroaddress.org for example) into the GUI wallet? Is there a possible way via Private Spend- and View-Key?
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Optimal number of threads when mining
How can I determine the optimal number of mining threads to start if I know the CPU and the quantity of RAM? Are other parameters relevant?
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How to create a cold storage & watch-only wallet
Using monero-wallet-cli, I want to safely create a cold storage wallet and make a watch-only counterpart which I later want to use on my Windows PC to monitor the balance. How can I do this?
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Tor support on MyMonero.com
Many privacy focused Tor users are interested or have the potential to be interested in Monero. IP address protection is important to Tor users.
Why was Tor removed from the CORS headers on the MyMonero API?
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i2p/Kovri fundamentals in Monero
Have the fundamental properties of Kovri been decided upon for Monero?
In particular, I'm curious about the IP configuration for the i2p/Kovri router. i.e. Will it be auto-detect methods, or hidden mode, etc.?
Hidden mode is the default in Tails i2p…
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Does Monero have any connection to the Esperanto community other than its name?
In addition to the Esperanto name Monero, the name Kovri was chosen for another Monero related project. Is there some deeper connection between the Esperanto and Monero communities? Or does part of the Monero community just like to use Esperanto…
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Will Monero have wallet clients similar to SPV so that a fully validated node is less necessary?
If so, how would it work and how much better/worse would it be compared to using a full node, especially the privacy implications. Obviously as Monero usage increases, end users should be using wallets that are accessible anywhere and a full node…
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