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Is a Monero hardfork to replace stolen funds impossible due to its untraceability

If a hacker was able to steal coins from a major Monero exchange or large owner would Monero developers be able to do anything to recover the stolen funds (assuming they wanted to try)? Is it possible to revert transactions from a hacker without…
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How do I save the Monero blockchain to another hard drive?

I have a small SSD as my windows 7 C: drive. How can I transfer and save the Monero blockchain to another hard drive on my computer in order to save space?
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If Poloniex was hacked or shutdown, what effects would that have on Monero?

If Poloniex was hacked or shutdown, what effects would that have on Monero? I suspect they have a ton of coins there, since it seems to be the largest monero exchange. Would it effect the coin in any way besides reactionary price changes?
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Benefits to starting out mining at a higher difficulty

I have been trying to find out what the benefits are to starting out mining pools at higher difficulties. I imagine there must be some added benefit to it but I haven't found any real information on it. Can anyone shed some light on this or point…
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Why was `always-confirm-transfers = 1` not the default in version 0.10.0.0?

Let's say you just sent a transaction in monero-wallet-cli and you decide to copy that line and paste it in the daemon for whatever reason. Maybe you are thinking about editing its value or payment ID or something else entirely. If you happen to…
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How can one query the blockchain's database?

I realize that LMDB is very different from your typical SQL database, but is there a query language, or scripting language interface, that can be used to query the blockchain's database? I am aware of this question on displaying the output histogram…
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What contributions (if any) are there to the overall blockchain size, other than the actual transaction sizes?

Given that the median transaction sizes are so similar between Monero and Bitcoin (see this question), what other contributions are there to the overall blockchain size (e.g. database overheads or other Monero-specific contributions)? I ask as…
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View key, spend key, paper key, seed... Is there a short presentation of vocabulary around Monero wallet?

There is a lot of domain specific terms in Monero ecosystem (which is completly normal), and one must clearly understand them to do even basic wallet related operation in a safe way, or prevent problems in the case of a hungry dog being around. Is…
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Are there more cryptocurrencies based on the cryptonote protocol? If so what are the main differences?

I read a bit about the history of Monero and how it forked away from bytecoin/bitmonero in 2014. I also remember that there was another currency using the cryptonote protocol called "Boolberry" at that time. Right now cryptonote appears to be a…
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With Monero firmware loaded on a Trezor, how does one create private spend keys from the BIP 39 seed words supplied during a Trezor's configuration?

I’ve experimented with Monero’s V0313 experimental firmware that is installed on a traditionally hierarchical deterministic Trezor hardware device, which is also immune to key loggers and the CSRF vulnerability. For future proof contingency…
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Constructing a Stealth Monero Address?

Is it possible from Section 4. Address Serialization cns007.txt and Section 3. Variable-Length Encoding of Integers cns003.txt to compute a Monero Stealth Address from the following? 1) Private Spend…
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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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Usefulness of an intermittent full node

I run bitmonerod on my laptop when I'm using the computer but I shut it down for the night. I don't mine due to the computer relatively low capabilities. How useful for the whole Monero network is a full node that does not mine and that is active…
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How can I recover a wallet using the mnemonic seed?

If I lose my wallet.dat file how can I use my mnemonic seed to recover my wallet? Is the recovery procedure different depending on which Monero wallet I used to create it?
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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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