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What factors are influenced by ring size selection?

What factors are influenced by the ring size (mixin) selection? Does choosing a higher mixin always lead to better privacy? Does choosing a very high mixin contribute to blockchain bloat? How does the mixin selection impact transaction fees? Is…
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Is there a list of active monero full nodes?

Is there a list of active Monero full nodes? Something like Bitnodes for Bitcoin that maintains a list of IP addresses for currently active Monero nodes.
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Is there MRL-0007? What topic is it about?

I see from a previous post that MRL-0001~0005 are complete and published while MRL-0006 and MRL-0008 are still ongoing, but I've never heard anything about MRL-0007. Is there such a thing? If so, what issue does it address?
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How does TumbleBit privacy and security compare with Monero?

How would a Bitcoin implementation of a TumbleBit payment hub compare with Monero? What are the important differences between the two in the areas of privacy and security?
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Is Monero the first cryptocurrency to use Confidential Transactions (RingCT), 0MQ, and LMDB?

I assume these technologies exist in other usages, but are we the first coin to implement them?
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Is a Monero key backdoor possible?

Recently an article was published stating the possibility of the NSA or some other malicious organization creating backdoor undetectable Diffie-Hellman keys (source) to allow snooping. Is Monero at risk to an attack of this nature? If so, under…
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Are transaction fees hardcoded?

And if they are, why not be user defined like Bitcoin. Here we go again. My question does not have enough words in it so I am just typing.
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Is there a way to view and/or calculate the value of all utxo's?

I'm thinking of this as a way of verifying total coin supply. I've seen another thread about a command to add up all coinbase tx's to do the same, but I'm curious about the utxo approach. Thanks
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What does CONOP mean and how does it relate to block sizes and scaling?

What has Monero done to address CONOP factors? How does the current Monero implementation compare to other existing cryptocurrency alternatives with regard to blocksize caps? Is the any research about new adaptive blocksize formulas that may…
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What's the easiest way to integrate Monero Payments without trusting a third party?

I would like to integrate Monero payments on my website. I already know some of the PHP Libraries and https://monero-merchants.com/ Is there a simple way (somehow easy like monero-merchants.com) to integrate Monero payments to my website without…
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Why didn't Monero developers just improve bitcoin?

There are plenty of reasons for creating an altcoin to test a concept, but there are also good reasons to improve the primary protocol. Considering that cryptocurrencies are a strange meld between financial instrument and software, the scale tips…
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How is the quadratic miners penalty calculated

For blocks above the median block size of the last 100 blocks but below the 2x the median block size dynamic cap a quadratically increasing penalties is applied to miners. How is this penalty calculated? Can miners avoid the penalty by refusing to…
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How to configure my computer to mine when not in use in Windows?

I have an older gaming computer with an AMD R7 370 that I would like to mine Monero with when not in use. I am using Wolf's open-source AMD miner. What steps can I take, in Windows 10, to have the computer mine when I am not using it? Can the script…
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Number of private keys that have been used on the Monero network

Rich lists are impossible to produce with Monero. Is it still possible to determine the total number private keys have ever been used to control available outputs on the network? Obviously the number cold storage wallets that were created offline…
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How to see that the RingCT commitment parameter H is in fact a multiple of the base point G

On the last paragraph of page 7 of Monero Research Lab's paper about RingCT, the author makes some statements to the effect that it is possible to pick a random point on the base curve ED25519 that is on the subgroup generated by its base point G,…
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