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How does the recent patched key image exploit work in practice?
For more info https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html This has been patched months ago and was never exploited which can be proven by running a node because it checks every transaction's key…
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Calculating the cost of a double spending attack
A toll booth owner wants to accept zero confirmation transactions (because waiting for confirmation would lead to long lines at the toll booth) and open the gate as soon as the transaction (with integrated payment ID) reaches the mempool.
Is there a…
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How does CryptoNight "depend on all the previous blocks"?
Originally, I thought the CryptoNight puzzle was similar to the SHA2 puzzle, with a more exotic hash function replacing SHA2. In other words, the puzzle was essentially H(prev||nonce) < diff, but with H being the slow_hash in the CryptoNote…
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PHP Libraries to assist with Monero integration
Are there any PHP Libraries available to merchants to make integrating Monero payments easier?
How much time is generally required to integrate a Monero payment infrastructure?
Aside from the decision to keep Monero or convert it to another…
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I2P: How does the reseed works ?
I saw in this question that there are hard coded reseed servers.
How does it work exactly ?
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How is code reliability improved?
It seems that blockchain code written in C++ is prone to obscure but serious bugs such as recently seen in Zcoin.
I know that rewriting Monero in a safer language is not practical in the short-term, and there are various tests run during the build…
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How can block size grow over time when miners are incentivised to keep size small?
Miners are penalised if they mine a block that is larger than a threshold.
Miners can make sure that the blocks they mine don't go over that threshold in order to avoid a reward penalty (by adapting the daemon code).
One of Monero's "selling point"…
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Can any CryptoNote coins be merge mined?
Do any CryptoNote coins support merged mining?
If so which coins can be merged mined about how would merge mining affect my hashrate?
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CryptoNight-Lite PoW modifications in Aeon
What PoW modifications are contained in CryptoNight-Lite as implemented by Aeon? How much faster is blockchain synchronization because of these modifications compared to standard CryptoNight?
What security concerns if any do these modifications…
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Does the dynamic blocksize limit and penalty function lead to a tragedy of the commons?
My understanding is that:
The penalty applies to the block subsidy and not the transaction fees.
Under constant demand blocks can increase continuously by pushing up the median block size.
There doesn't seem to be a push back mechanism to confine…
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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 to solo-mine Aeon?
Suppose one has the Aeon software built and installed, how does one then initiate solo-mining Aeon using the CPU?
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Simple explanation of Monero mechanics - how does Monero work?
I'm looking for a nice explanation of Monero mechanics to make people 'get' what is what and how it works. Things like stealth addresses, ring signatures, view & spend keys, key images, ring confidential transactions etc.
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Is it possible to embed message for recipient in transaction?
I would like to embed human-readable short text message to outgoing transaction such that only the receiver can read it. May be reasonably short. Something similar like in wire transfer when sending money form one bank to another you can add "note"…
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What's the easiest way to look up a transaction on the blockchain?
If I want to check if my transaction has made it to the blockchain, where can I look it up and by what data can I search/filter? Of course there is the transaction id and possibly a payment id, but is there other data I could use to find my…
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