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Usage of a zero mixin (ring size =1)
Zero mixin (ring size=1) transactions are no longer allowed (except for sweeping dust). When they were allowed before the March 2016 hard fork they were quite common.
Is there evidence to support the theory that most zero mixin usage (when allowed)…
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Writing my own Monero miner
So I was trying to make my own Monero miner and I found out that it uses the Cryptonight hash algorithm and I found documentation for it and I can implement it. But then how do I connect my miner to a pool, there doesn't seem to be any API on any of…
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‘xmr-wallet.org’ FRAUD
last sunday 11/4/2017 I bought 31 Monero coins and sent them to my wallet created through ‘xmr-wallet.org’ but the money never arrived into my wallet, their support never answers my questions about this and their telephone nr does not exist.
Can…
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How is the "account" command used in the CLI?
I recently built from master - though this may have been included in the last point release (v0.11.1.0) - and I see new monero-wallet-cli commands. The command I'm most curious about is account. Is this related to the concept of sub-addresses?
How…
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How do I install the Monero GUI on PureOS?
Now that Purism accepts Monero payments through globee I am interested in using Monero on a Librem laptop which runs PureOS.
What are the installation steps (including necessary dependencies) required to install the official Monero GUI on PureOS?
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What is the 'base point' (G) from the whitepaper and how is it represented as a single hex value?
The white paper introduces G, aka the base point, as G = (x, −4/5).
I have two questions:
what is x? Is this the x from the elliptic curve (is it a variable)? If so, how is a private key aG computed?
A point has two coordinates (x and y). How…
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Size requirements for different "pieces" of a Monero transaction
What are the different pieces of a transaction that take up precious bytes on the blockchain (range proof, MLSAG, inputs, outputs, ECDH, keys, TX extra, other)?
How much space do they take up (in bytes or kb)?
Which items' sizes may change in…
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What does this p2p info mean from the daemon log?
2016-Jul-30 22:32:06.864931 [P2P0][x.x.x.x:18080 OUT]NOTIFY_NEW_BLOCK (hop 3)
2016-Jul-30 22:32:06.865073 [P2P5][x.x.x.x:18080 OUT]NOTIFY_NEW_BLOCK (hop 4)
2016-Jul-30 22:32:06.865221 [P2P1][x.x.x.x:18080 OUT]NOTIFY_NEW_BLOCK (hop 2)
2016-Jul-30…
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How does mymonero web wallet work?
I understand that all the client code is running on the client computer, and the private keys never leave the client computer. The client creates transactions and transmits them to mymonero server, which then pushes it on the blockchain,…
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Why is there a fee to import old transactions when using mymonero web wallet?
When opening and old wallet created by simplewallet, I'm asked for a fee to import old transactions, why?
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What Android wallet options are there for Monero?
What are the top Android wallets for storing monero?
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How does the dynamic blocksize and the dynamic fees work together in Monero?
This mechanism is unique to Monero because it's the only cryptocurrency to have both blocksize and transaction fee dictated by an algorithm, how was this achieved and what is the rationale behind such system?
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Is the Monero blockchain database portable between 32 and 64 bit architectures, and little/big endian architectures?
Monero uses LMDB for its database. Various data is saved in this database, including integers, such as the difficulty for a given block. LMDB is type agnostic, so does not any particular processing on integers and other types.
Is this database…
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What are some use cases for setting a transaction unlock time?
When I send a transaction to someone and it is mined by the network the Monero transaction becomes irreversible.
Within the contest of irreversible transactions what benefit would I as a sender have to create a transaction with a required waiting…
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How do I know I'm on the main blockchain?
The new version of the daemon has the "alt_chain_info" command. The output looks like:
5 alternate chains found:
1 blocks long, from height 1264997 (5502 deep), diff 1746032035727893:…
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