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Can Monero's privacy features be integrated into (copied) by bitcoin?
Can Monero's privacy features be integrated into (copied) by bitcoin? If so, to what degree given the current political gridlock?
By the way, I'm a true believer and I'm setting up a full node as I type this. I'm also buying a monster GPU to up…
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Following coding progress between dev meetings
Monero biweekly development meeting summaries and logs and are published by hellomonero. How can a non developer without the desire to compile from source or idle in IRC stay up to date with recent Monero pull requests in between tagged releases…
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Terminology clarification: stealth address
I've seen the term stealth address being used for both:
Monero standard address
One-time public key
I'm guilty of using the term for 2. initially, but later I realized that it may actually refer to 1. and went on to correct some of my posts…
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How can one use RingCT to maximize the privacy of existing wallets?
I think the privacy is not what it should be in my existing wallets is because 1) there are old zero mixin transactions there and 2) it is my understanding that it is possible to estimate the amounts of even non zero mixin transactions in some…
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Minimum recommended user knowledge requirements
Cryptocurrency newcomers are disproportionately victims of financial loss both because of trusting dishonest 3rd parties and because of poor OPSEC.
Does Monero have a defined set of minimum recommended user knowledge requirements?
For example is…
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Is it possible to build a BitcoinJ style library that will help enable lightwallets?
As I understand it, lightwallets are inherently difficult for CryptNote currencies because the wallet has to scan every block in the blockchain. This means they can't just request block headers to verify the chain and use bloom filter requests to…
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Does the kovri pre-alpha build already work for running a monero node?
As i understand kovri aims to add support for the I2P network through C++ code instead of the java code it is originally built on. Not only as a monero specific implementation, but also as a general I2P router, usable by other projects as well.
If i…
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Compare solutions for instant payments. Lightning Network vs Daughter-chain
Lightning Network in Bitcoin ecosystem can bring instant payments and better scalability.
I've read that daughter-chain is one possible solution to bring instant payments into monero, but also that lightning-network would be also possible to…
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Upon running monerod, I get two errors "cryptonote_protocol_handler.h:94 Unkonown command:1007" and "net_node.h:150 Unkonown command:1007"
I have never seen these errors. Is it safe to use cli-wallet to transfer funds? Should I be concerned? Using Monero 'Wolfram Warptangent' (v0.10.0.0-release) and macOS Sierra 10.12 (16A323).
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Does the key vector approach in RingCT represent linkability among transactions? Can it be exploited by blockchain analysis?
As I understand from MRL-0005 (Definition 4.1 in page 9), when creating a RingCT transaction with, say, m inputs, n outputs, and q mixin, the i-th member (where i=0...q) of the ring signature R is constructed using output keys {P[i,j]}, their…
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Why is the payment ID specified on a per TX basis?
I understand that the payment ID is stored in the tx-extra field. Only one payment ID can be specified when sending, even when sending to multiple addresses, because it's specified on a per-tx basis.
I'm assuming that it was made this way to…
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Does Multisig have any privacy drawbacks?
Does implementing multisig at the protocol level raise any privacy concerns? In other words, because several people are now involved in a trx, does that raise the probabilities of de-anonymizing the trx? If you know lets say that 4 people were…
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How to join the Monero Slack?
I figured out the website is https://monero.slack.com. Signing up isn't very obvious for me. On the home page, it says something about "find your team". How does this all work?
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What is actually happening when you pool mine? What is a share?
When I connect to a miner, I recieve a 'job', process that 'job', and send back 'shares'. Somehow this means that I earn Monero for my investment in GPUs and electricity.
What is actually happening here?
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Is there a way to make a public transaction?
Let says I want to send 1 XMR to Alice, and I want to prove to EVERYONE that I sent that 1 XMR to Alice without giving them a view-key or anything. Is this possible, and where could someone view the transaction?
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