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What would be the fastest way to implement Dominant Assurance Contracts (which depend on multisignature transactions) with Monero?

I think that dominant assurance contracts are a significantly overlooked or poorly explored idea for the entire cypherpunk and cryptocurrency community. I'd like for all of us to do more exploration with it, but before that's possible there needs…
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How does Boolberry's Wild Keccak work?

Boolberry uses an algo named Wild Keccak. This is refered to as a blockchain based POW. How does this work?
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Windows or Linux for Monero

What are the pros and cons of each OS for running a full node and GPU/CPU mining? Also developing for Monero? I want to be able to make programs for windows, linux, and macos that involve Monero as I want to be more involved in the community. I…
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How do I restore a wallet with seed?

I am running monero.win.x64.v0-10-0-0 on windows 10. I am trying to restore a wallet with a seed but do not know how to do it. When I open monero-wallet-cli after monerorod synchronizes it asks for a wallet name straight away then generates a new…
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How can we make Monero based eCommerce payment integration?

If we want to make Monero based eCommerce websites, what is the process? how do we integrate Monero into the website so a seller can set a price for the product and buyer can pay in Monero and get the product, for both immediate and escrow based?
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Do you get a faster hashrate mining with Linux?

I am mining with a RX 470 GPU and a Intel 6600k CPU on Win7, would I get a higher hashrate mining using Linux OS?
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What is the reason why the monero firmware is delayed until ringCT is implemented?

What is the reason why the monero firmware is delayed until ringCT is implemented? Does this mean the firmware has to be re-written to work with ringCT? Also will the trezor Monero firmware will be implementated in the Monero-wallet-cli? (I have…
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Monero technology information

While this SE site is a good source for getting specific questions answered, where can I go to gain good background knowledge and learn technical details about Monero?
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C# simplewallet RPC calls

I'm quite new to cryptocurrencies, and I want to make a program that runs simplewallet (monero-wallet-cli) in the background as an RPC server and make calls to it using C#. I already somewhat know how to start it as an RPC server (per this bytecoin…
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What are the "ingredients" of a key image?

This is a scenario I've come up with to help me understand key images. Let's say I have Wallet 1 and Wallet 2. Wallet 1 has TXO A and TXO B. I send TXO A and TXO B as inputs to Wallet 2. TXO B was reduced to pay transaction fees. Then I send TXO…
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AUD straight to Monero

I'm new to the community - just wondering if there are any ways to purchase Monero with AUD? (Australian dollars) Any exchanges offering? What do you think the chances of them offering it in the next 12 months are? Thanks in advance!!
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Understanding the `set` command in monero-wallet-cli

I just typed set and this is printed: seed = English always-confirm-transfers = 0 store-tx-info = 1 default-mixin = 0 auto-refresh = 1 refresh-type = optimize-coinbase priority = 0 I think I understand most of what these things mean, except for the…
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Are there any trade-offs to daughter chains?

There has been some talk of Monero daughter chains to scale up and make payments faster or nearly(?) instantaneous. Would these daughter chains be less secure in any way: do they trade less confirmations for faster transactions? Would they be more…
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How does one provide "proof" of payment beyond txid?

I have seen this discussed on Bitcointalk, but how does one prove they sent XMR to the receiver of the transaction if the recipient claims they never got it? Is this where a viewkey comes in? What tools exist to help me use the viewkey in this…
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Code that checks for 'rogue block'

I read recently about, for lack of a better term, a rogue block that was recorded into the blockchain that forked the chain but it didn't split exactly. I read that there is some code in later versions that looks for that bad block, but that there's…
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