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What is the minimum length of Payment ID?

On the official web site it says that Payment ID consists of 32 bytes (64 hexadecimal characters) or 8 bytes (in the case of integrated addresses). Can it be less? If no, why?
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What would be good metrics to measure impact on miners when tweaking hardware/system?

Let's start with wolf's miner and Linux kernel 3.x at least. What would be some good metrics to measure (+/-) impact for tweaking kernel (kernel cmdline like nohz_full/tickless/ intel.cstate), pinning process and sysctl like vm.stat_interval?…
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Recovery from seed not working on monero.mac.x64.v0-9-4-0

Whenever I proceed according to these instructions: https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/user-guides/restore_account And type: simplewallet –restore-deterministic-wallet It just returns: -bash: simplewallet: command not found Are there any…
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What would happen to the Monero network if a significant part would be isolated?

What would happen to Monero in case of a cataclismic event that would cause the American continents to be data-isolated (that is all data links severed) from Eurasia? What would be the maximum time interval the network would survive for in case of…
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How can I get my hashrate and stats from my mining pool?

How can I grab from monero pool my own hashrate speed? its dynamic page so I need some help:) I would like to create my own chart for my speed of hashrate when is up or down. Any idea?
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Byte Size of other cryptonote network blockchains

Is there a resource to see the byte size of other cryptonote network blockchains, such as Monero, Aeon, Boolberry, and more As many cryptonote networks have the codebase that puts the entire blockchain in memory, I would like to know what kind of…
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unable to see wallet balance using simplewallet restore

So I have been trying to restore my wallet using the seed and simplewallet, it asks for a wallet name, then a password and finally my seed, it says my wallet has been opened. Then I set refresh and says 0 balance however I'm 1001% sure there's…
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How To: Atomic Swaps

How do you trustlessly exchange BTC for XMR?
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If I send money with Simplewallet, it'll show that I've both sent and received funds. Why?

Whenever I send funds with XMR and use the refresh command to check my balance, Simplewallet will show a number of transactions, some adding money to my account and some withdrawing money from my account. Why is this?
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With RingCT, could an adversary get into a bunch of ring signatures to decrease privacy?

Let's say I want to deanonymize Monero. What if I create a ton of RingCT outputs, such that, say, +99% of them are mine. Since amounts don't matter with RingCT, it can be very small amounts (like one atomic unit each). Now if in a ring signature, 4…
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How do I disable the XMRig donate function?

I am using XMRig on Windows 10 to mine Monero and I want to know how to disable donations. Thank you!
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Who owns and operates monero.org?

Who owns and operates monero.org? Has there been any attempt by the Monero core team to gain control of that domain name? Has there been any evidence of malicious behavior from its owner or operator so far? Was getmonero.org chosen as the official…
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Simplewallet: Can I print the current values of the options that can be set by the "set" command?

I did not see something like a "get" command, and for example "set auto-refresh" without an argument does not show the current status of auto-refresh. Am I overlooking something?
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Advantages of using monerod over Tor

According to the README, it seems like only the transactions sent from local RPC to the daemon get propagated through Tor. I am unable to understand why this choice was made/what its advantages may be. One advantage I can think of is that it would…
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Is monero worth mining in 2021?

I was doing a research on building a monero mining rig and found this site where they benchmarked some hardware and their respective hashrate, and also using a online mining calculator it seems that is not worth, taking for example a AMD…
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