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Are mining pools shares based on prescribed difficulty or the actual difficulty you hash a block with?

I'm mining Monero as part of a pool (specifically this pool -- https://mixpools.org/xmr/). I'm using a CryptoNoter package to do the mining. The pool will send back work taht looks…
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What is the status of web mining?

Now that I have my pool up and running, how long before we get a production web Miner? I'm trying to get non-techies start mining and a great start would be a web Miner. Thanks,
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Do you experience much more crashes/restarts of xmr-stak with the latest 2.3.0 version (Vega 64 rig)?

I was using the old 2.2 version for about 3 months. I used it along with the 'JJ's XMR-STAK HashRate Monitor and Restart Tool' on Windows 10 with the blockchain AMD driver (Aug 2017). Mining rig contains 4x Vega 64 and one Vega 56. On a good day it…
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Is there a monero vanity address generator?

Is there a xmr vanity address generator where you can type in a string and it will keep generating until it matches your criteria? I want to find an address with my name in the beginning of it. Which characters are not allowed in a xmr address?
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Generate a integrated address using a subaddress

How do you generate an integrated address using a subaddress? I'm getting Error: usage: integrated_address [payment ID]
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How do "Time Locked Proof of Non-ASIC work challenge reward" algorithms work to deter ASIC production?

I just read the proposal for "Time Locked Proof of Non-ASIC work challenge reward" https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/86zb03/the_end_of_all_asic_miners_moneros_new/ I still don't understand how does it work exactly to deter ASIC production.…
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What does the "hashes" field mean in an authentication message received from a pool?

I'm still trying to get a handle on how all this pool mining stuff works so I decided to use this guy's project -- https://github.com/cryptonoter/CryptoNoter/ to give it a whirl. In particular I notice when I send a message (I believe this is when…
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How can a View Wallet be implemented in code?

I'm interested in implementing a view wallet in code. I've seen this example which worked great, however the only problem is it also requires a public spend key. I saw this question but I can't really follow what steps I would have to take to…
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Non RingCT transactions since RingCT mandatory

RingCT is mandatory since block 1400000, yet there are 95 non ringct transactions since that block and block 1500000. User iDunk on IRC suggested that this could be the result of the command sweep_unmixable. Indeed, all these transactions seems to…
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How are the Monero ARMv7 CLI binaries built?

My goal is to set up a full Aeon node on a Raspberry Pi 3. I have been trying to compile the rebased Aeon code on it. After numerous attempts from scratch, the problem I encounter is that it errors out each time at different percentage of the build…
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Trying to 'make install' xmr-stak

By following the instructions from the readme on github for Ubuntu/Debian: Ubuntu / Debian sudo apt install libmicrohttpd-dev libssl-dev cmake build-essential libhwloc-dev git clone https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak.git mkdir xmr-stak/build cd…
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How does Ring Confidential Transactions work?

Can someone explain to me how RingCT works and how the recipient gets the actual amount from the encrypted amount in a RingCT transaction?
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Is there a monero pruned blockchain mode like how bitcoin core has a pruned blockchain?

Monero's blockchain is almost 50GB as of March 2018 and my laptop doesn't have that much space to spare anymore. Is there a pruned version of the monero blockchain?
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How is the one time address generated from the public address?

Given the public address, how is the one time address generated. Also, cryptographically, what links them?
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Minimum amount of keys needed to recover funds?

Is it possible to recover all your xmr funds from providing only your private spend key? Or do you need the private view key too? What is the minimum one needs to sweep all coins out from an address? And how can this be done in the cli if you only…