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How to connect to a remote node from NodeJS?
I'm trying to figure out how to connect my NodeJS app to a remote monero node. I need it to query the network.
Here's is the list of available JSON-RPC methods — Daemon RPC documentation
Here's the list of open nodes —…
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Which password limitations do exist?
I refer with my question primary to length, based on bytes because a sign in UTF-8 can have 1-4 bytes.
Furthermore some special signs like control-signs might not be allowed.
This question is related to bulk-creation of wallets, so it's not about my…
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Can't get AMDGPU-PRO drivers working with R9 290x and xmr-stak
I am trying to configure an older mining rig I built about four years ago for Dogecoin into a Monero mining rig. I have a bunch of different Radeon cards, but right now, I just want to get two R9 290x's working on Ubuntu 16. I have down over a dozen…
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Best practices to keep Monero wallet secure
I'm using a read-only wallet on a computer connected to the Internet, a dedicated local server for the Monero node and I keep on a USB key the full wallet as cold storage to use it only in case. Also, I have printed the seed and I'm keeping it in a…
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dev pool socket error
I have been experiencing a problem with my mining rig and was wondering if anyone has ran into the same problem. I am using XMR-stak 2.2.0 and sometimes XMR-stak restarts because my hashes drops below the threshold that I set. In my logs I noticed…
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When using a foreign remote node does the transaction signing happen on my wallet or on the node?
I don't understand the architecture of Monero wallet(s) - on OSX or on Android.
When I choose not to run my own full node/daemon and use (foreign) remote node instead, how does the security of signing work?
Is the wallet just the GUI to the node and…
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In Monero can you sweep a wallet if you *ONLY* have the private spend key?
Monero has 4 keys associated with each address:
public view key
public spend key
private view key
private spend key
Can you sweep all coins from an address if you only have the private spend key?
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Will we eventually get rid of "locked" and "unlocked" balances?
My biggest eyesore of Monero which would definitely prevent mass adoption (and adoption by big stores) is that I can only send a single transaction every 20 minutes. Once a transaction is sent, the sending and receiving wallet need to wait for 10…
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Who pays Transaction fee?
If I want to send someone $20 worth of monero and the transaction fee is $10, does that person only get $10 or the full $20 and I pay the $10, so I would end up paying $30 for a $20 transaction?
Thanks,
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How to determine number of used subaddresses after restoring from seed?
Suppose I created and published i=10 subaddresses from which 5 already received a payment.
After restoring my wallet from the 25-word seed, how would I know how many subaddresses were already generated?
How could I avoid giving out the same…
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When mining in a pool what does current effort actually mean?
When mining in a pool what does current effort actually mean? Is my payout reduced when the effort goes to 500% let's say? What is different when the effort is 10% for example?
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MinerGate mining Monero cryptocurrency with ArubaCloud
For 21 days I've been mining Monero cryptocurrency using the VPS from ArubaCloud. At the beginning, mining was about 25h / s. For 3 days I have been having problems with mining, the speed has decreased to 5h / s and in addition I lose connection…
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Unable to run multiple instances of monerod
Since version 0.10.2, Monero has reportedly supported the ability to run two or more instances of monerod with only one copy of the ful blockchain database:
added support for multiple daemons using the same LMDB database
One instance of the daemon…
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How to setup own remote Monero node with maximum security / anonymity?
I'm interested in setting up my own remote monero node for personal use on a home computer running OSX. According to this guide all I need to do is setup an SSH-connection with a command line which would look somewhat like this:
ssh -N -f -L…
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Is there a way to force sync on Monero GUI?
I'm using the Monero GUI to download the Monero blockchain; but most of the time, after I open the GUI and start daemon, the "network status" at the lower left bit shows only the "connected" text. Ocassionally, it will shows it's syncing and how…
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