A special transaction where the recipient can only spend the funds after a future date, as set by the sender.
Questions tagged [transaction-unlock-time]
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Provably burning Monero
Is it possible to provably burn Monero? Does its use mandatory ring signatures and stealth addressing make proving that Monero was sent to a "burn address" impossible to verify?
If proof of burn is possible with Monero, how can it be done?
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What are some use cases for setting a transaction unlock time?
When I send a transaction to someone and it is mined by the network the Monero transaction becomes irreversible.
Within the contest of irreversible transactions what benefit would I as a sender have to create a transaction with a required waiting…
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If I need to send a bunch of transactions, how can I stop the wallet from using my entire balance as change during the first transaction?
Say I want to send a number of payments. Sometimes the wallet will use up my entire balance with change just to send some small amount, and this stops me from being able to send additional payments for fifteen minutes or however long it takes to get…
user4
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Will unlock_time lock sender wallet balance?
I sent some transfers between two of my wallets yesterday with unlock_time about a month in the future. The incoming transfers show up in the new wallet as expected with the correct unlock time.
What also happened is that part of the balance in the…
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How to use unlock_time?
I have just seen that there are some questions here about the unlock_time feature. I never heard about the fact that Monero had something like that enabled, so I was trying to find out more about it, but nothing comes up in the help of either…
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How exactly does "unlock_time" work?
Monero transactions have something called "unlock time", that prevent transactions from being spent until a certain time in the future. I'm wondering how exactly that works.
Can a transaction with a "unlock time" component be published to the…
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Is there a coin time lock ability in Monero like the one in Bitcoin?
Is there a way to lock my Monero coins for X amount of time into the future? Like how bitcoin has a time lock feature on coins? I want to be able to just put some away and not ever use it until X amount of blocks.
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How does one prove that a user has locked Monero for X blocks?
Is there a way to do a proof-of-locked coins? I know Bitcoin has the ability to lock for X amount of blocks. Does Monero have something like this and how does a 3rd party prove that a user has locked X amount of coins?
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Are transactions with multiple real inputs bound to require all the real inputs
I was reading this discussion on adding nLockTime to Monero, and the OP says that we can achieve this functionality by having a small amount of cryptocurrency transferred with an transaction-unlock-time and use this as a lock by having a multiple…
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