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What are orphaned blocks?
I've heard the term "orphaned blocks" being tossed around here and on Reddit. Can someone please explain what orphaned blocks are and what happens to them?
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What's the difference between block height and block number?
With the recent hard-fork, I was wondering about the difference between block height and block number? E.g. I am fairly sure the genesis block is block number 0. After that block, but before the next one, was the block height 1?
And a follow-up…
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What are precomputed blocks?
When monerod is initializing, it says Loading precomputed blocks: 1200001.
What are precomputed blocks? Where are they loaded from?
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How can Monero best be used within a commercial business?
If a business owner wants to hold Monero and potentially use it for business transactions, using for example the GUI wallet, how would this best work?
I'm thinking in terms of who would hold the password and mnemonic seed? If more than two…
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Trouble compiling Wolf's cpuminer-multi on Mac OS X
I’m new to Monero. I’ve got three Macs setup as nodes mining through monero-cli-wallet and a windows machine which I have configured for pool mining. On the advice of many threads I selected a smaller pool (https://moneroworld.com/#) and followed…
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Are there protocol-level incentives regarding mix-in selection?
If I'm not mistaken, the current wallet randomly selects outputs for mix-in from the TXO set using a certain probability density function.
Is this behaviour somehow supported by protocol-level incentives, other than maximizing transaction privacy…
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What signature prevents me from spending others' coins?
In passive mixing, the monero wallet finds n other parties and forms a ring signature that proves the signer is one of the parties in the ring, and hence entitled to spend from one of the accounts associated with one of the ring parties.
I don't…
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Will the experimental Monero Trezor firmware continue to work after January?
In January, Monero will hard-fork to begin to support RingCT (optionally until September). It will also introduce dynamic fee transactions.
The existing monero trezor firmware does not support dynamic fee transactions, nor does it support RingCT…
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Failure of an exchange or pool to upgrade to Monero v0.10.1 by January 5th
According to the release notes:
The main thing to know is that you should 0.10.1. Otherwise, you will get booted off the network. If you are mining, make sure the pool you are mining on has upgraded its daemon. Only this version will work after the…
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How much of the Monero code has been changed since the Bytecoin fork?
Is a large portion of the code still 'original' bytecoin code, or has, over the years, with the edition various new features, most of Monero become original code and the remaining Bytecoin code (<20%?) been changed? More to the point, how much…
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Why is the Monero node separate from the wallet?
Is there a good idea for having a node and wallet separate? Or should they be together?
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Can I avoid Javascript poisoning when using MyMonero.com?
I read this from fluffyponyza regarding safety of his site MyMonero.com:
There's simply no way I can control and guarantee the JavaScript
delivery from the server to your computer, so you can be served
poisoned JavaScript. Also, any local…
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How can we be sure that monero wallet addresses are unique?
This question is probably not necessarily limited to monero wallets, but I have been playing around with the Monero Offline Wallet Generator and wanted to know how anyone could ever be sure that a wallet address is unique? Specifically, say I create…
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How to calculate mining profits in Excel?
I am aware that tools such as this one and this one exist to calculate estimated mining profits. I would like to essentially recreate these in Excel (with perhaps a few additional features).
Fileds to use: Hash rate, power, power cost, difficulty,…
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Any plans to have a Monero convention?
Bitcoin and Ethereum seem to have meetups/convention every now an then, are there any plans to do this with monero?
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