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How to mix correctly?
I have noticed that Monero mixes are usually a bunch of very small txs and then a much larger one that accounts for almost the whole amount sent. I also hear talk that one should not be sending "unique" amounts. How does one correctly mix their…
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Is Monero's wallet creation truly random?
The wallet creation with monero-wallet-cli results in a seemingly random mnemonic seeds and wallet address. Since the result of any computer program is deterministic and thus relies on an external random state to create true randomness - what…
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Can a 95-character Monero address be reduced to a mnemonic phrase?
At present a raw integrated Monero address (e.g. 44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A) is 106 base 58 characters. This is a lot for a human to transcribe manually without errors.
Consider…
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Could a tipbot be construed as a money service business?
In the United States this would impose obligations on the owner of the bot to log info and request KYC info from users to comply with the Bank Secrecy Act I believe. I'm not sure where tippero lives, but I imagine there are similar regulations in…
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Roadmap after RingCT and Kovri
After RingCT and Kovri, which new features are on the road-map to be implemented?
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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…
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How to send monero from my cold storage?
I have a Monero paper wallet and want to send money from it to another address. What's the easiest way to go about this?
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Full node with "8+0 connections"
My full node has been completely synced for a while, but it never shows anything different that "8+0 connections". What do those numbers mean? Shouldn't they increase over time?
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What is the smallest unit of Monero called?
Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin, and the smallest unit of Bitcoin (10e-8 BTC) is a Satoshi.
If Nicolas van Saberhagen authored Cryptonote, should the smallest unit of Monero (10e-12 XMR) be called a Saint Nic or Pico?
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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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Where did simpleminer go?
With Wolfram Warptangent, where did simpleminer go? Are there any special compilation flags that need to be set?
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Mymonero and monero-wallet seed
Monero wallet and Mymonero use different seed.
Mymonero 13 words seed and Monero wallet 25 words seed.
Does this mean Mymonero seeds are less secure?
What is the size of words set? (Is it the same for both?)
Why Monero dev did choose to use the same…
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How is Monero going to defend itself against future attacks on the community, politics etc?
While Monero has been under attack by trolls since day one and has become quite resilient. Bitcoin and Ethereum communities have lots of tension with corporate takeover and stalling development(divide and conquer is quite common among adversaries).…
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What are the most secure options for backing up your mnemonic seed?
You can gpg encrypt a text file or write it down on a piece of paper, but what are other good options to secure your mnemonic seed? I want to hear your ideas :)
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Why is there no P2Pool for miners?
Is there no interest in having a p2pool? I think it would be pretty cool to have something like this.
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