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How can I explain the meaning of Monero to my grandma?
I wrote a book about Monero, and my proud grandma wanted to have a copy. So she got it, said "What a beautiful picture on the cover!" and - "What is this, Monero?".
She doesn't know crypto-currencies, never used a computer. But she uses a PayPal…
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RingCT migration to Borromean Ring Signatures and testing
With the recent discovery of a bug in the original ringCT code, and the subsequent update from using ASNL to Borromean Ring Signatures, how much testing has been done since that change, and what kind of fail safes are in place in case another bug is…
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How does the wallet scan for outputs belonging to it?
In principle it's clear from the CN whitepaper:
Bob checks every passing transaction with his private key
(a,b), and computes P' = Hs(aR)G + B. If Alice's transaction for
with Bob as the recipient was among them, then aR = arG = rA…
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How do I compile Monero for Raspberry Pi 3 (ARMv8)?
The Raspberry Pi 3 does have 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU. The official downloads offer a build for ARMv7. Is there any (performance) advantage in compiling your own binaries for Raspberry Pi 3, pressumably taking advantage of the ARMv8? If so,…
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How to limit CPU load on mining pool
My pool's CPU load is too high. It has a 24 thread CPU. What is a good solution to use other servers to share the load calculation or together ?
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In what ways can a wallet connected to a malicious remote node be abused?
There are several efforts under way at the moment to build easy to use mobile wallets for Monero. The most popular approach is to rely on a trusted remote node (either your own or one provided by a trusted 3rd party).
If we want to run wallets…
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Would smart contracts ever be possible on Monero?
Way in the future say in a sidechain or something would smart contracts be possible? And if so would they be able to benefit from Monero's privacy features?
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How would sharding work in Monero to help with scaling?
I heard some monero developers talk about sharding to help manage the size of the blockchain. Sharding is where every node only hold a small pieces of the blockchain to help deal with blockchain size growth and they all work together to validate…
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How can you minimize risks to your privacy when using a remote node?
If a user sends Monero through a remote node, then the remote node operator would know the originating IP of that transaction. What are the steps that a user is able to take to reduce this potential privacy concern while using a remote node?
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Are there VPN providers accepting monero?
Bitcoin is pretty widely accepted to purchase VPN services. I'm curious if monero is accepted by anyone yet.
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Could (merge) mining provide a vector for deanonymization?
With the recent news that Digitalnote (XDN) is implementing merge mining in an effort to boost the hashrate by basically piggybacking off of Monero, I was wondering if this could lead to some leakage of information for Monero users who mergemine.
If…
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Monero trademark control and potential for abuse
Recently, I read about the Zcash Electric Coin Company “Zcash” trademark and active efforts to prevent others from using that name by making pull requests in competing forks and legal reminders.
Does any individual or company have control of the…
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Since monerod through Tor is slower (on Whonix), would importing the .raw be faster?
My understanding is that importing a blockchain backup with Monero and other cryptocurrencies takes about the same time it takes to sync normally. The only reason I could see for someone doing that, then, is if they have a high latency internet…
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How do I split my wallet into smaller denominations?
Suppose I have only a single 100 XMR output denomination for my address. How can I split this up, so that when I want to make a 5 XMR transfer, only a subset of my 100 XMR will be locked for about 20 minutes (10 confirmations)? On Reddit, JollyMort…
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Can I retroactively add the spendkey to a watch only wallet?
If yes, how can this be done?
The reason being that I want to spend the balance, but I don't want to set the wallet up again and sync it as this takes a while. It's just a time saver I'm hoping for.
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