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Wallet RPC API wallet creation
I decided to build a python GUI wrapper around monerod and monero-wallet-rpc. Following https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/developer-guides/wallet-rpc and https://moneroexamples.github.io/python-json-rpc/ are great, but this requires a wallet to…
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Replay attacks and address differentiation after a hard fork?
Just in case there will be some time a XMR Classic fork ...
Are there any technical solutions in the protocol to prevent replay-attacks after a hard fork?
Is there any possibility to distinguish whether a receiver’s address is on an old chain or the…
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What is the purpose of enforcing a minimum mixin?
Each person can choose a mixin as high as they like when sending Monero.
For those that receive Monero solely from mining (never accepting Monero payments) is there any reason why a minimum mixin enforcement would be beneficial?
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If you send two transactions to the same one-time address, will they both be accepted by the blockchain?
A one time address is supposed to be, well, used only once.
If you send two transactions to the same one time address, will both transactions be accepted into the block chain? I know that if they were, only one would be spendable.
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How was the generator H for the RingCT scheme chosen?
I'm reading the RingCT whitepaper by Shen Noether. The scheme requires a second random generator H such that its discrete logarithm w.r.t. G is not known. Paragraph 3.2 suggests two variants to generate H:
1. H = toPoint(cn_fast_hash(G))
2. H =…
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Monero Light Client
Is there any light client for Monero where I can create and import private keys/mnemonic-seed and send and receive transactions like electrum for Bitcoin / Dash ?
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concatenate in the monero world
I am trying to replicate in python the calculation of public key derivation, that is: P = H(aR||i)G +B where i is the output index in a transaction.
I got all the operators figured out (using a python ed25519 implementation) except for the…
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GUI / monerod v0.13.0.3 does not start on Linux because of "./monero-wallet-gui: error while loading shared libraries: libhidapi-libusb.so.0"
GUI / monerod v0.13.0.3 does not start on Linux because of "./monero-wallet-gui: error while loading shared libraries: libhidapi-libusb.so.0". How do I resolve this particular issue?
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Funds received from subwallet are not showing
My wallet has approximately 60,000 subaddresses.
I was running monero-wallet-rpc, and somehow (I think) the program was not able to save the wallet successfully.
When I started monero-wallet-rpc again, my wallet shows the last 10 transactions…
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Is there any connection between botnets PhotoMiner and Linux.Lady?
Is there any known connection between PhotoMiner and Linux.Lady aside from them both mining Monero? They both also seem to target open ports, FTP server ports in the case of PhotoMiner and Redis database server ports in the case of Linux.Lady
Are…
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Why are Monero fees visible?
I was checking in moneroblocks.info some random transaction just to see how they are composed, and I noticed that while the amounts are confidential, the fees are on clear and not obfuscated.
Isn't there any method to make an estimate of the amount…
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What are the differences between integrated and stealth addresses?
I'm confused what are stealth addresses. Can someone ELI5 what stealth addresses are, how they are generated and used?
user312
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Support for a Ledger Nano S Recovery Plan B?
For a Ledger Nano S recovery contingency plan, how can one compute an associated vector of 25 Electrum wallet recovery words for each primary address using BIP 44 technology that is seeded from BIP 39 using 12, 18 or 24 seed words (not to be…
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Is the tx-extra field publicly visible?
If I put something in the tx-extra field of a transaction, will it be publicly visible and unencrypted? That is, anyone can see it on the public view of the monero transactions? And I assume the tx-extra field content can be of any length?
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Can you make contingent payments in Monero?
Bitcoin allows one to make contingent payments, where the transaction only goes through if the receiver reveals some piece of information. The most basic example of this is P2SH, which is hard coded into the Bitcoin protocol. It allows one to buy a…
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