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Is the entropy for the mnemonic seed and the private spend key exactly the same?
Since one is just another representation of the other, is the entropy for the mnemonic seed and the private spend key exactly the same?
Are there any security benefits of using one over the other for wallet storage and recovery purposes?
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How much arbitrary data I can embed in a transaction?
How much arbitrary data I can embed in a transaction?
Does Monero have something something similar to Bitcoin's OP_RETURN?
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What is the easiest way to get a notification for incoming transaction?
I tried to get a notification for an incoming transaction??
What is the best way?
As I see, I have three options now. (Updated 02/20/2018)
Make a script to check rpc log file. Then get wallet information.
(Not working) Run incoming_transaction on…
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Will I/O speed or swap space effect the hashrate?
I was wondering if I'm mining Monero with CPU, will I/O speed or swap space effect my mining speed (hash rate)?
For example, if I installed Arch Linux on SSD with 50 GiB swap space will the CPU mining got better performance (hashrate) compare to CPU…
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Possible lengths of Monero addresses?
I'm doing crude client-side verification of a form that includes an input for a Monero wallet. What are the possible lengths of an address? Are 106 and 95 the only possible lengths?
user6769219
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Formulas for calculating current target and difficulty
I'm looking for formulas on how Monero/CryptoNight/Keccak1600 are calculating difficulty and current target.
E.g. something like:
max_target =?
current_target = f(max_target, blockrate) //some function f
I assume these are different from…
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View Key of Monero Core Development Team donation account
Does the core development team publish the view key of its donation account so that current and prospective donors can see how much XMR has been donated so far?
Although donated funds are spent solely at the discretion of the core team, has there…
animal instinct
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Pool Shares Formula
I need a formula (for supportxmr.com) to calculate total earnings per Valid Share ,thanks.
--- XMR ---
Block Reward :5.4116565613 XMR
Network Difficulty : 79,367,458,558
Network Hash Rate : 661.4 MH/s
Pool Fees : 0.6 %
Pool Hash Rate :84.97 MH/s
aref emami
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What is the purpose of running a Monero node?
Why should I keep a Monero node running? Will I be making profit from network fees from transfers?
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Where does Curve25519's limit occur?
While informing myself on the inner-working of Monero, I stumbled on Curve25519.
The CryptoNote White Paper states:
l: a prime order of the base point; l = 2^252 + 27742317777372353535851937790883648493;
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private ec-key is a standard…
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Why is sc_reduce32 needed?
I recently read a question about sc_reduce32 I stumbled on while investigating on Monero's Mnemonic Seed working. A great tool has been llcoins which states the following when talking about conversions between the Hexadecimal and Mnemonic seed:
The…
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(Non-ring) Wallet signatures
I am reading about ECDSA and EdDSA. I was wondering what the Monero void crypto_ops::generate_signature signature is based upon. From the code, I see that the math to generate one is
k = rand()
t3 = kB
buf = H(data) || pk || t3
c = Hs(buf)
r = k -…
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Normalized seed
I understand it's possible to create a "normalized" 256bit wallet seed, and the mnemonic corresponding to it is compatible with both mymonero web wallet and simplewallet. What is a normalized seed and how to create one?
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The GUI uses all my bandwidth and I can't browse anymore or use another application that requires internet connection
Per title, the GUI uses all my bandwidth and I can't browse anymore or use another application that requires internet connection. How do I resolve this?
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Preventing reuse of a stealth address
From https://monero.stackexchange.com/a/4169/4112, from a question asking whether one-time addresses can be reused:
Secondly, and this is even worse in my opinion, sending to the same stealth address will "burn" all outputs except one.
This makes…
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