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Does the network benefit more from a local full node than through a VPS?

Not having much technical background, I was wondering if there is an actual difference running it locally (99% uptime) or on a VPS, on terms of how much benefit the network gains from it? (Considering the recommended vps is located in the USA, while…
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Monero Applications Development

I'm a software engineer (Mobile/Native) with interest in cryptocurrency. I would be interested in taking pet projects for monero, but, i've read recently that the jaxx guys halted the monero's wallet implementation due to lack of API support. Makes…
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What are the threats against I2P?

Threat modeling is a process by which potential threats can be identified, enumerated, and prioritized What are the considered attacks in I2P's threat model ?
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Can I cancel a transaction?

I sent a transfer but the transaction is still in the transaction pool. Can I cancel it?
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What are field elements and group elements used for?

Field elements (fe) and group elements (ge) are defined in the ref10 folder. They're also used in computations in crypto-ops-data.c. I'm trying to understand how Monero works by reading the code, but I don't understand the math in the Cryptonote…
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How do I know if I am mining in a pool?

So I started mining from monero-wallet-cli using "start_mining 2". When I enter "status", the output is as follows; "Refreshed 1254269/1254269, synced, daemon RPC v1.0". Am I actually in a pool? I have seen references to stale blocks if you are…
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Wolfram Warptangent, Point Release 10.2.1 performance improvements

There have been multiple reports of massive reductions in memory and CPU usage with the new Monero 10.2.1 point release. What specific optimizations led to the "massive speed improvements to RingCT validation" reported in the release notes? Which…
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Why would you need multiple daemons using one LMDB database?

From the release notes of the latest monero 0.10.2 version: added support for multiple daemons using the same LMDB database What sensible use case should that cover? From my understanding, LMDB databases are meant to be used locally, so for what…
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Confusion over Monero Mining Software

I have read all the Monero official website and many other sites(pools ...) and it seem there is no clear indication on what is the best software to do CPU or GPU Mining with Windows 10. On the CPU side there is : Monerod (CPU mining only as per my…
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Understanding payment receiving concepts

I'd like to create a script which handles incoming payments to my wallet and once a payment has been confirmed 10 times it saves the payment id to a file. I've read the RPC documentation, specifically get_bulk_payments. I just want to make sure I…
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Is there a way to tell how many coins are currently generated?

Is there a way to show how many coins have been generated so far taking in to account the transaction fee's paid by senders? For example if 1000 coins were generated ( issued ), and 10 transactions have occurred with a transaction fee of 1 coin…
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How to use tx-extra

How can I use tx-extra to store something in it? For example with simplewallet. Any help with this would be Greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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Unable to spend from cold storage

I am unable to spend from my offline cold storage, I can see the coins as available on the watch-only wallet. Using the transfer command, I am able to generate an unsigned transaction file. This file is then signed using my offline wallet, followed…
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Does AEON offer a sweep transaction feature?

I found these sweep transaction instructions for Monero but cannot find anything similar for AEON. Does a similar feature exist? If not what is the AEON strategy for dealing with lots of dust generated from mining payments or many other small…
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How can I receive monero on my openalias address?

I've amended my domain records by following this procedure and my new OpenAlias address is xmr.mysite.com.. How could someone transfer Moneroj to me using that alias? Can it be done using monero-wallet-cli?
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