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I have the impression blockchain reorgs are more prevalent on testnet?
They also seem more significant if they happen, e.g. I just see REORGANIZE on height: 839127 of 839203 in the log file, which is quite a number of blocks. Can anyone comment whether these observations are a correct / typical (or an exception)?
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What is a sweep input and how do they work?
I've heard people referring to 'sweep inputs' and I'm not exactly sure what they are. I'm assuming sweeping has something to do with moving Monero to another address, but I haven't been able to find a clear explanation.
Are there fees involved for…
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What Happens When a Miner Doesn't Reach Minimum Payment Threshold?
I recently made my own monero pool. While setting up the minimum payment threshold I thought:
What happens when a miner doesn't reach the required XMR Balance?
It might seem like a simple question but the miner did submit some shares to the pool.…
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Run monero-wallet-rpc in background in Ubuntu?
Is there a flag that i can pass to monero-wallet-rpc so it runs in the background? I tried --detach since thats used in monerod but it didn't work. Any unofficial way to do it easily?
I am running Ubuntu 16.04.
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How can i specify in mining to only use 75% of my CPU power?
I have seen when i mine Monero in pc, the cpu utilized goes to 95% to 100% most of the time, i want to keep it to 75 to 80%, what can i do? will it work by specifying the threads? I have a 4 core pc.
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How significant is the number of threads when mining? (I7-4790K)
I'm currently mining XMR on a dedicated server that has an Intel I7-4790K CPU. It has 4 cores/8 threads, and 8 MB of L3 cache. I'm using cpuminer-multi. This is a full node with the monero daemon running (I'm not sure whether this uses enough…
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Why can I not choose my own custom transaction fee? Does this affect privacy in anyway?
I was just wondering why users do not have the ability to have their own custom fees and if by allowing users to choose their own fees would this badly affect privacy in anyway?
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Is it possible to create infinite coins in Monero since Monero is completely anonymous now?
Is it possible to create infinite coins in Monero as it is completely anonymous now? and if such anomaly is created is it possible to find that out in the network?.
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How does RingCT increase in transaction sizes affect people?
With the recent hardfork of RingCT there has been talk about the transaction sizes increasing to 25kb on average which is a lot more than before.
My question is how does that affect people? Does it affect greatly people who run a full node? Does it…
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How can I improve performance of my pool?
I've been running a small pool with friends for several days with few blocks mined (yay!). I am running Clintar's fork of the pool code: https://github.com/clintar/cryptonote-xmr-pool
Now I know the code is open so I can start digging. I'm a…
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Why does Monero not softfork like Bitcoin does?
Are hardforks just safer than softforks? Bitcoin seems to like softforks for some reason.
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What are the advantages/inconvenience between using Monero with tor and with i2p?
Are there any real advantages/inconvenience between using Monero with tor and with i2p?
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How to synchronize the GUI wallet using the blockchain bootstrap
I'm having trouble trying to sync the GUI wallet with the blockchain. I'm trying to use an old 2008 Macbook which I had lying around, with OS X El Capitan (HDD, 8gb RAM, 200gb free storage). I've tried several times now but the furthest I have got…
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Why does the daemon say that I'm now syncronized with the network while I'm still missing some blocks?
This is what I observed:
P2P2, P2P4, and P2P5 have more blocks than me. There's also a [P2P6] message without any indication of block height, and right thereafter the message that I'm now synchronized with the network.
Does this mean that P2P6 just…
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How to create a view-only wallet for the GUI?
Say I have a cold storage wallet, is there any way I can make a view only wallet with GUI?
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