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What is novault and what is its connection to Monero?
What is the primary purpose of novault? Is it safe to use? Is the tool meant to be used just Monero or does it had wider applications?
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Is it feasible to introduce output key reuse checking?
Reuse of output key P=H(rA)G+B (which effectively burns fund) could potentially occur if the same random r was used in multiple transactions to transfer fund to the same recipient (A,B), most likely due to the use of bad pseudorandom number…
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What language(s) should a new coder learn to contribute to Monero?
What language(s) would be best to learn for someone interested in contributing to XMR (and, less relevantly, Bitcoin)?
I have a long term goal to contribute more and more significantly to these awesome projects but I have a long way to go.
I'm not…
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Transactions per block by time of day
I am wondering if there are certain times of day where the Monero network is much busier (on average than others).
Is there any resource to help sort the number of transactions per block by the time of day?
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Which currencies will be supported by GloBee?
Besides Monero which currencies are currently supported by GloBee?
In addition to cryptocurrency acceptance does GloBee allow merchants to convert payments into fiat, like BitPay? If conversion are possible, which fiat currencies are…
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Monero Research Lab - Talent Acquisition. Whom would/do they want?
The MRL, to my knowledge, is made up of four anonymous/pseudonymous academics, who primarily specialize in mathematics (mathematical sciences and algebraic geometry). Are there other specialties that would be useful to the MRL now? Are just…
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What is the regex for a Monero address or Payment ID?
What is the best, most correct way of regex'ing the address and payment ID for Monero?
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Does Monero/the CryptoNote Protocol support multi signature wallets?
I did not find a question directly asking for multi signatures and Monero. Right now there doesn't seem to be support for multi signatures in Monero. So I want to know if it is technically feasible and if so what are the necessary development…
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What does it mean when the Monero daemon says "LMDB Mapsize increased"?
I had an old daemon open and it was giving me the various SYNCHRONIZED OK messages that I was used to. Suddenly it said "LMDB Mapsize increased. Old: 13312MiB, New: 14336MiB". What does this mean?
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What is elliptic curve cryptography and why is it important to Monero?
What is elliptic curve cryptography and why is it important to Monero?
Please provide both a basic description and an in depth description of the type found on Moneropedia
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Why do I see only one transaction key R=rG per transaction while there are multiple output keys P=H(rA)G+B to represent multiple denominations?
As I understand from the whitepaper, the sender picks random r to create one-time output public key P=H(rA)G+B, and the public transaction key R=rG is attached to the transaction data. Since any amount sent to the receiver needs to be split into…
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What stops the miner or the pool owner from cheating?
Jafar the malevolent pool owner checks for solved blocks, any only allows a percentage to go to the pool bounty, and the remainder going to his personal secret bounty. To the miner, it is imperceptible, as the cheat percent is sufficiently low.
What…
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Editing Monero Papers
I have been reading some of the papers available on Monero, and they contain a lot of typos and other small errors. It would be great if we could fix and clarify them. Don't get me wrong, I greatly admire the work that those authors put into…
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Can monero network exist without miners?
Can the Monero network exist without miners? Can we just run monerod on home computers? Must some of us use the start_mining command (or a similar command in other mining software) to support the network?
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What are the technical advantages of Ring Signatures (CryptoNote) compared to CoinJoin?
What are the technical advantages of Ring Signatures (CryptoNote) compared to CoinJoin?
Which privacy technology provides a higher level of privacy and why?
What is the difference between "passive" and "active" participation in mixing?
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