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What is Triptych and how does it relate to Monero ring signatures?
Monero Research Lab recently published a research paper on Triptych: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/018
What is Triptych, and what are its advantages and disadvantages compared to CLSAGs?
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Could a sidechain with complete transparency be pegged to Monero?
Monero is private by default. There are potential use cases for complete transaction transparency that Monero may not be easily be able to solve (even with the view key).
Would is be possible for a developer to create a completely transparent…
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Is this a typo in Mastering Monero.pdf
I can't figure out the meaning of this line in chapter 5.3.4:
This subaddress public spend key is multiplied by the primary private spend key to yield the subaddress public view key:
Because the notations are like below:
PVi = pV0 * PSi
The…
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How to calculate job target in hex
I received a mining job with target = f3220000.
My XMRig miner logged the following statement:
new job from ... diff 480045 algo rx/0 height 2027084
I want to find answers to the following questions:
How to get a decimal value of difficulty…
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Where can I download the pruned Monero blockchain that is 25+ GB instead of the full blockchain
I'm looking to download the full pruned blockchain for Monero instead of syncing it and then pruning it. Where can I find this pruned monero blockchain file?
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Monero with Trezor - does the seed phrase provide enough bits of security?
Monero seed phrases use 25 words, while Trezor Model T seed phrases have only 12 words. If you generate a Monero wallet using the Trezor, does that mean you're not getting a sufficiently strong private key?
(Monero draws its wordlist from 1626…
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What technique(s) should be used to secure funds in my wallet(s)?
So I know that there might not be a straight forward answer besides having a cold and hot wallet available that you can access with your own daemon and simplewallet. But I feel like there might be more ways/techniques that some of you might do to…
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How to enable pruning in the command line of the monero blockchain in version v0.14.1?
Monero v0.14.1 has just been released with pruning. How does one activate it on the command line for ubuntu?
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Is public testnet for RingCT planned prior to its release?
Now that a pull request to merge RingCT has appeared in GitHub are there plans to create a public testnet? If so how would someone participate and help test the code?
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Where is the encrypted mask value?
Checked this link: https://moneroblocks.info/api/get_transaction_data/4adb55cde1ffcc0ea639b6718355c48c0e574000306d95ef857e55d91ddabcf2
I could not find the encrypted mask value.
I believe the encrypted amount is in the ecdh part:
"ecdhInfo": [
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How does MoneroClub work?
How does MoneroClub work? Is there a trust system that can be used to compare traders? Is escrow available? How does the site make money?
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When setting up Monero wallet with Ledger nano S, what are the options 'restore height' and 'subaddress lookahead' for?
While setting up the Monero GUI with a Ledger nano S, I did not enter anything in the 'optional fields' in the GUI.
The guide on the Ledger support website states:
Enter 1720000 in the restore height field, then enter 3:100 in the subaddress…
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What PoW hashing algorithms did Monero historically use?
Originally, Monero used the Cryptonight PoW algorithm, then started modifying it to thwart ASICs getting large parts of the network hash rate.
What is the timeline of these changes ?
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How do I use long payment IDs in CLI v0.14 / GUI v0.14?
I am trying to attach a long payment ID to my transaction. However, in the GUI, there's no field to enter the payment ID. In the CLI, I get the following warning:
Error: Long payment IDs are obsolete. Use --long-payment-id-support if you really…
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How to convert Bitcoin mnemonic to Monero mnemonic?
I am working on a crypto wallet which supports both Bitcoin and Monero. Wallet first generates a BIP-39 mnemonic and after that mnemonic is used to generate a public and a secret key for Bitcoin.
I want a similar thing for Monero but using the same…
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