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An academic "hello world" on Monero

I'm a graduate student looking to improve my skills in real-world applications of cryptography and online anonymity. Reviewing all of the new blockchain and alt-coin variants, I believe that Monero is the most interesting development in this…
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How to communicate programmatically with the Monero CLI wallet using php?

I have installed my Monero CLI wallet on my Amazon server with this help. I want to communicate with this wallet using php. I tried with this library but it is not connecting properly. Can anyone please help me make it work or find another library?
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Are mining pools necessary?

I have a free tier AWS t2.micro that I use for development purposes. It sits idle most of the time. I figured I would just put it to use, and after some time, I settled on mining Monero, as I can do it with a CPU. My question is this: Are mining…
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Is it planned to implement Hashed Timelocked Contracts (HTLC) through the monero multisig wallet?

In other words, will be there equivalent of the command 'locked_transfer' for sending funds to multisig wallet? So a sender can return the funds by using just his signature (ONLY through the 'number of block to lock'). It will be necessary for…
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Can view-only wallet create unsigned tx via RPC call?

Can I use RPC to get back a string representing the unsigned tx file? I'd like to split an unsigned tx into QR codes, and I'd like my app to run the process instead of parallel user interaction with wallet terminal. Also, can my cold app…
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How could you lower the risk of accepting zero confirmation transactions?

As far as I heard monero nodes don't add double spent tx to their txpool (source), so if I connect to enough nodes it should be possible to lower the risk of a double spend attack right? (I could also cluster my control nodes if connection…
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How to connect to a remote node from NodeJS?

I'm trying to figure out how to connect my NodeJS app to a remote monero node. I need it to query the network. Here's is the list of available JSON-RPC methods — Daemon RPC documentation Here's the list of open nodes —…
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Which password limitations do exist?

I refer with my question primary to length, based on bytes because a sign in UTF-8 can have 1-4 bytes. Furthermore some special signs like control-signs might not be allowed. This question is related to bulk-creation of wallets, so it's not about my…
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Can't get AMDGPU-PRO drivers working with R9 290x and xmr-stak

I am trying to configure an older mining rig I built about four years ago for Dogecoin into a Monero mining rig. I have a bunch of different Radeon cards, but right now, I just want to get two R9 290x's working on Ubuntu 16. I have down over a dozen…
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Best practices to keep Monero wallet secure

I'm using a read-only wallet on a computer connected to the Internet, a dedicated local server for the Monero node and I keep on a USB key the full wallet as cold storage to use it only in case. Also, I have printed the seed and I'm keeping it in a…
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dev pool socket error

I have been experiencing a problem with my mining rig and was wondering if anyone has ran into the same problem. I am using XMR-stak 2.2.0 and sometimes XMR-stak restarts because my hashes drops below the threshold that I set. In my logs I noticed…
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Monero wallet doesn't connect to local daemon

I have a Monero daemon running on a Raspberry Pi connected to my LAN and it worked fine for sometimes, but lately, I'm unable to connect wallet from another PC to it. When the issue has happened for the first time, I followed the suggestion to…
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When using a foreign remote node does the transaction signing happen on my wallet or on the node?

I don't understand the architecture of Monero wallet(s) - on OSX or on Android. When I choose not to run my own full node/daemon and use (foreign) remote node instead, how does the security of signing work? Is the wallet just the GUI to the node and…
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In Monero can you sweep a wallet if you *ONLY* have the private spend key?

Monero has 4 keys associated with each address: public view key public spend key private view key private spend key Can you sweep all coins from an address if you only have the private spend key?
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Will we eventually get rid of "locked" and "unlocked" balances?

My biggest eyesore of Monero which would definitely prevent mass adoption (and adoption by big stores) is that I can only send a single transaction every 20 minutes. Once a transaction is sent, the sending and receiving wallet need to wait for 10…