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So I downloaded the newest release for Windows, and I copied over my wallet to the new folder I extracted the .zip folder to. I opened cmd in that folder by typing 'cmd' & hitting enter in file ...

A full report of this particular issue can be found here: https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/issues/1658 Is there any quick resolutions I can use?

GUI / monerod v0.13.0.3 does not start on Linux because of "./monero-wallet-gui: error while loading shared libraries: libhidapi-libusb.so.0". How do I resolve this particular issue?

Dyld Error Message: Library not loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2p/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib Referenced from: /Users/admin/Desktop/monero-gui-v0.13.0.3/monero-wallet-gui.app/Contents/Frameworks/...

monero-gui-v0.13.0.3 Error while loading shared libraries: libhidapi-libusb.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory For this error on x64 Linux Mint/Debian/Ubuntu the fix is ...

I have a database of monero private keys, but I want to be able to scan these keys for an updated balance and insert this balance data back into my database. What is the best way to rescan a bunch of ...

I'm writing up a php script and I want it to execute a monero-wallet-cli command to create a wallet from my private key. I tried to do this via the command line with monero-wallet-cli, but its in ...

When using the transfer method, the answer does not come for a long time (about 10 seconds). In my application, after 8 seconds of waiting, a timeout is triggered, and the transaction is considered ...

Is it possible to get all the data of all the transaction with all its ring signatures using either the monero-wallet or API?

I installed monero-cli in a debian 9 server, using this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/9obs6q/running_a_monero_node/ The syncing started fine but now I'm getting this error message, ...

I want to iterate (from a Python program) over all the outputs of all the transactions on the blockchain. Is there any RCP command or something like that, that returns a structure of transactions as ...

I downloaded the new wallet files, unzipped them and put them in my old install folder (replaced where necessary). After that, it did some updating and after finishing, my wallet looks like this : ...

I want to find out where in the code an output of Alice's transaction becomes Bob's money. Alice has 10 XMR, and she sends Bob 2 XMR, the tx looks like this - OUTPUT: #recipient output: first ...

I am planning on using the passphrase feature on Ledger Nano S to add a 25th word to the 24 word Ledger seed and then use with monerujo android app to create an xmr wallet. If at some point I need to ...

I am trying to develop a variant of Monero. Considering the size and the complexity of the original Monero implementation in C++, I figured it might be easier fork this Python implementation of Monero....

Given two inputs of value: 10, 11 And two outputs of value 31, -10 The Pedersen commitment would look like: Let b + c - d - e = k (10G + bH + 11G + cH) - (31G + dH + -10G + eH) = 0G + kH Without ...

Let's say you have several wallets in the same ledger (Plausible deniability set up), syncing each wallet using the GUI with my own local node, blockchain in external SSD drive, it takes 3 hours aprox,...

If I Sign two different transactions with the same private key and send it to the same node. Would this node now be able to know which member of the ring is trying to sign? As I believe the public ...

I see that Monero v0.13.0.2 shipped with a new tool monero-blockchain-ancestry. What does this tool do, and how can I use it?

The question NetworkByte for Monero Stagenet gave me the impression that, there's a relation between ADDRESS_BASE58_PREFIX and NETWORK_ID, defined in src/cryptonote_config.h If it is so, I can't find ...

I'm running a monero full node. Is there a way to see my node on the network? Is there a way to label my node that others can also see it. Say i wanted to label it as: "Free Open Monero v13 Node"

Will the algorithm change affect the blockchains to be generated or saved? How to deal with the new-generated blockchains and the old blockchains if the formers are changed?

Given that I have found a tx that is for me, what would be the maths to find out how much I have received?

I am wondering about scaling and the dynamic block size in Monero and the fee mechanism. Suppose over night Monero got popular and many people were using it (or trying to?) in daily business and ...

The ring signatures construction in Monero is based on the Traceable Ring Signature by Fujisaki and Suzuki (PKC '07). https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/389.pdf Since in their traceable ring signature ...

I've read that you can delete and restore the monerujo app without affecting the wallet data, I never tried it as I'm afraid of losing access to my wallets. When you setup your initial and load your ...

I had this previously explained to me, however I do not think I understand it at all. Taken from Maxwell's confidential values: "If a signature is constructed so that the 'message' is the hash of ...

I'm trying to access functions from the crypto libray such as: ge_frombytes_vartime(ge_p3 *h, const unsigned char *s) ge_p3_to_p2(ge_p2 *r, const ge_p3 *p) both in crypto-ops.c I've added the crypto ...

Looking at the algorithm for ring signature, n members of the ring can have m keys associated with them. What is a scenario where the other members, not the signer, would have multiple keys ...

I'm using monero-cli on ubuntu and i want to have it connect to a remote node instead of downloading the entire blockchain. How can I do this? Where can I get a list of remote nodes?

I am trying to understand what is contained in the blob portion of the rpc response to get_block. In the daemon rpc docs for block 912345 the blob response is: "...

If we have a mixin of 6, with two inputs. We immediately have a total of 6 * 2 = 12 decoys Would it not be secure enough to have the 4 decoys with the two inputs which means two key images? So we ...

Is the following correct?: If I received 5 XMR from Bob, then I wanted to send this 5 XMR to Alice. Would I create a tx with the input as the 5 XMR from Bob with one output as 5 XMR to alice. Then ...

Bitcoin In bitcoin, the signature is a "normal" one and we check it against the signed tx hash. We then check whether the public key/s which signed it, owns the input/s. we then check whether the ...

So I know that a view key is not suffice to audit outgoing transactions. Still, can't a person re-sign his outgoing transactions and produce a valid ring signature with the same key image to an ...

Should I use a Debian distro with an armv8 architecture if I am looking for stability?

It is said that a view key can expose incoming transactions. 1. Is the view key enough to prove ownership of an incoming transaction? The stealth address is calculated with H(Ra)G + B, so I ...

Is it possible to acquire the merkleroot per block with rpc command or core command? Why is the merkleroot not included in the block header in the cns003.txt? I see the transaction hashes are ...

I'm working on a more robust implemenatation for a mining pool to figure out what the actual amount was it received from a block's reward. Retrieving a block using getblock includes the miner_tx ...

I'm trying to understand the data structure in monerod and create a simple workflow for a transaction's life cycle. It doesn't look like this has been done post-RingCT activation, and I see a lot of ...

What do each of these structs represent? What is the difference between them? typedef struct { fe X; fe Y; fe Z; } ge_p2; typedef struct { fe X; fe Y; fe Z; fe T; } ge_p3; typedef ...

Let say Alice wants to send Bob 10 XMR and she has 15, so assume the outputs are divided like this - transaction - { output #1 - {7, Bob's stealth address} output #2 - {3, Bob's stealth ...

Are there any other implementations of curves in the Monero code (other than Curve25519)? I'm asking because the code is very optimized to this curve (e.g. the multiplication in 8 when computing the ...

Is there a possibility of zero-knowledge proof of stake without disclosing your balance?

Is there a recommended source of information as to how Monero interacts with wallets and other nodes? I'd like to get as much information as possible about the structure of the source code and am ...

Many people mine Monero in a pool. Monero has recently changed its proof of work, and it is about to do so again. There may be more changes to its proof of work in the future. When miners update ...

I send XMR to a stealth Address, then the XMR is spent. If I send XMR to the same address by re-using the random number, the amount will not be able to be spent because the key image is same?

I am stuck on these questions in understanding bulletproofs: Are bulletproofs a way to hide the sender and the amount? What is the difference between bulletproofs, RingCT and Ring signatures? Edit: ...

In the Monero URI, is the tx_description stored on the blockchain? If so, is it encrypted? What is the maximum length of this field?

I'm attempting to create a transaction for broadcast later but tx_blob always returns empty. tx_metadata is populated so I attempted to relay that at: https://monero-stagenet.exan.tech/rawtx but it ...