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How the sender recover the transactions that he spent?
In order to compute the balance of his own wallet, (I assume that) a client needs to retrieve:
1- The transaction that he is the receiver.(By scanning the whole block-chain and compare with his own ...
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In what ways can a wallet connected to a malicious remote node be abused?
There are several efforts under way at the moment to build easy to use mobile wallets for Monero. The most popular approach is to rely on a trusted remote node (either your own or one provided by a ...
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Starting with Monero - verification?
Do you need to verify your identity somehow when creating a monero wallet or buying/selling/sending monero?
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Question about Moneros privacy
I searched a lot, but I can't find an answer to my question. If I send one Monero from wallet A to wallet B. Is it possible to find out how long I was holding this one Monero in wallet A? That's not ...
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How does TumbleBit privacy and security compare with Monero?
How would a Bitcoin implementation of a TumbleBit payment hub compare with Monero?
What are the important differences between the two in the areas of privacy and security?
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What is the difference between Monero (XMR) and Nav Coin (NAV)?
Can someone please compare the privacy differences comparing Monero vs Nav Coin? I have heard that each addresses privacy using different methods, and I am interested in what they do differently.
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Can a remote node know my wallet address?
When I connect my wallet to a remote node, does it know my wallet address?
What information about a connecting wallet is revealed to the remote node?
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How will Lightning effect the privacy properties of Monero?
There's a lot of talk about using lightning to scale Bitcoin by allowing payment channels, But Bitcoin has a lot of properties that don't easily translate to Monero.
The primary concern for me seems ...
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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 ...
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When sending monero with a payment id, is the transaction still 100% anounymous?
Are monero transactions still anonymous when using a payment ID? For example, I send to coins to a address with a payment ID. Is this transaction still 100% anonymous impossible to track?
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What data does the Monero client write as it processes the blockchain?
The Monero client allows configuring the blockchain location. My assumption is that only public blockchain information gets stored here, so I configure it to an unencrypted SSD.
However, it seems ...
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Can Monero miners be picky about adding transactions to blocks
With Bitcoin, miners are picky about which transactions to add to blocks due to the limited block size, opting for transactions with higher fees (larger transactions). This means micro/nano payments ...
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Will Monero suffer the transaction fee problem like Bitcoin?
Currently, BTC has a problem with small transfers, i.e sending £1 will cost £4 which is just ridiculous. Will XMR ever have the same problem? I know LTC have sloved this issue and Bitcoin cash has ...
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What is the difference between Monero (XMR) and Verge (XVG)?
I would like to have a comparison between the privacy features of Monero vs Verge. I have heard some people say that these are privacy-oriented coins, and I would like to learn more.
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Potential mistake in trying to secretly transfer from one bitcoin wallet to another via monero - Theoretical
Highly theoretical question:
If I exchanged a long mixed number (ie 5.37894316842) from a bitcoin wallet A to my monero wallet, and then a few minutes later exchanged that same bitcoin amount from ...
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5-party Ring Signatures still being implicatory for sender?
Why are 5-party ring signatures enough for privacy? I don't understand how even if I get everything else right privacy-wise, I can still be connected to a transaction and potentially implicated in ...
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Do any Monero wallets have the ability to create a transaction without broadcasting it, and then broadcast it later?
Let's say I'm concerned with privacy, so I prefer to run a whole node, and I do. One day, I find that I'm required to pull my node offline, perhaps due to maintenance issues. During that downtime, I ...
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Help-Sent Monero From Changelly and did not received funds
I am a total Tech NOOB. I set up the Monero GUI wallet yesterday and moved BTC to Changelly to convert to XMR. Changelly shows the transaction record but something went wrong did not get the funds in ...
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Are Confidential Transactions in Monero perfectly binding or hiding?
Bitcoin contributor Pieter Wuille recently commented on Reddit:
Bulletproofs and the Pedersen commitments they operate on are
perfectly hiding, but not perfectly binding. This roughly means that
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Maximizing privacy when dealing with pre RingCT outputs
When spending from a cold storage wallet with multiple pre RingCT (and no post RingCT) outputs what are the best privacy practices?
Spending in this context means the eventual moving of these funds ...
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Why can't Monero use kovri as default for all connections?
If the goal of Monero is to have a private by default cryptocurrency network, why can't we make the network interface (daemon) connect to other peers via kovri by default?
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What is StringCT?
I saw some recent comments about RuffCT/StringCT, which is a supposed improvement to RingCT. What is RuffCT/StringCT, and how is it different than RingCT? What improvements (if any) will this bring to ...
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How does Monero privacy and security compare to Zcash?
How does Monero privacy compare to Zcash? What are the key security risks associated with each design?
Since important Monero improvements are in active development and Zcash has yet to launch, ...
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Does Monero have any mobile wallets available?
Mobile usage is growing very fast worldwide. Monero transactions should be easy to conduct from any device
Does Monero have any Android or iOS wallets available?
If there are no mobile wallets today,...
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How private is this transaction sequence?
I buy BTC on Coinbase, let's assume that my BTC wallet address is publicly tied to my real identity.
I use ShapeShift to convert the BTC to XMR.
I receive the XMR in a wallet I've never used before ...
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What are the primary differences between Monero and Bitcoin?
Addressing each of the following factors, what are the major differences between Monero and Bitcoin?
Privacy (including any limitations privacy may have on auditability)
Scaling (including blockchain ...
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Can a copy of the blockchain hold private information?
I want to run a daemon on another machine, and I was thinking of copying the blockchain I already have (copying the entire .bitmonero folder). I'm curious whether any private information may be leaked ...
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What all information we can gather from a Monero wallet address?
I am pretty new to this crypto currency. My question is that what all information can be found, if we only know a malicious user's Monero
wallet address?
Can I check this Monero wallet balance? If ...
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To what extent does my potential level of privacy change by hosting a public node?
Let's say I run a node at home. Let's say I have a laptop from which I run a wallet only. I can access my node from within or from outside my home LAN, whether my node is public or not. I suppose ...
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What privacy issues did Monero have and still has?
Has there been any scientific research regarding the promised privacy and security of Monero?
Have there been attacks on the Monero network in the past? If so, what has been done to combat those?
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How to sweep the contents of a specific output?
I noticed that the sweep_all command warns when it is about to merge outputs from the same transaction, which I appreciate, as that would kind of break the point of ring signatures and make my ...
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Vcash privacy and scaling compared with Monero?
How do Vcash privacy and scaling functions compare with Monero?
How does the privacy provided by Chainblender, used by Vcash compare with RingCT for Monero?
Monero has had dynamic block sizes since ...
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Does Multisig have any privacy drawbacks?
Does implementing multisig at the protocol level raise any privacy concerns? In other words, because several people are now involved in a trx, does that raise the probabilities of de-anonymizing the ...
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How Do I Use XMR to Keep My Privacy?
Hypothetically I buy XMR on exchange A, send it to exchange B, sell it, buy XMR on exchange B at a later date, send it back to exchange A, and sell it.
Would these two accounts be associated with ...
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About the actual implementation of the **mix-ins** construction process
Following problems occur to me during my reading codebase of the current monero project,
Are the mix-ins grabbed through wallet2::get_outs function in the wallet side, which is further delegated to ...
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How do I get Monero if I am in USA and don't want to do ID verification with SSN etc?
I really like Monero's ideas, but I am appalled at how hard it is to get into 'crypto' currency like coinbase etc that want my face, SSN, driver license etc.
What can I do with Paypal or a debit card?...
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Proof of payment method comparison
How does the method of proofing a Monero payment following this pull request differ from the former process?
Is revealing key derivation easier or more difficult than revealing the tx secret key?
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Monero distribution estimates
With no rich list estimating the distribution of Monero is difficult compared to other currencies lacking the privacy properties of Monero.
Are there an published reports of estimated Monero ...
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Is it possible to reset the blockchain with a new genesis block for efficiency?
I am researching state prunning, and I saw here that AEON state prunning does helps a bit, with some issues though because of historical reasons (details in the link).
Would it be possible to reset ...
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Can a One-Time public key be used for more than one payment?
If I understand correctly, every new payment will ideally have a different one-time public key for increased privacy. However, could a one-time public key receive Monero more than once (as in ...
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Missing Monero Funds
I made a transaction on ShapeShift. The transaction was successful but I never received my funds in my wallet. I’ve already talked with ShapeShift customer and they said the best thing to do is to ask ...
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How do you add support for (server side) SSL/TLS mining?
Basically, the title. I run a small pool and want to add SSL/TLS support for miners. I tried making openssl manage the connection and pipe it locally to the correct port, but that doesn't work.
Any ...
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How can I spend coins if other people can't see my balance?
So I have 5 monero, but if nobody else can see my balance, how can I prove that these coins are in my posession, and that they have not been spent yet.
I just fail to see how Monero can ensure that ...
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What's the point of ring signatures if stealth addresses hide the actual addresses anyways?
I understand generally how ring signatures work, but I also realize they are sent to and from stealth addresses, and so I'm curious why ring signatures are needed in the first place. Doesn't a sender'...
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How does a third-party verify that I have the XMR to make a payment?
Say I have 10 XMR but I want to pay out 11 XMR. How do nodes tell that I don't have enough XMR? Do I have to share my viewkey with them?
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Is there anyway to calculate how much privacy is gained by increasing the ring size of a transaction?
The default for wallets right now is 4 but is there a large benefit say using 15 or 20 over 4? Can this be measured? Bigger ring size will help obviously but after a while is it not kind of a waste of ...
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How could Monero profit from TumbleMoneroWimble?
Core developer fluffypony on Twitter recently published a link to his whitepaper on TumbleMoneroWimble, "One-time Ring Signature Scalable Off-Chain Untraceable Instant and MimbleWimble".
Since the ...
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How hard is it to find the originating IP of a monero transaction (pre Kovri)?
I can only theorize about how you would attempt to trace someone's IP. I want to know the opinions of people more knowledgable about the subject.
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How does ringct interact with multisig?
When the ringct branch is finished, will it make m-of-n multisig easier or harder to implement?
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What advantages does Monero offer that are not provided by other cryptocurrencies?
What are the advantages provided by using Monero compared with other popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin?
Specifically, what unique features does Monero have relating to privacy, PoW security ...
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