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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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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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Why was I2P chosen over Tor for native Monero integration?
Tor is currently much more popular than I2P. Why was I2P chosen (Kovri project) over Tor for native Monero integration?
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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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What is fungibility and why does it matter?
Fungibility seems to be extremely important in the Monero world.
Why does it matters for Monero and for the future of cryptocurrencies?
Does any other cryptocurrency have that property?
Does ...
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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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What privacy or security trade offs are associated with not running your own full node?
If I choose to use a webwallet such as mymonero.com or connect to a Monero node run by someone else to make transactions, what are the unique privacy and security concerns I will face (compared to if ...
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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 will the temporal output alignment of ring partners (mixins) be addressed?
The Issue: If you only own outputs in a short span of blocks and you spend them, the mixin partners (the fake outputs / ring partners) will be different for each of the outputs and have a blockchain ...
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What is a stealth address?
Canonical question on stealth addresses: They are mentioned in the context of privacy of Bitcoin transactions but are also implemented in Cryptonote based currencies. What are they and how would they ...
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Spam attack to gain control of many outputs and undermine privacy
Would it be possible for an attacker to send many transactions to himself with the goal of gaining control of many outputs for the purposes of deanonymizing transactions of others (using low mixins ...
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Can Kovri be blocked in e.g. China?
And if so, is there a way around it with something like the meek pluggable transport from the Tor project?
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What happened at block 202612?
Why was this block hardcoded in the source-code?
What happened with the Monero blockchain in the block 202612?
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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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How can individuals safeguard themselves and the community against a key reusing fork?
Regardless of the true intention behind the MoneroV developers, it forking off the existing Monero blockchain poses danger to the privacy of Monero users. While the MoneroV forking date has been put ...
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What is MoneroV, and how is it different than Monero?
I have heard of an upcoming airdrop called MoneroV. Can someone explain the relationship between Monero and MoneroV, and explain their differences?
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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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What would be the minimum mixin for full privacy?
How much privacy does the default (I think it's 4) give?
If not enough, how high a mixin is enough?
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Is it safe to share a daemon with a roommate?
Are there any security concerns with sharing a Monero daemon with a roommate to send or receive transactions?
If we each person has their own wallet, encrypted with a very strong password what are ...
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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 will the Monero Research Lab be working on in the future, after RingCT has released?
Will they be looking more into quantum proofing the Monero protocol or Cuckoo Cycle testing etc?
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What is churning?
I have read a few times on Reddit that churning one's own moneroj would improve privacy. What does it entail exactly? And how do I do that with the CLI or GUI?
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i2p/Kovri fundamentals in Monero
Have the fundamental properties of Kovri been decided upon for Monero?
In particular, I'm curious about the IP configuration for the i2p/Kovri router. i.e. Will it be auto-detect methods, or hidden ...
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How did Monero Research Lab members learn about Monero?
Did the original Monero core team reach out to cryptographers in order to seek review of the original CryptoNote whitepaper? Or did the mathematicians hear about CryptoNote from some other means and ...
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Number of Monero block explorers and their unique features
How many Monero block explorers are currently known to exist?
What unique features separate one block explorer from another? What differences do they have in terms of privacy and security ...
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Hashrate correlation by time of day
Looking at historical Monero hash rate data it appears as if the hashrate is often the highest near 0:00 GMT and lowest near 12:00 GMT
What credible explanations are there for this pattern? What ...
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Smart contract privacy
What type of smart contracts sidechains would most benefit from the privacy that Monero provides by default?
Assuming that many types of smart contracts sidechains were operational today, which would ...
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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 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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How can I use monero-blockchain-blackball to improve my privacy?
Monero version 0.12.0.0 shipped with a new executable file called monero-blockchain-blackball. What is the purpose of this new program, and how can it be used properly?
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Is there MRL-0007? What topic is it about?
I see from a previous post that MRL-0001~0005 are complete and published while MRL-0006 and MRL-0008 are still ongoing, but I've never heard anything about MRL-0007. Is there such a thing? If so, what ...
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What is RingCT and how does it make Monero private?
I hear that RingCT will make Monero more private than Bitcoin. Is there truth to this?
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Monero mixin 0 versus Zcash "T" address transaction
How does the privacy of a Zcash "T" address transaction compare with a Monero mixin 0 transaction (back when they were available)?
Does 'T" stand for transparent?
Would it be technically possible ...
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Aeon minimum mixin
Aeon does not have a mandatory minimum mixin like Monero does. Despite the feature being relatively easy to add, there is no mention of doing so in the current development roadmap.
What advantages ...
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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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How does Monero privacy and security compare to ZCoin?
How does Monero (XMR) privacy compare to ZCoin (XZC)? Can ZCoin protect the privacy of transaction amounts like Monero will do with RingCT, or are ZCoin transaction amounts visible similar to Monero ...
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Colored Coins on Monero
As a followup to this question, I'm curious as to whether an OMNI/Mastercoin-like colored coin protocol could be used on top of Monero, in a private manner. Colored coins are fundamentally different ...
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How will the world learn of Monero? [closed]
I do my part in sharing the Monero technology with those I know, of whom I think may be interested.
However, when I was introduced to Monero a few months ago, I found quite a bit of misinformation ...
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Can Monero's privacy features be integrated into (copied) by bitcoin?
Can Monero's privacy features be integrated into (copied) by bitcoin? If so, to what degree given the current political gridlock?
By the way, I'm a true believer and I'm setting up a full node as I ...
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How can monero remain private in a soon to be virtual reality world?
2016 is said to be the year of virtual and augmented reality as these technologies come to market.
As these technologies are stuffed with a lot of sensors, how do you see a way for us to make ...
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Why not have Torsocks on by default while we wait for Kovri?
Recently, funding has been allocated to pay for Kovri's development and integration into Monero. Kovri is a re-implementation of I2P, an anonymity tool similar to Tor in its goals, but with a lot of ...
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Has RingCT been reviewed by the other Monero Research Lab members?
Shen Noether has created RingCT and I trust that he has done so in a safe and correct manner, but it never hurts to have more eyes on the crypto. RingCT is currently in testnet and being rigorously ...
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Should I worry about dust in my wallet?
MRL-0004 talks about how if I get sent a weird amount of XMR like 103.32111111, I'll have a weird output of .00111111 in my wallet, and assuming there will be no other outputs of the same amount in ...
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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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MRL RingCT research in the Ledger Journal
I understand that Ledger:
is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes full-length original research articles on the subjects of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, as well as any ...
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Does the kovri pre-alpha build already work for running a monero node?
As i understand kovri aims to add support for the I2P network through C++ code instead of the java code it is originally built on. Not only as a monero specific implementation, but also as a general ...
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Formal Verification of Monero code
This answer mentions a plan to eventually formally verify Monero code. Which approach will be used for that verification process? The cited wikipedia page mentions model checking, deductive ...
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How can one use RingCT to maximize the privacy of existing wallets?
I think the privacy is not what it should be in my existing wallets is because 1) there are old zero mixin transactions there and 2) it is my understanding that it is possible to estimate the amounts ...
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How do full nodes vs miners secure the network differently?
If I run a full node I am supposedly contributing to network security by keeping a copy of the blockchain
If I mine (via pool or solo) I contribute to the network through verification of blocks
How ...
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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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