Questions tagged [tx-extra]
Questions about the tx_extra_field and its possible use cases
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Correctly retrieving the tx_pubkey from a transaction
I found, in the code, an example of a function that retrieves a public key from a transaction. The comments say that because of a previous bug, the tx may contain more than one public key.
Do I ...
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How to use the --extra-messages-file option?
monerod has an option to include an extra message in a coinbase transaction with --extra-messages-file.
What format should the text in the file be? Hex, Decimal, or some other format?
Once the ...
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An example of transaction with at least two subaddress destinations
Could you provide an example of already mined transaction that has at least two outputs leading to a non-change subaddresses?
If my understanding is correct this should be visible from the blockchain,...
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Is the tx-extra field publicly visible?
If I put something in the tx-extra field of a transaction, will it be publicly visible and unencrypted? That is, anyone can see it on the public view of the monero transactions? And I assume the tx-...
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How much I “deanonymize” transaction when I put my address into “extra” part of a transaction?
Does it break untraceability or unlinkability (or something else) if everyone can see the sender's address (or one of the senders because of mixins)?
And I mean doing it for example for every 10th ...
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Was the reasoning behind the large tx extra in minergate's transactions ever revealed?
It's absolutely enormous. Was it revealed why it's used?
This is a Minergate block:
http://explore.moneroworld.com/tx/bba343e5e172f07f623fb34c0cbd26519567cc374c5d61d468d370714f3d5b66
This is a ...
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Why some coinbase transactions have very long extra field, and some short?
Wondering what is the difference between coinbase transactions. For example, this coinbase transaction has short extra field:
https://moneroexplorer.com/tx/...
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Is there a way to cap the size of the tx_extra_field?
Right now, the only suggested use-case for the tx_extra_field is for the payment ID. Can we limit the size of the tx_extra_field to a specific size to prevent people from abusing placing a large ...
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Does the new v5 hardfork low fee option create a risk for blockchain bloat?
I understand the only thing limiting people from inserting, for example, a 180MB FLAC encoded recording of The Sign into the tx-extra field in a Monero transaction is the high fees they pay per kb.
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How to use tx-extra
How can I use tx-extra to store something in it?
For example with simplewallet.
Any help with this would be Greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
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Ability to return funds
At a protocol level is there anyway to embed a return address to allow a transaction recipient to send funds back?
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Is it possible to embed message for recipient in transaction?
I would like to embed human-readable short text message to outgoing transaction such that only the receiver can read it. May be reasonably short. Something similar like in wire transfer when sending ...
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As a miner how would I put data in the 'extra' field?
How would I be able to put data in the extra field for say a nonce or whatever?
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Why is the payment ID specified on a per TX basis?
I understand that the payment ID is stored in the tx-extra field. Only one payment ID can be specified when sending, even when sending to multiple addresses, because it's specified on a per-tx basis.
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failed to deserialize extra field
I've started simplewallet together with bitmonerod and looking into simplewallet.log file I can see something like this:
2016-Sep-08 12:01:29.853608 [RPC0]Transaction extra has unsupported format: &...
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How are the various tx-extra types/formats used?
Reading the code, I see that transactions can contain an unlimited number of tx_extra_field items.
tx_extra_field is defined in src/cryptonote_core/tx_extra.h as a union of a few possible types, ...
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Counterparty On Monero
Counterparty is a cryptocurrency that sits in a layer 'on top of' Bitcoin. Unlike colored coins, which map identities to units of Bitcoin, Counterparty tokens aren't attached to any units of Bitcoin ...
