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How to solo-mine Aeon?
If you don't want to have the target Aeon wallet open all the time (for security reasons, or you prefer to start mining at system startup non-interactively), you can also start solo CPU mining using ...
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How to solo-mine Aeon?
Sync your daemon. Open the wallet and type:
start_mining walletid threads
Replace walletid with your public wallet ID, and replace threads with the number of threads you are willing to dedicate to ...
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How can I put my Aeon in Cold Storage?
There is an offline wallet generator for Aeon here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=641696.msg17660358#msg17660358
This is the same as the Monero one, but adapted for Aeon. The post above ...
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What is the difference between CryptoNote and CryptoNight?
Worded differently (on Reddit):
CryptoNight is the (hashing) algorithm.
CryptoNote is the protocol.
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How can I put my Aeon in Cold Storage?
Same principles apply as for Monero or any other coin for that matter - generate a wallet offline and never expose it to an online computer.
You could do this by using Aeon wallet software, similar ...
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How do I install Aeon on Ubuntu?
Install the necessary prerequisites (on top of a default Ubuntu MATE image):
sudo apt-get install cmake g++ libboost-all-dev
Create a git directory:
mkdir git
cd git
Clone the GitHub repository:
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Aeon support at https://xmr.llcoins.net/
Looks like that in the past the page offered only English dictionary. It did generate valid keys and addresses but you couldn't import it into Aeon simplewallet because it works only with Electrum ...
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RingCT code usage in other projects
As far as I know, the only other coin with working RingCT at this time is Lubecoin, a joke (I assume) coin forked off Monero very recently. I don't know where it is, but the forker was on IRC asking ...
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Tail emission in Aeon
There appears to be a community consensus for an AEON tail emission based on what I have seen on Bitcointalk, Reddit and IRC. I think most AEON users consider tail emission to be part of the AEON ...
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What’s the difference between sharding and pruning?
Pruning the blockchain means removing some data from it, like old transaction signatures and range proofs.
For example, your Monero daemon could store an incomplete version of all the blocks older ...
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Is Monero the only CryptoNote based coin with a public testnet?
I am not aware of any other Monero forks besides the two that you mentioned.
There are other CryptoNote currencies but I am not aware of any that have a public testnet. The level of community and ...
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How to install CryptoNote-Lite pool mining software on macOS?
I know it's been a while since you asked this, but in case anyone else is wondering, you can easily install xmrig on MacOS by following the build instructions on Github.
First you need to install ...
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Does AEON offer a sweep transaction feature?
Right now, with release 0.9.8.0, it isn't possible, as there's no equivalent sweep command in Aeon's CLI.
I asked your question on Slack today, and this is what moneromooo had to say on the topic:
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What are the system requirements for an Aeon full node?
It looks like it isn't using LMDB yet, because I only have a 3.5 GB blockchain.bin file in the ~/.aeon directory. I brew the software from HEAD, it says aeon v0.9.6.0().
With regard to memory, as far ...
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Does the --hide-my-port option reduce traffic?
The --hide-my-port option is used to prevent incoming connections of peers to your node, which would reduce traffic if your node could receive incoming connections.
But if your node is behind a ...
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Are Cryptonight lite and Cryptonight lite v1 the same?
No, they are not.
Cryptonight lite is a derivative of Cryptonight with two changes: a smaller memory usage (1 MB vs 2 MB) and half the loop iterations.
Cryptonight lite variant 1 is a modification ...
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What are the system requirements for an Aeon full node?
I'm running it on a micro instance on AWS with 1 GB of RAM. I did sync with 8 GB, and then commented out the autosave of the blockchain and recompiled and moved to a micro instance and added a bunch ...
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Is it possible to have a full Monero node, a Monero testnet node, and an Aeon node all on the same VPS?
Aeon has not yet integrated LMDB so the 2GB RAM is probably not enough. Although it should work (slower) if the swap is big enough.
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Can you send Monero from an exchange to an exchange directly?
It depends. Several exchanges have a requirement for a payment ID to be included when depositing, but have no option to add it to withdrawals.
In general it's safer to withdraw to an own wallet and ...
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Where can I find the AEON pruning branch?
As the post indicated the pruning branch is still considered experimental. Therefore it resides in another GitHub repository found here. I have included a summary of the instructions smooth provided ...
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RingCT code usage in other projects
Particl is testing RingCT atm but it's on Bitcoin codebase. https://steemit.com/particl/@schmitzer/particl-is-testing-confidential-transactions-and-ringct-on-bitcoin-codebase
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How can I put my Aeon in Cold Storage?
An alternative Aeon offline wallet generator was created by JollyMort that employs 98 dice rolls for entropy, rather than the computer system's PRNG: https://jollymort.github.io/monero-wallet-...
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installing Aeon on Ubuntu
Boost version 1.54 is unsupported, more details are available here
http://goo.gl/RrCFmA
What do you get when you run this: sudo apt install libboost-all-dev
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Why is AEON wallet not working on Bittrex?
There were some large reorgs/forks in June 2017, like on the order of 50 or 100 blocks, the cause of which was not clear. Prior to that there was a bug that required a chain rollback, which resulted ...
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AEON Blockchain sync problem
This may not be a fatal error: if you already have peers in your p2pstate.bin file, then accessing seed nodes is not necessary. If you don't then it is, and you need to ensure you have working DNS ...
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Do I need to redownload the Aeon blockchain for the rebased software?
There's currently no way to convert the existing blockchain to LMDB format. Technically, you have to re-download. However, since you already have that legacy blockchain, there's a faster way by using ...
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I need a manual how to mine aeon with daemon
Using the daemon you can solo mine, and it's quite simple. Just sync the daemon, open and sync your wallet, then type:
start_mining <number of threads>
Except replace with the number of ...
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