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How will the temporal output alignment of ring partners (mixins) be addressed?
There are three main ways to fix this.
The first one is to attempt to select outputs which are unrelated, if possible. This only works if you are sending an amount of monero that can be represented ...
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If I send two transactions to the same recipient, can they infer the true sender?
Your public address will never appear on the blockchain. What you're spending is amounts sent to one-time destinations so they're unlinked. Not only that, but each one-time addres will be "mixed" with ...
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What factors are influenced by ring size selection?
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Yes, except if you're consistently using some weird number like 103, in which case you're leaking the fact that every transaction using that mixin might be yours.
In a way, yes, but ...
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What is the difference between mixin and ringsize?
There is a small difference. In summary, ringsize will always equal mixin + 1. So, a mixin of 2 is the same as a ringsize of 3.
Mixin refers to the number of other inputs used in a ring signature ...
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Aeon minimum mixin
Aeon does not have a minimum mixin by design. Transactions with mixin 0 can be very small and inexpensive. This is by design. According to smooth If usage increases there is a built in system to limit ...
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What would be the minimum mixin for full privacy?
It will always be a sliding scale, much like how many confirmations will give me full security? The answer is neither can give you "full" security, but they can make it so that it's enough to thwart ...
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Monero mixin 0 versus Zcash "T" address transaction
Monero mixin 0 is still superior to a Zcash "T" transparent transaction due to the fact that Monero uses stealth addresses for every transaction whereas Zcash does not have this feature.
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What would be the minimum mixin for full privacy?
There is no concept of full privacy, and therefore no magic mixin enabling full privacy.
The default mixin is 4 in monero-wallet-cli, and the network will enforce a minimim of 2, except for ...
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Usage of a zero mixin (ring size =1)
It is known that Poloniex switched to non zero mixin for a short time for withdrawals. However, they reverted to zero not long after, and I believe this to be due to the increased fees. Unfortunately, ...
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Largest ring size ever used in a Monero transacation
According to Monero Blocks statistics the highest pre RingCT ringsize was 850. I was not able to immediately locate that transaction on the blockchain.
I was able to find a sample 150 mixin ...
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What factors are influenced by ring size selection?
fluffypony gave a good answer for pre-rct, I will give one for post rct, which is both similar, and different:
A higher mixin means selecting another input that could be the one that's being spent. ...
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Why are there so many different amounts received when receiving a payment?
When sending a payment, the amounts are split by denominations, such that every single output's decimal representation is made up of a single non zero digit, and zeroes for the remainder.
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Should I worry about dust in my wallet?
The behavior in the transaction you linked is a new one. It did not exist at the time MRL-0004 was written.
Now, if you make a transaction now including your 0.00111111 output, it will appear as is ...
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What effect has the increase of minimal ring size from 5 to 7?
Privacy: Outputs are where amounts of Monero are stored on the blockchain. When you spend one of your outputs in a transaction, it cannot be known which of 7 different source outputs you're really ...
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What is the technical definition of "dust" that is allowed to be sent with a mixin of 0?
Dust is not a very well defined term in general. However, in the context of your question ("allowed to be sent with a mixin of 0"), this is about which outputs have enough other outputs of the same ...
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What would be the minimum mixin for full privacy?
There is no mixin amount that gives you "full" privacy. The minimum mixin of 2 gives the smallest amount of plausible deniability possible (1 in 3), and the default of 4 is a little bit better (1 in 5)...
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Mixin 0 (mixin 1) transaction ban
As of the Monero 0.9.0 Hydrogen Helix release the minimum mixin is 2 (2 foreign outputs per ring for a total of 3) with the exception of dust transactions. The minimum mixin will be raised to 4 in a ...
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What is the purpose of enforcing a minimum mixin?
For any particular person, maybe not. But in general, a miner might want to hide the fact that he or she may be mining (or even mining a particular block). For instance, if a third party knows you ...
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Is there a minimum and maximum mixin size?
As mentioned by JustinEU4, degradation of privacy for one party also degrades privacy for others. The effect is typically small, but if there is a lot of degradation, there comes a threshold effect.
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How are outputs chosen on the blockchain for ring signatures in a transaction?
You must choose mix inputs of the same amount as the one you are spending. Other than that there are no restrictions, though it's not a good idea to choose a really recent output (less than 10 blocks ...
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What is a mixin, and how does it work?
The mixin count refers to the number of other signatures (aside from yours) in the ring signature that authorizes the transaction. A default mixin of 4 means that there are 5 total signatures. Someone ...
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How to use the sweep_all command with options like ring_size or priority
First, it should be noted that sweep_all combines all available unspent outputs in the current account in a single transaction. Thus, your transaction may have a lot of inputs, which could be ...
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How will the temporal output alignment of ring partners (mixins) be addressed?
One option would be modifying the selection algorithm so that it selects ring partners in a similar date range to your own outputs. Then all of the transactions in your ring would be from the same ...
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Why are there so many different amounts received when receiving a payment?
No. It just splits the transaction amout into denominations commonly found on the blockchain. Then, each of those denomitation is mixed with few more of the same kind, depending on the mixin level ...
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How do you calculate the size of a Monero transaction before it is sent?
I have this, which may be wrong as I've not tested it a whole lot. The constants at start are "close enough", I did not try to be 100% precise:
47 + inputs * (39+(mixin+1)*2) + outputs*38 + 64 * ...
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How will RingCT dust work?
There were two main reasons outputs were called dust:
small outputs (typically well below 0.01, which is the fee per kB)
"complex looking" amounts, such 0.000013852456
The problem with the first ...
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When will the mandatory minimum mixin be increased?
Block 1406997 doesn't come for 341.5 days (as of this writing, Oct 19th, 2016, at block 1161101). September 25th of 2017 seems a bit...much. Please correct my errors.
(I would have posted as a ...
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With RingCT on, can I lower mixin safely to save on tx fees?
As in my comment:
The transaction size is mainly determined by the number of outputs. The number of inputs and mixin have smaller impact on the tx size. To be more precise, each output comes with a ...
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What changes are planned for the September 2017 hard fork?
The only change from that list which actually requires a HF is the minimum / uniform ringsize. The other 2 can be rolled out at any time. AFAIK, the current list for the upcoming hard fork is:
Only ...
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Why does proposed transaction fee fluctuate heavily sometimes?
Output selection is random. That is, simplewallet will pick one random output in your available outputs list, then again, and again, until the total is enough to satisfy the amount to send plus the ...
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