Questions about Monero addresses, including address types, usage, purpose and format
Questions tagged [address]
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Why/how does monero generate public ed25519 keys without using the standard public key generation provided by ed25519 libraries?
Why/how does monero generate public ed25519 keys without using the standard public key derivation provided by ed25519 libraries?
Inspecting the code for mininero (https://github.com/monero-project/mininero/blob/master/mininero.py), it seems that it…
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How do I generate a QR-code for a Monero address?
I would like to know if there's a tool to generate a QR-code image for a Monero address. I know that https://moneroaddress.org has a button to display the QR-code, but only for wallet addresses generated there.
Follow-up question, if possible, does…
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How can we be sure that monero wallet addresses are unique?
This question is probably not necessarily limited to monero wallets, but I have been playing around with the Monero Offline Wallet Generator and wanted to know how anyone could ever be sure that a wallet address is unique? Specifically, say I create…
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Can a 95-character Monero address be reduced to a mnemonic phrase?
At present a raw integrated Monero address (e.g. 44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A) is 106 base 58 characters. This is a lot for a human to transcribe manually without errors.
Consider…
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Why Monero address is converted to base 58 in blocks, instead of all at once?
I realize that the public address, which is 69 byte, is converted to base 58, but is not converted as a one large number, but rather each 8 bytes are converted separately.
What's the motivation for that?
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Monero wallet packet sniffing
I've been comparing the weaknesses of Monero and Bitcoin. Following from this about bitcoin packet sniffing. I'm just wondering what an attacker can do if he's on my LAN and can sniff packets on the network.
As for the case for Bitcoin, an attacker…
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Possible lengths of Monero addresses?
I'm doing crude client-side verification of a form that includes an input for a Monero wallet. What are the possible lengths of an address? Are 106 and 95 the only possible lengths?
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Why does the address change after putting it in the GUI wallet's address book?
I used the GUI wallet's address book to store an address. When I added the address, the address was changed.
It went from 4Gdo... to 46w8M... the monero was sent and is confirmed on the blockchain, but no where to be found on the recipients wallet.…
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What is the regex for a Monero address or Payment ID?
What is the best, most correct way of regex'ing the address and payment ID for Monero?
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If I have a vanity address does it decrease my wallets security?
I've seen some people with vanity Monero addresses like 43COINxxxxxx. Does having a vanity address like this increase its susceptibility to getting cracked and view/spend keys getting found?
user4
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Is the Bytecoin proposed scheme to scan numerous addresses faster interesting for Monero?
What was the technical scheme proposed by Bytecoin to scan a set of addresses faster, for instance for merchants? Was it discussed for Monero?
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How do I get a custom Monero address?
I've seen people with custom addresses on Monero, like having short custom three or four letter words in the beginning of the 95-character string. How do I get one of these?
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I've sent real Monero from Coindirect to my stagenet wallet address, not my mainnet wallet address
I've sent real Monero from Coindirect to my local stagenet wallet address and not my mainnet wallet address.
The Monero doesn't show up in either wallet (Daemon/Wallets have synchronized).
Have I lost those funds, or is there a way to retrieve them?
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Monero address generated by Kraken
I have a Kraken account and got a Monero address, generated by them.
It starts with 4GdoN7NCTi8a5gZu and has 106 characters in total. There are digits, letters from A to Z, low case and capitals. There are no special symbols in it.
I'm trying to…
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