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Number of blocks that are included in the Monero blockchain at any given point in time. Each newly mined block increases the block-height by one

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Do I need to sync the entire blockchain before I can send a transaction?

I have a cold storage wallet that I have only used to receive payments. After recovering my wallet with my mnemonic seed, do I need to synchronize the entire blockchain before I can send a transaction? If I know the block-height when I received my…
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Block height for v6 fork

What is the block height and approximate date for the v6 Monero fork? Has there been a decision to change the targeted block height based on discussions to keep the fork near Sept 21st despite a recent increase in network hashrate that otherwise…
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What's the difference between block height and block number?

With the recent hard-fork, I was wondering about the difference between block height and block number? E.g. I am fairly sure the genesis block is block number 0. After that block, but before the next one, was the block height 1? And a follow-up…
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What's the fastest way to display the block height with a shell script?

What's the fastest way to display the current Monero block height with a shell script? Doesn't matter which scripting language. The idea is to call this script or block from other scripts, so it should just return the value.
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I restored my wallet, and I chose the wrong block height to start scanning. What are my options?

This wallet I just restored has no transactions any earlier than maybe block 800k. Well, I told the wallet to refresh from 80k by accident. It's taking forever to scan. I don't want to just let the computer refresh forever. Is the 80k located in…
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Is there a way to see the blockheight at a specific point in time?

Let's say I wanted to know what the exact blockheight of the Monero blockchain was on March 21st 2019. Is there a way to do this or an easy to follow chart or something?
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blockheight unconfirmed

I'm using the new GUI and made a deposit on it from an exchange. 32 hours ago it was approved from the exchange. Since then i'm waiting to see the amount on my wallet. I can see it in the history, but it says: Blockheight unconfirmed and the balance…
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What is the command to get the block height using the monerod and monero-wallet-cli command?

Is there a way to output the current block height using the monerod and monero-wallet-cli command?
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How does monerod decide from which height it should start syncing? Where can I find this in monero code? Where is the previous synced height stored?

How does monero know the height to which it was previously synced? Where does it store this data so that it can continue syncing from there the next time?
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Monero CLi wallet Restore Height

I was restoring a wallet via monero cli and i set the restore height 2600000. But it then started scanning the blockchain from the very beginning like 1/ 271xxxx, then 1999/271xxxx, so on and so forth. But i did pass the param into the…
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Monero CLI wallet, change restore height

Situation: I am using the monero-wallet-cli and I have a wallet file and a keys already. The point is that when I was initially restoring that wallet, I gave a restore height, for instance 2600000. Question: Now that I want to change that height in…
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Would an attacker knowing the block-heights of my wallet's transactions weaken my privacy/security?

Let's say I'd go through all the transactions in my wallet, write down their block-heights and store this list somewhere insecure. Could my privacy or security be compromised by this in any way (assuming an attacker knows it is a list of…
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Monero fork wont mine blocks after height 3062

I have forked Monero and created the genesis block. Everything seems to be working fine till the block height reaches 3062 and then there are no blocks mined after that. Currently, my blockchain is running Monero v7. The current difficulty is…
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