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Early Monero usage compared to Bitcoin
Has anyone done an analysis comparing Bitcoin usage its first two years compared to Monero usage in its first two years since launch?
I see some statistics here http://moneroblocks.info/stats but they only go back one year. Has the transactions per…
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Is there any way to mine using an integrated GPU?
Is it possible to mine with an AMD APU's integrated GPU, or Intel's integrated graphics processors? If so, any idea what kind of hashrate one can get?
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What is the Monero testnet? How can I participate in it?
I've seen people talk about the Monero testnet, but I don't know what they mean. What is testnet? What advantages come with using testnet? Finally, how do I get involved?
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Blockchain database file size variance by Operating System
I have a full node on both an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and a Windows 10 device.
Why is the database file containing blockchain a different size on each OS?
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How can I check if a Monero address is valid?
Handling a user's input in which I want to make sure that he used a valid monero address.
Bitcoin has all these rules found here and I found something similar for ethereum as well.
I was wondering if Monero has some general rules I can be checking…
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Harmonizing Monero with HD Wallet BIP 39 Technology?
Monero currently uses Electrum Word List for recovery purposes. This causes conflicts with wallet developers that want to support both Bitcoin-based BIP 39 technology that has a separate Word Lists. End users will want to use only one set wallet…
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How can I mine Monero on a cloud service?
Canonical question on cloud mining: Is there any way by which I can mine Monero on Azure Cloud Services, or Amazon Web Services, or Digital Ocean? How? Does it pay off?
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"I go faster as root"
When I run cpuminer-multi as a normal user, the first message I get is "I go faster as root". It indeed does not appear anymore when run as root (with command sudo)
What is made possible by being root? Is it safe?
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Ring signature with sublinear size increase
The Wikipedia article on Ring signatures states that
CryptoNote implements O(n) ring signature scheme by Fujisaki and Suzuki in p2p payments to achieve sender's untraceability.
More efficient algorithms have appeared recently. There are schemes…
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Does mining use a lot of bandwidth?
If I setup a mining rig, will this use a lot of internet bandwidth? Do you know how many MB per day would be required? Is there a difference for mining pools and solo mining?
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What is a "Low Difficulty Share" error?
I am trying to mine on an old AMD Radeon HD 57xx GPU with Catalyst version 15.7.1 on a Windows10 x64 machine.
Claymore's CryptoNote GPU Miner v9.4 receives the following error from the…
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How do I connect monero-wallet-cli to a remote node?
In the post What privacy or security trade offs are associated with not running your own full node? the privacy ramifications of connecting monero-wallet-cli to a remote node are discussed. However, I cannot find information on stackexchange about…
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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, identified by a type byte:
#define…
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Problems with creating name and regularly accessing view-only wallet for cold storage
Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I've created a couple view-only wallets using https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/user-guides/view_only , and have been coming across some problems:
1) When I actually do create the wallet that has my…
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What are some ways I can disguise my mnemonic seed?
I'm thinking of storing my mnemonic seed on a few pieces of paper in secure locations, but I'm worried other people might find one of them and steal my funds. What are assume ways I can disguise this mnemonic seed so that people don't realize what…
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