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How do I constrain memory usage during initial blockchain sync

I'm trying to get monerod up and running on a VPS with 1gb of RAM. My understanding is that once the chain is synced, monerod's memory usage should be quite reasonable. However, during the initial blockchain sync process, it is outgrowing the 1gb…
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How can I save the destination address of my transaction?

From Reddit: I might be mistaken, but I read once that there is a flag that 'saves' the destination address of your transactions in your wallet file. I am not sure if it's the actual address that is saved or the one-time public key, but I'd like…
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Do multisig addresses share the same space as regular addresses and produce the same types of keys?

Let me word it another way. Can a normal Monero seed produce the same address as a multisig wallet? And, if so, would that mean that the private spend key generated by that wallet would be able to spend the outputs of what would otherwise be a…
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Is the 'pseudoOuts' of 'rctSig' the commitment on input amounts for simple RCT

It seems that the genRctSimple function will make a different input commitment for each input amount (line 675-683 in file src/rct/rctSigs.cpp). And summation of these input commitments = output commitments. Why not just use original input…
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What is the transaction id and how its calculated?

What is the tx id used for and why have it when there is already a payment id or even an integrated_address to identify a specific transaction? Also how is it calculated? (guessing its a hash of the transaction or sumthin) ....well the tags just…
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Stealth address, is there a static part at the end?

If I understand things correctly from the whitepaper in order for Alice to send me monero she will use my two public keys A (public view key) and B (public spend key) which she gets from my address (A,B). In order to generate the stealth address she…
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Explanation of monerod `status` command

Most of status is self explanatory. But there are a couple I don't understand. I'm a complete n00b to both monero and crypto mining in general so forgive me if these are all rather elementary. I couldn't find much in terms of explanations . net…
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How does Monero's multisig work under the hood?

I read Luigi's post about how multisig worked when he released the first test version, but I found it very complicated and hard to understand. Maybe it was the format, or maybe it was just more complex than I was expecting. In any case, I was…
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How is monero different from byteball with being anonymous?

Doing some research on monero vs byteball. What are the fundamental differences between these two?
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Sent to wallet address before synchronization?

I sent some XMR soon after downloading the gui client (unknowingly) before completion of the daemon synchronization... Will my XMR appear eventually or are they lost?
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What determine the transaction size of Monero?

Only the public key size of ring signature or both the public key size and signature size?
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Moving LMDB from Laptop to SBC?

I have a synced Database on my Laptop running W10, but I want run monerod on my Odroid C1 running debian linux. Is it possible to move the database from the Laptop to the SBC
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Is there a sample JavaScript code showing how to generate a monero address from a string of characters?

I'm looking to make a JavaScript brain wallet generator for Monero. Is there a JavaScript library to create Monero addresses?
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Why does my monerod always consume all the RAM?

I have a 24/7 full-node of 10.3.1 on win7 x64 It runs with --restricted-rpc --block-sync-size 10 --rpc-bind-ip xx.xx.xx.xx --confirm-external-bind --data-dir C:\Users\user\Documents\XMRdb --add-priority-node xx.xx.xx.xx:18080 --limit-rate-up…
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Any thought on the Minergate hard fork of Dashcoin? Is it a 51% attack?

You can read the whole thing on the Dashcoin thread on bitcointalk.org I'll keep things short. Since Dashcoin is a copy of Bytecoin, it was effected by the same bug found by the Monero team back in Feb and published in April. Dashcoin team then…