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CryptoNote is an application layer protocol that powers several decentralized privacy oriented digital currencies including Monero

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Looking for a paper describing Monero

I want to learn about Monero in good detail. Unfortunately I am not able to find any good and complete resource which described how this cryptocurrency works. Most of the papers I found are analyzing the anonymity of Monero. On the homepage of…
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What is meant by "Diffie-Hellman exchange" in the official CryptoNote paper?

I've read the official CryptoNote whitepaper and I've stumbled on the following sentence: First, the sender performs a Diffie-Hellman exchange to get a shared secret from his data and half of the recipient’s address. Then he computes a one-time…
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Where is the global array of outputs of type txout_to_key?

according to cryptonote standard #4,"- key_offsets: The list of offsets in the global array of outputs of type txout_to_key having the same amount as the input. The first value is the ordinal number of the first referenced output among those…
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What is the next big step in Monero's future?

What is the next big step in Monero's future development that could emulate the buzz generated when monero was accepted onto Alphabay?
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concatenate in the monero world

I am trying to replicate in python the calculation of public key derivation, that is: P = H(aR||i)G +B where i is the output index in a transaction. I got all the operators figured out (using a python ed25519 implementation) except for the…
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Clarification with cryptonote-utils BEGIN_SERIALIZE() macros

I am making some modifications to cryptonote-utils for a cryptonote with a different block format than what it is built for. I've never done serialization before so I am just now learning about the concept. Let's take this as our example from…
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Replay attack and Cryptonotes

There are 2 Cryptonote networks (Dashcoin and Quazarcoin) which forked. On both of them the forks have stable hashrate. Are replay attacks a thing in Cryptonote and are there any technical solutions in the protocol to prevent replay attacks? Is…
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Payment processor for DigitalNote (Cryptonote coin)?

Sorry if you feel this is not the right place for this question, but how I can integrate a payment processor onto a website for DigitalNote? Websites like coinpayments.net require donations to support your coin, so how exactly can I add support for…
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Differences between Monero and CryptoNote?

In CryptoNote whitepaper: The upper bound for the overall amount of CryptoNote digital coins is: MSupply = 2^64 − 1 atomic units. However, in Monero technical specifications, I see that the max supply is infinite. As far as I…
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Why excludes the transaction bodies in the structure of the block?

According to cryptonote standard #3, a block consists of three parts: - block header, - base transaction body, - list of transaction identifiers. Why excludes the transaction bodies in the structure of the block? What is the structure of…
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Is CryptoNote.org dead?

The CryptoNote.org website doesn't seem to have been updated since 2015. Their support forum is broken (I don't receive confirmation emails allowing me to register) and their twitter account has not been updated in a while. I know that Monero is…
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How do I use the Cryptonote inflation glitch?

How was the vulnerability mentioned in the article below carried out? https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html Can someone give me a step by step walkthrough of how to recreate it ?
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Ephemeral cryptocurrency with hard limit of blocks

I have an idea but I'm not sure if it makes sense or not. I understand that CryptoNote uses addresses just twice, the first when a payment is received, and the next when a payment is made and that specific address is never used anymore. Having that…
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Unable to run a cryptonote forked coin, what are node seeds

I have compiled cryptonote fork on two different Azure Ubuntu 14.0.4 machines. When I try and run the daemon o get this: MYIP:MYPORT failed: TcpConnector::connect, connection failed I think It has to do with the seed nodes configuration, what should…
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Is there a paper available on Monero?

Yes, I know the Monero is implemented using CryptoNight. I was, however, wondering if there is a paper that explains Monero top to bottom. If not available, can I expect one to be published soon?
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