Questions about Monero development or development processes
Questions tagged [development]
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How many different developers have made contributions to Monero source code?
How many different developers have made commits to Monero source code?
How does this level of developer contribution compare to other cryptocurrencies of a similar marketcap?
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Why didn't Monero developers just improve bitcoin?
There are plenty of reasons for creating an altcoin to test a concept, but there are also good reasons to improve the primary protocol. Considering that cryptocurrencies are a strange meld between financial instrument and software, the scale tips…
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How does someone become a contributor to Monero code?
I'm not a C++ developer, although I have been trying to learn slowly. Are there any prerequisites or requirements to contribute to the Monero code? Also what resources are good to read before trying to contribute to the code?
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Approximately how many developer hours have been spent on Monero so far?
For the purposes of this question please include research from the Monero Research Labs and any time preparing the work that is visible in GitHub today.
Itemization of estimated hours for each focus (RingCT, LMDB, Kovri, GUI, etc) would be ideal but…
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How does check_hash work in difficulty.cpp?
I'm trying to dig into the monero codebase and understand how hashes are validated to be the solution for the current block. The below code returns true if the hash is valid, but I'm trying to understand why. I can tell it does a quick check on the…
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Would another node client be valuable to Monero environment?
Ethereum seems to have good experience with alternate node clients, would having another one for monero be a good idea or is it still just to early and would maybe slow devs detracting from more progress. thanks all :DD
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Is this Monero python implementation complete & trustworthy?
I am trying to develop a variant of Monero.
Considering the size and the complexity of the original Monero implementation in C++, I figured it might be easier fork this Python implementation of Monero.
How complete is it?
Can I test things on it…
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