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What is the format of a block in the Monero Blockchain?
What is in the header? How is the header made? What information about the transactions is present? What is prunable? What part of the block is used for the PoW?
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What is an integrated address?
Some exchanges use integrated addresses, but what are they, and what are they useful for? Should they be used over regular addresses?
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How was the Monero emission curve chosen?
The Monero block reward = (M - A) * 2-20 * 10-12, where A = current circulation.
Approximately 86% of pre-tail Monero will be mined within 4 years of its launch. What was the stated rational of the original developer(s) for selecting this…
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For newcomers to the Monero community, what can we do to help the project?
There are a lot of newcomers into the Monero community and I am sure many are interested in helping out where they can.
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What is RingCT and how does it compare to Confidential Transactions?
What is RingCT and how does the addition of Ring Signatures enhance the privacy properties of RingCT compared to Confidential Transactions as designed by Greg Maxwell?
https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt
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Why are rich lists impossible to create for Monero?
What technical challenges prevent the creation of Monero rich lists?
Without a rich list or transparent blockchain how can a business or charity publish proof of XMR reserves?
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ELI5: How does RingCT work?
Can someone explain simply how RingCT can make sure that a user has the specified amounts without seeing it? My mind starts to pause as soon as i see formulas on a whitepaper.
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How do I, as a recipient, verify that my transaction actually arrived?
I received some XMR from a service / exchange / friend. How do I verify that my transaction actually arrived?
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Monero or Bitmonero?
If Monero is official name of this project, why is the name bitmonero still commonly used?
Even the daemon is named bitmonerod. Are both names Monero or Bitmonero considered correct?
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How do I use cold transaction signing?
Cold transaction signing was recently merged into master. How would one go about using it?
For those who don't know, this feature allows you to:
Create and export an unsigned transaction on an online machine, with a watch-only wallet.
Sign and…
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Understanding the structure of a Monero transaction
So I am trying to understand how Monero works under the hood, and I was looking at the transaction below. (If you would like to see it in your own daemon, switch to testnet and just type print_tx…
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Does Monero offer an equivalent of Check Lock Time Verify transactions?
Does Monero offer an equivalent of Check Lock Time Verify (CLTV) transactions? If not are there any major CryptoNote or RingCT specific obstacles that would prevent such a feature from being added in the future?
CLTV transactions would have many…
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Approximate cost of developing Cryptonight ASICs
I have already seen reasons why Cryptonight is more resistant to ASICs as compared to SHA256 for example:
Cryptonight takes advantage of the AES-NI instruction set available on most modern machines
Cryptonight limits parallelizing hashes due to…
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I am missing (not seeing) a transaction to (in) the GUI (zero balance)
I withdrew from Kraken / Poloniex / Bitfinex / Poloniex / any other exchange or service (e.g. Shapeshift) and I am not seeing the transaction in the GUI. How do I resolve this issue?
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What Ports Does Monero Use? (RPC, P2P, etc.)
What is the Monero P2P port?
What is the Monero RPC port?
What purposes do the different ports serve? Are there other ports Monero needs to have setup properly in order to use extra features?
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