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What is a stealth address?
Canonical question on stealth addresses: They are mentioned in the context of privacy of Bitcoin transactions but are also implemented in Cryptonote based currencies. What are they and how would they work? Can they provide 100% anonymity?
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How much information is passed from the daemon to simplewallet when scanning for a wallet's transactions?
When simplewallet is connected to a local daemon, the data throughput is mostly irrelevant because communication is done completely locally. But I am curious about how much data/information is transferred between a remote node and simplewallet?
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I forgot to upgrade (from CLI or GUI v0.13 to CLI or GUI v0.14) and, as a result, accidentally synced to the wrong (alternative) chain
I forgot to upgrade (from CLI or GUI v0.13 to CLI or GUI v0.14) and, as a result, accidentally synced to the wrong (alternative) chain. How do I resolve this issue?
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What are bulletproofs?
I have heard that Monero transactions are relatively large, and that Bulletproofs will make Monero transactions smaller. Can someone give a high-level overview about what these are, and how they effect Monero?
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My blockchain is stuck, how do I "unstuck" it?
During the last few weeks a common, reoccurring, question seems to be how to get one's blockchain "unstuck". This guide will, hopefully, provide some assistance in doing so.
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What is a payment ID, and why is it used?
Several exchanges require a payment ID for deposits and withdraws. What is a payment ID in Monero, and why is it used?
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What is the safest method to create a Monero wallet for cold storage?
If I want to create a Monero wallet in the most secure manner possible, what are the best practices in doing so?
Are there any written user guides or video demonstrations of this process?
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What's the difference between "balance" and "unlocked balance"?
What's the difference between "balance" and "unlocked balance"? When is it different? Why is that, and for how long?
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What is a key image?
When a transaction is made with monero there is a 'key image' in the transaction info. what is this exactly? is it like the diffie-hellman exchange to create the one time addresses?
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How does the dynamic fee calculation work?
A pull request on github for dynamic fee calculation was just submitted. How does this new dynamic fee calculation work?
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Why/how does monero generate public ed25519 keys without using the standard public key generation provided by ed25519 libraries?
Why/how does monero generate public ed25519 keys without using the standard public key derivation provided by ed25519 libraries?
Inspecting the code for mininero (https://github.com/monero-project/mininero/blob/master/mininero.py), it seems that it…
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Sidechain with Monero as the base token and Zerocoin as the anonymous token
The ZCash protocol has both basecoins which are traceable and Zerocoins which are anonymous. Basecoins can be converted into Zerocoins but the conversion itself is visible on the blockchain.
Could a Monero sidechain be built with Monero as the base…
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Can Kovri be blocked in e.g. China?
And if so, is there a way around it with something like the meek pluggable transport from the Tor project?
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Monero hard fork procedure
I understand Monero has a planned hard fork twice a year (on approximately March 15 and September 15) and I would like to understand more about how it will in practice:
What is the minimum amount of notice users will receive in order to upgrade…
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How does one prove ownership of a Monero address?
Just like how a user can prove they are the owner of a Bitcoin public key by signing a message, how can a Monero user prove they are the owner of a Monero public key?
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