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How can I validate a cryptonight algorithm implementation?
Is there an easy way to validate an implementation of the cryptonight hash function? I wrote an implementation just to explore the features of various hash functions, but I'd like to validate that I'm producing the same result as the core…
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What all information we can gather from a Monero wallet address?
I am pretty new to this crypto currency. My question is that what all information can be found, if we only know a malicious user's Monero
wallet address?
Can I check this Monero wallet balance? If so, how?
Can I check who (wallet address)…
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Can a copy of the blockchain hold private information?
I want to run a daemon on another machine, and I was thinking of copying the blockchain I already have (copying the entire .bitmonero folder). I'm curious whether any private information may be leaked by doing that, such as information about the…
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Low hashrate on some CPU instances
I have currently 30 CPU instances running minerd on Ubuntu (for XMR). Not all instances have the same CPU, but some of the instances have "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v4 @ 1.70GHz". These instances are all rented Cloud Servers (VPS).
Now these…
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Why some coinbase transactions have very long extra field, and some short?
Wondering what is the difference between coinbase transactions. For example, this coinbase transaction has short extra…
New2mining
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How/when does the --db-salvage flag get used? What's it do?
This flag gets used when you suspect your copy of the blockchain may be corrupt, correct? What are the details?
It's a daemon flag? Is it supposed to be used just until the blockchain is synced, and then you exit and run with the usual flags you…
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Installed the monero gui client for windows. How do I join a pool to mine?
IS there a step by step tutorial on how to join a monero pool to cpu mine? I just installed the monero desktop client for windows.
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How can I delete my wallet?
So I didn't have enough space on my current HDD for my wallet, the "install" stopped about halfway through because of this
I decided to delete the files it had created but I can't find them. I've searched almost my entire computer, and even went…
unknownuser
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Transaction from suprnova to local gui wallet failed
over the weekend I installed the newest XMR gui wallet (windows 10) and imported my old (2014) wallet file into it. Daemon synced over the weekend, all looked good.
Yesterday night I decided to cash out mining proceeds from suprnova and sent these…
Dragonmike
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Why are pools not mining large blocks?
As I understand, Monero has an adaptive block size that allows the block size to grow as needed, but also allow miners to mine blocks larger than the max block size, though giving the miner a penalty on the block reward.
So, in the last days we saw…
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Problem with speed of synchronization
I have mined 0.1 Monero on MinerGate and since yesterday am transferring it to the wallet. After 24 hours it's got about 20% ... Is this slowness normal ..? It will take about 5 days to finish the transfer.
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Help to Setup a Monero mining farm $4000 Budget
After to try some pools and alt cryptocoins by some weeks, I'm now really serious about to make a Monero farm because I believe in this potential, Monero is Awesome!
Today I mine in DwarfPool, just more couple of days to get my 0.1 XMR to try others…
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Need specific instructions on using formula to calculate Monero's current block reward
Building my own php-based monero profit calculator for fun.
However, setting a static variable for "block_reward" would be very bad, and become less accurate as time goes by.
I've looked at this thread here:
What is the mining reward equation?
I've…
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Will Monero need SegWit to implement the Lightning Network?
I have heard that many other coins need to implement SegWit to allow them to enable the Lightning Network. Is this something that Monero will have to do?
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Difference between --rpc-bind-ip 0.0.0.0, or loopback, or actual IP
I run a node from home. I use --rpc-bind-ip as a daemon flag, with my internal/LAN IP address as the argument. With this setup, I can access my node from wallets on different computers inside my LAN. When others ask this question, I've seen…
scoobybejesus
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