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– – – Quick Links Resources • • • • • Desktop Wallets (Official) Web Wallets • Mobile Wallets • • • • • Hardware Wallets • • Why Monero? Monero is secure. Monero can't be hacked to steal your funds, due to the power of distributed consensus.

This means that you are responsible for your own money, and don't have to trust any entity to keep it safe for you. Monero is private. The power of the blockchain usually increases security at the cost of privacy, but with Monero's sophisticated privacy-centric technology, you get all of the security benefits of the blockchain without any of the privacy trade-offs. Monero is untraceable. By taking advantage of ring signatures, Monero makes it ambiguous which funds have been spent, and thus extremely unlikely that a transaction could be linked to any particular user. Monero is fungible. Because of its on-by-default privacy technologies, Monero is fungible, which means that one Monero will always be equal to another.

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Monero Communities Other Communities • • • • • • •. If you want consistent mining rewards, you should join a pool and use a pool miner. The 'getting started' page on most pools will point you to the right software. If you mostly want to help the network and are happy to 'play the lottery' on whether you get any rewards or not, then you should solo mine using the wallet. Start the daemon, create a wallet, and type 'start_mining [number-of-threads]' in the wallet.

If you have a suitable GPU and want to use that, you will have to pool mine (there is no solo mining support for GPUs). Pool mining with a GPU and solo mining with a CPU is a nice middle ground between pooling and soloing.

Going to hijack slightly. This question can be for anyone. I have solo mined Monero before in the past.

I am interested in joining a pool and using a pool miner as you mentioned. I am new to pool mining. Is there a specific mining pool and 'pool miner' you could direct me to that would be the best?

Dec 04, 2017 Last updated on December 4th, 2017 at 07:17 am Mining Monero: The Video Guide Similar to mining Zcash mining and.

Is there already a guide somewhere? Also, what exactly is a 'suitable' GPU? I hear AMD is superior, but I have an Nvidia 980ti. Anyone know if this will be good for mining? Last thing is, I am using Linux, just thought I'd mention in case that matters for any reason. There is a list of recommended pools in the first post of the ANN thread on bitcointalk. Any of those is fine, although smaller ones are better for the network and probably better for you (you will get less frequent payouts but they will be larger, so less issues with dust/fees).

As far as suitable GPUs, any modern AMD and NVIDIA cards work, but only NVIDIA cards have an open source miner (which may or may not matter to you). I don't know which are better at this point. In the past AMD cards were faster but NV cards were slightly more efficient.

Monero ( XMR) is an open-source created in April 2014 that focuses on and that runs on,,,, and. Monero uses a public to record transactions while new units are created through a process called. Monero aims to improve on existing cryptocurrency design by obscuring sender, recipient and amount of every transaction made as well as making the mining process more. The focus on privacy has attracted illicit use by people interested in evading law enforcement. The egalitarian mining process made it viable to distribute the mining effort opening new funding avenues for both legitimate online publishers and malicious hackers who covertly embed the mining code into websites and apps.

Contents • • • • • • • • • Architecture [ ] Unlike many cryptocurrencies that are derivatives of Bitcoin, Monero is based on the, which comes from the protocol. It possesses significant algorithmic differences relating to.

By providing a high level of privacy, Monero is, meaning that every unit of the currency can be substituted by another unit. This makes Monero different from public-ledger cryptocurrencies like, where addresses with coins previously associated with undesired activity can be blacklisted and have their coins refused by other users. In particular, the mix the spender's address with a group of others, making it exponentially more difficult to establish a link between each subsequent transaction. Also, the 'stealth addresses' generated for each transaction make it impossible to discover the actual destination address of a transaction by anyone else other than the sender and the receiver. Finally, the 'ring confidential transactions' mechanism hides the transferred amount. Monero is designed to be resistant to mining, which is commonly used to mine other cryptocurrencies such as. It can be mined somewhat efficiently on consumer grade hardware such as,, and.

History [ ] The underlying protocol that Monero is based on was originally launched by pseudonymous author Nicolas van Saberhagen in October 2013. Monero was originally launched by a Bitcointalk forum user only known as 'thankful_for_today' under the name BitMonero which is a compound of (as in ) and Monero (literally meaning 'coin' in ). Understanding BridgeCoin BCO Mining.

Five days later, the currency's supporters opted for the name to be shortened to Monero. In September 2014, Monero was attacked when an unknown party exploited a flaw in that permitted the creation of two subchains that refused to recognize the validity of transactions on each other. CryptoNote later released a patch for the flaw, which Monero implemented. Monero experienced rapid growth in and transaction volume during the year 2016, partly due to adoption in 2016 by major, which was closed in July 2017 by law enforcement.

On January 10, 2017, the privacy of Monero transactions were further strengthened by the adoption of Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell's algorithm Confidential Transactions, hiding the amounts being transacted, in combination with an improved version of Ring Signatures. Graphical representation of ring signature tracking. Monero's blockchain protects privacy in three ways. Ring signatures enable the sender to hide among other transaction outputs, stealth addresses hide the receiving address of the transaction and RingCT hides the amount of the transaction. As a consequence, Monero features an opaque blockchain. This is sharp contrast with transparent and traceable blockchain used.

Thus, Monero is said to be 'private, optionally transparent'. Monero has two sets of keys, called a 'view key' and a 'spend key'. View key can be separately shared to enable optional transparency. However, the system is designed to ease processing on mobile devices, as it is impossible to calculate an accurate wallet balance without a spend key.

Transaction linkability [ ] In April 2017 research highlighted three major threats to Monero user's privacy. The first relies on leveraging the ring signature size of zero, and ability to see the output amounts.

The second, described as 'Leveraging Output Merging', involves tracking transactions where two outputs belong to the same user, such as when a user is sending the funds to himself ('churning'). Finally the third threat, 'Temporal Analysis', shows that predicting the right output in a ring signature is easier than previously thought.

Monero development team addressed the first concern in early 2017 with introduction of Ring Confidential Transactions (ringCT) as well as mandating a minimum size of ring signatures in the March 2016 protocol upgrade. Monero developers also noted that Monero Research Labs, their academic and research arm, already noted and outlined the deficiency in two public research papers in 2014 and 2015. Client software [ ] Monero Client.

V0.11.1.0 'Helium Hydra' / October 15, 2017; 3 months ago ( 2017-10-15) Written in C++, C,,, (CLI only), (CLI only),,, Website A user needs client software, a so-called, to interact with the Monero network. The Monero Project produces the of a Monero wallet.

This implementation is broken up into three parts. The main software daemon is called monerod and it is responsible for reading the blockchain and claiming the user's transactions.

Monero-wallet-cli is responsible for managing the user's account, also known as wallet address, and generating new transactions. Finally, Monero GUI allows the user to interact with the aforementioned components through a graphical user interface. All of the software produced by The Monero Project is open source and licensed under a broadly permissive. Other third party implementations of Monero clients exist such as Monerujo which also make it possible to use Monero on. Finally, a web wallet allows users to interact with the network entirely through the browser using a third party website. Illicit use [ ] The feasibility of CPU mining Monero has made it viable for malicious actors to covertly distribute miners embedded in malware, using the victim's hardware and electricity for the financial gain of the malware developer.

The implementation of Monero miner has made it possible to embed the miner into a website in such a way to use website visitor's to mine the cryptocurrency while the visitor is consuming the content of the webpage. While this can be done with user's consent in an effort to provide an alternative funding model to serving ads, some websites have done this without informed consent which has prompted the in-browser miners to be blocked by browser extensions and subscription lists. Monero is sometimes employed by users to break link between transactions, with bitcoins first converted to Monero, then after some delay, converted back and sent to an address unrelated to those used before. Researchers have reported that the operators behind the global ransomware incident have converted their proceeds into Monero.

It is also the preferred payment method of choice for. Exchanges and are cooperating with police after it emerged that the WannaCry attackers used it to convert Bitcoin to Monero.

'Any transactions made through ShapeShift can not be hidden or obscured and are thus 100 percent transparent' stated ShapeShift. See also [ ].