World’s Most Viewed Photo
Back in 1996, a photographer named Charles O’Rear embarked on a picturesque journey to Napa Valley, California. Little did he know that his lens would capture an iconic moment that…
TryHackMe.com – Pentest plus learning pathway – Completed
Studying this one in “The Background” is not going to work. I did make it this far, however! Progress, not perfection! One Day/Test At A Time.
Upcoming LTC block reward halving
The LTC (Litecoin) network is expected to perform its block reward halving on block height 2,520,000, estimated to happen on 2023-08-03. After this halving, the block reward of LTC will…
Daemon – Moneropedia
‘Daemon’ is the general term for software running in the background. In Monero, the Daemon is started through the ‘monerod’ program. If you run the Daemon locally, you are running…
Monero Daemon RPC Calls
Introduction This lists the monerod daemon RPC calls, their inputs and outputs, and their examples. Many RPC calls use the Monero daemon’s JSON RPC interface, while others use their own…
Atomic Units – Moneropedia
The Basics Atomic Units refer to a minuscule fraction of 1 XMR. One atomic unit is currently 1e-12 XMR (0.000000000001 XMR, or one piconero). It may be changed in the…
Tail Emission
The Basics Monero block rewards will never drop to zero. Block rewards will gradually drop until tail emission commences at the end of May 2022. At this point, rewards will…
Pedersen Commitment – Moneropedia
The Basics Pedersen commitments are cryptographic algorithms that allow a prover to commit to a certain value without revealing it or being able to change it. When you spend Monero,…
Transactions – Moneropedia
The Basics A cryptographically signed container that details the transfer of Monero to a recipient (or recipients). The parameters of a transaction contain one or more recipient addresses with corresponding…
Mnemonic Seed
The Basics A 13 or 25-word phrase used to back up a Monero account, available in several languages. This 25-word phrase (13 words in the case of MyMonero) has all…