monero-lws
Monero Light Wallet Server (scans monero viewkeys and implements mymonero API) (by vtnerd)
research-lab
A general repo for Monero Research Lab work in progress and completed work (by monero-project)
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monero-lws
Posts with mentions or reviews of monero-lws.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-26.
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Check out the Monero-LWS-Admin Tool for managing Monero Light Wallet Server accounts
I just wanted to share that I released a tool called 'Monero-LWS-Admin' a couple weeks ago that is a web-based GUI that taps into the newly-added admin REST API for VTNerd's light wallet server (https://github.com/vtnerd/monero-lws). Also important to note: this API is only available on the develop branch of vtnerd/monero-lws at the moment. The point of the monero-lws-admin app is to just make it very easy to add/update/deactivate Monero LWS accounts. Make sure to only expose it on a secured network and do not expose it publicly as it would allow anyone to add LWS accounts to your server. This is newly created software, so use at your own risk and please feel free to write up issues/feature requests at the repo below.
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How to get the balance of my monero wallet remotely?
You could use the private view key with something like the mymonero rest api?
- Syncing speed
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[xmrsale v2] Lightweight Monero Acceptance - random public nodes over tor
Also shoutout to all the other great monero payment projects with great things in the works, check them out: monero-lws, https://github.com/busyboredom/acceptxmr, https://gitlab.com/moneropay/moneropay, https://git.sr.ht/~anon_/shadowchat, https://github.com/monero-integrations/monerowp)
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Monero Meet 2022-02-05: fees, monero-lws, and network privacy
monero-lws is an awesome tool for individuals who run their own nodes and I want to help get it out there to more people. And the code is silky smooth and easy to read, major props to u/vtnerd. I think subaddress support will be huge because it will also make light wallets more compatible with other wallets. And agree a formal build process (and releasing binaries) + continuous tests would be sweet. I'm gonna look into setting up a test framework while working on subaddress support.
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j-berman final CCS update - feedback welcome!
Informal audit of monero-lws
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Monero has a serious user friendly problem
The sync time actually could be mitigated by the wallets themselves by finding the way how to move the sync process into the background to run it all the time. Of course, this is not so trivial to do as it sounds because some platforms have technical limitations e.g. iOS has a very limited policy for background tasks. Nonetheless, there are still ways how this could be bypassed, and one of them I'm using myself: MyMonero + monero-lws on a dedicated hardware which is running 24/7. With this setup I have instant status of my wallet status anytime, even after a month without sacrificing any(?) privacy. Of course, this is still miles away from being "friendly to use / good UX" because first and foremost it requires building "monero-lws" from the source code where most of the non-tech-savvy would immediately fail, there are other setup challenges as well but that's not the point. The point I wanted to make is that wallet sync time definitely has ways in which it can be improved, at least from the UX perspective. Sometimes solutions needs a bit more out-of-the-box thinking.
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ELI5 Request: The F' is Happening With Decoy and Ring Sigs
Also important to note from that post discussing the bugs: the initial reported bug turned out to be not as severe (i.e. you actually cannot definitively identify real outputs spent right after unlock because of the bug). We found that an alternative implementation of the algorithm (in monero-lws) did not have the bug and is widely used by at least one popular wallet (MyMonero). So that means anyone using MyMonero's transactions could have feasibly selected recent decoys, and therefore recent outputs on chain could be decoys.
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Farcaster: Community update August
We have now completed the necessary interfaces for communicating with both blockchains - something we termed syncers. The integration work in the node is mostly complete. For bitcoin, we are currently using the electrum protocol, while for monero we are communicating with the monero daemon and monero-wallet-rpc. Using the monero-wallet-rpc for multiple swaps at a time proved quite slow during our testing, so we are now exploring the usage of vtnerd's monero light wallet server. In contrast to the monero-wallet-rpc, the light wallet server can keep track of and scan for transactions of multiple distinct view keys at a time. Our work integrating the monero rpc interfaces also led to some pull requests to monero-rpc-rs in the monero-ecosystem project.
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Can I host my own "lite" wallet server?
Technically, yes, but it’s fairly difficult and not user friendly at the moment. I believe it can be done with OpenMonero and monero-lws, both created by community members. Here’s the repo to lws: https://github.com/vtnerd/monero-lws
research-lab
Posts with mentions or reviews of research-lab.
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Can anyone explain this
One of many open research questions u/Rucknium has listed here (under "Reducing or eliminating 10 block lock with acceptable drawbacks"). There is a chance of it being reduced but its "complicated"
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Bitcoin phisical bearer instrument using NFC JavaCards
https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/raw/master/wh...
- Newest spend heuristic
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Research Ideas for Monero
Welcome! I wrote this list of Monero's open research questions: https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/94
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A Newsletter from the 2022 MAGIC Monero Fund
We also established an official list of topics we want to fund, expanding on the broad space of Monero. This is intended to help people realize actual tasks they may want to complete on behalf of Monero, rather than just the idea of tasks, and extends Monero's open research questions. We're further interested in security proofs, ensuring Monero's integrity, historic and present, and work on arithmetic-circuit based membership proofs. Arithmetic-circuit based membership proofs would remove ring signatures, and the statistical analysis possible on them, entirely, for complete privacy of which output you're spending.
- Centralized Mining Pools are Delaying Monero Transaction Confirmations by 60 Seconds
- PSA: P2Pool network upgrade (aka hardfork) on March 18th, 2023
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Creating a totally public view only XMR wallet
There is actually something called a "truncated address", which is transparent by default. It is mentioned in the original CryptoNote whitepaper on page 8, but I don't think the official wallet software supports it. You could emulate it by calculating the view key manually as a = H(B).
- Monero code of conduct
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Why im against hard forks (i like backwards-compatible forks though). As a developer. I expect I wont be agreed with, and thats okay.
Monero's privacy (i.e. fungibility) guarantees, while being extremely good, are still not mature enough to ossify the protocol yet, see here;
What are some alternatives?
When comparing monero-lws and research-lab you can also consider the following projects:
monero - Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
openmonero - Fully open sourced implementation of MyMonero backend
monero-seed - Proof of concept 16-word mnemonic seed for Monero
monero-gui - Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
edge-react-gui - Edge React Native GUI for iOS and Android
xmr-btc-swap - Bitcoin–Monero Cross-chain Atomic Swap
fastonosql_gui - FastoNoSQL is a crossplatform Redis, Memcached, SSDB, LevelDB, RocksDB, UnQLite, LMDB, ForestDB, Pika, Dynomite, KeyDB GUI management tool.
grin - Minimal implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol.
moneropay
polyseed - Mnemonic seed library for Monero and other CryptoNote-based currencies.
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research-lab vs monero-gui
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research-lab vs xmr-btc-swap
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