monero VS research-lab

https://getmonero.org/ and check the other links at the right nav.

Hi, I'm new to this crypto mining in general. I came across a youtube video that involves mining with a raspberry pi. I KNOW this is not profitable, but I wanted to do this as a hobby. However, I was left wondering, if I were to use the getmonero.org as my wallet, how I can trade xmr for cad? I've seen other reddit threads saying to convert to btc, then into cad using kraken, or using localmonero. But again, I am new to this, so any information on converting xmr into cad is much appreciated!

Decentralized Monero focused exchange is added support for Goldbacks in their v0.0.11 release.

Have you read through getmonero.org yet?

Subdomains are typically different servers with their own purpose for the same domain. As long as you are on getmonero.org you are on the same domain.

There's no documentation for this. It's a file checkpoints.dat in https://github.com/monero-project/monero/tree/master/src/blocks and it's updated before each release and then embedded into monerod binary.

Finally, while it's true that we've encountered bugs in the past, it's an industry-wide challenge from which most projects suffer from at one point or the other, even for big projects like Monero. Such issues, while unfortunate, do not invalidate the overall value of the projects suffering from them as long as they keep on building and getting more and more secure over time. We are and have always as been transparent about these issues and remain committed to our mission of building a privacy-first, pro-liberty economy that's open to all, not just Particl users.

Connect to the official getmonero.org wallet with your Ledger, but you can't view anything inside Ledger Live. There are also hot alternatives like Coinomi, Atomic, Exodus etc.

This update brings the Cake 2FA security feature, Monero 0.18.2.2 with the decoy privacy patch, auto-generate restore height for Monero restore QR codes, and more!

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"

https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/raw/master/wh...

Welcome! I wrote this list of Monero's open research questions: https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/94

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.

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's privacy (i.e. fungibility) guarantees, while being extremely good, are still not mature enough to ossify the protocol yet, see here;