The goal of this Chapter is to design and develop secure and reason- ably easy way how to set up and run mining operations on any scale. Inspired by both results from the Monero Miners Research as well as industry standards of large scale IT operations, the main emphasis is...
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Monero Miners Research
Researching the miners
The goal of this research is to gather information on people who run mining cryptocurrency software and map their behavior regarding system administration with the emphasis on security practices. For this purpose, an online questionnaire was created and is available in the Appendix Figure C. To the best of my...
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Obtaining Monero and Running The Network
How are coins gained
Monero mining is a process done by miners to verify transactions on the network and add them to the blockchain together in the form of a block. This results for them in a reward in the form of new coins that are emitted as a reward for block solving. Network...
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Monero Usage and Storage Best Practices
Monero best practice
Ease of use is one of the critical aspects of every cryptocurrency and although Monero can offer a wide range of privacy features it has to be usable and user-friendly to be used by a substantial margin of people. Usability in Monero is a long-term topic that sparks discussion [55]....
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Monero User Research
Getting into users perception
The goal of this research is to gather information on end users behavior regarding Monero cryptocurrency with emphasis on key management and security practices. For this purpose, an online questionnaire was created. Specific survey design and research questions are based on Bitcoin security and privacy study, typical usage patterns of...
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