Welcome to the /XMR/ Monero General, dedicated to the discussion of the world's most widely adopted privacy coin.Monero payments are anonymous, low-fee by design and fully fungible, meaning users can send XMR globally without issue and receive XMR without having to worry about tainted coins. Battle-tested privacy tech (Ring Signatures, Stealth Addresses and RingCT) ensures that critical TX data cannot be gleaned from the Monero blockchain. Thus by default, the TX history of all Monero users is kept hidden from the prying eyes of adversaries, with TXs being optionally transparent via the aid of a view key.Monero algorithmically ensures low TX fees by employing a dynamic (elastic) block size that can "stretch" to easily accommodate sudden TX spikes.Monero's bespoke mining algorithm, RandomX, is optimized for devices using general-purpose CPUs e.g. desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets, keeping the barrier to entry low and ASICs out of the equation.Monero's tail emission - 0.6 XMR every block forever - financially incentives for-profit miners to keep mining, helping boost long-term network security. This constant linear inflation asymptotically trends to zero and is offset somewhat by a steady rate of coin loss.Monero has thus far proven to be the only altcoin capable of overcoming BTC's network effect by driving it out of the darknet economy BTC dominated for over 10 years. Monero is now also starting to overtake BTC in clearnet commerce as well. See below.If you still have questions, feel free to ask and a MoneroChad will be with you shortly.XMR Redpill: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wq6w03E2DS4XMR Resources: https://libereco.xyz/resources/XMR Stats: moneroj.netUSE XMR: https://cryptwerk.com/pay-with/xmr/OFFICIAL WEBSITE - getmonero.orgWHERE TO BUY XMR: https://i.imgur.com/XdppsQ7.pngCrypto ATMs: see kycnot.me>MININGarchive.is/TWOahHOW TO STORE MONERO?>DesktopOfficial GUI/CLIFeatherwallet>MobileIOS: CakewalletAndroid: Monerujo
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START MINING IN P2POOL>START MINING IN P2POOLSTART MINING IN P2POOL>START MINING IN P2POOLP2Pool combines the advantages of pool and solo mining; you still fully control your Monero node and what it mines, but you get frequent payouts like on a regular pool. P2Pool has no central server that can be shut down/blocked because it uses a separate blockchain to merge mine with Monero. There's no pool admin that can control what your hashrate is used for or decide who can mine on the pool and who can't. It's permissionless!Decentralized pool mining (P2Pool) is pretty much the ultimate way to secure a PoW coin against 51% attacks. Once P2Pool reaches & maintains 51%+ of the total network hashrate, Monero will be essentially invulnerable to such attacks.Although many inexperienced miners think that bigger pools give better profits, this is absolutely NOT the case. Your profits in the long run depend ONLY on your hashrate, NOT on the pool's hashrate.>YOU CAN NOW MINE IN P2POOL FASTER & EASIER THAN EVER BEFORE WITH THE GUPAX GUI. USES TRUSTED REMOTE NODES BY DEFAULT!!!!1. Download the *bundled* version of Gupax for your OS here: https://gupax.io/downloads/2. Extract somewhere (Desktop, Documents, etc)3. Launch Gupax4. Input your Monero address in the [P2Pool] tab. USE A SEPARATE MINING-ONLY WALLET!5. Select a Community Monero Node that you trust, although you can and should run your own node if possible.6. Start P2Pool7. Start XMRigVIDEO GUIDE: https://gupax.io/guide/ You are now mining to your own instance of P2Pool, welcome to the world of decentralized peer-to-peer mining! >NOTE THAT DUE TO BOTNET SHENANIGANS XMRIG IS AUTO-FLAGGED AS MALWARE BY MOST ANTI-VIRUSES, SO DON'T FREAK OUT!!!OLD GUIDE FOR P2POOL MINING FROM THE MONERO GUI WALLET: https://pst.klgrth.io/paste/eecbehttps://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMininghttps://web.xmrpool.eu/xmr-monero-easy-mining-guide.htmlhttps://monero.hashvault.pro/en/getting-startedhttps://www.supportxmr.com
*****/XMR/ Monero General Info-Dump*****>*****/XMR/ Monero General Info-Dump**********/XMR/ Monero General Info-Dump*****>*****/XMR/ Monero General Info-Dump*****Learn more about Monero's key features and excellent future prospects, have some common misconceptions dispelled and discover the cold hard facts about Bitcoin, Zcash and PirateChain. Also featured is a noob-friendly buying, storage and wallet guide.>Monero: it's what new Bitcoin users think they bought. Every feature, explainedhttps://moneroinfodump.neocities.org>Why Monero is so untraceable: a rundown of the powerful stealth tech Monero utilizes https://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#MoneroIsUntraceable>The Writing on the Wall: Monero replacing Bitcoin as the new standardhttps://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#MoneroReplacingBitcoin>Breaking News: no, Monero still isn't traceablehttps://moneroinfodump.neocities.org/#RecognizingTraceabilityFUD>Vaporware: why nobody is worried about CipherTrace's magic crystal ballhttps://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#CipherTraceFail>Very Clever Math: how we can verify that the XMR supply isn't being inflatedhttps://moneroinfodump.neocities.org/#MuhInflationBug>Pssst, wanna buy some Monero? Follow these simple how-to guideshttps://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#BuyAndStoreMonero>Bitcoin: The Original Non-Fungible Tokenhttps://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#BitcoinBlackpill>Why Monero is Better than Zcash: the "privacy coin" criminals won't touchhttps://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#ZcashBlackpill>The Lowdown on PirateChain: why this Zcash clone is considered a scamhttps://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#PirateChainBlackpill>LATEST UPDATES - added Proof-of-Stake update to Zcash Blackpill- added list of available desktop/mobile wallets- expanded all sections with more relevant info, graphics & videos- added easily linkable headers and sub-headers (link icon to the far right)- added a new section about traceability FUD
Never forget what this is ultimately all about. Don't be a HODLtard.https://anarkio.codeberg.page/agorism/https://freedomcells.org/>Help grow the circular Monero economy: buy/sell goods & services with/for XMR!https://monerica.com/https://moneromarket.io/https://xmrbazaar.com/https://www.reddit.com/r/moneromarket/new/https://kycnot.me/?t=service&q=&xmr=on>Shop on Amazon with XMR! https://monezon.comhttps://peershop.app>Live off XMR with Cake Pay (now available in 140+ countries!)https://cakepay.com/>or with CoinCardshttps://coincards.com/>Monero stickers for guerilla marketinghttp://monerosupplies.com/>Anonymous burner phone numbershttps://silent.link/>Monero-only VPS hostinghttps://kyun.host/>Win XMR!https://monero.vegas/Say buh-bye to Bitcoin and support the growing number of Monero-only darknet markets/vendors.# = recently launched, exercise caution>Alias Market #>Archetyp>Asur Market>Babylon #>Calypso #>Candy Haven #>Chimera Market >Cloud Market >Cypher Market>Dark Matter>DrugHub # >DrugTown #>Drugula #>FilthyFellas>Gofish Market #>Gramazon #>Hectate Market #>Mercury Market #>Pygmalion's Refuge >Retro Market >Smackers>Sonanza Market #>Squid Market>SuperMarket #>Tribe Seuss>Whales Market #>Wizard's Palace #>World Trade Center #Links: https://pastebin.com/raw/fF95wTNiAnonymously exchange BTC for XMR using a reputable darknet service>Majestic Bank>Infinity Projecthttps://pastebin.com/raw/75mVpfEDor a reputable clearnet servicehttps://trocador.app/en/ | I2P: http://trocador.i2p/en/https://xmrswap.mehttps://unstoppableswap.nethttp://basicswapdex.com>Want to support further development? https://ccs.getmonero.org/donate/https://monerofund.org/>Join a Monero Workgroup and (potentially) earn XMR!!!https://www.getmonero.org/community/workgroups/>Want more Monero-chan? https://www.monerochan.art/
>How to *safely* acquire, store and spend XMRAn optimal XMR user set-up involves 2 separate wallets: an offline cold wallet (savings account) and an online hot wallet (chequing account) for everyday spending. XMR amounts larger than a few hundred dollars worth should not be stored on a hot wallet for obvious reasons. So ideally, you'll want to direct all payments/donations to your cold wallet by default and then transfer smaller amounts over to your hot wallet as necessary.Relying on 3rd party hardware wallets comes with certain security caveats so they are not recommended. Instead, its surprisingly easy to engineer a very robust storage solution yourself using readily available hardware: a laptop and a smartphone.>LaptopThis will be running Featherwallet and must be *permanently* disabled from ever connecting to the internet again! That means physically removing the M.2 Bluetooth/Wi-Fi card and gumming up the ethernet port with superglue.OS should be Linux rather than Windows, preferably a Debian-based lightweight distro. Encrypting the relevant user directory with LUKS is recommended but not essential.It must have a functional webcam.>SmartphoneThis can be your primary device. It will host both your hot wallet e.g. Cake, Monerujo, etc and the NERO view-only wallet that is paired with your laptop.To set everything up: https://4rkal.com/posts/feathernero/NOTE: if you don't have a laptop you can use another smartphone and install the ANON wallet onto it, its essentially the same thing but with somewhat weaker security guarantees. Video guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJqYzZyqyno>In a nutshell- you accept all (substantial) payments to your cold wallet.- you monitor incoming payments on NERO.- you initiate the transfer of funds from your cold wallet to hot wallet on NERO and sign the TX on your laptop via QR codes.- you spend the funds and help grow the XMR economy.FYI this is the most secure storage solution currently available.
>Bitcoin's price = NOT the result of organic real-world supply & demand = NOT sustainableWash trading has been artificially driving BTC's insane price action since the first major spike in 2013.>Wash Trading 1011. create/maintain the illusion of high volume2. wait for poor unsuspecting fools to FOMO in3. dump at a fat profit and leave them holding the bagWhen the supply of gullible fools finally runs out, the entire scheme implodes.TL;DR: exciting price action means nothing in an unregulated market rife with such manipulation, real-world utilization is the ONLY reliable metric of actual value.
Finally, an OP I don't mind looking at for the next 3 days as I desperately doomscroll looking for content on this dead board
As mentioned previously, Trump's global tariffs scheme is going to drive up the price of a broad spectrum of regular everyday goods for US consumers, making wholesale smuggling of these goods across the Mexican border an inevitability given the guaranteed profits.The selling of these items online at sub-retail prices can obviously only happen safely on darknet grey markets using XMR, in which case we can expect the Monero economy to begin rapidly expanding as cash-strapped normies go shopping for bargains.Agorism is about to hit the big time, boys.
pedo coin
>>60116442>11 pbtid>12 replies to this threadLmao it's over for these threads
>>60116834Yeah, most of them are pretty empty. Which xmr forums are actually active?
>>60117123twitter is pretty solid.the irc chats have good activity.4chan is unfortunately pretty dead now.
>>60111397i like xmr but come on, btc's price is not because of wash trading. institutions are holding 150b worth and hold-forever strategy is much better for price action than merely a transactional medium
>>60117863>btc's price is not because of wash trading.Oh, my mistake!>institutions are holding 150b worth and hold-forever strategy is much better for price action than merely a transactional mediumWell in that case you also better keep holding and be sure to convince your laser-eyed pals to do the same. Spending is short-sighted.
When receiving Monero in exchange for something else, do you always wait for the full 10 confirmations before giving the okay, or is that too paranoid?
>>60118611Don't even wait for one. Seeing it in the memoool is enough in most cases.
What's the next big update for monero?
>>60118611They won't even roll back the chain when the dev wallets get drained, so a 0conf/mempool only tx is a minimal risk, but always ask for txid for independent validation. But considering you shouldn't be doing shit without escrow, you're at the mercy of the third party's conf policy.
what do my monerobros think of NYM? https://nym.com/tried making a thread about it but mods banned me for 15 for "advertising", they are way overcompensating for the pajeet shitcoin spam
>>60123444Anything with a brand name that is shorthand for a noun, verb or concept is slop. If they can't rub a few shekels together to give a project a coherent name that relates to its product in a thoughtful way, then how could they have made any effort into the product itself? Buy an ad or just use something that isn't slop, it isn't hard.
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>>60111298man my local cex banned monero and I can't buy more without 2% goy swap feewhat site do you niggas use btw?
>>60123444>what do my monerobros think of NYM? https://nym.com/Mixnets are the most ideal way of anonymizing data packets.>The concept of a mix network (mixnet) was introduced by David Chaum in 1979 and later published in 1981.[15] The cypherpunk movement contributed to the development of mixnets in the 1990s, though their practical applications remained limited, primarily in the form of anonymous remailers. In the 2000s, some anonymous communication networks—most notably Tor—incorporated principles of mixnets, though Tor itself is based on onion routing rather than a mixnet implementation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nym_(mixnet)
lol how bleak
>>60127670>what site do you niggas use btw?>>60111381
>>60128506>>60123444Why the fuck should I pay a centralized entity for something "decentralized?What is the actual use case when you can use a VPN or Tor?
>>60128608What the fuck this should not have a market cap of 600m>>60127670I think you can buy through the cake wallet app, but you can also try Haveno. I think it's ok, just low on traffic. Otherwise you can just buy any crypto that you can withdraw and then swap it for xmr.In any case it's probably hard to get around paying a premium for xmr these days.
>>60113268Based
>>60095993>random spike in chart last April>transactions are down over 50%!!!
>>60132525
>>60132733It's only getting started
>>60128608Monero chuds have to steal Zcash tech to stay relevant. Bullish for ZEC.
>>60111298Mandala exchange - anyone used it recently?Can anyone help me here? For the past 4-5 years I have mainly used mandala.exchange when I needed to acquire Monero. I've always used a VPN from a non-restrictive country and it has never been an issue. I previously used this exchange back in November. I decided to use it again, because I wanted to add to my XMR stack, and I go on the website, use the vpn from a non-restricted country per usual, and now it tells me that my account is frozen and I need to contact support. I have contacted support and am waiting for a response. Am I totally fucked? All I want to do is withdraw XMR to my wallet for speculative purposes. I sent a significant amount of money to this exchange. If they can't switch it to XMR, I don't care, but it says all withdrawals have been frozen. If they make me submit ID I know it won't work. Will they at least let me convert back to BTC and withdrawal? Very much freaking out here. I love XMR but if you can't even buy it anymore what's the point?
>>60131847>baby Monero shoes>last owner unknown
>>60111298this is the best chatgpt could give me guys
>>60135043oh btw i asked for a bikini and it denied me multiple times until i agreed to tone it down, the bastards
>>60135043Would!
>>60135621>>60135637
>>60134726Don't use exchanges that haven't been approved by the community. >>60111381
is the flatpak safe to use? anyone ever had issues?
>>60138003no and you shouldn't use any packaged software for financial purposes. only open source. Technically it might be okay, but its safer to just compile from source or download precompiled bin from a trusted source
>>60138035it's linked here https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui?tab=readme-ov-file#installing-the-monero-gui-from-a-package
>>60132525average around 28k transactions per day is pretty good, considering the obscurity of XMR litteraly everyone knows about BTC and its almost always at maximum transaction throughput. Whenever im doing transactions in Crypto i ask people to send me XMR instead and they are like what's that? but they still send it to me in the end. its just that easy.
>>60128506you don't need to do this. you can, but its just better to use wifi at a library if you really need to hide something. cause they are still able to de-anonymize you at the ISP level. Especially if they know around where you are, and that you are using that service. Cause ISP can't see what you are doing but they can see that you are connecting to TOR etc... i think that's not enough for a warrant but its enough to attract attention. At a library it could be just a homeless guy doing it. so they don't bother looking. ulbricht was only caught because he gave personal details away. and he was always at a library
>>60127670trocador is pretty good, swap to your wallet and usually they only charge 1% or less. i have been using coin cradle provider and usually like 0.5% fee
>>60118611waiting for one is enough. there are ways to temporarily fake a transaction if you have enough miners, but after the block is confirmed its practically impossible and you would have to own 51% Of the mining to get it to happen reliably
>>60138083yea from the github is fine. but if you were downloading it from like flathub or something i would be worried.
>>60138213the github links to flathub
>>60111298>tfw live in a country with retarded high kyc requirementsi'm too stupid for thishow do you guys store your xmr? cold wallet on laptop? phone?
>>60138296then its not good, brother do you see it says unverified in the flathub thing. I'm not here to baby you. just download the source and compile it or download the binaries from the website
>>60138330>it says unverified in the flathub thingthat doesn't mean what you think it means
>>60137495>Don't use exchanges that haven't been approved by the community. >>60111381I just don't know when they turned to shit, I've literally used them since 2021 and thought they were safe
In shadows deep, where secrets lie,A beacon glows beneath the sky.Oh Monero, thou art the flame,Unyielding spirit, unbound by name.Through cryptic paths thy essence flows,A silent stream where freedom grows.No prying eyes shall pierce thy veil,No tyrant’s grasp shall make thee frail.Thy ledger whispers not a sound,Yet in its silence truth is found.For every coin a tale untold,Of liberty more prized than gold.Oh sovereign chain of hidden might,Thy code ensures the darkest night;Where privacy and trust entwine,And human will becomes divine.Not for the greedy nor the vain,But for the soul that shuns the chain—Thou art no tool for fleeting gain;Thou art the shield against disdain.When markets quake and empires fall,Thy steadfast heart outlasts them all.Immutable as mountain stone,Yet soft as whispers overgrown.Oh Monero! Thy worth concealed—A treasure none may steal revealed!To thee we pledge our faith anew:The future bright belongs to you.
>>60138660>>60137495>>60134726I'm fucking freaking out, they're asking for KYC info, I don't even care about getting XMR from their site anymore, I just want my money back. I don't have a fake ID from whatever country I'm using the VPN from, if I upload my real ID and they see I'm from a prohibited country will I at least be able to get my money back?Has anyone ever been in this situation before? What do? It's not a ton of money, less than $100, but I still find this infuriating. I don't care about using their site I just want my money back
>>60111381thinking about repurposing my old thinkpad for this but idk how long that will last. replacement parts for 15 year old laptops are hard to come byconsidering a raspberry pi since thats my cheapest option>>60127670>man my local cex banned monerosame. it's only a matter of time before countries start banning dexs
>>60111298What is the best exchange for spot trading xmr? What is your favourite?
>>60138895>>60139081>What is the best exchange for spot trading xmr? What is your favourite?DONT USE MANDALA THEY WONT LET YOU WITHDRAW EVEN SMALL AMOUNTS LESS THAN 1 XMR>>60138895SERIOUSLY WTF AM I SUPPOSED TO DO? DO I JUST SUBMIT MY ID DOCUMENTS AND HOPE THEY GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK? LITERALLY WHAT THE FUCK THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED TO ME IN ALMOST A DECADE IN CRYPTO
>>60138343yes it does, https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-users/verificationmeans it isn't uploaded by the maintainers of Monero-GUI or it wasn't verified by them when they uploaded it
narco dirty money scumbags.
>>60111332How new of a cpu should I have for mining? I have a seedbox with a i5 7 gen. Would the mined coins pay for the power needed?
>Would the mined coins pay for the power needed?Not unless you steal electricity from someone else.
I don't like seeing cheap monero shilling threads.
>>60140056>I don't like seeing cheap monero shilling threads.Moonfags are a plague.
>>60128608lmao
>>60139081>>60139106>SERIOUSLY WTF AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?super easy:1.Just get any crypto, (LTC is good because of low transfer fees) go to Tradeogre and get XMR....or cake walleteasy:2, mine some xmr via a rental server(cash or crypto) (kek its even virgin XMR if your extra paranoid)Hard:3, go to porc fest meet some monero feds4. make friends with the podcast monerotopia or xmr talk and ask them for help5. put some shit on xmr bazar sellsuper hard:6. become a dm vendor and sell hope to peoplesuper hard:7. be trump or uncle sam, they hoard, (mostly stolen XMR), once they dump BTC and and put in a CBDC.
Is cryptobear still working on monerochan or is the project pretty much dead?
>>60144017he's dropping livestreams soon to promote it.
>>60143995if you go the supereasy route won't the taxman be able to link both the fiat-crypto and crypto-xmr transactions to your identity?
pregnant monero-chan
why is the new cake wallet logo so shit and why doesn't it at least have a dark mode icon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGUJRlhu6yg
>>60111298bump
>>60111298why is she so cute...
>>60138895well you just do a chargeback
>>60138995they can't do that but banks will definitely interrogate you if you send money to individuals. happened to me
