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=wq6w03E2DS4 XMR Resources: https://libereco.xyz/resources/ XMR Stats: moneroj.net USE XMR: https://cryptwerk.com/pay-with/xmr/ OFFICIAL WEBSITE - getmonero.org WHERE TO BUY XMR: https://i.imgur.com/XdppsQ7.png Crypto ATMs: see kycnot.me >MINING archive.is/TWOah HOW TO STORE MONERO? >Desktop Official GUI/CLI Featherwallet >Mobile IOS: Cakewallet Android: Monerujo START MINING IN P2POOL P2Pool 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 Gupax 4. 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 P2Pool 7. Start XMRig VIDEO 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/eecbe https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining https://web.xmrpool.eu/xmr-monero-easy-mining-guide.html

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https://monero.hashvault.pro/en/getting-started https://www.supportxmr.com >*/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, explained https://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 standard https://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#MoneroReplacingBitcoin >Breaking News: no, Monero still isn't traceable https://moneroinfodump.neocities.org/#RecognizingTraceabilityFUD >Vaporware: why nobody is worried about CipherTrace's magic crystal ball https://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#CipherTraceFail >Very Clever Math: how we can verify that the XMR supply isn't being inflated https://moneroinfodump.neocities.org/#MuhInflationBug >Pssst, wanna buy some Monero? Follow these simple how-to guides https://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#BuyAndStoreMonero >Bitcoin: The Original Non-Fungible Token https://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#BitcoinBlackpill >Why Monero is Better than Zcash: the "privacy coin" criminals won't touch https://moneroinfodump.neocities.org#ZcashBlackpill >The Lowdown on PirateChain: why this Zcash clone is considered a scam https://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.com https://peershop.app >Live off XMR with Cake Pay (now available in 140+ countries!) https://cakepay.com/ >or with CoinCards https://coincards.com/ >Monero stickers for guerilla marketing http://monerosupplies.com/ >Anonymous burner phone numbers https://silent.link/ >Monero-only VPS hosting https://kyun.host/ >Win XMR! https://monero.vegas/ 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/fF95wTNi Anonymously exchange BTC for XMR using a reputable darknet service >Majestic Bank >Infinity Project https://pastebin.com/raw/75mVpfED or a reputable clearnet service https://trocador.app/en/ | I2P: http://trocador.i2p/en/ https://xmrswap.me https://unstoppableswap.net http://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/ [moe]Want more Monero-chan? https://www.monerochan.art/[/moe] >How to *safely* acquire, store and spend XMR An 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. >Laptop This 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. >Smartphone This 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.