Index

1. General questions
2. Wallet: CLI & GUI
3. Wallet: Ledger
4. Nodes

1. General questions

Where can I download the Monero wallet?

There are multiple Monero wallets for a wide range of devices at your disposal. Check the table below for details and download links. Attention: for extra security make sure to calculate and compare the checksum of your downloaded files when possible.

Please note the following usage of the labels:

⚠️ - Relatively new and/or beta. Use wallet with caution.

☢️ - Closed source.

Desktop wallets

Mobile wallets

Web-based wallets

How long does it take for my balance to unlock?

Your balance is unlocked after 10 confirmations (which means 10 mined blocks). A block is mined approximately every two minutes on the Monero network, so that would be around 20 minutes.

How can I prove that I sent a payment?

The fastest and most direct way is by using the ExploreMonero blockchain explorer. You will need to recover the transaction key from your wallet (complete guide for GUI / CLI).

How do I buy Monero (XMR) with Bitcoin (BTC)?

There are dozens of exchanges that trade Monero against Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Check out the list on CoinMarketCap and choose the option that suits you best.

How do I buy Monero (XMR) with fiat?

• Kraken (USD and EUR): old-school, decent exchange. They might require your documents for verification and approval of your account.
• LocalMonero (localmonero[dot]co): peer-to-peer exchange. They have pretty much everything as a payment method and they support hundreds of fiat options.

How can I quickly exchange my Monero (XMR) for Bitcoin (BTC)?

There are multiple ways to exchange your Monero for Bitcoin, but first of all, I'd like to remind you that if you really want to do your part for Monero, one of the simplest ways is to get in touch with your merchant/service provider and request for it to accept Monero directly as payment. Ask the service provider to visit the official website and our communication channels if he or she needs help with system integration.

That being said, the community has been recommending two services in particular, ChangeNOW and SideShift.AI. These services are only recommendations (which change over time) and are operated by entities outside the control of the Monero Project. DYOR and be diligent.

How do I mine Monero? And other mining questions.

The correct place to ask questions and discuss the Monero mining scene is in the dedicated subreddit r/MoneroMining. That being said, you can find a list of pools and available mining software in the GetMonero.org website.

2. Wallet: CLI & GUI

Why I can't see my balance? Where is my XMR?

Before any action there are two things to check:

1. Are you using the latest available version of the wallet? A new version is released roughly every 6 months, so make sure you're using the current release (compare the release on GetMonero.org with your wallet's version on Settings, under Debug info).
2. Is your wallet fully synchronized? If it isn't, wait the sync to complete.

Because Monero is different from Bitcoin, wallet synchronization is not instant. The software needs to synchronize the blockchain and use your private keys to identify your transactions. Check in the lower left corner (GUI) if the wallet is synchronized.

You can't send transactions and your balance might be wrong or unavailable if the wallet is not synced with the network. So please wait.

If this is not a sufficient answer for your case and you're looking for more information, please see this answer on StackExchange.

How do I upgrade my wallet to the newest version?

This question is beautifully answered on StackExchange.

Why does it take so long to sync the wallet [for the first time]?

You have decided to use Monero's wallet and run a local node. Congratulations! You have chosen the safest and most secure option for your privacy, but unfortunately this has an initial cost. The first reason for the slowness is that you will need to download the entire blockchain, which is considerably heavy (+70 GB) and constantly growing. There are technologies being implemented in Monero to slow this growth, however it is inevitable to make this initial download to run a full node. Consider syncing to a device that has an SSD instead of an HDD, as this greatly impacts the speed of synchronization.

Now that the blockchain is on your computer, the next time you run the wallet you only need to download new blocks, which should take seconds or minutes (depending on how often you use the wallet).

I don't want to download the blockchain, how can I skip that?

The way to skip downloading the blockchain is connecting your wallet to a public remote node. You can follow this guide on how to set it up. You can find a list of public remote nodes on MoneroWorld.

Be advised that when using a public remote node you lose some of your privacy. A public remote node is able to identify your IP and opens up a range for certain attacks that further diminish your privacy. A remote node can't see your balance and it can't spend your XMR.

How do I restore my wallet from the mnemonic seed or from the keys?

To restore your wallet with the 25 word mnemonic seed, please see this guide.

To restore your wallet with your keys, please see this guide.

3. Wallet: Ledger

How do I generate a Ledger Monero Wallet with the GUI or CLI?

This question is beautifully answered on StackExchange. Check this page for the GUI instructions, and this page for the CLI instructions.

4. Wallet: Trezor

How do I generate a Trezor Monero Wallet with the GUI or CLI?

This question is beautifully answered on StackExchange. Check this page for the GUI instructions, and this page for the CLI instructions.

5. Nodes

How can my local node become a public remote node?

If you want to support other Monero users by making your node public, you can follow the instructions on MoneroWorld, under the section "How To Include Your Node On Moneroworld".

How can I connect my node via Tor?

This question is beautifully answered on StackExchange.

Which app? And what do I need to do? Can I convert from btc or something?

I am using a remote node. All the information it can get is the association of my IP with the TX ID, if I understand correctly. Paired with a TOR and selecting random nodes for each transaction, I'd probably get pretty good privacy.

Now suppose I host a local node on some old laptop. What do I get? In any case, transactions can be associated with my IP, since that node will broadcast transactions to the network by connecting to other nodes.

Even if I rent a server, I won't get more privacy. The server will just be another proxy layer.

I guess I'm not getting this right, and would appreciate answers from smarter folks.

I'm trying to understand the recent news about Japanese authorities arresting 18 people for laundering through Monero. Given Monero's strong privacy features, how did they trace the transactions? Does anyone know which methods might have been used, or if any third-party vulnerabilities were likely involved?

I think it’s possible using dex swaps with XMR it is possible to clean your USDT if for some reason through no fault of you own you run into a transaction that causes your stable coins to not want to go through a normal Dex for non-privacy tokens. I had a suspicion today, not sure how I was traded them in the first place but I’m sure they can get passed through exchanges many ways.

If you ever run into a bunch of failed transactions try exchanging a very small amount of your USDT to XMR. Seems like once I got that block out of my wallet it was fine again.

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BTCPayServer 2.0 has just hit the scene, bringing with it a wave of new possibilities for enhancing user experiences within the cryptocurrency payment space. We're thrilled to announce our Buildathon, a unique event centered around crafting an unparalleled Monero plugin for BTCPayServer. 

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Dive into this opportunity to not just code, but to innovate and lead in the realm of cryptocurrency transactions. 

Let's build the future of Monero together!

Hi all! We've added Monero as a payment option to www.nano-gpt.com . People can request coins to add on our website and Monero was the most requested, so we're very happy to add it.

Our service is built for privacy - we don't store any prompts or conversations, you can use our service even without making an account, so Monero is quite obviously a perfect fit for all the right reasons.

Minimum deposit is just $0.10, and we think our payment implementation is pretty great. Should take just seconds to go from depositing to it being confirmed and you being able to use the models.

We support pretty much all the models - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, but also open-source and uncensored ones like Hermes, Lumimaid and other roleplay models, and practically any model you can think of. If you want one and we don't support it yet let us know, we'll add it.

We also have practically every image model supported. Recraft V3 is the current top of the leaderboard and it's our default model, we also support Flux Pro V1.1, Ideogram V2, Stable Diffusion V3.5 Large, SDXL, DALL-E, and allow you to turn off censoring on the models that support it by going into settings.

We love to see more actual usage of crypto and want to try and build more of a circular ecosystem around crypto, so we also have an Earn page to show people how to earn little bits of crypto. We have Monezon, XMRChat, XMRBazaar and MoneroMarket on there amongst others - if there are more suggestions to add for people to earn Monero please let us know!

This is the weekly Monero market thread. This thread will be posted every Friday and is meant to help accelerate the adoption of Monero. Due to r/moneromarket having only a fraction of the subscribers of r/Monero, we have decided to create this thread to encourage more individuals to use Monero for product exchanges. Until the market matures, we recommend that the Monero community post their products both in this thread and on r/moneromarket (to ensure growth of that subreddit).

Selling items for Monero will boost your (and Monero's) reputation as a legitimate form of exchange of goods. This is necessary for the growth of Monero, our community, and privacy as a whole.

Instructions

When you post your product or job listing here, please make sure to:

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• Post the price in XMR terms.

Spamming will not be tolerated. Please make sure that listings are legitimate and do not break rule 2."

Finally, credits to cdotsubo for starting the concept!

The short story: vthor, a dev that joined the Monero project a while ago, is looking for donations through the CCS, to write software that will bring XmrSigner (formerly called MoneroSigner) to production quality and therefore into the hands of users. That software will turn a Raspberry Pi single-board computer into a Monero "cold signing" device - something like a hardware wallet.

Find more info here on X or on the FAQ page of the older MoneroSigner website. Go here to donate:

https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/vThorOfflineSigningLibrary_XmrSignerToProduction.html

IMHO a true community-driven Monero hardware wallet would be a welcome addition to commercial hardware wallet offers.

The background story: Out of the many existing cryptocurrency hardware wallets, currently only two support XMR: Trezor and Ledger. Only one of them uses open source software, Trezor. Both use fully proprietary hardware. To improve this far-from-ideal state of affairs, a dev called Monero-HackerIndustrial started the MoneroSigner project in summer 2022 (original CCS to finance, project website).

For unclear reasons, that dev did not complete the project, and so a new dev called vthor took over - "ressurection" CCS with funds reallocated.

In a refreshingly short time he could successfully complete a version of the software that worked (announcement in the Monero Observer), but unfortunately it ran too slowly to be really practical to use. That's why vthor worked out a way to rewrite parts of the software to achieve a significant speedup and bring XmrSigner finally to production quality. This new CCS is now open for donations to finance this hopefully final step in the MoneroSigner saga.

With 196 XMR the library in question certainly has its price, but processing the quite complex Monero transactions with good performance on a low-power device is indeed a challenge, and the library won't be XmrSigner specific, meaning that other future projects could profit from it as well.

I think the likely outcome for monero is it is banned from all CEX eventually. With that in mind I'm pretty sure you can exchange monero for USD that is mailed to you (not exactly sure of the technical details there) but wondering if that works for other currencies as well.

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Haveno seems to get better and better. A couple of months ago it took weeks for transactions to happen, and now it happened in a couple of hours. Liquidity is much better. It works!

My question is why do people want a huge premium below (when buying) or over (when selling). I see people who want to buy with price between 10% to 30% below spot, or trying to sell at 15% over spot. Why is that? Is it to compensate some hidden risk? Why not simply buy/sell at 0% over/under spot?

say that authority asked you to show your monero wallet, you did, then they asked you where did you receive the funds, can you just say that you mined it? I mean they can't track where the funds came from anyway afaik in monero

just wanted to know what everyone preferred wallet for XMR swapping is? i’ve been using cake for a while now and apparently fees on edge are a lot lower, wondering if anyone can confirm and what others opinions are in the best wallet

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Monero is a Swiss bank account in your pocket and with the wide spread adoption on the dark web and growing rapidly on the clear web with the Monero circular economy pledge started by @DouglasTuman

Monero positions its self as the best form of digital cash and somewhere you store your wealth privately

Bitcoin is a mere hot potato with ultimately no real use case. And this is coming from someone who’s mined bitcoin and used to be a maxi

You must open up your mind and think for yourself. Not repeat moon boys who don’t understand what it takes for a currency to have widespread adoption

You can try and cope saying Bitcoin is number go up and have fun staying poor

But monero is insanely undervalued and is easily top 5 if not #1

Since XMR is private I’ll be paying 0 in taxes

Enjoy your public bank account and tax bill -@MoneroMavrick on X

I've looked around a little for a deep technical dive on Monero v. Railgun. I don't see anything out there. Has anyone studied Railgun? Is Railgun anon and private?

Edit: Thanks to Kraken for being one of the last and only pillar-stones on CEX landscape for privacy. Sorry to see them go!

Email to Kraken (EU) customers:

This is a reminder that after thorough consideration, and exploration of all viable alternatives, we concluded we have no choice but to delist Monero (XMR) in the European Economic Area (EEA) due to regulatory changes.

What’s next?

On October 31st 2024 at 15:00 PM UTC, we will halt trading and deposits of all XMR markets (XMR/USD, XMR/EUR, XMR/BTC, XMR/USDT) for clients registered in the EEA. Margin positions and any open XMR orders will also be automatically closed at this time. Note: Clients will remain able to withdraw XMR on Kraken until December 31st, 2024. December 31st 2024 at 15:00 PM UTC is the deadline for withdrawing XMR. Any clients still holding an XMR balance after this date will have their XMR automatically converted to BTC by Kraken at the going market rate. By January 6th 2025 23:59 PM UTC, we will distribute the converted XMR as BTC back to any clients who held XMR at the withdrawal deadline. Any clients who hold an XMR balance at the time of the withdrawal deadline will be automatically included in the conversion of XMR to BTC.

We strongly recommend you withdraw your XMR yourself before the deadline as we have no control over the BTC conversion rate in the future.

As a leading cryptocurrency exchange, Kraken remains mission-driven and committed to supporting the most comprehensive set of digital assets possible, in alignment with our regulatory and compliance obligations.

We appreciate your understanding and ongoing support as we navigate the evolving regulatory landscape.

When I try to run this haveno GUI for windows, the program can't connect to the TOR network, I don't have this issue with other programs that need to connect to TOR, I searched and found nothing about other people having this issue.

Recently the Kraken app has removed monero from their trading, so i went to binance and they seem to have removed it as well. What's going on?

And follow up question whats the best trading app for monero right now, where i can buy XMR for EUR? and of course withdraw to another wallet. Have been having an unbelievably hard time finding a safe and reliable exchange app now that i cant use kraken anymore. (My knowledge in this is obviously limited)

For example:

Bitcoin fee: 0.1958 USD
Monero fee: 0.00501 USD

By extrapolation, if the price of Monero were set at $170,000 per unit instead of $170, would the fees increase proportionately?

I set up an old laptop I was going to give away to mine monero. It was fun to get it going. It’ll probably generate $30 a year lol. Are there any tools available to calculate the payout based on systems I could build? I’d like to watch for some deals on used CPUs and see what I can do. Would love any resources you could recommend for me to start getting a better understanding of what H/s I need to hit and what components could do so. Thank you.

I have been converting some monero to solana on a decentralized exchange. The. I send the solana to a major market exchange like coinbase and Gemini and then cash out to cover living expenses.

Lately I have been getting emails From the major exchanges asking as to where I acquired the solana. I’ve been doing this for years and this is the first time it comes up.

Can they see on a blockchain or the solana was purchased with monero ?