We are excited to announce the official opening of XMRGlobal, a privacy-first P2P Monero exchange! 🎉

At this stage, we are still testing functionalities, so there may be some bugs or issues. If you encounter any problems, please report them to help us improve the platform.

🔒 Key Features:
✅ No KYC – Your privacy is our priority.
⚡ No JavaScript – Lightweight, secure, and easy to use.
🌐 Accessible via Tor – For enhanced privacy. (Currently only functional on Tor, but we’ll be live on the regular internet soon!)

We’re working hard to ensure a seamless experience for all users, and your feedback is invaluable. Stay tuned for updates, and thank you for being part of our journey!

💬 Feel free to reach out with any questions or feedback.

🔗 Website: https://xmrglobal.com
🔗 Tor Access: http://xmrglobalbtadqwzhwohwlonc252y5zfdv3ssoob35n5pb3wrghsvvyd.onion/

Let’s keep Monero private and free! 🚀

#Monero #Privacy #Decentralization #P2PExchange

Does anyone have a method for paying for Starlink or other ISP with Monero?

I was able to activate service with a virtual Visa card from stealths.net, but the next month I could not update with a new card because Visa blocks transactions deemed as "recurring".

I remember using a website which had many graphs about monero such as tx count, monero inflation, node size etc. I couldn't find it.

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) remote app using Kotlin and need some advice from the community. The goal of this app is to connect with a hardware device via BLE, access its storage, and fetch the data stored on the device to display it in the app.

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

• Set up BLE connection functionality in my app.
• Successfully paired and connected the app to the hardware device.

However, I’m stuck on how to access and fetch data from the hardware's storage once the BLE connection is established.

Questions:

1. What is the best approach to read/write data from the hardware's storage using BLE?
2. Are there any specific libraries, frameworks, or examples you would recommend for this use case?
3. What are the common pitfalls or challenges I should watch out for when implementing BLE storage communication?

I would appreciate any advice, tutorials, or code snippets that could help me tackle this challenge. Thanks in advance for your support!

P.S.: If you’ve worked on a similar project, I’d love to hear about your experience and any tips you can share.

Looking forward to your suggestions!

Best regards,
Sartaj Qamar

Hi Everyone,

We have finalized the dubbing of our own explainer videos, along with Dr. Kim's fantastic lecture "Monero Means Money," into seven foreign languages: Russian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Arabic. Our goal is to make Monero content accessible to hundreds of millions of non-English speakers. We chose these languages based on population size and the level of English proficiency within each demographic.

Thanks to Ajs – the videos are now live on the Monero Community Workgroup channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MoneroCommunityWorkgroup/videos

Please feel free to distribute and share widely!

Thanks,

//VOSTO - https://vostoemisio.com

I have read the story of the relation between devs and asic makers in bitcoin and all the theories of their influence during the slow segwit signaling. I have also seen the story of grin (straight from asic resistant to asic supportive). I take as conclusion that asic makers do have a lot power. After segwit, Asic makers, devs and users have been somewhat aligned and this frictionless relation has kept things somewhat stable (compared to what halpened before segwit). Maybe this is a stable equilibrium.

My question is, can Asic makers influence some group of XMR devs (with $$$) to the point that they will try to turn randomx into a more Asic friendly algo? I mean if xmr keeps growing, with a stable emmission, I think in 10 years there might be a lot of incentives to bribe 20-30 devs generously. How many people really understand monero codebase, what if they bribe them all? I see this dilema as an unstable equilibrium don't you think?

Lots of changes since our most recent update!

NanoGPT update

UX improvements:

- It's now possible to add a system prompt (for all models except Claude/Gemini ones)

- There's a dark/light mode switch next to new chat

- Export chats as PDF or Markdown by appending ?export=pdf or =md to the URL

- ALT + C for new chat, ALT + I for new image (Option C and Option I on Mac)

New models:

- Qwen QwQ 32b is Alibaba's answer to OpenAI's o1-preview. It "thinks", and only starts outputting later.

- OpenAI and Google released about 4 new versions of ChatGPT/Gemini, to constantly overtake each other on the leaderboards (we immediately push their newest version live every time). Google also released LearnLM, a model focused specifically on helping people learn new skills, which of course we added.

- Alibaba's Qwen Max, Qwen Large, Qwen Long and Qwen Turbo have been added, very low prices and up to 10m token context. Almost no other provider offers these models.

- Step-2-16k, another Chinese model, is also pretty much only available through us. It scores extremely well on the LiveBench comparison, and is very popular in China.

- Mistral Large and a ton of open-source models got added. These include many Roleplay/Storytelling models (more on that below) and two "abliterated" models, versions of models that have been finetuned to remove limitations and biases. They're uncensored versions, essentially.

Cool integrations:

- SillyTavern is an open-source front-end that many people use for roleplaying. Dylan was kind enough to do a pull request and add us in, so we're now natively supported and suddenly have a lot more users that are interested in roleplaying models, hence also the additions.

- "battleofcoins.com" lets you pick crypto, pick models, and have the AIs discuss and debate which one is best over multiple rounds. Very fun implementation, you can pick any selection criteria you want.

More:

- We added lots of additional payment methods: Binance Pay, Coinbase Wallet, ETH + L2s, and a lot more. This is likely the last additions we did for a while there, since anything else feels like diminishing returns.

- We released payment stats on how much the different crypto were used. I'll add this into a comment because I'm afraid links will get the post removed. Monero, despite being a fairly recent addition sees huge usage. At just 8.4% of the transaction count yet 22.2% of the volume it accounts for almost as many transactions and as much volume as the rest of the non-Nano chains combined. To us this makes a lot of sense as NanoGPT has a strong focus on privacy and this clearly aligns well with Monero private, cypherpunk spirit. So thanks to all of you for using us, we appreciate it.

Also important for many of you: we have a working branch with file uploads. It can take excel files, pdfs, documents etc. We want to release it as soon as possible but it's also a change that needs quite a bit of testing, so we don't want to push it too soon and get people annoyed at how badly it works.

Any questions I'm all ears!

It seems AllArk.io is dead.
Is there another service which offers Lightning channels for Monero?
I see these guys: https://blocktank.to but you need Bitcoin first.

Given the success of the previous MAAMs (see here), let's keep this rolling.

The principle is simple: ask anything you'd like to know about Monero, especially the dumb questions that you've been keeping for you every other days, may the community clarify it all!

Finally, credits to binaryFate for starting the concept!

Haveno relies upon arbitration by the network you’re operating on. In a case where the arbitrators act maliciously they can create trades where they control 2/3 keys to seize funds.

Currently the most popular network is haveno-reto which is an anonymous group, the only thing they have to say they will act honestly is their reputation.

When swapping with custodial exchanges the only thing you also rely on is their reputation. Therefore I argue that Haveno networks are no more secure than a centralised exchange which also operate purely on reputation.

To pre-empt some common objections I think people might have:

• “But an exchange could be hacked”: So could the arbitrators of Haveno
• “Haveno requires the other use to prove funds”: Exchanges can publish view keys for proof of funds
• “Haveno has no KYC”: arbitrators could set whatever arbitrary requirements they want. They could require the sacrifice of your first born. In a dispute: they hold the keys.
• “Haveno arbitrators are incentivised to honestly” - I’d argue that game theory dictates they would act in what is most profitable, in a situation where they stand to gain more from immediate profit, why would they act honestly? With network operators being able to be anonymous, this lowers the honestly threshold as they are less concerned with legal repercussions. Centralised exchanges with know individuals at least face the risk of legal repercussions in case of negligence/dishonesty whereas anonymous Haveno network operators have far less risk exposure.

To be clear, I’m not saying Haveno-reto will steal your funds. I believe it is no more secure than trading with already established centralised exchanges. Is this really more secure? Or is it a charade of security? Couldn’t the developers have just relaunched LocalMonero anonymously?

Hey guys ,

I've got alot of monero and I want to be able to trade in and out of monero for day trading using it as my store of value..

I've looked on dextscreener. But I'm a bit confused..

Say if I want to do weekly or intra trading on bigger majors like sol Btc XRP top 100 etc etc and even go deeper into some memes.. what is the best dex to be able to do this on that has these trading pairs...

I could move funds from a fantom wallet or a bigger exchange onto this Dex but what one is advised?

Also when looking on dextscreener you would type In sol or XRP and there was hundreds of these pairs is the actual true pair available on these dexs or must you go onto cex exchanges ?

Interested in reading through some old discussion boards from around 2014-2016 discussing Monero

Thanks

Hello, after the delisting of XMR from trading platforms I have been looking for a way to trade XMR, for BTC for example. Everybody is recommending that app Havano so I gave it a try and it looks promising, I set up a BTC address and tried to initiate a trade.

Issue is I am prompted to fund XMR to start a trade, and well I'm actually trying to get XMR at this very moment so I don't have any. Strong chances most users are in a similar position as mine and I'm thinking there's no way they did not think this through and offer another way to fund a trade, because currently if you don't own XMR the app is 100% useless or am I missing something here ?

Thanks for anybody taking the time to help with this.

Can someone explain the differences and the history behind the different projects/repos and names?

When I went to the "main" repo that has been linked here: https://github.com/retoaccess1/haveno-reto I see it is a fork of https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno with no explanations of why and what are the differences.

Then it seems they also recently rebranded to: https://retoswap.com/.

What is the fork for? Is it the same team behind both projects? Why the rebrand? What is the history/timeline behind all this?

Please stay on topic: this post is only for comments discussing the uncertainties, shortcomings, and concerns some may have about Monero.

NOT the positive aspects of it.

Discussion can relate to the technology itself or economics.

Talk about community and price is not wanted, but some discussion about it maybe allowed if it relates well.

Be as respectful and nice as possible. This discussion has potential to be more emotionally charged as it may bring up issues that are extremely upsetting: many people are not only financially but emotionally invested in the ideas and tools around Monero.

It's better to keep it calm then to stir the pot, so don't talk down to people, insult them for spelling/grammar, personal insults, etc. This should only be calm rational discussion about the technical and economic aspects of Monero.

"Do unto others 20% better than you'd expect them to do unto you to correct subjective error." - Linus Pauling

How it works:

Post your concerns about Monero in reply to this main post.

If you can address these concerns, or add further details to them - reply to that comment. This will make it easily sortable

Upvote the comments that are the most valid criticisms of it that have few or no real honest solutions/answers to them.

The comment that mentions the biggest problems of Monero should have the most karma.

As a community, as developers, we need to know about them. Even if they make us feel bad, we got to upvote them.

https://youtu.be/vKA4w2O61Xo

To learn more about the idea behind Monero Skepticism Sunday, check out the first post about it:

https://np.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/75w7wt/can_we_make_skepticism_sunday_a_part_of_the/

In case you haven't checked it out already, here is RetoSwap's new website:

https://retoswap.com/

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.

Take a quick look at this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1gxjht6/rant_monero_a_finished_product_not_a_project_be/

The guy sounds like Michael Saylor (wish I didn't know who that was). He speaks in platitudes and stupid religious jargon.

I used to think that people who didn't care about the price going up were just lying to themselves, and to be fair, I still think that to an extent, but what I've realized is really important.

The privacy and freedom Monero provides is far more important than the price. It'd be nice if we all got rich off of Monero, but what we should be concerned about is whether Monero is the best technology that it can be.

If we allow people like the guy in the post I linked to become the majority of Monero users, we will become another shitcoin community full of speculators and zealous idiots. We need to keep the realism, avoid an echo chamber, and try to make Monero better and freer, not more expensive.

Hi guys asking here because this is the only crypto community i still trust.

I am actually a noob and was wondering how does the multisign work, but in the end it would be complicated to store both the keys and the Xpubs for all 3.

So my idea wa, what if i split a 24words phrase into 3x16 words mnemonic seeds? In this way i need two of the 3 metal plates to recover the wallet right?

Do not esitate if i just said a big idiocy please:

In example i would have:

Original Seed

0 abandon

1 ability

2 able

3 About

_____

4 above

5 absent

6 absorb

7 abstract

_______

8 Absurd

9 abuse

10 access

11 accident

_____

12 Account

13 Accuse

14 achieve

15 acid

______

16 Acoustic

17 acquire

18 across

19 act

20 action

_____

21 Actor

22 actress

23 actual

24 adapt

So after splitting i will find the 24 words i would find 24 words on 2 seeds

Am i stupid?

I have an old laptop kept in a shed corner that I keep a Monero node running on (having downloaded and synced blockchain by running monerod). And this node and ip address does show up on https://monero.fail/map

Does this mean this node is already available to use as a remote node by anyone including myself if I am using the GUI wallet on a different machine?

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:

• Give a description of the item.
• Link to a photo of the item (if it's physical).
• Provide logistics information (such as, location and/or shipping availability).
• Optionally, provide an additional (private) form of communication outside of Reddit (e.g. Bitmessage, u/protonmail, u/tutanota, GPG key).
• 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!

Which are the best? I use exchanges -> XMR to BRL (brazil currency)

If you know of another with a lower rate, please mention it.

nonkyc.io for swap

IF we consider that the main fundamentals of a POW cryptocurrency are the hash rate, and the real daily transactions.

What can we deduce from this image?

I see that on few occasions has Monero's health been so strong, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who can see it that way.

https://preview.redd.it/6l99s51mvl3e1.jpg?width=1502&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ada508a83ac4ffbf6ff01a9b8713be7975563c7

I always thought about the power Monero has, it's got it all in a way that sometimes I wish it was the first before Bitcoin. Bitcoin has the upper hand and the biggest cap and liquidity. I think what Monero has to offer is huge. It's just not there yet. Maybe when the world realize they have no option but to stop relying on custodians and third-parties to hold their money for them only then they'll Monero.

There is a certain centralized P2P exchange that allows you to generate multiple receiving addresses for XMR. I noticed that all the generated addresses are the same except the last 16 or 17 characters.

For example:

4AdUndXHHZ6cfufTMvppY6JwXNouMBzSkbLYfpAV5Usx3skxNgYeYTRj5UzqtReoS44qo9mtmXCqY45DJ852K5Jv2684Rge

4AdUndXHHZ6cfufTMvppY6JwXNouMBzSkbLYfpAV5Usx3skxNgYeYTRj5UzqtReoS44qo9mtmXCqY45KC1nb8juuPGwYkik

4AdUndXHHZ6cfufTMvppY6JwXNouMBzSkbLYfpAV5Usx3skxNgYeYTRj5UzqtReoS44qo9mtmXCqY4fe34Wahd53acA3Xx

I will admit I am not an expert on Monero, but is this normal? Does this affect my privacy if i am sending to these linked primary addresses?