I trust the Monero code more than I trust the Federal Reserve

The idea of private digital cash should not be controversial.

When you use physical cash, the transaction is generally between you and the person you are paying. There is no permanent public ledger recording your entire financial history, showing what you bought, who you paid, and how much you spent.

Digital payments are different. Most of them create records that can be stored indefinitely, analyzed, shared, hacked, subpoenaed, or used to build a detailed profile of your life.

That is why Monero matters.

Not because everyone needs to hide their entire financial life. Privacy is valuable because you should not have to justify every ordinary transaction to someone else. You do not need to be doing anything wrong to believe that your financial history should not be public.

The monetary side is interesting too.

Monero has a transparent emission schedule enforced by code. Its tail emission is fixed at 0.6 XMR per block, meaning its inflation rate declines over time as the total supply grows. The rules are known in advance and can be independently verified.

The US dollar operates differently. Its monetary policy depends on institutions and decisions made by the Federal Reserve. During the Biden administration, US consumer inflation reached nearly 9 percent at its peak in 2022. That is a brutal loss of purchasing power for ordinary people, especially those who cannot simply increase their income whenever the cost of food, rent, and energy rises.

And unlike the founders of Monero, the people controlling the dollar are not operating a neutral monetary protocol. They are part of a political system that can create money, borrow enormous sums, and use that money to finance endless government spending, including unnecessary foreign wars.

The original Monero developers are not sitting around selling newly created XMR to fund another military intervention halfway around the world.

That is not a minor distinction.

Monero’s monetary policy is written into open source code. The rules can be examined, audited, criticized, and debated. The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy is controlled by a small group of appointed officials whose decisions affect the purchasing power of everyone using the dollar.

That does not make Monero a guaranteed investment. XMR is volatile, and anyone pretending otherwise is either delusional or trying to sell you something.

But I personally find a transparent monetary system with rules that can be independently inspected easier to trust than institutions that can change monetary policy whenever circumstances demand it.

I am not asking anyone to blindly trust Monero.

That is the point.

You do not have to trust the founders. You do not have to trust the miners. You do not have to trust me.

You can inspect the code and verify the rules yourself.

Would you rather trust an open protocol whose monetary policy can be examined, or institutions whose decisions can dilute your money and finance wars you never agreed to fight?

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I just want to warn users as much as possible because the staff of XmrBazaar do nothing.

XmrBazaar must be taken with care, no administrator answer and there are security holes to impersonate the staff.

Some scammers currently use a trick to use the same nickname as an administrator, the link goes to the correct profile but you speak to someone else.

Don't use the site escrow, you may not speak to a real mediator even if their profile seems legit. I lose 1,25 XMR.

The staff is warned for several days but the scams continue, the site creator didn't answer to my private messages. (I'm not even sure to talk to him with this bug! There's no way to be sure and they do nothing.)

Very curious about the new big update thats comming, EAE attacks and "poison" attacks will be render obsolete apparently.

There is a fake Monero DEX website that is actually just distributing malware... AND I CALLED IT!

The website was sus, using fake statistics and no link to any GitHub repo, just distributing binaries

Folks, please stay safe and just stick to the tried and true options like retoswap, don't download and run crap nobody has ever heard of!

YouTube video about the topic:

This RAT targets linux

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.

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

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We just shipped a non-custodial escrow mode and wanted to put the mechanics in front of this community specifically, because "trust us" isn't an answer here.

How it works: it's a standard Monero 2-of-3 multisig. Buyer, seller, and operator each generate one key. Any two of the three sign to move funds. On a cooperative deal, buyer and seller co-sign the release directly - the operator's key is never used. The operator only enters on a dispute, and even then can only co-sign with one side (refund to buyer or release to seller); it can never move funds alone.

The part that matters for trust: each party's key is generated in their own browser via the monero-ts WebAssembly wallet and never leaves the device. The server only relays opaque multisig exchange data — no seeds, no keys. The client is open source (github.com/xmrescro/xmrescrow-client) and you can diff the wallet code against the upstream monero-ts package to confirm the key is generated locally. Don't trust - verify.

You save a one-time restore key per party, so you can reopen and co-sign later. There's live 0/10 confirmation tracking for both sides.

Fees: multisig is 3% + $3 min; the older operator-mediated (custodial) mode dropped to 1% + $3 min. No fee on disputes or refunds. No accounts, no KYC, minimal logs. Works over Tor (Standard level for the WASM wallet; the operator-mediated mode needs no JS at all and runs at Safest).

Operator identity is PGP-verifiable (fingerprint on the site, the X profile, and the Telegram bio - cross-check them) and there's a warrant canary. Happy to answer anything technical here - including how the ceremony and dispute co-signing work.

Clearnet: xmrescrow[.]app · Onion: xmrescrobcw33cnm5ajyzn5xaqr5vkdsqxmptc55plgvxsnqybmhszqd.onion

PGP: CD37 A312 8254 2C2A CE91 FED3 A345 CD6C 2674 D00A · key at /pgp · canary at /canary

not really monero related but i thought some of you guys might appreciate it

Anyone has good videos or documentations on how monero works and why its privacy

Also how sub addresses work

And how to be clean with monero

I hear from people on twitter to reddit stating that kraken limiting monero is the last CEX folding. This is just blatanty not true

The united states has Kraken and UEX.US but yes we still have something to fall back on if kraken delists.

But outside of the US, Europeans can buy it directly on WhiteBit and DFX

Globally? MEXC, Kucoin, HTX, XT, Bitfinex etc.

You can leverage trade it on hyperliquid, lighter, poloniex, binance and bybit… far from being only on one CEX

Source: XMR.Eco

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Hello r/monero,

It is this time of the year again!

Since last year we have massively moved to colocation with now over 50% of our customers being hosted on our own hardware. 2 locations with our own servers, a 3rd one on the way (Finland) and more coming.

Monero is still accounting for the majority of our payments, as it is from the beginning representing around 30% of all orders.

This year is a special one: servers.guru turns 5 years old, and almost at the same time we passed 5000 active VPS. We've been providing VPS and webhosting for the Monero community since day one, back in July 2021, and honestly seeing both milestones land together feels great.

To celebrate the double milestone we are running two coupons at the same time, valid on our Netherlands (1 Gbps, unmetered & 10 Gbps), USA - West (10 Gbps), Singapore (1 Gbps) and Montreal (1 Gbps & unmetered) VPS:

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Both to be used at checkout, and yearly payments get 2 months free on top which stacks with the coupons, so the small NL plan comes out to about €25 for the first year.

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Thank you for reading :)

I'm surprised I haven't seen a post here about this yet. Individual withdrawal limits are set to $1,500 and deposit limits are $3500, starting August 15th.

https://x.com/xenumonero/status/2076807666731520248

I personally confirmed this with Kraken Support on Twitter as well.

How are people feeling about this? I know there will be some who carry on as usual with the mantra that CEXs don't matter, but hypothetically if you carried a large monero balance (6 figures, etc)... you've pretty much lost your liquidity. Monero can be used P2P to a certain extent... but for big purchases like a house? I imagine it's niche.

Do you hold out and hope for DEXs like Thorchain or Serai? Do you derisk a bit before Aug 15th? Keep holding Monero without liquidity for awhile and hope for the cyberpunk P2P future? Is there a replacement that's feasible already I'm unaware of?

Overall I think it's a big negative to lose Kraken. However, I'm curious how others think about it. It is also a bummer this is happening with the "pro crypto White House" in a country where we are "free." Lastly I hope it is temporary but I doubt Kraken will roll this back...

Anyway. Curious about your thoughts. Cheers.

It is not normally my style to start creating reddit threads and posts on socials about this to bring awareness and participation into the issue, but... u/plowsof keeps playing "mental games" with his cynicism, double ban and gatekeeping antics.

Please, if you have a spare couple minutes, catch up with this reddit thread, where I started denouncing what was going on. Unfortunately, there's been little to no change in attitude from him, so... now we have this GitHub issue, to discuss precisely the matter that is shown in thread title, and GitHub issue title.

https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/1425

Thanks for your time. monero[.]forum thread; X thread.

bitmain is network jumping with 1.94ghs equal 1940p x9

can we push the fork rx/0 v2?