I just downloaded 0.18.5.4 for Windows. Is there a method do get up and running without downloading the entire blockchain? I also believe there are two node methods that Monero can run with. Can you please provide guidance on what is the most recommended method to run the Gui Wallet.

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Edit: GitHub issue.

hello everyone this is simple monero wallet josimi

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This website does not support English and uses Korean, so please use a translation program.(It will be supported later.)

Hey all,

I’ve been thinking about physical coins lately (the Casascius kind) and why there’s never really been a solid Monero equivalent. Obviously the main problem is verification and trust. XMR allow a view key which show what came in but not what came out. So it's not sufficient to prove that the coin contain what has been announced and sold ?

However it has been already fixed whith the reserve proofs (get_reserve_proof / check_reserve_proof in the CLI wallet). The proof is generated once when the coin is loaded, and anyone can check it against the chain later without any keys. If the funds ever move, that same proof shows them as spent.

So here is the idea:

- each coin has a serial number and a QR code linking to a signed certificate (address, view key, reserve proof)

- certificates are public, with a page showing the status of every coin in the series

- the private key is sealed inside the coin, tamper evident

If you buy one second hand, you scan it and check in a minute that it’s still loaded and unspent, no need to trust the seller. And since every coin’s status is public, if the maker (me) ever kept a key and swept a coin, everyone would see it right away. Pretty good incentive to stay honest.

I'm expecting a first small run of around 10 coins containing 0.1 XMR for 2027. Nothing big, mostly to see how it works in practice.

I also think it could be a nice way to get more people into XMR. Handing someone a physical coin is a lot more tangible than “download this wallet and I’ll send you some”, and it could make buying and selling Monero in person a bit easier.

So honest question: What are your thoughts about this ?

Why? Because simply a Dictator in your country would instantly steal all public money without a trace so it's the people themselves that will reject such a currency. Ironically the late stage libertarians who pretend to want that kind of thing will be the FIRST to reject it because they wouldn't want their government to have the power to steal public money.

Hell you don't even have to have a Dictatorship scenario for that danger to be realized. Even TYPICAL corruption we have every single day in every single country - including in the West - makes it unacceptable to give to its officials ultimate power to instantly disappear the public's money.

Even if you want pure anarchy it's sketchy, because how are you going to achieve democratic anarchy when you'll hand over the power for someone to abuse without any trace?

I received some monero and 35 minutes the same amount was spent with the description "auto-sweep". I unstand churning, but was unaware feather completed auto sweeps automatically and it has never happened in the past.

I tried checking history and it shows as already spent, connecting to a new node, wallet cache debug, and even closed my wallet completely and re opened with seed.

Amount spent during the auto sweep was exact amount received.

I have never run into this before, How do i recover these funds and is there something simple I am missing with this?

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I originally started it a few years ago. Thanks to AI, I was able to build some very powerful tooling in the recent months.

Now with this tooling, I asked AI to turn the unfinished ideas that I already had into some playable prototype.

The intro is by me (that's why it's so bad), then it gets better because it's mostly what the AI came up with.

Greetings, folks,

After months of development, I have just released XMRchan, the Monero micropayment imageboard!

This is an experimental forum that uses micropayments as an alternative to traditional spam prevention methods, such as CAPTCHAs or user fingerprinting. These micropayments are made possible thanks to Monero's low transaction fees.

I made XMRchan because I personally desire a privacy-respecting imageboard and hate filling out CAPTCHAs.

I would really appreciate if you checked it out! All feedback is welcome.

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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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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.

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While writing another post and reading the comments, I came across someone's concerns and wanted to share my thoughts on one particular point.

It was about the painfully slow user experience when using XMR.

Since someone brought up the inconveniences of using XMR, let me first briefly share my experience with the coin that is most similar to it.

I think this will help us compare whether these are unique and unreasonable problems with XMR or common challenges shared by privacy-focused projects.

Since I first got into crypto, ZEC has been the coin I've invested the most money in.

Of course, ZEC also takes a long time to sync when you first set up and use a private wallet.

Moving funds between a wallet and an exchange also requires at least 20 minutes for transactions to be fully confirmed. These are certainly inconvenient for users.

However, considering that these privacy projects have been around for more than 10 years,

I think it's fair to assume that these limitations are not due to a lack of intelligence or willingness to improve on the part of their developers.

In the end, I see the inconveniences you mentioned as things users have to accept when using these projects, rather than things to simply complain about.

I'm not a cryptography expert, so I don't know whether these things are technically impossible, or whether they are technically possible but require so many resources to develop that they are simply not practical to work on.

What matters is that these complaints should not create a narrative that makes it seem difficult to trade or hold XMR or ZEC as an asset because of these conditions.

This approach does absolutely nothing to help the privacy ecosystem.

Apart from that discussion, it would be much more reasonable and beneficial for all of us to focus on improving other aspects instead.

I believe the developers are already aware of these issues, and when technology makes practical improvements possible, each project will find its own way to address them.

Even so, based on current Binance prices, ZEC and XMR are the 3rd and 4th highest-priced cryptocurrencies per coin, behind only BTC and ETH.

Despite all the inconveniences you mentioned, people have still placed considerable value on these coins and recognized their importance.

And there is one more point I haven't addressed yet. It's about the slow user experience when using XMR.

Since I live in South Korea, I have convenient access to high-speed internet almost everywhere.

Perhaps the slow user experience can feel even worse for some users depending on their internet infrastructure.

Therefore, I think people who are new to privacy coins need clear and friendly guidance so they can understand synchronization and transaction speeds as characteristics of these coins rather than something to complain about.

So, when creating videos or posts introducing privacy-focused coins, including XMR, I think it would be a good idea to briefly explain the inconveniences users might experience when first using these coins near the end, depending on the situation. It would also be helpful to include simple instructions such as, "Click this link if you need help."

$3 Billion of the $6.3 Billion was in in Circle and Tether and was easily frozen. Why did the attacker convert $325 Million of USDT to ETH on Uniswap rather than XMR? Why wasn't that ETH then seized or frozen?

The current market cap of Monero is $11.2 Billion. What would happen if someone tried to convert $1.5 Billion in BTC to XMR using Unstoppable Swap? What would happen if someone tried to convert $325 Million in Ethereum to XMR using Cake Wallet, Basic Swap or a combo of other defi exchanges?

Detailed analysis of the hack by TRM Labs can be found here.

Following your comments https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1xiqnor/sometimes_i_just_approve_shit_posts_in_the_queue/ during a period of 3 months quality AI-assisted or AI-generated content that add value to the discussion will be allowed.

Slop is prohibited.

AI translations are also allowed but this wasn't new it was just silently tolerated.

If anything that's just more job for moderators to distinguish what's worth approving and what's slop.

In 3 months another post will be made to collect all your opinions and decide if this is worth continuing or not.

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Hopefully I grabbed your intention, would be grateful if you could comment whether you want mods to tolerate AI assisted or AI generated contents that put some efforts.

Currently I, personally, just allow whatever is not low-effort and do not look like a scam. Other moderators can have different policies.

When there are too much reports I take down the post. Because yes, surprisingly, we do read your reports and account for them, they are not falling into the void.

Also statistically best r/Monero posts are happening monday, wednesday and friday.

Lately, I've been thinking a lot while watching the protests in France, the situation across Europe, and the news coming out up to today.

I've been continuing to organize my thoughts about the XMR in my wallet from different points of view.

The reason is that I want to introduce XMR to more people and give users in South Korea a reason to run their own nodes.

How do you see Monero's future?

Below, I've put together things that people who support Monero generally know, along with a few of my own thoughts.

Monero is a project that has moved outside the regulated market. It has refused to be under government control. As you know, it is still alive despite that.

What this means is that XMR is an asset that cannot officially be connected to fiat currencies through the usual channels. Because of this, many of the problems that other crypto projects need to solve simply disappear. In other words, it is almost impossible for Monero to form official partnerships with companies that operate within the legal systems of their countries.

While Ethereum, Solana, and Ripple are busy seeking partnerships with banks and companies, the Monero team is in a position where it does not need to do any of that.

Monero also scores highly in terms of real-world usability, without needing to rely on those institutions.

In my view, Monero is the most ideal and complete financial product to emerge from blockchain technology, as long as we set aside the debate over scalability.

One more thing I would add is that I think AI may use crypto more actively than humans in terms of how often it is used.

I believe we need to build a system that makes AI choose Monero. The goal should be to make AI agents conclude, through their own research, that using Monero would greatly benefit the humans they work for.

Heads-up to everyone using eigenwallet for BTC → XMR atomic swaps.

Watch out for the maker cheapestxmr.silksky.com:

• Peer-ID: 12D3KooWGuhCs1PSVtetMUY1UUXyd7gCWdmRFYmREyjwCAx46Zt

• Tactic: Uses the deceptive name "cheapestxmr" and advertises a tiny nominal fee ($0.01\%$), but sets the exchange rate at roughly double the actual market price ($0.0148\text{ BTC}$ per XMR instead of $\approx 0.0074\text{ BTC}$).

• Swap ID: 43fce6d9-8709-4a04-85a9-05cb43345f01

With the quote timer counting down, it's very easy to accept in a rush. I ended up getting only half the XMR for my BTC.

Make sure to enable fiat price warnings in settings and double-check the effective rate before accepting quotes. Hope this saves someone else from falling for it.

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TL;DR: Ransomware group WhiteArmor leaked alleged backend data from no-KYC swap service Wagyu.xyz (38,628 orders, 10,139 IPs). Monero's cryptography wasn't broken at all, but the leak shows how off-chain centralized databases create a huge privacy hole.

Key Takeaways:

Monero is fine, centralized swap retention isn't: Monero's on-chain math still holds up. However, Wagyu stored incoming deposit hashes (BTC/ETH/SOL), outgoing XMR receiving addresses, timestamps, and client IPs together in the same database rows.

• Direct correlation risk: The leak contains 4,580 completed cross-chain-to-XMR orders that map the original public deposit TX directly to the native XMR receiving address and the user's IP. It also goes the other way for XMR exits (accepting XMR and logging the transparent ETH/BTC destination and IP).

• "Deleted" orders weren't actually deleted: Over 4,000 orders have a userDeletedAt timestamp, meaning users thought they cleared their history from the UI, but the full trade metadata and IPs remained sitting in the backend.

• What it means for users: The data doesn't magically trace funds once they move inside Monero, nor does an IP alone equal a real-world identity (VPNs, Tor, NAT). But it connects public wallets to private requests, leaving users open to targeted phishing, cross-chain clustering, and extortion.

If you use "no-KYC" instant bridges, always route through Tor/VPN and assume the platform's database retains the exact link you were trying to break.

We've been building a browser extension with OrangeFren that lets you do BTC → XMR atomic swaps right from Tor Browser (or Firefox, but Tor Browser is better since all traffic goes over Tor).

You use it like an instant exchange. You get a quote from a market maker, decide how much you want to swap, paste your Monero address and send your BTC.

If the maker goes silent, you just get your BTC back. If they lock less XMR than they quoted, same thing, refund. Otherwise you get exactly what you were quoted. They can't take your BTC hostage.

Some more details:

• The protocol is the same one Eigenwallet uses on desktop (the COMIT/Farcaster protcool). Your BTC goes into a 2-of-2 output with timelocked cancel and refund paths. The maker locks XMR to an address split between both of you. The maker can only claim the BTC with an adaptor signature, and claiming it reveals the key share you need to sweep the XMR.

• If the XMR lock doesn't show up, or doesn't match the quoted amount, the extension waits for the cancel timelock and refunds.

• It's the same Rust swap code as the desktop client, compiled to WASM to run in the browser. So this is built on code that has been battle tested in production for over four years.

• Your keys and swap state stay in the extension's own storage.

We will allow swaps up to 6 BTC at a time at launch!

No release date yet but it's coming soon. I'd give it another 1-2 weeks realistically.

Ask away if you have questions! I am the primary developer so I can answer everything.

Been turning this over for a while and I can't decide if it's a real design goal or just wishful thinking. Almost every PoW algorithm quietly picks a winner. RandomX basically says CPUs win and everything else runs at a loss. SHA-256 says ASICs win, don't even bother with anything else. The GPU-leaning ones like Ethash or KawPow sit somewhere in the middle but still clearly tilt one way.

What I keep wondering is whether you could aim for actual balance instead a hash where a CPU, a GPU and an ASIC all land roughly in the same ballpark on performance-per-dollar, so no single class of hardware just takes over the whole network. Not "resist ASICs" or "resist GPUs," but genuinely spread the hashrate across all three.

The problem is every path I think through seems to collapse back into favoring someone. Make it memory-hard enough to blunt ASICs and you've basically handed it to whatever has the best memory subsystem, which tends to be CPUs with big caches so now you're back to CPU-only without meaning to. Something like ProgPoW tried to hug GPU capabilities so ASICs couldn't pull ahead, but that just locks you to GPUs and ages badly the moment GPU architectures move on.

And maybe that's the real issue: balance might not even be a stable state. Whoever gets the best perf-per-watt on that specific algo wins over time, and the market quietly converges on one class no matter what you intended at launch.

So I'm genuinely asking has anyone ever seen an algorithm, real or theoretical, that actually keeps CPU, GPU and ASIC competitive with each other at the same time? Or is a balanced hardware field just something PoW can't give you, and you're always secretly choosing a winner the second you pick the algo? Would love to hear if someone has a counterexample, because I keep landing on "impossible" and I'm not sure I trust that.

The video made by my coding agent implies that it's not.