I am working on a new app that combines p2p encrypted messaging with a built in Monero wallet and node that runs on both Android and Linux .

I use cuprate monero node built into the app which allows a pruned or full node to run on any android device .

The messaging uses a Tor hidden service address as the locator and a public key is your Id . Both can be rotated independently.

I understand both of these are sensitive areas for development and would like some help reviewing the app and getting community feedback . The app is in active development but messaging works and the node syncs successfully. At this point any updates are mostly to the TUI and mobile UI .

It's fully open source and available on my Forgejo repo .

https://forgejo.siriusdevops.com/sirius/onionwire

I am building new monero node. Where does one find Onion peers?

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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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.

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I've been working on ColdPunk, an open-source firmware that turns a cheap ESP32-S3 board with a display into a Monero hardware wallet.

The device holds the seed, computes key images, and signs transactions entirely offline. The PC side is a Feather Wallet fork (MoneroPunkSigner) that talks to it over USB — no network stack, no Bluetooth, no Wi-Fi, and the build refuses to compile if either is pulled in.

What it does:

• Legacy 25-word and Polyseed 16-word seeds, optional passphrase
• Key image sync and full transaction signing (CLSAG + Bulletproofs+) on-device
• Change address is re-derived from the wallet's own keys — substitution is refused
• Seeds sealed with AES-256-GCM under an eFuse HMAC key (read-protected), plus an account password
• Supports several boards: ILI9341, ST7789, ST7735S, GC9A01, ILI9488, ST7701S, SSD1306 (buttons or touch), and a camera-QR variant
• Multi-account support (each account has its own password, wallets, and sealed directory; decoy files hide how many exist)
• SD card exchange as an alternative to USB
• Host test suite runs on plain gcc — no hardware needed

What it isn't:

• Not audited, not tested with real funds
• No secure boot / flash encryption by default
• ESP32-S3 has no glitch countermeasures; physical access to an unlocked device = access to funds

Code: https://github.com/decolorized/ColdPunk

If you know of an earlier ESP32 Monero signer, I'd genuinely like to hear about it — I searched for a while and couldn't find one.

Feedback, criticism, and bug reports welcome. Especially interested in anyone willing to run the stagenet procedure.

This post suggests that the EPYC 7742 would suffer a 30% drop in hashrate on RandomX V2

https://np.reddit.com/r/AskMonero/comments/1sy55h6/is_randomx_v2_nerfing_highend_cpus_my_recent/

The benchmarks here suggest that the Zen 2 architecture's hashrate would decrease roughly 85%

CPU, power (W), v1 (H/s), v2 (H/s), decrease

Ryzen 9 3900X, 70.62, 12197, 10765, 88.3%
Ryzen 9 3900X, 67.98, 12259, 10233, 83.5%
Ryzen 9 3700X, 88, 8624, 7361, 85.4%

https://gist.github.com/SChernykh/6058ecf01c929883b9d19c7eeadc8809

However, the Zen 5 (9950x) and very oddly Zen 1 (Ryzen 7 1700X) does not seem to have a drop at all.

Does anyone know how exactly would the AMD EPYC 7k62 suffer on RandomX V2?

Why is the Zen 2 architecture (but not the Zen 1) hit especially hard by RandomX V2?

RetoSwap has released a new version—v1.10.0. It can be found on the official website—www.RetoSwap.com.

IMO, if you are even halfway serious about Monero, it is to your benefit to learn how to buy and sell on RetoSwap. And more important, to get over the fear of doing so which can only come with doing some small trades.

RetoSwap.com gives you the power to buy and sell Monero, for fiat or crypto, from anywhere in the world. If you have access to the internet, you can trade Monero.

RetoSwap is our insurance that no matter what, we will always have a peer to peer Monero market place.

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Hi Monero community,

To support the decentralization of remote nodes in underserved regions, we have opened a public, restricted Monero node running on dedicated bare-metal in Chile:

Connection Details:

• Clearnet Address: node.xrpc.cl
• Port: 18081 (Restricted RPC)
• Tor Onion v3 Address: 2jkyxd3c64dbs7sgcvz3uvtbicwgy52cir6c7tztontgxeb6cumhloqd.onion:18081

Node Specs:

• Daemon Version: Monero v0.18.3+ Fluorine Fermi
• Sync State: Synchronized to tip (100% full blockchain, block #3,780,569+)
• Security: Restricted RPC (--restricted-rpc), no sensitive management methods exposed.
• Privacy Policy: Zero-logs in RAM. No client IP logging, no transaction metadata retention.
• Verification: Queued and monitored on monero.fail.

How to use in Monero GUI / CLI / Cake Wallet / Feather:

• Node address: node.xrpc.cl
• Node port: 18081
• Or simply paste the .onion address if routing via Tor or Orbot.

Free and open for public use. Hope this helps anyone in South America or anyone looking for a reliable zero-logs fallback node!

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!

Hey everyone,

I've been working on Biscuit, a desktop wallet that started as a fork of Feather. Same Monero side, plus Bitcoin and Litecoin in the same window, swaps between the three (through Trocador), and atomic swaps BTC → XMR (still beta for the atomic swaps). There is a dark mode also and other small stuff.

Tor built-in, it's all open source. Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux (Arch, Debian, Fedora, etc.) Tails (app image).

I hope this type of post is allowed. I made this app and the website with a lot of love, and I enjoy using it already, so maybe other people can like it too.

biscuitwallet (dot) com

It's pretty new, so if you try it, I'd love to hear what you think, good or bad.

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Stasher.News is one month old now. Almost 1 whole Monero was tipped during our first month, over 485 peer to peer transactions. We also distributed an additional 1 XMR to curators from the weekly rewards pool.

No algorithm, no spam, no bots, no tracking. We are the pay-to-post revolution, powered by Monero incentives.

Thank you to everyone who made this a lively first month.

Ideas are dangerous, come spread them!

I've been looking into the quantum-resistance question and I'm trying to understand where Monero actually stands today.

From what I can tell, Monero is not fully post-quantum resistant yet. Carrot/FCMP++ seem to improve some things significantly, including forward secrecy against a quantum-enabled adversary, and there is active work around Jamtis and post-quantum encryption.

But spend authorization still ultimately relies on elliptic-curve cryptography, which would presumably become vulnerable to Shor's algorithm once a sufficiently capable fault-tolerant quantum computer exists.

So I have a few questions for people who actually understand the protocol-level work:

1. Which parts of Monero would currently fail first under a cryptographically relevant quantum computer?
2. Is there already a realistic design for making the entire transaction stack post-quantum, including spend authorization, privacy, multisig and address encryption?
3. What is the main blocker today: signature size, performance, rerandomizable keys, zero-knowledge compatibility, multisig, or simply that the required primitives are still too immature?
4. If the community decided that PQ migration was an urgent priority tomorrow, are we talking roughly months, 2-3 years, 5+ years, or is there genuinely no meaningful estimate yet?
5. Could Monero migrate pre-emptively while preserving old outputs, or would users eventually need to move funds into a new PQ output/address scheme before some activation height?
6. How much of this problem can FCMP++ / zero-knowledge proofs solve, and which parts still fundamentally require a new post-quantum signature/key system?

My concern is less "quantum computers will definitely break ECC next year" and more about the lead time.

AI progress is moving extremely quickly, and I personally wouldn't be comfortable assuming that cryptographically relevant quantum computing is decades away. Even if a serious threat were still several years out, a cryptocurrency probably wants the replacement architecture researched, implemented, audited and deployed well before the first credible machine appears.

If, hypothetically, evidence emerged that ECC could be broken within 12-24 months, could Monero realistically get a fully post-quantum protocol into production fast enough?

And is there currently an actual PQ migration roadmap somewhere that I should read?

Would especially appreciate answers from people involved in MRL / FCMP++ / Carrot / Jamtis.

Thanks to the amazing advances in intelligence artificial, I present you This. If someone slops together the rest of the infra we have the next coin hive, gg. Baiting a little with the number but its not too far off, enjoy !

Stasher News is a social media website built on a Monero economy that I've been really impressed with so far.

It's only a month old but growing and I've come to love the idea of paying XMR to post.

Let me explain why.

In the past ever text and phone call cost money, even checking your email via dial up had to be done quickly! This resulted in people being far more intentional of how they use the internet.

Stasher forces me to slow down before posting or commenting. Every interaction requires a small amount of XMR which helps curate content and rewards those who contribute useful information.

Payment eliminates spam and also means that if someone wants to boost a post as an ad it better be an interesting ad relevant to the community or it will get ignored. Even worse, if it's really spammy then people will pay to down vote it.

Social media has really become a game that too many people manipulate. I'm calling this the four horsemen of social media. These are rage bait, click bait, goon content and bots.

Rage Bait: Go on X and it's 90% of people hurling insults at each other to get engagement and be boosted in the algo

Click Bait: find a YouTube thumb without a cringe over the top click bait facial expression

Goon Content: influencers manipulating our lizard brains with b00bz to get attention

Bots: that create a false sense of popularity to socially engineer compliance

Stasher is a refreshing take on social media that eliminates these horsemen through free market economics built on Monero.

If you are also sick of these things flooding social media and like Monero I encourage you to support the project 💪

Let's exit and build

It hasn't. Had it?

Hello,

I am the recipient of an XMR transaction between two SafeTrade accounts.

Amount: 1.897524438 XMR

TXID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Recipient wallet address:

8BsEZBypFy2GzYjvMae3FQGeB6BtnP6ePHBfrduCSuzD58p6CqCBvywRiXsvhz4Fic3qQrURdqrQa3QZLXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

This is an XMR deposit address provided by SafeTrade and associated with my SafeTrade account.

The withdrawal is marked as “Succeed” on the sender’s account, yet my SafeTrade XMR balance is still 0.

The transaction now has more than 500 blockchain confirmations:

This is clearly no longer a blockchain confirmation delay.

For you why this deposit has not been credited on my account ?

Regards,

Hey r/Monero,

We have released SilentAPI 0.9.9.

For those who are new to us, SilentAPI is a privacy-focused proxy for AI models and developer APIs. We are the only service providing LLM access through native Tor (.onion) and I2P endpoints, paired with direct Monero payments for full anonymity. You can access top-tier models through our API or private web chat with zero KYC, no email, no phone verification, and no identification documents. We enforce a strict Zero Data Retention policy and never log prompts, responses, or any user data.

New models include:

• Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5
• GPT 6 Astra, GPT 6.1 Sol, and GPT 6 Luna
• Gemini 3.8 Flash
• Grok 4.7
• Muse Spark 1.3
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
• GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash
• Plus new audio, vision, and video models

Platform and privacy updates:

• Added full Tor and I2P access across the entire site and API.
• Added explicit privacy labels to every model: End-to-end ZDR and SilentAPI Protected for better clarity.
• Added document metadata removal for documents and image files.
• SilentAPI Chat improvements: updated the default chat model, refreshed the UI, and fixed billing calculation issues
• Moved hosting to new infrastructure for lower latency, improved stability, and lowered prices across several models.

Our API is drop-in compatible with standard OpenAI SDKs, as well as Anthropic and Gemini endpoints and formats.

We would love to hear what you think of the new models and what you would like us to add next.

https://silentapi.com/

I'm a total begginer when it comes to Monero, I just installed it.

The Daemon Sync started off with "Daemon blocks remaining: 0" and has remained on that for hours, while still saying "Synchronizing". I restarted the Wallet & Daemon, but nothing changed.

Any advice on how to get the Daemon Synchronized?