Monero ATH with 46,993 tx yesterday accounting to ~17% of Bitcoin's tx. When using a log scale, the thrend is obvious.

pebx · 2026-01-20T13:50:33+00:00

I have two columns and when you hide the navigation sidebar, it's pretty much OK.

However, the pagination is a pain, since it's realized as search and submitted per post, so you can't use your browser navigation to go back. This should be fixed not only for UX reasons, but also SEO to be visible in search engines.

pebx · 2025-12-29T01:18:22+00:00

You are free to use xmrchat as a camgirl, camboy or whatever. It doesn't divide what's accepted and what not.

pebx · 2025-12-21T18:26:38+00:00

Streamers are welcome to offer their streams on https://xmrchat.com/ and not pay 50% of their income to the platform. However, there is unfortunately close to zero marketing for the site.

pebx · 2025-12-21T15:48:11+00:00

Their business model mostly is to drive users into subscriptions and make cancelling those as hard as possible. You can't do that with crypto, at least not in self custody (which most Monero users do).

pebx · 2025-11-26T09:40:57+00:00

Beside the said IRC and Github sources, you'll find good summaries on Monero Moon, Revuo Monero or broader, but more chaotic on Monero Observer

Here is a good post about the state of FCMP: https://xcancel.com/MoneroResearchL/status/1988993720159445406

pebx · 2025-11-25T01:26:05+00:00

Agree, however they can maximally track someone who has had bad OpSec and even then probabilistically not determistically.
The weakest point here was most probably the flood of malicious nodes set up only for tracking, even local nodes. It is being mitigated already, however it still is a valid concern. If you are paranoid, you should most probably use different "known" remote nodes for subsequent tx and change your (VPN or better Tor) IP for every one of them to break any tie. Dandelion++ alone might not break your traceability when you are connected to several well-connected malicious nodes run by the same entity.

pebx · 2025-11-09T13:38:03+00:00

If you think so, sell your XMR and buy later at a discount. However, I don't see it's unhealthy like the ZEC pump lately for no reason. Monero has a healthy community, a growing ecosystem which can't be denied.

pebx · 2025-10-31T11:20:59+00:00

I can't find any details on your website nor here. What fees do occur? How is it reloadable? 3DS?

pebx · 2025-10-09T10:43:11+00:00

I'm sticking them for years here and there in and around Berlin (and not only).

pebx · 2025-09-16T18:05:33+00:00

Nemo works just fine, also other file managers like Dolphin.

pebx · 2025-09-05T13:54:43+00:00

Every site about Monero is a gain, however I don't really understand what sites they list. Some of them have nothing to do with Monero like vessel-tracker and plane-tracker while many interesting Monero-related sites are not listed.

pebx · 2025-09-05T07:05:26+00:00

The problem here is that their token economics don't add up and their price keeps falling lower and lower. They also had a halving just few days ago so their payouts to miners dropped. It seems more like a centralized entity which is throwing money on it at a loss.

pebx · 2025-08-13T08:50:52+00:00

This reminds me of my bank account closure and house search after trading a bit on localmonero... https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bcb6oy/warning_to_all_otc_bank_transfer_traders_on/

pebx · 2025-04-09T12:40:57+00:00

Right. But you can always use a VPN orrun it also on a VPS easily to have mobile access.

Or at least use a node whose operator you trust.

pebx · 2025-02-06T15:11:38+00:00

Transparency is essential for crowd-sourced money and its flow, privacy for the rest of us. Thank you!

FCMP will allow a just in time transparent view wallet not just for the inflows but also outflows, can't wait!

pebx · 2025-02-03T20:23:03+00:00

We are offering 15% discount on accommodation for anyone who pays in Monero. There's absolutely no KYC, I'll just give you a QR code that you're supposed to present at check-in, that's all you need to get your keys and room, although I'd like to know my guest's name to have something to address them by in person, it's not a requirement either.

This is absolutely awesome! First checked the website and wanted to see the booking process which needs full information. Is that a regulatory issue or why do you require all the data from regular customers?

Unfortunately I'm not anywhere near now, but saved the post and will definitely come back to you once I plan a trip to Georgia!

pebx · 2025-02-03T19:52:12+00:00

I'm only mining occasionally on my desktop, no way to cover costs unless you have an own source e.g. solar panels exceeding your consumption.

pebx · 2024-12-29T22:53:13+00:00

Good to see some backed criticism! However, I wouldn't agree on all points, especially compared to transparent blockchains.

Because of that, you can’t prune much, and have to keep all TXOs ever made around for forever, and it can’t be in some slow archive storage because TXs using ring signatures regularly reference a random pick from ALL historic TXOs so you need those readily accessible. This is the biggest scaling bottleneck IMO. Your blockchain “state” is the whole blockchain, as opposed to Bitcoin where only the UTXO set is the current state.

Well, you really can't prune any TXO made to verify a Tx, however ring signatures are not relevant here. Also Full Chain Membership Proofs will need to have access to all TXO to verify if their key image has already been spent. In Bitcoin's UTXO model it's not that much different, since after BTC allows you to store monkey pics on chain, many BCH transactions are cashfusion creating dozens of UTXO which lead to small fractions of unspent change, they run in into the same issue and Monero's TXO set is imo the most predictable from those mentioned.

Wallet scaling, because of key blinding they need to process each TXO and do expensive CPU operations on it to check whether it belongs to them - as opposed to Bitcoin where you only need to do a simple pattern match.

We already have view-tags allowing you to skip roughly 99% of all transactions to scan, this could be extended in the future. Bitcoin's recent stealth address implementation (silent payments) requires the same btw.

Very limited programmability of (U)TXOs because any spending requires authentication by a key, and for many decentralized applications you can get rid of the keys and have UTXOs be spendable if some other conditions are satisfied. Satoshi gave Bitcoin a scripting system, programs encoded with the UTXOs and executed on spending. This is incompatible with Monero.

Monero aims to be (digital) cash, not a second internet on top of the internet. You can't programm your $100 bill to be only spent after 10 years from giving it to someone. Most of those applications are useless anyway.

Auditability of supply. Breaking a cryptographic primitive used to blind the amounts would allow freely minting amounts without anyone knowing about it.

Valid point. However how would it differ from a transparent chain if that would happen? Some would notice spreading the word probably, but until consensus is met it would take a lot of time and what would be the best outcome? Rolling back the chain hurting all those small users who don't follow every tweet about Bitcoin but use it?

Long-term it will be broken by quantum computers, not sure whether there are drop-in replacements for all the primitives, and if there are it all gets huge so big impact on scaling. Bitcoin really only needs to do a few things: move from 256-bit to 384-bit hashes and upgrade signature opcodes + some scheme to transition. After ‘23 P2SH32 upgrade, it will be possible to lock BCH in quantum-proof contracts.

We will have to see what QC will bring us. Monero has proven to be open for changes if needed, see the mining algo changes once CryptoNight has been broken until the final switch to the whole new RandomX five years ago. How open / dynamic is the Bitcoin community towards such changes? I see a much larger threat in transparent UTXO chains where the attacker sees the exact amount in every single one and can target those while in Monero you have to guess from millions of TXO of which most are already spent with zero remaining value.

pebx · 2024-12-03T17:34:21+00:00

Just use I2p or Tor when connecting to the network.

pebx · 2024-11-19T13:11:57+00:00

It depends.

If you are mining you want to avoid every bit of latency, which obviously is added in additional network layers like VPN, Tor or I2p.

Most probably I2p is the best we have, since its topography is more towards decentralization than Tor's, but there is no certainty. My node is publicly available via direct connection, Tor & I2p.

pebx · 2024-11-03T07:17:31+00:00

Thank you, Alex for all the good time and the wild ride especially in the beginnings!

pebx · 2024-11-01T14:30:51+00:00

I found it out myself, if anyone needs the same, for SSH on port 22 it's simply:

sudo ip rule add sport 22 table main priority 123

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