Every Monero wallet shows two numbers that quietly scare new users: unlock time, sometimes displayed as “10 blocks (about 20 minutes)”, and a balance split between locked and unlocked. It looks like the network is holding your money hostage. It is not. Unlock time is a consensus rule that protects you against a specific double-spend..
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Monero Transaction Fees Explained: Why Your Fee Varies and How to Pay Less
Most people send a Monero transaction maybe a handful of times a year. The fee is usually a fraction of a cent, so nobody looks at it. Then one day the network gets busy, the fee is suddenly a few cents, and the question comes up: what am I actually paying for, and why did..
How Monero Multisig Wallets Work: 2-of-3 Setups, Escrow and Shared Funds
Most Monero wallets are single-signature: one person holds the spend key, and that person alone can move the funds. Multisignature, usually shortened to multisig, changes that. A 2-of-3 multisig wallet needs any two of three participants to sign a transaction before the network accepts it. The third party can be offline, uncooperative, or dead, and..
What Dandelion++ Actually Protects in Monero (and Where Its Protection Ends)
When you broadcast a Monero transaction, the recipient is hidden by ring signatures, the amount is hidden by RingCT, and the address is hidden by stealth addresses. That still leaves one thread hanging: where the transaction first appeared on the network. Anyone watching can see the IP address that first announced a transaction, and if..
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