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..
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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..
Running Your Own Monero Node: What It Costs, What It Takes, and Why It Matters
A practical guide to running a Monero node in 2026: hardware and disk requirements, bandwidth costs, pruned sync times, setup steps, and the privacy reasons it beats remote nodes…
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