A Monero wallet is not one key. It is four: a private spend key, a public spend key, a private view key, and a public view key. Most guides mention this in passing and move on. But if you ever need to prove a payment, let an accountant verify a balance, or set up a..
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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…
Monero Transaction Privacy in 2026: FCMP++ Hard Fork, Ring Signatures, and What Changes
Monero’s privacy model has undergone significant changes in 2025 and 2026, with the introduction of new transaction protocols and the upcoming FCMP++ hard fork fundamentally altering how the network protects user data. If you are running a wallet, a node, or mining XMR, understanding these changes matters because they affect transaction size, fee structures, and..
Monero and Darknet Markets: Separating Fact From Fiction
Monero and Darknet Markets: Separating Fact From Fiction Every article about Monero eventually gets around to the darknet. It’s unavoidable – XMR is the preferred payment method on several darknet marketplaces, and pretending otherwise doesn’t help anyone. But the conversation around Monero and illicit markets is so saturated with misinformation, half-truths, and lazy journalism that..