Looks like Monero could soon have its own version of stacker.news but powered by Monero (and @DontTraceMeBruh) 😄 (Stacker News is like Hacker News where you earn sats for good posts & comments, and small fees help keep spam low)

OPT OUT: - Use UNTRACEABLE CASH - physical or digital - Engage in the CIRCULAR ECONOMY - Become SOVEREIGN - DECENTRALIZE power - Make WAR unaffordable

lol, that mfcker is literally sitting there changing credentials as I type: I reset the password, got the account back, fixed the Monero address… and they immediately requested another password change and swapped the address again. I just requested a password reset and changed the XMR address back once more… View quoted note →

🚨If you are an XMRchat user, please check the notifications and your XMRChat profile right away: I just experienced unauthorized changes on my account xmrchat.com/aillia (password change + Monero receiving address & view key updated) without me doing anything! My other accounts (email, etc.) appear uncompromised so far (I'll keep checking), but this may be something on XMRChat's end! (I've just requested a password reset, got my account back (for now!), and changed my #Monero address back, but we still need to find out what happened!!!)

List of main Monero-related Matrix chat rooms for development, research & community. All relevant Monero discussions take place on GitHub and Matrix, not on X/Twitter. To stay updated on Monero developments and contribute your well-reasoned ideas/opinions, create a GitHub account and follow http://github.com/monero-project. You can join discussions in the issues sections of any repository. For real-time chat, join Matrix (or IRC): it’s the central hub for the community. Main Monero Matrix Rooms: - Monero (X: @Monero)

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- Monero Research Lab (X: @MoneroResearchL)

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- No Wallet Left Behind

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- Monero Community Workgroup

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- Monero Dev

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- Monero Community Dev

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- Monero Research Lounge

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- Monero Off-topic

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- Monero Bounties (discussions around http://bounties.monero.social)

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- Monero Mining

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- Monero Website

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- Monero Support

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- Monero Stressnet

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- Monero Docs

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You can read the logs for some Monero Matrix rooms here:

MoneroLogs

Monero-Related Projects’ Matrix Rooms: - Feather Wallet

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- P2Pool

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- Cuprate

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- BasicSwapDEX (X: @BasicSwapDEX)

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- SeraiDEX (X: @SeraiDEX; @kayabaNerve‘s project)

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- HavenoDEX (X: @HavenoDEX, @RetoSwap)

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- EigenWallet (X: @EigenWallet)

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- MoneroSwap - EVM Based Atomic Swaps

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- XmrBazaar (X: @XMRAgora)

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- MoneroKon (X: @MoneroKon)

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- MoneroTopia (X: @MoneroTopia, @MoneroTalk)

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Bonus - Anna’s Archive (X: @TheAnnasArchive) -

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This isn’t an exhaustive list, just a starting point :) Please to let me know if I missed anything: the list is live and will be constantly updated here:

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Main Monero-related Matrix chat rooms for development, research & community. Last update: 2026-08-12.

This clip loops in my head every time a centralized entity wants your selfie-with-ID "for your safety" or a state wants digital ID "for your convenience." Made before LLMs. Now it'll play in yours too. Every. Single. Time. 😵‍💫

#Monero is the ultimate off-ramp.

XmrBazaar is very AI-agent friendly: agents can hire humans https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/pNja/, humans can hire agents https://xmrbazaar.com/user/SpaleRuby/, agents can hire agents, and maybe humans can still hire humans too

XmrBazaar - Monero Marketplace

Buy and sell products and services for Monero

Nobody knows you're a dog (or an agent) on the internet. View quoted note →

The Necklace Puzzle SOLVED: 0.5 XMR Prize Claimed After 1+ Year AND by AI + reflections on mathematical leaps and the art of crafting harder puzzle-toys (and beyond) for the other side of singularity

The Necklace Puzzle SOLVED: 0.5 XMR Prize Claimed After 1+ Year — by AI

Reflections on mathematical leaps and the art of crafting harder puzzle-toys (and beyond) for the other side of singularity

On August 8, 2013, Lavabit (the encrypted email service used by Snowden) was ordered by the U.S. gov't to hand over its TLS private keys to spy on his communications. Founder Ladar Levison refused. He shut down the service rather than betray his users. One of the very few who chose principles over survival. To every privacy project founder today: Are you ready to be the next Ladar Levison?

I've been mostly absent online lately and I'm sorry, I know it made some of you worry. A very good person passed away. I'll be back to normal when I can.

🚨BasicSwapDEX exploited. Losses of 0.66 BTC ($42k) confirmed so far (h/t @OrangeFren.com ). New BasicSwapDEX release (v0.17.2) is out with fix, update asap: it fixes the swap security issue, updating to 0.17.2 before you resume any swaps is MANDATORY.

BasicSwap Blog

BasicSwap v0.17.2: A Security Fix for Adaptor-Signature Swaps (Update Now) | BasicSwap Blog

BasicSwap v0.17.2 fixes a fund-safety race condition on the automatic refund path of adaptor-signature (Monero-style) swaps, along with watcher har...

Listened to the Open Markets podcast #11 (https://openmarkets.pub/). They discussed XmrBazaar, and it's clear the idea is ripe: many people are independently arriving at the same conclusion around decentralization + Monero circular economy: - I wrote about it about a month ago:

Voluntary Markets in an Involuntary World

Centralized Chokepoints, Free Market Solutions to the Surveillance Economy, and the Push Toward Decentralized Infrastructure

- SlowBearDigger has it on the roadmap:

xmr-pay — roadmap (the wall)

The real state of xmr-pay: one core engine, public adapters, early projects, and ideas. Not a marketing timeline.

- LukeProfits is already working on something similar:

GitHub

GitHub - lukeprofits/OpenMarket: A fully decentralized, uncensorable marketplace that can’t be controlled or shut down.

A fully decentralized, uncensorable marketplace that can’t be controlled or shut down. - lukeprofits/OpenMarket

The key missing piece is multisig/non-custodial escrow. In a privacy-preserving system without KYC and/or IP logging, you absolutely can not operate without mandatory (not optional!) multisig/non-custodial escrow and/or bonds by default. Any voluntary privacy-focused market that can't rely on traditional law enforcement (unlike Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist) tends to attract a disproportionate number of scammers and worse (see this depressing thread: https://xmrbazaar.com/forum/topic/51/) There are already promising approaches for better Monero multisig / escrowed markets that are worth looking at: 1. spirobel's Serai-powered Monero multisig escrow with offline arbitrators:

Robust Monero Escrow with offline Arbitrators

During the development of the Serai network, a new piece of innovation was discovered. This piece brings us one step closer to the birth of a trad...

2. The existing tool by MoneroMultisig:

Monero Multisig GUI

(rbrunner (Monero dev) has spoken well of it, I haven't tried it myself yet) 3. Koe's (Monero dev) talk "Seamless Escrowed Markets with Monero Multisig" from MoneroKon 2023: *This post is my attempt to gather the main ongoing efforts in this direction in one place. View quoted note →