rbrunner7 made a systematic review of Monero wallet apps to see whether they support Polyseed, and if so, to what degree, with special attention to encrypted Polyseeds.

GitHub

Seed encryption and plausible deniability · Issue #13 · tevador/polyseed

The seed encryption feature currently sets a bit flag in the mnemonic phrase that marks the phrase as being encrypted. This is done for UX reasons ...

Polyseed support (including encryption and seed offsets) falls into these groups: A) No Polyseed support at all. Example: official Monero GUI wallet B) Basic Polyseed support only, without encryption or seed offsets. Example: Skylight Wallet 1.0.8 C) Polyseed + seed offsets, but no encryption. Example: Feather Wallet D) Full support (Polyseed + seed offsets + encryption). Sole example so far: Cake Wallet Note: Monero’s legacy word list has 1,626 words. The new Polyseed uses the BIP-39 word list (2048 words) instead. I wrote about seed words here:

Monero vs. Bitcoin BIP 39 Seed Words

Friday Fun Facts for Monero Fans: An Answer to the XMRChat Question

💰 Use UNTRACEABLE CASH - physical or digital 🌱 Engage in the P2P parallel/circular ECONOMY 🚀 Become SOVEREIGN 🌐 DECENTRALIZE power 🕊️ Make WAR unaffordable

imo, "The first free national pager" was pinprick cipher in UK after 1840 ))) "A dot or pinprick concealment cipher is a common classical encryption method in which dot or pinprick is placed above or below certain letters in a piece of writing... ...Victorians used the pinprick trick too, not for spies but to dodge high postage fees (rates varied but often around a shilling per hundred miles or so for a letter before the 1840 Penny Post reforms). Newspapers mailed free, so they’d pinprick messages on the front page and send those instead of letters." I wrote abt it here:

Steganography 101: Hiding Wallet Seeds in Plain Sight

0.25 XMR Hidden Inside: An Improv Puzzle Response to an XMRChat Query on Watchman Privacy's Greeting Card Method

Obtainium + AppVerifier on GrapheneOS Your privacy will thank you for it 😊 Read this thread 👇 View quoted note →

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy (p. 77)

Taxes are just like weeds: you don't just 'cut' them - they grow back bigger. You have to ELIMINATE them!

Growth is not always visible

TIL: One can be shadowbanned on Nostr. Sad. View quoted note →

When I'm not sure what to read, I read a book that has been banned by some government(s) (like the ones listed here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments or similar). But digital / online books can easily be altered (I actually caught *at least* one instance and wrote about it here: aillia.substack.com/p/tolstoys-quote-censored-from-translation). So paper books matter: once printed, they're an immutable, uncensorable ledger! View quoted note →

I know I’m often seen as some Monero shill, but I’m not even really a 'crypto' person per se (unless by 'crypto' you mean cryptography :)). I find most of today’s 'crypto'… not my thing at all, outside of the OG ideas about escaping state control and separating money from the state. So, all you esteemed crypto projects, please don’t waste your precious, limited time in my DMs or under my posts as long as you’re trying to sit in two chairs with one butt, it’s not even about 'better tech.' I’ll join and fight alongside you as soon as the state cares enough to delist you/put an IRS bounty on your head/(try to) arrest your devs. And I sincerely, without sarcasm, wish you luck ♡

If you aim to disrupt the status quo, build pseudonymously, be like Satoshi. It’s lonelier, harder, and lacks podcast fame, but it’s your only chance to finish your work without imaginary entities wasting your limited lifetime on real struggles. Support those who tried openly🙏🧵 https://xcancel.com/lunarpunksquad/status/1892965716803940447

If you need nice charts about Monero adoption for normal things, we’ve got the premium collection: Monero Circular Economy: From Cypherpunk Hundreds to Sovereign Millions

Monero Circular Economy: From Cypherpunk Hundreds to Sovereign Millions

XmrBazaar's User Growth Chart: Freedom's Exponential Awakening Curve

XmrBazaar's Best-Selling Categories

XmrBazaar's Best-Selling Categories

That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen

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Why should it always be about DNMs? Why not about normal adoption for everyday things like XmrBazaar? https://cybernews.com/crypto/darknet-marketplaces-tap-top-privacy-coin-monero View quoted note →

Nice Monero bullpost

Monero in 2025: Persistent Use and Emerging Network-Layer Insights | TRM Blog

Monero remains active in illicit finance. Explore its evolving darknet role, overall adoption, and new insights on its peer-to-peer network behavior.

: "Monero’s transaction activity has stabilized at a higher baseline, suggesting sustained demand and regular use rather than episodic or speculative spikes." And that line about "While Monero is designed to resist tracing, behavioral and structural patterns — including exchange interactions and wallet clustering — can still support actionable insights." Translation: USE TOR. RUN NODE. 👇