About Monero
Monero (XMR) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in April 2014 as a fork of Bytecoin. Unlike Bitcoin and most other public blockchains, Monero hides the sender, recipient, and amount of every transaction by default. This privacy-by-default design has made XMR a widely-used cryptocurrency for users who want fungible, censorship-resistant digital cash and for researchers studying on-chain privacy.
Monero uses ring signatures to obscure the true sender among a group of decoys, stealth addresses to keep recipients private, and RingCT to hide transaction amounts. The network is secured by the RandomX proof-of-work algorithm, which is optimised for general-purpose CPUs and resistant to ASIC mining. Monero has no fixed maximum supply: after the initial issuance schedule completes, a small 'tail emission' of 0.6 XMR per block continues indefinitely to ensure miners are always rewarded.
Monero's ecosystem is community-driven, coordinated through the open Monero Project and funded by the Community Crowdfunding System (CCS), which lets users propose and pay for development work directly in XMR. Self-custody wallets include the official GUI and CLI wallets, Cake Wallet, Feather, and Monerujo. XMR trades on a smaller set of exchanges than most majors due to regulatory pressure on privacy coins, but is widely supported by atomic-swap services and decentralized markets.
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