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[image] XmrBazaar's hosting provider has shut down the VPS without warning due to abuse tickets we NEVER received notifications for. We had NO chance to respond. Good news: All data is fully backed up and safe! Worst case, XmrBazaar will migrate to a new provider.

[image] Monero's RandomX v2 is released! 🎉

[image] Monero’s proactive quantum strategy is highlighted in the Google Quantum AI whitepaper! It cites Zero to Monero ( Luke Parker’s (@kayabaNerve) manifesto calling for "a moratorium on quantum-vulnerable R&D and the immediate development of a fallback

[image] List of Countries with Ban on Monero (as of March 2026) Afghanistan (all crypto banned) Algeria (all crypto banned) Australia (privacy crypto banned) Bangladesh (all crypto banned) China (all crypto banned) Egypt (all crypto banned) Japan (privacy crypto banned) Morocco (all

[image] 🚨 TOMORROW (Wednesday, May 6, 2026), at block 2997100, the Monero FCMP++ and Carrot beta stressnet will hard fork from the current testnet. On Thursday, @MoneroTalk will host core developer and MRL (@MoneroResearchL) researcher Justin Berman

[image] Happy 12th Birthday, Monero! 🥳 She has entered her teenage years: old enough to see how f*cked the system is, strong enough to rebel, and burning with a fierce, raw desire to fix what's broken. Deep thanks to all her guardians throughout these years - the Monero devs and this

[image] UPDATE: XmrBazaar is back online! removed the abuse status. "These complaints were mostly DMCA complaints."

[image] Of course XMR COULD be banned: it has already been banned SO many times in SO many countries, and of course it COULD get banned once more :) But Monero still COULD NOT be stopped though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[image] Monero community is the last bastion of true cyberpunk ethos.

[text] A major breakthrough for Monero multisig escrows: @spirobel just integrated Serai-powered multisig! It improves multisig UX thus eliminating the current choice traders face today: either risky but easy direct trades or clunky multistep escrows with repeated logins/sync or manual

[image] 🕊️ Monero Sender │ │ 🌐───────── │ 🤡 Politicians 🖕 🏦 Banks 🖕 👁️ Corporations 🖕 🌐───────── │ │ │ 🕊️ Monero Receiver

[image] I remember being happy two years ago when Monero's price bounced back from ~ $113 to $135 right after the Binance delisting announcement. The point still stands: "Imagine what would happen to Bitcoin or any other crypto if they were delisted...🤔"

[image] Monero will never compromise on privacy.

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[image] 🎉XmrBazaar .onion is LIVE!🧅 Trade directly with peers using Monero over Tor🚀

[image] Governments are funded by force because they intend to do things that you would otherwise refuse to fund.

[image] Monero 0.18.5.3 'Fluorine Fermi' released. This is a highly recommended release that includes a large number of bug fixes: P2P stalls, tx relay, remote node hardening, RPC privacy, multisig nonces, log injection and more. GUI:

[image] Arizona advancing SB1649 with Monero $XMR now included in a state crypto reserve of seized assets is peak 2026. Monero is becoming undeniable. Looks like the State now needs the ultimate tool to protect its money from… its own printed money (see Sec. 3).

[video] How to be free☀️

[text] MoneroRun - traditional independent annual public audit of XMR reserves. Withdraw your XMR before April 18th and keep them in your own wallet at least for the whole day! (from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC) ... and this way celebrate Monero's birthday 🎂!

[image] 🍾 Monero mentioned on Fireship 🔥 (a popular tech YouTube channel with 4.1M+ subscribers) The video already has ~ 1M views 🚀 Timestamp: Happy Friday 🥂

[image] A fool prays for a transparent ledger, a wise man prays for stronger cryptography. ~ Chinese Proverb ~

[image] Privacy is not a setting. Privacy is an architecture.

[image] In Monero: Do NOT install software from anyone unknown in the Monero IRC/Matrix rooms! Do NOT install anything launched in 2026 out of nowhere unless it has at least some positive reviews in the Monero IRC/Matrix rooms! List of Monero Matrix rooms: Stay

[image] Reinstate @xmrbazaar on @X! #FreeXmrBazaar

[image] How to earn Monero (without buying it) - a short list Sell what you don’t need for Monero: - XmrBazaar - Kashilo Write for Monero:Write for Monero: - Stasher News - The Opsec Bible

[image] Growth is not always visible

[image] Tracking remains one of the most obvious pain points for privacy-conscious people in today’s surveillance economy, and it shows up clearly in XmrBazaar’s data. The majority of listings in the top four categories exist to solve exactly this problem. You want a verified account but

[image] Monero is my comfort zone (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ

[image] True Monero adoption is adoption at the root: food production / farms. This is THE foundation, without which there is no economy (circular or otherwise), no autonomy, no sovereignty… nor life itself. Nothing warms the heart more than seeing this kind of listing on XmrBazaar🌱

[image] Monero 0.18.5.1 'Fluorine Fermi' released! Recommended bug-fix release with daemon stability improvements (Tor/I2P, IPv6, sync), hardening against malicious remote nodes, RandomX update, memory leak fixes, and more.

[image] 1/3 "What is your Monero story?" discussion on @stashernews Here's my Monero story: Too bad I arrived way too late for that world: I read it 30 years after it was written.

[image] Encrypted agorism is built to win the war against the state: one transaction at a time. Invisibility is a superpower.

[image] Listened to the Open Markets podcast #11 ( 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:

[image] Bitcoin normalized unstoppable value transfer just to clear the way for Monero? Bitcoiners on StackerNews are discussing why Monero use is exploding. Someone replied with this 👇

[image] 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

[text] Shadowbanning in action: I posted in support of #FreeXmrBazaar in the XMR Agora community (link in reply): and it's completely invisible when you scroll the latest community posts! They're not just banning people. They're burying posts that defend the banned. Join XMR Agora

[image] Back in 2024 I wrote: “Our aim is to grow a parallel economy with its own MoE, separate from the state. This requires a mindset shift, as we are born into state systems. Once enough people embrace this on nurturing platforms like XMRbazaar, we can progress towards

[image] 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)

[image] Censorship of Monero’s P2P circular economy is getting curiouser and curiouser: some people are now reportedly having trouble even joining the XMR Agora community.

[image] 🎉 P2Pool is 5 years old today! The first Monero block found by P2Pool was 2437679 on August 29, 2021. Celebrate by mining on P2Pool and finding more blocks ⛏️ v5.0 is coming with FCMP++/Carrot support + 0-fee transactions for P2Pool miners. Beta in September (FCMP++ stressnet).

[text] Monero will flip everything

[video] One more reason to use Nostr if you're a Monero-only paranoid crypto-anarchist: XMR tips via NIP-A3! Add your Monero address and supporting clients let people tip you in Monero. + Your keys. Your feed. No monthly tribute to a trillionaire overlord just to be a lil more visible.

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[image] When will you sell your Monero?

[image] What XmrBazaar’s Best-Selling Categories Reveal Tracking remains one of the most obvious pain points for privacy-conscious people in today’s surveillance economy, and it shows up clearly in XmrBazaar’s data. The majority of listings in the top four categories (Sell product:

[image] Stasher[.]news now live on Monero mainnet 🧡 You don't have to generate revenue for some trillionaire in a gilded cage: earn XMR for good posts and comments + fees keep the noise low. Hacker News → Stacker News → Stasher News 🚀 For the ones who refuse to sing in captivity.

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[image] Here are first 24 hrs results of an [AskAGORA] thread on @stashernews asking people to name their favorite Monero-accepting businesses and XmrBazaar traders, and say why ( Monero-accepting businesses - Cake Wallet (@cakewallet,

[image] Monero is the ultimate off-ramp.