Straight answers about Monero — what its privacy actually protects, where the real weaknesses are, how seeds and wallets work, and how to run the whole stack yourself.
An honest look at what Monero's privacy actually hides, where the real weaknesses are, and what law enforcement has demonstrated versus merely claimed.
A plain-English walkthrough of the three technologies that make Monero private, why each is necessary, what they cost, and how a transaction uses all three.
Bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous. What each chain reveals, why mixing is not equivalent to Monero, and the honest trade-offs on both sides.
Why Monero is the last major coin you can mine on a normal CPU, how to set it up with XMRig and P2Pool, and the honest electricity arithmetic to do first.
How BTC to XMR atomic swaps work without scripting on the Monero side, why adaptor signatures make them possible, what the timelocks do, and the real risks.
The scams that actually take people's Monero: fake wallets, seed phishing, recovery services, clipboard hijackers, malicious nodes, and how to stop each.
MyMonero's browser wallet is no longer available. Your funds are safe — here's how to recover a 13-word seed and which Monero wallet to move to.
Why Monero has four seed phrase formats, what each one encodes, which wallets accept which, and why converting between them gives you a different wallet.
A light wallet server scans the blockchain with your view key. Exactly what that lets it see, what it cannot do, and whether the trade is acceptable.
What a restore height is, why guessing too high hides your transactions, how to work out the right block, and how to fix a wallet showing the wrong balance.
A practical guide to running monero-lws with monerod: hardware, ZMQ wiring, TLS, scanner threading, and the throughput limits nobody documents.