A curated list of awesome resources for the Monero crypto-currency
- Getting Started
- Official Websites
- Websites and blogs around XMR
- Communities
- Technical Documentation
- Mining
- Buying Monero
- Node
- Related Projects
- What is Monero? - From getmonero.org, the official website
- Moneropedia - Alphabetically sorted list of Monero terms, and their definitions
- Monero.how - Tutorials for Monero
- A Monero introduction for beginners - A nice article
- AVOID LIST - Website and services to avoid / scams
- Mastering Monero - Amazing book for everyone interested in Monero
- Zero to Monero - Second edition direct link from getmonero.org
- Getmonero.org - The official Monero website
- Lab.getmonero.org - The official research group of Monero
- Github Repos
- Monero Observer - Daily news about Monero, with weekly price analysis and monthly report, all without JS, cookies or trackers
- The Monero Standard - Weekly report on Monero
- The Monero Moon - Weekly newsletter about Monero
- Seth For Privacy - Privacy oriented blog maintained by Seth, a good Monero Bro
- Monerica - A directory for circular economy with Monero
- MoneRoar (onion link) - A directory for onion sites about XMR
- RPC documentation - RPC documentation of the Monero daemon
- Wallet documentation - Wallet documentation of the Monero daemon
- Cryptonote Whitepaper - White paper of cryptonote, the family of crypto-currencies of Monero
- Review of the Cryptonote White Paper - By the research lab of Monero
- Cryptonote Standards - The 10 Cryptonote standards (equivalent to BIPs for Bitcoin)
- Reddit - Official subreddit
- getmonero.org Forum - Official forum for Monero
- Community Crowdfunding System - Known as CCS here you'll see all the Monero project by the community, you can submit your ideas
- Stack Exchange
- Bitcointalk Thread
- Slack - Slack channels (mirrors of IRC channels)
- Lemmy - Lemmy community (Open source federated reddit alternative)
- IRC channels:
- #monero (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero)
- #monero-community (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-community)
- #monero-dev (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-dev)
- #monero-markets (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-markets)
- #monero-pools (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-pools)
- #monero-otc (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-orc)
- Telegram Group
- Official GUI Official GUI for Mac/Windows/Linux
- Official CLI Official CLI for Mac/Windows/Linux/BSD/Android
- Feather - Desktop wallet for Mac/Windows/Linux/Tails
- Monerujo - Mobile wallet for Android
- Cake Wallet - Mobile wallet for XMR and other cryptocurrencies for iOS/Android
- Monero.com - XMR only version of Cake Wallet for iOS/Android
- Mymonero.com - Web wallet of fluffypony, core dev of Monero
- Edge - A multi coin wallet for iOS/Android
- Cold Storage Tutorial - A nice complete tutorial on cold storage by monero.how
- Printable Monero Paper Wallet - Two good looking design to print yourself by themonera.art
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Mining Pools
- Moneropools.com - List of Monero pools
- Monerohash.com - US-based Monero pool
- Xmrpool.net
- Xmrpool.eu - Europe-based Monero pool
- Minexmr.com - The biggest, please don't join to avoid hashrate monopole
- Minemonero.pro
- Xmr-pool-choice - Tool to choose best monero pool
- CryptoNote.social - A small pool
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Mining Pool Software
- Node-cryptonote-pool - The original mining pool app for cryptonotes, with a front-end. Uses
Redis. - Cryptonote-universal-pool - Improved mining pool based on
node-cryptonote-pool. UsesRedisandMysql - Nodejs-pool - Improved mining pool based on
node-cryptonote-pool. UseslmdbandMysql - Poolui - Front-end for nodejs-pool. Uses
AngularJS
- Node-cryptonote-pool - The original mining pool app for cryptonotes, with a front-end. Uses
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Mining Software
- Sgminer-gm - GPU Miner. Uses
OpenCL - XmrMiner - GPU Miner. Uses
Cuda - Wolf-xmr-miner - GPU Miner. Uses
OpenCL - Cpuminer-multi - CPU Miner
- MoneroCart - The most easy mining tool for Mac/Windows
- csminer - Easy-to-use CLI miner for Monero providing "set it and forget it" background mining for Mac/Windows/Linux
- Sgminer-gm - GPU Miner. Uses
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Block Explorers
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With fiat
- Kraken - US-based exchange
- Poloniex - US-based exchange
- Bitfinex - Hong Kong-based exchange
- Litebit - Europe-based exchange
- LiveCoin - Europe-based crypto-currency buying platform
- Local Monero - Person-to-person Monero trading. Similar to LocalBitcoins
- Bity ATM - No KYC Cash to Crypto ATM based in Switzerland, started to export in Europe
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With Bitcoin (or other cryptocurrencies)
- OrangeFren - Compare the best deal to switch your crypto with XMR
- Shapeshift.io
- ChangeNOW
- Majestic Bank
- Fixed Float
- Exolix.com
- Stealthex.io
- Bisq.io
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BTC<->XMR Atomic Swap
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Guides
- How To Obtain Monero? - Tutorial from the official Monero forum
- How To Buy Monero? - Tutorial from monero.how
- Buy Monero With Bitcoin - Tutorial from moneroeric.com
- Tutorial
- Run a Monero Node (Advanced) - Tutorial by Seth For Privacy
- MONERO OFFICIAL FULLNODE VIA TOR WITH DOCKER-COMPOSE - Video tutorial from Luigi Tech
- Ressources
- PiNode XMR - Run a Monero node on a RaspberryPi
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Monero Projects
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Cryptonote Coins
- Map of Cryptonote Coins - Map showing the different cryptonote/bytecoin projects, and how they forked off each other
- Cryptonote.org - The official cryptonote website
- Cryptonote Starter - Tutorial to create your own Cryptonote coin
- Bytecoin - The first cryptonote implementation, was a scam :')
- FantomCoin - FantomCoin, allows merge mining with Monero
- Aeon - Aeon coin, a fork of Monero
- Digital Note