Guides from the people who check every MoneroDir entry by hand: which wallets to trust, how to get XMR, how the privacy works, and where to use it. Facts are checked and sources are listed under every article.
Wallets · 25 Oct 2026
We went through every wallet in our Wallets drawer and kept the ones that are open source, let you hold your own keys and are still maintained. Here is what each is good at, and the two you should move away from.
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Buying XMR
Binance, OKX and Kraken in Europe have all dropped XMR, and LocalMonero is gone. Here is where people actually get Monero now, what each route costs, and the mistakes that make a no-KYC purchase traceable anyway.
Privacy
Every year someone claims Monero has been cracked. We went through the actual cases, from the IRS bounty to the leaked Chainalysis video and the 2024 spam flood, to separate what the blockchain hides from what people give away around it.
Mining
Monero is still one of the few coins you can mine on an ordinary computer. Here is the setup we would use today, which P2Pool chain fits your hardware, what a desktop CPU actually earns, and what the Qubic episode changed.
VPNs
Paying for a VPN with a card ties your real name to the one service meant to hide your traffic. These providers take Monero, and most do not even want an email address. We checked each payment page in October 2026.