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Hi stashers. Solo dev from Switzerland here. Since February I run kashilo.com, a classifieds site (think Craigslist / Kleinanzeigen) built for people who want to buy and sell real goods with Monero and without handing over an identity. What it does today: No email, no phone, no name. Your account…
One thing is clear: the golden age of decentralized Monero liquidity is upon us. The way it was supposed to be all along. Liquidity isn't about whether you can buy Monero. If every country on Earth banned Monero, and every exchange delisted it, anyone would still be able to trade Monero anywhere in…
Incoming Zcash/ZODL scandal: $589k frozen after Zcash swapped through Near Intents. The user had been ghosted for 50 days before getting a response a few days ago on the Zcash forum from ZODL, saying that they can't comment on the matter (attached). twitter.com/unstoppablebyhs/status/2098401182980931644
Our very generous anon donor has sent us additional donations and overpaid posting fees (split between rewards and ops). First of all thank you, mysterious Stasher supporter! Second of all, I'm leaving it to a vote to you guys, if the entire amount should be distributed all at once as planned this…
The Stash #02: How does a ring signature work? Level: Intermediate Reading time: \~25–30 min Last verified: 6 Nov 2026 Version covered: Monero v0.18.5.4 "Fluorine Fermi" (GitHub release ) Scope: This article is based on the original CryptoNote v2.0 ring signature (2013). Quick heads-up before we…
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view from the summit is always the same. Chinese proverb There are roughly 18 established routes up Mount Everest. More than 95% of every recorded summit has come by just two of them: almost every human who has ever stood on the top chose one…
living for decades with ostomy bag is sad dying while doing what you love is not
First published July 5, 2018 Came across this essay on the internets, hope it educates you the reader as much as it educated me. I admit I used to believe in Bitcoin. I was one of its most naïve and vehement apologists to friends, family members, and complete strangers (online). This was all before…
Share your recommended Christmas gifts for 2026 that can be purchased with Monero. Follow this formula: Name: (of item / service) Category: (Food, Games, Tech, etc.) Region: (where can people order this?) Link: (to store where a purchase can be made in XMR) Note: (share a personal thought or review…
Welcome to Stasher. With this post, I want to introduce you to the funniest game powered by Monero, a privacy coin you can earn and spend to create insightful posts and thoughtful comments. I discovered Monero a long time ago, forgot about it, and this game gave me an opportunity to dust off my…
The Stash #01: What Monero Hides, and What It Doesn't Level: Intermediate Reading time: \~10 min Last verified: 26 Oct 2026 Version covered: Monero v0.18.5.4 "Fluorine Fermi" (GitHub release ) Contents In short Scenario Stop 1: Exchange Stop 2: Swap Stop 3: Payment Deadly zone: network and OPSEC…
Daily Ops v2: Daily Ops have proven to be a great secondary incentive and way to help newcomers get started using and learning Stasher News. We wanted to flesh-out the idea a bit more and reward long streaks. Boost credits from the flame streak milestones are now worth 0.00025 XMR worth of ranking…
For those who do not know: Nikolai was a true builder and one of the last genuine cypherpunks in crypto. He focused on elegant, permissionless, corruption-resistant systems rather than hype, profit, or personal branding. As one tribute put it, he spent his life crafting tools to realize a vision of…
today is Nikolai Mushegian's (@delete_shitcoin) 33rd birthday. here's to a genius who dared to see things for what they are and call them by their true names—and, most importantly, when he saw something wrong, he built the tools to make it right. Nikolai was a builder in the…
This is a video I came across and though the speaker is crass, he makes a great point of linking the psychographic profiles of medieval folklore with modern internet culture. In fact, the way he describes things kind of reminds me of @Alaskanon 😂 He outlines how "manifestations" of certain online…
I've been building monostr for a few weeks: an Android Nostr client where the "zap" is a Monero tip. No Lightning, no custodian, no KYC wallet in the middle. How it works: you register your primary address and private view key with a watcher (the same trust model as stasher.news, which is where I…
I have come to suspect that to most people thinking is painful. Some of us are addicted to thinking. Some of us find it a necessity. Johnny enjoyed it. I even have the suspicion that he enjoyed almost nothing else. -- Edward Teller, eulogizing John von Neumann I listened to Ananyo Bhattacharya's…
Hi While reading the discussion under Whats next at Stasher, what direction shall we move in? , I realized it was time to try something I've had on my mind for a while. One thing stood out in the comments: people want content that's worth reading and worth bookmarking and coming back to.…
Great episode with Jeffro and Doug to get the latest updates from a Monero dev on the devs path to FCMP++ The GAANT chart is also great visual aid to follow whats currently happening Timestamps: 0:00 Intro and sponsors (Cake Wallet, Stealth EX) 1:00 Catch-up: family life, NY governor's race,…
You NEED to SELL your XMR NOWWW: 10-block lock Devs are feds Inflation bugs Infinite supply ZCash is better CIA tracks it already Mining is not profitable Governments will ban it 51% attacks will break it Unfair early distribution Bitcoin Lightning is better CARROT breaks fungibility Devs…
I. The Delusion of “Adjective Capitalism” versus The Reality of Propertarianism, Praxeology, and the Parasitic Anatomy of State Interventionism In contemporary political and academic discourse, it has become fashionable to blame every socio-economic pathology caused by government intervention on…
We all know the idea of separating money from the state. The Myth of the Rule of Law by John Hasnas was the first time I saw someone try the harder cut IRL (non-fiction): separating law / lawmaking from the state. (The real first time I ran into the idea was in Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh…
The Weekly Hávamál On this Wednesday (Woden's day (Odin)), I come to share with you the first stanza of the Hávamál. The Hávamál is said to be wisdom transmitted directly from Odin to his people. The composition of this work is thought to be a combination of 3-6 poems. Regardless of whether you…
For people who already know what and why we need better OPSEC. We have been operating under an assumption that doxxing comes with high costs and requires intensive resources. And that deanonymisation is possible but expensive, that linking a forum account to a real identity takes a skilled…
There’s a rounded value heuristic (often discussed in Bitcoin privacy) which is inherited by any public chain, including non-shielded Zcash. This isn’t the case when values are hidden, especially for Monero and any shielded Zcash (or future shielded Bitcoin). A pool boundary… twitter.com/yfarmx/status/2109671242458358176