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Monero
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This is the lemmy community of Monero (XMR), a secure, private, untraceable currency that is open-source and freely available to all.
Wallets
Android (Cake Wallet) / (Monero.com)
iOS (Cake Wallet) / (Monero.com)
Instance tags for discoverability:
Monero, XMR, crypto, cryptocurrency
founded 2 years ago
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Proton VPN will add Monero as a payment option by the end of Summer 2025
(protonmail.uservoice.com)
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Proton.me will accept Monero for a VPN payments by the end of this Summer (2025)
(protonmail.uservoice.com)
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For this release I made sure that the various NoShore tools can be run side-by-side on the same machine, as the same user.
This means that you can now team up ghost and gate locally to use them together with a tower-instance, local or remote.
The commands you need in order to issue a transaction can look like this:
gate dest 888tNkZrPN6JsEgekjMnABU4TBzc2Dt29EPAvkRxbANsAnjyPbb3iQ1YBRk1UXcdRsiKc9dhwMVgN5S9cQUiyoogDavup3H
gate cost 0.1776
ghost trigger
That's the boring way, though. Ever wondered how come no website ever provides you a complete string you can just copy and paste to your Monero CLI - like transfer 888tNkZrPN6JsEgekjMnABU4TBzc2Dt29EPAvkRxbANsAnjyPbb3iQ1YBRk1UXcdRsiKc9dhwMVgN5S9cQUiyoogDavup3H 0.1776?
While we keep wondering, NoShore handles this gracefully for us, allowing websites to keep doing their thing.
Let's say they prompt for payment like this: "Send 0.1776 Monero to 888tNkZrPN6JsEgekjMnABU4TBzc2Dt29EPAvkRxbANsAnjyPbb3iQ1YBRk1UXcdRsiKc9dhwMVgN5S9cQUiyoogDavup3H". Instead of plumbing together the corresponding transfer-command, simply have gate handle it:
gate scan "Send 0.1776 Monero to 888tNkZrPN6JsEgekjMnABU4TBzc2Dt29EPAvkRxbANsAnjyPbb3iQ1YBRk1UXcdRsiKc9dhwMVgN5S9cQUiyoogDavup3H"
It will discard anything useless, tell you what remained and set dest and cost accordingly.
For added serenity you can run gate help to see the parameters once again before you execute ghost trigger just as before.
And now for the geeks: QR code scanning++
(as if NoShore wasn't geeky by design :)
Run scan without parameters, use your camera and process a string like the one from the previous example directly from a QR code:
# As seen in this post's image
gate scan
Currently, this is Termux-only, but it can work just as well with your PC's camera.
Installation
To activate all of the above, be sure to clone the current version, v0.2.0:
git clone --branch v0.2.0 \
https://git.sr.ht/~fullmetalscience/noshore \
~/xmr.zone/noshore
Remember to install the optional dependencies as suggested by gate setup.
Why use NoShore as Wallet?
Efficiency, for starters: No sync wait, no battery use - just three commands that sign as fast as tower can plug together the outputs of a new transaction.
Then, having NoShore as daily Monero-driver boosts its development by noticing bugs early.
There's also the configurable donation on tower (just grep for "donate"), so simply using the tool already motivates development.
And finally, if we want merchants to start adopting the concept for payments, we better have our side of the deal in place.
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Did you know that there are 14 supernodes that form the beating heart of Monero's network?
Listen closely and you will hear their tune.
Can you hear it?
As soon as you get your node online, they are never very far away.
Look at your friends, look at the friends of your friends. You have already found a few of them!
Watch! They sing sweet, and most importantly, they open their ears and listen to the songs of so many of their friends.
Without tiring, time and time again, they meet new friends and let those new friends start singing, joining the chorale.
You see, that is actually what makes them special. They unselfishly open their ears to listen to so many friends.
Too few are the friends willing and ready to do that nowadays...
They sing sweet, and you know them directly, or your friends know them.
Don't be shy, you can get closer and watch them all chant. That's the song I was talking about earlier.
If you ask me, this is the heartbeat of the network.
How do I know all that, you ask? The sorceress of the High Rains showed it all to me.
Mind you, I can't do that kind of divination, I am a priest of the degen spirit.
I was the Monerokon powwow, and many priests, sorcerers and magicians were coming off their trances
to show us the results of their divinations. It was magnificent!
You weren't there, it seems. That's ok. Just come one of the next times.
Anyway, you are lucky. Our sorceress of the High Rains even made a picture, just so you can admire them every time you feel like it.
Here, take a look. Aren't they beautiful?
Fascinating! Isn't it? They look like 14 beating hearts of the network, 14 unsung champions of the symphony. They lead the chorale and give the rhythm of the spectacle.
They are important. Maybe, too important? In a way, this play starts to look quite fragile, doesn't it? What would happen if one of them stopped singing and listening? What would happen if all of them stopped? Would that be the end? Would the little nodes be forever cut off from their friends in other neighborhoods? Would the whole symphony just stop and disintegrate into noise and chaos?
I am also a bit worried about that. Don't worry, the sorceress of the High Rains assured me that the network's symphony is robust, and I shouldn't worry too much for now.
Still, I would feel better, and it would be better if me too, I could get in with my little node, open my ears to listen, just like them, and sing with all my little voice.
You can join me, you know?
Most little friends in the chorale don't know how to listen, they can only sing.
We have to show them how to listen. When they see us do it, they will learn and start listening too!
Let's make our little nodes, let them listen to their friends, let them sing, let the music play on, let the music take control...
From the Sorceress of the High Rains:
https://arxiv.org/html/2504.15986v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2504.17809v1
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With some delay but much dedication the first version of NoShore is now completed.
Its concept is to make payments simpler for end-users by transferring some of the burden to merchants and back-ends.
The back-end prepares transactions, so that all that remains to do for the user's device is to sign them.
While, technically, this allows users to stay offline throughout the process, it is important to understand that the reasoning for going this route is not security.
Instead, it is to reduce complexity, so that Monero may become accessible to broader audiences apart from tech-enthusiasts.
The section "The Big Picture" on the project site describes what NoShore's usage could look like once fully developed.
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All transactions are conducted on SimpleX – visit our Bitcointalk thread to get the connection link.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5539912.msg65327242#msg65327242 –
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Note: I always provide letters of guarantee during our swaps. You can obtain one when we conduct a swap, and verify its authenticity using our public key.
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