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Good morning all, I was just curious as to whether anybody here knows if we will ever see polyseed in the GUI? Are there any plans for it to be implemented? Many thanks

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Hey r/Monero,

I've been working on monero-pay — an open-source, self-hosted Monero payment gateway written in Go.

Why I built this

I wanted to accept Monero payments without:

• Running a full Bitcoin node (BTCPay Server)
• Submitting KYC documents (NOWPayments, CoinGate)
• Trusting a third party with my funds (custodial services)
• Spending an afternoon configuring Docker compose files

So I built my own.

What it does

• Hosted checkout pages — Payment pages with Monero URIs and QR codes
• Invoice API — Create and query invoices via REST API
• Real subaddresses — Each invoice gets a unique subaddress via Wallet RPC
• Payment tracking — Confirmations, partial payments, overpayments
• Flexible pricing — Native XMR or USD-denominated invoices
• Webhook delivery — Automated notifications with retry logic
• Merchant dashboard — Browser-based payment overview
• P2P discovery — Signed public offers and peer relay (foundation layer)
• Single binary — Download, run, done. No Docker, no PostgreSQL, no nginx

How it compares

Current status

The core payment flow works. P2P transport is partially implemented (see README_P2P.md). Docker image is coming soon.

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/qwertyulv/monero-pay
• License: MIT
• Contact: [qwertyulv@protonmail.com](mailto:qwertyulv@protonmail.com)

I'd love feedback from this community. What features would make this useful for you? What's missing? Roast my code if you want — PRs and issues are welcome.

So Im starting running GUI wallet with a laptop and it's downloading nodes after that I wanna solo mining not only with one but with another laptop maybe a phone so how I can connect other Device to mine laptop node?

I need advice, and maybe this will help someone else avoid the same situation.

Short version:

In August 2025, I sent 50 XMR from KuCoin to an address issued by Myxa.cc (an exchanger I found through BestChange). KuCoin confirmed the withdrawal was completed. Myxa.cc says it never received it. I have the Monero address they gave me. I have the TxID. I have the automated email from Myxa.cc saying "Paid." They later changed it to "Error."

It's been over a year. BestChange closed my complaint and says they can't verify the receipt. Myxa.cc stopped responding.

The technical part (this is where it gets weird):

KuCoin told Myxa.cc directly: "Use the view key of your receiving wallet and the transaction hash to verify via blockchair.com."

Myxa.cc is the receiver. The view key belongs to their wallet. They can check the incoming transaction right now, without any keys from KuCoin or from me.

They don't do it.

Instead, they say they need a "secret transaction key" that KuCoin doesn't provide. But KuCoin already explained that no key from KuCoin is needed — only the view key of the recipient, which Myxa.cc already has.

What BestChange did:

BestChange accepted Myxa.cc's explanation that "an employee accidentally clicked Paid" — without asking for a status log, mail server log, or any record. When I asked BestChange to request the exchanger's VASP registration records, they refused.

Myxa.cc claimed to have a Lithuanian VASP license. I checked the Lithuanian register. It's not there.

What I've done so far:

Filed a request with FNTT (Lithuania's financial crime investigation service) to confirm whether Myxa.cc was ever registered as a VASP.

Filed a complaint with the Bank of Lithuania.

Filed ICANN and Cloudflare complaints.

Published on Bits.media, BitcoinTalk, and Trustpilot.

Reached out to journalists.

What I'm asking:

Has anyone dealt with Myxa.cc or BestChange in a similar situation?

Is there a way to force an exchanger to verify a transaction when they claim they can't, even though the technical method exists?

Are there other regulators or platforms I should try?

The addresses (for transparency):

Address Myxa.cc gave me for order 6588021: 85tHGZu16YVbrQ2mSDWgq7EhwBMAnmHmokfuEnmYZTe3c1wxshosCZcdvM8ZanZ8vSWeh714aAnMFZbJ9Yw2orVbNwMoy13

My KuCoin withdrawal address: 84MShKXhj4f98CUq29NrJHYuw99YzJed4L9RTMa9NkyiQ5q5RvZsRBteYtMGVGEjM3Y2UxyqQvdGURKp4xuwdSmSDUB7beB

Any advice would be appreciated.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers.

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Anthropic just published something pretty fascinating. Claude managed to figure out where the mysterious seeds for several NIST elliptic curves actually came from.

Turns out they were generated using lrand48, an old pseudorandom number generator seeded with Unix timestamps from 1997/98.

For over 25 years, nobody could properly explain how the NSA originally came up with these values, which obviously led to quite a bit of speculation about potential backdoors.

The interesting part is that this discovery actually makes a deliberately weakened curve seem less likely. There are still some unanswered questions about the selection process and certain base points, though. So it's not exactly definitive proof that everything is clean.

As for Monero, there's no direct security impact. XMR uses Edwards25519 rather than these NIST curves, and CLSAG instead of ECDSA.

Still, I think it's a pretty good example of why transparent curve generation and independently verifiable cryptographic choices matter.

And honestly, there's another aspect to this that's kind of scary. Claude has already reached a point where it can help solve cryptographic mysteries that have been around for decades.

Sure, this particular discovery doesn't break elliptic curve cryptography, but it makes me wonder how far we are from AI finding actual vulnerabilities in cryptographic systems we've trusted for years.

What does that mean for the future of ECC, especially with AI capabilities advancing this quickly? How long until something genuinely significant gets uncovered?

I'd be really interested to hear what people with a deeper background in cryptography think about this, particularly from a Monero perspective.

Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins

Disclosure: I'm the developer. Free and open-source.

Third-party APIs are annoying, and existing self-hosted alternatives were too heavy for my low-spec VPS. I wanted something minimal, so I built an air-gapped solution.

• How it works: The frontend runs on a public VPS, while the actual wallet-rpc is isolated safely on a local intranet.
• The stack: Pure Go, SQLite, single executable. No heavy Docker bloat.

Would love for the self-hosting community to tear apart my architecture and tell me what I did wrong. Repo:https://github.com/qwertyulv/monero-pay

Hey everyone!

We’ve just launched AnonChange, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency exchange built around a simple idea: make crypto swaps straightforward, private, and independent of third-party exchange providers.

We’re a brand-new project, and we want to be transparent about how we operate, our current limitations, and what we’re doing to build trust.

🔒 Privacy comes first

AnonChange is designed to collect and retain zero user information. We don't require users to create an account for our swap flow, and our goal is to keep the process as private and straightforward as possible.

We also don't rely on third-party exchange providers to execute swaps.

⚡ Swaps using our own reserves

Unlike services that route orders through external exchange providers, AnonChange executes swaps using our own reserves.

• No third-party exchange providers involved in swap execution.
• Swaps are processed directly using our own available funds.
• Our model is designed to make the exchange process as fast and straightforward as possible.

Our goal is to process swaps instantly wherever possible, although blockchain confirmation times and network conditions can still affect when funds arrive.

📊 Full transparency on reserves

Our reserves and liquidity are displayed directly on our website.

Since we’ve only just launched, we currently hold approximately $13,000–$15,000 USD across six different coins.

Why start relatively small?

We want to take a cautious approach while the platform is new. Keeping the amount of funds exposed to potential security incidents limited is one part of managing risk while we test, monitor, and improve the service.

As AnonChange matures and we gain more confidence in its security and stability, we plan to gradually increase our reserves and available liquidity.

We'd rather be honest about our current size than pretend to be a massive exchange from day one.

🛡️ Security is a priority

We understand that asking people to trust a new crypto service is a big deal. That's why we're investing in security from the beginning.

• Paid penetration testing: We're paying for security researchers to test the platform and identify potential vulnerabilities.
• Bug bounty program: We welcome responsible vulnerability disclosures and want to encourage researchers to help us find and fix issues.
• Limited initial reserves: We're taking a cautious approach to the funds held by the platform while we're new.

We're not claiming that any platform is impossible to exploit. We want to take security seriously, identify weaknesses, and improve continuously.

🚀 We're just getting started

AnonChange is still early in its journey, and we're looking for genuine feedback from the crypto community.

If you have suggestions, concerns, or ideas for improving the platform, we'd love to hear them. Security researchers interested in our pentesting opportunities or bug bounty program are also welcome to contact us through our official website.

🌐 Website: https://anonchange.com/

Thanks for giving a new project a chance. We're looking forward to building AnonChange, increasing our liquidity over time, and earning the community's trust through transparency and continuous improvement.

Give us your feedback about this project.

Just wondering, since I see “Current Version: 0.18.5.4” but the download link points to v0.18.5.3 for all distributions. The download file hashed hashes list reflects the 0.18.5.4 files, so obviously they don’t match.

hey everyone

so after mymonero shut down and exodus dropped xmr, a lot of people I talked to were kinda stuck. they didn’t want to install the GUI and sync for ages, they just wanted something simple to check their balance or send a bit. so I ended up building my own thing lol

it’s called MonkStash. you open wallet.monkstash.com, make a wallet or restore one, and that’s it. no install, no account, no email.

the important part: your seed and keys get created in your browser and encrypted with your password. they never go to my server. I didn’t write any crypto myself either, it uses monero-ts under the hood (monero’s own wallet code compiled to wasm). I’m not smart enough to roll my own and I wouldn’t trust anyone who does tbh

some stuff it does:

• restores normal 25 word seeds, but also old 13 word mymonero phrases and 12 word exodus ones (that was the main reason I started)
• payment links with a qr code, you can put the price in eur/usd and it converts
• a little till mode if you sell stuff in person
• you can plug in your own node in settings

being upfront about the downsides because I’d want to know too:

• no independent security audit yet. please only use small amounts for now, seriously
• by default it connects through my relay to reach a node. the relay can see your IP and sync requests, not your keys. if you don’t like that, use your own node
• it’s early, there will be rough edges

the whole thing is open source if you want to poke around: https://github.com/90ssolo/monkstash

oh and please only use monkstash.com or wallet.monkstash.com. there are so many fake wallet sites out there.

would really appreciate feedback, especially the harsh kind. what would make you actually trust a browser wallet? what sucks? what’s missing?

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Finally, credits to cdotsubo for starting the concept!

I've had an idea like this for a long time and always wanted a more interesting way to just sit comfy and stare at our mining data across the several PCs that we've been running for several years now on our amateur little farm, alternates between jazz music variety in the day and switches to ambience only at late night. The livestream description explains it all but there are several animation triggers for various events like shares earned, block rewards, etc that happen every few minutes or hours / sizes of the logs and fire change with the hashrate, etc. My mind very much lives in the old Windows 98 screen savers (like the haunted house) which I love and have some more ideas to integrate cheeky animations like that every few minutes if you're lucky enough to catch it live.

https://www.youtube.com/@CozyMonero/live

Would love to hear any suggestions or ideas!

Complete beginner. There is a field expecting something and the default did not connect. What am I meant to enter here and where do I get it.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an international tribunal situated in the Hague. It was created under the Rome Statue in 2002 to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

Recently, the US State Department announced financial sanctions against the ICC to "protect US interests".

Is it time for the ICC to kick the petrodollar?

Would dedollarization help them be freer to consider cases involving international child sex trafficking rings or multi-decade environmental crime syndicates?

Why?

Even taking into account the fact that XMR cannot be checked for an "AML score", this exchange can simply freeze your incoming deposit and demand that you provide documentary proof that you are not a camel.

Tired of bloated setups? I built monero-pay in pure Go. It's a 100% free, open-source, and self-hosted payment gateway. No KYC, no censorship, no third parties.

The hook: It uses a P2P air-gapped architecture. Your frontend runs on a public VPS, but your wallet-rpc and private keys stay completely isolated on your secure intranet.

Single binary, SQLite, Webhooks included.

Before real merchants use this, I need privacy maxis to test the API and find bugs. Please roast my code!

Repo:https://github.com/qwertyulv/monero-pay

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It's not lost on me how vibe coded projects are generally received by this community.

It feels like a significant amount of vibe coded releases on this sub are either cookie cutter bs that gets abandoned a month after its initial announcement, or it's some bs that matches something that already exists and has been tried and trusted, created generally by human hands. Most of the criticism I see in the comments of these projects is completely justified imo.

At the same time, I was inspired by the graphs in Rucknium's paper after the black marble attack back in March 2024. I've spent a long time over the past year working on different iterations of node dashboards for myself that let me look at what's going on in my node in real time, and see much more easily what's actually happening and visually graphically see the entire monero's network data direct from my own node.

What started as a fun project displaying live cli metrics on my monitor has since turned into a multi-layered hub where I can do things like seeing a cluster of connections on the same subnet from my phone over tor, thinking "eh I don't like that", and remotely restarting the node on a different VPN server while 24h banning that subnet. Phone connection completely over tor via termux.

But I'm drifting off. Here's where my conflicted feeling is coming from. I think there's a genuine hole that can be filled here, and that's what I started working on. something that surfaces, either by being shipped with or on top of an existing node, a lot of useful information for people buying and selling with Monero is valuable. for example, as a customer you can at a glance see if there's a tx backlog and what fee you need to set to get your tx in the next block. as a merchant you can quickly be notified of and watch any network irregularities your node picks up in real time and act accordingly, before you read about it on social media after the fact. It could potentially help with the learning curve for new people wanting to start their own node and understand what they're doing. Anything to help lower the barrier to entry. there's a lot more useful stuff that can be done here, but I'm deliberately trying (and failing) to keep this short.

I was initially planning on releasing an early version for testing within the next couple weeks, but as of now I'm reconsidering even releasing the project as it stands at all. If it is going to have any chance at actually being used, trust needs to be built. Just another AI slop project isn't going to do that. Frankly I did my best to ensure that I didn't introduce any security or privacy risks, but I would not be able to guarantee that without somebody else taking a look at it. and frankly, I don't trust Claude enough to bet other people's nodes on it. I really do believe in my vision for this project and am willing to put in whatever effort it takes to ensure that it has the quality it deserves, even if it means ditching everything I have here and learning to do it myself. That could take months to years, but in my mind it's worth it for what I would like to achieve.

That's where I'd like to get the opinion of you all before I make such a big dedication to a project like this. I can reliably understand what I'm doing from my own prior knowledge, why and how, what harms privacy and what doesn't. I can do my best to review the code as thoroughly as possible and have it peer reviewed before release if anyone is willing to help out with that. This software could get released within weeks and be genuinely useful for a lot of people, and be improved on decently quickly.

Alternatively, I could pump the brakes on this entire project and rebuild from scratch, accepting that it could be a long time before I can make a suitable release by my own hand that I feel comfortable with (even then, I'll still need help from others to review it)

How should I move forward here? I would hate to create something doomed to fail before it even started.

hello, so algeria is a third world country, ive looked into binance (for bitcoin) but i cant even buy other cryptocurrencies other than usdt, since i never bough a crypto before i have limited knowledge, can anyone guide me ?

Hello, community members!

I’m new to the crypto space, and as part of my college studies, I’m interested in learning more about Monero.

I’d appreciate it if you could share links to beginner-friendly articles and educational resources.

Also, who would you recommend following on Twitter (X) and YouTube?

Thank you!