Origin · philosophy · why now
A coin that refuses to know who you are.
Eleven years old. No premine, no founder reward, no on-chain identity. Built by a rotating cast of cypherpunks.
Private by default
Every transaction.
Bitcoin's privacy is opt-in and circumstantial. Monero's is mandatory at the protocol layer — every sender, recipient, and amount is hidden by construction.
Fungible by design
1 XMR ≡ 1 XMR.
No coin has a transparent history. Exchanges can't blacklist outputs because there are no addresses on chain to blacklist.
Permanent emission
0.6 XMR forever.
The tail emission keeps miners paid into deep time. There is no "security budget cliff" — the hearth stays lit.
Where to next?
Walk through every primitive that makes the privacy work, or dig into how Monero has survived a decade of pressure.