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Educational resources
Books, podcasts, video courses, newsletters — Monero-first, but also the broader privacy / OPSEC / Bitcoin canon. Free resources tagged FREE; paid courses get the price summary in the fees field.
last reviewed 2026-05-13
› Educational resources » Foundational 2Free 300-page book by SerHack — the canonical reference for understanding XMR end-to-end.
Free PDF · paperback ~$30 on Amazon
Technical deep-dive into XMR cryptography by koe + Sarang Noether + others.
Free PDF · ~250 pages
Open audits + research papers on Monero, Firo, Salvium and other privacy protocols.
Free · public archive
Weekly Monero community + tech podcast by Doug Tuman, Tristan, and Sunita.
Free · listener-funded
Academic + community research papers on XMR cryptography. Heavyweight reading.
Free · academic archive
Live XMR price + exchange "weather" — which engines are healthy right now.
Free · no signup
Series by Sarang Noether walking through historical XMR weaknesses + how each was fixed.
Free · 12 episodes on YouTube
Annual conference. Archive of every talk from 2019 onward — protocol, OPSEC, policy.
Free · archive only, conference ticket separate
Weekly Monero ecosystem digest — protocol news, CCS, dev updates.
Free · email signup or web archive
Q&A site for Monero — protocol, wallets, mining, dev. Best place to ask before bothering #monero-dev.
Free · reading anonymous · email signup to post
Community-driven privacy + OPSEC reference — covers email, DNS, browsers, mobile, threat models.
Free · community-maintained · accepts XMR donations
EFF's threat-model-driven OPSEC guides. Foundational reading for any privacy practitioner.
Free · EFF-maintained
Workgroup behind the most-shared 'Why Monero?' / 'Sound Money' explainers. Translation-first.
Free · CC-licensed · multi-language
Comparative directory of swap services. Long-running independent reference for no-KYC exchanges.
Free · open-source · long-running
Web-rendered logs of the Monero dev IRC + Matrix rooms. Read what core devs are actually discussing.
Free · web · searchable · public log