Guides
Plain-English explainers. Each guide funnels into the directory so you can act on it. Grouped by topic — start with whichever matches what you're trying to do.
Start here — Foundation reading before you spend anything.
Privacy stack — Browser, network, and wallet hardening.
Browser hardening, onion vs clearnet trade-offs, wallet+Tor configuration, and the pitfalls (JS, fingerprinting, exit-node bias) that break the privacy you came for.
Short list of VPNs that take crypto, accept anonymous signup, and don't make you flash ID. Picks from the xmr.club rubric.
Three independent ways to confirm an onion address actually belongs to the operator — Onion-Location header, signed key fingerprint, and direct PGP-attested links.
Self-custody — Picking, verifying, and protecting your wallet.
Mobile, desktop, or hardware? Hot vs cold, view-key vs full custody. The decision tree + xmr.club picks for each path.
GPG signature check, hash verification, reproducible builds — the standard procedures for confirming a wallet download is what the project signed, not what an attacker swapped in.
Subaddresses per payee, view-key disclosure trade-offs, integrated addresses, and the receive-side mistakes that link your payments together on chain.
Paper wallets, view-only wallets, hardware wallets, multisig. Which is right for which threat model + amount, and the mistakes that quietly drain you a year later.
Why a personal node is the upgrade most XMR users skip, what hardware/bandwidth it needs, and the bootstrap, sync, and remote-access setup — including a Tor hidden service.
Spending + swapping — Moving in and out of stables, fiat, and merchant rails.
Stablecoins (USDT, USDC, DAI) are convenient but every issuer can freeze your address. The privacy-respecting swap routes, the freeze-risk profile per coin, and when an XMR detour makes sense.
Buying a Visa/Mastercard prepaid card without ID, paying in XMR/BTC. Single-use virtual vs reloadable physical, what each one costs, and the picks.
Most account signups demand a phone number. The legal grey zone of rentable SMS, eSIM, and VoIP — what works for which use case, and the trade-offs.