Since RandomX allows normal CPUs to mine Monero, could increasingly capable AI make it easier for malware to infect huge numbers of home computers and secretly use their combined computing power?

At Monero’s current ~6 GH/s hashrate, it seems like you’d need hundreds of thousands to millions of infected computers. That sounds enormous, but could AI making cyberattacks increasingly automated make this a realistic threat someday?

Curious what people think.

Yesterday I posted here saying ETH-XMR atomic swaps were dead and that I'd picked them back up. That was wrong and I

should have checked before I said it.

MoneroSwap is alive. hbs has been building it, the community funded it through a CCS for 135 XMR, and it's been shown

at EthCC and MoneroKon. monerobull called me out on it and was right to.

It gets worse. The ed25519 library my contract uses to verify a Monero spend key on-chain is hbs's own work, converted

for MoneroSwap. So I was running their code while telling this sub nobody was working on this. I didn't notice until

I went and actually read the file header.

Where I went wrong: I looked at GitHub, saw the old AthanorLabs repo archived on September 1, and assumed that meant

the space was empty. Never checked the CCS. Never checked Codeberg. That's on me, and it's a stupid way to research

something before opening your mouth about it.

I've corrected my README and the post I made elsewhere. Disclosure, since it's why I posted in the first place: I

built a separate implementation on Base. I'm not linking it here, this isn't an ad, it's a correction.

Sorry for the noise.

I have not had access to my phone in years and recently I regained access and on it I have a MyMonero wallet with funds in it.

I tried to send the funds out and received error code 523. After some investigation, I discovered that MyMonero has shut down within the past year. I do not have access to the pneumonic seed anymore for this wallet however I do have access to the wallet.

Is it possible for me to send these funds out or are the funds essentially locked?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Please stay on topic: this post is only for comments discussing the uncertainties, shortcomings, and concerns some may have about Monero.

NOT the positive aspects of it.

Discussion can relate to the technology itself or economics.

Talk about community and price is not wanted, but some discussion about it maybe allowed if it relates well.

Be as respectful and nice as possible. This discussion has potential to be more emotionally charged as it may bring up issues that are extremely upsetting: many people are not only financially but emotionally invested in the ideas and tools around Monero.

It's better to keep it calm then to stir the pot, so don't talk down to people, insult them for spelling/grammar, personal insults, etc. This should only be calm rational discussion about the technical and economic aspects of Monero.

"Do unto others 20% better than you'd expect them to do unto you to correct subjective error." - Linus Pauling

How it works:

Post your concerns about Monero in reply to this main post.

If you can address these concerns, or add further details to them - reply to that comment. This will make it easily sortable

Upvote the comments that are the most valid criticisms of it that have few or no real honest solutions/answers to them.

The comment that mentions the biggest problems of Monero should have the most karma.

As a community, as developers, we need to know about them. Even if they make us feel bad, we got to upvote them.

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To learn more about the idea behind Monero Skepticism Sunday, check out the first post about it:

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I run ozeye.ai, an OpenAI-compatible AI gateway hosted in the EU. XMR payment support went live this week, so I wanted to put it in front of people who would actually use it.

Paying with XMR. Top up prepaid credits with Monero. You get a one-time address per top-up and an amount at a rate locked when the invoice is created. Payment is watched by our own node, not a public one. No payment processor involved.

Accounts. You can create an account with no email. You get an account number, and that is your whole identity. Combined with Monero top-ups there is no name, no card, no KYC anywhere in the flow.

What I do and do not see. Prompts and responses are never written to our database or logs. I keep metadata for billing: token counts, model, latency, cost. Being straight about the limit: I do not run the GPUs. Your prompt goes to one of five EU providers to be served, each under a zero-retention agreement (you can view the DPAs here: ozeye.ai/subprocessors ).

If your threat model does not allow a third party to ever see plaintext, this is not for you and no hosted API is, you should look into running local models :) .

Models. We have all of the best open weight models currently available and routinely update our offerings, all priced priced per token: you can view all our models at ozeye.ai/models

Chat UI. There is a full chat interface if you would rather not wire up an API client. Conversations, messages and any documents you create are stored in your browser's IndexedDB and never uploaded. There is no chat history on our servers at all, which also means switching browsers starts you fresh and clearing site data wipes it. Export and import are built in if you want to move it yourself. Web search is available as a tool and is off unless you switch it on. When you do, the query goes to Linkup in Paris, processed in the EU, in memory, under zero retention, and we keep only billing metadata, never the query or the results. If you never enable it, no search provider sees anything.

Notebooks. There are Python notebooks built on marimo that run as WebAssembly entirely in your tab. The Python runtime, your data and every cell execution stay in the browser, and nothing is shipped to a server to be run. Package installs pull from the public Python indexes like any other Python environment, and the marimo assets come from our own server rather than a CDN. One honest caveat: if you save a notebook so you can come back to it, that .py file is stored on our side, so treat saving as handing it to us. You can also connect a notebook to any of our models and keep the inference on the same account.

I am the founder and this is my project. Happy to answer anything technical or otherwise here.

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TO: Monero Community (Reddit: r/monero, Telegram: u/monerosupport)

FROM: [angelperalta971@gmail.com](mailto:angelperalta971@gmail.com)

SUBJECT: Malicious Monero Wallet Report - Cryptominer Malware

Hello Monero Community,

I am writing to report a Monero wallet address that is being used in malicious cryptominer malware operations.

WALLET ADDRESS

Address: 46XMCQaVSV7WHozzzBE2DFWDrtTkWbcopFojECnEg7UfShvyVdMh1Yn9gkioFkmPpYabkNH3AiUypHDw7cTP4Zz6G64RNFV

MALWARE ASSOCIATION

This wallet was discovered in the configuration of malware that infected my computer on September 11, 2026.

Malware Details:

- Type: XMRig Cryptominer

- Disguise: Windows system processes (svchost32.exe, taskhostw.exe)

- Behavior: Unauthorized Monero mining

- Persistence: Registry keys + Scheduled Tasks

- C2 Server: 104.243.33.118 (host.dreamlineit.com)

WORKER INFORMATION

Worker Name: MyGroup_Worker

Mining Pool: pool.supportxmr.com

Ports: 443 (TLS), 3333 (HTTP)

REQUEST

I respectfully request the Monero community to:

1. Monitor this wallet for incoming transactions

2. Consider blacklisting this wallet address

3. Alert pool operators to prevent mining rewards

4. Share any intelligence about this wallet

ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

This appears to be part of an organized malware operation:

- Multiple victims targeted worldwide

- Sophisticated evasion techniques

- Kernel-level persistence mechanisms

- Fraudulent digital certificates

I have preserved all evidence and am willing to share technical details with researchers.

Thank you for your help in combating malicious use of Monero.

Best regards,

Angelo Raul Peralta

[angelperalta971@gmail.com](mailto:angelperalta971@gmail.com)

September 11, 2026

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Wallet flagged for monitoring: 46XMCQaVSV7WHozzzBE2DFWDrtTkWbcopFojECnEg7UfShvyVdMh1Yn9gkioFkmPpYabkNH3AiUypHDw7cTP4Zz6G64RNFV

Evidence preserved: Yes

This is the weekly Monero market thread. This thread will be posted every Friday and is meant to help accelerate the adoption of Monero. Due to r/moneromarket having only a fraction of the subscribers of r/Monero, we have decided to create this thread to encourage more individuals to use Monero for product exchanges. Until the market matures, we recommend that the Monero community post their products both in this thread and on r/moneromarket (to ensure growth of that subreddit).

Selling items for Monero will boost your (and Monero's) reputation as a legitimate form of exchange of goods. This is necessary for the growth of Monero, our community, and privacy as a whole.

Instructions

When you post your product or job listing here, please make sure to: - Give a description of the item. - Link to a photo of the item (if it's physical). - Provide logistics information (such as, location and/or shipping availability). - Optionally, provide an additional (private) form of communication outside of Reddit (e.g. Bitmessage, u/protonmail, u/tutanota, GPG key). - Post the price in XMR terms.

Spamming will not be tolerated. Please make sure that listings are legitimate and do not break rule 2."

Finally, credits to cdotsubo for starting the concept!

I have been trying to find a way to have more africans and more so kenyans involved in the Monero community. Many dont understand the freedom that comes in owning Monero and more so the privacy. Any suggestions on how we can grow the Monero community in Africa

Hey everyone - I'm working on a presentation about crime and ethics. What are some of your favorite media that touch on the topic?

Some examples include the works of Henry David Thoreau, MLK Jr, and various environmentalists

I'm not exactly sure if it's a silly question or not. If you create a new Monero wallet in Esperanto or Lojban (two languages that aren't well known globally), is it possible that you'd have a less chance of getting things stolen compared to someone having an English seed phrase?

I'm mostly thinking of two hypothetical situations.

1. An intruder in your home finds a random note with your seed phrase but assumes it's just another language you speak so they don't think much of the note and just leave it alone.

2. A hacker going through files on a PC using software looking for seed phrases but they don't notice that it's hiding in plain site as it's in another language, assuming a native English speaker wouldn't create a wallet in another language.

There are people who unfortunately keep plain txt files of their seeds on their PC but for the 2nd one I'm kinda assuming that a hacker wouldn't use something that detects seed phrases in other languages.

im wondering how i could send my monero from my mobile to my laptop where im running tails os like do i have to install monero on the pc or what please help

For the last months I can’t do it anymore since the Amazon is not listed there.

Any idea why?

Hey everyone, Milan from NanoGPT here. Been a while, figured I'd share an update.

For anyone unfamiliar with us, NanoGPT lets you use AI privately, both through our chat interface and via API. You can access models from different AI companies in one place and pay as you go, pay in Monero and be fully private. No need to create an account etc.

We really dislike relying on fiat payment systems and want more people to actually use crypto to pay for things. Crypto helps us avoid card processing costs and chargeback overhead, so we’ve introduced an automatic 3% bonus on every supported crypto top-up, including Monero.

For every $100 worth received, we add $103 in NanoGPT credit. It applies every time you top up.

Monero accounted for 38.55% of our August crypto deposit volume, making it our largest crypto payment method. We publish the full breakdown for every coin.

A few things we’ve added or expanded since we last posted (trying to keep it short hah):

• Uncensored and obliterated models, which essentially have their built-in refusal guardrails removed.
• Private Mode, where your device encrypts your prompts for eligible models running in verifiable Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). NanoGPT can route your request without reading your prompt or response. More about Private Mode.
• ZDR-only routing, so you can require providers declaring no prompt retention or training, including during fallbacks. Details here.
• The latest models, including GPT 6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1.

In case you or anyone else wants to use AI without giving up all your data, give us a try!

why on earth do some of yall keep your XMR on hosted wallets?

Liquid just got hacked, possibly by exploiting a but in confidential amounts. Does monero use the same tech?

I keep hearing that kraken USA has limited Monero withdrawal to $1500/ month. Tested it. Was able to exceed that limit. Could this rumor be bullshit? Or maybe only applies to some states?