Welcome To MoneroWorld

What is MoneroWorld? It's stuff thrown together by others to help you use Monero

CLI: v0.18.3.4 GUI: v0.18.3.4

Why Monero?

I wrote a lot of words about why I think monero is awesome.

RandomX 2 Year Anniversary - written ~2020

I wrote some words about RandomX history and why PoS sucks.

Writeup of the X5 "ASIC" release

In August of 2023, Bitmain released their X5 monero mining device to the world.

Please run your own node

Public nodes should be considered a last resort if you can't get your own node working. The entire value of a decentralized cryptocurrency is its decentralized nature. If you are a mobile user, you can even setup your mobile wallet to connect to your home node. Please, take the time to try running your own node, or perhaps just use a remote node until your daemon is synchronized.

The only trusted node is your own

Though you probably don't care and just want a remote node. The best list is at monero.fail.

News

Site updated 2024-09-08. If you see something that needs changing, ping me on IRC or whatever

Monero CLI v0.18.3.4, GUI v0.18.3.4 is the version of Monero you should be running.

Alternative download site

New software has a new flag, --public-node , that is good to use if you are offering public RPC service. And the new software can find its own remote nodes! Hooray, the end of these centralized node listing services is soon!

How to untar.bz2 on linux because im tired of googling it: tar -vxjf stupid.tar.bz2

Goddamn you ubuntu and your boot directory: dpkg --list | grep linux-image | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort -V | sed -n '/'`uname -r`'/q;p' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge

REALLY make sure your open node is running with the --restricted-rpc flag. I left the explorer node open without the flag and someone started mining on it

Security note

Using a public remote node has its risks. The primary risk is that a public remote node can get your IP address. If a public remote node is malicious, the node operator now can associate a transaction with an IP address. They could also know that there is a user of monero with an ACTIVE wallet at a given IP address. They could then scan your IP address to try and identify any open ports. If they find any open ports, they can test these ports to see if they can get in to your computer. Granted, this is true of ANY IP address that can be obtained from the monero peerlists. TL;DR, run your own node. If you can't, make sure you have good firewalls, wallet passwords, and malware scanners.

Active attack vectors

The attack is pretty straightforward: when the wallet requests data from the remote node to create a transaction, the remote node sends bogus data in response. This results in an error message displayed to the user. If the user clicks through the error and retries the transaction a second time, this immediately reveals the real input to the remote node. Mitigations: If you see *ANY** error message after attempting a transaction, DISCONNECT from that remote node and DO NOT try your transaction again right away.*

High Fee Bug. Remote nodes can increase your tx fees. Double check before sending. Run the latest release of the GUI. Run your own node. Wallets still look like they are "synchronizing"

When using a remote node, your wallet still needs to download the blockchain data. This is called "refreshing your wallet" and is done whenever you create, restore, or open your wallet.

Nodes

PUBLIC REMOTE NODES ARE DEAD. LONG LIVE MONERO

More words about it

Use the monero.fail to find a spy node you can use or find a node offered by your favorite monero service

WARNING

HIGH FEE BUG. Remote nodes can increase your TX fees. RUN YOUR OWN NODE. CHECK YOUR FEES.

For full description of attack vector, see above. If you see *ANY* error message after attempting a transaction, DISCONNECT from that remote node and DO NOT try your transaction again right away.* Note, this has apparently been mitigated as of 2021-11-16.

Remote Node With Monero GUI

20240908 update - I've removed the old instructions. You can access them by pointing your browser to a copy of the old main page

To use a remote node with the Monero GUI, you can either select the simple or bootstrap modes during startup. This uses a random, untrusted remote node from the network.

You can also select advanced during startup, and then add a custom remote node in the settings section

Web page that keeps track of node status

				opennode.xmr-tw.org at port 18089 - RANDOM, UNTRUSTED. - Remote nodes volunteered by community members. Independent scanning effort from another community member. Will work with all DNS providers. PROBABLY ALL SPY NODES!!! THIS IS THE END OF PUBLIC REMOTE NODES!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
				nodes.hashvault.pro at port 18081 - node run by hashvault pool

To check that the above addresses are working, please checkout this website. If their are no type A records in the list, then there is something wrong with the DNS server maintaining that node list, and should not be used. The provided link checks out the moneroworld.com nodes. You can manually check the other domains by entering them on the website. You can also use that link to connect to a specific node instead of a random one.

Remote Node With Monero CLI

To use remote nodes with the Monero CLI, run the following code.

Collection of random open nodes consciously volunteered by other monerians:

--daemon-address put.the.node.and:port_here

Use the nodes listed under the GUI section in the CLI

TOR Remote Nodes

Note - I don't check these, at all. No idea if they work...

				monerowinfamlvkp.onion
				pzlnznwgrjlgjsb6.onion
				qjz3tnotsv7xlxj4.onion
                                xmrag4hf5xlabmob.onion:18081
				xmr4xfd2o3tzazdb.onion:18081
				mmp26upm3gig2ltk.onion:18089
				xmkwypann4ly64gh.onion:18081
				3hvpnd4xejtzcuowvru2wfjum5wjf7synigm44rrizr3k4v5vzam2bad.onion:18081

Testnet Nodes

node.xmrbackb.one:28081 should have remote access to a testnet. I think its master.

testnet.node.xmrlab.com:28081 is on testnet v6, so same as monero blockchain

testnet.node.xmrlab.com:38081 is on testnet v7, needs github master for access

Contribute

How To Run Your Node

You should really run your own node!

It's honestly not that hard - it can take 9 hours to synchronize if you have a SSD and a good internet connection. Also, remote nodes are NOT reliable, a lot of times they just won't connect because the software wasn't really developed for this.

Download your node software from the official website GetMonero.org and learn how to run the software here.

How To Offer your node as a Public Remote Node

ALL YOU NEED TO DO NOW IS USE --public-node in the monero software. You'll have to do some port forwarding.

Offering your node as a public remote node is above and beyond what you need to do to support the network! This is NOT necessary!!!

Run the script on your own daemon!

The current version of the script is on a fork from some other user. But basically, there's no need to trust any of the remote node lists provided by MoneroWorld or the other providers. You can run this script and scan your own peer list to find open nodes. You can also run this script and provide another list service! The more the better!!!

FAQ

What Is An Open Node?

The Monero software architecture allows for an easy way to use Monero without downloading the entire blockchain. This is called "using a remote node". Essentially, your wallet program connects to someone else's monerod (blockchain) program, a.k.a node, a.k.a. network service.

How does it work? The open node URL addresses actually point to many different nodes - when you request one, one in the list is selected. So if it doesn't work once, just try again.

It is negligently slower depending on the connection, prevents the need of downloading entire blockchain (which can be lengthy), and there is some information leak as detailed here. The best way to anonymously use a remote node is to use Monero with TOR or with a trustable VPN service.

That being said, no one can steal your Moneroj because you use a remote node. However, use these at your own risk.

What Is Monero?

Monero is the best cryptocurrency, ever. Seriously. 99% percent of the problems that other cryptocurrencies have, Monero has either fixed or the core team is working on fixing them soon.

Primarily, to me, the important thing is that Monero is fungible. One Monero can not be distinguished from another Monero. There is no transaction history. This is a fundamental principle of money. Anything that is inherently traceable (such as bitcoin) is not money - it is an asset. Privacy is a side effect of fungibility. Oh yeah, and the blocksize is scalable so Monero will NEVER reach a transaction limit imposed by the blocksize.

Monero is also decentralized due to the ASIC-resistant proof of work algorithm, therefore the network will never be controlled by a small number of entities.

Getting Started

Welcome! Getting started with Monero is not hard, but can take a couple of minutes. The Monero Stack Exchange is a great resource for beginners.

Get a Monero Account (Address)

There are many ways to get a Monero address. The best way is to download and run the Monero wallet. This program is available at the official Monero website. There are also excellent guides on the official website. For more information on getting started with Monero, please checkout this MoneroEric.com website or watch the video linked below.

Definitions

These are definitions that I use, and I think its in agreement with what others use.

Node: This is the standard Monero node. This means you are running the Monero daemon, the piece of software that connects to the other nodes on the network. Ideally, this software is being run on a computer where the incoming p2p port, 18080, is open, so that other nodes can connect to you.

Full node: This is somewhat semantics, but this implies that you are running a Monero node.

Mining node: You are running a full node and you are also solo mining

Open node: This implies that you have opened your RPC ports to the network, so that others can connect their wallets to it.

Remote node: This is how you would refer to an open node if you are the user of an open node. Alice runs an open node, and Bob connects to Alice's open node so he is using a remote node. Or, Bob could run his own node on a server and connect to that remote node from his home or phone.

Public remote node: This is how you would refer to an open node run by someone other than yourself that has their ports open to the public. Bob is connecting to a public remote node that he doesn't operate or know the owner of.

Monero Network and Blockchain Interface This is my preferred name for the monero node software. This definition is definitely not in agreement with what others think. But don't you think its more descriptive?

Services

Awesome Monero Accepting Services

Mining

Glory days are upon us. Randomx allows everyone with a CPU a good shot at mining something worthwhile

References

The MoneroWorld as Far as Gingeropolous Is Concerned