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+title: "Monero"
+icon: 'xmr.svg'
+date: '2021-06-29'
+tags: ['service']
+short_desc: "The ideal private cryptocurrency for the Internet."
+---
+Monero (abbreviated XMR) is easily the cryptocurrency most actually used
+as such. Unlike Bitcoin, Monero is actually private and has very low
+transaction fees. That makes it a good idea to get a Monero wallet and
+add an address on your website where you can receive donations.
+
+## Generate a Monero wallet
+
+Go to [Monero\'s official site](https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/) and you can download either the GUI (graphical) or CLI (command-line
+wallet). Some Linux distributions will have these packages in their
+repositories (`monero` and `monero-gui` on Arch-based distributions).
+
+<aside>
+
+If you are a Windows user, note that you will *probably* get some kind
+of warning that you are installing something malicious. This is because
+many malicious pieces of software include crypto miners in them. This
+wallet, obviously, does include one as well, because it has the ability
+to mine if you want. You can disregard these messages and as that
+official site mentions, you can follow their directions to check the
+integrity of the download with SHA256.
+
+</aside>
+
+Once you install and run the wallet program, you will get a menu like
+this:
+
+{{< img src="/pix/monero-01.png" alt="simple mode" >}}
+
+Now if you want to start using Monero and using it as a pro, you can
+choose to download the whole blockchain which will maximize your
+transactional privacy, however for this tutorial or setting up a wallet,
+we can just do the Simple Mode and save our bandwidth. **In fact, if you
+are paranoid, you can disconnect your computer from the internet while
+generating a wallet.**
+
+Now we choose to create a wallet.
+
+{{< img src="/pix/monero-02.png" alt="create wallet" >}}
+
+Now we get the most important and sensitive part, you private mneumonic
+seed. **These words are sacred! They are your money!** To be clear, they
+are randomly generated words that seed the randomness required to unlock
+whatever money you receive or hold. Never show these words to anyone,
+don\'t even keep them on your computer, but write them down and store
+them securely in real life in a safe or somewhere where only you have
+access.
+
+{{< img src="/pix/monero-03.png" alt="seed" >}}
+
+It goes without saying that the seed above that we generated for this
+tutorial should never be used by anyone since it is public on the
+internet and anyone could easily take the funds from the wallet.
+
+Finally, we get to the main wallet screen. Now we see your public
+sharable wallet receiving address. It is the thing that starts with `4`
+and is too long to be included in the image below labeled \"Primary
+address.\"
+
+{{< img src="/pix/monero-04.png" alt="address" >}}
+
+Click the clipboard next to it to copy the whole sequence (which will be
+more than 90 letters and numbers) to your clipboard. This is your
+address. Put it on your website and you can receive donations!
+
+You can also click to save that QR code image and you can put it up on
+your website and people will be able to scan it and send you Monero.
+When scanned, that QR code will read as the public donation address.
+
+## What do I do now?
+
+You can now receive Monero/XMR donations! All you need to do is put
+either your full address or your QR code on your site and people can
+send you tips in Monero.
+
+Here is the address we use for this site (i.e. not the compromised
+wallet generated above):
+
+<code class=crypto>84RXmrsE7ffCe1ADprxLMHRpmyhZuWYScDR4YghE8pFRFSyLtiZFYwD6EPijVzD3aZiEpg57MfHEr1pGJNPXyJgENMnWrSh</code>
+
+{{< img src="/pix/xmr.png" class=qr alt="monero donation qr" >}}
+
+It\'s now up to you how and where to display these on your site.