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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.
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