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Kraken   Best overall trading exchange
Bitfinex   Long-standing and reputable trading exchange
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Kraken   Best overall trading exchange
Bitfinex   Long-standing and reputable trading exchange
ChangeNOW   Conviniently buy, sell, swap Monero instantly
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ChangeNOW   Conviniently buy, sell, swap Monero instantly
Trocador   One of the best exchange aggregators in the market
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Official GUI wallet download
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BasicSwap DEX   Cross-chain swapping tool
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Where to Spend Monero (XMR)

Explore services that accept Monero, from everyday gift cards to privacy tools, hosting, connectivity and travel.

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    Gift cards & mobile top-ups

    Buy gift cards and mobile top-ups using XMR.

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    Gift cards

    Seamless spending no matter where you go.

  • Mullvad VPN

    VPN & privacy

    Privacy-focused VPN service accepting Monero.

  • IVPN

    VPN & privacy

    VPN service with Monero payment support.

  • Njalla

    Domains & hosting

    Privacy-oriented domains and hosting with XMR payments.

  • Silent Link

    eSIM & connectivity

    International eSIM connectivity payable in Monero.

  • ShopinBit

    Shopping & travel

    Shop and arrange travel using cryptocurrency, including XMR.

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Mining software
xmr-stak-cpu   Best for newer Intel processors
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xmrminer   For NVIDIA GPUs
monerospelunker   Easiest way to start mining with Windows
cpuminer-multi   Linux CPU mining, alternative to xmr-stak-cpu
Merchant Payment Processors
Manually checking for received payments from monero-wallet-cli
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Developer APIs
Official JSON-RPC Wallet API   Use this to integrate payments into your web site
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PHP Wallet APIs
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Technical Papers
Initial Review of the CryptoNote white paper
MRL-0001: A Note on Chain Reactions in Traceability in CryptoNote 2.0
MRL-0002: Counterfeiting via Merkle Tree Exploits within Virtual Currencies Employing the CryptoNote Protocol
MRL-0003: Monero is Not That Mysterious
MRL-0004: Improving Obfuscation in the CryptoNote Protocol
MRL-0005: Ring Signature Confidential Transactions
MRL-0006: An Efficient Implementation of Monero Subaddresses
MRL-0007: Sets of Spent Outputs
MRL-0008: Dual Linkable Ring Signatures
MRL-0009: Thring Signatures and their Applications to Spender-Ambiguous Digital Currencies
MRL-0010: Discrete Logarithm Equality Across Groups
Ring Confidential Transactions paper at the Ledger Journal
Bitcoin white paper
Luigi1111's Understanding Monero Cryptography articles
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