Monero (XMR) Calculateur

Monero is a privacy-first cryptocurrency born from the CryptoNote protocol in 2014, a system where logic and a kind of cryptographic magic brush shoulders: by default, every payment disappears into layered veils of ring signatures (now using efficient CLSAG), one-time stealth addresses, and RingCT secured with Bulletproofs and Bulletproofs+, so observers cannot link sender, receiver, or amount, yet users can selectively reveal activity with view keys for audits or compliance when needed; unlike transparent ledgers that invite forensic reconstruction, Monero’s decoy selection algorithm draws ring members from realistic spending distributions to blunt heuristic attacks, and transactions propagate using techniques such as Dandelion++ to reduce the chance of tracing their network origin; its mining uses the RandomX proof-of-work, engineered for general-purpose CPUs with a large memory footprint and unpredictable execution patterns that frustrate ASIC specialization and encourage broad, egalitarian participation, while the adaptive block size and fee penalty mechanism dynamically absorb surges in activity without locking the system, improving throughput and keeping validation costs bounded; the emission schedule culminates in a small, perpetual tail emission that stabilizes miner incentives and sustains security beyond the initial distribution, avoiding the fee-only cliff that can threaten networks with fixed terminal supplies; ongoing, community-led research and scheduled network upgrades-guided by groups such as the Monero Research Lab-have introduced compact blocks, pruning to reduce storage overhead, improved wallet performance, and robust multisig, with cross-platform wallets and hardware integrations supporting practical everyday use; developers and external reviewers have repeatedly analyzed the core cryptography and RandomX design, helping harden the codebase against subtle flaws; together these properties cultivate decentralization at multiple layers-consensus, development, and liquidity-so that Monero continues to function as confidential digital cash with real utility in a world increasingly lit by the harsh fluorescence of surveillance, where each transaction is simply a quiet, unremarkable event in the cryptographic dusk.