Monerica Blog - Articles
Best Monero Mining Pool
P2Pool is the best Monero mining pool for most: decentralized, 0% fees, no signup, paid to your own wallet. Compare P2Pool, SupportXMR, MoneroOcean & solo.
How Monero Is Funded
September 13th, 2026How Monero development is funded with no company, premine or dev tax: the CCS, the General Fund, MAGIC Grants, and how to fund or get paid for work.
Getting the Most Out of Monerica
A guide to Monerica's features: the directory, categories, KYC labels, submissions, the blog, and the wider network, and how to use each.
Monero for Donations
Why Monero is ideal for donations: donor privacy, no chargebacks, censorship resistance, fast global transfers, and how to give or accept it.
What Is FCMP++?
What FCMP++ is, how full-chain membership proofs strengthen Monero's privacy, the benefits, and why the upgrade keeps getting delayed.
Traveling With Monero
How to travel and cross borders with Monero safely: carrying only a seed phrase, wallet choices, restoring on arrival, and what to watch for.
Run Your Own Monero Node?
Should you self-host a Monero node or use a remote one? The privacy, storage, and reliability trade-offs, and what to watch out for.
Mixers vs. Monero
Bitcoin mixers vs. Monero: how each works, the legal risk mixers now carry, and why simply swapping into Monero is usually the better move.
Choosing a Private Email Provider
How to choose a private email provider, why email privacy is genuinely hard, and the trade-offs between encryption, metadata, and anonymity.
No-KYC SMS Verification
What no-KYC SMS verification is, the privacy problems it solves, the types of private numbers, and where to find them with Monero.