Question: How is Monero different from “typical” public blockchains?

Answer: On Monero, privacy is enabled by default: mechanisms like ring signatures hide the source of funds, stealth addresses help hide the recipient, and RingCT hides the transfer amount.

Question: Does XMR have a maximum supply?

Answer: There is no hard cap: after the main emission, tail emission applies — a fixed minimum reward of about 0.6 XMR per ~2-minute block, resulting in low inflation that decreases over time in relative terms.

Question: How are transactions confirmed and how fast is it?

Answer: The network runs on Proof-of-Work with an average block time of about 2 minutes; practical finality is achieved as confirmations accumulate.

Question: Why is XMR sometimes removed from exchanges?

Answer: Due to regulatory pressure on privacy coins and related compliance requirements, some venues restrict trading or delist XMR.

Question: Why is Monero considered more “fungible”?

Answer: Because transaction details are hidden, it becomes harder to label coins as “clean/tainted” based on history, reducing the risk that particular outputs are discriminated against.

What is Monero (XMR)

Monero is a privacy-focused Layer-1 cryptocurrency using Proof-of-Work, where privacy is enabled by default (the sender, recipient and amount are hidden).

Launch 18.04.2014 Monero (L1, PoW RandomX)

Who created it

The Monero Project community; technological basis: the CryptoNote protocol (author pseudonym: Nicolas van Saberhagen).

Why it was created

To create “digital cash” with privacy by default, making transactions harder to trace and keeping coins fungible (interchangeable).

How it’s used

P2P payments with enhanced privacy
Paying for goods/services without publicly linking amounts and addresses
Transfers between your own wallets without revealing balances on-chain
Donations where recipient/donor confidentiality matters
Payments and storing value in situations where a publicly “transparent” portfolio is undesirable

Risks

Regulatory restrictions and exchange delistings of “privacy coins” (reduced liquidity/availability)
Risk that XMR is available only via derivatives (futures/perpetuals) on some venues, not spot
Wallet operational risks: wrong address/network, lost seed phrase, malicious clients (loss of funds)
Risk of higher fees/delays during network congestion (as with any L1)
Risk of mining/pool concentration and protocol parameter changes (even though the algorithm targets decentralisation)

FAQ

Question: How is Monero different from “typical” public blockchains?: Answer: On Monero, privacy is enabled by default: mechanisms like ring signatures hide the source of funds, stealth addresses help hide the recipient, and RingCT hides the transfer amount.
Question: Does XMR have a maximum supply?: Answer: There is no hard cap: after the main emission, tail emission applies — a fixed minimum reward of about 0.6 XMR per ~2-minute block, resulting in low inflation that decreases over time in relative terms.
Question: How are transactions confirmed and how fast is it?: Answer: The network runs on Proof-of-Work with an average block time of about 2 minutes; practical finality is achieved as confirmations accumulate.
Question: Why is XMR sometimes removed from exchanges?: Answer: Due to regulatory pressure on privacy coins and related compliance requirements, some venues restrict trading or delist XMR.
Question: Why is Monero considered more “fungible”?: Answer: Because transaction details are hidden, it becomes harder to label coins as “clean/tainted” based on history, reducing the risk that particular outputs are discriminated against.