Monero is the only major crypto whose founder is still completely unknown.
How it started:
- be an anonymous poster on Bitcointalk
- username: thankful_for_today
- April 2014
- launches BitMonero
- an implementation of CryptoNote
- community disagrees with his direction
- forks him out in days
- project is renamed Monero
- (“coin” in Esperanto)
- founder disappears forever
The protocol itself comes from another ghost:
- CryptoNote whitepaper (2013)
- author: Nicolas van Saberhagen
- also anonymous
- introduces ring signatures + stealth addresses
- never identified
Since then, Monero has no founder to arrest
Just a community.
2014–2016: survival phase
- small dev group forms
- fully volunteer
- mostly anonymous
2014–2019: Spagni era
- Riccardo Spagni (fluffypony) becomes lead maintainer
- not the founder
- never claimed to be
- focuses on hardening
- community governance
2020: network-layer privacy
- Dandelion++ implemented
- transaction propagation obfuscated
- IP privacy improved
2022: the unpopular but correct decision
- main emission ends
- tail emission begins
- 0.6 XMR per block forever
- critics scream “infinite supply”
- devs explain incentives
2023–2024: pressure phase
- regulators target privacy tools
- Tornado Cash sanctions
- dev arrests elsewhere
- P2P survives
2025: stress tests
- hashrate concentration scare
- community responds
- mining decentralization improves
- chain continues
January 2026: still alive
- Fluorine Fermi v0.18.4.5 released
- Ledger fixes
- FCMP++ in roadmap
- next-gen privacy
- New ATH
Satoshi disappeared by accident.
Monero’s founders disappeared by design.
This is actually unreal🤯
A guy just recovered 5 BTC ($400k) that had been locked in his wallet for 11 years.
Back in 2015 he got high, changed the password, and forgot it by morning. The coins sat there untouched ever since.
He tried 3.5 trillion brute force combinations. Paid recovery services. Nothing worked. He gave up.
Yesterday he uploaded his entire old college hard drive to Claude as a hail mary.
Claude dug through the files, found an older backup wallet, figured out the encryption format, and cracked it on the first try.
$400,000. Recovered by an AI chat.
@Cointelegraph Distributed is how a system is built. Centralization is who controls it. Decentralization and centralization are not opposites, but ends of a spectrum and real systems live in between, constantly shifting to balance efficiency, security, and control.
It's like yin and yang ☯️.
@Cointelegraph Distributed is how a system is built. Centralization is who controls it. Decentralization and centralization are not opposites, but ends of a spectrum and real systems live in between, constantly shifting to balance efficiency, security, and control.
It's like yin and yang ☯️.
@Cointelegraph Sounds like alot of people don't even know what centralization and decentralization is all about. Some even confuses it with distributed 😅
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Victor Gao, President of China Energy Security Institute.
@MilkRoad @AshCrypto Lol, where did you get this rumor? This is kinda of funny cuz I been manually shorting eth until recently when I switched over and started longing eth.
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THEY ARE NON-STOP DUMPING $BTC AND $ETH EVERY FEW MINUTES
ON-CHAIN DATA NEVER LIES...
Ray Dalio just warned us...
"The monetary system is ending."
Banks aren't buying Gold for profit. They're buying to escape the Dollar. The great reset is here.
There is no ceiling for Gold because there is no floor for fiat currency.
Most people have no idea what's coming.
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