Awesome Monero

A curated list of awesome resources for the Monero crypto-currency

List Of Content

• Getting Started
• Official Websites
• Communities
• Technical Documentation
• Mining
• Buying Monero
• Related Projects

Getting Started

• What is Monero? - From getmonero.org, the official website
• Moneropedia - Alphabetically sorted list of Monero terms, and their definitions
• Monero.how - Tutorials for Monero
• Moneroworld.com - Useful links & resources for Monero

Official Websites

• Getmonero.org - The official Monero website
• Lab.getmonero.org - The official research group of Monero
• Github Repos
  • Daemon: https://github.com/monero-project/monero
  • GUI: https://github.com/monero-project/monero-core

Technical Documentation

• RPC documentation - RPC documentation of the Monero daemon
• Wallet documentation - Wallet documentation of the Monero daemon
• Cryptonote Whitepaper - White paper of cryptonote, the family of crypto-currencies of Monero
• Review of the Cryptonote White Paper - By the research lab of Monero
• Cryptonote Standards - The 10 Cryptonote standards (equivalent to BIPs for Bitcoin)

Communities

• Reddit
• getmonero.org Forum - Official forum for Monero
• Stack Exchange
• Bitcointalk Thread
• Slack - Slack channels (mirrors of IRC channels)
• IRC channels:
  • #monero (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero)
  • #monero-community (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-community)
  • #monero-dev (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-dev)
  • #monero-markets (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-markets)
  • #monero-pools (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-pools)
  • #monero-otc (irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-orc)
• Telegram Group
• Facebook
• Twitter

Wallets

• Official GUI
• Mymonero.com - Web wallet of fluffypony, core dev of Monero
• Warning: fluffypony (core dev of Monero) is suspicious (Link of those 2 wallets. Do your own research.
  • Android Wallet By Freewallet
  • IOS Wallet By Freewallet

Mining

• Mining Pools

  • Moneropools.com - List of Monero pools
  • Monerohash.com - US-based Monero pool
  • Xmrpool.net
  • Xmrpool.eu - Europe-based Monero pool
  • Minexmr.com
  • Minemonero.pro
  • Xmr-pool-choice - Tool to choose best monero pool

• Mining Pool Software

  • Node-cryptonote-pool - The original mining pool app for cryptonotes, with a front-end. Uses Redis.
  • Cryptonote-universal-pool - Improved mining pool based on node-cryptonote-pool. Uses Redis and Mysql
  • Nodejs-pool - Improved mining pool based on node-cryptonote-pool. Uses lmdb and Mysql
  • Poolui - Front-end for nodejs-pool. Uses AngularJS

• Mining Software

  • Sgminer-gm - GPU Miner. Uses OpenCL
  • XmrMiner - GPU Miner. Uses Cuda
  • Wolf-xmr-miner - GPU Miner. Uses OpenCL
  • Cpuminer-multi - CPU Miner

• Block Explorers

  • Moneroblocks.info
  • Chainradar.com
  • Moneroexplorer.com
  • Monerobase.com

Buying Monero

• With cash

  • Kraken - US-based exchange
  • Poloniex - US-based exchange
  • Bitfinex - Hong Kong-based exchange
  • Litebit - Europe-based exchange
  • LiveCoin - Europe-based crypto-currency buying platform
  • Monero Cash - Person-to-person Monero trading. Similar to LocalBitcoins

• With Bitcoin

  • Shapeshift.io
  • Bisq.io

• Guides

  • How To Obtain Monero? - Tutorial from the official Monero forum
  • How To Buy Monero? - Tutorial from monero.how
  • Buy Monero With Bitcoin - Tutorial from moneroeric.com

Related Projects

• Monero Projects

  • Kovri - A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P anonymous network
  • OpenAlias - A DNS-like service to make Monero Wallet more user-friendly

• Cryptonote Coins

  • Map of Cryptonote Coins - Map showing the different cryptonote/bytecoin projects, and how they forked off each other
  • Cryptonote.org - The official cryptonote website
  • Cryptonote Starter - Tutorial to create your own Cryptonote coin
  • Bytecoin - The first cryptonote implementation
  • FantomCoin - FantomCoin, allows merge mining with Monero
  • Aeon - Aeon coin, a fork of Monero
  • Digital Note

• Others

  • ZeroCoin
  • Zcash
  • Boolberry
  • MimbleWimble