I'm really glad that there is no "you're doing it wrong" with monero.

I just realized that I haven't used my Macbook since I installed Zorin 18.1. Linux has come such a long way since 1999 when I first installed Redhat 6 from the CD that came with "Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed" 😃

FAQ 1/2 How Swarmnero actually works — the P2P model, accounts, the wallet, and the tradeoffs. **The peer-to-peer model** *Do I need to be online to see posts?* You can always see posts you've already replicated to your device — if you've followed someone and their feed has synced in the past, those posts stay local. You don't need the original author online to read them. But new posts only arrive when either you and the author are both online at the same time, or a peer who already has their posts (a friend-of-friend who follows them, or the optional feed backup server) is online. So for a new follow who's offline, you may not see anything until the first time you're both online together or a mutual peer relays the data. *Why can't I see an account's posts after I paste their Swarm ID?* Following someone only tells your app who you're interested in — it doesn't instantly pull their data. You have to connect to a peer that has their feed (often the author themselves, or someone who follows them). If everyone involved is offline, you'll see their follow appear in your list but no posts until replication happens. Stay online for a minute after following and their content should start to arrive. *What's a Swarm ID?* It's a 64-character hex string that uniquely identifies your social feed. Share it with someone and they can follow you. It's a public identifier — it reveals no secret information and can be pasted freely. *How does Swarmnero find people if there's no server?* Three mechanisms: Live Now — users who opt into discovery join a shared DHT topic; you see who's currently online and can click through to their profile. Friends-of-Friends — when you follow someone, your app asks them for a sample of the people they follow and recent tagged posts from those people. Hashtag search — posts tagged with #tags are searchable across your network (own feed + follows + FoF cache). If a post has no hashtag, it stays visible only to your direct followers. That's intentional — it's the privacy floor. **Accounts & identity** What happens if I lose my Secret Key? The account is unrecoverable. There is no central authority to reset it. Export your Secret Key from Accounts → Export Secret Key and store it somewhere safe (password manager, paper backup). If the account has a password, you'll need that too. *Can I sign into the same account on two devices?* Not simultaneously — yet. Each account's feed is a single-writer Hypercore, and two devices writing to it at the same time corrupts the feed. Swarmnero shows a warning banner and disables posting when it detects a duplicate instance. For now, sign out on one device before using the other. Real multi-device simultaneous posting requires a different underlying structure (Autobase) and is on the roadmap. *Does importing a Secret Key on a new device copy all my data?* Content you've signed (posts, follows, profile, DMs) replicates in as peers come online. The follower list and DM conversation list rebuild over time as those peers reconnect. The wallet is separate — it has its own 25-word seed you restore independently via the "Restore Wallet" flow.

As Nosmero is pretty stable at this point, I turned my attention to a pure p2p XMR solution for social media. **I made Swarmnero** — a p2p social network with Monero built in at the protocol level. It runs on Holepunch's Pear Runtime. Zero infrastructure. You install Pear once, then launch Swarmnero with one command, auto-updates arrive over p2p. It shares philosophy with Nostr (your keys = your identity, no central gatekeeper) but trades relays for a pure p2p stack. Posts, follows, DMs, and media replicate directly between devices over Hyperswarm DHT. No intermediaries to censor, index, or go dark. **What's inside:** - Ed25519 identity, signed events — your keys never leave your machine - Native Monero wallet (monero-ts WASM) for tipping posts and replies - Paywalled posts: author encrypts the body, buyer pays XMR to a per-post subaddress, key auto-released after on-chain verification - X25519 E2E DMs between mutual follows (crypto_secretbox) - Hashtag search + friends-of-friends discovery, no algorithm **Install:** npm i -g pear pear run pear://t6athit7zo98y7wb7kupmeaihxu3p5tft5s55nx5a5s634meppgy Eventually I'll get around to making standalone download files for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Full guide + screenshots + source:

Swarmnero — P2P Social with Monero

Peer-to-peer social, private by default, tipping in XMR.

"Can you imagine a world with DC shutdown?"

Nosmero is open source by the way (of course!) and the github is here:

GitHub

GitHub - grahamonero/nosmero: Nostr client with Monero integration

Nostr client with Monero integration. Contribute to grahamonero/nosmero development by creating an account on GitHub.

Squashed a few more bugs last night so it should be running smoothly. The $1 monero "bounty" posted on @nosmero is still open, so grab some free XMR and help me double-check stuff is working well.

Hyperinflation is always the end result of fiat. #monero #xmr

>wake up >discover there is javascript supply chain NPM infection targeting BTC >it doesn't target Monero >"why didn't I keep Nosmero XMR-exclusive for zapping?" Fortunately, it is a pretty painless patch to fix Nosmero.com and BTC zapping is needed to honor the nostr ethos. Anyway, read about it here:

Anatomy of a Billion-Download NPM Supply-Chain Attack

A massive NPM supply chain attack has compromised foundational packages like Chalk, affecting over 1 billion weekly downloads. We dissect the crypt...

Food for thought on the "bitcoin is digital gold" bromide. Is the better idea "Monero is digital gold?" As a long time gold bug what first attracted me to XMR was how its privacy is similar to gold. So I ran some numbers for the past year to correlate monero and bitcoin to gold. Here is the executive summary: Average Monthly Returns: Gold 3.08%, Monero 4.73%, Bitcoin 6.23% Volatility: Gold 4.86%, Monero 8.43%, Bitcoin 10.99% (monthly standard deviation) 1. Monero shows 3x stronger correlation with gold (0.77) than Bitcoin (0.25) 2. Bitcoin's correlation with gold is much weaker, suggesting it behaves more like a tech/growth asset than a traditional safe haven 3. While both assets appreciated significantly, Bitcoin's path was far more volatile and driven by crypto-specific factors. 4. Monero's stronger correlation with gold may reflect its use case as a privacy-focused store of value, while Bitcoin increasingly trades on institutional and regulatory sentiment.