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This is a Little tutorial/Guide on how to Maintain Privacy and Security while handling with MONERO

Operating Systems

- Tails OS with maximum security (https://tails.boum.org)
- Qubes OS in a VM in a hardend Linux enviroment (https://www.qubes-os.org/)

Computer Security

- VeraCrypt Full disk encryption (Only as safe as your Password) https://www.veracrypt.fr/
- Tails or Tor as a Proxy (Start Tor browser and configure 127.0.0.1:9050 as Proxy in your Network settings)
- Check any devices/usbs plugged and only store your wallet keys in a Live os
- TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER WHILE NOT USING IT!

Virtual Private Networks

- Delete all VPNs they are useless for Security/Anonymity (For the specific Threat model I talk about VPNs are usefull for country/website blocking)

Monero Wallets

I will not cover ANY web/mobile/ wallets cause these are unsafe as you need to trust a Third-Party storing your Private Keys and Ip´s/KYC information. I also wont cover Hardware wallets in this thread.

- Official Monero GUI wallet (https://getmonero.org/)
- Featherwallet (Featherwallet.org) (Beta)

How to install these wallets on Tails here is a guide: http://www.xmrguide42y34onq.onion/tails

Remote/Local Full Nodes and how to use them

There are many ways to connect to the monero Blockchain over Nodes, Remote nodes are the most used once cause its convinient to only need to connect to a other persons server which already downloaded the whole blockchain so there is no need to download it yourself.
Remote nodes are seriously dangerous cause you need to trust a Third-Party for handling your Transactions.
Only use them while transfering "Clean" funds and only use Hidden Service Remote nodes! (List of remote Nodes)

Now there are 2 more options,
First one is to host a remote node yourself so its completely in your own hands. There are projects like PiNode XMR which allow you to do that pretty easy with a cheap 50$ Rasperry Pi 4 (https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/PiNode-XMR)

The other option is to download the whole Blockchain(Curerntly 68GB) yourself and import it into your Wallet(Works on both Feather and Monero GUI) a nice tutorial on how to do that on Tails is here.

Buying and Selling Monero

This is by far the most difficult way cause many agencies and goverments are trying to ban all Monero exchanges
cause Monero is private and its threatening their system of survilliance. I made a list a couple of days ago which covers the most secure and convinient Exchanges for buying/Selling Monero for Fiat and Cryptocurrency.
Also there is a list on xmrguide here: http://xmrguide42y34onq.onion

Crypto <-> Monero Exchanges No KYC:
https://www.morphtoken.com/ | No Tor | No Login <- Banning Tor exit nodes now
http://xmr.to/nojs | Tor | No Login <- Good for buying somewhere with bitcoin but not having to touch it.
http://eludemailxhnqzfmxehy3bk5guyhlxbun...n/exchange | Tor | No Login
http://xchangen24yn24b6.onion/ | Tor | No Login
https://sideshift.ai/xmr/btc | Tor | No Login
https://xchange.me/ | Tor | No Login

Fiat <-> Monero Exchanges KYC:
https://www.kraken.com/ | No Tor | Login <- Good for buying with Fiat currency

Crypto <-> Monero Exchanges KYC:
https://classic.shapeshift.com/#/coins | No Tor | Login

All <-> Monero P2P No KYC:
https://localmonero.co/ | Tor | Login
https://bisq.network/ | Tor | Login <- My Favorite its decentralized :D

- "Tor" means the service does not block tor exit nodes completely I dont mean the service is a hidden service
- "No Login" means that the site doesnt require email or anything to login.

Monero Mining Pools

Mining Monero is a very simple and lucrative thing to do, but many poeple suffer at the point of finding a Pool
that is Secure, Private and doesnt ban at high Hashrate/Miner numbers.

For trying to hide Miner-Statuses/Ip´s and numbers there is a Tool called xmrig-proxy which routes all of your miners through one central server of yours. I made a simple and fast tutorial on how to set this up a couple of days ago if you wanna go check it out click here.


So that was my little Tut on how to handle as Monero safe and secure as possible if you got any other things to add please let me know, also a disclamer:
I do not try to help ANYONE with ANY Blackhat activity and this Tutorial is not for any Illigal purposes!

Actually I already wrote this once but clicked F5 So I had to write it again FML
Sorry for the bad english, I hope you still enjoy :D

Moved post to a different forum: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=6134944

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