I Sent to the Wrong Address or Amount
Why Monero is irreversible, wrong-address cases, exchange deposits and payment IDs, and using payment proofs — with honest expectations.
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15 lessons with this tag.
Locked vs Unlocked Balance
The 10-block unlock on received outputs, balance vs unlocked balance, change outputs, and the longer lock on mined coins.
My Transaction Is Pending or Stuck
What 'pending' really means, the mempool, block time and the 10-block lock, fees and priority, and why a broadcast Monero tx isn't 'lost'.
Point of Sale & In-Person Payments
A fresh subaddress and QR per sale, confirmations vs zero-conf risk, the 10-block lock, receipts, and POS apps and appliances.
Sending Payments & Managing Outputs
Build the payout side: transfer, transfer_split and sweep_all, fees and priority, locked vs unlocked balance, change outputs, and hot/cold wallet design.
Receiving Payments: Subaddresses & Watch-Only Wallets
The payment-processor pattern: a fresh subaddress per invoice plus a watch-only (view-key) wallet to detect payments securely, with confirmations and the 10-block lock.
Paying With Monero
Spending XMR in the real world: merchants, point-of-sale, and getting confirmations right.
Payment Proofs
How to prove you sent (or received) a specific payment without exposing your whole wallet.
Subaddresses & Accounts
Organizing funds with accounts and subaddresses for privacy and bookkeeping.
Checking Your Transactions
Monero has no public explorer for your funds — how to verify payments using your wallet, tx keys and view keys.
The Life of a Transaction
Follow a Monero transaction from your wallet to confirmation, tying all the pieces together.
Fees & Dynamic Block Size
How Monero keeps fees low with an adaptive block size, and how transaction priority works.
Confirmations & the 10-Block Lock
Why received Monero is locked for 10 blocks, and what confirmations mean for your funds.
Sending Monero
How to send XMR: addresses, amounts, fees, priority and confirming it arrived.
Receiving Monero & Addresses
Primary addresses, subaddresses and integrated addresses — how to receive privately.