Crypto & Money Basics
Start from zero: what money is, what cryptocurrency is and the problem it solves, how a blockchain works, and what a wallet is.
Courses
Pick a course and work through the lessons in order. Each level builds on the last.
Beginner courses
What Is Monero?
What Monero is, why it's unique, where it came from, and the ideas — privacy and fungibility — that set it apart.
Your First Monero Wallet
Everything about wallets and keys: the wallet types, public vs private (spend and view) keys, your seed phrase, and how to create, receive and send safely.
Security & Self-Custody
Hold your own Monero safely: the self-custody mindset, securing your seed, passphrases, spotting scams, backups, and inheritance.
Intermediate courses
Getting Monero
Every way to get XMR — exchanges, no-KYC instant swaps, peer-to-peer, earning and mining — and how to choose based on privacy.
Swapping Monero
Everything you need to convert other crypto into Monero (and back) without an account: how swaps work, doing one step by step, picking a trustworthy service, and understanding rates, fees and the privacy picture.
How Monero Works
The technology behind the privacy: what a Monero output actually is, stealth addresses, ring signatures, RingCT, network privacy, confirmations and fees — explained simply.
Using Monero in Practice
The day-to-day skills: checking your transactions without a public explorer, subaddresses, payment proofs, paying with XMR, and using a node over Tor.
Monero Hardware: Nodes & Devices
Run Monero on real hardware: plug-and-play node appliances like MoneroNodo, building your own node on a Raspberry Pi, using your hardware node day to day, and hardware wallets for key storage.
Mining Monero
Earn XMR with your CPU: how RandomX mining works, solo vs pool, P2Pool, and what to consider before you start.
Advanced courses
Privacy Best Practices
Use Monero well: threat modeling, network privacy, avoiding metadata leaks, the truth about churning, and real-world OPSEC.
Coin Control & Advanced Wallet Use
Take full control: how outputs work, managing them to avoid linking, dusting attacks, multisig, hardware/cold storage, and watch-only auditing.
Running & Operating a Node
Go beyond using a node to operating one: run a public remote node over Tor for the community, read live network stats like fees and circulating supply, and prune your blockchain to save space.