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Friend or Foe? Identifying Anomalous Peers in Moneros P2P Network
Yannik Kopyciok, Stefan Schmid, Friedhelm Victor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10214 https://

Friend or Foe? Identifying Anomalous Peers in Moneros P2P Network
Monero, the leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency, relies on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to propagate transactions and blocks. Growing evidence suggests that non-standard nodes exist in the network, posing as honest nodes but are perhaps intended for monitoring the network and spying on other nodes. However, our understanding of the detection and analysis of anomalous peer behavior remains limited. This paper presents a first comprehensive study of anomalous behavior in Monero's P2P network. …

Monero Developers Discuss ‘Publish or Perish’ Proposal to Mitigate Qubic Attacks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/monero-developers-discuss-publish-perish-215514707.html

Monero Developers Discuss ‘Publish or Perish’ Proposal to Mitigate Qubic Attacks
Monero has been suffering from what is called a selfish mining strategy, or attack, perpetrated by the Qubic Pool—led by Sergey Ivancheglo, also known as...

Been using Monero for 5 years now, and I can’t believe how fast the time has gone by, it feels like just yesterday I started. Over that time, I’ve even used it to pay for clothes, which might sound a bit unusual but it works, and I also use it to pay for privacy services like Mullvad and iVPN since they accept XMR.
Honestly, I’m probably one of the few people who still uses Monero on a weekly basis, not just holding it but actually spending it the way it was meant to be used, which is …