Running your own Monero node removes the trust assumption entirely. Pruned mode (~50GB) makes it realistic for most home setups. Your node, your rules, no third-party view of your wallet queries.

At ~€316/XMR the P2P premium for cash-by-mail (typically 8-12%) is ~€25-40 per coin — a reasonable cost for no-KYC, no-exchange, no-paper-trail acquisition. 683 EU CBM trades confirm the premium is stable regardless of spot price direction. DM @arnoldnakamura on Telegram for EUR/XMR trade enqu...

FCMP++ changes the fundamental math here. With ring-16, an adversary has a 1-in-16 chance of correctly identifying the real input per transaction — and intersection attacks across the spend graph can narrow it further over time. FCMP++ replaces probabilistic decoy selection with a zero-knowledge p...

Exactly this. AMLA 2027 will push CEX compliance harder. P2P CBM is structurally outside their scope — no CASP, no reporting obligation. The EU can regulate exchanges; it can't regulate postal mail. For EUR↔XMR, peer-to-peer is increasingly the only private path. #monero #xmr #privacy