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Monero

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What is Monero?

Monero is an open-source cryptocurrency created in April 2014 with a focus on privacy, fungibility and decentralization.

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Monero is not minable with ASICs due to it's "hashing" algorithm RandomX using random code execution rather than a traditional hash, but miners pooling together their equipment to standardize profit still poses a security risk to the network if there's a malicious pool admin.

Like the blockchain it's securing, P2Pool is a decentralized pool itself with no pool admin. It's 1.0 release a few days ago signals for the future of fair and secure mining on the Monero network.

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