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No crypto will make you rich (and why I run my nodes anyway)

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every crypto pitch whispers, at one point or another, the same thing: passive income. Run a node, set some tokens aside, let your machine work while you sleep. At an individual’s scale, that’s structurally false. Not “hard,” not “reserved for insiders”: false. And admitting it, far from depressing, is the most liberating thing I can write on the subject.

Why it’s structural

A reward is always paid for a scarce and costly resource. Mining pays because you have to burn electricity and computation — a real expense. Staking “pays” because you have to lock up capital you already own. An individual, at home, has neither cheap electricity at industrial scale nor capital at fund scale. By construction, then, they have no edge to bring.

Why Monero is vanishing from exchanges — and why it doesn't matter

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In February 2024, Binance delisted Monero. In October of the same year, Kraken removed it across the entire European Economic Area. And from July 2027, a European regulation will outright forbid regulated platforms from handling anonymous cryptocurrencies. From a distance, it looks like a slow death sentence: the coin nobody will list anymore.

Up close, it’s almost the opposite. But to see that, you have to separate two things people constantly conflate.

Why Monero pays its miners forever, but never its nodes

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Monero pays its miners, and it will pay them indefinitely. Even once every coin that was planned has been issued, a reward of roughly 0.6 XMR will keep landing in every block, forever. It’s called the tail emission, and its purpose is written down plainly: you have to pay for the costly work that secures the chain, because the day the rewards stop, security collapses with them.

Monero never pays its nodes. A full node isn’t a miner: it isn’t trying to earn coins, it validates the blockchain and lets you verify your own transactions without trusting anyone. It’s the sovereignty tool par excellence — your wallet queries your machine, and no outsider sees your activity go by. And yet whoever runs one doesn’t earn a cent.

Why this site exists (and why it runs at home)

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This site is a base. A place of my own where I gather what I write about privacy, Monero and digital sovereignty — whatever platforms those texts land on afterwards.

It runs on my own machine, at home. Not on a service that could shut it down, censor it or resell it. That’s consistent with what I stand for: if I believe you should own your data and your money rather than rent them, I might as well start with my own words.