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Monero is a private-centric cryptocurrency launched in 2014 to allow direct and anonymous digital payments without being dependent on a central authority.

Installation

• Introduction: Whonix Documentation Introduction, User Expectations, Footnotes and References, User Expectations - What Documentation Is and What It Is Not
• Whonix is based on Kicksecure^™: Whonix inherits many features and principles from Kicksecure.
• Kicksecure is based on Debian: Kicksecure builds upon the stability of Debian.
• Inheritance: Therefore, Whonix is also based on Debian.
• Debian is GNU/Linux-based: Debian primarily uses the GNU/Linux as its foundation.
• Shared documentation benefits: Because one distribution is based on another:
  • Inherited documentation: Little specific documentation is required for each layer.
  • Shared principles: Features and principles often remain consistent across forks. Users can often follow the same instructions for both Whonix and Kicksecure.
• Keep using Whonix: This does not mean the user should switch to Kicksecure.
• Where to apply the instructions: The instructions should be applied inside Whonix.
• Wiki editors notice: This box is wiki template upstream_wiki. (Pages that link to it.)
• Comparison: Whonix versus Kicksecure
• Documentation compatibility: Since Whonix is based on Kicksecure, the user can follow these instructions for Monero . Apply the instructions inside Whonix, not Kicksecure.
• Note: Re-interpretation...

Kicksecure: Perform these steps inside Kicksecure.

Instead the user should apply the instructions inside Whonix-Workstation.

Kicksecure for Qubes: Perform these steps inside Qubes kicksecure-17 Template.

Instead the user should apply the instructions inside whonix-workstation-17 Template.

Stream Isolation

Simplified: Stream isolation is about details. Not about IP masking. Your real external IP address is masked no matter what you do in the Whonix-Workstation. See also Reliable IP Hiding.

Advanced users only!

Untested! Stream Isolation for Monero has not yet been considered. Refer to the Stream Isolation page and search for:

• torsocks , and
• IsolatePID 1 .

To enforce stream isolation, you could experiment with the following commands.

Note: Replace monerod, monero-wallet-gui, monero-wallet-cli with the actual path to monerod, for example /home/user/monero-gui/monerod or ./monerod.

DNS_PUBLIC=tcp TORSOCKS_ALLOW_INBOUND=1 torsocks monerod --p2p-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --no-igd --hide-my-port

torsocks monero-wallet-gui

torsocks monero-wallet-cli

For more inspiration, refer to the related forum discussion: Monero in Whonix with torsocks for better stream isolation.

Donations

After installing Monero, please consider making a donation to Whonix to help keep it running for many years to come.

Donate Monero (XMR) to Whonix.

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See Also

It is recommended to read the Money wiki page as it contains a lot of related information on how to make anonymous payments.

Advanced Qubes users can also look into How-to: Use Monero with Wallet Isolation in Qubes-Whonix^™.

Footnotes

The former Manual Monero Instructions have been archived for historic reasons.

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