https://infomonero.com/ Monero News from InfoMonero: privacy, surveillance and the war on cash. Every story links its sources. en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://infomonero.com/news/eu-parliament-votes-to-advance-ecb-digital-euro-with-holding-cap/ https://infomonero.com/news/eu-parliament-votes-to-advance-ecb-digital-euro-with-holding-cap/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Cashless Grid Talks with EU governments start 13 July 2026. Parliament’s text caps how much each person could hold and hands the number to the Commission. They swear it will “never replace” cash. https://infomonero.com/news/globalist-eu-moves-to-cut-monero-off-from-exchanges/ https://infomonero.com/news/globalist-eu-moves-to-cut-monero-off-from-exchanges/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Globalism Brussels opens a new money-laundering authority in Frankfurt, and EU law will bar exchanges and custodians from handling “anonymity-enhancing coins” from 10 July 2027. Your own keys are NOT on the list. https://infomonero.com/news/kyc-honeypot-coinbase-bribed-insiders-copied-customer-ids/ https://infomonero.com/news/kyc-honeypot-coinbase-bribed-insiders-copied-customer-ids/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Surveillance Names, addresses, government ID images and transaction histories walked out the door for cash. Coinbase puts the cost at up to $400 million. The ID file you hand an exchange is the target. https://infomonero.com/explainers/monero-mining/ https://infomonero.com/explainers/monero-mining/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Explainers Miners build every Monero block and collect its fees plus a 0.6 XMR reward that never ends. RandomX was built for ordinary CPUs, P2Pool has no pool operator, and on 19 October 2026 the network ran at about 6.57 GH/s. Here is how it works, and what the Qubic rollback of September 2025 showed. https://infomonero.com/explainers/what-is-monero/ https://infomonero.com/explainers/what-is-monero/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Explainers Monero hides the sender, the receiver and the amount by default. No company runs it, and no premine started it. Here is how it works, who mines it, how many coins exist, and what the EU rule of 10 July 2027 does and does NOT ban. https://infomonero.com/explainers/zcash-vs-monero/ https://infomonero.com/explainers/zcash-vs-monero/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Explainers Monero hides the sender, the receiver and the amount of every payment. Zcash lets users pick transparent or shielded addresses, and on 17 October 2026 about 29% of all ZEC sat in shielded pools. Here is how the two compare on privacy, trusted setups, supply and exchanges. https://infomonero.com/explainers/monero-eu-ban-2027/ https://infomonero.com/explainers/monero-eu-ban-2027/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Explainers No. As of 19 October 2026, the EU’s 2027 rule does not ban owning Monero. From 10 July 2027, it bars banks, financial firms and crypto-asset service providers from keeping accounts that allow “anonymity-enhancing coins.” Here is who it binds, what stays legal, and the cash cap that starts the same day. https://infomonero.com/explainers/monero-tail-emission/ https://infomonero.com/explainers/monero-tail-emission/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Explainers Since block 2,641,623 on 9 June 2022, every Monero block pays a fixed base reward of 0.6 XMR. That adds under 1% a year to the supply, and the rate falls every year. Here is why the miners get it, and how it compares with the central banks’ 2% goal. https://infomonero.com/explainers/monero-fcmp-plus-plus/ https://infomonero.com/explainers/monero-fcmp-plus-plus/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Explainers Full-chain membership proofs would replace today’s ring of 16 with a proof over every output on the chain. The newest public test network forked on 5 October 2026. There is no official mainnet date.