<pid="main-text">Monero is a secure, private, untraceable currency. It is open-source and freely available to all. With Monero, you are your own bank. Only
you control and are responsible for your funds; your accounts
and transactions are kept private from prying eyes.</p>
<p>Monero can't be hacked to steal your funds, due to the power of distributed consensus, which you can read about here. This means that you are responsible for your money, and don't have to trust any entity to keep it safe for you.</p>
<p>The power of the blockchain usually increases security at the cost of privacy, but with Monero's sophisticated privacy-centric technology, you get all of the security benefits of the blockchain without any of the privacy trade-offs.</p>
<p>By taking advantage of ring signatures, Monero makes it ambiguous which funds have been spent, and thus extremely unlikely that a transaction could be linked to particular user.</p>
<p>Because of the on-by-default nature of the privacy technologies, Monero is fungible, meaning one Monero will always be equal to another. This means you won't have to worry about Monero blacklisted by exchanges or vendors.</p>
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<pclass="main-resources">Would you like to look up the meanings of the terms and concepts used in Monero? Here you will find an alphabetical list of terms and their meanings from both the Monero and Kovri projects.</p>
<pclass="main-resources">Step-by-step guides to all things Monero are separated by category and cover everything from creating a wallet, recovering a wallet, and even how to edit this website.</p>
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<pclass="main-resources">We've heard a lot of questions over the years and have compiled, for your convenience, a thorough and varied FAQ. Don't worry, if your questions are not on here, you can always ask the community.</p>