There are multiple ways to acquire some coins to spend, like mining or working in exchange for Monero, but the easiest way is to use an exchange and convert your fiat money into XMR. Many exchanges, centralized and decentralized, list Monero (XMR).

Monero is electronic cash that allows fast, inexpensive payments to and from anywhere in the world. With Monero, there are no wire transfer or check clearing fees, no multi-day holding periods, and no fraudulent chargebacks.

Monero can be mined on both CPUs and GPUs, but the latter is much less efficient than the former. You can get an idea of how your hardware performs compared to others, using xmrig benchmarks page (some results might be out of date).

With all the advanced features you could need. Ideal for seasoned Monero users who prefer to have full control of their wallet and node; Merchant page. Receive XMR for your business, easily; Compatible with hardware wallets such Trezor and Ledger; in-app fiat conversion. No longer a need to check the value of your XMR online; Blockchain pruning.

Monero has a fixed emission rate, not a set maximum supply. Around May 2022, Monero's emission will drop to and permanently remain at 0.3 XMR per minute (0.6 XMR per block). This is approximately 1% inflation for the first year and will approach 0% inflation in future years.

To receive XMR you only need to provide the payer with an address where they can send funds to. Most of the time it's easier to just share a QR code and let the payer scan it, instead of copy-pasting the alphanumeric string.

Monero can be mined on both CPUs and GPUs, but the latter is much less efficient than the former. You can get an idea of how your hardware performs compared to others, using xmrig benchmarks page (some results might be out of date).

On this page you will find stores and merchants that accept Monero as payment, as well as exchanges that trade Monero for other currencies.

This page generates a new Monero (or Aeon, Townforge) wallet. It is self-contained and does all the necessary calculations locally. You can download this page, open the HTML file on your computer and use it to generate a wallet offline.

The address is actually the concatenation, in Base58 format, of the public spend key and the public view key, prefixed with the network byte (the number 18 for Monero) and suffixed with the first four bytes of the Keccac-256 hash of the whole string (used as a checksum).