About

Hi. I am escapethe3RA, the maintainer of Monero Observer and PrivSec.Guide. This is my humble effort to contribute something of value to the Monero community and also give the outside world a chance to learn about Monero, privacy and security.

While it is virtually impossible to report on every story out there as it happens, I will do my best to post consistently.

Signature

All my contact details are digitally signed with my public key:

/contact-signed.txt (signed contact details)
/3RA_pubkey.asc, /3RA_pubkey.txt (my public key) (update: extended expiry date 1y to Oct 2026)

You can follow my PrivSec step by step guide ‘GPG cleartext signatures’ if you need help verifying my accounts.

Email & XMPP (OMEMO)

You can say hi, send feedback, questions, stories or community messages to the address below which is both my email and XMPP address:

escapethe3ra at disroot dot org [PGP.asc] [.txt]

PGP Fingerprint: BCE1 5F74 D181 1282 4899 608A FD10 3120 DC7B CC36

OMEMO Fingerprint: 73cf9619 1a1da27a 3808abf6 49f27040 580788bf 026f0d0d f0e8a04e a4781534

OMEMO Fingerprint (legacy): 3d134af6 451e4a28 d73a51cd e6809e29 1cc240dd fa2fd10a 6565d920 0e53c376

Tips

You can directly support me and my projects using Monero:

XMR: 867TAc58FK2ScH6Kyz9VSJZYSKGbyGfRiJB7M7yV2qEdamdQsxJafEbXxp6QoAkVCjjarKTbsmsZuEm1XymGmSquRdZnN2C

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Big shout out to anon group Power Up Privacy for being the #1 donor to the Monero Observer 2025 & 2026 funding campaigns!

Thank you all for contributing, I really appreciate the support! Private messages and tips are pretty much the best way to let me know someone is reading and finds my work helpful, as I don’t ever intend to add any sort of analytics to the site.

Updates

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[Changelog] and [Archive] available.

Licenses

Monero Observer is published under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0) except where otherwise noted.

The code used to format and display Monero.Observer content is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 GNU GPLv3.

Contribute to Monero

Anyone can get involved, regardless of skill type or level.

Visit Monero Hangouts and join a Monero Workgroup to get started.

What can you do for Monero?

Read my PrivSec ‘Ultimate guide for new Monero contributors’ for ideas.