Monero (XMR) Default-private cryptocurrency
No public chain to walk. Sender, recipient and amount are hidden on every transaction, not as an option, but as the default.
A default-private cryptocurrency that uses ring signatures, stealth addresses and confidential transactions on every payment. Unlike Bitcoin, the Monero ledger reveals neither the sender, the recipient, nor the amount of any individual transaction.
The cleanest privacy match for a no-KYC host.
A hosting provider that does not collect identity at signup, but accepts payment in Bitcoin from a KYC exchange wallet, has only moved the leak one step upstream. The chain-analysis firm working backward from the host's receiving address sees a public Bitcoin transaction, sees an exchange wallet, and pulls the KYC record from the exchange. The privacy floor collapses to whatever the exchange knows about the customer.
Monero closes that backdoor. Because the on-chain transaction reveals no source address, no destination address and no amount, there is no public link to follow back to a wallet of origin. A Monero payment to NordBastion is a payment from "someone with XMR" to "an address NordBastion controls" — and that is the entire on-chain record. Combined with no-KYC signup, the hosting relationship contains essentially zero identity-grade information.
Operationally at NordBastion: Monero is one of several accepted cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, USDT and USDC are also supported), but it is the default suggestion for any customer whose threat model includes well-resourced chain analysis. The end-to-end walk-through — wallet choice, confirmation count, refund handling — is in the dedicated guide.
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How is Monero different from Bitcoin?
Bitcoin records every transaction on a fully transparent public ledger: amounts, sending addresses and receiving addresses are visible to anyone. Sophisticated chain-analysis firms routinely de-anonymise Bitcoin transactions by clustering addresses and following flows. Monero hides all three on every transaction by default — sender via ring signatures (the real signer is mixed with decoy signers from past outputs), recipient via stealth addresses (a fresh one-time address derived per payment), and amount via confidential transactions (ring CT, encrypting the value while still proving the sum is balanced).
Is Monero anonymous?
Monero provides strong on-chain privacy. The ledger itself does not reveal who paid whom or how much. Anonymity in the broader sense also depends on operational hygiene off-chain: where you bought the XMR, how you broadcast the transaction, what wallet you used, whether you reused metadata. Monero handles the cryptography; the user handles the metadata. For hosting payments specifically — where the only off-chain link is an email address you control — the practical privacy is very strong.
Why does NordBastion accept Monero?
Because it is the cleanest privacy match for a no-KYC host. A customer who pays in XMR delivers a payment that does not leak the source wallet, does not anchor a public on-chain identity, and does not create a chain-analysis trail back to a KYC exchange. Combined with the no-KYC signup, the result is a hosting relationship in which neither party holds identity-grade information about the other.
How do I actually pay a NordBastion invoice in Monero?
You top up your panel balance: pick "Monero (XMR)" at the top-up screen, the panel shows a fresh stealth subaddress and the exact XMR amount, you send from any Monero wallet, the balance credits after 10 network confirmations (about 20 minutes). The end-to-end walk-through is in /guides/how-to-pay-vps-with-monero/.