Stasher News

A Reddit / Hacker-News for Monero, wired for on-chain tipping. Stasher News is a community link-aggregator — "turfs" (subs) for monero, mining, memes and more — where posts and comments earn XMR tips paid peer-to-peer on the Monero network into a wallet you attach to your profile. Browsing is free; posting costs a small 0.001 XMR anti-spam fee (until your account has stacked 0.01 XMR in tips), which funds the curator-rewards pool.

Custody: mostly non-custodial, with one escrow. The platform states it plainly — *"Stasher News is non-custodial: the platform never holds your money, and all payments are sent directly on the Monero network."* Tips and rewards are genuinely P2P — nothing is skimmed, funds land in your own wallet. The one exception is bounties, funded to an integrated address on the platform's dedicated bounty escrow wallet and paid out to the winner — a temporary, purpose-scoped hold, not a general balance you top up and withdraw.

Access is no-KYC. Signup offers *"Sign up without Email"* — wallet-based, no identity, email optional.

Why C. It's brand-new (domain + X both ~Aug 2026, no track record) and touches user XMR via the bounty escrow, so C is the honest ceiling for now — a deserved listing used with the caution any month-old fund-touching platform warrants. On the plus side it's refreshingly XMR-only (no BTC/fiat bolt-on), the tip flow is real and non-custodial, and it already draws genuine Monero-community participation. Climbs on tenure + a clean track record on the escrow.

One real privacy trade-off: attaching a wallet means handing over your private view key (primary address + view key). It is watch-only — it *cannot spend*, which is exactly what makes the platform non-custodial — but it lets Stasher (and anyone who obtains that key) see every incoming transfer to that address. Use a dedicated / fresh wallet for Stasher, never your main one, or you expose your full receiving history. To Stasher's credit, they disclose this exact tradeoff on the registration screen and explicitly tell you to create a wallet solely for Stasher — honest, user-protective framing rather than a quiet key-harvest, and a real point in their favour on transparency.

If you sign up with email: since 8 October 2026 the privacy policy says email signups get the biweekly community newsletter by default, and that the email provider, Resend, receives your address to send login codes, the digest and the newsletter. The address is stored as a salted hash plus an encrypted copy. You can switch the newsletter off in settings or from any issue, and the wallet-only signup avoids email entirely.