xmr.irish

What it is. A Monero education + live-mempool + network-visualization tool. The site combines a block-by-block mempool explorer (with confirmation-count buckets and per-transaction detail down to `rct_type`, fee rate, size, ring-member count), a live market ticker (XMR/USD and XMR/BTC from CoinGecko), a network-stat dashboard (block height, hashrate, difficulty, hard-fork version), a `Simulate` section with eight protocol visualizations, and a `Run A Node` setup helper. Per the operator's own V5 announcement, the roadmap includes automated information updates for FCMP++, Carrot, Seraphis, Jamtis, and Cuprate as they ship.

Background. Founded 2026-02-17 (monerica.com listing, *"Education, mining, network stats, and the investment thesis for Monero"*). Listed on monerica as `Media > News Aggregators` on 2026-03-21. The operator is AquaticXCP (verified X handle, *"capybara enthusiast"*) who maintains the site as an actively-iterated personal project — V1 through V5 in roughly four months, with V5 publicly announced on X as a *"live build"* that will be tweaked over the following week. The operator explicitly invites bug reports and concerns via X message / comment. No legal entity, no payment surface, no signup, no custody — this is a read-only educational tool, not a service.

What you trust.

• Non-custodial by category. The site holds no user funds, processes no payments, and requires no signup. There is no wallet integration. Trust failure modes reduce to (a) the site being down (low-cost) or (b) the site rendering misleading data (a UX-design concern, not a custodial-risk concern).
• Live data sources are labelled. The mempool, network stats, and per-transaction detail are drawn from a Monero node (top-line marked `FROM NODE`) and the market ticker is marked `CG · live` (CoinGecko). Data lineage is signposted on the page.
• Privacy primitives surfaced inline. Each transaction detail view publishes an `ALWAYS-ON` panel naming the privacy features (*sender hidden / ring signature · recipient hidden / stealth address · amount hidden / RingCT*) — a small but meaningful educational signal: the tool isn't just an explorer, it's also teaching the protocol guarantees while you read.
• Active operator presence. The operator's V5 announcement explicitly opens a feedback channel (*"message me or comment if you have trouble with the site, issues or concerns, or thoughts!"*) and the V1→V5 iteration cadence in four months suggests continued maintenance.

Operational specs.

• Site: https://xmr.irish — single-page app served behind Vercel's standard bot-protection interstitial. Works in any modern browser; hardened-mode browsers (very old, no-JS, or in some private modes) may hit the checkpoint page first.
• Operator channel: X / `@AquaticXCP`.
• Peer-directory listings: monerica.com/site/xmr-irish (admitted 2026-03-21, *Media > News Aggregators*, no community reviews yet). No other peer directories list it.
• Pricing: Free.
• Categories on the site: Home · Mempool · Markets · Network · Monero · Education · Simulate · Run A Node.
• Network data: Block height, hashrate, difficulty, block target, mempool depth, hard-fork version (currently v16 / FCMP++ Q3 banner).
• Mempool views: Six modes including a Classic block-bucket visualization with confirmation counts (1→10+) and TXs / size / fee summary per bucket.
• Per-transaction detail: Transaction hash, rct_type, ring-member count, fee, fee rate, size, time-to-confirmation, mempool status.
• Market ticker: XMR/USD, XMR/BTC, 24h Δ — sourced from CoinGecko.
• No Tor mirror advertised.
• No subscription, account, or wallet integration.

Operator philosophy. Positioned as *"a pet project focusing on Monero Education and the Monero Mainnet Mempool"* (operator-published, X / V5 announcement). The framing is explicitly hobbyist-maintainer rather than commercial: V5 is described as a *"live build"* with active iteration. The roadmap is protocol-update-oriented — *"automated updates for FCMP++, Carrot, Seraphis, Jamtis & Cuprate"* — signalling the operator intends to keep the tool current with Monero's research-track changes. The Simulate + Run-A-Node sections push the project past "explorer" toward genuine onboarding tooling.

Grade rationale. Listed at Grade B. The substantive features (mempool explorer + protocol simulations + node-runner setup + privacy-primitives surfacing) place this in the same functional tier as `monerospace`, and the read-only / non-custodial / zero-PII category profile means the high-loss-asymmetric tenure rule does not bind — there is essentially no way for a mempool visualizer to harm its readers financially. Grade A is withheld because: (a) the only peer-directory listing is monerica with no community reviews yet, so there is no independent verification of operational quality beyond the operator's X post; (b) the same screen mixes live chain data, illustrative sample data, a live market ticker, and educational copy without clean visual separation — the *"ILLUSTRATIVE"* labels on Local Node and Peers are easy to miss, and the multi-category bundling means a new reader has to work out *which-data-is-which* before they can quote anything from the page safely; (c) V5 is operator-described as a *"live build"* still being tweaked. Path to A: sharpen the visual separation between the heterogeneous content types (live chain / illustrative sample / market / educational), make the *ILLUSTRATIVE-vs-LIVE* labels unmissable, accumulate at least one independent peer review (monerica or another), and confirm V5 stabilizes out of the *"live build"* state without breaking changes.

Useful when:

• You want a single-page Monero overview that combines live mempool state, protocol-update awareness (FCMP++, Carrot, Seraphis, Jamtis), and educational visualizations — without setting up your own node.
• You're learning the Monero protocol and want a visual teaching surface — the per-transaction privacy-primitives panel (ring signature / stealth address / RingCT) is genuinely instructive in context.
• You want to walk a friend through "what does the mempool look like right now" without sending them to a generic blockchain explorer that doesn't speak Monero's privacy guarantees.

Caveats.

• Readability tradeoff — content mixing. V5 collapses several distinct surfaces onto the same screen: a live mempool block-bucket visualization (live chain data) + a Local Node + Peers panel (sample / illustrative data) + a live CoinGecko market ticker (financial data) + an educational privacy-primitives explainer banner + top-level navigation to Education / Simulate / Run-A-Node sections. The information is substantive, but the categories are heterogeneous — a single page is doing the work of an explorer *and* a market dashboard *and* an educational micro-site *and* an onboarding tool, and the visual grouping does not cleanly separate them. New readers may have to study the layout once or twice before the *which-data-is-which* question is settled.
• ILLUSTRATIVE side panels. The Local Node and Peers sidebars carry an *ILLUSTRATIVE* label — these are sample data, not the reader's own node state. The label is small relative to the data it qualifies. Take a second look before quoting node-status figures from this surface as live.
• Vercel bot-protection interstitial. The SPA sits behind Vercel's standard checkpoint. Any modern browser passes through transparently; hardened or no-JS browsers may see the checkpoint page instead of the app.
• V5 is a live build. Operator has explicitly said the build will be tweaked over the days following the V5 launch (2026-06-10). Expect occasional UI changes and incomplete feature areas.
• Single-source verification. Only one peer directory (monerica) currently lists this tool and there are no community reviews yet. Treat the *operating since 2026-02-17* tenure as still very early — the tool is four months old.
• No Tor mirror. No operator-published `.onion` address. Tor users hit the site via clearnet exits — Vercel sees the exit-node IP, not the user's.