There’s too much cool stuff to list here but have a look at the official website at https://getmonero.org. https://monero.garden is another introductory website. If you want a beginner friendly book that goes into depth about how monero works, have a look at mastering monero (you can download the pdf for free).
As for what the value is based on, the same as bitcoin: basically nothing. Just what people are willing to pay for it.
Besides privacy, the community is small but extremely dedicated and tight nit. Monero is also interesting because can be mined on CPU and is currently a good mining currency. The mining algorithm that it uses is cool because it works best on CPUs and makes ASICs unprofitable for now preventing centralization of mining (which has happened to bitcoin due to asics unfortunately)
mcneb10
npub100…wcx27
2024-07-26 05:30:01
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2024-07-26 05:30:01Event JSON
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