Monero reads like an underdog story nobody planned. A project that stumbled into existence and somehow refused to disappear.

2014 marked the beginning—creator vanished, yet the network kept going. Fast forward to 2022, when tail emission mechanics locked in permanent security. Come 2026, it'll still be what it is: genuinely private, genuinely untraceable. No compromises.

That's the difference between Monero and the pack of so-called privacy coins that folded when regulators came knocking. They bent. They negotiated. Monero? Shipped code instead.

There's something almost defiant about a project that doesn't need a founder to survive, doesn't need a marketing department to matter, doesn't need permission from anyone. The network just works. Developers keep building. Privacy persists.