FAQ 2/2 Swarmnero
**Wallet & Monero**
*Is the wallet the same as my account?*
No. The Monero wallet is independent from your social identity. You can use Swarmnero without ever unlocking a wallet (you just won't be able to send tips or purchase paywall unlocks). The wallet has its own 25-word seed — back it up separately from your account Secret Key.
*How does tipping work?*
Each post generates a fresh Monero subaddress while your wallet is unlocked. Tippers send XMR to that subaddress; the author's wallet sees the incoming transaction and can correlate it back to the specific post. Tip events are batched with a 6-hour delay and shuffled before broadcast, so the timing of an on-chain payment can't be linked to a swarm event trivially.
*What's a paywalled post?*
The author encrypts the post body with a random key, puts a preview + price in the clear, and publishes it. A buyer pays the price to a unique subaddress, and the author's app sees the payment, verifies it, and releases the decryption key to that buyer (encrypted with the buyer's own public key). No refunds — the payment and key exchange are both peer-to-peer and irreversible.
**Network & privacy**
*Does Swarmnero work over Tor?*
No. Hyperswarm uses UDP (UDX) for peer discovery, and Tor only routes TCP. Even with Tor running on your machine, Swarmnero's P2P traffic bypasses it and your real IP is visible to peers. Use a VPN that routes UDP if you want IP privacy.
*What data is stored on a server?*
By default, nothing. All data lives on the devices of users who replicate it. There's an optional Swarmnero-run VPS feed backup for paid supporters ($12/year in XMR), which mirrors your feed so followers can still see your posts while you're offline.
**Common issues**
*I clicked a paywalled post and my wallet balance shows "locked pending confirmation" for a few minutes.*
Monero protocol locks newly received funds for ~10 confirmations (~20 min). The balance is correct and the transaction is in the wallet — the lock is at the blockchain layer, not the app. The paywall unlock happens automatically in the background, typically within 15–30 seconds of the payment being visible to the author.
*My Followers list shows a Swarm ID instead of a name.*
That follower hasn't been online during any of your sessions, so Swarmnero hasn't received their profile data yet. Once their app and yours are both online at the same time, their name and avatar will cache and show on future sessions.
Graham O'Nero
npub1xh…23s4p
2026-04-21 06:32:14 CEST
in reply to nevent1q…zzwr
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2026-04-21 06:32:14 CESTEvent JSON
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