Vini Barbosa
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Sync'ed $XMR. Finally.
It took me 3 days and 2 nights;
easily over 18 hours of straight sync'ing to finally import my mobile Monero wallet to another device.
It had been over a year since I didn't had to do this.
It was painfully annoying.
Over 3M blocks of history.
This is NOT a good UX.
Failing to acknowledge that is not healthy.
I have years of experience,
I probably know this stuff far better than the avg Joe,
I love, use, support, and contribute to Monero for over five years,
and I was surprisingly annoyed the whole time.
This is NOT the way.
Monero will remain highly niched as this remains the user's reality.
It would have been much better if I had simply created a new wallet in the new device and sent the funds from the old device to it (lesson learned), but what's the point, then?
Backing up something is supposedly to be a good practice to recover this thing when you NEED to USE it.
Having to wait all this time to recover from the backup is not good.
And I did it with easily one of the top 10 mobile devices in the industry in 2025. I have one of the best possible non-enterprise (for families) internet connections available in Brazil. Running on 5G and routing through a good ping VPN.
Imagine people trying to do that in far worse conditions? Which is the reality of the world's average Joe.
Crazy. Annoying.
I love Monero but this recent personal experience made me think a lot on the protocol's current reality - and I know many won't like reading this, but this will tell more about them than about me. 🤷♂️
It took me 3 days and 2 nights;
easily over 18 hours of straight sync'ing to finally import my mobile Monero wallet to another device.
It had been over a year since I didn't had to do this.
It was painfully annoying.
Over 3M blocks of history.
This is NOT a good UX.
Failing to acknowledge that is not healthy.
I have years of experience,
I probably know this stuff far better than the avg Joe,
I love, use, support, and contribute to Monero for over five years,
and I was surprisingly annoyed the whole time.
This is NOT the way.
Monero will remain highly niched as this remains the user's reality.
It would have been much better if I had simply created a new wallet in the new device and sent the funds from the old device to it (lesson learned), but what's the point, then?
Backing up something is supposedly to be a good practice to recover this thing when you NEED to USE it.
Having to wait all this time to recover from the backup is not good.
And I did it with easily one of the top 10 mobile devices in the industry in 2025. I have one of the best possible non-enterprise (for families) internet connections available in Brazil. Running on 5G and routing through a good ping VPN.
Imagine people trying to do that in far worse conditions? Which is the reality of the world's average Joe.
Crazy. Annoying.
I love Monero but this recent personal experience made me think a lot on the protocol's current reality - and I know many won't like reading this, but this will tell more about them than about me. 🤷♂️
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