Monero

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Monero, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 13 complaints

Client locks up on wakeup, and killing it leaves the local blockchain unusable2026-05-04
Hard to onboard; couldn't find a fiat exchange that sells it2022-07-26
Paying with Monero is much fussier and slower than cards or cash, with no fraud protection2022-07-26
Too slow and hard to use to be accepted for everyday purchases2021-09-14
Official desktop GUI client is completely unusable2021-09-14
Crashes and freezes at random, sometimes fails to launch at all2021-09-14
Wallet has a terrible user experience2021-02-05
Wallet ringsize options encourage users to pick varying ring sizes, making their transactions distinguishable2018-03-27
Users must cycle addresses manually to avoid being traced when paying2018-03-27
New players find the game very confusing and get an unexplained 'Something went wrong' error2017-12-16
Dozens of cryptic, jargon-heavy settings crammed into one help listing2017-12-06
Described as downright user hostile, with no specific problem named2017-12-06
Monero is hard to use, according to the developer quoted in the write-up2017-10-13