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by tinfoilman 3409 days ago
If you care about Privacy in your crypto Monero really is the current fore runner. BTC is only pseudonymous and given KYC of the exchanges everything in bitcoin land can be traced.

https://twitter.com/DelRayMan/status/824697015523246080

FBI love the open ledger.

Anyway given this is a tech site, here are some Monero based privacy techs you might be interested in

- RingSignatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature

- Stealth Addresses https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/moneropedia/stealthaddr...

- RingCT - https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/moneropedia/ringCT

And some more information from their lab which is always interesting

https://lab.getmonero.org/