[hamburgerwah]

For those that may not be familiar, the relatively strong anonymity on Monero is via a cryptographic mechanism known as "ring signatures". Separate from cryptocurrency they are a useful cryptographic technique for many things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature

[blueprint]

that's for sender anonymity, and recipient anonymity is via one-time (stealth) addresses

[Groxx]

I haven't read much on monero / this algorithm, so I'm not sure if it's particularly meaningful, but wikipeda references that being the case for most of 2017-2018 and then the algorithm was changed.

[lolthishuman]

Changed to bulletproof https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066

[selsta]

The Wikipedia article is incorrect, Monero still uses ring signatures. Bulletproofs are used as efficient range proofs in RingCT to hide the amount in transactions.

https://www.getmonero.org/2017/12/07/Monero-Compatible-Bulle...

[Groxx]

Honestly, comments like this are why I stick with hacker news.

Thank you! There's a lot of difficult-to-google info locked up in comments like this, and I truly appreciate the effort spent replying to randos like me :)