12feb.
Why Monero’s Ring Signatures Make Transactions Untraceable — And What That Actually Means
Whoa! I was poking around old threads about privacy coins and kept bumping into the same question: how does Monero really make transactions untraceable? My first reaction was skeptical. Seriously? A coin that can’t be traced? But then I dug in and my view shifted a bit as the cryptography and the network mechanics started to line up. Initially I thought it was just mixing, like tumblers, but Monero's approach is fundamentally different — and that's where things get interesting,...