It is well known thatregulators are forever trying to restrict privacy transactions in the cryptocurrency space.  Riccardo “Fluffypony” Spagni opines that they might not be successful in their attempts as he has to state that Cryptographers are going to be smarter than the regulators. 

Protocols that are providing privacy is something that regulators and law enforcement agencies are eagle eyed about.  This they are very particular as there is a race among Central Banks to launch the Sovereign Digital currencies.

It is well known that the IRS recently hired Chainalysis and Integra FEC to derive a technology which will be able to trace the transactions of Monero and other privacy protocols like DASH and Zcash. This is becoming a matter of interest because regulators believe that anonymity enhancing protocols are risky in terms of terrorism finance and other money laundering attempts.

Riccardo Spagni, opines that the regulators’ best bet will be to apply controls at the entry and exit points. He stated, “Payment service providers and merchant service providers are sorts of the points at which they can apply a degree of regulation. And that I think is feasible,”

Spagni stated that, regulators and law enforcement agencies are currently depending on passive surveillance like facial recognition systems, tracking bank accounts, and suspicious activity reports by financial systems.  He feels that they need to use approaches beyond passive surveillance.

When talking about regulators, Sydney Ifergan, the crypto expert tweeted: “Monero (XMR) will keep improving their privacy codes as providing privacy is their main call.”

Monero (XMR) Stealth Address and Privacy Protection

Monero are making use of ring signatures that will hide the true output (sender), RingCT that hides the amounts, and the stealth addresses, which hides the receiver.  Stealth addresses have a very important role in providing privacy protection.  When an individual is looking to send money, they want it to be private for several reasons.  In many cases, they are going to be legitimate reasons too.

In a transparent blockchain, the addresses to and from which transactions happen are visible to all. There is a possibility for miners to censor the transaction; however, censorship is not possible if miners are not able to distinguish between the transactions as all on-chain metadata can be obscured by different means. Monero is well known for this and they make this possible by using stealth addresses.  The good thing is that stealth addresses is not susceptible to

heuristics. Monero are here to reign in the cryptocurrency space for their privacy facilitating capability.