Dr. Daniel Kim provides a comprehensive overview of Monero and Bitcoin and projected facts in the larger context of gold and fiat currency in the 2020 financial crisis. He spoke about several things like the pandemic economy, independent scarcity with decentralization and Bitcoin and also about independent scarcity and Monero.

Investors have to state that Monero is what Bitcoin buyers thought they were buying.  In reality, Monero’s characteristics provide for a more rational economy when compared to Bitcoin or Gold.

The scarcity features of Monero reinstate that Monero is not the code fork of Bitcoin.  When assessing if Monero is worth considering, it is important to consider that Monero is not the code fork of Bitcoin.

Considering the fact that Bitcoin was there in the cryptocurrency space as the first several cryptocurrencies simply copy pasted the Bitcoin code and made trivial and in some cases major changes and then published and called it their own cryptocurrency.

Dr. Daniel Kim stated that one criterion that can be used to whittle down the subset of cryptocurrencies are worth considering if it is simply a Bitcoin fork.  It is important to know how much original and intellectual effort went in to the creation of this other cryptocurrency.

Monero has its own separate code base.  Also have to state that it uses a completely different elliptic curve than Bitcoin. Monero makes use of ed25519, which is the x, y points on the gigantic sheet which is fundamental to how the cryptocurrency works – that very equation is different in the Monero than it is in Bitcoin.  To the extent that the elliptic curve used in Bitcoin may or may not have weaknesses associated with it – this is a form of technical hedging in which Monero has chosen, deliberately, a different elliptic curve.

Monero Opt-in Transparency

Monero has two private keys, the spend key and the view key.  The spend key works like the Bitcoin private key.  Those who know the spend key are in complete control of their account. The view key is a cryptographic subset of the spend key.  Those who know the view key will be able to look at the details of the transactions done so far.

The major misconception about Monero is that it is a completely secret box so that you can tell nothing about what is going on in it. You can actually share details about what is actually going on in your particular Monero account if you share your view key. It offers opt-in transparency.