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Monero expressed: ‘Crypto’ means ‘hidden’. Therefore, it’s critically important that cryptocurrencies don’t leak all transaction details to the whole world. Monero is designed to keep your finances secure and confidential by default.
Monero is so competitive by virtue of its privacy enhancing technology. Anonymity and fungibility is achieved by obfuscating transactions. Observers of the transaction will not be able to derive the addresses which are trading at Monero whether it be transaction amounts, address balances or transaction histories.
The ring signatures and stealth addresses used to Monero make it very difficult to track the transactions. The identities of the sender and receiver are thus hidden. The Ring Confidential Transactions, or RingCT, makes it possible to conceal the transaction amount, thus facilitating more privacy.
Stealth Addresses, Ring Signatures, and RingCT altogether ensures that every transaction is private and Monero cannot be traced.
Monero is not an illegal cryptocurrency. Unlike others, it is a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency that provides users with anonymity. This means it is not traceable. However, it just looks like regulators in India consider the anonymity to be dangerous to their processes and taxability and therefore are considering to ban the use of Monero by Indians. This is not yet confirmed; however, legal processes are underway to enforce such a deal by regulators on its citizens.
Another reason for concern that cannot be dismissed is that XMR is the dark web’s favorite currency. Even with Taproot for Bitcoin it is possible for onlookers to identify the sender and the receiver. This Bitcoin is not as private as Monero.
Monero smartly mixes up any given Monero coin with other payments thus obscuring the entire transaction. It is very difficult to link Monero transactions to any particular identity or previous transaction.
However, “A Paper by a a team of researchers from a broad collection of institutions—including Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Boston University, MIT, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—point to flaws in that mixing that make it possible to nonetheless extract individual transactions.”
While Monero tries to make things more private there are others who are tyring to break open past their privacy. The technological competition between those who are tyring to hide facts and those who are trying to uncover the hidden facts is going to continue. But for now, Monero is the best privacy coin in existence and it is for those who prefer high level privacy. Obviously, regulators do not like it for its capability to provide for anonymity as it is dangerous for their existence.
