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Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)

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Re: Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)

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Post by duckqlz »

From the first chapter:

“The first two chapters of this book are friendly non-technical intro- ductions to key topics and skills. For readers curious to learn more about behind-the-scenes details, chapters 3 and 4 contain conceptual non-mathematical explanations of Monero's privacy features and blockchain. Later chapters dive into complex technical details for understanding, developing, and integrating Monero.”

Re: Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)

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Post by jrm4 »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #2

Crypto content on HN... this is either gonna go really great or the opposite of that.

Yup. It's always felt like there's a disproportionate amount of hate for crypto -- not that people should like it or love it, but that I'm surprised that tech people here don't appear to understand its inevitability.

So it seems like they treat it as something to be killed (impossible) as opposed to something to buckle up and get ready to manage (more or less like they correctly do with AI.)

Re: Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)

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Post by birdyrooster »

jrm4 wrote: post #4
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #2

Crypto content on HN... this is either gonna go really great or the opposite of that.

Yup. It's always felt like there's a disproportionate amount of hate for crypto -- not that people should like it or love it, but that I'm surprised that tech people here don't appear to understand its inevitability. So it seems like they treat it as something to be killed (impossible) as opposed to something to buckle up and get ready to manage (more or less like they correctly do with AI.)

We are so familiar with the technology we have actual informed opinions in either direction. The only dispassionate people are those who don’t know yet.

Re: Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)

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Post by toppy »

jrm4 wrote: post #4
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #2

Crypto content on HN... this is either gonna go really great or the opposite of that.

Yup. It's always felt like there's a disproportionate amount of hate for crypto -- not that people should like it or love it, but that I'm surprised that tech people here don't appear to understand its inevitability. So it seems like they treat it as something to be killed (impossible) as opposed to something to buckle up and get ready to manage (more or less like they correctly do with AI.)

Call it "programmable money" and we're good to skyrocket.

Re: Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)

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Post by nailer »

Monero is cool - the ring signature mechanism is something i’d never heard of before. Its a way to be possibly, but not provably, be involved in a transaction. Ie plausible deniability.

At real-world crypto recently the zcash people (MIT and Tel Aviv cryptographers) found a way to massively speed up the process of finding your balance (privacy chains are often very slow because they have to sum up all the transactions you were potentially involved in).

I also want to do a deep dive into light protocol - which is a privacy mechanism on top of solana, so transactions go at reasonable speed and you can use mainstream dapps (solana has the most amount of developers outside eth and is a lot faster and cheaper).

Re: Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)

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Post by sircastor »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #2

Crypto content on HN... this is either gonna go really great or the opposite of that.

I’m kind of surprised it made it to the top of the page. HN is certainly divided about crypto, not recently it has felt to me it’s slipped the wayside in favor of AI stories.
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