New protocol designed by the Monero Research Labs combining ring signatures from CryptoNote with Confidential transactions. RingCT transactions are not only untraceable (ring signature) but also keep the transaction amount private (confidential transaction).
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How does Monero privacy and security compare to Zcash?
How does Monero privacy compare to Zcash? What are the key security risks associated with each design?
Since important Monero improvements are in active development and Zcash has yet to launch, please compare a working RingCT Monero implementation…
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How much larger are Monero transactions compared to the average Bitcoin transaction?
We know that because of the way Monero's privacy works, transactions are larger than a Bitcoin one, but how much larger on average are they compared to Bitcoin transactions? How will this affect the growth of the blockchain into the future?…
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What is RingCT and how does it compare to Confidential Transactions?
What is RingCT and how does the addition of Ring Signatures enhance the privacy properties of RingCT compared to Confidential Transactions as designed by Greg Maxwell?
https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt
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ELI5: How does RingCT work?
Can someone explain simply how RingCT can make sure that a user has the specified amounts without seeing it? My mind starts to pause as soon as i see formulas on a whitepaper.
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Does Monero offer an equivalent of Check Lock Time Verify transactions?
Does Monero offer an equivalent of Check Lock Time Verify (CLTV) transactions? If not are there any major CryptoNote or RingCT specific obstacles that would prevent such a feature from being added in the future?
CLTV transactions would have many…
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What are bulletproofs?
I have heard that Monero transactions are relatively large, and that Bulletproofs will make Monero transactions smaller. Can someone give a high-level overview about what these are, and how they effect Monero?
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Spam attack to gain control of many outputs and undermine privacy
Would it be possible for an attacker to send many transactions to himself with the goal of gaining control of many outputs for the purposes of deanonymizing transactions of others (using low mixins with most outputs sometimes controlled by the…
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How many transactions per second can the Monero network handle?
How many transactions per second can the Monero network (theoretically) handle?
Did recent LMDB optimizations improve the speed that CPUs can confirm transactions?
Is the current limiting factor CPU confirmation time, bandwidth of Monero nodes or…
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Can I manually check consistency of Pedersen Commitments in RingCT?
Even though I fully trust the math behind RingCT and I know no moneroj can be created out of thin air, sometimes I'd like to see for myself the consistency of the Pedersen Commitment before/after any given transaction (ie. they sum up to the same…
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What is StringCT?
I saw some recent comments about RuffCT/StringCT, which is a supposed improvement to RingCT. What is RuffCT/StringCT, and how is it different than RingCT? What improvements (if any) will this bring to Monero? What tradeoffs are there?
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How will transaction fees be calculated after RingCT?
I read that RingCT will bring transaction sizes close to about 13kb.
How much larger would a mixin=4 Monero transaction be compared to a Bitcoin transaction?
Based on a 13kb size, it would be about 0.13 monero per transaction, which is quite a bit…
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How does ringct interact with multisig?
When the ringct branch is finished, will it make m-of-n multisig easier or harder to implement?
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Could Monero help me to implement a safe election for a small group of students?
The problem
I am in charge of implementing a secure, secret election for a small group of students on my school. I have a list linking valid student IDs to emails, and I want each one of them to vote in a candidate that will ultimately be elected.…
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How much larger would a mixin=4 Monero transaction be compared to a Bitcoin transaction?
I've heard estimates ranging from 5-10 times bigger, but is it possible to come up with a more precise answer? By how much will this figure change after RingCT is implemented? What other factors might affect this size difference in the future? That…
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Can Ring Confidential Transactions Range Proofs be pruned?
RingCT adds a set of range proofs to each transaction. Can these be pruned? Would there be a need for "full nodes" which retain these proofs? If so, why?
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