• @Obelix@feddit.org
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    01 month ago

    I’m really curious here: What are you buying and dealing with crypto? I am old and I remember the first discussions about Bitcoin and other cryptos and the privacy topic was discussed back then. People were skeptical of the technology, exactly because every transaction was public and people were even more skeptical after others started to use bitcoin to buy drugs with it online. So why are you using technology that is not really suited for privacy by design and expect privacy?

    • @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      Monero does provide privacy because while it is a public blockchain, the sender is obscured, the receiver is obscured, and the amount is obscured. The IP address of the node is obscured.

      To somebody not participating in the transaction, they basically see the equivalent of “? Sent ? Xmr to ?”