Peter Todd
Peter Todd is a cryptography consultant who works on scalability, security, and privacy. He's also a long time contributor to Bitcoin Core.
Peter Todd is a cryptography consultant who works on scalability, security, and privacy. He's also a long time contributor to Bitcoin Core.
Monero is a privacy focused, PoW cryptocurrency that enables untraceable transactions through ring signatures. Monero launched in 2014 as a fork of Bytecoin.
All Monero reviews by expert Peter Todd.
In theory, Zcash has better privacy than XMR; in practice, due to XMR's mandatory privacy, XMR is probably better overall but depends on what exactly you're doing and how.
Zcash is cooler crypto; XMR is relatively boring. Of course, boring and working is what you want in money.
Full review2019-02-05
Monero's a good project that has done many things right, and seems to be run by ethical people.
Full review2018-12-02
CT is just one of the things Monero has done; ring sigs are another.
Both have trade-offs that Bitcoin doesn't have. For example, it'd be a lot harder to notice a technical failure that allowed inflation in Monero. There are also scalability issues.
Full review2018-07-25