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Riccardo Spagni

Riccardo Spagni is the lead maintainer at Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. He's also the CEO of Globee, a cryptocurrency payment provider.

Reviews by Riccardo Spagni

All coin and product reviews by expert Riccardo Spagni.

  • Riccardo Spagni on Decred Lead Maintainer at Monero

    I’m supportive of Decred’s efforts to add privacy, because there are actual development chops there, and Decred doesn’t appear overly scammy.

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    2018-03-31

  • Riccardo Spagni on Dentacoin Lead Maintainer at Monero

    I feel for any dentist suckered into this.

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    2017-10-14

  • Riccardo Spagni on Golem Lead Maintainer at Monero

    Zeppelin/Smart Contract Solutions. Also reviewed Arcade City, Golem, etc. It's just scammers scamming scammers all the way down.

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    2017-01-09

  • Riccardo Spagni on Verge Lead Maintainer at Monero

    So much for Verge XVG and their IP address privacy. Someone's publishing originating IP addresses for Verge transactions (not just general node IP addresses). Considering that IP address obfuscation is their single privacy claim, looks like they're toast.

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    2018-01-01

  • Riccardo Spagni on Dash Lead Maintainer at Monero

    Most countries have bank secrecy laws, and access to your account even within a bank is privileged and logged. Dash, on the other hand, exposes information publicly to anyone running a node.

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    2018-09-08

  • Riccardo Spagni on PIVX Lead Maintainer at Monero

    An exploit existed [in PIVX], and it was patched. [PIVX's] handling of this (i.e., denying it had any potential payload) is VERY telling about the calibre of project you're involved in. And, thusly, PIVX went down several notches in my eyes tonight.

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    2018-04-12

  • Riccardo Spagni on Ethereum Lead Maintainer at Monero

    Ethereum is an idiotic, unscalable idea that has neither delivered on its “world computer” promise, created any useful decentralized apps with any real use, nor created a robust and scalable decentralized system.

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    2018-11-03

  • Riccardo Spagni on Basic Attention Token Lead Maintainer at Monero

    The BAT ToS let’s them steal “unclaimed” tokens after 90 days, but they can also use “Sybil attack investigation” and KYC/AML excuses to prevent you from claiming your coins for 90 days. They’re basically the mafia.

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    2018-11-22

  • Riccardo Spagni on Siacoin Lead Maintainer at Monero

    Sia works extremely well and was / is not possible on Bitcoin. Even if it could be ported to work on Bitcoin, it hasn’t been done, so until that happens, it’s pointless discussing it. Admittedly their userbase is narrow, but it exists nonetheless.

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    2018-02-10

  • Riccardo Spagni on Bitcoin Gold Lead Maintainer at Monero

    What’s the reason for Bitcoin Gold’s existence? Same garbage, just a money-grabbing fork at best, an effort to steal people’s private keys at worst.

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    2018-02-11

  • Riccardo Spagni on Digix Lead Maintainer at Monero

    Digix = "gold-backed" currency, so centralized holder of the gold! Not trustless, totally pointless.

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    2016-03-17

  • Riccardo Spagni on Zcoin Lead Maintainer at Monero

    Zcoin claim to have more active development than Monero. In truth, they're pushing 1/10th of Monero's commits of which (I'd expect) the bulk are just cherry-picked commits from Bitcoin.

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    2018-07-28

  • Riccardo Spagni on Grin Lead Maintainer at Monero

    [Mimblewimble] is amazing, which is why we’re building a Monero sidechain on it. Grin is excellent, and it’s doing great things that I’m personally quite excited about.

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    2019-05-22

  • Riccardo Spagni on Zcash Lead Maintainer at Monero

    ZCash has made so many major blunders it’s just a running joke at this stage, literally no chance of anyone feeling threatened except Zooko’s local grocery store.

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    2019-09-29

  • Riccardo Spagni on Bitcoin Lead Maintainer at Monero

    [B]oth Bitcoin and Monero are sound, but I think that fungibility is an important aspect of being a money. Bitcoin will need to add strong privacy, to achieve fungibility, before I think it can be taken as sound money. That said, Bitcoin without privacy is still great.

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    2019-03-20