Mapping Ring Signatures and Stealth Addresses in Monero

Monero employs many techniques to enhance the cryptocurrency users privacy. In this article, I take a look at two of these, Ring Signatures for sender anonymity, and Stealth Addresses for receiver anonymity.

Merkle Trees: Concepts and Use Cases

ms including Bitcoin, Amazon’s Dynamo DB, and the ZFS filesystem. The basic concept is quite simple, but some of the clever applications are not so obvious.

Zero Knowledge Proofs: Example with Pedersen Commitments in Monero

An Explanation Between Cartoons and Greek Symbols If you spend a bit more time reading about cryptocurrencies, blockchains, or many other related technologies, you likely run into the term zero knowledge proofs (ZKP). To me, the term sounds like a paradox. How can you prove anything with zero knowledge? How do you event know what to […]