In contrast to Bitcoin, Monero is in a constant state of innovation, modernization, and upgrades. It begain with the CryptoNote Whitepaper , released almost exactly 5 years after the Bitcoin paper, which described improvements to the original protocol, such as self-adjusting variables and dynamic block sizes, continuous coin emission, and unlinkable transactions.
From there, various other developers have contributed along the way. Ring Signatures were introduced in early to obfuscate the sender, and Confidential Transactions to hide the amount using a technique called Pedersen Commitment, then about a year and a half later RingCT was upgraded to Bulletproofs , which not only increased anonymity, but decreased the disk space of a transaction. Unlike some schools of thought influencing Bitcoin, which see the original codebase as almost sacred and impossible of needing further improvements, Monero is continually progressing and advancing.
When Bitcoin was released it was the most advanced digital money system ever created, by light years. No other attempt prior in history managed to fully decentralize money in a peer-to-peer fashion. Since then, much technical progress has been made, much of which has not been incorporated back into the original Bitcoin.
Other coins are now more technically advanced. Monero is arguably the state-of-the-art in cryptocurrency privacy, innovating new technologies in obfuscation and anonymization. With near perfect cloaking of IPs, sending and receiving addresses, and even the amount sent, Monero offers almost unmatched continual technical advancement in terms of privacy - the unmarked cash in a paper bag equivalent of online payments. Which has better software?
Over the years, this ballooned to hundreds of thousands of lines. About the size of a small operating system the Linux 1. Since it's earliest release, there have not been any known bugs in the code that would compromise the coins or addresses. Monero not only has some of the top talant in crypto, there are nearly as many developers as Bitcoin which has an order of magnitude larger community.
So far, no bug has been discovered that would damage the financial integrity of the network, or it's anonymity. Coins A coin in Bitcoin and Monero is the numeric balance at an address. Coins do not exist as independent entities, they are purely digits associated with an address. The only hardcoded unit in Bitcoin is the Satoshi, there are no "whole" coins, thus "1 BTC" is displayed on a user interface as merely a unit of convenience, but everything in software is denominated in Satoshis.
Coins in Bitcoin are all traceable down through every transaction from their creation. Monero improves on the idea of Bitcoin by making it's coins fungible - each coin is identical and perfectly interchangeable with another, by overwriting the unique histories that would otherwise be behind every coin.
Monero achieves this by obfuscating sending addresses during a transaction, so that it is not obvious where the funds are coming from. Any coin could have come from anywhere, just like physical cash. Which has more coins? The maximum supply of Bitcoin is limited to 21 million, although this will not be reached until the year The initial mining block reward of coins, established in , reduces by half every quadrennium.
Thus the total number of Satoshis is 2,,,,, trade units. For 10 billion people, this works out to an average of Satoshi per person. The 18 millionth Bitcoin was mined around October 19, Perhaps a disproportionate reward to early adopters, but it allows the early hacker culture of Bitcoin to maintain influence.
This heavily favors the early adopters even more than Bitcoin. After the year , there will be more Monero than Bitcoin, both at a little under 21 million. The smallest unit of Monero is the Piconero, 0. Enough for 10 billion people to have 1. Addresses Addresses in Bitcoin are based on cryptographic public-private key pairs, a system invented in the s, which has three components: Public Key Generation, Private Key Signing, Public Key Signature Verification. A cryptographic key is an alphanumeric sequence of fixed length.
The Private Key is used to generate corresponding Public Keys, and also to generate a unique cryptographic signature of data - to "sign" it. The signature can be verified by anyone by using a corresponding Public Key. Bitcoin merely takes this proven technology and makes transfers of value the signed data. The Public Key is the address shared with others, the Private Key is the secret used to authorize a transfer of value from an address, by signing the transaction data.
Private keys in Bitcoin and Monero can be an easily memorized mnemonic phrase. Both are usually 34 characters long. Newer addresses compatible with the SegWit protocol start with 'bc1', which stands for Bech Since the beginning, the capital letter O and I are not used in addresses because they are visually similar to 0 and 1. Monero addresses are similar to Bitcoin, but add an additional layer of privacy called Stealth Addresses, which hide the sender from the receiver by creating an anonymous intermediary temporary address.
The monetary value contained at an address is also kept private and requires a key to access. There are four types of keys: Public View Key to view stealth addresses , Public Spend Key to generate stealth addresses , Private View Key to view history of incoming transactions , Private Spend Key to spend the coins.
Each standard address is 95 alphanumeric characters and starts with a 4. In addition there are also subaddresses also 95 chars derived from the standard address, and integrated addresses chars which store a unique ID. Wallets Wallets are applications which manage all of a user's addresses and private keys, total the values into a single balance, and do the underlying work of creating a new transaction via a user interface.
In order to reach mass adoption, the wallet software of any cryptocurrency needs to be as easy to use as possible. Bitcoin has had a GUI based wallet since day one, which was likely helpful to mass adoption over something with a command line interface. Bitcoin was getting started around the time the appstore was starting to boom, and thus wallet apps rode the wave of popularity. A hardware wallet contains all keys to a specialized physical device about the size of a thumbdrive, which leaves no trace on a computer when unplugged, and can easily be stored in a safe, secure location.
Web wallets are private keys hosted on a 3rd party site, completely the opposite of the original ideals of cryptocurrency, everyone their own bank. Monero wallets work on the same basic principle as Bitcoin, although they handle the additional complexity of privacy features. Monero wallets scan the blockchain for stealth addresses that are only visible to the corresponding Public View Key. The first Bitcoin wallet, the first cryptocurrency wallet of any kind, Bitcoin-Qt, was part of the original release of the coin and is still used and maintained today as Bitcoin Core.
It runs a full node which helps secure the network, but requires downloading the entire blockchain, which wasn't an issue in the early days but is now kind of a deal-breaker at hundreds of gigabytes. Electrum is a simple and easy to use wallet primarily for desktops of every OS, although it has been adapted for mobile. This was one of the first lightweight wallets that did not require downloading the full blockchain.
Possibly the best desktop wallet for general use, versions for Dash and Litecoin are also available. The first hardware wallet is the Trezor One , started in and released in , it set the benchmark for the industry. Completely open source, as should be demanded of any security product, it's software is the standard used by other brands. The original wallets from the Monero developers are: GUI Wallet , which allows running a node, and downloading a pruned version of the blockchain one third of the full size.
And CLI Wallet , a much more advanced command line tool for power users, with analysis features, and the ability to send transactions over Tor for additional privacy. MyMonero is a wallet for every platform - desktop, phones, even web browsers. This has the benefit of consistency and familiarity with the same program on every device. Downloading the entire blockchain is not necessary. Cake Wallet is for mobile and supports both Monero and Bitcoin, simplifying things with a single app for two cryptocurrencies.
Transactions A transaction is a transfer of value from one address to another. Bitcoin popularized the concept of a new transaction spending the outputs of previous transactions as it's input. A transaction output is either fully spent, if it has been used as the input of another transaction, or unspent if it has not. The entire value of an output is spent regardless of the amount sent to an address, so any remainder must be sent back to the senders address - known as the "change".
When transferring coins to a new address, a sender's wallet or client software creates the appropriate transaction data and signs it with their private key. This data is broadcast to miners who include it into blocks for a fee, which are cryptographically linked to the other blocks in the blockchain.
A multi-signature transaction transfers value with 2 out of 3 signatures, an incredibly useful feature allowing a trusted third-party to resolve disputes without a central authority. Monero is inspired by Bitcoin's concepts of transactions, but obviously attempts to close any holes that would allow the identification of the transacting parties.
A transaction in Monero consists of several other unrelated sending addresses mixed in, so that it is not obvious where the payment is coming from. Once completed, the receiving address will likewise become mixed with other sending transactions in the future. To an observer, a small number of real transactions look like practically everyone on the network is transacting with everyone else at the same time.
On top of this, Monero hides the amount being transacted so that only the sender and receiver know how much was sent. Not only are the addresses in transactions protected, the value at any address at any time is protected. Which has faster transaction times? A new block is added to the Bitcoin blockchain once every 10 minutes, therefore a new transaction can be processed and included in a block as quickly as 10 minutes.
However, the latest blocks are changeable until enough blocks have been added after them. The number of confirmations is the level of blocks including and after the block containing the transaction. For irreversibility, Bitcoin requires at least 6 levels of blocks and thus 6 confirmations are needed. Thus, a permanent transaction in Bitcoin requires an hour 6 times 10 minutes.
A new block is added to the Monero blockchain every 2 minutes. A new transaction can be tentatively completed in 1 confirmation in 2 minutes. Like Bitcoin, the current block is changeable until a certain level of blocks have been added after it. For irreversibility, levels of blocks and thus confirmations are needed. Thus, Monero's safe transaction time is minutes. Which has lower transaction fees?
A transaction fee is the cost of having a transaction included in a block on the blockchain permanent record. The fees are slightly lowered by competition between miners, and drastically raised by competition between transactions. Other factors can include the cost of electricity and hardware. The number of transactions that can fit in a Bitcoin block is limited to several thousand.
Transactions paying higher fees are given priority over those paying lower fees, the latter of which may have to wait until future blocks to be included. Due to the fixed number of transactions per block, and the fixed rate of blocks per hour, the cost of a transaction is partly proportionate to the demand for transactions to be included in a block. Fees can skyrocket during periods of many transactions at once. Still cheap to move millions of dollars, but impractical to pay for a pack of gum.
Around , the fees range from a few dollars to a few tens of dollars. Due to the elastic block size of Monero's blockchain, the cost of including a transaction in a block is less extreme, since there are not a fixed number of slots. The high was in the 10s of dollars.
Around the fees have been pennies. Historically and at present, Monero transaction fees are lower than Bitcoin. There has been much buzz about using blockchains for something other than cryptocurrency, however, it is really overkill for uses not requiring the maximum level of decentralization. True money in digital form requires total decentralization so that no single party can control it.
Blockchain algorithms solve this problem by using cryptography alone to verify transactions, allowing any node to be a validator - every other system before this relied on a central authority, which Bitcoin was the first to eliminate as a fully peer-to-peer technology. Monero's underlying blockchain technology is based on that of Bitcoin.
Nodes processing transactions work to cryptographically connect the current block to the previous. The blocks comprising Monero's blockchain have a key innovation: The size of each block is elastic and not hardcoded, allowing blocks to be larger when there are more transactions, and smaller when there are less. Larger blocks minimize transaction fees in times of high demand, smaller blocks minimize blockchain size, thus this incredible idea from the original CryptoNote paper achieves the best of both worlds.
This is a far more intelligent solution than certain Bitcoin clones with the approach of "just make the blocks bigger and everything will magically be better". Network The Bitcoin Network is a fully peer-to-peer connection of equal nodes, the first digital currency to achieve total network decentralization.
No node is more powerful or special than the others. There is no single point of failure. A network of equals is maximum redundancy. If any individual node is taken offline, the rest of the network is carries on, all the others contain an exact copy of the same blockchain. Nodes share the blockchain data using proven peer-to-peer filesharing technology.
Any node can cryptographically verify the blockchain. Any node can attempt to process transactions into blocks. Nodes agree on what the blockchain should be, without a centralized authority, via Nakamoto consensus voting. Without this protection, spy nodes could attempt to trace the origin of a transaction as it was broadcast out to the other nodes. Monero solves this problem by first sending the transaction on a single random path through a varying number of nodes the "stem" before broadcasting it to the whole network the "fluff".
Generals and lieutenants must find a way of coordinating with each other through messages in way that can withstand a minority of traitors. Some means of reaching a consensus and proving valid messages is required to achieve Byzantine fault tolerance. Bitcoin was the first fully peer-to-peer solution to the Generals problem applied to money, which it realized using Proof-Of-Work.
A type of Zero Knowledge Proof, a Proof-Of-Work allows one party to prove to other parties they know something, without revealing exactly what they know. This is done by providing a problem that can only be solved by brute force, but is efficient for everyone else to verify. Bitcoin uses HashCash as it's Proof-Of-Work, where the "work" is guessing the output of a cryptographic hash function, using a large number of random tries.
It was invented in originally to slow down the volume of email spammers could produce. Any Proof-Of-Work that is solvable by expensive custom chips limits participation to only high-capital operations, concentrating the security of the network into fewer hands. Monero is also Proof-Of-Work, but the developers learned from Bitcoin and came up with a hashing function that would allow anyone with standard computing device to successfully mine the coin, while discouraging custom hardware that would give those with the most capital a possibly unfair advantage.
Monero's security is distributed as widely as possible, by incentivising as many as possible to help secure the blockchain, by making mining accessible to all. Gold has mining, but it is not manmade. A coin is minable if the algorithm automatically increases the currency supply to directly subsidize producers of cryptographically correct blocks of transactions. Miners are those solving computational proofs of processed transactions in return for the first ownership of new coins.
The reward for correctly mining a Bitcoin block began with coins and continuously decreases in by half every , blocks. When the block reward reaches less than 1 Satoshi, it will effectively be zero, resulting in a fixed supply totalling 21 million. When blocks no longer have a built-in reward, those processing transactions will have to pass their costs onto those making transactions, increasing the cost of a transaction. Another problem with reducing mining to zero is replacing lost coins.
Bitcoin has barely been around for a decade and up to one in five coins are permanently lost. Monero recognizes the problems that might occur if block rewards were to end for miners, thus it will be minable forever, although rewards will be limited to 0. This allows miners to be funded without increasing the costs of transactions, and permanently lost coins can be replaced in circulation.
Monero is designed to be mined by anyone on any hardware, which decentralizes mining to as many as possible. In contrast to Bitcoin, which requires an investment into specialized hardware which has no other use, and thus mining is more centralized. Mining not completely hands-off passive income compared to other methods of coin generation like staking.
Because of this, there are more factors affecting profitability, such as the cost of hardware and the choice of buying new or used , the cost of electricity some states subsidize electric costs, giving an unfair advantage , the number of transactions competing to be included in a block, the number of miners competing to validate a block. In coins where transaction fees go to miners, mining profitability can fluctuate with transaction fees, which vary day to day and even hour to hour.
If a coin is going up over the long term, and one holds the coins mined instead of selling them immediately, this can drastically amplify the profit of mining over time. When Bitcoin hit the scene, it was minable on anything that could crunch numbers, and as long as it was going up almost any kind of mining was profitable in the long term.
Now Bitcoin mining is a moderate risk, low reward endeavor. Monero is minable on practically any device, unlike Bitcoin, which requires special custom hardware. The ability to use cheap general purpose hardware, and sell it later for general use to recover costs, must be factored into mining profitability.
Making use of the otherwise idle cores a standard computer when it is turned on for some other purpose, is practically mining for free. Scalability The one drawback of fully decentralized systems, compared to those more centralized, is throughput. Resilience to undesired changes is also usually less responsive to desired changes.
Each node needs to update it's copy of the record, and there has to be an agreement among them. This is monumentally less scalable than a more centralized system. Each Bitcoin block is exactly 1 megabyte every 10 minutes, regardless of how many transactions there are. For almost it's first decade, Bitcoin was limited to just transactions per second. In comparison, PayPal can handle transactions in the hundreds per second, and credit cards in the thousands per second.
Another attempt to improve Bitcoin is the Lightning Network. All the LN does is combine recurring payments into one large payment, with the payer required to put the full amount of all future payments into an account upfront, and the payee not able to receive any funds until the account is ended. One of the few situations this would work for is a subscription service where there total upfront cost of all future incremental payments is not very much for the payer, where the payments are very small and numerous, and where the payee can survive without immediate access to the funds until the subscription is renewed.
A similar use could be a large project which milestones are signed off, with the transfer occurring upon completion. The upfront total cost of all future micropayments is why this technology is almost totally useless, as it is the exact opposite of a buyer receiving a line of credit. Despite years of hype as only a year away from full adoption, the Lightning Network has no serious usage, because it doesn't solve the root problem of everyday non-recurring transactions, as it's only applicable to an incredibly small percentage of real-world economic activity.
Monero's scalability is similar to Bitcoin's and other cryptos of a comparable decentralization. Due to the extra data created to obfuscate real transactions, thus using extra blockchain and network resources, scalability could be something Monero developers might need to work on in the future, although it's currant usage has not hit a performance bottleneck. Bulletproofs allow Monero to scale reverse logarithmicly, such that two outputs might only be a quarter larger than one output. Monero has elastic block sizes, allowing larger blocks when there are times of more transactions to conserve fees, and smaller blocks when there are times of less transactions to conserve space.
This should be standard on practically every cryptocurrency, instead of just making blocks some constant arbitrary size regardless of demand. Monero is only limited by physical disk space in the amount of transactions it can handle, which is estimated to be in the thousands. Coins that lack true privacy will often sell their weakness as "transparency". Transparency coins put everyone's finances out in the open, relying on a password alone to stop theft.
This doesn't really work against regimes that can kidnap and torture the password out of the public coin holder. Privacy coins keep the knowledge of wealth completely hidden to anyone but the owner, leaving nothing to be stolen and achieving perfect anti-theft safety. Bitcoin was popular on the darkweb when it first came out, growing alongside The Silk Road and other clandestine sites.
The never before seen fully decentralized nature of Bitcoin prevented the network as a whole from getting shut down, to the horror of politicians, but decentralization alone cannot protect individual nodes whose identifying information is public. Eventually the real-world identities behind Bitcoin addresses began to be uncovered, and it was no longer anonymous as it's users once thought.
Monero was built from the ground up to be as anonymous as possible. It's used day in day out in underground markets, right under the nose of tyrannical regimes that can do nothing about it. Every aspect of Monero use is protected by cryptographic tricks, so there are multiple levels to fall back on even if one were breached, like a fortress surrounded by extra walls and moats.
Amounts are concealed using Pedersen Commitments. Senders are concealed using Ring Signatures. Recipients are concealed using Stealth Addresses. Traffic is concealed using Tor. Which is more anonymous? Which has better privacy? When Bitcoin came out, it was the best option in the world for financial privacy. All other attempts before it had a public centralized authority with that could be compromised and the identities of all users revealed at once.
Bitcoin's peer-to-peer nature means user identities have to be revealed one at a time, requiring much more resources. However, anonymzation is only achieved using 3rd party services called mixers, which send coins to and from various other addresses, costing time and money.
Bitcoin has been surpassed by other coins in anonymity. Monero transactions feature a built-in mixer with several layers of obfuscation. The sending party puts the funds in a one-time randomly generated stealth address based on the receiver's public key, which is only viewable to the receiver.
Sort of like the anonymous safety deposit box with only a serial number in popular culture. This prevents anyone else from knowing the receiving party even ever received anything. The sending party is hidden by ring signatures, which combine their signature with random others, obfuscating who actually signed the transaction. The amount of a transaction is also potentially identifying information, so it's hidden with a special key. To see all exchanges where Bitcoin is trading, click here.
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