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Re:Why Monero by Groxx on Monday September 13, 2021 @10:59PM (#28519696)
I haven't read much on monero / this algorithm, so I'm not sure if it's particularly meaningful, but wikipeda references that being the case for most of 2017-2018 and then the algorithm was changed.
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Re:Why Monero by lolthishuman on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:29PM (#28519889)
Changed to bulletproof https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066
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Re:Why Monero by selsta on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:22AM (#28520557)
The Wikipedia article is incorrect, Monero still uses ring signatures. Bulletproofs are used as efficient range proofs in RingCT to hide the amount in transactions.

https://www.getmonero.org/2017/12/07/Monero-Compatible-Bulle...

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Re:Why Monero by Groxx on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:41AM (#28581765)
Honestly, comments like this are why I stick with hacker news.

Thank you! There's a lot of difficult-to-google info locked up in comments like this, and I truly appreciate the effort spent replying to randos like me :)

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