RingCT Best Practices & How to Help the Network

How can you help the network and contribute to its privacy strength? In short, hold funds in Anon balances and make RingCT transactions every once in a while.

RingCT is a privacy protocol that becomes increasingly effective as more and more people use it. This is one of the main reasons why the Particl Open Marketplace will make all transaction private by default using the protocol (more marketplace users automatically means a stronger privacy).

To help the network and support its privacy, it is recommended to leave a portion of your coins in Anon balances. This helps the network by providing more outputs that can be used by other users within their ring groups. In other words, the more coins being held in Anon balances, the more outputs can be used by everyone else as decoys for their transactions.

RingCT also gets even stronger when you make a few transactions here and there. That’s because the protocol tends to prioritize recent outputs in order to mitigate the traceability of coins.