While Bitcoin is decentralized, it is not anonymous. Many crypto enthusiasts believe privacy is of paramount importance. That’s why we’re happy to bring you today’s conversation with Riccardo Spagni. Lead maintainer for privacy coin Monero, Ricc has many things to say about the history and future of the coin. Of course, his friends know him as Fluffy Pony. So you know that’s going to make for a fun interview.

We’re public figures but we like to keep some things private. And today you’ll learn how to keep your crypto transactions private on episode #353 of The Bad Crypto Podcast.

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Feature: Riccardo Spagni

Riccardo is a member of the Monero Core Team, the stewards of the Monero Project, and is also the lead maintainer of the Monero and Monero Core projects. Over the past year, 177 developers contributed new code to Monero, making it one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and a top 2 percent project on Open Hub.

Monero employs 5 state-of-the-art technology such as stealth addresses to provide unlinkability, ring signatures to provide untraceability, ring confidential transactions to provide transaction privacy, and soon Kovri6 to provide network layer anonymity.

With an academic background in informatics and logistics, Riccardo spent many years in software development, before starting a business in the import/export industry. Due to the success of that business, he had enough freedom to start tinkering with Bitcoin early in 2011. In early 2012 he took on the lead maintainer role for Monero.

LINKS:

Monero’s ‘Fluffypony’ Steps Down as Lead Maintainer of Privacy Coin Project

Fluffy Pony trolls Craig Wright

https://www.getmonero.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero_(cryptocurrency)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fluffypony

Magical Crypto Conference 2020 – https://magicalcryptoconference.com/2020-nyc

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