The Steemit Crypto Academy Week 8 | Season 2 | - Homework Post for @levycore

Privacy coins are anonymous, mysterious should be an even better word to call them, they are privacy oriented coins point blank. So, what is the privacy coin for today’s content? Still loading? It’s Monero.

Analysis of the privacy coin “Monero” Esperanto for coin

Ring signature, stealth addresses, bulletproof, and auditing are all used to show how Monero works. Respectively, ring signature penalizes ASCK and GPU mining. Stealth addresses hides recipient addresses. Bulletproof Reduces size of transactions to allow faster verification of transactions and lower fees auditing introduces a third party to cryptographic information.

Monero, the original privacy coin based on the cyptoNote mining algorithm released in 2014. As an open source protocol it uses privacy enhancing technologies.

Further analysis into a general study of the coin has put it into the top 20 coins out there in the crypto market. Created mainly for privacy it has proved that.

Monero vs bitcoin

Monero is the most private coin in existence whereas Bitcoin is pseudonymous coin. Bitcoin uses ASCK (application-specific internal circuit) whereas Monero does not. Monero is flexible but Bitcoin has fixed blockchain.

Traceability of Monero

To analyze the traceability of Monero, several attacks are thrown into the Monero blockchain. Theree attacks include hijacking attack, homogeneity attack, traffic attack, and others. Whenever an attack is put into Monero blockchain it shows its effect on the blockchain enabling the operators of Monero component to adjust the coin.

“standardized coin with no limited blockchain” many attacks are expected for it. In time more attacks may be created to know how its further transition into the future.

Attacks may be seen as corrupting coins components, blockchain mainly.

Steps in creating a wallet for a privacy coin

There are many different types of Privacy Coins out there that are already in cryptocurrency, and each privacy coin has it's own wallet; some of which includes Dash, ZCash, Montero, Beam, Verge, Horizen, Grin and so on. Let's take a look at what the Dash privacy coin is all about before looking at how to create a wallet for it.

WHAT IS DASH?

DASH, elsewise known as Digital Cash, is also another cryptocurrency that draws a unique privacy feature. Although, the project's uppermost priority and feature still remains to be it's speed. DASH presents an interesting method of anonymizing .

In other words, DASH is known to be an open source with a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency with a rigid focus on the payments industry. DASH offers a kind of form of money that is divisible, inexpensive portable, and fast with surprisingly minimal transaction fees both online and in person. In accordance with the Bitcoin's project. In accordance with Coin Market Cap, DASH is positioned #41 on the cryptocurrency leader board aglobalide a market cap of $2. 2 billion.

That asset used to be one of the most famous cryptocurrencies back then in 2017, but as time went by, it's value and demand faded away gradually over the years.

How does it work?

Just as Bitcoin uses a decentralized ledger for transactions (blockchain), so does DASH. This blockchain is secured through a Consensus algorithm or mechanism. Though, DASH works slightly differently from Bitcoin due to it's two-tier network.

The second tier is influenced by the master nodes (Full Nodes), which helps in financial privacy, faster payments and a decentralized governance and budget system.

WHAT DASH aims to solve?

DASH which is very user-friendly simply aims to make scalable payments round the world. It tries to solves this issue with a form of cryptocurrency that is much faster, portable, inexpensive and divisible.

Steps In Creating a DASH Wallet

Step 1 : Either as an IOS user or Android user, you can install the DASH app. Just go to the App Store or Play store and install the Dash app

Step 2: After installation, open the app. It will show a welcoming page, after which, you will be asked to set a 4-digit pin for you wallet, after which you will confirm your pin.

Step 3 : It's advisable to secure your DASH Wallet account in order to protect any fraudster or whatsoever. The app gives you the option to secure your wallet or not. But It's advisable to secure your wallet and this is how it's done. The app will relieve to you some secret keys (words) to your wallet; in which you will be asked to write down somewhere, just as it was displayed. When that is done, you will be asked to tap on the words in the recovery phrase in the right order.

Step 4 : When that is done, your wallet is good to go.

Why choose Monero?

Monero is the best privacy coin out there in the crypto market, for an investor who likes privacy, Monero is for you. What if something goes wrong? Nothing would go wrong because in a scale of 100, the benefits it brings to investors are surplus the disadvantages

Advantages of Monero

Executes privacy for default: for a coin to have this level of secrecy/privacy then the odds that it would reveal transactions by two parties involved to a third party without consent is no.

Privacy key: privacy key restricts cryptographic information to two parties which is good, except otherwise auditing comes into play.

Untraceable: stop the source of many coin output and returns from being traced or problems of account tracking and monitoring. As explained above, attacks are some of the methods used for improving the level of untraceable in Monero. The amount of sales, transactions and cryptographic data from being spread to any third individual and party, as intended by the operators of Monero..

Blockchain doesn’t have a limit: blockchain, a system of having blocks holding cryptographic information where the blocks are linked together making them hard to alter. Here, the said blockchain has no limit showing the maximum has not been confirmed yet.

Attacks need blockchain to corrupt, number 3s untraceable nature of Monero showed that blockchain is required to enhance the level of privacy of this privacy coin. The “no limit level of blockchain” of the coin makes the number of attacks high, thereby increasing the best kind of level of privacy by the coin.

Privacy keys: it sounds like a sort if mystical key you need to find in a video game to unlock a secret door or a hidden chest. In Monero, privacy keys are important, having it means third parties can be restricted from cryptographic information shared on Monero.

Disadvantages of Monero

Not many wallets have been developed for Monero: wallet accounts are mobile accounts where coins and cash outs could be put into. For Monero, not all wallets have been developed for it. Sometimes, the privacy levels it provides makes some people reject it.

Hard to develop app that interacts with its blockchain: the block chain of Monero is without limit at the main time making It hard to develop apps that would accommodate that.

Most apps work on limited blockchain such as TRX and others.
Crypto jacking and dark web market: dark markets exist in Moreno, the dark markets in secret allow the sale of drugs and other illicit activities, crypto jacking involves hackers, they are able to hack Moreno occasionally due to its privacy levels.

Low budget computers are easily hacked when Moreno exists on them, hackers use the computers more than high budget ones.
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No matter what, the advantages would ever so often exceed the disadvantages, anything that has advantages has drawbacks. But that doesn’t mean Moreno is still the best in terms of privacy oriented coins.

CONCLUSION

At it's essence, Cryptography is all about sets of practices and techniques that are designed or made to give secure communication among the immediate vicinity of outsiders. So therefore, the privacy cryptocurrencies is known to be the centre part of the crypto system, in spite of the fact of not been able to be traced arouses controversies concerning criminal dealings or transactions.

Even though it is a small volume of trades that end up being used for negTive courses like illegal arms deal , sanction evation , and money laundry , the rulers of the nations of the world are still very skeptical about the the use of these coins.

While Monero seems to have an immutable position in having the strongest features or characteristics in place of DASH, Zcash, Beam, Verge, Grin etc, provides the option of conducting or creating public transactions. Beam and Grin are best known to suite users who value ultra scalable just as much as their privacy.

Privacy is a very much-desired feature in the real world, it comes with it's perils of large criminal element. Cryptocurrencies operators (traders) have to take care of numerous hacking attempts by malicious partakers.

The Regulators and Law enforcement agencies are more likely to investigate individuals with large and huge amount of transactions.

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