How the hell does Monero work
Channel: ShellCon
Date: 2018-11-01

Title: How the hell does Monero work?
Speaker: Ken Scott

Monero is a privacy focused cryptocurrency that uses 3 distinct cryptography techniques to provide user security: 1. Ring Signatures 2. Stealth Addresses 3. RingCT (Ring Confidential Transactions)

Each will be discussed with a technical overview of how they work and what benefit they provide. I'll also briefly touch on the fact that most extortion malware and crypto-mining malware is using Monero and how this compares to previous cryptography protocol advances such as HTTPS used by porn sites early on, but then eventually by banks.

Finally we will discuss Monero's i2p router project Kovri, how it helps obscure meta-data about transactions, and how this enhances user privacy in a post-Snowden world.