Open sesame: Will ‘cracking’ Monero reveal treasure or fool’s gold?

Open sesame: Will ‘cracking’ Monero reveal treasure or fool’s gold?

Three blockchain analytics firms reportedly have Monero-tracking abilities, which could affect XMR price — but can anyone actually track it? Recently, the United States Internal Revenue Service caused a stir in the crypto community when it put a bounty on the head of anonymity-focused crypto-asset Monero (XMR), offering $625,000 to anyone who could effectively track the purportedly untraceable asset. As the crypto and blockchain industry values anonymity and privacy, questions arise on the result of the effort, not to mention its plausibility.“As of the current stage of cryptography....


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