Nexus Best Open Library
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Library / Catalogue / Coin selection and what it records
Keywords: Monero, Bitcoin, Litecoin, settlement, public ledger, privacy
Bitcoin and Litecoin write every transaction to a public ledger. Amount, sending address, receiving address, permanently readable by anyone, years after the order is forgotten. This is not a flaw in either coin, it is what they were designed to do, and it is the property an entire analysis industry exists to exploit.
Monero conceals sender, receiver and amount at the protocol level by default. There is no public record to revisit later, because the network never wrote one.
Most operational choices are reversible or decay in relevance. A weak password can be changed, a bad vendor can be avoided next time, a slow address can be swapped. A public ledger entry cannot be edited, withdrawn or aged out, and its usefulness to somebody examining it later may increase rather than decrease as adjacent data accumulates.
That asymmetry is the whole argument. The settlement decision is the one whose consequences are permanent.
| Option | Records created | Reasonable use |
|---|---|---|
| Monero | None publicly readable | Anything intended to stay private |
| Bitcoin | Permanent public entry | Only where the trade is understood and accepted |
| Litecoin | Permanent public entry | Same caveat as Bitcoin |
A market accepting all three, as Nexus does, leaves the choice with the buyer. That is worth something, but only if the choice is made deliberately rather than by clicking whichever option is already selected.
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