🧵 The Magic Behind Monero: Simple Explainer for Normal People

1) What makes Monero private?

Unlike Bitcoin or Ethereum, where your transactions are public, Monero hides everything — sender, receiver, and amount. It uses black magic like RingCT, Stealth Addresses, and Ring Signatures. 👇🏼 2) Let’s start with addresses.

Monero wallets use two key pairs:

- View key — lets you see what comes in

- Spend key — lets you send

Every payment is sent to a one-time stealth address, so even if you reuse a wallet, nobody can link your transactions.

🧵 Monero is under attack. Not through bugs or exploits.

This is an economic attack. Through incentives. Through miners.
They're not hacking your privacy — they're buying it.
Here’s what’s happening and why it matters: 👇 1) Right now, Monero is being attacked by its largest mining pool Qubic.

Their goal is to reach 51% of the hashrate.

They’re not hiding it.

They’re just offering better rewards and taking control.

🧵How to Actually Buy Monero Without KYC
Most guides lie. This one doesn’t.

1. Why Monero?

Monero isn’t a coin. It’s a financial escape hatch.

Private by default. No history. No taint. No trace.

But none of that matters if you acquire it through surveillance pipelines. 2. Most “no-KYC” Monero swaps are scams.

FixedFloat. ChangeNOW. Others like them.

They:
• Log IPs
• Scan metadata
• Trigger AML flags
• Funnel data to chain analytics

Privacy theater is a trap. Don’t fall for it.

Overview of the new project on

1/8 The #RGB++ Protocol aims to extend Bitcoin's capabilities with smart contracts by integrating with Nervos CKB Cells. This light paper draft introduces a revolutionary approach to scalability and smart contracts on Bitcoin.l2.watch 2/8 Key to RGB++ is the concept of Single-Use Seals, which prevent message reuse and leverage Bitcoin’s robust double-spending protection. This ensures messages, once sealed by a UTXO, can't be fraudulently replicated.

1/ I would like to share the DeFi Map creation story and why my @HorizontalHQ team have decided to categorize more than 500 protocols 2/ Going forward, this is the second version of our DeFi Map and some of the protocols we've announced in the last couple of weeks are missing as well

1/ Over the past 3 months, our @HorizontalHQ team has done an immense amount of work to improve our products

First of all, we were included in the Bitcoin.org recommended wallets list.
And not to mention that we are the youngest project on this list 2/ Secondly, @UnstoppableByHS supported Zcash shielded transactions and I especially wanted to point out the work of @cryptoserrano who helped us with integration questions along with his team