The Role of Ring Signatures and Stealth Addresses in Crypto Privacy
Privacy has become an increasingly significant concern in the world of cryptocurrencies. The promise of anonymity and security is what initially drew many to digital currencies like Bitcoin. Still, it’s no secret that blockchain technology can sometimes be less private than one might hope. That’s where innovations like Ring Signatures and Stealth Addresses come into […]
Stealth addresses should be used for anonymous NFT ownership – Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum is proposing the usage of stealth addresses which is a low-tech method for the incorporation of privacy features into nonfungible token, or NFT, transactions. Buterin hinted that Merkle trees and Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or ZK-SNARKs, were a more difficult approach for generating stealth addresses for ERC-721 coins […]