I'm interested in Monero and love the concept but someone I respect objects to it for the following reasons:

- it uses eliptic curve cryptography, which is known to be a method of choice when the NSA wants you to use something they can break and others can't

- ECC can trivially be broken by a quantum computer

- It uses many constants in the crypto that aren't "nothing up my sleeve numbers”. This is one of the main ways to make crypto breakable by only the organization who chose the constants.

- the constants were created by an author that only goes by a pseudonym

- NSA has recently started trying to move federal systems away from ECC, ie they are likely aware of a weakness in it that may soon be exploitable by others

Can anyone please address these concerns? Thanks in advance.

Why does Dash have a higher market cap than Monero? It seems like an inferior solution that's much less elegant. Masternodes seem vulnerable and you have to take action to send Dash anonymously. Also, isn't Monero more widely used in commerce?

Just bought some monero,i hope im not too late to make some money.

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Hi BreadandButter, which hardware are you using?

Seems like washing your car in a dust storm, but you could do something like this:
  Deposit BTC to a high enough volume exchange that supports Monero.  Transfer Monero to alternate exchange (or just trade back on first exchange, if you are not sufficiently paranoid), withdraw BTC to chosen wallets.  Repeat each time you do a BTC transaction.  Or just use Monero.  You will eventually, so just get ahead of the curve. 

Same result.

You can always use your seed from mymonero in the regular wallet. I'm not sure exactly how to do that, but I know it's possible.

Mymonero uses 12 word seed rather than 25 so that's probably the only option.

Monero and Privacy with Riccardo Spagni (aka @fluffypony) - Off Chain Special

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We discuss all the latest privacy technologies and how Monero will be incorporating Bulletproofs, MimbleWimble and how this affects Bitcoin.