Monero’s promise is that nobody can see your balance or your counterparties. But that same privacy creates a practical problem: how do you prove to someone that you actually paid them? On Bitcoin you point at a public transaction and anyone can trace it. On Monero the recipient’s balance, your outputs, and the amounts are..

Monero addresses come in three shapes, and the differences are not cosmetic. Which one you hand out determines whether your payment gets routed correctly, whether the sender can attach a reference, and how much of your receiving activity stays separated. The prefixes tell you which is which, but two of the three start with the..