Privacy
Stealth address
A stealth address is a one-time destination derived from the recipient’s public key so that payments to the same person are not visibly linked on-chain.
Monero uses stealth addresses for every output; you share one long address, and each payment lands on a unique on-chain key only you can spend.
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This is why a Monero receive address can be reused safely, unlike a Bitcoin address.
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Monero (XMR)
Monero is a cryptocurrency with privacy by default: ring signatures, stealth addresses and confidential amounts hide sender, receiver and value.
Address reuse
Address reuse is receiving multiple payments at the same transparent-chain address, which links all of them to one owner for any observer.
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