Monero


The Dark Horse

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Fungibility is Fun


Monero was launched in April 2014 as a fork of Bytecoin. Bytecoin was the original Cryptonote implementation, but was widely suspected of being a scam.

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Coin specifications


  • Date launched - 2014 April 18
  • Total supply - 18.4 million before tail emission
  • Emission - smoothly decreasing
  • Security - Proof-of-work (Cryptonight)
  • Target block time - 2 min

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