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Good read till the "Enter Monero" line :)

I'd also mention that bitcoin had a BIP at some point to add stealth address support to the core (BIP63) with a couple of wallets providing support for those.

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I typically start talking about the cryptonote protocol as a solution and then mention Monero as the primary implementation

Monero has existed for the entire two years that Zerocash has been whitepaper vaporware, and it works really well.

Stealth addresses aren't nearly enough. It needs to be mandatory stealth addresses + some sort of mandatory passive mixing that can't be Sybil attacked + Confidential Transactions. At a minimum.

Yup, Stealth Addresses are just a small fix to one usecase, not a general solution. And I say this as the guy who came up with the name and played a part in developing the exact protocol Dark Wallet implemented (many others deserve credit, including for the underlying math).

Just mentioned those since the OP's article is talking about monero using stealth addresses but doesn't mention these when talking about bitcoin.

SX and DarkWallet was what kind of pulled me personally into the bitcoin "ecosystem", very entertaining read trying to understand all of that :)

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