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Changed to bulletproof https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066

The Wikipedia article is incorrect, Monero still uses ring signatures. Bulletproofs are used as efficient range proofs in RingCT to hide the amount in transactions.

https://www.getmonero.org/2017/12/07/Monero-Compatible-Bulle...

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Thank you! There's a lot of difficult-to-google info locked up in comments like this, and I truly appreciate the effort spent replying to randos like me :)

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