Resources

MoneroKon 2023

This is the presentation I gave at MoneroKon 2023 where I intended to convey the message that there is no inflation happening in Monero by using the approach described at moneroinflation.com and using my own Python tools to scan the blockchain. This presentation is not for cryptography experts (as the content here is too shalow for them) but in a couple times it requires some basic knowledge of elliptic curve scalar multiplication and hashes. So hopefully there is some audience left and it will be somehow useful. Feel free to share your thoughts, get in touch, provide corrections and give your opinion about the best way to explain why inflation is not happening in Monero.

Python library

The Python scripts and libraries used to build this project and website can be found at github.

Good resources

• Zero To Monero

  A very well documented book on how each part of the blockchain works.

• Cryptonote whitepaper

  The whitepaper from which Monero is derived.

• From Zero Knowledge to Bulletproofs

  0k2bp is a great material to get started learning bulletproofs.

• Dalek

  This group has maybe the fastest bulletproof implementation in Rust using Ristreto. They also provide some nice charts and explanations about bulletproofs.

• Comparing Bulletproofs+ and Bulletproofs

  A nice introduction and explanation about the differences between Bulletproofs and Bulletproofs+.

More Python codes

• Python scripts from Sarang (a former Monero researcher)

  Some good Python libraries about many different things in Monero.

• Mininero

  A Python implementation of some basic functions used in Monero.