Privacy Coin Monero (XMR) successfully completes the first audit for its new “bulletproofs” protocol. In an official blog post back in December 2017, Monero announced its intentions to pursue including the bulletproofs mechanism into its protocol. They stated that bulletproofs would lead to “massive space savings, better verification times, and lower fees.”. The deployment was supposed to happen in two stages and be available for the test network before being deployed onto the main network. Bulletproofs were proposed by Stanford’s Applied Cryptography Group (ACG) with contributions from the members of University ... (full story)