I am 25% retarded so it's possible address reuse isn't even a problem with Monero and that's the point of stealth addresses. What's a stealth address? Maybe today is the day I get down to 24%
The fact that tipping can be broadcast to nodes still triggers my Spidey sense tho - I have definitely read from people smarter than me that the more Monero transactions are de-anonymized, the harder it gets to protect the rest and part of the challenge for monero devs is balancing that
Na I rather you guys bring up all this to hash it out and we can think about it. You're right to err on the side of caution. There can definitely be problems with identifying the true spender in ring signatures if tx info is made public, but that is separate from stealth addresses. There is supposed to be a new bounty for hiding this info from relays.
Simply put stealth addresses make it so the public address you see (i.e. the XMR address on my profile) is not visible on-chain (it's encrypted).
Try searching my address on any Monero blockchain explorer. You won't find it:
89spcfRbp8EZZF2Qf9qJNSBjbx7fJAdJcEf64GBP1Vgg8yNrKHVLtJXLt4jWr3hcYeYUePpKfg5MkNYsjNc9sx3m3ymcMt4
I'm embarrassed I didn't know (or forgot) about stealth addresses - that's what I mean by 25% retarded, I know just enough to get ahead of myself and reveal big embarrassing gaps of knowledge 🤯
I jumped to a paranoid conclusion based on the general concept that UTXO coins require address rotation + the Monero-specific concept that de-anonymized transactions are bad for the network 🤙
You have tripled my respect for retnull by clearing up this simple confusion!
