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Privacy Best Practices Quiz

Test your Monero privacy knowledge.

Covers material from Privacy Best Practices.

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What's the first step in protecting your privacy?

Define your threat model Never disclose that you hold crypto Buy a hardware wallet immediately Churn your coins several times first

Why does network privacy (Tor/I2P) matter for Monero?

Your IP can deanonymize otherwise-private transactions It is mandatory for broadcasting any transaction It speeds up how fast transactions propagate It lowers the fees you pay per transaction

Which statement about churning is most accurate?

It guarantees full anonymity for your funds It has narrow, situational uses, not a cure-all It is required before every spend It exposes your wallet's view key

Which of these can leak metadata?

Reusing addresses or linking to a KYC identity Generating a new subaddress for each payer Running your own private node Routing your wallet over Tor

Why is an atomic swap the most private way to get Monero?

It settles faster than any exchange It always has the lowest fees No third party ever holds your coins or can log you It mixes your coins with other traders along the way

In an atomic swap, what protects you if your counterparty goes offline before the trade completes?

Nothing, the coins are lost once the counterparty disconnects After the timelock expires, a built-in refund returns your original coins A support team manually reverses the trade for you The maker's deposit is automatically transferred to you as compensation

Does running your own node hide your IP address from network peers?

Yes, because the node encrypts your IP before broadcasting No, but only because nodes never transmit IP information at all No, it removes trust in a third-party node but you still need Tor or I2P to hide your IP Yes, your own node fully conceals your network location by itself

Why is forwarding a received amount instantly and unchanged a privacy risk?

It exposes your view key to the recipient It permanently links the transaction to your KYC exchange records An observer seeing both ends can correlate them by timing and amount It reveals the exact amount on the public block explorer

How does I2P differ from Tor for Monero use?

I2P hides on-chain amounts while Tor only hides recipients I2P keeps traffic inside its network and suits node-to-node communication, while Tor is more common for everyday wallet use I2P is required to send Monero, whereas Tor is optional I2P reveals your IP to exit relays, but Tor never does

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Why is Monero's privacy stronger than using Bitcoin with a mixer?

Monero transactions are cheaper, so more people use the mixer Monero mixers are run by the core developers and are audited Monero's privacy is mandatory on every transaction, so there is no private subset to single out Bitcoin mixers are illegal while Monero's are not

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