Monero (XMR) is a new privacy-centric coin using the CryptoNote protocol The open source reference implementation of CryptoNote was coded from scratch based on the CryptoNote reference implementation, and is not a fork of Bitcoin.
Monero aims to be a fungible and untraceable digital medium of exchange. It intrinsically has a higher degree of anonymity than Bitcoin or any of its various forks. It was launched on April 18, 2014 (preannounced and no premine/IPO/etc.).
Btctalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.0
CPU and gpu mineable.
GPU miner by claymore: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=638915.0
Other things of interest:
i2p and MONERO partnership: https://geti2p.net/en/blog/post/2014/05/25/Monero-partnership
annotated white paper for cryptonote: http://monero.cc/downloads/whitepaper_annotated.pdf
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