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I doubt somebody running from a government is taking their tips from wired.com
I read through the whole list, and monero was the only decent privacy recomendation I could find. Everything else was US-hosted. A lot of it was just recommendations from Apple and Google on "privacy" services they offer.
No mention of syncthing, matrix, xmpp, even with sections dedicated to those categories.
I read that monero is different from other cryptocurrencies and makes it harder to identify the individual to/from whom a transaction in is sent
What is the difference and why do other cryptocurrencies not implement it?
The core focus of early crypto was decentralization, not anonymity. Bitcoin is totally decentralized, but the entire premise is the blockchain contains a permanent irrefutable ledger of transactions. Basically everyone knows if Wallet A paid Wallet B. If you refill your wallet with anything remotely traceable, that means everyone knows YOU paid Wallet B, and similarly if wallet B has any ties to the real world, the lines are easy to connect.
That's not to say you can't use it anonymously, but that was not the intent and thus it does anonymity poorly.
Monero is built as a privacy first crypto. Essentially it's like cash in many ways. You spend it in the shop and nobody knows where the cash you're handing over came from. When you get your change at the till you know nothing about who had the cash before you that you just got handed. It's just money.
This is all handled by a bunch of very complex cryptography. If it comes to it there are ways to prove you sent the money etc but only you have that capability to decide to share.
Zcash’s shielded transactions can do smiliar things