Zero to Monero: Second Edition is not the friendly tour 

 is. It is more technical, but basic algebra is enough to follow it through Ed25519, stealth addresses, ring signatures, RingCT, and range proofs.

It stops at April 2020. MLSAG is still the signature in the text; CLSAG replaced it that October. Bulletproofs+ and view tags came in August 2022. FCMP++ and Carrot soon.

Read it for the fundamentals, then DYOR, ask in the 

, or ask an LLM about the recent upgrades.

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Zero to Monero: Second Edition is not the friendly tour [Mastering Monero](https://stasher.news/items/340593) is. It is more technical, but basic algebra is enough to follow it through Ed25519, stealth addresses, ring signatures, RingCT, and range proofs.

It stops at April 2020. MLSAG is still the signature in the text; CLSAG replaced it that October. Bulletproofs+ and view tags came in August 2022. FCMP++ and Carrot soon. 

Read it for the fundamentals, then DYOR, ask in the [Matrix channels](https://themeritocrat.substack.com/p/monero-matrix), or ask an LLM about the recent upgrades. 

The ideas stay. The code keeps shipping.