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Can I share “secret view key” publicly? (self.monero)
submitted 1 week ago by yay to c/[email protected]
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In my instance, I receive donations in fiat, ETH and XMR. I like XMR because it's protects both my privacy and donor's privacy.

But at the same time I want to be as transparent as possible. For this, can I share the view key with people? So anyone can check transactions and see the balance.

In the end, what exactly does the view key expose?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, you can, it exposes incoming transactions (but not the outgoing ones).

https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/viewkey.html

[–] yay 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks🙏

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Please note that the private view key, barring some edge cases, can also see outgoing transactions for all practical tracing purposes. They however can't see the outgoing destination address. See this presentation: https://youtu.be/MYzZ1DzSWCY?t=263 for more info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

You can, good luck