supertestnet shared a tool they made that makes it possible to follow transactions in Monero, a type of online money that's supposed to be super secret and untraceable. The tool uses a method they call "decoy elimination." It's like a big detective game, to see which transactions are real and which ones are fake or "decoys".

They explain how the tool works. It's a bit like a jigsaw puzzle; they have some pieces but are still trying to figure out where the other pieces go. The tool spots clues like when someone spends money really soon after getting it (merge analysis) or uses super new digital coins when older ones are more common (recency bias). These clues can help identify the real transactions.

The tool also has other cool features in the works, like spotting automated bots (imagine finding robots hiding among humans) and tracing possible senders. It's a bit like a big tree that starts from someone who got money and reaches back to find out where that money could have come from.

But it's not easy. Even with this genius tool, you still need more information that isn't given in the transaction itself, like keys to secret lockers where the coins are stored. The tool also needs to witness a lot of transactions in action to understand the patterns. Right now, it can only find the sender in about 1 out of 15 cases.

So, even though it does a good job playing detective, there

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