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Favor subaddress over standard address and integrated address
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Publishing your Monero address does __not__ endanger your privacy. That's because in Monero transactions go to stealth addresses which are decoupled from your public address.
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There are a few types of public addresses in Monero:
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There are a few **types of public addresses** in Monero:
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* Standard address - the basic type of the address, also refered to as raw address
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* Integrated address - embeds payment ID so you can learn for what you are being paid
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* Subaddress - slightly enhances privacy and allows for organizing your funds in subaccounts within a single wallet
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* Standard address - basic type of an address, also refered to as raw address
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* Subaddress - what you should be using by default
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* Integrated address - relevant for exchanges, merchants, and other businesses accepting Monero in a fully automated way
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## Standard address
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The raw address is useful for things like donations (where you don't care who donated)
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or exchange withdrawals (where you know the payer out of band). Its strength is simplicity.
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Historicaly, raw address was the only available option. For that reason it is the most widely adopted and supported address type.
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Monero standard address is composed of two public keys:
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Its strength is simplicity. However, these days users should prefer receiving to subaddresses instead.
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Technically, raw address is also a basis for creating subaddresses and integrated addresses.
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Raw address is **still useful for**:
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* accepting block reward in a solo-mining scenario as other addresses are not supported
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* accepting from senders who batch payouts (like mining pools); in this scenario the sender is paying multiple parties using a single transaction; such transaction has multiple outputs; subaddresses do not work in this scenario
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* accepting from senders who use legacy wallets (can't send to subaddress)
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Monero raw address is composed of two public keys:
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* public spend key
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* public view key
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# Subaddress
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Subaddresses serve two purposes described below.
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Subaddress is what you should be using by default to receive Monero.
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## Learn for what you are being paid
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By providing a unique subaddress for each anticipated payment you will know for what you are being paid.
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This use case overlaps with integrated addresses. Subaddresses are generally prefered for reasons outlined below.
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## Prevent payer from linking your payouts together
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- Base58: 'cryptography/base58.md'
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- Address:
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- Standard: 'public-address/standard-address.md'
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- Integrated: 'public-address/integrated-address.md'
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- Subaddress: 'public-address/subaddress.md'
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- Integrated: 'public-address/integrated-address.md'
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- Multisignature: 'multisignature.md'
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- Mainnet, Stagenet, Testnet: 'networks.md'
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