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In light of this, “thankful_for_today” decided to fork Bytecoin in order to launch a cryptocurrency with a strong, community-driven development team working off of the CryptoNote protocol. On April 18th, 2014, “thankful_for_today” launched BitMonero and on April 30th, 2014, the name of the cryptocurrency was changed to Monero.
**_There are three years missing here. Much took place in those three years that readers are going to want and benefit from knowing about. Please add at least two more paragraphs to cover significant developments between 2014 and 2017._**
During January 2017, the privacy of transactions was strengthened further with the optional use of the Ring Confidential Transactions (RingCT) algorithm, which introduced an additional layer of confidentiality by not displaying the amounts implicated in a transaction to someone who did not directly take part in it. By early February 2017, over 95% of all non-coinbase transactions used the optional RingCT feature. As of today, RingCT is a default feature and is no longer optional.