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Regardless of the veracity of your allegations, this paper is a sound empirical analysis. It's a solid piece of research, and it's not surprising that folks fro

Regardless of the veracity of your allegations, this paper is a sound empirical analysis. It's a solid piece of research, and it's not surprising that folks from a competing blockchain would be the first to unveil real problems with Monero.

polarized 9y ago
> the first to unveil real problems with Monero It is not. The problems were previously identified and documented by Monero developers, and the paper acknowledges this. The paper attaches specific historical numbers to those problems, which is good, though one can still quibble about how the numbers are aggregated and presented.
plasticmachine 9y ago
No it isn't, the paper is a re-hash of the work that the Monero team themselves put out in September 2014 and in January 2015. https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0001.pdf https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0001.pdf https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf