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To a higher degree, one should note the Monero Research Lab is leaps and bounds ahead of ZCash.

baby 9y ago
How? Honest question. I'm more familiar with the cryptographers behind Zcash.
DennisP 9y ago
I'm not competent to compare the work, but there don't appear to be any professional academic cryptographers on either the core or research lab teams. https://getmonero.org/resources/people.html https://getmonero.org/resources/people.html Whereas the ZCash team includes several people who were well-known cryptographers before ZCash came along.
- blueprint 9y ago
  Of course there are. All members of MRL are professional academic cryptographers. There's Surae, Sarang, Shen, etc. Meanwhile the background and "academic" activities of most of the academics behind Zcash are quite sketchy despite their fame. People will come to see this before long.
  - DennisP 9y ago
    The bios of those three say they have degrees in mathematical sciences, physics, and algebraic geometry, respectively. None of those are cryptography. On top of that, they're pseudonymous, so we can't even verify these claims. ZCash has well-known people, employed at places like Johns Hopkins and Berkeley, who specialize in cryptography and have long lists of publications to their names. If anyone is going to be called "sketchy" it should be the people hiding behind pseudonyms. I don't own ZCash or Monero, so I don't have a dog in this fight except that I get annoyed at the Monero community's strident insistence of their intellectual superiority over ZCash.
    - otheotheothe 9y ago
      They are not hiding behind pseudonyms and attend meetups regularly, stuff like RingCt was peer revieewed by legder journal... And yes i call zcash skechy too, creating a currency with a trusted setup and stuffing 10% off all mining rewards in your pockets its an outright scam.
      - DennisP 9y ago
        Ok. Maybe getmonero.org is out of date. Please share a link that tells their real names.
      - Tomte 9y ago
        You may call ZCash sketchy (and I don't like premining, either), but the people behind it surely aren't. You're derailing.
Ar-Curunir 9y ago
If you're going to make a bold claim, maybe back it up with some evidence?

baby 9y ago

How? Honest question. I'm more familiar with the cryptographers behind Zcash.

I'm not competent to compare the work, but there don't appear to be any professional academic cryptographers on either the core or research lab teams. https://getmonero.org/resources/people.html https://getmonero.org/resources/people.html Whereas the ZCash team includes several people who were well-known cryptographers before ZCash came along.

blueprint 9y ago
Of course there are. All members of MRL are professional academic cryptographers. There's Surae, Sarang, Shen, etc. Meanwhile the background and "academic" activities of most of the academics behind Zcash are quite sketchy despite their fame. People will come to see this before long.
- DennisP 9y ago
  The bios of those three say they have degrees in mathematical sciences, physics, and algebraic geometry, respectively. None of those are cryptography. On top of that, they're pseudonymous, so we can't even verify these claims. ZCash has well-known people, employed at places like Johns Hopkins and Berkeley, who specialize in cryptography and have long lists of publications to their names. If anyone is going to be called "sketchy" it should be the people hiding behind pseudonyms. I don't own ZCash or Monero, so I don't have a dog in this fight except that I get annoyed at the Monero community's strident insistence of their intellectual superiority over ZCash.
  - otheotheothe 9y ago
    They are not hiding behind pseudonyms and attend meetups regularly, stuff like RingCt was peer revieewed by legder journal... And yes i call zcash skechy too, creating a currency with a trusted setup and stuffing 10% off all mining rewards in your pockets its an outright scam.
    - DennisP 9y ago
      Ok. Maybe getmonero.org is out of date. Please share a link that tells their real names.
    - Tomte 9y ago
      You may call ZCash sketchy (and I don't like premining, either), but the people behind it surely aren't. You're derailing.

Ar-Curunir 9y ago

If you're going to make a bold claim, maybe back it up with some evidence?