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Pointing to my comment elsewhere on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39279246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39279246
by johannes1234321 3y ago
Pointing to my comment elsewhere on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39279246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39279246
- Mistletoe 3y agoSome blockchains have private transactions and very good at it indeed. https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-xmr.html#log&3m https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-xmr... Monero has fees of six cents it looks like and a novel and private way of performing transactions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature
- wbobeirne 3y agoLayer 2s such as Bitcoin's lightning network do not use a public ledger for their transactions. The only thing public is the transaction that opens a payment channel, everything after that happens as peer to peer messaging across the network.