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> better privacy, or easier scaling You can get both [1] without trading away anything except trusting Pedersen commitments to actually commit to their values
by tromp 10mo ago
> better privacy, or easier scaling
You can get both [1] without trading away anything except trusting Pedersen commitments to actually commit to their values (i.e. no-one ever able to compute one particular EC discrete log).
> they often sacrifice decentralization or long-term economic incentives.
One could argue that Bitcoin's capped supply sacrifices long-term economic incentives as its shrinking security budget threatens long term network security, and that an uncapped supply better serves long-term economic incentives [2].
[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/scalability-vs-privacy-chart https://forum.grin.mw/t/scalability-vs-privacy-chart
[2] https://tromp.github.io/blog/2020/12/20/soft-supply https://tromp.github.io/blog/2020/12/20/soft-supply