plasticmachine

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by plasticmachine 10y ago
That's fair enough, but consider that SakiWatanabe's comment is equally uncivil and insulting to an open-source project and the contributors that have built it. Why is that allowed, but when I call that person out I get SJW safe-s
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by plasticmachine 10y ago
I don't understand your terminology. What do you mean "mix 1000 coins together", and what is the use-case there?
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by plasticmachine 10y ago
You can't be serious. It's using libsodium in one part of the code, so therefore ALL cryptography uses libsodium? You do know that Bitcoin has already switched most of the secp256k1 stuff away from OpenSSL and to libsecp256k1, and
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by plasticmachine 10y ago
This is an utterly stupid comment. If you read an article that slammed MongoDB's eventual consistency and encouraged people to use mysql instead would you call it a "mysql pump? This is also not the first time someone has smacked
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by plasticmachine 10y ago
Stealth addresses aren't nearly enough. It needs to be mandatory stealth addresses + some sort of mandatory passive mixing that can't be Sybil attacked + Confidential Transactions. At a minimum.
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by plasticmachine 11y ago
On further consideration I agree with you. Knowledge of the accumulator would merely allow for the arbitrary creation of forged spends that appear valid, but the rest of the system would still remain opaque (much to its detriment in this in
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by plasticmachine 11y ago
The point you're actually trying to make is "every privacy scheme has trade-offs". Zerocoin's trade-offs are massive: untested / unreviewed cryptography, a trusted initial accumulator that can ruin the anonymity for