Just realized we have a huge missing research direction: Chain Analysis - dig all kinds of interesting data from the chain.
Not sure we had this research direction requested in comments on Pi. If not, that is a bit surprising.
My theory is that address reuse in current VSP implementation andsplit transactions degrade privacy by linking together a ton of data that should not be linked. Analysis that could shed some light on this:
count addresses that were reused at least once and their % of all addresses
count reused addresses used in PoS specifically
plot the amount and % of reused addresses over time (both general and PoS)
analyze "split" transactions: find those that emit >1 ticket, find how many tickets they link together (max and average), make charts (X: amount of tickets, Y: amount of split tx that link X amount of tickets)
count how many of current/recent tickets are coming from reused addresses
try to build "identities" that keep reusing voting addresses, count how much stake they have, and as a demo of how bad it is, show what a random "identity" has voted for on- and off-chain during past 2 years
Just realized we have a huge missing research direction: Chain Analysis - dig all kinds of interesting data from the chain.
Not sure we had this research direction requested in comments on Pi. If not, that is a bit surprising.
My theory is that address reuse in current VSP implementation and split transactions degrade privacy by linking together a ton of data that should not be linked. Analysis that could shed some light on this: