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nopara73 / ZeroLink

The Bitcoin Fungibility Framework
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Ethan's review: Abstract #31

Closed nopara73 closed 7 years ago

nopara73 commented 7 years ago

@EthanHeilman

“ZeroLink is the first to offer protections against all the …” is too strong of a statement. What about zkSnarks. Or especially CoinShuffle++ with is much more complex than zerolink but offers better privacy, including very strong privacy at the network layer. You should qualify this statement more, why does this zerolink have this property? Better coin selection? Etc...

nopara73 commented 7 years ago

zkSnarks, Monero, zerocoin, zcash does not attacks from all angle. Private transaction retrieval or broadcasting is out of their scope, even if it's possible, unlike ZeroLink they don't try to force their users to use it that way, which can result in messy surprises. As a prime example: everybody is using monero through MyMonero web wallet. CoinShuffle++ has DiceMix, which provides stronger, altough less tested network layer anonymity, than Tor in ZeroLink, however the proposal still doesn't factors all the different ways the Wallet Privacy Framework of ZeroLink does factor in. See ShufflePuff. Great CoinShuffle implementation, run on Mycelium's server, which can reestabilish the links.

That being said I removed that statement, it might lead to hostility and confusion, due to pure ignorance the misunderstanding that I was not able to articulate this point properly.

@EthanHeilman Do you agree?