sowithit
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4 years ago
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on: Tor Browser 11.0
I am curious: why can't you redirect your community to a new v3 address? Deprecating v2 onion services has been publicly planned for several years now, and it is being done for security reasons (e.g. name collisions and weak crypto). Honestly, it would seem irresponsible of the Tor community not to stop supporting insecure versions of Tor.
sowithit
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5 years ago
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on: Covid-19’s impact on Tor
Ironically, if they had more government sponsorship, they may be having fewer financial problems now. Government grant programs have multi-year contracts, and the agencies have yearly budgets. The government money is still flowing. It's the private money, from foundations and individuals, that has suddenly become unavailable due to declines in income and wealth.
sowithit
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8 years ago
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on: Is Zcash’s encrypted blockchain Satoshi’s vision?
I actually found it interesting to read Zooko's opinions about the market opportunity (namely, replacing fiat currencies in countries where they are unstable) and why governments might not hate Zcash (namely, because transactions can contain identifying information as they are encrypted). I don't actually agree with him, and I question if he truly believes those answers, but I was interested to read his public opinions.
sowithit
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8 years ago
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on: Is Zcash’s encrypted blockchain Satoshi’s vision?
Doesn't it scale? Isn't it the case that the Merkle tree holding all the shielded coins can be pruned just as easily as the Merkle tree storing Bitcoin transactions? Pruning either tree eliminates the information needed to verify the claimed owner of a coin in a pruned branch, correct?
sowithit
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8 years ago
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on: Is Zcash’s encrypted blockchain Satoshi’s vision?
It is not down to 6 people forever not colluding. It's down to 6 people not having colluded at one point in time in the past, each having been scrutinized during the procedure, with post-hoc inspection of the software and hardware. If those 6 people decided at any point after the procedure that they wanted to collude, then it would be too late for them to do so.
Essentially they each produced a private key, and if each of them revealed their private key to the same party then that party could derive a master private key that would allow them to (among other things) mint Zcash for free (privacy wouldn't be broken). Assuming that any one of the 6 did in fact destroy/corrupt his private key without revealing it, then the collusion opportunity is forever lost.
sowithit
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8 years ago
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on: Is Zcash’s encrypted blockchain Satoshi’s vision?
It's just as possible to not use Monero's mix-ins as it is to use Zcash's transparent addresses. So no, Monero doesn't win here.
