On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:22 PM, vdo <vdo@greyfaze.net> wrote:
https://themerkle.com/blocksci-succesfully-traces-transactions-performed-wit...
The article is shit. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.02489.pdf The whitepaper clearly states - They demoed breaks in BTC, BCC, LTC, NMC, DASH. - They excluded Monero and Ethereum from research, because they didn't want to bother authoring code structures to read their chain formats, etc. - They excluded the Zcash family (ZEC, ZCL, ZEN, etc) from research, because their shielded transactions are currently believed provably crypto secure against tracing. [1] S. Goldfeder, H. Kalodner, D. Reisman, and A. Narayanan, "When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies," https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04748 [2] A. Miller, M. Möser, K. Lee, and A. Narayanan, "An empirical analysis of linka- bility in the Monero blockchain," https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04299 [3] M. Möser and R. Böhme, "The price of anonymity: empirical evidence from a market for Bitcoin anonymization," coinjoin https://academic.oup.com/cybersecurity/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/cybsec/tyx... https://www.reddit.com/r/joinmarket/ https://themerkle.com/top-4-companies-providing-bitcoin-blockchain-analysis-... Those wanting anonymity today might exchange around with some Z's, Monero, etc in the middle on a number of decentralized or at least anon markets, make money on the idle with joinmarkets in any coin, all over I2P / Tor, while managing a large pile of one time use accounts. They obviously have to support the adoption of the set of anon capable coins otherwise the edge markets interfacing realworld won't list them, making transit of nontrivial sums in / between / out worlds very difficult. Here's another proposal... Adam Fiscor - Zerolink Bitcoin fungibility framework https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY-QQOjycgI https://breaking-bitcoin.com/