On 9/9/20, Lee Clagett <forum@leeclagett.com> wrote:
The problem with Monaro, is that though it avoids the direct linking of transactions that bitcoin suffers from, it leaks a whole lot of data about networks of people transacting with each other
The problem is no worse than Bitcoin - did you intend to promote Zcash here?
So why should the underlying ZKP / Homomorphic tech behind Zcash not be promoted? And or in comparison to that which underlies Monero.
There's some negatives to that project that can be found via
Which technical negatives (beyond political, such as founder rewards)? Any in the underlying ZKP tech itself? No, properly executed "trusted setup" MPC is not really much appearing a weakness, but moreso a negative sounding misnomer seemingly bandied about by the competition without backing cause.
websearch, but the z-address transactions are (assuming no bugs or math errors) not leaking the information you describe.
As for "Bitcoin-like" coins, some privacy evolution beyond simple fuckme Bitcoin has occured in form of external and applicable CoinJoin/JoinMarket, CashShuffle, CashFusion. Taproot does not appear documented to lead to any real level of cryptographic, or even statistical, user privacy yet. But which coins, if any, are pursuing any of the above, or any other thought-to-be-at-least-reasonably-strong, privacy technologies... while at the same time eliminating the ridiculous legacy of first gen O(tx) based blockchain storing bloat forever mindset in favor of the much more storage and processing efficient O(utxo) model?
I don't think anyone has broken it - I certainly could not - but I expect that the adversaries are making efficient use of what it does leak - that they can find interesting information in what is out of scope of its security model.
Mind that always for any usage.
I favor Wasabi wallet, which mingles your bitcoins with those of a large number of other people.
Many wallets, for example in Bitcoin_Cash-BCH space are now integrating some of the above mix tech. Some of these mix tech can be apply to all sorts of coins, regardless of what other privacy tech the coin itself may or may not have.
The Lightning network ... but you then have the ... problem[s of]
Lightning is known to be quite problematic and a non-solution on many fronts.