On 12/26/2017 12:58 AM, Michalis Kargakis wrote:Maybe I am understanding this imperfectly, but this hides how much you are paying, and thus how much you have, but does not hide whom you pay it to.
Not a ready implementation yet but the mimblewimble protocol solves a lot of the scalability issues plagued in other blockchains.
https://scalingbitcoin.org/papers/mimblewimble.pdf
https://github.com/ignopeverell/grin/blob/master/doc/intro. md
Suppose HHitler create an evil fascist website, and requests donations in mimblewimble coins.
Let us call the public key advertised on that evil fascist website HHitler.
Ann buys mimblewimble coins on an exchange, using US$, and has to give her true name and an image of her true face.
Won't the mimblewimble blockchain show that Ann gave an unknown amount to HHitler, whereupon antifa goes around and kills some girl whose face superficially resembles that of Ann, and then the judge lets them off as well intentioned good guys?
As the judge recently let off a black man who killed a white man and then took his wallet, and subsequently claimed, without racist inconvenience of actually needing to produce any evidence, that the white man had called him a n****r
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