Cryptocurrency: Monero Zcash Etc

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 01:53:19AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> > https://www.cbs.dk/en/the-press/news/why-untraceable-cryptocurrencies-are-here-to-stay
> 
> Renwick, R., & Gleasure, R. (2020). Those who control the code control
> the rules: How different perspectives of privacy are being written
> into the code of blockchain systems. Journal of Information
> Technology. doi:10.1177/0268396220944406 23 pages.
> 
> 
> Monero (statistical) and Zcash (homomorphic) are first generation
> and just like Bitcoin (none) will die under the pointless weight of
> their own ever growing terabyte++ size blockchains.
> 
> Come talk when you have a privacy cryptocurrency
> whose "blockchain" (total disk space needed regardless
> of what you call it) grows NOT as function of number
> of tx (users transactions), but only as function of number
> of UTXO (users accounts) in some form of state database
> updated by consensus over transactions and the db itself.


Um… I don't trust the state sorry...

<ducks for cover> Couldn't resist sorry <homomorphicly cheesy grin>