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The decoy method doesn't even work because a smart criminal could just check your exchange withdrawals for amounts. You'd have to hope that they were ignorant enough.

It's becoming increasingly difficult. Data leaks, address and name leaks and chain analysis have made it easier to track who owns what. If crime agencies are able to track wallets …

Google is a privacy antagonist. Apple is privacy focused because it suits their business. Apple has been privacy focused for years and has built several technologies to prove it. I…

There is no serious person that could think that Google is a privacy focused company. Their entire business is founded on knowing everything about their users. It's an ad company. …

Okay but from an evolutionary sense which company should we be supporting. The one company that is somewhat moving towards privacy or the 10 others that don't give a shit. Which on…

I'm not aware of any other company of Apple's size (or anywhere approaching) that have been as committed to privacy tech. Of course they are not perfect and sometimes get it wrong …

Homomorphic encryption is broadly useful and in fact should be ubiquitous for remote computation that leaks private data (not to comment specifically on Apple's implementation). Th…

Not really they are moving into homomorphic encryption where the entire query and processing is encrypted and Apple has no knowledge of the what you actually requested.

That's the Bahamas not Bermuda.

Augur and Numerai are unlikely to be successful long run given their current usage. Filecoin is up in the air, Brave seems to be doing okay.

It has inbuilt clients that connect to Tor, IPFS and an ad blocker that can generate a small amount of income just for browsing the web. Their token is used to pay users for receiv…

It should also be noted in the 7 years since launch that a large portion of that 59% would have been sold or lost and hence re-distributed to other users on the platform.

Some ecosystems have made significant progress on in browser and mobile light clients. For example: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate-connect/

Modern light clients don't use that much battery and are optimised for mobile usage. They even have very short start times making use of snapshotting and back filling headers i.e. …

North Korea didn't use them yet to layer stolen funds. Just a matter of time before ZCash and Monero developers are all arrested if this is the precedent.

People have been using the Tulip bulb analogy for 12 years. What's stopping most people at this point is they understand the analogy doesn't fit.

I think that the best way for Coinbase to combat this is to make as much information public as possible in as close to real time. For example they have a listings website - make ev…

PoW equally rewards early participants because they take the lions share of the initial blocks. Satoshi is a multi-billionaire. There are very few blockchains that don't heavily fa…

Blockchains solve the trusted intermediary problem which is far more general concept than double spending. It's also a common misconception that blockchains are anonymous; they are…

My intuition tells me that if an asset class rises steadily (albeit with volatility) for 10+ Years the majority of investors would be in profit. Anecdotes aside. Do you have data t…

Scams, criminals, ponzi schemes and MLMs. Usually when those are used to describe crypto there is no accompanying explanation of why those are relevant or apply in a particular cas…

It's the easiest to use because of the prevalence of phone numbers and transferability between phones. These properties that give it the best user experience also make it the worst…

He must have been hit with a wrench already if he thinks that they wouldn't just have him type it out from muscle memory.

Not only that. If you renounce citizenship you are exit taxed on all your assets worth over 2 mil as a disincentive to high net worth individuals from jumping ship. Most aggressive…

Unlikely as there is an ice age built-in to eth1 which will steadily increase the time between blocks until none are produced. There should also be a hard fork which includes code …