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This is inaccurate and in a hilarious way. Treasury is not coming after Bitcoin. There's an update in an ongoing rulemaking process that got reported here[0] as banning mixing and …

This is by no means a comprehensive analysis. This analysis misses the most major limitation with Monero's decoy based approach to transaction obfuscation: Eve-Alice-Eve attacks (a…

if you just sent Mick down the left path and he came out the right, then a video would conclusively show he knew the password. And this is why "How to explain zero-knowledge protoc…

Paying in cash, in addition to being a minor inconvenience that non-the-less outweighs most people's desire for privacy, does not work in online payments. It also doesn't work in b…

Fun fact, AMMs were considered well before cryptocurrency. " The most popular automated market maker used in Internet prediction markets is Hanson’s logarithmic market scoring rule…

Yeah, those papers are very dense. You might want try reading zerocoin[0] first, it was the starting point of all the zero-knowledge proofs for private payments on a blockchain. Th…

This is pretty cool. But you might want to update the credit for the zksnark +merkle tree + nullifier idea. It's from an academic paper, Zerocash in 2014. The approach is used in Z…

I don't think tagging people as ex 8200 is very helpful. Israel has mandatory military service and at this point if you have aptitude or are in a high school computer club in Tel A…

This has already happened. A catholic newspaper bought commercial location and app data and used it to out a gay priest who was forced to resign. They broke the joke "privacy prote…

It's an important distinction. The fact that huge numbers of people rotate through the hacking side of 8200 (like the NSA, vast majority of 8200 members don't work on that) is what…

NSO group is ex unit 8200, which is military signals intelligence. So in American terms, it's the NSA not the CIA. The distinction is important in a country with mandatory military…

Because Bitcoin is twitter for your bank account. It exposes everything you do to anyone who can download the blockchain. You can argue that some gov/regulator should have access, …

There are some Zcash forks with iffy dev support and no market traction. The problem is the kind of cryptography you need to do something like Zcash is very very very hard to get r…

I think the reddit user someone else linked to pretty clearly explained the Monero side. Zcash has a bad reputation with darknet markets and the like that use Monero. Some of it de…

Partially, but it's also: you will pay for a phone number, you won't pay for icloud, etc. So, as a result a phone number is costs something like 10 cents for an attacker.

What happens if someone tries to coerce Apple into writing backdoor code? Engineers at Apple could resist, resign, slow roll the design and engineering process. They could leak it …

> Our system involves both an on-device component where the voucher is created, but nothing is learned, and a server-side component, which is where that voucher is sent along with …

yes, you can turn AV into the same thing. But no one has been advocating for that or passing laws that would make AV both mandatory and have to report you to the police. This has b…

>The only thing stopping your phone from keylogging your password to a server in the NSA somewhere if it recognizes a specific trigger pattern is Apple's willingness and ability to…

Yes, and even more ironically, thats precisely the problem. Because it makes mass sweeping of client side content viable --- both technically and morally--- in a way never possible…

Factually, not yet. That will change and I will explain how in a moment. But first there's a major difference between doing it on device vs in the cloud. It changes how we think ab…