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Same goes for TLS - there's ample evidence that TLS data is being suctioned up at scale and stored for eventual decryption.

Anyone can be a Monero contributor and can work on the hard fork.

Why would you assume all miners accept the hard fork? They don't have to.

Everything is open and transparent, so a "leak" is absolutely guaranteed. It appears the plan is to merely make some sort of change every 6 months such that an ASIC manufacturer ha…

There are no "insiders" with Monero. Just like many FOSS projects, everything is developed in the open and entirely transparently. The first time anyone has visibility on PoW chang…

That's an unfair statement. The Monero Research Lab has several full-time PhD'd cryptographers who are paid for by crowdfunding from the community, just none who are specialised en…

But they DO need privacy, they're more at risk of targeted theft than regular users. ZCash fails at this by making it impossibly hard for an exchange to allow z-address withdrawals…

I’m a massive MW proponent but the privacy claims are very weak compared to ZCash and Monero. What MW does well is scalability.

No it isn't, the paper is a re-hash of the work that the Monero team themselves put out in September 2014 and in January 2015. https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0001.pdf https://l…

You couldn't buy drugs with Monero until the end of 2016 when, coincidentally, RingCT was hard-forked in and this paper's entire basis for existence disappeared. Also two of the Mo…

I doubt it; they stop serving data after the beginning of 2017 precisely because RingCT breaks their algorithms.

> The sloppiness of this code is really shocking, "when the Monero client chooses mixins, it does not take into account whether the potential mixins have already been spent." That'…

> I haven't seen any evidence of 'academic dishonesty'. How about one of the authors Tweeting out that 80% of the Monero transactions have been deanonymized ( https://twitter.com/r…

What do you mean "if Monero fixes everything"? They already fixed everything, which is why the paper shows the decline in their ability to deduce things, and the paper COMPLETELY S…

As does Monero's RingCT, which is based on Blockstream's Confidential Transactions. Obviously there are implementation risks, but in terms of cryptographic risk you are correct.

You specifically said Bitcoin would get everything Monero has, so https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/special-pleading

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem Name the lies I've told, please, and be specific.

1. You're right, I would be surprised, because so many people have spoken out against ZCash - the compromises it makes are simply too great compared to the limited benefit over oth…

By "the Monero guys" you mean the broader technical community that understand security software design? Also, obscure origins are irrelevant when the technology is solid. Take the …

1. Given that not even Zooko understands zk-SNARKs, the ZCash name is trademarked, and they've shut down their Reddit and IRC channels, there is no chance of a community of compete…

Or maybe we're just not buying into cryptography being pushed by a company that has a marketing department.

Ummmm no. 1. It's controlled by a corporation with VC backing. This leads to a single point of failure, a ton of disincentives, and makes it easier for an attacker. 2. The cryptogr…

No he doesn't. Go read what he wrote again. Private transactions (one z-addr sends to another z-addr) were not being mined.

He's 100% correct, as is the GitHub issue. Transactions that were z-addr -> t-addr, or vice versa, were being mined, but private transactions (my z-addr pays your z-addr) were not.…

You know that it's forked from Bitcoin right? What portion of the tax is being given to the Bitcoin developers?