This amounts to little more than trivial obfuscation in practice.
The UTXO "privacy" model of Bitcoin has never worked out, and more modern cryptocurrencies aren‘t even attempting anything like it anymore.
The UTXO "privacy" model of Bitcoin has never worked out, and more modern cryptocurrencies aren‘t even attempting anything like it anymore.
On Bitcoin SV, basically a high-scale version of Bitcoin, there are today several wallets taking smarter approaches to privacy. HandCash's Output Bills [1] for example splits outputs into fixed denominations like cash, and Paymail [2] is a email-like addressing scheme to avoid sharing addresses publicly. I'm sure more approaches will be tried too now that wallets have some freedom to experiment.
[1] https://handcash.medium.com/introducing-output-bills-a-coin-...
- Cryptofights alone did 600k transactions yesterday https://bsvdata.com
- Hundreds of independent games, social media, wallets, exchanges, tokens, artwork, hackathons in general creativity. https://metastore.app
- Solid user and developer experiences. https://handcash.io, https://moneybutton.com, https://cryptofights.io, https://run.network
- Thousands globally who fly to attend conferences, before covid at least https://coingeekconference.com/en/past-conferences/london-fe...
- Advanced research going into scaling Bitcoin. 50K tps demonstrated publicly, more privately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3As9-9uSXs&t=224s
- Active community, spread across Slack, Youtube, Streamanity, Twitter, Telegram, and others. Tons of different personalities and beliefs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAPRWOwam20
Clearly dead though.
Also
>The information is out there for people to make up their own mind.
if this is intended to counter claims of being part of a QAnon-like cult...
Similarly, "Q Clearance Patriot"'s predictive ability and insight was dead on arrival in my mind, even if in practice it clearly isn't in the minds of many. So I really meant "should-be-dead on arrival".
Again, it may very well be true that it has legitimate technical merit. But that's orthogonal to the issue of its creator being a notorious, cult-leader-like serial fraudster. That doesn't mean the protocol specification should necessarily be discarded, but it definitely means that particular network and project should be.