On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 4:36 AM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/20/2017 3:27 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> >> Bitcoin is nowhere near private or anonymous. >> Genuine cryptographic privacy needed for that, such as found in >> the Zerocash (Zcash) family of coins, > > > We already are facing big trouble over scaling. Zerocash is too damned > slow.
https://z.cash/ shows near term updates coming that significantly raise performance. > I suggest that rather we should employ the coinjoin algorithm. https://reddit.com/r/joinmarket There are surely other mix implementations you could list, including mix coins such as Monero, or simple swap services such as helix / fogcore. > Pretty soon, the state is going to declare some bitcoins to be "blood > bitcoins". Already happens, search: chainanalysis > Coinjoin, like zerocash, makes > equality of bitcoins a fact of mathematics, rather than a policy of humans. Which is why all of swap / mix / privacy methods may be useful in certain use cases. However as before in the Zcash thread, in general, a well studied reviewed and used true cryptoprivacy coin may seem to be most and long term resistant to analysis, usage error, liquidity / anonymity set, unlike swaps / mixes. > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus Needless, untrustable, bloating, assertion.
