I'd like to call an end to the bitcoin e-cash discussion for now -- a
lot of discussion is happening that would be better accomplished by
people writing papers at the moment rather than rehashing things back
and forth. Maybe later on when Satoshi (or someone else) writes
something detailed up and
Nicolas Williams wrote:
> How do identities help? It's supposed to be anonymous
> cash, right?
Actually no. It is however supposed to be pseudonymous,
so dinging someone's reputation still does not help
much.
> And say you identify a double spender after the fact,
> then what? Perhaps you're
Ray Dillinger wrote:
> Okay I'm going to summarize this protocol as I
> understand it.
>
> I'm filling in some operational details that aren't in
> the paper by supplementing what you wrote with what my
> own "design sense" tells me are critical missing bits
> or "obvious" methodologies for us
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:04:21PM -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 12:43 +0800, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:
> > > If someone double spends, then the transaction record
> > > can be unblinded revealing the identity of the cheater.
> >
> > Identities are not used, and there's no re