Re: [Bitcoin-development] Privacy and blockchain data

2014-01-10 Thread Peter Todd
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 10:34:46PM -0800, Jeremy Spilman wrote: 2) Common prefixes: Generate addresses such that for a given wallet they all share a fixed prefix. The length of that prefix determines the anonymity set and associated privacy/bandwidth tradeoff, which remainds a fixed

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Privacy and blockchain data

2014-01-07 Thread Jeremy Spilman
2) Common prefixes: Generate addresses such that for a given wallet they all share a fixed prefix. The length of that prefix determines the anonymity set and associated privacy/bandwidth tradeoff, which remainds a fixed ratio of all transactions for the life of the wallet.

[Bitcoin-development] Privacy and blockchain data

2014-01-05 Thread Peter Todd
* Summary CoinJoin, CoinSwap and similar technologies improve your privacy by making sure information about what coins you own doesn't make it into the blockchain, but syncing your wallet is a privacy risk in itself and can easily leak that same info. Here's an overview of that risk, how to