@Nebuchadnezzar_II Re: dual clean/unclean fungability issues. I doubt that a split in price comes between "clean" and "unclean" units of a by-default private asset. So...

@bulletbill22 You cannot continually monitor the balances, expenditures, and receipts of wallets using the existing features. Why does this hypothetical Monero-ending ...

On another note you seem to misunderstand the argument that optional privacy is harmful to everybody, not just those who give up their keys. At a technical level, this...

Do you understand that key image proofs + proof of reserves can demonstrate the balance of a wallet but cannot guarentee that that balance was not spent on the followi...

At the moment for a wallet to be fully auditable in real time requires the auditor to hold private spend keys. Wrong. See above. In comparison, giving out OVK might re...

Right now, there is no way to know how much money you have in your wallet (you can provide some information, you cannot provide a view-key that the viewer is able to m...

And OVKs existing as an option changes this situation how exactly? Note that the ability to prove incoming enotes, and the locations where they were spent already exis...

As soon as it becomes the default (or legally mandated) to transact with your view-key, the default is transparent and the option is privacy. You're just too myopic to...

@Nebuchadnezzar_II If CEX's tried that with IVK then it would be trivially easy to smugle non complaint funds into and out of their 'transparent pool' without causing ...

Monero with optional privacy (frame it as optional transparency, if you prefer) is just zcash. Monero has optional privacy right now, whether you understand it or not....

Mimblewimble uses Pederson commitments, same as Monero, to hide e-note amounts. So Grin is susceptible to a lot of the same "hidden inflation" bugs as Monero. https://...

@Yuzuki An even simpler scenario if the market site itself is compromised: Merchant receives XMR through darknet market offer and XMR is deposited into darknet-managed...

If users register a pubkey when reserving a name, you could enable transfers by requiring a signature from the currently-held pubkey. This will almost certainly enable...

This blog post goes over a lot of interesting developments that are happening with enabling Bitcoin connectivity off of the internet: https://d-central.tech/bitcoin-be...

You also have to consider that it takes like 25x the power of my current laptop. Mining with this would be like running a large dryer 24/7. In the hash-per-joule metri...

Oh yeah X9 specific? Not that I know of. I'd imagine it would be pretty hard to get since they're never going to be released publicly. Closest you could realistically ...

https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/blob/master/doc/design_v2.md#4-performance-impact

FWIW that 10 years of chain history is mostly single-output coinbase transactions. The whole testnet blockchain should still be ~9 GB.

@cipherchan That's what I'm trying to say though: hashrate != efficiency. In that comment you linked, notice the column for "relative work / joule" and that's it's 30%...

The RandomX v2 update doesn't "reduce mining efficiency". And even if it did, that doesn't mean you make less money... There's a fixed reward for mining a block, and s...