Ian Miers's presentation is 🔥! “If you're a government and you think you don't want privacy technology to be out there think again. I don't care who you are, there are other government's that are out to get you.”
“You need privacy *from people who send you payments* and *from people that you send payments to*.”
This presentation is so good.
This presentation is so good.
“Repeated interaction with a sender or recipient is dangerous. (And this is where most privacy coins break.)”
“The technique isn't the solution. We need to evaluate these things based on what they actually do.”
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“We're telling you that you're standing naked in Times Square. Most cryptocurrencies are handing you a bandaid.”
“This is probably the hardest thing that we have left is getting good UX and getting it fully functional on mobile.”
“These decoy-based approaches just don't work.”
First question is about Mimblewimble/Grin. Question is, does it provide effective privacy. Ian answers: not really.
Next question is can we add privacy to all blockchains, e.g. Ethereum. Ian's answer: it's possible, but it turns out to be much harder then he would have thought. He again emphasizes the importance of UX and mobile. May not happen.
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