December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
564 pages
17h 34m
English
Solutions that respect human limitations, with regard to knowledge or moral character, are more ethical and more robust than the sort of hand-wave everything will be fine attitude that pervades the tech world. It seems far safer to acknowledge that, although some people will abuse the anonymity, cash and barter transactions have taken place for thousands of years without any sort of central authority regulating them, and people often have legitimate reasons for wanting privacy or even anonymity.
Zero-knowledge cryptosystems may offer a solution in some use cases—cryptocurrencies such as Zcash and Monero more truly resemble cash. Bitcoin and (presently) Ethereum do not offer the sort ...
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