ROAD MAP / TECH UPDATE
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Native Stealth Addresses
We are also implementing native stealth addresses which are a modified form of a multi signature transaction, where the receiving address is obscured. When the coins are spent, there's no way to link the UTXO to the originating transaction however complete cryptographic fungibility is retained.
There will be no complicated settings, Tor will run automatically and the stealth addresses will replace the normal addresses so from a user point of view everything appears the same but your transactions will be private.
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Hey, this is an idea i just had and excuse me if it is a stupid one(not a dev), but since transactions can be theoretically traced by the amount sent as well (since this can be a very unique number), how about implementing a feature, that…
1. …allows only fixed amounts of mojocoins to be sent ( such as 10 mojo, 100 mojo, etc., like bank notes)
2. …chops a transaction into multiple transactions consisiting of aforementioned fixed amounts, sent over a longer period of time, i.e. spreading the transation over multiple blocks and maybe even sending them to multiple adresses to prevent tracing… wait, is this mixing?
ok, nevermind…
You are right that the amounts could be traced and there are several proposes solutions to this. You mean something like CoinJoin? I am not sure about the fixed amounts because it would be difficult to make a payment of a specific sum, in fiat money you have pennies as well, right?
What we are thinking about now is Confidential Transactions (
https://leastauthority.com/blog/zerocash_and_confidential_transactions.html) where the amount and details of the transaction is only known by the two parties making the transaction but that it can be verified by the network without the network knowing the amount being sent. This is likely to come in the next version.
Once we have the Tor and stealth running, hopefully by the end of next week if all goes well, we will start working on Confidential Transactions (CT). This hasn't really been implemented before and is fairly experimental so there is a balance to be found between running a stable network and extreme privacy.
If the testing of CT works we will implement it and I believe that would make Mojo the most anonymous crypto in the market with CT, stealth and native Tor. We will then have achieved one goal, privacy and we can start work on the next layer.