I can see the concerns regarding transparency. I am torn here.
The thing about public addresses is, that it doesn't prevent key-theft. It just would be exposed quicker. However if the coin owners check their pub-keys themselves, a key theft would be detected quite easily, too, right?
The original discussion was based on the "dusting"-problematic that all coins with public addresses can suffer from and how to possibly prevent it from happening.
Topic: [POLL] Pros and Cons of open publickey lists of collectibles - page 2. (Read 442 times)
I list all the public addresses in my paper wallet releases, both for complete transparency, and in case someone is interested in picking a wallet based on the public address generated. With online lookup utilities to back up the lists in case you lose your pub key card, anyone can search anyways, so I'd rather have them out there and known as opposed to potentially being faked with bunk addresses.
I mean it’s all to do with transparency. I’m all for it, I’m new to the collectibles world , but in my short time, I’m getting clued up quickly ! I’d much rather know when the coin was funded and from which addressees - hopefully associated with the maker.
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Load + sell a bunch of coins, keep the addresses private... steal funds.. no one can verify... great idea.
Imho the pub keys must be available to the buyer. This should be enough to verify, no? 
Edit: undecided.
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No...dont expose my keys.
I had some discussions with Krogoth and a few other collectors about this topic.
There is only one benefit I see an open list has: It will be easily verifiable whether a whole batch of keys got compromised.
Is this worth exposing the public keys to everyone?
Let us know your opinion regarding publicly available (public)-key lists.
There is only one benefit I see an open list has: It will be easily verifiable whether a whole batch of keys got compromised.
Is this worth exposing the public keys to everyone?
Let us know your opinion regarding publicly available (public)-key lists.
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