summary of the missive? I don't want to listen to some people drone on and on unprofessionally about some mundane esoteric mess
I need a succinct outline. don't like surprises.
I need a succinct outline. don't like surprises.
I like Ginger and Fluffy's chemistry, but anyway....
Nice new missives.
Cliffnotes:
- NEW WEBSITE! www.getmonero.org (monero.cc redirects to it)
- MRL-0004 (Improving Obfuscation in the Cryptonote Protocol) (http://lab.monero.cc/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf):
Mixins: low-mixins can result in a cascading reduction in privacy. XMR will be moving very soon to a minimum mixin of 2. the reason mixin-0 is allowed in the first place is because mixin-0 is useful for sending dust. the solution in MRL-0004 is for mixin-0 to be allowed under special circumstances. these circumstances include a) when the transaction is dust, and b) when the transaction won't create new dust. thus, these specially-allowed transactions will gradually remove dust from the system. eventually the minimum mixin will be mixin-4. increasing the minimum mixin is considered critical in improving cryptonote.
temporal-association: in XMR, there's an age-based association problem where observers can tell how old coins are when they're spent due to the way that outputs are chosen for mixing. ideally, it should not be easy to do this. people might panic if very old coins are moving, as would be the case if satoshi started moving coins from 2009. this is not critical but being worked on as well.
- design and research goals: http://getmonero.org/design-goals/
not a timeline, but it shows what must come before what.
Cliffnotes:
- NEW WEBSITE! www.getmonero.org (monero.cc redirects to it)
- MRL-0004 (Improving Obfuscation in the Cryptonote Protocol) (http://lab.monero.cc/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf):
Mixins: low-mixins can result in a cascading reduction in privacy. XMR will be moving very soon to a minimum mixin of 2. the reason mixin-0 is allowed in the first place is because mixin-0 is useful for sending dust. the solution in MRL-0004 is for mixin-0 to be allowed under special circumstances. these circumstances include a) when the transaction is dust, and b) when the transaction won't create new dust. thus, these specially-allowed transactions will gradually remove dust from the system. eventually the minimum mixin will be mixin-4. increasing the minimum mixin is considered critical in improving cryptonote.
temporal-association: in XMR, there's an age-based association problem where observers can tell how old coins are when they're spent due to the way that outputs are chosen for mixing. ideally, it should not be easy to do this. people might panic if very old coins are moving, as would be the case if satoshi started moving coins from 2009. this is not critical but being worked on as well.
- design and research goals: http://getmonero.org/design-goals/
not a timeline, but it shows what must come before what.
So you can't be bothered to peruse ONE PAGE and see the thing you are asking for. You're like my dad yelling for the hat that's on his head. "Where's my hat! ARRRRR!"
I saw that, is that really it? I needed to confirm that the price is going up over this inconsequential stuff?
) However this problem is nicely fixed by the on-page summary, and, as I said, just a personal opinion on the format. Overall, great!
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