Can anonymous technologies (zero knowledge proofs or darkcoin's mixing or monero's ring signatures) be implemented usefully in bitcoin sidechains? Or would that compromise the anonymity? Do they need their own blockchain?
they can, but that would reduce the anonymity set and everybody could see that you've explicity put some coins in that anon chain and got them back - probably the same amounts.
I understand that the monero community believes ring signatures to be the best form of anonymity technology at present. Will will be able to overcome the problems of blockchain bloat? Does boolberrys' trimming and discarding of information to deal with this ruin the anonymity?
blockchain bloat is not a problem with monero... its a bigger than btc, yes. but dont forget how much a terybyte drive costs these days... and many households have 100mbit inernet connection.
as smooth said bbr trimming has its own problem. if i did understand him right its no longer possible for them to track every coin back to its mined block.
personally i think zerocoin/zerocash will have the best anonymity: if they ever manage to get it to work in a trustless and bloatless way (oh boy THEY have a bloated chain).
but atm cn-coins seems to be the only available anonymity coins
I also dislike the current website's design haha. This currency is all about the technology and has no marketing/hype; leading to a higher chance of being undervalued.
one of the main reasons i like monero...
its just not finished yet and there is a big opportunity as soon as marketing starts... i'd say thats what most speculators want...
Keep up the good work guys.
also from me
