Tag: Bulletproofs

BTC.com engineer and concerned Monero user ‘Lacksfish' has outlined a troubling bias towards the use of coinbase (block reward) transactions as decoys (also known as mixins) occuring on the post-fork Monero chain, with potentially troublesome privacy implications. The Github issue outlined here points towards a concerning number of recent transactions...

In another step towards greater privacy and protocol-level advances for cryptocurrencies, a team of researchers, including Bitcoin Core developers Pieter Wuille and Greg Maxwell, have recently released a paper outlining a protocol for zero-knowledge proofs entitled “Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More”. Zero-knowledge proofs are an important...