80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized

Re:80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized by hackinthebochs on Monday April 17, 2017 @11:48PM (#14136307)

>They are willing to grease the wheels to success while Monero grows organically instead.

I'm curious about this. How is this at all a virtue? If you're not willing to hustle to ensure the success of your project, why should anyone make a bet on it? We've seen many times how the technically superior product loses out against the better positioned competitor. So what makes this different?

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Re:80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized by aminorex on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:29AM (#14136490)

Honesty matters in money. Without it, you pay frictions for graft. Liquidity vehicles abhor frictions.

Zcash has been crashing for a long while, and stealing 20% of the economy outright is a large part of the reason. Yes, it motivates the miscreants, but that does not imply success.

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Re:80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized by Nevermark on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:46PM (#14141061)

Honesty matters very much.

Marketing also matters.

So honest marketing matters very much. The point of marketing should be to attract attention to useful features of Monero and increase its usefulness by promoting its adoption by third parties that add value (such as wallets, exchanges, merchants, etc.)

The seemingly principled idea that focusing only on tech, and not strategic promotion and collaboration, has resulting in the under adoption or stagnation of many promising technologies.

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