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Re:80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized by sebleon on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:36AM (#14136724)
Regardless of the veracity of your allegations, this paper is a sound empirical analysis. It's a solid piece of research, and it's not surprising that folks from a competing blockchain would be the first to unveil real problems with Monero.
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Re:80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized by plasticmachine on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:23PM (#14142555)
No it isn't, the paper is a re-hash of the work that the Monero team themselves put out in September 2014 and in January 2015.

https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0001.pdf

https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf

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Re:80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized by polarized on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:34AM (#14137445)
> the first to unveil real problems with Monero

It is not. The problems were previously identified and documented by Monero developers, and the paper acknowledges this.

The paper attaches specific historical numbers to those problems, which is good, though one can still quibble about how the numbers are aggregated and presented.

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