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Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by Ar-Curunir on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:56PM (#15143362)
There is ongoing work to speed up private transactions that should make it possible to make privacy the default. At that point Zerocash will essentially be a completely private version of Bitcoin.

And Zerocash wasn't just a white paper, it was peer reviewed and analyzed by security and cryptography experts.

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Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by ringaroundthetx on Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:56PM (#15143842)
What are the current limitations of private transactions, are they slower than the normal ones?

Not sure what you are trying to say about the papers. I saw they were academic and theoretical.

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Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by Ar-Curunir on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:35PM (#15144144)
The current limitations of private transactions are essentially that they are slow and that they don't support things like multisig or timelocks. All of these limitations are being worked on.

The academic paper you refer to had both a theoretical construction and an implemented system.

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