Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital Currencies Combined

Re:Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital C... by kompiuter on Thursday November 23, 2017 @02:05PM (#15767144)

Forgive my ignorance but how does mixing achieve privacy? The blockchain is public, so you should be able to trace back ownership regardless of the number of addresses it's been through?

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Re:Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital C... by lm2s on Thursday November 23, 2017 @02:08PM (#15767168)

If X people send to an address and then the amount is distributed by a different number of outputs (for example 3 addresses for 1 person, 4 for another, etc) you can see how it can make hard to track down who has what.

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Re:Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital C... by srtjstjsj on Thursday November 23, 2017 @05:14PM (#15768164)

Hard for people, but simple for a computer program to get a high-confidence guess as to which addresses are co-owned

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Re:Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital C... by kompiuter on Thursday November 23, 2017 @02:48PM (#15767403)

I see, thank you for clarifying.

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