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Re:The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Monero by anonytrary on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:59AM (#16059328)
> traders mostly don't need to be anonymous.

Not sure I follow -- you suggest exchanges should send out who placed an order in the book, in addition to the price, amount, order type, etc.? Wouldn't that be a massive breach of privacy? Or are you not talking about exchanges?

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Re:The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Monero by shrimpx on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:28AM (#16059644)
I think GP is saying that many/most people just trade Monero/Zcash for profit, they don't actually care about concealing their own transactions.
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Re:The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Monero by plasticmachine on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:50AM (#16062585)
But they DO need privacy, they're more at risk of targeted theft than regular users. ZCash fails at this by making it impossibly hard for an exchange to allow z-address withdrawals, and impossibly hard for a mobile app / hardware wallet to support them, which means large holders withdrawing from an exchange are painting a target on their back.
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