Re:Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain
by rdl on Friday January 04, 2019 @12:07AM
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My understanding, which may be incorrect:
The "anonymity set" of a monero transaction is just the number of fake values created in it. This is a fairly small number. If you're willing to put the effort in, you can trace all of them.
For MW, the the anonymity set is either "all users of system" (if you don't believe in a global network observer) or "all users of system who exchanged parameters in a given set".
Re:Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain
by AndrewBissell on Friday January 04, 2019 @12:54AM
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In addition to this, Monero has the same "linearly growing blockchain history" scaling problem that bitcoin does. fluffypony has floated the idea of a mimblewimble sidechain for Monero.
Re:Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain
by qertoip on Friday January 04, 2019 @03:13AM
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Grin is less private but more scalable.
Re:Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain
by koheripbal on Friday January 04, 2019 @12:12PM
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Grin is different private. I wouldn't say it's less private. The fact that you can submit a truncated set of transactions, can in some cases provide far more privacy than Monero.
Monero uses ring signatures, ring confidential transactions, and stealth addresses to obfuscate the origins, amounts, and destinations of all transactions.