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Re:Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cry... by atweiden on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:42PM (#26720362)
> All calculations of this sort are fatally flawed because they assume all the coins in one address are owned by one person.

But don’t the calculations equally assume coins spread out across multiple addresses aren’t owned by one person, when in fact they often are?

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Re:Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cry... by modeless on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:15AM (#26720535)
Sure but that doesn't offset the first problem, it's just an additional problem. In fact I believe it could move the fake Gini coefficient in either direction depending on how each person splits their money.
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