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Re:We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online by namrog84 on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:05PM (#33075633)
Could you mux the data of the coins?

If you have a stack of gold containing 5 uuid and mix it with another stack of 3 uuid but only support 5 uuid per stack. Then calculate proportional weightings which 5 you store.

You could probably find a way to try and wash the money but I think it could be done with right heuristics to catch a good majority of use cases but maybe not all.

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Re:We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online by cottenio on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:16PM (#33075732)
I just want to note that I only started paying attention to cryptography after I left UO and got into Bitcoin, which sounds like an NFT-grifting MMO supervillain origin story - I know - but I sure did learn a lot about merkle trees and solving interesting social problems.
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