Quote from: franky1 on August 07, 2016, 07:04:44 PM

andytoshi,

the "paper" actually says

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Then, to
validate the entire chain, users only need to know when money is entered into
the system (new money in each block as in Bitcoin or Monero or peg-ins for
sidechains [6]) and final unspent outputs, the rest can be removed and forgotten.

which is an act of pruning / removing the history..
so my premiss was that part of the paper was not just about mixing coins, not just about hiding values but also pruning/removing the transaction history.

which. has risks..

Can you describe these risks?

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secondly even if pruning didnt happen, which you suggested the paper never suggests.. my premiss is that you can still analyze the transactions even without knowing the values just by tracking who pays who due to the history remaining.. meaning the only way to be "near complete" anonymity would be to remove the history.

which, has risks..

I did not suggest that "pruning doesn't happen" in the paper. Again, can you describe these risks? What do you mean by "who pays who"? Ignoring the question of associating people to outputs when all outputs are uniformly random curvepoints, how does one even associate the outputs with the inputs?

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no bitcoin code would solve removing links of personal info to a bitcoin address. especially when people publicly hand out personal info freely
EG without any real work, no coercion, no begging or bribing of information, i found this.
1Andrew5Jgks6cziRiqgWShg1nr1igky1r
Andrew Sydney Poelstra
rasied in canada but then went to texas for a bit

That's correct, this is me. But MW does not support using static addresses like this, it is required for people to send me money that I interact with them, and then why would I use the same keys if I have to interact anyway?

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and dont get me started on the concept of relay nodes tweaking the transaction to add in their own address to take a fee.. that in itself can send tx's looping through a collection of nodes owned by one person to add in many addresses to siphon off funds from the transaction itself, or spark a civil war of nodes fighting each other to be the last in line before a mining pool accepts it to ensure other relay nodes dont tweak one address out to replace it with their own..

Why would they loop through themselves? If they want to take all the fee they can do that in one shot. Then good luck for them trying to relay the transaction further with no remaining fee.