Quote from: bbc.reporter on September 01, 2016, 06:04:22 AM

Quote from: Dafar on September 01, 2016, 05:07:57 AM

Short term price speculation? I'm mixed about getting in... was sure it was gonna drop more but now not so much

25% is pretty impressive, and if I was buying something at the DNM I'd feel safer using xmr. The people who use DNMs have no problem acquiring xmr

What about the problem of some people about the "view key" feature. They said that a court order could make you show your transactions in the clear thru view key. Is this true? Why is that feature even there? It might become Monero's weakness.

Well, assuming that's true in some jurisdiction then if, hypothetically, Monero had been designed without a view key - so that the only way you could view your transactions was with your private key - then in that scenario a court could almost certainly just order you to release the private key instead. Better to give the court just the ability to view, rather than the ability to view and spend.

It's much the same as (one of) the more general arguments for not using the same keys for encrypting and signing messages. In many jurisdictions courts can demand keys to decrypt your messages, but there's rarely if ever a valid reason for them to demand to be able to forge your signature on messages. So again, it's useful to be able to give them just the key they need, rather than the only way of complying with the order being to give them far more than they need.

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