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Board Speculation (Altcoins)
Re: [XVG] Verge - Speculation & Discussion
by
kamenrunner
on 11/08/2017, 07:04:52 UTC

kel-alt - Aug 9 - Fungibility - One Verge is capable of being substituted for another Verge. I don't understand your English reading skills. My take is exactly like the sentence right before you claim Verge is not interchangeable with itself.
I am stunned by what looks to me like a serious misreading of what you read.


Nope, incorrect...it would seem given that someone else also corrected you on mistaking economic divisibility for fungibility so either you do not understand fungbility or you don't understand what you wrote:

That is not what fungibility means. It means that one item of such currency is indivisible from another in the sense that one coin cannot be distinguished from another.

An example would be two 100 dollar bills. One was used in the transaction of illegal drugs, the other in the purchase of a chair. You cannot see just by looking at them which was used for which. [...] And then certain companies can say, we will not touch coins that were part of an illicit transaction. Even if this was not done by you, but by a different owner of that coin.
-dazbog835

However it seems dazbog835 doesn't quite understand traceability or linkability. Most coins are not fungible, they fail what I will call the 'WannaCry Test'. Let's say I have an address known to be associated with a WannaCry hacker which we will refer to as a WannaCry Address. The question then for the test is, can I tell if coin is being sent from the WannaCry address to say, an exchange (miners can also refuse to accept such transactions in their block as well by the way). BitCoin the answer is yes it fails the test as ShapeShift and other exchanges have announced they blacklisted the BitCoin WannaCry addresses.

Verge's ledger follows the same set of protocols as BitCoin, it does not hide the true sender and true receiver from anyone viewing the blockchain. Thus, if WannaCry used Verge instead, exchanges and miners would still successfully blacklist the Verge-based coin because they only need a wallet address, not an IP address.



I can tell by the verbiage of this poster who it is. He's an xmr dev. Some of you from Twitter will recognize his dead giveaways. Go away man. You got called out on your anonymity issues. Focus on fixing that instead of being a jerk.
Yep, I'm xmrscott on Reddit and I make no real attempts to hide it, but I'm not even a Monero dev. How about no? Stop shilling privacy lies on Twitter and r/Cryptocurrency and then I might consider it. The entire reason I started talking on Verge and here was because I got fed up with people telling blatant lies about the privacy of Verge and other coin. Sorry you don't like a spade being called a spade, but perhaps the Verge community should focus on fixing ledger transparency and being more private than BitCoin rather than spreading lies.

People stopped responding because it's just some troll trying to safe his coin.  Wink

Or because you know, because they can't refute facts. Tongue
I own very little XMR at any one time and use it for its privacy, not it's speculation month to month. Personally I prefer Total Market ETFs and maxing out tax advantaged accounts with backdoor Roth IRAs over CC's for investment, but to each their own. If I'm trying to do any saving, it's saving people from misinformation some Verge folk spread here, Twitter, and r/CryptoCurrency.