Quote from: xibeijan on September 10, 2018, 08:57:37 PM

Quote from: MagicSmoker on September 10, 2018, 07:35:39 PM

Quote from: xibeijan on September 10, 2018, 06:54:10 AM

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Are bullet proofs only a faster way to do ring signatures (which is amazing!) or is there something else additionally?
Impressed with your DAG implementation to eliminate forking and speed up block times. Why is it still 2 minutes until tx finality if you've eliminated soft forking?
How do you resolve conflicting txs in the DAG? What rule do you use? Do you put a total order on the blocks and take the first tx? I gues that would not work. Or do you simply revoke any tx that has a double spend, in which case that would explain why there's no finality for 2 minutes?
How many uncles are allowed and for how long can another block be added?
Does Dero have RingCT?
Do you have plans for a POS of BTF consensus or will it always be POW?

Excellent work again and thanks for answering any of these questions.

Good questions which I have forwarded on to the main dev and he says he'll try to respond by tomorrow. In the meantime, I can give a more layman-level explanation for some of them.

* Bulletproofs are an alternative form of zero-knowledge proof that doesn't require establishing a trusted node setup ahead of time, but which take more time/computational effort to perform. They also will make it possible to implement private smart contracts.

Thanks for your excellent reply. This one point sounds like a big advance because it's a trustless setup.

Ans 1: Already answered by @MagicSmoker.
Ans 2: Dero DAG like other chains requires block propgation time to propgate blocks. Block propgation times AVGs 99.99% ~15 seconds.
Ans 3: By client protocol.
Ans 4: 2 uncles(Dero side blocks if you are referring to them only) are allowed depending on NW.
Ans 5: RingCT is core part of Dero architecture.
Ans 6: We are still searching better algo than POW.

Thanks for your time and questions.