Quote from: smooth on November 19, 2019, 08:26:36 AM

Quote from: Hueristic on November 19, 2019, 02:08:32 AM

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on November 19, 2019, 01:29:47 AM

This is the actual article by the researcher:

https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/breaking-mimblewimble-privacy-model-84bcd67bfe52

Well this is huge, time to warn the guys to dump.

It's not that huge. The main thing that got deflated here was the hype about MW being a strong privacy technology when in fact it has always been weak privacy with some other benefits, and sober (non-hype) review and analysis has said that all along.

Then again, I guess given the level of hype with this one (more than most, to say the least), deflating that could indeed be seen as somewhat huge.

The cut-throughs don't successfully eliminate data, because surely some entity logs all the transactions in real time and stores the data. And there you have it, a full blockchain.