For his master project/thesis, Jesper Borgstrup (https://jesper.borgstrup.dk/about/) worked on integrating ring-signatures to bitmessage to support a decentralized and trustless e-voting system. The thesis is titled "Private, trustless and decentralized message consensus and voting schemes" (https://jesper.borgstrup.dk/2015/01/masters-thesis-private-trustless-decentralized-message-consensus-voting-schemes/) and can be of interest.

In particular he based his work on the 2004 paper you mentioned by Liu, Wei & Wong. He translated it to elliptic curves and implemented in Python to integrate it in PyBitmessage.

We discovered cryptonote later on and were actually surprised to see that they based their work on "traceable ring signature" to make it linkable without mentioning this prior work.

-- NP

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Salut,

J'ai découvert Bitcoin en 2010 en suivant un tweet de @zooko. J'ai lu l'article et j'ai tout de suite accroché. Je suis régulièrement les évolutions autour de Bitcoin et j'utilise Bitcoin si possible.

Je suis resté cependant assez discret, et je n'ai pas non plus lancé d'activité autour de Bitcoin.

D'ailleur si un modérateur pouvait me marqué comme non-newbie ça serait sympa.

One more newbie post.

I am not a spammer. What about having a captcha when you are still a newbie?

Hi. I use and know bitcoin since late 2010.

I don't speak in forums usually, hence this newbie restriction applying...

Not only it depends on the meaning of fairness, but it also raises a bunch of questions/challenges on its own:

* How would you implement such a distribution?
* How to claim, through Internet that you are a different person?
* How to do this universally?
* How to avoid identity thief or coercing people to claim their share for you?

People verifying the authenticity of other people therefor get a form of control/power on them. This is against one of the core principle behind Bitcoin, namely decentralization.

While this is a meaningful restriction, I think it should be made clearer to newbies why they cannot posts. The lack of reply box is not intuitive.