> Perhaps it could be improved by cleaning up dust from any address by default > (not just ones already included in the tx), with the option for the user to > disable that behavior. After all, anonymity was never a core feature of the > network
It's cool that Armory already does this. I never had time to implement good coin selection for bitcoinj :( Just a couple of points: as this is primarily a side effect of SatoshiDice, and a successful payment protocol will stop them doing it, code put in place to do temporary cleanup now probably won't seriously affect peoples privacy over the long term. Most people aren't going to end up with lots of tiny outputs. Second thing, it's best to carefully separate "anonymity" from "privacy". Privacy is supposed to be a feature of the system (it says so in Satoshis paper) because people demand it. If I loan a tenner to my friend and he is able to find out what I earned last month, then that trade was neither anonymous nor private. In this case I want privacy but anonymity isn't useful. Mixing up anonymity with privacy is not only a public relations problem, but can lead to confusion from users when they, eg, try and buy Bitcoins from an exchange and are asked to provide ID proofs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: BUILD Helping you discover the best ways to construct your parallel projects. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
