Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Timelocked address fidelity bond for BIP39 seeds

2022-05-15 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Chris, > Yes linking the two identities (joinmarket maker and teleport maker) > together slightly degrades privacy, but that has to be balanced against > the privacy loss of leaving both systems open to sybil attacks. Without > fidelity bonds the two systems can be sybil attacked j

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Timelocked address fidelity bond for BIP39 seeds

2022-05-15 Thread Chris Belcher via bitcoin-dev
Hello ZmnSCPxj, You say "A taker can be a surveillor as well", as though that's simple and easy to achieve. In reality there are many defenses against that. Defending against the attack of a malicious taker aborting at the last step is the purpose of the podle commitments which joinmarket has