Apologies for my previous attempt at relaying the message- it looks like
the emails got mangled on the archive. I am re-sending them in this
combined email with what I hope will be better formatting. Again this is
from some nym that had trouble posting to this mailing list; I didn't see
any emails
On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 02:47:29PM -0600, Anon via Bryan Bishop via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
> 1) Is Taproot actually more private than bare MAST and Schnorr separately?
Yes.
> What are the actual anonymity set benefits compared to doing the separately?
When schnorr and taproot are done together, all
I agree with most of the comments so far, but the group brings up an often
overlooked point with respect to the privacy benefits of taproot. In the extreme
case, if there would be no policies that have both a key and a script spend
path, then taproot does not improve anonymity sets compared to the
Dave,
I think your point:
*When schnorr and taproot are done together, all of the following
transaction types can be part of the same set: - single-sig spends
(similar to current use of P2PKH and P2WPKH) - n-of-n spends with musig
or equivalent (similar to current use of
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:07:15PM -0800, Jeremy via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Is the same if Schnorr + Merkle Branch without Taproot optimization, unless
> I'm missing something in one of the cases?
That's fair. However, it's only true if everyone constructs their
merkle tree in the same way, with a
On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 14:37, David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:07:15PM -0800, Jeremy via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > Is the same if Schnorr + Merkle Branch without Taproot optimization, unless
> > I'm missing something in one of the cases?
>
> That's fair. However
