Re: [Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses

2014-03-06 Thread Dan Carter
I think stealth addresses combined with zk-snarks would obviate the need for CoinJoin. zk-snarks could be used to hide the coin's value and stealth addresses could be used to hide the recipient for payments and even mined coins. More info on zero-knowledge snarks:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Decentralized digital asset exchange with honest pricing and market depth

2014-02-12 Thread Dan Carter
I'm not sure how well this would work. Sure it would provide honest historical pricing, but those who wait for publication confirmation may be at a disadvantage -- to get the best deal possible Bob would connect to as many nodes as he could, examine the stream of unconfirmed asks coming in and