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What I’m most interested in is: are there proof-of-concepts or any work done on making Bitcoin actually more private and untraceable? Does Lightning suffer from the same traceability issues?

There is a constant flux of papers and prototypes that are not mentioned anywhere (least of all this website) unless you delve deep into technical forums (such as delvingbitcoin) - which I never find the time to stay abreast of.



Everyone's probably keeping their heads down after Samourai.


Still no answer 7 hours later.

It is amazing to see that there is no overlap of communities between such a large tech forum, and open-source tech work being done on cryptocurrencies, so strong is the anti-crypto bias in here. I wonder what other tech blind spots does HN have.


1) they either have ways, which would be incredibly valuable and worth keeping secret

or

2) there isn't a way or its not worthwhile; just use Monero instead, dawg.

"why hasn't anyone made, like, a secure Telnet?" because they created SSH and VPNs, same idea.


HN is pretty strongly focused along a particular dev culture that has at best a deep distrust of and at worst disdain for finance. I appreciate that, as a long time poster, you're posting this but I personally have given up that HN will ever become anything more than r/hackerculture.




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