On 30 Apr 2015, at 11:57, Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you want anonymous transactions then you want a blind-signing based > currency like Taler > > Surely you jest... > > From http://www.taler.net/governments > > " Taler is an electronic payment system that was built with the goal of > supporting taxation. With Taler, the receiver of any form of payment is > known, and the payment information comes attached with details about what > the payment was made for. Thus, governments can use this data to tax > buisnesses and individuals based on their income, making tax evasion and > black markets less viable."
In an RSA blind-singing based currency, like Taler, a mint who issues the currency can track how much money a particular account sends or receives, but cannot discover the actual transfers. And deanonymizing one transaction does not impact a user's anonymity overall. In Bitcoin, et al., everyone can track everything about every account at any point in the past. Accounts are pseudonymous and creation is distributed, but deanonymizing a single transaction destroys the anonymity of the whole account. And advanced attacks can be brought to bear on identifying sock puppet accounts. Yes, RSA blind-sinigng assumes the buyer remains anonymous to the seller, like say buying server time for an anonymous website. Anytime you deanonymize yourself to a seller, like by buying physical goods, then you’re trusting them, this goes for Bitcoin too. In fact, deanonymizing yourself like this is much worse in Bitcoin. Jeff -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
