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[Cryptography] Bitcoin is a disaster.

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[Cryptography] Bitcoin is a disaster. Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net Mon Dec 28 20:07:03 EST 2020 Previous message (by thread): [Cryptography] Schneier on US security failure Next message (by thread): [Cryptography] Bitcoin is a disaster. Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Okay, this may be just my depressive side talking, or it may be the stress of the last year just boiling over. But I'm inclined to think it's not and it isn't. It is my opinion that Bitcoin is a failure. Worse than that, it's a disaster. The pseudonymity of coins being owned by the bearer of some cryptographic key is a failure; People have been eavesdropping and aggressively analyzing the block chain from day 1. And the block chain will always be there, it will always be public, and it will always be subject to further analysis. And we are learning that analysis of that record is sufficient to destroy any pretense of anonymity or pseudonymity. The scarcity of block chain spa

[Cryptography] Bitcoin is a disaster. [Cryptography] Bitcoin is a disaster. Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net Mon Dec 28 20:07:03 EST 2020 Previous message (by thread): [Cryptography] Schneier on US security failure Next message (by thread): [Cryptography] Bitcoin is a disaster. Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Okay, this may be just my depressive side talking, or it may be the stress of the last year just boiling over. But I'm inclined to think it's not and it isn't. It is my opinion that Bitcoin is a failure. Worse than that, it's a disaster. The pseudonymity of c

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