Sub-Ether
Well-known member
Hello there.
Yesterday, I was trying to explain as best I could to a friend about how Evan has proposed to streamline the blockchain so that the transaction history in the blocks can have a shortened path.
A to B to C to D
now becomes only initial sender A to the final destination D.
I realized when I was saying this that effectively most of the transaction information is going to be scrubbed from the blockchain forever, presumably the streamlining would occur mid chain, from going live (although an entire chain re-upload and compression may be possible?)
In the above example only 33% of the information remains as there are 3 transactions in total hence 66% of the information is already missing for de-anonymization purposes.
If this is the case, then isn't the conclusion that it becomes impossible to de-anonymize much of the blockchain even before coin mixing has been begun, as the information to effectively find the middle man has been erased forever.
This, I would have thought can be the ultimate anonymization tool because how do you undo an erasure, the information no longer exists ?!
Yesterday, I was trying to explain as best I could to a friend about how Evan has proposed to streamline the blockchain so that the transaction history in the blocks can have a shortened path.
A to B to C to D
now becomes only initial sender A to the final destination D.
I realized when I was saying this that effectively most of the transaction information is going to be scrubbed from the blockchain forever, presumably the streamlining would occur mid chain, from going live (although an entire chain re-upload and compression may be possible?)
In the above example only 33% of the information remains as there are 3 transactions in total hence 66% of the information is already missing for de-anonymization purposes.
If this is the case, then isn't the conclusion that it becomes impossible to de-anonymize much of the blockchain even before coin mixing has been begun, as the information to effectively find the middle man has been erased forever.
This, I would have thought can be the ultimate anonymization tool because how do you undo an erasure, the information no longer exists ?!