we are making stealth addresses and coinjoin which brings anonymity to
bitcoin. the source code is open and we make lots of documentation for
any questions people have: https://wiki.unsystem.net/
we are trying to foster a development community rather than creating a
company hiring developers (although i would love to have devs paid for
work, and we are seeking to provide open spaces for people - not just devs).

On 17/02/14 06:17, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:32:57AM -0600, Taylor Gerring wrote:
>> I’m inclined to agree, as this was discussed on multiple occasions and seems to fix a lot of the address re-use problems. With hot topics like “coin validation”, I think it’s important to highlight the privacy that generating fresh addresses from public extended keys grants us.
>>
>
> Assumptions: (please bear with me)
>
> 1) Complexity favors government-level attackers
>
> 2) Most users value free stuff over privacy/anonymity/etc
>
> 3) address-re-use DECREASES complexity, and aids debugging and transparency
>

> 4) address-re-use avoidance, coinjoin, etc, etc are a combinatorial complexity
>    explosiof of epic proportions, with an infinite attack surface

>
>
> Conclusion: You are doing it wrong, and making it trivial for government
> attackers to subvert the *design process*, and trying to make it impossible
> for me to perform the kind of public and transparent network forensics
> that might expose sophisticated attacks.[1]
>
> [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/catcoins/comments/1y2eg6/aye_maties_raise_the_jib_and_ready_the_checkpoint/
> (scroll down to 'insurance policy')
>
> When a users's Darkwallet is hacked, and the money anonymously spread around,
> who do you think is going to get it? The 'good guys', or the guys who are
> anonymously buying control of the system and propganda machines?
>
> Whatever I do, the bad guy is going to be able to outspend me, outsmart,
> and outforce me.
>
> I can do one thing better. Keep it simple, and easy to explain to both
> persons and computers.
>
> Simple is this: Code is speech, money is code, and I have a constitutionally
> protected right to speak money, bear cryptographic keys, and a right to trial
> by jury of my peers.
>
> All this talk of more code reeks of an attempt by the government to force me
> to provide quarter to code-soldiers hidden in the complexity jungle.
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