Author: damian at willtech.com.au 2021-12-11 03:49:55
Published on: 2021-12-11T03:49:55+00:00
The email begins with a message thanking the recipient for their work cataloguing and writing about Bitcoin. The sender then argues that privacy in Bitcoin can only be achieved through the use of privacy-enhancing network communications such as TOR. They express skepticism regarding the effectiveness of rebroadcast mechanisms to enhance privacy, as all transactions originate from some node, and there are methods that allow an individual node to be identified as the likely source of a transaction unless privacy-enabled networks are utilized.The email is signed by Lord His Excellency James HRMH (& HMRH) of Hougun Manor & Glencoe & British Empire, who also provides contact information, including links to various websites and projects, as well as phone and fax numbers. The email does not constitute general advice, and the sender's comments should be disregarded if misdelivered.The email also includes a forwarded message from Prayank via bitcoin-dev, in which Prayank discusses their blog dedicated to Hal Finney and their findings on issues and pull requests from different Bitcoin projects that focus on privacy. They identify seven developers who have worked on one or more pull requests that helped improve privacy in Bitcoin projects. Prayank's most recent blog post focuses on the rebroadcast mechanism used in Bitcoin full node implementations. They identify a problem with the current mechanism, which only rebroadcasts a user's own transactions, thereby enabling spy nodes to link bitcoin addresses with IP addresses and determine whether wallets are enabled for a given node. Prayank suggests a new rebroadcast mechanism proposed by Amiti Uttarwar based on fee rate and mempool age, and they provide further details, opinions, and links to related comments by Suhas Daftuar.
Updated on: 2023-06-15T03:27:39.820623+00:00