When the market was complaining a lot in the past few days, DASH directly exploded with a big positive line, and it has been occupying the top three positions in the hot search list for the next few days. The anonymous project has once again returned to the public eye in such a rebellious way.
However, within a day, DASH came back to where it came from.
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Zcash/ZEC、Monero/XMR、Digitalcash/DASH
Three anonymous project introductions
Rather than saying that the blockchain protects our privacy, it is better to say that the blockchain turns our privacy into an address that does not contain any personal information.
In the future world, this address is your pass. Although this pass does not contain any information such as your name, phone number, etc., this pass saves all your transaction records and asset status on the blockchain, and any Anyone can check.
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DeBankTools
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ZEC: Solved the problem of "prove your mother is your mother"
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ZEC transaction type
ZEC uses the technology of "zero-knowledge proof" in the transaction process to realize the above different transaction methods. Simply put, suppose Alice now has $100 and a flower. When Alice transfers $100 to Bob, it turns out that she needs to know what Alice’s address is and whether there is enough $100 in the address. After signature confirmation, Bob’s address can be obtained to complete the transfer.
And now, Alice also transfers $100 to Bob. Alice does not have to let you know what her address is, but can prove that the $100 is real by telling you that I have a flower, and Bob can also pass the same The way to choose whether to disclose your address to receive the $100.
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XMR: Click where it doesn’t work
XMR uses three technologies to anonymize the address, signature and transaction amount of the transaction. When Alice/Bob wants to provide a sending or receiving address, XMR uses "Stealth Addresses" to generate a random one-time address for you to send and receive.
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Ring sign technology
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DASH: Hide you in the crowd
DASH mainly uses a technology called CoinJoin. Like ZEC, as a user, you can choose to use this anonymous technology or not. When Alice needs to transfer $100 to Bob, if you want to use anonymous transfer, your $100 will be divided into many parts such as $1, $10, etc.
After that, the system will wait for the person who wants to use anonymous transfer later, and divide his transfer amount equally. The actual split standard of the system is: 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1 and 10 Dash
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CoinJoin technology
It is worth noting that DASH provides more anonymity protection for the sender, but not for the receiver. So in terms of anonymity, DASH may be the weakest.
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Each has its own strengths, and no one is the real leader
From a technical point of view, the zero-knowledge proof technology adopted by ZEC is considered by most people to be the best anonymity scheme at present, and this technology is also used in the expansion scheme of Ethereum.
In terms of anonymity, XMR is actually the project with the most anonymous spirit, and it is also the anonymous project that ranks first in market capitalization. At the same time, we also found that XMR has the most community users in terms of community activity.
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Messari's comprehensive ranking based on market capitalization, trading volume, etc. on July 21
The Impossible Trinity of Blockchain
The Impossible Trinity of Blockchain
When we are looking at anonymous projects, maybe we can also bring this way of thinking into projects, without having to worry too much about which project is the best in all aspects.
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Have the best technology, but also have the most cooperative attitude
Anonymity and users cannot have both. There is always a paradox in anonymous projects: the more anonymous the project, the less it should be supervised, and the more cooperative the supervision, the more likely the project will be implemented and the more users will be obtained. .
The original intention of the anonymous project is not to let any third party know any information about this transaction. Only by hiding all information can real free transactions be realized without worrying about any money from unjust sources or being listed as black list. So XMR naturally captured more community power.
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Anonymous project delisting storm
Although most platforms can still trade these items normally at present, it has to be said that under the current trend, regulatory intervention will be unstoppable. Where will these projects go by then? You might say that these projects can retreat to the darknet or smaller markets, but don’t forget that no matter how many people use a project, before it can’t be used for “direct value exchange with the real world”, Your withdrawal of gold may directly become a dead spot.
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Under the heavy pressure, there are gradually signs of becoming good
In the short term, hard steel can’t see the future. Except for XMR, ZEC and DASH actually have a hand.
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ZEC official website description
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DASH official website description
Although this cooperative attitude violates the spirit of anonymity in principle, only by cooperation can the anonymous project go further. Through the basic anonymous technology, it is actually a good thing for the majority of users to keep transactions from being disclosed on the blockchain. And suspicious transactions can be traced and traced, and it will be more friendly to regulators.
Therefore, although XMR technology is the most anonymous and the community is the most powerful, under supervision, perhaps ZEC and DASH are more practical. Among them, DASH is not strictly anonymous, and the implementation of CoinJoin technology relies on the verification support of some large nodes, so it is not decentralized enough.
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XMR was found algorithmic loopholes
Although in terms of anonymity, ZEC seems to be inferior to XMR, and in terms of the number of users, ZEC is not as large as DASH. But before XMR compromises, perhaps ZEC is the project with the real potential to balance privacy and regulation.
Besides, compromise is not easy, the most anonymous group must also be the most persistent diehards in this world. And the people who end up using these insufficiently anonymous products are naturally not anonymous extremists.
But this world is often driven by the thoughts of extreme people, and finally lands in a dynamic balance.
This article is reproduced from DiamondHands, reproduced with authorization
