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Heating my house with ASIC miners

Hello. I heat my house with electric system and I find it stupid to use electricity only for heating, knowing that whatever we are using electricity for, it becomes heat at the end anyway. So I was thinking about changing my heaters for ASIC miners (...

by COINS NEWS - 1 day ago

If you delve deep enough: the privacy of any cryptocurrency using Pedersen Commitments as cryptographic primitive is DOA because PCs are neither public key rerandomizable nor pk updatable. This forces UTXO & single use outputs downstream, which leak patte

TLDR: Any form of digital cash using Pedersen Commitments as cryptographic primitive is not private. Pedersen Commitments force some architectural decisions that make any form of digital cash that uses PCs as cryptographic primitive to hide amo...