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Title: [2014-06-14] CD: ‘Eavesdropping’ Attack Can Unmask Up to 60% of Bitcoin Clients Post by: LiteCoinGuy on June 14, 2014, 11:35:31 AM ‘Eavesdropping’ Attack Can Unmask Up to 60% of Bitcoin Clients
http://www.coindesk.com/eavesdropping-attack-can-unmask-60-bitcoin-clients/ Zerocoin will solve this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=362468.msg3878992#msg3878992 Title: Re: [2014-06-14] CD: ‘Eavesdropping’ Attack Can Unmask Up to 60% of Bitcoin Clients Post by: kjlimo on June 14, 2014, 12:00:18 PM So as long as you don't mind being known as a bitcoiner? And how many bitcoins you have in your hot wallet, then you're fine?
Zerocoin is something that can be added to the bitcoin protocol, yes? Is there a crytocurrency that is using zerocoin yet? Is there a zerocoin? Title: Re: [2014-06-14] CD: ‘Eavesdropping’ Attack Can Unmask Up to 60% of Bitcoin Clients Post by: Balls on June 14, 2014, 12:59:14 PM Articles like this have me worried what else can be found out or done with a bit of expertise.
Title: Re: [2014-06-14] CD: ‘Eavesdropping’ Attack Can Unmask Up to 60% of Bitcoin Clients Post by: kjlimo on June 14, 2014, 04:54:09 PM Articles like this have me worried what else can be found out or done with a bit of expertise. Pun intended? Haha Title: Re: [2014-06-14] CD: ‘Eavesdropping’ Attack Can Unmask Up to 60% of Bitcoin Clients Post by: hacknoid on June 14, 2014, 06:14:29 PM I don't understand why they call this an "attack" - there are no coins being lost or frozen as a result, no downtime or interruptions to the network. This is more a data analysis method of determining the owner of coins. Attack to me i something different. |