Hi folks,
first of all...I like VTC AND DRK and I don`t quite get why people see the need to choose one and only one coin they like and "defend".
I just read this post on the VTC reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/comments/2690jj/vertcoin_darkcoin/I think the OP has a point here:
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Take darksend, and the soon-to-be-implemented SX Stealth Addresses. One is about anonymity, and the other is about Privacy.
An anonymous transaction in theory should be untraceable - from both ends. There is no way for someone at a later date based on the information in the blockchain and private keys of the addresses to discover what was sent or received from where. The regulatory and legal implications of this ability are mindblowing, but not very useful for all intents and purposes. They are however highly conducive for illicit usage, and consequently, favour such operations.
A private transaction by contrast is one where only the person who holds the private key can trace the transaction. To anyone else without this information, it is untraceable. The regulatory and legal implications of this by comparison are far more realistic. One can regulate, and also defend, provide sensitive disclosure of information, to the appropriate third parties - investigations can be done, and people can be held as complicit based on their actions. Of course people can choose to destroy their private key and with it the link is removed - however that is an implicit action on their part - and such actions have a legal basis for legislation, at least in modern society.
(ie "Why did you destroy your private key? As opposed to your private key is useless for us anyway")
What this means is that given the two options, a regulatory body would never choose the anonymous option. Given the two options, a business, an investor, a broker, and so forth - may like the idea of the anonymous option, but realise the message it sends - it opens them up to further scrutiny that is totally un-necessary and avoidable by the use of SX Addresses. Businesses can operate in private without people analysing the blockchain for their transactions, but at the same time, records can be kept or discovered if the business so chooses."
I am not interested in the price discussions he makes, as to me it seems to boil down to a false dilemma, where only one of the coins can survive.
I am more interested in the technical concept of "stealth adresses" and wether it is something you could possibly choose to do with DRK as well (just as darksend is optional, as far as I understand it).
Thx!
