I agree that the anon fad isn't over. However with ZCoin and ZCash I'm not sure we can complete unless we use Zero knowledge. Anonymous broadcasting is better than almost all anon except for the top ones (SDC, Monero, Nav, Zcoin, Zcash)
Anon broadcast has very few flaws. People can only exploit Bitmessage in that example.
However it takes time to do POW in Bitmessage and then you have to wait and see if your transaction gets in the chain. From an engineering standpoint, it may not be worth it to sidetrack when we already have so many great features.
I say let's get the important templates done get the API done and of course finish pegging. Then we see what doors open.
Yes that is true, although even privacy enough to keep the average joe from seeing what his pals are buying is probably all that is required.
Is nav really a good design? imagine soopy could have been a good developer had he taken this more seriously. Im pretty sure he invented navs version of anon. I thought that was a simple design but if you rate it then i may have underestimated it.
I've heard Nav was a good design. But I've not independently verified it. The idea of parallel chains was interesting. My favorite ANON coin concept is obviously ZCash. However, SDC and Monero with ring signatures are a good second. And NAV is sort of 3rd. I think anonymous broadcast is better than most anon protocols but it isn't better if an exploit is found in Bitmessage so it all depends on how people audit that.
ZCash is on another level because its zero knowledge proof. You can't know who moves what, only you can know your own balance. However ZCash is memory intensive and ZCoin claims not to be.
In the end, anonymous broadcast is a low-tech and extremely simple system. I have no idea how someone would know who owns what account since your IP address is just thrown in the big pool of addresses and nobody in specific broadcasts. You would have to spoof a lot of nodes to break it.
But like I've said, no reason to derail development. Lets just stay course and people will see very soon the power of Bitbay.