Money that may be transferred electronically from one party to another during a transaction.
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Can a LIRA system work with cjdns or other decentralized meshnets?
LIRA (Lightweight Incentivized Routing for Anonymity) is a scheme to incentivize participants in Tor to contribute resources, in particular bandwidth.
The paper talks about it being used for Tor. Can ...
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Can a digital money system exist, that's secure, anonymous and allows offline transactions?
I just read Offline anonymous electronic money systems and their cryptographical base , which asks for anonymous offline systems. The OP claims eCash is such a system, and the answer claims that ...
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Could one prevent double spending in decentralized digital currencies (like Bitcoin) without all transactions being public?
A recent approach to creating a decentralized online currency, called Bitcoin, has been generating some interest. The goal is to have a way to transfer currency without a central authority and without ...
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Offline anonymous electronic money systems and their cryptographical base
What anonymous offline electronic money systems exist and what are they based on? I know only one currently - eCash, based on RSA blind signatures.
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How to provide secure “vanity” bitcoin address service?
Bitcoin addresses are RIPEMD-160 hashes of the public portion of a public/private ECDSA keypair (along with an abbreviated hash of the hash to provide a check code, as @pulpspy notes in a comment). ...
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How secure is the Bitcoin protocol?
Are there any evidence (other than not being cracked so far) that the Bitcoin protocol is secure? "How secure" is it?
(I realize that this might not qualify as a meaningful question - feel free to ...
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Is there any serious discussion about using blinding intermediaries in digital currency scenarios?
A digital currency system like Lucre (OpenTransaction) creates a coin by a mint blind signing the output of a hash function, which the payer then unblinds and pairs with the input to the has function.
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