What are privacy-enhanced Blockchains?
What are privacy coins, how
bitcoinreal will solve supply issues
Protection coins execute
usefulness to shroud your personality when making exchanges. They additionally
can keep your wallet mysterious or potentially conceal the equalizations of
exchanges also.
The best protection coin is
vigorously bantered about. Monero is viewed as the best by numerous network
individuals; in any case, Dash, Zcash, Hush, PIVX, and Verge are likewise in
the running.
Regardless of whether you
arent illegaly utilizing your assets, you may not need your monetary data and
movement accessible to general society.
For what reason do we require
protection?
Bitcoin uses cryptography to
mask characters and has a straightforward open record. On one hand, this is an
astounding build yet we have to think about the suggestions. Open wallets are
perceptible by anybody and incorporate the adjust of the wallet as well as how
much cash has been gotten and paid out (counting people in general wallet
locations of senders and collectors).
Of course, this may be
awesome for a non-benefit or other freely straightforward substance however do
we truly need anybody and everybody to perceive what we have and who we send
to?
Organizations may have exchange
mysteries or a rundown of customers and providers they need covered up. As a
client, a wellbeing concern emerges as programmers could without much of a
stretch find and target extensive holders.
Presenting security coins.
These coins are intended to
help give clients a level of obscurity in a vigorous and decentralized way.
This guide features the
innovation, groups, and reason between protection coins including Monero,
Zcash, Dash, Verge, PIVX, and Hush.
While there are different
coins handling these same utilize cases, we have selected to limit to the most
well known coins in light of the innovation, showcase capitalization,
reception, and brand mindfulness.
How Bitcoin Real solves
supply issue?
Bitcoin real has 1 billion
coin supply which is more than enough in order to rectify the inflation thing.
As the supply is huge theres no chance of overwhelming demand and price will
remain stable as there will be no shortage and due to that the inflation gonna
go REKT. Bitcoin real actually represents the exact idea presented by Nakamoto
that BTC will help poor but it was rattled by the whales and tycoons who just
got even more richer and poor remained poor. Bitcoin real takes care of that
manipulation, marking its sufficient supply to sustain any sort of manipulation
and keep the price stable and in range of all. This is how Bitcoin real solves
the supply issue and helps everyone in the dark!
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. The views expressed are our
own and do not necessarily represent the views of our employer.
This post explores the benefits and uses
real and perceived of blockchain and related technologies. It is an attempt
to get beyond the hype and cast a skeptical eye on some of the grandiose
assertions of impending revolution in every imaginable industry, while
remaining optimistic that real applications exist.
We attempt to develop a structured
approach for how to evaluate blockchain use cases, explore some of the
theoretical benefits of blockchains, and look at where they hold up in applied
use. By doing so, we hope to come to a clearer perspective of which use cases
we should be focused on and which we should expect to disappear once the
current hype bubble pops.
While much blockchain discussion tends
towards tribes of true believers and dismissive skeptics unable to engage in
dialog, to get practical progress here we need to work from a foundation of
informed realism. Wed love to hear your feedback.
A blockchain is a distributed, append-only database (ledger),
maintained by a decentralized computing network running software that
determines the consensus state of the database. That software may process
transactions or run stored procedures (smart contracts), and it uses proof-of-work with monetary incentives, or some other similar mechanism, to
protect against cheating (e.g. a Sybil attack). This is necessary since any
number of unauthenticated participants may participate in the network.
For our purposes, its easiest just to
think of a blockchain as a decentralized database, where there is no central
administrator, but every computer in the network keeps a full copy of the
database and processes every transaction.
To break this down a bit, a blockchain is:
a database that
is append-only (immutability)
is readable by all parties involved (transparency)
is not controlled by any one party (decentralization)
Note that other technologies have some of
the same attributes. For example, we can build databases that are publicly
readable or verifiably append-only. We can run procedures and store the results
in databases. We have decentralized networks. And we have consensus mechanisms
for systems with a known set of participants. We even have systems like Trillian that provide append-only, transparent, decentralized data storage
for a known set of participants far more efficiently than blockchain (and we
believe these are severely underappreciated and probably what 9 out of 10
people really need when they think they need a blockchain).
The primary blockchain differentiator is
that it allows for fully
decentralized databases ones with arbitrary numbers of
unknown participants.
Why is decentralization an interesting
property? Because centralized systems have certain risks owing to their
dependence on a central authority that could:
Cheat: tamper with data, block access, change the rules,
shut down completely, etc.
Be forced to cheat: do the above due to pressure from a
regulator or other entity
Extract rent: scales to monopoly size and charge
unreasonably high fees
Blockchains promise to mitigate these
risks by removing the single central authority and decentralizing the network
to some degree:
A small number of known parties (even two companies)
A large number of known parties (e.g. Certificate
Transparency contemplates 101000)
An unbounded number of known & unknown parties (e.g.
the Bitcoin network)
The larger the number of participants, the
less risk of triggering the risks cited above. Of course, other factors
mitigate centralization risk as well, including more independent parties, more
diversity among parties, better security, and easier detection and recovery
from system compromise. But in terms of number of participants, the unbounded
case what well call full decentralization is what blockchain was
invented to solve.
Of course, no level of decentralization
comes for free, and in particular there are some significant disadvantages to
full decentralization via blockchain, including:
1.
Massive scaling problems (transaction throughput)
2.
Data storage limitations (all data stored permanently,
by every node)
3.
Painful development (all code is published to the
blockchain permanently)
4.
Challenging privacy issues (these are public ledgers
after all)
5.
No authority to appeal to when support is needed
The point is that decentralization needs
to be worth the effort. For the sake of argument, lets assume that these
disadvantages are mitigated and also that high quality user experiences can
be delivered, which is unproven. Even so, blockchains are only useful when full
decentralization is a critical feature. While there is a strong tendency in the
blockchain community toward seeking decentralization in all cases, we think
that this obsession is problematic. Instead, system designers and participants
should be clear about the risks and mitigations of centralization in their
system, and the costs and benefits of full decentralization.
So what are the purported benefits of
decentralization, and how do they hold up in practice? Well examine several of
them generally, and then look at their application in practice in various
examples.
The transfer of ownership of digital
assets, or execution of stored procedures, cant be stopped in a massively
distributed, global network with no central choke points. However, censorship
can still occur at the edges: exchanging digital goods for physical goods or
services in the real world. We suspect the degree to which blockchain =
uncensorable is overestimated, because real world uses can often still be
censored. For example, while its hard to confiscate Bitcoin, a corrupt
government may prevent it from being exchanged for fiat efficiently or used to
purchase goods or services.
Still, decentralized systems are likely
harder to censor than centralized systems, and the harder it is to find choke
points, the harder to censor. Bitcoin is still harder to confiscate than gold
or dollars in my bank account, and I can always access it if Im able to leave
the country.
Its not clear how many use cases
critically depend on censorship resistance (now or later) and can achieve that
through full decentralization, but a blockchain is likely a good option in such
cases.
There is a hope that blockchains will let
us take something that humans do today (e.g. execute legal contracts or
business rules) and move it into algorithms, thereby reducing complexity,
delays, and fees. These are often viewed as inefficiencies in the current
systems. For example, bank transfers take multiple business days and can cost
money, but if we just used a blockchain, they could be free and instant. If we
could formalize contracts into algorithms, we could have unbreakable,
self-executing contracts.
We think these opportunities are
significantly overblown, for multiple reasons:
1.
It is generally underestimated how much the perceived
inefficiencies are there by design, either for value-added services or
regulations, and would eventually be added to a future blockchain
implementation
2.
We ought not confuse the benefits of
modernization/digitization of industries with the need for decentralization.
Sure, lots of banks and other institutions use archaic processes, but they
could upgrade to much more efficient processes without moving to a
decentralized model.
3.
Decentralized databases are generally less efficient than
centralized ones, except in cases where they counter the risk of significant
rent extraction
In short, the world is full of
inefficiencies, but decentralization should only be applied where it is
actually necessary.
Sometimes it can be difficult to drive
adoption of a centrally-controlled system, since parties wary of centralization
risks may refuse to participate. While established rules, audit processes, and
neutral third parties are often sufficient to create system trust and unlock
adoption, in some cases the further step of introducing decentralization may be
necessary.
We believe that this is a promising
benefit of blockchains, although in many cases the full decentralization that
calls for a blockchain is not required. Distributing the system across multiple
parties, allowing for data transparency and auditability, and providing
mechanisms to recover from badly behaving parties often will be enough to
unlock adoption.
Another angle on system adoption is the
oft-touted benefit of the built-in incentive model. In these systems, payments
are executed with tokens and early adopters purchase those tokens at low
prices. The idea is that as the system gains traction increased demand for
those tokens will increase their value. Thus early adopters are incentivized to take part and to evangelize systems.
While there is potential for low friction
digital payments to ease system adoption, we believe this should generally be
built on a common token used as a store of value (BTC or ETH), rather than
creating one-off tokens for each application.
We also believe the central assumption
that the tokens will increase in value as application usage takes off is
flawed. Tokens will only increase in value if people are incentivized to
actually hold the tokens otherwise you run into the velocity problem, where the same tokens are just spent repeatedly. For a more complete
analysis, see An (Institutional) Investors Take on Cryptoassets.
argues that
centralization stifles competition and innovation: Over time, the best
entrepreneurs, developers, and investors have become wary of building on top of
centralized platforms. We now have decades of evidence that doing so will end
in disappointment. (This evidence is not presented, and we believe there is
plenty of evidence on the other side of the ledger.)
While we believe in the power of open
platforms, open vs closed is not centralized vs decentralized, and we dont see
any evidence that decentralization specifically should produce more innovation,
let alone the innovation that people want except to the extent that openness
is a nice side effect of decentralization. Decentralized systems must be open,
and that may have some nice consequences. But it is openness and not
decentralization that is useful.
So how do we evaluate when we need a
decentralized database, or specifically a blockchain?
Decentralized databases are useful where
we need to track a global state and centralized ways of doing that are
problematic. There are two main factors that drive the need for
decentralization:
1.
Censorship resistance making it harder to stop the
system
2.
System adoption getting others to adopt a system
Whichever factors are at play, one should
implement only the minimum level of decentralization required to meet those
needs, because decentralization itself is expensive. For example, a fully
decentralized system is probably necessary for censorship resistance but may be
overkill for generating adoption. When a fully decentralized system is needed,
a blockchain is the only known solution.
We suggest the following checklist for
evaluating suggested use cases:
1.
Does the system require tracking
a global state?
2.
Is decentralization being used for censorship
resistance or system adoption, and does it makes a meaningful
difference on those fronts?
3.
Is the minimum necessary level of decentralization being
implemented?
We can now apply this reasoning to some
use cases where blockchains have been proposed. You cant throw a stone these
days without hitting someone with an X on Blockchain pitch: Kitties
on Blockchain. Band
names on Blockchain. Burger King loyalty program on Blockchain. We cant possibly evaluate all proposed use cases, but
lets take a look at a few common ones.
Note that we arent experts in most of
these fields, nor have we gone super deep on them. We include them primarily as
examples of applying the evaluation framework above.
Blockchains were invented specifically to
solve for the problem of centralization in payments and digital value.
Specifically, it wasnt possible to achieve global trust without a fully
decentralized database, and censorship by regulators and governments is common.
Blockchains are an excellent technical tool for this application, though the
right balance between scaling and full decentralization remains an open
question.
Many blockchain-based identity solutions
have been proposed. We see identity as an area where censorship resistance is
critical and system adoption on a global scale is only possible in a fully
decentralized system. That said, its not clear publishing global state is, in
fact necessary, so whether blockchains have a role to play here is an open
question.
Its easy to imagine better credit systems
global, more secure, more complete, smarter, better privacy, etc. Many of
these are achievable through modernizing the infrastructure, with or without a
blockchain. However, credit systems would still benefit from greater
decentralization. Censorship is a real risk in many countries, and global
system adoption would likely require decentralization. Nevertheless, we think
its unlikely that this case requires a fully decentralized database (i.e. a
blockchain), since transparency, auditability, security, and privacy are
achievable without a fully decentralized system (imagine a Certificate
Transparency-like solution).
There is some excitement about building a
DNS system on a decentralized database. The risks seem somewhat lower than those
related to payments, but the solution would have some elegance by removing
centralization risks and thereby driving adoption. However, given an existing
system that has successfully achieved universal adoption and does not have
significant censorship issues, we have to question the purpose.
Land titles are extremely important, and
there is risk that corrupt governments (or others who can compromise data
stores) will tamper with data. A decentralized database could avoid dependence
on a corrupt government for ownership status. However, enforcement happens in
the physical world, and if the enforcer (the government) doesnt recognize your
decentralized database, you havent achieved anything meaningful.
While you may want to store very important
information in the cloud, there is not much risk of cheating in file storage,
and rent extraction is difficult because the service is mostly commoditized. In
general, centralized services work amazingly well. File storage is almost free,
extremely fast, and robust. Censorship is not much of an issue, especially with
storage systems available from many different countries. In addition there are
already various p2p storage protocols (e.g. distributed hash tables as used in
bittorrent) that offer censorship resistance without requiring blockchain based
consensus.
IBM is running ads talking about tomatoes you can track from farm to
pot. There is a lot of cheating in supply chains (e.g. double selling
inventory), so a decentralized database, especially one that is good at
tracking provenance, feels like a good solution to that problem. But in all
these cases, we think the participants could much more efficiently just agree
on a central database to track information. For example, everyone writes
transactions to a ledger on a cloud platform (probably from the same provider
that would supply their blockchain solution!), which is made auditable and
transparent, so everyone can be sure theres no cheating going on. It is rare
that there really is no way of agreeing on a central database.
It might be useful to write checkpoints to
a decentralized database digital proof that something was true as of a
specific time. Since nobody controls that database and it is append-only, those
checkpoints are therefore highly trustworthy. In such cases, it is specifically
not possible to trust the claiming authority. A fully decentralized database is
probably useful for this. But a lesser level of decentralization (say, a global
network of 100 fully independent nodes) may be sufficient.
Accounting benefits from immutability,
auditability, and some level of transparency. All of these can be achieved
through centralized solutions, e.g. Trillian. There is no need for
decentralization least of all full decentralization with blockchain.
Decentralized autonomous organizations are
all the rage among blockchain fanatics, but we believe this is based on the
flawed efficiency assumptions discussed above. Organizations are social
constructs and cannot be encoded into algorithms.
Blockchains are a fascinating new
technology. They enable fully decentralized databases, resistant to censorship
and potentially allowing for system adoption in critical applications like
money and identity. We recommend using these attributes as the key criteria to
use when evaluating blockchain use cases.
While there are important use cases that
are useful applications of the technology, many blockchain applications are
based on overhyped benefits or a misunderstanding of the degree of
decentralization required. We believe that less decentralized (and less
expensive) approaches to driving system adoption are underemphasized in the
ecosystem today.
For further exploration of these
alternatives, see our follow-up piece, Blockchain
Alternatives.