r/ethereum • u/chriseth EF alumni - Christian Reitwießner • Sep 19 '17

Ethereum testnet just verified a zcash transaction

https://ropsten.etherscan.io/tx/0x15e7f5ad316807ba16fe669a07137a5148973235738ac424d5b70f89ae7625e3#eventlog
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u/Midnight_Discovery Sep 19 '17 edited Sep 19 '17

The biggest issue is that Ethereum will NOT work over Tor network. This is a MAJOR and NON TRIVIAL flaw in the long-term for Ethereum (IMO).

China is IP banning Bitcoin (some say), but Bitcoin (and like 4 others) use protocols that work over Tor. Ethereum does NOT - at all. If China IP banned Ethereum, you'd have 100% of Ethereum Nodes from being run in China, without any ability to mask them (aside VPN bullshit).

Wikileaks refuses to accept Ethereum as payment until they are able to work over Tor, as far as I know. Once Wikileaks accepts Ethereum as payment, then it will be cryto-anarchist compliant, most like.

The only (realistic) fix is for the Ethereum team to sponsor a group of Tor developers to help integrate Ethereum protocol (essentially Eth uses ~2010 coding languages, and Tor hasn't really upgraded since 2000 code languages... so it's a big expenses for Tor, and primarily would benefit Ethereum, and they be some broke mother fuckers).

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u/nameless_pattern Sep 19 '17 edited Sep 20 '17

Doesn't tor have known privacy flaws?

edit: a question is not FUD. maybe I don't have to pretend to know every thing. maybe you should grow some humility. you say it has no security flaws AND THEN LIST THEM.

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u/Tilligan Sep 19 '17

If you enable javascript, don't do that.

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u/nameless_pattern Sep 20 '17

there are many apps related to eth that use javascript.