Can we get this HN thread hidden? Or at least the title updated?

The genesis block is block 0, and the coins in those transactions in question were from block 1 through 5.

That didn't even cause the lowest trading price of the past 24 hours.

I say, "his", since we don't know who the creator is, could be a group of people, might not be a man.

Bitcoin private keys are 256bit ECDSA keys. The largest key (publically broken) of this type is ~114bit PS3 hardware key which took 17 months on ~2600 systems.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#Ke...

Does this ledger ever get rolled up? I thought something like that was part of the system. Otherwise you'd have an ever growing transaction log and the system would fail eventually, wouldn't it?

I specifically addressed this misunderstanding in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twynh6xIKUcat 38:48 while explaining this work: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt

You can think of it this way: When you sign a message you prove knoweldge of a private key (discrete log of a particular public key). Everyone can verify the signature, and yet they do not learn anything about the private key they didn't know before seeing the signature.

There is no conflict between verifyability and privacy.

It seems plausible that fully homomorphic encryption will eventually enable a practical and fully anonymous cryptocurrency, but nobody has figured out how yet. Also, even without FHE, maybe someone will figure out how to make a Bitcoin-style public-ledger system that somehow uses Chaumian blinded keys instead of ditching anonymity entirely.