Replying to Avatar Frank Braun

I’m usually only concerned with user privacy and not miner privacy. For user privacy the infrastructure requirements don’t matter.

Monero’s PoW algorithm is deliberately hard to accelerate on ASIC/FPGA. Zcash’s PoW algorithm was designed to be GPU-friendly, but is now mainly mined on ASICs.

So currently for miner anonymity Monero has the lead.

However, Zcash is planning to move to a hybrid PoW/PoS algorithm and that might change the situation.

Are you concerned with miner privacy?
Avatar
Ava 5mo ago 💬 1

Thanks for this interesting answer. Yes, minerside privacy is concerning. If I were looking for transaction records, miners would be the first I would pressure. But I am not an it person.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Avatar
Frank Braun 5mo ago

The miners don’t have additional information compared to the data in the blockchain. The only information a miner could possibly gain is where a transaction originated, but that can be obfuscated with Tor or a mixnet like Nym.