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As to Fedimint, I only have two technical questions. Say, a majority of minters have colluded to steal user funds, is it then possible to cryptographically prove that:

1. A stealing money transfer was not authorized by any federation users (so it is in fact a steal, not just business as usual)?

2. It is known which exact federation members have signed it off and it is known that all of them understood it's a stealing transfer when signing it?

If the answer to any of these questions is NO then I'm afraid Fedimint is often worse than a single custodian in a way that they may steal money and avoid legal responsibility.

Since it's a custodial solution an enforcement ultimately lies in realm of law, and the problem with group crimes like this is you need to determine who exactly committed a crime here, otherwise a whole group can't be punished (because they all will be pointing at each other, and some of them may be innocent, and then you have presumption of innocence at play).

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Cyber Seagull 2y ago

Ark also has custody at its core.

The obvious solution is Drivechain, but these worse alternative proposals will just keep getting shoved down our throats and take up mind space, for an ask that was not controversial eleven years ago.

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SBW 2y ago

I guess Fedimint is fine if steal can be proven like with regular custodian. Thanks for better than nothing.

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