By CCN: Vitalik Buterin has expressed an interest in incorporating privacy features into Ethereum. He is partial to the ZK-SNARKS technology that is used in privacy coin Zcash. Nonetheless, his senses appear to be particularly keen about any developments surrounding privacy protocols. This became clear when a research paper was published entitled: “FloodXMR: Low-cost transaction flooding attack with Monero’s bulletproof protocol.” The researchers decided to explore what they call a “flooding attack with Monero’s bulletproof protocol.” In a nutshell, it involves an attacker flooding the network with their own transactions and then eliminating “mixins from transaction inputs.” In doing so, the
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