Leo Wandersleb on Nostr: Probabilistic filters are pathetic for privacy in the way they were used in ...
Probabilistic filters are pathetic for privacy in the way they were used in [BIP37](
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/). Blockchain analysis companies could trivially find chains of transactions that are of interest to a filter even when it had a 20% false positive rate.
Published at
2022-07-13 00:57:40Event JSON
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