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0 pointsIgelau4y ago0 comments

With a "private" crypto-currency you're still making a bet that there's no exploit. Roping payments into a message app increases the attack surface for both.

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qqii4y ago

Monero's primatives are pretty well researched [0]. Of course there is always the chance of bugs in the implimentation but it looks MobileCoin's crypto primatives library has at least been audited [1].

[0] https://www.getmonero.org/resources/research-lab/

[1] https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs/issues/87

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0 pointsIgelau4y ago0 comments

With a "private" crypto-currency you're still making a bet that there's no exploit. Roping payments into a message app increases the attack surface for both.

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qqii4y ago

[0] https://www.getmonero.org/resources/research-lab/

[1] https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs/issues/87

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