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by jwally 297 days ago
This is constructive criticism. Thank you!

I completely missed that I could hand the merchant string to a friend with a bank account and have them sign it. Pretty obvious in retrospect!

Its not perfect, but maybe reasonable enough to prevent resale by using a salted hash of the users ip.

Wrt hash linking, theres chaums blind signature thing which looks solid. It feels like a cheap enough, private enough, and reliable enough solution is that can be rolled out in under 6 months is in this neighborhood; maybe this provides something to trigger someone who can do it to do it.

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Also, mulling over it; I would bet pornhub and chase.com both use google-ad trackers and 200 other ad networks. The issues my mvp create require chainalysis and a warrant. Maybe big picture, not so bad.