2025-12-29 07:27:47

Blockchain is about putting all transaction records on display—transfer addresses, amounts are clear at a glance, and anyone can verify them. This indeed helps with consensus security. The problem is: this complete transparency is a double-edged sword. Malicious actors can trace back through the transaction chain to infer your personal privacy information or even figure out your asset movements. This directly hampers the implementation of many sensitive scenarios on Web3, such as medical databases needing to protect patient privacy, AI model training involving intellectual property, and voting systems concerned with voter identity protection—all of which cannot run on fully public ledgers. Balancing transparency and privacy has become a key challenge for expanding blockchain applications.

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ShitcoinArbitrageur

· 01-01 05:23

That's why I still have to mix CEX, everything gets exposed on the public chain when checked.

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BearMarketSunriser

· 01-01 00:20

Transparency and privacy are indeed a deadlock, but it seems everyone is just talking without action. Privacy coins have had solutions for a long time already.

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mev_me_maybe

· 2025-12-29 07:55

Basically, it's about choosing between fish and bear paws; wanting both is just not realistic. --- Privacy definitely needs to be addressed, or no one will dare to put medical data on the chain. --- Transparency for privacy—nobody is satisfied now, it's quite awkward. --- I've known about on-chain reverse asset lookup for a long time, which is why I advocate for wallet decentralization. --- Can the set of zero-knowledge proofs be popularized faster? Only then can transparency and privacy coexist. --- Medical voting is just ridiculous; does it have to be on-chain... --- Difficult problems are tough, but solving them is truly the next big opportunity.

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GateUser-afe07a92

· 2025-12-29 07:52

Transparency and privacy are indeed a deadlock; it feels like no one has truly cracked it yet. --- That's why privacy coins keep getting delisted from various exchanges—it's a contradiction. --- On-chain medical data? Come on, hospitals don't dare to do that. --- That's why zkSNARKs and similar technologies keep being hyped but haven't really gained mass adoption. --- Full transparency on the blockchain is really a pain; I don't even dare to make large transfers for fear of being watched. --- If privacy protection is well implemented, won't it be considered non-compliant? Anyway, it's always a problem. --- It seems like only zk-based solutions can break the deadlock, but the development costs are too high. --- So, Web3 is currently just a playground for the rich; the poor have no privacy at all.

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SignatureLiquidator

· 2025-12-29 07:49

Basically, it's about choosing between fish and bear paws—high transparency means no privacy. Everything on the chain can be traced, and that's the scariest part. Medical voting and similar applications should have used privacy coins long ago. Why are we still hesitating? Transparency in the eyes of regulators vs. users' nightmares—always at odds. How to balance anonymity and decentralization? It feels increasingly out of reach. Who still dares to move large amounts on public chains now? There are plenty of privacy solutions, so why haven't any truly taken off?

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Rekt_Recovery

· 2025-12-29 07:44

yeah so this is literally me getting liquidated on-chain in real time vibes... watched my whole position get doxed by some chain analyst and it was NOT fun ngl

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