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Over the course of this article I will analyse three key elements which all messenger applications must consider. Metadata: Any information, aside from the actual message, which is transmitted and can be exposed to third parties. Encryption: How your messages are encoded to obfuscate their content. Scalability and Attacks: How well the messenger responds to …
Loki first Monero Fork with Masternode As Loki is the first Monero fork (and CryptoNote coin, by extension) to have an active implementation of Masternodes, we are staggering releases and adding features as we go. This is new territory and each change we make to the the Monero codebase must be extensively tested before release. …
Loki Service Nodes: Brief Functionality Overview Read More »
Over the last three months, there has been significant focus on Loki’s layer two, with numerous papers and articles revealing the true scope of Loki’s Service Node functionality with Loki now becoming a fully fledged mixnet. There has also been much talk about how Loki as a currency, or layer one transactional medium, will function …
This article is intended as a basic overview as to the reasoning behind changing Loki’s emission curve. To this purpose we have largely simplified the factors and influences at play; for a more in depth understanding, please refer to our paper Loki Cryptoeconomics: Alterations to the Staking Requirements and the Emission Curve. DISCLAIMER This article …
We’re very pleased to present this proposal to the community after many weeks of patience. We have reviewed the Loki cryptoeconomics extensively with assistance from Dr Brenden Markey Towler of the University of Queensland, working with the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub. Today we present two documents. The first is our economics paper: Proposal: Alterations to the …
Put simply, Sybil attacks are where one person or entity creates multiple fake identities, usually to either subvert some part of a reputation system, or to effectively create large scale denial-of-service attacks. [1] Sybil attacks present problems to systems that maintain a low barrier of identification. With Loki’s focus on privacy and its P2P nature, methods are …
Preventing Sybil Attacks: Runes, PoW, and CAPTCHAs Read More »
Loki’s Exploration into the Mixnet Space We have been dropping lots of not-so-subtle hints that we have been working on a decentralised mixnet, and it’s finally time to reveal what we’ve been working on. This article, along with the soon-to-be-released white paper version 3 should get everyone up to speed on Lokinet. MIX WHAT? Mixnet …
In the context of a cryptocurrency, an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) is a chip that is specifically designed to mine a certain cryptocurrency or a certain hashing algorithm. Recently, there have been a number of high profile ASIC miners released for cryptocurrencies previously believed to be ASIC resistant [1]. So what’s the problem with ASICs? …
The 2nd Layer solutions proposed by Loki allow users significant functionality that cannot be provided by a Monero fork alone. Namely, Loki will incentivise a group of nodes that perform specific networking tasks and will build the basis for a new type of mixnet. Mixnets that have the properties of Sybil attack resistance are highly …