Hashpool is an accountless mining pool that uses ecash to represent mining shares. Unlike existing mining pools, Hashpool cryptographically blinds the user's identity and creates a free market for trading mining shares. The Problem With Mining Pools In the earliest days of bitcoin anyone could mine on a
One of the defining properties of Chaumian ecash is the unlinkability of the withdrawal of a coin (issuance) and its deposit (redemption). Various cryptographic methods can be utilized to achieve this across different implementations of ecash, most prominently through blind signatures. Blind signatures are the real innovation in Chaum'
In the 90s, as the old world was first slowly, then rapidly, making way for the new age, technologists, activists, policy makers, and even philosophers knew that as the internet grew—and with it the fraction of our lives that we spend online—the ability of governments and corporations to
