Incognito is a great project on paper, I use it from time to time. What I do not like is the seemingly lack of focus in their project.
A privacy chain should aim and focus on the basics first in my opinion.
- No Tor/I2P routing still
- NO desktop wallet
- No open-source on top
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No open source?
Are you sure about that?
Desktop wallet is here, albeit unfinished
As for anonymous routing, yeah they really should get around to adding I2P, right now trying to use it over Tor often leads to CloudFlare refusing requests.
Ya quite sure https://github.com/incognitochain/incognito-wallet/issues/1422
Reproducible builds just means that two people can compile the same code and get the same result, traditionally that's not the case as different build environments handle compilation slightly differently.
While yes, it is a good feature to have for auditing purposes, it doesn't mean that the program isn't open source because it lacks it.
Its peculiar how inclined people are to trust an algorithm (mining, staking) developed by someone else without understanding the cryptography.
Then when private aspects of encryption come up without open source, it starts controversy. All legal stuff about back doors, its irrelevant to the argument at hand. This tainted legal rhetoric about encryption has defiled the logic in the open vs closed source debate.
Goes back to the Pirate Bay legal battles, all the fear and stigma there made this so complex once Hollywood got their lawyers behind the encryption wars.