https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1907.06381/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087494urn:hackerpapers:mention:1907.06381:45087494Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:00:17 GMT<p>But the bank doesn&#x27;t know where you&#x27;re going. Only that you need to attest to verification. Further, if you encountered a bad KYC actor, there&#x27;s this; which if I understand it makes it impossible to correlate you to a merchant by crypto alone. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06381 You could use a VPN just for interacting with your bank or TOR for hyper vigilance... p.s. thx sxp!</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1907.06381/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CRhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45086882urn:hackerpapers:mention:1907.06381:45086882Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:42:25 GMT<p>Right we still pretend this is about protecting children I forgot. The proper-ish solution to the problem are zero knowledge proofs: I get my government or whoever to give me a credential with my date of birth, I go to website which asks me for my age, the website gives me a token, I use the token and my gov credential to generate a proof that says &quot;today i&#x27;m over 18&quot; i give proof to website, the website verifies the proof using my governments public key and lets me pass. This way nobody knows anything more than necessary and it protects everybodys privacy. [1] Hey we make it a standard open…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1907.06381/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CR