Anonymous participants in spaces.

[m-saxemberg]

We are currently working on some experiments for delegated governance with the use of spaces and for that and we thought that anonymous commenting might be a idea worth trying under certain conditions (conditions being a controlled inclusion into the space so that no spam is possible or at least heavily limited).

The idea is straightforward. Just to anonymize the participants' comments in the spaces discussion so that instead of looking like this:

It could show automatically generated pseudonyms. Participant members in spaces can be shown publicly but addresses and usernames should not be linked to the comments. It is just a soft pseudonymity measure as it doesn't involve anything at the blockchain level, rather pseudonymity is only enforced at the space comments level.

Hoping to see this idea considered by Opensquare.
Best.

[wliyongfeng]

I agree that anonymity is useful in some scenarios. There are many issues about the implementation. Generally there maybe 2 ways:

1. A centralized way. It means real data will be stored in OpenSquare database and actually OpenSquare can see the result. pseudonyms can be generated with a picked algorithm.
2. A decentralized way. A potential solution is ring signature. Generally with it we can know a signature is from a group but can't figure out which member it's from.

The centralized way maybe easier to implement.

[m-saxemberg]

For now the centralized way, i.e. done on Opensquare's side should suffice. Mandatory pseudonym generation seems like the best way for now. All other alternatives like ring signatures sound amazing but that probably might be better suited for when we have a critical number of participants and applications willing to preserve their privacy for various reasons.

[wliyongfeng]

Glad to hear from you again on this topic. It's fine we implement the centralized way first. Can you add my telegram account(sent via email) to for more detail discussions? I want to be more confident that you will be the first users and this development won't be wasted. It seems your team is anonymous, but LMK if you can't add my telegram.