Bitcoin full node and query server

Apr 4, 2018

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narodnik14:21
to prove something is either 2 or 0, you need ring signatures because they have the property that you know the signature came from a set of keys, but you don't know which key, so a signature is provided proving that the value is either 0 (using public key derived from first equation) or 2 (using public key derived from second equation) but you don't know which key specifically, just that it's either of them.
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James C.14:32
Q' tho: I dont understand how amounts are kept consistent between transactions. Since all hidden, with a different blinding factor for every tx, how do I know how much was actually previously sent to me? I need to know the prev. blinding factor + amount of the prev. tx, right?