Expensive Cryptographic Privileges: Piercing the Power Monopoly and Privacy Tax of NIGHT Zero-Knowledge Proofs
While retail investors across the network are wildly fantasizing about the extremely low-cost privacy transactions promoted by Midnight, they collectively ignore the most brutally harsh physical laws underlying the logic of zero-knowledge proofs, namely the enormous computational overhead of proof generation.
The Physical Limits of Retail Hardware
The authorities try to convince retail investors that they can easily package privacy transactions on their own devices. But in the real battlefield of cryptography, generating even the simplest zk-SNARKs proof requires extremely terrifying CPU computation resources and memory consumption. The extremely cheap mobile hardware and personal computers in the hands of retail investors face such huge polynomial computation loads that they either crash directly or require an extremely long waiting time of several minutes, which is tantamount to self-destruction in the rapidly changing financial game.
The Privacy Harvester of Power Oligarchs
To address this extremely desperate performance bottleneck, retail investors will ultimately be forced to outsource computation tasks to centralized proving farms that possess top-tier server clusters. These power oligarchs, composed of Wall Street capital and veteran miners, will completely monopolize the privacy generation rights of the entire network. You may think you are enjoying the geek freedom of a sovereign network, but in reality, to hide those few hundred dollars in small transactions, you must pay these power giants an extremely high hidden privacy tax. If you cannot comprehend this underlying physical oppression that turns privacy into an expensive class privilege, you are doomed to be completely drained in this power hegemony's meat grinder.