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I'm a big fan of Martins work. I know @rpietila is familiar with him...that is why I refered to Risto with the question. It would be interesting to hear his opinion.
Regarding offshore funds moving....this is only a small piece of cake so to speak. As Martin writes in one of his last blog posts we are headed toward electronic money. No, that most certanly won't be btc but its purpose will be taxing small people.
So what is the solution? Xmr? Maybe, but there are people that see certain flaws in xmr privacy (weak points for that matter) I have no knowlege in coding for evaluating coins privacy so all I can do is trust people with reputation in coding. For now that is xmr dev team but maybe something better will come down the pipe in a year or two. There is not much time left however.
What are the weaknesses--can you point me to a resource?
I guess he is talking about the weaknesses described in
MRL-0001 &
MRL-0004. These issues will be addressed in the future however. In addition, there is currently no IP obfuscation, this will however also be addressed in the future with the i2p integration (
https://forum.getmonero.org/1/news-announcements-and-editorials/208/why-we-chose-i2p-over-tor). If there are other weaknesses, I would really like to hear them from him. The weaknesses above are currently the only I could think off.
@rpietila how will 2015.75 effect xmr or even btc? What's your best guess?
What does 2015.75 refer to?
EDIT: Regarding speculation, I think some speculators are currently riding the DASH wave and might jump back on the XMR train if it ends. This is pure speculation though.