Quote from: tvbcof on June 21, 2015, 09:01:39 PM

Quote from: Odalv on June 21, 2015, 08:12:08 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on June 21, 2015, 07:49:22 PM

Please let us know how well Elements is working. I honestly want to know.

Go to hell. You can stand by and find out whether Maxwell and company's stuff pans out better than your assumptions that technology will keep up with exponential growth and Bitcoin will be unmolested by TPTB as it takes over for fiat.

You could piddle around with gmax's cli while you wait if you want since the stuff is already in released alpha it seems.

Quote from: Odalv on June 21, 2015, 08:12:08 PM

Confidential Transactions
-> it is another excellent project from gmaxwell

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Confidential Transactions is enabled in Elements and used by default by all ordinary transactions.

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Quote from: Odalv on June 21, 2015, 08:28:44 PM

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Just wow. I lacked the ability and interest to think up such stuff.

I was negative about all the bells and whistles being added to the native Bitcoin protocol over the years. Because I was by and large to lazy to follow the commits and technical discussions, I took my impression of the technical capabilities as the core team as a group from my impression of Gavin and his talking-paperclip class nonsense and nearly complete disregard/misunderstanding of the salient risk factors more than I should have. This made me feel that there was great risk to putting almost anything into Core since it could be sufficient as a backing store in it's very primitive form. Now I'm starting to see the genius of what some of these less visible players were shooting for in some of their work over the years. My hat is off to them!

There really is a significant risk, I think, that what is evolving is simply so powerful that it will have to be stopped by TPTB by any and all means possible. I've long held that this battle would be best to happen earlier than later. My only hope was that it would start up before the likes of Hearn managed to contaminate the existing blockchain whereupon the value I have within it would ultimately be significantly reduced.

my, such anger.