This is what makes me bring this shit here!
http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes201210en.pdfThen I can see you have already seen it but others may not have. So here it is
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121271.0It's very interesting that you immediately take it that I inferred conspiracy and defend your perception abusively. Makes one wonder exactly why a perceived inference of conspiracy would elicit such a abusive response from Bitcoin Foundation-Life Member.
In short what I attempted to convey was. Viewed realistically there is no benefit to BTC as a entity in increasing the level of anonymity. In fact it may be detrimental because the level of anonymity is already a major issue with Regulators. Don't take my word for it on the anonymity issue, read the ECB document, ECB is concerned, all the Central Banks will have exactly the same opinion. It is not a conspiracy, it is common sense. It is called not making matters worse!
I don't for one minute think that the developers are as inept as you seem willing to portray. If they saw it as a beneficial priority, they would develop a solution that was maintainable and offered better privacy. It seems it is simply not a priority. Why is it not a priority? see the paragraph above.
This topic currently has ~13886 views it is about the fourth most viewed topic on this Alternative Clients board. That indicates that this is a matter of concern for many. I would guess that once more people read the recent ECB document and start to fully understand the possible implications there will be a great deal more concern.
Now, as for the man as you so quaintly put it, the man may be unable to shut BTC down in a single stroke but the man can make it so God-damn long term difficult that BTC will become nonviable.
Don't try to tell me the developers are not watching the man According to the ECB document Gavin Andresen has an invite from the CIA to brief them regarding BTC. But if you say so, no, no, the developers are not watching the man This is the Core Developer invited to brief the CIA.
Now, get real, if you are going to deny something, you have to make it at least plausible.
You are still accusing the devs of conspiracy.
The reasons why this patch is not included in the main client have been stated several times. You don't believe them. You think that the devs are intentionally leaving it out with the intention of reducing privacy, which is a flat out contradiction of public statements made by several of the devs in support of privacy.
You got an abusive response from me for two reasons. The first is that I'm having a bad day. The second is that I'm sick of you little fucks coming in here and making wild accusations about people that you know nothing about. The people that write and maintain this software (for free!) are, as far as I can tell, all bigs fans of privacy and furthermore, they all seem to have serious libertarian leanings. You should apologize to them, and I'm not above calling you out for it.
This patch requires a lot of effort to maintain, and provides very little privacy and can even be detrimental to privacy if a user gets careless with it out of a false sense of security. That's it. That's the reason. Do you really think that the devs would get behind a new currency that we all hope will cause the downfall of the old financial order, but then pull back over a transaction correlation patch?