Quote from: dEBRUYNE on March 03, 2016, 12:42:14 PM

Quote from: smooth on March 03, 2016, 03:54:59 AM

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on March 03, 2016, 02:58:41 AM

Quote from: dEBRUYNE on March 02, 2016, 08:10:28 PM

https://blog.okturtles.com/2016/03/the-zcash-catch/

That blog post doesn't mention the weaknesses of Cryptonote/RingCT which I have explained numerous time. I posted a comment to that blog and it still hasn't appeared. Thus so far, I think that blog is a monero shilling vehicle and not objective.

I'm not sure it is a shilling vehicle, though it might be. Zcash appears to have paid PR going on which gets it a lot of coverage in places like Wired (along with grossly unethical pumping from bitcoin.com, owned by Roger Ver, an investor in Zcash), while Monero does not. Thus it is quite plausible that people might just want to respond to the aggressive Zcash shilling and point out some less rosy perspectives on it that you certainly won't hear from the paid PR and pumpers.

Agree. Furthermore, the blog post was about Zcash and Monero was only mentioned twice (once as rebuttal that Monero can't hide amounts) and once as an alternative. I agree with TPTB_need_war that if the blogpost was about Monero weaknesses should be addressed.

That is reasonable. I just wish Monero would go out-of-its-way to insure the criticisms of its own tech are always mentioned for those resources its supporters cite. You can be sure if I make a coin, the flaws will be mentioned in the white paper.

I am of the belief that BS eventually walks and only substance rules the roost.

On that video of the recent Satoshi roundtable, Roger Ver demonstrated how clueless he is about the technology issues surrounding the block chain scaling debacle. He said he felt those against a block size increase were constantly changing their reasons and thus block chain increases don't have real negative repressions. It is not that the reasons are changing, but rather the reasons Bitcoin can't scale are multiplying as people investigate and understand better the issues.