Hey everyone! I've been away from the forums for a while but am excited to see how well shadow has been doing while I've been gone.  I had some questions that would be great if someone knew the answer to.

Why are we trying to retrieve the funds given to Zeuner? Don't we want someone examining shadowsend?  I read after the alpha market release there are plans to hire a cryptographer.  Would he/she be looking at just the market code or shadowsend as well?

Also, I made an HD wallet (I know I'm late) and didn't put a passphrase in.  I sent all my coins to it and made a backup of the HD wallet, not that it is really needed.  I wanted the wallet password protected so I hit settings, encrypt wallet and it warned me that all old backups wouldn't be useful for security reasons.  Is this true? Should I replace those backups? And either way my phrase always works correct?

It was really awesome seeing how well the devs handled the bug and I can't wait for all the great things still to come.  Thanks for the help!