Quote from: tempus on October 28, 2016, 04:39:34 PM

Quote from: Hueristic on October 28, 2016, 04:30:30 PM

Quote from: tempus on October 28, 2016, 04:19:00 PM

I did not take it that way and I didn't represent it that way. Exactly because he is NOT a Zcash-fan it can be nearly excluded that he would be part of some kind of conspiracy.

Although I would find it hard to believe he is part of a conspiracy it is not out of the realm of possibility.

Also as I stated he was nothing more than part of the mechanism and he had no knowledge of the mechanism himself so therefore cannot vouch for it's reliability.

ERGO don't throw his name around as if he Endorses Zcash, when he specifically stated not to.

Oh boy, first you should show me where I did throw is name around "as if he endorses Zcash". My point is exactly because he does not!

And yes, like I've said: I agree that it's not safe to say that the trusted setup wasn't compromised.

But: We also don't know who is Satoshi. Some believe Bitcoin is a NSA-project. We don't know if it's centralized because all chinese miners, or at least the biggest farms, could be in the hands of the chinese government etc.

What I want to say with that: Nothing is ever really sure.

Chinese farms exist because that's where all the tech is assembled, it was a logical step to have farms in low electricity cost locations in China. Plus they rip off every patent, just ask Boeing lol. So once the first ASICS were ordered i'm sure it took less than a month for duplicates to start rolling out at the factory down the street. heh.