Account has been back for over a week. Also, proud to be utilizing two-factor auth for tweets (new Twitter service).
I'm interested in how people view current bitcoin dev priorities around privacy.

For instance, see:
"Mixing without a trusted intermediary is already supported by bitcoin" (via J. Garzik) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=139581.0
(this seems like it would prevent simple analysis, but not smart analysis)

Zerocoin has too much overhead (could be optimized); "lower hanging privacy fruit, at the moment, would be getting rid of address re-use and de/refragmenting coins" (via M. Hearn) https://plus.google.com/u/0/100109831949151899859/posts/Kq6JAxBXS8d