Quote from: NxtChg.com on February 04, 2014, 11:59:11 AM

Quote from: swartzfeger on February 04, 2014, 10:24:45 AM

If pointing out your last resort of snarks/eyerolls is ignorant and rude, so be it. I just don't think it's productive (neither is my bitching about your bitching, so I should probably just STFU now).

Hey, I don't enjoy sounding like a prick either Sad

Ok, I guess, fair enough. I should probably try one more time to convince him with arguments, instead of just bitching.

So James, consider this:

To test the old system you need to go and ask Jean-Luc to build-in a distributed cryptographic accumulator and then the rest of the libzerocoin via c++/java bridge, all this so you could just see for yourself, how horrible that system is.

Then, in a couple of months, when zerocash comes out, you're gonna come back and ask him to scratch all that and replace it with a distributed Merkle tree and a completely different ZK-proof system, based on SHA256 code, translated by a specially modified GCC compiler into code for a custom VM (which also needs to be implemented in our system, by the way).

Is this your plan? Because, frankly, it doesn't look very practical.

You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman.

Now I gotta read a dozen cryptopapers to understand most of what you wrote. Cheesy