A whole variety of wide ranging questions have been put forward in this threads and full credit to you for addressing (or trying to) each of those questions and comments. Since you mentioned it, how long will it approximately take before the process and be used by end users?
Correct, right now there is no way for us to prove this claim. As soon as we transition to the zk-SNARK based Note system it will be provably impossible for us to log any information but until then you have to take our word for it.