Quote from: NewLiberty on October 04, 2014, 04:05:02 PM

pitching in.

I probably should pitch in a little bit.

We take the view that multiple projects will develop anon systems, if our userbase demands some form of chain level anonymity, then in the future we will find the most proven mature implementation and add it to the core. That's if they demand it, we hope adoption will drive innovation rather than innovation driving adoption.

Further, we enable off chain pseudonymous instant transactions within every implementation of marking, and feel going off chain in such a manner can do much to make transactions harder to trace and piece together. Whilst also making them very usable by being instant, micro trust. Transparency can still be enabled by users simply saying I am 'address' and also domain/jim and otherdomain/bob and sms:0012348823838, but that's optional if they wish. Of course there is still a chain for larger transactions, cold storage, and fund management.

Regarding the current situation, I cannot yet tell if BCX's attack is social or technical, or both. I only hope that people do not lose their life savings, that is my only concern.

In my honest opinion, as a programmer, if somebody finds a bug in software they should report it, and offer a fix if they have one. More so when money is involved. To use it as an exploit for financial gain, or as a social weapon, or to gain some kind of short lived reputation, I feel is unethical. If I had knowledge of an exploit on any currency, I would personally not do this.

Perhaps brighter, is that many decent minds are coming together to share thoughts and have insightful conversation, without promoting single solutions to technical problems. It looks like the community is starting to change to be less money oriented and more interested in things that really matter. This is reassuring to see.

I'll continue to follow the discussion quietly as I have time.

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dream of a coin that people don't invest in, but use

There are some.