On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:51 PM Dr Adam Back <[1]adam@cypherspace.org> wrote: If people on *cypherpunks* cant get the points in the post, I think the world has a problem. The price of security in a distributed system like bitcoin is eternal vigilance, but if people dont understand what constitutes a risk and hence what to be vigilant for, the meta-system can be unreliable and lose its assurances. I think we need to explain some more concepts and probably people will over time learn things and and an influencer pyramid emerge as happened in privacy technology. Yes, I'm sure that when people who disagree with you, it's always because they are wrong and never because you don't understand the situation as well as you think you do. I'm sure you know more about Bitcoin than Gavin does. References 1. mailto:adam@cypherspace.org