On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 03:13:34AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/413pwp/mike_hearns_latest_blog_pos... https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4141ud/video_proof_that_r3_control... http://r3cev.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/btc

At first, I agreed with Hearn (bitcoin is a failed experiment). He lost me when he started trash-talking gmaxwell. One thing I am sure of: Someone made a lot of money shorting bitcoin over the last couple days. But that's just the paranoid ramblings of a farmer who's watched commodity market manipulation for 20 years. What he cypherpunk wants to know is what is the attack surface for gmaxwell's confidential transactions: https://github.com/ElementsProject/elementsproject.github.io/blob/master/con... Of all the privacy nonsense I've heard come out of the bitcoin crowd I think this is the first thing I've seen that I believe might work cause the Banksters (aka the VC investors in blockstream) are paying for it.