The SDC portion was always equivalent to BTC from a privacy perspective (except for being less used which likely makes it worse in practice).

The Shadow portion has functioning (afaik) stealth addresses but the ring sigs did not function. That makes it equivalent to BTC where addresses are never reused. No 'mixing' function.

You issued this:

https://blog.shadowproject.io/2016/02/12/deanonymize-shadow-nope/

"We would like you -our dedicated users- to know that, after 10+ hours of testing by Shadow’s core developers, our team has not yet managed to deanonymize any private transaction."

If so, then you either lied about your core developers being unable to write a few lines of code in a 10 hours, or they aren't able to do so.I don't know which.

^^ Shadow's #1 fan!

6 posts ever made and all in this thread!

I just read through this and am slightly confused. It's not clear to me whether a problem exists or not.
All Im getting is:
a) we couldn't de-anon a tx using the vulnerability published after trying for 10 hours. This does not seem exhaustive and the blog shows no fancy maths to prove everything is OK
b) Your NOT gonna award the bounty cause he declared it publicly first.

Am I the only one who thinks more investigation is needed?

So you make an unsubstantiated claim, then do the exact thing to sdc that you just accused sdc of doing. So based on that my conclusion is that I should not follow any advice you have to give and disregard it as BS. Since you are exactly what you argue against.

Fuck SDC.  Actually, the coin and the dev I'm okay with.  It's the trolls that can take a long walk off a short pier.

Surprisingly enough he's a bit busy doing dev work. And why would he delete all their posts? Rynomster's received threats in personal messages without knowing what the fuck it was about. Is that ok too?

This is where you guys are making yourselves look as bad if not worse than the people have you have a problem with. How has rynomster been at all involved with this? You've taken the actions of two or three people who're invested in SDC and started casting aspersions on the devs and the whole community. It's dishonest and it's lazy.

Good thing we haven't started marketing yet then Which is something along with fudding other coins that i'm sure the devs and community will do when we have a working zk-snarks.

The foundations are solid and the cornerstones are in place the future seems bright to me whatever may happen or come its going to work out fine. I do not look to marketcap in a startup such as this to determine its relevance and future..Not when it hasn't been pitched to a broader market in the first place. Its only been in this forum working on its foundations so the marketcap is reflecting that imo.

With the release of zk-snarks implimentation i assume thats when we can all start working on a market adoption it is the wise way and it is the reason it has been done this way. working product to sell as opposed to just claims not backed by experience and history.