Individuals don't/won't care about your privacy apps and ecosystem. The masses are blithely unworried about the fact that Facebook sends all our data to the NSA. What matters to the masses is the freedom to do what they want to do. This manifests itself in market strategies very far removed from anything that has anything to do with anonymous block chains. I do not care if you disagree. You will learn by failing.
Corporations care about privacy for their proprietary data such as sales, etc.. They will have no choice but to fund and develop privacy solutions for public block chains, else they will never use public block chains or corporations as we know them today will morph into something else.
Block chains are still in beta testing and ring homomorphic value signatures on block chain are new unproven vaporware also.
I am tried of this nonsense. We can go in circles forever arguing. Bottom line is you have no marketing sense. And this will be clear in the future. Please carry on and I will too. Goodbye.
P.S. I was thinking about who I might add to my LinkedIn account from this 3 years I spent here in Bitcointalk and there isn't a single person I've met who is worth adding. Besides most of you are anonymous. You are out-of-touch with reality. This forum is a small echo chamber for selling P&Ds to speculators. There is no one here who has any clue about marketing or any clue about actually producing something for a large and significant market.
Rant or whatever. I am tired of this. So go ahead and believe in your nonsense and keep preaching the same lies to yourself and your flock.
I wrote the above very quickly and while I eating I realized I really didn't convey the full extent of my thoughts and I am concerned that readers won't be able to read between the lines as to my full thought process.
Some users care about privacy in the sense of privacy of certain details of their life such as their home address, phone number, bank account password, etc.. RingCT can't make any of these private. Unreliable RingCT must be employed together with an unreliable mixnet just to achieve unreliable privacy of crypto currency transactions. It doesn't even begin to address the real privacy needs of normal people.
Zk-snarks offer the potential to make make more scripts and more types of data private on the block chain. RingCT can never do that, so it doesn't matter what ecosystem you build on top of RingCT, it won't address the privacy needs of the normal people.
It is quite clear to me that everything we are doing here is still in beta or alpha mode and is more or less just vaporware. Even Monero is running, it is still vaporware in the sense that it is entirely unscalable.
We haven't accomplished anything yet. Bitcoin has shown the potential, but it is also showing that it wasn't designed to scale.
If you all can't even recognize simple logic such as this, then it is a complete waste of my time to post in this forum. I am accustomed to dealing with people whose brain stem is more functional than their stubbornness.
Now I understand that those who are here just to speculate and they don't care about these sort of technobabble details and widescale adoption scaling. So to them I apologize for interjecting my technical analysis in their speculation threads.
There is a lot more I could say, such as describing how I started off thinking anonymity was the most important priority and why I transitioned. But the bottom line is I want to get back to working with fun people who are not scammers not anonymous and who are doing inspirational work that really impacts the world in terms of usership. I want to work on projects with 100+ million users. I want to get back to using my creative skills. And I want to work in an arena where I can work with the best engineers in a fun and mutually respectful environment. This forum is such a dark place compared to working productively with a group of talented engineers shown below:
This forum is toxic.
Bitcoin is toxic. Crypto currency is transitioning from an inspiration to a reputation of scamming, theft, toxic egotistical developers, snobs, stubbornness, unprofessional boyish infighting, criminal avoidance of SEC regulations (Erik Voorhees and every coin in this forum), $multi-million ICOs that spend all the money w/o addressing the most basic fundamental technical issue of block chain scripting, etc..
Soon no one will touch crypto currency (and possible block chains) with a 100 foot pole. You are poisoning the well from which we all drink.
What I will try to do now is quickly bypass all of this and restore legality, respectability, trust, and widespread adoption to crypto currency. I said I will try. Failure or finding a better opportunity are also possible.
So again good luck. That is my 25 cents of drivel.
Don't despair I have felt the same way at times.
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