To @iamnotback (now BitNet):
I'm not going to reply again to your erroneous "rebuttals" of my arguments, but there was one point you made which is very pertinent, and where I learned something (at last) from those discussions:
The emphasis is on providing maximum protection against UTXO (unspent funds), because in the worst case scenario then at least the balances can't be stolen even though they can't also be spent. And then the technical solution is very easy. The person who wants to prove their spend transaction is the correct one and that the attacker's cracked spend is fraudulent, need only hash their public key with a choosen nonce appended H(address|nonce), then publish this to the blockchain and let it confirm before sending the spend transaction. Then include a hash of that nonce in the spend transaction. In a future block after there is confirmations of the prior published items, then publish the nonce to a block.
This, I recognise, is smart, and I didn't think of the fact that a hashed *public* key, can also serve as a (symmetric) *secret* key in a hash-based signature scheme, without any asymmetric cryptography.
That doesn't alter much of what I said about the clumsiness of the way that most of the crypto in bitcoin is implemented, where your "rebuttals" (often mixed with insults) weren't of sufficient pertinence for me to consider that they countered much, on the contrary.
I'm going to stop discussing that, because after having explained several times, in too long posts, exactly what I meant, you don't seem to put any effort in it to understand them and eventually to point out where I might make mistakes - apart from the smart point you made here above. As I'm now convinced that psychologically you NEED Satoshi to be an evil genius, I know that there's not much rational discussion to be had further on that topic, which is a pity. But in any case, thanks for the above point, I (finally) learned something.
As to the future of bitcoin, nobody really knows where it will go, I don't hold a very high opinion on it, and up to now - after having been seriously enthusiastic about it, nothing of significance has convinced me of the opposite, but then, prediction is difficult, especially if it concerns the future, and of course, I can be totally wrong about that.