But so long as they're improving and fixing Bitcoin
This is the question mark. Who are they 'fixing' it for and why?
Segwit fixes transaction malleability and some other problems.
Confidential Transactions fixes the fungibility/privacy problem.
Try reading the bitcoin.org roadmap.
Of course - and all those things, especially CT, are being demanded by corporate users.
The current bitcoin community has not been screaming for CT now, have they? CT is the result of push back from the VC's you have been hawking Bitcoin to for the last few months. The roadmap is the result of a fine tuning of Bitcoin to appeal to Big Business.
Actually, a lot of us have been screaming for added privacy for a long time, due to taint analysis/blacklisting by big businesses. Why would confidental transactions appeal to big businesses? If that were true, why have do companies like Bitpay, Coinbase and Circle blacklist customers/vendors based on the source of their bitcoins? It seems to me that confidential transactions would hamper any efforts by the big corporations that are currently trying to monetize bitcoin transactions to comply with certain regulations, like the Bank Secrecy Act.
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1190707.0;allCore's roadmap puts a great deal of emphasis on decentralization (as opposed to anything offered by the Classic team). Could you explain how it appeals to Big Business? Or are we just making claims based on zero evidence, as I suspect?
Oh for christs sake, you people are hopeless.
CT only obfuscates the amounts and nature of the transaction. It does fuck all to hide who you are, other than the usual tricks already in bitcoin and the remaining whiff of pseudonymity left after normal data mining of the blockchain.
Banks dont care about being anonymous, just that the details of the tx remain confidential. If CT truly hid you, how long do you think it would last up against AML/KYC? I mean seriously, answer that.
This is just another stupid attack on the few things left in bitcoin that gives it any little bit of utility. If you want to buy cp or drugs and not get caught, find some other way.
How does it appeal to Big Business? $76m not enough reasons for you?