Wow, this thread has gone to hell... Just stopped over to see what was going on with the drop in Stealthcoin price... Wasn't expecting all this drama...
I havent followed XST for a while now. What is happening currently, why is the price at 5K ?
Stealthsend is pretty much vaporawre hondo just released some more info on how difficult its going to be and they pretty much have a few ideas and papers but they aren't really on the right track with it nor is it research yet.
Its basically like mintpal launch they screwed it up and the confidence with it. Its only a matter of time before everyone here realises it. The way they propose in the paper to make steathsend; basically opens up the chain for forgery and the chandran sig are not linkable/traceable. Its never been done before touted as impossible in an efficient way and pointless to invest time into..but most people here are like " its all happy days" basically because they either wont acdet the facts or are in denial and or just dont have a clue what it all means. Like its somehow just going to magically get better!

some opinion form a bitcoin dev (experts) you can check the logs here
https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-wizards/