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It is important that we tackle the scalability challenges first. Also, under the new blockchain model, working on things like these is a lot simpler/safer, so this is laying the groundwork for a ton of additional blockchain features, including confidential transactions.

Good to hear. Thanks for the clarification!

Cool, definitely would be great to see confidential transactions once other priorities are wrapped up. STEEM will be a lot more like real money when we have decent privacy like monero etc.