So cloak was a scam or no? Why price fall so drastically?
No scam, (if I understood it right) only some problems in the anonymous function.-But come on,...in which Software project every coded line works perfect from the beginning,...
-I see no problems in this,... still holding my Cloaks and look forward to the next Rev.
no, no problem in the anon function, there is a problem of being not trustless.
Can't the trustless just be added on top of the anon feature?
If it were that easy it would have been done already, to get the anon you are mixing the coins in some way, to mix the coins you are either centralising or creating nodes, which are susceptible to attack or manipulation.
I may be wrong, sure there are others who understand the issue better
I think you are spot-on. That is why it's almost impossible to develop such functionality correct the first time. Every anonymous coin is using Nodes. The question I think, is how to secure that Node so manipulation and sorcery
can be overcome. 
