If I may play devil's advocate for a moment....
Why should anyone besides criminals care about a non-transparent blockchain? I can imagine that a big holder wouldn't want their big holdings potentially traced back to them whenever they send coins.
Any other (practical, non-philosophical) reason?Still think the coin emission is going to hurt more than most people think - but while it's low it's possible to accumulate. IF this turns out to be a legitimate altcoin with litecoin market cap then you're looking at $20 per coin. I don't think it's going to happen overnight but I give it a 1 in 3 chance of happening eventually if someone else doesn't blow the anon PoW market away with a completely new coin.
What coin emission issue is this?
There was a great post about it on reddit, but I can't find it anymore. A few things that I can remember are:
-Suppose you get a pay raise, every other employee of the company could see this with a transparant chain. On top of that, most people are not comfortable with revealing there salary. With a transparant chain this would be easy to look up.
-Everyone gets to see where (if your adress is known) how much you spend on which things.
There were some other things there, but can't exactly remember it. Maybe some people could extend this topic a bit more.
A transparant chain would be good for monitoring government expenditures, but for normal people a non-transparant chain would be much better. It is basicly like cash. Y
A bit relevant as well:
http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters
