"Blockstream are just launching their new scam, using the Mimble Wimble they kept touting for BTC forever for hype. No wonder BTC development is basically at a standstill, they don't even work on it anymore.
Are they
bailing out because they boxed themselves into their own narratives with BTC? Any attempt to scale on-chain now will certainly result in another BCH-like split, and they know it."
The whole idea is that data mining is totally fair if everyone's equally vulnerable. Either all data should be public, or no data should be public, the double standard is what's wrong