«They provide commercial privacy with support for transactions where asset types and amounts are opaque while preserving
the public verifiability inherent to bitcoin,» the announcement blog post reads.
The questions about religion and
public life, those calling for «
public» discussion, no longer focus on the
verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our
public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the
public reaction to them, and protecting the
public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!