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RE: Steem - Full Review of the 2017 Roadmap
Another key issue users were hoping to see addressed, were confidential transactions & encrypted messaging.
These are important, but not key. Encrypted messaging is already done better by other apps, and in any case even if we tackled such a thing, it would be off-chain (private messaging doesn't need to be in the global ledger), making us just another Signal/WhatsApp clone. Doing so would not drastically increase our community's value.
Confidential transactions may still one day see the light of day. We're focusing on a different set of challenges for 2017, though.
You're right, it's not key, I could've phrased that sentence better. Something along the lines of, "The community has expressed their interest in confidential transactions and encrypted messaging", would've made more sense. Apologies.
I look forward to seeing that. With the almost instant transactions already, and also other network upgrades proposed in the roadmap, it'd make the overall network very attractive.
Thank you for your comments @sneak