You just don't understand anything. You don't understand that there is no such thing as 100% verifiable supply certainty and that Bitcoin cannot afford that. But hey, I understand that you're retarded, it's normal.

And yet it's Bitcoin who's suffered from inflation bugs already and had to hard fork to rollback. All that transparency and "100% certainty" and what was the end result? Luckily enough it happened early on and no one cared, and fewer still even remember. If that happened again today, do you think, with all the stuff built on top of it, that it would be another simple "oopsie!" followed by another hard fork? Your argument: we need transparency to be 100% sure no supply inflation has happened! My response: 100% certainty that the supply *was* inflated doesn't save you, it's game over, even if you detect it. This being the case, why suffer from the *many* problems that deficient privacy/anonymity brings? In your rigid mind, there is no argument for it. You **presume** to know better, **when even Satoshi himself said he would've added better privacy had he known how to**. You are not as smart as you think you are, and you lack a great deal of humility too (a fatal combination).

it looks like neither of you have a very clear idea of exactly HOW MUCH additional trust is required.

Nah dude, I get it. From hardware to compilers to libraries to algorithms and everything else. Also the sheer amount of "simple" cryptography that very few actually understand and can accurately mentally model. That's a given, usually not mentioned to simplify the conversation.