Can you tell me in a sentence how they prevent the "miners/validators/etc can always steal the secret" thing? Whatever they're doing, it can't be that complex...

Oh right, I remember the problem. We still don't know how to pass secrets on blockchains. If we can figure that one out, it will be HUUUUUUGE. 1. I have a secret 2. I encrypt it (somehow) on a smart contract blah blah on a blockchain 3. You want my secret, and you're willing to do whatever the contract requires to get it (pay), so 4. You make a key pair and you submit your public key into the contract with the payment and the contract does which re-encrypts my secret so that your private key is able to decrypt it. Every way you try to solve this, the miners/validators/etc can always steal the secret...

Hmm, gold kg price = $166,583 13.5 tons of gold is 2.248 BILLION dollars worth. > Corrupt mayor I'm not sure that can be explained by brown bag money... Maybe he was running a bank out of his house?